College Basketball's quintessential quartet will take to the hardwood tonight to conclude the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Yesterday, the host city's news paper, The Indianapolis Star garnished The Final Four with a little bit of spice by doodling on Duke's Coach K on front of its sports section.
The newspaper pulled the cartoon and apologized Friday afternoon when according to The Star's Senior Editor/Sports Jim Lefko, "...we realized it didn't meet our standards."
Seriously, what does The Star have to apologize for?
Duke, as the highest seed and most villified team left in the tournament, does have a target on it. The Star merely misplaced the target on Coach K's forehead instead of on his team's back.
Also, it is not out of the way to paint Krzyzewski as a sort of devil. The devil is after all, Duke's mascot.
Also consider all of the players that, when they were under Krzyzewski's charge, were veritable world-beaters. Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Trejan Langdon, Sheldon Williams, and so forth; all great players under Coach K however, average at best when they moved on to the NBA. Could they have been possessed by some sort of... demon that powered their highly successful college careers?
So, is it not implausible to think that Krzyzewski has some underworld help in building and coaching his teams.
Therefore, the Indianapolis Star has nothing to apologize for.
If the cartoon of Krzyzewski was the garnish, Coach K provided the sauce when he took the podium at a function tipping off Final Four festivities. He said, "We have great kids who go to school, who graduate. If we're going to be despised or hated by anybody because we go to school and we want to win, you know what, that's your problem... Keep drawing pictures. Just keep drawing pictures. Try to do them a little bit better than that, though."
Sounds like someone is deflecting the attention from the source of his coaching powers.
Coach K does have a point. The picture could have used a cape, horns, and pitchfork.
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