Duke wins National Title:
| Author: Michael Licata |
| Date: 04/07/2010 |
Butler losing to Duke provides hope to all other schools in
NCAA college basketball that call themselves "mid-majors". The Horizon
League champs were picked by the majority of America to lose in the first
weekend of the tournament. To make it all the way to the National
Championship Game, that's a feat too. They almost beat a true Goliath in
Duke as well. It was all for naught as the mighty team from Durham defeated
the Butler Bulldogs after a truly great basketball game.
It wasn't exciting to watch at times, the teams played great defense and
didn't shoot the ball too well, but it was still very entertaining. Every
possession meant something, it made the game great. The Bulldogs had one
great player in Gordon Heyward along with Sheldon Mack. Duke's Kyle Singler
and Brian Zoubek provided enough force to defeat Butler in a great ending.
Butler head coach Brad Stevens understands that his name will come up in
head coaching searches at major schools. Cornell head man Steve Donahue left
the Big Red to take an ACC job at Boston College. Oliver Purnell left
Clemson to coach at DePaul. Stevens took his team so far into the tournament
that big schools needed to fill their coaching vacancy before the tournament
ended. Stevens will probably get some consideration if one or two major
coaches make the leap from college to the NBA. The new owner of the New
Jersey Nets wants to offer Duke coach K 15-18 million a year to coach in the
NBA. He didn't take the Lakers job a few years ago, he shouldn't try to
gamble with another rebuilding job, even if it's a quick one with LeBron
James. The job seems attractive because of the new arena in Brooklyn in a
few years, but the transition to NBA coach is a rocky road for most college
coaches.
It's a different game, dealing with 18 year old kids that are still learning
the game to professionals that go through a grueling 82 game schedule. It's
a different experience too. The NBA is a star driven league that usually
builds teams around one great player and a bunch of solid role players.
College coaches must teach and train each student because they're an
investment. NBA players are investments, but not as much as in college. The
NCAA places tough restrictions on contact with recruits, practice time. The
NBA has none of this, making it easier for pure basketball coaches to coach
important players while not angering the older, role players.
It's the end of the college basketball season and the coaching carousel
started to turn with some names going to different schools. Now we'll see
which players decide to jump college and go right to the NBA. That rule
keeps a lot of quality players in college for one year, but it doesn't help
programs build on success from one year to another. It should be longer,
like the NFL policy of three years out of college. It's something that the
NBA will look to judge during the next round of collective bargaining.
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