  Rambling Incoherence By Jason Latour Well is seems in the end it was much ado about nothing as far as the Los Angeles Lakers courtship of Duke University head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was concerned. In the end Coach K decided to stay in Durham, opting not to take the $40 million dollar deal that the Lakers reportedly laid on the table . Coach K with Sweaty Robin, the Ultimate Duke 'tard. Being a UNC Tarheels fan I have to say that the news doesn't really affect me in the way you might think it would. Given Duke's dominance in the UNC rivalry the past few years (yeah I admitted it, at least in the win column) you would think I would want the guy to go. But no in a lot of ways I think that a strong Duke team benefits Carolina much more than a weak one. The rivalry is a great draw for recruiting and on a personal level I don't want to hear any excuses about Coach K being gone when the Tar heels return to form (as they are expected to these next couple of years). No, what has me more upset is the way all this is being handled by the media. In particular the latest story of how a lowly Duke student was able to convince Coach K to stay at Duke with a letter he wrote that bascially went--- "Dear Coach K, please stay at Duke. I once dreamed for so long about being a Duke player but given my one inch vertical and lack of opposable thumbs I soon realized it was a dream never to be.
However I knew that by going to Duke I had an opportunity to be something greater than the neuro surgeon or third world dictator that my parents hoped sending me there would accomplish, I knew that you would now be my coach and I would become your most glorious sixth man. I could cheer you on with all my heart as a coated my flabby body with blue lead based paint and cheered away until my throat was sorer than Jenna Jameson at the end of a long shoot.
(Insert continued verbal mastrubation here). The end. " Please. Lets be honest here, that godawful, sappy letter had little to no real sway over this decision. This came down to one thing---Coack K using the Lakers to get what he wanted, which was to stay at Duke and to get the adminstration to take notice that he is as coveted as a coach as he thinks he is. I guarantee you Coach K will , smartly, use this as a bargaining chip to get a bigger pay raise at some point down the line.
Don't get me wrong, I think he did the right thing in staying but the way everyone is playing it up like he's a saint for doing so is ridiculous and the fact that people actually think this goofball who wrote the letter saved Duke Basketball is fucking retarded. There honestly was no real choice here. Stay at Duke where you are a certain hall of famer and guaranteed an untarnished legacy that will stand for generations?
Or risk a year in L.A. where you've got a team full of egos run amok with more bad drama than a daily soap? Add in the fact that there may have been the possiblity of him coaching a Lakers team sans Kobe and Shaq. Honestly people its not rocket science. So please spare me the heart wrenching cotton candy B.S. about how some goofy looking kid in stain defender dockers saved Duke basketball I get enough propaganda from FOX NEWS. PS If someone has a copy of the real letter please forward it my way. 
