From the monthly archives:
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted this report today, dated for its August issue, which highlights the skyrocketing costs incurred by athletic departments across the country to attract the nation’s top talent. The article, entitled “Have Money, Will Travel: the Quest for Top Athletes” cites that Duke’s recruiting budget of $1,245,300 has grown a [...]
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Ross Cockrell helped keep Duke’s incredible recruiting week on track when he announced his verbal commitment Wednesday night. The Charlotte native is a three-star defensive back, bringing the total number of in-state recruits to nine, one more than the last four years combined. Cockrell also held offers from Virginia and Liberty, and had been drawing [...]
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Aaron McFarling of The Roanoke Times has a light column up, ranking ACC teams’ media guides and using the appearance of the yearbooks to foreshadow that team’s season (Duke’s 2008 media guide isn’t online yet). His take:
A “D” in the middle and “2008 DUKE FOOTBALL” in small print on the bottom. That’s it. Oh, wait. [...]
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Tuesday was a major day for new head coach David Cutcliffe and his Blue Devils. Including a commitment coming in late Monday night, Duke secured a total of seven new recruits for its 2009 class in the course of 24 hours. The Blue Devils landed three defensive ends, two defensive backs, a linebacker and a [...]
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Another scheduling note from another school, as Duke prepares to announce its own official schedule in the middle of August: Loyola (Maryland) will travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a date with the Blue Devils Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. on espn2, two days after the Greyhounds play N.C. State in Raleigh. Loyola, which played [...]
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Which Duke-related topic will inspire more stories in the next month: How Mike Krzyzewski can win the Olympics by turning the Americans into an actual team, or how David Cutcliffe is turning his own program from a hopeless cause into a competitive force? We’re not going to link to all of the stories about the [...]
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A four-star recruit and fourth-best all-purpose back in the country according to Rivals.com, Desmond Scott had the option to play for just about any school he wanted to. A Durham Hillside product, he had committed to play for Greg Schiano and Rutgers, but all along he had one nagging concern in the back of his [...]
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Cbssports.com national columnist Gregg Doyel posted a piece on Wake Forest’s Jim Grobe this morning, but if you scroll down, you’ll notice a nice sidebar about Duke’s own David Cutcliffe in which Doyel calls the coach the best hire of the offseason.
The lede? How about…
Speaking of strange sights … what is David Cutcliffe doing at [...]
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From an article in the Herald-Sun:
“My knee is not a problem,” Oghobaase said at ACC Football Kickoff on Sunday afternoon. “I keep hearing the media talking about — ‘His knee is a problem’ — but I’ve never missed a game my whole football career, and I would say that I’ve been somewhat effective, to say [...]
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The ACC announced it will ask its teams to issue biweekly, NFL-style injury reports this football season, the conference announced Monday at the ACC Kickoff in Greensboro, Ga. Teams will announce long-term injuries and surgeries on Mondays and week-to-week titles (probable, doubtful and questionable) on the Thursday before the game. Teams will not be fined [...]
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