Agree on the first part Herb. On the second...have you lost your mind?
Many would probably tell you that I have no mind to have lost in the first place.
My Dook basketball fandom goes back to my college days in the mid/late 70s, first at a juco in North Carolina, and then at Western Carolina University. Most of my baseball team mates were either UNC or NC State fans, and of course I had to find a way to be the contrarian that I naturally am, so I started pulling for Dook just to be different. Dook had a pretty solid program even then. Bill Foster was the coach at the time, and some of his players back then included Mike Gminiski, Jim Spnarkle, Kenny Dennard, just to name a few. I saw several games, the first of probably 20 in my lifetime, at Cameron Idoor, during that era.
I continued to be a Dook fan after Coach K came and the incredible run began.
Coach K and Bobby Knight haven't forgotten their West Point roots, by the way. Every year they both return to The Academy for a leadership seminar for a small group of Cadets. My son was one of those who had the opportunity to be in one of those small groups during his Firstie (senior) year at West Point and loved every second of it. He still gets handwritten notes from both Coach K and Coach Knight several times a year, even now 6 years later. Say what you will about both of them, but I think highly of both of them, and especially Coack K.
