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Normally this would be funny. But because it’s Duke and everyone loves to hate Duke (including me) it rises to hilarious. You can cheat the refs, but you can’t cheat gravity:

… the opportunity to wonder if all the paranoia about officiating heavily favoring the Blue Devils at home is really true. If you’re a conspiracy theorist, you might want to get your hands on tape of last night’s game. Georgia Tech didn’t take a free throw until the final 10 minutes. Folks, that isn’t easy to do.

But the unintentional highlight of the night came when the Duke mascot did its usual rolling surf board trick in the first half — and proceeded to fall off and eventually limp off the court, as Fayetteville Observer beat writer Dan Wiederer pointed out so eloquently.

It isn’t right to laugh at someone’s misfortune like that, but at some point, you have to ask yourself — How bright is it for a person wearing a giant mascot head on their noggin to be pulling that stunt over and over?

Check out the video and Jim Rome’s take:

Video of the incident

Jim Rome’s take

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WTF is wrong with Kyle Wright. He has to be the worst QB at Miami in years. Even Ryan Collins, Frank Costa, and Geoff Toretta (Gino’s brother) were better.

• He can’t complete passes
• He can’t outrun pursuit - yet he still tries
• He won’t throw the ball away
• He can’t go past 2 reads without keying on the pass rush
• He never looks off the safety
• He has awful pocket presence
• He has the slowest release this side of Randall Cunningham

He’s just a bad, bad quarterback. Why is he in there? Why is he starting. This is a Dave Wannstedt move - another reason I want Coker out. It’s ok to run the Nebraska Eric Crouch running offense if you can get push from the OL, but when you can’t do that consistantly against quality opposition you need the QB to make plays, not think he can outrun LBs to the corner that run 4.3 40s. I mean Jeez. It’s just painful. The fact that we’re still in the game against GT was amazing and a testament to our defense. This guy just sucks.

Sure Kenny Kelly would give the ball away or Brock Berlin was useless when he wasn’t in shotgun, but this is just pitiful. And Ryan Collins was a run first QB - but at least he could run! At least Kelly could run. At least Ryan Clement and Scott Covington could complete a pass. Wright is horrible. How the hell was he our stater for 3 years? Does that meen Kirby Freeman is just plain retarded?

Unreal.

Lloyd Carr and Larry Coker were in the same boat this offseason. Lloyd Carr went out and got good coaches to coach up his players and get them to play smarter. Larry Coker fired scapegoats and then went out and did interviews.

Now Look at the difference.

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