It appears that neither Mike Krzyzewski nor anybody else on the Duke staff Wednesday night followed North Carolina coach Roy Williams’ lead in dealing with loud opposing fans.
Three Florida State fans who drew attention to themselves in prime, front-row baseline seats during the first half at Cameron Indoor Stadium left those seats of their own accord in the second half, according to Duke associate sports information director Matt Plizga.
Plizga said the three were not asked to leave by Duke staff members or by the outside security officers Duke hires to staff the event.
Why was this even a question?
Earlier this season, Williams sent security officers into the stands to confront a Presbyterian fan at the Smith Center who hollered from several rows behind the North Carolina bench for Deon Thompson to miss a free throw.
The fan at North Carolina was ejected. The Florida State fans at Duke were not, Plizga said. In the first half, Duke’s fans made fun of the most demonstrative of the three Florida State fans. The students chanted, “Harry Potter, Harry Potter” at him because his shirt resembled something worn by the movie character.
Comments
go on to something else
Sat, 01/30/2010 - 12:30 — foreverdukeThese articles just get worn out after awhile. Write about it once and go to something else. I like to read about stats and players not who threw who out of a game. Once is enough. Go Duke!
amazing
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 13:04 — Worz4UNChow the ABCers will stretch the least bit of news and twist the facts to demo their exponential jealousy of the PRIMO athletic program in the nation for the past 100 years
more of the same will keep me young for so many more years as laughter does that
WORZ4TARHOLES
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:51 — bluecat69bluecat69primo atheletic program past 100 yrs?????? do u know where saint marys college is located?? they got more votes than your primo tarholes in the latest poll-- u have to do better than this in the future, ok, go duke!!!!!!
worz4tarholes
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 16:26 — bluecat69bluecat69what planet are u from , making dumb statement like u just did, every -body knows DUKE has the best sports program ever. go duke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have until 5:00 pm today to finish the quiz
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 16:41 — unc098Bluecat69, you are in danger of getting an incomplete or worse an F.
Now stop procrastinating and get to work....
TEACHER-BOY-HOLE98
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:21 — bluecat69bluecat69YOUR TEST ARE TO HARD FOR ME, I THINK I WILL JUST GO ON PROCRASTINATING, U GOT TO REMEMBER I SPENT MY FIRTS 2 YRS OF COLLEGE AT UNC. OK, GO DUKE!!!!
bluecat69
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:50 — unc098Are you telling me that you are aspiring to become a 6th grade drop out????
DUDE !!! What happened to your dreams.... med school.....ROADS Scholar (your word)....middle school.... You have to try harder then that....I guess I will have to dumb down and give you a new test....
You still have until 5:00.... at least you must have an answer to the last prompt...you might be able to save face.
A small correction: " Your test IS to hard for me...."
Does anyone out there have enough sympathy for bluecat to give him a hand? Surely another Dukie somewhere.
HOLE-98 AKA THE TEACHER!!!!
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:58 — bluecat69bluecat69please see the post from g-alligator and yard sax, one called the other one a homo--nyms, we can not have that kind of language on this site, ok go duke!!!!!!!!!!!!
SIGH!!!!! I even gave you an
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 18:02 — unc098SIGH!!!!!
I even gave you an extra minute...Your teacher is very disappointed. I am only giving you an incomplete....
You see UNC folks are so generous and forgiving even to Duke fans.
Stayed tuned for the answers tomorrow.
unc098 wrote on January, 29
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 11:20 — unc098unc098 wrote on January, 29 9:54 AM:
Time for your quiz bluecat69
Please give the definitions of the following words with at least one example used in a sentence. You can't use the dictionary.
1) Herpetology
2) Balderdash
3) Repetition
4) Atavistic
5) Tantamount
If you guess the special secret word derived from the above words you get extra credit.
If you have been reading the posts you may have come across a brand new word ,provided by Greenplanet,and if you can tell me what that word is you can boost your score by 25%
Good Luck
admittedly
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 12:56 — gvillegatrI had to look up #4.) atavistic
that definitley can work with bluecat.
So did I. But it fit into
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 18:23 — unc098So did I GVILLE. But it fit into the "secret word" formula well and had an appropriate definition.
They weren't in the grad
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 10:06 — harri063They weren't in the grad section, they were in the corporate comp seats in front of the grad students. They were definitely NOT grad students, too old. And the security guy spoke to them twice, both times in the first half telling the guy to stop cussing out the refs and screaming obscenities or he would be asked to leave. In the beginning of the second half, they got up on their own and left. Security had said nothing else to them. I guess they felt if they couldn't cuss out the refs, they didn't want to be there.
fsu student
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 09:53 — yuedanaThe fans were sitting in the grad student section. There are commonly rooters for the other team in the graduate student section. Some schools certainly will have more rooters in the section than other schools (e.g. when Duke plays UVA, there will always be a number of UVA supporters in the section.) I am sure that when Duke is playing anybody other than FSU, those fans will be rabid Duke fans.
Just a coincidence
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 00:19 — grabarekThis news is a relief. I guess it was just a coincidence that the FSU fans left after being spoken to by a security guard at the beginning of the second half.
Roy didn't throw anybody out
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 15:00 — ThePRGuyI was at the Presbyterian game and was in 214, the section above the guy who got tossed. He was not the first nor will he be the last person to drink alcohol and switch seats. His biggest mistake was calling attention to himself. Not only did he shout out "Miss it, Deon" when it was quiet, when Roy turned around to take a look, the fan stood up and was pumping his chest. Roy did not tell security to throw him out, he talked to his assistant coaches who told security to go up into the section and investigate. Security determined he had been drinking and was in the wrong seat. If your're going to act like an idiot at a public sporting event, don't be surprised if security throws you out.
NO NO NO
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 15:12 — Heels20I think we should all listen to Ken. These are clearly identical situations where the coaches acted differently, and we should therefore use the outcomes as reflections of each coach's character. Roy is clearly the scum of the earth, and we should all worship the ground on which K walks.
hole-20
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 18:30 — bluecat69bluecat69u finally said something that is the truth, ol roy is scum and u need to get on your knees and worship coach k. what took u so long to come to that conclusion?? welcome to the big dark blue nation,ok, go duke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Setup
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 14:26 — landshark????
class act!!!
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 13:40 — bluecat69bluecat69coach k has class, ol roy dont-- end of story!!!!
Who
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 13:37 — JPDOhioCares.
ditty!!!!!
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 13:41 — bluecat69bluecat69come on man u got to do better or we are going to ban u from this site.go duke!!!!!!!!!
Oh, Mr. Tysiac
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 12:58 — Heels20Glad to see you had to resort to a story like this just to attract readers.
head of the class
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 15:16 — gvillegatrKen always slights UNC in his blogs somehow, someway.
Either don't write the story or don't put UNC in it, Ken. why is that so hard?
According to you, this was not an incident like the one in Chapel Hill, so why bring it up?
whine, whine, whine
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 18:33 — bluecat69bluecat69dont u see why we all call u guys caraWHINA, u deserve it, ok go duke!!!!!!!!!!
Fan ejection at UNC
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 12:46 — GrandadAfter returning from NYC where the families sitting behind the UNC bench were subjected to a lot of abuse that almost became physical, Roy was sensitive to the shouts from an opposing fan coming from behind the bench where only family members and special guest are supposed to be sitting. They may have to put up with that in NY, but not at Carolina. He only asked who's seat was the heckling coming from, and when the guards checked, the heckler was not supposed to be sitting there. They removed him as he had no right to be there. If the heckler were in the opponents seating area, or in the seat assigned to him with his ticket, then nothing would have happened. Sitting in this special area is different.
when i first read the
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 12:12 — duke_bluewhen i first read the article about Roy doing that, i sort of defended him in my comments. i tried to be rational about the situation. now after reading this article and having a chance to think about it more, i can see there was nothing rational about what he did. the rivalry and the taunting fans are part of the game. the coaches, the players and the home team fans have to deal with it. how they deal with it shows their character. some may not agree, but the way the cameron crazies handled it was pretty funny.