Personally, I categorically do NOT indulge in any schadenfreude over the Duke situation. Unlike many others, I neither like nor dislike Coach P as a human being. I just think that she has proved herself, again and again, to be manifestly incompetent insofar as the development of talent is concerned. Clearly, she can recruit good players, although I think she is helped disproportionately in that effort by the name, the institution, the campus, etc. But still, pretty impressive talent lands on her doorstep, whatever the reason, and I'm sure she deserves a lot of the credit. Yet, from the time the players arrive until the time they graduate (or transfer out) it's virtually impossible to point to anything about her abilities as a head coach of a major program about which to be very laudatory...and failures in player development constitute only part of the story. She is one of the worst in-game coaches I've ever observed. Her stubborn refusal to make appropriate in-game adjustments, or, maybe more accurately, her inability to do so would frustrate me beyond measure if I were a Duke fan. All this makes her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her multiple failures especially galling. Duke will continue to be one of the "better" programs in WCBB because of its own allure for prospective players, but it ain't ever gettin' to the promised land with this woman as coach!
