First reported by The Boston Globe, USA basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo convinced Coach K  to stay in the job after he led the U.S.A. to the gold medal in Beijing last summer.

“With the success that we had, I would do everything in my power to keep everything intact,” Colangelo told The Associated Press without confirming the decision.

Aside from his busy coaching schedule for Duke University, Coach K also travels frequently around the country giving speeches on leadership and holding success-based workshops for many companies. After looking at his basketball resume, it’s quite obvious he knows a thing or two about being a leader.

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Coach K Will Lead Team USA In 2012

These stats were so impressive that Paulus was once considered the best quarterback in his age group, receiving 53 scholarship offers to play football at the Division I level in college.

Greg Paulus may be throwing a football instead of a basketball once again.

But Paulus’ first love had always been basketball. And when he was given the opportunity to play for one of the most storied and respected programs in college basketball history, he took it. Who can blame him? Some kids grow up dreaming of playing at Duke under the helm of Coach K. Sure, Paulus has gotten teased more than most over his four-year career. But I don’t think his football talent was wasted.

Apparently, the Green Bay Packers were intrigued enough to give Paulus a workout.

We all know that Paulus isn’t going to the NBA. But it looks as though the NFL could be a reasonable back-up plan.

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Greg Paulus Could Jump To The NFL

ESPN reported yesterday that Seth Curry’s father, former NBA great Dell Curry,  made it known Sunday night after a visit to Durham earlier in the day that Seth had been offered a scholarship by the Duke Blue Devils and accepted. Curry averaged 20.2 points a game for the Flames this past season, making a name for himself in his own right outside of the shadow of his brother, Stephen.

Because of the transfer rule in college basketball, Seth will sit out the 2009-10 season and be eligible for 2010-11 as a third-year sophomore.

Seth also told ESPN that the opportunity to continue his career at Duke, and get a Duke education were other major factors in the decision.

The media/television exposure could have also been a factor, hmmm?

Perhaps Coach K. will have an opportunity to get back  the Blue Devils back to the Final Four with Curry’s help.

Get to know Seth Curry:

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Seth Curry Transfer To Duke

Duke @ Maryland is shaping up to be a helluva game. And Mr. Vasquez isn’t even playing!! (foul trouble).

I’d recommend you to turn it on if you’re not already watching it.

I want Gary Williams and Coach K. to fight each other.

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Gerald’s got an extra step on his ladder

Fairly recently Dean Smith announced that he is endorsing Barack Hussein Obama.

Current North Carolina coach Roy Williams might be supporting Barack Hussein Obama? Not really sure…

UNC spokesperson says Roy didn’t endorse Obama.

Of course he didn’t. Wink. A UNC basketball rep described the statement Williams made calling Obama “the next President of the United States” as “playful.” Of course Williams could have refused the Obama campaign’s request to have Obama on court. No, instead, he offered Obama some great free media in a state that loves basketball and their Tar Heels.

Coach K, I can assume, is a McCain supporter.

Bush’s way or the highway.

Many will say—always off the record—that they can agree with K on nine out of 10 things, but all their coach will remember is the one disagreement. Like one of his heroes, George W. Bush, Krzyzewski sees the world in absolutes: You’re with him or against him. That unites his players on the court, but it confounds them much of the rest of the time.

So are there any other past or present college basketball figures stepping up and endorsing a Presidential candidate? VP?

Not that I know of.

Though Craig Robinson, first year coach of the Oregon State Beavers, is the brother-in-law of Barack Hussein Obama.

Reggie Love, former Blue Devil walk-on, actually is a body man for Barack Hussein Obama.

No such news from the McCain-Palin side.

Though there was this speech er… shout out er… some kind of mavericky prattle coming out of Palin’s mouth about native Alaskans Carlos Boozer and Trajan Langdon.

Palin’s memo is here

Props to Goathair on that. Also, and I won’t take credit for pointing this out: dude in that picture is a dreadful David Stern wannabe.

Anyways,

“Nice looking parrot”

Via studiodave.

To be fair and balanced, well, I have to now show something that casts Barack Hussein Obama negatively.

How convenient, according to one political party, I’ve already have.

Yes folks, November 4th couldn’t come any quicker, plain and simple. It’s aggravating and is really polarizing much of the country.

Only a few more days left until we “elect” a new president. Hang in there.

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Political trash talking off the court

Brian Zoubek still must have his fist stuck in his ear or something, or else he would have beaten out raw freshman Miles Plumlee for that starting center spot by now.

Seth Davis from SI Hoop Thoughts

For someone who is as young and tall as he is, Plumlee has plenty of meat on his bones, and he is very agile to boot. (Krzyzewski told me he jumped 6 feet, 9 inches for his high school track team.) He seemed a little lost at times basketball-wise, but that’s nothing unusual considering it was only his fourth practice. Plumlee is Duke’s best shot-blocker, and he fits the Blue Devils’ wide-open style much better than 7-1 sophomore center Brian Zoubek. If the season started today, Plumlee would be Duke’s starting center.

About this leapfrogging of sophomore Nolan Smith over senior Greg Paulus:

I don’t necessarily like this move. It will probably mean better second unit proficiency considering Paulus will likely play a bit more with talented freshman Elliott Williams. This takes some pressure off of Williams. And it means Paulus will be the first or second scoring option for certain stretches of the first half.

Coach K, you might have just made a “genius” move.

Zach from Northwestern Wins

Surely a bold move by Coach K and we’ll see how long it lasts. I wouldn’t doubt the motives of Coach K, though; for all of Paulus’ talent, he knows his players more than anyone. And having Paulus’ shots off the bench could be genius. Expect a small crunch time team of Smith-Paulus-Scheyer-Henderson-Singler.

Ok. No more cheap shots about Duke for at least another week…

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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Gregory Paulus relegated to the bench