Many thanks to RAWFS for pointing out a rather scathing commentary from John Feinstein and the responses from DBR.
Five years later, Alleva had lived down to everything expected of him: taking a bad football program and making it worse, hiring a crony as baseball coach who HAD to be fired because the team was awful and former players came forward to say he had encouraged them to use steroids, and looking foolish almost everyone time he opened his mouth in public (which he rarely did, usually hiding behind press releases)…
Alleva is now overseeing a football program that hasn’t won a game against a Division 1-A team since 2004….
Of course no one really cares about football at Duke. That’s because Krzyzewski built a national power in basketball, winning three national titles and reaching 10 Final Fours. Therefore, money continues to flow into the athletic department and people just makes jokes about the football team…
But, the apologists argue, everybody graduates. Trust me when I tell you graduating from Duke isn’t all that hard…
