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Last week former Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler returned to Durham to discuss his new book about the Duke lacrosse rape allegations. While speaking to the crowd he took the opportunity to let it be known that he is not a fan of the school.

“I’m not going to miss Duke,” Pressler said, explaining that it was his friends at Duke he would truly miss and criticizing University administrators. “When you’re wrong, admit you’re wrong. What is the message you’re sending to these guys, to America’s youth?”

Those are some strong feelings. Even the most impassioned Duke hater never went so far as to say that the school is corrupting America’s youth. Interestingly enough, Coach K seems to disagree.

It’s easy to look back and say everything that you would have done or that could have been done. Instead of rehashing those things-we could have taken care of the kids better, we could have done this better-Overall we could have done that better. Could we have done that worse? Absolutely, we could have done it a lot worse. Right now, especially [after the conclusion of the Nifong hearings], there’s a great deal of closure now that has happened with Nifong.

I’m not quite sure how the situation could have been handled any worse, but it’s nice to know that Coach K’s expectations for his school are so low that he’s pleased with how it handled the situation.

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