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Name: Tom Shanahan
Date registered: April 8, 2018
URL: http://shanahanreport.com

Latest posts

  1. Here is the unromantic Alabama Rose Bowl story the media won’t tell you — December 27, 2023
  2. My Michigan State history lesson for UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz — December 11, 2023
  3. Antonio Gates on his fatherly advice for his namesake and Nick Saban’s advice he ignored — September 22, 2023
  4. Another round of realignment brings up folly of adopting legends — September 7, 2023
  5. Air Coryell, the offense that changed football, lands in Canton — August 6, 2023

Most commented posts

  1. Pat Narduzzi rebuilt Pitt with model his old boss used to close in on Duffy — 3 comments
  2. Duke football isn’t one of Kirk Herbstreit’s white flag teams — 2 comments
  3. Brian Kelly says Notre Dame QB competition is closer but better — 2 comments
  4. Ian Book’s play answering questions why Notre Dame recruited him — 1 comment
  5. Don Coryell’s Hall-of-Fame case supported by Pro Bowl record — 1 comment

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Jun
04
2021

West Pointer Krzyzewski’s succession plan relied Army career

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DURHAM — You don’t need to read Mike Krzyzewski’s bio to know he served in the Army after he played basketball and graduated from West Point. He often says his training and leadership skills gained apply to coaching basketball teams. Now, we’re learning that includes a succession plan for the dynasty he created at Duke …

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Jun
03
2021

Coach K learned to change with his teams and the times

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DURHAM — We know the numbers. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Basketball Hall-of-Fame career is known for five NCAA titles. His all-time win record stands at 1,170 and counting as he enters his final season, the upcoming 2021-22 season. But how did he succeed and stay relevant on and off the court for a career spanning …

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Jun
02
2021

Comments from Coach K and others on his retirement

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Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski confirmed reports from sources he plans to retire at the end of the 2021-22 season. Coach K led the Blue Devils to five NCAA titles in a career from 1980 to the upcoming season. In 46 years as head coach at Army and Duke, his 1,170 career victories is an …

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May
30
2021

Duffy Daugherty’s Michigan State Milestone Minutes

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Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad Follow me on Twitter @shanny4055 https://tomshanahan.report/ Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page

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May
22
2021

Duke and Nina King embrace her historic promotion to AD

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Duke introduced Nina King as the university’s new Vice-President and Director of Athletics Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium, promoting her from assistant athletic director to a place in history as the school’s first person of color named AD. She also represents progress as one of only three Black female ADs among the nation’s Power Five …

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May
05
2021

Tom Izzo outlasts 53 Big Ten coaches as elder statesman

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Many measuring sticks gauge Tom Izzo’s success. Here’s one beyond citing one national title, eight Final Fours, 10 Big Ten regular-season titles, six Big Ten tournament crowns and 624 victories: 53 and counting. That’s how many Big Ten basketball coaches have come and gone since Izzo took over Michigan State’s program 26 years ago, the …

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Apr
06
2021

Roy Williams long ago endorsed Hubert Davis as a Tar Heel

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All that was needed before Hubert Davis was officially introduced as North Carolina’s new basketball coach was to hear his predecessor had signed off on the promotion from assistant coach. Turns out Roy Williams had endorsed Davis as a Tar Heel long before the Monday announcement and the formal press conference on Tuesday at the …

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Apr
05
2021

North Carolina stays in the family, promotes Hubert Davis

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The North Carolina tradition fueled the logic and speculation. Now it’s reality. The Tar Heels promoted assistant Hubert Davis to head coach, following a pattern of that dates back 70 years – long enough to encompasses Dean Smith sliding over from assistant to head coach in the 1961-62 season. The job opened up only four …

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Apr
04
2021

College basketball swept up with fresh air in men’s and women’s Final Fours

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College basketball is refreshing again. The Final Four — on both the men’s and women’s sides – has knocked us off our feet two straight nights, the women on Friday in San Antonio and the men Saturday in Indianapolis. The climate change has displaced the predictable air clouding the sport through the previous decade. Kentucky …

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Apr
03
2021

Tar Heels should follow the Carolina Way and the Dean Smith legacy

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By TOM SHANAHAN The North Carolina basketball head coach succession has been infrequent but consistent for 70 years. The Tar Heels have stayed in the family starting with Frank McGuire (1952-61) to promoting of top assistant Dean Smith (1961-97). Then came the elevation of Smith’s top assistant, Bill Guthridge (1997-2000), to hiring former Smith player …

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Mar
24
2021

March Madness is not only back, it show us what college football lacks

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Oh, how we missed the NCAA basketball tournament. The 2021 resumption of March Madness and its many upsets has resoundingly reminded how much after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 tournament. The 2020 college football post-season, though, played out as if we wouldn’t have missed anything. The College Football Playoff was the same old, same …

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Mar
18
2021

North Carolina not taking NCAA tournament bid for granted

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North Carolina’s Garrison Brooks understood a year ago what Duke and Kentucky players learned this season. Signing a scholarship with a college basketball Blue Blood doesn’t include an automatic trip to March Madness. That truth was reemphasized this year for two more of the bluest of Blue Bloods, 2015 NCAA champion Duke and 2012 NCAA …

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Mar
17
2021

A 1978 look at March Madness with Butch Lee, Magic and Dodgers infielder under same roof

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Not long after Magic Johnson’s ownership group purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Hall of Famer spoke to employees at an organizational meeting. Johnson draws a crowd, no matter the subject, but somebody at some point should have combined baseball talk with basketball. “Hey, Magic. Remember the 1978 NCAA basketball tournament? John Shoemaker is here.” …

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Mar
16
2021

Izzo likes idea of having Bill Walton talking Michigan State-UCLA

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“I told Dan (Guerrero, athletic director) in my interview that if I could do half of what Tom Izzo’s done at Michigan State, that that’s my goal at UCLA. To run a program, run it the right way, win the right way, graduate players, everything, they’re about team. Guys still make the NBA. They’ve got …

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Mar
14
2021

Williams “ecstatic” to be back in NCAA; NC State in NIT

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By TOM SHANAHAN North Carolina is in, Duke is out. The other six ACC teams earning bids to the NCAA tournament were Virginia, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson and Syracuse. “We are ecstatic to be playing in the NCAA Tournament,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams said in a statement released. “There were a …

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Mar
11
2021

Duke drops out of ACC tournament following positive COVID-19 tst

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Duke announced Thursday morning a positive COVID-19 test among its Tier I personnel following Wednesday night’s win over Louisville. ACC health and safety protocols following a positive test required Duke to drop out of the tournament. Duke (13-11) was scheduled to play Florida State Thursday night in the quarterfinals. Athletic director Kevin White said the …

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