One of the worst problems we have in this country is that someone can say something completely stupid, and if it's repeated often enough, we come to believe it's the truth.

Here's a list of players Mike Krzyzewski recruited at Duke....

David Henderson '83-'86
Weldon Williams '83-'86
Billy King '85-88
Robert Brickey '86-'90
Phil Henderson '87-'90
Antonio Lang '91-94
Mike Chappell '97-98
Chris Carrawell '97-'00
Will Avery '98-99
Elton Brand '98-'99
Chris Duhon '01-'04
Daniel Ewing '02-'05
Sheldon Williams '03-'05
Sean Dockery '03-'05
Demarcus Nelson '05-'08

They are all black kids who went to typical public high schools. Some in small rural towns, some in inner cities. Antonio Lang went to the same high school in Alabama as former Kentucky "student"-athlete DeMarcus Cousins. Of course, Lang was the school's valedictorian when he graduated.

And this list doesn't include Kyrie Irving, Andre Dawkins, Nate James, Corey Maggette, Lance Thomas, Elliot Williams, Ricky Price, Kenny Blakeney, Michael Thompson and several others who went to parochial schools that hundreds of inner city black kids like Jalen Rose get basketball scholarships from every year.

Jalen Rose is full of complete bullshit. At no point during his time at Duke has Coach K been unwilling to recruit more than the black kids from middle/upper class parents like Gerald Henderson or Grant Hill. It's just that the players he recruits, black or white, need to able to read and write at a proficiency level higher than a fifth grader when they get to campus, something Jalen Rose and many other kids who weren't recruited by Duke would have struggled to show they could do on a consistent basis.

One could argue Duke's academic standards have declined for recruits in recent years. And many do, and decry it as a negative. But that's bullshit too. Coach K is dammed if he do, dammed if he don't. If he recruits great students, he's accused of being a racist and going after Uncle Toms. He recruits inner-city kids and he's lowering standards to win. You can't have it both ways.

The fact is Coach K recruits kids with mental toughness. Kids who aren't scared to get their asses kicked in practice. Kids who don't pout like a spoiled cry-baby or talk back to the coach any time he gets yelled at. Kids like Jalen Rose.

If Jalen Rose thinks Grant Hill is an Uncle Tom because his parents are college graduates with successful careers, I guess that means Jalen's kids are Uncle Tom's then too. And I guess if the only black kids Duke recruited then were Uncle Toms, well then that would make his good friend and teammate Chris Webber and Uncle Tom, because Duke recruited Webber. And Kobe Bryant before it was clear he was going pro. And John Wall.

Jalen Rose is a bitter little bitch and I hope none of the folks here at SBR are dumb enough to fall for that ass-clown's clueless perceptions in life.