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A Good Works Man Linebacker Kelby Brown is spending his sixth season at Duke much like he did his fifth — unable to line up on the field this fall due to another knee injury. But that inactivity is limited only to playing football. He remains as involved as ever academically and in the community, and recently he was named to the prestigious Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. The Good Works Team recognizes 11 FBS players (and 11 FCS or Division II, III and NAIA players) who have positively impacted their communities and the lives of others through service. They are invited each year to New Orleans for a community project prior to attending the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Brown is the seventh Duke player to be honored by the AFCA (American Football Coaches Association), joining Laken Tomlinson (2014), Dave Harding (2013), Sean Renfree (2012), Bryan Morgan (2010), Re’quan Boyette (2008) and Zaid Abdul-Aleem (1994), who is now on the voting panel for the team. Brown’s playing career at Duke has included three years on the field and three years on the shelf due to injury. When he last played in 2013, he made the All-ACC first team and ranked second in the conference in tackles per game while helping the Blue Devils claim the league’s Coastal Division crown. He was granted a sixth year of eligibility for 2015 and was slated to start at linebacker again before sustaining a knee injury in July. Brown said he was flattered to be chosen for the Good Works Team. “I honestly thought I wouldn’t make any of that stuff because I’m not playing and that’s a big part of those awards,” he said. “For them to still consider me and choose me speaks a lot about their mission and who they want, and that it’s okay for them to pick someone who’s not on the field. That honor means more to me than just about anything else I could receive.” Academically, Brown graduated in 2014 with a degree in evolutionary anthropology and

a 3.729 grade point average. He has since been pursuing a master’s degree in Christian studies. Within the community he has been active in several service projects, ranging from mission trips to Honduras and Mexico, the Durham Rescue Mission, the Serve RDU Project and Kid’s Club, which is located at a Durham housing project for single mothers. Brown, his brother Kyler and a few other teammates enjoy going there to play with kids who have no male influences in their lives and do Bible lessons for them. “I’ve seen that Durham has a lot of need, and I’ve really started to fall in love with Durham,” Brown said. “I’m from Charlotte, which is close, but Durham’s a lot different and there are a lot of people here who need help. And who better to help than kids at the university. I think it’s really important for us to buy into our community and serve those people in whatever ways they need, not just the ways we need. So what I’ve tried to do is look for opportunities that are a little out of my comfort zone, something that they really need.” Brown has also remained involved with the Blue Devil football team this season as a student assistant coach who works with the linebackers, helping them with film study and offering advice. “It’s taken some adjustment,” he noted. “Stuff happens a lot faster as a coach, surprisingly, partly because I don’t get any reps, and reps in the practice setting is what helps you cement the stuff in your brain. I’ve had to sit down and quiz myself on knowing everything because if I’m up in the box I have to see everything happening immediately with no time to think. “The reason I really wanted to do coaching is because last season I was just kind of on the margin of the team. I felt like I really couldn’t contribute and it wasn’t rewarding. It was a rough season for me personally. Being able to make an impact and really be involved has been awesome. I’m really thankful for it.”

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Cumulative grade point average for Duke senior kicker and all-time scoring leader Ross Martin, named a semifinalist for the 2015 Campbell Trophy awarded by the National Football Foundation. Considered the Heisman Trophy of academics, the Campbell goes to the top scholar-athlete in college football. Duke’s David Helton won it last year.

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Years of service as a Duke Athletics staff member for Mary Dinkins, who was honored with a retirement reception and dinner Sept. 25. A 1972 Duke grad, Dinkins spent the first portion of her career working in the football office before moving to the development area, where she has been the senior director of the Iron Dukes Varsity Club.

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Kickoffs returned for touchdowns by Duke junior DeVon Edwards, the most in school history. Edwards had two as a redshirt freshman in 2013, one last year, and two more in the first four games this season, including a 100-yarder in a 34-20 win over Georgia Tech. The ACC record is seven, by former Clemson star C.J. Spiller.

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Solheim Cup appearances for former Duke golfer Brittany Lang, including the recent 2015 event in Germany. The United States team defeated Europe for its first Solheim title since 2009 with a huge comeback, claiming 9 of 12 singles matches on the final day to overcome a 10-6 deficit. Lang has earned $5 million in 10 years on the LPGA Tour.

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Kicker Ross Martin and punter Will Monday may be Duke’s best ever at their positions By Al Featherston Is it possible that the 2015 Duke football team boasts the best pair of kickers in school history? A case can be made that senior Ross Martin is the best placekicker the school has ever had, while an equally strong case can be made that punter Will Monday is in a class by himself. “I don’t know that I’ve ever been around two better — anywhere,” coach David Cutcliffe said recently. “They would be hard to beat. Based on statistics, you would have to say, absolutely, yes, but I don’t want to offend anybody who has ever played here before.” Obviously, Duke has had some famous kickers — both placekickers and punters. For instance, the most famous win in school history was directly attributable to one of the greatest punting performances in college football history. Eric Tipton punted 20 times for 788 yards against Pittsburgh in 1938. He put 15 of those kicks within the 20-yard line and seven within

the 10. One of those coffin corner kicks led to the only score of the game, when Pitt — forced to punt out of its end zone — had the kick blocked for the only score in Duke’s 7-0 win. Tipton, Ace Parker, Brian Morton, Ricky Brummitt and John Krueger were all superb punters for the Blue Devils over the years. But Monday’s career average of 44.04 yards a kick is the best in Duke history and the sixth best in ACC history. Beyond the raw numbers, he’s also proven masterful at placing the ball, either to enhance coverage or to pin opponents deep in their territory. Through the Georgia Tech game, he’s punted 220 times in his career and 69 have been downed inside the 20 (with just 29 touchbacks). He’s never had a punt blocked and a year ago, opponents managed a total of just 33 return yards all season. Monday also holds placekicks for Martin, which makes the two kickers a real team. Martin has been a deadly weapon for the Blue Devils since his arrival

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Along with holding for Martin’s kicks, Monday owns the top punting average in Duke history before the 2012 season. He hit 20 of 23 field goals that season, including two from over 50 and seven over 40. A year later, he hit 13 of 19 field goals, including two 50-plus kicks to help edge Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and a late field goal to beat UNC in Chapel Hill. He hit 19 of 21 attempts as a junior and 9 of 9 through five games this year. That’s 61 of 72 field goals in Martin’s career — which is the school record for most field goals and the highest success rate (84.7 percent). He’s also hit a school record 168 extra points, missing just one his freshman season. His current streak of 124 straight extra points (through week 5) is the school record. His 351 career points scored are also a Duke record and are the sixth most in ACC history. How good has his performance been? Well, his long-time backup at Duke, Jack Willoughby, transferred as a grad student and is now the starting placekicker for No. 1 Ohio State. “My confidence is at an all-time high, as it should be,” said Martin, who supplied all the points in a recent 9-7 win over Boston College, hitting a 53-yard field goal into the wind to match his career long. “Seniors are expected to lead the team. They are expected to be role models for the younger guys. Also, I want to leave Duke, leaving a legacy here. I want to be a reliable player for this team. I want guys later, thinking back about me and saying, he was a consistent guy, a reliable guy.” Considering that he’s on pace to finish as the most consistent placekicker in school history, that’s very likely to be Martin’s legacy. But he insisted that he doesn’t do it alone. “Our long snapper, Thomas Hennessey, and holder, Will Monday, they are just as reliable,” he said. “They need to do their job before I can

even touch the ball. I have so much confidence in them … now it’s back on me. I have to finish the job.” THE M&M BOYS Martin and Monday made their debut together against Florida International in the 2012 opener. The freshman placekicker converted a 34-yard field goal and five extra points without a miss that night. The freshman punter boomed five kicks for a 45.2-yard average. But even though they first appeared on the field together in the same game, Martin and Monday were not originally classmates. Monday, a highly touted punting prospect from Flowery Branch, Ga., arrived at Duke in the fall of 2011. But Cutcliffe elected to redshirt his prize recruit. A year later, Martin arrived as a prep All-American from Solon, Ohio. He played right way. Cutcliffe said the different approach to the two kickers is part of his philosophy. “It’s by choice,” he said. “It’s hard to carry four or five guys on scholarship who are specialists. We try to keep a punter, a placekicker and a snapper on scholarship. They are all extremely important to us. We will take one year and try to sign a punter and redshirt him — that’s four. “I believe a placekicker can come in … that’s very similar to high school. I think it’s easier to teach a placekicker your system and how you do things. I think a punter is a different animal. Number one, a punter is catching a college snap and it’s much different, a much faster rhythm. That’s why I like to redshirt a punter.”

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At first, Monday objected to sitting out a year. “I was a guy who thought I wanted to come in and play right away,” he said. “When I got here, I wanted to compete and win the job as early as possible. I ended up redshirting that year. At the time, I was kind of bummed about it. Looking back, I’m so glad that I did. I don’t think I could have come in as a true freshman and been effective as a punter. I think that year of getting bigger, getting stronger and continuing to work on my game allowed me to have a great redshirt freshman year and a great career after that.” Monday also worked as a placekicker during his redshirt season, but he soon gave that up to work as a holder for the new kid. “Once we got the commitment from Ross, that’s when I realized, hey, Ross is pretty good,” Monday said. “There’s no need to waste my leg. I realized that the best way I could help the team was to be a holder. I think that’s what the coaches wanted, given how much time Ross and I spend together. I could understand what he wanted and give him the best (hold) possible. Ross has done a phenomenal job. He’s an unbelievable kicker.” Martin suggested that he went through his freshman season in a daze. “Everything happened so fast that freshman year,” he said. “I don’t think I really had a chance to stop and think about the moment, ‘Wow, I’m playing college football.’ Week one, it was like, ‘You better get out there and perform right away.’ Looking back, it’s kind of like it was something to just jump right in there. I think a lot of upperclassmen helped me along the way.” Monday has come to appreciate Cutcliffe’s different approach to punters and placekickers. “I feel the same way as coach,” he said. “As a placekicker, at the end of the day, you’re taking your steps, the holder is putting the football down and your job is to put it through the uprights. Your focus is the same as in high school. “Whereas with a punter, there is a lot more that goes into it. Especially since we’re not doing the normal spread style punt that everybody’s doing these days. We’re not doing the pro style punt. It’s kind of a mix-

ture. When you come here, you have to adjust and continue to work on your hands, so that you can get the ball out fast. It’s not like a high school game — it’s so much faster.” NEXT YEAR With two senior kickers this season, Cutcliffe is already preparing for the transition next year. And, not surprisingly, he’s banking on the same formula. He’s already got his next punter on campus — freshman Austin Parker is redshirting. “I sit close to Austin. I’m No. 41 and he’s No. 42,” Monday said. “I’ve tried to tell him everything I know. I told him to soak up everything he can, so next year, he’s ready to go. Next year, if we bring in a new kicker — and that’s the plan — I told him, it’s his job to show him how things are done.” It’s not official yet until signing day, but Duke has a commitment from highly regarded kicker A.J. Reed of Prattville, Ala. If all goes to plan, he’ll be in place next fall to battle strong-legged walk-on Will Kline for the placekicking job. Monday said Parker is also working as a holder, so he can take that job too. There will be a bit of continuity in the kicking game in that long snapper Thomas Hennessy will return for his redshirt senior season. Hennessy arrived with Martin, but redshirted in 2012 as senior snapper Jackson Anderson helped the two young kickers. Monday suggested that Hennessy will do the same for Parker and Reed. “I think from the day Thomas took over the snapping job, his focus and his effort for every rep has been unbelievable,” Monday said. “I had a great relationship with Jackson Anderson, my snapper my redshirt freshman year and I wanted to have a great relationship with Thomas. Like Coach Cut said, he’s an unbelievable snapper. I couldn’t be more fortunate to be able to work with him on a daily basis.” And Duke couldn’t be more fortunate than to have had Monday and Martin handling the team’s kicking duties for the last four seasons.

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Duke’s band-of-brothers secondary provides a formidable last line of defense By Johnny Moore In a 4-2-5 defensive set, you can very easily see the most important part of the scheme — the five defensive backs. They make up almost half of the players on the field trying to keep the other team from reaching the end zone. To say the defensive secondary at Duke is important may well be an understatement. This group understands totally their importance on the football field. They realize they are the last line of defense against an opponent hitting a big play or scoring. They understand totally the importance of making big plays to stop the momentum of an opposing offensive attack. That importance has brought this group of cornerbacks and Deondre safeties to form what they call Singleton a “coalition.” They liken themselves to a group of cheetahs who use their speed and athleticism to hunt their prey together — the prey in this case being opposing ball carriers. “The coalition is a band of brothers. We work together, eat together, we do everything together, we are very close,” explained junior corner Breon Borders. “The coalition is a group of guys that go out and make plays for the good of the entire group, “ added junior safety Deondre Singleton. “It is a group of five cheetahs that together go out and make things happen.” “We know each other’s strengths and weaknesses so we can make the adjustments during the game to make our defense better,” explained redshirt junior safety DeVon Edwards. “We make a lot of these adjustments on our own because of our knowledge and belief in each other. Most times we come off the field and the coaches tell us what a good job we did in making the right adjustment.” Speed is one of the key elements in this secondary, with guys like

Edwards, who posted a 10.61 100-meter time last spring during track season, the fourth fastest in school history; Borders, state champion in the 300-meter hurdles in high school; and freshman Jeremy McDuffie, recognized as one of the fastest players out of the state of Georgia last year. The coalition is an interesting combination of youth and experienced players, led by senior All-America safety Jeremy Cash, four juniors in cornerback Borders and safeties Edwards, Singleton, and Corbin McCarthy, and three sophomores in cornerback Alonzo Saxton and safeties Phillip Carter and Evrett Edwards. They are joined by redshirt freshman corner JohnaBreon than Lloyd and true freshman Borders McDuffie. Through the first five games of the season the coalition has allowed just three touchdown passes and dating back to the start of the 2014 season just 17, which places them among the best in the nation. They are a major reason why Duke ranked second in the ACC in scoring defense and pass efficiency defense through its 4-1 start this year. “I tell my safeties every single morning in meetings the team is going to go how we go,” said Blue Devil assistant coach Matt Guerrieri, who is in charge of the safeties. “When we play DERICK HINKLE great our defense is dynamic. We have to stop them every single play and play every rep to win the game.” The cheetah philosophy of the secondary was bestowed on this group by assistant coach Derek Jones, with the belief this group would play with the speed and agility of a cheetah, striking ball carriers all over the field. The fact the Blue Devils made a commitment to this group of de-

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The cheetahs get their prey: Breon Borders, DeVon Edwards and Alonzo Saxton hunt down a Yellow Jacket ball carrier fensive backs three years ago has developed into a real positive. Cash, Borders, Singleton and Edwards have at least 30 starts each and have been involved in over 2,000 snaps during their careers. “The biggest benefit is they have been here and have played together for a while,” explained Jones, who is in charge of the cornerbacks. “A couple of years ago we felt like even though these guys were young, we had made a talent jump in the secondary with the younger players. In moving forward we felt we would have a product people would be envious of, because of the talent level and experience these players would have.” But it isn’t like the Blue Devils coaches went after the big-time recruits. They recruited the type of player that would fit into this system — players that were willing to share the limelight and focus on winning more as a team than as an individual. “We have a bunch of no-name guys — except for Jeremy Cash — that weren’t big-time national recruits, but they were guys we fairly evaluated and we felt like these guys could help us win ball games,” added Jones, now in his eighth season as an assistant at Duke. “We wanted to switch our trend from traditional defensive backs to guys that could cover — that goes into the cheetah concept.” You can see it on the field each and every game as the players in the secondary work together and gain confidence in each other. “Coach Jones has instilled in us that we are the ones that want and need to make the plays to win the game,” explained Borders. “I want to make that play every time we are on the field. We have a swagger, a confidence that we bring to the field and then must back up with our performance in the game.” “They do a great job of challenging one another,” explained Jones, who played at the cornerback spot himself at Mississippi and was captain of the Rebels in 1996. “The experience on the field they have built

is invaluable.” That recruiting philosophy of bringing in a number of defensive backs paid off this year when veteran cornerback Bryon Fields went down with an injury in training camp and will miss the 2015 season. “The greatest thing about our defensive secondary is that they are so interchangeable,” explained head coach David Cutcliffe. “Our safeties can play at the cornerback spot and our corners can play safety. We can place them in the line of scrimmage to rush the ball carrier or quarterback. We have some flexibility, which is one of the key elements to making this group very valuable.” That speed and experience in the secondary allows the Blue Devils to use a player like Cash, with his exceptional ability to rush the passer or get into the backfield and disrupt an offense, knowing that the other four guys have his back. “One of the reasons I can make the big play is because I know my guys will be there,” explained Cash. “Not only the guys in the secondary, but the other guys on the field with me. I can go full speed and know they will be there to cover if I happen to miss.” The “coalition” can do it all — not only intercept passes or knock down passes but also make tackles. Cash’s number of tackles and tackles for loss are incredible, but the other members of the coalition can make big plays as well. Singleton made 20 tackles in the Northwestern and Georgia Tech games this season. Borders had three pass deflections and an interception in the Georgia Tech game, while Edwards added 11 tackles in the Northwestern contest. In the game against the Yellow Jackets the “coalition” accounted for 4.5 of the team’s eight tackles for a loss. In every sense of the word, the play of the Blue Devil defense is a team effort, led by the cheetah-like members of the secondary — the coalition.

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A Passion For Coaching Former Blue Devil running back Charles London’s football odyssey follows a circuitous path to the NFL By Jim Sumner A zig-zag line might take longer to negotiate than a straight line. But it can still take you where you want to go. Just ask Charles London. London is a native of Dunwoody, Ga., an Atlanta suburb where he starred at Dunwoody High School as a football running back and a track sprinter. Barry Wilson was Duke’s head coach at the time and he recruited the greater Atlanta area hard. London says that was a factor in his decision to become a Blue Devil over two decades ago. “There were lots of guys from Georgia at Duke. It felt comfortable,” he explains. London redshirted in 1993 and played sporadically in 1994, a season in which ACC player of the year Robert Baldwin got most of the carries in leading Duke to an 8-4 mark during Fred Goldsmith’s first season as head coach. London had all of 10 rushes for 26 yards. Still, London recalls 1994 as “a magical year with a bunch of great guys. The breaks went our way. It was definitely a fun year.” London saw the field more in 1995, one of a platoon of running backs charged with replacing Baldwin. He carried the ball 62 times for 291 yards and had a 51-yard scoring run against Florida State. But his best game came against North Carolina State, when he rushed for 73 yards on 16 carries, while adding two receptions for 19 yards. London had a touchdown run against State but it wasn’t enough, as Duke lost 41-38, an all-too common circumstance in a 3-8 season. He also ran track, competing on a 4x100-meter relay team that included other Duke football players, including Corey Thomas and Dominique Flemming. London then lost playing time in 1996, rushing 12 times for 37 yards. He elected to give up his final year of eligibility in 1997. While London was a role player on the field, he was a star off the field. He majored in political science, was a member of the ACC Honor Roll and was named a National Football Foundation University Scholar Athlete in 1996, the same year he was named the Blue Devils’ Trinity teammate of the year. London was thinking of a career with the FBI, perhaps the Secret Service. Then fate intervened, in the persons of Tom and Jill Mickle. The late Tom Mickle was associate commissioner of the ACC, while his wife Jill was director of Duke’s Varsity Club. The ACC was funding

an internship for Disney’s Wide World of Sports and Jill Mickle thought Charles London was just the guy. “It was an entry-level position into sports management and running events,” she recalls. “Tom was all about giving young people a chance. He wanted people who were bright and eager. The timing was right.” “I decided to give sports a chance,” London says. The internship turned into a paid position and was followed by stints as a stadium assistant manager for the Cleveland Browns and director of stadium operations at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots. London was well on his way to a career in management. “But I always had coaching in the back of my mind,” he says. “Ted Roof was my way back in. I called him and asked if he had anything. He knew me, knew my passion. I was eager to do it.” Roof had helped recruit London to Duke as an assistant coach under Barry Wilson and the two had kept in touch. Roof later became Duke’s head coach and when London contacted him about possibilities, Roof set him up as a graduate assistant. London took advantage of the opportunity to earn a master’s degree in humanities. He began coaching on the defensive side of the ball, gaining insights that he says help him to this day. London was promoted to full-time in 2006, becoming the running backs coach. “Charles has a passion for Duke football that is second to none, as well as a knowledge of what it takes to be successful here. He has a very bright future in coaching,” Roof said at the time. Roof was correct about that bright future in coaching, but it wouldn’t be at Duke. London had NFL aspirations and took a job as quality control assistant with the Chicago Bears. That involved breaking down game film and running the scout team, similar to the responsibilities of a college graduate assistant. He moved up to an offensive assistant for the Bears in 2008 and 2009, scouted for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2010 and went back to being a quality control guy with Tennessee in 2011. When asked about the frequent job changes, London responds simply “That’s part of the business.” London went back to the college ranks when Bill O’Brien became head coach at Penn State, in 2012. O’Brien was the offensive coordinator when London was at Duke. He took over at Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, an NCAA bowl ban and scholarship limitations.

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London ran the ball for Duke from 1994-96 and returned to coach his old position in 2006. He’s now with the Houston Texans. “He told me he needed a guy he could trust, someone to go through the fire,” London says of O’Brien. “It was tough. The smoke hadn’t even settled when we arrived. There was a time when we weren’t sure we would be able to have a season. But we had a great bunch of kids who wouldn’t be denied.” O’Brien coached Penn State to a 15-9 record in two seasons before accepting the head coaching job with the Houston Texans. O’Brien still needed a guy he could trust and London became Houston’s running backs coach. He admits that he landed into a pretty good situation, including a stable of running backs that includes Arian Foster. “The offense is a game-plan offense,” London says. “We’ll run when we can, pass when we can. We have a good group of backs.” London says the NFL helps him be a better teacher. “College has time limits. There are no time restraints in the NFL. I have as much time as I need.”

Houston ran the ball a league-high 51.9 percent of the time last season and had an AFC-best eight 100-yard individual rushing games. Re’quan Boyette is Duke’s running backs coach and a close friend of London, who was his position coach in 2006. Boyette says that London has all the attributes needed of a good position coach: “Communication skills and the ability to relate to the players, knowledge of the position, being able to teach. He was one of the best coaches I ever had.” But Boyette’s admiration for London runs deeper than X’s and O’s. “I love him as a man, who he is as a person. He’s a great man. He’s honest, he has the best interest of the players, teaching them about playing and life. You trust him. He’s smart, has a drive, wants to be the best. Guys see who he is and how they can benefit. I consider him a mentor and try to instill in my players the lessons I’ve learned from him.”

Duke Basketball

2015-16 Schedule OCTOBER

Amile Jefferson carried the NCAA championship trophy off the court in Indy to close out his junior season. He’ll begin his senior year as a team captain for the second time, and as Duke’s most experienced player with 59 starts in 106 games played. His career averages of 5.6 points and 5.3 boards serve to complement his defensive presence and energetic style.

17 Countdown to Craziness 7:00 30 Florida Southern (Exh) 7:00

NOVEMBER

4 Livingstone (Exh) 7:00

2K Classic/Wounded Warrior Project 13 Siena 14 Bryant State Farm Champions Classic @Chicago 17 vs. Kentucky

ESPNU 7:00 ESPN3 8:00 ESPN 7:30

2K Classic/Wounded Warrior Project @New York 20 vs. VCU ESPN2 7:30 22 vs. Georgetown/Wisconsin ESPN TBA 25 Yale 29 Utah State

ESPNU 7:00 ESPNU 12:30

DECEMBER ACC-Big Ten Challenge 2 Indiana JON GARDINER

2015-16 Roster No. Name

Pos Hgt Class

Hometown

2 Chase Jeter

FC 6-10 Fr

Las Vegas, NV

3 Grayson Allen

6-5 So

5 Luke Kennard

6-5

Franklin, OH

12 Derryck Thornton

6-2

Chatsworth, CA

13 Matt Jones

6-5

DeSoto, TX

14 Brandon Ingram

GF 6-9

Kinston, NC

Jacksonville, FL

21 Amile Jefferson

6-9 Sr

Philadelphia, PA

30 Antonio Vrankovic

7-0

Delray Beach, FL

34 Sean Obi

6-9 So

Kaduna, Nigeria

40 Marshall Plumlee

7-0 Gr

Warsaw, IN

45 Nick Pagliuca

6-3

Weston, MA

50 Justin Robinson

6-8

San Antonio, TX

53 Brennan Besser

6-5

Chicago, IL

5 15 19 28 30

Buffalo Georgia Southern vs. Utah @New York Elon Long Beach State

JANUARY

2 6 9 13 16 18 23 25

at Boston College at Wake Forest Virginia Tech vs. Clemson @Greenville, SC Notre Dame Syracuse at NC State at Miami

FEBRUARY

2 6 8 13 17 20 25 28

at Georgia Tech NC State Louisville Virginia at North Carolina at Louisville Florida State at Pittsburgh

MARCH

1 Wake Forest 5 North Carolina

ESPN 9:15 ESPN2 5:15 ESPN2 7:00 ESPN 12:00 ESPNU 8:00 RSN 4:00

RSN 4:30 ESPNU 7:00 ACC 12:00 ESPN2 7:00 ESPN 2:00 ESPN 7:00 CBS 2:00 ESPN 7:00

ESPNU 9:00 ESPN TBA ESPN 7:00 ESPN TBA ESPN/ACC 9:00 ESPN 12:00 ESPN 7:00 CBS 2:00

ACC 8:00 ESPN TBA

8-12 ACC Tournament @Washington, DC ESPN/ACC

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2015-16 Schedule OCTOBER

Blue-White Scrimmage

NOVEMBER

1:00

5 8

Pfeiffer (Exh) Saint Leo (Exh)

7:00 1:00

13 15 18 22

at Penn Winthrop Texas A&M ESPN3 Army

8:00 6:00 7:00 2:00

Cancun 26 27 28

Challenge @Cancun, Mexico vs. Idaho vs. Iowa State vs. Texas State

1:30 1:30 1:30

DECEMBER ACC-Big Ten Challenge 3 Minnesota 6 14 17 20 29 31

Last summer Stevens played for USA Basketball for the first time and helped her country win gold at the U19 World Championships in Russia. She started every game, averaged 11.1 points and scored 18 in the gold medal contest. JON GARDINER

2015-16 Roster No. Name 2 Haley Gorecki

Pos Hgt Class G

6-0

Hometown

Palatine, IL

3 Angela Salvadores G 5-10 Fr

Leon, Spain

4 Lexie Brown

5-9

Suwanee, GA

11 Azura Stevens

FG 6-6 So

Raleigh, NC

12 Mercedes Riggs

13 Crystal Primm

G 5-11 Fr West Palm Beach, FL

14 Faith Suggs

GF 6-1

Flossmoor, IL

15 Kyra Lambert

5-9

Cibolo, TX

21 Kendall Cooper

6-4

Carson, CA

22 Oderah Chidom

6-4

Oakland, CA

5-7 Sr

Lindon, UT

23 Rebecca Greenwell G

6-1 RSo

Owensboro, KY

30 Amber Henson

6-4 Gr

Tampa, FL

34 Lynee Belton

6-3 RFr

Clinton, MD

35 Erin Mathias

6-4 So

Pittsburgh, PA

ESPN3

7:00

at South Carolina ESPN2 UMass Liberty at Kentucky SEC Western Carolina UNC Wilmington

2:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:00

JANUARY 3 7 10 14 17 21 24 28

at Syracuse ESPNU Wake Forest ESPN3 at Louisville ESPN2/ESPN3 NC State RSN Boston College ESPN3 at Clemson North Carolina RSN at Pittsburgh

FEBRUARY 1 4 7 11 14 18 21 28

Notre Dame ESPN2 Virginia ESPN3 at Miami RSN Florida State ESPN3 at Wake Forest at Virginia Tech ESPN3 Georgia Tech at North Carolina ESPN2/ESPN33

MARCH 2-6

ACC Tournament @Greensboro, NC

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6:00 7:00 1:00 7:00 2:00 7:00 2:00 TBA

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Agent for Change

Joby Branion File: Duke football defensive back (1981-84) • Law degree and MBA from UCLA (1995) • Agent for Steinberg Moorad & Dunn (1996-2001) • Co-founded Athletes First (2001) • Founded Vanguard Sports Group (2015)

Branion takes proactive approach with his Vanguard agency By John Roth He entered the sports agent business the same year that the movie Jerry Maguire was released, so perhaps it was only natural that some of his friends started calling him Joby Maguire. That was back in 1996, and in the two decades since then, Duke alumnus Joby Branion has become one of the most successful player representatives in the industry. Ironically, Branion got his start with the former super-agent Leigh Steinberg, the inspiration for Jerry Maguire and a technical consultant for the film. Branion left Steinberg’s firm in 2001 to join David Dunn and Brian Murphy in founding Athletes First, serving as executive director while helping the agency overcome a mountain of legal issues at its conception to evolve into a football powerhouse that represents the likes of NFL stars Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews. Having advised or represented 39 first-round NFL draft picks and negotiated literally hundreds of contracts, Branion departed Athletes First one year ago this fall to launch his own firm, Vanguard Sports Group, with the goal of setting a new full-service standard in the field. His roster

lists about 30 NFL players, many of whom were his clients previously at Athletes First, including former Duke defensive back Ross Cockrell. GoDuke The Magazine editor John Roth spoke with Branion about his new venture and the motivation behind it. Here are excerpts from the conversation. Last year, Forbes magazine listed Athletes First as the second most valuable football agency. Why leave? “I just felt like there was a different approach, a different way I wanted to go. I wanted to drill down, and I felt the timing was right to drill down on doing everything I could to try to empower the clients I represent. Agents typically don’t do that. It’s been really positive. “When I left (Athletes First) they had about 180 clients. I envisioned something very different and decided it was the time to chase the right dream, which was to develop an agency that was going to be a little more focused on the individuals in a proactive way, which most agencies sim-

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ply don’t do. They are reactive by nature. “One of the first people I brought on board had 25 years in the business as a clinical psychologist and has worked with the NFL and NBA, dealing with players and all of these issues that are very predictable and identifiable and that they encounter in their careers. I’ve learned over my 19 years — and I guess I knew this from the very beginning but it really got driven home over the last 17 years — that the professional career of an athlete is surely transitional. It is not the goal, it is the means to an end and you only have so much control over it. There are things you can’t control, like how well your team does, injuries, so many things. But then there are other things you can control. And what has become distressing over the last several years, specifically how it relates to football, are the number of players that you see and read about who have derailed their own careers by virtue of nothing that had anything to do with their ability to play the game and everything to do with the decisions they’ve made and the people they’ve surrounded themselves with. “You can really derail your own career with one mistake. It’s my obligation, in my view as a representative to these guys, to give them the tools they need to be successful. My obligation is not to help them buy new cars or get rings or jewelry or access to A-list parties. My job is to help them transition from not having anything to suddenly being a professional and having a lot of attention, a lot of money and being a very big target, and making that transition from the campus to the professional life as soon as possible. That’s the first transition. “The second transition is once you get through your rookie year to prepare to get to that second contract. Financially for the player and his family that’s the Holy Grail. In football, basketball, baseball you don’t retire off of one contract, you get to the second one. And so many guys never get to the second one, or they’ve so devalued themselves that the second one isn’t what they could have produced. So transitioning them from rookie to veteran is the next phase. “Then once you’ve hit that second deal, now you are in a position, theoretically at least, where you can take care of your family and perhaps even generations of your family and prepare for the end, and the end is going to come. I tell my clients I can’t promise you many things, but I can promise you’re going to die, I can promise you if you don’t pay your taxes you’re going to jail, and I can promise you that your career is going to end, they are going to take it from you whether you like it or not. And when it ends, you are still going to be at a relatively very young age. I don’t care if you are a 15-year, 12 Pro Bowl Hall of Fame guy, you’re going to be 37 and there will be a whole lot of life ahead of you. So I try to direct my guys early that the goal is not the NFL, the goal is to get out of the NFL with as many options and as much of a foundation as you can possibly have. You need to use the NFL or the NBA as a tool to help you have that launching pad to the rest of your life so that you can live the American dream. “The American dream I define is being able to wake up in the morning and know that your family is taken care of, they’ve got a roof, they’ve got food, they’ve got health care, they’ve got all that they need, and you get to decide what you want to do. If you’re wealthy you can choose to go coach high school football or you can choose to go run a foundation or you can choose to become an entrepreneur. You can choose to do whatever you want to do. The money that’s available in professional sports now is enough to provide these men with that as a legitimate goal in life. Along the way I understand the importance of giving back, of developing relationships and all of those things, but most of this is stuff that agents don’t deal with. Agents don’t focus their attention on making sure their clients are empowered and that their clients have value added from them during their careers, personally and professionally. Most agents just make money off the player. A lot of agents may cut their fees. I go the other way. I’m going to earn my fees. I’m going to earn every dime of what we end of doing here and then some. You are going to be happy to write the check to us.” Explain how it works for you in this era where so many initial player contracts are slotted at specific values or ranges.

“Technically we get compensated as a percentage of the contract that gets negotiated. The easy analysis for a player these days is, ‘You don’t negotiate much of the contract, so I’m not going to pay you.’ What I counter that with, especially in football, is what you really need is someone who is going to help guide you from the end of your collegiate eligibility to the draft. “Von Miller, one of my clients, projected to go 15 or 20 (in the first round of the draft) when he finished at Texas A&M, and when the process ends he’s the second overall pick. Well you know what, those fees he pays are many multiples less than the amount of money he made between going 15 versus number 2. He literally made $10 million or $12 million more by going that high. And you can do the flip of it: look how many players have gone into the draft highly rated and then plummeted. “So a good agent, what they ought to be adding right out of the gate, is all that is necessary to help the client be in the best possible position to get themselves drafted as highly as possible. If a good agent has done that, then the client can go into the draft knowing he did everything right, was prepared for the combine, was prepared for the Senior Bowl, was prepared for the Wonderlic test, was prepared for the interviews — all of it. That little bit, just at the top of the draft, the difference between number two and number three is over a million dollars. That’s more than the entire fee for any agent. That’s now you add value, number one. “Number two is when you pay that fee, theoretically for negotiating that contract, the agent is supposed to be working for you until the next contract. So you are paying not only for that piece, which again, done right, that should pay for itself just by the draft process. You should be ahead of the game the day you are drafted. But then I’m going to add all these other pieces that other agents will not pay for. Offseason training. There are a lot of things I’m going to be paying for to help my clients in their growth professionally, so that when they get to the second deal they will be worth as much as they can possibly be worth. “For example, I may pay out $75,000 for these pieces over the next four years between the draft and the next contract, investing $75,000 in other things that will really enhance him. Then he gets to that next contract and instead of it being a $25 million deal it’s a $30 million deal. That extra $5 million, which can be traced back to the extra value he got, I only get 3 percent of it, which is $150,000. So I get my $75K investment back plus another $75K, which is not a bad deal for me. But look at it from the client’s perspective. From my investment in him, he gets 97 percent of the upside. So that $5 million, I got $150K and he got $4.85 million more because I invested in this transition from a rookie to a veteran. For me that’s a no-brainer, but agents don’t think like that. Agents aren’t built like that, and it’s hard to do that if you have 180 clients.” But overall it sounds like it is not only about “Show me the money” for Vanguard. “My hope is, quite honestly, that we can sort of reshape the business. Literally redefine what it means to represent an athlete. I ought to be adding value. I ought to be empowering. If I’m not doing that, if your agent is not doing that, you shouldn’t have him. “I still get up in the morning excited about trying to make a difference in these young men’s lives. It just so happens I can feed my family while I do it, but it’s exciting and I’m constantly trying to find other ways to add value to them so they’re getting the most they can out of their professional team. That’s what this should be about. “When I first got in the business, I had finished law school, I had a friend who would introduce me to people, ‘This is my friend Joby, he’s a lawyer,’ and I said, ‘Look, when you introduce me to people for the first time, don’t tell them I’m a lawyer.’ That same person did the same thing when I first started working with Leigh Steinberg’s sports agency. Introduced me as a sports agent. I was, ‘Oh man, whatever you do, don’t introduce me as a sports agent. Tell them I’m a lawyer.’ “If I had one professional goal, it would be that by the time I hit retirement, being introduced as a sports agent won’t feel like you’re a punch line. Instead it would be greeted with, ‘Oh wow, you’re one of those guys who really helps people.”

Long Distance Plan

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Cross country standout Shaun Thompson takes aim at his final season for Duke, with an eye on the 2016 Olympic Trials By Brad Amersbach

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. So says Scottish poet Robert Burns in his famous poem “To a Mouse.” Duke head men’s cross country coach Norm Ogilvie and redshirt senior Shaun Thompson hope to refute this claim over the next 10 months, as Thompson prepares for his final cross country and outdoor track & field seasons as a Blue Devil, while also keeping his sights set on the 2016 Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Ore., next July. Preparation and planning, as with any athletic endeavor, are crucial in achieving success, with years of advanced consideration needed in order to realize the desired goals. So when Thompson approached Ogilvie last summer with the idea of training for an event that remained nearly two years away, the former ACC coach of the year helped establish a longterm strategy. “(The plan) dates back to the summer of 2014 when we made the decision (to have Thompson attempt to qualify for the Olympic Trials), which is normally as long as you can plan something in track,” Ogilvie said. “He expressed an interest in having continuity in his training and that the summer of 2016 was a goal of his.” The consistency in training for Thompson was crucial in allowing the Baldwinsville, N.Y., native to remain healthy over the course of his time at Duke and in the lead-up to the trials. Thompson has seen a steady increase in mileage over his college career, beginning in the summer prior to the start of his freshman cross country season in 2011 when he was running 70 miles a week. Today, his weekly mileage tops out right around 95 miles a week, helping to strengthen the physical and mental components necessary to compete at a high level.

Thompson believes what he has accomplished in his training while at Duke is also in large part due to Oscar Jensen and Jason Glashauser, his high school coaches at Charles W. Baker in Baldwinsville. The duo laid the foundation that has meshed well with Ogilvie’s coaching philosophies and has allowed Thompson to thrive at the collegiate level. A low-mileage, interval-centric training approach in high school allowed Thompson to stay healthy and develop the strength necessary to compete in the college ranks. In high school, Thompson showcased his potential, capturing the New York state title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. In addition, he also registered a third-place finish at the New York State Federation Cross Country Championships, demonstrating his versatility. The successes were encouraging for Thompson, but he knew dues would need to be paid in order to run among the lead pack come college. “Coming in from high school, I was good for my section,” Thompson said. “It is a small pond we all come from, but we are out in the ocean now. I quickly realized during my freshman year that those ambitions were not in the running. In the last four years here, I have gained steadily each year. Working with Coach (Ogilvie) has been great because we have taken into account different things that have happened and avoided injury. It has been such consistent training that has clicked with me.” Ogilvie believes Thompson possesses both the tangibles — 4:06-mile speed with the combination of endurance necessary to hit 13:47 for 5,000 meters — and the intangibles needed to perform in such a grueling sport. Ogilvie cites the 2013 ACC Cross Country Championships as evidence of Thompson’s intangibles.

On race day, Thompson competes with intensity and fearlessness that can leave some spectators awed, two traits that are beneficial for any long-distance runner. In 2013, at the conference cross country championships in Kernersville, N.C., Thompson made a move just under midway through the race, opening a 10-meter gap between him and the rest of the field. Three runners would eventually overtake him en route to his fourth-place finish, but Thompson showed an unwillingness to run in the pack and allow those with a stronger kick to pass him over the final stages of the race. “I went out and thought, ‘If they want it, they’re going to have to work for it. They’re going to have to come track me down,’” Thompson said following the race that day. Ogilvie admired the courage that Thompson showed in the competition, stating afterwards, “Shaun made a bold move. That was all him. It was a great strategy and sometimes when you’re bold, you’re rewarded with great results, and today that’s what happened. He had courage to do it. He should be commended for it.” In addition to the tenacity with which he races, Thompson’s sheer commitment and leader’s spirit are two additional intangibles that have helped him excel. Along with the obvious time that goes into covering 95 miles over the course of a week, injury-preventative measures pre- and post-workout are also an essential component of Thompson’s routine that allow him to remain healthy. Maintaining a regimented stretching and ice-bath schedule allows Thompson’s body to recover from the daily activities. Thompson’s attention to detail with regards to his training, along with his leadership abilities, makes him the consummate captain in Ogilvie’s eyes, leading both by example and literally in workouts. “He vowed to become a better leader,” Ogilvie said. “He has become Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation GoDuke The Magazine (publication number 1066-8241), published monthly September through June, at IMG College, University Tower, 3100 Tower Blvd., Suite 404, Durham, NC 27707 for October 1, 2015. Number of issues published annually: 10. Annual subscription price: $29.95. The general business office of the publisher is located at 540 North Trade St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101. The names and addresses of the publisher and editor are: publisher IMG College, 540 North Trade St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101 and editor John Roth, 3100 Tower Blvd., Suite 404, Durham, NC 27707. The owner is IMG College LLC, 540 North Trade St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101.

a phenomenal leader. Shaun is really the type of guy that other teammates can look up to. Last year, we had difficulty getting out in races, and if you get caught behind in cross country, it can be difficult to move up in the field. Now with Shaun able to get out in front, they can pace themselves behind him. When you practice with a great runner every day, it gives you more confidence.” Thompson redshirted last season as part of his plan to use this year, his fifth, as a springboard to the Olympic Trials in his track specialty, the 10,000 meters. This fall he is concentrating on performing well in cross country and using the training to transition onto the track for his final season of eligibility in the spring. As a captain, Thompson exudes a team-first mentality, encouraging members of the squad to develop personal goals that will help promote the overall success of the team. Thompson has lofty goals for himself this season, regardless of whether preseason rankings predict him as one of the top finishers at this year’s NCAA Championship. “My goal is to be first team All-America,” admitted Thompson, who picked up his first victory of 2015 by winning a major invitational at Princeton on Oct. 3. “I try to get the guys to physically write down the goal they have, whether it is a time, place, or simply to stay healthy. Mine is top 10 at nationals. While a lot of rankings don’t even have me in the top 50 because I have been out for so long, that is my goal, and I think it is definitely a possibility given how the training has been going. I am excited to get back out there, and I definitely think we can get to Louisville as a team in November.” Burns ends his poem by expressing the anxiety and fear that the future’s unknowns hold, but for Thompson, the promise of what may lie just over the horizon only elicits excitement and positivity.

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This job fits him to a T By Barry Jacobs Frankly you don’t meet many people, regardless of profession, who glow when discussing their job, enthused about what they’re doing even after years of doing it. But, then, there aren’t many people like Claude “T” Moorman III, since 2001 the team physician for the Duke football and basketball teams. “I’ve got the greatest job in the world,” says Moorman, 54, the director of Duke Sports Medicine, a Duke professor in orthopaedic surgery and evolutionary anthropology, and vice chair of Duke’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. “I played football here. I went to undergraduate school here. I did an orthopaedic residency training here. My team physician (Frank Bassett III) recruited me into the field. And here I am, taking care of the kids at the school that I love. How can it be any better than that?” Well, that level of job satisfaction hasn’t prevented Moorman from doing more, anyway. Just recently, he took the lead as the initial president of a group of ACC team physicians developing new protocols and awareness to protect the league’s football players. “T Moorman is a terrific ambassador for Duke University and the Atlantic Coast Conference,” conference commissioner John Swofford said in an e-mail. “He has helped position our league to insure that we are at the forefront of player safety. He is passionate about the well being of student-athletes and very progressive in his thinking.” Taking a cue from other conferences, at the ACC’s behest its medical community is supplying each team with a medically trained observer situated in the press box. These eyes on high are associated with specific schools, so observers are grounded in the medical problems already facing squad members. Linked electronically to colleagues stationed on the sidelines, they can instantly recognize ominous changes in on-field behavior and issue an alert to urge medical intervention. To critics who find the extra layer of scrutiny duplicative, Moorman inquires, “What’s the harm?” The heightened attention is reflective of a newfound understanding across all sports of the deleterious effects of concussions in particular, and has spawned greater interest in refining the scientific methodologies necessary to better understand, prevent and treat sports injuries. Moorman’s father, Claude Moorman, was an end on the Duke squad that beat Arkansas in the 1961 Cotton Bowl under Hall of Famer Bill Murray. His son, known as “Tee” or “T” like his father, played offensive guard at Duke under Shirley “Red” Wilson from 1980 through 1982 after a prep career in Concord, N.C. Moorman recalls growing up with exhortations to use his head as a weapon when playing football. “It was spear the guy,” he says. “Well, there were 34 quadriplegias in 1976 because of that. When I was playing it was, ‘Put your hat on him!’ Even if it’s heads up, you’re going to helmet-to-helmet the guy, you’re going to take him out.” Alarm at the cases of paralysis led to rules changes that discouraged spearing. Now there’s a greater emphasis on not leading with the crown of a helmet when initiating contact. Concussion protocols are in place that mandate immediate removal from a game and limit contact for extended periods after a concussion is diagnosed. Moorman believes he suffered mild concussions while playing football; they went unremarked at the time and apparently had no long-term effects. He insists the contemporary game, despite its belated recognition of concussion dangers, and the fact virtually every member of last year’s Duke senior football class required some medical “intervention”, is safer

than ever. Due to that conviction, “I’ve had no problem at all in not only allowing, but encouraging my son to play,” says the father of three. “Just because of the lessons of the game, the life lessons.” Those lessons include the value of collaboration, as he notes when interviewing job candidates, finding some distinctly more “self-oriented” than others. “You just see these guys and women and you just say, oh, if they’d just played a team sport, they’d have gotten that beaten out of them early on,” he observes, “and they’d be a lot more productive with what they’re trying to get accomplished.” This from a man who runs a cutting-edge sports medicine program at Duke that doesn’t employ a publicist. Recently several of the nation’s premier prep basketball players came to Moorman for knee surgery, among his specialties, yet his name is not bandied about nationally like some of his colleagues. “A lot of people ask me, ‘What’s the most important thing you ever did to get you ready to be an orthopaedic surgeon?’ Moorman confides. “I say, “I played football.’ Because when that third open tibia comes rolling into the ER (emergency room) at 3 AM and you’re about ready to croak because you’re so tired, you just say, ‘Ah, this is nothing compared to three-a-days in August when I was playing.’ That puts everything into perspective.” Gaining perspective is a particular Moorman passion, medically speaking. A key component of his interest in the ACC physicians’ group is the opportunity to collate and compare data, to create an injury registry, then use it to reevaluate the efficacy of current treatments. An early area of investigation, started at the University of Virginia, are the dislocated shoulders and related woes that plague football players. Moorman hopes the ACC medical community can move on to scrutinizing knee injuries, heat-related illness, and perhaps find a way to do cardiac screening in a cost-effective manner. “Unfortunately the injuries that occur in football tend to be more lifeand limb-threatening, so the scrutiny starts there,” he says. “You start with the low-hanging fruit, you move from there. I hope that the ability to study injuries will permeate all of our sports.” That’s already happening on the wooded campus of Duke’s Center for Living, home to sports medicine since its former headquarters was removed as part of the Wallace Wade Stadium renovations. Through the “K Lab,” a facility for which Mike Krzyzewski helped secure funding, Moorman and staff use evaluative measures like preseason MRIs to anticipate basketball’s two most common and debilitating injuries — damage to the patella tendon in knees and breaks of the fifth metatarsal of the foot. If indicated by individual tests, rehab measures and orthotics are employed to prevent their occurrence. Other testing enables Krzyzewski to fine-tune the intensity of his team’s practice regimen to match the physical and emotional stress facing his players. “That’s a brilliant coach utilizing some of the tools that are available to him through the K Lab, and through the testing done by our medical staff, that helps with some data points for him,” explains Moorman. And there’s a dedicated team physician once again playing a crucial supporting role, a contribution commemorated by a collection of rings from NCAA basketball championships, football bowls and a Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl win that came prior to his current Duke tenure. “My cup runneth over,” he says.

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