HUGE admission from UNC's Justin Jackson
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I give him credit for speaking the truth. It was a classy thing to do. Jackson receiving the honor underscores UNC's dominance in the ACC media corps, particularly in the state of NC.....
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Modesty. He and Luke were both pretty deserving. I would have liked to have seen Luke win it. Best player on a national title team is pretty deserving too.
I like Justin Jackson he seems like a good kid. Was he the most deserving - I do not know. My homerism is inclined to pick Luke.
But the kid was hugely important on a Championship team.
But the kid was hugely important on a Championship team.
Their fans seem to not get that HUGE advantage they have when it comes to the media in NC/ACC. K hasn't won COY in 17 years. I think he's won it only 5 times and Dean won it 8 times.
Stats were much closer than the vote tally if I remember correctly. What was more outrageous was how far Luke was from winning, not the fact he didn't win.
I may be getting some things confused but If I remember right, Luke didn't even finish second and he also did not receive a vote....
Right??
Right??
That was my biggest issue. It wasn't so much that Luke didn't win as it was that the voting was so onesided with JJ winning in a landslide. I can't remember for sure exactly how many votes Luke received but I want to say that it was somewhere around like only 4-6 votes.
Luke definitely deserved ACC player of the year! Still makes me mad he didn't get it.
Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Luke was the only "unanimous" first team all-acc player too.. for what it's worth. The voting had me puzzled.
Justin Jackson is a pretty good kid. I thought Luke very well could have won it as well, but I'll never pretend Jackson wasn't deserving. He was the best player on the best team. Like it or not, that will always carry some weight.
I think you're right about Luke being the only unanimous first team all-acc player
He was. How in the world are you the only unanimous first teamer and fourth in POY votes? It defies logic and makes me think the voters in the media knew they would be doing him a disservice and overcompensated.
I don't think anyone should go as far as "Luke definitely deserved it".
It could have been any of the Jackson, Collins, and Kennard group.
It could have been any of the Jackson, Collins, and Kennard group.
I think Jackson was deserving, but there is no question there is some UNC bias in the traditional ACC media. Once upon a time Shane Battier had to share the award with Joe Forte for God's sake.
Good form Justin. Don't sweat it, you and Luke both kicked a lot of ***.
True and the year green won it for va tech was a complete joke too
That was beyond a joke, only person who'd defend that is some guy named @dukehokie
They have produced many of those.....
To be fair, everyone has their jerseys hanging at the Dean Some.
Be nice to see a couple banners fall from there. One jersey you never will see up there is that of Dan Kane, haha...
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I thought the admission would be that he's 1. A closet Duke fan or 2. He didn't attend classes while at UNC or 3. Both 1 and 2
Really hard not to like Jackson.
While you never totally forget about the rivalry, you just find it impossible to not wish this kind of young man well regardless of the jersey he wears.
While you never totally forget about the rivalry, you just find it impossible to not wish this kind of young man well regardless of the jersey he wears.
Fits right in with their motto "The Carolina Way"
Nope can't do it.....if he had played for anyone else maybe so, but he wore that sissy blue.
I had no problem disliking him....but I think he's pretty good kid, nonetheless.
I think the kid is genuinely a nice guy. And, I like him a lot better now that he is not at UNC. I think his comment and Luke's reply show a lot of humility and maturity on their part. Certainly more than I displayed at their age.
I was talking to a buddy of mine last night that's a UNC fan and I asked him if he had heard about Jackson's tweet and he said he had and he said he agreed with Jackson's tweet then I asked him who he thought should've won and he said he thought Luke should've won it which didn't really surprise me too much ecause he's one of the rare UNC fans that you can have a rational conversation with as a Duke fan.
I honestly didn't think one existed. I have never met one.