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Source<\/a>: #8 Duke loses to unranked Wake Forest, students storm the court; Duke center Kyle Filipowski allegedly injured by fan during the mob, coach Jon Scheyer calls for an end to storming<\/span><\/p>\n The low-hanging fruit is that if Duke could just stop sucking and getting upset by lesser-heralded opponents, they wouldn\u2019t have to deal with other schools\u2019 fans storming the court on them. \u00a0Furthermore, we\u2019re long past Coach K\u2019s retirement and it\u2019s apparent that Jon Scheyerface<\/a> isn\u2019t helming a perpetual national champion anymore, so if the NCAA could stop overrating the fuck out of Duke and having them in the AP Top-10 all the time, then maybe opponents will stop thinking they\u2019re upsetting Goliath every time they eat another L, and fans won\u2019t feel the need to storm the court.<\/span><\/p>\n Put me in the segment of sports fans that is particularly enjoying the new reality that Duke is far from the automatic win they used to be, and regardless of the diminishing importance of beating Duke is becoming, it\u2019s always a pleasure to see them take a loss.<\/span><\/p>\n But here\u2019s the thing, I can see where Jon Scheyerface is coming from, as well as all those who are in support of his remarks to plead with an end to court storming.\u00a0 Just because it\u2019s a long-standing tradition across the college athletics landscape, most notably in football and basketball, and just because it\u2019s something that\u2019s \u201calways been done,\u201d it doesn\u2019t mean that it hasn\u2019t ever been a potential risk to tons of student athletes and team and venue personnel, and it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s really ever been right.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s just that this particular season, there have now been two noteworthy incidents where players have gotten bodied by jubilant fans storming the court, where Iowa\u2019s Caitlin Clark was trucked by a fan, and now Dook\u2019s Kyle Filipowki* took a tumble and had to be helped off the court.\u00a0 If there\u2019ve been any other incidents in the past in hoops or football, none have really made the media such as these.<\/span><\/p>\n *which sounds about like the whitest name in the world, even for a Dook player<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n As traditional and exciting it is to see a court storming, it really is a recipe for disaster where it\u2019s a miracle that things haven\u2019t gotten worse than these isolated incidents throughout the years.\u00a0 Hundreds to thousands of people, swept up in emotion and excitement of being on the right side of a victory, rushing towards a central point where there might still be opposition present, trying to process an L while going against the flow of human traffic; suddenly accessible when they typically aren\u2019t, because a venue\u2019s security has long since been physically overwhelmed.<\/span><\/p>\n The reality is that a court storming can happen at any point of a game, not just the finish, and there is literally nothing a venue could do about it.\u00a0 There is nothing short of employing the Justice League to guard the access points to the court or field from being swarmed by hundreds to thousands of rushing human beings, and even the most imposing of security will get overwhelmed by a mass of people eventually.\u00a0 Unless there is a ratio of security that is closer to 1:1 and not 1:500, court storming is literally impossible to prevent from happening.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s just that traditionally, there is an understood agreement and civility that saves court storming for upsets of heralded opponents.\u00a0 Dook has done a good job historically, be it through their students, alumni, PR and brand management, of becoming the school that everyone loves to hate, and seemingly regardless of their rank or position in the NCAA rankings, has probably been the school to have to deal with the most number of court stormings<\/a> against over the last 25 years or so, so in spite of my general disdain for the school, I actually do understand where the concerns over court storming come from.<\/span><\/p>\n Like I said, it\u2019s easy to make the joke that maybe if they just stop losing, they wouldn\u2019t have to deal with it, but the concerns and potential dangers are no less real when it comes to when it actually happens.\u00a0 Frankly, I don\u2019t think Filipowski was actually hurt as much as he was more trying to cushion his bruised ego for taking an L against Wake Forest, much like any player who gets rocked in any sport suddenly having an spontaneous injury announced afterward to try and salvage their ego.<\/span><\/p>\n But if court storming actually does have action taken against it, regardless of the fact that nobody can really stop it from happening, all eyes are going to be on Duke as the party responsible for attempting to kill a tradition that has been a part of college sports almost as long as the existence of college sports. \u00a0And as much as people who didn\u2019t go to Dook generally revile Dook, this outcome would probably, undoubtedly make things much worse for them, and probably set up a situation where even more schools will feel the compulsion to storm on them if they ever lose in their houses.<\/span><\/p>\n Would be pretty impressive to be Kyle Filipowski, because it would most definitely put him up in the upper echelon of Hated White Duke Player history, with Christian Laettner, JJ Redick and Grayson Allen, but unlike them, it\u2019s not because he was so good at basketball as much as he was trying to kill off a timeless tradition and change the general landscape of college sports.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: #8 Duke loses to unranked Wake Forest, students storm the court; Duke center Kyle Filipowski allegedly injured by fan during the mob, coach Jon Scheyer calls for an end to storming The low-hanging fruit is that if Duke could just stop sucking and getting upset by lesser-heralded opponents, they wouldn\u2019t have to deal with … Continue reading Of course it\u2019ll be Duke that kills a tradition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,79,60,83,52,58,110,146,190],"class_list":["post-49804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-cashmoney","tag-ncaa","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-tradition","tag-triggered","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49806,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49804\/revisions\/49806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}