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First-year overachievers and struggling legends

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball (applications for ACC officiating jobs sold separately): FIRST-YEAR GUYS DOING FIRST-RATE JOBS Three-fourths of a season of work is not sufficient evidence for a lifetime contract or a pink slip. If sweeping decisions on new coaches could be made that quickly, Quin Snyder would own Columbia, Mo., and Mike Krzyzewski would have been run out of Durham long before he became a legend. But it is February, and we have learned s ...

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