Jai Lucas Was Just Robbed Out Of ACC Coach Of The Year

[Trinton Breeze]

The ACC Coach of the Year has been announced, and Miami Hurricanes head coach Jai Lucas was left out of it, and the Hurricanes fans are coming after the ACC.

Instead, the award went to Jon Scheyer the head mens basketball coach at the Duke Blue Devils, who Jai Lucas worked under the year prior of Miami.

Yes, Duke is one of the best teams in the country, but it’s hard to ignore what Lucas has done with the Miami this season. After taking over a team that went 7–24 last year, Lucas had Miami...

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[markcane]

The Tobacco Road bias is very real. No other explanation.

 

[TallyCaneFan]

He definitely did more with less. Duke is always the most talented team in the conference and that was the fact before Scheyer took over. He inherited a machine and Lucas is building one.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

F the ACC

 

[hotshot]

Scheyer did a nice job but award shoulda gone to Lucas.

 

[Golsen82]

F Duke, F the ACC and a big FU to Manny Diaz! Thanks for Mensah and Barkate though!

 

[CaneThang2020]

Oh wow - Scheyer is a great coach but he just made the Final Four last year. I’m not seeing where he overachievement comes from whereas Miami definitely showed massive improvement from a year ago. ACC has to be better than this, or media or whomever votes for this award smh

 

[canes_226]

I wonder if this is different if we don’t take Mensah from them lol

 

[QuattroCane]

The Duke coach is the epitome of being born on third base and celebrating like you hit a home run.

You know they punished Lucas because of the Mensah situation and, no, I'm not kidding.

 

[anr96]

Yep

 

[Tempest]

A joke, but not surprising. Especially since we just annihilated Duke football.