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In the past 13 months, three Duke pitchers underwent Tommy John surgery, an increasingly common elbow procedure in younger arms.

The Chronicle examines the risk factors and recovery process for Tommy John and a potential solution developed by a former Blue Devil hurler.

Special thanks to Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Amrith Ramkumar, Brian Pollack, Sameer Pandhare, Lily Coad, Delaney King, Rita Lo, Lesley Chen-Young, Nick Martin and Georgia Parke.

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Duke basketball head coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Joanne P. McCallie discuss rule changes to college basketball approved in early June, including a 30-second shot clock for the men’s game and a switch to four quarters in the women’s game designed to promote quicker, more exciting action.

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Ever wondered what it takes to start a varsity sport?

Duke will begin competing in softball in spring 2018.

It was nearing 5 a.m. in the middle of Ohio and we were running on empty. The first gas station we stopped at had shut off its pumps for the night, but finally we found one where we could refuel.

That was the beginning of my road trip to cover the Final Four in Indianapolis, a four-day frenzy during which I learned the word “prestidigitation” from Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes and watched Duke cut down the nets for the fifth time in program history.

Just a few weeks later, it was the Blue Devils’ turn to refuel. Losing 80 percent of your starting lineup might foreshadow a rebuilding year at most other programs. But head coach Mike Krzyzewski reloaded instead, wooing Derryck Thornton and Brandon Ingram in late April to give Duke its second straight top-ranked class.

2015-16 will be a rebuilding year in the literal sense that we will watch the renovations to both Wallace Wade and Cameron Indoor Stadiums progress. But the rebuilding of Duke football’s on-field product is nearing completion—as a senior, I have known nothing but bowl games, something not many Duke grads can say. There are expectations now among students—to win.

In the same vein, women’s golf brings back all five golfers from its national semifinal finish in May. Women’s lacrosse will replace a stellar senior class with players who now have Final Four experience.

So while the athletic campus continues to evolve, what you will find within these pages is that despite losing plenty of talent, Duke teams have restocked—and are poised to step on the gas.

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Senior Nick Martin looks ahead to the Duke football season as the Blue Devils look to replace key contributors in their quest for an elusive bowl victory.

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Fresh off the program’s fifth national title, Amile Jefferson and his men’s basketball teammates must fight human nature this summer to get ready for a repeat bid with a newly-configured roster. For women’s basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie, dominant center Elizabeth Williams has moved on to the WNBA, but sophomore Azura Stevens could fill the void.

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The Chronicle sits down with Duke vice president and director of athletics to discuss progress on Wallace Wade Stadium renovations, the beginnings of the Cameron Indoor Stadium addition, the connecting Blue Devil Plaza and other construction updates.

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BASEBALL

A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC A look at the growing prevalence of Tommy John surgery at Duke and beyond

Ryan Hoerger and Brian Pollack The Chronicle The pop of a catcher’s mitt is one of baseball’s most natural sounds. Pitch after pitch, the ball travels 60 feet, 6 inches to home plate, finding its way into the catcher’s padded leather glove with a resounding thud.

The pitching motion itself is unnatural—a whirlwind of moving parts unique to each individual who toes the rubber. The more a pitcher throws, the more wear and tear he puts on his arm, and the greater the likelihood that his elbow—not the catcher’s mitt—will pop.

And when that happens, all a pitcher can do is wait for the doctor to come into the room and say the three words nobody in baseball wants to hear: Tommy John surgery.

Since 2000, the number of Tommy John surgeries being performed across the country has skyrocketed—including a troubling rise among amateur pitchers— and just this past year, three Blue Devils were among that group. But a former Duke pitcher may hold one of the keys to slowing down a major threat to the national pastime.

The Tommy John epidemic Duke head coach Chris Pollard has been in the game of baseball for a long time. He spent 13 seasons at Pfeiffer and Appalachian State before coming

Graphic by Rita Lo | The Chronicle At least 22 players who were on ACC rosters in 2014 or 2015 had undergone Tommy John surgery during their career.

to Durham to take the helm prior to the 2012-13 season. Heading into April of last year, Pollard’s pitchers had avoided surgery-requiring damage to the elbow’s ulnar collateral ligament.

That was about to change.

“What I’ve told people is that in my 16 years as a head coach, 15 previous years, we had not had one Tommy

John surgery,” Pollard said. “That also includes one year as a head coach in a collegiate summer league—not one Tommy John surgery, and now we’ve had three in the last year.”

The first Blue Devil to fall was James Marvel, who saw his sophomore season come to a premature end last April. The 6-foot-4 right-hander had consistent

success as a midweek starter during the 2013 season, posting a 3.64 ERA in 42 innings. Marvel appeared primed to take a leap forward in his sophomore campaign as he hurled seven strong innings in a start against then-No. 1 Virginia to lower his ERA to 1.78.

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TOMMY JOHN

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But then his right elbow started to hurt, which prompted a visit with the medical staff. The news was not good, and the Moraga, Calif., native went under the knife May 7, 2014.

“That was it,” Marvel said. “Once I met with doctors, I was under the assumption that I was going to need it, so I kind of mentally prepared myself. Obviously, you don’t like to hear that you’re going to need any type of surgery, let alone this one and be out for a year or more.”

Already a bit short on a pitching staff without Marvel and graduated ace Drew Van Orden, Duke was dealt another blow before its season began. Just days before the calendar flipped to 2015, the team announced that southpaw Trent Swart—a weekend starter whose 2.99 career ERA ranks as the best in program history since the start of the aluminum bat era in 1974—would miss the entirety of the upcoming season following Tommy John surgery of his own.

Swart battled elbow trouble throughout 2014, dealing with what he described as a “burning sensation after each individual throw.” Although the pain caused him to miss more than a month in the middle of the season, he was later cleared to pitch and returned for the Blue Devils’ late push into the 2014 ACC tournament.

Duke was cautious with its stud left-hander, easing him back into action on specific pitch counts. Swart took some time to rest following the season before resuming his normal offseason throwing program, but the pain that bothered him during the season would not go away.

Like Marvel, as he went to get his elbow checked out, Swart had an inkling of what was to come.

“I kind of prepared myself [for the diagnosis] last year when I had the initial injury because I wasn’t sure what they were going to say, if I needed it or if we were going to go through the rehab process,” Swart said. “I think I would have been more shocked then, but then after I came back and started feeling the pain again, I was mentally prepared.”

The third Blue Devil to require Tommy John surgery was Michael Matuella—who was projected to be a topfive pick in the 2015 MLB draft after MLB.com tabbed him as the No. 2 overall prospect in December. After firing six shutout innings in a season-opening win against California, Matuella experienced forearm stiffness and was shut down for a few weeks.

As with Swart, Matuella saw game action only in measured doses upon his return, even as Duke began competing in conference play. Pollard finally took the leash off the 6-foot6 right-hander March 20 against Pittsburgh, when Matuella

The Chronicle Duke pitchers James Marvel, Michael Matuella and Trent Swart have all had Tommy John surgery since April 2014. Matuella and Marvel were both selected in the 2015 MLB draft.

threw 91 pitches in 6 1/3 innings.

But the Great Falls, Va., native took the mound just one more time—a 93-pitch effort against Boston College—before it was announced April 1 that he too would need surgery to repair his torn ulnar collateral ligament. The injury adversely affected Matuella’s draft prospects—the right-hander fell to the third round and was drafted 78th overall by the Texas Rangers in the MLB draft earlier this month.

Three pitchers undergoing the procedure in less than a year may seem extreme, but the recent flurry of Tommy John surgeries is far from unique to Duke. Just two of the 14 ACC teams did not have a pitcher on their 2014 or 2015 rosters who had undergone Tommy John surgery at some point in his career.

At the professional levels, the figures are even more staggering. Since the first operation 41 years ago, just shy of 1,000 known UCL surgeries have been performed on major- and minor-league players, the vast majority of them pitchers. Seventy percent of the procedures have come in the past decade—with a record 103 in 2014—making the words “Tommy John surgery” everyday vernacular in the baseball world.

Even high school players—a demographic absent from the official numbers—are having Tommy John surgery with a regularity unprecedented for professional

hurlers 20 years ago. Pollard said in April that three of his incoming freshmen underwent the procedure in high school, part of a growing national trend.

The list of Tommy John patients includes budding MLB stars such as Stephen Strasburg, Matt Harvey and Jose Fernandez, as well as hundreds of other young pitchers who have had their careers halted by recurring pain in their elbows.

It has become, as Pollard and many others have called it, an “epidemic.”

The origins of Tommy John In 1974, Tommy John got off to a 13-3 start with the Los Angeles Dodgers, racking up five complete games and three shutouts in the process. But his season came to a screeching halt when he felt a pop in the middle of one his starts.

“I was pitching outstanding ball, and my arm never hurt. There was a normal hurt, but not to where you’d have injections and all that,” John said. “It was one pitch—boom—and the pain was severe, I mean very, very severe.”

The left-hander’s ulnar collateral ligament—which runs between the humerus and the ulna on the inside part of the elbow—was completely torn. John and Dr. Frank Jobe, a member of the team medical staff, gave the injury four weeks to heal, but it became clear that the injury would not mend on its own.

Surgery was the only option to revive John’s pitching career—but nothing similar had ever been attempted.

John said Jobe gave him a 1 or 2 percent chance at returning to the majors after the surgery, which was to be the first of its kind.

Fourteen seasons and 164 wins later, John retired at age 46, the first of hundreds of pitchers to resurrect their careers thanks to the surgical technique pioneered by Jobe, which now bears the name of its first patient. “[Jobe] was going out giving lectures about the ulnar collateral ligament transplant surgery with the palmaris longus tendon [from the forearm] and he said ‘I got tired of calling it that. It was too long. Then I started saying ‘The surgery I did on Tommy John,’” John said.

“And people were like ‘Oh, yeah’ because people knew about that. And then he said ‘Tommy John surgery’ and boom, it stuck.”

Risk factors for injury John was one of just a handful of pitchers to undergo Jobe’s UCL surgery in the 1970s and 1980s, but that figure has ballooned since the turn of the century. Although there are many factors that may contribute to the wear and tear on a young pitcher’s arm, medical experts have honed in on overuse as the primary culprit.

Although he is the player most closely associated with the injury, John’s injury—a burst of severe pain with little prior warning—is the exception rather than the rule.

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NCAA

Krzyzewski, McCallie embrace rule changes Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle With scoring at a six-decade low in men’s college basketball and an all-time low in the women’s game, the NCAA decided something had to be done to attract fans to collegiate basketball games outside the month of March.

The answer—a package of rule changes aimed at increasing the pace of play and making the college game more similar to the one seen in the professional ranks.

Both the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Rules Committees made recommendations for changes to the game during their meetings from May 12-15. The proposed changes were approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel during a conference call June 8.

In the men’s game, the biggest change was the long-awaited reduction of the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds. Combined with a renewed emphasis on defensive rules such as hand-checking and contact in the post, a switch to four timeouts per team and an initiative to expand the restricted area arc from three feet to four feet, the rules are expected to speed up the pace of the game and produce more scoring.

“I liked everything,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said during his K Academy camp in late May when asked about the changes that had been proposed two weeks earlier. “I think they should look at

the international rules and copy a lot of things that they do. I like the fact that coaches can’t call timeout, I think it puts more [on the players]. Overall, I thought just a huge push in the right direction.”

The changes may also ease players’ transition to the NBA. The new rules allowing greater player movement away from the ball—a skill NBA teams covet—will force players to make moves earlier in the shot clock, giving scouts a better chance to evaluate how a player’s skill set could transfer to the next level.

“I think that anything that can help improve our game, the flow of the game, is really good,” Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel said. “We experimented with [the shorter shot clock] in the exhibition games last year—wasn’t an issue. Honestly, I think we’re the only country that doesn’t have universal rules for basketball. It’s amazing—the game was created in this country but we’re the only country that has different things.”

On the women’s side, the biggest change is a switch to a four-quarter format. The change from two 20-minute halves to four 10-minute quarters was made in an effort to quicken the pace of the game and make it more similar to international and WNBA rules.

“It might have taken a lot of people by surprise on the outside, but on the inside there’s been a lot of discussion [about] trying to match up with FIBA rules, trying to speed the game up, just trying to make differences to make it faster overall,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

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30-second timeouts and one 60-second timeout—with only two carrying over to the second half. The oneand-one free-throw bonus—previously a staple of the college game—will be eliminated entirely with teams getting two free throws after the fifth team foul in each quarter.

Like Krzyzewski, McCallie has coached with international rules as part of USA Basketball and advocated for further changes to the college game.

“I was still going for the 24-second clock,” McCallie said. “After coaching USA Basketball and coaching overseas, I really like the 24-second clock in terms of the timing it puts to the offense in a game. That didn’t really move. The quarters moved and what not, but I think these are steps to make our game better and also steps to try to make it slightly more uniform across the world.”

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The majority of UCL tears occur over a long period of time—the accumulation of years’-worth of pitches that put stress on the elbow.

A principal cause of the escalation of Tommy John surgery in young players is that the number of pitches being squeezed into each of those years has greatly increased from previous decades.

Dr. Neal ElAttrache—the current Dodgers team doctor and the surgeon who operated on both Marvel and Swart—said that overuse can be broken into several categories. Kids are specializing as baseball players— specifically as pitchers—as early as 11 years old. Those pitchers then play baseball year-round, denying their arms the chance to rest and recover during the typical winter offseason. In addition, pitchers often play for more than one team at once—for example, a high school team and a club team—which may have separate pitch

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or inning limits that do not carry over, allowing kids to throw an excess number of innings per week and putting additional strain on the ligament.

The urge to pitch more innings and for more of the year stems from the feeling that doing so is the key to being noticed by scouts, said Van Orden, who started on weekends for Duke in 2014 before being drafted in the fifth round by the Washington Nationals in the 2014 MLB draft.

“I think it definitely is [being done] to be seen. At every level it seems kids are being told ‘You have to do this, you have to play travel ball if you want to end up playing in high school,’” said Van Orden, who now pitches for the Hagerstown Suns in the Nationals’ minor league system. “It’s almost out of fear of not being seen that they’re playing more.”

Improper mechanics are also likely at fault. Each pitcher has a slightly different throwing motion, but a widely held convention for avoiding injury is to develop a smooth, repeatable motion that uses all parts of the body

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Duke pitching coach Andrew See pointed to two specific mechanical points in a pitcher’s motion that he looks at to evaluate whether or not they may be at a greater risk for arm injuries moving forward—a pitcher’s spatial relationship between his elbow and shoulder and a stride across the body.

Pollard noted that another reason for the spike in procedures in recent years has been a change in culture around the diagnosis. In the past, doctors recommended surgery after the ligament had been mostly or completely torn. Now, Pollard said he believes surgery to repair partial tears has become more common, a function of the surgery’s success rate—defined as the chances of returning to the same level of competition or above— which stands at better than 80 percent.

Dr. Jeff Dugas, a colleague of the renowned Dr. James Andrews at Andrews Sports Medicine in Alabama, said the decision on how to best treat a UCL injury is based on a number of factors, including the stage of the pitcher’s career, prior injury history and the timing of the season.

Dugas—a 1994 graduate of the Duke School of Medicine—added that the severity of the tear also plays a role. In some cases, several weeks without throwing could give the ligament time to heal. Lower-grade tears of the ligament may also be treatable with stem cell or PRP injections. The central question remains: “How partial is partial?”

“MRIs are maybe the best test we have, but they’re not a perfect test, and they don’t always tell you the whole story,” Dugas said. “You have to know the starting point to know what you could be dealing with. Is that 20-yearold pitcher—did he have some problems when he was an 18-year-old or 17-year-old in high school? Is this the second time around, third time around, or is this the first time a kid’s ever had pain in his elbow?”

Pitchers are also throwing harder now at all levels of baseball than in years past—yet another source of stress on an unrested arm. Jon Roegele, a writer for The Hardball Times and the curator of the most comprehensive publicly available Tommy John database, has cross-referenced his list of nearly 1,000 known surgeries with PITCHf/x data, looking at the relationship between pitchers’ velocity and whether they have ended up needing Tommy John surgery.

“Pitchers who were heading toward Tommy John surgery the last three years across the board, across every pitch type, threw harder on average than pitchers who were not heading toward Tommy John surgery,” Roegele said. “They tended to throw pitches that are thrown harder more often, so they threw more fastballs and sliders as opposed to curveballs and changeups and that sort of thing.”

Those findings seem to line up with what Pollard has observed out on the recruiting trail—pitchers are throwing faster, younger.

“When I first started coaching, if you went out and you saw a kid that threw 90 miles an hour in the late 90s, you didn’t recruit that guy because you said ‘Oh, he’s going to be drafted in the first round, no need to recruit that guy,’” Pollard said. “Now an average college staff has 10 guys that throw the ball 90 miles an hour.”

For years, people in baseball circles have stressed the importance of not throwing breaking balls too early.

To date, no study has definitively proven that throwing breaking balls qualifies as a risk factor for Tommy John.

Thrown with improper mechanics, however, Dugas said that the torque generated by throwing a curveball with still-developing growth plates could put a pitcher at risk of injury.

Both ElAttrache and Dugas mentioned a general rule for the appropriate time for a young pitcher to begin throwing a curveball: when he can shave. Swart, Marvel and Van Orden all said they did not begin throwing breaking balls until either just before entering high school or early in their high school careers.

“It just makes you a better pitcher,” Marvel said. “You have to learn how to pitch without that option, just fastball-change, and I think it makes you better as you get older.”

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SOFTBALL

Duke taking steps to prepare for softball in 2018 Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle In 2008, the Duke athletic department unveiled a strategic plan for the future.

Titled “Unrivaled Ambition,” the plan’s key objectives included changing the culture around the football program, beginning major construction projects and providing more support to Olympic sports as well as additional scholarships.

Delayed a few years by the 2008 economic downturn, that plan is largely coming to fruition. Football head coach David Cutcliffe has taken the Blue Devils to three straight bowl games, and a series of construction projects have wrapped up with several more ongoing—including renovations to Wallace Wade Stadium and Cameron Indoor Stadium.

In December 2013, Duke announced it was expanding the number of scholarships for several women’s sports—rowing, fencing, swimming and diving and track and field—and would add softball as the school’s 27th varsity sport. The softball program is scheduled to start competing in spring 2018—joining 11 other ACC schools that currently field a team—giving Duke a few more years to deal with the personnel and facility logistics of adding a new sport.

“With our weather and in this part of the country, softball’s got a chance to be a big winner here on our campus, and I think it will,” Kevin White, Duke vice president and director of athletics, said.

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Duke last added a varsity sport in 1998, the first year of the rowing program. That first year on the water marked the third sport added in a 10-year span, following women’s soccer in 1988 and women’s lacrosse in 1996.

Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance Todd Mesibov is overseeing the buildout of the program and noted that the department has already received interest from players who would be entering college in fall 2017—the first academic year Duke expects to field a team. The program expects

to phase in scholarships until 2021, when it will offer the maximum 12 full scholarships allowed by the NCAA. The next step in the process is to give those interested families a face with which to communicate—a head coach.

“We want to have someone in place this summer so that person can get started building the program, building relationships with coaches and potential student-athletes and learning about Duke,” Mesibov said.

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for the job—somebody who understands our values, has the ability to be successful at the level we want to be successful, which is with all our sports, we want to compete for championships, but also understanding the importance of school and academic success to our program.”

Duke began accepting applications in midApril, and Mesibov estimated that by late May the athletic department had received between See SOFTBALL, page 16

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Tommy John surgeries at the major league level matches up with the beginning of the boom in high school and college pitchers—the major league pitchers just made it farther than their peers before breaking down.

Graphic by Rita Lo | The Chronicle Data from Jon Roegele shows a significant increase in Tommy John surgeries at the professional level over time.

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The road back Most pitchers are able to make a full recovery from UCL reconstruction, but the road back is a long and difficult one. The timeline ranges from 12 months to 18 months and involves a series of incremental steps.

Although the surgery has not changed much in the the 40-plus years since Jobe first pioneered it, the understanding of how to rehab the elbow has greatly evolved.

“Back in my day, you got your arm stronger by throwing a baseball—not by lifting weights, not by doing bands, not by doing any of those things but by throwing a baseball,” said John, who added that he threw for a time limit instead of a set number of pitches. “If your arm doesn’t feel good that day, then don’t throw. But if your arm feels good, then throw.”

Nowadays, after being freed from an elbow brace that restricts motion, the arm is placed in a lockable brace to allow for a range-of-motion regimen beginning at the end of the first week, Dugas said. To work on flexing the elbow, the next step is a plyometric program starting around week eight, which involves exercises with weighted balls and gradually progresses until the pitcher is mimicking the throwing motion in a rehab setting.

At around the four-month point, the pitcher gets back on a field to begin an interval throwing program—which takes another three to four months— progressing from lobbing the ball from 45 feet away to a long toss at 180 feet.

Once that can be accomplished without pain, the pitcher heads to the bullpen to begin flat-ground sessions, throwing nothing but fastballs at first. In the next two to three months, breaking balls are added as the pitcher participates in simulated action like batting practice but not competitive settings.

“There’s a difference between throwing in competition and throwing a bullpen in batting practice. Typically, the difference there is velocity that bumps up when they get into a competition just from the adrenaline of the situation,” ElAttrache said. “It takes a variable amount of time for people to get their command back and to get to what they consider their competitive form and technique.”

At the end of April, Swart was in his second week of throwing from about 40 feet, essentially on pace with his rehab plan. After having surgery in November, the Carlsbad, Calif., native said he is on a 15-month window to return to game action and added that the rehab process has allowed him to focus on other things besides his arm that should make a difference when he returns to the mound for the Blue Devils.

“I feel stronger than I did last year overall, because I’m going to have so much time to focus on shoulder strength, body, core, legs, all that, that I never really had before because I’m in season,” he said.

Nearly a year removed from his surgery, Marvel has extended out to 150 feet and added in flat-ground bullpen sessions to regain his fastball command. He opted not to participate in summer ball, targeting a return to regular competition in the fall as a “normal baseball player.”

The tracking system Adding to the complexity of the Tommy John epidemic is the lack of easily accessible data at the youth level. Games are recorded far less consistently and meticulously than college or professional games, leaving no hard track record—aside from anecdotal evidence—of the mileage on a pitcher’s arm before he enters a college or professional system.

Former Duke baseball player Ted Sullivan has a solution for this problem, albeit via a roundabout method.

After spending two years in the Cleveland Indians minor league system, Sullivan hung up his cleats but found himself unable to walk away from the game entirely.

He started coaching Little League, where he was tasked with recording games the old-fashioned way—counting See TOMMY JOHN, page 15

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Time for Duke football to get lucky Writing about change is usually stupid because it’s inevitable. But when it comes to Duke football, it’s just fun— and necessary.

Being in college—and especially covering collegiate sports—you get used to turnover. The University reloads every year with fresh faces, all of them belonging to some kid who is very good at one thing or kind of good at a lot of things or very good at everything. That’s how it tends to be at a place like Duke, whether you’re a men’s basketball player or pre-med student or student journalist.

When it comes to the players that take the field at Wallace Wade Stadium, head coach David Cutcliffe prefers players that are very good at everything—standouts like defensive back Jeremy Cash, dual threat DeVon Edwards and nowdeparted Campbell Trophy winner David Helton. But I’m not here to talk about three players, because one way or another, this season will be a landmark campaign for the entire Duke football program and, like everything else that happens on campus, change is a-comin’.

The Blue Devils have their foot in the door—three straight bowl appearances will do that for a program. But at the same time, a foot in the door is not Duke’s goal. No, the Blue Devils want to be in the house with the other big kids, winning bowl games and competing for division titles annually. And this year, they will have an opportunity to prove they belong.

Of course, Duke will be far from the first program that tries to rise from the depths and join the ranks of the nation’s best. Northwestern, for example, averaged two wins a year from 1972-1993 and then popped off a 10-win season. In the past 20 years, the Wildcats have finished 12 campaigns with at least six wins.

But Duke does not want to be in the conversation with Northwestern. It wants to be in the conversation with Florida State, not posting 10-win seasons twice in 20 years but every year, which in and of itself is a monstrous goal. And to keep fueling their insane upward trajectory, the Blue Devils will need to have some luck on their side.

Looking back, luck has been a key component of each of the past three seasons, but not in the sense that Duke has lacked control of said luck. Every victory and every loss has been predicated by the squad’s ability to manufacture its own luck through strategy in addition to carrying out the game plan. When Pittsburgh shanked a last-second field goal in regulation last November, it can be argued that Panthers’ kicker Chris Blewitt does not miss that kick if Cutcliffe doesn’t double-down and call two timeouts to ice him.

On the other hand, when Duke’s Ross Martin—one of the best kickers in the FBS and perfect on field goal attempts in the previous nine games—missed two field goals and quarterback Anthony Boone tossed two interceptions in a Nov. 15 loss to Virginia Tech, the Blue Devils were the ones who shot themselves in the foot, missing out on a second straight trip to the ACC championship game.

So this season, with Boone, receiver Jamison Crowder, first-round pick Laken Tomlinson and others having departed for the NFL, Duke will have to make its own luck with a new crop of starters.

New every-down starters like quarterback Thomas Sirk and wide receiver Johnell Barnes will try to integrate into the offense seamlessly and develop into the stars the team will need.

Duke had the necessary stars—like the aforementioned Crowder and current Buffalo Bill corner Ross Cockrell— in 2013 when it made its blistering run, reeling off eight consecutive wins en route to an ACC title game berth in which the Blue Devils were unlucky before they even lined up against the eventual national champion Seminoles.

But then, in its next game—the Chick-fil-A Bowl against Texas A&M—Duke seemed to have everything on its side and

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Fighting human nature: Duke preps for title defense Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle Following a disappointing defeat at the hands of Mercer in March 2014—the Blue Devils’ second Round of 64 exit in a threeyear span—Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski knew he needed to make adjustments to the way he ran his program.

They worked.

The Blue Devils’ season ran much deeper this spring—all the way to the national championship game in Indianapolis, bringing home the program’s fifth title. But upon returning to Durham, there was no chance to fully soak in the victory—after a welcome-back ceremony at Cameron Indoor Stadium April 7, the coaching staff hit the recruiting trail two days later.

“We had a longer spring last year, and when you lose, you have more time a n d you’re looking for everything y o u can do to improve,” Krzyzewski said at his annual K Academy fantasy camp in May. “This year we have less time, and we’re still trying to look at ways we can improve our program. We had to recruit like crazy [after winning], so we’re moving on.”

The first couple of weeks after the title game were a sprint for the players as well, with final exams rapidly approaching. After exams were out of the way, though, they could finally relish the extra attention that comes with winning a national championship.

“The last month has been amazing— get to take a lot of pictures, sign a lot of autographs for people who are on a high like we are,” senior Amile Jefferson said. “After winning a championship, anyone who’s been on this journey with us, anyone who’s

supported Duke has been really on a high captain Marshall Plumlee will have to find a and been able to celebrate.” way to replicate the chip-on-their-shoulder Even after cutting down the nets, though, mindset that powered last year’s team to a 35-4 the offseason presents numerous questions record and set the tone for Duke’s six-man for a Duke team that will look very different recruiting class. in November from the one that climbed the Jefferson does not foresee complacency ladder in April. Krzyzewski’s being a problem. squad must replace both of its “We still have e still have sometitle-winning guards—senior something to prove. thing to prove....

Quinn Cook and freshman We did win a national Tyus Jones—as well as the All our guys are coming championship, we had dominant low-post presence back hungry. a great season, we had of Jahlil Okafor and the — Amile Jefferson a great year, but all our versatile athleticism of Justise guys coming back want Winslow, both of whom to do more, want to be joined Jones in leaping to professional ranks better,” he said. “A guy like Grayson [Allen] after just one season. coming back, he ended the season amazingly, Another challenge for the Blue Devils so I know he’s hungry—he can’t be satisfied is staying hungry after a storybook with just one great game. All our guys coming postseason run. back are hungry, I believe already, and we have “Just being honest, it was easier probably to instill that in the younger guys [and] set an last summer because we were coming off example, just like we did last year.” losing to Mercer and no one wanted that Along with showing their younger teammates again,” Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel the way on and off the court, each member of the said. “It can be tougher now because you’re trio will need to improve his game individually— coming off winning a championship. Human Jefferson on his shooting range, Jones on his ball nature, that’s something that we have to fight handling and Plumlee on his post moves. Allen this summer. Sometimes that can cause guys will look to consistently attack the basket with the to relax a little bit.” aggressiveness that fueled Duke’s comeback in A few weeks after the end of the national title game against Wisconsin, and the spring semester, Jefferson, Obi will bring the physicality and rebounding junior Matt Jones and redshirt that netted him nearly a double-double every sophomore Sean Obi—now night as a freshman at Rice. eligible after sitting out last The recruiting whirlwind the coaching season in accordance with NCAA staff went through in April certainly paid transfer rules—were back in Durham, and dividends, yielding the signings of fiveback in the gym preparing for the title star talents Brandon Ingram and Derryck defense. The trio is following in the footsteps Thornton. After getting early commitments of Cook, whose busy offseason of preparation from five-star center Chase Jeter and fourin the gym and the weight room last year star guard Luke Kennard and adding Justin paved the way for a career year as a senior.

Robinson and big man Antonio Vrankovic, the Having reached the pinnacle of the college two late additions propelled Duke’s recruiting basketball world, Jefferson, Jones, and fellow class to the top of the charts for the second

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consecutive year and will provide an infusion of talent ready to contribute immediately.

“We filled needs, we’ve got really talented players. The thing is that these guys coming in are like the guys that are leaving—they’re great kids,” Capel said. “They want to be part of something.”

History suggests that it will be difficult for Duke to do what it did a season ago. With the exception of the Florida Gators’ back-to-back championships in 2006-07, no defending champion has advanced past the Sweet 16 in the last 12 years. With the one-and-done nature of today’s college game, sustaining that level of success across consecutive years has become increasingly difficult.

But the Blue Devils can take solace in knowing they have—as recently as last summer— found ways to solve many of the questions they currently face.

Last offseason, Duke dealt with uncertainty as many wondered how the top-ranked class of Okafor, Winslow, Jones and Allen would mesh with the returning roster and handle the responsibilities and expectations placed on their shoulders. After a year that featured Krzyzewski’s 1,000th career win and its share of adversity, that team found itself standing on the podium in Indianapolis watching “One Shining Moment” with a fifth national championship banner on its way to Durham and earned some of Krzyzewski’s highest praise.

This offseason, the Blue Devils will once again recreate an identity, one with a roster comprised of veteran leaders who have been to the top and young talent eager to make an impact. All that remains is to see where this year’s journey will take them.

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Stevens set to follow Williams as next post standout Delaney King The Chronicle The Blue Devils may have seen one era end with their Sweet 16 loss to Maryland, but another one could be in the making.

When Elizabeth Williams went to the Connecticut Sun with the fourth pick of the 2015 WNBA draft, it marked Duke’s highest selection since Lindsey Harding—whose jersey now hangs in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium— went first overall in the 2007 draft. “[The program will miss] the person she is, the leader she is, the person committed to Duke like she is,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

“Elizabeth’s game is going to really take off now…. I’m really excited to watch her. We’ll miss her of course, very much.”

The 6-foot-3 forward leaves behind a rewritten record book and a large gap that Duke will need to fill in her absence. Williams was a four-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year and earned AP AllAmerica and first-team All-ACC honors in all four seasons in a Blue Devil uniform. The Virginia Beach, Va., native sits near the top of the charts in several categories, ranking second in program history with 1,078 career rebounds and third with an average of 7.9 rebounds per contest. Her 426 blocks rank ninth on the NCAA career list.

Williams undoubtedly left a hefty pair of shoes to fill, but sophomore Azura Stevens may be ready to fill them.

Stevens finished second to Williams

in rebounds and rebounding average for Duke as a freshman, grabbing 271 total boards and averaging 8.2 per game. On the offensive end, Williams’ 14.5 points per game lead the team with Stevens’ 14.1 close behind.

“Obviously [Stevens is] a special player—you can see rebounds and points, she can block shots and she can do a lot of different things on the floor,” McCallie said. “She’s just got so much potential.”

As a freshman, Williams averaged 14.0 points and 7.8 rebounds per game, meaning Stevens’ future looks bright if she continues to follow in her former teammate’s footsteps. Williams set a freshman record with 27 games in double-figure scoring, which Stevens bested by one game during her Blue Devil debut. Stevens also notched 10 double-doubles as a freshman, tying the program record set by Chris Moreland in the 1984-85 season.

Williams only continued to impress after her freshman year, recording more than 100 blocks in three of her four years in Durham, pulling down more rebounds with each successive year and jumping from 54 assists as a freshman to 81 as a senior.

That jack-of-all-trades mentality is something that rubbed off on Stevens watching Williams work last season.

“One of the main things that I would take away from [Williams]—there’s so

many—just being persistent,” Stevens said.

“It’s not all about scoring, but she was always giving us help, whether it be rebounds, assists, screens, anything—even the dirty work, she was always doing that.”

At 6-foot-5, Stevens may grow into the role of intimidating starting center, continuing the low post pipeline that has funneled Blue Devil forwards to the WNBA. Since 1999, Duke has sent 20 players to the professional teams— more than half of them post players.

But Stevens’ talent is not restricted to under-the-basket play. The sophomore tallied 13 3-pointers on the season, a 51.2 percent field goal percentage and managed 35 steals through her 33 games as well, showing versatility from many spots on the court that is rarely seen for someone of her height.

With a roster that includes five freshmen and no true senior—redshirt senior Amber Henson is the only player with more than three years of experience—Stevens’ ability to play anywhere should provide consistency for McCallie’s squad.

“You’ll see her at the four, you’ll see her at the five, you’ll see her at the three,” McCallie said. “We’ll be very young—if you think about it, [Rebecca Greenwell] and Azura are only sophomores, so it’s going to be interesting to see who steps up and grabs those other spots.”

This summer, Stevens will have plenty of chances to improve her game as she plays for the USA National U19 World Championship team, which will compete at the 2015 FIBA Championship in Chekhov, Russia, in late July.

Stevens said one focal point for the summer will be to improve her post play in Williams’ absence in the coming season. “[Improving play] down low— especially losing Elizabeth—that’s going to be a lot of help this year,” Stevens said. “Playing against some great post players and stuff every day will definitely help me in that area of my game.”

The Raleigh, N.C., entered the starting lineup toward the end of nonconference play in the four spot, combining her skill with the veteran experience of Williams to help the Blue Devils battle through a challenging 2014-15 slate. Stevens would occasionally move beyond the arc when fellow forwards Kendall Cooper, Oderah Chidom or Amber Henson subbed in to spell a starting guard.

“Whichever [position] my team needs me to do, I’m going to be willing to do it and work my hardest at that,” Stevens said.

Despite her early success, the sophomore still has room for improvement during the offseason to prepare for a new team and the 201516 campaign.

“She must get stronger—her strength is very important to her progress into her sophomore year,” McCallie said. “She really can play any position on the floor, and I just think that [she needs an] overall commitment to strength so that she can be caught up to the strongest players in the country and compete at the highest level, even in the most physical games.”

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Wallace Wade on schedule, Cameron addition begins Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Duke vice president and director of athletics Kevin White has a lot of things to look forward to these days— including the start of his work on the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors and the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee and his son Michael’s first game as the head basketball coach at Florida.

But White’s face lights up just as much when talking about the next major phase of Duke’s athletic campus—Blue Devil Plaza, which will allow easy access to a slew of renovated facilities expected to be completed by fall 2016. The plaza will be a connector between a renovated Wallace Wade Stadium—which is expected to be ready for for Duke football’s home opener Sept. 12—and a new frontal addition to Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“What excites me about that construction zone is in the midst of all those projects, we’re going to have this pedestrian plaza, and the plaza is going to serve as a conduit between Cameron Indoor and the Scott Pavilion and the Yoh Building, Wallace Wade, Koskinen [Stadium] and [Jack Coombs Field],” White said. “If you let your imagination run wild right now, you can start to see the plaza—at least I can.”

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everything up its sleeve. Trick plays, onside kicks, defensive stops—the entire kitchen sink. And yet, just like the year before in the Belk Bowl against Cincinnati and again in 2014 in the Sun Bowl against Arizona State, the Blue Devils were their own worst enemy in the fourth quarter. A myriad of mistakes in those 45 minutes cost Duke three bowl wins, preventing a remarkable turnaround from being that much more remarkable.

Now, I have spent a lot of time talking about luck, and that is not to take away in any way from what Cutcliffe’s squads have done. The Blue Devils have been good—damn good— and well-coached. What I’m saying is that luck is as big a part of the game as anything outside of preparation and sheer skill. And this year’s squad is going to be loaded with new faces—and some grizzled veterans—who will need to get lucky at some points in order to accomplish their goals.

After three straight years of ending the season with a bowl loss, it seems that this season will be one that dictates whether Duke football will be an elite ACC team or a middling one.

For the past five years, the Blue Devils have steadily improved.

If you look at their wins and raw talent, they have done more with less, possibly more so than anyone else in the nation.

Only a select few players on this year’s roster can remember finishing the regular season with a losing record.

These are Blue Devils who expect to win and contend for the ACC title, and a drop-off could dampen that tune moving forward. If Duke wants to continue trending up, a bowl win has to happen this season—and I expect it to happen.

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pitches thrown with tallies in a scorebook. The effort spent adding up numbers took up time Sullivan felt he could put to better use—and he saw an opportunity to apply 21st-century technology to a problem that dates back to the 1800s.

“I would, by day, work at a venture-backed technology company seeing how mobile apps were changing industries almost overnight, and yet I didn’t see that happening within amateur sports, which is an industry and a market that I really loved so much,” Sullivan said.

“The last thing I wanted to do was spend another 30 minutes after the game totaling up stats.”

In 2009, Sullivan founded a start-up called GameChanger, which features a mobile app that provides an electronic method of scorekeeping for amateur baseball, giving parents and coaches an easy way to keep up with every pitch.

Counting pitches has been part of the app since its first version—though Sullivan said it was designed only to relieve the time burden on a youth coach.

But in March 2015, GameChanger became the first app to be PitchSmart certified, earning the support of the joint initiative between Major League Baseball and USA Baseball focused on preventing injuries to young pitchers. Future iterations of GameChanger could provide a player ID to track pitch counts across different teams, enabling parents and coaches to better protect young arms from overuse.

Pollard and the rest of the Duke staff have jumped on board with GameChanger, using it to track everything down to intra-squad games. Sullivan has not marketed his product heavily to college teams—instead focusing on youth markets, the source of the problem—but now has a foothold with more than 125,000 teams, which could combat the issue of overuse in young pitchers.

“We can help by delivering the education to the decision makers at the grassroots level, and we can make the monitoring really easy,” Sullivan said. “Before that 10-second conversation with the umpire [to share pitch counts] you’re not counting up all the little tickmarks in the scorebook to count pitches. You’re just looking at the iPad that says 15 pitches.”

Other solutions In 2008, Little League Baseball implemented a series of pitch count rules designed to ensure that youth pitchers got the proper amount of rest. The new rules divided players into categories based on their age and the number of pitches thrown in a given day, mandating up to three full days of rest before taking the mound again.

As the first nationwide organization to put a hard pitch count into place, Little League got the ball rolling on a lot of the discoveries being made today, Sullivan said.

The implementation of pitch count rules has yet to catch on at the high school level, where only three states currently use such restrictions, Dugas said. Many other states could follow the path set by Little League and adopt pitch count policies in the near future, a positive step toward reducing excessive pitching at a young age and, eventually, the number of UCL injuries.

“You’ll probably see a number of states go to pitch counts—Alabama’s going to pitch counts, among others,” Dugas said. “I think you’ll see that science is having a positive effect on the injury rate, but the injury rate is going to take time to slow down because it’s going to take time to implement these rules.”

Dr. Andrews serves on the PitchSmart advisory committee, and it was his July 2014 report published with the American Sports Medical Institute that now forms the base of knowledge regarding Tommy John injuries. The report helped debunk several of the myths surrounding the surgery—including the notion that having Tommy John surgery will allow a player to throw harder after recovery.

Any increase in velocity following the surgery typically results from the long, intensive rehab period before the pitcher gets back on the mound. As Swart noted, the months away from pitching give the body a break it rarely receives during the rigors of a competitive season and allow the pitcher to strengthen different areas that can help him once he returns.

The efforts of MLB to aid in the cause marks a major

step in changing the culture surrounding elbow injuries.

But at the same time, the surgery’s track record of success in pitchers returning to game competition has kept the dream of making a big league roster alive for the injurystricken college or high school pitcher.

“One of the things that I think is important for historical context is there were two players drafted in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft who—we’re not talking about guys that had Tommy John in the past—they had to have it, meaning they were injured prior to the draft and had not yet had the surgery,” Pollard said. “And they still went in the first round. Clearly, Major League Baseball doesn’t look at a kid needing or having had Tommy John surgery as a dealbreaker anymore.”

Although players seem to be opting toward surgery with less hesitation, there are potential consequences on the back end that become real possibilities as the initial procedure occurs at a younger and younger age. Roegele has 61 cases of repeat Tommy John patients on his list even though Dugas put the

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risk of requiring a second surgery at around 1 percent.

As research is conducted on the comprehensive effects of the surgery, nobody has the definitive answer as to when a pitcher is in the clear. John cited a Washington Post article stating that a pitcher who had Tommy John surgery is expected to be healthy for the first eight years after surgery but then is back at an increased risk of injury from the ninth year onward.

The secret to avoiding this precarious situation is the multi-million dollar question facing baseball people everywhere. Yet the unnatural motion of repeatedly hurling a projectile more than 90 miles per hour makes risk an inevitable part of the conversation, and John suggests just one failsafe solution exists—stay off the mound altogether.

“I’ve got a program that’s 100 percent guaranteed, sure thing that a kid is never going to hurt his arm,” John said. “He doesn’t throw a baseball. But if you’re going to throw a baseball, there’s a chance of getting hurt.”

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The addition of women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse was made easier by the fact that a facility for games, Koskinen Stadium, was already in existence. The nascent softball program is currently without a home—White said he thought Duke might be one of the only major universities without a softball field on campus.

The athletic department is considering several sites for a stadium, but Mesibov said one proposed location would be on East Campus.

Currently, field hockey is the only varsity program that competes on East. If the new facility does end up being built there, opportunities for efficiency and shared space will be pursued, as was the case with the newly-constructed Kennedy Tower at Koskinen Stadium and Morris Williams Track and Field Stadium. “[We’ll see] if there’s some overlap that can be useful or in the planning in terms of training room services, equipment room services, sharing visitors’ locker rooms or other things just to be efficient with what we’re doing,” Mesibov said. “Both from financial reasons, from space reasons, we want the facility—wherever it ends up being—to fit in well with existing structures, the existing feel of campus, all of those things. We’ve been coordinating a lot with different parts of the University to make sure those things are happening.”

Planning for the new stadium is still in the design phase, and the department hopes to

break ground next summer with the goal of having the facility ready by the first day of classes in August 2017.

Although there has never been a varsity program, Duke has offered softball as a club sport since 1975. According to the club’s website, the squad competes against Division II and Division III schools in the fall and spring and plays its home games at a venue off campus.

Recruiting decisions will be left up to the head coach once a hire is made, but Mesibov said he anticipates that some contingent of students already enrolled at Duke will join the program for its first few years.

“We expect that there’ll be some students who enroll next year, meaning ’16-17, eventually anticipating that they will be part of the varsity program,” he said. “They’d likely participate on the club team for that year and would then be part of the [varsity] program. There may be students here already who played in high school and either chose not to pursue it in college or chose to come to Duke where we didn’t have a program but might be interested.”

Success has been quick to follow the addition of programs in the past. Women’s lacrosse has been to the NCAA tournament 18 times—including a Final Four berth this spring—and women’s soccer advanced to the national championship game in just its fifth season of competition.

“I think it’s fair to assume that there will be some growth that happens in the early years,” Mesibov said. “[But] we think the draw of the University, among other things, means that we’ll have some very good softball players and very good students on campus very quickly.”

Amrith Ramkumar contributed reporting.

CONSTRUCTION from page 12 Track and Field Stadium and Kennedy Tower, which serves the new track facility as well as Koskinen Stadium.

The new video boards at those venues are repurposed from the old Wallace Wade Stadium video board, which was dismantled to make room for a new LED board more than twice its size. White said so far the feedback on the completed projects has been very positive, a trend he expects to continue.

“It’s been off-the-charts good,” White said. “The track meets that we’ve held, people have been going berserk.”

The next dominoes expected to fall are a myriad of projects at Wallace Wade Stadium—lowering the field and seats with the track no longer bordering the playing sur face and installing a new 3,175 square-foot video board and a 55-yard kicking field. White said he is confident the upgrades will be ready for the Blue Devils’ home opener Sept. 12 against N.C. Central, with work on the facility that will replace the recently demolished Finch-Yeager Building and new concourses continuing until next fall.

“It’s going to be a rather boutique college football stadium that is going to have tremendous amenities for fans and a great place for students to enjoy college football and for our studentathletes to perform,” White said.

Construction on Wallace Wade Stadium began last November, but renovations only recently began on

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the south side of Cameron Indoor Stadium. Included in the project— which is expected to finish by October 2016—are a new lobby, hospitality area, memorabilia space and two areas for game-day ticketing.

The entrance students use will not be affected, but once the athletic campus is complete, Cameron Indoor Stadium will have a different feel— just not around the court.

“We’ve kind of arrived at a great place to keep sacred what needs to be sacred and then to add on what will make the whole experience even better,” White said. “We were going to do everything we could to protect the authenticity of Cameron. Everybody likes what we have, and what we have was built in 1940 and it’s really special.”

Two other major construction projects on Duke’s athletic campus are renovations to the weight training facilities in the Murray Building and the new Scott Pavilion—which will house a Nike team store, offices for ticketing, sports information, compliance and the Iron Dukes, as well as additional weight training facilities. Both projects are also expected to be finished by fall 2016.

Despite the large number of moving parts—especially given the construction at many other locations on campus— White is confident that the investments will be worth the wait.

“We’re going to finish all the projects,” White said. “In my heart of hearts I know they’re going to be about a 14 on a 10-scale. They’re going to be just outstanding.”

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