Coach K Changes His Tune On "Backgate"

How about this for an interesting bomb that Seth Davis dropped at the end of his column on SI.com yesterday:

• You may recall that when Mike Krzyzewski was sidelined with exhaustion following his back surgery in 1995, the losses Duke suffered were charged not to Coach K's record but that of his assistant, Pete Gaudet. (Gaudet learned of the switch by reading about it in USA Today.) When asked by a reporter about that last week, Coach K replied, "I think I should have been credited with all the losses." He's right, and hopefully Duke will now do the right thing and officially correct the record both internally and with the NCAA.

Coach K's back surgery and subsequent voiding of his coaching record for half a season with the worst Duke team of his tenure has long been a joke amongst the Duke hating crowd (aka - 99% of college basketball fans). When you look at all the circumstances surrounding the event with Gaudet being the $19,000 a year assistant who took the losses and then was pushed out of the program the following offseason (he's now the video coordinator for Ohio State's women's team), it's always looked suspicious at best. Add in the fact that Eddie Sutton received credit for "wins" while his son was in charge on interim basis and several other occasions where coaches received the credit for the performances of their teams when they were medically unavailable, and Davis is right - Duke needs to do the right thing and wipe the record of that team from off of Gaudet's record and restore it where it rightly belongs, on Coach K.