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Article: Chris Collins a Survivor In Duke Pressure Cooker
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 19, 1993
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The calls from Durham would come three, four times a week. A
tense hello, an anguished outcry, then the tears. "Why won't Coach K
put me in the game?" Chris Collins would ask through the sobs. "He
must really think I stink. What am I doing wrong? What?"
Back in Northbrook, a father felt his stomach twist, his heart
sink. This couldn't be Chris, Doug Collins thought. Chris is
terminally upbeat, confident to the borders of cockiness, so slick
with that jive walk you figure he came out of the womb high-fiving.
To hear him in such distress, well, Dad wanted to hop on a plane and
throw his arms around his boy.
But he didn't. Paternal instinct gave way to basketball common
sense. As a ...