A key man in Duke’s quest to score more passing touchdowns was raised -- thanks to Christian Laettner’s 1992 basketball exploits -- to hate all things Blue Devils.
“Being raised a Kentucky boy,” Duke wide receivers coach Gerad Parker said, “you were raised, essentially, to not like Duke. That was ingrained in you.”
A Kentucky native who played four years of football and earned two degrees from the University of Kentucky, Parker came to Duke last summer to restart his career.
A February 2017 drunk driving arrest in Indiana following a night out with his wife and friends cost him the assistant coaching job he had been offered at East Carolina.