The Pope honors Coach K, Vatican to build tent city!

The Pope has decided to honor Coach K with a lifetime achievements honor as a great teacher of values and morality through sports. Additionally, the Vatican will borrow a page from the Duke playbook and create a tent city on the Vatican lawn, similar to the tent city called K-Ville at Duke. College students from all around the world will be able to camp overnight on the Vatican lawn for a chance to get front row seats for upcoming Papal appearances.

Coach K called it "a great honor for my family" and "I feel humbled by this". Vatican representantive Ricardo Vitali called this an excellent idea to reach young people in this day of decreased interest in religion and eroding moral values. Rabbi Daniello Shulmano, president of the Interfaith Council of Italy strongly applauded the move by the Vatican. Italian culture minister Doristella Burkeoli called it an event of historical signifigance. Sports minister Ricardo Phelpioni applauded Coach Krzyzewski because "he's on a mission". Italian sports reporter Michael Patricio called it a great intersection of sports and religion. Premiere Leagua basketball analyst Giovanni Lunardini welcomed the move as he hopes this increases basketball's popularity in a country where soccer (football) is #1.

However, not everyone was in favor of this. Outspoken italian sports writer Skipardo Baylossi called it a "sham" and a "blatant marketing scheme" that degrades the Vatican. His comments created a major controversy on Italian talk radio and TV.