These kids are, for the most part, naive. They believe dUKE is always great and all the players are happy there and go on to long careers in the NBA. They don't look at past classes's ratings and where the players eventually ended up and they've always been told how special they are so they figure all will be great for them.
Or Duke twice.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Yeah but remember all their recruits are freshmen.
Hence, why vetting the parents is so important for Hurley.
Flagg will be backing up Brown. I'm sure that's what Schyer told Brown. The job was his, what with all that Cuse experience. Flagg needed to work on his game. Or did Brown just want to be a backup himself - a bench rotation guy - in preparation for HIS NBA career. Or maybe Brown is going there for the academics.
When you recruit 6 5* wings somebody is going to be unhappy about it. He said he realized that grabbing all 5* guys was a bad strategy but he can’t seem to help himself.
There are a couple fans over there deluded enough to believe academics still matter. Sure sure, banchero, Zion, ingram etc were all real bookworms lmao. Academics stopped mattering 20 years ago
We’ll have to agree to disagree there. I’ve been on way too many campus tours with my son (a high school junior) and, as much as I mortally hate Duke, it was one of the nicest campuses I’ve seen, faux historical architecture and all. That said, of the top tier unis we’ve visited, it was also the easiest to distinguish legacy kids (party bros and Paris Hilton clones) from the kids who actually deserved to be there.
I want UConn to play Duke next season.
Except the good ones like Steph Castle
Some blame should be applied to these 5* recruits. They demand immediate satisfaction, and when they don't get it, they act like a 2 year old who didn't get his cookie. The other group who deserves blame is the NCAA hierarchy, who allowed this whole debacle by enacting the NIL program. The bottom line in all of this is, not surprisingly, ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. Now they'll try to "correct" this, but the genie is out of the bottle, and any attempts to rein it in will be met with hundreds of lawsuits, claiming that the schools, and the NCAA, are imposing draconian and racist regulations upon the poor "student athletes".
The image I see every time I see "Flagg" written with 2 g's. The Colonel was awesome
I would think that it’s hard for a program to turn down 5 stars. Coach K built this with ESPN’s constant media propping up and barrage. Success brought them higher rated players.
Better Duke than Cuse. Hopefully in the near future Duke gets as much attention as we now give to BCU. And yes once upon a time BCU was the program we focused much of our attention. Time has significantly changed for the better.
Let's revert to college education. No scholarships permitted. Just like DIII.
The buildings which were primarily built 100-130 years ago, look like they were built 800 years ago. But then the interiors look like a typical American high school. The architecture is all mimicry. No architecture in general or in the south in 1900 looked like this. Try UVA's campus if youre looking for a beautiful, meaningful campus.
