Nike has steered players to all their top programs, including us. I doubt any 5 star athletes have entered the NCAA without recieving extra benefits. Most 4 stars too. There is no such thing as a clean program imho.
If Nike alone was paying then the recruits could have played at any Nike school. If their playing for pay, theyre taking every dollar they can get from everyone they can. Some of them chose Adidas schools. Theres more going on than shoe money.
He was a star coming out of high school that became a phenom of pop culture while at Duke. He worked hard to improve his game but Duke's PR machine hyped him beyond anything I can remember in college hoops. Duke gave him a platform that no one else could. It has profited him by tens-hundreds of...
I never understood why coaches do not take more transfers. It can add experience too young teams. In the one and era, the excuse of building consistency is made irrelevant.