Duke Basketball, A Rape Victim?

Duke University has been a major college basketball powerhouse for at least a decade with four final four appearances during that time, and fourteen over the period from 1963. During that time they also won 16 ACC titles. They did all this with superior players, 14 have been number one NBA picks since 1960. This year's team is just so-so at best and last year's was just a cut above that. In fact since the false rape accusations against the three Duke LaCross players other coaches around the country are using the case, or more precisely the faculty lynch mob, as ammunition to keep players from going to Duke. It is well known that "scouts" tag promising kids from the time they are seven years old and by the time they are eligible for college every coach from every major program knows who they are and the kids have been "contacted" since the time they were tagged. Over the past two years the best high school players from SoCal went to universities other than Duke, and this year two of the top eight are going to North Carolina and none to Duke. I've been involved in youth sports for many years now and I know that as times change parents have as much to do with the recruiting process as do the recruiters. So the word has been that the recruiters have been blistering parents with tales and write ups about the racial situation in Durham, the clear faculty bias against athletes at Duke, and in particular about the gang of 88 who still rage against the "boys of privilege" getting away with a rape. I predict that until the Duke Administration owns up to the entire situation you can say bye bye to Duke as THE major power in college basketball. And maybe the ACC as well. How has (used to be power) UCLA done? Not too well either; hated USC grabbed one of the top eight. So who knows?