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His dad was on the wiretap auctioning his sons services. The fact you think because Duke is Duke that it means Duke wouldn't have to pay him for him to choose them over Clemson is asinine. Duke all of a sudden starts going the one and done route and doing it better than Kentucky who is more of a blue blood than Duke when Coach K said he wouldn't do it that way. Coach K would do anything to be the greatest especially if that player has been talked about as the best prospect since LeBron. How do you think it'd look for Duke to lose a recruit like that to Clemson? I'm sure he would be willing to do anything to make sure that didn't happen. Not to mention his parents moving just 3 hours away just for their son to go to school for 8 months, seems logical. I guess that 3 hour commute isn't to bad, oh unless Duke got the a new house and jobs like the ones they asked Kansas for. The only silly thing is that you believe Duke actually cleared themselves when they "self-investigated". You can believe what you want bit not for one second do I think it was on the up and up when not one Duke insider or beat writer thought he was going to Duke. They believed he wasn't going to Duke so much so they didn't send NOT one person from any affiliate related to Duke to cover his announcement.

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Apr 7, 2019, 11:08 AM

I'll start by saying that I think that Coach K is the crookedest man in college basketball, so there is certainly bias here. I also think that he is very smart and would always cover himself with plausible deniability.

Kansas was an Adidas school and from the wiretap it looks like payments were trying to be arranged. Now it looks as if Nike may have paid him. Since we are a Nike school, on the surface, it might seem like Clemson would still have been in the hunt. However, Nike also very well could have steered him to Duke. Coach K can argue that he had no knowledge and that Nike steered him there simply because of exposure.

The thing is that he was considering Kentucky who is also a Nike school. If he was worried about exposure and wanted to be closer to home then why not UNC, where classes are optional. Other than Oregon, nobody is tied closer to Nike. My conspiracy theory (which I honestly believe) is that Coach K strong armed Nike to send players his way or that he would go elsewhere for a shoe deal. A backroom deal that he can deny all the way to the bank.

He strong armed his players into not leaving, until Elden Brand, who was the consensus player of the year in college, ignored Coach K when he told Brand that he was not ready for the pros. Coach K strong armed the Olympic committee into becoming the first repeat coach in 40 years because he could control the egos of NBA players, maybe because his was the only one bigger. He has manipulated people and organizations his whole career thinking of nothing but himself.

Coach K would have no problem throwing Nike under the bus, especially if he thought it might deflect suspicion from him. He won't be around that much longer to benefit from Nike and though the NCAA would never investigate anything at Duke, an investigation does not hurt the FBI's bottom line. Zion might be guilty of seeking payment a little early, but Coach K is likely guilty of much more.

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