Another spot gone from someone who had no intention of graduating from Duke.

[Dolemite]

Duke basketball program is subject to extensive and on-going scrutiny, and to date has passed muster. There is a substantial difference between the way Duke and Stanford run their athletic programs and many others do. When the current football coach at Duke moved over from the SEC he noted that his first road trip was enlightening. He stated that prior to joining Duke he had never seen one student open a text book on a road trip let alone a full bus load. Year in year out Duke is a leader in number of academic all-Americans. If you look at the majors of these student, many are in areas of study we all would agree are rigorous (with coursework befitting a top 10 academic institution). Please make comments based on actual knowledge, not hearsay or conjecture.

That’s the impression that Duke Basketball would like you to think but the reality is that it’s like Kentucky or any other basketball factory that uses the one-and-done model. The thing that Duke has going for it is that it’s a private institution and isn’t subject to Right-to-know laws that the public institutions have to comply. Duke use to volunteer lots of data on it’s team like average SAT, majors, etc but hasn’t done that for many years. Sure in the past they have had a few outstanding Student Athletes like Grant Hill, Shane Battier, etc that they trumpet as the ‘average’ but those are by far the exceptions and their top basketball players of today and just as likely to be taking a class at NCCU and never setting a foot in the classroom after December of their one year at Duke.