Duke didn't need Shavlik Randolph, who entered the summer as the No. 1 rising high school senior in the country. But Duke got him, and recruiting analyst Bob Gibbons knows what all of it means.
"We could be looking," he said, "at the makings of another UCLA-type dynasty."
Sean Dockery -
Well known for academics - going into Sr year of High School Dockery had a 2.3 GPA and a 15 on his ACT (link). He eventually qualified.
A great editorial in the Chronicle shows the feelings at least one Duke student had towards K recruiting Dockery:
I know that not all players are like Dockery. As a matter of fact, most, I think, aren't. Jason Williams had a 3.5 grade point average last semester. But coach Mike Krzyzewski has become such a god in the college basketball world that he could get pretty much any player he wants. I know this too.
Despite that fact, with the case of Dockery it became quite clear to me through DBR posts and The Chronicle's letter to the editors that we were far more concerned about winning college basketball games than maintaining academic integrity.
The general feeling is that we would like 1,500 smart students with 12 great basketball players to win their games for them.
If that's true, fine, I don't agree, but so be it. Let's just stop masking it in this "great mix of academics and athletics" malarkey that schools use as one of their selling points.
This is not the way this fourth generation Dukie grew up viewing his favorite team, nor is it the thing about which Dick Vitale continually boasts every chance he gets.
