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Paul Dougherty's avatar

Where there is gain, there is certainly going to be some pain (growing).

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Noodles & Cabbage's avatar

Great observation about this moment in time, Jesse.

Big picture, I think this just further formalizes the death of the fiction of the student athlete.

You'll still have walk-on stories. They'll just happen at small-time schools, and if they stand out as freshman, then by senior year they could end up at Duke via the transfer portal.

But somebody like Hubbard who probably has no NBA dreams, and is smart enough to get into a school like Duke without a scholarship, and can either pay the tuition or qualify for financial aid... that guy -- that student athlete -- is still going to choose Duke, and that guy will never be on the team.

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