09/18: Clemson went from just-OK to college football juggernaut in a little over a half-decade. Which college basketball program is set up to do something similar?
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
A fun episode awaits you, as Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander open this one by tossing out theories as to why exactly Duke and Kentucky almost every year for nearly a decade have been the top two recruiting destinations. Beyond the coaches, what are the reasons? From there, Norlander tosses out this question (15:00): Who can do in college hoops what Clemson's done as of late in college football? That is: go from proud-but-underachieving program to competing with UK and Duke in recruiting. After that, the guys get into why more top 100-ish prospects who would academically qualify don't seriously consider playing for an Ivy League program (26:00), touch on Tony Bennett refusing a raise (44:00) and giving back $500,000 to the university. They wrap with the unexpected news of Rick Pitino actually agreeing to $0 in his settlement (53:00) with Louisville.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Park. |
| 0:09.1 | You're Thursday, September 19, 2019. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome back to the CVS Sports Eye on College Basketball Podcast, where we sometimes |
| 0:16.3 | discuss Kamil fighting and Leaky Black, Matt Norlander is here with me and we are now deep |
| 0:21.1 | into recruiting season coaches, bouncing around the country, prospects, taking visits, |
| 0:26.2 | publicly pledging their allegiances to various universities. |
| 0:29.9 | I want to start with some recruiting news from the past week and I want to start with a |
| 0:33.4 | couple of five-star guys making commitments to five-star programs. |
| 0:37.6 | Five-star guard Terrence Clark, he committed to Kentucky this past weekend. |
| 0:41.4 | He's ranked fourth in the class of 2020 after announcing that he's reclassifying from 2021 |
| 0:47.5 | to 2020. |
| 0:48.5 | In other words, he was a junior but now he is essentially a senior. |
| 0:52.9 | So that happened over the weekend. |
| 0:54.3 | Then on Wednesday, DJ Stewart, a five-star guard, committed to Duke. |
| 0:58.4 | He's ranked 26 in the class of 2020 and the byproduct of those two recruiting developments |
| 1:04.0 | is that surprise, surprise. |
| 1:06.2 | Kentucky and Duke currently have the number one and number two ranked recruiting classes |
| 1:10.6 | in the country. |
| 1:11.6 | If this holds, they will finish first and second the recruiting rankings for the sixth |
| 1:16.4 | time in the past seven years. |
| 1:18.6 | The only miss was this past year but the circumstances that led to that, that snapped that street |
| 1:23.5 | was so unique. |
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