Now, in a post-NIL world, they're on track to do it again. Or 2018.įor five straight years, in a pre-NIL world, Duke and Kentucky (in some order) secured the nation's best two recruiting classes. Of the 10 who have committed so far, seven have picked either Jon Scheyer's Blue Devils or John Calipari's Wildcats. ![]() Consider: there are 21 Class of 2023 players labeled as five-star prospects, according to 247Sports. ![]() The rules changed, and Duke's coach changed, but the programs that kill it on the recruiting trail have not. Either way, what's undeniably already crystal clear is that Duke and Kentucky are going to continue to operate at the top of the recruiting world just like they did for much of the previous decade. To be clear, there's no guarantee Duke and Kentucky will finish with the nation's two best recruiting classes (although I'd probably bet on it considering Duke already has four commitments from five-star prospects, Kentucky already has three, and nobody else has more than one). So guess which two programs now have the top two recruiting classes in 2023? And Monday night provided the latest reminder that such appears to be true.įive-star wing Justin Edwards committed to. I always thought the same schools that typically got the best prospects would continue to get the best prospects, always believed the annual recruiting rankings in a post-NIL world would largely look the same as they did in the pre-NIL world. But the main thing I always said, basically every time the topic came up, is that I didn't believe it would change the order of things much, if at all. ![]() I heard every theory, legitimate and otherwise. Conversations about student-athletes someday having name, image and likeness rights began years before student-athletes actually had name, image and likeness rights - and in those years lots of people had strong opinions about what players being able to profit in previously not-allowed ways might do to college athletics.
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