ebear
Baylor fan Join Date: Sep 2000
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To those who think Baylor cheated to get John Wall.
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It's not as if Baylor played by a set of rules that other schools were not willing to play in order to get John Wall. There were a bazillion schools that would have gladly hired Dwon Chilton. Now, I have no reason to doubt that UNC and Duke might have backed off on this kid for that reason, but the rest of the world, including the Kansas, OSU, and Kentuckys of the world were willing to do the same thing.
Drew (more specifically Matt Driscoll) simply outrecruited them.
It wasn't cheating, it was playing by the same rules that the rest of the college basketball world plays by. Good for Drew/Driscoll. Good for Dwon. Good for John Wall. Good for BU.
Now, is this the way the NCAA wants this thing to continue to go? Who knows, though I think any regulation with teeth would be difficult to implement without seriously restricting the freedoms of people who happen to be AAU coaches. In the end, if a player wants to play at a place who is willing to hire his AAU coach, then that's his perogative until the NCAA says it's not. You don't have to like it, but it is fair play, and FINALLY Baylor has a coaching staff who is savvy enough to take advantage of it.
Sic Em Bears!
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