We talked to the kids and their parents right away. We planned more. We have a dialogue so that when the time comes they wouldn't think we were talking just to have them stay. If you talk all the time, you're part of the process, not just trying to influence them. NBA commissioner David Stern is on record as wanting an age limit for his league, yet has been unable to prevent a torrent of teen-agers arriving each year.
School is an irrelevancy.
The result of that is bad policy, bad for the kid's development, bad for the college game, bad for the business of the NBA as well. Krzyzewski noted Stern's position. I don't think there is one. The NBA, NCAA and players' union have never met. Everybody talks about the problem.