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<p>Carmody seems to be real pleased with Capocci and Thompson. I hope Capocci doesn’t get inflicted with streaky shooting (like Moore) cause Coble is going to need some help next season.</p>
<p>Duke is able to recruit well due to the combination of history of success and lowered admissions standards for BB recruits (they also recently lowered the standards for the FB team in order to try to make it more competitive).</p>
<p>There have been a good no. of players at Duke who never would’ve gotten past NU’s admissions. However, that’s no real excuse b/c Stanford is the one school which has maybe slightly higher admissions standards than NU and they have done pretty well in BB of late.</p>
<p>But Stanford didn’t achieve any success (on which to build on) til the mid-late 80s (Duke’s success happened a bit earlier, but not by much) - the key was that they got that one stud recruit which turned the program around and got them to the NCAAs.</p>
<p>NU has come close to getting to that step a no. of times - but things always seem to go wrong - (i.e. - when Rex Walters transferred, injuries, etc.).</p>