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Posted on: February 6, 2019 at 16:57:50 CT
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is what made Silvio DeSousa so important and special that he was worth such effort and benefits?
And the answer of course is nothing, in the context of ku basketball he is a lower level recruit the kind of which 4 or 5 come through every recruiting class. That is because DeSousa isn't unique, he just unluckily for him got exposed. But pretty much every player on ku's roster now and over the last decade is in the same scenario. Guys like Billy Preston and Cliff Alexander and Josh Selby and Ben Mclemore and Josh Jackson got accidentally exposed publicly. But it could have just as easily not been them and been some other player on their roster instead.
The problem is Bill Self and the culture they have created there. Its not the players for accepting the improper benefits that they offer them. And as he correctly points out in that article, Adidas is only one of the contributing parties. In the Zion Williamson case, Adidas came to ku's coaches only as the facilitator to let them know they were asking for things that Adidas couldn't provide and ku's coaches just said they would find a different way to make it happen. So its not even correct to scapegoat Adidas. ku is the problem.
And the answer of course is nothing, in the context of ku basketball he is a lower level recruit the kind of which 4 or 5 come through every recruiting class. That is because DeSousa isn't unique, he just unluckily for him got exposed. But pretty much every player on ku's roster now and over the last decade is in the same scenario. Guys like Billy Preston and Cliff Alexander and Josh Selby and Ben Mclemore and Josh Jackson got accidentally exposed publicly. But it could have just as easily not been them and been some other player on their roster instead.
The problem is Bill Self and the culture they have created there. Its not the players for accepting the improper benefits that they offer them. And as he correctly points out in that article, Adidas is only one of the contributing parties. In the Zion Williamson case, Adidas came to ku's coaches only as the facilitator to let them know they were asking for things that Adidas couldn't provide and ku's coaches just said they would find a different way to make it happen. So its not even correct to scapegoat Adidas. ku is the problem.
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