As far as we can tell, the main reason for Duke’s Chicago trip, an NIL payday, was nullified by the NCAA for reasons best known to the cartel itself. But that doesn’t mean the trip was a bust. Far from it. There appear to be two really great benefits from it.
First, the long term/big picture: the players got to go to the Chicago Board of Exchange and to see, up close, how that works. It’s a major part of the economy and relatively few people get to experience it that way.
They also got to meet traders and titans of industry, including the CEO of McDonald’s, Chris Kempczinski.