There are some tantalizing what-ifs when it comes to Duke recruiting.
The first great one was Bill Bradley. Bradley was planning to come to Duke where he would have joined with Art Heyman and Jeff Mullins. He changed his mind late after his father convinced him to go to Princeton instead. The late Carroll Youngkin told us that Duke coach Vic Bubas broke a golf club when he heard.
In the early ‘70’s, Duke recruited both Bill Walton and David Thompson. The odds of getting either were probably not that great but what if Duke had gotten both?