Quote: Originally posted by alblack56 on 4/26/2010If they'd treat the Corey Magette controversy the same as any other school, Duke would have forfeited the 1999 NT runner-up season.
I did some quick research on this topic through a couple different sources including thetruthaboutduke.com I think it was, its very anti-duke, as well as CBS sports.
I found out that Maggette had received money for playing summer league ball with a coach named, Piggie. This was the wrong doing by Maggette which got him suspended after the fact basically after he was in the NBA.
Next I found out Maggette only received money from this coach named Piggie who had no affiliation with the University of Duke. He had other players whom went to other Universities as well after accepting money to play on his summer team.
Piggie got his money from Nike who paid him for him coaching in the summer leagues. In order to secure some of the best players he paid them to play it would seem.
In the end you can say Duke should vacate the games which might be true, but it was not Duke whom paid the players. It wasn't even a booster from Duke who payed the players. It was a summer coach who had multiple players he had paid that went to multiple D1 schools.
I am not trying to defend Duke but just give the facts here, most schools would probably have to vacate their wins and they got lucky. The story is though Coach K did not in this circumstance pay his players or do anything that was wrong.