Episode 397 - Coach Jon Scheyer

Yeah, I think the development, right.

So, I mean, it's, we've said it on the boards for the last year and a half.

I mean, it's retention, retention, retention, but retention is a two way street.

Um, We see that with the portal.

Duke's bringing in the elite high school players, and it's a culture shock.

Like he said, not everybody's Cam, not everybody's Coop, not everybody's Khan.

Shoot, not a lot of people are guys who just play in the rotation.

It just doesn't happen at this level.

And so...

You know, retention being a two way street, I think the big thing I take away is that they have invested so much in the last 18 months in making sure that not only do they have the players, they have the resources to show them that, hey, there's a runway and it's not it's not a perpetual runway.

There's if you put in the work, here's the resources to get you to your ceiling, to get you to the professional level, right? But you've got to show the players there is a way forward and they've got to trust it.

And, you know, some guys are still going to leave.

That's just going to be the reality.

But I would be willing to bet that they retain most, if not all, of their young players because of the infrastructure they've put together.

And I thought it was really good for him to talk about it.

And I think it's something that kind of goes unnoticed because, you know, you see a lot of the NIL, it's, Duke's spending untold millions of dollars.

And they're very well compensated players.

They are.

But, you know, the Duke discount thing that has been talked about is real.

But it's a discount in maybe just straight up, you know, here's money.

They're still investing tremendous amounts of resources for everybody coming in.

So, you know, a player may take less, quote, salary, right? but they're getting more benefit because Duke has such an impressive infrastructure put together.

And so I thought that was really good to touch on.

And I think that's something that's going to benefit them going forward.

And, you know, I liked Raul's question about the analytics because, I mean, Yeah, their database is obscene.