It's not a dig toward your program. Dwon Clifton is simply following Dalonte Hill's playbook. Twenty-something ex-D1 player (Clifton from Clemson, Hill from UNC-Charlotte) coaches AAU ball and befriends amazingly talent. They parlay that into an advanced position at the next level when they deliver said talent to new employer. In Hill's case, he's first assistant on a Big 12 bench. Hill was an assistant at his alma mater before K-State hired him, and Beasley was committed to the 49ers. Hill goes to the Little Apple, Beasley follows. He even was quoted as saying that he was there ''because of Delonte". This is the same guy that went to six high schools in five years and chose K-State sight unseen. Imagine what could have been if Huggy could have hired Dwaine Barnes: OJ Mayo, Bill Walker, and Beasley.
Hill and Clifton are just being more blatant about it. Hill has Duke, UNC, Wake, and NC State all within a quick drive and they weren't even trying to recruit him because it became known that they were a package deal. The big difference is that Hill is an actual talented coach that wants to run a program one day and Clifton wants to be an agent.
Shady? Yeah, maybe. But so is college recruitment in general and the NBA's age limit in particular. I'll be keeping an eye on Brandon Jennings this upcoming season. I think that's the wave of the future and where all these types of situations will wind up. Clifton would have sent Hill to Dynamo Moscow for 6% of a million euros.
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