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[QUOTE="PoppyHart, post: 3001666, member: 515"]
A couple other factors that have not really been discussed.

1. Perhaps kids just like the super-team aspect. People saw it with Lebron & Co in Miami, and later with GSW, Houston, OKC, etc... Now there's a trickle-down effect. The AAU impact and the relationships it builds likely facilitates these super-teams. Also, the fake high schools that are really glorified basketball factories plays a huge role. Oak Hill has been around forever along with a couple others, but now it seems that the concentration of top kids going to powerhouse schools is out of control; La Lumiere, IMG, Bishop Gorman, etc... etc...

2. Classes for Duke & Kentucky are simply larger, on average, than traditional recruiting classes. They are actually larger everywhere due to all the transfer activity that increases every year seemingly. There is simply so much attrition that recruiting classes of 5-6 people are standard. In the "old days" the typical class would be 3 people (13/4). Iirc, the NCAA at one time actually had limits as to how many scholarships a school could hand out over a designated period of time.
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