Duke basketball fans enjoyed(?) a particularly tumultuous offseason this spring and summer. With 10 players leaving for either the professional world or a different school, six members of the incoming recruiting class, and four incoming transfers, the Blue Devils bring back two contributors from last season.
Head coach Jon Scheyer, obviously, doesn’t want every offseason to look quite like that.
In a new episode of The Brotherhood Podcast published on Tuesday, Scheyer sat down with former Duke player Jay Bilas and talked about what a perfect offseason looks like in the transfer portal era.
“Going forward, it’s probably not going to be a class of six freshmen,” Scheyer told Bilas. “More so four, or three, or maybe the (maximum) would be five.”
“Ideally, you have three to five players returning,” he continued. “Although some years it may be two, some years it could be six. And then one or two transfers.”
Jon Scheyer lays out his ideal roster building process
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Scheyer said this process would be Duke’s plan going forward, so the Cameron Crazies might get a glimpse of that after the 2024-25 season.