Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has long profited off the NCAA's ideal of amateurism, is now on record stating that the college basketball model is broken.

Depending if you you're a Mike Krzyzewski and Duke fan or someone who believes both are evil, you will either think the following are noble ideas or a way for a legendary coach to skate accountability for the sport's rampant cheating.

“The landscape of college basketball for the player, from middle school to high school to college to the pros, keeps changing,” Krzyzewski said. “We in college have not changed as much as the landscape has changed. We are not equipped right now to handle that. We don't have a good model, a model that fits what's happening in basketball, so college basketball's going to have problems. Before these kids ever come to us, we are not the only ones recruiting these youngsters. Talent is being recruited all the time in every shape and form—in singing, dancing, studies, sport, whatever.”

“When we recruit, the grassroots culture of basketball before we get them has changed dramatically. And not necessarily all bad—I think the kids are more organized. Kids get more opportunities .. it's a little bit more business.”

In the presser, he also discussed the FBI probe and how he doesn't believe it is as bad as everyone else does.

“Last week was bad, doesn't mean all of college basketball is bad,” Krzyzewski said. “It also doesn't mean that it's necessarily the tip of some iceberg. I don't necessarily agree with that. I think the iceberg is really good.”

An optimist, eh?