Good news for the draft. Duke helped Derryck Thornton reclassify in 2015.
That reclassification didn't work for anyone. Thornton wasn't ready for college, couldn't get on the court, and had to transfer and sit out a year. I'd hope that doesn't repeat itself with Bagley.
Derryck Thornton wasn't even a top 10 recruit. Top 17, 3rd or so best PG. Bagley is unanimously #1 in both drafts this year and next
I'm not saying they're of the same quality, but Thornton was still a projected 1-and-done until his basketball career was stalled by reclassifying to come to Duke a year earlier. At the time, he was ranked about on par with many of the great PG who were drafted last month. Now, not so much.
Reclassifying doesn't work out well for everyone, and Thornton is the prime example in the last couple years of that. Bringing him up in the Bagley discussion was not the best way to be optimistic for Bagley -- rather it should remind us that there are perils to the process.