If people don't like Mike Krzyzewski's Duke program, there are a few reasons to be traced: Coach K's success over the past 20 years, his penchant for recruiting players that maybe seem a little bit too white-frat-boy for people's taste, incessant ESPN-bred media love for the program, all of that. And Coach K isn't exactly the most endearing guy. Whether or not you think those reasons are fair, those are the reasons most people would probably cite.

But there's also a certain moral superiority about Duke that rightly or wrongly has come to define the level at which Coach K wants to see himself. He doesn't do shady things. He only rarely deals with AAU types. He'll willingly lose out on recruits if it means keeping his hands clean. That's the perception Coach K has created; he's competitive, but not at the cost of doing the right thing (in so far as you can tell what the right thing is in college basketball recruiting anymore).

For those reasons, this comes as a surprise: Coach K is going to host his first-ever "elite" camp.

Elite camps are a modern recruiting invention designed to skirt a few NCAA rules, the primary one involving college recruits not being on campus for more than a few visits during their recruitment. That rule doesn't cover camps. Nor do NCAA rules prevent AAU coaches -- say, the AAU coach of a top recruit like, for example, Hamilton Barnes -- from coming to the camp and "teaching a seminar" and making out with a few thousand dollars in the process.

Plenty of schools do this, and it's not exactly illegal, but if you believe in a strict student-athlete code (in other words, if you're the NCAA) it is a bit unethical. Coach K has worked his entire career to seem ethical. An entire American Express marketing campaign was built around his coaching style preparing his players for life off the court. It's disarming to see him change his tune like this, to flip this switch in the face of recruiting pressures when he never has before.

You could spin this as Coach K simply catching up with the times. That he is. But he's also fading into his surroundings, and that's a little bit sad no matter your allegiance.

Related: ACC Basketball, Recruiting