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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Dominique Wilkins still doesnt know how Hugh Durham got him out of North Carolina.He was recruited by every school in the state, the perennial powers and the up-and-coming programs, and wound up following Durham to Georgia. Together, the tall and talented forward and the small and humble coach built a powerhouse program at a school with little basketball success.And together, they were enshrined in the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.This is really special for me in many ways, Wilkins said, turning to face Durham seated alongside him, because how many times do you get to go into the Hall of Fame with your coach? I love this guy.Wilkins and Durham were joined in this years class by the late Bob Boozer, a star in the 1950s at Kansas State; Doug Collins, who played at Illinois State before a long career as an NBA player and coach; DePaul star Mark Aguirre; longtime college coach Mike Montgomery; former La Salle standout Lionel Simmons; and Jamaal Wilkes, who was part of the dominant UCLA teams of the early 1970s.They spent time mingling at the College Basketball Experience in downtown Kansas City, some of them meeting for the first time, before a Friday night ceremony. They also spent time swapping stories and reminiscing.I dont know if I liked Coach Durham when I was a player. He was tough, Wilkins said with a smile. But what he taught me was how to be a young man first, a basketball player second. Being a basketball player is easy if you can perfect being a young man.Naturally, Durham deferred to one of his brightest stars.Most of the time if youre successful, he said, its because you have people around you that want you to be successful. You have to have players to win.Wilkins and Durham certainly won together, leading the Bulldogs to unprecedented heights, but they also won separately. Wilkins went on to become a nine-time All-Star in the NBA while Durham retired as the career wins leader at Georgia, Florida State and Jacksonville.The relationship between player and coach was an underlying theme to the 11th class.Montgomery talked about the players who helped make Stanford a perennial NCAA Tournament team, and the dozens more who helped him turn around programs at Montana and California.Its a tremendous honor to be here and be inducted. Its just kind of an honor for a job well-done, a lot of time put in, he said. All of us, when we were young, wanted to be in a position these young men are. Of course, Id much rather be inducted as a player, but I lost the gene pool battle.Boozer certainly didnt lose that one. He starred for the Wildcats before deferring his pro dreams for a year so that he could play on the gold medal-winning 1960 Olympic team.Neither did Wilkes, who was part of the Bruins record 88-game win streak from 1971-74, nor Simmons, who emerged from the rough Philadelphia projects to score 3,217 points for the Explorers.Aguirre also stayed home to play college hoops. The schoolboy legend from Chicago wound up leading DePaul to the Final Four as a freshman, and was the AP player of the year before his own NBA career.I can appreciate it, but I dont know if I can grasp the fact that I should be here, he said. I saw Oscar Robertson. I saw John Wooden, Lew Alcindor. So its hard for me. I guess itll come, but at this moment, its hard for me to think I should be here.Collins joked that he never had such a problem with humility, perhaps because of the long odds that he overcame. He never started in high school until his senior year, he was so lightly recruited he wound up at Illinois State, then the coach that recruited him retired after his freshman season.The skinny white kid from Illinois would end up playing for Will Robinson, a Detroit native and the first black coach in Division I basketball, forging one of the closest bonds of their lives.One of the things we all have in common is none of us ever started out thinking wed be in the Hall of Fame. We never walked out to play or practice or do what we loved because of what was going to come later, Collins said. Im a product of the Coach Durhams, the Coach Montgomerys. 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Makudi was also fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,100).A longtime ally of former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar, Makudi was a member of the tainted executive committee for 18 years until Asian federations voted him out in April 2015.Makudi is the ninth member of the 24-man ruling panel which oversaw the bidding contests for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups who has since been banned for unethical conduct by FIFA.Four others have been indicted or are under criminal investigation in the United States or Switzerland, though they yet to be banned by the ethics committee. Some of Makudis former colleagues have been both banned and indicted.Makudis ethics case centered on his 20133 campaign to win re-election as president of Thailands soccer federation (FAT).ddddddddddddMakudi made alterations to the FAT Statutes without the approval of the FAT Congress, FIFA ethics judges said, noting that the case was opened after he was convicted of forgery by a Bangkok criminal court.FIFAs ethics committee previously investigated Makudi in 2011 over allegations that more than $800,000 of development money from Zurich was spent on projects built on land he owned near Bangkok.That case was closed after FIFA accepted documents showing he donated the land to the Thai soccer body.Makudi was also questioned by FIFA investigators over accompanying Bin Hammam on a presidential campaign visit to Trinidad in May 2011. The Qatari candidate withdrew his challenge to Sepp Blatter days before the vote, while under investigation for allegedly bribing Caribbean voters. ' ' '