Posted on 06/02/2021 10:28:16 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
Legendary Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire following the upcoming 2021-22 college basketball season, according to Stadium's Jeff Goodman. Krzyzewski, who turned 74 in February and is famously known as "Coach K," has led the Duke to five NCAA Tournament victories, 12 Final Four appearances and 27 combined ACC titles in tournament and regular-season competition since taking over the program ahead of the 1980-81 season.
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Piece of crap kept his mouth shut during Duke lacrosse debacle. Didn’t stick up for coach or players.
West Point is not for slackers. Jesus Christ, you guys are incredible. Do you think he went to WestPoint in ‘65 thinking he WASNT going to Viet Nam? Grow up.
It’s ok to not like him. But to disparage his pedigree is simply ignorant.
It was chickenpoo for a guy of his stature at Duke to ignore what was going on in athletics, and to hunker down.
Much due respect for him as a coach with all his accomplishments and he did know how to work the refs and the system. But as a Carolina fan, I sure did enjoy seeing his face transform into sphincter mode when the calls weren’t going his way. :-)
It will be a whole new era on Tobacco Road with Roy and Coach K gone. Fortunately, the rivalry is much bigger than the coaches.
Yes, he went to West Point. Good for him. La-dee-frickin-da. Benedict Arnold commanded West Point, yet it didn’t make him an honorable man. Coach K is scum. He’s one of the biggest phonies in a sporting universe of phonies. He poses as a man of integrity, yet he kowtows to leftist/politically correct hegemony at every opportunity. He let the Duke LAX kids twist in the wind when he could have used his considerable influence at Duke to take a stand against injustice. He bashes Trump, and pays homage to every phony leftist narrative.
You overlook the totality of Wooden’s coaching career. In 42 years as a basketball coach he had ONE losing season, his first as a high school school coach in Ohio. He transformed UCLA from a school with no great basketball tradition into a national power with a still unequalled record of success.
The coach Wooden replaced in 1948 had a record there of 93-120. At UCLA Wooden’s teams never won less than 18 games. The year before his arrival the Bruins went 12–13. In Wooden’s first they went 22-7. By 1950 they made the tournament.
The only other hoops coach for whom an argument could be made is Red Auerbach, and he had the advantage of keeping the same core players throughout his run. Wooden have a complete turnover every three years.
Ah..you don’t like his politics. And he doesn’t like Trump.
And you dismiss his attendance at West Point.
I am sure you had the grades and the tenacity to go there…but politics kept you out.
You people are pathetic. You talk out of both sides of your mouth so much it must be difficult to keep food in. You all praise the military and vets…until they don’t fit your model…then he is Benedict Arnold.
How pathetic is that?
You don’t know what you are talking about. Your involvement with large college athletic departments is most likely limited to what you see on TV. You should not express such ignorant opinions.
Damned right I don’t like his politics. And damned right I think he’s a phony.
And, sir, my SAT scores were 99th percentile. I, in fact, received recruitment letters from all the service academies via the Education Testing Service sending out those scores. I wasn’t interested. I respect those who have served, but military doesn’t make the automatically a bad guy into a good guy. It doesn’t make a dishonorable man honorable.
Thanks for helping me have a better understanding of Wooden. I do realize he is a legend and most all will have him listed as the best basketball coach. I’m aware you think he may be the best college coach of any sport! I do appreciate what he did and know it is unparalleled and it will never be equaled, but I can’t help but wonder from time to time, how he would fare in today’s game. There is no way of knowing and it is pointless to speculate. Suffice it to say, Wooden is the best.
If you want to compare Wooden to Auerbach, Auriemma, Stengel, Saban, Lombardi, Bowman, Jackson, Shula, Lombardi, etc. you can look at this 2016 Sporting News ranking of greatest coaches. They have Wooden first.
When all is said and done, Geno will have all the numbers on his side to claim the greatest coach ever. He is compiling the most amazing records in sports history, surpassing Wooden in virtually every category--by a lot.
Prior to Auriemma's arrival in 1985, the Huskies Women's Basketball team had posted only one winning season in its history. Geno has the highest winning percentage in history, men and women--1119–144 (.886). 13 consecutive Final Fours and 21 total. 11 national championships to date.
Connecticut has finished above .500 for 33 consecutive seasons, including six undefeated seasons (1994–95, 2001–02, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2013–14, and 2015–16) and three NCAA record streaks of 111, 90 and 70 consecutive wins. 3 Olympic Gold Medals, two as head coach.
The list of records and achievements is endless. And Geno will just add to the numbers.
The one year and done approach was started by John Calipari at Kentucky. It was aided by the NBA, which facilitated one and done.
Ultimately they should do that. Pay good money to high school players. They can learn how to play proper basketball in farm league one or two years. Then they'll be ready to play for NBA.
College basketball should still be played. But if you're a star, you shouldn't be there, I agree.
I bow to your authority.
LOL! Oh, wait, no, I don’t.
Duke is all of 6500 or so undergrads, it’s hardly all that large.
And yes, given events that were going on, I’d have expected someone of his stature at the university to know what was going on, and to speak up about an obvious wrong, not to hunker down to protect his program while a politically correct lynching was being carried out down the way.
It’s what someone of honor would have done.
“It’s what someone of honor would have done.”
Exactly. Coach K is dishonorable and disreputable. I remember six year ago during the NCAA tournament, K scolded Oregon’s Dillon Brooks for “showing off.” When Brooks recounted Coach K’s words to the media, Coach K denied everything, effectively calling a college kid a liar. Think about that from Brooks’ perspective. You’re 19, 20 years old, and one of the leading figures in college basketball—someone whom Duke and the media have sold to the public as one of the most respected people in college sports— tells the world that you’re a liar. Thing is, though, Coach K was the liar. Video & audio surfaced of the Krzyzewski-Brooks encounter proving that Brooks was telling the truth. Coach K was forced to apologize and lamely attributed everything to a misunderstanding or some such nonsense. Such a phony.
Justice is not determined by a basketball coach, especially one who likely has never had connection with the frat boys involved.
While you're at it, why don't you condemn the head football coach, the head track coach, the women's field hockey coach, the swim coaches, the cafeteria manager, the dorm managers.....etc.
I'll nominate your comment for the most ignorant post of the month...........Sheesh!
If the football coach, the track coach, the women’s field hockey coach, the swim coaches and the cafeteria manager had the stature of Coach K, then you would have named them. You don’t know their names, and neither do I.
Coach K was/is the face of Duke University. He was also a notoriously self-righteous sermonizer. With great power comes great responsibility, but he punted. Hell, even 60 Minutes and Ed Bradley, hardly right-wingers, knew the Duke lacrosse kids were victims of a tremendous injustice and witch hunt. Coach K had the ability to stand up for truth and justice and fairness at Duke, but he chose not to. Undoubtedly, he determined that it was not in his self-interest to do the right thing.
Great post, 100% on target.
BS!!! he knew he wasn’t going anywhere...
During his military service, he coached service teams and served for two years as head coach at the U.S. Military Academy Prep School at Belvoir, Virginia.
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