Coach K to retire after 2021-2022 season

[nate82]

While I believe coach K is a talented and really good college coach I still believe Izzo is a better coach.

 

It is weird to see someone like coach K retire. Just feels like he would be at Duke for forever.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/legendary-duke-basketball-coach-mike-krzyzewski-to-retire-after-2021-22-season/

[Oxy]

I wonder if he'll stop dying his hair after he retires?

[FVBrewerFan]

Wojo is a lock to take his place.

[wallus]

Lost a lot of respect for Coach K after he went after the refs in the National Championship game at half time against Wisconsin. It obviously worked but was bush league.

[rickh150]

Lost a lot of respect for Coach K after he went after the refs in the National Championship game at half time against Wisconsin. It obviously worked but was bush league.

 

Huh? That’s what coaches do. Ryan too. Sometimes it backfires and you get even less calls. Of all the things to lose respect for.....

There must be more to the story... please share.

[wallus]

Lost a lot of respect for Coach K after he went after the refs in the National Championship game at half time against Wisconsin. It obviously worked but was bush league.

 

Huh? That’s what coaches do. Ryan too. Sometimes it backfires and you get even less calls. Of all the things to lose respect for.....

There must be more to the story... please share.

 

Go watch the tape. It went beyond what is acceptable for a college coach.

[rickh150]

Seeing nothing of note at halftime.

[FVBrewerFan]

Lost a lot of respect for Coach K after he went after the refs in the National Championship game at half time against Wisconsin. It obviously worked but was bush league.

 

Huh? That’s what coaches do. Ryan too. Sometimes it backfires and you get even less calls. Of all the things to lose respect for.....

There must be more to the story... please share.

 

Go watch the tape. It went beyond what is acceptable for a college coach.

 

Apparently not, since he didn't get kicked out of the game or even get a technical foul. I didn't see it, but I'll picture the worst. I have no problem with it, I would expect my coach to use his name, reputation, influence...whatever it takes. Remember, it's a game. Would I respect coach Smart screaming in the face of a worker when he's shopping at Target? No. Screaming at a ref? Have at it.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Lost a lot of respect for Coach K after he went after the refs in the National Championship game at half time against Wisconsin. It obviously worked but was bush league.

 

Huh? That’s what coaches do. Ryan too. Sometimes it backfires and you get even less calls. Of all the things to lose respect for.....

There must be more to the story... please share.

 

Go watch the tape. It went beyond what is acceptable for a college coach.

 

That is his M.O.....remember he's a Bobby Knight disciple and played for him back at Army. There has always been this stigma that Duke is playing with 5.5 players on the floor at all times because most referees are in their pocket even before Coach K. pipes up - but he's never been one to shy away from in-game tongue lashings at stripes to remind them if calls aren't going their way.

 

To be honest a big part of that over the years has been superior talent compared to most of their competition....but it's definitely more than that. An excerpt from an article shortly after that game, which saw a completely differently officiated game in the 2nd half vs the first:

 

"At halftime of Monday night’s frantic NCAA men’s championship game, I happened into conversation with one of Mike Krzyzewski’s fellow Hall of Fame coaches, someone I’ve known for a while, and someone who knows not only where the bodies are buried, but also where they hid the shovels. The game was tied at 31-31. Duke’s gifted young center, Jahlil Okafor, had two fouls, which is exactly as many as Wisconsin had as a team. This was no surprise. All year, Wisconsin’s trademarks were that it did not turn the ball over and it did not foul. Everybody in the building knew that, including Krzyzewski, which is why he spent almost the entire half yapping at the officiating crew. If he’d gotten any closer to them, they’d all have been picking out china patterns.

 

There are many things that make a great basketball coach. One of them is recruiting talents like Okafor, and point guard Tyus Jones, and surprise star Grayson Allen. One of them is knowing what to do with that talent once it turns up in your gym. And another is working the refs, and what Krzyzewski did with Joe DeRosa, Michael Stephens, and Pat Driscoll was nothing short of a masterpiece. He chewed their ears in that first half like Mike Tyson at an audiologist convention. Still, though, it was 31-31, and Wisconsin had only as many fouls as Okafor. Things seemed to be going according to Hoyle. But the veteran mentor saw what was coming.

 

 

“Watch,” he said to me. “Mike’s got them now.”

 

Sure enough, come the second half, just as the Badgers took a nine-point lead, the world turned upside down. Wisconsin was up to 10 team fouls with just under 11 minutes left. Duke was in the double-bonus situation for the last seven and a half minutes of the game. By the time the championship ended, at 68-63, Krzyzewski’s fifth title was headed back to Durham and the Blue Devils had attempted 16 free throws in the second half to Wisconsin’s three. This was a whopping statistical anomaly. So, before we get to the rest of the game — and it was a terrific one, all the more so because it was so ragged and scrambled — let us salute DeRosa, Stephens, and Driscoll. Nice work, gents..."

[wallus]

Talked to 2 college basketball coaches I know and they agree he went over the line. It worked so good for him I guess?

 

We will see if Duke will still be a blue blood after he is gone.

[FVBrewerFan]

It worked so good for him I guess?

 

Correct. I still don't understand what else there is to talk about then?

[rickh150]

Talked to 2 college basketball coaches I know and they agree he went over the line. It worked so good for him I guess?

 

We will see if Duke will still be a blue blood after he is gone.

 

What is “over the line” when it comes to discussing the game with referees? The refs have all the power and could have just as easily ignored Coach K’s whines.

[rickh150]

Read an article on Coach K vs Coach Wooden.....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/commentary-mike-krzyzewski-greatest-only-165148357.html

 

 

I have to put Coach K above Coach Wooden.... mainly because of the Olympic medals offsetting the championship deficit (5-10). Also, winning today in a 64 plus team tournament format with so many better teams and ruthless competition.... and the great equalizer three point line..... I have to give a slight edge to Coach K.