The Coach of Team USA depends, I suppose, on what Colangelo and Krzyzewski think is needed. After the debacle of the Larry-Brown-coached 2004 team, the powers-that-be, including Colangelo, decided they needed a coach who could build a program for the National Team as well as coach it. As many others remember, Dean Smith was the guy that said that K was the only college coach who could do that. And he did: he visited every one of the eligible NBA stars and got their commitment to Team USA; he developed the concept of a 25-person national team, upon which the Olympic team and the FIBA team could draw and that would practice every year in some form. He, so far, has been hugely successful.
Will Team USA decide that it needs another program builder or can it primarily look for a coach? K is a unique case and individual, with his executive skills, and I don't necessarily think that a college coach would be a likely choice. K will have coached three Olympic and three FIBA teams. If that's a desirable pattern, then a younger coach would be an obvious choice. But there is no reason that the next coach has to be around for more than one cycle.
Sage Grouse
---------------------------------------
'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013