Originally Posted by
Saratoga2
Coach K will make the retirement decision or it will be made for him due to ill health. Let's hope it's not the latter circumstance. Once a new coach comes in, it will become his program and he will be free to mold the program in his own way. It may be different than Coach K's approach but will no doubt be competitive in the upper echelon of college basketball.
Let me add my strong opinion aimed at Coach K -- don't do what Dean and Big John Thompson did. Don't quit either just before or at the beginning of the season so the school has little choice but to give the job as a reward to a long-serving assistant -- Bill Guthridge and Craig Esherick. Both had some success, but neither was the right choice.
K needs to plan his retirement in order to give Duke time to make a proper choice. (Duke always says, for every important vacancy, "We will do a nationwide search to find the best candidate.")
Kindly,
Sage Grouse
'Yes, I recognize that fate intervenes"
Sage Grouse
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'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