Coach K retiring

[Splendid Splinter]

after this upcoming season...

 

[dixiehack]

I’m gonna have to put a condom on my TV next winter to catch all the splooge from ESPN. You know it will be on every damn game too, including Atlantic Sun matchups streaming on the Ocho.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Also not buying that Jon Scheyer is the leading candidate. That's some attempt to keep the rumors at a dull roar.

Welcome to the job, Nina King.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Who’s going to replace Scheyer in three years?

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

I'm not buying it, either ... but who is going to want to replace the winningest coach in the history of the sport? The inside-the-family hire -- like the one on which Chapel Hill settled two months ago -- might crystallize as the most palatable option. (Would have been Wojo, but the last two years at Marquette were headed toward a Bob Dukiet-esque trajectory.)

Also not buying that Jon Scheyer is the leading candidate. That's some attempt to keep the rumors at a dull roar.

Welcome to the job, Nina King.

 

[Songbird]

Massive.

Shashevsky may have the foulest ****ingest cocksuckingest piece of ****-****tiest-**** mouth on the planet -- a high school coach I covered in Vermont once said that watching the Duke men's hoops team practice is no day in the park -- but Duke Men's Basketball on his watch was a ****ing THING of things in my lifetime.

By and large I saw the past his prime tail end of Dean Smith's career. But I saw just about all of K's career at Duke.

It will be a ****ing trip to see someone else head coaching Duke.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I'm not buying it, either ... but who is going to want to replace the winningest coach in the history of the sport? The inside-the-family hire -- like the one on which Chapel Hill settled two months ago -- might crystallize as the most palatable option. (Would have been Wojo, but the last two years at Marquette were headed toward a Bob Dukiet-esque trajectory.)

Think Tempe.

 

[UPChip]

Wow, I never would have thought Coach K was retirement age! He doesn't even have any gray hairs!

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Massive.

Shashevsky may have the foulest ****ingest cocksuckingest piece of ****-****tiest-**** mouth on the planet -- a high school coach I covered in Vermont once said that watching the Duke men's hoops team practice is no day in the park -- but Duke Men's Basketball on his watch was a ****ing THING of things in my lifetime.

By and large I saw the past his prime tail end of Dean Smith's career. But I saw just about all of K's career at Duke.

It will be a ****ing trip to see someone else head coaching Duke.

I recall Bill Foster, actually. That Final Four team in 1978 was fun, especially Gene Banks.

 

[Songbird]

Was Gminski on that '78 team?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Probably true. But Mike Krzyzewski is 74 years old. Contrary to some rumors, he is mortal.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Was Gminski on that '78 team?

Yup. Gminski, Banks, Kenny Dennard, Jim Spanarkel ...

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

If they need a replacement they can take Jeff Capel.

 

[Songbird]

It's going to be Bobby Hurley.

Unless Duke wants to have its version of Matt Doherty.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

That Torres HOT TAKE was pretty damn idiotic.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

That Torres HOT TAKE was pretty damn idiotic.

A poor imitation of a carnival barker ...

 

[micropolitan guy]

It's going to be Bobby Hurley.

Unless Duke wants to have its version of Matt Doherty.

If so, there will be no dropoff in the asshole aspect of Duke basketball. Hurley has totally embraced K's entitled attitude and "I just smelled something bad" expression, while generally getting regularly outcoached by his Pac-12 opposites.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I’m just curious as to what the next step forward is.

 

[Scout]

I would make a call to the Celtics.