OT: Coach K blocked Amaker from taking over at Duke

[MDHuskFan]

He makes 3.5/yr (18th highest in country) and is getting a small bump after this year. I’m not sure where or why people think he’s going anywhere. His life goal is to make Providence a national power no other school can offer him that opportunity

FWIW, every coach is trying to make their current job a National Power, until their current job isn’t as attractive as their next job.

Do I think he’ll leave, no. But I also didn’t see Mick getting a UCLA job. Weirder things have happened

 

[UconnU]

Sounds a lot like the Ollie and Calhoun situation... I hope Scheyer is just as much a failure as Ollie and that whole program burns in a fiery heap of dung.

This is way deeper than the Ollie and Calhoun situation. Scheyer is for all intents and purposes K’s son.

 

[Palatine]

He makes 3.5/yr (18th highest in country) and is getting a small bump after this year. I’m not sure where or why people think he’s going anywhere. His life goal is to make Providence a national power no other school can offer him that opportunity

That goal is right up there with Maryland football being Randy Edsall's dream job.

 

[tentoes4rings]

I don’t know why this is such a big story. Amaker hasn’t been at Duke for 25 years now. Scheyer is a current assistant with much greater familiarity of the program, the dynamic of the school lately etc, not to mention all the relationships he’s established with faculty, media etc. On many levels, I think Scheyer makes a lot of sense.

 

[UconnU]

I don’t know why this is such a big story. Amaker hasn’t been at Duke for 25 years now. Scheyer is a current assistant with much greater familiarity of the program, the dynamic of the school lately etc, not to mention all the relationships he’s established with faculty, media etc. On many levels, I think Scheyer makes a lot of sense.

I think it’s being presented as a big story because there’s a racial component to it. K and Scheyer clearly have this father/son type connection, both being from Chicago growing up in Jewish immigrant families. But you’re right Amaker hasn’t been at Duke for a long time. K has obviously earned this right to pick his successor. Not as big of a story as it’s being made out to be. I do wonder who leaked the story and why.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Not that it matters, but Krzyzewski is Catholic.

The story is in Ian O'Connors biography of K.

 

[superjohn]

I think it’s being presented as a big story because there’s a racial component to it. K and Scheyer clearly have this father/son type connection, both being from Chicago growing up in Jewish immigrant families. But you’re right Amaker hasn’t been at Duke for a long time. K has obviously earned this right to pick his successor. Not as big of a story as it’s being made out to be. I do wonder who leaked the story and why.

Coach K is Polish Catholic. He grew up in Ukranian Village and went to Catholic school. Scheyer is Jewish and grew up in a North suburb of Chicago.

 

[bendm]

we should start a petition on behalf of gtown to fire ewing and hire amaker. if somehow cuse snatches him up it would be a shame. seems like a perfect fit for gtown in every way.