Mike Krzyzewski

But there's two archetypes, which is the CEO archetype.

And I don't just mean that simply as a coach whose job it is just to make sure all the trains come on time and everything else, right? I also mean that just kind of in the image of what a coach is, right? Like Mike Krzyzewski and Pat Riley in the 1980s ushered in the idea that the coach is like a titan of industry, right? Gets in a suit and talks to companies and things like that.

And then the other archetype is the boy genius.

And some of them are not boys, but the scheme guys.

And it was like, what? I beg your pardon, what? And then this one I think was worse.

It was like, man, Indiana is getting peak Mike Krzyzewski calls at Cameron Indoor Stadium level officiating on some of these calls.

And, you know, still, still couldn't do a whole heck of a lot with it.

But yeah, it was, this has to be just an immensely frustrating year for the Michigan defense where this is, this is a, like this year looking around the nation, this is a defense that's good enough to win the national championship.

Definitely right.

Didn't Krzyzewski call him out for it? Yes.

Yes, it's always been there.

So he needed Brown to fight his fights for him.

Obviously, I got being around basketball my whole life.

But then, like you said, going to Duke, playing for Coach K, working for Coach K for a long time, then going to Louisville, then Memphis and being around just different guys and different mindsets.

But the winning thing has never changed.

I think when you talk about winning a whole lot, eventually your players are going to be obsessed with it just like you are.

At that time, Johnny was an assistant coach at Duke.

So when he called my mom, can we recruit Nola? My mom's like, yes.

Coach K and Johnny come do an in-house visit.

And the minute they left the house, my mom was like, you're going to Duke.

This is going to happen.

A game will be played and Mike Krzyzewski will no longer be the head coach of Duke.

And what do you know, it's like a whole college basketball career at this point with the four years that have flown by now on into year five, replacing the Hall of Famer and the absolute legend, the greatest coach in Mike Krzyzewski.

Here we are so comfortable with this job.

John Shire era.

You mean to a.

Coach K and Duke, it's done.

Players, of course, played for money.

The great ones played for Valhalla.

Because you're going to have a revolving door.

Like, you know, we're slightly spoiled around here because we think, well, Mike Krzyzewski was here for 40 years.

You know, Rod Brindle has been here for 10 years.

It's like, guys,

I can't remember what year it is now.

When they play Duke and Mike Krzyzewski is coming off the court at halftime.

What did he do? He bitched to CBS about the officiating in the game, didn't he? And what happened in the second half? Well, all of a sudden, the officiating started to go the other way, didn't it? Badger fans, you remember that.

I remember watching that game.