fueled us ... I think coach (Mike) Krzyzewski and them knew what they were doing.
fueled us ... I think coach (Mike) Krzyzewski and them knew what they were doing.
It's totally different under Mike Krzyzewski ... They've been meeting and planning for three years.
Back in '04, watching its performance in Athens left a great deal to be desired ... I did have a prerequisite: full autonomy. I felt like we needed to change the culture . . . I would select the coaches [including head coach Mike Krzyzewski], and I would select the players, and it wouldn't come from a committee.
I didn't feel that at Duke I was in the right position to get to the next level ... Coach Wright will help me get to the next level. It's not that Coach K [Mike Krzyzewski] wouldn't, because he's done it his whole career, but I think Villanova is where I fit the best.
Nowadays, the Final Four is the gold standard for college coaches ... Once you get to a Final Four, you're expected to win one. Otherwise, it's the best-coach-never-to-win-one type of deals. But you do by it starting off like Dean Smith and Coach K [Duke's Mike Krzyzewski] did it — just get there. Sometimes that can be harder than actually winning the thing, but Ben, by most measures, is one of the giants of his profession right now.