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GoDuke.com Gold: Coach K’s Final Banquet Speech

Some of us have memories of the Vic Bubas era. More have memories of the Bill Foster era.

All of us have memories of the Mike Krzyzewski era and many of us have no memory of anything else. It’s been an incredible ride.

We’ve always enjoyed listening to Coach K speak. He thinks in really unique ways and has a knack for explaining his ideas in a highly accessible manner.

He’s a brilliant communicator and he is in this speech too.

He talked about his wife, Mickie, his daughters and grandchildren and his mother, Emily, who had an eighth grade education but a Ph.