For today’s YouTube Gold, we present to you the day Mike Krzyzewski was introduced as Duke’s new coach in 1980.
Tom Butters introduces his new coach, saying that “there is no doubt in my mind that Mike is the brightest young coaching talent in America.”
Butters found Krzyzewski when he approached Bob Knight about the job and Knight, in a rare moment of self-awareness, said no but suggested Coach K, telling Butters that Kryzyzewski had “all of my good qualities and none of my bad ones.” Butters went on to say that he believed Coach K to be the best choice to lead Duke now and in the future.