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A Nice Idea To Honor Former Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski

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Well this seems like a good idea: Duke is asking for support to rename a stretch of Highway 751 Coach K Highway.

If you don’t know, 751 runs through Duke Forest and near the athletic complex on campus. Currently it’s called Cameron Boulevard, which makes sense, but given the monumental achievements of Mike Krzyzewski at Duke, naming it for him seems like the right thing to do.

When you look back, Duke’s basketball arena was named after Eddie Cameron in 1972. At that point, Duke had some significant athletic accomplishments. Cameron coached both football and basketball successfuly and of course Wallace Wade was a brilliant football coach in the 1930’s and ‘40s before joining the war effort.