When Quin Snyder was at Duke, everyone understood his keen intelligence and immense potential. He graduated from Duke Law and Fuqua School of business - both - in 1995.
Just think about that for a minute. Lots of people have multiple graduate degrees. How many do two really demanding programs simultaneously? Did we mention he was an assistant coach for the LA Clippers at this time? The mind boggles.
In the 1960s, Duke coach Vic Bubas revolutionized recruiting by doing it systematically and nationally. Dean Smith once said that Bubas “taught everyone how to recruit.”
In the 1990s, Snyder applied business principles to the basketball office and turned it from what had been essentially a mom-and-pop type approach to a sophisticated business operation.