Mike Krzyzewski reconstituted his coaching staff immediately upon returning to the bench in the fall of 1995, having missed the final few months of the preceding season sorting through the painful physical and mental consequences of back surgery.
By the ’98 season Duke’s entire corps of assistant coaches was comprised of former Blue Devils players under Krzyzewski – that year Quin Snyder, Johnny Dawkins and David Henderson. Tommy Amaker, already on the staff for seven years before the reshuffle began, departed to become head coach at Seton Hall in 1997-98. Tim O’Toole, who hadn’t played at Duke, also left.