Duke Basketball Report · Jun 3, 2021
YouTube Gold: When Coach K Was Introduced As Duke’s New Head Coach
Mike Krzyzewski Fields Questions After Being Named Head Coach at DukeMarch 18th, 1980 was a long time ago. Ronald Reagan was still in office. Scratch that - Jimmy Carter was still in office. John Lennon was still alive. Pope John Paul II was two years into his historic papacy. The Miracle on Ice had happened in Lake Placid in February.
And Mike Krzyzewski was being introduced as Duke’s new head coach.
It wasn’t a popular decision.
Bill Foster had taken Duke to the 1978 title game and to the Elite Eight just a few weeks before Coach K was introduced.
It was clear though that he had become unhappy at Duke and widely understood that he would, in a major miscalculation, take the South Carolina job.