West Point had a huge impact on me because it put me in positions to fail, so I got comfortable with failure being a part of success. Its senior leaders, J. J. Redick and Shelden Williams, are candidates for national player of the year, and they (along with other seniors) are responsible for mentoring the team's talented core of freshmen. "I was a mathematician,$(2$) Douglas Breeden, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, says. "Leadership is trying to get them to buy into a team concept, and that's what Mike does so well. That was it. Krzyzewski is a wealthy man: he reportedly makes about $1.5 million a year coaching basketball at Duke and several million dollars more a year from endorsements and corporate speaking. Game day is not a day for long, drawn-out speeches. 'Please' and 'Thank you' go a long way. They have three daughters: Debbie, Lindy, and Jamie. 1 in the nation, but in several of those contests they had sputtered and prevailed only because of superior talent or, in one case, last-second heroics: a Duke player's heave from near midcourt swished through the net as time expired, giving Duke a 2-point victory over Virginia Tech. After that, the boy who never wanted to be a soldier was granted his wish, more or less. (Getty Images), The classic/hated-by-so-many floor slap. Before that, he graduated from the United States Military Academy, where he played basketball. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. A coach has just a few moments each season to galvanize a team and lift it to a higher plateau, and Krzyzewski knew that this afternoon was one of them. They remembered the feeling that the detail brought, and the feeling before that, where as men we remember only the final feeling. Lindy and Frasher started dating, and he picked up that the safest way to address Krzyzewski is by Coach. Not K, which his daughters hate, and never Mike. Frasher also learned about Krzyzewskis ruthless intensity and self-punishment following a loss. As a result, many have shown curiosity to know about his family life. It was clear-cut. And the woman on the far right is manager Liz Cozart. (He has another, much bigger office in a building next door.) The best insights from the ultimate insiders, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Krzyzewski knows from his time in hospitals that they are big, complex workplaces with hierarchies that stretch from high-paid specialists to residents to nurses to orderlies and janitors. At Duke games, after he gives his instructions during a timeout -- the classic command-and-control moment -- his players break away from him and form their own huddle. But Krzyzewski's admirers in the corporate world consider his handling of such an array of stars to also be his primary challenge -- and one that they specifically relate to their own businesses. This, apparently, extended to disagreements about conifers. It was cheesy after-dinner material, vaguely inappropriate -- and utterly effective. Jamie earned her English degree from Duke in 2004 where she also minored in Linguistics. He has also raised funds for the "K Lab" (officially, the Michael W. Krzyzewski Human Performance Research Laboratory at Duke Medical Center), a research center for the prevention of athletic injuries. Hes won numerous state-level press association awards. Believe that the loose ball you're chasing has your name on it. 6-keys: media/spln/collegebasketball/reg/free/stories, at I see you trying here, Dad, but this isn't the time. . They're all good. Thatll mean more gatherings and louder songs and gifts to give, but that raises one more question. Shes worked at Duke since 2002, currently as an assistant athletics director for special events and director of the basketball programs Legacy Fund. His speech was titled "Victory Through Teamwork and Leadership,$(2$) and he segued into the substance of it by telling a story about his experience as an assistant coach of the 1992 United States Olympic basketball team, the so-called Dream Team. Usually, when the girls were younger, Krzyzewski didnt say much when a boy visited, allowing their mom, Mickie, to play the good cop. A winning sports team might be inspired by a fire breather like Vince Lombardi, or a fatherly presence like Joe Torre, or a diffident intellectual type like Bill Belichick. It was that bad.. Rival fans quite understandably view the parade of elite talent that flocks to Duke as a tremendous advantage, which, of course, it is. A strong high school principal might be a big man whose booming voice resounds down corridors, or a small-boned woman who once taught English and barely speaks above a whisper. He is the golden boy taken to a ridiculous extreme. Then Frasher met Dukes coach. Hes like Division III, and Im NBA. Knight said, 'You know what, Mike, if you want, Ill go over there with you. I have never cheered for Duke harder.. Hes an iconic figure, as we know, Chris says. Krzyzewski had gotten to know Chris at Dukes basketball camp, later vouching for him to former Army coach Pat Harris and recommending he play for the Black Knights. As a former participant at Dukes basketball camp who has known Jamie since they were teenagers, Chris has been in the Krzyzewski orbit for years. I heard him begin a speech to a corporate group by recognizing several friends in the audience, including a renowned knee surgeon who many years ago had operated on his ankle. Michael William Krzyzewski then resigned his military commission, worked for one year as a graduate assistant to Knight (who had taken over at Indiana) and then -- without ever having served as a full-fledged assistant coach in college -- accepted a job as head coach back at West Point. Not to Krzyzewski, an avid gardener whose luxury Escalades interior is often littered with leaves, mulch and assorted yard waste. After Krzyzewski and his wife, Mickie, had left for the airport, Steve Vacendak, who was then the No. Love this picture; it's like they're posing for a rock-band photoshoot. So, three national championships and 10 Final Four appearances, all achieved with his usual roster of clean-cut all-Americans, and now this: the high priest of Blue Devils basketball as corporate icon. "Remember that this was before the time that TV cameras showed the families in the stands as a point of interest. There is a distinct internal psychology to these sorts of gatherings. (Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images), Krzyzewski with his wife, Mickie, and daughters Debbie, Lindy and Jamie in 1991. Its Keith, the landscaper, and suddenly inspiration strikes. The New York Times PricewaterhouseCoopers has so far sent about 500 senior associates and managers -- most of them "partners in the making," as they were described to me -- to study Duke basketball in a "metaphoric context" to help them reach personal and professional goals. The first time we went out in the field to put up a tent, guys were digging ditches around them, in case it rained. "I look at myself as a leader who just happens to coach basketball.". I partied, and it caught up to me. "After the Final Four ended," Redick explains, "Coach told me I was personally unworthy of being a national champion. 's, crooked congressmen and predatory lobbyists who rip off Indian tribes, a man who runs a squeaky-clean program within the dubious world of big-time college sports just might be worth listening to. "It's sort of a protective thing, too," she says. Or a big, meaty Caymus that will cut down the damn nets? Its anonymous author makes the impossible-to-prove charge that even within the foulmouthed fraternity of college basketball coaches, Krzyzewski's language on the sideline is more profane than most. Krzyzewski's early teams at Duke struggled. When Krzyzewski started at West Point in the summer of 1965, one of his first tasks was to swim as far as he could in water seven feet deep while carrying a 10-pound brick. WebMike Krzyzewski was young, unproven, inexperienced and terrified when his boss summoned him early one morning in January 1984. Knight was Krzyzewskis coach at Army from 1966-1969. He actually wanted them to think less. And that was precisely the problem, Krzyzewski explained, in the same excruciating detail as if he were correcting a freshmans mechanics on a jump shot. He placed second in both beat writing and breaking news in the 2019 Associated Press Sports Editors national contest. But there are upsides to the change, Lindy says. He preferred to greet the strangers with an uncomfortably long stare. In his third game as Blue Devils coach, with a Tar Heels victory secured, Dean Smith made the mistake of walking toward the Duke bench for a handshake while two meaningless free throws still needed to be shot.Coach K rejected the handshake. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/magazine/follow-me.html. He can ask for a little more than some other coaches and demand it more quickly. A Sports Illustrated article from 1987 caught Knights attention ahead of Indianas meeting with Duke in the 1992 Final Four. Krzyzewski calls his three daughters his best friends and is confident in the instincts that made him wildly successful in the four-plus decades he led Duke before "It just knocked me back because there was stuff I had never been exposed to. It wasn't even a contest. Thats it., It never came up again with family. So Krzyzewski sends his sons-in-law into his massive wine cellar to select another bottle or two. I've got four seniors and this is their last year, and they want to win now. Here he is in 2006, while coaching Team USA Basketball. "I don't look at myself as a basketball coach," he says in the ad. All those national championships. So what is the secret to Krzyzewski's success? How often do we see female managers these days? "Let me introduce a great surgeon to you," he said, before adding, in jest, "He screwed up my ankle, so then he started doing knees." "Absolutely," Frasher says. "There's an empathetic part of leadership, and this is where my wife and my daughters have had a huge impact on me," Krzyzewski says. "It was usually more about what a player might be thinking or feeling, but if she has something to say about basketball, believe me, they listen to her. "Women tend to have more of a sensitivity to subliminal things," she says. ), "Many nights we would be in our pj's, sitting on the floor and watching film with the staff," says Krzyzewski's middle daughter, Lindy Frasher. The indifference grew into a more impassioned, We put that thing in the ground; were planting our roots here, she says. Alan D. Schwartz is the president of Bear Stearns, a Wall Street firm that generated more than $7 billion in revenue last year. He spent the next year taking a three-times-a-week remedial swim class with about 30 other city kids. (Duke Athletics), Krzyzewski calls timeout during his Early days at West Point. In 1987 Indiana beat Duke in the Midwest Regional semifinals, a crucible that a friend of Krzyzewskis describes as the divorce between the two coaches, because Krzyzewski wanted so badly to eliminate the notion that he was nothing without Knights patronage, the article read. One of the lessons is that the best shooter does not always get to take the shot; sometimes he has to pass the ball or set a screen. He also seemed agitated, all revved up in a way I had not seen before. Its also a metaphor for a healthy father-in-law and son-in-law relationship: that the father-in-law is there, you know hes watching, you know hes still looking out, but ultimately hes not going to pull up your Weeper.. All of this is easy to ridicule because Krzyzewski is, after all, a mere coach -- and in some quarters, especially among rival fans in the bitterly competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, a reviled one. All Rights Reserved. There is an element of stealing your girlfriends' parents' liquor, and at the end of the day, you want to bring up the right stuff.. It opened in 2003 and raised about $8 million in its first year, including $2 million to endow a Coach K Professorship in Leadership. ), The 1992 Dream Team coaching staff, from left: Lenny Wilkens, Chuck Daly, Mike Krzyzewski and P.J. After the game, Krzyzewski approached Knight for the traditional postgame handshake. Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski could be coaching in his final game on Saturday night. For years, Mike Krzyzewski, the legendary Coach K, has been pounding your team, my team and every other damn team in America, but here he is saying that he's not, really, all about basketball. Krzyzewski grew up on the North Side of Chicago, and even after his quarter-century in Durham, N.C., you can still hear, in his nasal voice, inflections of the old neighborhood. Maybe you can superimpose a sunset, he said. He enjoys living well, but it's clear that his peripatetic off-court life is something other than a money grab. (He plans to cut back on the number of speeches while raising his fee to $100,000.) After completing his commitment to the Army, he spent five years on Dukes mens basketball staff as a graduate assistant and director of basketball operations. Because guys can be dirtbags.. No parents involved, he said. If the right mood hits, Coach might disappear into the kitchen to fetch a spoon, then return to serenade Mickie and everyone else by singing Smokey Robinsons Ooh Baby Baby into his silver microphone. He doesnt remember what Krzyzewski said, but it was unforgettable the way he stared deep into the young mans eyes. If a guy does, we call him a blowhard or a know-it-all, so we don't do it. (In other words, if you weren't great, you wouldn't be here.). Mack, of Morgan Stanley, is one, along with Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino magnate, and Schwartz at Bear Stearns. But its branches drooped, making it look a little like a forlorn Christmas tree. Look each other straight in the eye, tell the truth, full disclosure. Tone of voice. And more basically: people no longer just do what they're told. Another bottle of cabernet? 13-ranked Morikawa joins the field for PGAs Wells Fargo Championship. "He believes in us so much, and we believe in him so much that whatever he tells us to do," Paulus says, "we're going to do it to the best of our ability. Paradoxically, turning down those millions was also an enhancement to the selling of Mike Krzyzewski, a way for him to become a bigger off-court presence. Krzyzewski saw his players cry in the locker room Saturday night and actually called it a beautiful sight.. Isnt that what we need to do? All of his children has followed in his footsteps and attended Duke, undoubtedly making their father proud. Spending more time with his grandchildren. Lindy graduated from Wake Forest in 1999 with a psychology degree with minors in Spanish and theater. Ill do this, do that, and we can talk about the other team before the games. And he never got back to him, which was literally the worst thing he couldve done. Jon Scheyer, who was on Duke's 2010 national championship team and has served on Krzyzewski's bench since April 2013, will speak publicly Friday. Fairly packed crowd, and notice the cheerleaders in the background. The smart play, then, is to bring back options: three bottles that represent a range of value and quality. When he recruits a player, Krzyzewski tells him, "We're developing a relationship here, and if you're not interested, tell me sooner rather than later." he asked his instructor. "And Mom would put in her two cents." He also retires with a personal winning record against the Tar Heels at 50-48, and with a victory total of 1,202 including 101 in the NCAA Tournament that no man will ever match. Mike Krzyzewski has five national championships and a record-setting 1,170 victories. Peter and Debbie Savarino have four children: Sons Joey Savarino (age 21) and Michael Savarino (age 20); daughters Carly Savarino (age 17) and Emmie Savarino (age 17). Krzyzewski Shes talking during an interview on Zoom when, through a window, she notices a vehicle pulling into her driveway. Chapter 2: Building Your Team, From "Leading With The Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies For Basketball, Business, And Life", (2000), By Mike Krzyzewski, With Donald T. Phillips. ", To a man, the Duke players I talked to, both current and former, say they consider Krzyzewski's most important attribute to be his honesty, even if it is a sometimes brutal honesty. We're going to form a bond, and you're going to be part of this family. ", Mickie Krzyzewski was raised in Alexandria, Va., and attended a small Southern Baptist college, but left before graduating. "When you have all these males around and all that intensity, it's nice to get a hug sometimes.". Krzyzewski looked shaken as he walked away., After Knight addressed the media in a postgame news conference, he congratulated the waiting Duke players, but walked right by (Krzyzewski) without saying a word or shaking his hand., Knight wrote that if Krzyzewski wanted to sever their relationship, that would be easily arranged, OConnor wrote. They came together in the nick of time, delivered those remarkable five endgame minutes against Michigan State in their second NCAA Tournament game, and sent Coach K on this wild ride. Just getting the intense competitor to acknowledge, let alone address, his limitations was a daunting task, according to his wife, Mickie Krzyzewski. (Duke Athletics), The humble Duke locker room in 1983. Look to the left and you'll moppy-haired, current ESPN analyst Jay Bilas. He has to clearly state goals and invest everyone in reaching them. Mike Krzyzewski's wife, Mickie Krzyzewski: career, net In Krzyzewski's office that day, a few minutes after he thrust his clawed hand toward my chest, I said to him that I had noticed something about his approach to leadership: despite the unquestioned authority he commands, his style, on balance, is more feminine than masculine. Like Krzyzewski, Spatola played basketball at the U.S. Military Academy and later became an officer in the Army, where he learned to push back on superiors if he disagreed with them. Krzyzewski likes to call West Point "the greatest leadership school in the world." 10:02 am ET, wrote a big story behind this photo and the two's relationship, Miami (Ohio) WBB coach resigns after investigation, Texas joins Top 25 And 1 after landing Abmas, Five-star prospect Ron Holland decommits from Texas, Ranking college basketball's top 40 transfers of 2023, No. It rained, and my tent just floated away. His wife has poured her considerable energy and intellect into his career. Hes a multimillionaire who gets whatever he wants, and hes such a challenge to shop for that Lindys Christmas gift to her dad is usually delivering pots of Italian wedding or chicken and wild rice soup because it soothes his throat after so much screaming. Duke basketball showed interest, but former Virginia center is transferring elsewhere, Duke football closes spring practice with an eye on Clemson, and a tough ACC slate, The crazy good moment that fostered Coach Ks approach to his final Duke team, Who are the starting five? Meet Coach Ks family and support system. That is not a bad description of Duke basketball. I try to dismiss her, but I'm thinking, There's probably something bothering him. Why is Coach K retiring? Duke legend cites family, COVID in The last ride for The Goat. Here he argues a call in a 2013 game against Virginia. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.
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