Interesting... Getting Jerry Colangelo and Coach K could help NJ a lot in the 2010 FA sweepstakes, given how much Team USA players (LeBron, Wade, Bosh) seem to respect those two.
Every time I've heard coach K talk about the NBA, he insists it will never happen. Also, I don't think he'd be a good NBA coach. He's a molder of kids, teaching them to be men with integrity. Being a babysitter to a bunch of millionaire crybabies is not his thing.
kind of like how Paul Allen's riches bought us the best coaches in the world. Oh wait, this is different, it's New Jersey. New York and New Jersey have always been able to get whatever they want because they're NY and NJ (as cities).
It seems like in order to get a good coach, timing is everything. I don't know if anybody noticed a few years ago, but Detroit fired Rick Carslisle mid season when the team wasn't playing bad at all, in order to get Larry Brown who was available. I believe that Joe Dumars understood how important a good coach is, and how rarely they are available. He saw one available, dropped everything for him, and it paid off.
Coach K is never coming to the NBA. Why should he? Right now he has complete control of everything at Duke. I really don't think he would enjoy working with NBA players day in and day out. I really, really don't think he would like have a season literally twice as long with 3 times as many games as college. College ball is a coaches game. The NBA is a players league. Coach K would be insane to make the jump.
I agree with you entirely. College coaches are used to being in charge. Their coaching style depends on players who are intimidated by them and depend on them. It rarely works out in the NBA, where all the players are earning more and the stars/superstars are far more important to the franchise than the coach. I's be pretty leery of hiring Krzyzewski to an NBA team, and would consider him a completely unproven coach at that level, not a "proven great coach" like he is in college.
Another thing that some folks here don't seem to realize is how much money some of the big program coaches make. Coaches make all the sneaker revenue in college. Coaches of big programs are paid very handsomly. I wouldn't be surprised for somebody like coach K to be bringing in over 10 million a year in endorsements and pay.
Yes, I was being ironic. So many people think that NY gets anything and everything they want, when in reality when was the last time being NY got the Knicks anything worth squat?
Coach K isn't just some "college coach". Say what you want about the egregious talent deltas we had over the other Olympic teams, but this isn't Mike Montgomery or something. He's been Head Cheese for almost 6 years now in the Olympic program, and earned the respect of many players. I mean, the first time someone complains about playing time, he can say "I brought Dwyane Wade off the bench. Sit your ass down"
That was the Olympics, where pride for your country is being paraded around constantly and all the players were soaking in the media coverage. As much as I like Dwyane Wade, I think Wade agrees that Kobe should start over him. I think a lot of people who are enamored with Coach K haven't watched college ball recently, he's a good coach and has created a recruiting wonderland in Durham, but for as much as he stomps his feet around and growls at his players, in the last 8 or so years, his teams haven't done jack shit in the tournament. This, despite having burger boys stacked up and down his rosters, year in and year out.
When I'm typing it, I sound it out (in my head) incorrectly to guide me..."ker-zee-zew-ski." Easy way to get the spelling right. When I say it, I pronounce it correctly.
