2023 www.indystar.com. He placed second in both beat writing and breaking news in the 2019 Associated Press Sports Editors national contest. His daughters admit feeling unmoored, considering their dad has led the Blue Devils since two years before Jamies birth. '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. "Sir, may I make a statement?" Michael Sokolove is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Late in the summer of that year, after coming to his decision, he gave one of the occasional lectures he delivers at the university's Fuqua School of Business. 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. This year's team is a case in point. How do you take a group of people like that and say, 'Some of you are actually better than others? He also seemed agitated, all revved up in a way I had not seen before. "So when I teach those things, I'm able to start at a different level.". Krzyzewski will leave the program in assistant coach Jon Scheyers hands, and though the two of them have talked plenty about hoops and leadership and character, they sometimes discuss parenting. Here is a look at Mickie Krzyzewski, the wife of Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski. When his wife Mickie asked what was wrong, Krzyzewski answered, Knight, and then told her about the note.. Ethics exemplar. In 1990, a year before Krzyzewski won his first national title, he invited student newspaper staffers to Cameron after an article he disliked. Carlesimo. After Krzyzewski and his wife, Mickie, had left for the airport, Steve Vacendak, who was then the No. At times Saturday night Coach K jumped out of his chair and pumped his fists and exhorted his team with a fury, to no avail. ", At Duke, Krzyzewski is able to attract golden boys like himself -- only they are much better athletes, drawn from the top sliver of available high school basketball talent. So I've got to go after them really hard. Not to Krzyzewski, an avid gardener whose luxury Escalades interior is often littered with leaves, mulch and assorted yard waste. Shes worked with Dukes basketball team for more than a decade as a staff counselor and is currently dean of Durham Academys Upper School. He was given permission. Then he falls apart again. Lindy Frasher has taken on part of the role that Mickie Krzyzewski always filled informally. When it was over and this 81-77 North Carolina victory was frozen in forevers lights, I asked the 75-year-old grandfather of 10 if that Michigan State rally that started it all would be his enduring tournament memory after the pain subsides. But I don't do things in the way that background probably would predict I should. "I need different motivations beyond: I'm going to score more points than you," he says to me at one point. While Coach Ks career is an incredible feat, everyone knows you cant get there on your own. It was not a hard thing for him to agree to because he did not believe, even then, that there was something sanctified about the all-male atmosphere of a men's college team. "They pick up on body language. "', That's not something a lot of coaches would heap on young players. Mike Krzyzewski's interactive/feminine qualities of leadership may be partly innate, but to a large extent, he learned them from his family. "Having the talent that Mike has -- the best, the brightest -- makes some things easier and some things harder," he says. All those national championships. So, in this article, lets learn about Mike Krzyzewskis wife, Mickie Krzyzewski, and their love life. The legendary leader, known by most as Coach K, will close out his career at Cameron Indoor Stadium this weekend in a game against North Carolina. Thatll mean more gatherings and louder songs and gifts to give, but that raises one more question. Steve and Lindy Frasher have three children: Sons Quin Frasher (age 15), Remington Frasher (age 12) and Caden Frasher (age 8). 13-ranked Morikawa joins the field for PGAs Wells Fargo Championship. As a result, many have shown curiosity to know about his family life. And sure enough, I'll take him aside, and there is. They're at the Yongsan Army Base Seoul, South Korea. He will praise the sons-in-law who love and dote on his girls as Krzyzewski does, jokingly saying hes a good scout of talent, Jamie says, because he knew Chris had the right stuff even before she did. (He plans to cut back on the number of speeches while raising his fee to $100,000.) We cant afford better wine for him than he can afford for himself, Jamie says. He spent the next year taking a three-times-a-week remedial swim class with about 30 other city kids. He was an engaged, if occasionally awkward, listener while his daughters were teenagers. Their husbands had to adjust on the fly. Nobody has ever come at them like that before. I've got four seniors and this is their last year, and they want to win now. You would have two or three variables, or maybe five. Thanks for contacting us. Here is Krzyzewski in many ways that you've never seen him before. 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. His game was basketball, not male bonding. He was never going to break John Woodens record of 10 national titles, of course, but these kids pushed him past Wooden with that 13th trip to the Final Four, and Krzyzewski could never fully repay them for that. "I didn't think of basketball coaches as mental giants." Being a salesman is part of the job, and he should get credit for that.". Coach K will have plenty to do at Duke even after his coaching days end. Game day is not a day for long, drawn-out speeches. No more plays to call. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Mickie was the only person who could persuade him to stand down during the 199495 season, when he suffered a back injury. Growing up around basketball, it was only natural a few of the Krzyzewski daughters pursued a career in athletics at Duke University. When asked if he thinks it's easier for him to coach the kind of students he is able to attract, Krzyzewski says their backgrounds do not make them smarter players, necessarily, but do give them other attributes he finds useful. Besides, they know he probably will open the best one anyway. he asked his instructor. Coach K, Ian OConnors new book, details the contentious relationship that ended with Krzyzewski saying he "was finally done with Coach Knight.. The Chicago stories came with maybe a little bit more of the Chicago accent, but not too much. Jamie has taught high school English, co-authored two books with her father and is vice chair of the Emily K Center, a college access nonprofit for Durham students. "And Mom would put in her two cents." 's and entrepreneurs, go-getters on their way to big jobs and big salaries. John Feinstein: Mike Krzyzewski made college basketball history by never making excuses. Chris also knew Krzyzewski was right about one thing: The Weeper, as the coach nicknamed it over the following years, wasnt just a plant. But its branches drooped, making it look a little like a forlorn Christmas tree. Now the Blue Devils have to deal with those consequences of losing one of the biggest games in the sports history to their neighbors. Is Krzyzewski smug? The Duke Blue Devils at that point had won their first seven games and were ranked No. 's wanting to rub up against a sports figure. 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 announcing last year that he would retire after this season. 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. Thats it., It never came up again with family. While many of his classmates were serving in Vietnam, he spent three years coaching military basketball teams, then two years as the coach at a military prep school in Virginia. The night before the call, Frasher watched as the Blue Devils blew a double-digit lead against Illinois, pleading with the basketball gods to let Duke survive. I said to him once, 'You may be better at what you do than anybody I know is at what they do."'. But it is too important not to teach, and we're making progress in finding things that we can actually measure. This article was published more than1 year ago. 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. Steve Wiseman has covered Duke athletics since 2010 for the Durham Herald-Sun and Raleigh News & Observer. Here he argues a call in a 2013 game against Virginia. After taking the job and moving to town, Chris had been so determined to make a good impression that he had hired his father-in-laws landscaper, Keith, to plant bushes and lay sod at their new home. "You gotta go just like this," he said as he formed his right hand into a claw, then extended it toward me and rotated his wrist as if he were about to rip my chest open. ("Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners," Rick Pitino's "Lead to Succeed," Pat Croce's "Lead or Get Off the Pot!," Donald T. Phillips's "Lincoln on Leadership.") And (Knight) barely even hesitated and continued with his story, that kind of thing. And how do you address him? The deep relationships forged with well-behaved, diploma-earning hoopsters. He actually wanted them to think less. He preferred to greet the strangers with an uncomfortably long stare. Hubert Daviss Tar Heels did manage to party on the court like it was New Years Eve. Something modest and palatable, equivalent to the Blue Devils reaching the NCAA tournament? He had just finished lifting weights and was still perspiring. He enjoys living well, but it's clear that his peripatetic off-court life is something other than a money grab. If youre Coach Ks son-in-law, what do you possibly buy him? This may be your daughter, but this is my family. There were some real mind games going on, and no, that tree is going to stay right there.. ", Sim Sitkin, the faculty director of Duke's Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics, is Krzyzewski's mentor at the business school and, to some extent, his student. Krzyzewski said on Thursday that what changed most was he began to listen more, which helped give him balance. Mike Krzyzewski refers to himself, Mickie and their three daughters as the starting five. All live within 6 miles of Coach Ks home in Orange County and their presence has been strong through his coaching career. 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. "O.K., I beat you in the last game, or youbeat me. Really. His father operated an elevator in a downtown office building, and his mother scrubbed floors at the Chicago Athletic Club. I traveled to Colorado Springs last summer to listen in as Krzyzewski gave one of his corporate speeches. Were tough-love kinds of guys; were guys in sports, so were not the most sentimental dudes to begin with, Chris says. ACC Now Podcast: How many ACC players will go in the NFL Draft first round? 0:51 The relationship between Bob Knight and Mike Krzyzewski began as one between teacher and student. Krzyzewski was a savvy high school point guard but not talented enough to attract scholarship offers from the big basketball powers. Duke, led by Redick's 41 points, ran Texas right off the court, 97-66. The best insights from the ultimate insiders, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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He is set to succeed Coach K as Duke head coach starting in the 2022-23 season. About a month into the current basketball season, Krzyzewski's 26th at Duke, I walked into his cubbyhole of an office at Cameron Indoor Stadium, just steps away from the basketball court. NEW ORLEANS Mike Krzyzewski took his seat in the back of a golf cart next to his bride of 53 years, Mickie, the flight attendant he married the day he Krzyzewskis family has recently begun preparing for another big occasion, and though he always will be Coach, soon he wont be Dukes coach. When he retires from coaching following this season, Krzyzewski plans to spend even more time with his clan. Only if we can find the weepiest of all.. Coach K and Bobby Knight: A season on the bench, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Apr 2, 2022. Previously, Steve worked for The State (Columbia, SC), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.), The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss. He still has an athlete's build, but he walks stiffly after a series of orthopedic surgeries: two hip replacements and an operation on his back. (Getty Images. He is host of an annual conference at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. On 2 June 2021, after more than 40 years as coach, Krzyzewski announced he will retire at the end of the 2021-22 season. "He told us freshmen to stop playing passive and to play with an attacking style," Greg Paulus, a first-year point guard, told me. Mickie says she and her husband made an agreement when he began coaching at Army: that he would never say she couldn't go somewhere with him because no other women would be there. "When you have all these males around and all that intensity, it's nice to get a hug sometimes.". The books don't straight out tell male executives to be more like women, but that message is clear. His winning percentage was better than most. (As at most N.C.A.A. I guess they'd been Boy Scouts. I'm a hybrid, which I think you should be.". We couldn't be hysterical or whatever those stereotypes of women are. Coach K enters his final season as the sun sets on the king coach era, Why Coach K thinks NBA Rookie of the Year Paolo Banchero is the perfect package, Duke mens basketball gets commitment from top high school player in North Carolina, Dick Groat, two-sport star at Duke and two-time World Series champion, dies at age 92, No. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001. All Rights Reserved. (The word "this," for example, comes out sounding more like "dis.") Also in the photo, at left, is Jerry Colangelo, and that's Nate McMillan just at left of Krzyzewski. Knight was Krzyzewskis coach at Army from 1966-1969. Just getting the intense competitor to acknowledge, let alone address, his limitations was a daunting task, according to his wife, Mickie Krzyzewski. Maybe Division II.. Theyve been a joy for me to coach, he said. Emily Krzyzewski was famous for her chocolate chip cookies, and Mlynski remembers the half-gallon of ice cream she served with every meal. Her family also is responsible for that jet-black hair. This is from 2014, against Florida State. 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're like three teenage boys going down there, giggling and excited, Lindy says. How often do we see female managers these days? I tell my daughters this is before they got married I never want you to be solely dependent on a guy, he said. 's Los Angeles Lakers. It's straightforward. "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. Her eyes widen. He visited him at Fort Sill and interrogated Chriss commander about his son-in-laws safety. How has Coach K reached this point in his career, and whats next? But he wont be returning to the arena, and that will hurt more than anything. Believe that the loose ball you're chasing has your name on it. Krzyzewski is at far left. And there are surely higher callings than keeping watch over pampered college athletes. The first time we went out in the field to put up a tent, guys were digging ditches around them, in case it rained. He said he likes to "belch after eating Polish sausage, because for a Polack that's like reliving a great experience.". ", Redick says that he was "living a college lifestyle. Their tentativeness was making a mess of Duke's usually fast and fluid motion offense. The last ride for The Goat. In November 1999, Frasher and Lindy were dating, and he had bought an engagement ring and intended to propose. In her earlier life, she was an airline stewardess, which led to her meeting her future husband on a flight. (Duke Athletics), The humble Duke locker room in 1983. Look to the left and you'll moppy-haired, current ESPN analyst Jay Bilas. These qualities buttress his status and authority, but they form just one layer, an outer layer. Krzyzewski said he felt intimidated by Jordan, who was not only a huge National Basketball Association star but had played for the University of North Carolina, Duke's archrival. And then turning down millions to stay on campus. It was his willingness to evolve. But her dad, Mike Krzyzewski, who was cradling two bottles of fine Napa Valley wine, seemed transfixed by this thing next to the walkway. 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. 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. Each year Krzyzewski hosts a wine auction in Napa Valley named after former North Carolina State Coach Jim Valvano, and since 1999 the event has raised more than $130 million for the V Foundation for Cancer Research. They know it before they even arrive. Now hes an ESPN basketball analyst who, to make his own existence more complicated, must sometimes criticize Duke and its set-in-his-ways leader, who happens to be his wifes dad. He loaded himself onto that golf cart, and slowly disappeared down a tunnel. (Duke Athletics), K and current Temple coach Fran Dunphy in 1971, in Greece. Chris and Jamie Spatola have three children: John David Spatola (age 11), Mackenzie Spatola (age 9) and Madeline Spatola (age 4). 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.

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