When Jon Scheyer left Glenbrook North for Duke in 2006, the proficient four-supermegacelebrity recruit in all likelihood in no way knew how engrained he might be come to be withinside the Blue Devils' application.
But now, eleven years after main Duke to the country wide championship in 2011 while he become the team's main scorer, Scheyer is poised to take over this system from the Hall of Fame instruct that added him to Durham withinside the first place. On Wednesday, after Mike Krzyzewski introduced that he might retire after the approaching season, Scheyer become named as his replacement.
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Scheyer, 33, is presently Krzyzewski's pinnacle assistant, a role that has groomed him for a high-profile position that former Duke supermegacelebrity and ESPN university basketball analyst Jay Bilas stated Wednesday is the hardest process to take over after Krzyzewski went from a no-call instruct at a small non-public college to turning this system into one of the nation's excellent.
I do not count on this to be easy; I do not count on to accept anything; we do now no longer count on to accept anything," Scheyer stated a information convention at Duke on Friday . "But I'm constantly going to expose up. Always going to expose up and do something it takes to be triumphant at the best degree right here and what the usual it really is been set at Duke."
Scheyer become a four-supermegacelebrity prospect popping out of Glenbrook North with the aid of using 247Sports and become a two-time Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year. The McDonald's All-American quick made his mark with Duke. He averaged 12.2 factors in keeping with sport as a freshman and went directly to play in a hundred and forty four profession video games for the Blue Devils. He ranks tenth on Duke's all-time scoring listing with 2,077 factors in his profession, which he culminated with a country wide identify his senior yr as Duke held off Butler, 61-59, withinside the 2010 NCAA championship sport.
Eleven years later, his appointment as Duke's instruct ready has stuck a few with the aid of using surprise — along with his former instruct Dave Weber, who stated Thursday he's nevertheless seeking to wrap his head across the information.
I suppose in case you requested him again while he first went (again) there if he become going to be the top instruct, he might have laughed," Weber advised Patch on Thursday. "There's such a lot of different men in line for that process, however I suppose it simply suggests what Jon proved to all people approximately how excellent of a instruct he become as an assistant and the way excellent of a recruiter he become. I suppose he proved himself in his tenure there.
That adventure at Duke has been tremendous. I suppose it is in which he constantly desired to be."
Jon Scheyer's very last sport at Duke become withinside the 2010 NCAA championship sport while the Blue Devils head off Butler, 61-59. ((Photo with the aid of using Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
The 6-foot-five protect performed withinside the NBA's D League and remote places after completing his collegiate profession and joined Krzyzewski's workforce in 2013 as a unique assistant and helped to expand sport plans, deliberate practices and helped to interrupt down sport film, consistent with CBS Sports.com.
At the time, he become satisfied to make his go back to his alma mater in which he might move onto the assist expand a number of this system's largest stars whilst mastering below Krzyzewski.
Now, he's charged with taking up a application from Krzyzewski, who has led Duke to 5 country wide championships and 12 Final Four appearances. In forty six years of coaching, Krzyzewski has gained 1,one hundred seventy video games, the maximum in men's university basketball records.
The Chicago local who performed and coached at West Point earlier than being named the instruct at Duke in 1980 earlier than creating a mythical run in Durham earlier than pronouncing Wednesday subsequent season might be his last. The college introduced quickly after that Scheyer might be taking the reins after serving as Krzyzewski's partner head instruct because 2018.
At a information convention Thursday while Krzyzewski made his retirement after subsequent season legit and appointed Scheyer as his replacement, the 74-yr-vintage instruct stated that continuity performed a prime position in his former supermegacelebrity protect touchdown the process.
"Jon has completed everything, and withinside the previous few years, we have got taken it as much as any other degree," Krzyzewski advised newshounds on Thursday. "He's one of the smartest coaches withinside the country, to be pretty frank. Nobody is aware of that as a good deal as I recognise it. ...."It's ironic. He's 33, I become 33 after I become right here. My major want is for him is to now no longer reflect my first 3 years. That would not be excellent."
Now, Scheyer is prepared to hold matters rolling in Durham to construct him at the enjoy he has constructed and the understanding he has received below his Hall of Fame mentor.
"I'm stable in who I am, Coach K is one in every of one, he is one in every of a kind, and I might be unsuccessful if I attempted to be him," Scheyer advised newshounds on Friday. "Nobody may be instruct K. Now with that stated, I'm now no longer stupid, if there may be some thing that I can visit him and speak to approximately, I actually have the excellent aid withinside the records of university basketball that I may want to ever have. I'm going to visit him. Our relationship, stands on its own. So I experience enthusiastic about it, I suppose it is an tremendous advantage, I suppose it is an awesome issue for the college to have in right here, and I'm frankly now no longer involved approximately that at all."
While Weber is of the same opinion with Bilas and others that Scheyer has huge footwear too fill, there may be absolute confidence that his former supermegacelebrity is the proper man or woman to step in after Krzyzewski's profession ends after subsequent season.
"He's the maximum aggressive man or woman I've ever been around," Weber stated. "He's going to compete as a instruct throughout the sport, he is going to be a continuing recruiter and he is were given excellent assets there. ...The entire bundle is there for him, however now he has to transport to the subsequent seat and he's going to need to make all of the decisions.