Ethics

Duke Coaching Changes

By Ed Brayton

For the benefit of the 4 readers of my blog who like college basketball....okay, just because I wanna write about it....Johnny Dawkins finally accepted a coaching job, taking over for Trent Johnson at Stanford. Dawkins has been Coach K's top assistant coach at Duke for more than a decade and has turned down many head coaching jobs during that time. Stanford proved too difficult to turn down, and I certainly can't blame him for that.

Dawkins will do well at Stanford. He's had the ideal training for it because Duke and Stanford have similar academic requirements and tend to recruit out of the same pool of players. The big question is who replaces him on the Duke coaching staff. They've still got Chris Collins and Steve Wojciechowski, both former Duke players, on the staff. The obvious choices are former Duke players Jason Williams, Chris Carrawell and Nate James

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).