NEW ORLEANS — As Mike Krzyzewski was leaving the dais at the end of his Final Four press conference here Thursday, he murmured a parting shot into the microphone in front of him: “Good luck with the next one.”
The next one on the dais, as Coach K and everyone else in the room knew, was Mark Emmert. For years, the president of the NCAA has served as a bloated target for millions of Americans disenchanted with the leadership of college athletics—but Mike Krzyzewski is hardly just another critic in the peanut gallery. When the most prominent coach of the past three decades in any college sport passive-aggressively mocks you, that’s not good.
Asked what he would like to know from Emmert, the retiring Duke legend all but called the NCAA a rudderless ship lacking direction. “I have many questions,” Krzyzewski said. “Where are we going? And who is going to be in charge? Not that I’m saying that (Emmert) shouldn’t be. But what are we doing?”
