Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski entered a moment of unprofessionalism when he interacted with a student journalist after his team’s loss to Louisville on Saturday by 70-65.
Krzyzewski was faced with a harmless question: What is the next step forward as the Blue Devils move on next week?
“Yeah, why don’t we evaluate this game,” Krzyzewski said postjoc. “You know, I’m not in what is now our next step. We just finished a very hard-fought match. “
Then Coach K tried to relate to the student in an awkward exchange.
“I don’t know if, how, when, what’s your major?” Krzyzewski asked. “Who is your eldest in Duke? What is your most difficult class? “
Piazza will respond by saying, “Econ.”
“Okay, so say you just did the toughest Econ test in the world,” Krzyzewski said. “And when you came out, someone asked you,‘ What’s your next step? Do you see what I mean? Just have some empathy, just give us time to evaluate this game and then we’ll find out, as we always try to do. “
It’s not a good sign that Coach K, a 73-year-old man who pays millions to handle the rigors of his job, is mistaken for a student finishing an exam. The comparison is very obviously flawed.
If we’re real, Coach K should show some empathy for this student reporter, who asked a simple question that didn’t deserve such a clever answer.