The NCAA's March Madness has arrived...
This means that the old K coach has entered the countdown to retirement, after the old K coach decided to retire after the end of the NCAA schedule this season.
At present, the average price of tickets for the last game at Duke University has been speculated to $5307 a piece, and since 2010, only three Super Bowl games have averaged more than that.
There are even many students who pitch their tents near Duke Arena for months just to get a ticket.
It can be seen that everyone is very reluctant to this old coach.
Now the entire NCAA is filled with a strong sense of farewell, which the NCAA has never had, after all, the old K's status in the NCAA is extraordinary.
Without hesitation, you can now say with great certainty that he has locked up a Hall of Fame seat.
Unlike the NBA, the NCAA is often more likely to be a totem for a team. Old K is totem, core, and soul to Duke University.
It can be said that without old K Duke, it is not Duke.
After all, players come and go, and some stay for 1 year to leave, so even if you are talented, it is basically impossible to become the soul and blood of a team in 1 year. But old K is different...
Counting this year, K has been coaching at Duke University for 42 years, and since becoming Duke's manager in 1980, K has never left.
Grant Hill, Battier, Bazell, Owen, Ingram, Tatum, Zion, these are his disciples.
When Hill was inducted into the Hall of Fame, standing at the podium representing the Hall of Fame, he said, "My coach, Shashevsky, I can't achieve my dreams without you, and you taught me to believe in myself and illuminate my path to greatness." ”
Over the years, many NBA teams have thrown an olive branch to Old K, and all of them have been rejected by him without exception. Later, the NBA teams also learned to be smart, knowing that the old coach could not leave the NCAA and leave Duke University, so they no longer asked themselves for no fun.
And the old K coach holds the highest coach salary in american college basketball, with an annual salary of $9.5 million this year, not to mention the NCAA, and there are not many teams in the NBA that can offer such a high salary to the coach. There are only 2 managers in the NBA this year who have an annual salary of more than 9.5 million, one is Popovich for 11.5 million and the other is Cole for just 9.5 million.
So, why would you say old K would go to the NBA?
At Duke University, he has an absolute voice and a very lofty position. For that alone, how many managers in the NBA have such powers?