Mike Krzyzewski

What area of sports management would I like to pursue? When asked this question there are many different things that come to my mind involving sports, such as coaching basketball in a setting where I would be the head coach or the training coach. Although these two options may appear to differ significantly, they are very similar and could make for an easy transition at any time. Becoming a head coach is not an easy job to obtain. There are steps you can take to get to your elite dream job and I…

Throughout the history of the NBA, there have been many schemes and strategies used to create the most potent offense possible, an offense that is limited only by the ability of the players and has the potential to have role players make a big impact on the team and catapult star players into superstar talents. One of the attempts to create one of these lethal offenses is Tex Winter’s Triangle Offense. Adapted from Coach Sam Barry, to which Winter credits the invention, Tex’s redressing and…

If Richard Sherman’s path is the path that others are expected to emulate, then their must be something seriously wrong with the system. When the student athlete must dedicate the every waking moment he or she wakes up to sport and school, something is off. The only rebuttable to this would be a lazy claim of personal responsibility that could be easily dismissed by reminding the person that there is a reason this is up for discussion. It is perceived as unfair but is not currently against the…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and colleges around the country are experiencing record highs in both television ratings and revenue. Over 1200 colleges and universities have united as members of the NCAA. Together they set and enforce the rules governing collegiate athletics. The ones forced to live by these rules are the student-athletes. The term “student athlete” was invented by the NCAA in the 1950s to prevent the NCAA from providing money to those filing workers-comp…

interested in having him on their team. Many recruiters tried to get his attention, but only one school was able to capture it, Duke University. Duke is known for its success on the basketball court and is led by one of the all-time best coaches, Mike Krzyzewski. In…