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It was a home run hire. However, it was announced Stevens was leaving the bench to become the Celtics director of basketball operations earlier Wednesday , so it seemed unlikely he would leave so quickly. But Duke gaveScheyer the keys to a program that has become synonymous with college basketball.

Perhaps the school was guided by the symmetry in its decision to hire Krzyzewski in Then 33, he had been at Army for five seasons with just one NIT appearance among his postseason accomplishments. The Black Knights had just gone The move inspired tremendous skepticism. They had gone to the national title game in and were in the Elite Eight before Bill Foster's departure to South Carolina created the vacancy. Scheyer also is 33 and will face the same skepticism.

His playing and coaching experience gives him knowledge of the program and the expectations. But it is different recruiting and coaching next to one of the best to ever do it and then having to call the shots yourself.

Given all the options in play, there's a feeling that Duke could have done better. That the program deserved someone with a bigger pedigree. Those were also the feelings when Krzyzewski was hired.

Scheyer, however, faces much greater scrutiny and has less rope than his mentor. The Blue Devils didn't make the tournament in Coach K's first three seasons and there were calls for his firing with his record at They made the tournament the next year. And the rest of his tenure, as they say, was history,. Now it's up to Scheyer to make his own history. Ready to get tough with us? So now we have a request. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.

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