Listening to his pressers and any other interviews he does, he already has the CEO coach role down at such an early stage. There’s no one the President, AD or Board of Trustees would rather have representing the university. I will give him that, and that’s a big deal. It would take a Louisville-like decline on the court for Duke to fire him.
I started saying the Ivy transfer stuff in my usual shitty tongue-in-cheek way, but now I firmly believe it’s true, and that’s unfortunate for Scheyer. The university isn’t going to allow him to take year 3/4/5 basketball mercenaries from mediocre schools. It wasn’t even a given for K in the early 2010s to finally convince the university to allow a parade of OADs, and these are guys who will likely bring the university a whole lot of glory and prestige in the NBA, plus the improved applicant pool that comes with it. Guys like Nijel Pack do nothing for Duke but win an extra 1-2 regular season games, and that’s never going to be worth whoring out the institution to the 60-80 year olds who run it.