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T’ S NOT O FT EN YO U GE T A GIGAN TI C changeover in college hoops coaching the way we got one this spring. Maybe there’s never been a whistle-tooting earthquake this big. OK, let me answer myself after some thought. Absolutely, there has never been this huge a college churn. Think of it: in one swift farewell, Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Jay Wright and C. Vivian Stringer all waved goodbye to their coaching careers. Folks, that’s a combined 159 years of head coaching at the DI level, 3,802 wins, 10 NCAA championships, four members of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and about a trillion players affected by the teachings and wisdom of these people. This is not the kind of churn that goes by without us noticing. Krzyzewski’s 1,202 wins at Army and Duke are the most ever in DI history, and you have to wonder if young replacement coach Jon Scheyer, a former Duke champion guard under Coach K, can handle the vacuum
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