In both the Big East and the ACC, Mike Brey has done a brilliant job at Notre Dame.
The school faces many of the challenges Duke does: it’s an elite academic institution with high admission standards in a brutally tough (two for Brey actually) basketball conference.
Yet he’s gotten better over time.
Much like Virginia’s Tony Bennett, Brey hasn’t gotten many elite recruits, but he does get good ones who buy into his system and usually stay around for at least three years and quite often four.
It’s a luxury that coaches like Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Jim Boeheim and Leonard Hamilton have not always had in recent years.