They took turns walking onto the media-room stage Thursday inside the CenturyLink Center, one Hall of Fame basketball coach after another. There are 2,676 wins, 19 Final Four appearances and seven NCAA national championships between the three of them — Kansas’ Bill Self, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim.
With those resumes comes significant, deserved compensation.
For them. But not for the players they so often allocate some of the credit.
As the sports world centers its focus on the NCAA tournament, which will trim its field to a Final Four this weekend, college basketball and the NCAA as an institution remain under scrutiny for myriad issues that the game’s best coaches say need solving.