Jon Scheyer wasn’t naïve to the challenge of being the guy after guy.
When he learned four years ago that Duke was considering him as a potential successor to the retiring Mike Krzyzewski, Scheyer studied the grim history of coaches who have tried to follow a legend.
“I did my homework,” Scheyer said Saturday. “Very rarely do people succeed.”
To say that Scheyer has been the exception to that rule is the ultimate understatement. Scheyer isn’t just handling the pressure of coaching in the considerable shadow of Krzyzewski. He is authoring one of college basketball’s smoothest and most successful transitions from coaching icon to hand-picked successor.