Duke basketball: 3 recruits who sure seem smitten with Jon Scheyer
By Matt Giles
Duke basketball recruiting prospects are speaking highly about Jon Scheyer.
By announcing his retirement a year in advance, Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski prevented a few problems for the Blue Devil family that he has thus far built into a five-time national champ.
First, by tagging associate head coach Jon Scheyer as his successor-in-waiting, Krzyzewski is being 100 percent transparent with 2022 prospects, who wouldn’t arrive until after he departs from the helm. Also, the college game’s all-time wins leader is allowing all the remaining staff, which appears set on staying in Durham for 2022-23, to make the call on all recruiting pursuits.
Altogether, the 74-year-old Hall of Famer is clearly at least making his best attempt to put the Blue Devils in the best possible position to succeed beyond his time on the throne.
Obviously, the sudden news this week of Coach K’s plans caught most of his fans by surprise. But judging by the countless headlines from national media outlets regarding the matter, the households laden with Duke signs weren’t the only ones who were paying close attention.
Perhaps most importantly, recruits all across the country were tuning in. And a trio of 2022 talents on the Blue Devil radar voiced their opinions concerning the future of the modern era’s most-watched program, giving every indication that they are still considering Duke as a landing spot despite the change at the top.
So let’s look, one target at a time, at what these three fellas had to say…