Duke basketball: 3 candidates to take over if Jon Scheyer fails
By Matt Giles
Jon Scheyer’s potential Duke basketball successor: Bobby Hurley
If Jon Scheyer should quickly resign or get the boot, then the Duke basketball program would pretty much require a savior.
At that point, the decision-makers could look for candidates outside the Blue Devil family. But such an avenue would be dangerous, in that, effectively, the winning touch of Mike Krzyzewski might then begin gradually fading from campus.
Instead, consider Bobby Hurley. A two-time national champion. Almost two decades older than Scheyer. A proven blazing competitor, both as a former Duke point guard and as present-day seventh-year Arizona State head coach.
Plus, Hurley would enjoy a symbolic bonus — via his retired jersey already hanging above him in the Cameron Indoor Stadium rafters — while trying to restore this imaginary Duke basketball clunker in a few years from now.