Coach_K_Hall_of_Famer

Coach K Hall of Famer In choosing Knight, the rules were simple: A Hall of Fame member must be a presenter. For Krzyzewski, there was no second choice. Knight recruited him to go to Army in the mid-1960s. He played for him for four years. He followed him to Indiana to be an assistant before taking over at Army as head coach in 1976. Knight was a mentor to Krzyzewski throughout his coaching career, which began at Army and then moved to Duke in 1981. But the relationship soured a bit in the early 1990s after Duke beat Indiana in the Final Four in 1992. But any tension is apparently gone. "Coach Knight was the only person that could have presented me," Krzyzewski said earlier Friday. "Everybody needs a start and I got two starts with him -- one as a player and one as an assistant coach." "Which was really a helluva lot more than most guys could handle," said Knight, interrupting Krzyzewski and putting his hand behind coach K's neck in an affectionate manner. "Going to West Point changed my life," Krzyzewski said. "When coach (Knight) walked out of my house, my dad said 'that's where you're going.' I didn't necessarily want to at the time, but knight, said, krzyzewski, game, coach, coaching, about, point, good, two, player, out, one, line, far, always, years, way, relationship, played, love, life, hall, first, fame, duke, couldn't, career, army, after, you're, west, today, throughout, three, thing, that's, team, something, since, shot, share, recruited, pete, over, nobody, mike, make, krzyzewski's, knight's