Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has apologized for his viral rant directed at a student reporter.
Coach K went mega-viral over the weekend when he was asked by student reporter Jake Piazza about how the team moves forward after dropping to 5-5. The legendary basketball coach went on a bizarre rant about empathy and the kid being an econ major. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
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— Kyle Boone (@Kyle__Boone) January 24, 2021
However, he eventually manned up, called the kid and apologized for his actions. Piazza wrote Monday in the Duke Chronicle, “My phone rang and Coach K was on the other end of the line. Our call was short, but the sincerity in his apology was genuine. And in the end, I appreciated the call.”
This was not exactly how I expected my first postgame question to Coach K to go. https://t.co/a7sU1UE46a
— Jake Piazza (@jake_piazza) January 24, 2021
I still can’t believe Coach K had the reaction he did to being asked about the Blue Devils being awful. It made no sense.
As I said at the time, if you don’t want to be asked about your team being trash, then don’t fall to 5-5. It’s pretty easy to figure out.
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Instead, Coach K decided to take shots at a young man trying to do his job. It was pretty pathetic no matter how you slice it.
Having said that, he eventually did the right thing and apologized.
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Now, we’ll have to see if Coach K can get his guys into shape and start winning some games. College basketball just isn’t the same when Duke is bad.