Mike Krzyzewski has turned into John Calipari.

Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski is arguably the 2nd best coach in the history of college basketball. Sorry John Wooden will always be number one. Krzyzewski is the winningest men’s college basketball coach in history. His legacy as an All-Time great coach is cemented.

That said since 2010, Mike Krzyzewski has become more John Calipari than John Wooden. John Calipari is the Kentucky head coach. He has been the poster child coach for the one and done and era. Every year it seems Calipari has top 3 recruiting classes, NBA talent, one and done players, and underachievement in March.  There’s even a NIT First Round Loss. He does have two Final Fours, since his 2012 title, but none in the last four years.

Krzyzewski’s recent resume is eerily similar. Duke for the last four years has had the number one or number two ranked recruiting class in the country, and exactly zero Final Fours.

There won’t be a single one-and-done player in the Final Four.

UK in 2012 and Duke in ‘15 remain the one-and-done led teams to win NCAA titles.

— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) March 31, 2019

In the last 4 years, North Carolina has a national title, and a Final 4. Villanova has two national titles. Here is a sampling of schools that have made a Final 4 more recently than Duke and Kentucky – Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Loyola-Chicago, Auburn, and Texas Tech.

That is not exactly college basketball royalty. It’s no coincidence that Kentucky and Duke are constructed the same way, and achieving the same results. During his entire time at Kentucky, Calipari has built his teams on one and dones, but it wasn’t always like that for Krzyzewski. His 2010 National Champion team had a foundation of key junior and senior players like Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler, and Nolan Smith. That doesn’t mean he he needs to abandon his one and done recruiting tactics. Any coach would have been thrilled to have a Zion Williamson on their squad, but going all Calipari on his recruiting style hasn’t panned the way I’m sure he expected.

Krzyzewski still has few more years left on the sidelines at Duke. If he doesn’t want to remain the ACC’s version of John Calipari, he’s going to have to start balancing his roster out with great freshman, and some older players. The evidence and proof is there. Teams built on young talent, are still young and there isn’t a good track record of top 3 recruiting classes turning into Final 4s and National Titles, especially in the last four years.

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