Succession plans for coaches in sports too often aren’t very successful.
Those following a highly successful coach are faced with a litany of pitfalls, the most prominent of which is the pressure to live up the predecessor’s success.
If there’s any such thing as a textbook, perfectly-executed coaching succession plan in sports, you need to look no further than Duke basketball and the job Jon Scheyer is doing since he took over for Mike Krzyzewski.
Scheyer’s No. 1-seeded Blue Devils play 2-seed Alabama, which is coming off a record-setting shooting performance in Thursday night’s Sweet 16 win over BYU, for a berth into the Final Four on Saturday night at the Prudential Center.
