{"id":1601383,"date":"2022-03-05T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1601383"},"modified":"2022-03-05T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T20:12:50","slug":"dont-put-him-on-that-plane-steve-vacendak-recalls-the-search-that-landed-mike-krzyzewski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1601383","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t put him on that plane!&#8217; Steve Vacendak recalls the search that landed Mike Krzyzewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/don-t-put-him-on-that-plane-steve-vacendak-recalls-the-search-that-landed-mike-krzyzewski\/20170559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/duke\/2022\/03\/04\/20170601\/vacendak_cover_still00000013-DMID1-5u3himc9j-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Vacendak recalls the coaching search that landed Mike Krzyzewski\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former Duke guard Steve Vacendak became Duke&#8217;s associate athletic director in 1980.  One of his first tasks was to find a basketball coach.  His search landed a young coach from West Point named Mike Krzyzewski. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/don-t-put-him-on-that-plane-steve-vacendak-recalls-the-search-that-landed-mike-krzyzewski\/20170559\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/don-t-put-him-on-that-plane-steve-vacendak-recalls-the-search-that-landed-mike-krzyzewski\/20170559\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"&#039;Don&#039;t put him on that plane!&#039; Steve Vacendak recalls the search that landed Mike Krzyzewski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Duke guard Steve Vacendak became Duke&#8217;s associate athletic director in 1980. One of his first tasks was to find a basketball coach. His search landed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}