{"id":237280,"date":"2026-04-07T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/coach-k-has-savage-response-to-north-carolinas-coach-hire\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:38:13","slug":"coach-k-has-savage-response-to-north-carolinas-coach-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/coach-k-has-savage-response-to-north-carolinas-coach-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach K has savage response to North Carolina\u2019s coach hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/players\/mike_krzyzewski\/127296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Krzyzewski<\/a> is worried about rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/north_carolina_tar_heels\/37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina<\/a>\u2019s new head coach, he certainly isn\u2019t showing it.<\/p>\n<p>Coach K was a guest on \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show\u201d Monday when news broke that the Tar Heels <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/college-basketball\/michael-malone-hired-north-carolina-head-coach\/748893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were hiring former NBA champion Michael Malone<\/a> as their new head coach. The former Duke coach wasted no time sharing his reaction, and he did so by invoking Tar Heels football coach Bill Belichick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had an NFL champion hired as the coach and Duke beat Carolina in football this year,\u201d Krzyzewski said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean Coach Belichick isn\u2019t a great coach, but there is time for adjustments. I\u2019ve said it takes longer adjusting from the pros to college.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/articles\/coach_k_has_savage_response_to_north_carolinas_coach_hire\/s1_127_43694541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mike Krzyzewski is worried about rival North Carolina\u2019s new head coach, he certainly isn\u2019t showing it. Coach K was a guest on \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show\u201d Monday when news broke that the Tar Heels were hiring former NBA champion Michael Malone as their new head coach. The former Duke coach wasted no time sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}