Succession is among the most difficult passages for any organization, but especially so for sports teams headed by coaches who become monuments. By all rights, when Krzyzewski retired in 2022, after 47 seasons, as the winningest man in the history of the NCAA Division I, Duke should have been done as a brand, more dead than Sears. The life should have been drained out of its student body, that feral organism that the NBC announcer Al McGuire once taunted with a pith helmet, a whip, and a chair at Cameron Indoor Stadium, saying, “Get back, you animals, get back!” It’s been 50 years, and UCLA is still hunting for a dynastic replacement for the 10-time NCAA champion John Wooden; the team has won just one title since he stepped down in 1975. His successor, Gene Bartow, quit after two years, so immediately tired was he of being pressure-sweated by the snarling, discontented, success-spoiled constituency. “I wasn’t even worried about getting fired,” he said in 1990. “Now, assassinated, that’s a different thing.”