The Lions' Pride

“It was horrible, and I've respected coach Paterno my entire life and had a chance to get to know him really well in the last year of his life," Krzyzewski said. "I thought it was really not well done in handling the situation that — it's a difficult situation to encounter.

“You should deal with it like any team should deal with it,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m on the Duke team. If that happened in my area, I would look to work with my athletic director and my president to have a solution. And if that solution meant that I would step down, I would do it in a way which would be part of the solution, not like you’re just thrown out.