Scheyer is taking the reins at one of the iconic programs in college sports. By contrast, Duke is Elko’s 11th coaching stop in a career that has seen him work his way up from graduate assistant to position coach to coordinator to head coach, from Stony Brook to the SEC to Duke.īut the biggest difference may be expectations. Scheyer has spent most of his adult life at Duke and has never coached anywhere else. It’s the first head coaching job for each and they are in charge of the school’s two highest-profile sports.īut there are some big differences. There are some similarities between Jon Scheyer and Mike Elko. Eight different football coaches overlapped his tenure at Duke, nine if we count Elko’s seven months at Duke, a span that doesn’t include any games but does include spring ball. Some of that has to do with the extraordinary longevity of Mike Krzyzewski. The 1942-43 academic year was the last time Duke had a new football coach and a new basketball coach at the same time. Duke basketball coach Eddie Cameron moved over to take Wade’s job running the football program, while Duke soccer coach Gerry Gerard took over as basketball coach. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor propelled the United States into World War II, Duke football coach Wallace Wade took a leave of absence to join the United States Army.

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