Perspective by John Feinstein: Mike Brey has always had perspective. That makes it easier to walk away.
Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey could do nothing but watch as the Huskies, who had trailed by 10 with under five minutes to play, moved the ball around the perimeter. Finally, Quincy Ford, with a defender in his face, saw an opening and drove inside looking for a tie. But Jerian Grant reached in and poked the ball free with three seconds left. Zach Auguste grabbed the ball, was fouled and made both free throws. The Irish hung on, 69-65, avoiding one of those upsets that make the tournament special.
That’s why he’ll walk away from Notre Dame in March completely at peace with his 23 seasons at the school and his 28 seasons as a college head coach. Whether he spends his time at his house in Rehoboth, here in D.C. or in Florida nearer his grandchildren, he’ll be just fine. He turns 64 in March and he’s known for a long time that there is life after coaching.
He also admitted that the new world of college sports — NIL payments to players and the busy transfer portal — may have accelerated his decision. “The only way to describe what’s going on is exhausting,” he said. “It never stops and it isn’t about coaching — not the way I learned to coach, anyway.”Brey is from a jock family: His father, Paul was a high school athletic director in Montgomery County, but the real athlete was his mom, Betty, who swam on the U.S. Olympic team in 1956.
“We had recruited Danny Ferry a couple of years earlier,” Krzyzewski said Friday morning. “I’d gone to aof DeMatha practices. Morgan always lets his assistants coach and Mike just sort of jumped out at me. He was really good at teaching and he had a great demeanor with the players. I was pretty sure he was special. Morgan confirmed that.”Brey stayed at Duke for eight years, a period during which Duke went to six Final Fours. “I called him my Final Four coach,” Krzyzewski said.
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