Before Mike Krzyzewski got to Duke in 1980, we had the relatively brief Bill Foster era.
Foster was more of a builder than a sustainer. He did a nice job at Rutgers, then again at Utah, before moving to Duke.
He found some underappreciated talent in Jim Spanarkel, then Mike Gminski when he was college-eligible as a junior, before striking gold with Gene Banks, who was seen as one of the top three prospects in 1977. The others? Albert King, who went to Maryland, and Magic Johnson, who chose Michigan State…