Coach needs to teach ex-assistants a lesson.

• Author: Gray, Tim
• Position: Tar Heel Tattler

Give Coach--oops, Professor--Mike Krzyzewski credit. He has what is arguably the best resume of any active coach in college basketball, going 27 years, three national championships and more than 600 wins without a whiff of scandal.

No wonder Duke's Fuqua School of Business recruited him to lead a new think tank. In October, Duke President Nan Keohane announced the creation of the Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership and Ethics. Krzyzewski will teach there during the off-season. His official title will be "executive-in-residence."

But teachers of ethics are also measured by the probity of their pupils. Socrates owed his fame partly to training Plato, and Plato, in turn, for tutoring Aristotle. Beside their examples, Professor K doesn't quite look like a philosopher king.

The basketball programs of two of his pupils--Quin Snyder, a former player and assistant coach and a Fuqua MBA, and Tim O'Toole, a former assistant coach--face allegations of wrongdoing. Snyder's University of Missouri program is being investigated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. An internal committee at O'Toole's employer, Fairfield University in...