He said, ‘When I get done with your two grandsons, they’re coming to Duke … I’ll beat you out. [Your family] has been recruiting them for 10 years to go to Notre Dame, and I’m going to beat you in one hour,’” Vitale remembers Krzyzewski telling him.
He was right. Despite the familial ties, all three Krug siblings found their home in Durham.
“This place represented a greater unknown, a place where I could kind of forge my own path,” Connor Krug said. “I think I’ve always felt a greater sense of pride any time I was wearing the ‘D,’ whether it be a hat or a shirt, or any time I was on this campus, I just felt a greater sense of pride for representing the school.”
They had already been on campus countless times with their grandfather to attend basketball games, and the twin boys connected with the tennis culture that head coach Ramsey Smith built. They committed to the class of 2021, both ranked in the top 20 in the nation.
And whether they would enter college together? A no-brainer.
“I don’t think it ever crossed my mind that we were gonna go to different schools just because not only have we kind of taken this tennis journey every step of the way together … we’ve pretty much done everything in our lives together,” Jake Krug said.
