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He never scouted any other team. He believed only in perfecting his own team.
For the past 25 years he has visited his wife's grave every 21st of the month and then written a love letter to her, which he left on her pillow.
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It's way to hard and complex to compare different sports and different levels of sports to one another because of the different needs and necessities year in and year out among the different sports...
I'd give greatest pro football coach to Lombardi, greatest NBA coach to Auerbach, greatest baseball manager to John McGraw...and Mr. Wooden gets the greatest college basketball coach if not the greatest college coach.
But to compare greatness against each other? I can't do that...he is among the pantheon of greatest of all time without a doubt and not putting him at the top of the heap isn't an insult to him in the slightest, I don't believe he would mind either since he was humble about how great he was despite his records.
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Nobody ever talks about it, but he ran a very DIRTY program. Kids went to Westwood because of Sam Gilbert just as much as they went there for Wooden. His "holier than thou" act came off a little flimsy to many. Just because he didn't pay the players directly, he was well aware of what was going on.
Nobody ever talks about it, but he ran a very DIRTY program. Kids went to Westwood because of Sam Gilbert just as much as they went there for Wooden. His "holier than thou" act came off a little flimsy to many. Just because he didn't pay the players directly, he was well aware of what was going on.
Do me a favor and don't write my eulogy.
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LOL, yeah I was thinking the exact same thing. Don't worry PJ, we've got you covered--at least around these parts.
On a more serious note, thanks for the thread pats1. I had no idea that he never scouted any other team, very interesting approach which obviously paid good dividends.
Very sad but at the same time touching, regarding the bit about his wife. At any rate, nice to see him live a long life, and he will go down as one of the top coaches ever, in any sport.
Sucks to not see this legend of a coach not make and fall short of the century mark, but he had the kind of long career and long happy life that most, if not all of us in here could not even dream of living out and being as much of a success as John was
R.I.P.
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In 40 years of coaching high school and college, Wooden had only one losing season — his first. He finished with 885 wins and 203 losses, and his UCLA teams still hold an NCAA record for winning 88 consecutive games from 1971 through 1974.
Wooden built his dynasty on simple precepts. He insisted that his squad be meticulously prepared and in top physical condition. No detail was overlooked. The first practice of each season, the coach would remind his players about pulling on socks smoothly and carefully lacing sneakers — there would be no excuse for debilitating blisters.
He is very hard to compare to anyone else.. different times, different venues and different motivation for players... his quotes seem very Belichickian...
__________________ "Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you win more than anyone else".. tweet from Kurt Warner to Tom Brady.
OT: John Wooden passes at 99
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