re: John Wooden (1910 - 2010)

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You aer merely making a case for never needing to expand the tournament or downtalking the value of the ACC.

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...uuhhh OK, not sure where that comes from..



Anyway: RIP Coach John Wooden (1910 - 2010)

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(Only two of the 88 games were against ACC teams......just saying)

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I don't disagree with the fact that they would not have won 88 straight while in the ACC. You sound like you are trying to diminish just what Wooden meant to the game of basketball. If this is the case then YOU are a total fool!!!!

The PAC-8 was no pushover league. And you had to win your conference to get into the tournament. 20 wins wasn't good enough, you couldn't afford to lose conference games. The worst record one of his championship teams had was 28-3.

And it's not like UCLA was getting challenged in too many of its NCAA tournament games either. They would have been a 1 seed every year they won the tournament.

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USC college baseball coach AND Louisiana native Rod Dedeaux.

He was THE MAN. He's pretty close.

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:gtfo:


You are BULLSIT HERE!!!

Interestingly, Wooden's replacement: Gene Bartow (1975-77) had two great seasons, winning PAC-8 both years, and an overall 52-9 record, including a berth in the 1976 Final Four....of course Bartow was playing with Wooden's talent and did not deserve credit for success (only blame if his teams performed badly)...

Bartow left UCLA to start B-ball program at UAB. Gene Bartow replaced Coach Wooden, then went to UAB

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AGAIN You seem to try to tarnish what Wooden did??

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how so ?


"Many have called Coach Wooden the 'gold standard' of coaches. I believe he was the 'gold standard' of people and carried himself with uncommon grace, dignity and humility,'' Krzyzewski said. "Coach Wooden's name is synonymous with excellence, and deservedly so. He was one of the great leaders -- in any profession -- of his generation."

When John Wooden Died, So Did a Piece of Life

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You keep brining up shite coaches did after him and such.

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"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."






John Wooden’s Legacy: Pyramid of Success

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im looking forward to bill waltons thoughts

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1) Wooden's UCLA teams did not win the conference and get to the NCAA tourney every year in the Pac-8; no reason to think failing to do so occasionally in the ACC would negatively impact his records/accomplishments.

2) His teams had a 38 game winning streak IN the NCAA tournament -- where it was ALL conference champions. No reason to suspect ACC champions and those who finished behind them in the conference would fare any better against his Bruin teams than the ACC Champions (and those who beat them in the tourney) did.

Nothing in the history of his contemporaries suggests his success would have been any less astounding in another conference.

But, most importantly, those are the inconsequential details. Coach Wooden was the greatest coach I have ever known of not because of his ability to coach basketball, but because of his ability to coach life. And, like all great teachers, he taught first and foremost by example. I have never heard anyone -- even those who lost to him -- have anything bad to say about him. I have never heard of him saying anything that I do not find to be inspiring. And the man had the same wife for 53 years, and 25 years after she passed away he was still writing her love letters. That kind of humanity and loyalty is a treasure that the world is most surely missing already.

RIP, Coach Wooden. I wish I had the chance to know you. I believe I am a better person simply for having known of you, and I'm sure the impact would have been tenfold greater in person.