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The Process
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How about if we have a major sporting event without Referees, Umpires, Judges or Stewards? I Love that a 65 to one shot did ...
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Pea,
Stories, all true. About spring 1966 or maybe ought '65 the Celtics and Red Auerbach came to Loretto for a clinic. Why? They had just won an NBA ch'ship and in order to make a few extra bucks (Auerbach's words) they would call college AD's and offer such for a reasonable renumeration. I went to Woody's bar about 2:30 pm and found RA, KC Jones and Larry Siegfried sitting there having a cup of coffee waiting to do their clinic later. Red told me, among so many things, the most important element of winning teams was, surprise, good talented players.
Years later while coaching at St. Joes U. I had the task of picking up Dean Smith at the Philly airport at 8am as he was featured speaker at our coaches clinic. I scheduled him for the 11 am slot and the 1 pm slot. Why? So I could pick his brain over breakfast at the Airport Marriott. I did so and asked him every 15 mins., "Coach, do you happen to have any coaching openings on your staff"....he'd laugh politely and say, NO. I asked him amny questions over our 1/1/2 hrs. together in order to extract the jewels of coaching stardom. I told him my dream was to coach my alma mater, SFU. He responded, 'that would be an excellent place to become a head coach and launch my career. I asked him what would be the most important initial decision I would make to launch a successful career. He said, coach, find yourself the best assistant you can afford who will recruit you the best talent available for your level. "Without talented players, schemes, personality or facility will not matter. "Good coaches have the better players", he said." Dean Smith (North Carolina U. is a HoF coach)....enough said about why teams win...and some never do.
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