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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD (Part Whatever)

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Yeah, but they don't usually say that he was a retired coach. If he's alive, he's still a retired coach.
 
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Hammer said:
Yeah, but they don't usually say that he was a retired coach. If he's alive, he's still a retired coach.
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Maybe TBA is speculating that Wooden is no longer retired.

Has there been any word about the Cavs' opening? :D
 
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I'm not a basketball fan by any means, but Wooden was perhaps the greatest coach, you can make an argument in ANY sport. A true legendin his profession.
 
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I'm not a basketball fan by any means, but Wooden was perhaps the greatest coach, you can make an argument in ANY sport. A true legendin his profession.
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I am not a basketball fan either, but there is no question that he was the greatest coach that any sport in America has ever seen. It is not likely that there will be anyone that approaches his accomplishments again.
 
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People don't appreciate how difficult winning 10 NCAA hoops finals is. Dean Smith? 2. Bob Knight? 3. Coach K and Adolph Rupp have 4 apiece. No one else has more, except the 10 won by Wooden.

But even more than his success at winning basketball games (which his teams won at an 80% clip) is how great he was at molding young men (and women) and the advice he gave that translates far beyond the 96' of a basketball court.

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We have devalued words like "legend" and "giant" by applying them to people who don't deserve the accolades. In Coach Wooden's case we need a whole new vocabulary. There will never be another.
 
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Greatest coach of all time in any sport. I grew up watching UCLA hoops on TV and his teams were the most well prepared and coached teams of any I have ever seen. He owned the mountaintop and never got knocked off. There will never be another coach like him. As a person he was even better. RIP Coach Wooden.

From the UCLA website:
At UCLA, Wooden's teams won a remarkable seven consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships between 1967 and 1973, and 10 titles (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975) in his final 12 seasons as head coach. At one point in the early 1970s, the Bruins won an NCAA-record 88 games in a row, a run that included undefeated 30-0 seasons in 1971-72 and 1972-73. UCLA also won 38 consecutive NCAA Tournament games between the 1963-64 and 1973-74 seasons, another record. Wooden retired from coaching following the 1975 season with a UCLA record of 620 wins and 147 losses. Only twice during his tenure did the Bruins lose home games at Pauley Pavilion, where he coached from the 1965-66 through 1974-75 seasons.
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I'm sure there are minor sport coaches, and guys on lesser stages, with accomplishments as amazing as Wooden's, but for the big time there is no equivalent. When you make Scotty Bowman look like a tyro, you're on another plane of existence. :eek:
 
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I'm sure there are minor sport coaches, and guys on lesser stages, with accomplishments as amazing as Wooden's, but for the big time there is no equivalent. When you make Scotty Bowman look like a tyro, you're on another plane of existence. :eek:
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Good point. I'm reminded of a high school cross country coach in suburban Chicago who's won 26 state championships and 22 national titles and is still coaching in his 80's.
 
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/14/gary.coleman.death.decision/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Evidently, Gary Coleman's living will stipulated that if he was in a coma, he should be kept alive for 15 days before determining if the plug needed to be pulled.

His (sort-of ex-)wife waited one day.

Later in the article, its noted that in Utah, a family member's wishes have more of a say than the living will. But even still: what a *********.
 
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Moral of the story: do not live with your ex. I would have thought that was obvious.
 
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