Why I quit Yale Basketball

[gabeana]

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Quit-Yale-Basketball-at/235928

interesting article

[mnhtnbb]

1. Yes, it's an interesting perspective.

While his experience at Yale may be mirrored at lots of other basketball programs at universities
across the country, it isn't right to generalize it as being universal.

I happened to be at UCLA during the Wooden years. Talk to any of the African Americans who
played for John Wooden and you'll hear quite a different story.

I think you'd also hear a different story today from those who played for Dean Smith or Roy Williams
at UNC Chapel Hill.

While UCLA and UNC-Chapel Hill are the two basketball programs with which I'm most familiar,
I suspect there are other coaches out there--or have been--that come closer to the Wooden/Smith/Williams
model of coaching than the ones the author was exposed to at Yale.

[mnhtnbb]

2. I just sat down to read the Sunday paper and found this story about the friendship between

Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson (two of the 'stars' of the Tar Heel basketball
playing for the championship on Monday night) with Taylor Sharp, a Morehead-Cain
scholar at UNC.

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article69550407.html#navlink=SecList

What you won't see --that is in the print edition of the paper because they used
a photo of Sharp--is that Sharp is white.

[gabeana]

3. Nice story

thanks for the link

[CTyankee]

4. what a contrast we have with Geno Auriemmo at UCONN with the women's basketball

team!

We are huge fans of the women Huskies and support them all the way. I think his coaching of a fabulous women's basketball team has done so much to popularize the sport and caught on with so many people. It used to be that fans of men's basketball would say women's basketball was just too slow. Now there is a deeper appreciation of their game and how dedicated to the team concept. It has revolutionized basketball...

[TeamPooka]

6. Go Huskies!

[mythology]

5. Thanks for sharing