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Best Intentions // Offended By Everything ft. Seth Davis

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CBS Sports’ Seth Davis Breaks Down UNC-Miami ACC Matchup Ryan Mayer College basketball season rolls along as we draw nearer to March Madness. This past week has been a rough one for teams ranked in the AP’s Top 10, with five of them falling in upsets to conference opponents.

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Bob Huggins Rips Jay Bilas, Other Analyst After WVU Win

That’s the Bob Huggins we all know and love.

Huggins West Virginia team wasn’t a heavy favorite over Buffalo — with some of college basketballs expert analyst picking against the Mountaineers.

After the win, Huggins acknowledge the doubt with his own shade to Jay Bilas, Seth Davis and Doug Gottlieb. Huggin started with Bilas — making an odd reference to Bilas’ daily Young Jeezy quotes.

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The Poll Attacks

I love Seth Davis.But I’m confused by his ballot.And I will explain both of these things in more detail in these Poll Attacks.Associated Press poll: Seth Davis is my colleague and friend and someone who has always been supportive and helpful. He’s also the lone AP voter to leave...

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Wooden: A Coach's Life

I just read Wooden: A Coach's Life, by Seth Davis.

As you may know, I have spent a great deal of time studying Coach John Wooden.  I had the wonderful lifetime opportunity to visit with Coach when he was 97 years old.....and then had a second opportunity to visit with him when he was 98 years old.  The first time was at restaurant that was opened up so that we could talk, and film our conversation.  The second time we met in his condo in Encino.

Now, I use Coach Wooden within my presentation, Lessons of the Legends.  Besides spending time with him, I've read books and articles and watched videos about Coach.  I've been quoted about Coach in the Indianapolis Star and I've written about him for the Sports Business Journal.  After he passed away, I wrote deep thoughts about Coach on this blog in the past.

I write this to simply let you know that I have a very good amount of knowledge about Coach Wooden........and so I read this book with great anticipation.

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A couple of years ago, I ran into Seth Davis at the media session for the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Kansas City.  He mentioned that he was writing a book on Coach Wooden.  I thought that it was neat, as I was clearly interested in the subject.....but I really didn't think much about it after that......(there have been more books written about Coach Wooden post-90 years old than any person that's lived {past that age}).

And so I read the book.....

In my opinion, this is the best, most detailed, most well-researched book on Coach Wooden that has been written (of all of the books that I've read).  It's 525 pages, and I had a hard time putting it down.  Night after night, I stayed up late to devour the insights in the book.

So many times, while reading the book, I thought about the tremendous amount of time and research that it must have taken to write this book.  The detail is just phenomenal.  I my case, I felt that I really knew quite a bit about John Wooden.  I did, but I can tell you that I learned a tremendous amount from this book.  A whole lot.

I must say that I've typically held Coach Wooden in very high esteem.  This book helps remind me, and all readers, that he was human.  He made mistakes.  He had regrets.  He was not perfect.

For example, I was disappointed to learn that he was so vocal, negatively, to referees during games.  I was even more disappointed to learn that he would yell at opposing players during games.  During his time at UCLA, he was not very popular with many opposing coaches, and Seth Davis illustrates why this was the case.

I was disappointed with several of his remarks about the UCLA program in the first few years after he retired.  I was disappointed with the way that he treated assistant coach Jerry Norman, and I was disappointed with the lack of relationships (on a persona level) that he built (or, rather, didn't build) with his players (while they were playing).

I knew a little bit about Sam Gilbert, but Seth Davis did an excellent job of providing many of the details.  I thought that we saw the many sides of Gilbert, which included the good and the not-so-good.

Having written this, it was certainly enjoyable to read about his incredible discipline and how he maintained his own values throughout his life.  He obviously loved his wife, Nellie.  He was spiritual and became a deacon at their Church.  He didn't curse (after about 200 interviews for the book, I don't recall Seth Davis finding a person who ever heard the man curse).

In the end, he built great relationships with his former players (most of them), and he had a tremendous impact on the world. 

The book made him human.  It made him relatable.  It was really enjoyable to read about the arc and development of his life.  Not only did John Wooden evolve as a coach, but he evolved - in a big way - as a person.

"He was arguably the greatest coach who ever lived, but more importantly, he was a very good man."  - Seth Davis

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Below are some quotes from Seth Davis about Coach Wooden, followed by the website for the book.  Within the website are some wonderful nuggets, video clips and an audio clip.

  To Seth Davis: I am a read-a-holic, and I must say that this is one of the best, most detailed, most well-researched books that I've ever read.  Well done.....I believe that you've achieved what you set out to achieve: "THE definitive, comprehensive biography of John Wooden."

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"Because Wooden is so well-known, readers will come to this book with a broad familiarity about his story, but I believe that they will be astounded by how much they did not know.  I know I was."

Davis calls Wooden "genuine American icon".

"John Wooden was not a perfect man, and he did not live a perfect life.  But he did his best to remain true to the ideals he learned on a spare Indiana farm.  Ultimately, that gave him peace of mind."

"My book does not flinch from delving into his flaws and regrets, but the picture that emerges is one of a humble, admirable man who, over the course of almost a century, lived an amazing American life."

    http://www.johnwoodenbook.com/

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I recently got a copy of Wooden: A Coach's Life by @SethDavisHoops, and am enjoying reading about John Wooden as a young man. As a Kansas alum, I was surprised to find this anecdote about Wooden and some friends leaving Indiana in 1928 to look for summer work: "Eventually, they made it to Lawrence, Kansas, where John asked the University of Kansas' forty-one-year-old coach Phog Allen, for help finding work. Allen got Wooden's crew a job pouring concrete for the new football stadium. The coach had ulterior motives. Allen knew full well about Wooden's basketball exploits, and he tried to convince him to move to Lawrence and eventually play for Kansas. Wooden declined and headed back to Martinsville." Fascinating for several reasons. First, the setup for the story is that Wooden left town because he was angry that his girlfriend (and eventually wife) Nellie was dating another boy. We have to assume that his desire to go home and win her back played a part in him turning down Phog Allen. How close did John Wooden come to being a Jayhawk? We'll never know. Second, the Jayhawk football team still plays in Memorial Stadium. So John Wooden - in my mind the greatest college basketball coach to ever live - helped build the stadium Kansas fans still sit in today. Third, how amazing is it that in 1928, the way to a prized recruit's heart was to get him a back-breaking job pouring concrete? Can you imagine? I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book. I'm hoping to get Seth on the phone in a couple of weeks to talk more about this phenomenal story.