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This article and video clip (especially) are just awesome.

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7 years 5 months ago - 7 years 5 months ago #18106 by porthawk
I've never seen HCBS this emotional. (He speaks to the team during the second half of the video.) So powerful to see...

And this quote (bold is my emphasis) really resonated with me. As a teacher (and I'm sure a parent, although I'm not one), to see advice you offered heeded and students buying in to what you say because you're looking at the greater good -- man, there's not much of a better feeling.

“It was emotional for me,” Self began. “Because, of all the teams we've had, this may not be the one that I would expect to do this. For me to be on these guys pretty hard for things that I thought were shortcomings and basically personality traits and to see the reason we won was because they 100 percent flipped those, that gives a coach a lot of pride.”


www2.kusports.com/news/2018/mar/26/ku-co...n-a/?mens_basketball
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7 years 5 months ago #18117 by konza63
I love that clip, and have been watching it since Sunday night. :-)

The article really adds to it, as you note, Port. I like the callout you cited, and I also LOVE the following, for obvious reasons:

“What I was referring to is (how) our basketball history and tradition here is comparable to the greatest histories in any sport on any campus in America,” said Self when asked about that line in the locker room that included the words “you guys have no idea how much this means.” “When you talk about being at a place where the inventor of the game was your first coach and Adolph Rupp played here and Dean Smith played here and so many things that have spawned off from here and, generationally, how much this means to the people in our community and how much respect they have for the game, that's what I was talking about. All the people that it means so much to that our players would never know about because of all the history and tradition that exists here.”


Priceless.

“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”

1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.

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