Article:You got to be kidding me!

Yesterday morning  Dan Patrick out here in the Los Angeles area made a comment on the radio that I couldn't believe. He said over the air the Coach K was better than Coach Wooden and that he has had it harder during his career at Duke than Wooden did at UCLA. But great coaching minds but to compare the two is like apples to oranges. I have always considered myself lucky to have known Coach since he stepped on the UCLA campus in 1947. He is one of only two individual I have ever known that have lived what they preached. In over 50 years I have never heard Coach swear, get out of control or put anyone down for making a mistake or trying as hard as they could. The same can't said about Coach K. I honestly believe that no other coach could have did what Wooden did from 1963 - 1975. To win with overpowering talent isn't easy and to continue to win with talent not as great as the Alcindor and Walton years is one of the most amazing feats in sports history. I have always agreed with Coach Wooden about his favorite team being the first National Championship 1964 30-0 team with no player taller than 6'5'' that did something that we now look at as the beginning of March Madness. I don't usurally get out of joint with the radio personalities but he really put over the line. THere will never be another Coach Wooden and what he did will never ever be equaled much less matched. And this was something I just had to get out of my system. Call me a homer or whatever but I go back to Miller Huggins, Casey Stengal, Lombardi, and more and believe me when I say  John Robert Wooden has no peers and that is the bottom line. Even with lesser teams before all his success started he did things that were far ahead of his peers.