“The truth of man lies not in the stars but in his soul” every human being from the cradle to the grave, is being tested!
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Basketball coach Larry Brown, growing up in Long Beach High School, and metamorphosing in coach Frank McGire- Dean Smith’s varsity (Billy Cunningham) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Everybody is being tested,” said coach and psychiatrist, Dean Smith, a father figure to Michael Jordan, “a second father”,)a immortal in the University’ lore.
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Coach Brown of Southern Methodist University was chargedwith violating, bridging NCAA “March Madmess” by having an assistant coach aid and abet a Macdonald’s player of the year to shine in the SMU varsity Heavens and to acclimate the Texas conference SMU “competed” in.
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How could this be? Larry Brown raised in Brooklyn, recruiting at the corrupting edge? Competing with a immoral edge over competing young minds, off a flavor of the schoolyard and playground.
Unbelievable!....the barrio’s Lincoln High School, the cream cheese bandit recruiting ineligible non Latinos to win at all costs…remembering “Honest Bill” Rosenblatt, LIU’s Jackie Goldsmith dumping games on point spreads.
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Following the Hall of Fame coach John Wooden of UCLA, why didn’t that heritage rub off on Larry Brown’s persona?
Didn’t the Dean Smith yesterdays rub off on Larry Brown? All that comroderie with the likes of Billy Crystal, a neighbor fromLong Beach..
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The metamorphosis playing out on the court is not the marketplace front office.…the competition is simply an appearance of all the humans, untainted by insidious ego trips,but the appearance of what Dioniyius or Hamlet, in their odyssey swing through March Madness and the NCAAfirmament, regulating the “testing” and the rebounds of their surrogate father figure coaches.
The kids buy into, during their years of “March Madness” eligibility.
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Where else on our planet can young men and women play outtheir character…
”Your character is your fate” is accessible to devious young men in a culture where the need to win is at the apex of the University’s claim to notoriety, addressing the needs of the young me to motivate..
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A Hall of Fame immortal is the feat of character, the realization of the player’s dream, presiding over his sojourn of four years of competitive juices and passionate discipline..
“Cheating doesn’t pay. It’s a outrage and sellout. Remember cheaters never prosper. Living with their lie.
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“We are all underlings Horatio,” said Hamlet. “We are all being tested..If in doubt, give him the benefit of the doubt. Don’t call it out.””
September 29, 2015. The City that neversleeps.
