THE OFFICIAL NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES
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CONGRATUL ATIONS
National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
Class of 2O13 Johnson - McDaniel - Hayes - Raveling - Keady - Massimino - Killian - McMillen - Hopkins - Loyola Chicago
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NABC EXECUTIVE STAFF Jim Haney Executive Director Reggie Minton Deputy Executive Director Ernie Kent Associate Executive Director Carol Haney Senior Director of Internal Affairs Troy Hilton Senior Director of Corporate Relations and Association Affairs Stephanie Whitcher Chief Financial Officer Rick Leddy Senior Director of Communications Rose Tate Director of Membership Ebony Donohue Associate Director of Membership Mark Heatherman Senior Director of Special Events Janelle Guidry Director of Convention Wade Hageman Director of Corporate Relations Jenna Wright Director of Convention Housing
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2 013 -14 B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S President: Phil Martelli Saint Joseph’s University First Vice President: Page Moir Roanoke College Second Vice President: Ron Hunter Georgia State University Third Vice President: Jeff Jones Old Dominion University Fourth Vice President: Paul Hewitt George Mason University 2012-13 Past President: Larry Gipson Northeastern State University 2011-12 Past President: Ernie Kent Bo Ryan, University of Wisconsin Bill Self, University of Kansas Charlie Brock, Springfield College Lorenzo Romar, University of Washington Mike Brey, University of Notre Dame Gary Stewart, Stevenson University Trent Johnson, Texas Christian University Lennie Acuff, University of Alabama in Huntsville Mark Gottfried, North Carolina State University Cy Alexander, North Carolina A&T Jamie Dixon, University of Pittsburgh Johnny Dawkins, Stanford University Rick Cooper, West Texas A&M John Calipari, University of Kentucky John Thompson III, Georgetown University Jim Boeheim, Syracuse University Bob Burchard, Columbia College Dave Archer, National High School Basketball Coaches Association
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EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Executive Director: Jim Haney Deputy Executive Director: Reggie Minton CPA: Brian Welch, Welch & Associates, LLC General Counsel: Dennis Coleman, Ropes & Gray, LLP Board Secretary: Rick Leddy Sponsorship: Rick Jones, Fishbait Marketing NCAA Board Consultants: David Berst, Vice President, Division I Dan Gavitt, Vice President, Men’s Basketball N A B C I TI M E-OUT
Departments From the Editor ........................................................................ 5
…The People You Meet Along the Way Rick Leddy
From the Executive Director .................................................. 6
Q&A with Executive Director Jim Haney Jim Haney
NABC Chaplain’s Corner ....................................................... 8
Lovin’ The Lines Pastor Brett Fuller and Pastor Donnell Jones
National High School Basketball Coaches Association ... 19
Leaving a Legacy Greg Grantham
National Center for Fathering ............................................ 20
How You Carry Yourself... Carey Casey
The Great Marriage Experience ......................................... 21
Stick With It Dr. Gary & Barb Rosberg
Features 2013-2014 Board of Directors .............................................. 4 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2013 ................................................. 9 Social Change At The Heart Of Hall Of Fame Class ............................................................ 10 A Fond Farewell to the Head Coach of Coaches vs. Cancer ........................................................... 15 Amherst 2 vs. 2 Drill ........................................................... 22 David Hixon
Cover: The Class of 2013 for the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (Photo courtesy of David Riffel) Photo Credits: National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame - Pages 9-13 (courtesy of David Riffel); Pages 5, 15, 17 (courtesy of Jennifer Pottheiser); Page 16 (courtesy of St. Bonaventure University athletics); Page 22 (courtesy of Amherst College athletics).
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2013-14 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Phil Martelli Saint Joseph’s University
First Vice President: Page Moir Roanoke College
Second Vice President: Ron Hunter Georgia State University
Third Vice President: Jeff Jones Old Dominion University
Fourth Vice President: Paul Hewitt George Mason University
2012-13 Past President: Larry Gipson Northeastern State University
2011-12 Past President: Ernie Kent
Bo Ryan University of Wisconsin
Bill Self University of Kansas
Charlie Brock Springfield College
Lorenzo Romar University of Washington
Mike Brey University of Notre Dame
Gary Stewart Stevenson University
Trent Johnson Texas Christian University
Lennie Acuff University of Alabama in Huntsville
Mark Gottfried North Carolina State University
Cy Alexander North Carolina A&T
Jamie Dixon University of Pittsburgh
Johnny Dawkins Stanford University
Rick Cooper West Texas A&M
John Calipari University of Kentucky
John Thompson III Georgetown University
Jim Boeheim Syracuse University
Bob Burchard Columbia College
Dave Archer, National High School Basketball Coaches Association
From the Editor, Rick Leddy
…The People You Meet Along the Way
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t’s more than likely that most of us are familiar with the often-used quote -- “Sometimes it’s not about the journey or destination…but about the people you meet along the way.” My journey working with the NABC began in 1985 and I have been fortunate to meet many wonderful people along the way. It has also allowed me to provide opportunities for my own family to share an experience at a NABC meeting or convention and Final Four with these same people. In this first issue of Time-Out for 2014, you will learn more about Jim Satalin, the recently retired “head coach” of the Coaches vs. Cancer program. The former head coach at St. Bonaventure and Duquesne served as the national director of CVC for more than 15 years and is a major reason the program is closing in on $100 million raised in its 20 years of existence. It doesn’t seem that long ago, but in 2001, my oldest daughter, Colleen, enrolled at Penn State as an advertising major. Only 17 and a tad homesick early in the first semester, I encouraged her to join the Nittany Lions’ student-run Coaches vs. Cancer program to meet people and work for a good cause. Unbeknownst to Colleen, I asked Reggie Minton and Jim Satalin to put in a word for her to join the program. With that nudge and three years of hard work, she assumed a leadership role as a senior, something which I am sure helped provide skills and experience that has led to a very successful career in advertising in New York City. Now, many years later, in the friendly manner which helped make Satalin so successful in Coaches vs. Cancer, he and Colleen often catch up to chat at the annual Coaches vs. Cancer Classic in New York. The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2013, profiled in this issue by Blair Kerkhoff of the Kansas City Star, was a special one for me and my family as former Purdue coach Gene Keady was an inductee. In his 27-year head coaching career, with two years at Western Kentucky and 25 seasons with the Boilermakers, Keady’s teams won six Big Ten championships, and appeared 18 times in the NCAA Tournament. Along the way, he was selected as the Big Ten coach of the year seven times and was the national coach of the year six times. Beyond that stellar resume, there is so much more about Gene Keady that makes him a hall of fame person. As tough as he must have been as a football standout at Kansas State or as stern as he appeared when walking the sideline at Purdue, let me assure you that he is one of the kindest and most genuine people you will ever meet. My youngest daughter, Caitlin, was just two weeks old when I attended my second NABC Convention in 1987. In the following years, our children occasionally joined my wife and me for the Final Four and NABC summer meetings, enabling everyone to meet the Keady family. When it came time for Caitlin to make her college choice, she wanted to follow her sister’s path, not to Penn State, but to the Big Ten. After earning acceptance to Purdue and without having ever seen the campus, we made the journey from Connecticut to West Lafayette, Indiana. In his final year as head coach, Coach Keady was a gracious host, visiting with us several times over the course of our visit, even at a time when he was busy preparing his team for the upcoming season. The coach who had recruited so many great basketball players closed the deal again as Caitlin earned a degree from Purdue and is a steadfast Boilermaker for life. We all have stories of people who have made a significant impact on our journeys through life. I’m happy I had a chance to share some of mine with you. N A B C I TI M E-OUT
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From the Executive Director, Jim Haney
Q&A with Executive Director Jim Haney
As we come out of the Christmas holiday, what are your thoughts regarding Christmas? When I was coaching, Christmas tended to be overwhelmed by preparing for and playing games. However, Christmas needs to be personal, for God intends to develop a personal relationship with each of us. As a result, I see it today as personal. Christmas is not merely a national holiday and an opportunity to give and receive gifts. Along with Easter, Christmas is the most nationally focused celebration of the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. With the symbols of Christmas (Christmas trees, lights, shopping sales, etc.) so visible throughout the month of December and even back into November, we can become focused on Santa Claus. Now, I see Christmas as a time of worship, praise and thanksgiving for the birth of King Jesus, who reigns over the Kingdom of God. I am mindful of Apostle Paul’s comment “that God demonstrates His love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. As a result, I celebrate His birth. Any updates on the issue of transfers in NCAA Division I basketball? As important as the issue of transfers is to coaches and our staff, the NCAA Division I membership is very focused on creating a new governance structure. Those discussions are dominating the thoughts and time of presidents, faculty representatives, directors of athletics, senior woman administrators, conference commissioners, NCAA staff and coaching associations. As a result, the transfer discussions, led by the present Leadership Council, is tracking slower through the process than it would be otherwise. I am hopeful that it will be resolved by the summer of 2014. There has been much attention devoted to the officiating thus far in NCAA men’s basketball. What are your thoughts? First, for many years I thought that the officiating in men’s basketball could be divided up into three segments. The first segment is the November/December non-conference games. The second is the conference games in January, February and early March. The third and final segment was the NCAA championship. It appeared to me that the officials permitted more physical play as we moved from one segment to another. Presently, we are in the first segment redefining the block/charge call and providing freedom of movement for the offensive players by identifying what is permissible and impermissible defensive contact. Thus far this season, there are more fouls called as officials have been encouraged to remain strong to continue to call contact fouls consistent with freedom of movement for the offensive players. I will be watching to see if the officiating we see in November/December carries over into conference play and the NCAA championship. Do you think there are too many fouls being called? Based on the games I have seen, I believe we are still in a period of discovery of what is a foul for players, officials and coaches. There was so much contact permitted in previous years that change was needed. Now, everyone, players, officials and coaches, are trying to adjust. I do not believe you can look at statistics two months into the season and say there are too many fouls or too few fouls as if there is some quota we are trying to achieve. We are all about the quality of the game and the appropriate balance necessary between offense and defense. I believe players are becoming smarter and more conscious of what they can do with their hands and forearms while playing defense. Players do not want to sit on the bench due to foul trouble. Nor do coaches want them sitting on the bench. Some of the fouls we see called 6
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in this first segment can be eliminated because the contact was not initiated by the aggressive play of the offense but by the defensive players’ lack of awareness of how contact would be called or by carelessly using his hands or forearms. Do you believe the officials are being consistent in the administration of the new rules? My thoughts are a reflection of the games I see in person and on television. I am not witnessing the officiating across the breadth of NCAA games being played daily. I do have concerns that what is being called on a limited number of nationally televised games may not be happening in all games. I referenced earlier the three segments of play, November/December non-conference games, conference games and NCAA championship. In each segment, the intensity and physicality of play increases. How the officials adjust to that intensity and physical play, whether they remain consistent with how they were calling the games prior to Christmas, will be a challenge. What has stood out to you as you have watched games thus far? The Basketball Rules Committee not only focused on freedom of movement but also made refinements in the calling of block/charge contact. Now, the defender must be outside the three foot arc around the basket and have established position prior to the offensive player initiating his upward motion to shoot or pass the ball for a charge call to be warranted. This change on block/charge call in combination with the arc and freedom of movement has resulted in fewer charge calls, at least in the games I have watched. Also, it appears to me the physical play in the low post has also been reduced, which I believe is good. Furthermore, I have seen more fouls called on offensive players coming over the back of a defender on a rebound than I have observed in previous years. Again, I do not know if this holds true for all the games being played or just the ones I have watched. Based on what you have seen thus far, what concerns you? Based on freedom of movement, we have provided the offense more opportunities to drive to the basket without being pushed off his path to score. However, I am witnessing offensive players jumping into the defender or extending their forearm into the defender in hope of drawing a foul on their defender. Officials must become wise to the offensive player initiating the contact illegally and call the offensive player for a foul. There were concerns expressed at the end of last year regarding the lack of scoring in NCAA Division I competition. The changes that the NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee made were intended to increase scoring. Is that happening as you envisioned? We know scoring is up from last year thus far. However, when we get into conference play, the scoring increases we have seen thus far may change. In conference play teams know each other well, there are no surprises; teams may play each other two times or more; coaches know how to defend each other and officiating could allow more physical play if history holds true. We need to take a look back after the 2013-14 season concludes to draw more accurate conclusions.
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NABC Chaplain’s Corner, Pastor Brett Fuller & Pastor Donnell Jones
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he whistle blows, the play stops, the referee signals the call, everyone reacts, and a review of the play confirms “he was out of bounds.” He stepped on the line. Sound familiar? The court lines and markings of the hardwood floors run in all directions including but not limited to the sideline, baseline, mid-court line, 3-point line, and the free throw line. Oh, did I mention the black and white lines of the referee’s jersey? Ok, well... maybe not the ref’s jersey. All these lines serve one purpose. They establish the boundaries of the game. Ignorance is unable to acknowledge the lines. Arrogance refuses to accept the lines, but those who love to coach and play the game really appreciate the lines. The boundary lines establish where the real action takes place. The lines are impartial and they apply to everyone. Boundaries are more than just markers for rules and regulations. Boundary lines actually define freedom. The lines are where we are free to work together as a team, free to make a valuable difference, and free to contribute with skills and hard work. Boundaries are the place where we get to compete in fairness, honor and respect. When we disregard the lines, stuff happens. Life is full of lines! Some people ignore them, some attempt to move or erase them, and some even have come to love them. How do you feel about the boundary lines of life? Great playmakers regard the boundaries with respect and appreciation. “Watch what I can do” they say. They love the lines. The one who disregards the lines begrudges the boundaries seeing them as limiting and stifling. He asks how come I can’t go outside the lines? Why can’t I do this or that? He feels sorely inconvenienced. For him, boundaries are a source of frustration. Life, like basketball, is not about a bunch of rules. The boundaries are there to mark out the area for our best shot at winning in life. When you reduce life to rules, you have missed the point. Pun intended. The one who masters life inside the lines can rest secure. A man who served as leader of his nation mastered life inside the lines. He once wrote “the lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.” Over the course of his life, he grew to appreciate the boundaries that marked off where the real action takes place. There was a time when he did not value the boundaries as much as he came to later in life. He stopped and evaluated his actions and found his way back inbounds. The pain of being out-of-bounds is intended to help us course correct. Moving from the painful place to the pleasant place involves more than just stepping inbounds. Many who are within the boundary lines, live too close to the edge. They attempt to get as close to the line as possible without falling over it. How far can I go and still remain inside? The problem is that one slip or fall may be very costly. Come in far enough so that if you get pushed or make a misstep, you are not in danger of something far worse. When you hear the whistle of wisdom blowing, pause to see if you’re still inbounds. If you’ve stepped out, stop to review the move you just made. Sit down with someone to confirm whether you’re living on or too close to the edge. Identify the bad habit or practice that pushes you out-of-bounds time after time. Then make the adjustment to get back inbounds and resume play. Examine carefully if there are any lines you have yet to acknowledge. Once you come to acknowledge them, take the next step and accept them. As you practice mastering life inbounds, you will grow in your appreciation and find yourself “lovin’ the lines!” "Pastor Donnell Jones is pastor of Grace Covenant Church in Washington DC, Character Coach for the Maryland Terrapins and Assistant Chaplain of the NABC."
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MCDANIEL HOPKINS HAYES JOHNSON MCMILLEN KEADY MASSIMINO RAVELING KILLIAN LOYOLA CHICAGO N A B C I TI M E-O UT
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SOCIAL CHANGE AT THE HEART OF
HALL OF FAME CLASS By BLAIR KERKHOFF The Kansas City Star
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College basketball advanced social change. John Wooden’s Indiana State team integrated the NAIA Tournament in 1948, and by the early 1950s AfricanAmericans showed up on many rosters outside of the South. But the sport also had issues. In the early years, programs had their pick of stars. Without a mass influx of black talent, only the best seemed welcome, players like Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson and Elgin Baylor. “It really was just the cream of the crop in the day,” said Elvin Hayes. N A B C I TI ME-O UT
“There was a ways to go.” But college hoops got there, and if the eighth class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, recognized on Nov. 24 at The Midland in Kansas City, had a theme, it was social change and the struggle to bring equality to the college hardwood. The group was the largest to enter the Hall. Hayes joined fellow players Bob Hopkins of Grambling, UCLA’s Marques Johnson, Wichita State’s Xavier McDaniel and Maryland’s Tom McMillen, along with coaches Rollie Massimino and Gene Keady. George Raveling and George
Killian entered as contributors, and there was a first in 2013. A team entered the Hall, the 1963 Loyola Ramblers. Hayes, the Founding Class inductee, played a role in the social evolution. He and Don Chaney arrived at Houston together in 1964, the first African-Americans to play at the university, and before any other school in the Deep South had opened its doors. Hayes considered attending Wisconsin but wanted to stay closer to his Louisiana home. Still, he had to leave his home state to play on an integrated team. WINTER 2014 I
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The same opportunity wasn’t available for Hopkins, who some 10 years earlier, averaged 29 points in his career at Grambling. Hopkins was almost lured away to an integrated program by a cousin, Russell at San Francisco, but decided to stay home and play for his coach, Eddie Robinson, the same coach who guided Grambling’s football program for decades. Hopkins was the fifth player or coach inducted from a historically black college or university who wasn’t part of the Founding Class, joining Tennessee State’s Dick Barnett (2007), Kentucky State’s Travis Grant (2009), Alcorn State Coach Davey Whitney (2010) and Virginia Union Coach Dave Robbins (2012). Raveling broke barriers by becoming the first African-American on a coaching staff in the ACC when he was hired at Maryland in 1970 and became the first black head coach in the league then known as the Pac-8, when he was hired at Washington State in 1972. Raveling also owns a part of social history. He was on the podium during the
“March on Washington,” in 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. When King was finished, he handed the original typewritten copy to Raveling, who has kept it in his family. Loyola, which won the 1963 NCAA championship in a thrilling 60-58 overtime decision over Cincinnati, operated outside of the day’s standard for racial composition. When the teams took the floor that day in Louisville, Ky., the Ramblers had four black starters, Cincinnati three. This marked the first title game played with a majority of African-American starters. “To be remembered 50 years later for something you accomplished, that’s a tremendous honor,” said Les Hunter, who surpassed 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in his Loyola career. “This is an entire team award.” The Ramblers have been historically overshadowed. Three years after their championship, Texas-El Paso — then known as Texas Western — captured the NCAA title with an all-black starting five, and its achievement has been more
wildly heralded. The team was the subject of a 2006 movie, “Glory Road,” which depicted the Miners defeating blue-blooded Kentucky in the midst of a decade charged with social turmoil. But Loyola helped pave Glory Road, and this anniversary year has included a trip to the White House to meet President Obama and enshrinement in the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. The NCAA championship wasn’t the Ramblers’ only landmark game. In the Mideast Regional semifinal, Loyola played Mississippi State, an all-white squad that was barred from playing in the 1962 postseason by its state legislature because the NCAA Tournament allowed integrated teams. Mississippi politics hadn’t changed in 1963, but the Bulldogs’ coach, Babe McCarthy, sneaked the team out of town before the governor could serve an injunction to prevent its departure. The Loyola-Mississippi State game, later known as “The Game of Change,” was played at Michigan State, and Ramblers coach George Ireland remembered the setting in East Lansing as “a
fortress,” with city and state police on hand to prevent any incident. There was none. Loyola won by 10 and beat Illinois in the next game, advancing to the Final Four in Louisville. Ireland, who died in 2001, always said he admired the Bulldogs. But not others that got in the Ramblers’ path that season. “He wanted to rub it in to the teams that had beaten him in the past, and the coaches he didn’t like, and there were a lot of them,” said Hunter, who recalled Ireland and Marquette coach Eddie Hickey coming to blows after one game. Ireland, a Notre Dame graduate who became Loyola’s coach in 1952, understood basketball’s future better than most. He sought the best talent he could find, regardless of heritage. Recruiting took him to the South, where he lured Hunter and Vic Rouse from Pearl High in Nashville, Tenn. Jerry Harkness, a consensus All-America that season, and Ron Miller were recruited from the Bronx. The only white starter, Johnny Egan, was from Chicago. The 1962 team finished 23-4 and was ranked 10th nationally but did not
receive an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. With a 24-2 regular-season record and No. 2 national ranking, there would be no keeping the Ramblers away from the 1963 tournament. That year, the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and started to turn violent. The bomb at Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killed four girls in September, three weeks after Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. It also was the year of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. “We were right in the middle of it,” Hunter said. “A couple of years earlier, my high school team marched on the (state) capitol in protest.” But when Loyola won the championship in a thrilling game — Rouse stuck back Hunter’s free-throw line jumper at the buzzer for the game-winner — Hunter knew something special, beyond a championship, had occurred. It turned out that a newspaper man, famed Nashville columnist John Bibb, had come to Chicago to interview Hunter and Rouse on the eve of the
Mississippi State game. Hunter had recalled that when his all-black Pearl High teams were winning state championships, they wouldn’t receive as much attention in the city’s newspapers as the white schools. Now, Hunter and Rouse were the subject of a local-lads-make-good story. “That’s when I knew what we were doing was a big deal,” Hunter said. A few years later, Hayes was at the center of one of the biggest deals in college hoop history -- the first Game of the Century -- between the Cougars and UCLA. On a January night in 1968, Hayes and Houston ended the Bruins’ 47-game winning streak before 52,000 and a national television audience. Hayes finished with 39 points and 15 rebounds. “You know, I can think of games where I played much better,” Hayes said. “But it’s all right. After that UCLA game I was known more in the public. It helped people know who I was.” And he became an unforgettable, like everybody —and team in the 2013 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class.
HALL OF FAME PROFILES XAVIER McDANIEL
TOM McMILLEN
GEORGE RAVELING
PLAYER In 1985, as a Wichita State senior, the “X-Man” became the first player to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same year with 27.2 points and 14.8 rebounds. He was a consensus first-team All-American and two-time Missouri Valley Conference player of the year. In his four-year career, McDaniel averaged 18.4 points and 11.6 rebounds.
PLAYER A prized recruit and Sports Illustrated cover boy, McMillen landed at Maryland and helped turn coach Lefty Driesell’s program into a national power. The Academic All-America and Rhodes Scholar averaged 21 points and 10 rebounds while helping the Terps to a 73-17 record and the 1972 NIT championship during his career. He was also a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team.
CONTRIBUTOR Raveling travels the world to promote the sport as Nike’s Director of International Basketball. He’s been involved in nearly every aspect of the game, as an assistant coach, a head coach at Washington State, Iowa and Southern California. He took each program to two NCAA Tournaments. His coaching career ended in 1994 after a long rehabilitation process from an automobile accident. Raveling has worked with Nike for nearly two decades, has written two books and operates a website, CoachGeorgeRaveling.com.
BOB HOPKINS PLAYER Legendary football coach Eddie Robinson not only coached Grambling’s football team, he headed the basketball program for a few years, and was fortunate enough to coach Hopkins, who averaged 30 points and 17 rebounds from 1953-56. He is the Tigers’ all-time leading scorer and rebounder and a two-time NAIA All-American.
ELVIN HAYES FOUNDING CLASS MEMBER “Big E” arrived at Houston in the mid-1960s and was an immediate starter. In his junior year, 1967, Hayes led the Cougars to their first Final Four and finished with 25 points and 24 rebounds in a semifinal loss to UCLA. The next season, he led Houston to a victory over the Bruins in the Astrodome in the “Game of the Century,” and the Cougars returned to the Final Four. Hayes averaged 31 points and 17.2 rebounds in his college career.
MARQUES JOHNSON PLAYER In 1977, Johnson became the first recipient of the John R. Wooden Award as the best player in college basketball when he averaged 21.1 points and 11.1 rebounds for UCLA. Two years earlier, he helped Wooden win the last of his 10 NCAA championships. WI N TE R 2014 I
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GENE KEADY COACH Keady spent two seasons at Western Kentucky before moving to Purdue, where he won 512 games over 25 years, becoming the Boilermakers’ career victory leader. Purdue won six conference titles during Keady’s watch. He was chosen Big Ten coach of the year seven times and won six national coach of the year honors. Today, he serves as a special assistant/advisor to Coach Steve Lavin at St. John’s University.
ROLLIE MASSIMINO COACH Stony Brook was Massimino’s first head coaching coaching stop in 1969. He served as an assistant at Penn before becoming Villanova’s head coach in 1973. In 1985, the Wildcats shocked college basketball with its monumental upset of Georgetown in the NCAA Championship. He later coached at UNLV and Cleveland State and is still at it, coaching Northwood University, a NAIA Division II program in West Palm Beach, Fla. The Seahawks have been to the national tournament in each of Massimino’s first seven seasons.
GEORGE KILLIAN CONTRIBUTOR From 1990-98, Killian served as president of FIBA, the international governing body of basketball, and during that time served as a member of the International Olympic Committee. While he was leading basketball on an international level, Killian was simultaneously overseeing the National Junior College Athletic Association as its first executive director. Killian was the organization’s first leader and served in that role for 35 years until 2004. Killian had started a coaching career at Erie, N.Y., Community College in 1954.
LOYOLA CHICAGO TEAM The 1962-63 Ramblers won the school’s only NCAA Tournament championship, also the only one captured by a Division I Illinois college. It became the first NCAA winner with at least four African-Americans in the starting lineup, and the title was won three years before Texas Western defeated Kentucky in the championship game with an all-African American lineup. Loyola defeated Cincinnati 60-58 in overtime to win the championship. NABC I TIME-OUT
A Fond Farewell to the Head Coach of Coaches vs. Cancer Program Flourished Under Leadership of Jim Satalin By Rick Leddy
It was 1990 and Jim Satalin found himself faced with what might be described as a life-changing decision. He had been a college basketball coach for 19 years and, for the first time, was without a team. Leaving a position as a volunteer assistant to Gale Catlett at West Virginia University, Satalin decided to move back to his hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., to be closer to his father and siblings. “It was a time when I had to decide whether or not to stay in coaching or get out,” Satalin said. “Back in Syracuse, I took a job as a sales manager for a large insurance company and it was the longest two and a half years of my life.”
Playing and Coaching Satalin was home now, where so much of his life had revolved around basketball. His father, Frank, was a coaching legend in the Parochial League. It was during the time when Jim was playing for his dad at St. John the Baptist that Frank had his greatest coaching accomplishment. From 1961-63, St. John’s won 33 consecutive games and became the first-ever team to win the Grand Slam, taking titles in the league, the playoffs and the City/Diocesan championships. Jim earned honors as a first team All-Parochial league selection in basketball and baseball before enrolling at St. Bonaventure University. He was a standout for the Bonnies as well, scoring 874 points as a three-year starter and helping his team to the 1968 NCAA tournament, finishing the season with a 23-2 won-lost record. Satalin was drafted by the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks but it was coaching that seemed to be his chosen career path and he accepted a position as the freshman coach at St. Bonaventure in 1971. Two years later, Larry Weise, who had been the Bonnies’ head coach for 12 seasons, departed and Satalin was named head coach. Over the next nine seasons, his teams had a 156-93 won-lost record, including a 24-6 record in 1976-77, setting a program mark which still stands, for wins in a
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season. St. Bonaventure also won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) that year and went to the NCAA tournament a year later. Satalin left his alma mater in 1982 to head the program at Duquesne University. He won Atlantic-10 coach of the year honors in 1983 and 1985 and moved on after the 1988-89 season to join Catlett for one season at WVU. Coaches vs. Cancer The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) collaborated to launch Coaches vs. Cancer in 1993, expanding a concept developed by Norm Stewart, former head coach at the University of Missouri. Stewart, a NABC member and cancer survivor, challenged fans to pledge a dollar amount for every three-point basket made by his team during the season for the fight against cancer. Coaches vs. Cancer is an initiative that leverages the personal experiences, community leadership, and professional excellence of basketball coaches across America to increase cancer awareness and promote healthy living through year-round awareness efforts, fundraising activities, and advocacy programs. Over the course of its 20 years, Coaches vs. Cancer has raised close to $100 million.
Finding Another Team to Coach Back in Syracuse, a local representative of the American Cancer Society stopped by to visit with Satalin. During lunch, a discussion ensued about the Coaches vs. Cancer program. “Right after lunch, I received a call offering me a full-time position running Coaches vs. Cancer in New York State,” said Satalin. Suddenly, Jim Satalin was back coaching another team. While there weren’t any games, referees or game clock ticking, this team needed an outstanding recruiter and strategist with just the right attributes to try and overcome a relentless opponent. It was only a couple of years before Satalin was named national director of Coaches vs. Cancer. “We talk about a lot of intangibles and what goes into making programs great. Jim Satalin made this a great program,” said Reggie Minton, NABC deputy executive director. “First of all, he coached and understands coaches and he can talk on their level.” “This isn’t something he put on in the morning and took off at the end of the day,” Minton said. “The Coaches vs. Cancer program was part of his makeup. This guy really cares.” “The advantage I had was that I knew all of the coaches. It’s a lot easier to meet someone face-to-face or get them on the phone that way,” Satalin said. “It is very important to have the NABC as a partner and Coaches vs. Cancer is the charity of choice.” Moving to the national level, Satalin was able to travel around the country and meet with some of the most influential coaches in the game. He didn’t need to go very far to meet with one coach who has been a champion for CvC -- Syracuse’s hall of fame coach Jim Boeheim. “Jim Satalin energized the coaches and brought a lot of direction to people and coaches who wanted to get involved,” said Boeheim. “He did an unbelievable job and he did it in a very quiet and efficient way. He was able to get coaches across the NABC I TIME-OUT
country to become actively involved.” Working with Gary Williams, the former coach at Maryland, Satalin was instrumental in the development of a yearly Coaches vs. Cancer Golf Classic, played for the past 15 years at some of the nation’s most revered golf courses. Coaches would assemble a team to play over a couple of days in the annual event, first held at Caves Valley in Maryland and scheduled for Sawgrass in Florida this summer. “Jim knew just how to keep the coaches coming back. To a fault, he never pressured anyone,” said Natalie Morrison, fundraising resources initiative group leader for ACS. “The event is low-key, not a lot of media, where everyone who comes is able to have a good time for a good cause.” One of Satalin’s great strengths was taking an idea or initiative that was successful in one part of the country and nurturing its development from coast-tocoast. He directed the very successful Suits and Sneakers Awareness Weekend, held in late January each year when coaches wear sneakers on the sidelines during games to raise awareness about the fight against cancer. N A B C I TI M E-O UT
Lon Kruger, the former UNLV coach now at Oklahoma, has been the host of a very successful golf event over several days in Las Vegas for the past few years. Gonzaga’s Mark Few has held an annual golf tournament along with a BasketBall, a formal affair to bring the community together for Coaches vs. Cancer. “He used things that came from the brain of (Norm) Stewart and the drive of (Jim) Boeheim to reach across a lot of tables to motivate and direct people to the program,” said NABC President Phil Martelli, head coach at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Martelli, along with his fellow coaches in Philadelphia, has played host to several CvC events annually, including golf tournaments, galas and a tip-off breakfast to raise both awareness and funds. For the past several years, Satalin has gathered some of the nation’s top coaches each year for the ACS Lobby Day on Capitol Hill. “Each year Jim gets four to five major college coaches to come to Washington, D.C., during a recruiting period for them, to meet with different members of congress about getting more funding for the fight against cancer,” said Anthony Marino,
senior director of partner relationships/eastern division for the ACS. “It’s a real tribute to the relationships he has with coaches.” Satalin, who announced his retirement earlier this year, was recently honored at one of the events he helped grow in the Coaches vs. Cancer program – the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, which was first held in Atlantic City in 1995 and is now played the weekend before Thanksgiving at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. “We are so grateful for the tireless efforts of Jim Satalin over the past 15 years as a forefather for the Coaches vs. Cancer program,” said Morrison. “His retirement is a great opportunity to recognize him for all he has done to help us finish the fight in such a meaningful way.” “The greatest compliment we can offer to Jim is that he was the head coach for all of the coaches in Coaches vs. Cancer,” Martelli said. “We all took our lead from him and the tremendous passion he displayed for the cause and the tremendous respect he showed for the coaches’ time. He was a bridge between the NABC and the ACS that was much needed for the program to grow.”
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Leaving a Legacy by Greg Grantham President, National High School Basketball Coaches Association Executive Director, NC Basketball Coaches Association
Begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey said that was one of the habits of successful people. He was talking about the ability to imagine what you want the end to look like and then make conscious, planned efforts to get there. Unfortunately, as coaches we are ultra competitive creatures and we tend to think (at least early in our careers) that “the end” is winning. We often can’t see past the next game or the next week, much less into the next season or next decade. Therefore we develop strategies and a work ethic designed to reach that endwinning. An all too regrettable consequence of that approach is that we develop other habits and characteristics along the way to that end that negatively impact our relationship with others in our path. Stephen Covey also said something just as profound that can be true of many successful people, “Sometimes people find themselves achieving victories that are empty--successes that have come at the expense of things that were far more valuable.” We all know coaches who win a lot but are despised by most people, even their own players. Guys that have more championship rings than real friends. Let’s assume that “the end” for coaches is not winning. Let’s assume that winning is simply a preferred byproduct that sometimes results from doing an often thankless and much underappreciated job that requires us to invest in the lives of young people. Let’s assume instead that “the end” is the legacy that you leave behind when you are finished. Whether finished means simply leaving one school to take a job at another one, or finished means you are hanging up the N A B C I TI M E-O UT
whistle for good, your legacy is how you are remembered by those whose lives you touched while you were there. What impact do you have on other coaches that work with you, opposing coaches, other staff members and most importantly, your players? What will those folks say about you after you are gone? Do they stay in contact with you after you are gone? Do they continue to seek your guidance? Did you establish a work ethic that they are proud to emulate? Did you teach character that makes you proud when you see it demonstrated in them? Did you impart wisdom that they continue to use? These are the things that make your legacy. The closer one gets to the end of a career the more time is spent reflecting on what might have been- what could I have done differently? Could I have made a greater impact? No one ever thinks back that “I did too much” or that “I gave too much of my time or effort to others”. Impacting the lives of others in a positive way should be our goal as coaches- that’s what we should be shooting for. Certainly strive to compete at a high level and aim to win, but understand that is not “the end”. If you haven’t already given much thought to what you will be remembered for, start now thinking about what you want “the end” to look like. What do you want your legacy to be? If you didn’t begin your career in coaching with that end in mind, it’s not too late. Make conscious efforts from this point forward to impact your players, coaches and colleagues in a positive manner. Your dedication, concern, compassion, work ethic and character invested in the lives of others will be emulated and valued long after you are gone. WINTER 2014 I
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How You Carry Yourself... by Carey Casey, CEO, National Center for Fathering
During my early years and through college, I was immersed in sports. Football was where I excelled the most, but I was into everything. And that put me in pretty close contact with a lot of different coaches. And I may have been different from the typical kid playing sports, but I watched those coaches pretty closely. I watched what they did and how they interacted with people—players, other coaches, fans, and media. I noticed what they did on the sidelines, in practice, at meals, on buses and planes, or wherever we were. Many of them had great character and helped to shape me in positive ways. Of course, I also saw some things that were not so positive, and I like to think I learned something from those experiences as well. There are quite a few college basketball coaches whom I greatly admire, and I’ve actually had the privilege of meeting some of them. Today one man especially comes to mind. He has had success as a coach, but what has impressed me the most is how he carries himself. The man exudes humility and integrity while going about his business and pushing his players for excellence. Through the years, he has been a consistent presence, carrying a positive attitude through the good seasons and the bad. One of my adult children had the chance to work pretty closely with this coach, and he’s the real deal. 20
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He’s a man of character. I’m not even going to include his name, because I want you to think about men you have known who have been coaching mentors—men you have watched and learned from, whose legacy you admire and perhaps want to emulate yourself. My experiences with all these coaches remind me of a great truth that we often talk about with fathers, about the importance of being purposeful as role models. Fathers and father figures (like you are) need to remember that they’re being watched! And what the next generation sees in how you carry yourself can have powerful ramifications. Your influence is probably greater than you think. Modeling is where your true influence shows up, because important values and character traits are caught more than they are taught. Young people learn more from watching our lives than from listening to what we say. Each day, in hundreds of ways, we communicate to them, “Follow me.” It’s an extraordinary responsibility for coaches, dads, and really anyone in a leadership position. As was demonstrated by the different coaches I knew growing up, this aspect of modeling presents both a dilemma and an opportunity. It’s a dilemma because kids will use our lives as reference points, for better or worse, by design or by default. It’s also an opportunity to be intentional about demonstrating what a responsible, calm, caring, self-sacrificing man is like. I can remember being recruited in football back in the late 70s—and if some
coaches are trying to cheat the system today, I’m pretty sure it was worse then. Just about every coach I talked to offered me something under the table. But one coach stood out because he followed the rules. He told me, “You could turn into a great player for us, but you'll need to work hard like everyone else.” That was it! And at first, I thought, Well, I must not really be that good if he isn’t going to offer me more. But he was shooting me straight, and his integrity really stood out and impressed me. Coach, you can tell young people about the principles that are important to you; you can spout platitudes ‘til you’re blue in the face. But when you show them with real-life examples of character, the lessons really stick. It’s all about how you carry yourself, day in and day out. I believe that will be remembered about you a lot longer than any of your victories. Only a few coaches will win championship trophies, but you’re all influencing young people through your poise, your consistency and your character—or lack thereof. So please watch what you say and do—every moment. In today’s world, one little slip could end up on YouTube and jeopardize everything you hold dear, at home as well as on your team.
Carey Casey is Chief Executive Officer at the National Center for Fathering and author of Championship Fathering (available at fathers.com). He is married with four children and five grandchildren. See more articles and resources for dads at www.fathers.com, or contact the Center with a question or comment at dads@fathers.com.
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We just love a proven plan that works! Think about it. How many workouts does it take to get you down to the weight that you want or get in the shape you want? Just one, the one you stick with! How many times do you have to repeatedly reorganize your drawers at home or in your office? Just once when you discipline yourself to stick with the system that works! How many approaches to marriage do you sample before you experience the changes you’d like to see and get some positive results? Just one when you understand, believe in, internalize, commit to and stick with it! All of us long for the same thing, a great marriage relationship. Can you have it? Absolutely! Everyone at every age and stage of marriage needs some positive relationship coaching that will help us discover life changing principles that work. The same tools that work during the good times are the same when the going gets tough.
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What do you do when reality hits? Reality hits like a storm. So it’s not if reality crashes in around us, it’s simply when the reality of life crashes down upon a married couple. When we live through seasons upon seasons of unmitigated stress and fatigue, it will produce burnout in marriage. And you don’t want that! Today you may be exhausted and at your breaking point and you’re tempted to throw in the towel and quit. Perhaps trials have hit and you’re taking cover, shielding yourself with an invisible wall of self-protection from the very one you love the most because you have been hurt by the mistakes they have made. You want to feel safe and not take risks, but by choosing to quit, you’ll stop growing together—why? Because the marriage feels too hard. I’ve got news for you, your marriage isn’t about you — your marriage belongs to God, and we run the race for Him. Decide All Over Again You know that if you don’t play a basketball game, you can’t win. If you quit early or your team stops trying, you can’t win either. If this principle works in basketball it can be applied to marriage as well. You’ve got to stay in the game to win. When you choose to get back into the game, you choose to have high goals for your marriage and you decide. You make the choice. Decide has a Latin derivative meaning, “to cut away from.” Likened to an incision during surgery. When you decide to commit to your
marriage, you are cutting away all other possibilities, all other options, ALL other people. Your decision to decide to work at having a great marriage is a powerful motivation to become a better spouse. It takes a single focus and commitment in believing what you are doing is extremely important; you’re making your marriage your clear priority — with no room for misunderstandings. Remember, perseverance is mental toughness. It’s one of the single most important skills we have. It’s the ability to hold on in the face of pressure and stress of life. Mental toughness is what it takes to glue the marriage together. Perseverance is the ability to be dedicated, to refuse to give in and call it quits — it’s FEARLESS LOVE. Could your marriage benefit from a little perseverance? Maybe you’re facing some giant challenges in your marriage or some smaller hurdles. Whatever the case may be, you can persevere but it has to start with a decision.
Dr. Gary & Barb Rosberg, America’s Family Coaches, are award-winning authors, popular radio hosts and internationally known speakers. Through a unique program called The Great Marriage Experience, the Rosbergs equip couples, churches and military marriages with the resources, events and tools they need to keep their marriages growing stronger for a lifetime. Join them on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to be coached UP! in your marriage and relationships. Learn more at americasfamilycoaches.com.
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Amherst College
Amherst 2 vs. 2 Drill By David Hixon, Head Coach 2013 UPS NCAA Division III Coach of the Year
This is a drill we have used regularly, have demonstrated at many clinics and numerous coaches have gone on to use it themselves.
Object: Part of a warmup (second, third or fourth drill of a practice) – this is a great teaching drill for defense; offense; reading and setting screens; hi-low; inbounding vs. pressure; transition; trapping and breaking traps; and dribble drive basic concepts.
Diagram 1: O’s plays 2 vs 2 against the D’s. The X’s are stationary “Free” outlets/passes – foul line extended.
Diagram 2: If the D’s steal, cause the O’s to turn the ball over or rebound a missed shot (ball still in play), the D’s outlet to X (1 or 2) and replace the X’s, who pass to next O’s in line and O’s on the court become D’s. The X’s (1 and 2) sprint to the other end of the court and come back in line. O’s become D’s/D’s become X’s and X’s join the line after their sprint.
Diagram 3: If the ball becomes Dead (O’s score or turn it over out of bounds), D’s quickly take it on the end line (can only pass to another D) and O’s quickly transition to D’s and pressure/deny inbounds pass. Once the ball is inbounds, D’s can pass to outlet X’s or reverse back through other D and out the other way.
Diagram 4: X (1 or 2) passes to outlet who then passes to next O in line stepping forward and the new D’s (the original O’s) close out hard and we are playing 2-on-2 again! X’s sprint to the other end where assistant coach or managers can have them shoot a variety of shots and then they fill back in the O-line. Once the players understand the basic rotation, they will compete hard and fast. You can emphasize a variety of things – from always jumping to the ball, properly closing out, trapping the inbounds pass, etc., on defense and dribble at with backdoor/handoff, proper screening on ball or off ball, breaking the trap, etc., on offense.
In his 37th season as head coach of the Lord Jeffs, David Hixon entered the 2013-14 season with an overall won-lost record of 693-252, a winning percentage of 73.3. His teams won a NCAA Division III championship in 2006-07 and again last April in Atlanta, finishing both of those seasons with a 30-2 record. Amherst has averaged 25 wins per season since 2000-01 and has been ranked in the D3hoops.com Top 25 for 104 consecutive weeks.
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