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I’m not sure if it was the nice weather yesterday that had me in such a good mood; maybe it’s the huge amount of basketball success that we’ve been enjoying that makes me more forgiving than usual. Or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been up all night working on an assignment that has just about fried my brain. Whichever of those three is at work, something has to be up, because I recently read a Pat Forde article that I thought was pretty good. It discusses former Cat Sean Woods (a prominent member of Rick Pitino’s very early tenure here), and is actually a pretty even, interesting look at the guy’s current success as a Division-One coach at Mississippi Valley State. The relevant part of the article reads as follows:
“These guys don’t understand what tree they come from,” Sean Woods said, gesturing at his players after a recent practice.
The Rick Pitino coaching tree has sprouted a lot of strong branches in a lot of places; former assistants Billy Donovan and Tubby Smith have won national titles, and several others who played or coached under Pitino have taken teams to the NCAA tournament. Woods aspires to be the latest, but he’s trying to do it from the least-privileged of all locations.
Despite the inherent difficulty of four years at a budget-strapped school with scant heritage of success, the job hasn’t aged Woods a bit. The record has crept from 7-25 to 9-23 to 11-19 to 17-11, but he doesn’t look a day older now than he did playing point guard for the “Unforgettables,” Kentucky’s band of overachievers who pushed Duke to the brink of elimination in the greatest college basketball game ever played. Woods is in game shape and wrinkle-free, very much resembling the hard-luck point guard who, on the night of March 28, 1992, made the shot that set up “The Shot.”
The article belabors, of course, the ’92 Dook game that college basketball highlight videos would still be playing twenty years after the fact. But if you can get past that and look at what it has to say about Woods himself, I definitely recommend checking it out. We give the Fivehead a hard time around here, and that’s mostly because he asks for it, but I have no problem giving credit where credit is due. Here, credit is deserved for highlighting the work ethic and character that Woods has put into coaching at a sub-sub-par school at the corner of Nowhere and B.F.E.
It’s a little piece of history that, if you remember, makes you nostalgic; if you don’t, it’ll make you grateful. It makes you appreciate, regardless of your UK history, the coach and players we have now, and our ability to be perpetually successful. Most of all, though, it makes you ask what it’s like to be an “Unforgettable” that only wishes there were some things he wouldn’t remember.
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February 29th, 2012 at 9:04 am
Seriously guys…. this makes the third time this has been posted on here. We get it, it was a good article. Can we get some new material?
February 29th, 2012 at 9:05 am
BOB KNIGHT IS the biggest FU***HEAD ON EARTH!! Segment on Mike and Mike and they were talking about some of the best teams in college basketball and who to watch fo rthe tourney.. The word “KENTUCKY” was never used by KNight or even mentioned by either Greeny or Golic! Something needs to be done!!!!
February 29th, 2012 at 9:05 am
if UK had won that game with ‘the shot’, do you think it would be referred to as “the greatest game ever played”?
February 29th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Repeat.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:10 am
In other breaking news JFK was shot & smoking may cause cancer.
#destroycoreynichols
February 29th, 2012 at 9:10 am
So, ain’t it funny how they talk about the pitino coaching tree… tubby, sucks now – billy d, what’s he done the last 5 years – cronin, coaches thugs – willard, its seton hall, people…
And what has rick done since he left UK, 1 ff and 3 nit’s. Time for rick to bang another skank to keep his name in the media.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:11 am
This is the exact same post from you at 9 yesterday!come on!
February 29th, 2012 at 9:13 am
#3 Heck no! Is that even a question?!?
February 29th, 2012 at 9:14 am
Hoosiers and Assembly Hall show why they are the best in the country last night. coRUPPt could only dream of having fans that good.
Hoosiers > Hillbillies/BBN
February 29th, 2012 at 9:14 am
Matt jones posted this yesterday not him.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:16 am
Why is this surprising coming from Forde? Sean was a Pitino player at UK.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:17 am
For someone who writes on KSR you would think he would read it as well. I would also think they would have a KSR forum where they would post the topic they are starting so this wouldn’t happen. Guess some might have missed yesterday’s so no harm.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:18 am
#10, you are clueless. That is all.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:19 am
That should be #9.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:23 am
I kept refreshing the page cause I thought it was from yesterday.. Guess I was wrong!
February 29th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Nichols sucks
February 29th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Forde loves Pitino. Of course he’d be complimentary to a Pitino player.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:38 am
The day Sean Woods has to be explained to readers in parentheses is the day I start feeling like an old UK fan. I am 29. That day is today.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:49 am
18 – Now you know how we felt back in the day explaining the likes of Dan Issel, Larry Stamper, Kevin Grevey, and Goose Givens to you.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:51 am
18, CorEy may be doing that for all of us who are over the age of 60, you know how we CAN tend to forget things.
18, CorEy may be doing this for all of us who are over the age of 60, you know how we tend to forget things.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:53 am
Hoo Hoo you still a stupid Hosier, no one can ever forget that!
February 29th, 2012 at 11:04 am
I don’t feel like reading this entire comment section, but he was VERY positive about Anthony Davis and the entire UK team on The Jim Rome Show yesterday as well. I think he is building us up to see us fall harder…there must be some ulterior motive.
February 29th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
WKU should of hired this guy as the new coach! Ohhh why did they stick with a guy who was already here and it didn’t work out?
February 29th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Is this real? Forde has no problem with Kentucky, all his beef is with Cal. This is not a pro-UK article, it is a pro-Pitino article – he and Forde are BFF
February 29th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
19 & 20- I know, I thought about all the times I’ve heard about Givins, the James lee dunk, rupp’s runts, Kyle Macy’s free throw shouting routine, etc! I now know how you all felt!