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Message: [QUOTE="PacoSwede, post: 4927583, member: 120"] interesting story. fans would learn a lot reading it. but it is limited. i wonder if geno himself would buy its overall take. it has some great quotes -- by geno and those around him -- and new (to us) details and revelations. but the writer has incorporated boatloads of conclusions, and they are not necessarily accurate. maybe she's guessed right -- and her thoughts do provide a [I]good[/I] story -- but only geno knows if that is the [I]true [/I]story. i'm sure, being a public figure often in the news, he's accustomed to being misinterpreted. anyway, i know that if the writer's portait is anywhere near true, i'm really happy to NOT be like geno. she paints a miserable life. i doubt that's accurate. the passage that was best to me: [I]Because even in the midst of four consecutive national titles and an 111-game win streak, 14 consecutive Final Fours, Auriemma could most see the mistakes that could’ve derailed everything. Even when they didn’t. Even when the trophy was sitting with his players in the back of the bus. “Only the painter knows where the smudges are on their painting,” he says. “If da Vinci is looking at the Mona Lisa and you’re looking at it with him, you’re saying, ‘That’s the greatest painting there ever was.’ In his mind, he’s going, ‘You know in how many places I f—ed that up? And nobody knows about it.’”[/I] that is sad, though the accomplishments are great. [/QUOTE]