Over 100 years ago Sigmund Freud coined the term 'p...s envy' (you can Google it if you want...). It described a purported envy one sex felt toward the other.
Borrowing from Freud, I would like to officially coin the term GENO ENVY SYNDROME. I suggest that there are some unknown number of coaches, perhaps whole programs, that suffer from such. It, for example, could explain MM's behavior at the Final Four.
The gist of the diagnosis would be coaches that somewhere in their psyche (however repressed the thought is) know that they don't have the skills that Geno has and it drives them nuts. It leads to irrational behavior (MM) and stupid actions (complaining to the NCAA about a phone call that everybody knows was purely innocent).
I don't know that I will ever be able to get this diagnosis accepted by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) 0f the American Psychiatric Association, but I shall defend its existence. I think it could be compared to the syndrome referred to as the Napoleon Complex; its not an official diagnosis....but everybody knows its real.
PS: Yes, Alice, I am a shrink.
Borrowing from Freud, I would like to officially coin the term GENO ENVY SYNDROME. I suggest that there are some unknown number of coaches, perhaps whole programs, that suffer from such. It, for example, could explain MM's behavior at the Final Four.
The gist of the diagnosis would be coaches that somewhere in their psyche (however repressed the thought is) know that they don't have the skills that Geno has and it drives them nuts. It leads to irrational behavior (MM) and stupid actions (complaining to the NCAA about a phone call that everybody knows was purely innocent).
I don't know that I will ever be able to get this diagnosis accepted by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) 0f the American Psychiatric Association, but I shall defend its existence. I think it could be compared to the syndrome referred to as the Napoleon Complex; its not an official diagnosis....but everybody knows its real.
PS: Yes, Alice, I am a shrink.