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[QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 4551293, member: 6911"]
Last year and this year were two of his finest coaching jobs of his career.  Indeed, they were two of the finest examples of coaching in any sport ever.  Recall that the previous year, his player of the year, Paige Bueckers, went down early on.  The remaining team members just looked at each other and tried to figure out what to do at first.  But Coach Geno melded that group into not just a coherent team, but a team that, with Paige returning for the playoffs, but clearly not the player she was before her injury, still made it into the national championship game.

This year he's lost arguably a Top Five team for most of the year: Paige, Azzi, CD, Patterson for some games, and others.  He's only been able to play five players who are effective for most of the season.  Yet they have won all but five games, and been in all of those games at the end, even against the defending national champions South Carolina.

That is absolutely brilliant coaching.  And he did it this year while suffering the pangs of loss from his mother's death, a loss that sent him into a depression, and kept him off the sidelines for several days.

A classic of coaching genius.  A brilliant job of toughness for the ages.

His legend grows.
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