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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2385177, member: 6761"] [I]The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong,[/I] said Kohelet (Ecclesiastes 9:11). Cynics add: "but that is the way to bet." Sure, talent talks and talent walks. Geno's the first to agree with that. But to be as great as Geno has been, there is a massive amount of just showing up (to quote someone I have absolutely no personal respect for: Woody Allen). When we think that Geno has been doing this at UConn since 1985.... Well, that's 32 seasons of organizing drills, scheming offensives and defenses, dealing with coaches, PR folks, schedules, player issues, Rotary Club talks--and on "off "days taking airlines and rental cars to watch some talented 10th grader in some broken-down gym play against kids with no basketball talent, just to show that he's interested--and then once the season is over (usually at the beginning of April) gearing up all over to do it again and again and again the next fall, well... I can't find, despite looking forever for it, but I read a quotation as a kid that completed Kohelet. "The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, [I][B]but he who prevails who shall be saved[/B][/I]." (I [I]think[/I] it's Augustine, but I've data searched his works and can't find it.) Anyway, Geno prevails because he's incredibly talented as a teacher but also because he [B][I]persists[/I][/B], with the same degree (though wiser and different) commitment to extraordinary excellence, year after year after year: despite all the pressure of his job, he just shows up. How many of us can make the same claim? How many of us even know anyone who has done that? [/QUOTE]

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