Andy Hill, a former UCLA basketball player, reflects on the impact of his college coach, John Wooden, after 25 years of leaving campus.
It took Andy Hill 25 years after leaving his college campus to realize how much Wooden meant to him. Those were lost years in which he could have learned even more from the late UCLA men’s basketball coach. "I’m the butt of the joke," Hill, a little-used guard on three Bruins national championship teams in the early 1970s, tells USA TODAY Sports ."I’m the laugh of the punch line. Twenty-five years? Really?" Hill thought Wooden didn’t care much about him because he was a reserve.
He was more stern father than coach. It’s true that Wooden paid more attention to his starters than his bench players. But when Hill allowed himself to open his eyes to the bigger picture, he realized Wooden was instructing all of his players equally. After Hill became president of CBS Productions, he realized his most valuable life lessons came from his coach. That’s when he reached back out to Wooden … 2½ decades late
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