Why does digger phelps hate louisville

So let me ask you. In your years with the Irish you beat 1 ranked teams seven times. Tell me about it. I take a timeout. We make some changes and proceed to go something like 6 for 6 from the field. We force 4 turnovers and UCLA goes 0 for 6 from the field. We cut the lead down to three.

Wooden motions, play on. We then go up one. UCLA then finally takes time. We win. I told the assembled media after the game, tell Coach Wooden, I read his book. Yes, we had so many of our games on weekends run nationally before cable television was born.

He captured the drama as well as anyone. Your career transcended basketball. You did some governmental work under the late George H.

Coach Ara Parseghian was my Big Brother. He eventually had me help tackle bad elements in urban centers through economic empowerment. I also did work in New Orleans after Katrina to help rebuild the community.

I wanted to set up a culinary school to help create jobs for the underprivileged, figuring all the restaurants would generate job opportunities. I also did some work for the United Nations, including serving as an observer for an election in Cambodia.

What was it like at ESPN? I was close with Jim Valvano. Jim, John Saunders and Vitale had done studio shows. For ten years, I combined game broadcasts and studio work. We were family.

It was a ton of fun. Feb 23 Lexington, Ky. Mar 2 Westwood, Calif. Mar 9 Washington, D. Just another check in the negative column, Digger.

You're now at minus three billion and one. Furman How to watch Louisville vs. Loading comments Share this story Twitter Facebook. But in those years, you could set your watch by Notre Dame. San Francisco came to South Bend, Ind. They left And the passions those modern schools generate — both over-the-top negative and over-the-moon positive? That was Notre Dame basketball. Times It was Phelps who, as a high school coach in , had audaciously written Ara Parseghian and declared that someday he would do for Notre Dame basketball what Parseghian was doing for Irish football.

It was Phelps who, at age 29, got the job after leading Fordham to its glorious joyride in Football was, and is, king in South Bend. Phelps asked how he could get some exposure for a program that never had been to a Final Four. So that is what the Irish did. A lot of it this season, though, is a reflection of the fact that this coaching staff — championed by a year-old first-year head coach — was thrown together right before the start of the season.

This could have gone really, really wrong, and it would have been hard to blame any of the adults involved. Deng Adel, who lost his voice, described the last play in regulation: "It was just the scouting report Once the ball screen came, Anas Mahmoud yelled 'down it! From early October through right now, David Padgett has done an unbelievable job.

Seeing that work and that improvement in real time has been a joy. And against the team that should provide an in-game sign artist with more low hanging fruit than any other. We basically gave this kid his choice of any automated weapon to carry with him into a fight, and he chose a twig. Not even a sharp twig. Having a guy up on you for every single dribble takes a toll.