OT: John Wooden Dead at 99

Every great player (and quite possibly every player on those teams) under Wooden from the mid-1960's onward (Walton, Alcindor, Allen, etc.) was on the take via Sam Gilbert, a UCLA booster who would go on to represent many of those same players as an agent when they joined the NBA.  This is well documented and many players have since admitted it publicly.  The close relationship between Gilbert and the UCLA program (the team referred to him as Papa Sam) was even publicized at the time Wooden was still coaching and that relationship endured even after Wooden retired. 

Pete Carroll had one player who received substantial cash/gifts (and though it appears it almost certainly happened, the player has yet to admit it and no outside body has proven it so) from two criminals with no connection to the university whatsoever who wanted to be the player's agent when he left school.  No evidence has yet come to light that Carroll knew or could've/should've known about this arrangement (hence the long wait for the NCAA announcement).  He also had a player who drove his girlfriend's car, but it turned out his girlfriend's boss had helped her get the initial financing for the car and that said boss may have wanted to become said player's agent, though said boss had attended a rival school and had zero connection to USC (a situation nowhere near as bad as the Clarett loaner car situation that resulted in zero NCAA action).

One coach oversaw over a decade of rampant and blatant disregard for NCAA rules.  One coach oversaw a player who took money from an agent behind his back and some other non-trivial shenanigans (much like at Michigan under Lloyd Carr where Charles Woodson received money from a wannabe agent with no connection to the school).

So you're right, it probably isn't right to compare the two situations/coaches.

No reason to be sad indeed. 

At 99 there is a good chance you have buried not only your wife, perhaps a child or two (NOTHING more miserable I imagine) and probably all of your friends. 

Unless you are claiming other people's life force and "There Can Be Only One" 99 is plenty long a life.

Adored, Respected, Appreciated and Missed.  Hardly a sad day.

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