Coach, Henry Bibby and Southern Cal

Noticed this in the LA Times yesterday and it made me smile:

When UCLA alumnus Henry Bibby became the coach at USC, Wooden counseled him over the phone but declined invitations to visit.

"He would say, ‘Henry, you are one of my boys, but I will never go watch you coach over there,’ " Bibby said. "He was UCLA through and through."

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Classic. I love Coach.

When I heard Coach speak, he referred to it as “the other school.”

The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Jun 7, 2010 2:31 PM PDT reply actions

God bless Coach!

I am still on stage 1 of the 5 stage of grief. I just can’t accept that he’s actually gone. We love you coach, you are man among men, and have always made me proud to bleed Blue and Gold

by UCLABRU1 on Jun 7, 2010 2:45 PM PDT reply actions

I loved out loud when I read this. Good for Coach.

I hope everyone is flying their banners so Coach can see them from heaven.

Go Bruins!

by uclaluv on Jun 7, 2010 2:54 PM PDT reply actions

"over there"

I think we have found a new phrase to use besides Just$C.

by Nestor on Jun 7, 2010 3:05 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

The colonel in charge of our NROTC unit at UCLA was also in charge of the U$C NROTC unit. He called U$C “that other school” & always talked about when he had to go “over there”. I’m sure he did the same in reverse at U$C (he wasn’t an alum of either school), but it still stuck as a way of saying U$C without having to actually say it in polite company :-)

by impaulv on Jun 7, 2010 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Words cannot describe his place in our hearts!

Tears have not stopped and I don’t think they ever will whenever our thoughts are about him. God Bless our Coach!

by Blue Critter 2 on Jun 7, 2010 3:56 PM PDT reply actions

That quote stood out to me

when I read the article, too. Makes me happy that he is a Bruin through and through. If a man like Coach can dislike “the other school,” then I don’t feel bad at all for hating it.

by GoBruins2011 on Jun 7, 2010 5:21 PM PDT reply actions

Something Donahue

should be saying to the traitor poodle.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jun 7, 2010 8:09 PM PDT via mobile reply actions

Tasser, Donahue cannot even hold a candle to coach Wooden

let alone tell Ken Norton Jr. to his face what coach said to Bibby.

All weekend long, I stayed home, teary eyed reading about this exceptional human being and the myriad ways he touched our lives. His passing, at least for myself or perhaps countless others, represents the end of a chapter in my life during which UCLA’s triumphs, coupled with coach’s affectingly profound philosophies, actually mirrored our own formative years. Joyful, excitedly adventurous and filled with promises of an even better tomorrow, we faced adulthood emulating coach’s teams although none of us ever consistently achieved the same way coach did with his teams.

Several years ago, at the Wooden Classic, coach was on a golf cart, driven by some presumably UCLA officials no more than five or six feet before me as they exited after the ceremony. In those fleeting moments, I swear I saw part of my youth reappearing again.

Coach will forever live on in our mind because he was a part of us.

by Htse005 on Jun 8, 2010 2:13 AM PDT reply actions