RIP Lefty Driesell

[Uncle Rico]

The incomparable Lefty Driesell has passed away at the age of 92.  Built Maryland basketball into a powerhouse and won at Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State.

[Goose]

He was a great coach and loved his personality.

[Uncle Rico]

He was a great coach and loved his personality.

Best coach to never make a Final 4?  To be fair, some of his best teams played in an era of the 23-team tourney

[tower912]

He would have been perfect for DePaul.

Alas, another childhood hero.   RIP.

[HutchwasClutch]

Elephant in the room about Drisell being Bias’s cocaine death night after going 2 overall to Boston.  He never coached big time basketball again. 

Not sure where the warm/fuzzies recalling his career are from.  He admitted to a grand jury investigating Bias’s death telling one of his assistants to hide drug evidence from the dorm where Bias died.  That’s a pretty sick person. 

[Dr. Blackheart]

Elephant in the room about Drisell being Bias’s cocaine death night after going 2 overall to Boston.  He never coached big time basketball again. 

Not sure where the warm/fuzzies recalling his career are from.  He admitted to a grand jury investigating Bias’s death telling one of his assistants to hide drug evidence from the dorm where Bias died.  That’s a pretty sick person.

Also ran into a burning building as a bystander and saved 10 kids. Like most of us, he was flawed.

[HutchwasClutch]

Also ran into a burning building as a bystander and saved 10 kids. Like most of us, he was flawed.

Obstruction of justice in your own player’s death investigation is about as sick and immoral as it gets.  Let’s not whitewash it as a flaw. 

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Obstruction of justice in your own player’s death investigation is about as sick and immoral as it gets.  Let’s not whitewash it as a flaw. 

That’s as “immoral as it gets?” Cause I can think of A LOT more immoral things that that.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Obstruction of justice in your own player’s death investigation is about as sick and immoral as it gets.  Let’s not whitewash it as a flaw.

That’s a bit of a jump (whitewash). A grand jury refused to indict him on that charge, btw. Does that make it moral? Obviously not, nor should one ignore the good things he may have done like saving multiple lives. Do you consider “Schindler’s List” a whitewash movie? One’s life is flawed, and Lefty sure was.

[Lennys Tap]

That’s a bit of a jump (whitewash). A grand jury refused to indict him on that charge, btw. Does that make it moral? Obviously not, nor should one ignore the good things he may have done like saving multiple lives. Do you consider “Schindler’s List” a whitewash movie? One’s life is flawed, and Lefty sure was.

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