"Experience Holds Its Graduation at the Grave"

"Upon first hearing their coach deliver the lecture on precisely how to pull your socks on, scores of freshmen rolled their eyes—yet there was Allen, decades later, visiting his son's high school team to give another generation the same spiel. Wooden's great strength was a knack for knowing when and what to change, and when to leave things be. As college campuses such as UCLA's were in revolt, he could coach teams to all those titles and set a record with 88 straight wins in one stretch, because he let sands shift, but only over bedrock."

Alexander Wolff in Sports Illustrated recalls John Wooden.