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...There certainly are young athletes who have dreams. We try to make the point that a very small percentage go on to pro careers. But look what the pros are doing to us now: the National Football League is pressuring, and probably will end up drafting, players after their freshman or sophomore years. The tragedy is that we've become minor-league training camps for the pros, a place for young people to build up their strength and experience, to get noticed, before they try to take a shot at the pros...
...Harvard men's baseball team expected to beat some college teams on its Florida road trip. But beating pros was a spring training bonus...
...small for the pros by maybe 4 in. in van Breda Kolff's opinion, Carril embarked on a career as a high school government teacher and basketball coach. He won early and often. In 1966 he applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One year later, as van Breda Kolff was completing a five- year-long coaching tour de force at Princeton, he recommended Carril to succeed him. The incumbent thought his protege would be a hard sell. "Pete is not in Princeton's image," says van Breda Kolff. "He is not gray flannels...
Carril did not make it easy for Hill, or anybody else, for that matter. "He can be absolutely brutal sometimes," says Hill, wincing even now. "He would yell 'See this. See that' at me," recalls Hill, who became one of the great floor leaders in the pros, dictating the flow of the game. "In the beginning, I didn't see anything...
...defensemen are offensive players," Brown said. "Part of our game is to get into the flow like pros like Phil Housely do. The coaches encourage us to fill the open lanes...