Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARRY CREWS' father worked for seven years in the 1920s building a road through the Everglades; the first part of A Childhood concerns itself with a son imagining what his father, whom he never knew, might have thought about an Indian woman his father had known in the swamps: "He had not wanted her, but they had been in the swamp for three years. They worked around the clock, and if they weren't working or sleeping, their time was pretty much spent drinking or fighting or shooting gators. So since he could not have what he wanted, he tried...
...sour grapes, since when I came to Columbia I knew they wouldn't have that type of commitment--but I thought if I turned it around they would make the commitment." Penders did turn it around, but he still had to do most of the scouting and recruiting himself, with both of his assistant coaches having to teach Phys Ed classes. Only one secretary served the basketball office, along with seven other sports offices. "We'd get a letter out once a week," grins Penders. "I kind of felt we were doing it out of a brown...
Despite his recruiting success at Columbia, Penders also believes the admissions office was unsympathetic to the demands of a high-level program. During Penders's four years at Columbia, there were three different admissions directors. "One guy thought basketball was great and another didn't know where the gym was," he notes. "Harvard's not afraid to take a gamble on a kid," Penders adds. "At Columbia, I felt the admissions office was always worrying about what the rest of the league would think. At Harvard they don't give a darn...
Penders believes a lack of athletic scholarships, combined with high tuitions, are conspiring to bar top players from coming to the Ivy League. With no scholarships and a shoestring budget at Columbia, Penders thought this season would be the end of the rainbow for the Lions...
...thought I did a good job at Columbia and I wish I could have stayed to see it through--but because of the nature of the profession I wasn't able to," Penders concludes...