John Wooden's Legacy

John Wooden is a man that knows what success is. Three of the most important traits from Wooden’s pyramid are competitive greatness, confidence, and enthusiasm. Competitive greatness is being

879 wins in 36yrs of coaching, 2nd most in men's college Division I basketball history behind Bob Knight.

Ralph “Shug” Jordan is widely considered Auburn’s greatest coach of all time and is a legend that any Auburn fan greatly admires. Jordan was a 1932 Auburn University graduate. Fans knew that he had a connection to the team already and had confidence that he would bring Auburn forward in football. Coming into Auburn, the football program had been struggling and Jordan had a long way to go to turn the team around. With 176 wins, including a SEC championship and a National Championship, in a twenty-five year

Bobby’s coaching career began in 1954 as an assistant coach at Howard College. After working as an assistant coach at Howard for two years he was offered a head coaching position at South Georgia Junior College. Bobby stayed with South Georgia for two years pulling double duty as head coach of the football team and athletic director. Bobby

Hard work was instilled into Larry Bird from a young age. His family was not wealthy and his parents worked two jobs trying to provide for their family of six. Larry Bird saw how hard they worked and always tried to help out by having

Karl Malone also known as the “ mailman” grew up on a small family farm in Summerfield, Louisiana. He faced many challenges like his father committing suicide when he was only three years old. He worked very hard to help make up for his father's absence. Karl started to play basketball at a very early age and he was good at it. He struggled to get good grades but his mother told him “grades before basketball”. After he improved his school work he lead Summerfield High School to three consecutive state titles. When he finished his successful time In high school It was time for collage.

He was a top ten candidate for the wooden award. Established career highs in points (24) and 3-pointers (5) and

He played baseball, basketball, football, and track, and was the only player in UCLA history to

Thibodeau, who was the former head tactician of the Chicago Bulls from 2010 to 2015, was the most coveted coach on the market. He won nearly a remarkable 65 percent of his games in five seasons spent with the Bulls, but was given the pink slip last season amidst speculation of a feud with the team’s general manager Gar Forman, according to the league’s official website.

John Biggers was an artist, a teacher, and so much more in between. His childhood lead to his success but also a tragic story that didn’t stop him from becoming a model to many of those around him, showing that even with some of the worst and most painful accidents anything can be achieved through hard work. So are you going to stand around and not leave your print on this world or are you going to get up and leave your legacy for those around you just as John Biggers?

John McLendon was one of the most influential collegiate basketball coaches. His stats will be a little unimpressive compared to the other coaches on this list. Nevertheless the stats are what every other coach would like to have. He coached from 1941 with the North Carolina College for Negroes to 1969 with Denver Rockets a professional team. McLendon had 523 wins and 165 loses. This is a solid amount of wins and losses but nothing sensational. He led North Carolina to 8 CIAA titles and took Tennessee State to 3 straight NAIA titles. These stats were groundbreaking at his time. Arguable his greatest stat was He was the first coach in history to win three consecutive national titles.

Abraham Lincoln was was taller than average for his time. He was born in February of 1809 to a well off family. At six four he was considered to be a homely man. So much so that he was once told by a young girl that it may help if he grew a beard. For the man that is most famous for freeing the slaves he didn’t meet one until he reached adulthood. When he did he knew right away that he needed to stop it. He got his beliefs about slavery from his father

He first became my coach in the fourth grade when I joined AAU basketball. He put together a team of players who were serious about basketball and wanted some harder competition from other towns. I was lucky enough that I got asked to be on the team. We had practice every Sunday, and we’d have tournaments about every other Saturday during the winter season. All of us girls got really close beings we were together basically every weekend. My coach wasn’t all that strict beings we were only fourth graders, but he sure did put us to work. We maybe had two or three one-minute breaks for that whole hour and a half of practice.

A number of able college coaches have at one time or another joined the pros. Fred Schaus (West Virginia) of the Los Angeles Lakers and Eddie Donovan (St. Bonaventure) of the New York Knickerbockers are two of the most notable recent ones. But never before has the NBA gotten a coach who was as famous, esteemed and skilled at handling athletes as Frank McGuire. In his nine years at the University of North Carolina he consistently produced a national basketball power. He did it with players he brought south from the streets of New York, and that he could do this despite the intense competition for metropolitan-area boys is indicative of the personality of the man. McGuire was born and raised in New York 's Greenwich Village, the 13th child of an Irish cop. He worked on the docks, he played pro basketball (in the unassuming American League), he coached at his alma mater, St. John 's University, and he made lasting, loyal friends by the hundreds. It was through his friends that he recruited New York 's best basketball players for a

Firstly, Branch McCracken, the coach of the 1938 to 1943 and also 1946 to 1965 Indiana Hoosier, was one of the top 3 coaches statistically scoring teams in IU basketball. With both seasoned combined he saw a great record of 364-174. During his intermission between the two times that he coached McCracken served in the United States Army for World War 2. Coaching Indiana he lead them to have six perfect seasons which averaged around 24-0. The Hoosiers were unstoppable and they went all the way to win a NCAA title and 20 wins, which at the time was the record. This win put him in the record books as the youngest coach ever to win a NCAA tournament. The 20-3 record would not again be beat for thirteen years until broken by Indiana again (Pfeiffer). McCracken was also never a hateful and biased person, he viewed all players as equal and did not think of discrimination was responsible for recruiting Bill