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Title: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: VULB#62 on October 19, 2012, 07:53:08 PM
This was posted on October 14 in the Post Tribune.


http://posttrib.suntimes.com/sports/mutka/15756222-452/john-mutka-drews-remain-basketballs-first-family.html (http://posttrib.suntimes.com/sports/mutka/15756222-452/john-mutka-drews-remain-basketballs-first-family.html)
Title: Re: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: HC on October 19, 2012, 09:31:40 PM
Six seniors and five freshmen? Oops :o 
Title: Re: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: LaPorteAveApostle on October 19, 2012, 10:18:43 PM
The Post-Trib clearly has all of their fact-checkers working on election-year stuff...
Title: Re: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: chef on October 19, 2012, 10:32:01 PM
How about John Thompson and sons John Thompson III and Ronny Thompson.
Title: Re: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: wh on October 20, 2012, 06:23:12 AM
Long time Crusader fans will remember another highly successful family trio, the Bennetts - father Dick, son Tony, and daughter Kathi.  Dick coached UWGB from '85-'95, then went on to coach at Wisc. and Wash. St.  Like Bryce, Tony played for his dad at GB.  He was 2-time Mid Con POY; Bryce was POY 3 times.  Both went on to play in the NBA.  Also like Bryce, he was an asst. under his Dad (Wash. St.) and became head coach when his Dad retired in 2006.  Tony is now head coach at Virginia.  Kathi is currently head coach at N. Illinois.  She was also head coach at Evansville and Indiana.
Title: Re: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: VULB#62 on October 20, 2012, 08:30:31 AM
What I got out of the Mutka article was that what makes the Drews unique is that all three coached at the same D-I school.  Not mentioned was, that with Bryce's 2011-12 season, each Drew has had at least one regular season championship at the same school as well. But it's fun to also speculate about other coaching families.
Title: Re: Nice recent tribute to the Drew coaching family
Post by: SadersofthelostArc on October 23, 2012, 11:21:58 PM
Most importantly re: the Bennetts----they created the Pack-Line defense which is being used more and more widely across high school and college hoops....see Virginia for a recent example....great bball family, the Bennetts