Fame Is Trumped by Intimacy

Monday Devotional

I belong to my beloved,

And his desire is for me.

Song of songs 7:10

John Wooden was the undisputed best at what he did.  You can debate the greatest college football coach of all time; you can debate the best professional basketball coach.  But there’s no debating the best college basketball coach of all time.

It was John Wooden, hands down.

Wooden’s UCLA Bruins won ten NCAA championships.  No other coach has won more than four.  In an incredible three-and-a-half-year run, his Bruins went undefeated for eighty-eight straight games.  Now that it seems as though twelve-year-olds are entering the NBA draft, it’s highly unlikely any other coach will ever have a program stable enough to match that string.