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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainJ, post: 2374160, member: 1553"] [URL="http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2017/11/syracuse_basketball_coach_jim_boeheim_will_keep_on_coaching.html#incart_river_index"]Jim Boeheim set to be oldest coach in D-I history: 'Go as long as you can do a good job'[/URL] I actually logged in specifically with the intent to ask this, but got mired down in the China thread like I was in the movie, "Inception", the same way our military gets bogged down in nations literally, due to our rulers. Due to my status on here, I'd feel safer if I preface this by saying there is a good chance that Mike Waters is the best writer for the Standard, and I'll even forego the joke that I'd normally end this sentence with. I'll add to it that I enjoyed his article that followed this one, about the history of Coach Griffin, quite a bit. Ok, now that the disclaimers are out of the way, I want to also butter you up(all the precautious measures I take!) by saying that I respect the amount of basketball trivia this board knows, and when my own research came up a bit short possibly, I decided to ask some folks who were around for the Wooden years if this was true. Mike Waters writes: "[I]John Wooden, the UCLA coaching legend, was forced to retire at the age of 65 due to California's mandatory retirement age for state employees. In Wooden's last year at UCLA, the Bruins won the 1975 NCAA championship.[/I]" I'm trying to ascertain the veracity of this statement. Can any of you help me? From what I've read, I saw a lot of words like "surprised", and even "shocked". If Mike's statement was true, that would mean either that was false, or anyone who had those reactions were ignorant and out of the loop. I know many of you are big fans of government intervention and restrictions on liberty, but it seems hard to believe that such a law could exist that could force the best coach of all time to retire before his time. I'm not sure what year it was, be he has said he was also open to coaching in the NBA, and saw the advantages it would give his family, and he let them decide whether he should stay at UCLA or not. So it would seem that if he still wanted to coach, he knew there were other teams in the world besides the Bruins. Again, I'm not a fan of the government or any entity that forces people to act in any manner unnatural to them, if they are not harming anyone else, the same as our founding fathers felt(tm). That's why I had to find out if this was true, or if it was just one of the latest examples of #fakenews(albeit a far less important one than the usual load in non-sporting news). Thanks in advance. Kudos to Mike for most of the rest of the article. JB is like the Sphinx, and if I were a photoshopper, I'd post his face on it to end this post. [/QUOTE]

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