[Mick]

Even though he was a doctor (of some kind), Dr. Tom never struck me as understanding how to coach (and recruit) smart kids, but at least he was smart enough to figure that out and bolted PDQ.  Monty seemed to have caught on pretty quickly, and really thrived on it in the second half of his Stanford coaching career.

I don't know the discipline of his actual doctorate.  His thesis involved sports history.

The year before he went to Stanford, he was at Boston College, and they reached the Elite Eight, having knocked off USF, #2 DePaul and a highly ranked Kansas team.  BC was known as the 'cerebral' team, which probably helped pave the way for him at Stanford.

Interesting...when he coached at Lafayette prior to BC, he finished first or second in conference all six years.  The year he reached the Elite Eight at BC, he only finished fourth in the league.  And he never won the conference at Iowa...in fact, in thirteen years, he only finished second once.

[Mick]

Even though he was a doctor (of some kind), Dr. Tom never struck me as understanding how to coach (and recruit) smart kids, but at least he was smart enough to figure that out and bolted PDQ.  Monty seemed to have caught on pretty quickly, and really thrived on it in the second half of his Stanford coaching career.

I don't know the discipline of his actual doctorate.  His thesis involved sports history.

The year before he went to Stanford, he was at Boston College, and they reached the Elite Eight, having knocked off USF, #2 DePaul and a highly ranked Kansas team.  BC was known as the 'cerebral' team, which probably helped pave the way for him at Stanford.

Interesting...when he coached at Lafayette prior to BC, he finished first or second in conference all six years.  The year he reached the Elite Eight at BC, he only finished fourth in the league.  And he never won the conference at Iowa...in fact, in thirteen years, he only finished second once.