I have heard of many occasions when academics rely on children to explain why a game works and then rely on their own area of specialisation to analyse the game.

When we talk about how improvisation works, we explain that it's like a pizza. Everyone gets to put a new topping on it, but it's all on the same crust.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, / And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? / Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: / The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

When I went up to Michigan State, its presentation was more aggressive than Kent State and academics was pushed more. The coaches showed me film of what they want me to do and I've been doing what they showed me my whole life.

When you heard Curt Gowdy call a game, you knew it was a big game.