Trim, refreshed, upbeat, Wright says he’s shed the self-inflicted strain that gnawed more and more each season as the impeccably dressed architect of an improbable national powerhouse in the tony Philly suburbs.
“Just being free, to really experience everything, has been incredible,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I know it sounds simple and stupid. But all of us coaches, we’re really out of our minds. People say it’s not healthy. No, it’s not. But it’s just what you do.”
Wright had tried to bury the thought when he coached that he wasn't on the brink of burnout. That he wasn’t one more obsessed coach who couldn’t let the game go.
“And I now know I was one,” he said.
“Just being free, to really experience everything, has been incredible,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I know it sounds simple and stupid. But all of us coaches, we’re really out of our minds. People say it’s not healthy. No, it’s not. But it’s just what you do.”
Wright had tried to bury the thought when he coached that he wasn't on the brink of burnout. That he wasn’t one more obsessed coach who couldn’t let the game go.
“And I now know I was one,” he said.
Jay Wright at ease leaving Nova after 'fighting it' as coach
Jay Wright settled in a booth at the restaurant across the street from the basketball gym he called home for two decades and the cheerful waitress quizzed him at lunch if he had dined here before. “I worked at the university for a long time,” Wright said, with just a tinge of modesty. Could it...
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