Coach who coined The Process always looking for next nut to crack

It may have taken more than 30 years after his last championship for the wisdom of John Wooden to cross over from his own sport and permeate the language and thinking in Irish coaching circles, but since it did, he has been pretty much a constant and towering presence there.

Subsequent to Mickey Harte being one of his first public champions here, it now seems there’s more presentations than not at the annual GAA’s coaching conference that make some reference to the Wizard of Westwood.