Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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Tony Bennett and Virginia's 2019 championship run was LEGENDARY 🏆@UVAMensHoops pic.twitter.com/vx2sFrnamm
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) October 17, 2024
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Stay gold, Ponyboy.
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Tony Bennett and UVA basketball made me fall in love with sports, college sports specifically. I went to the youth camps a few times growing up, even got to meet him and shake his hand. UVA games were appointment viewing from 2014 on, as I’m sure they were for everyone else. I became a UVA junkie, reading everything I could about the team. Through the ups and downs of postseason play until 2019, I was never worried. I always knew TB would be on the sidelines the next winter. Tony was always consistent, you knew what you were getting into when you sat down to watch a game.
My dad and I always go to a game in December, and it’s always my favorite day of the year. In recent years, I’ve really learned to not take the moments of watching a TB led team for granted, and now that it’s over, I look back and I smile. I’m sad that it’s over, but it opened a whole new world to me as a kid, and for that I am grateful.
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UVA All Time Greats
- Thomas Jefferson
- Tony Bennett
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CTB lied.
Joy did not come in the morning.
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Hahahhaha. RPlez wins greatest first post ever.
Shit, you literally dont know me!
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Afraid not. Rajesh can never be topped.
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Earnest Tony appreciation: Tony made me love and follow a sport I already loved and followed even more. And he seemed like a legit good dude in a profession often filled with weird sociopath types. I wish him luck in his future endeavors, be they law, dentistry, or what have you.
I also loved discussing his flaws because for me, that’s all part of the fun, and I hope enjoy discussing his successor’s flaws just as much, but I suspect I won’t.
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Dentistry hahahahahha
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Fresh, today of all days, can we please not criticize Tony’s passions?
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Here’s what I think of that
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Thought this was really sweet. Got me choked up again.
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This was a truly great summation of Tony Bennett.
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Agreed. It’s an amazing article.
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Husbands love your wives…
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Really takes an amazing amount of humility – especially for someone so competitive – to realize he’s not the right man for the job, AND be at peace with that decision.
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I am sad again. Thanks for sharing though
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In the end his greatest strength as a Coach was also his greatest weakness. An unwavering commitment and belief in his way of building a program to compete at the highest level of college basketball and unwillingness to change that approach as everything about the sport off the court changed.
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The fact is, Tony left for absolutely the right reasons. None of us wanted it to end this way. But neither did he. He will miss the competition. But he will miss, most of all, developing young men into the best versions of themselves, on and off the court.
What is evident from his press conference is that he is leaving now for the very reason that we all love him so. He is a good, and decent man who refuses to compromise himself or the program for, as the article says, “the hollow quest to win.” For this reason, he will always be a winner.
God bless and Godspeed Tony Bennet.
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