There's a language rule around the University of Miami men's basketball program that's old-fashioned and straightforward: No swearing. None. Not on the court. Not in the locker room. Nowhere around a team function.
If a player does, a coach rebukes him. If it happens again, laps are run.
"When I first got here and heard the rule ..." junior forward Kamari Murphy says and stops, chuckling and shaking his head.
Get off Jim Larrañaga's lawn, right?
This is as good a place as any to start with how a 66-year-old coach, whose grandchildren sat behind the bench at the opening NCAA tournament games, relates to college kids as they head to the Sweet 16.