We kind of felt like he was our coach, didn’t we?
I mean, of course if we subscribe to a team, we consider it “ours.” But Coach Tony Bennett feels like a personal figure to some – especially those of us who are young enough to call ourselves lifelong fans.
I started watching Virginia Cavaliers basketball in 2011, just two years into Bennett’s Virginia tenure. Without revealing my age, I can admit I was young then – a kid, actually.
As a little girl who was playing basketball for the first time, I watched Bennett not only on the sidelines, but in his pressers.