num_pages: 297
description: Think somewhere between a sneeze and a seed.The form emotion and pace feel like a impulsive frenetic comforting and starts and stops on dimes. The seed is the content solely derived from twenty-six first-person accounts of Virginia Mens Basketball from 2009 when head coach Tony Bennett and his staff arrived in Charlottesville until 2019 when the program won its first National Championship and after it became the first #1 seed to lose to a #16 seed in the NCAA Tournament the year prior.Back in his coaching days Dick Bennett Tonys father created a value system known as the Five Pillars (Humility Passion Unity Servanthood and Thankfulness). Tony continued the tradition at Virginia and gradually transformed the culture of the cellar-dwelling program he inherited into an elite sustainable family that develops men of character patience potential and tenacity to unlock that potential in basketball and beyond.I spent a year-plus gathering video interviews averaging 45 minutes and the initial transcriptions spanned over 225000 words. I took myself out culled for quality humor adversity and wisdom and edited the remnants for clarity while keeping them raw enough to mimic natural conversation. From there I broke them into paragraphs and lines arranged in sections themes and years and proceeded to stitch them together to form a collective memoir organized into an oral history of a decade.The resulting 90000 words let the players coaches staff members and student managers tell their own tale. After the National Championship Game in 2019 journalists from all over the country hammered the two-year turnaround from the biggest upset in college basketball history in 2018 but that comeback story doesnt happen without the previous eight seasons teams building upon one another and providing the platform for the National Championship to occur.So I made intangible .
language: English
title: intangible: the story behind Virginia's bigger-than-basketball program
publisher: Mountain Arbor Press