What Is Larry Brown Doing Coaching College Hoops?

What Is Larry Brown Doing At SMU?
FILE - In a Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, SMU head coach Larry Brown instructs his team during an NCAA college basketball game against Utah, in Dallas. Brown was 71 when he was hired by SMU, and hadn't coached in college since leading Kansas to the 1988 NCAA title, so there were more than a few question marks when he took over the Mustangs. Brown made the transition a seamless one, leading SMU to eight wins in its first nine games while creating excitement that Moody Coliseum hasn't seen in years.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
FILE - In a Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, SMU head coach Larry Brown instructs his team during an NCAA college basketball game against Utah, in Dallas. Brown was 71 when he was hired by SMU, and hadn't coached in college since leading Kansas to the 1988 NCAA title, so there were more than a few question marks when he took over the Mustangs. Brown made the transition a seamless one, leading SMU to eight wins in its first nine games while creating excitement that Moody Coliseum hasn't seen in years.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

At the age of 72, with the Naismith Hall of Fame on his résumé and his standing as the only basketball coach ever to have won both an NCAA championship and an NBA championship, you have to wonder why Larry Brown is riding the team bus nearly four hours down I-35 through Waco, Georgetown (not that Georgetown), Round Rock, and Austin to San Marcos and Texas State University; why at six one morning, he drives his Chevy Malibu to a Houston high school to scout a kid while Coach K flies in on his private jet.

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