I loved Skip as a person. I really feel that he was probably as fine an example of a human being & the kind of person WF would want representing the University as anyone who has ever been associated with the school. He was instrumental in getting so many things done regarding improving the atmosphere at games, getting the students involved, etc. And there has to be a special place in heaven for anyone who would volunteer his time on the weekend to take dogs for a walk from the pound, as I have heard that he & his wife did. However, having said all of that, I never got the feeling that Skip was really all that great of a bench coach....and particularly on the defensive side of the game. I always had the feeling that his strategy was to get as many race horses as he could find, then put them on the floor and let them run. The idea was simply to try to outscore your opponent. And I think this is why his teams seem to run into difficulty in the post-season. As I have said, you can beat inferior teams with superior talent, but when you get into the post-season you eventually run into teams with equal talent....and you cannot beat those teams simply by trying to outscore them. So I question how much that Skip could have developed AT&T, though I don't doubt that the sheer magnetism of his personality would have guaranteed better results than were possible without him. In the first place, though, they weren't going to stay here long enough to do very much "developing". And, in retrospect, that class was probably overrated, anyway....no matter who was the coach. Just a few thoughts about a very complex person, God rest his soul.