Excerpted from the Feb. 8 issue of UMN News:
Why players might seek his counsel
How many Division I head basketball coaches have law degrees? Without crunching the numbers on that one, the guess here is somewhere around one.
[Jim] Molinari gained a juris doctor from DePaul University in 1980 while helping coach the Blue Demon basketball team. After passing the bar and working as a summer associate at a big firm in Chicago ("I was a tax drone," he quips), Molinari decided to turn his attention to coaching.
Coach Mo believes having a law degree helps make him a better coach, and made the following observation: "We tie our goals to our values--like effort, like discipline, like unselfishness. Whether it's a law firm or coaching, a lot of those principles are the same."
Read the whole article at: http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/A_love_of_teaching.html
