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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. Sort order. Dec 18, Jonathan rated it really liked it. He believed that the university would have extraordinary difficulty raising the funds needed year after year to meet the costs of travel, as well as expense of adding the sports programs required to join a new conference. He felt, too, that Lipscomb - a church-affiliated school squeezed among the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and other Division I programs in the state of Tennessee - would have difficulty luring the level of student-athletes needed to have a strong program.
Lipscomb contended annually for NAIA championships, but at Division I, Meyer believed, the team might have trouble continuing that tradition. He felt that Lipscomb should have more appreciation for the strong programs it already had.
In the end he resigned, feeling betrayed that the university made the decision without what he considered to be adequate deliberation. It was nice to hear how some healing of the relationship between Lipscomb and Meyer was triggered by Philip Hutcheson taking the AD job at Lipscomb. I also didn't know that, after resigning from Lipscomb, Meyer tried and failed to get the coaching job at Pepperdine. It's a shame that didn't work out.
It was interesting to see how Lipscomb's unique environment was described in the book. For example: David Lipscomb College was affiliated with the Meyers' church, the Church of Christ, and Lipscomb operated under a strict code of conduct, as if there were additional commandments beyond the first ten. When they were at Lipscomb, they could not have gone out to a restaurant and had a glass of wine, because the school's religious doctrine was so strict.
The book was quite frank about many of the Meyer family struggles The one subject that I noticed as conspicuously left mostly unexamined was Jerry Meyers' Don's son dismissal from the team: Before Jerry Meyer's senior season, he had violated team rules and Don Meyer kicked him off the team I was at Lipscomb at the time and heard rumors about what precipitated Jerry's dismissal.
Given that the book was so transparent in discussion of so many other aspects of the Meyer family, Olney's reticence on this subject seemed odd. Olney does a good job detailing many of the eccentricities that made Meyer the unique character that he is: his fondness for Captain D's, his humor, that he loved listening to Rush Limbaugh on long drives during recruiting trips, etc.
It's clear that growing up on a farm with a hardnosed father had a profound influence on his work ethic and parenting style. As a related aside, I found this anecdote to be quite remarkable and sad: once, when the pigs escaped from their pen, his dad kicked him "over and over" when he didn't figure out a way to contain them. Meyer is an interesting guy, and his story is quite inspiring.
I especially enjoyed the book given my connection to Lipscomb and time there during part of Meyers tenure.
Sep 20, Cindi rated it it was amazing Shelves: first-reads , non-fiction , inspirational-nonfiction. I will start this with a disclaimer. While I am a big sports fan, I am not a huge basketball fan, though I have a son who eats, sleeps and breathes the game. But I am, however, a Buster Olney fan. After winning this book through Goodreads First Read, I admit to holding onto it for awhile. I am so sorry that I did. This was quite possibly one of the most inspirational stories that I have ever read.
Having been a big sports fan my entire life, and having 3 sons who think that there is only one chan I will start this with a disclaimer. But news headlines, and the stories accompanying them, do not tell the whole story. While they may tell the story behind the accident, they do not always tell the story behind the man. This book does. As you read this book, you follow along as the accident and the aftermath unfolds.
You feel the struggles as Coach Meyer goes through the recovery process. You cry with him and his family over the cancer diagnosis. And you will see something that is extremely rare these days: Community. You will read as people from all walks of life come together in support of "Coach". People who were affected by him in some way.
Whether through his coaching, his basketball camps or his faith. His faith is key, and it is very obvious throughout the entire book.
And as he is enduring the most trying time in his life, he is always still there for others. This is evident throughout the entire story. I am so glad I read this book. And I commend the author for telling the story, not only as a writer, but as a friend as well.
Most books of this regard are written by strangers of the person to whom the book is about. It was refreshing to read one by someone involved in the person's life. Coach Meyer has a lot to be thankful for, as he noted throughout the book. God first, his wife, his son and his two daughters and his grandchildren. And for all of those people who have been influenced by him. Not only as a coach, but as a man.
I would love to shake his hand someday. View 1 comment. Dec 10, Addison Kruse rated it it was amazing. This touching, true story was another one of my favorites from this semester. Don Meyer was in a terrible car accident that resulted in many injuries, BUT the car accident led doctors to discover that he had cancer, giving him more time on this earth since they caught it early.
This was another coaching book that my dad recommended to me and let me borrow, which makes it mean a lot to me. Aug 10, Dacy Briggs rated it it was amazing. However, my heart goes out to Olney and the work he did in getting this book together.
A great, small book that does not lack in feeling and emotion. Oct 24, Tim rated it it was amazing. Of course I was there for much of this. Aug 11, Accacia rated it it was ok. I love it. Jan 25, Bennett Gavrish rated it liked it. Despite a devoted attempt by Olney to paint the life of coach Don Meyer as inspirational and magical, the book never managed to connect with me as a reader. In the book, everyone at Northern State University which is ironically located in South Dakota praises Meyer for the positive values he instills in his players.
Of course, the car accident that How Lucky You Can Be centers around gives Meyer a chance to reevaluate those broken relationships — but that moral conflict prevented me from buying into what were meant to be heartwarming moments. Sep 15, Co2 rated it really liked it Shelves: first-reads , sports. And baseball writers know how to tell a story. Once they've written about a few thousand ball games, a good baseball beat writer knows what it takes to construct a story that both informs and entertains.
That's what Olney does with this story. Basketball coaches are a strange breed. Don Meyer is a very successful coach though he coaches on a small stage, Division 2. Other coaches in their fraternity know of him but a casual college basketball fan like me won't recognize the name. You'll recognize Meyer's style though.
A tough no nonsense disciplinarian. The only emotions he allows his team and coaches to see are anger and disgust. Read Bobby Knight writ small. Transformation occurs after a life threatening car accident followed by a cancer diagnoses. Coach Meyer struggles through rehab and learns to express his love and admiration to both his family and his basketball family.
One of the strong points of Olney's story is that he shows that a fully committed coach does have two families and that his athletic family very often overshadows his true family.
Olney also does a great job building the biography of Meyer, you get to know his parents and siblings, where he came from and how he becomes the coach, father and husband he was.
Then we follow the transformation into the man he becomes after the accident. Altogether a nice story, well told, well written. You'll be hearing about this book often.
Buy it if you like a good sports story and a good story about an interesting man. Dec 29, Mickey rated it really liked it.
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is a quick but fascinating read about the life of the nation's winningest men's college basketball coach - a man most people have never heard of.
I was fortunate enough to attend many of Coach Meyer's summer basketball camps and knew his kids slightly as we attended the same schools though they're a few years younger than I am. As I read the descriptions of Coach Meyer and his ballplayers some of whom were in my class every word rang true. When I heard the news of Coach's accident, I'd wo This is a quick but fascinating read about the life of the nation's winningest men's college basketball coach - a man most people have never heard of.
When I heard the news of Coach's accident, I'd wondered how this would affect his life and reading the book it seems as though, amazingly, it's mostly been affected for the better. The post-accident Coach Meyer described and that I've seen in TV interviews is very different from the stern disciplinarian I knew years ago and it seems a bit strange - but I still believe it's a good thing. Buster's research is spot-on and I loved learning bits about the Meyers and cracked up reading about the circumstances around their first date.
It's possible that a non-sports fan might find all the basketball references and descriptions a bit tedious, but it's so integral to who Coach Meyer is was that to leave it out would not be true to the story. Reader reviews mtnsk8tr. I don't follow team sports. Well, now I am the lucky one: I awarded it through LT's Early Reviewers, and really enjoyed this engaging, inspirational biography.
The side stories weren't distracting to me -- they simply made me want to keep reading to find out what happened.
While author Buster Olney clearly admires Meyer, he didn't seem blinded by adulation and presented Olney as someone with strengths and weaknesses, like all of us. This book is an inspirational account of strength in the face of adversity; of life priorities, and of transformation. It is well worth re-reading. The story was inspiring, however, I did not like the writing style of the author.
There were to many side stories, that I felt distracted from the real nature of the book. Many of these side stories were not in chronological order of the events happening in the life of Don Meyer. It seemed as the story jumped around and that lead to a lot of confusion on my part. Who was involved in an auto accident that changes his life and those around him. While this is a Basketball story there is much more to it than coaching basketball, it is about never giving up and the bonds that a coach forms with his players, the community and his family.
I found this book to be very entertaining and motivational. I am not really a "basketball" person but that didn't stop me from loving it. I read it quick, it was hard to put down.
There is a lot to be learned from Coach and his circle. I laughed and cried. Don Meyer's story is an incredible one. Anyone involved in sports or coaching will appreciate the honest details of this book. This book will inspire you to be a better person and will help you to remember to put your personal values in this order: Faith, family, work.
Buster Olney captures the wisdom, personality and strength of a humble man who deeply cares about others. Wonderful book! True story that touched my heart, as my husband is also battling cancer. Well written, sensitive, and thoughtful throughout.
Brought the reader directly into Coach Meyer's life and trials. Excellent book! It tells the story of basketball coach Don Meyer's struggle to recover from a horrific car accident and the diagnosis of terminal cancer.
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