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Need a coach? Get to know these guys

By Seth Wickersham
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

This story appears in the September 21 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Dan Parker visits the tiny coffee room in his 24th-floor Atlanta office for a little ego gratification. Sometimes the flat screen that's permanently tuned to ESPN will frame a college basketball coach who is hip-deep in a lovefest: love for his school, players, fans, alumni and, most of all, his job. The words do more than bemuse Parker, a tall, slender 62-year-old with gray hair neatly parted to the right. They empower him ...

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