Throughout the NCAA Women’s Basketball 🏀 season I have bragged on Coach Kenny everytime I could, even when he was beating down Duke (Hokies 2, Blue Devils 1).
Brooks was the type of Coach that sooooooo many people wanted to claim as their own and for good reason. Brooks is what’s right about the College game today. The folks in his hometown of Waynesboro, Virginia were proudly on the We Love Kenny train 🚆 this week as were the people in Lexington that remember the early days at VMI.
I fit into the endless group of people that went through successful season after successful season at the helm of James Madison University with Coach Brooks. Naturally you have to add the members of Hokie Nation that discovered the talents of the Coach of the Valley inside of the past decade.
Virginia Tech led Louisiana State 59-50 late in the third quarter before the Tigers 🐅 went on a 24-6 run that took the Hokies from nine up to nine down. The fight in VT won the remainder of the contest 7-5 but sadly the damage had been done.
Brooks took over a program that wasn’t accustomed to getting invited to the Big Dance all that often and in his third full recruiting class took the program to a Top Seed and eventually to its first ever Final Four appearance.
Yes, getting to Monday night would have been nothing short of Amazing but the fact that this year’s ride pulled into the Station just short of winning a Natty doesn’t make it any less enjoyable for those of us that have been on the Kenny Brooks train for a long, long time.
Keep up the Excellent work, Sir !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 