{"id":1901,"date":"2011-02-09T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2011-02-09T07:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:05:36","slug":"coach-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/02\/09\/coach-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1902\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/mac-6332.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1902\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/mac-6332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/mac-6332.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/mac-6332-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Mac Petty H&#039;82<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Announced yesterday. \u00a0Coach Mac Petty hanging up those size 42 sneakers. \u00a0A boatload of years. \u00a0A bigger boatload of victories. \u00a0A storied basketball resume as a player and a coach.<\/p>\n<p>A national champion!<\/p>\n<p>None of that even comes close to his BIG accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Petty is, quite simply, a maker of men. \u00a0Dozens of Wabash men, many of them players but many not, are in part who they are because Mac Petty made them that way. \u00a0Oh, he didn&#8217;t need to get &#8220;in their face&#8221; or make them run &#8217;til they puked. \u00a0He&#8217;s not that kind of guy. \u00a0No, simply being around Mac is enough to make many men want to be just like him. \u00a0Not the jump shot. \u00a0Not the move to the basket. \u00a0No, it&#8217;s just magic. \u00a0Mac is a man&#8217;s man &#8211; a gentleman is every respect. Don&#8217;t confuse that with soft. \u00a0He&#8217;s rock hard! \u00a0But he knows what it takes to play and win and live life the right way and that&#8217;s his standard. \u00a0Pure. \u00a0Simple. \u00a0No compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Those 42s will be awfully tough to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced yesterday. \u00a0Coach Mac Petty hanging up those size 42 sneakers. \u00a0A boatload of years. \u00a0A bigger boatload of victories. \u00a0A storied basketball resume as a player and a coach. A national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}