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Gene Keady is up at the board, his back to a small audience of subordinates, scribbling out a practice schedule in a script that might as well come with its own Rosetta Stone. As he writes, he asks questions. He does not ask as if he is testing these men. He is soliciting information. You would think after 46 years of coaching basketball, the past 24 of them here at Purdue, Keady would have all the answers he needs.
This is how he does it, though. Always has. Back when assistants Bruce Weber and Kevin Stallings were sitting behind him and the Boilermakers were preparing to play Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers, Keady would build his practice plans by soliciting ...