Greg Hansen column: Take it from their former coach, Greg Patton — Clancy Shields (Arizona) and Luke Shields (Boise State), who are about to square off in the NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament, won't 'give an inch' as competitors.
Greg Hansen Greg Patton refers to Clancy Shields as “Fire" and Luke Shields as “Ice", doing so with such passion that capital letters are required.
People are also reading… Patton coached Luke and Clancy Shields at Boise State from 2005-09, a union so strong — a relationship so rewarding — that Patton turned down an offer to coach the nation’s No. 1 team to keep coaching the Shields brothers.Illinois won the 2005 NCAA men’s tennis championship, after which coach Craig Tiley resigned to become director of Tennis Australia.
“I could not bear the thought of leaving Luke and Clancy because I loved them and cared about them," says Patton. “And because the ride was so fun and exciting with them." Friday’s Boise State-Arizona match will be the long-awaited first time Patton has seen the Shields brothers go one on one outside of their daily practice sessions in Idaho from 2005–09.
At the same time, Luke has “gone home" to Boise, turning around a Broncos program that had struggled since Patton’s retirement five years ago
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