Lefty Driesell On What Happened The Night Len Bias Died

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images GREENSBORO, NC - CIRCA 1981: Head coach Lefty Driesell of the Maryland Terrapins looks on against the North Carolina Tar Heels during an NCAA College basketball game circa 1981 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Driesell was the head coach of Maryland from 1969-86.Lefty Driesell left Maryland in the wake of Len Bias’s 1986 death and has never had much to say about it, perhaps understandably.

On the one hand, he has little to gain from talking about it and on the other, despite his courtside bluster and posturing as a bit of a country buffoon, he’s a decent man at heart, someone who once charged into a burning building to save 10…