Brakes on a bus, brakes on a car. Brakes to make you a superstar.
I like to imagine that Tony Bennett features Kurtis Blow heavily in his recruiting. It brings a small smile to my face to think of the unflappable head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers solemnly peering across a recruit’s living room, beating his head as the iconic bass line of Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” floats out of what I assume would be a phone’s small speakers. It’d be a great way to explain his program’s identity; the Cavaliers use their proverbial brakes more often than any other team in the country, putting them dead last in tempo according to the numbers over at KenPom.