VILLANOVA, Pa. -- The K-9 unit dogs sniff around the baggage doors of each of the nine buses idling on the edge of the parking lot. Off in the distance, the sounds of sirens inch closer and closer to campus.
In the cocoon of his office, Jay Wright peeks through the blinds and out his window.
"Here comes our motorcade,'' he says. "This is crazy. Just crazy.''
The day after Villanova won its national championship, I texted Wright: "I want to have breakfast.'
"LMAO,'' he wrote back. "My pleasure.''
For each of the seven years that he was the Villanova coach and I was the team's beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, Wright and I met at the Villanova Diner and, over eggs and coffee, discussed the upcoming season.