Orlando tubby smith biography

Orlando “Tubby” Smith 

Coach of the National NCAA Champion Kentucky Wildcats

&#;All we promise them is an education and the opportunity to be part of the winningest college basketball program in America,&#; Smith says.

Smith is selling something few other elite coaches dare to even try. He&#;s selling selflessness.”
Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News – Mar. 26,

(June 30, &#; )

Olando “Tubby” Smith is the sixth of 17 children born to sharecroppers Guffrie and Parthenia Smith of Scotland in St.

Mary’s County, Maryland. He received his unusual nickname from his family because Tubby was fond of staying in the galvanized washtub where the children were bathed. One of Tubby’s brothers is Guffrie Smith, Jr. now living in Calvert County, Maryland.

When Tubby graduated from Great Mills High School in , he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of Maryland, but a coaching change would change his life forever.

The new Maryland coach, Lef