The environment Bennett referred to is the rapid, dizzying transformation of major college sports toward a professional model, with loosely regulated payments to players, the lifting of restrictions on player transfers and the increasing influence of agents, among other changes.

It's been a couple days since the news broke of Tony Bennett's surprising immediate retirement and one day since we all watched the man who built UVA basketball

Tony Bennett’s retirement from coaching was a major loss for the University of Virginia. It was an equally damaging loss for all of college basketball. In an era when it seems as if nothing is certain in the sport, Bennett represented everything good — a class act in every way, and a Hall of Fame coach as a bonus.