Geniuses.

Here are a few sports geniuses:

Peyton Manning. Tom Brady is the best football player, and Peyton Manning is a genius. 

Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan. Co-geniuses. Others gamble, they operate. They are also two badass motherfuckers disguised as dorks. 

Terry Francona. Derives his genius from the enormous wads of gum he chews. His genius is not his managerial style, but simply the decision he makes nightly to chew 2-3 pounds of gum at a time. 

Here are a few people who you might think are sports geniuses, but they are not:

Bill Belichick. He is a mad scientist, not a genius. A genius tolerates humanity.

Larry Bird: Savant. Possesses maybe the keenest basketball mind of all time, but shares more intellectually with Lennie from Of Mice And Men than Stephen Hawking.

Troy Aikman: Nobody actually thinks Troy Aikman is a genius, except for Troy Aikman. Troy, if you're reading, you are a clod, not a genius. Thank you for your readership.