But wait, you said I didn't go to college. Now you're saying I didn't finish. You're right, I didn't finish. I came up six months short due to family situations. Just because I didn't receive that piece of paper some 34 years ago means what?
You weren't addressing me, but I'll step in for a second. In my opinion it doesn't mean very much: you are clearly good at what you do.
With what I do visiting schools, spending time with coaches, learning their system and philosophy absolutely results in education.
There are many different kinds of education and I don't doubt that you learn a lot from those visits, but it's disingenuous to suggest that visiting the campuses of many college and spending time with coaches, learning their systems and their philosophy is equivalent to the sort of education that one receives at a University as a student. You're comparing apples and oranges.
The fact is that there's a difference in how and what you learn when studying in an ad-hoc, unstructured fashion vs how and what you learn when you receive instruction in a structured environment, where as a student you have those of superior knowledge impart that knowledge to you. You know this.
Do note, I'm not saying that what you learn from those visits is wrong, or not good, or whatever else. It's just a different kind of learning.