My guess is that it was CTSN on the Florence station broadcasting the game. If so, then it would have been Chris Stewart. But again, if a player such as the team captain, took a shot like that against the former head coach, that would have been all over the state news. Not saying your friend didn't hear what he heard, but the beat writers would be falling down on their jobs not to grab that quote and put it in a story.
I'm sure there's more! My point is that the university was slammed by the talking heads for firing him before the NIT. Then during the game you kept being reminded that they were playing for Coach Grant as if he wasn't allowed to be there. I would've coached the tournament if I cared about my players and my players cared about me! Coaching/teaching is different than working a 9-5 job. It's dealing with caring about your players and going beyond personal feelings about your employer. We find out early in the spring whether or not our contract is being renewed for next year. If you're not you still have two months that you have to show for work and do your job. With him leaving with 4 million bucks and not finishing out his contract, it shows me his heart.
Spot on post! Me being a coach as well I feel the exact same way you do!
Maybe, but I've always seen collegiate coaching jobs as just that - a job, and neither school affiliation nor perceived relationships with players have much bearing on it. And that's how coaches can so easily move from one school to another. If you compare this to other corporate jobs, and specifically when an individual within an organization is fired from their job (regardless of whether it's labor, technical, management, etc..) it all plays out the same. When you're fired, you're fired. You clear out your desk (or work area) and leave. The only difference is whether you get a severance package to go with it. In AG's case, he did, and it was a pretty good one.Ldlane said:
Back several years ago when my own business was very slow, I took a short term job with a company within my own industry. Even though the position was named "Service Manager", the job was the same as every other technician in the company. The only differences were that I came in early to open up in the mornings, was the last to leave after I closed up in the evening and I was on salary so I couldn't collect overtime pay.
