- April 1st, 2009, 1:43 pm
#248652

Is this mercy-killing or cross-pollenation?
Only the strawberry knows.
A little perspective here. There are three dominant basketball conferences right now, the ACC, the SEC and the Big 10.
Gregg Marshall established a mini-dynasty, captured a half-dozen conference championships and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. His reward? He upgraded to Wichita State in the Missouri Valley Conference.
After two years at Liberty, McKay is going to the ACC. Yes, as an assistant, but most basketball coaches would gladly lose a finger just to get a sniff at the ACC. It's an unbelievable opportunity that's landed in his lap and he'd be a complete moron not to take it.
Get this through your collective head, people. Liberty is no longer a doormat. Liberty has elevated itself to the status of stepping stone.
In the last twelve months, we have sent assistant coaches to Marquette in basketball and Buffalo, Virginia and the NFL in football -- all of them better opportunities. As much as you may like our coaches, we are no longer in that mediocre place where people will stay for years and decades at a time. As we succeed, bigger and better opportunities will come and the people that we have come to love and respect will take them. And the next day, we will start finding the people to pick up where they left off.
Accept this fact: no one will stay forever and everyone is replaceable.
Gregg Marshall established a mini-dynasty, captured a half-dozen conference championships and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. His reward? He upgraded to Wichita State in the Missouri Valley Conference.
After two years at Liberty, McKay is going to the ACC. Yes, as an assistant, but most basketball coaches would gladly lose a finger just to get a sniff at the ACC. It's an unbelievable opportunity that's landed in his lap and he'd be a complete moron not to take it.
Get this through your collective head, people. Liberty is no longer a doormat. Liberty has elevated itself to the status of stepping stone.
In the last twelve months, we have sent assistant coaches to Marquette in basketball and Buffalo, Virginia and the NFL in football -- all of them better opportunities. As much as you may like our coaches, we are no longer in that mediocre place where people will stay for years and decades at a time. As we succeed, bigger and better opportunities will come and the people that we have come to love and respect will take them. And the next day, we will start finding the people to pick up where they left off.
Accept this fact: no one will stay forever and everyone is replaceable.

Is this mercy-killing or cross-pollenation?
Only the strawberry knows.



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