A man happy to be our coach.
Any true Xavier fan trusts Mike Bobinski with everything they have. I think some students need to get on the ball here and make some shirts that read, “In Bobo I trust.” I know I’d buy one.
From the word go hiring Chris Mack seemed like the logical decision. The players are behind him, he’s a Cincy guy, and a Xavier grad/man. And as he mentioned in the press conference today, people thought he was nuts to leave Wake Forest when they were the number 1 team to start the season with Chris Paul. He left because he wanted to coach in his hometown and his university.
I find it interesting that almost nothing was found out about other coaching candidates during the search process. Darrin Horn came out twice and denied being linked to job. Other than the known interview with Mack nothing else was known about the search. Bobo made it clear there was a great list of potential candidates who were very interested in the vacancy. This is why Mike Bobinski is one of the best athletic directors in the country.
Speaking of Bobo…
Go get some sleep buddy. Guy’s probably been averaging about 4 hours a night the past month at least. From being on the selection committee and all the stress that process can incur to traveling to different tournament sites to having to rush back to Cincinnati in order to suddenly try to keep a coach he thought would never leave to then having to undergo a week and a half long coaching search to keep the Xavier machine chugging along. That’s a tough month to get through. Do yourself a favor and take a nice vacation, Bobo, because you’ve earned it.
Filling out the coaching staff, keeping Kevin Parrom on board and Derrick’s decision to turn pro or return for his senior season are the next big things on the horizon for this unexpected tumultuous off-season.
It’ll be awesome to have Brian Thornton on the staff next year in the position of Director of Basketball Operations.
Some optimism has been preserved for this kid and that’s all I can ask/hope for at this point…
Let’s go X!
April 16, 2009 at 8:22 am |
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April 20, 2009 at 10:45 am |
Perhaps more importantly, Brian Thornton has been named Director of Basketball Operations, which basically means tutor or something. It’s important because BT was sweet and by all accounts an awesome dude. Now if we could only get Anthony Myles on as as Director of Dropping Sex Bombs, we’d be getting somewhere.