Monday, March 28, 2016

Five years from now? What then?

Coach Beard did a good job for us this year, and I absolutely do not fault him for seeking to advance his career by moving on to a more lucrative job. But Chris Beard is not my concern. The program is my concern. We had a great year, the best in program history, but five years from now will we have benefitted substantially from Coach Beard's having been here other than some pleasant memories of one very successful season? I hope so, but one year or two years does not equal a better program.

Did the coach help the program? That is not a question you can answer definitively until several years after the coach is gone. If there was no foundation laid for future success, then the answer would be "no."

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