We are all aware thet college coaches in baseball as well as all the other college sports each year retire, move on or get fired at seasons end--some do it the right way while others do it in what I term the wrong way.This is currently exemplified by what the latest college football coaches are doing.
My son , while playing baseball at New Mexico State, went through a head coaching change but I am here to tell you that to this day I am still impressed by how the coach, Elliot Avent, handled it all. Coach Avent told the entire team at seasons end that he had a chance to return to his home state of North Carolina if he got the head coaching slot at NC State. Thus the entire team, as they headed home for the summer, knew they may have a new coach when they returned to school in the fall. As it turned out Coach Avent got the job but he called each and every player to let them know it was happening before it was was announced---at the same time he gave every kid his phone numbers in case they needed or wanted to talk to him during the transition. Coach showed that he was and is a class act. To this day, some 10 years later, Coach and I still speak and he always asks how my son is doing.
There needs to me more men in the business like Coach Avent
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Great entry! Coach Avent is one of the most "player-friendly" coaches in the country. I learned more life lessons than I did baseball lessons in my 4 years playing for him, and could not imagine playing for anyone else.
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