One thing should be crystal clear by now. Our next coach should have experience as an assistant from a defense first basketball program.

The two times UNCW has experienced success in our men's basketball program, defense was the first priority. Wainright/Brownell and Keatts both focused on defense first and then found ways to score. College of Charleston hired a defense first coach in Earl Grant and experienced immediate success. Charlotte hired Ron Sanchez, who was an assitant to the Bennett family of coaches at UVA and Washington State, and they are having success immediately.

We simply cannot afford these decades of failure by making the wrong hire. Basketball is our premiere sport, and the success of our program has far reaching effects, either positive or negative, on all our athletic programs as well as recruitng for students who apply to UNCW.

If you have any connections to UNCW, you should make your voice heard on this issue.