(11-27-2017 05:32 PM)GrayHawk Wrote:  Sour grapes or fake news? This is how some folks want to treat a man who put us back on the map?

Rick Pitino lost his job over the Adidas/FBI scandal. I'd say it's more than relevant to bring that up when discussing Keatts. More dominoes are set to fall. While he may have had nothing to do with any of that, just like he may have had nothing to do with the prostitution scandal at Louisville, he was still Pitino's top assistant and played a major role in the title they won that now has to be considered tainted.

And it's great what Keatts did here from a basketball perspective. I'm not even all that mad that Bryce followed him to NC State. But we don't need to worship the guy. We've always known UNCW is an attractive destination and that we are bigger than any one coach. The success of Wainwright and then Brownell here proved that. Success is what we expect. And Keatts would never have come here if he disagreed with that assessment. As much as he did for us in the 3 years here, he also has some reasons to be thankful for UNCW, too.