ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
i guess we should've just given the helm to Chill all those many years ago
What exactly did Skip see in him
Not necessarily. Didn't his wife's death leave him a single parent of a teenager? Understandable that he wouldn't have wanted a D-1 HC lifestyle under those circumstances. I think he has only interviewed for jobs pretty recently, so the timing makes sense. We have all met lots of very able people that don't aspire to be the head honcho because they value family time.
Not necessarily. Didn't his wife's death leave him a single parent of a teenager? Understandable that he wouldn't have wanted a D-1 HC lifestyle under those circumstances. I think he has only interviewed for jobs pretty recently, so the timing makes sense. We have all met lots of very able people that don't aspire to be the head honcho because they value family time.
He’s been the single parent of a 20-something for awhile now. Pretty sure his son was close to graduating high school when Skip died.
Jordan was 14 when his mom died. He was either 9 or 10 when Skip died.
I still think we should have hired Pete Gillen as a one year interim coach/ Prosser goodwill ambassdor and then conducted a real coaching search. Gillen wasn't great as a coach, but he would have been great at talking about Prosser and making some jokes to lighten the the mood a bit.
This article from November 2015 says his son was a senior in college at the time and that his wife died a year after Skip. So his son is about 27 years old now.
https://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151125/SPORTS/151129479?template=ampart
i guess we should've just given the helm to Chill all those many years ago
https://www.herald-dispatch.com/spo...cle_e129a1db-4d94-56da-9270-709ea8ee4347.html
https://journalnow.com/news/local/j...cle_062d8170-4f76-5667-b559-1bc9e4b6baad.html
That article is wrong. Jordan wasn’t in college when his mom died. Battle could have (should have) moved on before he did but he stayed in WS for Jordan.
The author of this article is either a total hack or has a worthless editor. He has Mack playing for Gaudio and Gaudio playing for Mack. Interesting.
The article didn’t say Jordan was in college when his mom died. It says Jordan was a senior in college in November 2015. His wife died in 2008, a year after Skip died. The Herald article said Jordan was 14 in 2008 meaning he was 20 when Battle left Wake and 27 now.
Point being Jordan was in college before Battle left and if he wanted to be a head coach, being a single parent at home likely wasn’t a factor.
Absolutely this. It was far from the conciliatory approach that we're seeing now on this thread.
And I'll say this, you can be an absolute bonehead and obnoxious jerk to as many people as you want in life, but if your boss tries to guide you in another direction, you'd better have a different tone, or at least not be surprised if you're let go soon after. I know their working relationship wasn't the only reason, but it most certainly didn't help either.
But it was a factor. Had Battle left after Gaudio was fired, the trajectory of his coaching career could have been much different. Instead, he chose family over career by (1) not moving his wife further away from family in Fayetteville and her doctors at WFBH and (2) allowing Jordan to finish HS in WS after his mom died. He stayed many times that he was very grateful for the Wake Forest and WS community and how they embraced Jordan and helped him out when he was on the road with his job.
His personal life did affect his career choices.