Coaching moves

As I check the sports news online for word of what Anthony Grant has decided about where he will coach basketball next season, I’m writing this short post. The season that just ended for the Rams was one in which VCU fans got to watch the work of two of the best ever to represent […]

March 26, 2009; 4:12 PM • by FTRea

As I check the sports news online for word of what Anthony Grant has decided about where he will coach basketball next season, I’m writing this short post. The season that just ended for the Rams was one in which VCU fans got to watch the work of two of the best ever to represent the 40-year-old university’s men’s basketball program.

Of course, they are Coach Grant and the Rams all-time leading scorer, Eric Maynor.

Heading into last week’s NCAA opening round game in Philadelphia, it seemed VCU was a popular pick among the television pundits to beat UCLA in the first round of the east regional. On his sheet President Barack Obama had the Rams (No. 11 seed) upsetting the Bruins (No. 6 seed). So, did thousands of loyal Rams fans.

Nonetheless, VCU’s 2008-09 season faded to black when Maynor’s contested fade-away jump shot from the left of the key came up short at the buzzer: UCLA 65, VCU 64.

For Maynor, 6-3, 175, a senior points guard, that was his last shot wearing a Rams uniform. That much is certain. What Grant will do is as up in the air as it gets.

If Grant is offered $2 million-a-year to coach in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, can he turn it down?

If Grant decides he doesn’t want to live in Alabama, how many other universities will step forward to tempt him to leave Richmond? How about Virginia? How about Kentucky? Or, who knows?

Uh, oh, I just read that former VCU head coach Jeff Capel said he may be interested in the vacancy at UVa. … gotta go check some other places online.

March 26, 2009 4:12 PM 0