All things have to start somewhere. For college basketball coaches, every single one of them have an origin story. ◽️ Food scarcity ◽️ Annoying mascot interactions ◽️ Odd part-time jobs Some coaches tell DanaONeilWriter how they got their start:
It started out, as these things often do, with a little yarn spinning. Blessed with the freedom of time and an audience to entertain, a coach started telling a tale about his younger years, back when he had no money and no fame. He just had a harebrained idea to make a living coaching basketball and was blessed with the perfect combination of naivete and determination to make it happen, no matter the sacrifices.
The story was insanely hilarious, downright preposterous, and sparked an idea: Rare is the head coach born with the silver spoon. Most, no matter how much they might make now, scraped by at some far-flung outpost somewhere along the arduous climb up the ladder. They all have stories. Why not get some to tell them?The goal was simple: free food. In 1995, Chris Beard made $400 a month as a grad assistant at, barely enough to cover his rent, let alone hit a grocery store. So Beard got creative.
That, however, still left three more days of meals to fill. So he took a gig giving basketball lessons to the son of a local businessman, who also owned another restaurant — Good Time Charlie’s. Rather than cash, Beard got paid in $15 gift cards. “Still think it’s the best chicken fried steak I ever ate,’’ he says.
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