Another rebuilding effort
Good news for Atlantic Coast Conference basketball fans - you won't have to listen to Bobby Cremins try to offer color commentary on hoops broadcasts this winter.
Cremins is back on the sidelines as the new head coach at the College of Charleston - replacing former Virginia assistant Tommy Herrion, who was let go this spring after posting an 80-38 record in four seasons in the Palmetto State.
How Cremins will be able to improve on what Herrion was able to do in Charleston is anybody's guess. The former Georgia Tech coach - who put the Ramblin' Wreck on college-basketball radar in the 1980s and 1990s with three ACC titles and one Final Four appearance - was never known as a strict X's and O's guy.
Cremins' magic, such as it was, came in his penchant for making recruiting pitches - he lured future NBA stars Mark Price, Kenny Anderson and Stephon Marbury, among many others, to Atlanta in his tenure at Tech.
One would think that it would be difficult for him to repeat that kind of success at Charleston - which went to four NCAA tournaments under Herrion's predecessor, John Kresse, and did, after all, decide to fire Herrion after he averaged 20 wins a year in his stint there.
But hey, if anybody can get this generation's Price or Anderson or Marbury to play small ball, it's Cremins - even if his gift for gab didn't appeal to television viewers.
(And it didn't. Not at all.)
- Chris Graham