BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Sure, Dusty Might sees his title connected to all these open jobs. Louisville. Michigan. West Virginia. (Particularly Louisville.)
And it’s been troublesome for him, attempting to tune quite a lot of that noise out whereas making ready for Florida Atlantic’s largest recreation of the season: Its NCAA Match opener in opposition to Northwestern right here on Friday. However he is aware of he’s not alone — and that the additional consideration and rampant hypothesis is coming as a result of he’s completed such a superb job together with his Owls.
It began early, too, as a result of Ohio State opened in mid-February to get the teaching carousel spinning.
“I believe quite a lot of coaches face this — it is not out of the unusual,” Might stated Thursday. “It is simply occurring over an extended interval now as a result of jobs come open through the season. So, this started in all probability a month or so in the past. It occurred final 12 months earlier within the season. As quickly as we had success, our gamers have been coming to me saying, ‘(They) stated you are not going to be right here subsequent 12 months, my mother stated she heard this from the neighbors, from the mailman’s neighbor that you will be teaching right here.’ And each time, you understand, we simply type of had amusing about it and stated let’s concentrate on what’s essential.
“It is the identical factor. I strive to not get caught up in it. However as a school basketball coach, I speak to lots of people. I speak to coaches, I speak to recruit, I speak to our signees, so it comes up so much. It’s distracting, however our job is compartmentalize what we’re presupposed to be doing.
“However I’ll additionally add on that Instagram is distracting. Twitter is distracting. Having your children with you watching motion pictures if you are attempting to look at movie is distracting. All of us have quite a lot of distractions and all of us have a job to do and that’s to organize to play our greatest in opposition to Northwestern.”
FAU gamers stated it’s not a priority for them, both. They really feel that they will go to Might at any level to ask him about rumors — and that they’d get an trustworthy reply.
“For those who actually know Coach, you do not actually pay an excessive amount of consideration to the articles on-line,” guard Nick Boyd stated. “I imply, if it is his final recreation or no matter, we simply wish to make it particular. So, who cares?”
FAU is again within the NCAA Match for a second consecutive season, following the Owls’ exceptional run to the Last 4 a season in the past. Might, 47, is 126-68 at FAU over 5 seasons.
