Coastal Carolina baseball head coach Gary Gilmore has good reason to envy Arizona head coach Jay Johnson, even if Gilmore didn’t show it when the two coaches spoke Sunday at the College World Series Finals press conference.
In his first 20 years coaching the Chanticleers, Gilmore never once sniffed the humid, stuffy air of Omaha, Nebraska in mid-June.
There were nights where Gilmore would lay awake in bed, wondering if he’d ever take his alma-mater to its first College World Series.
Johnson, on the other hand, arrived in Omaha in near-record time.
