BOWLING GREEN — As the South Carolina women’s basketball program won and won and won in recent years, Fred Chmiel, too, enjoyed the ultimate win-win situation.
The 52-year-old Gamecocks assistant had no shortage of opportunities to become a Division I head coach and the luxury to be more picky than a toddler at dinner.
After all, why leave for anything when he had almost everything?
At South Carolina, he held one of the best, highest-paying assistant jobs in the country, earning $300,000 per year to help Dawn Staley continue setting the standard in the sport.