Anyone who has ever played basketball or tennis against Ken Niumatalolo knows how competitive he is. Niumatalolo hates to lose in anything, whether it’s pickup hoops in Halsey Field House or Monopoly at home with the family.
So it goes without saying that a five-game losing streak is absolutely eating up the 11th-year Navy head coach.
“It’s hard. I mean it’s really, really hard,” Niumatalolo admitted this week. “You don’t get into this line of work unless you’re a competitive person so it’s definitely hard to deal with losing. You just have to keep coming back to work, keep battling and keep fighting.