Frank Martin is proud to be the head coach of the South Carolina men’s basketball team.
That’s an over-arching theme of a first-person letter published on The Players Tribune ahead of the Gamecocks’ Sweet 16 matchup against Baylor. In the article Martin addresses this historic season and the growth of the program. The latter includes some of the not-so-flattering feedback he got from the coaching community when he took the USC job and some rough early seasons.
u25aa On taking the USC job: “When I was contemplating making the move here, what I heard from people was, ‘Frank, everyone loses their job there.