Frank Martin was in casual wear Wednesday, his untucked white short-sleeved short hanging over the top of his black slacks.
The South Carolina coach winced when his 51-year-old knees had to squeeze their way underneath a tiny high-top table in the corner of a crowded room in the Omni Hotel.
“Bad knees,” he muttered to himself. “Bad knees.”
Once settled, Martin, reflecting his attire, delivered a relaxed half-hour question-and-answer session with reporters. It was SEC media day, and the last to carry the league flag a season earlier wasn’t flinching.
He didn’t care that the Gamecocks, coming off a Final Four run, were picked by media members to finish 11th in the SEC preseason poll.