They sat and talked for a long while over coffee during the 2013 Final Four in Atlanta, the athletic director selling the promise of his university’s imperiled basketball program and the coach assessing the possibilities and pitfalls. It was a job interview, essentially, but it was more than that.
These two gentlemen, so long in the same business but merely acquaintances, joined by their common brush with greatness, were planning a mission: rescue Hofstra.
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Not the university. The university has been doing great, just launched a medical school, was named one of the prettiest campuses, all of that.