Author’s Note: Former Wake Forest basketball coach Dave Odom was kind enough to give me half an hour of his time to do an interview over the phone about his time at Wake Forest. He couldn't have been nicer, and I greatly appreciate his time.
For Dave Odom, accepting the job as the head basketball coach at Wake Forest in 1989 was an easy decision, and a position he would hold for a dozen years.
Odom grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and had been a Wake Forest fan for most of his life. Asked about his decision to take the Wake Forest job, Odom responded:
“Well, that goes back to my childhood growing up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, a relatively small town back in those days - maybe 25,000-30,000 people, and when you look at the size of Wake Forest and the size of my town, they were pretty much in concert, pretty much alike.