Cameron Dollar entered Seattle University with such high hopes on that April day in 2009. As his mentor, Washington coach Lorenzo Romar, proudly watched the introductory news conference inconspicuously from a stairway, Dollar talked of his plans for revitalizing Redhawks basketball.
He had visions of NCAA tournaments and turning the previously dormant Seattle U program, just recently returned to Division I status after a 29-year hiatus, into a destination school for talented young ballers.
A noble idea, but it never came to fruition for a variety of reasons, some perhaps insurmountable. And eight years later, Dollar was fired Monday after another season with Seattle out of the limelight.