FixerWins
07-10-2006, 02:13 PM
Just noticed that Larry Krystowiak left as Montana's head coach after winning a tournament game with them this year. I figured of course it is a rite of passage for a college hoops coach who wins a tournament game with these small schools to move on to become a head coach at a bigger school the following year. Then I found out where he is going, and it is to become an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks. It really says a lot (or not much) about your program when your coach leaves to become an assistant coach in the NBA. Is there any more non-relevant position in sports than being an assistant coach in the NBA? It is great for Larry to be able to steal a paycheck now instead of having to worry about recruiting, compliance, frat parties, etc. but unless your head coach is Larry Bird, NBA assistant coaches are irrelevant. It seems like they have the same 95 guys who are assistant coaches every year in the NBA and they just rotate them throughout each team with maybe 1 or 2 getting a head job each year to lead Golden St. or Atlanta to 20 wins and then return to obscurity.