Tony Bennett, after giving a lot of thought to things during a weekend trip on the Rappahanock River, decided, on Wednesday, so, two days ago, that he was going to step down from the UVA Basketball job.
It was far from a spur-of-the-moment decision; he’d been going back and forth about his future in college basketball for the past three years.
“The thing that has choked me up the most, and the hardest thing to say is, when I looked at myself, and I realized I’m no longer the best coach to lead this program in this current environment, and if you’re going to do it, you’ve got to be all in. You’ve got to have everything. If you do it half-hearted, it’s not fair to the university and those young men. In looking at it, that’s what made me step down,” an emotional Bennett said Friday at his retirement press conference.
AFP editor Chris Graham discusses the Bennett retirement, and the move to elevate Bennett’s top assistant, Ron Sanchez, to be the interim coach for the 2024-2025 season.
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