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Will Wade agrees with his players’ season assessment

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By David Uchiyama 4 min read

photo Chattanooga’s Zaccheus Mason tries to block a shot during Tuesday’s game against East Tennessee State University.
photo UTC men’s basketball coach Will Wade speaks to the media at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Will Wade attended Clemson with the career goal of becoming a high school history teacher and a high school basketball coach.

He figured on handing out grades during the day and coaching fundamentals of the game in the evening.

Then coaching the game became the most important part of his life, with a career track that took him from Clemson to Harvard to VCU — then to his first head-coaching job at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for this season.

Wade’s report-card for the Mocs is not final.

“I don’t give grades, although I’m a former teacher,” he said after UTC ended its season Tuesday with a 79-66 loss at East Tennessee State in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. “As critical as I am about our team and what we’ve done, I’m more critical of myself. I have pages of notes about what we’re going to do and how I’m going to change.”