Sunday’s television reports out of Greenville, N.C., are true, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball coach Wes Moore has accepted a similar position at East Carolina.
Four words: What took so long?
When you’re winning 78 percent of your games, graduating about 98 percent of your players and going to eight out of 10 NCAA Tournaments from a one-bid league like the Southern Conference, well … let’s face it, you should never have gone to eight of 10 tourneys because BCS conference athletic directors should have been smart enough to never let you remain here that long.
Of course, even now Moore won’t exit the Scenic City for an Atlantic Coast Conference or Southeastern Conference job, which has always been his dream. If he goes he’ll merely be trading one one-bid league for another in Conference USA, thought at least he’ll be doubling his base pay, tripling his recruiting budget and flying instead of busing to most road games.
And given UTC’s current financial woes, who wouldn’t jump at the chance to have all that, especially when Wes’s wife, Linda, grew up less than an hour away from Greenville in Jamesville, N.C.?