UTC coach John Shulman, right, talks to Chris Early during a game at McKenzie Arena in this file photo. Early was dismissed from the team on Monday, he had been on suspension since Dec. 16 when disparaging tweets about Shulman were revealed to the coach.University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball coach John Shulman doesn’t do easy.
If he did, he wouldn’t ask his players to run one of the most physically taxing, high-risk defenses in all the sport.
If he did, the Mocs wouldn’t thin their confidence each autumn by going on the road to play the likes of Indiana, Kentucky, Memphis, Missouri and Tennessee.
If he did, well, senior forward Chris Early would again be a Moc today, all forgiven for the savage tweets he directed his coach’s way in November.
Easy would have been for Shulman to stand atop McKenzie Arena’s glistening court Monday afternoon, stare into the television camera lenses of three of the city’s stations and say something along the lines of: “To err is human, to forgive is divine.”