Baylor School basketball coach Austin Clark doesn’t spend much time worrying about what might have been.
So he even though his mind may wander back to 2006 when he sees former player Luke Apfeld start at forward tonight for Vermont against Lamar in an NCAA tournament first-round game in Dayton, Ohio, he won’t wonder what might have been.
“I don’t play that game,” Clark said Tuesday morning when asked about Apfeld, who left after his freshman season.
“As I like to say, ‘There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.’ If Luke had stayed, I’m sure he would have been a great player here. But I’ve kept up with him and I’m so happy for him and all he’s accomplished since he left.”
Actually, the 6-foot-7 Apfeld left Chattanooga twice. The first time was when he was 4, and Patrick and Kristine Apfeld moved Luke, Grace and older brother Jordan to Switzerland for a few years. The second time was in 2006, when the family left its Signal Mountain home for New Hampshire and Luke enrolled at Brewster Academy.