Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer Larry Brown spoke with the athletic director at East Hampton High in NY on Tuesday morning and will soon meet with him in person to discuss the possibility of coaching the school’s varsity basketball team, Newsday reported Tuesday afternoon.
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The Hall of Famer, the only coach to win an NCAA and National Basketball Association title, was set to discuss the vacant job at East Hampton High School Tuesday night with the school’s athletic director, Joe Vasile-Cozzo, the school official confirmed.
“I don”t want you to take this the wrong way,” Brown said, “but nobody has a better background than me, when you look at who I played for, when you look at who sat beside me as a coach and you look at who I”ve been fortunate enough to coach and teach. “I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we’ll just wait and see”.
Larry Brown may have a new calling soon: High school basketball coach. Maybe that’s why the 76-year-old Hall of Famer is reportedly in discussions with East Hampton High in NY to lead its varsity squad.
Brown is apparently a workaholic, telling the Kansas City Star last week that he “can’t retire”, despite the fact that that’s exactly what everyone thought he did over the summer when he resigned as head coach of SMU after four years on the job.
Stay tuned on this one.
“In fairness to Larry, he has maintained that he’s not sure but that if he does do it, he wants to be in it 100 percent”, East Hampton athletic director Joe Vasile-Cozzo said. SMU was his first college job since leaving Kansas in 1988 for more than two decades of National Basketball Association head coaching positions.
“When you’ve played for the people that I’ve played for and had people sit next to you like I have, it wouldn’t seem right if i didn’t share everything I was taught”, Brown said. The 76 year old coach may have found it…
“I can’t believe it’s gotten this far”, Brown said. “I just want to share it somehow”.
“He always said he wanted to end his career coaching high-school basketball”.
Vasile-Cozzo said he already has a new coach lined up, but doesn’t anticipate any problems if Brown says yes.
East Hampton went 18-3 last season and reached the Suffolk Class A final, losing to Harborfields.
Brown said when he was growing up he envisioned himself teaching American history and coaching three sports in high school.
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“I don”t care what level it is on,” Brown added.
