As you can probably imagine, news of Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser’s sudden death is dominating local media coverage here in the Triad. Stories are here, here and here. Lenox Rawlins column here, Ed Hardin column here.
The N&R’s Rob Daniels writes about Prosser:
His final coaching act was not televised live. He spent late May in a war zone on a coaching mission known as “Operation Hardwood,” a USO-sponsored tournament for active-duty military, some of whom were only days from deployment to live combat. He recalled his Vietnam-era youth, when his draft number was about as low and benign as possible. He said he was humbled and honored to play some sort of role in the current effort.
The day of the tournament final, the players told him his coaching garb that day would be fatigues. He tried to beg out, saying he wasn’t worthy. They insisted.
And then they won the championship.
