It leaves us scrambling. I understand where he's coming from. I don't think it's a very good situation for anybody. I hope it is hard for him, because it'll be kind of hard for us to see him go. Jeff Kirk, the father of Tara and Dana who volunteered as a novice coach with Maki, admitted the club's prospects don't look good.
Good coaches are hard to come by.
I think Gabe did extremely well with the swimmers that we had, not just with my kids but with the senior boys that were here when he first came. They had never got junior national cuts and essentially the next spring, they were making their junior national cuts.