He has three times been named ACC Coach of the Year and was the 1995 National Coach of the Year. Dr. Eddie Floyd, a surgeon in Florence, was chairman of the USC Board of Trustees in 1993 when Cremins accepted an offer to be the Gamecocks' coach, then turned it down and went back to Georgia Tech. That was a tough time for us and a tough time for me. I have nothing against Bobby's coaching, but there's a lot of feelings about what happened. Mike is a professional.
Trustees have no business interfering with the hiring and firing.
I am not involved in the process. Whatever Mike wants to do, I'll honor it. Cremins has been out of coaching the past year after spending 19 seasons at Georgia Tech. He had a 354-237 record and won four ACC championships, but the program fell on hard times during his last years at Tech. In the seven seasons after Cremins reneged on USC, only once did the Jackets post an ACC record better than .500.