A post shared by Matt Lynch (@lynch5_)Matt Lynch’s first season as a head coach will not end with a trip to March Madness or NCAA glory.
Instead, he will finish with something better: the satisfaction of building up a program from nothing, and changing lives in the process.
It’s fair to say Lynch took on the worst job in college basketball, if not all of college sports. He accepted the vacant position at University of South Carolina Salkehatchie, a junior college in a rural town about an hour west of Charleston.
The program had nothing in place, literally: no players, budget or even running water in the locker room. The team didn’t play last season, after cycling through four head coaches in eight months.