A little over a year ago, the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie posted a job opening for its men’s basketball coach.
It might have been a single sentence: applications being accepted for the worst college coaching job in the country. The school, a junior college at a rural outpost about an hour’s drive west of Charleston, had shut down its men’s basketball program before last season after going through four coaches in eight months.
One quit before setting foot on campus. There was not much to offer the candidates. The pay: $38,000 per year but no recruiting budget or staff.
The facilities: a gym whose court is seven feet short of regulation, whose showers don’t have running water and whose men’s locker room doesn’t have a toilet.