I seriously must have been away during this, but I just found out he retired. Did he give a reason as to why? He is still relatively young at 60. My mind is blown away by missing this. I guess all the hype of Coach K retiring overshadowed him.
Jay Wright
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He didn’t explicitly say it, but I recall he had comments suggesting that the changing nature of the college game had an influence. The mass transfer and NIL world … where the best players go to the highest bidder … doesn’t fit Wright’s coaching style.
To his credit, he was smart enough to recognize it and get out at the right time.
What I find fascinating is why a multimillionaire would work an extremely demanding almost 24/7 job at 60 anyway.
Because Jay Wright is a class act who doesn't need a 12 month farewell tour and for everybody to kiss his *** before stepping away.
Because they’re not in it for the money. Once you can find a job that you’re passionate about you’ll understand
That day has passed my friend. I have no interest in working till 60, and there is little chance I’ll work till 50 tbh. I understand a job you can slow down in, but I don’t understand working at a job as demanding as a college coach into your golden years. But I’m more of a work to live guy. My father was basically forced to retire because his company relocated at 72. He would’ve been one of those guys that would’ve worked till he was dead. My career is too demanding physically to do that anyway - I’d be crippled working past 60.
Different strokes for different folks. Al McGuire got his championship and got out very early at 48.
I am curious to see if he stays retired
I never considered my job as work. I enjoy going in to work and always have. In fact I have never considered it a job. If you are lucky to find a position like that then retirement is not something you are looking forward to. I told my Assistant that I may retire in a few years and she said I thought you were already retired.
He has the perfect look and personality for CBS college basketball.
Look for him a lot next season on your TV.
Same. If you handed me $10 million today I would be retired immediately. Admittedly some people have jobs they truly love, but there is no job I want to do for 40+ hours a week, much less 24/7.
Hard disagree. I'm passionate about a lot of things, but I don't want to do any of them ALL the time.
Thats why I specifically said “your job,” not the activity that your job revolves around, and not a specific hobby. If you’re passionate about your job, you’re going to want to do whatever you can to get better at it. Including working lots of off-hours to learn and inprovd. That doesn’t mean you enjoy every aspect of it, but you’re passionate about the job as a whole, so it’s worth putting in the time.
Maybe we’re just disagreeing over semantics. To me, passionate and obsessive are nearly interchangeable - the big difference being that you have control over yourself with something you’re passionate about. With Obsession you HAVE to partake in that activity and your mood and well being is more results oriented
Al McGuire said that coaching was like politics. You have to be smart enough to do it well but dumb enough to think it important. Once you see through something, it's hard to stick with it. McGuire got out at 49. (Joe Hall at 57.) It took Wright a bit longer.
I loved my job. I love retirement even more. Got out at 55 and it's been great so far. I doubt that Jay Wright is 100% finished.
I've read that he has a new, far less demanding role at 'Nova. He's a special assistant to the university president, and will be involved in fund raising. Sounds like it's a part time gig.
Good to know he won't just spend his days sitting on his couch eating Doritos and tracking his stock portfolio on his phone.
Good to know he won't just spend his days sitting on his couch eating Doritos and tracking his stock portfolio on his phone.
I LOVE my job and enjoy going each day. Also LOVE the business that I run and have zero regrets. That said, I’ve set a solid date to walk away from both, which will hopefully give me time to do the more important things in our golden years.
As you said, different strokes for different folks. The passion for my work pales in comparison to my love of being with family. Simply can’t imagine loving a job so much I basically ignore my family for most of my life, which is what is required of these coaches.
God bless them for doing it as someone has to, but no freaking way…
Mine is going to cripple me mentally soon...if it hasn't already.
Burnout is real my man. I’ve been going so hard I’m completely burned out and over it. Had a corporation reach out to me last month about selling my business and I’m seriously considering it. If the money is right and I can make it work I might sell. If you told me I’d be thinking about this 3 years ago I would’ve told you you’re nuts. Sick of dealing with 500 things everyday.
I would consider yourself lucky that you have a career that you can be passionate about that isn’t physically demanding where you deal with pain or injury or mentally demanding where you are constantly stressed with things beyond your control. That’s a dream scenario for a lot of people.
I have been retired 15 years and I am just getting started Bro. I would recommend any who can and has planned and saved to make the move.
When I was 23 years old I started to work with one of the largest companies in America. As my supervisor was showing me around the office he sat me down at his desk and said, "Son if you ever think you will be missed if and when you leave this company, go down to St Pete Beach, dip a cup in the water and walk back onto the beach. Pour out the water and you will be missed just as much as that cup of water is missed in the Gulf of Mexico." He then said if I have a loving family to never put this job before them. And he was right and I listened and I am thankful I did.
Retirement is the best job i ever had!
Wish we could get Cal to take a gig like that, lol .
People ask me how I like it all the time . I tell them “ I’m a natural “ .
I’m 37 and plan on “retiring” by 45. However I dont plan on just sitting around. I plan to have a beach house and still be very active. And honestly i might still work in a business i own and enjoy a few hours a day. I just won’t be working a W2 job for any corporation.
As I'm typing this, I'm listening to "wait music" for an insurance company trying to try to find out what to do next about a family member's heavily damaged house in Florida. Periodically a computerized voice tells me about my 3 hour wait time. Ian was SW Florida's 3rd major hurricane in less than 20 years. (Charley, Irma, Ian) From the looks of it, the beach community of Ft. Myers Beach is a shambles. Sanibel/Captiva Island is cut off. I can't even imagine what Pine Island looks like. On and on. Earlier, I saw a montage of clips from a downtown Ft. Myers webcam that showed the progress from heavy thunderstorm to what looked like open sea.
The retirement paradise of a beach house? I don't know about that. We have friends who have their retirement house up near Asheville, NC. You might want reconsider.
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I feel for those involved. Yes I will have a retirement beach house. But my goal is to have one in Maui, not Florida
I retired at 45 after I should have been killed in the mines and cut my ear off.. 20 years of coal mining ruined my body so I said **** it and retired.. Semi as I run my own business,, cash only,, but I do it when I wanna.. I was retiring at 50 anyway.. I won't be walking by time I'm 60 as I can't walk 100 yds now with black lung and 2 bummed knees..
That’s sad brother, I wish they had developed even better ways for miners nowadays to not get those ailments anymore. At least for breathing problems or to prevent black lung. The physical toll is kinda hard to not happen.
The fact that you think that just shows you haven’t found anything you’re truely passionate about…
I’m actually not storm chasing anymore to sit anymore because I’m not able to sit.. two botched back surgeries left me with adhesive arachnoiditis. So I HAVE to be doing manual labor to keep my pain level down.
But that being said, I was lucky to be able to do that, you’re right. I never said anything about being unappreciative for it either. And yeah, the constant mental stress from not being in control of if there even are storms, how they’re going to act, if the road network is going to work out, etc.. When you chase daily, you have more “bust” days than you do good days. 14 hours of driving for a little sprinkle or completely dry day isn’t exactly fun. Every chase I’m constantly having to make repairs on the truck on the side of the road or hotel parking lots, being out in 60mph winds and rain that stings like hell just to help pull out other stuck vehicles, it’s not all sunshines and rainbows. In fact most of the time it’s more hell than enjoyable on a day to day basis. But the joy from seeing the excitement on a client or a meteorology students face and experiencing the storms myself makes it all worth it. It was stressful as hell especially since o ran the business myself, but I would do it til the day I die.
I am/was lucky to be able to do what I love. But that only strengthens my argument. If you can find something for work that pure passionate about and love, then it’s not “work.”
Storm chaser huh? I’m sure I’m not the first to tell you you’re nuts
I can’t imagine anyone doing what you do without loving it, not exactly a job to fall into. Pretty cool that you did/do that and thanks for sharing. I’m sure everyone would like to love what they do, just not the most realistic goal to achieve. I used to love my job, but I’m just severely burnt out. I also have a lot going on with my 3 little kids and just lots of other major life moments going on, so I’m guessing I might be going through a mini midlife crisis, so hopefully I can regain my passion for my job. Or just sell the business and move on, who the hell knows! I worked for almost 30 years in industrial sales. I traveled about 30-35K by car and at least that much by plane. I enjoyed my job for the most part and when I
retired I did miss most of my customers and my support staff back in the home office.
However, I have been retired since 2002 and I can truthfully say I love it. I keep busy by working out at the YMCA, reading[2-3 books per week], fishing and following my Wildcats. I also love the Lord and have been married to my wonderful wife for 60 years on Feb1 of 2023.
Life has been good to me.I am a rich man! Just not in money.
retired I did miss most of my customers and my support staff back in the home office.
However, I have been retired since 2002 and I can truthfully say I love it. I keep busy by working out at the YMCA, reading[2-3 books per week], fishing and following my Wildcats. I also love the Lord and have been married to my wonderful wife for 60 years on Feb1 of 2023.
Life has been good to me.I am a rich man! Just not in money.
Hey hey hey, it’s a whole lot safer than you’d think! Storm wise, that is. The biggest risk is other drivers bc of how much you’re on the road. But if you understand the science behind the storms and have a good team for navigation and “now casting” (forecasting the storms’ movement as it happens), then you’re golden. Barring the actions of other not-so-smart chasers who like to stop right in the middle of the road..Storm chaser huh? I’m sure I’m not the first to tell you you’re nuts
I was definitely blessed with the opportunity to chase as a career. My original comment was referring to people saying that he’s already a multi-millionaire, why would he stay for such a demanding job at 60 - bc the coaches are truely passionate about it. There are plenty of people who love or enjoy their job but wouldn’t want to do it forever and there’s zero problem with that. My response was simply to the people/person saying why would you put yourself through that if you’re already a multi millionaire. So my response was just saying that it’s not about the money, it’s about the passion for the career.
If I had other more important obligations outside of chasing then that would take precidence obviously. Hoping you can regain that passion once everything settles down!
Sawnee, I got the same type of information from an old Locomotive engineer that trained me decades ago. He said " let me give you some advice, if they could train a monkey to run this locomotive, you wouldn't have this job. Don't ever let this job keep you from your family and their activities. The railroad won't miss you for one second when your gone " I took his advice and dang glad I did. I never heard one man on his deathbed say he wishes he would have worked more
We had masks but they didn't work.. Have a 3M dust mask case going on right now.. Billions have been paid out so far for crap masks that were made.. Both of my shoulders and both knees are ruined from crawling so much.. Body just isn't made for that much crawling.. That's after one knee surgery and one shoulder surgery that did zilch to help me and the pain,, so why do the other two?