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What if: Cam Newbauer stayed at Belmont?

Let’s say I told you to roam the O’Connell Center and ask people to describe Cam Newbauer.

Sounds easy enough, right?

Here’s the catch, though: You can only leave when someone says something bad about him.

Chances are you’ll be stranded there until the next deadly virus makes its way around the globe.

When I found out that I’d be covering the Florida women’s basketball team last fall, the first thing I did was ask my coworkers about their experiences with Newbauer. They only had good things to say about the 41-year-old head coach. In those conversations, I caught a glimpse of the type of person he was — passionate, ambitious and caring.