Don Lucia held a press conference with Mark Coyle Tuesday afternoon to discuss his stepping down from being the head coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers hockey team. If you missed it you can catch the entire press conference below:
Lucia was very articulate throughout and you could tell that this had been on his mind for some time and was not something that was occurring rapidly. From sitting at the press conference and listening to him I had three takeaways from what he had to say that I think deserve additional attention.
This really did seem like Lucia’s idea—not something forced upon him:
Lucia thanks Coyle and Tom McGinnis for allowing him to leave on his terms and will spend the next year working on fundraising for the AD.