ANAHEIM, Calif. — Billy Kennedy couldn't sleep. That tends to happen when you're facing your own mortality.
But it was more than that. Kennedy had picked up stakes and moved his family from Murray, Ky., to College Station, Texas. Which means a bunch of other families changed their lives, too. That's what happens in the coaching business.
And before the Kennedy era even began at Texas A&M, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
This was a program that had started to care a little about hoops. After one NCAA Tournament trip in 26 years, the Aggies had gone to six straight NCAAs under Billy Gillespie and Mark Turgeon.