One Final Four not enough for Frank Martin

There wasn’t much time to relax. Frank Martin was recruiting, helping former assistant coach Matt Figger prepare for his first head coaching job, recovering from a sickness that seeped into the locker room in Phoenix and aiding Sindarius Thornwell and P.J. Dozier as they train for the NBA draft.

It’s like how he (respectfully, without malice to his colleagues) answered prospective players when they asked why he hadn’t been around like other coaches. Well, South Carolina was playing, and wouldn’t you like to come help them play a little longer?

But as Martin sat on the beach at Grand Cayman, his family by his side and that never-ending ocean stretching to the horizon, it finally hit him. What…