Even though he won 20 games in three straight seasons, and is the all-time winningest coach in UTA history, Scott Cross did not see his firing coming, but he was not entirely surprised by the move.
"I probably didn't feel as secure as you might think," Cross said in his first interview since UTA fired him on March 26. "I think you just have that feeling when you know you're really not wanted."
The decision to fire Cross generated more publicity than the school, or Cross, could have ever conceived.
Other than local disgust, ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy ripped the move during a telecast, and ESPN college basketball analyst Fran Fraschilla took to twitter to criticize the decision, too.