If it was not quite in the tradition of a president leaving behind a handwritten letter for their successor in the Oval Office, that’s because Tricia Cullop’s office at Toledo was rectangular.
Before Cullop finished packing up her work home — filled with milestone basketballs and framed newspaper covers and 16 seasons of memories — she took a moment last Monday to pen a note to the next Rockets women’s basketball coach.
It was short and sweet, congratulations and well wishes. She slipped it in the top drawer of her desk.
“I hope you enjoy this job as much as I did,” Cullop wrote, before signing off: “Here’s my phone number, if you ever need anything.