""Father [Pat] Cahill was our athletic director," Musselman said. "So before they named our new coach [in 1984], I went in there and told him, 'Hey I think I can coach these guys and be a student athlete and a coach, and it'd be great publicity, the first time ever and all that.' 'And Father Cahill told me to get back to class.'""
""Before I could even drop my bag on the bed, Eric goes, 'OK, we're going to the gym,'""
"'He'd barely said hello.'"
When four freshmen moved into the University of San Diego dorms in 1983, Eric Musselman immediately asserted leadership by organizing teammates and acting with coach-like confidence despite being much shorter. Musselman offered to coach the team as a sophomore and met athletic director Pat Cahill, who told him to return to class. Musselman later pursued a coaching career and will face San Diego as an opposing coach. He has retained daily contact with his college teammates via group texts; they travel to watch him, buy season tickets, and reunite frequently in support of his teams.
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