Maine men's basketball Coach Richard Barron, center (Courtesy of Peter Buehner/UMaine Athletics)It was sunrise this past Thursday morning that told Richard Barron he’d been lying awake most of the night. For a college basketball coach whose team is 2-15 and has just lost at home, 73-49, losing sleep is hardly surprising. Barron, who will turn 50 next month, is in his first season as the men’s basketball coach at Maine. At his going-away party, Sewanee’s newly appointed athletic director half-jokingly suggested he should stay and take over the vacant women’s coaching job. “By then, I was healthy, I wanted to coach and I didn’t want to leave Maine,” Barron said.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2019 20:58 UTC