Tom Murphy came out of his forced retirement from Hamilton two years ago as an assistant at SUNYIT, and last year became head coach, leading the Wildcats to a 16-12 record. SUNYIT was 8-17 the previous year.

Now, we don’t usually get much news from SUNYIT, but I see that the men’s basketball head coaching position is listed as open on their Web site. Hope that’s by Murphy’s choice this time. But even if so, he deserved a more formal good-bye.

Murphy has 618 career wins. But now he goes out … if that’s what he’s doing … looking like Johnny Unitas in a San Diego Charger uniform.