This was a move you could see coming. Tom Murphy, longtime head coach at Hamilton and a 600-game winner, was forced to retire from Hamilton at the end of the 2003-04 season.

Kevin Grimmer, athletic director and men’s basketball coach at SUNYIT, as well as a Hamilton alumnus, adds his former head coach to his staff for 2004-05. Grimmer’s son, Nick, is a senior and by all accounts, the Wildcats’ best player. (He goes on to earn honorable mention all-SUNYAC honors.)

So now Grimmer’s son has graduated, he has an athletic director post to worry about, and a 600-game winner next to him on the bench. What better time to step aside and hand over the reins to your mentor?

Or, as one Division III coach told us, “It’s great to see one of the true legends of Division III coaching get another shot at a head coaching job. Kudos to SUNYIT for righting Hamilton’s wrong.”