“It doesn’t matter how big your budget is, how many private planes you have, how many scholarships you have."
/If you're wondering how little Augusta State wins back-to-back NCAA's check out Sean Martin's commentary on the keys to the success of Josh Gregory's program.
Augusta State competes at Division II in every sport except golf. It has more women’s sports than men’s. This story would be fodder for documentaries and melodramatic movies if it had taken place in another sport.
“It doesn’t matter how big your budget is, how many private planes you have, how many scholarships you have,” Gregory said.” Gregory said. “If you can find a way to get players that believe, that’s all that counts.”
That's right, some programs have access to jets now. Anyway...
Augusta State will return to its practice facility, J. Fleming Norvell Golf House, on Monday to celebrate this national championship. The Jaguars couldn’t ask for a better way to part ways. All five players at Karsten Creek, as well as Gregory, were wearing a Jaguars uniform for the final time.
Oh? Yes, Gregory is leaving, reports Ryan Herrington. Gregory is headed to SMU where they are going to pay him, gulp, $200,000 a year to drive the team van.
"It's hard," said Gregory, 36, on the decision to leave. "I always said it would take an unbelievable opportunity to me to leave Augusta. But it's a dream opportunity to go back home. SMU is a place near and dear to my heart. The opportunity to build a program and hopefully accomplish some of these things at my alma mater is something you can't replace."