Watching Jay Wright get choked up talking about his career at Villanova is giving us all the feels 🥹 Full press conference➡️
as Villanova’s basketball coach. He was joined by his successor, Kyle Neptune, Villanova President Father Peter Donohue, and ‘Nova athletic director Mark Jackson.READ MORE:
“What Patty and I want this to be is the next step in the Villanova basketball program,” Wright said. “The greatest thing for us has always been just to be the coach at Villanova. That’s accolades or, you know, winning games, it’s not as big as just being the coach at Villanova. So we’ve been a part of a great tradition and we’ve been blessed to be the head of that tradition for 21 years, we’ve always said, ‘We don’t own this, you know, we just got to be in charge for 21 years.
It was sometime at the end of the 2021-22 regular season Wright says he realized he didn’t “have the edge” and that he talked with his wife and Marc Jackson about his intent to retire at the end of the season. Competing in games and running practices are factors Wright says he will miss most about coaching, but he is looking forward to strengthening his relationships with the players.
“As we like to say he did things the right way; guiding, developing, and empowering the student-athletes who played for him not only to be better on the basketball court but also in their personal lives,” Villanova President Father Peter Donohue said. “It’s these characteristics that I believe will define Jay’s legacy at Villanova University and made Villanova a better university in the process. Big shoes to fill and no one is better suited to the challenge than Kyle Neptune.
“Having one of our own, a guy that’s been with us 10 years, in Kyle Neptune be able to take over is what our dream was, to leave it better than we found it and the leadership that we have on this team next year, this is going to be a really good team,” Wright said.
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