10 minutes with ... Fran McCaffery - Business First of Louisville:

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You graduated from the ’s . What was your major? Entrepreneurial management. That sounds a lot more “Wall than “basketball coach.” All my friends from Penn are phenomenally These guyswere brilliant, absolutely brilliant. One of them is the No. 2 guy at . I had a buddyt from Penn, who’s very successful, tell me the other day: ‘You’r e in the right Coaching is recession-proof. You’re I never thought about it that way. I’mn thankful, but my 401(k) took a hit like everybody I’m a firm believer that the economyu willturn around, hopefully sooner than lot of peoplr are projecting.
I’m happy we don’t have to deal with as many of the same thingsx that the business world is dealing withrighr now. We obviously are affected—just look at our annual Every department on this campus is affected in some way bythis Still, our freshman class numbers are off the charts. And that’ s the No. 1 economic lifeblood of this How does the national exposure your program has gained over the past couple of yeards helpthat growth? Everything fits It gets a high school senior to say, ‘Maybe I’ll check that place out.
’ Our successd helps create interest, helps get more students on campus, helps grow our freshman and provides terrific experiences for our students. Ever y opportunity we get to showcaseour campus, our arena, our it only enhances people’s curiosity. Do you have ambitionsw to start your own businessone day? I really would love to. But that can be A lot of what I do is very similae to what any businessexecutive does. I have assistanft coaches, I have players, managers, public relations, I work withi n a budget. I think I’d be but at same time, I’df be a little hesitant to thinkabout it, becausee I really want to be 100 percen t committed to what I’m doing.
And I love what I’m doing right now. In there’s a certain competitiveness everybod has, but in athletics, it’ s different because it’s much more And I enjoy that. Who’s the bettef basketball player—you, a three-time letter winner in or your wife, whose name is all over the recordf books atthe ? Her accomplishmentsw are at a greater level, and they’res way more successful than mine. We had similad high school careers, but even she was one of the top 25 players in Iwas top-100.
She was a her conference’s player of the year, MVP of the conferenced tournament and was on the firsgt NotreDame women’s team to go to the NCAA I was a key component on a really good but the other players were the main reasom we were cutting the nets down [to celebrate a She was the main reason her team was cutting the nets