When Dusty May reached Eastern Greene High in Indiana, the man who taught him basketball became both his idol and his North Star.
. When May arrived on the Boca Raton campus, FAU had compiled five winning seasons in 25 Division I years. Before this March, the Owls had reached one NCAA tournament and never won a tournament game. On Saturday night, the ninth-seeded Owls will play“FAU making the Elite Eight is one of the best jobs done in the history of college basketball. Period,” said Georgia Coach Mike White, for whom May worked as an assistant for seven years. “It’s absolutely incredible.
“He’s just a super genuine guy,” Mumford added. “He really cares about what we do. He makes it known that what we’re doing is so central. He just really appreciates it, which is nice because a lot of coaches don’t do that.”May has distilled the overarching principle of being a student-manager: “Serving without wanting anything in return,” he said.
On road trips, Knight expected doughnuts outside his hotel door by 6 a.m. It was May’s job to put them there. “It was usually a local doughnut shop,” May said. In one town, the bakery didn’t open in time. He woke up at 4 a.m., drove an hour to the nearest open doughnut shop and returned in time to get Knight his breakfast.Observing Knight served as a formative experience. May coaches with an even keel instead of a temper, Knight’s most famous attribute and the root of his eventual downfall.
“Strictly from a professional standpoint, I’ve worked with a lot of really good coaches,” White said. “Dusty’s work capacity and passion for work is unparalleled. I haven’t seen anything like it.”Louisiana Tech’s budget forced White and May to make recruiting trips by road, even if it meant driving May’s dealer car 12 hours to Florida or the Midwest. Once there, they would share a hotel room. On one trip, White woke up at 4 a.m. to use the bathroom.
May shrugs at the idea that his work ethic makes him unique. It comes naturally and not only because of his blue-collar background. He’s still the kid who played so hard his mother made him play in sweatpants, still the student manager who only ever wanted to be an Indiana high school coach.
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