Filed under: Seton Hall, Coaches
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Bobby Gonzalez did not look or sound as if the events of this past spring and summer had sapped his spirits or soured his outlook on his life or his sport. Last Saturday night, he conducted a coaching clinic at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame; a few days earlier, he had sat in on the Charlotte Bobcats' training camp at Larry Brown's invitation, and the next day he was going to his hometown to put on another clinic, at his alma mater, Binghamton North High School in central New York."I'm doing four hours straight. I'm the clinic,'' he said just before taking the court at the Hall of Fame. "It'll be great. I'm going full force.'' He didn't save his energy for that by resting on this night. His session, the last of the two-day clinic hosted by the famed Five-Star Basketball Camp, went non-stop for 2 1/2 hours, Gonzalez stopping only occasionally to check his notes.
This winter, though, he has to stop. For the first time in, he said, some 25 years, he does not have a coaching job. He politely chose not to comment on the ugly end of his Seton Hall coaching tenure last March, or his tumultuous four years there. Or, for that matter, on what followed: his wrongful-termination lawsuit against the school, which was settled in August; being charged with shoplifting a designer bag from a north Jersey mall in June; the player he kicked off the team after the Big East tournament who was arrested the same day Gonzalez was dismissed, after he and another man tied up and robbed eight people in a South Orange, N.J., home.
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