This wasn’t the plan. It wasn’t discussed and hadn’t even crossed Rod Strickland’s mind when he took the head-coaching job at Long Island University last summer.
Sure, his two sons, Tai and Terell, were still in college and had remaining eligibility. But they had their own careers and lives to live out. He didn’t even suggest they join him, not after he took the job late last June.
They needed each other. Strickland needed his sons’ experience as veteran college basketball players who understood him. They needed their father’s guidance. It made sense on many different levels, particularly for Tai, who had just one year of eligibility remaining. Said Tai: “I was kind of set [at Georgia Southern]. Then during the season, things went as they went. They struggled, we struggled. As Terell said, he got hurt. At the end of the season, you kind of sit back and reflect: Why not?”
But as hard as their father was on them, it didn’t change Tai’s and Terell’s passion for the game, Rod’s wife and their mother Cheryl said. They were always ready to work the next day and to learn from their dad. The Stricklands lived basketball, whether it was traveling to Rod’s games and practices or his sons’ games. The gym was their second home.“We were an eat-in-the-car kind of family for a majority of their lives,” Cheryl joked.
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