To: "Andrew Zarzour"
PhilliesPitcher72@earthlink.net
From: "Coach Steve Victory"
svictory@cofc.edu
Sent: Nov. 10, 2005 8:35 A.M.
Subject: Best wishes in your future
Hi Andrew, my name is
Steve Victory and I am the new men's basketball coach at College of Charleston. You may not remember me but I was an assistant at Florida Atlantic and Miami when you were coming through the high school ranks. I was assigned to recruit the Carolinas and we spoke several times by phone, and I even came up to Bunn for a visit during a conference tournament game your junior year.
Anyways, I just wanted to write and say I've admired how your baseball career has turned out. We were mighty disappointed, and I'll admit very surprised, that you didn't choose basketball as your main sport. You could have been a major star on the hardwood (and of course helped either program that I was associated with). But now I see why you chose the diamond. You're a splendid competitor and I can see you winning a Cy Young — maybe more than one — before you hang up your cleats.
I just wanted you to know you have another big fan out there. I've done OK for myself. I finally landed a head coaching job at Central Florida a few years back, and I'm getting ready to start my first season at College of Charleston in a few weeks. I'm nervous but excited. I hope my career turns out the way yours is turning out. I sure would love to cut down the nets and win a national title one day.
Take care. If you're ever in Charleston, give me a call and I'll buy you dinner (something I couldn't do when we were recruiting you). Tickets to any CoC game are on me as well...
Yours,
Coach V