Anthony Grant - Future SC Assistant? Frank Martin disagrees with his firing

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Martin said he would explore adding Grant to his staff if Grant does not take a head coaching job and has interest in being an assistant at South Carolina.

"When he makes a decision in his mind whether or not he takes a job -- obviously he has to have a job offer first -- and if he decides I'm not doing that and we get deeper -- if he's willing to come work with us -- that's a conversation that [South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner] and I need to have," Martin said, "because if there's a better human being on the planet earth than him I want to meet him. I haven't met him in 49 years around here."

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"He's going to get a head job," Martin responded to the question. "He's too good at what he does. The question is: Will he take a head job if offered? That's a question he's going to have to sit down and figure out. He's too good at what he does. Something's wrong in our society when people like him are viewed as failures."

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"Their team won 18, 19 games," Martin said. "Their team won eight or nine league games. Their team sustained injuries [to starting point guard Ricky Tarrant and starting forward Shannon Hale] that he had no control over this year. If they hadn't sustained injuries to his leading scorer [Tarrant], his power forward, his starting power forward [Hale] and his leading scorer, who was as dynamic a perimeter athlete as we had in our conference, maybe those 19 wins become 22, 23.

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