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March Madness: Dan Monson finds reward in getting fired


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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Dan Monson swears that the day that he got fired was among the most rewarding of his professional life.

It was only then that the Long Beach State men’s basketball coach discovered how deeply his players care about him.

As Long Beach State suffered loss after loss to end the 2023-24 regular season and plummeted to a distant fifth in the Big West standings, Monson began to question if he could still get through to his players. He wondered if they would be better off with a change in leadership, if they were starting to tune him out.

When Monson learned the Monday before the start of the Big West tournament that Long Beach State did not plan to renew his contract, he called a team meeting to inform his players he would no longer be their coach after this season. The heartfelt, teary-eyed conversations that followed reassured Monson that his players had his back.

“The emotions in that room that day told me everything I...

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