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MacAdam: Will Brown and the cold reality of college coaching | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 ALBANY — Will Brown chuckled on the other end of the phone line. “In this business, it’s rare for people to stay at one place for a long time. You either take a job to enhance your career, or you get … fired.” No, this wasn’t on Monday. It was a few weeks ago, and we were talking about the college basketball coaching profession in general, in light of the death of one of his former assistants, Patrick Filien. “UAlbany Head Men’s Basketball Coach Will Brown and UAlbany Athletics A...

MacAdam: Saint Rose great Patrick Filien embraced life | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE PHOTO Patrick Filien beams as he is inducted into the College of Saint Rose Athletics Hall of Fame. Shares0 You can smell the butter on the popcorn. If you’re lucky enough to get your hand on the brass ring, you squeeze it tight, because it comes with a prize. The job-after-job merry-go-round that college basketball coaches ride is vastly different. You make countless spins without seeing your family, and they don’t see you. While trampled popcorn kernels are being swept off the concr...