Chad Holbrook finds new family ties with South Carolina

Posted Feb 19, 2009
Chad Holbrook could have kept coaching baseball at North Carolina. That certainly would have been the easiest thing to do. As a player for the Tar Heels from 1990 to 1993 and a coach for the following 15 seasons at his alma mater, Holbrook had built a good life in Chapel Hill and a reputation as one of the top assistants in college baseball. Yet he felt a tug when the garnet Carolina came calling. (The State)

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