Bob McKillop is retiring after 33 seasons as Davidson's head coach, he announced on Friday. McKillop's son, Matt, who played at Davidson and has been an assistant coach under his father for the past 14 seasons, is being promoted to replace him. «I think you know how my heart has been touched by Davidson, so I'll be stepping away,» Bob McKillop said at a news conference. «And you may ask, 'When did you decide this, Coach?' Well, after each year, I analyze completely what we're doing.
How can we do it better? I'm in a constant quest to get better. Constant. »It's been an absolutely extraordinary privilege to be the head coach at Davidson College.
I've come across people, I've come across friends, I've come across players, staff members, colleagues, that have just given me such a great opportunity to grow as a human being.
It's an extraordinary gift that you have all given to me. And I have much to be thankful for." McKillop, a Queens, New York, native, first found coaching success as a high school coach at Holy Trinity High School and Long Island Lutheran, both on Long Island.