Announced yesterday. Coach Mac Petty hanging up those size 42 sneakers. A boatload of years. A bigger boatload of victories. A storied basketball resume as a player and a coach.
A national champion!
None of that even comes close to his BIG accomplishments.
Mac Petty is, quite simply, a maker of men. Dozens of Wabash men, many of them players but many not, are in part who they are because Mac Petty made them that way. Oh, he didn’t need to get “in their face” or make them run ’til they puked. He’s not that kind of guy. No, simply being around Mac is enough to make many men want to be just like him. Not the jump shot. Not the move to the basket. No, it’s just magic. Mac is a man’s man – a gentleman is every respect. Don’t confuse that with soft. He’s rock hard! But he knows what it takes to play and win and live life the right way and that’s his standard. Pure. Simple. No compromise.
Those 42s will be awfully tough to fill.
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Your comments about Coach Petty are right on. I think Dean Raters has said it
best: “I cannot count the number of comments, of wonder and greatest, I have gotten
from Alumni who were not atheletes regarding Coach and his tenure at
Wabash College. I have stopped counting.” Mac certainly set the bar at the highest level. His smiling face will be missed on Campus.
Bill Fell
Tom, You are correct in your statement; “The maker of men”! We all knew that his retirement would come. But it does not seem possible that it is here already. Coach Petty will always be part of my memories of Wabash and what it means to be a Wabash man. Thank you for your service and leadership Coach Mac! Enjoy your retirement.