I have praised him several times before for running a great offense and being a great assistant coach. I have made predictions that he will be offered head coaching jobs in the future. What I just found out last week is that he has supposedly turned some down already. Hey, if he loves being at Navy, maybe he will just stick it out there and then take over after Richie Meade calls it quits. I know that Richie is at least 10-15 years older than Tillman. I wonder if Tillman will go from assistant to associate head coach someday if he stays at Navy and keeps going a great job. Of course, Princeton's Dave Metzbower and Virginia's Marc Van Arsdale are now both associate head coaches.

I have had the pleasure of meeting Coach Tillman a few times, and he is such a nice person! I wish him the best in everything he does.