Kyle Getter knows moving life well as a veteran college basketball assistant
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A sure sign that Kyle Getter is in this for the longest of hauls as Notre Dame men’s basketball associate head coach sits some eight miles from campus.
It has four walls. It has a few bedrooms. It has a backyard of green grass. It’s part of a Granger subdivision where it’s quiet at night. It’s the home that Getter and his wife, Michelle, bought and will soon call their own with their two children after completing another college basketball coaching-related move.
Moving — much like coaching — has been in Getter’s blood. It’s part of the process in the profession. If you want to coach, if you want to work with the best, if you want to keep growing, you have to keep moving, often as the place where you hang your hat has started to feel like home.
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Such was the case for the 44-year-old Getter, a Miamisburg, Ohio native who spent the last five years at Virginia. Getter wasn’t looking to move anytime soon, and head coach Tony Bennett certainly wasn’t going anywhere. With what he’s done in Charlottesville — at least 12 league wins each of the last five years, three regular-season championships and, of course, the 2019 national title — Bennett will be there for as long as he likes.
Getter was good with it all remaining status quo before part of the business that is basketball beckoned again for someone who has moved 11 times in his 22 years as a college coach. His wife has the protocol — plan, pack, move, unpack, start over — down cold.
“When you’re trying to move up in college, especially as a younger coach, you have to be willing to move,” Getter said. “At the same time, you never want to run away from being happy.”
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Getter was happy at Virginia. He was coaching in a state where he had already made three previous stops — at Liberty for three years, at Radford for four, at Virginia Commonwealth for two where he helped coach Shaka Smart get to the 2011 Final Four. He knew the state so well that he felt like a fellow founding father. He was working in the freakin’ Atlantic Coast Conference and working for one of the brightest/best minds in the game. Life was good.
He ran anyway. He had to when an old friend connected with a March phone conversation and eventually, a job offer that Getter couldn’t refuse. Too much history between them. Too much friendship. Too much the chance for his wife to return closer to her Connersville, Indiana roots.
How serious was Getter about joining head coach Micah Shrewsberry’s staff? He tells him how serious every so often in a not-so-subtle way.
“I tease Micah and say, ‘We’re buying a house here,’” Getter said. “A lot of times, we haven’t bought a house. I’m like, ‘Hey, look, man, you’re stuck with me. I’m here.’”
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