Massa said that after Xavier dropped football five or six years prior because of financial struggles there were discussions of scaling back the basketball program, perhaps even moving from Division I to Division III. He had basketball in his bones," said Gary Massa, a 1981 Xavier grad who's now in his 20th year as Xavier's Vice President of University Relations and was once a team captain under Staak. That's why his favorite phrase was, "Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. "He believed in the notion that you must leave being a better man than you were before," Daily's daughters wrote in remembrance their dad. His life was one of service, predicated on love and kindness, and his legacy at Xavier will last as long as there are jerseys hanging in the Cintas Center rafters. "I was an assistant at Penn and he called about every person imaginable that would have had any contact with me in Philadelphia or at UConn where I played.ĭaily died on Dec. "It was extremely thorough," said Staak of the interview. Staak realized how serious Daily was when he began the interview process. He had a vision for the future of Xavier at a time when the University was at a crossroads. He was riding me back to the hotel before the interview and we could barely see out of the damn window." It was probably 25 degrees out and there was ice on the windshield. "He picked me up at the airport and he had like a Volkswagen Bug. It was the heart of winter in 1979 when Bob Staak, who was in Cincinnati to interview for the Xavier University men's basketball head coach position, emerged from the airport and met Dr.
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