(WLOS) Winning 64% of your games is something to be proud of, but it can't always keep you in that job. Monte Lee was fired as Clemson head baseball coach on Tuesday after a 7-year stint that produced a 242-136 record.

The day after the announcement he took a moment to chat via zoom with Scott Eisberg from our Charleston affiliate WCIV.

"It's certainly a time of grieving, certainly sad that my time here at Clemson is over," Lee admitted. "[I] feel like I failed the kids here. You know, I've always been a very accountable guy. Certainly disappointed in myself that we couldn't win more games."

Clemson finished 11th in the ACC regular season standings and missed the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row, the first time that has occurred since the mid-80's.

Clemson Athletic Director Graham Neff called the decision a performance-based one and not a personal move.

"I just feel like our relevance and our current performance hasn't been where it should be and has been for Clemson baseball," Neff said shortly after the move was made public. "So a different voice and a different direction ultimately is the decision that I made."

Lee doesn't plan to hang it up, though. While he joked about his affinity for hunting and fishing, he called those 'hobbies.'

"Baseball is my livelihood and it's my life and it's what I'm most passionate about," smiled Lee. "I hope I'm coaching until I can't sit on a bucket and flip baseballs to a player in the cage anymore. I just love it. It's who I am and it's what I do."