Exploring Coaching Challenges in College Sports Today

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00:00What did he say about what happened in Iowa City?

00:04Well, we didn't get into much of what happened in Iowa City, it's just the fact that he's not done.

00:09You know, when you look at all these coaches from these older guys, right,

00:12the Leonard Hamilton's, the Larranegas, the stuff like that, this guy wants to coach.

00:17He wants to be back out there and he makes a compelling case of the fact of his ability to create culture,

00:23his ability to develop talent.

00:26He's never had a five or four-star recruit. You know Fran as well.

00:30He's won everywhere he's gone and he's never had that high-profile job.

00:35And there's some high-profile jobs, one being Minnesota and one being Villanova.

00:39He's a Philly guy and he's someone that, if Villanova wants an experienced coach that's going to win

00:45and you provide him with in-and-out money, the guy won when he didn't have equal playing field.

00:51I think Fran could win if he had equal playing field with some of these other teams in regards to in-and-out money.

00:56But you know and I know, Pharrell, it ain't as simple.

00:59Look at Omar Balo, look at Connor Hawkins at K-State.

01:02You got to still be able to build a program the right way with the portal and other guys you have recruited.

01:09I mean, it's brutal, the business and coaching.

01:13And we've seen, like, look, Villanova stayed with Villanova guys.

01:19Look what it got them.

01:20That didn't work.

01:21Indiana stayed with Indiana guys.

01:24Look what that got them.

01:25And prior to that, they did guys that weren't Indiana guys.

01:28And look what that got them.

01:30And the thing that I think that really sticks out for me with Indiana was how they screwed up Calvin Sampson.

01:36So Sampson cheated or whatever and they just fired him.

01:41And look at him now.

01:42I mean, he is just killing it at Houston.

01:46And his team's the number one seed and it's always a top seed.

01:51And it's always going to the tournament.

01:53And they're always winning.

01:54And he's got, you know, perhaps the best defensive team in America.

01:58And Indiana fired him too.

02:00So I don't think any of these schools can get these coaches right.

02:03And I think you have to be careful, Pharrell, when you try to go get these hot shot assistants

02:08or you're keeping a family.

02:09Forget just Villanova or Indiana, right?

02:12Look at Ewing at Georgetown.

02:14Look at Chris Mullin at St. John's.

02:16You got to be careful.

02:18I mean, Hubert Davis, I won't talk about him.

02:20Because I don't even know how the hell they got into the tournament.

02:23That was a damn disgrace that they got in over teams like Boise State

02:27or honestly a team like Indiana deserved it.

02:30But to me, you got to be careful when you want to go get this hot shot coach

02:35or you want to go get the guy that's been bouncing around.

02:39I'm hearing about a guy like Richard Pitino.

02:41Listen, Richard's done a great job in New Mexico.

02:43But Richard Pitino also went to Minnesota and couldn't hack it over there.

02:47So we got to figure out here what we're doing.

02:50And with the portal and with the way things are, Pharrell,

02:54you got to be careful of who you go hire.

02:57Because now with the way these kids change teams, you've seen it, Pharrell,

03:02the leashes for these coaches have gotten a lot shorter.

03:06Did you see the interview?

03:08Because you could talk about Steve Alford the same way.

03:11When he was at Iowa, when he was at UCLA,

03:13and now he's really small school in Nevada in Reno.

03:17Did you see the interview he did talking about how to make it as a coach anymore,

03:25how impossible it is with the paying players?

03:30And he doesn't even talk about NIL.

03:33He just talks about paying players

03:37and how they are, in essence, setting them up for failure in life.

03:43They're paying them millions.

03:45Some of these kids make a million or more to play at these schools.

03:48And then when they get out and they don't make it in the NBA

03:50and they got to get a real job and they get paid no money,

03:54they don't know what hit them.

03:56They're in a shrink's office within a month when they lose it all.

04:02And he said, we're setting these kids up for failure

04:05and it's impossible to be a coach anymore in college athletics

04:09since we started paying kids.

04:11And it's interesting you said that because, you know,

04:13obviously I talked to Coach McCaffrey about it.

04:15I've talked to a couple of powerful women's coaches about it.

04:18And folks, just so you understand,

04:22it used to be you build a relationship with the kid and the parents, right?

04:27You start freshman, sophomore year.

04:29That's right.

04:30You go through the high school coach.

04:33You go through, you know, the AAU coach, the trainer.

04:36You build it.

04:37Fran McCaffrey used it best.

04:39Something I used to do in two or three years is like speed dating.

04:43You get like two weeks to figure these kids out.

04:46And the crazy thing, Pharrell, is you're not dealing with the parents now.

04:50You're dealing with agents.

04:52And I talked to a coach that told me, not Fran, another coach,

04:56that said that there are times agents that are calling on behalf of kids

05:02to get offers and they don't even have the kid yet.

05:07That they're turning around and saying, hey, I can get you this.

05:11I can get you that.

05:12It's really dirty.

05:14This is not what NIL was meant to do.

05:17But the cat's out of the bag and we all got to play in this environment.

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