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Good for you. You can also ask your smart speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. It is a Wednesday in a few minutes. I'm going to share with you a new top six list. This is a magical time of the year, magical time of the season for college, right? Got March Madness going on. I'm going to give you a top six list of the greatest college coaches of all time.
That's it. Like, I don't care what sport, just basketball, football, fencing. I'm going to give you maybe not fencing, but I'm going to give you a top six list of the best college coaches of all time. We'll share that with you momentarily. Of course, as we continue on at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.
That's going back in the past. As it relates to today, we had a few other things that we've been able to discuss here in the show. LeBron James sat down with Pat McAfee, responded to everything and including Stephen A. Smith talked about his son. Bronny talked about his other son, Bryce, who's going to Arizona, talked about just football and also discussed this whole argument about whether guys playing now could play in the past. And a great conversation, great interview with LeBron James on Pat McAfee. So we got into that. Stephen A. Smith has already responded, by the way. We'll share some of that with you later on.
Call LeBron James a liar. Russell Wilson was introduced as the newest member of the New York Giants earlier today. It was absolutely hilarious.
It was as vanilla as you would expect anything from Russell Wilson. Yeah, I'm happy to be here. It's good to be here. I'm going to work hard, looking forward to helping the team be a leader. I expect to be quarterback number one.
I'm going to the New York Knicks game tonight. Yeah, just boring ass stuff from Russell Wilson. And wait until he starts throwing the football.
That'll be when things get interesting. Talked about Alexander Ovechkin. This man is getting closer and closer to passing Wayne Gretzky for the most goals of all time. Gretzky has 894.
Alexander Ovechkin, after last night, he has 889. So we've talked about a lot. Like I said, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app and you can start the show from the beginning. You can hit pause if your wife interrupts you. You can hit pause if your husband is a pain in the ass. Your kids, you're sick of them? Tell them to do their homework, but you can always listen on the free Odyssey app. Man, we have so much more to do.
Minnesota Vikings gave an explanation as to why they didn't sign Aaron Rogers. So we'll get into all of that. But as it is a tradition, every Wednesday, a new top six list.
I've been doing this now for almost 16 years. For five years here now on the Infinity Sports Network, it's a new top six list. And in lieu of... Six, five, four, three, two, one. It's time to get JR's latest top six list. Only on the JR Sport Brief.
Is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. In lieu of so many conversations about coaches in college. Coaches that are coming, coaches that are going, coaches that are getting fired, coaches are getting fired and replaced by the guys who beat them.
There's a lot going on. And so today I wanted to talk about the biggest coaches. I wanted to talk about the top coaches that we've ever seen in college sports. And no, I'm not limiting this just to basketball.
I'm looking at basketball and football and potentially everything in between. And so I'm not wasting any more time. I'm getting right into it. It's time for a new top six list of the best college coaches of all time. It's a countdown. What number are we starting with?
Number six. Man, this dude would be higher up on this list. This man would be higher up on a lot of lists.
God rest his soul if he wasn't a halfway lunatic. I got Bobby Knight at number six on my list. This man won three championships with Indiana from 1971 to the year 2000.
Man, Isaiah Thomas is like, that guy might as well be my dad. He unfortunately had to finish things up at Texas Tech. He was been to five final fours out of the three championships.
He's in the Hall of Fame. But yeah, that uh, yeah, that little choking thing, that that temper thing, throwing the chair thing. There's a lot of the things I'm not even going through the whole list, but that is a lot of the things that took place with Bobby Knight. And he's so damn good that this guy could abuse a student athlete and still make the list. He sat down.
We got this audio from Audiorama. This is Bobby Knight explaining and telling everybody the only two things he prioritized as a coach. I thought that I had two things that I was responsible for as a coach. Number one, and most important was that the kids that played would get a degree. The kids that played would have an opportunity to get into the world. And that was, I think, more important than winning games. And that was awfully important.
But I thought that my responsibility above all else was to see that in the process of playing, they had an opportunity to play and win games, but also they conducted themselves academically in a way that they'd be able to go out and work. Man, Bobby Knight would not last in the era of NIL. Hickey, what would he be doing? Would he find a new line of work? What the hell would he be doing? He wouldn't be coaching.
I don't, I'm with you. I don't think so. He'd be locking kids in the gym to rent them from leaving. Oh my goodness.
He'd be strapping the kids to the chairs. Can't go in the portal if he can't leave. Can't go to the portal, can't leave. Go sit in class. Wow.
Yeah. You want to talk about one of the best college coaches of all time outside of all of the noise and issues and controversies. There's, there's no denying that Bobby Knight is one of the greatest college coaches of all time. So I got him at number six here on the list.
He'd be higher on a lot of things if he didn't have the controversies, but Hey, this man lived that life all about balance, the good and the bad. He's number six on the list. What's next? Number five, Bobby Bowden.
That's right. I got to go hang out with all my people in Tallahassee. Shout outs to Tallahassee. Shout outs to all my people at Florida State University. They have always been so good to me. They let me do my show there live a couple of times.
I love them in Tallahassee. That's not why I got Bobby Bowden here at number five on the list. It's due to his own accomplishments. This man coached at FSU from 1976 to 2009.
Okay. This guy won two championships in 93 and 99. He finished his career with 377 wins. The only guy who got more wins than him when he called it a wrap was a Joe Paterno, but it was a different story. He has 12 ACC titles. He took his team to bowl games for 27 consecutive seasons. I could go on and on and on about what this man did for the Seminoles.
It took him some time to try to get things back on track. He coached everybody from Neon Deion Sanders. Of course, one of the nicest football players ever.
I don't ever understood how you hit people. And Derrick Brooks. He had Walter Jones. He had New York Knicks legendary point guard.
Oh, that's right. He wasn't a legendary point guard, but he had a point guard. His name was Charlie Ward, a Heisman Award winner. Bobby Bowden. He was the man.
Absolutely. Hey, Nick Saban. Great coach in his own right. Isn't he right?
Right. Nick Saban talked about how and why he respects respected Bobby so much. There's probably not many in this profession that I have more respect for than coach Bowden.
Not only as a coach, not only what he sort of accomplished on the field, but the kind of person he was, the kind of character he had and the class that he sort of exemplified as a college football coach. Yeah, he was just, he's a good dude. You listen to him. It's like talking to Grant. Well, I never spoke to the guy. It was like listening to grandpa. Like you wanted to listen to that man. Bobby Bowden, number five on my list.
One of the greatest college coaches of all time. He's five. What's next?
Number four. Oh, we still in, we still in football. We went from basketball to football. Hey, this guy's a football coach too. And we just heard from an Alabama coach. The next guy, number four is also an Alabama coach. He, he was before Nick Saban. His name is Bear Bryant.
Let me tell you something. God rest his soul. Passed away young at the age of 69 in 1983 due to a heart attack. Bear Bryant played at Alabama in the thirties.
Okay. He then became their head coach in 1958. He lasted until 83 passed away not too long after he stopped as 25 years as Bama's coach. He started his coaching career at Texas A&M. And in that span of time, he won six titles specifically in the sixties and the seventies. He has 14 SEC titles. Bear Bryant was getting the job done before there was even some, uh, Nick Saban guy.
And I find it, Chris is crazy to me. Bear Bryant was the head coach when Joe Namath was out there playing quarterback. Like he was, he can't, Joe Namath came right after he got the job. Joe Namath won a championship and then Joe Namath goes to the NFL.
He's wearing fur coats in New York and stockings and he's winning more championships. I'm sure he learned all of these things at Alabama, whatever. Bear Bryant is awesome. I told you, he passed away in 1983.
The young age of 69 years old. Bear Bryant, prior to his self is passing. He talked about how he wanted to be remembered. My players and coaches to remember me as someone that honestly, uh, try to help them in all three years of life. I'd like to be thought of by my players and coaches having had an impact on their life. They better help us down the road.
And I think I have, I will. I'd like for the people to remember me as being a winner because I ain't never been nothing but a winner. You know, it's funny thing about football. Yeah. You went up a game of one play, but you never know when that's going to happen. So you prepare your people for the big play.
If they're trying to win the game on every play, they'll make the big play. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. Big play in 1983.
Damn. I got, I got bear Bryant number four on my list. You want to talk about one of the greatest coaches of all time, college coaches of all time, it doesn't matter what sport he's number four. What do we got next? Number three.
Oh man. I guess we got to stay in Alabama. I guess we have to talk about the guy who beat him in titles and he didn't just win them all at, uh, at Alabama. But at number three, I got Nick Saban.
That's right. Nick Saban who has seven national championships. The last one that he got was in 2020. That first one that he got, well, man, at this point, it was more than 20 years ago at LSU, decided to have a cup of coffee in the NFL, realized that it wasn't for him. Didn't have a quarterback goes to Alabama in 2007 and picks up six championships, man. They were paying Nick Saban $12 million a year before he decided I'm not doing this NIL stuff. You know, Bobby Knight didn't have the chance.
He didn't have the opportunity to say, I'm not doing this crap. Nick Saban did. He said enough of this crap.
I have won enough. He retired last year, a little more than a year ago. Last January, Kellen DeBoer has now taken over for the college football coach. Who's been quite controversial when he coached ever the complainer telling the media about rat poison. And now he's a member of the media. Nick Saban, I got him above Bear Bryant when it comes to the top coaches, one of the most accomplished college coaches of all time. Nick Saban is three and Nick Saban.
He spoke to the Crimson Tide Sports Network and he talked about why he was able to have so much success and be consistent with Alabama beating everybody up. You gotta be a perfectionist of sorts. And you have to have a very high standard of how you want to do things, not really what somebody else wants you to do them, but you want to do them. So, and you're willing to stay focused on the process of things that you have to do to be able to do that.
And then you also have to have the discipline to be able to stay with it every day and execute it because that's probably the hardest thing any of us have to do. Man, man, man, what? I got Nick Saban at number three on my list, top college coaches of all time. I got Nick Saban at number three. And so who could possibly be at this number?
Number two. Yeah, who the heck could be in front of Nick Saban? Who? Who? Oh, it's another coach. Another guy who decided I don't want to do this NIL stuff anymore.
This is not for me. This man played basketball. He played basketball. He was a point guard at Army. He eventually ended up coaching Army, but he's widely known for coaching at Duke for more than 40 years. At number two, you want to talk about one of the greatest college coaches of all time.
I got Coach K at number two on my list. He coached at Duke from 1980 to 2022. Before that, he spent five years coaching Army, and in the most total of 47 years, he won five championships. He went to 13 final fours. He has 15 ACC championships. This man was so good that people learned to hate Duke, everything about Duke, everybody who played at Duke, because all they did was win, win, win. He has produced almost 30 NBA lottery picks.
He has produced almost 40 first rounders. Coach K is one of the greatest college coaches of all time. And how do you lead? How do you keep bringing in all this talent?
Coach K gave us the secret to being a leader. The very first thing is that, you know, in order to get better, you change limits. And when you change limits, you're going to look bad and you're going to fail. And at West Point, I learned that failure was never a destination.
In other words, when you are not back, you know, figure out why and then change. The other thing is that you're not going to get there alone. You know, be on a team, you know, be surround yourself with good people and learn how to listen. Oh, I like that part.
Listen, too many idiots running around and sports it in the world right now. I just want to talk, talk, talk and not listen. Let the information go into your ears, seep into your brain and let it sit there for a while.
Yeah, listening is a key to leadership. I got Coach K at number two on my list when we take a look at some of the best college coaches of all time. This is the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side of the break. I'm going to tell you who I have here at number one as the top college coach of all time. Numero uno on the other side. It's the J.R. Sportbree show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbree.
It is the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I am giving you a top six list. And today we're talking about some of the best college coaches of all time. Yeah, it's a top six list, top six college coaches of all time. I don't care what sport it is. I'm about to share with you who I have at number one.
But before we get there, here's a recap. At number six, I gave you Bob Knight. Man, what a career this guy had, what a career he would have had if you didn't run around beating up on kids.
Well, the student athletes, choking them, threatening them. Anyway, he's number six. And number five, Bobby Bowden. I love FSU. I love Tallahassee, but his results speak for itself.
It has nothing to do with how I feel about him or the school. This man won titles in 93 and 99. This man pushed out guys like Deion Sanders and Charlie Ward and Charlie Ward and Derek Brooks. Nobody has more wins outside of Joe Paterno. And number four, I gave you Bear Bryant.
And you won't talk about wins. The man who came before Nick Saban won six national championships from 1961 to 1979. When Bear Bryant decided to call it quits, he had the most wins ever. And number three on the list, top college coaches of all time, I gave you Nick Saban.
His seven titles, tie with Bear Bryant for six at Alabama, picked up that other one, his first title at LSU back in 2003. And Nick Saban just last year, just last January, said, I'm not doing this anymore. This NIL stuff, you mean I got to pay these guys? They don't want an education and play football? Yeah, I get you to the NFL, but you're just chasing the money now?
I don't want to do this anymore. And number two, I gave you Coach K. Five titles in 47 years. Man, I didn't even, I'm talking about college. I didn't even get into all the stuff that he's done, the stuff he did, Team USA basketball as an assistant. LeBron James even talked about Coach K earlier today as he spoke to Pat McAfee. And so if I have Coach K as a second greatest college coach of all time, and I got Nick Saban at number three, how could I possibly have an individual who's ahead of these two? Well, it's real simple. I will tell you who I have at this number right now.
Number one. How about 10 championships? How about seven straight championships?
How about doing this in a span of 27 years? Let's, let's go to Sunset Boulevard. Let's go to UCLA. Let's talk about John Wooden. Yep.
That's what I got. Number one on my list. His name is John Wooden. Let me repeat that for you. In 27 years, coaching the Bruins, he won 10 championships. Damn it, he won seven in a row at one point. And the reason why he didn't win a championship one year, he literally went from one Hall of Famer to another, and that's Gail Goodrich. And he went from him to Lou Alcindor, who, by the way, I'm sure you heard he was so good, they didn't even want him to dunk the basketball. They outlawed it.
Enter the Skyhook. You don't hear, even today, you don't hear players talk about coaches the way that even Kareem, even Kareem, anybody has talked about John Wooden. God rest his soul. He helped them win as well. Bill Walton.
Man, I feel, I feel like I've accomplished something in life. I've been able to talk to Bill Walton. God rest his soul. Spoken to the guy. I've been able to talk to Kareem multiple times.
Thank God he's still here. Anytime you heard from these two guys, they always talked about John Wooden, and they didn't talk about what is what he did for them on the basketball court. By the way, people don't even remember that. Well, maybe you didn't.
Why would you? He played basketball. OK, he played at Purdue. He coached at Indiana State University. He was at UCLA. Man, he was like, what am I doing on Los Angeles?
Like, I'm ready to go back to the Midwest. And he just kept on winning. Ten championships, twelve Final Fours, he won coach of the year seven times, four unbeaten seasons. At one point in time, they went on a streak where they won eighty eight straight games. Well, you thought the Yukon women were doing some damage, huh? Uh-uh. No. It's tough when you when you got coaching.
Everybody runs around. It's easy to look at the wins and the losses. I've never heard anybody, anybody have a negative word to say about John Wooden. He's always elevated for what he taught them, not just on the basketball court, but what he taught them in life.
John Wooden. When he spoke, I want you to hear this. He talks about how he got his players to go out there and just simply focus. Never try to be better than someone else. Always learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you could be. That's under your control.
And if you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to the things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control. I love that. I love that. Like, I actually live by that. I do.
And not because I heard John Wooden say it, but I love that. Like, I don't give a damn what anybody else is doing. I can only do what I can do. I can pay attention.
I can learn. But man, I'm running my race. What sense does it make to run my race and then look to the left and look to the right and worry about what somebody else is doing? Because your ass will trip and fall. Do what you can do.
Take time to learn, soak up, absorb what else is going on, but do what's in your control. That's nothing but a 15-second sound bite and clip that you just heard. Imagine what the late Bill Walton heard from him. When he was alive, he told us. Imagine what Kareem learned from him. Thank God Kareem has told us and continues to talk about John Wooden.
You don't have this much success. You don't stick around for this long, unless people really are getting something more out of you than you just being the basketball coach. I got John Wooden number one on my list of the greatest college coach of all time. And number six, I gave you Bob Knight. Number five, Bobby Bowden. Number four, Bear Bryant. Number three, Nick Saban. Number two, Coach K. Number one, John Wooden. Yeah, that's my top six list of coaches right there. It doesn't matter what sport and no shock and surprise.
It's all football and basketball. These are the moneymakers. These are the ones that people know. This is this is it.
If a tree falls in a forest, do I need to finish the cliche? Anyway, if you have a coach, you want to tell me about a great college coach, you want to tell me about the greatest college coach of all time. You want to educate us, fill us in. Go ahead. We got a new phone number and it works. Call me up right now. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. I'm going to ask Hickey. I'm going to get his thoughts. We're talking about the best college coaches of all time. You know, are there other names?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are. Get Hickey's thoughts, get your thoughts and more. I told you we got a lot more to get into as well. It's the JR Sportbreeze show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sportbreeze.
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That's 888-710-4ISN. Quite simple here. I just gave you a new top six list of the best college coaches of all time. That's it. Now here's the thing.
I really took it down to popularity, okay? I'm like, hey, this is basketball and football. I gave you Bob Knight at number six, Bobby Bowden at number five, Bear Bryant at number four, Nick Saban at three, Coach K at two, John Wooden at one. That's what we got here. Top college coaches of all time.
Now, obviously there are more than six great coaches that have ever coached in college athletics. Of course. That's why I'm giving it to you. Share.
I didn't stop at six. I put some thinking into this. I'm going to talk to you in a second. I need you to thank O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.
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The brand new phone number again, 888-710-4ISN. Hey, let's go to Iowa. And let's talk to Brad. Hey, Brad, you're on the JR Sport Brief Show.
Hey, JR. I'd like to mention Dan Gable, the head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa. He won nine national championships over a 10-year period and then lost four to Oklahoma State. Then he won three more national championships for a total of 12 in like 15 years. Oh man, damn it.
This guy, he was out there wrestling himself and then he went on to coach wrestlers. So yeah, ain't no doubt about that. Thank you, Brad. Yep.
Yep. Thank you, JR. No doubt about it. Hey, Brad dropping that knowledge all the way from Iowa. But thank you so much. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Hey, we're talking about, we're talking about Matt wrestling. None of this John Cena stuff.
None of that stuff. Hey, Brian is calling from Knoxville. Hey, Brian, you're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up? What up, JR? How are you? I'm good. How are you, brother? I'm excellent.
Go ahead. Hey, I love your list, but you can't have a list, top six list without Pat Summitt, brother. You really can't. I know you're going off popularity, but Pat Summitt's one of the all-time great college coaches ever. Yeah, well, there's certainly no disputing that. Her championships, her longevity. I personally know Candace Parker. I guess I can call Candace and then she can give us the whole rundown on her personal relationship. As you said, I went on popularity. And in particular, I look towards the men's side of things as well. But great point by you to bring up Pat Summitt.
Would you care to share more information? I mean, eight, eight times national championship, 18 time Final Four, 16 SEC tournaments. I mean, hard to beat. Ain't no lies about that, Brian. Well, thank you for calling from Knoxville. Appreciate you, man. Yes, sir.
Thank you, JR. No doubt about it. Yeah. Hickey, I don't want to get on Candace Parker's bad side, OK? Because one day I want to have her. She she works right down the block here, by the way. I don't want to get on the bad side. I don't want to get in trouble. Hickey, I've gone one, you know, where they put the sign down, but they go, you know, every day without incident, right? I've gone for it out there. Yeah, I think I've gone a calendar year without incident.
I think I had 60. You don't you don't want to wipe it zero today. I don't I don't. I don't.
But but. Is there not why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? I'm just waiting. I'm just waiting.
I got the eraser ready. Three sixty five out to be zero. OK. We spoke to Lisa Leslie earlier in the show. Did you not hear Lisa talk about the parody in regards to just college sports across the board, just all the way across the board? I don't think and I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I don't think there was the same parody in the women's game in the 80s and 90s. I could be wrong.
I don't know. Maybe I got to ask Candace Parker. She didn't play in the 80s or the 90s.
I just don't I don't think that's the case. Like there's no denying about Pat Summitt. God rest her soul and her accomplishments and what she did on the court for the women's game and and what she did outside of the game. I mean, she's highly accomplished. She is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the greatest coaches of all time. But in this regard, I thought about the men because I think about the men's game on both the football side and then the basketball side. It's it's highly competitive. Like there's certainly been more parody all the way throughout. And then she's so dominant, there's nothing to take away.
Like I looked at John Wood and I'm like, man, like everybody has a positive word to say about him. I just think as I think we would all see that the women's game has evolved a whole hell of a lot. Man, look at the professional level from the start of the WNBA, from the start of the WNBA up until now. Man, I just saw that the Golden State Valkyries or whatever the heck they call in them out in the Bay Area, like they sold ten thousand season tickets. Like the game is exploding. We're getting more teams on a professional side.
We're having more parody. I thought about the guys here. And so shout outs to everybody in Knoxville, everybody in Tennessee thinking about Pat Summitt. I didn't think about her in that regard because of the development of the game. I couldn't tell you about anybody else in that time frame. I couldn't.
Hickey, am I am I going to be in the newspaper again tomorrow? No, because I think even if you want to go into women's basketball, if you had a top six, wouldn't Gino Ariemma be ahead of Pat Summitt? Oh, you guys want eleven titles? I would say so.
And different eras. And I thought I thought about him for this list as well. He didn't make this top six list, you know, and they won one hundred and was it one hundred and thirty games in a row?
Oh, my God. Like it's like he I think he'd be considered the go to of women's college basketball coaches. But but even in that regard, doesn't that that speak even for him? Does that not speak to how the game has changed? Or is it is parody a part of that conversation?
Are they just so head and shoulders above everybody else? The answer is yes, in one regard. But I think it also speaks to parody. I think it does, man. I mean, I think in this era, right, this last let's call it five years of women's college basketball.
I think you've seen parody explode and now there's legitimate. I mean, you saw Lisa Leslie. We just heard her an hour ago talking about how many teams are tough and are playing well. Like I think there is something and I know you didn't penalize John Wood for this because, again, I think you do give you need credit for being consistent. But there is something to where, yeah, if you are running the best program and you have a system to where you basically won't lose the best players, I do get the best players every single year.
It's definitely tough to start off the ground, no doubt about it. But back then, it's easier to maintain, no doubt about it than it is right now. Bro, I used to look at UConn women's basketball. There was no point in watching. There's no point. I just like, oh, we know who's going to win. Like, there was no point in watching. It's like, all right, OK, all right, there we have it. Best players there for four years, too.
Which is also the case in older college basketballs. Yeah. System designed for dominance. My bad out there, OK? I can't wait to get in trouble tomorrow. Thanks. Anyway, 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Ed is calling from Maryland. You're on the JR Sportbreeze Show. What's up, Ed? Yo, what's up, JR? How are you feeling? I'm excellent.
What's up? Look, I got to, mine doesn't really follow the norm of the college coaches, but I was very blessed to attend this school, to coach there up until about seven, eight years ago. And all of the guys that you talk about, as far as like, John, let's put it this way. When Bill Walton died, I called the defense coordinator.
It's the math at Catholic High School. And I called the defense coordinator, who I grew up with. We coached together, whatever, whatever.
And he sends me a picture of this. The guy that mentored me. What's the name? My bad. My bad. Morgan Woodman.
His name is Morgan Woodman. Wait a minute. What?
What's wrong, Jay? Isn't that a high school? No, that's, that's, I told you it was going to be different, right? Man, we're talking about, we're not talking about high school.
Nobody knows outside of the Maryland. No, what I'm saying is, just, and then you go to your people and you follow, what I'm saying is those guys, like John Wooden and those guys, it was, it was fortunate. It was fortunate. Those guys came to this coach, who's in the Hall of Fame, who taught me how to coach all those guys. All those guys. Red Auerbach. I walk in the office, Red Auerbach.
So all of those guys came to this guy to learn basketball who never made it out of high school. Okay. Yeah.
People, people in Bangkok back in the day knew who Morgan Wooten was. I'm not tooting his horn. I don't have to toot his horn. I'm just, you know, I'm just pivoting. I just pivoted on you, buddy. Okay.
I was just, I was just looking, I was just looking for the top college coaches all the time. No, I know. I didn't, I didn't follow the storyline. My bad though. You know, I didn't mean that I could follow the storyline, but those guys, I saw those guys on a regular basis. So you, it's Nick Saban.
I met him and it was like meeting God. So no, you're good. And I didn't mean to do anything other than what you were talking about. You did though, but it's okay. It's okay. Well, thank you for bringing them up. No, no, send me some money.
Cash app. That's a good apology. Not, not over the world. Listen to you, man. All right. Well, you have a good day, man. Y'all be good. You too, Ed.
Thank you for calling from Maryland. Hickey. I had an elementary school gym teacher one time.
Okay. I'm putting him on my top six list. I can't remember his name. What's his name? Mr. Toronto. No, Mr. Mr. T. We called him Mr. T. I can't remember his name.
I got to ask somebody. I'm putting him on my top six list. Hey, no disrespect to Morgan Wooten, but yeah, that was a, that was one hell of a pivot. It is the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN.
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