<v Speaker 1>Wednesday, April eight, twenty twenty six, you are listening to

<v Speaker 1>the Daily Dose Sports podcast and I am your host,

<v Speaker 1>Clinton Daily, coming to from my IHIA cit here in Denver, Colorado,

<v Speaker 1>and we are backed for another week of talking sports

<v Speaker 1>with a dose of common sense. Hey, Happy Wednesday to you.

<v Speaker 1>Hope you had a good weekend. Hope your week is

<v Speaker 1>going well and that you, your family, your friends, everyone

<v Speaker 1>in your world is staying strong and healthy right now.

<v Speaker 1>And first and foremost, congratulations to those Michigan Wolverines the

<v Speaker 1>winner About the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six NCAA

<v Speaker 1>tournament On Monday night, Hey, the Wolverines won a rock

<v Speaker 1>fight against the Yukon Huskies sixty nine sixty three that

<v Speaker 1>had well almost as many fouls as baskets. It felt

<v Speaker 1>like some of them called a lot of them not called. Hey.

<v Speaker 1>It was an impressive run for the Wolverines, though, who

<v Speaker 1>blew out Arizona in the final four by eighteen. But

<v Speaker 1>that game on Monday night, that was a little rough

<v Speaker 1>to watch. Thirty four fouls, twenty won turnovers, and the

<v Speaker 1>two teams combined to shoot thirty four percent from the field. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>not great. Wolverine's leading scorer, Yaxel Landeborg, looked very rough.

<v Speaker 1>He went four of thirteen from the field. Yukon head

<v Speaker 1>coach Danny Hurley, he did a lot of yelling, did

<v Speaker 1>a lot of pouting, wasn't very happy with the officiating.

<v Speaker 1>It was a tough game to watch. But congrats to

<v Speaker 1>Michigan and hey, congrats to the Big Ten. They just

<v Speaker 1>keep winning titles. One final note to think about with

<v Speaker 1>this championship for the Wolverines. With that win, we did

<v Speaker 1>see something that we've never seen before, because no team

<v Speaker 1>has ever won the national championship in the same season

<v Speaker 1>that it's football coach was fired for cause and then

<v Speaker 1>arrested on three separate charges, including third degree home invasion.

<v Speaker 1>So I mean we did see history. And speaking of titles,

<v Speaker 1>we also have to announce the winner up the Daily

<v Speaker 1>Dose Bracket Challenge, and I will say this this might

<v Speaker 1>be be worth showing in Dose Bracket Challenge history just

<v Speaker 1>as a group across the board. However, our winner b

<v Speaker 1>Haggarty three one three. Hey, they were absolutely dominant, racking

<v Speaker 1>up one two hundred and forty points and winning the

<v Speaker 1>challenge by seventy points over the next closest competitor, B Haggarty.

<v Speaker 1>Here is my message to you. Email The Dose at

<v Speaker 1>Dailydoes Sports at gmail dot com and we will work

<v Speaker 1>out the details to get you a Daily Dose T

<v Speaker 1>shirt for winning the bracket challenge. For the record, the

<v Speaker 1>Mayor comes in second, Mama Joy finishes third, Engler two

<v Speaker 1>and Daily Dose Junior tied for fourth, and our defending champion,

<v Speaker 1>Billy Oh finished in sixth place. Congrats to B. Haggerty

<v Speaker 1>and thank you to everyone who participated in our annual

<v Speaker 1>Daily Dose bracket shouts. Hey today on the Dose. The

<v Speaker 1>college basketball season is now complete and we're going to

<v Speaker 1>hand out a few annual year end awards to those

<v Speaker 1>that deserve them. Plus we will have a college basketball

<v Speaker 1>Flavor Daily Doos top five for you can NBA coaches

<v Speaker 1>have success collegiately. More on that a little bit later,

<v Speaker 1>but let's jump into a story directly related to that,

<v Speaker 1>because North Carolina search for their next head coach has

<v Speaker 1>landed in an unexpected place as the North Carolina tar

<v Speaker 1>Hills have hired longtime NBA coach Michael Malone as their

<v Speaker 1>next head coach. Now, don't forget Malone did win a

<v Speaker 1>championship with the Denver Nuggets. He won five hundred and

<v Speaker 1>ten games in twelve seasons as a head coach in

<v Speaker 1>the NBA. He's one of the most respected coaches in

<v Speaker 1>the NBA, and he's actually spent the last almost year

<v Speaker 1>as an ESPN analyst. But Malone will inherit a Tar

<v Speaker 1>Hills team that has been looking for a head coach

<v Speaker 1>replacement for nearly two weeks since they fired Hubert Davis.

<v Speaker 1>But let's remember Malone hasn't coached in college since back

<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and one, and he was just an

<v Speaker 1>assistant at Manhattan. He was also an assistant at Providence

<v Speaker 1>and at Oakland back in the nineties. But Malone's reputation

<v Speaker 1>as a coach it is pretty high. And with college

<v Speaker 1>basketball becoming more like pro basketball, every year, UNC gets

<v Speaker 1>a very good ex's and o's coach who did work

<v Speaker 1>in the NBA for nearly a quarter century as a

<v Speaker 1>head coach and an assistant, and you know that has

<v Speaker 1>to have some appeal to recruit. Oh, you know what

<v Speaker 1>it takes to play at that next level. You know

<v Speaker 1>how to get me ready for that next level. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>that's going to carry a little bit away now. A

<v Speaker 1>contract reportedly is worth a yearly average of more than

<v Speaker 1>eight million dollars for six seasons. So not bad money

<v Speaker 1>for Mike Munk. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's

<v Speaker 1>not Bill Belichick money. We know the money that guy's

<v Speaker 1>getting to coach football there, and it's a good thing.

<v Speaker 1>It's not Bill Belichick money, because if it were, Jordan

<v Speaker 1>Hudson just might be going to a few more basketball games,

<v Speaker 1>I think. Moving over to the NFL, the Las Vegas

<v Speaker 1>Raiders have agreed to terms with quarterback Kirk Cousins. Just

<v Speaker 1>two days after new head coach Clink Kubiak said he

<v Speaker 1>wanted to add another veteran quarterback to the roster. They

<v Speaker 1>went and got Kirk Cousins. Cousins agent announced the deal,

<v Speaker 1>which will pay the four time Pro bowler twenty million

<v Speaker 1>dollars in guaranteed money this coming season. It'll also mark

<v Speaker 1>the eleventh consecutive season that cousins contract is fully guaranteed. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that's actually kind of amazing. The deal also includes a

<v Speaker 1>club option for two years at eighty million dollars and

<v Speaker 1>could be worth up to one hundred and seventy two

<v Speaker 1>million dollars over five years, but only the first year

<v Speaker 1>at twenty million is fully guaranteed. Now Cousins is thirty seven,

<v Speaker 1>and he will join a Raiders team that is widely

<v Speaker 1>expected to draft former Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza with their

<v Speaker 1>first overall pick in the NFL Draft later this month.

<v Speaker 1>But do you still draft Mendoza if you're spending twenty

<v Speaker 1>million dollars on a guy that walks, talks, looks and

<v Speaker 1>acts like Mendoza? So you're gonna spend twenty million dollars

<v Speaker 1>on a guy to hold a clipboard? Or are the

<v Speaker 1>Raiders actually scheming would they trade that pick or select

<v Speaker 1>someone else? Or are they actually just going to pay

<v Speaker 1>big money to Cousins to be a mentor to Mendoza.

<v Speaker 1>Either way, I don't know what Kirk cousins agent is making.

<v Speaker 1>I know the standard contract is like five percent, but

<v Speaker 1>my goodness, give that man a raise. Do you realize

<v Speaker 1>Kirk Cousins has generted over three hundred and forty one

<v Speaker 1>million dollars in his career. That's unreal. And you might

<v Speaker 1>hear that and go, well, okay, yeah, that sounds all right,

<v Speaker 1>except for his career. Kirk Cousins is eighty eight seventy

<v Speaker 1>seven and two As a starter, he has two hundred

<v Speaker 1>and ninety eight touchdowns, two one hundred and thirty one interceptions,

<v Speaker 1>and he is one in four in the playoffs. Three

<v Speaker 1>hundred and forty one million dollars for that Hey, who

<v Speaker 1>cares about Kirk Cousins. That agent should be in the

<v Speaker 1>Hall of Fame. That agent should be negotiating peace in

<v Speaker 1>the Middle East. That agent, well, that agent actually should

<v Speaker 1>be representing the daily dose. What is that agent's number?

<v Speaker 1>I need to call that guy now. I know I

<v Speaker 1>keep saying the NBA skuy is falling, and people roll

<v Speaker 1>their eyes and they think I'm crazy. But I'm bringing

<v Speaker 1>you a little bit of proof today. A new study

<v Speaker 1>conducted by Yahoo Sports examined how many star players miss

<v Speaker 1>TV games this season. Now. The study defined a star

<v Speaker 1>player as someone with an All NBA or All Star

<v Speaker 1>appearance in one of their last three seasons, and using

<v Speaker 1>that definition, it found that just thirty two point seven

<v Speaker 1>percent of nationally televised games actually feature a full complement

<v Speaker 1>of star players. So about two out of three national

<v Speaker 1>TV games have at least one star player in street close. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>it gets worse. Only one of the NBA's top twenty

<v Speaker 1>five scores this season, has played in every game. Who's

<v Speaker 1>that Minnesota Timberwolves forward Julius Randall. Yeah, can't wait to

<v Speaker 1>buy tickets to watch him. Only four others have even

<v Speaker 1>crossed the seventy game mark, Kevin Durant, Jamal Murray, Jalen Brunson,

<v Speaker 1>and Brandon Ingram. And again a little worse. Teams usually

<v Speaker 1>wait until after shoot around to announce the absence of

<v Speaker 1>star players, long after fans have already bought their tickets.

<v Speaker 1>In the process, the NBA is just d incentivizing buying tickets.

<v Speaker 1>And don't look now, but various metrics are suggesting the

<v Speaker 1>NBA is slipping below both Major League Baseball and definitely

<v Speaker 1>below college basketball and popularity. Hey, it's not a coincidence.

<v Speaker 1>You gotta play, I know that. Seems like that would

<v Speaker 1>be obvious. Somehow, it's not obvious. Adam Silver doesn't get it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why our popularity is fading. Oh, we

<v Speaker 1>don't ever play. Oh, maybe that's why. Finally, it wasn't

<v Speaker 1>just the men's NCAA tournament that completed this week. No,

<v Speaker 1>the women's tournament also completed on Sunday as well. And

<v Speaker 1>right now we are going to break down what was

<v Speaker 1>an incredible tournament on the women's side.

<v Speaker 2>Oh no, you don't not again. Sorry.

<v Speaker 1>Twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six college basketball season is

<v Speaker 1>now complete and the Michigan Wolverines are the national champions.

<v Speaker 1>But of course, nothing is over until we say it's over.

<v Speaker 1>You say over. Nothing is over until we decided it is.

<v Speaker 1>And we still need to finish off this season and

<v Speaker 1>we're going to do that right now. We're going to

<v Speaker 1>hand out our annual end of year awards to those

<v Speaker 1>parties that are truly deserving and to them only. And

<v Speaker 1>our first award is, of course, the Player of the Year.

<v Speaker 1>And I realized that his season did not end the

<v Speaker 1>way that he wanted it to. But who else could

<v Speaker 1>we give this to but Duke's freshman forward Cameron Boozer.

<v Speaker 1>At six nine, two hundred and fifty pounds, he proved

<v Speaker 1>he is tough enough to go inside and play through

<v Speaker 1>physical play. But he also showed enough range that he

<v Speaker 1>can space the floor, he can shoot from outside, and

<v Speaker 1>he can make plays with his passing as well. Gooser

<v Speaker 1>averaged twenty two points, ten rebounds, and four assists per game. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>he looked like a veteran player, not a freshman. Duke's

<v Speaker 1>Cameron Boozer gets our most Outstanding Player of the Year.

<v Speaker 1>As for our Coach of the Year award, I've got

<v Speaker 1>to give it to Michigan head coach Dusty may. Hey.

<v Speaker 1>We knew Michigan was good, I'll be honest, I didn't

<v Speaker 1>think they were this good. Yes, they won the Big Ten,

<v Speaker 1>which did prove to be the best conference in the

<v Speaker 1>country by far. But at times his guards they showed

<v Speaker 1>some flaws and at times they couldn't shoot it all

<v Speaker 1>that well. But Dusty may I mean, hey, he raised

<v Speaker 1>their level of play. And this team plays so physical

<v Speaker 1>and they just knocked down free throws. As a team,

<v Speaker 1>they shoot seventy five percent from the line. You're gonna

<v Speaker 1>win a lot of games that way. Dusty may brought

<v Speaker 1>ann Arbor their first hoops title since the eighties and

<v Speaker 1>just their second in school history. He is our Coach

<v Speaker 1>of the Year. Our next award goes to the best

<v Speaker 1>game of the tournament. And where else could we go

<v Speaker 1>but that elitiate game between Duke and Connecticut, And yes,

<v Speaker 1>I realized that the game was primarily a block for Duke.

<v Speaker 1>They led by nineteen in the first half, but the

<v Speaker 1>two teams combined to shoot forty eight percent from the field.

<v Speaker 1>It's pretty good shooting. But then Duke began to turn

<v Speaker 1>it over. Connecticut scraped their way back into the game,

<v Speaker 1>and with twenty eight seconds left, Duke led seventy two

<v Speaker 1>to sixty nine. Yukon got fouled, but they missed one

<v Speaker 1>of the free throws with ten seconds left. Okay, so

<v Speaker 1>Duke is gonna survive. Just inbound the ball and hold it,

<v Speaker 1>make your free throws and this is over. Then Duke

<v Speaker 1>inbound the ball. They tried to push the ball off

<v Speaker 1>the floor. They wanted that big end of game dunk,

<v Speaker 1>and they turned it over and Yukon's Brailin Mullen splashes

<v Speaker 1>a three from the logo to take the lead with

<v Speaker 1>three tens of a second remaining, and Yukon pulls off

<v Speaker 1>the upset that will be replayed for years. The Yukon

<v Speaker 1>Duke Elite eight game gets our Tournament Game of the Year.

<v Speaker 1>Next up, we have our Mark Madson Award. Now, if

<v Speaker 1>you don't know what that is, we hand out the

<v Speaker 1>Mark Madson Award to the guy that will soon be

<v Speaker 1>tearing up the rec leagues. And when you see him

<v Speaker 1>in the rec League, You're gonna be like, well, who

<v Speaker 1>is this guy? He's not even good. He's a garbage player.

<v Speaker 1>Bad news, because that guy's gonna torch you. He's gonna

<v Speaker 1>put up like forty and fifteen on you. And of course,

<v Speaker 1>this year's Mark Madson Award has to go to Saint

<v Speaker 1>Louis Bilkins big Man Robbie Avila. Yes, he looks like

<v Speaker 1>Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys, and he has some of

<v Speaker 1>the best nicknames ever with Larry Bird and College Jokic

<v Speaker 1>and Milk Chamberlain and Kream Abdul Jabbar. But when you

<v Speaker 1>watch him, I mean one, he can barely run. He

<v Speaker 1>has no vertical whatsoever. But he's highly intelligent and he

<v Speaker 1>does manage to make the right play most of the time.

<v Speaker 1>I'm hoping that Robbie gets a chance in the NBA,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm telling you if not, oh, he's gonna be

<v Speaker 1>shredding people at the rec center very very soon. Next up,

<v Speaker 1>we hand out our Joy George Mason Award to the

<v Speaker 1>team that overachieved the most in the season. And while

<v Speaker 1>we could give the nod to Texas, remember they were

<v Speaker 1>an eleven seed and they managed to make it all

<v Speaker 1>the way to the Sweet sixteen. But honestly, Texas should

<v Speaker 1>be good. They should be better. They shouldn't allowt fifteen

<v Speaker 1>games this year. So I'm gonna have to get this

<v Speaker 1>to the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa began a season unranked. They

<v Speaker 1>went twenty four and thirteen. They finished ninth in the

<v Speaker 1>Big Ten. Okay, and they were a number nine seed

<v Speaker 1>in a tournament. So they beat Clemson in the opening round,

<v Speaker 1>then they upset number one seed in Florida in the

<v Speaker 1>round of thirty two. Then they beat Nebraska in the

<v Speaker 1>Sweet sixteen before finally losing to Illinois in the Elite eight. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Hawkeys head coach Ben McCollum, he is suddenly a hot commodity.

<v Speaker 1>I won't be surprised to see him get snatched up

<v Speaker 1>by a bigger name program soon. Congrats to Iowa our

<v Speaker 1>George Mason winner. Next up, the Arizona Award is annually

<v Speaker 1>given here at the Daily does to the team that

<v Speaker 1>was the highest ranked and then did the least with it.

<v Speaker 1>And this is a tough one this year because for

<v Speaker 1>a change, Arizona actually managed to win a few games

<v Speaker 1>in a tournament. Then again, they did get blown out

<v Speaker 1>by Michigan in the Final four. But I can't in

<v Speaker 1>good conscience give this to Arizona for a change. Now,

<v Speaker 1>I kind of want to give this to the Florida

<v Speaker 1>Gators for being the first number one seed out in

<v Speaker 1>the round of thirty two. But I'm actually going to

<v Speaker 1>give this to someone else because when the March Madness

<v Speaker 1>brackets came out, everyone said the same thing. Okay, Florida

<v Speaker 1>is the number one seed in the South, but Houston

<v Speaker 1>is the number two seed in the South, and the

<v Speaker 1>South Regional will be played in Houston. So you're telling

<v Speaker 1>me Houston is going to be playing home games to

<v Speaker 1>get to the Final four. Oh, this is going to

<v Speaker 1>be a cakewalk. Yeah. And then Houston faced Illinois in

<v Speaker 1>the Sweet sixteen and about midway through the second half,

<v Speaker 1>they had managed to outscore me sitting at home on

<v Speaker 1>my couch, by like, I don't know, twenty four points.

<v Speaker 1>Houston wins our Arizona Award. Our Final Daily Does College

<v Speaker 1>Basketball Award is the Kardashian award that we hand out

<v Speaker 1>to the recipient that gets the most media coverage and

<v Speaker 1>then does absolutely nothing. So who is the most hype

<v Speaker 1>player or team that just didn't live up to it

<v Speaker 1>in any way. Well, this year I'm going to hand

<v Speaker 1>our Kardashian Award to the Kansas Jayhawks, who have the

<v Speaker 1>top rated freshman in Darren Peterson, but still couldn't make

<v Speaker 1>it past the second round as Peterson rarely wanted to play.

<v Speaker 1>He kept tapping out of games saying he had cramps.

<v Speaker 1>This group at Kansas was so bad they just might

<v Speaker 1>get head coach Bill Seff to retire. Oh so you're

<v Speaker 1>telling me you got a man to despise everything he

<v Speaker 1>lives for in life. Oh yeah, that team definitely deserves

<v Speaker 1>the Kardashian Award. I remember you should be stopping by

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<v Speaker 1>many weeks here at the Dally Dose. We need to

<v Speaker 1>get over to our daily dose top five. As we

<v Speaker 1>mentioned earlier, former Sacramento Kings and Denver Nuggets head coach

<v Speaker 1>Mike Malone is going to be taking over the North

<v Speaker 1>Carolina Tar Hills job. Hey, there's no question Mike Malone

<v Speaker 1>can coach. He won an NBA title in Denver. People

<v Speaker 1>act like that's just common. No, that, my friends, is

<v Speaker 1>no small fee. Remember Denver has never won anything. The

<v Speaker 1>Nuggets never even made it to the conference championship before

<v Speaker 1>Mike Malon. But can Mike Malone actually succeed in Chapel Hill. Now,

<v Speaker 1>if you missed it. When told that Mike Malone would

<v Speaker 1>be taking the job at UNC, former Duke head coach

<v Speaker 1>Mike Krzyzewski said, well, they did have a Hall of

<v Speaker 1>Fame football coach last year and he still lost to Duke. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>so it's on now. Malone was an assistant at the

<v Speaker 1>collegiate level. But we have had NBA head coaches that

<v Speaker 1>decided to drop down and go give things a try

<v Speaker 1>at the collegiate level. Have they had success? Our daily

<v Speaker 1>doose top five just might give us a clue. Today,

<v Speaker 1>we count down the five NBA coaches who went and

<v Speaker 1>coached college basketball, and let's take a look at how

<v Speaker 1>they did. We start up at number five and we

<v Speaker 1>go to a guy that has actually had a pretty

<v Speaker 1>amazing coaching career and he probably had his best season

<v Speaker 1>this past season. Now, this guy played his college ball

<v Speaker 1>at Iowa State and then he was a journeyman player

<v Speaker 1>in the NBA for ten seasons. After his playing career,

<v Speaker 1>he went back to Iowa State to coach his alma

<v Speaker 1>mater in twenty ten. He was in Ames for six seasons.

<v Speaker 1>He led the Cycles to the tournament four times. But

<v Speaker 1>we all know money talks, and the Chicago Bulls came calling,

<v Speaker 1>and when they did, Fred Hoiberg took a twenty five

<v Speaker 1>million dollar deal to make the jump to the NBA.

<v Speaker 1>He was in Chicago for three seasons. He was fired

<v Speaker 1>in his fourth season. He went one hundred and fifteen

<v Speaker 1>and one hundred and fifty five with the Bulls. In

<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen, Heiberg returned to college basketball, taking the Nebraska

<v Speaker 1>Cornhusker job, and he has that program on the rise.

<v Speaker 1>This season, the Huskers went twenty eight and seven, and

<v Speaker 1>Hoiberg led the Huskers to their first tournament win in

<v Speaker 1>school history, and then they went all the way to

<v Speaker 1>Sweet sixteen. Hey, Fred Hoiberg went to the NBA. He

<v Speaker 1>kind of struggled. He came back, and he's been pretty

<v Speaker 1>good at the collegiate level since he's been back. Fred

<v Speaker 1>Heuberg comes in today at number five. We go to

<v Speaker 1>number four and we get to another head coach who

<v Speaker 1>has bounced around quite a bit. Actually, after playing his

<v Speaker 1>college basketball at the University of San Diego, he took

<v Speaker 1>a few assistant coaching jobs in the NBA and in

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and two he would be named the head

<v Speaker 1>coach of the Golden State Warriors. Now these were not

<v Speaker 1>those Warriors. These Warrior teams failed to even finish above

<v Speaker 1>five hundred and two seasons, So this guy got fired.

<v Speaker 1>In two thousand and six, he was named the head

<v Speaker 1>coach of the Sacramento Kings, but he wasn't doing very well.

<v Speaker 1>Oh and then he got popped for a dui and

<v Speaker 1>once again, Eric Musselman was fired. So after bumping around

<v Speaker 1>the d League for a few years, he decided to

<v Speaker 1>go to the College RECs. He ended up getting the

<v Speaker 1>Nevada job in twenty fifteen. He took him to the

<v Speaker 1>tournament twice in four years. He then moved on to

<v Speaker 1>the University of Arkansas in twenty nineteen, and in five

<v Speaker 1>seasons in Fayetteville, he had them in the tournament three times.

<v Speaker 1>Musselman is now the head coach at the University of

<v Speaker 1>Southern California, and while he hasn't gotten the Trojans to

<v Speaker 1>the Dance just yet, they're getting better. They almost made

<v Speaker 1>it this year. Eric Musselman, he just seems like a

<v Speaker 1>better fit at the college level than at the NBA level.

<v Speaker 1>And he comes on on our list today at number four.

<v Speaker 1>We arrived at number three, and we get to a

<v Speaker 1>guy that played a little in college at UNC Wilmington,

<v Speaker 1>and then after being a college assistant for a few years,

<v Speaker 1>he was named the head coach at the University of

<v Speaker 1>Massachusetts in nineteen eighty eight. And he was pretty good

<v Speaker 1>at UMass because he recruited guys like Marcus Camby and

<v Speaker 1>Carmelo Traviso and Dante Bright. And in ninety six, John

<v Speaker 1>Calipari led the UMass Minutemen to the Final four, they

<v Speaker 1>didn't win it, and he decided to try his hand

<v Speaker 1>in the NBA. He got the New Jersey Nets job,

<v Speaker 1>but it didn't go well. In one hundred and eighty

<v Speaker 1>four games, his team lost one hundred and twelve of them.

<v Speaker 1>So he went back to college and he took the

<v Speaker 1>Memphis job, where once again he started pulling some incredible

<v Speaker 1>recruits and his Tigers team with Derreck Rose at point guard,

<v Speaker 1>went all the way to the National Championship game in

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and eight. John Calipari would eventually take the

<v Speaker 1>Kentucky job, and in twenty twelve he would win a

<v Speaker 1>national championship with guys like Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd Gilchrist.

<v Speaker 1>Following the twenty twenty four season, John Calipari moved on

<v Speaker 1>to take the job in Arkansas and he has now

<v Speaker 1>taken him to the tournament twice in two years. In

<v Speaker 1>his collegiate coaching career, John Calipari is nine hundred and

<v Speaker 1>five and two eighty six. Hey, he wins, and he

<v Speaker 1>seems to be way better in college than he ever

<v Speaker 1>was in the NBA. John Kyle Party comes in at

<v Speaker 1>number three. We reached number two, and we get to

<v Speaker 1>a guy that has had some success in the NBA,

<v Speaker 1>but again he just seems to be a little better

<v Speaker 1>suited in college now. He played collegially at UMass back

<v Speaker 1>in the seventies, and then eventually he would land the

<v Speaker 1>head coaching job at the University of Boston. He then

<v Speaker 1>went to Providence and he took them to the Final

<v Speaker 1>Four in eighty seven with a chubby point guard by

<v Speaker 1>the name of Billy Donovan. So Rick Pattino decided to

<v Speaker 1>parlay that Providence gig into getting a head coaching gig

<v Speaker 1>in the NBA with the New York Knicks. Now, the

<v Speaker 1>year before he arrived, the Knicks had won twenty four

<v Speaker 1>games in two years. Rick Pattino led the Knicks to

<v Speaker 1>their first division title in nearly twenty years, but he

<v Speaker 1>said he didn't like it. He resigned. He went back

<v Speaker 1>to college. He took the Kentucky job. He won the

<v Speaker 1>national championship in nineteen ninety six, but he couldn't stay

<v Speaker 1>away from the NBA. He decided to try it again.

<v Speaker 1>He went back to the NBA in ninety seven. He

<v Speaker 1>took the Boston Celtics job, but this time it didn't

<v Speaker 1>go very well. He'd get fired after going one oh

<v Speaker 1>two and one forty six in his stint in Boston.

<v Speaker 1>So he went back to college, this time at Louisville.

<v Speaker 1>He won another championship in twenty thirteen, but in twenty

<v Speaker 1>seventeen he would get let go in lieu of an

<v Speaker 1>ugly scandal in which they say he may have been

<v Speaker 1>hiring hookers for recruits. Patino went and coached in Greece

<v Speaker 1>for a few seasons. He came back, he went to Iona,

<v Speaker 1>and of course now he is at Saint John's and

<v Speaker 1>of course he is once again winning. Hey, Rick Patino

<v Speaker 1>was a mixed bag at the NBA level. He was

<v Speaker 1>also kind of a mixed bag at the college level too,

<v Speaker 1>but he's always won at the college level. And Rick

<v Speaker 1>Patino comes in today at number two. So we reached

<v Speaker 1>the number one entry on our list of coaches that

<v Speaker 1>did coach at the NBA level and then went back

<v Speaker 1>to college, and we get to a guy that, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>he probably did it better than anyone else has ever

<v Speaker 1>done it, because this guy is the only one in

<v Speaker 1>history to win a title at both levels. Now, he

<v Speaker 1>played at the University of North Carolina, and then he

<v Speaker 1>coached a little in the ABA, then at UCLA, then

<v Speaker 1>in the NBA. Then he went back to college. In

<v Speaker 1>eighty three, Larry Brown took the job at Kansas and

<v Speaker 1>he led the Kansas Jayhawks to their first championship since

<v Speaker 1>the fifties, winning it all with Danny Manning in nineteen

<v Speaker 1>eighty eight. But then he left college. He coached the

<v Speaker 1>San Antonio Spurs, then he would coach the Los Angeles Clippers,

<v Speaker 1>then he would coach the Indiana Pacers. Then he would

<v Speaker 1>coach the Philadelphia seventy six is where he actually got

<v Speaker 1>them to an NBA Finals, but they lost to the Lakers.

<v Speaker 1>And then Larry Brown went to Detroit and in two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and four, Larry Brown, with a group of smart guys,

<v Speaker 1>tough guys, Chauncey billups Rip Hamilton. They pulled off one

<v Speaker 1>of the biggest NBA Finals upsets in history by beating

<v Speaker 1>the Lakers and winning the NBA Championship. But I mean

<v Speaker 1>Brown couldn't sit still. He went to the Knicks, he

<v Speaker 1>went to the Bobcats, and then eventually he went back

<v Speaker 1>to the collegiate level at SMU in twenty twelve. By

<v Speaker 1>then Larry Brown was in his seventies, but he still

<v Speaker 1>went eighty five and thirty nine in four seasons at SMU.

<v Speaker 1>Larry Brown could just coach, it didn't matter where. He

<v Speaker 1>could coach anywhere and he would win anywhere. Now, can

<v Speaker 1>Mike Malone be successful in Chapel Hill. Sure, we know

<v Speaker 1>he can coach. But as our list today shows, can

<v Speaker 1>you recruit? Because the guys on this list they were

<v Speaker 1>able to recruit. The guys that went on the collegiate level,

<v Speaker 1>they got big time athletes. Mike Malone will either have

<v Speaker 1>to be really good at recruiting or he will have

<v Speaker 1>to go hire someone on his staff who is. Otherwise

<v Speaker 1>he's gonna have a tough go. You gotta have players

<v Speaker 1>at that level. We know it's basically a pro league now,

<v Speaker 1>but you gotta have players. He's gonna have to have

<v Speaker 1>a recruiter. Hey, next week on the desk, of course,

<v Speaker 1>we'll be keeping up to date on what is going

<v Speaker 1>on in the world of sports, but I'm actually chasing

<v Speaker 1>a guest that is doing some amazing work with youth

<v Speaker 1>sports and actually has quite an amazing story to tell.

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<v Speaker 2>Have a great week, everybody.

<v Speaker 1>Oh no, you don't.

<v Speaker 2>Not again. Sorry,