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Impact of Veteran Coaches Retiring on College Sports
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10/22/2024
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So you, in the article, you talked about all these guys that stopped when they were in
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their seventies, that guy's nowhere near that.
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And you talked about how overwhelming the job is, how draining it is and how stressful
00:17
it is.
00:19
He was a great teacher as a coach.
00:25
There's nothing he can do to impress me with this decision.
00:28
I'm sorry.
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I'm not going to sit here and agree with any of it.
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I think he effed the whole program up nice and juicy.
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And what's going to happen in the aftermath of his bloodletting here?
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I mean, who's taking over?
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Remember, so Scott, if he had left in April, they would have had to go find a whole new
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roster because just about everybody that was wearing Virginia colors last year would have
00:51
left.
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And then they would have had a difficult time assembling another roster.
00:55
So that would have really put the problem at that spot.
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I think there may be some players who haven't spent a redshirt year who could, if they wished,
01:04
decide to just say, OK, I'm not playing this year and I'm going to go somewhere else.
01:09
But they may decide that they know Ron Sanchez.
01:13
They've been around him now for five, six months.
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Maybe they'll decide that, and some for many more than that, but the new ones, the new
01:19
players have met Ron and know him and have worked with him.
01:22
And maybe they like him enough to stick around.
01:25
So I don't think that he gave the program a rough ride.
01:29
I do think that the players who had committed for him and who returned for him, I think
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that's tough.
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But like I said, somebody was going to get a tough deal in this.
01:40
I just look at it, the main thing for me, the main takeaway for me is that there are
01:46
lots of college coaches who still want to do this.
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The fact that Roy retired at 70 and Nick Saban retired, I think, 72 and Mike Krzyzewski
01:55
retired at 75, it's not an unusual age to retire.
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That's pretty much what most people would have done with that amount of wealth and that
02:04
age and experience.
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But there are lots of coaches who are in their 70s who are still going.
02:08
I mean, Tom Izzo will turn 70 this year.
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Jim Laranega is in his 70s.
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Leonard Hamilton is 76.
02:15
They're still hanging on.
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Why are they still doing it if it's so bad?
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I know that it's tough.
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I know that it's rougher than it's been.
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And it was always a difficult job because of the recruiting calendar.
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But I just I look at the fact that there's always somebody who wants to do it.
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College basketball 50 years ago, nearly 50 years ago, survived the departure of John
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Wooden.
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And what happened, Scott?
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You know, it got way more popular, way more popular.
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So I just think that college basketball will survive Tony Bennett as well.
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