Impact of Veteran Coaches Retiring on College Sports

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00:00So you, in the article, you talked about all these guys that stopped when they were in

00:07their seventies, that guy's nowhere near that.

00:11And you talked about how overwhelming the job is, how draining it is and how stressful

00:17it is.

00:19He was a great teacher as a coach.

00:25There's nothing he can do to impress me with this decision.

00:28I'm sorry.

00:29I'm not going to sit here and agree with any of it.

00:32I think he effed the whole program up nice and juicy.

00:35And what's going to happen in the aftermath of his bloodletting here?

00:40I mean, who's taking over?

00:41Remember, so Scott, if he had left in April, they would have had to go find a whole new

00:46roster because just about everybody that was wearing Virginia colors last year would have

00:51left.

00:52And then they would have had a difficult time assembling another roster.

00:55So that would have really put the problem at that spot.

00:58I think there may be some players who haven't spent a redshirt year who could, if they wished,

01:04decide to just say, OK, I'm not playing this year and I'm going to go somewhere else.

01:09But they may decide that they know Ron Sanchez.

01:13They've been around him now for five, six months.

01:15Maybe they'll decide that, and some for many more than that, but the new ones, the new

01:19players have met Ron and know him and have worked with him.

01:22And maybe they like him enough to stick around.

01:25So I don't think that he gave the program a rough ride.

01:29I do think that the players who had committed for him and who returned for him, I think

01:35that's tough.

01:36But like I said, somebody was going to get a tough deal in this.

01:40I just look at it, the main thing for me, the main takeaway for me is that there are

01:46lots of college coaches who still want to do this.

01:49The fact that Roy retired at 70 and Nick Saban retired, I think, 72 and Mike Krzyzewski

01:55retired at 75, it's not an unusual age to retire.

01:59That's pretty much what most people would have done with that amount of wealth and that

02:04age and experience.

02:06But there are lots of coaches who are in their 70s who are still going.

02:08I mean, Tom Izzo will turn 70 this year.

02:11Jim Laranega is in his 70s.

02:13Leonard Hamilton is 76.

02:15They're still hanging on.

02:16Why are they still doing it if it's so bad?

02:20I know that it's tough.

02:22I know that it's rougher than it's been.

02:24And it was always a difficult job because of the recruiting calendar.

02:28But I just I look at the fact that there's always somebody who wants to do it.

02:33College basketball 50 years ago, nearly 50 years ago, survived the departure of John

02:38Wooden.

02:39And what happened, Scott?

02:40You know, it got way more popular, way more popular.

02:44So I just think that college basketball will survive Tony Bennett as well.

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