Canes Jim Larranaga is stepping down two years after Final Four run

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Breaking News! Miami Hurricanes basketball HC Jim Larranaga is stepping down two years after Final Four run.

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00:00Right now, we do have some breaking news right here in the South Florida area.

00:03According to the Miami Herald, we are seeing that UN basketball coach Jim

00:07Laranega to step down just two years after his historic final four run.

00:12Wow, yeah, you know what I would say?

00:18It ain't got nothing to do with him.

00:20Nah, the players.

00:22It's the players, man.

00:26He had all those players, man, and nobody played.

00:29And it's disheartening when you see where college sports is going,

00:37because now kids don't want to learn.

00:41And he's one of the best to do it.

00:44And when they were hungry and there was no NIL, you see how they played, right?

00:49Then soon as everybody started having the attitude, I got to get mine,

00:54then you weren't out there playing as a unit.

00:56You were playing as an individual.

00:59And guys just checked out.

01:02And so I feel bad for college sports when a guy who has put so much effort

01:12and so much work into doing things a certain way and bringing guys together

01:18and giving guys that were playing at universities a chance at success,

01:25how quickly that turned, right?

01:29To where you get an opportunity to come in on your NIL deal or your transfer portal,

01:35you have success.

01:36And then all of a sudden you're thinking,

01:37nah, I got to go get mine when you forget how this all transpired.

01:45Multiple sources say that he is stepping down.

01:47They haven't given any reasons other than the team is pretty bad.

01:51He's turned 75 in October.

01:52He's been coaching for 40 years and he's under contract through the 26-27 season.

01:59Nigel Pack, the only returning player, not starter, player from last year's team.

02:05And you could kind of see when they made that final four run,

02:11then the next year guys kind of...

02:16They all had their own agenda.

02:18They were all thinking about the next step.

02:20They were thinking about the league

02:23and they weren't playing like the team that they were the previous two years.

02:27I think that stands true in sports.

02:31And young college kids should understand this.

02:40If we have success, I have success.

02:43Very rarely are you going to go pluck a 25-point score from a team that wins nine games, right?

02:54We call that, in the business, a looter in the riot.

02:58But you score 25 points a game for a team that goes to the final four.

03:04Now all of a sudden you're a lottery pick.

03:06Same points.

03:08And that's the message that gets lost in all of this,

03:13is that our success equals more success for me.

03:20And that's what's getting lost in college football.

03:23It really...

03:24In college sports.

03:25It really is.

03:27Especially in basketball.

03:29The farther you go in the tournament, the more eyes are on you.

03:33Look at the run.

03:34Does anybody remember the run of Steph Curry?

03:38Did we know who Steph Curry was before Davidson made that run in the...

03:42No.

03:43I was thinking it was Del Curry's son, but that was...

03:45Right.

03:45No.

03:45But you didn't know.

03:46You didn't pay any attention all year until the final tournament.

03:49Right.

03:49You're like, oh, Davidson.

03:51And I don't understand why people don't understand that.

03:57Guess what?

04:01We always talk about Alabama football, but Alabama basketball has stepped up

04:08and they've been playing.

04:09And you've seen more and more guys go to the league from the University of Alabama lately

04:17because of the success that they have had.

04:19Conversely, you see less guys coming from the Blue Blood states in North Carolina, Kentucky,

04:28because they haven't had as much success.

04:33No, you still see some of them.

04:34You still see them, but yeah.

04:36Yeah, they'll never stop churning out NBA players.

04:41Yeah, but not like they used to.

04:43Wait, remember that Villanova run?

04:45How many guys are in the league from that?

04:47How many guys are in the league from that team?

04:50What, four?

04:52Yeah, exactly.

04:54Right, three of them on the next.

04:56Right.

04:58So our success, and especially in basketball, our success does more for my success.

05:09Not my success does more for our success.

05:14And in basketball, that plays out incredibly.

05:18Not as much in football, because I got to tell you,

05:23what's his name that came from Buffalo, the Russian?

05:28Greg Russo?

05:30No, no, no, no, no, no.

05:31Greg Russo.

05:32Are you talking about Khalil Mack?

05:33Khalil Mack.

05:35I'm like, how'd he end up in Buffalo?

05:36No, no, no, you said Russian and Buffalo.

05:38I'm like, oh.

05:39Oh, no, no, no.

05:39I'm talking about University of Buffalo.

05:42Right, right.

05:43I'm thinking to myself, how did he end up at Buffalo?

05:47Right?

05:48Randy Mars ended up at Marshall, but he had, you know, a-

05:51Yeah, there was problems.

05:52There were problems.

05:53Right.

05:53There were problems.

05:54He liked trees.

05:54He broke parole.

05:55He liked trees.

05:56He broke parole.

05:57And he liked trees.

05:58So he broke parole.

05:59But so from that standpoint, yeah, it's a little bit different.

06:03You'll get those guys that are straight ballers that come from smaller schools.

06:08Josh Allen came from, what, Wyoming?

06:10Yep.

06:11Um, Carson Wentz?

06:14North Dakota State.

06:16Yeah, you had-

06:16That's kind of a powerhouse division, too, though.

06:18Who else?

06:19Was it Trey Lance?

06:21Trey Lance went to North Dakota State.

06:22Yeah, they're also in the finals of the FCS championship this weekend.

06:26Yeah.

06:27So like, yeah, man, I think that's getting lost in college athletics is that

06:33our success does more for my success.

06:37Yeah, but when that NIL deal, they don't give it to the whole team.

06:41They give it to the player.

06:42Yeah, like, again, but it-

06:46Everybody has a price.

06:47It gives you a-

06:50I think it gives you a false sense of empowerment.

06:53Oh, yeah.

06:54Right?

06:54No, I don't understand.

06:55But look, Leroy, they tell you this.

06:57Your mom's calling you up and saying, why is this guy getting this money?

06:59You know you can score more than him.

07:00Why aren't you taking the ball more?

07:01Because I'm trying to play within the team.

07:03It's like, that guy's not playing within the team.

07:05He just signed a deal for $600,000, and you say-

07:09I got you.

07:12I got you.

07:13You know, as a quarterback now-

07:16Who?

07:16You can go to college for six years and make nearly $10 million.

07:22Right.

07:24And you may never get that in the NFL because you may not even breathe.

07:29Correct.

07:30A snap.

07:30Correct.

07:31You think-

07:32Wait.

07:32You think if Brock Purdy could have stayed in college and went to a major university

07:36one more year, he'd have made more money than he's made so far in the NFL.

07:41Yeah, but he's about to get paid, though.

07:43About to, but would have already had.

07:46Who made more money this year?

07:47Keep in mind, he wasn't drafted up high, so that money would have been money he might

07:52have thought he would never saw.

07:53That's a good question.

07:56Dan asked, Leroy, who made more money this year, DTR or Cam Ward?

08:02Cam Ward.

08:03He signed a four-year, $4.1 million contract.

08:06Yeah, Cam made more.

08:07Cam Ward made more money.

08:09Cam probably made all of that with endorsements and everything.

08:13Right.

08:14So, think about that.

08:16So, now you got these guys that could get one more year out, but here's the problem.

08:22I'm going to tell you what the problem is.

08:25I'm going to say it to, Vlad going to understand it, but Dan, they definitely going to understand

08:32this phrase.

08:34The reason why these kids are going to the league too early is mom and them.

08:38Absolutely.

08:44Somebody got an uncle who ain't never played a dime of football telling him what's best

08:48for him.

08:49Ain't nobody ever going to, you know, what you need to do, you know, hangers oners.

08:54You know, you stick around, man.

08:55Don't do this.

08:56You know, one of the best things I did-

08:58There's pressures on an athlete, a high school athlete with mama in them and your girl in

09:04them.

09:06Combined to join forces and then they're on your neck.

09:09They're on your head.

09:10You know what's crazy?

09:11One of the best things that I ever did in my career was go to Michigan and get lost.

09:19Mm-hmm.

09:22Well, they didn't, they didn't see me play football until highlights my sophomore year.

09:31Right.

09:32The only messages and the only things they were getting was what I was telling them.

09:38Right.

09:39So I didn't have that pressure of my family.

09:43When I left early, they were the last to know.

09:47Right.

09:48I made that decision because I was up in Michigan by myself and I say, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna make

09:54this decision by myself, you know, so nobody really knew what was going on until the year

10:03of the Rose Bowl.

10:04And then they started realizing, oh, he's playing.

10:07Mm-hmm.

10:08By then I had already been in college for two years.

10:11You know what I'm saying?

10:12So I didn't have-

10:14He playing California.

10:16Yeah, I didn't play.

10:18I didn't have, I didn't have, I didn't have the pressure of what I should be doing or

10:26what I should be given or what I was owed from other people outside of what was going

10:34on in that building.

10:36And in that building, it was different.

10:38Right.

10:39In that building, you earn, you know, you eat what you kill.

10:44So that was it.

10:46And, and I didn't have the people telling me what was owed to me or what I deserved

10:51or whatever.

10:52So my attitude towards getting playing time and playing was totally different than maybe

10:59if I had gone to an LSU, right?

11:03Yeah.

11:04Where people who knew me and knew what I did in high school were calling me up or coming

11:10to the games and telling me I should be playing.

11:13Yeah.

11:13They're just within arm's length too.

11:14That's easy.

11:15Right.

11:16Yeah.

11:16Well, so this is our City of Miami.

11:17We'll hold a 1.30 press conference today where Jim Larenaga is expected to announce.

11:22I hate that because you can't, there's not one person down here, no matter how that team

11:27was doing to say they didn't like Coach L.

11:29No, Coach L is beloved down here.

11:32You know how bad those kids gotta be?

11:33That for the man after Christmas to be like, I'm done with y'all.

11:36A legendary coach.

11:37Like after Christmas, he was with his family and friends.

11:40He was like with his family and loved ones.

11:42They're probably telling him.

11:43They're probably telling him, dad, grandpa.

11:46I've never seen you this unhappy.

11:48You above this.

11:49You don't deserve this.

11:50Forget them kids.

11:51Just unhappy in his family.

11:53I've never seen you this unhappy.

11:54What's going on?

11:56They lost to Presbyterian.

11:58No, they beat Presbyterian.

11:59They lost to Mount St. Mary.

12:00The Mount St. Mary, yeah.

12:01They lost to one of these.

12:02Not even St. Mary.

12:04Not even St. Mary.

12:05Mount St. Mary.

12:06St. Mary, I can understand.

12:08St. Mary College is good.

12:09Yeah, they made the tournament.

12:10I've seen them beat 15 teams and get knocked out.

12:13I'm cool with that.

12:14But Mount St. Mary?

12:16Yeah.

12:16In Sturg, Maryland.

12:18Here's the thing.

12:18You know that-

12:21I was in school in Charleston.

12:22They sit down, eat his turkey or his ham or whatever, whatever his favorite food.

12:27Absolutely, man.

12:28And they just telling him, hey.

12:31You don't need this.

12:32You're right.

12:34And guess what?

12:35Here's the crazy thing.

12:36You want to know when a person is a good dude that we haven't said one thing negative

12:44about him saying he's done.

12:46Nope.

12:47But you have to understand.

12:48And Dr. Toboggan just put this.

12:51He's been coaching his whole life.

12:53Lifetime of coaching.

12:55For him to leave midway through the season?

12:58Yeah, he's done so.

12:59He's done.

13:00Like this team might have taken the joy of coaching away from him.

13:05That's the only thing that would happen.

13:08But there's still joy, man.

13:11He's not coming back, most likely.

13:13When I say come back to coaching.

13:15Yeah.

13:15No, no, no.

13:16This is his last stop, I believe.

13:18He might be a consultant somewhere.

13:20But I think they took the joy of coaching away from him.

13:22Right.

13:23And that's sad.

13:24That NIL.

13:25That NIL.

13:27You think it's-

13:28I think it's-

13:30Portal NIL.

13:31No, just to say that.

13:31I think it has a lot to do with just the way that kids are in college now.

13:39Like the thing is, is that one of the things that I would always appreciate about the University

13:45of Miami, they be three or four deep.

13:48When you three or four deep at a position, especially at like running back or quarterback,

13:53you look at all the quarterbacks who played behind other quarterbacks, who played behind

13:58Heisman Trophy winners.

14:00And they all just sat and waited their turn.

14:02Right.

14:03That doesn't happen in NIL now, because for some reason they think they owed something.

14:08Like you're not better than the guy in front of you.

14:12Right.

14:12And it's easier to transfer now.

14:14You don't have to sit out a year.

14:15So that makes-

14:15Right.

14:16And you know another coach is promising you something.

14:19Oh, yeah.

14:19Like, let me ask you this.

14:23How many coaches have promised DJ Woogalwoogalee, whatever his name is,

14:28and he came for Woogalwoogalee, you know, I would call him DJ.

14:34DJ Woogalwoogalee?

14:36Wait, he done played for everybody and played for nobody at the same time in the same six-year

14:42career, right?

14:45But he's stacking though.

14:46Right, that's what I'm saying.

14:46He's stacking more.

14:49He's stacking a good enough amount though.

14:50What is it?

14:51You're going to be in the UFL next year, maybe.

14:53We'll see.

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