Welcome back. Second hour of the program. Greig camp you will join us
at eight thirty five, but the Oakland University had basketball coach earning the contract
extension. He'll join us at eight thirty five. We will replay in our
next segment, replay our conversation with Michael Harraw about eighteen after the hour.
Mike joined us yesterday talk about his experiences in the Lions this year. Dan
Campbell also said something yesterday that I thought was pretty interesting, and that is,
you know, we can't do Ron Burgundy. We can't just read off
the prompter. You've got to do. You gotta do something different. Understands
that they've had guys who've reached the Super Bowl. I'm glad our expectations.
I'm glad. I'm glad the organization's expectations are the same as the fans expectations.
Good for you. We've gotten there. They helped us along because of
what they did a year ago. We've gotten there minus a catastrophe Jared Goff
getting injured for the entire season, perhaps a guy like Hutchinson or Sewell getting
injured for the entire season, or a rag Now I might add, the
expectations is getting and winning the Super Bowl. That's the way it should be.
Others, other organizations should have the same expectations. Now, the Tigers,
we've talked a lot about. The Tigers announced something yesterday that did not
go over very well. I'm not sure who's handling this stuff. It's just
have you ever heard the phrase, take the temperature in the room. It's
basically telling you understand what's going on here before you deliver a joke, news,
a line, whatever. The Tigers apparently want to create premium seating what
they call experiences for fans, and they've wanted to do it for a while.
Why they choose to announce it now is beyond me. I don't understand
it. If your team is doing what the New York Yankees are doing and
winning forty five games to lead all of baseball, I can understand why you
might make the announcement. Folks, we're forty five and nineteen, we've got
the most road wins of anybody in baseball. But it's really the home ballpark
that makes the difference, and we're going to allow that difference to be felt
by you. We're announcing new premium seating experience coming to Yankee stadium in twenty
twenty five. The Tigers. In the meantime, what do they do?
They announced this, ladies and gentlemen. We're in second to last place.
We're nine and a half back. We're thirty one up, thirty one down,
playing better as of late. But hey, guess what, We've got
premium seating experiences for you starting next year. It's a great project. It's
going to provide significant upgrades to the fan experience that was met poorly. You
see, the beauty of being down low at a ballpark is the opportunity for
fans to go there and get autographs as guys come off for batting practice or
go out to batting practice. That's an experience. Now what you're going to
do is create a home plate club and have new loge boxes. Sounds great,
doesn't it. But people were pissed about this. They are not happy
at all. Ryan Gustason, the president, says, our goal is to
continue investing in creating a variety of best in class experiences for all fans.
Here's what fans want. They'll watch from a high school field. If you
give them a championship product, people have to I've never understood how people don't
see the big picture in things, have a pulse of what fans are experiencing
right now. You should know that coming out with this type of promotion,
that's really that's not fair. It's not a promotion, this type of news
to try and sell to fans to get to get them excited about what's going
to be the response? You know what the response is going to be,
right, what is it? The response is to see what a five hundred
baseball team, a team that doesn't win invest in the product on the field.
That's what they're going to say, and that's exactly what they have been
saying. You want us to get fired up over new lows boxes, the
home plate club while your team is average it best? What are you doing
to get us fired up about our baseball team? I remind people this all
the time. We don't have a large window of good comfortable days in this
state, do we. What would you say it would be? What's the
range mid May through what mid September? Maybe people want to go on their
boats, People want to go up north, people want to go golfing.
They want to enjoy their backyard barbecues. They want to have people over on
their back porch on a Friday night and all that other stuff. They put
your game on great, they get fired up about your team super in order
for you to get them to your ballpark and miss out on some of the
other things that they don't have a large window to do. You better put
a decent product on the field. Do they have a decent product? Does
it make you say, yes, I'm going to leave this, I'm gonna
postpone this. I'm not going to do this so I can go down there.
Not the home plate club, not that quote unquote best in class experience
for all fans. First of all, it's not for all fans. Second
of all, people aren't going to be all kinds of fired up for that
unless you're going to put a winning product on the field. The high end
experience built beneath the stands and located on the service level between the two clubhouses.
Now, I will say this, I like the opportunity to do that
at the right time. I don't know when the right time is, but
it sure isn't right now, I don't believe. But I do like that
opportunity. Dodgers have it, a lot of high end teams have it.
They do it makes for something, you're gonna put something else together. Great,
you're taking out four hundred and ninety seats behind home plate. They're going
to insert three hundred and fifty premium seats in that area, so they're going
to give you something. It sounds like a cool experience. I just don't
know how many people feel that it's worth it right now. Eventually it should
it have been done a long time ago. Should you have had the foresight
to do it, much like when the Palace did it before? Everybody else?
Yes? Is there ever a good time? You bet there is.
Doesn't mean it's now, And the announcement coming in early June while your team
is at five hundred is probably not ideal either. It's great for you because
you view it as an experience that'll take your franchise to a different level,
but you're not thinking like a fan right now. The fan is not happy
because of the way the team is performing. When we come back Michaelhera,
we interviewed him yesterday, we'll replay the interview about his tenure as a Lions
beat writer, why you should be encouraged with these year's Lions team, and
some pretty good stories. Greg Campy joins us at A thirty five. This
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make a differences. Really fortunate to be able to bring in this next guest.
He's as admired as maybe any writer who has ever written in the state
of Michigan. I mean, there are certain writers where you look at and
you say, you know what, I believe him. That's not always easy.
A lot of people feel like they have been fortunate to work with a
legend like Mike O'Hara, who's in the Michigan Sports Hall of fame, and
rightfully so, he's been doing as well as anybody. From nineteen sixty six
through two thousand and eight he was of the Detroit News and after that time
with the Lions in on Lions dot Com, and he's been a Lions beat
writer since nineteen seventy seven. He has served his country and he has served
this area so gracefully and so well. And he joins us now that he's
going to retire on Monday, and rightfully so. Michael Harris with us here
on Exis and Bros. Michael, thank you, congratulations. It's so well
deserved. How did you know it was time? It just felt that way,
And I think I was probably a year late. I probably should have
retired last year or not this year, not this year. Just it's just
the things that were easy to do were quite as easy, and just just
I just had that feeling that it's time to go. But now I guess
I think I kind of got caught up in the new organization and all that
thought. I could just see see what they had in this last year,
and it turned out they had a lot. And I don't regret staying another
year. I really don't. Yeah, I don't think anybody who reads your
synopsis, your breakdowns, your analysis, uh fe feels that either what have
you enjoyed most about your career? Well, you know, I'm not a
player, so I can't, but it's very similar to that for us.
You know, it's the test room, just you know, kind of to
come to work and the the insults start to fly and and all of that.
And then I start to talk about things in the game, and you
know, it's still competing, don't get me wrong, but but you know
what it's like to start talking about what happened yesterday, what might happen tomorrow,
you know, And that was the fun part, just sort of interacting
with with guys from you know, from the other other papers and other media
outlets. That that was really to me, the fun of the business.
What's interesting, too, is that this team might have its best opportunity.
You would know this better than I, but this team might have its best
opportunity to reach the Super Bowl, and you may not be able to write
about that if you're leaving on Monday. Did you ever think about that as
you were contemplating this decision. Well, that's why I stayed another for this
year was another season we just had no I thought about it. Yeah,
but no I didn't. They wouldn't do it for that reason. I wouldn't.
By the way, I just like to mention one thing. The guy
who's made all of this a lot easier is Tim twenty than you know.
He came over from the Trade News year about a year before I did,
to the and I think he's probably one of the most prolific writers I've ever
been around in my life. He just does so many days, he does
it so well. It's really been a pleasure looking with Tim. Yeah,
it's a great point. He's excellent at what he does. And yeah,
he really is. And he sent something out on Twitter. He's been so
well accommodating, endearing and understanding and willing to learn. I mean, it's
funny, even when you do it for as long as you and Tim has
done, you can still learn from people. And absolutely yeah, and he
wrote, look, legend, I'm so fortunate to have been able to work
with and learn from Mike at both the Detroit News and here with the Lions
over the last twenty years. It's not like he staked a claim to his
territory and said I'm sorry. I feel threatened by a legendary writer. Instead,
he opened his arms to you. And I think you've done that for
quite a few people as well. So many stories with the Detroit Lions.
I'm sure you get asked this all the time by people. So I'll just
be one in the many of a line of people who've asked you this,
Is there any one particular player or storyline that sticks out to you in all
the years you've covered this franchise, Well, this one really stands out,
and it is not a good one. I don't think that Berry Sanders retirement
was That was one, and I was expecting it, I really was.
And I'll tell you a quick, little quick story that one of the writers
for ESPN had had just a little item in his column that off season that
Barry wasn't happy and he sort of had a sense of that, you know,
And so I called his father, William, who I got to know
somewhat not you. We want close friends, but he was always accommodating to
talk. And I said, mister Williams dot Williams. Anyway, I said,
I asked him to say that, but I read on Sports Illustrated and
I said, what's the deal? And he said, he's sick of them,
He's sick of losing. Oh boy, this is going to be something.
It turned out to be just a blockbuster story from that moment until Barry
Sanders, you know, did not show up for training camp three months later
or whatever it was. And and it was just to me that was probably
the biggest story that I covered, was involved with, or what whatever you
want to call it. Michael joining by the way, I'm sorry just one
to think that wasn't my favorite, because I wanted to see Barry Sanders play
and not just a great player, but a great person too. But to
me it was the most obviously had the most impact. Michael here joining us
here on Exis and Bros. He retires Monday, and he's a Michigan Sports
Hall of Famer. He's been the reason you read about the Lions for for
so many decades. When you when you look back at all the teams and
all the players you've covered, is there what's the biggest misnomer that people failed
to realize about a player or this franchise That the Forges don't want to don't
care about winning and losing, and they very much about it. That's why
it made so many changes, and I'm just going since I came on the
beat in nineteen seventy seven, you know, I forday add up the number
of coaching changes and canel canes and all that, but we'd be here for
a month and a half or something like that. They put all that together.
But you know, they care very much and they always have, always
will through different generations. You know, mister William clay Ford passed away,
and think it was nineteen nineteen eighty, nineteen eighty for something like twenty I'm
sorry, twenty thirteen. And then is his wife, Martha Firestone Ford took
over and absolutely committed to winning. And then now Sheila hamp the daughter and
really has been on the just the front line there of changing things for the
Detroit Lions, and she's been successful. She's had a success that the other
ones haven't had for whatever reason. What do you like about this Lions team?
Younger players with talent and speed? I like speed, and then they
have that. They have a lot of other excusely a lot of other things
to do, but they have also interchangeable pert and I don't think if you
look at that team, nobody has it all. And it's just it's it's
impossible. What really is because no matter how well things are going, you're
going to have they're going to change personnel from one season to the next.
I mean, there's a big somebody came up with a figure one time on
the average thirty percent of your rosterial channel from one season to the next.
I don't know if that's exactly true that I'm sure it's not staying off.
And so that's the hard part is putting all these players back together. But
the however they've done and through the just great drafting, you know, really
Brad Holmes, the general manager, and with the head coach Dan Campbell,
you know, chiming in, they've really been able in three years. The
first three years. We haven't seen this year's team play yet, but in
the first three years they've really put together good players, not just first round
players, but you know, all the way through the through the through the
roster and through the draft, they've been able to put together good players on
the field for the and going to be good not just this year and next
to it. They're going to be good for a while. They really are.
They only have like any aging players that they have to get rid of
the Pretty Solace from talked about him. He's been writing in this area since
nineteen sixty six. He's covered the Lion since nineteen seventy seven. He's a
Hall of Famer. He's Michael Harra. Mike, thanks for your time.
Congratulations, appreciate the friendship and all that you've done and keeping things interesting for
Lions fans, whether they're winning or losing. You deserve this, my friend.
Congrats, Hey, Chip, thanks thanks for calling me. I appreciate
it. Good stuff with Michael Harry yesterday. Hope you enjoyed it. He
will have the rest of this weekend to write and then he's done, and
there are things to talk about with the Detroit Lions a lot. It might
be a little. And I asked him off the air about this when he
and I first talked a couple of nights ago, and look, this is
a this is a time where you want to cover teams like the Lions because
not only are they good now, but they should be keywords, should good
for a long time. But there comes a point in time where you're like,
Okay, I've done this long enough, I've achieved everything I could want,
and I have to be able to dictate things myself, and he's doing
that, and I give him a ton of credit for doing it. Love
what he's brought to the table for us. For a long time, we've
had we've been very fortunate in this town and in this state some really exceptional
writers in a lot of different areas, not just Michae O'Hara, but also
Kurt Sylvester for example a long time ago writing about the Lions, Tim Twentyman
right now, many of the players, many of the people, Dave Briquette,
we've had them on, Kyle Minkey, guys who have done a really
nice job of covering various sports. Mick McCabe has done it for decades covering
high school athletics, and we'll have him on someday here on Axis and Bros.
But it's been an enjoyable ride. Oftentimes those rides have to come to
an end, unfortunately, and for Mike O'Hara and those who appreciated and enjoyed
his writing, it has as well. About an hour from now, Greg
camp people join us on XES and Bros. Talk about his contract extension and
talk a little bit about why he remains at Oakland University, what a job
he has done. We're back with more after a brief time out. It's
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Thirty five after the hour. One hour from now, Greg camp you will
join us the head coach of Oakland University of Basketball. What are they doing
right now? What's going on with all the things that they may have on
their plate and how they're handling it, His contract extension, his run in
the NCAA Tournament a year ago, all those things, nil, how is
the landscape change. There's a lot of things to discuss with him, and
we will do that with Greg Camby at eight thirty five. Speaking of college
basketball, Dan Hurley is expected to have a face to face with the Lakers
today. It's kind of crazy, isn't it. JJ Reddick was the name
everybody was thrown around like it was a done deal, and suddenly Dan Hurley's
name is thrust into the conversation and he will be in for an infase interview
today. We do know that he has in the past talked about wanting to
be part of an NBA coaching staff, want to be a head coach in
the NBA. I just we touched on this little bit the other day.
I just don't know how his it's not personality, it's his coaching style fits
the NBA game. It is totally different. Man. If he happens to
get the gig, he would be the twelfth college coach in the last thirty
years to reach the NBA coaching fraternity. The combined winning percentage of the eleven
coaches before him is forty five percent. And it's not like those guys were
bad coaches in college and decided to move on. John Beeline, who I
know, well one just fourteen games. He's an excellent coach, excellent coach,
and after fifty four games resigned. Why well, players work differently in
the NBA college coaches. Not that NBA coaches don't watch film, they do,
but you have an opportunity to educate and teach more at the collegiate level.
How's that guys at the NBA. That's not what it's about anyway.
So John Beelin was one of them. Billy Donovan made the jump in twenty
fifteen. He's only one of two coaches who left college to go to the
NBA who has a winning record in the NBA and he's still coaching five years
of a thunder. Also was the head coach of the Bulls, Right yeah.
Fred Hoiberg made the jump the same year, went from Iowa State to
the Bulls, spent four years there. A little friction between him and it
was Jimmy Butler at the time. He's now back at the collegiate level.
He's still at Nebraska, right yeah. Brad Stevens is the other coach besides
Billy Donovan on the list to have a winning record in the NBA and then
of course bumped up to the Celtics front office. And look at what he's
done. You talk about a guy who knows what he's doing. You were
looking for a guy who has a vision, a guy who can coach,
relate, talk to the players, and then has a vision on top of
all that. You bet Brad Stevens is that guy. He's he knows so
much about what he's doing. He might be a guy I would if I
were an owner and I really wanted things to done the right way, I
might take him and give him part ownership in order to lure him from where
he is now in Boston, you would give him a partial ownership piece.
He took Butler to two final fours, left for the Celtics eight years there.
Missed the playoffs just once and that was his first year, by the
way, went to three conference finals. He was coach of the year or
no, he was close to being coach of the year. He was a
finalist quite a few times. I don't know exactly how many, but quite
a few times. And now he's the president of basketball operations. Danny Ange
leaves Stevens takes over. You want to know, not a huge Seltics fan,
okay, but if you really want to know how to build an organization
the right way, look at what Boston has done. Everybody, every franchise
makes mistakes, but look at what they've been able to do. Danny Age
as much as you and I despised him as a player, not at BYU,
not with the Toronto Blue Jays, but as a member of the Boston
Celtics, as a player, that dude went to the front office and knew
what the hell he was doing. He did a really good job in the
front office in Boston. And then when he's gone, they bring in Brad
Stevens and look at what he's done. Consistency, expectations, a way of
doing certain things right. This is how we do it here. It's not
a song. It is a song, but it's not one that I'm referring
to here. But this is how we do it here, and this is
how we're going to continue to do it. This is the blueprint for success
with our franchise. So Brad Stevens Billy Donovan the only two who had winning
records overall as head coaches after making the leap from college to pro. Reggie
Theis is another. He left New Mexico State and went to Sacramento. It
wasn't long season and a half, not good. Got fired his second year
when he started six to eighteen. Do you remember Mike Montgomery. He was
at Stanford, had a Final Four appearance in nineteen ninety eight, was Coach
of the Year, inducted into College Basketball Hall of Fame, went to the
NBA, took over the Golden State Warriors. Two years there, thirty four
up, forty eight down in both seasons. Then he got the boot.
Leonard Hamilton. I had forgotten this one. Leonard Hamilton coached at Miami.
So the Hurricanes was pretty damn good there, right, Oklahoma State Miami.
Then went to the Washington Wizards. Lasted one season, nineteen wins, the
fewest in their twenty four year history at the time. Lon Krueger. I
remember Lon Krueger Illinois. He went to Atlanta. How long did Lon Krueger
last? Not long? Twenty seven games into his third season. Fired Tim
Floyd Iowa State, then Chicago. Boy, you think the Chicago Bulls would
learn a little bit. The Chicago Bulls do it with Fred Hoiberg. They
did with Tim Floyd. Prior to Fred Hoiberg. Tim Floyd was really good
at Iowa State, couldn't get it done in Chicago or Charlotte. I think
he was head coach at Charlotte there too. And then of course two others.
John Kellapari, we all remember that he was at UMass then went to
the Nets. Everybody thought it was a coup, this is going to be
great. Lasted two and a half seasons. He was three and seventeen in
his third season in and they said enough is enough, goodbye. And then
PJ. Carlosimo seton Hall than Portland. Now he had a longer run.
Three years in Portland led them to the playoffs each time couldn't get out of
the first round. Then went to Golden State. You remember the Latrelle spree
Weell choking incident during practice. Fired after three years with the Warriors, bounced
around a little bit, assistant with Brooklyn Seattle. Seattle went to Oklahoma City.
So both those two organizations and now as an analyst on TV Slash Radio,
those are the quote unquote legacies that you'd be looking at if you're Danny
Hurley. I guess my question would be the money is one thing, right,
I mean, it's hard to tell somebody not to chase. First of
all, if you've always wanted to coach the best at what they do,
of course you do. I get it. And the money, who's going
to say no to that? I'm sorry. It's a factor. Way of
life is a factor. So I get all that. I don't know why
teams don't look closer at coaches personalities and how it might relate to the NBA
player, not just personalities, because I actually I think John Beelin's personnel,
the way he coaches it would be fine for the NBA. It's how you
go about it. He was a film hog, always watching film wanting players
to do the same, just don't do that. He was a fundamentalist.
Works so hard at helping players pass to the outside hand, pivot the way
they're supposed to do things with the opposite hand as often as they do with
their dominant hand. All those things going to help guys up after getting knocked
down. Something simple, yes, but something that was oftentimes taught and expected.
Folks, that's just the way the NBA wants it handled. It's a
different way of coaching. Ken. One of my first questions if I were
interviewing a college coach would be, what is it about your style you think
works best in the NBA? How will you accentuate that? And then what
about your style won't work in the NBA? And how are you going to
either eliminate that or curtail that to make sure it does work. I wonder
how many front office people actually ask that question or those questions or even care.
See it's the shiny new toy, right, Yeah, I get it.
Danny Hurley was phenomenala at Connecticut, and I think his team is preseason
fifth? Is that right? Ben? I think preseason fifth coming in so
be it, But just because it works at the collegiate level. Just because
you can coach at the collegiate level doesn't mean that you can coach at the
highest level. Would the respect be there? And I think that's important.
Yeah, I do. I think the respect would be there. But look,
man, I mean the way you communicate, the way you handle your
practices, the way you handle huddles all very important. I think the reason
a lot of guys. You'll see a lot of coaches who are successful who
maybe weren't the greatest player. Now it's a little different here with Jason Kidd
and his success with Dallas. Rick Carlisle wasn't a great player, but he
was around. He played with great players, Larry Burr for example, Kevin
McHale, he was with some great players. All those things. They're soaking
in that knowledge. There's no doubt about that. He knows how to handle
it. Jason Kidd was well aware. But then you've got guys like Joel
Minzula. They're not playing, but they understood, they understand how you communicate,
how you motivate NBA players. It'll be a fascinating follow with Danny Hurling
to see if that ends up working out with the Lakers or an NBA team
down the road. Now, speaking of the NBA, there's a guy who
does ESPN and ABC. Now, I'm I don't know how much you're a
huge fan of Kendrick Perkins as an analyst, very deadpan, very dry.
But it's so subjective so I can appreciate it. But look, he's been
doing it for a while now, and give him credit. He's willing to
take on the biggest names in the sport, including Lebron James. Lebron James
recently had a statement on a podcast where he said he was so blanking mad
that he's not Kyrie Irving's running mate anymore in the NBA. They won a
championship in Cleveland together, as you know, and Kenrick Perkins was pretty ticked
off about it. Here's what he said. He said, Here we go
again, Lebron James, weasling his way into somebody else's moment. This says
not about you. Your team is at home. This is about the MAVs
and the Celtics. But you're so mad and disappointed that you're not Kyrie's running
mate anymore. Here we go again. I give him credit for his willingness
to take on a guy that most people will not touch because they're afraid of
the repercussions. Now, in fairness, and I'm not I'm sure people who
listen to the show realize I'm not a huge fan of Lebron James, not
that he's not a great player. I'm just talking about the person and how
he handles his business and some of the what I consider to be a little
conniving. I will say this about him. To his credit, he was
giving a lot of love to NBA analyst Doris Burke. He wrote this out
on X important moment for our sport tonight, Love and respect to dB dorisburg
and everything she does to elevate all of us. You're a and he put
a goat emoji wrote on on as now goat she I wouldn't say greatest of
all the time. I think Doris does a really good job. She's worked,
she works exceptionally hard. Our paths crossed during w NBA's Detroit Shock tenure,
and she said that she always wanted to do this, and I give
her a massive amount of credit because she set that goal. But more than
anything else, she recognized what she had to do to get there. Nobody
out works her. It's awesome she became the first woman to serve as a
TV game analyst for any major men's professional championship event, and I'm sure it'll
open the door for more, which none of us should really have a problem
with as long as people know what they're talking about. I don't care if
it's man or woman, it doesn't matter. But she's done a really good
job for ESPN and she's but she hasn't gotten it. She she has not
received the accolades and the positions only because she's a woman. She's done it
because she works hard and she's really good at what she does. So if
we're going to take the proverbial shot at Lebron James, you know, coach
killer, like we talked about yesterday, trying to take the moment from a
guy like Kyrie Irving, according to Kendrick Perkins, do give him some love
for recognizing certain other things that are important in the sport too, including what
we saw last night on television with Doris Burke as one of the analysts.
Eight thirty five, Greg Campy will join us. I will ask him about
Danny Hurley and his thoughts on why college coaches struggle to make that transition and
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