Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't fill out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
Why are not a detain Oh you're not. That day we weren't good.
There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling you.
We laid an egg, So I'm not gonna break it down for you.
He sucks. He sucked, but he laid an egg. That's all
I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not going to break
it down for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us.
We have to figure it and we went. During the break, I had
an opportunity to look at something that was sent out on social media about the
Pistons great backcourt in the day, and it was reminiscent of an anniversary where
Byron Scott missed Game one of the NBA Finals, so LA went with a
big backcourt, Magic Johnson, Michael Cooper. Johnson was what six' eight,
Michael Cooper six' seven, Tony Campbell former Piston sixt' seven Detroit used
Joe Dumars in, Isaiah Thomas and Vinnie Johnson carve them up. It is
a thing of beauty watching those guys Thomas and Dumars and Johnson dribble into the
front court, pull up and hit mid jumpers. It's phenomenal. God,
it was good basketball. Those guys were so fundamentally sound, dribbling, passing,
shooting the way they shoot the ball. I don't know how many of
you out there had a chance to watch them growing up, but it's just
it's awesome. So check that out if you can, just go back YouTube
and do whatever real quick. MLB recently sent this out on x Power Pitcher
Rankings or Pitcher Power Rankings Trek Schoubile number one. I don't know if this
is like power Pitchers is in these guys with the strikeouts, because I mean,
otherwise it would be Garrett Crochet, he leads the league in strikeouts per
nine. Second would be Sonny Gray Saint Louis, then Freddie Peralta, Jack
Flaherty's top five. I mean that's case per nine. I think it can't
be ERA. If it's ERA, then you'd have Seth Lugo in there,
right, because I think Seth Lugo leads all of baseball and earned run average.
But Scoball is number one in pitcher power rankings. Then Ranger Suarez of
Philadelphia, his ERA is one point seven. By the way, he's nine
to one on the year. Then his teammate Zach Wheeler ERA of two point
two to three strikeouts ten point two batters per nine. Luis Geel is four,
Corbyn Burns five. I read that about Corbin mcburns and I think Milwaukee
couldn't use that. But Milwaukee's leading the division. Baltimore will take it.
Tanner Hawks six, Boston Tyler Glass now La is seventh, Paul Skeens is
eighth. Out Standing rookie from Pittsburgh, Shota Imanaga for the Cubs is nine,
and Max Freed for the Braves is ten. Braves, just keep getting
it done, man, even though they lose certain players. Those are your
pitcher power rankings courtesy of MLB, and as I mentioned, earlier, Derek
Scoubel will pitch Game two of the series against Milwaukee. What's in a nickname?
How important is a team nickname? The reason I ask this is because
the NHL will have a new hockey team next year and it'll be in Utah.
It's the Arizona Coyotes, but they've moved to Utah. They're trying to
find a nickname for the franchise. They have narrowed it down to six.
It's either the Utah Blizzard. Now while you're driving, while you're listening,
you're either nodding or shaking your head thumbs up or thumbs down, or you
know, kind of nose scruff or nodding you're like, oh, I could
see that, or no way right. Utah Blizzard is one name that's a
thumbs down for me. Utah Hockey Club, that's a thumbs down. That's
soccer stuff, it's not hockey. You Taw mammoth, three strikes, you're
out, Utah Outlaws, No Utaw venom, Utah Yetti. What's the logo
of a Utah Yetti? This is part of the problem. When you just
want fans to vote fans, just seriously, you're gonna have a cooler or
a cup on your on your jersey. Let's be real, maybe it's the
Blizzard. I don't know, I don't I don't get where you get some
of these names, but not a fan of any of them. As I
read this yesterday, I thought, boy, we're lucky, lucky to have
the nicknames that we have. For example, the Red Wings. You know
about the Red Wings' nickname, right? James Norris, the Canadian American businessman.
He bought the team in nineteen thirty two and he named it the Winged
Wheelers because he used to play for that team. And he chose the Winged
wheel as the logo. It was based off a Montreal Amateur Athletic Association logo.
He thought that it kind of went along with the auto industry. That's
pretty cool. I'm sure you knew that, but in case you didn't,
just want to let you know. And of course it's been that way ever
since. To pay homage in that regard has a nice historical significance to it,
don't you think. Yeah. Tigers baseball team nickname believed to have come
from the Detroit Light Guard, a military unit that served Detroit for two hundred
years, earned the nickname Tigers during the Civil War first appeared in an article
in the Detroit Free Press back in eighteen ninety five, called them the Struthers
Tigers in honor of that light guard, and the name stuck. So when
the Tigers began playing in the Western League back in eighteen ninety six, they
were already being called the Tigers. You know. The Lions went from Portsmouth,
from the Portsmouth Spartans in nineteen thirty four to Detroit, and they were
renamed the Lions by George A. Richards, the guy who owned it.
He was a radio executive, the guy who owned the Portsmouth Spartans. He
chose the name actually to honor Detroit's baseball team, the Tigers. He thought
it represented a pride in the city and he wanted the name to reflect the
king of the NFL. Like the lion is king of the jungle. This
is going to be King of the NFL. That's why he chose Lions.
But I have the reasoning, and maybe it's just because we're from here and
we have used that representation for as long as we've been alive, But it
makes sense, right. It's a good association with the city. There's a
reasoning behind it. Reading about Utah and the struggles they're having to figure out
what their nickname is going to be made me think, Wow, how fortunate
are we to have a a team that has been here for as long as
these teams have been here and b to have that association with the city.
The reasoning behind it, you get the Pistons Fred Zolner moved him from Fort
Wayne, the Pistons car industry, winged wheel car industry. Tigers had to
do with the story I just told you right regarding the military unit and then
the Lion's bouncing off that to a certain extent, pretty neat. Just want
to share that with a ten after the hour do forget Greg Camp. He
joins this bottom of the hour eight thirty five to talk about his new contract
and a lot of things, including college coaches in the NBA. We're back
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to twenty one thousand. Then who do we got? Yeah? One from
Freddie It says, should the Pistons buy out Money Williams and take a shot
at Danny Hurley giving him six years at ninety million? Yeah, I don't
know. I'm not sure where you get the six years ninety million. At
least you come with a plan, So I give you credit for that here,
it's not my money first, and foremos not my money. I get
all that. I just don't understand why we think throwing more money and years
at an unproven guy is going to fix the problem. So people are suggesting,
there have been articles written out West that Danny Hurley and the Lakers contract
offer could top one hundred million dollars. Personally, I think that's irresponsible.
I think it's simply ridiculous. But I suppose that's the way of the world.
Monty Williams is under a long term contract here with the Pistons, a
guy who has been Coach of the Year, a guy who knows what it
takes to win in the NBA. I'm not saying he's the right choice,
all right. They lost twenty eight straight games at one point. That's the
longest losing the streak in NBA history for crying out loud. However, I'm
not a huge believer that you fix the problem by just going out and creating
another one. And whether he's the right guy or not, I suppose remains
to be seen. Are you willing to give up on my anti Williams after
one year? Again? You signed him to a six year deal worth seventy
eight and a half million dollars. He's done one year of that where their
mistakes made you bet and it was early on. By the way, you
want to give a guy, so roughly, roughly, Monty Williams is making
what seventy eight and a half million dollars six Okay, So he's making thirteen
million a year, is that right? Okay? So thirteen million a year.
You're going to have to pay him an additional thirteen million dollars per year
over the next five years. You're going to pay him sixty five million bucks.
Then you're going to bring in a guy for six years and ninety million
who's never done it at this level. NBA Coach of the Year, NBA
guy, a guy in the NBA who got his team to the postseason,
couldn't done it, couldn't do it in one year. But you're going to
bring in a college guy who's never coached NBA players, and you're gonna give
him that type of commitment. Personally, I would not. It's not my
money. I'm not the owner. Now. I'll be truthful here. When
the Pistons were pursuing Monty Williams, while people were getting caught up in Coach
of the Year and what he's done in Phoenix and all this other stuff.
Here's what I asked. He said he wanted a break. He said he
wanted out for a period of time. Why did he come back? Was
it the challenge? Was it the money? Was it the history of the
Pistons? What was the reason you had to go and float out the highest
contract for a coach in the NBA to get him to come here. That's
troubling. The only real I'm not saying this is the only reason, but
it sure looks like on the surface, the only reason you get him is
because of money. That's not the reason you want. So I would say
no to that. But I would have said no to Matty Williams in the
first place, because they went after him, he said no, then they
circle back went after him again with more money than he said yes. Another
text Ben what do we got? And says Tiger's History five sixteen and seventeenth
nineteen eighty seven, Phil nicro and Steve Carlton, both with three hundred wins
at the time through back to back games, versus Jack Morris and Walt Morrell.
I'm guessing that has never happened in baseball. Just a guess, here's
a good here's a good little uh nugget if you're talking about Tiger's history.
Back in nineteen thirty one, the A's Trunks the Tigers twelve to two in
their one day road trip to Detroit, made necessary by the Sunday prohibition of
baseball in Philadelphia. Tiger stranded eighteen of twenty base runners that day. Nineteen
forty four, Hel Neuhauser he walked nine batters in six innings in the loss
to the White Sox at Comiskey Park. Prince hal, a future Hall of
Famer, averaged nearly four and a half bases on balls per nine innings during
the nineteen forty four season, and yet he beat teammate Dizzy Trout for the
al MVP. He was twenty nine and eight, had a two point two
two ERA, and won the first of his back to back al MVP awards.
That year. He walked four and a half batters per nine that's nuts.
Also on this date, in two thousand and four, the Tigers selected
Justin Verlander. Then they would turn around three years later and draft Rick Porcello.
That's on this date June seventh, Back in those days, right,
Greg Campy's got a really good story. He's been a really good coach for
a long time, and he just signed a contract extension deservedly, so he's
going to join us and we're going to talk about that, the push toward
the push in the NCAA Tournament a year ago, and we're going to talk
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on that and more coming up with Greg Campy, the head coach of Oakland
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out of Friday, I hope you get plans for the weekend and we'll enjoy
it as well. Always enjoy the conversation we have with Great campy On,
one of the most accomplished coaches in his division one tenure forty years at Oakland
University. What a ride it has been and he gets a contract extension,
and deservedly so. He joins us here on Exus and Bros. Coach,
hope you and your family are well. Congratulations you are the longest tenured coach.
You've done it for forty years. Why do you keep doing it?
That's another question, Matt, especially you know, in this day and age
with you know, the way things are changing so much, and those of
the people in my generation, you know, are moving on to do something
else. And it's funny, is because when I talk to is So,
I think we start every conversation with why we're still doing this, you know,
And the truth of the matter is, Man, I don't know what
else I would do. I'm going. I love it. It's still no
matter how it changes, no matter you know you're here, of Doom's day
coming and all that kind of stuff. I still get to be around eighteen
or twenty two year old young men, you know, every day and having
a part of their lives and being able to help shape their lives. Whether
they're only with me for a year and now or they're with me for four
it's still something that I kind of enjoy and reveling. Yeah, but you
could retire. Are you one of those guys who just can't sit still and
you need to do something? Or is it just because of the intoxication you
get from coaching basketball and make it a difference in young people's wives, both
on the floor and off it. I like that word intoxicating it because it's
probably what it is. Yeah, you know it's it's yeah. I don't
know what else I would do, really, man. I play golf.
I play a lot of golf, but a lot of that is because it's
like playing hooky. You know. If I get out there and play around
the golf, I enjoy it because I know maybe I shouldn't even be out
here. And you know, if I could play every day and not have
to worry about anything, I'm not sure I would enjoy it as much.
So, and then you know, there's competition has been in you know,
my whole life has been competition growing up as a kid, as a player,
and then I got into coaching right away, and you know, I'm
a very competitive person, and I think I would really miss that, you
know, I really do. And I'm sure there'll be a day that I
walk in and say, Okay, I've had enough but right now, I
don't see that day anywhere near so Khaki Cousins or the Sharf, because both
are fantastic there at your school. Yeah, there are very few golf courses,
or very few institutions at college institutions in this country that have two golf
courses, and they are value that have. Yeah, they have one good
one, let alone too. So I'm an old school guy. Though I
like Khaki yeah better, you know, I just I think it's a better
test of Boffy. There's nothing wrong with either. I mean, they're both
top twenty thirty golf courses in the state of Michigan, so it's kind of
cool that we have them on our campus. And yeah, but I like
Khaki the best. I asked this the other day of somebody of Jim Leland
when he was on our show, and I said, who's the who's the
ideal for them? If you could have any forsome your three other golfers obviously
to play with, whether they're alive or dead, and whether they're good golfers
or not, who would be in that forsome for you? Oh wow,
jeez. If that would depend on are we playing for money? Are we
just playing for fun. No, you're playing for the enjoyment of life.
Oh okay, because if we were playing for money, i'd want guys with
a lot of money, they were gonna get a lot of right, and
guys who can hit from the whites. Yeah. Yeah, you guys go
all the way to the back and let me come up here. Right.
So well, I mean I'm a I'm a religious guy. So obviously,
if Jesus Christ was alive, that would be that would be number one of
all time, you know, to have an opportunity to do that, that
would that would be I think if I could get him a be me and
him, I wouldn't want to share him with anybody else. Oh that's a
great answer. Yeah, that's a great answer. And you know what the
only thing is, you know, you wonder if he would give you the
three foot gimmes. You know that's good. You'd probably make you put it
in a great camping joining us here on exes and bros. What's the biggest
challenge you faced today as a head coach compared to maybe not when you first
started, but even just twenty years ago. What's the biggest challenge in how
do you deal with it? Well? Well, I think social media is
obviously, you know, far and away, social media has changed the world.
You know, it's just not changed. It's just not changed sports or
athletics or college basketball football. It's changed the world. The amount of disinformation,
the amount of people that feel free to say whatever they want to say,
the way that our youth and the way people believe what's on there,
and how we our youth really strives for likes and follows, And now why
wouldn't they because you're they're being compensated. The more people they can get to
follow them, the more you know, they can be compensated for that.
There's all these influencers out there, and I think that's the biggest, biggest
challenge. You know, we talk a lot within our team to you know,
keep the outside noise out, you know, that type of stuff,
but it's almost impossible to do today. And it's not just college kids.
I mean that's what pros do. As soon as they get back to their
locker, they're on their phones to see what's going on and what's being said
about them, which is which is really unfortunate. You win the Horizon League
regular season title a year ago and the tournament title a year ago. I've
said this for a long time. I don't think mid major programs get the
opportunity enough to get enough teams in for you to have the resume you had
and win the regular season and then to have to do it again in the
tournament is borderline unfair. What do you think should change for mid major teams
to have I don't even want an equal play necessarily a level playing field,
but a better opportunity to showcase more of the thrilling moments we get, like
when your team beat Kentucky. Yeah, that's an age old question. And
what I tell people, and I think it surprises them, is our conference
tournament is it is the I don't ever want to see that go away,
because at the mid major level, the only other times you're going to cut
NETS down is if you go to the final four, and then again if
you win the championship, you know, you don't cut next we beat Kentucky,
we didn't cut the nets down. If you know, we almost beat
NC State, we lost in the line, you know, and overtime,
and even if we'd won that game, we're going to the sweet sixteen.
We don't cut the NETS down. And so every conference tournament ends with,
you know, the confetti flying, the team cutting nets down, the you
know, you've accomplished something so hard that I would hate to see that go
away and our players lose that because the chances of them cutting the nets down
at the national Championship game aren't probably that good. Yeah, it's hard.
I mean, of the thirty leagues, last year, twenty one of the
thirty champions got beat in their conference tournament. And then, you know,
I say this a lot. I don't think people really understand what I'm saying.
I think they're trying to They look at me as making an excuse or
something like that. But you know, Michigan State's got a string of twenty
eight or nine straight years going to the nca Tournament something like that, correct,
yea. And in the last twenty years, since two thousand and five,
the only way that Oakland can get to the NCAA Tournament is to win
our conference tournament, right, we just talked about that. So we've won
it four times in the last twenty years. The conference tournament. How many
times you think Michigan State is one of the big ten conference tournament knows twenty
years? The number four I was going to say three, but yeah,
okay, yeah, Michigan has won at three. I think Western Michigan's won
at once, Detroit's won at once. Eastern Michigan I don't think has won
it in the last twenty years. Central Michigan maybe no, I don't think
they have either. So that's how hard it is to win that conference tournament,
and that's how hard it is for mid major to get to the NCAA
tournament. But the Power Fives, obviously, Michigan State's gone twenty eight years
in a row. And I'm not belitterally that it in any way, shape
or form. I'm just I'm just giving honest information out there. So when
we have this conversation, we realize how hard it is. But it's also
really hard to win the regular season. Is my point, and it's been
my point for a long time. I'm not taking anything away from Power five
conferences either. And look, I'm a MAC guy, I'm a mid major
guy, so there might be some bias. But when you put together and
you're as a coach, you're telling you guys, look, every game matters,
we want to be the one seed, so on and so forth,
and then you slip up one game compared to the entire regular season. I
think that is short changing a mid major team. I don't have the answer,
so I don't want to be a hypocrite here. I don't necessarily have
the answer. I just think it's a really tough challenge for these teams,
and I think there has to be a different way of looking at possibly getting
them in even if they happen to stub their toe in a mid major tournament
championship game. I noticed this the whole talk about Danny Hurley going from Yukon
to possibly the Lakers. He's interviewing with the Lakers today. Eleven coaches over
the last thirty years coach can't be have jumped from the collegiate game to the
professional level. The winning percentage combined is forty five percent. Two men,
Billy Donovan and Brad Stevens are the only ones to have winning records. What
do you think is the biggest issue for college coaches to try and adapt to
the NBA game. I don't think it's the coaching part of it, man,
I really don't. I think some of it is probably you know,
when you're in college at eighteen to twenty two year old and you're trying to
turn them from you know, not children but young adults into men. And
when you get to college at the pro level, you've already got men there,
I think. So that's part of it. But the biggest thing is
roster construction. And in college, I construct my roster. If I took
an NBA, I'm not constructing your roster. They have general managers and presidents
and directors of operations and all these people are making millions of dollars and that's
their job to figure out contracts and come up with the roster. So part
of college coaching is being obviously having a good roster. So then the second
thing on that I think is that most pro coaches take over and that's why
it's open. They take over a bad situation. And it's a lot easier
to fix a bad situation at the college level than it is at the NBA
level through the draft or through however you know, trades or however it's being
done at the NBA level. And at college you have say, you know,
now, did John Calipari when he went to the nests that he have
total say, I don't know. I would guess he didn't. But John
Callipark can coach now, and so it's more situational than it is coaching coaching
of it. But I do think there is you know, you're not in
the college level. Dan Hurley is king of you con right now. All
the roster decisions are made by him. If he says jump, everybody in
that building says how high it's? You know, all the players if they
just want to be there, if they're being paid enough, they just want
to be there. So, uh, you know, it's a whole different
situation when he goes to the Lakers and he's going to have players that you
know, believe they should have a say and everything you've got, an owner,
you've got, So I think it all has to do with that more
than it has to do with the exors o's of coaching. I agree on
how to pursue with it. What do you like most about your situation at
Oakland? Speaking you of king of campus, what do you like most about
your situation there? Well, when you've been at a place as long as
I've been, you know everybody right, and now there's turnover and everything,
But you know, you walk into a building and the guy that's sweeping the
floor comes over and you have a common versation with him. You know,
he's got a son named so and so, you know you you know,
and it's we've got twenty thousand students. But it's a small town atmosphere.
And you know, I'm a small town guy. I grew up in Defiance,
Ohio. That's how my life always was. And so it just really
has fit me. Well. You know, I've got I got a group
of friends that you know, I got, I've got you know, a
golf courses to play, I've got you know, those are the things that
I have a here's a better way to put it. I have a great
quality of life. And in this business, and you've been around this business,
you know, the quality of life. For the pressure of college coaching
at the level, you know, the highest levels, it really affects your
quality of life. You know, there's so many you know, pitfalls,
there's so many people you have to please, there's so many things that have
to be done that you know, the stress and the pressure of it can
really get to coach and you see them get out and you see a lot
of coaches get fired because of that kind of stuff. So I've been lucky,
you know. I I love what I do. I have an unbelievable
situation that I live in and I've never you know, there's there's a song
out there. The lyrics was, you know, it's not wanting what you
it's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got. And I
think that I've been somebody that's just wanted what I have. You've had chances
to go elsewhere, right plenty over your forty years. Why did you ever
learn about it? Because it was never it was never life changing money.
You know, I'm saying, it wasn't Michigan at three million a year,
five million a year or whatever it is, or it makes four million.
You know. It wasn't a Michigan or a Michigan state. It wasn't a
you know, obviously those are you know in this where we live, those
are the two jobs to the best, you know, ten jobs in the
country. It wasn't those places. It wasn't a Kentucky or you know,
a Power five that you can go to the National Championship in. And I
didn't want to chase that. I never wanted to chase it. I didn't
want to take I wasn't willing to take the next step like the Missouri Valley
or you know, I've been offered, you know a handful of jobs like
that over the years, and when I looked at them, it just wasn't
worth the chase. And and you know, probably that's why I've not gotten
you know, the Tennessee that. You know, we go to Tennessee and
we beat them. Yeah, they're at seventh in the country. We beat
them, and the coach leaves and uh, you know, I make a
phone call there and they say, yeah, yeah, wow, you're a
great coach. But you know, it's just not what we want right now.
So okay, you know that's fine. I'm lucky. I got what
I got. Good perspective. Last thing before I let you go. It's
been enjoyable. I always enjoy it with you. How much can you use
last year's success toward building quote unquote momentum for next year or this coming season?
And afterwards we're hot? Right? I mean that ended, and I've
had more speaking engagements, more, you know, interviews, more, taking
more pictures with people come here. I tried at the draft. You know,
of course, there were seven hundred thousand people there and they're all sports,
you know, related people, so it's not like a regular walk to
the park where somebody has no idea about basketball. Right, it took me
over two hours to walk from I was. I did something at the Caucus
Club on one side of town, and I had to walk to the Detroit
Athletic Club, which is about a ten minute walk. It took me over
two hours to get there, just because of the amount of pictures I had
to take with people. So we're a hot commodity right now, and we
want to keep that going. We want to build on it. We want
to get to a Sweet sixteen next year. We want to get to a
Final four. That's our goal and that's what we're trying to do. But
the reality of it is, you know, every white six foot five shooter
in the country's calling us and want to come here because they think they can
beat Jack Golki and shoot three hundred threes right right. So when they call,
and some of them are really really good, I mean, they're guys
that could do what Goki did. But when they find out that we don't
have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars or two hundred thousand what they're asking for
to come, that conversation ends. They're more interested in the money than the
opportunity. You know, Jack Golkie, no one knew who he was.
When the Kentucky game tipped off. He had four hundred followers on Instagram,
when five hours after the Kentucky game he had sixty five thousand followers on Instagram.
He's made a ton of money because what he did. I can't convince
these people to make it that way. They want it up front, they
want I'm the outcome for one hundred good. Well, they've got to consider
you because you're such a great coach. You're a great person. I've always
appreciated our conversations and our friendships. I hope you and I can play golf
sometimes. In the meantime, enjoy your summer. You've earned a coach.
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