03/23/15: Ben Howland to Miss. State; Bama targets Gregg Marshall; Sweet 16
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 23 March 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Gary Parrish is joined by Matt Norlander and Sam Vecenie for this edition of the Eye on College Basketball podcast.They discuss Mississippi State landing Ben Howland, Alabama's pursuit of Gregg Marshall, the Sweet 16 and more.
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| 0:00.0 | And this is Gary Beres, you see this for the time it is now Monday, March 23rd, and |
| 0:14.0 | Mississippi Ion College task of all of podcast. |
| 0:17.3 | I've joined, of course, by San Vassini and Matt Norlander. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm going to get into the NCAA tournament in just a moment. |
| 0:23.5 | But first, the big news of the day, Ben Howland is moving to start film Mississippi becoming |
| 0:27.8 | the first person I believe to ever move from Santa Barbara to Starkville without being |
| 0:34.6 | extra-dited for some reason. |
| 0:37.4 | Matt Norlander, I'll start with you. |
| 0:38.8 | Your thoughts on the three-time Final Four coach moving to Mississippi State? |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.9 | This is interesting. |
| 0:49.8 | When Rick Ray's firing was announced, was that Friday morning? |
| 0:54.4 | I have lost 12. |
| 0:55.4 | It was Saturday. |
| 0:56.4 | It was Saturday. |
| 0:57.4 | I just can't even tell the days. |
| 1:00.9 | That took pretty much everyone by surprise. |
| 1:02.8 | But when that happened, I had to believe that they had a guy in place because it was a |
| 1:09.4 | premature firing. |
| 1:11.2 | You know, Rick inherited just a really tough situation there. |
| 1:17.2 | And it was going to be a slow turnaround for just about anyone. |
| 1:20.8 | And unless you could get a proven quality guy, it was wrong to get rid of him. |
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