06/04: How the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests have created a positive stir for change in college basketball
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A tragedy in Minneapolis -- the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer -- has catalyzed and sparked worldwide protest efforts to weed out systemic racism. College basketball and its leaders can be agents for true, overdue change in this country. Today's podcast focuses on the conversations Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander have had with coaches and players in college basketball this week. They touch on first-hand accounts from black coaches and the systemic racism they've encountered at the hands of law enforcement in the past. Parrish wrote this week about Rhode Island coach David Cox. In New Mexico, a team came together to protest peacefully. Norlander at one point references this story, first published at CBS Sports in 2016, where coaches shared their stories of encounters with law enforcement. There is also a movement afoot, sparked by Georgia Tech assistant Eric Reveno (31:00), who tweeted earlier this week that the NCAA should make November's Election Day a mandatory day off for all of college athletics in order to afford players and coaches alike the opportunity and time to vote
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parish, Thursday June 4, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:11.9 | Eye on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting and leaky |
| 0:16.8 | black. Matt Norlander is here with been obviously we are living in strange and important times. |
| 0:21.4 | It's now been 10 days since a white police officer named Derek Shav and killed George Floyd |
| 0:27.4 | in the streets of Minneapolis. The now ex-office there has been charged with felony second |
| 0:32.4 | degree murder. The three officers who stood by and did nothing have been charged with |
| 0:36.3 | aiding and abetting a murder. Mean time there have been protest in every major American |
| 0:42.0 | city each night for more than a week. So this feels like a real moment in time like |
| 0:45.7 | something we're all going to remember forever. And it sparked conversations that I'm not |
| 0:49.3 | sure we've ever had at least in these numbers. Some folks who have never previously acknowledged |
| 0:54.8 | that there's a problem or even cared to consider that there might be a problem in this |
| 0:59.9 | country with the way black people are targeted and harassed and killed disproportionately |
| 1:04.0 | by law enforcement officials are now finally acknowledging it. Whether it'll lead to real |
| 1:08.8 | change, who knows. But it's been a big topic of conversation among college basketball |
| 1:14.0 | coaches because for the most part, you know, college basketball coaches are either black |
| 1:17.5 | men who coach black players or white men who coach black players. So they're talking about |
| 1:21.7 | all of this with each other and with their players. And I've been talking to them about |
| 1:25.4 | all of this as well for the past week. Norlander, I know you have to. So I got a million |
| 1:30.2 | thoughts on everything. But let me start by asking you, what are you hearing when you talk |
| 1:33.9 | to coaches about what's happening in this country right now? |
| 1:39.4 | Hearing very productive conversations that are happening at the college level and that |
| 1:45.7 | players are having their voices heard. This is a year in 2020 that it feels like this, |
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