Hey there, it's Gary Parish. It's Thursday, July 14th, and this is the eye on college

basketball podcast. I got Mad Norlander with me, and we're in the second five-day period

of the July evaluation period. It's now underway. Coaches and assistants are on the road from

coast to coast. Neither of us went out this week. We were both at Peach Jam last week. We'll

both be in Las Vegas next week, but we are home right now. When we recorded the last podcast,

it was late last Thursday night, early on Friday, more specifically several hours before Larry

Brown actually resigned from SMU. In a bit of a surprising slash bizarre move. I don't want to

spend too much time on it, Norlander, because it feels like it was decades ago at this point, but it

is something we had not discussed. What did you make of Larry Brown resigning in the opening days

of the July evaluation period from SMU after four seasons? Yeah, a couple quick thoughts in this one.

It was weird that it happened on that morning of all mornings, because as we spoke on the podcast,

Dallas, where SMU's base was going through a huge massive tragedy that became worldwide news.

And so for that to have gotten out the morning after the death of five police officers was just,

it felt weird. It felt tackless. And then the SMU athletic director basically said, I feel

unfortunately compelled to put a statement on this just because this is a major news event with

with our university. And I'm getting a media request. So the whole thing had a weird feel to it.

And for Larry Brown to have done this in the middle of a July evaluation period,

you could say it's typical Larry Brown, but you just don't normally see this happen.

Tim Jankovitch, who is now the head coach, he was the associate head coach

under Larry Brown. He was in Peach Jam the day before. We saw him in those gyms. And so then I went

to the Peach Jam kind of looking around for him. See, I could even talk to him, get a quote,

as you were writing the column on Larry Brown, he had flown back to Dallas late the night before

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