Create Your Shot: Jeff Wilson

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Tyler and Smallz learn the ins and outs of basketball administration with ESPN Manager of Events, Jeff Wilson. Jeff is responsible for exempt basketball tournaments like the new PK80, the Charleston Classic, The Armed Forces classic and many others. The guys reminisce about their time working under Jeff while he was the director of basketball operations at Temple and learn the correct way to construct a charter bus seating chart and the best pre and postgame meal options. Jeff partakes in some coach speak and rains jumpers while he gives the best city review CYS has seen so far. Come for the information and stay for the stories of Jeff as the General Manager of the Philadelphia Fusion of the ABA! 0:30 - Tyler and Smallz IntroÂ 1:30 - Jeff's backgroundÂ 11:00 - Welcome Jeff WilsonÂ 12:58 - Jeff's day to day 15:00 - How Jeff got to his current job 17:25 - Tyler shares some history about Jeff 19:05 -TRACKBACK SMALLZâ€¦Tyler talks too muchÂ 19:20 - 22 year old Jeff is the General Manager of the Philadelphia FusionÂ 21:48 - The first day as a professional general managerÂ 24:50 - Stability and working in sportsÂ 26:30 - Taking opportunities in sports 27:25 - Best part of working as a DOBOÂ 29:34 - Reacting to your head coach and coaching staff 32:20 - Being flexible and prepared for anything and everything 36:15 - BracketologyÂ 37:40 - Growing your own role and responsibilities 40:38 - Networking in sports business 43:40 - Understanding your path in sports.Â 45:20 - Balancing work and family 47:00 - Work Smarter, Not Harder 48:30 - Ultimate career goalsÂ 49:50 - Smallz buttering up Jeff 50:43 - Coach SpeakÂ 51:18 - PJ Fleck - "I eat difficult conversations for breakfast" 53:50 - John Chaney "Ostriches" 57:01 - City Review - Charlotte, NCÂ 1:01:05 - Was Jeff worried about managers enjoying nightlife too much? 1:05:38 - Ten Touches 1:05:52 - Managers keep things lightÂ 1:07:44 - Worst travel experience(s) 1:11:23 - Favorite Book/TV Show 1:12:30 - Other interests? 1:14:15 - Better fans, NY or PhiladelphiaÂ 1:15:20 - What would Jeff change about college basketballÂ 1:17:33 - Favorite college clichÃ©Â 1:19:47 - Favorite pre-game meal and hotel choiceÂ 1:21:42 - Professor Jeff WilsonÂ 1:22:20 - Pennsylvania University holds itself in high regard 1:23:48 - Jeff's memories of Smallz and TylerÂ 1:24:58 - Parting ShotsÂ 1:25:10 - Best advice you've ever been given - Enjoy the moments 1:27:40 - Face-to-Face with your 18 year old self - Take yourself less seriously

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
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0:15.4	Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come.
0:25.0	Welcome to the 11th episode of Create Your Shot.
0:31.0	This week Smalls and I talk to Jeff Wilson, manager of events for
0:35.5	ESPN. So Jeff is basically in charge of most of the preseason exempt basketball tournaments like the
0:42.4	Charleston tip-off and then everything that you
0:44.4	guys are going to watch this week over Thanksgiving break like the PK80, the preseason
0:50.0	NIT, the Puerto Rico tip-off which is for some reason in Myrtle Beach this year. in director of basketball operations at Temple University for all the time that Smalls and I were there.
1:05.0	So somebody that we know really well who has now gone from the administrative side of hoops to, I guess still on the administrative side of basketball but now working for
1:16.7	ESPN and putting together tournaments doing things just about everything that you can expect in
1:22.4	terms of putting these
1:23.2	tournaments together but really Jeff has more of an interesting story than I
1:26.6	think people realize he was the general manager of an ABA basketball team
1:32.3	the day he graduated from college. general manager of an ABA basketball team
1:33.1	the day he graduated from college.
1:35.1	So we talk about a lot of different stuff with Jeff,
1:37.6	but I do think this is the first sort of guy
1:39.8	that we've had from the administrative side of basketball on
1:42.4	and Jeff really didn't want to be an on-the-floor coach.
1:46.0	And Smalls, we knew that, but what did you think of Jeff this week
1:49.7	and how much fun did you have kind of reminiscing
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