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He's Coached NBA Stars Kawhi Leonard, Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, and lead San Diego State to the NCAA Championship Game in 2023 | Coach Dutcher E403

The Rich Somers Report

Rich Somers

Business, Investing

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

He’s Coached NBA Stars Kawhi Leonard, Chris Webber, Jalen Rose—and Led SDSU to the 2023 NCAA Championship Game From the Fab Five at Michigan to the Final Four with San Diego State—Coach Brian Dutcher has seen it all. In this episode, Rich sits down with Coach Dutcher to break down his decades-long journey through college basketball, the rise of SDSU into a national powerhouse, and what it takes to build a winning program in today’s NIL and transfer portal era. From recruiting future NBA stars...

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0:00.0

You're bidding against guys, too.

0:01.5

You're not only selling the journey. Now there's a financial component. And so we tell them we have NIL. We have good NIL. We have good revenue sharing money. But I don't want to talk about that right now. Let's talk about fit. Let's talk about getting better. And if all those fit, now let's sit down and see how much NIL that will require for you to be here. Yeah. But don't you, if they talk money to start, they're not about the journey. And so that's why I think we've had such good programs. We get kids that are about the journey and then we take care of them financially. Sure. We don't start off with financial. We don't go in there and say, here's the amount of money we have, we want you. We want a kid that's invested in this program like we're invested in them. And now we're going to try to make it financially rewarding for them to be here.

0:48.5

Welcome to the Rich Summers Report where we talk real estate, business and wealth building all while keeping it real. No fluff, no BS.

0:55.7

I hope that you enjoy the show.

1:02.1

All right, guys, welcome to another episode of The Report.

1:05.8

Today, I got someone who was doing big things in the college basketball space,

1:10.9

and actually recently just took San Diego State men's basketball to the national championship game back in 2023.

1:17.7

He's appeared in multiple, multiple sweet 16s and even coached the Fab Five out there in University of Michigan.

1:24.7

I got coach Brian Dutcher.

1:26.9

Coach Brian Dutcher, welcome to the show, my man.

1:28.9

Rich, thanks for having me. It's exciting to be here. Yeah, man. I've been a big fan of you and

1:34.8

the program. I've been a long time San Diego State College basketball fan since probably like

1:39.3

2010, 211 days with Kauai Leonard. So for, having you here, having a conversation with you is

1:44.7

very cool. So thank you. My pleasure. And let's talk some Aztec hoops. Oh, man, I can't wait.

1:50.2

I can't wait. So much to cover here. But first things first, we know about three years ago,

1:54.9

college basketball switched to the NIL, name, image,. I know there's some controversy around it.

2:01.9

What exactly is name, image, and likeness?

2:04.1

What does this mean?

2:05.4

Well, name image and likeness was a polite way of saying, we're going to have pay for play.

2:10.2

And we would raise money.

2:12.1

Universities had raised money for their athletic programs, and they would pay the athletes,

2:16.8

supposedly on their name, image, and likeness pay the athlete, supposedly on their name,

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