It's Zach Jackson and Friends! Thank you. I'm friends. I am Zach Jackson, and this is the podcast that's sweeping parts of Southern Summit County, Northern Stark County, up to three listeners in Wadsworth.

Today we grow the audience by talking Akron Zips Hoops, going up Main Street, up Route 8.

John Gross, a good man, a crazy man, a good coach, first-time guest here on Zach Jackson and Friends.

I don't know, John.

We have talked once, maybe twice, in an interview setting. We have talked briefly, maybe twice in an interview setting.

We have talked briefly away from the microphones and recorders one time.

But kind of by demand and kind of because I wanted to have him on,

we're going to have John Gross here in about 10 minutes.

So I am looking forward to that, talking about their season, his program, the state of college sports, everything.

You know, whenever we have a college coach on here, I ask some version of how often do you think about fundraising, right?

How healthy do you think college sports are?

And everybody has a different opinion on that.

And that's fine.

So this is going to turn into a basketball edition. I'll just declare it now. This is going to be a

non-Browns edition. So it's NBA All-Star break. It's Cleveland Brown's break. It's

President's Day weekend. We will come back Monday or Tuesday and talk combine and talk free agency. I will break it

here for 30 seconds. I do think by next Monday or Tuesday that Corey Unlin will probably be the

defensive coordinator, that Travis Schweitzer will probably be the offensive coordinator. I think

that deal has been done, but we'll see. We will save all quarterback talk, speculation, rage, salary cap arguments for next week.

We're going to talk hoops.

So the Cavs at the All-Star break, new momentum, new energy, new juice.

James Harden is on the Cavs, has played a home game with the Cavs.

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