Jason Eaker, Oklahoma Baptist Men's Basketball Coach (Part 1)
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Episode 182
Jason Eaker joined Oklahoma Baptist as their head men’s basketball coach in April 2018. Eaker, who spent one season in a Bison uniform before finishing his playing days at Hardin-Simmons University, grew up coming to OBU games. His father, Allen Eaker, is an OBU Athletics Hall of Famer who played on the 1966 OBU national championship basketball team.
Eaker came to OBU from Mercer, where he has been an assistant coach since 2013. He has 15 years of coaching experience, including nine years as a NCAA Division I assistant coach. He has been in the postseason six times with three different programs and has recruited or developed 16 players that have earned All-Conference honors.
Eaker previously worked as an assistant coach at Liberty University from 2007 to 2013 after being director of basketball operations for the Flames from 2005 to 2007.
Eaker spent a year as Kelvin Sampson's graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma in the 2004-05 season and started his basketball staff career as Hoffman's video coordinator at Texas Pan-American in 2003-04.
In part 1 of our two-part conversation with Jason Eaker, we learn about his coaching journey, what it meant to him to get his first head coaching job, his biggest adjustment going from assistant coach to head coach, what the grind of recruiting is like and how his faith shapes the way he goes about his job.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Oklahoma Baptist men's basketball coach Jason |
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| 1:34.9 | Today's guest on the podcast, Oklahoma Baptist University men's basketball coach Jason |
| 1:40.0 | Aker, and this is part one of our conversation with Coach Aker. |
| 1:43.9 | Now, Jason was named the OBEU |
| 1:45.9 | head coach in April of 2018 this year, and Oklahoma Baptist is a Division II program, for those |
| 1:52.5 | of you wondering. Prior to that, he spent 15 years as a Division I assistant coach. He was with |
| 1:58.3 | Mercer University from 2013 to 2018. And if you remember Mercer, |
| 2:03.6 | if that name kind of rings a bell for you, Mercer was the team in 2014 that took March |
| 2:09.5 | Madness by storm as a 14 seed, upsetting number three Duke and of course Coach K-78 to 71. |
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