Jason Eaker, Oklahoma Baptist Men's Basketball Coach (Part 2)
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 183
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 2 of our two-part conversation, Jason opens up about a mistake he made that led to him stepping away from coaching. He shares why he did what he did, and the lessons he's learned from God about healing, reconciliation and redemption.
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, part two of our conversation with Jason |
| 0:24.8 | Aker, the head coach, head basketball coach for Oklahoma Baptist University |
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| 1:13.8 | Today's guest on the podcast, Jason Aker. |
| 1:16.3 | This is part two of our conversation with Jason. |
| 1:18.6 | He is the head basketball coach at Oklahoma Baptist University for their men's program. |
| 1:23.7 | 15 years as a Division I assistant. |
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