Mailbag! 🧳📬How many active coaches are future HOFers? Tampering in recruiting, dream Final Fours, listener feedback, podcast origin stories
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports, College Basketball, Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, NBA Draft
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We haven't done a mailbag in a few months, so before the preseason gets fired up in earnest, it's time to sift through our inbox and read through some love letters and correspondence. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander answer questions on Hall of Fame coaches in college basketball, ranking the title winners from the past 20 years, some behind-the-scenes access with CBS Sports and much more!
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00:00 - Start
02:15 - Clearing out the early portion of the email inbox
14:08 - Which current coaches are future hall of famers?
22:42 - Do College Coaches still care about tampering 27:07 - Which leagues want NCAAT expansion the most and should all receive an auto bid?
33:00 - Trivia Time!
36:26 - How do we feel about 32-team MTE's?
42:52 - We give our thoughts on the State of The Union of Utah Basketball
49:23 - How did GP and Norlander build their relationships with college coaches
52:00 - The Mount Rushmore's of MS and CT
1:00:00 - Unsolicited Advice From Listeners
1:02:30 - We Talkin Wrasslin'
1:04:20 - The ideal Final Four
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. Gary Parrish, welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button. Shouts to Brandon Davies. If you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, you should have already done that. Let's get into it. Before we get to the questions for this mailbag episode, it's a mailbag episode. |
| 0:38.5 | Those are always fun. |
| 0:39.7 | But before we get to the questions, Norlander has emails that he would like to read. |
| 0:43.7 | I don't even read most of my emails privately. |
| 0:46.8 | But Norlander likes to read his privately and then also read them publicly. |
| 0:50.8 | Well, there are. |
| 0:51.4 | Well, a couple things. |
| 0:52.0 | One, please send Gary Parrish all of your emails. A reminder, he loves reading them. He loves getting them. Please send them early and often. Two, these are our emails. They're not mine. There are emails. And so we get, you know, we get, you know, a regular, regular thrum of love letters and correspondence, if you will. So a reminder, top of the show, call out here. |
| 1:11.6 | If you want to email us at any point, for any reason, any comment or question, |
| 1:17.0 | college basketball stuff is preferred, but we get non-college hoop stuff as well. |
| 1:20.2 | That's fine too. |
| 1:21.3 | You can contact the show by writing to shouts to CBS at gmail.com. |
| 1:26.4 | That is the word to, Tio, not the number two. Shouts to CBS at gmail.com. That is the word to, |
| 1:27.7 | Tio, not the number two. |
| 1:29.1 | Shouts to CBS at gmail.com. |
| 1:31.4 | So yeah, |
| 1:31.9 | before we get to the questions, |
| 1:32.8 | just a few emails from listeners. |
| 1:34.6 | We recently wrapped our 2025 summer shoot-round. |
| 1:38.0 | But Sawyer from Sock Prairie, Wisconsin, |
| 1:39.9 | sent in a reminder and a tally |
| 1:41.4 | of how he did in 2024 |
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