Making Sense Of UNC Hiring Former NBA Coach Mike Malone | OG After Dark
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It is just past 3.30 in the afternoon on the afternoon on a Monday, anybody can podcast on a Monday, especially after North Carolina has the coaching search that winds up with Mike Malone, former Denver Nuggets head coach who won a national championship. |
| 0:33.5 | He better win a national championship in North Carolina, an NBA championship. |
| 0:40.2 | What's up? It's Joe Oveas. Jillio is on assignment. |
| 0:41.9 | We already did a podcast today. |
| 0:43.7 | That podcast is out. |
| 0:50.9 | Sure enough, once I hit save on the podcast from today, I got the alert from Pete Thammell, |
| 0:54.8 | ESPN, that North Carolina was going to hire Mike Malone. |
| 1:02.3 | Not, not the NBA coach that people thought North Carolina was going to hire. |
| 1:09.5 | So let's talk about who Mike Malone is before we talk about how we got here with Mike Malone and some scattered thoughts about why this could |
| 1:14.5 | work and why this might not work. Malone doesn't really have a lot of college experience. He was |
| 1:21.5 | an assistant at Oakland from 1994-1995 season, and he was at Providence from 95 to 98. Then he was at Manhattan from 99 to |
| 1:30.4 | 01. What's his connection to Carolina? Well, his daughter plays volleyball. I'm sure by now |
| 1:35.7 | everybody has seen that fun fact. If the daughter plays volleyball for North Carolina, |
| 1:40.3 | he's also been around the program with Hubert Davis. |
| 1:45.7 | My understanding is that during the football season, |
| 1:48.1 | he was frequently a guest of Hubert Davis during the college football season at Carolina. |
| 1:52.9 | So he's been around. |
| 1:54.3 | He has an understanding of what the university is about. |
| 1:56.9 | Understanding about the, |
| 1:58.7 | I mean, it's North Carolina. |
| 1:59.7 | Everybody knows what the deal is with |
| 2:01.4 | North Carolina, right? So that probably put him in the right circles for people to consider him |
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