📬 May Mailbag! Parrish and Norlander answer listener questions on college hoops, transfer portal, music and more

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Basketball, Sports

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We haven't done a mailbag in nearly 90 days, so we're fixing that! Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander answer a variety of your questions, some sent in recent days, others that have been sitting for months.

Also be sure to read Norlander's scoop/story he references in the show here re: NIL tournament in Vegas.

(00:45) - Potpourri to start: Love letters, correspondence and random emails!

(16:39) - Is competitive balance worse than ever?

(21:01) - Do college basketball teams have GMs like the pros now?

(25:29) - Which coach can go from seemingly not great to HOFer?

(31:30) - Could/should a high-major and a mid-major collude for players?

(37:43) - What happens first: Gonzaga misses the NCAAs or Tiger Woods misses the Masters cut?

(39:48) - Which mid-major 2024 hire gets a high-major job in 2025?

(41:33) - Is Baylor fixing its camera angle or what?

(43:05) - What makes a top-20 job?

(52:11) - Why can't Dayton, Gonzaga, Memphis upgrade conferences?

(59:59) - Best songs named after cities/states

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Transcript

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0:00.0	There's Gary Parish.
0:05.0	Gary Parish.
0:07.0	Welcome back to the CBS Sports Island College Basketball
0:10.4	Podcast where we sometimes discuss Camel fighting Dodo Birds and Leaky Black
0:15.0	Matt. Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube you know what to do
0:18.1	to that like button. Shouts to Brandon Davies and if you're watching on YouTube
0:22.2	you're not subscribed already
0:24.2	please go ahead and subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball
0:27.1	YouTube channel while you're here let's get into it it's a mailbag episode
0:31.7	that's right it's May mail bag episode. That's right. It's a May mail bag and I'm wearing my hat
0:35.3	backwards in support of J.J. Reddick. Okay. Should I hold on. Should I go get one too? Yeah
0:40.1	I mean, podcasters. Yeah, why not?
0:42.1	Podcasters, us podcasters need to stay together.
0:44.6	That's right, I'm getting the hat right now.
0:46.2	Hold on.
0:47.2	Get you a hat backwards.
0:48.2	Get you a hat back.
0:49.2	That's podcasters, we need to stick together and, you know, strengthen numbers with our hats on backwards.
0:57.0	You know, black action. I got a black backward hat action. Here we go.
1:00.0	We talked about this a little bit yesterday on the GP show. My producer there, Big
1:05.2	Bennett, Bennett Doyle, he made a, I think a smart observation. He says the reason we are the first
1:11.4	generation of old people wearing our heads backwards on
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