Murray Garvin - South Carolina State Men's Basketball Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Murray Garvin has been leading the South Carolina State Men's basketball program since taking over as head coach in 2012. The 2016 MEAC Coach of the Year joins us today to talk about the difficulties he's faced during this Covid 2020-2021 college basketball season and why he came up with the idea to hold a National Day of Prayer for college basketball coaches on March 1.
If you are a coach or basketball administrator and you'd like to be a part of the National Day of Prayer, please email jason@sportsspectrum.com and we will get you the info.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:12.2 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
| 0:15.8 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:18.6 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | Today is a unique show. Today is a conversation with |
| 0:23.5 | Murray Garvin from South Carolina State. He is their men's basketball coach. South Carolina |
| 0:29.9 | State is not having a great year this year. They actually haven't even won one game and they're |
| 0:33.6 | currently in the middle of a quarantine and a time where they can't play basketball |
| 0:37.9 | because of COVID. |
| 0:39.7 | So it's not the easiest of times for Murray Garvin. |
| 0:44.2 | But his name came across my phone last week. |
| 0:51.1 | And a friend of mine, Tommy Kyle, who works with the Nations of Coaches, texted me. |
| 0:57.1 | And he said, you need to talk to Murray Garvin. |
| 0:59.5 | He has organized something on March 1st that we think your audience would really be interested in. |
| 1:05.7 | So we brought Murray Garvin on. |
| 1:08.0 | And this is just one of those conversations where God kind of blows you away a little bit, |
| 1:14.6 | right? And you listen to Coach Garvin, and he obviously is, you know, a great man of God. He's obviously |
| 1:22.2 | been going through a difficult time as a coach, and he'll explain a little bit of that on the court in a minute |
| 1:28.7 | with COVID. But he's really going through it like many coaches, men's and women, high level, |
| 1:36.4 | low level during this pandemic. This is not an easy time to be a coach in sports and specifically to be a coach in college basketball. |
| 1:47.3 | And we all know what March 1st is. |
| 1:50.0 | March is the beginning of the month that brings us spring. |
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