Hey there, Gary Parrish, welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball

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And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. Different deal today, as you'll soon realize. Matt Norlander is not here with me, and that's because I'm in Chicago for Big Ten Media Day. And while here, I sat down with most of the coaches and some of the players for quick

conversations about their programs and college basketball in general.

And we figured, or at least we hoped, that you guys might like to listen to those conversations.

So we're placing them in the I-owned college basketball feed.

It's me, GP, at Big Ten Media Day.

The conversations I had with coaches and players, they are on tap.

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Gary Parrish here with Oregon head coach Dana Altman, year 16 at Oregon.

And I gather already today you have addressed retirement rumors.

I guess that's just something you have to do every few months?

I guess as you get older, everybody assumes that you're going to give it out.

But I've been fortunate, Gary, starting 16 years here at Oregon, I had 16 years at Creighton, Kansas State for seven years, three with

Coach Kruger. So I've been really fortunate. And so hopefully Oregon wants to keep me for a while

yet, but I enjoy coach and I enjoy the fellas. Games are torture, but the practices are a lot of fun.

I guess, you know, are a lot of fun.

I guess, you know, age is part of it for people who don't know.

You are 67 years old, and we did just watch somebody similarly aged, walk away from the sport in recent weeks,

and we've seen Jay Wright retire in recent years, Tony Bennett retire in recent years.

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