Recruiting process, building culture amid roster turnover, & coaching to player strengths with USC’s Eric Musselman
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode of Move the Sticks, Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks are joined by USC men's basketball head coach Eric Musselman. The trio explores the crossover between football and basketball, diving into concepts like spatial awareness — is it innate or can it be developed?
They explore the challenges of building a strong locker room culture in the age of the transfer portal, how Musselman and his staff approach high school recruiting, and the specific traits they prioritize in a point guard.
Plus, Musselman opens up about his journey to becoming a head coach, and offers valuable advice to new coaches on the importance of veteran mentorship and experience.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:12.4 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to Move the Sticks. |
| 0:14.5 | DJ Buck with you. |
| 0:15.6 | Buck, excited about this episode today. |
| 0:18.0 | We've got USC head coach Eric Musselman and not football head coach. I know people are thinking, wait, that's Lincoln Riley. We're talking to basketball coach, Eric Musselman, because I think we're a little carryover here and what we can learn on the football side of this. Yeah, there's always things to be learned. And DJ, you and I are lifelong learners. We believe that we can learn for people who have success in so many different aspects of business, |
| 0:38.9 | even in sports. And so with Muslim, really intrigued in terms of how someone who is an NBA |
| 0:44.9 | coach has become one of the best college basketball coaches doing it his way. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, there's tremendous care of. You're going to hear in this conversation, |
| 0:54.4 | you're going to hear a lot of football. |
| 0:55.5 | You're going to hear about a conversation his father had with the legendary Paul Brown |
| 1:00.4 | and advice he was giving to a young head coach. |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm telling you, you guys, you're going to be fascinated to hear all this stuff. |
| 1:06.7 | There's lots of great stories in here, lots of carryover from one sport to the next. |
| 1:12.2 | But before we get to that conversation, Buck, we've got to handle some business here. |
| 1:16.4 | It's time for hot or not brought to you by Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage. |
| 1:20.2 | Hot off the press here, Rashad Bateman, new contract for the Baltimore Raven, someone who didn't |
| 1:26.2 | really pop until year four, Buck. |
| 1:27.8 | The first three years kind of overwhelming statistically this last year, not a ton of |
| 1:31.7 | catches, but did have nine touchdowns. |
| 1:33.9 | I think you average almost 17 yards per catch and really kind of settled into a nice |
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