Scott Nagy - Southern Illinois men's basketball coach on big decisions, God's plan and being others oriented
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Scott Nagy was named the head men’s basketball coach at Southern Illinois on March 28, 2024. He began his coaching career in the late 1980’s with Illinois before becoming a head coach in 1995 at South Dakota State. After 11 years, he moved to Wright State, where he coached from 2016-2024. As a division one head coach, Nagy has led his teams to five NCAA Tournament berths.
Today on the podcast we talk to coach Nagy about his journey of faith and coaching. He discusses his upbringing in a Christian home, his struggles with performance-based faith, and the recent decision to move to Southern Illinois. He emphasizes the importance of prioritizing character, discipline, and accountability over winning and encourages young coaches to pursue a relationship with Jesus and focus on the players.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today on Sports Spectrum, Scott Nagy from Southern Illinois, men's basketball coach is our guest. |
| 0:06.5 | This is a guy who's been coaching on the Division I level for 30 years. |
| 0:10.7 | He started out at South Dakota State, actually took over a program that was Division 2, |
| 0:15.3 | transitioned them to Division 1, 3 NCAA Division 1 tournament births. |
| 0:20.7 | Then he goes to Wright State, two more NCAA tournament |
| 0:24.2 | births. And now he makes one more pivot here on his journey as a coach to Southern Illinois, |
| 0:29.6 | and he's a Saluki as their head men's basketball coach. Just happened a couple months ago. |
| 0:35.6 | He made that transition back in late March, |
| 0:38.7 | right before the Final Four took shape. So really cool guy, really awesome story, very faith-filled, |
| 0:46.7 | and very transparent. He admits performance-based Christianity is a hard thing to dodge. And yet we know that we're saved by grace through |
| 0:57.1 | faith so that no one can boast. And yet he's coaching. And I'm the same way with this job. |
| 1:02.4 | We all struggle with, I think, our performance and trying to please God with being a good |
| 1:08.2 | person or even a nice person as Scott Nagy talks about in today's show. |
| 1:14.1 | So that's coming up in just a second. |
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