Who's the BEST X's & O's coach? Plus: Kansas lands the top PG in '26; Players Era up to 24 teams
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The 2025 Candid Coaches series' next topic touches on the brightest college basketball minds. The winner? You'll have to listen to find out. Plus, a hilarious story about Kentucky and Louisville and Kansas. 00:46 - Norlander's got a great Ryder Cup story 19:45 - Candid Coaches -- Who is the best X's and O's Coach? 31:57 - Taylen Kinney commits to Kansas. But there's some stories behind this ... 43:15 - 2026 Players Era Tournament Update
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. |
| 0:14.6 | Gary Parrish, welcome back, CBS Sports, I-On college basketball podcast, |
| 0:18.4 | where we sometimes discuss camel fighting Dota birds and Leaky Black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do, the like button. Shouts to Brana Davies, and you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball channel. It would be awesome if you did that while you're here. Let's get into it. Norlander, good to see you after you spent the past three days at Bethpage Black covering the Ryder Cup. |
| 0:40.5 | First question for you. |
| 0:41.9 | As October approaches, whose seat is hotter? |
| 0:47.7 | Huber Davis or Keegan Bradley? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, I think it might be technically Keegan Bradley because I think there's just a general |
| 0:54.6 | understanding. Well, he could, he could return as Rider Cup captain. Never again. Never again. |
| 0:59.9 | That's not going to happen. Yeah, let's do Norlanders Golf Corner to kick this off real quick. |
| 1:06.5 | Because actually, I've got a story that I do think you're really going to like. But just general takeaways on the Ryder Cup. It was in Long Island. I live in Connecticut. I was able to take the ferry over, cover it three days in a row. Had a great time. It's such a, it's golf events as you well know because you are there annually in Memphis for the same. So much better on television. Yes. Okay. So on that note, yes. |
| 1:30.8 | I actually had that got brought up in one of my text chains over the weekend there. |
| 1:36.5 | If there's a big hole with big stars and you can be there, it's awesome. |
| 1:41.0 | But it's vast expanses. |
| 1:43.7 | GPI was logging easily, easily north of 15, |
| 1:47.5 | 16,000 steps every day. But loving it all the same. But yes, there's a very, there's, there's a scientific |
| 1:53.7 | method to covering it. I tell people all the time, if you want to enjoy the golf tournament, |
| 2:00.2 | so we're talking about FedEx St. Jude Championship, right? I say, if you enjoy the golf tournament, to enjoy the golf tournament, so we're talking about FedEx St. |
| 2:01.3 | you, St. Jude Championship, right? I say, if you enjoy the golf tournament, go to the golf tournament. You'll have a blast. If you want to watch the golf tournament, stay home and turn on your television. Because when you're on the golf course, you don't really know what's going on. You don't have proper context. You cannot, like you go to a baseball game, you watch everything that's right in front of you. |
| 2:19.6 | You go to a basketball game, you watch everything |
| 2:18.6 | that's right in front of you. You go to a basketball game, you watch everything that's right in front of you. You go to a golf tournament. You're, you just, you don't know, you don't know what's going on. Even with the phone in your hand, you don't have a proper understanding of exactly how it's unfolding the way you do if you're sitting in front of a television. |
| 2:32.6 | Even with the phone in hand, as I encountered plenty, there's so many people like cell reception, |
| 2:38.2 | like out on the sixth fairway, uh-uh. |
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