Woj 💣: Former columnist/newsbreaker Adrian Wojnarowski joins us for a very special pod to discuss why he left ESPN and his new gig with St. Bonaventure
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We hope you like this special show. Adrian Wojnarowski joins GP and Norlander to get into the hows and whys of retiring from media, in addition to what his actual role will be with St. Bonaventure, some of his most memorable moments from his reporting career and much more.
00:00 - Intro
01:51 - When Woj first thought about being the St. Bonaventure's GM
06:25 - What Woj's wife thought when he broke the news to her.
09:39 - Who did Woj consult with before getting out of the media space
15:00 - What was the better feeling -- the note-perfect column, breaking news or writing a book?
20:49 - Is he surprised that he became a worldwide phenomenon
25:32 - What does the GM of a college basketball program do?
29:45 - How much money does St. Bonaventure need to run a competitive program?
42:40 - Does Woj's "sacrifice" make it easier to sell
46:10 - Would Woj ONLY be the GM for St. Bonaventure?
48:04 - How Woj ended up at St. Bonaventure
51:45 - Lightning Round with Woj!
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| 0:00.0 | And it's Gary Parish. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball Podcast, |
| 0:09.6 | where we've got Camel Fighting Dodo Birtz and Leaky Black |
| 0:13.0 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:14.6 | If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button. |
| 0:16.8 | Shouts to Brandon Davies. |
| 0:18.2 | And if you haven't yet, subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball |
| 0:21.5 | YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. |
| 0:24.0 | Let's get into it. If you're a regular listener of the ION College Basketball |
| 0:28.0 | Podcast, you likely know we don't normally have guests, but one thing that is even less common than us having guests is |
| 0:35.5 | somebody leaving one of the biggest God support media to run an Atlantic 10 men |
| 0:40.6 | basketball program. Honestly it had never happened until Adrian Wojnowski did it last month. |
| 0:46.8 | He left ESP and, as you know, as the network MBA Insider. |
| 0:50.5 | He's now the general manager of his alma mater's basketball program at |
| 0:54.3 | St Bonaventure and he's nice enough to carve out a few minutes for us this afternoon. |
| 0:58.8 | Woades welcome to the Island College Basketball Podcast thank you for being here. How you been? |
| 1:03.5 | Guys, I'm doing great. I've got to correct you on one thing, Gary. |
| 1:07.8 | Mark Schmidt runs the St Bonaventure men's basketball program. |
| 1:13.5 | The one thing I am in charge of is getting his lunch |
| 1:15.8 | around 12, 12 10 every day, but I'm having a blast so far. |
| 1:21.8 | I should be more specific the general manager of |
| 1:24.3 | St Bonaventer's men's basketball program. Let's just start with the obvious. You |
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