Beyond the Box Score Podcast

Coach Jack Meriwether shares his coaching journey from going the scouting route rather than playing or managing at the college level to becoming a Head Coach at the college and high school levels. The Virginia native got his start as an Assistant Coach at Randolph College under [current Roanoke College Head Coach] Clay Nunley before joining the AAU ranks while also coaching at Fork Union Military...

Coach Mike Jarvis shares his journey from growing up in Cambridge Massachusetts to becoming a NCAA D1 Head Coach. After finishing his playing career at Northeastern he joined the coaching staff there and then Harvard before becoming the Head Coach at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He coached Patrick Ewing, Rumeal Robinson, and Karl Hobbs in high school including winning three-consecutive state...

Coach Ricky Hernandez shares his journey from playing D2 football to being an Assistant Coach at Johns Hopkins. The Lancaster native has coached Conestoga Valley, East Stroudsburg, and Moravian College prior to coaching under Josh Loeffler. He's been a part of numerous regular season and postseason championships, Coach Hernandez is a winner and a rising star in the profession. This episode is spon...

Coach Josh Gross shares his journey from growing up in Maryland to becoming a standout player at UNCG, embarking on a professional basketball career, and now coaching college basketball. He played at UNCG under current Iowa Head Coach Fran McCaffery and shares his experiences and what he learned from the UNCG coaches. Coach Gross played in the NBA D-League (now G League) as well as numerous other...

Coach Ben Tanoff shares his journey from growing up in Michigan and running cross country and track at the NCAA DIII level at Kenyon College to now being on the men's basketball coaching staff at NCAA DI Presbyterian College. After accepting a teaching position in South Carolina straight out of college, he began serving as the co-Head Coach for the JV and Varsity basketball teams at the school. Fo...

Coach Joanne P. McCallie (Coach P) shares her journey both in basketball and as a mental health advocate. At the conclusion of the 2019-20 season she stepped down at Duke after a 28 year head coaching career including 13 seasons in Durham. Coach won 628 games at the NCAA D1 level which is 35th all time and coached in Elite Eights, Final Fours and even the NCAA Championship. In 2005 she was named t...

*Bonus Episode* With it being the season of giving, I'm joined by coaches Adam Nelson, David Grace, Rex Walters, and Steve Howes as we give out Christmas gifts to some college coaches and teams: -Adam Nelson gives Christmas presents to Boston College, Chicago State, Iona, and LSU... Sort of... -Steve Howes gives Christmas presents to Georgetown, Duke, Villanova, and Purdue -David Grace gives Chris...

Coach Will Maynard shares his journey from growing up in Maryland and playing against high level talent to becoming a successful high school coach at his Southern HS (his alma mater). He was a great JUCO player who ended up going to Shepherd (D2) where he shared the backcourt with Chad Myers (friend of the podcast) who’s now the HC of the IMG Post Grad team.

Dave McAndrew shares his journey from growing up the son of a successful high school coach to become a college basketball official who's referee a NCAA National Championship. After college he had a brief stint coaching women's basketball at the NCAA DIII level before embarking on a 25+ year career as a referee at the HS and college level. Recently Dave started officiating games for "The Big3" and...

Coach Andrew Wade shares his journey from playing college basketball at Catholic University (NCAA D3) to coaching in both the WNBA & G League.

Robert Burlingham shares his journey from bagging groceries to becoming a coach at the NCAA Division One level. He began his coaching career as a student manager Nick McDevitt at UNC Asheville in 2013. He transferred to Western Carolina - where he continued serving as a student manager - this time under [the late] Larry Hunter. After graduating in2016 he returned to UNC Asheville and spent th...

Big South Conference Media Day Interviews: -Will Jones (North Carolina A&T) -Mark Prosser (Winthrop) -Darris Nichols (Radford) -Dave Dickerson (USC-Upstate) -Mike Morrell (UNC-Asheville) -Griff Aldrich (Longwood) -Barclay Radebaugh (Charleston Southern) -Tim Craft (Gardner Webb) -Tubby Smith (High Point)

Coach Will Long shares his journey from playing JV basketball at Reinhardt University to recently being hired as an Assistant Coach at Oglethorpe University. After playing JV basketball at Reinhardt he was moved up to the varsity team as a senior, after graduating he went on to be the Head Coach at multiple high schools - including his alma mater, Howard School. He's spent time coaching at Emmanue...

Coach Adam Kaplan shares his journey from growing up in Florida to working under Keith Dambrot, Rick Pitino, and now Brad Greenberg. A heart condition ended his playing career and he quickly realized his calling - coaching basketball. He’s been up and down the east coast as well as coaching internationally. He’s currently on staff with Mets de Guaynabo in Puerto Rico. Coach Adam Kaplan is one of t...

Coach Dwight Thorne II shares his journey from growing up in Texas to having a stellar career at Colorado, playing professionally - and now as a college basketball coach. He was a standout at Colorado under Ricardo Patton and Jeff Bzdelik before embarking on a professional basketball playing career in Germany, the NBA Development League, Athens, and then Croatia. Brian Gregory hired him as a Gradu...

Coach Tyrone Nesby shares his journey from JUCO to UNLV and eventually to the NBA. He shares how his JUCO experience impacted his career and what it was like to led UNLV to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since Coach Tarkanian led the Runnin' Rebels to the Final Four against Duke. After going undrafted he played in the CBA and eventually signed with the LA Clippers. He was on the team while...

Coach Donny Lind shares his journey from attempting to walk on at Loyola Maryland to becoming one of the highly touted up-and-coming coaches in NCAA Division 1. He was a Student Manager under Jimmy Patsos at Loyola Maryland before being hired as a Graduate Assistant at VCU under Shaka Smart. Coach Lind was eventually promoted to Video Coordinator, while at VCU they had unprecedented success winnin...

Coach Chris Richardson shares his journey from growing up in West Virginia to spending 10+ years as a D2 Assistant Coach, and finally returned to West Virginia to be the Head Coach at Wheeling University. He didn't take the typical Manager route, he covered the men's basketball team for the newspaper and helped out at Fairmont State while being a student at West Virginia University. Coach Richards...

Coach Bob Starkman shares his journey from growing up in New York to becoming a United States Customs agent for over two decades as well as being a highly successful college basketball coach. He shares how his life experiences led him to become a federal agent and how it helped him be successful college basketball coach. Coach Starkman recently released a book "Inside Both Courts" where he talks a...

Coach Mason Padgett shares his journey from coaching youth basketball while he was in HS to coaching a 5 start on ESPN2. For someone under 30 years old he's probably coached more talent than coached who've coached for 30 years might ever coach, while running cross country at Catawba he also was an Assistant Coach for the men's basketball team under Jim Baker. After serving as an Assistant Coach fo...

Coach Ernie Nestor shares his journey from growing up in West Virginia to being a NCAA D1 basketball coach for over 50 years! The West Virginia native talks about how he got in start as a high school coach before breaking into the college ranks at James Madison University. Wake Forest hired him (for the first of three stints) and he coached Muggsy Bogues before moving across the country to coach a...

Coach Jen Hoover talks about growing up in Virginia, being a Hall of Fame basketball player at Wake Forest, and eventually becoming the Head Coach of her alma mater! Her journey has taken her from coast to coast and multiple time zones, she talks about getting married an the sacrifices that were made to make the marriage work. Coach Hoover also shares what it's like to just be "Mom" to her daughte...

Coach Steve Hardin shares his journey from growing up as the son of a successful HS basketball coach to becoming the Head Coach at Lees-McRae College. Despite being a diehard North Carolina Tar Heels fan, he's become a fixture in the small college basketball landscape. He has been at Lees-McRae for ten years, previously Coach Hardin has been a coach on both the men's and women's side, including th...

Coach Mike Muse shares his coaching journey from growing up in Winston Salem to coaching at App State, returning to coach high school hoops in his hometown before and after his time coaching at Wake Forest. The Muse family is synonymous with coaching high school basketball in the state of North Carolina, Mike Muse talks about his coaching influences, having success coaching multiple sports at the...

Coach Patrice Days shares his journey from growing up in Baltimore to moving multiple times, coaching at multiple schools at multiple levels. After cutting his teeth at New Orleans he moved to Charlotte where he was their Director of Player Development. Despite being at the NCAA DI level he decided to move to Florida and coach high school basketball. He coached at Arlington Country Day School and...