Beyond the Box Score Podcast

Coach Brian Eskildsen shares his coaching journey from playing JV basketball at WT Woodson High School to becoming the top Assistant Coach at Harvard. Brian grew up in Fairfax, VA and attended WT Woodson High School where he was cut from the freshman team, led the JV team in scoring, and then was cut from the varsity team. After graduating in 2005 he attended Tennessee and tried to walk-on the tea...

Coach Chuck Henry shares his journey from growing up in the DMV area and how basketball has taken him around the world and now is the Head Coach of the Fairmont Heights Hornets (2017 Maryland 1A State Champions). Coach Henry grew up in the DMV and excelled at multiple sports, he ended up going to Morris College and then transferring to Barton College where he played under the legendary Ron Lievens...

Coach Chris Cottrell shares his coaching journey from growing up in New York to becoming a NCAA basketball coach and now being back in New York  and running his own HS basketball program. Chris is the son of a coach, and always knew that he wanted to coach basketball at some level. He attended High Point University and became a Student Manager under Bart Lundy during his first season at HPU....

Coach Ryan Saunders shares his coaching journey from growing up in Florida to becoming the first HC is the history of Converse College's men's basketball program. After a successful high school playing career,  he attended Barry University and was a three-year captain, helping led them to their first-ever NCAA Division II tournaments appearances. Ryan finished as the all-time assist leader at...

Coach Nate Loesner shares his journey from growing up in Cedar Falls, Iowa to eventually being an Assistant Coach for the Chicago Bulls. Nate was born without his left hand, but he never let than hinder his love of sports. He went on to earn 11 varsity letters in four sports during his playing days at NU High School. After meeting Tim Floyd at a summer camp, he stayed in touch and decided to atten...

Coach Will Martin shares his journey from growing up in Tennessee and going to Kentucky and eventually becoming a Student Manager at UK under John Calipari. He was a part of teams that reached the Elite 8 on three occasions, the Final Four on two occasions and during his time as the Head Manager - the 2012 National Championship! Coach Martin also served as captain of the University of Kentucky Eth...

Coach Brandt Danals shares his coaching journey from growing up in a "canoe town" [Loudounville, OH] and now being on the coaching staff at North Alabama. He played at Ashland University (D2) under the late Roger Lyons before becoming a Student Assistant under him. After Coach Lyons retired, John Ellenwood was hired and Brandt met with him and expressed a desire to play again so he suited up his s...

Coach Corey Schmidt shares his journey from growing up in Nashville to becoming a becoming an Assistant Coach at Southwest Mississippi CC. He got his start as a Student Manager and then Graduate Assistant under the legendary Rick Byrd at Belmont. After Belmont he accepted an unpaid position at the University of New Orleans and eventually was the paid Director of Basketball Operations during his fo...

Coach Cabral Huff shares his journey from growing up in Atlanta to becoming a Head Coach at Voorhees College (NAIA). He attended Morehouse and then coached high school basketball at multiple schools. He talks about how he learned to block out the JV game afterwards so he was able to devote all of this attention and effort to the Varsity game that followed. After becoming a Head Coach at Cedartown...

Coach Ronnie Hamilton shares his story from being a football player at Duke to becoming an Assistant Coach at Ole Miss. Following his NFL training camp experience with the New York Giants he coached multiple sports at the high school level before accepting a Graduate Assistant position at UNC Pembroke. Upon finishing his Master's degree he accepted an Assistant Coach position at Tarleton State (th...

Chris Sause shares his journey from growing up in Durham, North Carolina to becoming an Assistant Coach at Averett University (D3). He played alongside Jay Huff (University of Virginia) in high school and knew early on that he wanted to be a coach, he attended North Carolina Wesleyan and played under John Thompson while also serving as an intern and Administrative Assistant for the team during his...

Coach Tim Sparks shares his journey from not playing HS basketball to becoming a college basketball Head Coach! He talks about growing up in Virginia Beach and his experience as a white male attending a local HBCU (Norfolk State). Coach Sparks has been at the D1, JUCO, D3 and HS levels and still teaches during the day and still manages to work full time hours at The Apprentice School. He genuinely...

Jason Eaker is the Head Coach at Oklahoma Baptist University and he shares his coaching journey. He started off playing for five different Head Coaches during his playing career at multiple colleges. Upon graduation he reunited with the Bob Hoffman - the Head Coach who recruited him to play for him at OBU. He served as his Video Coordinator at Texas Pan-America before going with him to be on staff...

Coach Trevor Dorsey shares his journey from growing up in West Virginia to becoming the Head Coach at Peninsula Catholic HS in Newport News, Virginia. He attended Marshall University and earned both his bachelors and masters degree from there. We talk about how we met while I was recruiting a player he coached back in 2018, and how he's gone about building his program into a program that has incre...

Coach Brett Ferguson shares his coaching journey and how he ended up in Cullowhee, NC coaching at Western Carolina University. In September he was promoted to an Assistant Coach after spending the previous two seasons as WCU’s Director of Basketball Operations. He got his start in the business as a Student Manager at Michigan State University under Tom Izzo. Coach Ferguson was a was a part of back...

Coach Shawn James is the DOBO at Eastern Washington (NCAA D1) and shares his journey from playing HS in Texas before becoming a student-athlete at The University of Redlands (NCAA D3) before embarking on a coaching career. He coached at Dallas Christian College (NCCAA) and then worked the camp circuit before accepting an Player Development internship with the Dallas Mavericks where he became fluen...

Coach Craig shares his journey from growing up in Bethlehem, PA to becoming a State Championship winning HC in Virginia. He attended Lehigh University for his undergrad and then received his Master's degree before moving to the Washington DC area. Coach In 2000 he began teaching at WT Woodson High School in Fairfax Virginia and joined Mike Pflugrath's coaching staff the following season. When Coac...

Coach Kevon Davis shares his journey from JUCO player to D1 Assistant Coach. We talk about how we the NABC Coach's Convention in San Antonio during the Final Four in 2018 and talk about his playing and coaching career. He's entering his 1st season on staff at Maryland Eastern Shore after spending the 2019-20 season at Indian Hills Community College. The team went 30-3 and were Region XI and Distri...

Coach Scott Greenman shares his journey from player to coach. He was a All-Ivy League player at Princeton before embarking on a professional playing career for B'nei Ha'sharon in Israel. Coach Greenman then became a coach at his alma mater and was named HC of the U.S.A. U-18 Maccabiah Team in 2009. After Princeton he moved down to DC to be on staff at Georgetown and then at American University. He...

Coach Davis shares his journey from coaching HS and AAU basketball and then college basketball. His energy, passion, and work ethic are some of the best in the business. He is highly motivated even authored his own book as well as a brand. He worked a various HS programs prior to getting into the JUCO ranks - and made quite a name for himself in the recruiting aspect of coaching! Coach Davis has r...

Coach Bialkoski is the Director of Basketball Operations at the University of Maryland. He started his coaching journey as a Student Manager at Georgia Southern before being promoted to Head Student Manager under Jeff Price. From there he moved onto UNC Charlotte where he started off as a Graduate Manager under Bobby Lutz and remained on staff as the Program Assistant then DOBO under Coach Alan Ma...

David Muchnick shares his unique coaching journey. Growing up in New York he fell in love with basketball and went on to play at SUNY Genesco before embarking on a college basketball coaching career that has span over 15 years. He started off as a Graduate Assistant at SUNY Cortland and was on staff there from 2005-2008. After SUNY Cortland he moved onto to Denison University in Ohio for two years...

Coach Thompson shares his journey from HS Assistant Coach to coaching in the ACC, SoCon, SAC and Sunshine State Conference prior to becoming a the Head Coach of a NCAA Men's Basketball program. He's worked under Mike Madagan, Ben Miller, Seth Greenberg, Josh Schertz, Duggar Baccum, and Mike Dement over the course of his career. Coach Thompson has coached at the NCAA D1, D2, and D3 levels in additi...

Coach Griggs shares his journey from playing D3 basketball at Centre College to becoming the 1st Head Coach in the history of Mary Baldwin University's Men's Basketball program. After concluding his college basketball playing career he became a Graduate Assistant under Pat Kelsey at Winthrop. After completing his term as GA he was retained as the Video Coordinator and remained there until Clay Nun...

Coach Kevin Carroll shares his coaching journey. He's currently an Assistant Coach at Lipscomb after spending two seasons as an AC at Virginia Military Institute. He has nearly twenty years of coaching experience, including ten seasons as a head coach at the collegiate and high school levels. During his time at VMI, the Keydets showed marked improvement, nearly doubling their win total over a two-...