The Rebound: Real Stories of Leadership, Resilience, and Long-Term Success

This week Coach Doherty interviews Tim Doyle. Tim is a former All-Big Ten basketball player at Northwestern. He grew up playing basketball at the highest level in New York City and was featured in the book “Asphalt Gods” about his outstanding play at the famed Rucker Park in Harlem. Doyle has called games for CBS, the Big Ten Network and ESPN and appears regularly on the SportsLine show on CBS Spo...

This week Coach Doherty interviews Paul J. Farrell, Chair Emeritus and Founding Member of the Bobby Jones CSF. The Chiari and Syringomyelia Foundation is a non profit organization founded in 2007, ultimately chagning the name in 2019 to the Bobby Jones Chiari and Syringomyelia Foundation.  Chiari malformations adversely affect over 3 million Americans. In the short time that the Foundation has foc...

This week Coach Doherty interviews former Duke basketball and NBA legend Mike Gminski. Mike is a college basketball TV analyst for teh ACC and CBS Sports. He played 4 seasons with th eDuke Blue Devlis, from 1977 to 1980. He led the team in scoring both junior and senior seasons. He was ACC Rookie of the Year and then firs tteam All ACC the next three years. He was ACC Player of the Year in 1979. A...

Kash   Patel  is an American attorney and former government official. He served as a U.S. National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense during the Trump presidency. A member of the Republican Party,  Patel  previously worked as a senior aide to congressman Devin Nunes when he c...

This week Coach Doherty talks with author Seamus Bruner. Seamus is the Associate Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI). He has worked with Peter Schweizer since June 2011 and with GAI since January 2013 providing research & support for numerous New York Times best-sellers. That research has been featured on the front page of top publications like New York Times,...

Kevin Corrigan is the current and 2x national champion American lacrosse head coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's lacrosse team. Kevin is the longest active tenured coach in men's lacrosse at the Division I level and is widely respected and revered by his peers. Coach Corrigan is the recipient of the 2001 Great Western Lacrosse League Coach of the Year award. Also in 2009, he r...

In this episode, Coach Doherty talks with  former President of the Nashville Superspeedway, and current CEO of the Fiesta Bowl, Erik Moses. Erik is an educated and accomplished C-Suite executive and attorney with expertise in sports, entertainment, live events and hospitality industries. Erik has a distinguished career and proven track record of team building, operational management and industry a...

This week Coach Doherty interviews Hall Of Fame basketball pioneer Nancy Lieberman. "Lady Magic" is a former player and WNBA Coach who is currently a broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA and the Coach of the "Power" a team in the Big3 summer league she took to a Championship in 2018. Nancy is considered one of the greatest figures in basketball history. She was...

Steve Phelps has served as President of Nascar since 2018. Phelps oversees all operations, competition and partnerships for the sanctioning body, including the management of 15 racetrack facilities and the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) sports car series.  Under Phelps’ leadership, NASCAR has transformed its business and strengthened the sport’s position for long-term growth and suc...

In this episode, Coach Doherty reconnects with his former UNC college teammate, James Worthy. James played his entire professional career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA. Worthy was a seven-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Team member who won three NBA championships and was voted the NBA Finals MVP in 1988. He was named to both the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. As a small...

Michale Kidd Gilchrist was born in Philadelphia and was recognized as one of the best players in America attending St Patrick High School in 2010 with Kyrie Irving in New Jersey. He attended Kentucky and in his first season led the team to a national championship, then declared for the NBA draft. He was drafted #2 and played 10 years in Charlotte. He has a stutter and has embarked on a national st...

In this episode, Coach Doherty talks with American patriot, Pedro Israel Orta. Pedro is a Miami-born son of Cuban immigrants who fled the tyranny of Fidel Castro’s communism. He is a CIA and Intelligence whistle blower, an ordained minister and an award winning photographer. After receiving Summa Cum Laude from Florida International, Pedro received his Masters from George Washington University and...

This week Matt talks with famous all-pro lineman Harris Barton from the San Francisco 49ers. Harris is a 3x Super Bowl champion. He graduated UNC with a BA in Finance and became a fund manager after a distinguished career in San Francisco with the 49ers. Harris experienced some extraordinary setbacks with the collapse of the stack market in 2009 which required him to make many changes to overcome...

Coach Doherty has lots to be proud of in a basketball career that includes a national championship as a player and an AP Coach of the Year award as head coach at North Carolina. But even so many years later, Coach traces some of his motivation to a small interaction he had with a teammate when deciding where to go to college. Coach's path from this moment proved to be both a smart one, and on...

The path to success is much like any other path in life - it’s non-linear. We take steps forward, but then stumble backwards. However, it’s how we recover from those stumbles that reveals who we truly are. Before founding Girls on the Run, a non-profit organization that serves young women through physical activity, and receiving the Point of Light award from President Barack Obama, Molly Barker fa...

You can have as much talent as you want. All the All-Stars with the biggest names and the most credentials. Every bit of talent in the world won’t help you, however, if you don’t have a strong culture. In today’s solo episode of The Rebound Podcast, host Matt Doherty talks about how to build the foundations of a winning culture. Drawing from his years of experience coaching basketball at a high le...

No matter what level of success you reach in your leadership journey, you can always get knocked down. Oftentimes for leaders, the bigger the title, the greater potential for a much harder fall. As a leader, however, it’s your mandate to show grace, humility and dignity in your lowest moments. From 2009 through 2013, Tim Pernetti was the Athletic Director at his alma mater Rutgers University, and...

Every basketball player who’s stepped on the court in an open gym or the hot unforgiving blacktop knows how important it is to win games and hold court. If your team won, you’d get to stay on the court and challenge the next group. But if you lost, that meant you had to sit out for at least one game, and maybe more depending on how many other teams were waiting. And the feeling of losing sat deep...

Athletes, especially those at the top of their game, are generally regarded as physically gifted people that can perform feats that most of us only dream about. Running, jumping, catching and more are all common traits of the best athletes, and it’s how many of them define themselves and their lives.   So what happens when an athlete is stripped of their ability to walk?   In 1981, Joe Reto was co...

When Michael Jordan reinvested in North Carolina by buying a majority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats (as they were known at the time), he knew he had to have a leadership team around him that he could trust. That's why he brought in one of his good friends and business partners, Fred Whitfield. In his 17 years as the leader of the Hornets, Fred oversaw the return of the Hornets brand and imag...

Rarely in professional sports does a player, coach or even executive get to go out on their own terms. Few people know that as well as Coach Doherty, except for today’s guest. From 2001-’09, JP Ricciardi was the General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. After several uninspired years and questionable personnel decisions, Ricciardi was released from Toronto just two days before the end of the 2009...

No matter who you are, addiction and substance abuse can be an unfortunately common force in either your own life or the life of someone close to you. Being in the spotlight, or places of intense scrutiny can only worsen these circumstances.  Today’s guest  on the The Rebound Podcast is Robbie Shaw, a former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player who shares something much deeper than having wor...

ESPN College Basketball Analyst  Jay Bilas stands out amongst his peers as one of the most respected voices in college basketball. A star center on Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s earliest Duke teams in the 1980’s, Jay went on to become a lawyer after his playing days were over. However, his love of college basketball quickly drew him back into the sport as an analyst for ESPN.    Jay sat down with Coach...

Danny Morrison is the Executive Director of the Charlotte Sports Foundation and a long-tenured leader in a variety of positions in the sports world, including Athletic Director of Wofford College (his alma mater), commissioner of the Southern Conference, and President of the Carolina Panthers. Throughout his career, Danny has worked with large and diverse organizations, as well as other high level...

Bob Beaudine is one of the nation’s top executive search professionals. He’s particularly active in the world of sports, having placed Bud Selig as MLB commissioner in 1998 and Deion Sanders as head coach of Colorado football this past year. Sports Illustrated once called him “the most influential man in sports you’ve never heard of.” In 2006, Bob helped place Coach Matt Doherty as the head men’s...