Jay Bilas Interview

Contingency plan to take a great contingency factor and serious accident last week. I do feel like enough attention is being paid to the viability of the college football season this fall. Now college hoops isn't that much farther down the road, so we welcome in ESPN's day billets to the show date at times appreciated as always, I look for sheer numbers in college football's at BS you're talking about 130 schools and roughly a dozen games per multiply that by three in the number of games by three and that's what you're looking at for D1 basketball and it's a sport that's played inside so do you.

Is there any possible way without a vaccine. We can have college basketball. I don't know. I think we care. We haven't have a discussion about what risk were willing to undertake. Who is willing to undertake it and what metrics are used like how many positives what if you have an entire team that needs to be quarantined. What you do you, how you deal with those those particular issues and I've been frankly very disappointed in the leadership of all college sports, not just the blade with the different conferences that they've got access to some of the world's greatest minds that infectious disease any sort of medical error.

You want and they say well we got this this panel of experts or where's the information flows expert.

Why isn't that being shared publicly. It should be and how these universities are publicly funded, and so many cases, almost all of them are a take public funds both state role and I think that establishes the public trust and if they have information as to your October 19 whether we should play things like that. We should know about it and not and I don't think me, we should learn about the decisions 130 may I think we should know what process goes along to Jane what you make of the pretty positive stats that are coming out of these college football programs where over the last month they've been able to kind of build the bubble on campus before students return where Oklahoma doesn't have any positive test, Notre Dame etc. etc. do you have any level of confidence that you can maintain some sort of a bubble. If students are allowed to return to campus.

I don't know why I think it can be very difficult euros difficult doing it with with major-league baseball. Look what going out with the Marlins right now and in it we haven't had that sort of discussion about if that happened to the college out we deal with that. But it seems like the community spread were saying is just a similar thing in college sports or do we know how we can handle the others an argument to be made to your point that if you have players on campus but don't have students on campus at the players might be safer than they would be otherwise are fair points to be made, but given the rhetoric of the blade that these are students and extracurricular activity that is an application which meets on like being in the band are being the school players that will than I have in any of those things all there really going to have his football and in one once we get the November my guesses will will have basketball give it a very good effort because it has been like nobody is saying leave the these players deserve the educational experience of playing all the wonderful lesson about money. They need the money and and so this is this is an updated claim under their unit do it. You know, putting people's lives at risk for money, died but make no mistake everywhere doing all this for the month I spoken to a number of officials from ACC schools over the last few months about the announcement when we were all in Greensboro from the NCAA that they working to have any fans at NCAA tournament events right before everything got shut down and the disappointment from the officials were asked him did not. They were not clued in before everything was made publicly that that was going to be the decision. They were a part of that conversation at all and were seeing some conversations breakdown among power five commissioners as well. They bait they talk essentially everyday but none of them seem to know that the Big Ten was was only going to go to nonconference arches may conference only games of football a few weeks ago.

How broken do you think the trust is between the NCAA with Mark Dimmer but also the other leaders you were speaking about as well. The commissioners at the very top of sport communicate clearly and effectively prepare competitors through it out so that there there only get to work together so much because they have their own interests in their own their own members to deal with the disappointment with the NCAA structure, leadership not just of Mark Emmert issue that's been going on for hundred plus years system and then when you combine it with substandard leadership. Now these problems and really it's not an issue of what NCAA president with Mark Emmert or somebody else what what that person has authority over the question of using that office to coordinate so that you have responses and you have decisions that are not made independent of one another because I do agree that look at the assembly line flat in March and and I believe that you know, rightfully so, that there was a lot going on to be made pretty quickly. Data points were changing and they decided that they didn't want to do the normal process where you know a decision might get bogged down by haven't run it up the flagpole with every everybody in the organization. I get that but they needed to communicate the cocker Commissioner should not of found out that stuff through the through normal channels, which are together through the media they should've known and the optics of the ACC and others playing their games on what that Wednesday night with Anthony right after the plate that they'll be no paragraph made everybody look look foolish. I think it's a real problem that you don't hear anything from from the NCAA for Mark Emmert. Even though he may not be able to force anybody into something I do think that office being able to use that office to say the right thing. You know the right thing is to do this this and this right thing is to postpone the right thing is to cancel both wherever it is during that giving example Emmert testified before before congressional committee assignment. The Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Last Wednesday and and in that committee.

He was asked by Sen. Blumenthal what his opinion of students being assess our athletes being asked to sign waivers to play ball to play football and he said he was categorically opposed.

Well, why did it take Sen. Blumenthal asking him not to say that all these schools of been having their athletes sign these waivers. The Buckeye pledge all these other other ridiculous things.

The calling of ridiculous things with her waivers and what why did he say that publicly.

Why do you have to wait till he was cornered by some some Sen. in a hearing where they're asking for an antitrust exemption. I just thought you that.

That's just the absence of leadership. There where you're not using that office to make your voice heard on something that important you do it you do it when when you're cornered and I don't think that's the right way to do it and similarly without with coded I think there are opportunities for the AA which claims to be about it, help it got the guts of the top research institutions of the world as members and why aren't those why are there. Their findings, their opinions, what, why, yes, publicly goes out to the public a mistake not it's ESPN's Jay bill is here with us on sports and triad. I do want to transition things to basketball as: Anthony. He is getting set to the MBA. You of course. In addition to all your college basketball duties.

You are also responsible for the NBA draft as well and covering how these guys are going to translate from college ball to the MBA San Vicente put out a story last week for the athletic which pulled a bunch of coaches anonymously to give their analysis on coal and it seems this is Sam's words that he is maybe the most polarizing prospect in this draft. I don't know if he was hurt for coming back to a team that already had its flaws, and he was dealing with injuries to but what do you make of: Anthony as an MBA prospect where he stands right now… Now you may go 15 or something like that that happens every year you that he's a legit top prospect and North Carolina had a rough year.

Those things tend to rub off on the best player and in place yet yet injury throughout the year you heard from the very beginning. But when he played, and when he was healthy he played well so I have no no no problem with them. I can't read what I've got it right eight among all prospect, whatever it is, the top five before the season started, so it's not like you set up a big drop but some people mock where they say okay even the low 20s or whatever it is very very tell player and and I think you can have a very good MBA career who's at the very top of that list) of Memphis, James Wiseman's at the top and he's a guy who obviously was in a tough situation as well decided to to forgo the rest of the season with Memphis and do you think that's he's your best prospect you would you be surprised if he was at the number one pick. Considering where the MBAs headed away from back to the basket away from the big man not really back to about player he can do that but he cannot step away and they're not going away from guys that was seven applicant run read… And impact the game the way you can I would be surprised if he was the second character.

The third would be shocked if that is not one of those years where it's a complete no-brainer by there?

About every player at the top of the strap as to whether that player should be number one is not definitive like it is in some years where you go okay you know Lebron this type years is not the best rapper you ever see there are a lot of really good prospects of life lesson for you Jay. Bill is here from ESPN yesterday marked the 13 year anniversary of skip processors, passing obviously a really big deal in these parts, and I'd argue, one of the biggest what is an ACC basketball history where Wake Forest would be today if he was continuing to coach the geeks considering the recruiting and the success that he had in his years with the Demon deacons when you think about Coach Prosser and what made him unique. What goes through your mind immediately person he was mentally a great coach is a wonderful person and I got to know him when he was the head coach Xavier and we became good friends and when he took the Wake Forest job. I was very pleased for him.

It's early for Wake Forest and I think I was a week before he passed it.

Coaches versus Cancer about that I posted for him at wake and and I still remember finding out about about his passing and not still not being able to believe in him is been 13 years though really fresh to me like a Leica that was so recent as to still be so stinging was the teacher and in a high school teacher educator, yet he was. He was as likely to quote philosopher poet be quoted below or something before you quote John wooden there Dean Smith or something like that. He was always about education. More than anything, but he is also an amazing competitor but but had his priorities in order and and sort of understood what everything was about and had his head screwed on right which is not true of all of us. See you you're pretty bright guy J but I have to imagine that he also maybe taught you a few words as well. I always hear about his vocabulary as it always comes up with a lot of people. One of those things where you can talk with them without ruthless our conversation wasn't like that, but you very well read and you know you always spend a lot of time you want to lunch.

You were just to talk about about basketball to be a lot of other things that he was he was very aware of his surroundings, but is also very aware of other people's feelings and sort of, but there was more to this know when I had I done him a favor exactly what was at that. He tried to pay me and I would take it and let that some school pay me to speak as well. You know you gotta) you send your kid to camp my camp and I talked to my wife about it. Like our adult and my wife and young to go to my camp to get to that difficult and I got it.

You bring them to my father-son Father's Day weekend and I can't help my boy was. We went to the father-son camp there and my boy came back and he was so he was all in with wake and it was the year after year. He thought Chris Paul and Justin greater weight for his best friends after that Those guys all worked at and how he was he was all about. Wake wake fantasy is that that the Mets get the Next year. I think it was the next year.

Wake Forest was playing on the road at Illinois week was number one Illinois number two or three in Illinois drilled Wake Forest emulate. They beat the hell out of and I think wake was down by 31.50 at that game and they were as good as anybody. And so after the game. The first thing skip that was Hauser that I such as Anthony and I said what you do not want to talk to my wife is crying his eyes out over the loss and not long after I had Anthony with me again you know and and so skip grab them and starts whispering in his ear and in the later on I was driving home with my son Coach Prosser say to you what the game when he whispered here. Don't worry about the Illinois game. I cried after that you does that, you know that my boy windup winds up planet with walk on when he when he got mother sent the cinema. Note about how happy she was over she remember all that stuff so that was really really neat. Only need connections even after Skip's pattern.

The extraordinary got what I had a chance to get to know that I always love hearing stories like that and appreciate your sharing with us in joining us today a lot of stuff that we don't know answers to hopefully we get them sometime soon. J.

Bellis, I hope you're safe up in the Queen city and that we can catch up sometime soon. Looking forward to… Stay Bellis joining us from ESPN – this is such great stuff there on skip Prosser. This doesn't seem like the greatest transition but to go from that great story to an embarrassing story involving me yesterday like Robert. He looked at me with such shame the way that your your dad or mom looked at you when you messed up as a kid. For the first time and they said they were disappointed in you that have been the me and I'll explain why. Next