Gregg Marshall (5-1-20)

Time Steve Forbes was an assistant on our next guest staff that man is Wichita State head coach Greg Marshall and coat. I appreciate your time but I'm looking at your recruiting class right now with the shockers and I see Jaden Seymour from Charlotte, I see Ricky counsel the fourth from Durham. You know this area well dating back to your days at Winthrop so I guess how annoyed are you that you're gonna have to recruit against your old friend to get kids around here knows regular more difficult to be less guys falling through the cracks. Sure, but you you you you got now have a brinks of talent and to even deacons and I think Steve went pretty quickly. I know that there's a lot of of rebuilding the figure have to do, especially next year, but in short order. I think Steve will have her back really winning lotto games I read Steve saying a few months ago that being hired at Wichita State. After the show cause changed his life. What do you remember about hiring him out of the Jew go ranks right after you guys went to the final four and 13 well, the fact that I was able to do that. Go to file for really never have any coaches are having problems.

Whatnot, Steve had some problems there to see Bruce Pearl and when we did our due diligence we found out what we were able to discover that Steve really didn't have much to do with that and in the end it was. He told the NCA, Woody happened and then messed up when the head coach got Aaron was able to say something different so that was kind of the problem there and really was small issue was Aaron craft the player yet for Ohio State are yeah and we had actually just played in the East West regional finals against aircraft Ohio State to go to the final four 2013 so we were very familiar with them, but in the end it wasn't a big deal. Steve did what he did he do this to your show cause and I do the type person that he was an equality basketball coach was a better man is better family guy just got a good one without having the ability to recruit Jew, which is something he had to do in East Tennessee State and is not to be able to do at a private school like Wake Forest. What is it about Steve that gives you confidence.

He's gonna be able to adapt here with the digs well that career is Texas A&M Billy Gillespie probably had run Texas A&M that all the other goes to the C: the high watermark that all ladder up with your guys will bring staff that Tennessee will take that for us the first year of 35 a hero started season and he had a big part in that he builds relationships with people lately like to help them. He's very, very likable and because of those things he's able to get in with players and and they want to play foreman they wanted go to his school and and then once you very just a very fine basketball coach so please keep people in positions where they could be successful. He is a very easy guy to like we've learned that over the last 24 hours.

When LB enjoyed were being joined by Greg Marshall Wichita State head coach, you have the video yesterday of him spiking a medical facemask into the practice gym floor getting people fired up and then at the press conference today.

He's just dropping lines that are funny and telling stories, so I got enough really I define the rest of this interview for just telling Steve Ford stories more than anything else.

What's the funniest thing you've ever seen him do to lighten the mood. You know I can't really identify one thing, but the unassuming guy, very comfortable in his own skin.

I think the story where for two years. He literally drove a moped to work at Northwest Florida as opposed it didn't have a car yet even own a car because all those years at Texas A&M in Tennessee. He drove a courtesy car will valleys and juke away and we had to get those cars back to the dealers so he literally drove a snow too much in Florida but in rain And Mary Drives That Moped Took to Working Back Every Single Day. So I Think That Just Shows You What Kind of Guy You're Getting Me Very Unassuming Not Going Just Keyboard That I Really Enjoy His Tenure There in Winston-Salem to Be the Story Where He Recruited a Kid That You Didn't Think You Were Going to Be Able to Land, but with His Charm with This Personality.

He Got It Done on Your Staff Well. He Actually Would Help Recruit Two Players Were Very, Very Fine Players for after the Left and Became the Head Coach at East Tennessee State the First One Marcus McDuffie Letter for Your Career Source Is Now Close, but He Was a Borderline Top 100 Player at a New Jersey and Steve Helped Us Land Him but the One That You May Recognize Because He's in the NBA Is Landry Sham. It Guided We Been Recruiting Prior to Steve Being on the Staff. Steve Comes in and Kinda Take the Bull by the Horns with Kids Recruitment and Really Develops a Great Relationship with the Mom and the Kid in the Grandma, Grandpa and All I Had to Do Was Go in and Close the Deal, but Steve Had a Great Position and We Got Him over Offers Missouri, Illinois, Case Stay in Colorado so That Was a Very Good Get through Us and He Proved to Be a Wonderful Player and Is Now in His Second or Third Year of the NBA Season. It Was Just Cut Short during the Process in Which Steve Forbes Was Being Considered. Did You Hear from Wake Forest Today Speak to You John Curry Note Did Not Talk to John Curry. He Did Not Reach out to Me. I Did Hear from Steve a Couple Times.

We Talked about the Pros and Cons of Making This Move. If He Had the Opportunity and You Know He Had a Great Thing Going in East Tennessee State Making Really Good Money They Love Them There As They Should've Produced a Winner Every Year and They Probably Had His Best Team Returning Next Year so It Was a Easy Decision Is A Lot Of Those People Gave Them an Opportunity to Be a Division I Head Coach and He Was Very Happy. They Are so Obviously He Made the Choice after Being Given the Opportunity by John Curry and I Think It's a Great Move and I'm Looking Forward to Seeing Steve No Go Toe to Toe with Some of the Heavyweights There in the ACC in North Carolina Based on the Conversations You've Had with Steve. What Do You Think It Was That Excited Him the Most about Wake Forest. We Heard so Much from the Deck. What Stood out to You about the Thing He Kept Going Back to What Excited You Know Just the Fact That It Is in the ACC in Its Own Tobacco Road and Every Everybody Even Steve Man from Iowa I'm from South Carolina so I'm More Familiar with but Everybody Knows the Reputation of of the ACC It's It's Great Basketball and Always Has Been, and He's Excited about Now You Know Going in and Instead of the West Millers at UNC Greensboro and the Bob Richie's Experiment to Get the No Go Head-To-Head with Roy Williams and Kevin Keats and Mike Sharansky and Tony Bennett Is Very Excited about That.

Two More Quick Housekeeping Notes Got Greg Marshall with Us Your Head Coach of the Wichita State Shockers Can We Expect Wichita State Winston-Salem Meeting or Vice Versa. Wake Forest Coming to Your House, It's Possible You Would Play We've Always Tried to Get Home in Homes with the Big Boys and This This Coming Year.

We Got Oklahoma State Oklahoma Falls off after Four Years We Have Baylor Recently We Had Alabama We Had Tennessee Recut Utah. We Got This Year I Think Were Starting a Home and Home with Very and so It's Possible I Would Love I Would Love That to Bring Those North Carolina Kids That We Have Received Counsel from Government Jane Seymour from Charlotte Bring Back to North Carolina to Play Soap Something That Will Talk about in Bring It up Right Now Because Obviously He Knows and I Know That This Could Be Some Rebuilding with with the Deacons but She Can Get Some Players. They Probably Shouldn't Get Here in the Next Couple Weeks.

Sure, He'd Already Made Some Contacts with Players That He Knew about. So Even Though the Talent Pool Right Now Is down Just Sheer Numbers Are down on the Roster, It Won't Take Very Long for Him to Get a Go. You've Always Had A Lot Of Scary Teams the Last Few Years.

Last Decade Going of Course to the Final Four and I Mean Fred VanFleet We Saw What He Was Doing with the Toronto Raptors. This Most Recent Season You Mentioned McDuffie Clean Anthony Early. The List Goes on. Landry Sham As You Talked about, but I Think the Teams Also Scary Because You Got This Intimidating Mascot That I Would Say Is One of the Scariest Things out There, but the Demon Deacon Is Often Called Scary As Well. So What Does Greg Marshall Think Is Scarier. The Thing That Is Lurking in the Corner of Your Gym or What Winston-Salem Seen for Decades. The Demon Deacon Well Wichita State Shocker Literally Just a Curious Clinical How They Would Cut the Week so I Would Have To Give Him the Edge over the Demon Deacon Does Have a Very Nice Popout Bowtie Stapled to His Chin As Well. I Got Asked This As Well Because It's Somehow a Place That We Stumbled in in the Last Few Hours, Greatest Will Ferrell Movie Are You Will Come.

Are You a Comedy Guy Anchorman Stepbrother Absolutely Love It. Love Anchorman. One of My Favorite Movies Will Fail Back When We Were at the Finals for Getting Ready to Play against Louisville in the Final Four. My Son and Daughter Were in the Stands with My Wife, and They See Will Ferrell about 20 Feet from Them. Of Course, in the Great Seats for the Final Four and My Wife Doesn't Stalker or Do Anything with the Movie Stars You Have Never Really Starstruck. She Was Starstruck about Will Ferrell with the Family Love Him and His Movies and His Saturday Night Live Sketches so They the Three of Them Walked down and They Tapped Him on the Shoulder and My Wife Says Hi. I'm Lynn Marshall. My Husband Is Greg Marshall. He Coaches the Shockers and Get Ready to Play That Gem Right There I Will Fill Goes Really Doesn't and Literally Start a Comedy Routine with My Wife an Impromptu and Denies That She Is the Husband of the Wife of the Coach about the Coach the Game and All It Was Hilarious. After We Lost the Game and out You Know Shed A Few Tears That Lighten the Mood. When They Told Me the Story of Literally Running into Will Ferrell and Becoming Part of His Got an LLC Coach K's Told Us in the past That He Was like a Teenage Girl When in the Presence of Beyoncé like His Face Got All Red, and He Was Embarrassed, Your Wife Doesn't Nudge Celebrities but Had the Knowledge Will Ferrell Who Was That Person for Greg Marshall. Oh Man, I Don't Know You and Starstruck Word Comes to Wichita to Get His Plane Worked on so We Met Him a Couple of Times and Had a Drink with Him so I Think It Would Be, Will I Think Would Have To Be Her Support Man. You've Done a Great Job in This Area and I Hope Something to Put Together with Steve Forbes Being Here Now You Can Play in the Joel Some Time.

I Look Forward to Watching Your Team When You Visit East Carolina Next – Appreciate You Spending Time Here in the Triad It's Appreciated. Thank You so Much. You Guys Are Really Going to Have Embraced This Guy Now Sees Me Moving Faster and He's Going to Get Things Done and That It Is Quite a Rebuild Right Now with All the Players in the Transfer Portal and Whatnot but This Time Next Year. I Think You're Going to Be Very Happy with the Direction of the Program Was under Steve Forbes and Becoming Beautiful Family and Just Embrace All of Their Wonderful People. That's Is Really Cool It Greg Marshall Come on to Talk about His Former Assistant That Is the Head Coach of the Wichita State Shockers Joining Us All the Way from Wichita