Breaking News! Miami Hurricanes basketball HC Jim Larranaga is stepping down two years after Final Four run.
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00:00Right now, we do have some breaking news right here in the South Florida area.
00:03According to the Miami Herald, we are seeing that UN basketball coach Jim
00:07Laranega to step down just two years after his historic final four run.
00:12Wow, yeah, you know what I would say?
00:18It ain't got nothing to do with him.
00:20Nah, the players.
00:22It's the players, man.
00:26He had all those players, man, and nobody played.
00:29And it's disheartening when you see where college sports is going,
00:37because now kids don't want to learn.
00:41And he's one of the best to do it.
00:44And when they were hungry and there was no NIL, you see how they played, right?
00:49Then soon as everybody started having the attitude, I got to get mine,
00:54then you weren't out there playing as a unit.
00:56You were playing as an individual.
00:59And guys just checked out.
01:02And so I feel bad for college sports when a guy who has put so much effort
01:12and so much work into doing things a certain way and bringing guys together
01:18and giving guys that were playing at universities a chance at success,
01:25how quickly that turned, right?
01:29To where you get an opportunity to come in on your NIL deal or your transfer portal,
01:35you have success.
01:36And then all of a sudden you're thinking,
01:37nah, I got to go get mine when you forget how this all transpired.
01:45Multiple sources say that he is stepping down.
01:47They haven't given any reasons other than the team is pretty bad.
01:51He's turned 75 in October.
01:52He's been coaching for 40 years and he's under contract through the 26-27 season.
01:59Nigel Pack, the only returning player, not starter, player from last year's team.
02:05And you could kind of see when they made that final four run,
02:11then the next year guys kind of...
02:16They all had their own agenda.
02:18They were all thinking about the next step.
02:20They were thinking about the league
02:23and they weren't playing like the team that they were the previous two years.
02:27I think that stands true in sports.
02:31And young college kids should understand this.
02:40If we have success, I have success.
02:43Very rarely are you going to go pluck a 25-point score from a team that wins nine games, right?
02:54We call that, in the business, a looter in the riot.
02:58But you score 25 points a game for a team that goes to the final four.
03:04Now all of a sudden you're a lottery pick.
03:06Same points.
03:08And that's the message that gets lost in all of this,
03:13is that our success equals more success for me.
03:20And that's what's getting lost in college football.
03:23It really...
03:24In college sports.
03:25It really is.
03:27Especially in basketball.
03:29The farther you go in the tournament, the more eyes are on you.
03:33Look at the run.
03:34Does anybody remember the run of Steph Curry?
03:38Did we know who Steph Curry was before Davidson made that run in the...
03:42No.
03:43I was thinking it was Del Curry's son, but that was...
03:45Right.
03:45No.
03:45But you didn't know.
03:46You didn't pay any attention all year until the final tournament.
03:49Right.
03:49You're like, oh, Davidson.
03:51And I don't understand why people don't understand that.
03:57Guess what?
04:01We always talk about Alabama football, but Alabama basketball has stepped up
04:08and they've been playing.
04:09And you've seen more and more guys go to the league from the University of Alabama lately
04:17because of the success that they have had.
04:19Conversely, you see less guys coming from the Blue Blood states in North Carolina, Kentucky,
04:28because they haven't had as much success.
04:33No, you still see some of them.
04:34You still see them, but yeah.
04:36Yeah, they'll never stop churning out NBA players.
04:41Yeah, but not like they used to.
04:43Wait, remember that Villanova run?
04:45How many guys are in the league from that?
04:47How many guys are in the league from that team?
04:50What, four?
04:52Yeah, exactly.
04:54Right, three of them on the next.
04:56Right.
04:58So our success, and especially in basketball, our success does more for my success.
05:09Not my success does more for our success.
05:14And in basketball, that plays out incredibly.
05:18Not as much in football, because I got to tell you,
05:23what's his name that came from Buffalo, the Russian?
05:28Greg Russo?
05:30No, no, no, no, no, no.
05:31Greg Russo.
05:32Are you talking about Khalil Mack?
05:33Khalil Mack.
05:35I'm like, how'd he end up in Buffalo?
05:36No, no, no, you said Russian and Buffalo.
05:38I'm like, oh.
05:39Oh, no, no, no.
05:39I'm talking about University of Buffalo.
05:42Right, right.
05:43I'm thinking to myself, how did he end up at Buffalo?
05:47Right?
05:48Randy Mars ended up at Marshall, but he had, you know, a-
05:51Yeah, there was problems.
05:52There were problems.
05:53Right.
05:53There were problems.
05:54He liked trees.
05:54He broke parole.
05:55He liked trees.
05:56He broke parole.
05:57And he liked trees.
05:58So he broke parole.
05:59But so from that standpoint, yeah, it's a little bit different.
06:03You'll get those guys that are straight ballers that come from smaller schools.
06:08Josh Allen came from, what, Wyoming?
06:10Yep.
06:11Um, Carson Wentz?
06:14North Dakota State.
06:16Yeah, you had-
06:16That's kind of a powerhouse division, too, though.
06:18Who else?
06:19Was it Trey Lance?
06:21Trey Lance went to North Dakota State.
06:22Yeah, they're also in the finals of the FCS championship this weekend.
06:26Yeah.
06:27So like, yeah, man, I think that's getting lost in college athletics is that
06:33our success does more for my success.
06:37Yeah, but when that NIL deal, they don't give it to the whole team.
06:41They give it to the player.
06:42Yeah, like, again, but it-
06:46Everybody has a price.
06:47It gives you a-
06:50I think it gives you a false sense of empowerment.
06:53Oh, yeah.
06:54Right?
06:54No, I don't understand.
06:55But look, Leroy, they tell you this.
06:57Your mom's calling you up and saying, why is this guy getting this money?
06:59You know you can score more than him.
07:00Why aren't you taking the ball more?
07:01Because I'm trying to play within the team.
07:03It's like, that guy's not playing within the team.
07:05He just signed a deal for $600,000, and you say-
07:09I got you.
07:12I got you.
07:13You know, as a quarterback now-
07:16Who?
07:16You can go to college for six years and make nearly $10 million.
07:22Right.
07:24And you may never get that in the NFL because you may not even breathe.
07:29Correct.
07:30A snap.
07:30Correct.
07:31You think-
07:32Wait.
07:32You think if Brock Purdy could have stayed in college and went to a major university
07:36one more year, he'd have made more money than he's made so far in the NFL.
07:41Yeah, but he's about to get paid, though.
07:43About to, but would have already had.
07:46Who made more money this year?
07:47Keep in mind, he wasn't drafted up high, so that money would have been money he might
07:52have thought he would never saw.
07:53That's a good question.
07:56Dan asked, Leroy, who made more money this year, DTR or Cam Ward?
08:02Cam Ward.
08:03He signed a four-year, $4.1 million contract.
08:06Yeah, Cam made more.
08:07Cam Ward made more money.
08:09Cam probably made all of that with endorsements and everything.
08:13Right.
08:14So, think about that.
08:16So, now you got these guys that could get one more year out, but here's the problem.
08:22I'm going to tell you what the problem is.
08:25I'm going to say it to, Vlad going to understand it, but Dan, they definitely going to understand
08:32this phrase.
08:34The reason why these kids are going to the league too early is mom and them.
08:38Absolutely.
08:44Somebody got an uncle who ain't never played a dime of football telling him what's best
08:48for him.
08:49Ain't nobody ever going to, you know, what you need to do, you know, hangers oners.
08:54You know, you stick around, man.
08:55Don't do this.
08:56You know, one of the best things I did-
08:58There's pressures on an athlete, a high school athlete with mama in them and your girl in
09:04them.
09:06Combined to join forces and then they're on your neck.
09:09They're on your head.
09:10You know what's crazy?
09:11One of the best things that I ever did in my career was go to Michigan and get lost.
09:19Mm-hmm.
09:22Well, they didn't, they didn't see me play football until highlights my sophomore year.
09:31Right.
09:32The only messages and the only things they were getting was what I was telling them.
09:38Right.
09:39So I didn't have that pressure of my family.
09:43When I left early, they were the last to know.
09:47Right.
09:48I made that decision because I was up in Michigan by myself and I say, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna make
09:54this decision by myself, you know, so nobody really knew what was going on until the year
10:03of the Rose Bowl.
10:04And then they started realizing, oh, he's playing.
10:07Mm-hmm.
10:08By then I had already been in college for two years.
10:11You know what I'm saying?
10:12So I didn't have-
10:14He playing California.
10:16Yeah, I didn't play.
10:18I didn't have, I didn't have, I didn't have the pressure of what I should be doing or
10:26what I should be given or what I was owed from other people outside of what was going
10:34on in that building.
10:36And in that building, it was different.
10:38Right.
10:39In that building, you earn, you know, you eat what you kill.
10:44So that was it.
10:46And, and I didn't have the people telling me what was owed to me or what I deserved
10:51or whatever.
10:52So my attitude towards getting playing time and playing was totally different than maybe
10:59if I had gone to an LSU, right?
11:03Yeah.
11:04Where people who knew me and knew what I did in high school were calling me up or coming
11:10to the games and telling me I should be playing.
11:13Yeah.
11:13They're just within arm's length too.
11:14That's easy.
11:15Right.
11:16Yeah.
11:16Well, so this is our City of Miami.
11:17We'll hold a 1.30 press conference today where Jim Larenaga is expected to announce.
11:22I hate that because you can't, there's not one person down here, no matter how that team
11:27was doing to say they didn't like Coach L.
11:29No, Coach L is beloved down here.
11:32You know how bad those kids gotta be?
11:33That for the man after Christmas to be like, I'm done with y'all.
11:36A legendary coach.
11:37Like after Christmas, he was with his family and friends.
11:40He was like with his family and loved ones.
11:42They're probably telling him.
11:43They're probably telling him, dad, grandpa.
11:46I've never seen you this unhappy.
11:48You above this.
11:49You don't deserve this.
11:50Forget them kids.
11:51Just unhappy in his family.
11:53I've never seen you this unhappy.
11:54What's going on?
11:56They lost to Presbyterian.
11:58No, they beat Presbyterian.
11:59They lost to Mount St. Mary.
12:00The Mount St. Mary, yeah.
12:01They lost to one of these.
12:02Not even St. Mary.
12:04Not even St. Mary.
12:05Mount St. Mary.
12:06St. Mary, I can understand.
12:08St. Mary College is good.
12:09Yeah, they made the tournament.
12:10I've seen them beat 15 teams and get knocked out.
12:13I'm cool with that.
12:14But Mount St. Mary?
12:16Yeah.
12:16In Sturg, Maryland.
12:18Here's the thing.
12:18You know that-
12:21I was in school in Charleston.
12:22They sit down, eat his turkey or his ham or whatever, whatever his favorite food.
12:27Absolutely, man.
12:28And they just telling him, hey.
12:31You don't need this.
12:32You're right.
12:34And guess what?
12:35Here's the crazy thing.
12:36You want to know when a person is a good dude that we haven't said one thing negative
12:44about him saying he's done.
12:46Nope.
12:46Nope.
12:47But you have to understand.
12:48And Dr. Toboggan just put this.
12:51He's been coaching his whole life.
12:53Lifetime of coaching.
12:55For him to leave midway through the season?
12:58Yeah, he's done so.
12:59He's done.
13:00Like this team might have taken the joy of coaching away from him.
13:05That's the only thing that would happen.
13:08But there's still joy, man.
13:11He's not coming back, most likely.
13:13When I say come back to coaching.
13:15Yeah.
13:15No, no, no.
13:16This is his last stop, I believe.
13:18He might be a consultant somewhere.
13:20But I think they took the joy of coaching away from him.
13:22Right.
13:23And that's sad.
13:24That NIL.
13:25That NIL.
13:27You think it's-
13:28I think it's-
13:30Portal NIL.
13:31No, just to say that.
13:31I think it has a lot to do with just the way that kids are in college now.
13:39Like the thing is, is that one of the things that I would always appreciate about the University
13:45of Miami, they be three or four deep.
13:48When you three or four deep at a position, especially at like running back or quarterback,
13:53you look at all the quarterbacks who played behind other quarterbacks, who played behind
13:58Heisman Trophy winners.
14:00And they all just sat and waited their turn.
14:02Right.
14:03That doesn't happen in NIL now, because for some reason they think they owed something.
14:08Like you're not better than the guy in front of you.
14:12Right.
14:12And it's easier to transfer now.
14:14You don't have to sit out a year.
14:15So that makes-
14:15Right.
14:16And you know another coach is promising you something.
14:19Oh, yeah.
14:19Like, let me ask you this.
14:23How many coaches have promised DJ Woogalwoogalee, whatever his name is,
14:28and he came for Woogalwoogalee, you know, I would call him DJ.
14:34DJ Woogalwoogalee?
14:36Wait, he done played for everybody and played for nobody at the same time in the same six-year
14:42career, right?
14:45But he's stacking though.
14:46Right, that's what I'm saying.
14:46He's stacking more.
14:49He's stacking a good enough amount though.
14:50What is it?
14:51You're going to be in the UFL next year, maybe.
14:53We'll see.