Relentless Hoops Podcast

Pace Academy HC Sharman White recently completed a great stretch of basketball, coaching the McDonald's All-American game, helping lead the USA Basketball Minicamp in Phoenix, and then coaching the USA Team at Nike Hoop Summit in Portland. He sat down with me to provide details on all of those events, while also touching on some other broad topics concerning grassroots basketball.

I went to the Northside Media Day at the Westminster School yesterday and had the chance to sit down with the majority of the head coaches of the attending schools to talk about their teams and the upcoming season. A lot of these programs are expected to have successful seasons and I enjoyed getting to hear each of their perspectives.

Our Select 80 Camps for 2024 & 2025 prospects were held last weekend at Life University. In this episode, I am joined by Greg Blythe, Travis McDaniel, and Reed Dungan, and we go over what we saw during the weekend. All-Camp Teams were released yesterday, so we dove into those while also giving some general thoughts from the camps and highlighting some of the biggest surprises and guys who made the biggest impressions. This year of the Select 80 Camps was another fun & successful one, and we had a good discussion on a lot of different players in this episode.

Another college head coach came on for this episode; UGA HC Mike White sat down with me & went into detail about a variety of things. He spoke on his start in coaching & journey since then, his 1st year at UGA, why he believes the UGA program can have sustainable success, the Bulldogs' strong incoming recruiting class, and more. This was a very enjoyable episode and Coach White made a lot of good points. He & his staff are going about things the right way in building their program.

We're back with a player guest in this episode. UConn's Alex Karaban joined me to discuss winning the 2023 NCAA National Championship with the Huskies, his path as a high school prospect, how he made an impact as a freshman, what he plans to improve on as a sophomore, and other topics. Although he's not a Southeast kid, I was able to watch Karaban at the 2018 CP3 Rising Stars Camp and track him since then. Every step along the way, he's just gone about his business and produced against top competition consistently. I'm excited to see what the future has in store for him.

Next up is Myers Park assistant & Team Curry 16U Head Coach Nick Jones. In this episode he joined me to talk about how he got into coaching, Myers Park's state championship season, his involvement with Team Curry, player development, and more. Various things that are important in today's grassroots landscape were touched on.

Upward Stars Director & 17U Head Coach Curt Wheeler is our latest guest, we sat down & discussed a variety of things before Upward took the floor in Atlanta this weekend. Curt has been in the grassroots space for a long time; he took us through his path thus far, went into detail on the Upward program, and gave his thoughts on grassroots basketball overall. He also touched on the Greenville Winter Invitational, a college basketball event that he runs, which takes place in December each year now. I really enjoyed getting to talk with Curt & listen to his perspective as he can provide valuable insight.

Our first college coach guest in a long time, University Of North Georgia Head Coach Dan Evans sat down with me to discuss a variety of topics. The Nighthawks are coming off of their best season since joining the Division 2 ranks as they won 21 games and beat UNC Pembroke in the NCAA Division 2 Tournament. Coach Evans goes over his Midwest roots, different aspects of UNG's program and improvement, along with touching on recruiting & D2 basketball in the Southeast as a whole. This was a great conversation & it shed light on why North Georgia will continue to have success in the future.

Last weekend was our 3rd year partnering with Hargrave Military Academy for the Relentless Hoops Military Circuit. In this episode, a recap of the event is given, along with a review of our recent Georgia Player Rankings Update. There was a lot to sort through on both topics and some fun details to discuss. The first 20 or so minutes focuses on the Military Circuit with the final 15 minutes diving into the rankings.