Episode 28 - Florida A&M's Robert McCullum

01/13/23 • 48 min

Today we talk with Florida A&M Head Coach Robert McCullum. The native of Birmingham, Alabama started his career as a junior high coach back in 1976. It took nearly 25 years working his way up through the ranks before he finally got his first Division I head coaching job at Western Michigan in 2000.
Each Friday, Jeff Bidwell talks with a current or former Division I college basketball coach about their professional path. There are no overnight success stories in college coaching. We'll talk about the sometimes decades-long journey from the moment they wanted to get into coaching up to that first news conference introducing them as a Division I head coach.
Follow on Twitter and Instagram at @AKAJeffBidwell.

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Episode 27 - SIUE's Brian Barone

Today we talk with SIU Edwardsville Head Coach Brian Barone. Barone played at Texas A&M for his dad Tony, before transferring to Marquette and ultimately becoming part of the Tom Crean coaching tree. Barone's coaching career started at Central Florida Community College. Nearly two decades later, he finally get that first Division I head coaching job at SIUE.
You can follow Coach Barone on Twitter @baronecoach.
Each Friday, Jeff Bidwell talks with a current or former Division I college basketball coach about their professional path. There are no overnight success stories in college coaching. We'll talk about the sometimes decades-long journey from the moment they wanted to get into coaching up to that first news conference introducing them as a Division I head coach.
Follow on Twitter and Instagram at @AKAJeffBidwell.

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Episode 29 - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Steve Lutz

Today we talk with Steve Lutz, the Head Coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. After his playing career ended at Texas Lutheran in 1995, Lutz started his coaching journey. Unlike a lot of his peers, instead of moving from job to job in the early part of his career, Lutz was comfortable putting roots down in each of his stops. After a quarter-century of work, Lutz got his first Division I head coaching job at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in 2021.
You can follow Coach Lutz on Twitter at @LutzSteve.
Each Friday, Jeff Bidwell talks with a current or former Division I college basketball coach about their professional path. There are no overnight success stories in college coaching. We'll talk about the sometimes decades-long journey from the moment they wanted to get into coaching up to that first news conference introducing them as a Division I head coach.
Follow on Twitter and Instagram at @AKAJeffBidwell.