EPISODE · Mar 30, 2026 · 1H 27M
More March Madness, Davis is out at UNC! Hornets are America's team, 90's nostalgia bait
from The Word Podcast: Sports, News, & Stuff · host The Word Podcast
We are live for March Madness, and we’re legally viewing the Texas versus Purdue game—Purdue is up 72-70—but as Rich said, this score will be old news by the time you hear it, proving we are an ethical, if slightly delayed, broadcast!We dive headfirst into the “bombshell event” that rocked Tobacco Road: Hubert Davis is no longer the head coach at UNC. As alumni, we had a lot to say, especially James, who knew Davis's great family personally but still "never understood the hire". We agreed it was a necessary move due to a lack of consistent success and modernization, but Rich noted that Davis felt like a “fall guy” for deeper program issues. We question the program's direction, the baffling list of potential candidates (Brad Stevens?), and how UNC plans to find a new identity without losing the “family aspect” in the NIL-driven, transfer-portal era.Shifting gears, we celebrated the Charlotte Hornets for finally being “America’s team,” playing some great ball, and attributed their success to strong organizational alignment, smart moves, and investment in staff. This led us to a full-on old-man-yells-at-cloud session about the NFL, where we lamented the move to an 18-game season that’s “degrading the quality of the product”. We discussed the baffling logic of spending huge money on players only to risk them on injury-prone turf fields, like the one where RG3 got hurt. We also expressed disdain for billionaire owners holding cities "hostage" to demand taxpayer-funded stadiums.Before we wrapped up, James confessed to being 10 points behind Rich in the bracket challenge, we took a wild, nostalgic detour into 90s pop culture (shoutout Carson Daly and Fred Durst), and reminisced about the unbelievably helpful UNC associate AD for communications, Steve Kersner, hoping the next coach has a good relationship with him.That’s a wrap! Rich needs to watch the rest of the second half, and James is pulling an all-nighter to edit and render—we’ll catch you next time\!
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We are live for March Madness, and we’re legally viewing the Texas versus Purdue game—Purdue is up 72-70—but as Rich said, this score will be old news by the time you hear it, proving we are an ethical, if slightly delayed, broadcast!We dive headfirst into the “bombshell event” that rocked Tobacco Road: Hubert Davis is no longer the head coach at UNC. As alumni, we had a lot to say, especially James, who knew Davis's great family personally but still "never understood the hire". We agreed it was a necessary move due to a lack of consistent success and modernization, but Rich noted that Davis felt like a “fall guy” for deeper program issues. We question the program's direction, the baffling list of potential candidates (Brad Stevens?), and how UNC plans to find a new identity without losing the “family aspect” in the NIL-driven, transfer-portal era.Shifting gears, we celebrated the Charlotte Hornets for finally being “America’s team,” playing some great ball, and attributed their success to strong organizational alignment, smart moves, and investment in staff. This led us to a full-on old-man-yells-at-cloud session about the NFL, where we lamented the move to an 18-game season that’s “degrading the quality of the product”. We discussed the baffling logic of spending huge money on players only to risk them on injury-prone turf fields, like the one where RG3 got hurt. We also expressed disdain for billionaire owners holding cities "hostage" to demand taxpayer-funded stadiums.Before we wrapped up, James confessed to being 10 points behind Rich in the bracket challenge, we took a wild, nostalgic detour into 90s pop culture (shoutout Carson Daly and Fred Durst), and reminisced about the unbelievably helpful UNC associate AD for communications, Steve Kersner, hoping the next coach has a good relationship with him.That’s a wrap! Rich needs to watch the rest of the second half, and James is pulling an all-nighter to edit and render—we’ll catch you next time\!
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