We're making Team Player Podcast history for a 5th week in a row as we welcome our 1st ever guest from the Land of Lincoln (you can take the boy out of Illinois, but you can't take the Illini out of the boy) as well as our first guest to work with Coach Kovo at Daktronics!! This guest has a resume that would make the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World blush!! He is a former collegiate basketball coach and now he sells video displays and scoring systems across the Hoosier State and the Midwest, welcome Steve Carroll to the show!
Growing up in Urbana, Illinois the sister-city to Champaign where the University of Illinois is located, along with being the hometown of REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes is Coach Kovo's favorite!
After a stellar career in basketball crazy down-state Illinois, Coach continued on with successful stops as a grad assistant with the Illini complete with a Big 10 title and an Elite 8 appearance, along with stints playing basketball abroad in the Phillipines Basketball Association
After a successful career as a coach, Steve hung up the whistle to pursue a career in sports marketing including stops with branding the Reebok Pump with Shaq and Dominique Wilkins (ALL 90's kids remember this shoe!), Jordan Brand, Red Bull, and even publishing books by legendary coaches like Bob "The General" Knight and Dick Vitale - Coach Kovo does his best Dickie V impression - that's AWESOME BABY!!!
It's one thing to be buddy-buddy with REO Speedwagon, but Kid Rock??? Really?! Listen to the jaw-dropping story of how Steve befriended Robert James Richie (better known as Kid Rock) and here's a hint - you NEVER would have guessed how this happened!
Finally we end with letting Coach put on the whistle one last time to roll out his all-time University of Illinois Fighting Illini starting 5. We also play some fun Mt. Rushmore's including one with his beloved St. Louis Cardinals. Coach is known to always wear either his trademark Illini or Cardinals ballcap and his fandom shines through with the quality of his picks. I-L.....I-N-I!!!
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