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President of Basketball Ops at this time … head coach tomorrow? Grasp P isn’t ruling it out.
The rap mogul-turned-basketball exec swung by the TMZ Sports activities studio this week and advised Babcock he’s already had a number of schools attempt to lure him away due to how shortly he is turned across the College of New Orleans, the place he serves as assistant coach AND President of Basketball Operations.
“I’ve so many schools now me like, ‘Hey, come be a part of our program due to the enterprise aspect that I’ve,’” P stated. “However I’m grateful for being the place I’m at and simply working.”
We requested Miller — who performed within the NBA for a short while — whether or not the packages had been hollering to inquire about Percy the coach, or government.
“I believe it’s each. I imply, even they need me to be a head coach. I don’t know. I’m like, I don’t know if I’m prepared but.”
Key phrase, but … and undoubtedly down the highway!
“Instances are altering,” P stated. “Folks don’t need the normal coaches anymore. They need coaches who’re going to assume outdoors the field. How are we going to get followers into our stands?”
He pointed to coaches like Kelvin Sampsonwho coaches his son, Mercyat Houston, and Deion Sanders as inspiration — particularly Coach Prime’s method to working a program.
“Simply the best way that he has the fatherhood he has together with his program, irrespective of if you happen to’re successful or shedding, he’s gonna be there,” P stated. “He’s going to search out firms and different individuals to get round them.”
For Grasp P, this isn’t nearly stacking wins — it’s about rising the college itself.
“What I like about it’s he introduced extra college students to (Colorado), and that’s what I’m doing with the College of New Orleans,” P stated. “It’s not nearly basketball. I need to use this basketball factor as a result of we don’t have a soccer program.”
“If I exploit the basketball group to assist get extra college students into the college, then that’s after I really feel like we’d have made it. It’s not nearly wins and losses.”
And perhaps essentially the most telling line of all?
“I’m not only a coach. I’m a trainer.”
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Whereas he was within the constructing, P additionally dropped in on the taping of “TMZ Stay.”
Take a look at the clips!!!
