Episode 9 - Rick Carter

-Dad told him to get a job in college and he saw a posting while driving his car for “middle school hiring 8th grade basketball coach”

-Coached varsity basketball the next year with Chris Ferguson and his brother worked at Michigan State

-Opened the door to his graduate assistantship at Michigan State

-Coached Al Horford and Drew Neitzel with Michigan Mustangs

-Masters degree in coaching being under Coach Tom Izzo

-Saw Drew Neitzel grow as a person and player almost as a big brother

-Has held every job on a coaching tree except for head coach

-Landed at Fairfield with Ed Cooley for his first true full-time job in coaching after leaving Michigan State

-Coach Cooley and all other coaches on staff came from a better basketball situation as they headed to Fairfield

-Coach Cooley never let the staff complain, always found the positive in everything

-Never met a better recruiter than Ed Cooley because he was real and genuine

-Brought in 8 guys in the first season

-Interviewed in an all white Jordan Jumpsuit because his luggage got lost

-Loves the east coast after living there

-Moved back to Michigan to take a position at Western Michigan under Steve Hawkins

-Coach Hawkins gave him a ton of freedom, responsibility and a chance to grow

-Had completely different outlook at office hours from Coach Hawkins and made him appreciate another view of coaching

-Coach Hawkins really valued the players lives

-Watching film with Coach Boylen at Maui Classic

-Spent one season at Missouri after leaving Western Michigan

-Met Dave Leitao at Missouri

-In charge of all individual workouts and scouts at Missouri

-Felt like an NBA assistant situation

-Was focused on game that they were playing but also watching film on the next game

-Headed to Xavier to work for Chris Mack after his one season at Missouri

-Xavier did a really good job recruiting kids that didn’t go to Big Ten

-Chris Mack is best organizer of a program that he has been around

-What it was like coaching J.P. Macura who is basically a little brother to him

-Doubled his salary and made him associate head coach in move to DePaul from Xavier

-Role to be head coach at DePaul with Leitao as head figure

-The fall out at DePaul

-Spotter

-Getting back in the game he would appreciate winning more

-Would appreciate the people in my family outside of basketball

-Running a company, there is really no difference between that and building a team