Pete Gillen
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Oct 8, 2026
Tommy AshleyHOST
How did Malone and the players, for that matter, if they had to deal with any of the, the sort of weird questions or that, how did they handle that? 'Cause sometimes coaches love it.
Tommy AshleyHOST
Like I mentioned earlier in the week, Pete Gillen went on and on about SpongeBob when related to his players, um, freezing up and getting nervous.
Tommy AshleyHOST
A- any moments like that, that you can share some insight that maybe folks don't see from watching the videos or the YouTubes or whatever?
Greg BarnesGUEST
Yeah, I think with Malone, just from the...
Tommy AshleyHOST
So when you have that sort of situation, you got guys asking questions that have been answered 15, 16 times.
Tommy AshleyHOST
But Greg, one of my favorite things about this was sitting with Pete Gillen years ago, uh, and, you know, Gaudio from Wake Forest, and just hearing stories that you would never normally hear, and sitting with Leon- Leonard Hamilton and getting to do that.
Tommy AshleyHOST
Those are the things I miss, yelling at clouds.
Tommy AshleyHOST
Pete Gillen introduced me to SpongeBob.
Tommy AshleyHOST
I'd never heard who SpongeBob was.
Tommy AshleyHOST
I didn't know what he was talking about.
Michael MaloneGUEST
And, uh, and that's important in my approach with them on the court, as well as off the court, and pouring into them because the player development is not just as basketball players, it's continuing their development as young men.
Joe OviesHOST
It's been a, it's been a minute, uh, I mean, shout out to ACC legend Pete Gillen back when you were in Providence.
Joe OviesHOST
I guess you, you start off with a win over Duke, right? It was '97, I think you guys-
Michael MaloneGUEST
Yeah
Kevin KeattsGUEST
Yeah, and I think Mike's a – I think he's a really good hire.
Kevin KeattsGUEST
I mean, I've seen him even back in his days at – I want to say, I hope I'm saying this right, at Virginia when he was with Pete Gillen a long time ago, I think.
Kevin KeattsGUEST
But, you know, he's a really good – Seems to be a good X and O guy.
Kevin KeattsGUEST
I can only go by what I saw in practice.
Steven GroothuisHOST
It happened in 1985 after I had been at St. Anthony for 11 seasons.
Steven GroothuisHOST
I got a call from Pete Gillen.
Steven GroothuisHOST
He had just taken the head coaching job at Xavier in Cincinnati.
Steven GroothuisHOST
I had known Pete since he coached high school ball in Brooklyn, and we played against him in the Monsignor King Tournament in 1979-1980.
Mac McDonaldCORRESPONDENT
The one that comes to mind was Willie Dersh.
Mac McDonaldCORRESPONDENT
Willie was a guard that played for Pete Gillen during that era, and Willie was actually working close with, to ground zero.
Mac McDonaldCORRESPONDENT
Remember, we got him on the phone and we talked to him, but just watching the newsroom react and how everybody really around the country reacted.
Mac McDonaldCORRESPONDENT
There is a wonderful story that, and Bob Rotella won't mind me telling it because he will not talk about it, and I heard it just days after on the Golf Channel, and Bob said it would be the last time that he ever talks about it, but Bob was actually on a...