The American Athletic Concference men’s basketball coaching fraternity is a murderer’s row of Toastmasters. I learned this while watching the recent AAC men’s basketball tournament. I watched all 10 post-game press conferences. All 11 of the coaches in this esteemed, geographically sensible conference is a master of public speaking. I took notes and I made another critically-acclaimed list, assessing the mic skills of the men’s basketball coaches in the American.
11. Brian Gregory, USF: The former Georgia-Tech-headman-turned-brand-new-South-Florida-Bulls-head-coach has never spoken before. He gets an incomplete for the semester.
10. Johnny Dawkins, UCF: Simultaneously adenoidal and disembodied, Johnny Dawkins sounds like the Wizard of Oz when he gets behind a microphone.