Mark Adams - National Motivational Speaker, Business Coach, College Basketball Analyst

July 4, 2009

MARK

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The Best Prepared Analyst in College Basketball!

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Mark Adams is the best prepared college basketball analyst and one of the great public speakers in America! Whether it be a game broadcast or a corporate speech, Adams always brings his ‘A’ Game.

Mark is Prepared, Entertaining, Educational and always Passionate during his broadcasts and presentations. From the time the lights go on until the final buzzer goes off you can expect only his Career Best Effort!

About Mark Adams

Mark Adams is a college basketball analyst on the ESPN family of networks. Adams was a college basketball coach for 17 years. He was known as a program rebuilder who took over programs that were a combined 28-54 (.341) in the season prior to his arrival compared to his combined final season record at those same three schools of 59-32 (.648).

Adams appeared on 45 ESPN produced college basketball games this past 2007-08 season as well as numerous appearances on SportCenterU, ESPNU's Recruiting Insider Show and the NCAA Tournament Show on ESPN. He is also a national motivational speaker, published author and was recently inducted into the Rocky Mountain College athletic Ring of Honor. He lives in Springboro, OH. For more information on his speaking business visit: www.enthusiadams.com

"On The Mark": College Basketball Analyst Mark Adams Blogs his Thoughts

Who Is The Next Big BracketBuster?

It is never too early to start talking NCAA tournament fireworks and so why not start the dialogue just before the fireworks of the 4th of July? There are the usual suspects of Xavier, Memphis and Gonzaga although all have some real challenges ahead of them with coaching changes for two and losing key personnel for all three. So, who is the next non-BCS member to make a deep splash in the NCAA tournament pool? [ more ]

Lance Stephenson to Cincinnati and Now The NCAA Watch Begins…

If Bob Huggins was still coaching in Cincinnati and Lance Stephenson signed with the Bearcats as was reported today, all hell would be breaking loose! Fans across town and across the country would be calling him “Bob Thuggins” while Bearcat apologists would be defending the move as just giving a troubled kid a chance.

Nancy Zimpher, former President at UC who has since moved on to the SUNY system was at the epicenter of the firing of Huggins three short years ago. Her actions while at the helm of the Clifton campus clearly showed her intention to retool the UC basketball program into a model group of citizens both on and off the court. Mick Cronin was brought in specifically to build that type of program. After three years of mediocrity apparently Cronin is ready to take a few more chances and throw caution to the wind by taking on the highly touted but also highly unpredictable Lance Stephenson out of Lincoln HS in NYC.
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