Matt Sayman
Guest on Becoming UnDone
Matt Sayman is a former Baylor University basketball player who competed from 2000–2004, staying with the program through the high-profile scandal before his senior year. He later played professional basketball in Iceland, winning a national championship, and is the author of “The Leftovers: Baylor, Betrayal & Beyond,” which chronicles that period. Sayman is currently a high school head boys basketball coach in Texas and hosts the JAMODI (Just A Matter Of Doing It) coaching podcast.
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Life at the End of the Bench: The Walk-On👍 Recommends
…guest describing a formative book that inspired him to write his own memoir about college athletics
“And somehow I'd gotten, somebody had recommended a book called Life at the End of the Bench by Alan Williams. And it was about his, it's called the Walk-On Life at the End of the Bench. And it's about his four years either at Wake Forest or Georgia Tech. I'm not sure which one. But four years in college. And I'm reading this and it's like speaking right to me of this is your same story.”
on Becoming UnDone
The Last Lecture👍 Recommends
…guest referencing an inspirational lecture about life goals and perseverance that influenced his thinking
“There's a great little, this is a side note, but great little video by Randy Pausch called The Last Lecture. And in that last lecture, he talks about, he has six months left to live and he knows that he's a professor, six months left to live. And he does this last lecture about no regrets. What brick walls are really in our lives for is to let us know how badly we want something.”
on Becoming UnDone
The Leftovers: Baylor, Betrayal, and Beyond👍 Recommends
…author discussing the motivation and purpose behind his published memoir about college basketball
“I always joke around that I think part of the reason for writing the book was to give people an inside look of what is it like to be a part of a college basketball program, but not as a star, as a role player. Like, somebody that just survives for four years because Zion's one year at Duke and my four years I think are very different experiences in how we were.”
on Becoming UnDone