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What We Discuss with Danny Gallagher

The second annual Cleveland Basketball Classic

COMING TO BALDWIN WALLACE DECEMBER 2023

Celebrate Cleveland boys and girls high school basketball! Admission is $15 daily and good for all games that day. All games will be held at  Baldwin Wallace University-Ursprung Gymnasium.

Saturday, December 2nd

• 10:30am – CVCA vs. Mentor (Girls)
• 12:00pm – Rocky River vs. Avon (Girls)
• 1:30pm – SJA vs. Avon Lake (Girls)
• 3:00pm – Magnificat vs. Medina (Girls)
• 4:30pm – Stow vs. Gilmour (Girls)

Sunday, December 3rd

• 11:00am – Hawken vs. Buckeye (Boys)
• 12:35pm – St. Ed’s vs. NDCL (Boys)
• 2:10pm – Toledo St. John’s vs. Rhodes (Boys)
• 3:45pm – Berea-Midpark vs. Gilmour (Boys)
• 5:20pm – Olmsted Falls vs. Copley (Girls)
• 7:00pm – Olmsted Falls vs. Brunswick (Boys)

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[00:00:00] Mike Klinzing: Hello and welcome to the Hoop Heads Podcast. It’s Mike Klinzing here without my co-host Jason Sunkle tonight, but I am pleased to be joined by Danny Gallagher back for, I guess, sort of number three, but to talk about the Cleveland Basketball Classic. Danny is the head girls coach at Magnificat High School here in Cleveland, Ohio.

And for the second year, he has put together an outstanding high school basketball event. Danny, welcome back.

[00:00:26] Danny Gallagher: Thanks for having me, Mike. Really excited to be back.

[00:00:29] Mike Klinzing: Thrilled to have you on. Looking forward to diving into the Cleveland Basketball Classic. What’s going to transpire at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio here, a suburb of Cleveland.

Danny, give us, just give us the itinerary for what’s going to happen on Saturday, December 2nd and Sunday, December 3^rd.

[00:00:47] Danny Gallagher: Yeah, it’s the second year doing this, like you said, and I think we have some really good games going on on Saturday features some of the best teams in Northeast Ohio on the girls side, and then on Sunday we have the boys take the floor with some of the best teams in Northeast Ohio.

This year we added, we do have a a boy girl double header going on At least with, with one side, one of the opponents Olmstead falls, their girls teams playing at 5 20 and then their boys teams playing at seven o’clock. But I think overall for the entire weekend, the teams that we have and the matchups that we have are going to be some really good games to show off the type of talent we have here in Northeast Ohio.

[00:01:28] Mike Klinzing: What was the process for, I know we talked about this a little bit last year, but just refresh our memory just in terms of getting the teams. How do you go about making that recruiting call to try to get teams to participate? I know some of it’s through your relationships, obviously, with other coaches, but just talk a little bit about how you made, how you made this matchup, how you made this slate how you made it happen.

[00:01:50] Danny Gallagher: Well, like you said last year it was a lot of relationships, a lot of coaches that I knew, coaches that I’ve coached with previously. And then this year it was actually easier to put Some of these matchups together, because I had a lot of interest in the event. So most of the teams wanted to come back.

Even before the event last year, I had teams reaching out to me to, to get into it this year. I think there’s a few different reasons for that. Number one, the location you know, Baldwin walls, I think is just, just an incredible place to play an incredible place to watch games. But. You know, I think the cause to just, just honoring all the great, great players that we’ve had in Cleveland, the, the, the good players that we have now on both the boys and the girls side makes it something that people want to be a part of.

And it’s something that I’m really excited that it went well last year and that I’m able to do again this year. What’s something that you learned?

[00:02:48] Mike Klinzing: Last year, when you start thinking about things that you wanted to improve and make what you did last year, even better.

[00:02:57] Danny Gallagher: I learned how much work it really is. These things are, are these things you think about doing stuff like this. And you know, I’m so glad I did and glad that I’m still doing it. But I was kind of a, a one man show that hired everyone out and Just the amount of time that I put into it was a lot, but it’s, it’s well worth it when you, when you hear all the positive feedback that I got it’s just fun it’s fun for everyone to be around each other and…

[00:03:28] Mike Klinzing: What part of it takes up the most time.  Like what’s the hardest part or what’s the most time consuming part? Maybe not even hard, but what’s, what’s the most time consuming?

[00:03:34] Danny Gallagher: You know what, honestly, just sending all the emails to people and then getting all the information back and collecting all the data that you need and, and getting it all together and then getting that out to the, the different entities that I need to to make sure other people are prepared for the event.

Like sponsors who are getting us t shirts trying to get all of those sizes together. You try and get as close You know, as you can but because of shipping and all of that stuff, now you really can’t wait for everyone to make their team. So you’re, so you’re trying to get as much info as you can, but you’re, you’re never going to be perfect.

You know, getting the rosters to certain media outlets, getting the rosters to our game day announcer. So getting all of that information out. You know, making sure that everyone understands exactly where they’re at and what we need, then getting it back and then getting it out again. Just, just really takes up a lot of time.

[00:04:29] Mike Klinzing: We talked last year. I know one of the things that you really wanted to make sure that you did, and you talked about it a little bit here a minute ago, was just to be able to honor sort of the past and the present. Of Cleveland high school basketball on both the girls side and the boys side. So just talk a little bit more about how the history of high school basketball here in Cleveland played into, first of all, your idea to get this thing started, and then kind of what you’ve done to incorporate that theme into last year’s classic and then into this year’s.

[00:05:01] Danny Gallagher: Yeah just, just growing up and going to so many games as a kid. You know, my dad took me to so many games when I was young and I got to see so many great players at such a young age that wanted that made me want to be a part of Cleveland basketball the way I am today. You know, seeing, seeing some of those great players looking up to them as a young kid you know, having the feeling that they gave me as a young kid and wanting to be able to do that for, for players of today and even younger kids of today that might be at the event.

You know, last year we played videos. I, I got some of the great players from Cleveland in the past men and women to. Make short 45 second, one minute videos, just talking about their experience with Cleveland basketball and what it meant to them. And we had some really cool really cool people do those videos.

We, we started each game with Clark Kellogg doing a video who I never got to see play because he was, he was older and I was not, I was not born yet, but You know, everyone tells me he was the GOAT of, of Northeast Ohio basketball. Jawad Williams, who was a classmate of mine at St. Ed’s, played at North Carolina, won a national championship at North Carolina, played for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Mary Fox played at Magnificat, played at Ohio Iowa State. Naz Hillman played at Gilmore, played at Michigan, is now on the WNBA. Mike Gansey, Olmstead Falls West Virginia. You know, played professionally. So I tried to get people who their schools were playing in the event so fans could kind of see someone from their history, talking about their experience and just that kind of tied everyone together and I think people really enjoyed that and I’m trying to get as many good ones this year.

You know, trying to top Clark Kellogg will be pretty tough, but I think we’ll have some good ones.

[00:07:01] Mike Klinzing: All right. You got, you got one name for us or are you keeping them all under wraps?

[00:07:05] Danny Gallagher: I’m not, I’m not releasing them yet. Not quite yet. I got to make sure I have everyone that I think I have.

[00:07:12] Mike Klinzing: Understood. Completely understand. All right. So as you get teams to commit. And you’re talking to coaches. Obviously, one of the things that anybody who’s committing to an event wants to know is, who are we going to play? And I’m sure that the coaches that you talk to have opinions about like, hey, I like this matchup or I don’t like this matchup for whatever reason.

Obviously, coaches have lots of different reasons for how they schedule, why they schedule, who they want to play, who they might not want to play as much. And so, I’m sure this plays into what you talked about earlier with the back and forth in terms of emails and just making sure that you get everything, all the I’s dotted and the T’s crossed.

But how do you put together the matchups and then once you kind of get those matchups in your head and run them by the coaches, just walk me through that process.

[00:07:58] Danny Gallagher: Ee want to have the best games that we possibly can. You know, so there are some coaches out there that say, Hey, we want to play the toughest team, the toughest game we possibly can.

That might be good for that team, but might not be good for the event. And then there are also coaches that want to get, get an easy win and that, that’s also not good for the event. So I try and get commitments from everyone and say, Hey, I’m going to match you up with someone that I feel is we’ll provide you a good game, we’ll provide the event, a good game, the fans, a good game.

And for the most part, all the coaches were great. You know, there, there really wasn’t much pushback. I had to maybe change a couple here or there. But I think coaches see what the event’s all about and really want to be a part of it and kind of know like, Hey, I got a pretty long list of people that want to be in it already next year.

So if you complain too much, you might not be back.

[00:08:55] Mike Klinzing: So how many teams approximately did you have that reached out to you about possibly participating?

[00:09:00] Danny Gallagher: I had almost 20 on both sides, so maybe just under 40 when it comes to boys and girls. You know, one cool thing that’s happening this year, and this game’s not a part of the event, but we’re gonna try and figure this out in the future.

The Baldwin Wallace boys actually play on Saturday night, so our last game’s at 4. 30, their game’s gonna tip off at 7. anD anyone that bought a ticket for our event is able to stay and watch the BW game. So I think that’s adding a little bit to it. You know, one year we’d love to be able to try and get you know, BW women to play on Saturday BW men to play on Sunday surrounded by our games just to kind of bring it all together.

So that’s just kind of a new twist that we’ve added.

[00:09:50] Mike Klinzing: Yeah, that would be really cool. I mean, especially if you could get BW playing one of our other local division three schools, right. And kind of add to sort of that mix of, that would be, that would be very cool. And again, it would expose fans of those different programs to, to division three basketball, which I know that for anybody who’s listened to the podcast at all, one of the things that we’ve, I’ve Spent a lot of time talking to division three head coaches kind of across the whole country.

And I think one of the things that, that I’ve learned about it is just that there’s, there’s so much underexposure of how good division three basketball is just because what do we see on TV all the time? You see the division one, that’s where all the. Publicity goes, that’s what everybody kind of aspires to.

And yet when you look at division three basketball and how good it is, I think there’s be a great opportunity for kids and parents, both players who are participating in the event and fans to go out and be able to see a small college game. In addition to the tremendous high school slink that you put together, I think that’d be, I think it’d be really educational sometimes for the players to go and see how good a division three game really is.

[00:10:55] Danny Gallagher: No doubt. That’s you, you try and explain that to people and they just don’t get it or don’t understand it. How good you have to be to play division three basketball.

[00:11:10] Mike Klinzing: Yeah. Being a college basketball player at any level, anybody who’s getting an opportunity to do that. Whew. I mean, again, people just don’t have a real understanding of how good that that has to be.

All right. So when you look at the, the two slates and you have the girls playing on Saturday of the boys playing on Sunday, I’m not going to ask you to list out your favorite matchup and put you put pressure on you and have a bunch of coaches mad at you. So talk a little bit about your team’s matchup.

You guys play Medina at three o’clock on Saturday. Just tell us a little bit about team and then what you’re looking for against Medina.

[00:11:44] Danny Gallagher: So we return a bunch of players from our team last year. We, we lost one to graduation who’s playing at John Carroll this year, Abby Russell, but our next six are back.

We lost in the regional semis last year and did not, did not play well in that game. So we have a little bit of what we feel is unfinished business going into the season. And, and, and I feel it’s the most talented team that I’ve had going. That I’ve had since I’ve been at Mags, and this will be my seventh year.

So we’re excited. We’re excited where we’re at right now. Unfortunately our soccer team lost in the regional finals this week. You know, it’s, it’s kind of bittersweet that now I get. My entire team back. So we’ve had that for the last couple of days. You certainly never want another team to lose.

But now that we have our full team back and we’ve had that for a couple of days we feel even better about, about where we’re at. So early in the season, just to have that continuity of having that many players back that played in the system we we had last year And as far as our matchup with Medina, we’ve had over the last four or five years we’ve had some incredible games with Medina.

Karen Case is their head coach. She does a really good job. You know, she’s built a terrific program there. They’ve got talented players. Girl named Olivia Klanick uh, probably one of the best shooters in our area. Big time player. So we’re, we’re excited. I think that’ll be a really, really good matchup for people to come on, come and see when you guys open up, we open up the 22nd the night before Thanksgiving, which I think is kind of cool.

We play camp McKinley at mags. Last year we, we were 20 and five and one of our losses to McKinley was to McKinley at the field house and they, yeah. They kicked our butts. It was the only game that we lost by double digits last year. So we’re, we’re excited to be able to play them back at home.

The field house is just, just a different animal when you go and play down there. It is so cool and what an incredible venue it is, but we have not had luck there and I know most teams kind of say that, so So that’ll be a, that’ll be a fun game. And then we, our second game of the year is against Purcell Marion, who’s the reigning division two state champs who actually, they got a couple of transfers in and, and their entire starting five is either committed or.

Being recruited by division one schools. So we put together a, a really tough schedule playing not only the best in Ohio, but over the holidays, we’re going up to Chicago to try and play some of the best from Chicago and Indiana. So we know we’re going to be tested and we’ve done that year in and year out, we’ll continue to do it. And we’re excited for it.

 [00:14:45] Mike Klinzing: All right, so that goes to the question, not necessarily Cleveland basketball classic related, but certainly relatable for coaches out there. When you think about Your schedule and trying to play as you described the best in the state of Ohio and the best that you can find as you go and travel to these various events and this year going to Chicago.

How much of that is with the eye on? Hey, we don’t have to put together a 20 and two regular season. I mean, not that you wouldn’t want to, but you don’t have to do that. It’s more about getting your team prepared to play in March. Is that kind of the philosophy that you like to subscribe to?

[00:15:19] Danny Gallagher: Yeah, absolutely.  Like we’re independent, so we’re we’re not in a conference, so we can select who whoever we want to play some most schools can’t. Right? Like they can select maybe five or six of their games and then they, they’re, they’re given their conference schedule. So any high school team I’ve ever coached or been a part of St.

Ed’s and Magnificat, both independent, you know you know, learn this philosophy from, from Eric we don’t play for a conference championship. You know, we don’t have a regular season champ or a post season conference champ or anything like that. So. You know, you’re playing for, for a state championship, you’re playing to be ready for those six or seven games in the postseason and I, being in the position we’re in, I can’t see doing it any other way there’s, there’s been a lot of talk back and forth between coaches and scheduling and they were going to bring in the Martin RPI system to dictate seeds and then they switched to max preps and Both of those systems are, are very different and coaches geared their schedules towards one and then it ended up being the other.

So to me, I just, I just threw it all out the window and I said, look, like no matter what you’re going to have to beat good teams when you play in the division one post season tournament you might. You know, if, if you’re lucky enough to get one of the top seeds, you might get one easy game and then it’s on anyone can beat anyone at that time.

So we want to, we want to play the best year all season long, prepare our kids for that. And it’s not easy. You know, you can run into, into. stretches where you might lose four in a row. And we’ve got kids now that aren’t used to stuff like that. And, and I’m not saying it’s gonna happen. I don’t want it to happen, but it could happen and it makes it harder.

But in the end you’re going to be more prepared for what you’re going to see in the tournament.

[00:17:23] Mike Klinzing: I think that’s where. An event like the Cleveland Basketball Classic is beneficial to anybody who participates in that, where you have a game where you’re playing against, obviously the teams that are in this thing are teams that are sort of subscribing to that same sort of scheduling theory, right?

You want to play tough games against good opponents in your non conference schedule, or if you don’t have a conference schedule. In general, you want to be able to play teams that are going to challenge you, that are going to push you, that are going to hopefully make you better. And those are games that are…

Well, they’re the 50 50 games. You could win it, you could lose it, but ultimately that’s a game that’s going to help make you better. And that obviously makes your event better when you have games where you have two teams that are super competitive with it, with one another. That’s when you get the type of game that you’re going to want to have on your end.

On your schedule for something like the Cleveland Basketball Classic, obviously it’s good for fans when you have good games and good matchups, and that’s certainly what you’ve put together here. When you start looking at what you’ve done on Saturday and on Sunday, all the girls games, again on Saturday, starting at 10.

versus Mentor, then you wrap up with Stowe versus Gilmore at 4. 30, and then as you said, you got the men’s BW game. And then on Sunday, you started 11 with the boys, Hawkins versus Buckeye. And then, as you said, you wrap it up with the Olmstead Falls boys girls doubleheader. The girls playing Copley at 520 and the boys playing against a very good Brunswick team at 7 o’clock on Sunday, December 3rd.

How can people get tickets? How do they find out more about what’s going on with the Cleveland Basketball Classic?

[00:18:58] Danny Gallagher: Well, we have our website, ClevelandBasketballClassic. com. We are on Twitter, or now I guess it’s called X. You can just search Cleveland Basketball Classic. It’ll, it’ll come right up. That’s where most of the information is.

Any of the schools participating also have information. You know, for admission, we’ll, of course, take cash at the door. We’ll also have a Venmo option and we’ll also have a credit card option. So there’ll be multiple ways to be able to get in. And you know, basically that’s, that’s where all the information’s at.

It’s, it’s been shot out to all the schools. The schools have done a pretty good job. You know, retweeting it or reposting it and getting it out there and sending it out to their communities. So I’ve gotten a lot of. Feedback already from excited fans and then also from media people, scouting services video services, that kind of stuff that, that’ll all be there as well.

[00:19:53] Mike Klinzing: I was fortunate enough to be able to get out there at least one of the days last year. And I know I saw him said Falls play Benedictine last year and hopefully looking at the schedule. Try to get out and see a couple more games on Saturday and on Sunday this year. Just again, looking at, looking at my schedule and trying to figure out how I can be in a million places just like everybody else, but I’m excited.

There’s just you know, there’s some really good games. I think my son. You can play at Strong’s, you’ll be a senior this year. So I’m looking at we play Olmstead Falls this year. We play Berea. We play, obviously play Brunswick in our league. So we got three teams that we’re going to see on our schedule that go out and get a look at them.

And I think we open up on we open up on Friday night against Olmstead Falls. So we’ll have already, we’ll have already seen them, but it’s always fun to get out there and and be able to be able to see some games, especially when you look at being able to see that many games in.

That window where normally you go and you get a JV game and you get a varsity game here. You’re going, you’re getting whatever six varsity games on Sunday and you’re getting five of them on Saturday. So if you are a basketball fan. Boys, girls here in the Cleveland area and you’re looking for some great basketball, highly recommend getting out to the Cleveland Basketball Classic.

Danny has done just a tremendous job and as you’ve heard him talk, uh, he’s just done something to not only honor today’s players, but also just to kind of connect to The past history of Cleveland high school basketball, which for anyone who’s been around the city of Cleveland for a long time knows that we’ve had just a tremendous amount of talent in terms of individual players, but also in terms of the quality of teams that Northeast Ohio perennially produces.

And so, again, Just done a great job with this, Danny. And I’m excited to, to get out and be able to be able to be a part of it again this year and then see some of these see some of these great matchups that you put together. So one more time just give people the the schedule, the when, the where, and then we’ll wrap things up.

[00:21:50] Danny Gallagher: Okay, we’re Saturday, December 2nd and Sunday, December 3rd, all at Baldwin Wallace. Saturday game start at 1030 with CVCA versus Mentor. We’ve got a, a, a Westside rivalry here, Rocky River versus Avon, St. Joe’s Academy versus Avon Lake two coaches squaring off there that used to coach together.

Then my team Magnificat versus Medina should be a great game. And then the 430 game is Stowe versus Gilmore. Stowe coached by the legendary Bob Podges. Just a great guy, great coach, someone that you can learn a lot from just watching their team. And then in the boys side on Sunday Hawken versus Buckeye, coach Josh Nugent is a really good friend of mine at Hawken who, who pulled off a win last year in the Cleveland basketball classic had a young team last year with everyone coming back, a couple of exciting guards. Then we’ve got St. Ed’s versus NDCL, which is actually a really cool matchup for a few different reasons.

Eric Flannery, of course the head coach at St. Ed’s. My mentor is playing NDCL and Pat Vuyancich is actually the head coach now at NDCL. When I was at St. Ed’s we coached Tony Vuyancich, who is Pat’s son, is helping Pat. So you kind of got a coach and player going against each other and, and families that really know each other.

So, so that’ll be fun. And then our one out of town team that we have coming in and coming back again is Toledo St. John’s, who is a perennial powerhouse in Ohio is playing Rhodes, who Rhodes is the first Senate team that we’ve had in the event. Maria Midpark versus Gilmore, Olmstead Falls versus Copley girls.

Olmstead Falls lost in the state finals last year. Copley is loaded with talent and have a great coach and Julie Solis. So that should be an exciting matchup. And then to, to. Kick it off or to end it all is Olmstead Falls versus Brunswick. And you know, that’s another great coaching battle with Coach Delisio and Coach Joe Mackey over there at Brunswick.

[00:23:51] Mike Klinzing: It’s a great lineup of games. And again, if you are a fan of high school basketball, I would highly recommend grab some tickets, get out. Buy some popcorn, sit in the stands at BW. As Danny said earlier, great place to watch a game. And in this case, watch multiple games. We hope we get a lot of people out there, again, supporting what Danny has put together.

And Danny, thank you so much for taking the time out of your schedule tonight to jump on with us. Really appreciate it. And I’m sure we’ll be hooking up in person at the event. So thanks to you and thanks to everyone out there for listening. And we will catch you on our next episode. Thanks.