Episode 21: Episode 21: Rich Hoyt

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Hoyt, a college basketball analyst for both Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University women’s teams and a freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School.
Rich grew up in Indianapolis and attended Cardinal Ritter High School. Like most Indiana natives he grew up a huge basketball fan and followed the Indiana Hoosiers led by the legendary Bobby Knight.
Rich also followed the Butler Bulldogs and attended many games at the historic Hinkle Fieldhouse. This brings up a discussion about some of the great basketball venues in the state of Indiana that include Hinkle, IU’s Assembly Hall, Newcastle High School and Ben Davis High School.
When Rich was a young lad he was a ballboy at the Midwestern City Conference Tournament (precursor to the Horizon League) played at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. Rich later found a photo of himself in the background as Xavier University great Byron Larkin is hitting the shot that made him the Musketeer’s all-time leading scorer.
Rich graduated from Indiana University and actually took a class that was taught by Coach Knight. Rich talks about how much fun that class was and how much he learned from “The General.”
He moves on to Xavier University starting as a marketing intern and than later took a graduate assistant position. He makes some great contacts while working for the basketball program including but not exclusive to David West, Romain Soto and Alan Majors.
While at Xavier, Rich becomes a coach and begins working on the girls basketball team at Roger Bacon High School. He eventually moves to the boys team at Roger Bacon working under the head coach Bill Brewer and later Brian Neal.
Rich becomes the head coach of his own program when he takes over at Summit Country Day. The Silver Knights win the district title for the first time in over 20 years and he earns Coach of the Year honors.
He steps down as the head coach at Summit for family reasons but still needs a basketball fix so he turns to broadcasting. He helps lead a student broadcast production for Summit games as they win a state championship in 2012 led by his successor Michael Bradley.
Rich continued his broadcasting career as he catches on over at Xavier to team up with Mike Schmaltz as the broadcast team for the women’s basketball program.
In 2017, Rich adds the Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team to his broadcast schedule. He and his partner Matt Sexton were on the call as the Norse accomplish its first 20-win season as a Division-I program in 2020.
Rich officially got back into high school coaching after a 10-year hiatus when he was hired as the freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School.
He also brings up that his wife, the former Kim Powers, who is a Northern Kentucky athletics legend. The Dixie Heights High School graduate went on to become a six-time All-American as a diver at Stanford University.
You can also follow Rich on Twitter @CoachHoyt (https://twitter.com/CoachHoyt)
You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 (https://twitter.com/BradyLaber1) please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe
Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm (https://nobodysssafe.fireside.fm)
For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com (https://www.stoveleg.com) or send an email to [email protected]
Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com (https://www.bensound.com)

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Hoyt, a college basketball analyst for both Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University women’s teams and a freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School.

Rich grew up in Indianapolis and attended Cardinal Ritter High School. Like most Indiana natives he grew up a huge basketball fan and followed the Indiana Hoosiers led by the legendary Bobby Knight.

Rich also followed the Butler Bulldogs and attended many games at the historic Hinkle Fieldhouse. This brings up a discussion about some of the great basketball venues in the state of Indiana that include Hinkle, IU’s Assembly Hall, Newcastle High School and Ben Davis High School.

When Rich was a young lad he was a ballboy at the Midwestern City Conference Tournament (precursor to the Horizon League) played at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. Rich later found a photo of himself in the background as Xavier University great Byron Larkin is hitting the shot that made him the Musketeer’s all-time leading scorer.

Rich graduated from Indiana University and actually took a class that was taught by Coach Knight. Rich talks about how much fun that class was and how much he learned from “The General.”

He moves on to Xavier University starting as a marketing intern and than later took a graduate assistant position. He makes some great contacts while working for the basketball program including but not exclusive to David West, Romain Soto and Alan Majors.

While at Xavier, Rich becomes a coach and begins working on the girls basketball team at Roger Bacon High School. He eventually moves to the boys team at Roger Bacon working under the head coach Bill Brewer and later Brian Neal.

Rich becomes the head coach of his own program when he takes over at Summit Country Day. The Silver Knights win the district title for the first time in over 20 years and he earns Coach of the Year honors.

He steps down as the head coach at Summit for family reasons but still needs a basketball fix so he turns to broadcasting. He helps lead a student broadcast production for Summit games as they win a state championship in 2012 led by his successor Michael Bradley.

Rich continued his broadcasting career as he catches on over at Xavier to team up with Mike Schmaltz as the broadcast team for the women’s basketball program.

In 2017, Rich adds the Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team to his broadcast schedule. He and his partner Matt Sexton were on the call as the Norse accomplish its first 20-win season as a Division-I program in 2020.

Rich officially got back into high school coaching after a 10-year hiatus when he was hired as the freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School.

He also brings up that his wife, the former Kim Powers, who is a Northern Kentucky athletics legend. The Dixie Heights High School graduate went on to become a six-time All-American as a diver at Stanford University.

You can also follow Rich on Twitter @CoachHoyt

You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe

Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm

For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected]

Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com