Lemme tell you how proud I am of Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson

If you love the Maryland Terps, you know the recruiting work of longtime Assistant Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson. Nestor has often told the 1989 story of drafting him Number One overall in a frigid Golden Ring Middle School gym when Bino was 11 years old on a Golden Ring Junior house league team. They finally sat down at Costas Inn to talk about it 36 years later…

Nestor Aparicio and Bino Ranson reminisce about their first meeting in 1989 at a basketball court in Rosedale, where Bino was 11-12 years old. Bino recalls being drafted as the star player by Nestor, who was an assistant coach. They discuss Bino’s coaching career, including his 11 years at Maryland, and his current role at DePaul. They also delve into the evolving landscape of college athletics, highlighting the impact of the NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) deals and the financial pressures on coaches. Bino emphasizes the importance of relationships and player development in the new era of college sports.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Baltimore sports, Maryland basketball, Bino Ranson, coaching career, college athletics, player development, NIL (Name, Image, Likeness), recruiting, player relationships, coaching strategies, Maryland Terps, basketball team, player motivation, college sports landscape, player compensation.

SPEAKERS

Bino Ranson, Speaker 1, Nestor Aparicio

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Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 tasks of Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. I want to stand because I’m at Costas. Hey, what’s going on? See, I’m at Dundalk. Man, I run into all the beavers. People are here. Everybody’s here. I all pop in my system here. But much love to the beavers family of Dundalk. We’re Costas. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland crab cake tour. And binos got me all discombobulated because I don’t even have my scratch off tickets ready to go here, but I do have some Roz is gonna give me some fresh Back to the Future scratch offs, but I have a handful of the magic eight ball, and we are Costas. Today is Mr. Costas, his birthday or and we’re honoring him. I have all of these beautiful tributes. I’m staring at him. Don’t make me cry. If you make you can make me cry just because you You made me cry when you were little. I got a very special guest out here lay and I it’s been a long time coming to have you on when you were Mr. Biggie pants at the Terps and all that, you would come out and do my charity events and whatnot. But I’ve known this young it’s, it’s great that you’re shorter than me, because you’re not really shorter than me. Real Life slouching. I met be, no, what year was it? Be No, I’m talking like I’m your coach. 8889 8889 I met be no in a gym. On, on in Rosedale. We were at the golden ring Junior High. How old were you when I met you? I was like 13. You weren’t 1314,

Bino Ranson  01:40

No, you were younger than that. Well, like 1112 1112 something like that. Yeah, 1112

Nestor Aparicio  01:45

so we had a house league, a basketball and I don’t know where Michael fountain is. Michael fountain was one of my best friends at the time. We had a we had a party house up on Kane Street, Kenny, and we used to party up there with the girls the beavers of the young lady just left here. Her sisters were always at my house, so we had some refreshments at the house. You know, girls were there, whatnot. Now was so I was 21 at the time, 1989 and Mike fountain said to me, Hey, man, we’re gonna code this a pretty good fountain too. Hey, man, we’re gonna coach a team, man, we’re gonna coach a basketball team. I got my I need some help. You could be my assistant coach. And I’m like, fountain. I got a job at the paper. I’m chasing rock stars. I’m doing high school sports. I win this league Saturday morning, dude, I don’t get up till Saturday afternoon. What do you mean Saturday morning? By

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the way, I thought you was the head coach, but go

Nestor Aparicio  02:47

ahead, fountain was the head coach. I was the assistant. I was just the assistant, believe me. And it was at eight o’clock in the morning every Saturday morning. And the first week, we went over to pick up kids. So there’s 3040, kids in the league, and we got to pick teams, and there’s like six teams in the league, or whatever it was, and we watched them all shoot. So now we’re all like scouts. You know what it’s like to be a scout? A little bit? Yeah, I bet you do. So Bino spent his whole life scouting, and I had to scout that day, and we got the first pick in the draft. So you made the first pick and then you didn’t pick again to like the 12th pick, right? Because there were six teams in the league, right? You went up and back. We took Beano with the first pick in the draft, because this kid was ambidextrous. He was amphibious. He could go left, the right, the right, the left. No conscience at all. I mean, you thought George Gervin shot the ball. You should have seen 11 year old being a ransom. So we drafted him. He was our star player. And many years later, so that was 1989 probably about 2000 in 1234, you showed up in the living room on my radio station, and you were with, were you with Keith booth? No, you were with from Towson. You were with Lee. You were

Bino Ranson  04:12

Kirk Lee, Kirk Lee. And also Kevin Norris, who actually he coached at University of Maryland this year, and he actually went on, went up to Villanova with so

Nestor Aparicio  04:23

he was in my in the radio station that day, too. Alright. So 2122 years ago, something like that. It was Kirk was running the center down it, and in what became the Carmelo Anthony center, he was running that down the Under Armor center. So Beano was the only kid I ever coached in my life, and you became a coach. You have made me cry over that, over these years when I’ve watched you, I have a story about you, dude that you don’t even know, but you how many years you coach at Maryland with uturg 11.

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Bino Ranson  04:58

You. You did 11 years. I did 10. One with Gary Williams. So Gary brought you in. Gary bought me in. He hired me from Xavier. And then turgen retained me when he came from Texas, A and

Nestor Aparicio  05:13

M, all right, so you did 11 years with the Terps. I don’t think I ever had you on the show during that period of time. I would call you, you came and I did celebrity things for my wife. We did things for LLS. I remember seeing you at Bruce Chris one night with some people and all of that. But here’s my Beano coaching story where you, like, got me, you got me right, because I don’t really know you as a man other than on TV, and we’ve known each other all these live. You know, our lives have unfolded the way we have. And I’m so proud of you. I can’t begin to tell you how proud of you I am. So Luke and I are covering the combine in Indianapolis. This was the year you had. Suleiman, you guys were really good. Solomon, What year was this? 1617? Somewhere in there,

Bino Ranson  06:01

something like that sweet 16 that year, Romelo trimbo, she sulaman, diamond stone. Diamond stone was on that team, correct? Yeah. Robert Carter, Rashad pack, I think was on that team. We were loaded. JAKE LAYMAN,

Nestor Aparicio  06:19

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Jake Layman, okay, another MBA or so. So we were loaded on that in that season. You played a big game at Purdue. You played it Mackie, and we just happened to be freezing our asses off out in Indianapolis on that trip. And it we looked at the schedules like Maryland at Purdue was the weekend. It was a Saturday of the combine. We went in a little early. Made a little thing, and on that Saturday, we got in the car, we drove up to Purdue and we went to Mackey. And what a biblical me, what a religion that’s like a Lambo field kind of place to see a game, right? So I went in there, and that place is on fire with the with the Boilermakers, and they’re yelling, you suck to Indiana, and Indiana even there, yeah. So we went in for that game, and I got there super early. I was still a media member then. So was Luke was two, and we had press passes, and we got there super early, and we went into the John Mackey room in the John Mackey center, in the John Mackey VIP area and the John Mackey lounge. And Dicky V was in there, baby. Dicky V was there that day. You they were like, in the top 10. You might have been like 17, and they were like, maybe five or six or so. There was two top 20 ranked teams about to get at it at Mackey. And for whatever reason, the media Lounge is right by your locker room there. It’s like a down because it’s such an old circle building. You know, it’s very it’s not like a new building. And I saw you in the faces of all of your players. You circled them up, and I was 10 feet away, and you had you all looked spiffy. You look like an official. You look like you’ve been coaching 11 years in Big 10 basketball. And, man, you gathered those guys and you got them. What? Do you call that? That you do. You remember what you did that day? What is that? It’s like a circle. And it was like you were the leader and dude, you were 11 years old again for me, man, you made me. I came back to my seat. Looks like, are you all right? I’m like, I just had a moment. Beto just lost his mind in front of diamond stone. Yeah.

Bino Ranson  08:39

Well, what I would do is, you know, before every game, before they took the court, I like to round the guys up and just give them one last word of encouragement, to motivate them, to have them to go out there and just leave it out all on the court. So as a coach, you know, 30 if you got, if you plan 34 games, you have 34 different messages that you’re going to give them. So that’s something I’ve always done, and that’s what you witnessed. Well, I witnessed

Nestor Aparicio  09:10

it. I did witness it. Beat a ransom. Is here. I’ve known him since he was a boy. He hates that. He’s taller than me, but wanted to sit down. I think there’s some old school thing, but I want to stand up. How are you and what are you now, I saw you opening day. I was with Brian COVID, and we took a picture together. And I said, Are you still at La Salle? Right, with no, where was it? Where were you? I was at DePaul. De Paul, that’s what? Well, you were in Chicago, Illinois. Okay, so when did you leave DePaul? I get the Paul Xavier, the saga them all mixed up.

Bino Ranson  09:41

Spring 23 okay, spring of 23 the

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Nestor Aparicio  09:45

state of college athletics. Now I don’t understand. Okay, so I had Len Elmore on this week. I have Walt Williams on last week. I had Pat scary sitting and do the show with me. Couple days after they got a. Minute in their tournament. Very unfortunately, he did that Friday with me. That was really the tournament Friday, because they lost that game on Monday. And, you know, I sensing this. I, you know, I’m COVID state sponsored, so I’ve, you know, I have Stu on, I have coach, Coach Woods on as well, on the ladies side. I don’t understand this. And you come from the old world in a big way, being a player, being a guy that was, you know, knowing players, and over Mount St Joe, your kids playing. Explain this to me like you’re the teacher and I’m the student. Let’s, let’s change roles here be no

Bino Ranson  10:38

Well, it’s just a new landscape in terms of college athletics, and now kids are able to earn money off their name, Edmonton likeness. And there’s a lot of money being thrown away around to these kids. And you know, rightfully so. I, you know, I believe kids should be paid, paid to play, and that’s what’s going on. And you know, you have revenue sharing from the television that that’s going to come into play, that you have, like, something called a collective, where you have, like, the boosters, or people with us, friends of the program, they pitch in to a big collective to offset the number in terms of what players may ask for.

Nestor Aparicio  11:31

I mean, predictive of this 15 years ago, when Gary hires you, Turgeon comes in and what it was then versus now. And you say I believe the kids should be paid the time. It always freaked me out. Was the first Thursday of March Madness where every bar is packed in America. They’re playing all day long. Everybody’s got their brackets, everybody’s gambling, do whatever they’re doing, and everybody’s making money, the broadcasters, the coach, everybody’s making money, except the kids dribbling. I always found that to be wrong. I’ve always said it’s wrong. I’ve been on a year, 34 years, I think I figured out right around the point where you were at college, 2530 years ago, this was kind of a screwy system. The more that Gary Williams made, the kids weren’t making any and I watched it all change during my career, but I didn’t know it was gonna turn out like this, and I didn’t know what it was going to do to my interest level in it. And I don’t know why that is, because it’s pretty basic that people that are generating revenue in this country should be getting compensated for that, right? And I mean, back in your era, what year you graduate, you went up to New Hampshire. Somebody asked me when you went away COVID. Said, Where did he play ball? I said, he played up in New Hampshire. My wife’s in New Hampshire right now, but you played at my wife’s Alma Ma, Southern New Hampshire. Absolutely so in What years were those? I left there in 9999 All right, so this will give you an example of how screwed up college sports were, and I don’t need to tell you, because you went off to school and you recruited and brought kids in. I am, I’ve been Coppin State Sponsor for a long time. Were one of their flagships, but back in the late 90s, when fangs team won the 98 team, when Larry, you know, all those guys, he was gone by. He was in the NBA at that point, but when they won, I had them out to my studio. So you were same age as all those kids since 1998 in May, and I brought 15 kids into my little studio over it. We were at the Sheraton in towsons, before I own the station. This is Michael Hodie station, and Mama elardo’s was our pizza sponsor at the time. And they brought pizzas in, and we had pizza for all the kids. And there’s no internet. It’s 1998 my partner took pictures of me, of all of us in the studio, because I’m proud I got the whole cop and team in the studio. We’re making a big deal. Nasty Nestor, all that just 27 years ago, and Fang sees the pictures, and before on the way out, all the kids are leaving, fan grabs me, says, Hey, man, you can’t have them pictures with the pizza in it, man, because if the kids get caught eating pizza, that’s free pizza. Man, that’s against the rules, and that’s not a good Fang, that’s a fair. Fan Yeah. Fang, I get a little bit lower for Fang, yeah, but um, and I’m like, I’m 30 years old time I’m, like, I just fed these starving, copping kids some pizza, and I broke rules, you know? I mean, like, literally, that’s how crazy the old system was.

Bino Ranson  14:30

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The old system people was getting pinged for the little things. I mean, the little things like, you know, you look at coach Wade, I mean, he got pinged say he was taking somebody to

Nestor Aparicio  14:43

class, right, right? He was driving the kid to class, right, you know, or his assistants,

Bino Ranson  14:47

whatever. But you know, if you look at it, you know, when you sit in someone’s living room, the thing that you talk about is that their their kids going to graduate. You’re going to make sure they graduate. So taking a kid to class. Class. You’re not giving them money, but you’re taking a class to get educated. And you would think that that’s something that will be

Nestor Aparicio  15:07

permissible, but that’s not the same thing you’re selling anymore. Beano, right? I mean, when you go into kids now, it’s how much money, it’s a professional gig. What are you selling now? What do you what does your kids a good player, right? What is that opportunity going to look like for your son at Mount St? Joe, well,

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Bino Ranson  15:27

obviously, you know, he loves, My son loves the game, so he’s going to look at number one, an opportunity to get on the floor and play, you know, because that’s, that’s why you play the game, so that you can play Um, now with this new landscape, you know, after you talk about the plan, the opportunity that you’re going to have, that’s one conversation. Now the other conversation becomes what your in il look like? Do you guys, have n i L,

Nestor Aparicio  16:01

well, this is where the landscape changes for a layman. I mean, that’s all I am. I mean, I think I’m an expert about certain things with sports this n, i L, world I am every day trying to understand the portal, the opportunity, what the old world look like, what the new world looks like. And then, to your point, like, how much money? But where’s this money coming from? Boosters? Steve Bucha, he once said he would buy Maryland if he could have bought Maryland. Now, I think boosters can buy lots of things, but the Willard thing specifically in him going to Villanova, as has been explained to me, is, well, Maryland’s got to fund more sports. Villanova didn’t have to worry about a football team. They’re going to be able to put more money into a bat. So now you can have schools that are become specialty schools. And I don’t, I don’t know how that gets portrayed. For the highest paid state employee in Willards case, right? The Highest Paid man in the state leaves because the opportunity in Maryland’s not good enough, from a basketball standpoint, to do the things that you need to do to pay players. And then there’s the whole portal part of every single year, everything that you did that day at Mackey to inspire those young people, it’s a whole different level of like, why they’re there and what they’re doing, because to say, I’m gonna get you an education, you gotta you’re selling a different car right now, right?

Bino Ranson  17:29

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, a different car is definitely being sold. And the money that’s being tossed around, I mean, is pretty good. And in when you talk about getting an education, you were going to school to get an education so that when you finish school, you can, you know,

Nestor Aparicio  17:50

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stop playing ball. Story, if the state pays me more than university, yes, right? I mean, literally, yeah,

Bino Ranson  17:55

but so what I’m saying is, you know, it used to be like you go to school, you play ball if you go to the NBA, yeah, if not, you got your education to fall back on. You could get a job paying, you know, a nice piece of change right out of college. But now, you know, you tell a freshman, freshman could make north of $200,000

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a year,

Nestor Aparicio  18:22

and to your point, our boy and he gets on the floor and plays the way you wanted to play, the way, and he plays at a level that’s too good for Towson State, or too good for the next place, or even too good for Maryland and Villanova as more money, right? I mean, so it’s not even just mid major to, hey, I can step up my game and play at a different level of college basketball. The money will come in, the recruiter will come. There’ll be a Beano there, to be there, to be a part of that,

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Bino Ranson  18:52

right? Yeah, absolutely. You know, in this it’s just, it’s just wild, right? Now, I’ll just, I’ll just, I’ll just say that it’s wild, and it changes every day. It’s like the stock market. It changes every day, especially in terms of recruiting. Today, you could be worth 150,000 tomorrow, you might be worth 275 it’s just that simple, holding

Nestor Aparicio  19:17

out for the bigger, better deal. This is basically an open negotiation period right now with the portal, right we got hundreds of kids in the portal, 1000s of kids, 1000s of kids, 1000s okay, you’re looking for a gig to get back into this industry. If I’m the new athletic director, Marilyn, I could conduct this interview with you. What? What do you bring into this, that that historically is different? Because I’m wondering, if you don’t have a gig at this point, who are the people that have gigs, and how the gig has changed from three years ago to today, right? Like, just literally since the plague, right? Yeah, I just

Bino Ranson  19:57

think you know some, some. Four things still holds value, a lot of value, and that’s relationships. That’s something that’s going to stay around for a long, a long time. You still need relationships and recruiting. And same thing, you know, having somebody that can build, even if you’re going to build a team year to year, you still need guys. That’s that, that besides coach them, coaching,

Nestor Aparicio  20:24

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that’s it. Keep going. I got crab cakes coming in for cost. Thank you. Good. It’s a crab cake door. I mean, for crying out loud, you can’t have a crab cake door without crab cakes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let’s do it. No,

Bino Ranson  20:34

I’m just saying, like, just beside the coaching and recruiting. If you go to build a team from year to year, if you come to play for me, I need to be able to establish a great relationship with you, a great relationship. Whereas, though, even if you’re only there six months, yeah, even if you’re there six months, well, that’s how you’re going to keep them there a year and six months, right? I mean, yeah, yeah. So you still, you know, that’s, you know, to you ask the question, what would value that I that I can bring in this new world, besides coaching? Because, you know, obviously we all can coach, right? So I think it comes down to being able to maintain relationships with the players, establish relationship with the players. Try to get the most out of that player. You know that that that’s still something

Nestor Aparicio  21:26

they want, something different now than they wanted five years ago.

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Yeah, money, period, period.

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Nestor Aparicio  21:35

So once they have the money and they’re on campus, then what makes them happy? Like in Maryland this year, five guys played the rest of the guys didn’t play right? Like, there’s gonna be a little bit more of that, because if you’re paying guys you want, you know you’re gonna play them like mules, right? I mean, literally, it is a complete business transaction at that point. I just, I can’t imagine how much this changes the relationship that you’re talking about your strength, which is this bond thing, that, quite frankly, they’re not looking for a husband. They’re looking for a date, right? Literally, they’re not looking to be married to a university. Yeah, yeah. They’re not looking to be looking for a summer job. They Yeah. They looking to get paid, and at the end of the day, when the clock strike 12, you still want to win. So players, you know, the good ones, they’re going to want to build relationships, they’re going to want to get better as a player. So that’s something else that I bring to the table in terms of player development, getting players better. Because, you know, that’s what you want to do through, through the course of that six that six months, okay, you want to you want to get better

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every day. You want to be pushed down. But

Nestor Aparicio  22:39

if you make him too good. They’re gonna go play for tech, right? Yeah, no. Well,

Bino Ranson  22:43

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you know what? You know what? That’s the price of doing business. That’s the price of doing business. That’s, that’s what the new landscape is. And so you gotta, you got, you gotta adapt. You gotta,

Nestor Aparicio  22:54

or you gotta pay that kid more money next year,

Bino Ranson  22:56

or you pay more money if you know, if, if you want a mistake,

Nestor Aparicio  23:01

be no ransom is here, and so are our crab cakes. It is the Maryland crab cake tour. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. Have the magic eight ball on what? What jersey number did you wear? 30. This is number 28 I’m gonna have to get you a ticket number 30. I got number 30 right here. I’m gonna get be no number 30. So you can be lucky here. We’re at Costas. So we do this each and every week, next week, we’re going to be at Beaumont on Wednesday, or, excuse me, Thursday, we’re going to be at Beaumont. And then the following two Wednesdays, we’re going to be at Cooper’s pub north in Timonium. And I’m hoping that Jessica long join me out there. Saw her there last week with her hubby and their dog. Also on the 30th, we’re going to be a Cocos pub. So the Maryland crab cakes were presented by the Maryland lottery crab cakes. For all that you’re you’re broiled, yeah? Why broiled? Not fried? Are you like healthy? Yeah. Try to be, you know, I thought you had Dundalk roots. You got done dog roots, right? So I am. You came in today with your partner here from Edmondson village, via McDonough. I didn’t go to McDonough. I went to Dundalk. All right. Never Patapsco. You know that this neighborhood, you sat here and you said something to me, like, I got relatives in terms of something like, I’m like, I went to school with Winky, yeah, and so I mean same last name as you. And I guess it took me a while to put together. Now, how are you and ranzelis related? My my

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father, his mama, sister, so which makes us first

Nestor Aparicio  24:24

cousins. First cousins. Did you ever play any ball of Turners? Or

Bino Ranson  24:28

I didn’t spend too much time in terms you were Fontana, right?

Nestor Aparicio  24:31

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You don’t you Sedona. Okay, so you went to St Francis, correct? Yes. And then Southern New Hampshire, yes. And then I only knew of you at Xavier. Did you have a gig before Xavier?

Bino Ranson  24:46

I started Loyola with Patos, then I went to Marist with

Speaker 1  24:50

Jimmy’s. The one that gave you his first gig, Jimmy. Jimmy love him. Well, he would appreciate

Nestor Aparicio  24:56

Costas is good Greek joint. Yeah, right, yeah. Taconus. Yeah. Well, so how did that happen? How did you meet Jimmy Pat SOS?

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Bino Ranson  25:04

Well, you know, Juan Dixon is a coach family friend. And you know, Juan played down at Maryland, and you know, I was a big, always a big Terp fan. That

Nestor Aparicio  25:14

was your era, right? Yes, one a little older than you, younger, younger than you. Okay,

Bino Ranson  25:18

so, you know, always go down to the Burling games. I worked in Merlin Gary Williams camp, and we just built, what, what I talked about before, a

Nestor Aparicio  25:27

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relationship, right on, right? I built a relationship with bass too. Yeah, we

Bino Ranson  25:31

built a relationship. And so, you know, he gave me opportunity to break into business at Loyola, to help him build a program in Baltimore. And,

Nestor Aparicio  25:39

well, Jimmy, you did good. You giving this kid a chance? Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. He just lost his wife. My heart to Jimmy. I, you know, I saw him recently, and because the contractual obligations with the monumental Sports Network, he’s available to me, so I don’t have Jimmy on anymore. But the best, well, absolutely, I would eat your crab cake. Okay, Peter ran since here he’s getting get me Ed. You got more educating for me? You’re gonna coach me up in the next segment. Yeah, I’ll bring that coach. Ranson, okay, I played the role of like, you’re the look, because you’re always a little boy to me. And now I know how it is when people are older than me and they treat me that way. I’m like, I’m 56 years old. Don’t treat me like that, dude. I’ve known you since you were 14, and I’m like, I keep forgetting that, and I always think of them once. Somebody’s paternal. It’s weird, right? I’m always the weird adult screaming at you being out past the damn ball. I said that a lot, didn’t I?

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Yeah, well, you said shoot the ball too, so, you know? And

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Nestor Aparicio  26:39

he did. He filled it up. You still ambidextrous?

26:43

Yeah, I still go right. I still go left, yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  26:45

Are you right? Are you right? Yeah, right hand? Yep. You played a lot of left handed basketball, yeah? Well,

Bino Ranson  26:53

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I had, you know, a lot of good righties. They love, they love to handle their left. They love the, you know, they love to set you up with the

Nestor Aparicio  27:01

left I think the thing that made you even more dangerous as a young boy when I coached you was that I just asked you if you’re right handed or left hand, and I coached you, and I would have guessed you were left handed. Yeah, because when I see you, I remember where I coached you would come toward me with the ball and you were, you were dribbling left handed, which made you freaky, deaky, because kids didn’t, nobody handled the ball with their left hand, because nobody at 11 was left handed right. So it made you weird and way harder, I think, for a confused kid to defend, not at least what you were athletic. You drove the lane. You were fearless. You for turning out to be a coach, and I think you know this. You didn’t take well to coaching. You’re aware of this right, right

Bino Ranson  27:50

then at that point, at that point, maybe I was, I was a little a little feisty and little

Nestor Aparicio  27:56

fired up, or

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maybe you didn’t have good coaching. Coach. I love

Nestor Aparicio  28:03

this kid. How old are you now? 40?

28:07

Just turned 50.

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You’re 50. Yes,

Nestor Aparicio  28:13

God, how you were 11 a minute ago? Yeah, well, and I was hung over eating McDonald’s on the sideline trying to coach you, alright, yeah, mom, want you to get back into college basketball. It’s where it’s working, yeah,

Bino Ranson  28:26

it’s where my heart, where my passion is. No, I never done I’ll get back. You know, it’s been a great two years to be out with my boys, my two boys, I got a Bradshaw. He goes to St Mark’s BJ, goes to Mount St Joe, and they both doing great. Bradshaw, he’s gonna go to Gilman next year and play lacrosse in basketball, and BJ will finish up his senior year

Nestor Aparicio  28:49

with the gales gals. They were purple. Look good over there. They were. You know what happens with the private schools? I say something nice about I never say nice about Calvert Hall. Let’s start with that, but, and that really pisses them off. But anytime I say that, then the Loyola people come in, the McDonough people get all met the gilmans, the St Paul’s, I get all of that over here. It’s curly. It’s all, you know. So somebody will come in here and they’ll give me a hard time. I’m like. My side of town is Patapsco and spares point. Maybe Ken would, you know you have to use for them. But I’m done, dog, yeah, but this whole private school thing, I you know, the Mount St Joe thing, you had your tentacles in there long before your kids went there, right? Yeah, you I was there the day. He calls me. He’s like, hey, Nestor, you’re still in the media, right? I’m like, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, man, we were signing another Durham or sell. There’s a come over there tomorrow we can sign. And I went over. I couldn’t even get in. I was I’ve watched him do his signing from glass outside, really, because it was so mobbed inside the St. Joe, yeah, I drove over there, west, west side of Baltimore. Yep, I never way over. There they let me in. Yep, past my get my passport stamp when I cross in the west side of Baltimore, you know, but your East Side guy, then what are you doing sending kids over to West Side? Well,

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Bino Ranson  30:11

it wasn’t me. It was, you know, Coach clash. He did a great job of recruiting them. So that’s where he wanted to go. Not getting

Nestor Aparicio  30:17

paid yet, right? Not yet, not yet. We’ll see. I hope he’s like a Steph Curry sugar daddy for you. Well, he

Bino Ranson  30:22

could, he could shoot he could shoot it. Now that’s what I want, because he could shoot it. So we’ll see you. Just got to keep getting better. You get you keep getting better.

Nestor Aparicio  30:29

Coaching money account. Listen to him. Yeah, 50 years old. Beano rants, all right, we’re gonna get crab cake here before it gets 50 years old. It’s all brought to by the Marilyn ladore Costas, I want to come back and be nos gonna interview me and gonna teach me a few things, because I’ve waited a long time to have him on. I’m back for more. We’re Costas. We are wnst am 15 70,000 Baltimore, stick with us, coaching us up. The student becomes the teacher, my man.