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Ron Cameron
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With this new insistence on talking only about sports, does this mean an end to Bea Arthur talk?!
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Ron was the last person to see & talk to Ernie, if you didn't know?
Classy of Ron to point out that Ernie's daughter was adopted. The theme of today's show seems to be parentage.
Classy of Ron to point out that Ernie's daughter was adopted. The theme of today's show seems to be parentage.
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Ron should give okay by play on the rams/Seattle game
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Dave from Windsor asking about Kris Draper. Ron's tried calling him, to no avail.
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Dave also wants to know if Max Scherzer will be coaching Little League baseball. Ron sure does get the callers he deserves.
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How would anykne know if scherzer would coach youth league baseball?
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Did that book of yours come out 30 years ago? Ron has nothing more to talk about.
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By now, I know all of the punchlines to Ron's stories.
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Keith really needs to get a life if he's so obsessed with something like this.
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Not a bad interview with Rich Kincaide yesterday. There was less Dickerson/Price-type giggling, and Rich didn't read from his book.
I felt bad for Windsor Dave when Ron and Rich started talking about something completely different than what Dave called about. I was surprised that Ron remembered that Dave was still on the phone.
I felt bad for Windsor Dave when Ron and Rich started talking about something completely different than what Dave called about. I was surprised that Ron remembered that Dave was still on the phone.
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Yes, exclusively a sports show. One that featured nary a mention of the Soto trade.
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With yet another in a series of failed predictions of a Lions loss, one can only hope Ron can find some comfort in the fact that his unfavored team failed to make the playoffs.
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Midweek Memories
Sunday, March 5, 2017 (Hour 2)
Interview with Ed Coil, Pistons GM in 60s and 70s.
https://www.detroitmoviepalaces.com/ima ... EdCoil.mp3
Some background information on Coil, for those who need it (like me):
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Friday, April 18, 1975
Coil to Quit as Pistons GM
BY CURT SYLVESTER
Free Press Sports Writer
Ten years after he took the job of Pistons' general manager on an "interim" basis, Ed Coil is giving it up.
Coil will announce his resignation at a press conference called by the Pistons for noon Friday.
A successor will not be named at that time, but the Free Press learned that it is extremely unlikely that the GM title will be added to Ray Scott's current positions of coach and director of player personnel.
COIL HAS CONSIDERED leaving basketball for several years but, under the terms of the club's sale by Fred Zollner last summer, he was to remain with the club for the 1974-75 season, completed last week.
At the end of the season, Coil was to reach a decision with the new owners, headed by William Davidson, on whether he would remain with the Pistons or call it quits.
As recently as last week, with the Pistons in the playoffs in Seattle, Coil admitted he had "mixed emotions" about resigning.
Under the new local ownership, Coil did not have to carry the full burden of responsibility as he did when he ran the team singlehandedly for Zollner, who spent most of his time in his Florida home.
But after last year's 52-30 season, there were also greater expectations for the Pistons and there was more pressure when they fell short of those expectations.
There was a run-in between Coil and Scott after Scott's controversial decision to cut forward Don Adams when the Pistons were in the midst of their late-winter slump.
Coil was quoted as saying, in essence: "It's Ray's decision," and Scott felt he was not receiving the public support he should have had from the general manager.
AND IT WAS NO SECRET that Coil had become disenchanted with the changing player attitudes in the 10 years since he had taken the GM job for "two or three months" after the death of Don Wattrick in the fall of 1965.
The combination of those things, plus the knowledge that Zollner would always have a job for him with the Zollner Corp. in Fort Wayne, apparently settled the issue for Coil.
Coil has not indicated what he will do after leaving the Pistons, but Zollner re-affirmed his position on the issue.
"Ed has seniority at the plant," said Zollner, speaking by telephone from his office in Golden Beach, Fla. "We maintained his seniority while he worked for Mr. Davidson."
"There is a position open for him at the plant whenever he wants it," said Zollner.
Zollner said he talked with Coil by phone "a couple days ago" and they tentatively agreed to meet in Florida in the next few weeks.
Coil came into the general manager's job with virtually no basketball training. He was one of Zollner's most highly respected executives in the Fort Wayne plant, and when Wattrick died, Zollner wanted Coil's bookkeeping talent in Detroit.
COIL WAS HEAVILY CRITICIZED in his early years for some of the trades he made. A three-cornered deal that would have brought them Rudy LaRusso for Ray Scott fell through in 1967 when LaRusso refused to join the Pistons. They lost Scott anyway.
The deal that cost them Dave DeBusschere and brought them Walt Bellamy and Howard Komives was another that was not popularly received except in New York, where DeBusschere turned the Knicks into world champions.
The DeBusschere trade, like a couple others that turned sour, was not Coil's idea but as GM he still had to shoulder the blame. The trade actually was engineered by then-coach Paul Seymour.
With the improvement of the Pistons in the last three seasons, Coil felt he had been vindicated.
"I took a lot of guff when we were losing," he said. "Some of it I deserved, some of it I didn't. Now that we're winning, I think I deserve some of the credit."
It was Coil who hired Ear1 Lloyd as the first black coach in Detroit and the first black coach (except player-coaches) in the NBA. Scott also was his personal choice when the Pistons failed to produce for Lloyd.
A new general manager is expected to be named within the next month, possibly with his duties redefined. Scott already has absorbed part of the responsibility as director of player personnel, giving him most of the authority in drafting and trading players.
Sunday, March 5, 2017 (Hour 2)
Interview with Ed Coil, Pistons GM in 60s and 70s.
https://www.detroitmoviepalaces.com/ima ... EdCoil.mp3
Some background information on Coil, for those who need it (like me):
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Friday, April 18, 1975
Coil to Quit as Pistons GM
BY CURT SYLVESTER
Free Press Sports Writer
Ten years after he took the job of Pistons' general manager on an "interim" basis, Ed Coil is giving it up.
Coil will announce his resignation at a press conference called by the Pistons for noon Friday.
A successor will not be named at that time, but the Free Press learned that it is extremely unlikely that the GM title will be added to Ray Scott's current positions of coach and director of player personnel.
COIL HAS CONSIDERED leaving basketball for several years but, under the terms of the club's sale by Fred Zollner last summer, he was to remain with the club for the 1974-75 season, completed last week.
At the end of the season, Coil was to reach a decision with the new owners, headed by William Davidson, on whether he would remain with the Pistons or call it quits.
As recently as last week, with the Pistons in the playoffs in Seattle, Coil admitted he had "mixed emotions" about resigning.
Under the new local ownership, Coil did not have to carry the full burden of responsibility as he did when he ran the team singlehandedly for Zollner, who spent most of his time in his Florida home.
But after last year's 52-30 season, there were also greater expectations for the Pistons and there was more pressure when they fell short of those expectations.
There was a run-in between Coil and Scott after Scott's controversial decision to cut forward Don Adams when the Pistons were in the midst of their late-winter slump.
Coil was quoted as saying, in essence: "It's Ray's decision," and Scott felt he was not receiving the public support he should have had from the general manager.
AND IT WAS NO SECRET that Coil had become disenchanted with the changing player attitudes in the 10 years since he had taken the GM job for "two or three months" after the death of Don Wattrick in the fall of 1965.
The combination of those things, plus the knowledge that Zollner would always have a job for him with the Zollner Corp. in Fort Wayne, apparently settled the issue for Coil.
Coil has not indicated what he will do after leaving the Pistons, but Zollner re-affirmed his position on the issue.
"Ed has seniority at the plant," said Zollner, speaking by telephone from his office in Golden Beach, Fla. "We maintained his seniority while he worked for Mr. Davidson."
"There is a position open for him at the plant whenever he wants it," said Zollner.
Zollner said he talked with Coil by phone "a couple days ago" and they tentatively agreed to meet in Florida in the next few weeks.
Coil came into the general manager's job with virtually no basketball training. He was one of Zollner's most highly respected executives in the Fort Wayne plant, and when Wattrick died, Zollner wanted Coil's bookkeeping talent in Detroit.
COIL WAS HEAVILY CRITICIZED in his early years for some of the trades he made. A three-cornered deal that would have brought them Rudy LaRusso for Ray Scott fell through in 1967 when LaRusso refused to join the Pistons. They lost Scott anyway.
The deal that cost them Dave DeBusschere and brought them Walt Bellamy and Howard Komives was another that was not popularly received except in New York, where DeBusschere turned the Knicks into world champions.
The DeBusschere trade, like a couple others that turned sour, was not Coil's idea but as GM he still had to shoulder the blame. The trade actually was engineered by then-coach Paul Seymour.
With the improvement of the Pistons in the last three seasons, Coil felt he had been vindicated.
"I took a lot of guff when we were losing," he said. "Some of it I deserved, some of it I didn't. Now that we're winning, I think I deserve some of the credit."
It was Coil who hired Ear1 Lloyd as the first black coach in Detroit and the first black coach (except player-coaches) in the NBA. Scott also was his personal choice when the Pistons failed to produce for Lloyd.
A new general manager is expected to be named within the next month, possibly with his duties redefined. Scott already has absorbed part of the responsibility as director of player personnel, giving him most of the authority in drafting and trading players.
Re: Ron Cameron
Nobody, but nobody, makes an interview about himself better than Ron.Bobbert wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:18 pm Midweek Memories
Sunday, March 5, 2017 (Hour 2)
Interview with Ed Coil, Pistons GM in 60s and 70s.
https://www.detroitmoviepalaces.com/ima ... EdCoil.mp3
Ron devoted a good chunk of time talking about - & reviewing the stats of - George Yardley, a Piston who predated his guest's relationship with the Pistons by many years. Maybe, per Ron, the greatest Piston of all time (Ron really must hate Isiah Thomas)! Ron was disappointed to learn that Yardley died in California near Ron was then living. Probably because he could've added Yardley to the list of those whom he was the last to see or speak to in life.
Although they, too, were not part of his guest's reign, Ron brought up how he hired Dick Vitale & that he "broke" the news of Jack McCloskey's hiring (everyone "laughed at him").
Ron again talked about his former roommate, Rich Niemann, telling once again the story about how he was the one to personally break the news of his trade to the Bucks. And how "well" Niemann was playing for Milwaukee (in 18 games, he averaged 8.3 minutes a game, & 3.3 points/rebounds) that Niemann thought he might be the starting center the next (1969-70) season. Since the Bucks then had a 50% chance of landing the then-Lew Alcindor in the upcoming draft, this seems more than a bit dubious. Unless Ron's lost his number, also, I have to wonder why Niemann's never even mentioned as a possible guest.
We got treated to two (!!) "greatest thrill" questions, in the guise of what was the guest's fondest memory of his years in Detroit.
Did we know that Ron once drove a Good Humor truck?! That was news to me. While driving, he said, he stopped & spent an hour at the home of his "very good" friend, Rod Thorn. Other friends mentioned - described as close or otherwise - were Earl Strom, Joe Gushue, Ed Kennedy & Bob Warlock (sp).
Concluding the interview, Ron, patting himself on the back, said, "Good show. Good show."
Ed Coil's 2021 obituary:
https://www.zwickjahn.com/obituary/edwin-coil