My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the recently retired head baseball coach at Northern Kentucky University Todd Asalon. This is super sized two-hour long episode where we cover it all. We talk first about Todd growing up on the Westside of Cincinnati as a good young catholic boy that transferred to Oak Hills becoming a three-sport star for the Highlanders. Todd played baseball at Northern Kentucky University from 1980-83 under the legendary head coach Bill Aker. We talk about “Akes” with this section being exclusive to Todd’s time playing for Aker. After his playing career ends Todd joins the work force running his own catering business until a chance encounter leads to the start of his coaching career. Todd begins coaching high school basketball and later baseball before he becomes an assistant coach at his alma matter NKU under his college head coach Bill Aker. He is hired for his first college head coaching job at Thomas More College. His last two years he serves as the athletic director and he finds it to be a challenge but very rewarding. In 2001, Todd replaces his mentor Bill Aker as the head coach of the Norse. He talks about even to this day it’s still Bill Aker’s program and the responsibility he felt in making “Akes” proud. We talk about all of the great teams he coached during the Division-II era and the challenges that he faced when the athletic department made the leap into Division-I. Todd was good friends and had great rivalries with the other coaches in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. We talk about Todd being at Bill Aker’s side when he passed away in 2011 and how Bill’s wife Joan insisted that he coached his team that day. One little known story we talk bout was how Todd and his pitching coach help stop an unmanned tractor trailer that was rolling through traffic on Alexandria Pike in Highland Heights. As we wrap up Todd talks about some of fondest memories as the head coach of the Norse and what is in store for his future. Todd gives his full endorsement to his pitching coach Dizzy Peyton who is the only candidate with ties to the program interviewing for the job. On June 8, 2021 just days before this podcast is released its announced that Peyton was hired as the third head coach in history of the NKU Norse baseball program. You can follow Todd Asalon on Twitter @ToddAsalon and keep up to date with the NKU Baseball team on Twitter @NKUNorseBSB or via the official NKU Athletics website at nkunorse.com You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm to listen to all episodes on demand and in their entirety. For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to Podcasts@stoveleg.com Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices