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Seg 4 -WBB Coach's Show Dec 15 · Coaches Corner

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  Back here with Coach Orrie. I'm Alive and the Dunk and Music Lounge,
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  iHeartRadio, Heartbord, some of our flagship Hey Ben, why don't you up?
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  Ben's already a head for that microphone because we're gonna get some audience participation
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  here. Shortly. YadA had surgery yesterday to clean up that knee. So
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  that's that's three that we know of that are done for the year. How's
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  a'sy doing two weeks out of surgery? You mentioned last week she was she
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  was doing really well. Yeah, she's doing well. She's doing well.
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  Is she home? Yeah? That makes she's had experience with these That's the
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  problem. You know a lot of these kids, those parents out there that
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  you guys are listening, you know, these kids come to college screwed up.
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  So then you it gets exacerbated because down the levels higher, the competition
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  is obviously much tougher, the intensity levels higher, and so they come from
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  college with all these physical issues that they've accumulated from playing so much basketball and
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  high school and it's just a matter of time. We're not the only team.
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  We're not the only team that's dealing with this stuff. We're just the
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  most high profile team. So you read about us all the time, you
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  know, like Notre Dame's had three ACLS in the last two years, but
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  you don't really hear much about that. You know, there's you know,
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  UCLA's missing kids. North Carolina had three kids missing. Yeah, Utah just
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  lost her number two score. There you go. So by that Pilly kids
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  by the way, he's she's really good. She's really good. So you've
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  got you've got these kids coming out of high school damaged. Uh and Yanna
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  is a perfect example. She's had ten and night a center and Rayney or
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  left me m and her left meee since sophomore year in high school, and
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  it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. You know, you try
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  everything to fix it, make it better, and nothing works. So they
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  had to go in there and have surgery. You know, Asy had a
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  tent a cl in high school and it's just you know, Pages had a
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  really bad ankle in high school and kept trying to think, I can play
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  through it, I can play through it. I can play through it.
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  Comes to college, next thing you know, she's favoring her the other leg
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  instead of the ankle. But but by now we got to fix the ankle,
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  and then the knee happens. It's just NonStop. It's non stop.
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  Carol had how many searcheres she have in high school? Hip surgery h CL.
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  I mean, so they come, they come to college with a lot
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  of stuff and you just have to keep your fingers crossed and hope that it
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  doesn't catch up to him. How's Caroline doing doing? Okay, she's doing
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  okay. You know, it's just it's just something that you can't It just
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  keeps reoccurring. It keeps reoccurring, It keeps reoccurring. That's quality of life
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  now, right, you know, so you when we were in Europe,
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  when we were in Europe, this is the best she looks since freshman year
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  when we were in Europe, right because now partly because she hadn't done anything
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  since May or no, since we lost in Marchep so April, May,
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  June. She practiced a little bit July we go over in Europe. I
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  mean, this is the best she looks in freshman year. There's no line.
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  Now She's running down the floor and Ice catches the ball at a half
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  court, turns around and is throwing it to that guy over there and hits
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  her right in the head where the pass who can't make that up? So
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  it's just it's just and it's not so much just that, but then you
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  know the you know, her neck muscles, you know, because you're constantly
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  tensed up, you know. So in the long term, in the long
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  term, it's what are we talking about here about basketball? Right now?
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  We're we're talking about what's it going to be like ten years from now or
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  whenever. So I think you have to be real careful with this stuff.
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  And it's not worth winning a couple more games if you're gonna put a kid's
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  future in jeopardy, I'd rather not do that. Anybody got a question for
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  coach Ben's got a microphone here, Feel free to put your hand up.
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  Oh, you know the other first, you know the other worst call in
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  the history of basketball. Wearing a big guy or anybody puts their hands up
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  and guy turns around and shoots it, and the ref calls a whistle and
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  goes like, you went like that, And I'm thinking, I don't think
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  they did. But if you're like this and the offensive player gets the ball
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  and goes up into your arms, it's your foul. So they go you
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  have to get your hands up. Okay, my hands are up. No,
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  they have to be like up where see. I see you have to
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  get your aren't behind your ears. So this is the only way that you
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  could do it. Yeah, that's the head getting the offensive player creates the
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  contents on the defense. That's a real good position to be and that's a
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  real athletic position right there right Mine neck hurts right now. So that's the
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  other call that drives me crazy. That was off air question, by the
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  way. All right, I would like to know when you're how much direct
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  control do you have over your non conference schedule? And then I'd like to
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  have you walk us through an instance where you know, we all hear that
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  you like to set up a game so that by the time the girls graduate,
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  they each play so that their family and friends could all be there like
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  Wednesday. Yeah. Well, I have complete control over it. So if
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  I don't want to play somebody, we don't play them. And if I
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  want to play somebody, we play them, provided they agree. So you
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  can either make a non conference schedule that has no good games on it.
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  You can make one that has just a few maybe depending on what kind of
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  team you're going to have the following year. Maybe you adjust your schedule for
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  us, and where our program has been all these years, we can't play
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  that kind of schedule where we just play ten teams that we're going to beat
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  by one hundred and fifty like some schools in America do. We have to
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  play really good teams because that's what our fans expect. You can't charge people
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  what we charge for them to come to the games and then play lousy teams
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  over and over and over again. So you think you're going to have a
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  really good team, which obviously we think we're going to have a really good
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  team every year. So you try to schedule as many good games as you
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  can. And you know, we play in two venues. Unfortunately, I'm
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  not a big fan of that. That we play you know, both in
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  Hartford and in Gamble, so you got to split them up. So you
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  have to have some big, big games in Hartford and some big big games
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  at Gamble. Because some people buy season tickets to both, some just one
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  or the other. So you got all those factors in the consideration. Then
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  you get a TV event. People say hey, we want you to play
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  so and so on national television on this date so you try to put that
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  together because it's good. So we have complete control over our non conference schedule.
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  Putting a game together in someone's hometown can be easy or it can be
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  impossible. So you know, it's it's happened so many times where we had
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  and they're not there anymore. So we had when we recruited Tamika Williams,
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  right, and she's from Dayton, Ohio. So we said, yeah,
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  we'll try to set a game up. We call Ohio State and say,
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  hey, you guys want to play and obviously this is years ago, nobody's
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  there now that was there then, No, if Tamika wanted to play at
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  Ohio State, she should have come here. Well, you're an idiot.
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  You're an idiot because the next kid you want to recruit from there that goes
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  away, they're going to remember you said that. And secondly, if we
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  come there, you're going to sell out the building and win or lose.
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  You that's a w for you. Okay. So then you get like Minnesota
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  where Lindsay Lindsay Whalen was coaching and she said, absolutely, coach, you
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  will do it. Well, then she steps down and a new coach comes
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  in and now you're at their mercy, like if they say no. Now,
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  that's why it's important to get to get a contract signed. The contract
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  signed, the coach is stuck. So fortunately the coach of Minnesota was like,
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  yeah, that's fine, we'll do it. And they had like eleven
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  thousand people at the game, and hell, they played great. They played
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  great, and they haven't lost since then. They've got one loss for the
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  season, I believe. And this is our first year there. So sometimes
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  it's real easy. Sometimes it's real hard. The one in Minnesota, I
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  mean the one in Toronto next Wednesday that was supposed to be us in Pitt
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  Pitt coach was fired. We hadn't signed the contract yet. The new coach
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  goes, how, we're not playing you guys, just like that. So
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  you'd rather lose to somebody else than lose to us. If you're gonna lose,
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  don't you want to lose to us? The University of Hartford used to
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  be like that, you don't want to play us. Now we're gonna play
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  Boston College. They're gonna beat your ass. So you rather say we lost
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  to Boston College, Well, you guys must really stink. Hey we lost
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  the uccount Well, everybody does. You guys must not be that bad,
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  so you be surprised how teams, how teams think. All right, we'll
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  get another question for the audience whill we come back. It's the Wells Fargo.
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  You kind of women's basketball coaches show on their fields.