I listened to this interview a few days ago and thought a recap would be of interest to most, especially now that the regular season is over. It's important to note we've had two disappointing home performances post this interview.
Norwood is in Florida and Dan teases him about spending the whole Winter down there fundraising. Norwood cops to being in Florida for about a week and a half. He was headed to Chicago early in the morning for the women's tournament opener.
Some women's talk about Amanda Zahui B, Norwood says she has 3 things you can't teach: hands, feet and touch. Banham is "didn't go over the water mark" and is fine to come back and she's committed to doing that.
Talk about Kentucky and who Norwood thinks can beat them. Norwood states that it's not a specific team that can beat them, but a hot team. Dan and Norwood reference 'Nova shooting 78% against Georgetown and Norwood thinks it will take a team that gets really hot to beat them.
Talk about the Gophers having 2 games left and what's possible for the team. Norwood says they'd have to catch fire, win the next 2 games then win some in the tournament. He was looking this morning at how many games they would need to win in the tournament to get in (obviously it's now ALL of them). "Richard behind the scenes the way he's running the program the way they're recruiting, we're in great shape, now Richard more than anyone else wishes we had a better year, there's nobody who's more competitive than him, but we've had our moments, we won in East Lansing that hasn't been done since '97".
Barriero: I've heard Richard say, in a moment of candor, ok well even next year we might have to take a step back to ultimately go forward. You look at the roster, you're going to have to have some people come in immediately to be a factor would you not agree?
Teague: Yeah I would. One thing I told Richard is I feel like the reset button begins and the rebuilding process beings now. I know fans don't want to hear this, because the way our roster was ummm was built when he got it the rebuild really starts next year and um that's just the way it is. The change when it occurred we had a lot of kids still on the roster and he was trying to fill some hole and now he can really start that process we'll be very young he's got some kids coming in that have pretty darned good reputations. And, um, we'll see how it plays out, the two kids down low are getting better, so will keep chopping and there's still some room left in recruiting this year and he's constantly out doing it. And you know Richard, even I've said some things about "hey what about this.." and he says listen let's don't take shortcuts lets build this thing the right way and I love hearing that from him.
That ends the Gopher talk, they talk Freshman eligibility then Dan ask who will be a better pro between Towns and Okafor and Teague answer Okafor because of his hands. Teague had what was hinted by Barreiro as a big donor meeting to go as the conversation ended.
Norwood is in Florida and Dan teases him about spending the whole Winter down there fundraising. Norwood cops to being in Florida for about a week and a half. He was headed to Chicago early in the morning for the women's tournament opener.
Some women's talk about Amanda Zahui B, Norwood says she has 3 things you can't teach: hands, feet and touch. Banham is "didn't go over the water mark" and is fine to come back and she's committed to doing that.
Talk about Kentucky and who Norwood thinks can beat them. Norwood states that it's not a specific team that can beat them, but a hot team. Dan and Norwood reference 'Nova shooting 78% against Georgetown and Norwood thinks it will take a team that gets really hot to beat them.
Talk about the Gophers having 2 games left and what's possible for the team. Norwood says they'd have to catch fire, win the next 2 games then win some in the tournament. He was looking this morning at how many games they would need to win in the tournament to get in (obviously it's now ALL of them). "Richard behind the scenes the way he's running the program the way they're recruiting, we're in great shape, now Richard more than anyone else wishes we had a better year, there's nobody who's more competitive than him, but we've had our moments, we won in East Lansing that hasn't been done since '97".
Barriero: I've heard Richard say, in a moment of candor, ok well even next year we might have to take a step back to ultimately go forward. You look at the roster, you're going to have to have some people come in immediately to be a factor would you not agree?
Teague: Yeah I would. One thing I told Richard is I feel like the reset button begins and the rebuilding process beings now. I know fans don't want to hear this, because the way our roster was ummm was built when he got it the rebuild really starts next year and um that's just the way it is. The change when it occurred we had a lot of kids still on the roster and he was trying to fill some hole and now he can really start that process we'll be very young he's got some kids coming in that have pretty darned good reputations. And, um, we'll see how it plays out, the two kids down low are getting better, so will keep chopping and there's still some room left in recruiting this year and he's constantly out doing it. And you know Richard, even I've said some things about "hey what about this.." and he says listen let's don't take shortcuts lets build this thing the right way and I love hearing that from him.
That ends the Gopher talk, they talk Freshman eligibility then Dan ask who will be a better pro between Towns and Okafor and Teague answer Okafor because of his hands. Teague had what was hinted by Barreiro as a big donor meeting to go as the conversation ended.
