Fortitude 365Helping Athletes, Coaches, and Teams Perform!

Champions set the standard, not check the score.mp4

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube clip (Fortitude 365) of a press-conference style Q&A where a reporter asks whether the team has grown more comfortable in close SEC games. The coach (Speaker B) replies that they do not focus on the score—comfort depends on how they play, not the quarter or scoreboard—and emphasizes striving to 'dominate' opponents rather than checking the score. The coach notes they have not often dominated as they want but will continue trying.

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With the amount of close games y' all have played, especially since the start of SEC play. Do you feel the comfort level of this team growing in close games as y' all play more of them, or do you feel like those are situations this team has kind of taken to ever since the beginning of the season?
I, you know, I don't ever feel uncomfortable in a game based on the score. I'm uncomfortable in how we play sometimes. But it's not about the fourth quarter, the first quarter, the halftime. The. It's not about the score because we just. We really don't make it about that. You know, if you want to dominate someone, you don't look and check and see what the score is halfway through. The objective is to dominate them, and there's no scoreboard. When you start talking about dominating somebody, you look at the end of the day and see if you did. And we haven't done that very often in terms of dominating the way we want to, but we'll continue to try to.