Coach A postgame quotes on Youtube

[Seattle4UT]

I LOVE IT! Coach A claims responsibility and acknowledges the lack of pride in her team's performance with respects to being invited and representing the state and University. She struggled for words at time and I am confident she will right this wrong.

Coach A

 

[hornsgeek]

Class act

 

[txtreefan]

Please: a collection of cliches about effort, practice and intensity. Talk about throwing your players, including your best player of the game, Nneka, under the bus!

This game was lost when UCLA at around the 4 minute mark of first half (Texas up 10-5) went to a zone and stayed in a zone because no adjustments were made by the coaching staff. The offense is stagnant EVERY game. This was not just ONE game. I never see a point guard calling out a set play. In the half-court, it is ALWAYS walk the ball up, pass it around the perimeter and make a bad pass into a post or jack up a shot. We have good post players and to Aston's credit, she has improved their skill set, so mostly it works fine against smaller teams with inferior athletes except for the turnovers, which happen at the rate of 20 plus a game because the passing lanes are so predictable that even inferior teams can reliably pick off the ball.

Turnovers become a huge problem when you play against big strong teams who you cannot outrebound by 20 plus. The defensive intensity was there. Texas still outrebounded UCLA. Sure they got dispirited towards the end, and that was because they could not buy a bucket with such a lame system ( to dignify it with a word it does not deserve) on offense. The team continually looked like it was the first time they had seen a zone. I have watched every game - the half court offense has been very noticeably stagnant in all of them.

Aston was completely outcoached and essentially SCHOOLED by a FIRST YEAR head coach making one very simple defensive adjustment. That is ENTIRELY on her. I did not hear her even begin to take responsibility for that.

(Maybe there is a longer clip" Did she ever talk about why the offense struggled so much with the zone, and how she told her team to break it?)