Jody Conradt Quotations

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

She's day to day. I know she will not be 100 percent on Sunday. At this point in the season we're being cautious because we know how ankles are. So it's going to be probably game day before a determination is made and there's no pressure on Tiffany to come back. Obviously, I'm hopeful. And, obviously, there's 24-hour surveillance and treatment trying to get her ready.

Right now, it's about connection and chemistry, because this team really likes each other, but they haven't figured out how to get connected on the court. They are all trying, but you have to have impetus on both ends of the floor.

I got tired of seeing her shoot one-foot shots. Let's put her at least 15 feet from the basket and see what she does.

If they look at Nina and she looks like she's befuddled, then they feed off of that. Who else is going to have the composure and experience to step up and do that?

I don't know when Tiffany's going to be ready, so we can't sit around and wait.

I am really going to miss these four seniors. As a group, they represent the best of what student-athletes can be. They are appreciative of every opportunity and resource we have at Texas. They've worked very very hard in basketball. Academically, all of them are a success story. They volunteer and give back in the community. They've guided the freshmen especially well, and each of them has been a great leader and mentor for our young team.

I'm always proud of a team that refuses to lose. There were times we looked like we would totally lose connection to Missouri, but we kept pecking away.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for what he's done for our game. No one was more successful than Dean Smith.

I don't remember another time at Texas when we had more playing time available to a freshman ? We are not banking on the freshmen to give us help in the future. We need them to play now.

If anyone knows how to play the guard position, it's her. I think this article really validated to some of our players that she was a really great player.

I expected this kind of performance after the Georgia game. We probably had an inflated perception of ourselves going into Athens.

This was not the kind of effort we expected. And not the kind of effort that can result in anything but a loss.

I would think extending the court could be one of our biggest changes and something we'll try to take advantage of.

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

It happened to work out that way. But it was competitive, and there were any number of teams that could have won. It's very much the same situation this season.

It had to be one of our defensive efforts. You're always proud of a team that just refuses to lose ... we just kept pecking away.

I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

I think that is pure speculation if we would have won with Tiffany in the game. But I do know that we are very dependent on her energy.

I will say about the WNIT, I remember our football team had to go a couple times to the Holiday Bowl. There was not a great deal of excitement about doing that, and this WNIT is not the NIT.

Our schedule is not going to get any easier. It's a tough road from here on out.

Marsha's obviously done it with class and with style. It's hard to see someone leave our profession who dates back to a time when none of us really knew the potential of our sport. ... You hope there's never a sense of the loss of history.

Marsha is one of those solid people in our profession who has really been instrumental in the growth of our sport.

Marsha has done it with class and style. It's hard to see someone leave who dates back to a time when none of us really knew the potential of our sport.

Well, (today's) game here in Austin will top it all, won't it? Marsha's retiring, and Tech's next game is playing against us.

We have too many injuries, and we didn't have any way of knowing this was going to happen to us. The team we have on the floor right now is not the team we projected having at this point in the season.

Tiffany's competitive and she's relentless. Sometimes she'll try to force some things in double team when we'd be better off kicking it out and finding the open person.

We made critical errors as we had a chance to win. We were up 57-50, and then our wheels start to fall off.

We had a total offensive collapse in the second half. Everything was going our way, but it just fell apart.

We knew she was going to get her points. I don't think you can focus on shutting her down. I would have been happy if she'd gotten 20 and we did what we did what we needed to do the rest of the way. Unfortunately, we gave them a lot of second opportunities. That was the difference in the ball game.

Truly, I appreciate everyone recognizing it, but that's not been on my mind. We need to be as sharp as we can be. We need every win possible. That's been my focus.

We've got to be a lot more aggressive. In several situations, they were more physical than we were.

First and foremost, Bonnie has done a great job. They're really playing well. They're so disciplined. They'll be hard to beat. I think they'll be a factor in the Big 12.

We're improving, but I don't know if we're improving quickly enough. This team has been on its heels for some time. We've been in a perfect storm.

We've had a lot of adversity, and I think losing Tiffany was pretty much the final straw tonight. The one intangible that we've been missing with this team is they haven't understood how to stay connected with adversity.

This team is Nina?s team, there?s no question about that. It?s always been the senior leadership that has to step forward and Nina has played every game since she stepped on this campus and she?s been in a lot of crucial situations ? and she?s the only one.

We just don't have enough offensive weapons. It's hard when every offensive possession is critical.

We went in knowing she was going to get her points. Our goal was to make her work harder for them and we did.

Every time I play against her I know that she's making me pay for this one more time.

Consistency is a big priority for us right now. We're not on the roller coaster we were a few weeks ago.

Duke is really good. There's no question they are good.

Erika was not good tonight offensively. She gave the effort but they weren't the kinds of looks we need to get.

I started the people who competed the hardest against Tennessee. I didn't care what class they were in.

The scoring hasn't been what we thought it would be. But if you look at the rest of her line, it's incredible.

so you can imagine there's a strong sense of urgency.

Coaching is a roller-coaster ride sometimes for all of us. Yes, this has been a difficult year, but this team knows what it needs to do.

That's not the first time she's hit a shot that was like a dagger.

It wasn't the kind of effort we expect. It wasn't the kind of effort that's going to be anything except a loss. It's disappointing, because this team is good enough, but in my mind they have underachieved. Today was probably the low point of that.

It's a hard job, and she's been doing it a long time and doing it really, really well. She'll be missed not only at Texas Tech and by the players she's coaching, but in the basketball community. She's one of the solid people who has been really instrumental in the growth of our sport.

They were aggressive. We gave them way too many fast-break baskets in the first half. I think I counted up (that) there were 26 points off turnovers and fast-break points they had in the first half.

It's not about moral victories or just playing close. But you've got to take some steps, and I think we did today.

Their guards are really good. With the shot clock winding down on certain possessions, you knew one of them was going to take control and we didn't do well in stopping them.

I hope that it's not health-related. I hope it's that she wants a life. It's a hard job, and she's been doing it a long time. And she's done it really, really well. She has been instrumental in the growth of the sport, one of the people who helped get the visibility and credibility we have today.

I'm looking at where this team has been and what we're asking people to do, and I think we're a lot closer today than we've been at any time this season.

In my mind, they've under-achieved. And today probably was the low point of that.

I don't think there's another team in America that is as hard to guard as they are. They wait until you make a mistake, then they knock down shots better than any team I've played.

I could have scheduled more wins for this team, but that's not what this team needed. This is not the team we projected to have on the floor when we started this year. When we put the schedule together, we didn't know who was not going to be available.