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Episode Date: November 6, 2025

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Coach, it is interesting times indeed in that you see things happen in sports and then you want to go to people who could tell you what what they're thinking would be and what their process is that helps fans understand what happens behind the curtain. It helps fans understand what's happening in live moments. Tennis is unique because I can say that I don't remember many live action injuries. in a match. Why is that? Is that just the sport?

Is it, you don't see the, the friction on friction injury. Sometimes it's an ankle or a tendon or something along those lines. But why is that? What is, is it just that the conditioning and the movement is so controlled and understood? I would say that,

you still get, you know, every year there's an ankle here. there's a knee there or a hip or you know you slip and fall and someone breaks their wrist that that stuff still happens in our sport it's not as bad as other sports for sure but um you get more um what our trainer like just likes to call it as overtraining uh injuries with yeah shoulders uh shoulders wrists back you know everyone's a little bit different depending on their technique and stuff so you can kind of work with those and and you know the way we do our practices we kind of try and

get what we need to get done but also be mindful of their bodies so we don't overcompromise them and where those things can happen but we have like every now and then you'll get a sprained ankle and and that's that's probably the most abrupt injury that you can get while you're playing like it does happen from time to time but other than that most of them are kind of just overuse you know this has been going on for some time or, you know, we're going to need to give it a break to kind of, you know, get it back to 100%. What are the conversations that happen? Again, you've got several matches going on at the same time. So if you see it, you will have an immediate reaction and input. But what if you don't see it in full and the athlete is hurt? You approach the athlete. What are the priorities for you? Yeah, I mean, you can't, I mean, for me, it's okay. like, look, what happened?

You know, how bad is it? You can tell more or less, especially after you use, you know, you're around them for a long time, what their pain threshold is and, you know, how they've handled, you know, small, smaller injuries beforehand. So you kind of get a feel for it a little bit there, but you kind of got to trust, you know, for me, I always put the trust into the medical personnel, you know, our athletic trainer. If there's a doctor there, you know, you can't, you can't put a, student athlete in dangerous way ever so if if it's something that they could play through from

from an athletic standpoint or athletic treatment standpoint and the student athlete's willing to try then you know i'm like okay two check marks like let's see if not then if you don't get those two check marks then it kind of is what it is and you you have to you kind of have to live with it so and then what is the communication process with parents about injuries either in practice or matches so that it's just how it is with everything else some some parents are more um in you know intimate with the relationship with with me and and everything going on here some people stay far away if it's a severe injury like we'll kind of reach out and talk to them this is a long-term thing a lot of times a student athlete will do that and i'm like hey like

if you if your parents want to reach out and talk like we're always going to put your best interest um first and if it's a really bad injury like you're you're going to be the one that decides like how we handle this have you ever had a parent call you with suggestion that you not play that you play or not play a player i haven't yet but i'll knock on wood um i have i've been pretty fortunate there you know the kids that we we have on the team are great that and you know it's no surprise that they come from great families and they also trust me and they know that okay like you know they're not getting these stories back sent back home we're like oh like we're you know my shoulder's falling off and he's not letting me stop what is the what is the what is the

what is the priority and focus so player coach trainer injury happens what's the pecking order of power where finally somebody can override and say this they're done playing or they're good to play yeah I think it's the doctor the doctor is the one that this that really decides so if there's they have an injury they go to the athletic trainer if the athletic trainer thinks it needs to go to the doctor then it'll go to the doctor and then you know once a doctor rules on it then it's you know that it is what it is at that point that's the judge gavel down i would as when i first started coaching and where i am now i think my opinion on it has changed i was like not like we don't need to go the doctor you know you're fine and now it's like hey let's go to the doctor let's make sure it's

all that's all it's everything's handled everything's okay if we need to get a scan let's get a scanned let's get on top of it. You know, I think like if you scan enough parts of your body, even if you're healthy, you'll probably find something wrong. But, you know, I think if there's an acute injury and something's bothering you, I think finding out as much information as you can and being able to come up with a plan and then making sure that I think it builds a level of trust between you and the athlete as well. Like, hey, like he cares more than just about winning.

He also cares about my long term and short term. health. Those are the goods, man. Those are the goods. Coach, before we let you go and get you out of here, it is a big bounce back opportunity for the football program. How do you think this plays out, kind, sir? I think it plays out in our favor for sure. I think getting out to California, getting into some nice weather, letting it fly, letting the ball rip. We got a lot of, even though we didn't win last week, I think we played a really good game. We played a hell of a game. Those guys know it in there. Those guys believe it. Our time's coming. So I'm taking the Huskers this weekend again. If your number one goes down and you have to slide everybody up, is that a rally point

or is that a fear thing? Rally point, maybe. Rally point. That's what I expect from the guys this weekend. I think they're going to go out there and do that and keep the good momentum of this season riding. Seven and three doesn't sound bad. I'm just going to say. Absolutely not. Coach, thank you for always adding teaching coaching. We appreciate you. We'll do it again next week.

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