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A confession

Post by ineptimusprime » April 6th, 2021, 8:14 pm

This is not intended be a “crap on Coach Smith” thread. I think he’s a great coach that will do well at Utah. But I have to come clean about something.

I absolutely hated listening to interviews with Coach Smith. His voice, his inability to stay on topic, and the lack of any real depth to anything.

I just want to know one thing — am I alone in this?

If I am, that’s totally ok.



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Re: A confession

Post by Aggie in Boise » April 6th, 2021, 8:31 pm

Maybe I'm crazy but I enjoyed listening to Craig.
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Re: A confession

Post by hipsterdoofus21 » April 6th, 2021, 8:35 pm

For me I enjoyed his interviews because in between all the catch phrases and repeated stories I would get actual insight compared to interviews full of only coach speak.
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Re: A confession

Post by cval » April 6th, 2021, 8:40 pm

Interesting you say that. I kept quiet because everyone raved about his enthusiasm, but I also thought he had a hard time staying on topic and tried too hard to say something funny. I wished he would just answer the question.

Not a big deal, but since you brought it up...



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Re: A confession

Post by MrBiggle » April 6th, 2021, 8:48 pm

I loved listening to Smith after the games. He usually got a little more ADHD on the coaches shows though and sometimes got redundant. Overall, a joy to listen to and a huge breath of fresh air that was much needed.


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Re: A confession

Post by Imakeitrain » April 6th, 2021, 9:23 pm

Is it like the Kennedy-Nixon debates? You watch him on tv being interviewed, usually after a win, and he was excited- we were all excited.... but in terms of substance maybe if you were listening there wasn't much to it? :noidea:



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Re: A confession

Post by slcagg » April 6th, 2021, 9:38 pm

Aggie in Boise wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 8:31 pm
Maybe I'm crazy but I enjoyed listening to Craig.
Not a maybe. You are crazy!

Oh and I enjoyed listening to Craig as well.
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Re: A confession

Post by NVAggie » April 6th, 2021, 9:45 pm

I loved his interview after Sam’s shot last year. He meant every word.
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Re: A confession

Post by GeoAg » April 6th, 2021, 9:55 pm

Loved listening to him more than any coach we've had in any sport
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Re: A confession

Post by Roy McAvoy » April 6th, 2021, 9:58 pm

I feel this is incredibly nit picky to complain about that. We’ll find fault with anything. Which I get, we all have things that drive us nuts.

Now all I want to know is the secret behind why he will only ever wear long sleeve shirts in public, and hasn’t ever been seen in short sleeves.
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Re: A confession

Post by Intermeddler » April 6th, 2021, 9:59 pm

I enjoyed his post game interviews but I never really listened to his radio interviews or any of the coach’s shows. I could see his style not working for everyone in that setting.
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Re: A confession

Post by slcagg » April 6th, 2021, 10:00 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 9:58 pm
I feel this is incredibly nit picky to complain about that. We’ll find fault with anything. Which I get, we all have things that drive us nuts.

Now all I want to know is the secret behind why he will only ever wear long sleeve shirts in public, and hasn’t ever been seen in short sleeves.
We need to get a reporter to ask him to bare his arms



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Re: A confession

Post by Aggie84025 » April 6th, 2021, 10:03 pm

ineptimusprime wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 8:14 pm
This is not intended be a “crap on Coach Smith” thread. I think he’s a great coach that will do well at Utah. But I have to come clean about something.

I absolutely hated listening to interviews with Coach Smith. His voice, his inability to stay on topic, and the lack of any real depth to anything.

I just want to know one thing — am I alone in this?

If I am, that’s totally ok.
I was just the opposite i loved listening to his interviews. Now when he speaks its like nails over a chalkboard.



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Re: A confession

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 6th, 2021, 10:18 pm

I loved listening to Craig Smith when he coached USU. His enthusiasm was a nice explanation point after all the wins we had. It probably will come across as pretty annoying with him coaching a rival team. It will also be interesting to see how he handles coaching a bad team which he probably will next year. Things are about to get much more challenging for him. Will he still be this enthusiastic cheerleader or will he resort acting like a normal coach as the losses pile up?



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Re: A confession

Post by ViAggie » April 6th, 2021, 10:23 pm

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Re: A confession

Post by flying_scotsman2.0 » April 6th, 2021, 10:27 pm

I loved listening to him. I was always impressed by his memory. Although I think he sometimes used stats as a filler. I called in the number dump. Almost every interview he had at least one number dump. The dude has a good memory.
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Re: A confession

Post by 2004AG » April 6th, 2021, 10:47 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote:I feel this is incredibly nit picky to complain about that. We’ll find fault with anything. Which I get, we all have things that drive us nuts.

Now all I want to know is the secret behind why he will only ever wear long sleeve shirts in public, and hasn’t ever been seen in short sleeves.
Lucky for you we are running about 22-1 in favor of Craig Smiths interviews.


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Re: A confession

Post by CaptainChaos » April 6th, 2021, 11:16 pm

slcagg wrote:
Roy McAvoy wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 9:58 pm
I feel this is incredibly nit picky to complain about that. We’ll find fault with anything. Which I get, we all have things that drive us nuts.

Now all I want to know is the secret behind why he will only ever wear long sleeve shirts in public, and hasn’t ever been seen in short sleeves.
We need to get a reporter to ask him to bare his arms
We should remind him that we have a second amendment right to bare arms


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Post by CaptainChaos » April 6th, 2021, 11:28 pm

We clearly did not have tickets to the gun show https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dy ... 482857.jpg


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Re: A confession

Post by mcaggie1 » April 6th, 2021, 11:31 pm

ineptimusprime wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 8:14 pm
This is not intended be a “crap on Coach Smith” thread. I think he’s a great coach that will do well at Utah. But I have to come clean about something.

I absolutely hated listening to interviews with Coach Smith. His voice, his inability to stay on topic, and the lack of any real depth to anything.

I just want to know one thing — am I alone in this?

If I am, that’s totally ok.
I’m as sick as you are, I guess.



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Re: A confession

Post by TheAKAggie » April 7th, 2021, 6:02 am

CaptainChaos wrote:We clearly did not have tickets to the gun show https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dy ... 482857.jpg


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Re: A confession

Post by ineptimusprime » April 7th, 2021, 6:44 am

Roy McAvoy wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 9:58 pm
I feel this is incredibly nit picky to complain about that. We’ll find fault with anything. Which I get, we all have things that drive us nuts.

Now all I want to know is the secret behind why he will only ever wear long sleeve shirts in public, and hasn’t ever been seen in short sleeves.
It is very nitpicky, which is why I never brought it up while he was here and only bring it up now as a sort of sanity check. It 100% doesn’t matter, was just curious if I was alone. Sounds like I am mostly alone, which is fine and what I suspected.

Again, I like Smith and appreciate what he did here. But here’s to Ryan Odom having a buttery smooth listenable voice!



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Re: A confession

Post by 3rdGenAggie » April 7th, 2021, 8:42 am

He was definitely a little hard to follow at times, but overall gave a fun interview.


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Re: A confession

Post by hipsterdoofus21 » April 7th, 2021, 9:02 am

ineptimusprime wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 6:44 am
Roy McAvoy wrote:
April 6th, 2021, 9:58 pm
I feel this is incredibly nit picky to complain about that. We’ll find fault with anything. Which I get, we all have things that drive us nuts.

Now all I want to know is the secret behind why he will only ever wear long sleeve shirts in public, and hasn’t ever been seen in short sleeves.
It is very nitpicky, which is why I never brought it up while he was here and only bring it up now as a sort of sanity check. It 100% doesn’t matter, was just curious if I was alone. Sounds like I am mostly alone, which is fine and what I suspected.

Again, I like Smith and appreciate what he did here. But here’s to Ryan Odom having a buttery smooth listenable voice!
Can't wait...
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Re: A confession

Post by Real Life Aggie » April 7th, 2021, 11:22 am

I loved his interviews. The energy and candor was great... I don't like the typical coachspeak we normally see where all they say is "gotta play well, execute, blah blah". He was a bit of an oversharer, even outside of games, which I enjoyed because it gave more insight into things.



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Re: A confession

Post by frankiesaysrelax » April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am

He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.



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Re: A confession

Post by hipsterdoofus21 » April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm

frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.



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Re: A confession

Post by frankiesaysrelax » April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.



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Re: A confession

Post by hipsterdoofus21 » April 7th, 2021, 1:06 pm

frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.
Let's say you could only have one color commentator for the rest of your college basketball loving life and your choices are Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, Beth Mowins, or Bill Rafferty. Who are you choosing?



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Re: A confession

Post by frankiesaysrelax » April 7th, 2021, 1:13 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:06 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.
Let's say you could only have one color commentator for the rest of your college basketball loving life and your choices are Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, Beth Mowins, or Bill Rafferty. Who are you choosing?
Probably Rafferty but I’m tempted to say Walton just because he is always good for a laugh at some of the things that old stoner comes up with.



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Re: A confession

Post by tipitup » April 7th, 2021, 1:26 pm

frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:13 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:06 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.
Let's say you could only have one color commentator for the rest of your college basketball loving life and your choices are Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, Beth Mowins, or Bill Rafferty. Who are you choosing?
Probably Rafferty but I’m tempted to say Walton just because he is always good for a laugh at some of the things that old stoner comes up with.
If you have Walton then you have to hear about the champions conference every other sentence



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Re: A confession

Post by frankiesaysrelax » April 7th, 2021, 1:27 pm

tipitup wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:26 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:13 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:06 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.
Let's say you could only have one color commentator for the rest of your college basketball loving life and your choices are Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, Beth Mowins, or Bill Rafferty. Who are you choosing?
Probably Rafferty but I’m tempted to say Walton just because he is always good for a laugh at some of the things that old stoner comes up with.
If you have Walton then you have to hear about the champions conference every other sentence
It’s “the conference of champions”



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Re: A confession

Post by tipitup » April 7th, 2021, 1:32 pm

frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:27 pm
tipitup wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:26 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:13 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:06 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.
Let's say you could only have one color commentator for the rest of your college basketball loving life and your choices are Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, Beth Mowins, or Bill Rafferty. Who are you choosing?
Probably Rafferty but I’m tempted to say Walton just because he is always good for a laugh at some of the things that old stoner comes up with.
If you have Walton then you have to hear about the champions conference every other sentence
It’s “the conference of champions”
oh ya, i couldn't remember the order, just that it was/is the "champions"!!!!



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Re: A confession

Post by AggiesForever » April 7th, 2021, 1:34 pm

I will miss Craig because of his enthusiasm, but I have a feeling that Odom may be able to get more out of his team. It’s kind of a tweedle Dee tweedle dum thing, because as long as they’re winning I don’t care what they say that much.



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Re: A confession

Post by Bank Shot » April 7th, 2021, 2:20 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 1:06 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:57 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 12:25 pm
frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:49 am
He is a young Dick Vitale who has a hard time reigning in his excitement and passion.
I see him as a color commentator some day. No joke.
Yeah, he is going to be the next Vitale. I get the whole Dick Vitale thing too. He is a positive guy that loves the game, but I don’t enjoy listening to him for very long. It gets old having someone yelling the whole time. It’s like listening to a whole beastie boys album. Yeah they are great but it sounds like the same song every track after a while.
Let's say you could only have one color commentator for the rest of your college basketball loving life and your choices are Dick Vitale, Bill Walton, Beth Mowins, or Bill Rafferty. Who are you choosing?
Give me Rafferty, Mowins, Walton, and Dick in that order.



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