It's quiet in UtesCoachRob's office Wednesday, until UtahWBB asst. coach Jerise Freeman arrives, yelling good morning to the entire floor. “She does that ... every day,” says Roberts with a smile. We spent a day with Lynne Roberts. Read about it here.
Utes assistant coach Jerise Freeman has entered and she is yelling good morning to the entire floor, certainly loud enough for everyone to hear.None of this was unusual. Roberts knew what was coming. She knew the early morning would be quiet, and she knew Freeman would burst through the door like a firecracker. These Utes have enjoyed unprecedented success this winter, largely because of consistency and routine.
This may be an NCAA Tournament weekend, but things are normal around the office. Utah is set to conduct its 87th practice of the season, so a practice schedule is printed off, complete with what’s going on, from film/scout at 9 a.m., all the way through each individual drill, and how long each will take, on the women’s practice court through about 11:30.
By 9:30 a.m., Utah is on the practice floor. Before anything tangible begins, a ball rack, stamped with the NCAA March Madness logo, containing new basketballs stamped with the same logo, is rolled in by an athletic department official. That got a reaction from anyone who was on that side of the gym that was paying attention. At a minimum, it was a reminder of what’s about to come Friday, and it’s not just a regular game.
If anyone needed a reminder, though, as to who was running the show, all it took was a momentary lapse in focus from the players for Roberts to blow the whistle and have everyone run a sprint to the opposite baseline and back. That was noteworthy because, she would later say, it almost never happens. At one juncture soon after, Sullivan made her way to behind the baseline where the recruit and her father were seated to explain just that, those types of things almost never happen.
This is an informal setting, and the conversation is as such. The news of the day is Aaron Rodgers saying an hour ago he wants to play for the New York Jets, so Roberts, Petersen, and the dad get into that. Family, backgrounds, the benefit of the football they’re currently eating lunch in, and NCAA Transfer Portal matters having nothing to do with this recruit all come up.
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