Odunze on No Coach

UW receiver Rome Odunze discusses playing a team without a coach.

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00:00 >> Rome, you've been in a position before where you've got a head coach who all of

00:04 a sudden isn't there one week.

00:07 And I just wonder what's Michigan State experiencing those players,

00:11 those guys in the locker room.

00:12 And when it happened to you guys, you came out galvanized,

00:15 scored 14 quick points in that game, had an early lead.

00:18 Do you expect kind of a similar juice from them given all that's going on?

00:22 >> Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

00:24 And whenever a team goes through adversity like that,

00:26 especially with a guy that recruited all of them,

00:29 they're gonna come out with some fire, with some passion.

00:31 Just because they're going through a lot of adversity,

00:34 they wanna show people that they're still strong.

00:36 They can still play ball and come out here and compete.

00:38 So it's definitely a different mindset that you have when all that stuff goes

00:41 down and you don't want to be that story of yeah, their coach left,

00:46 so they're not gonna be very good.

00:48 Nobody wants that.

00:49 You wanna be, a lot of the teams wanna be that team that stepped up and

00:52 be like, they won without a head coach.

00:54 So I know that's the mindset that they're gonna come out with and

00:57 with that fire, with that passion.

00:58 So we're getting ready for it.

00:59 >> Sure, thanks, man.

01:00 Appreciate you.

01:01 >> I bet you guys can fall back on the Arizona State game too,

01:04 cuz you went through that.

01:04 >> Yeah. >> Cuz everybody expected a big role in

01:07 that game by you guys and they got fired up and

01:10 you were a little short handed actually, so.

01:12 >> Yeah.