Probably my favorite so far of Ubben's exit interviews...
When’s a time you saw him do something that showed you why his former players loved him so much?
I knew my team. When we were playing, I knew the different groups of guys. I knew the slackers. I knew the overbearers, the underbearers. I knew my team. We were trying to do what we can, but when Coach Pruitt came and saw what we saw, he nipped it in the bud. He cut everything off and it got people on track.
That’s when I was like, “OK, he don’t play no shit.”
What do you mean when you say he “cut everything off?”
Like he would come into a meeting room and everybody would be laughing, having a good time before meetings. Everybody’s coming in after class or whatever, talking about their day, laughing and he’ll come in and just be like, “Everybody shut the **** up!” Over something small.
And I was like, if he’s trippin’ over something small, that’s how you know you’ve got a good coach. That’s how you know he cares and wants it to be perfect. Because if you let things go that are small, it’ll grow into something bigger. And you’ll just keep letting it go like a domino effect.
But he came in there and took over something small and I was like, “Oh yeah, this is the guy.”
When’s a time you saw him do something that showed you why his former players loved him so much?
I knew my team. When we were playing, I knew the different groups of guys. I knew the slackers. I knew the overbearers, the underbearers. I knew my team. We were trying to do what we can, but when Coach Pruitt came and saw what we saw, he nipped it in the bud. He cut everything off and it got people on track.
That’s when I was like, “OK, he don’t play no shit.”
What do you mean when you say he “cut everything off?”
Like he would come into a meeting room and everybody would be laughing, having a good time before meetings. Everybody’s coming in after class or whatever, talking about their day, laughing and he’ll come in and just be like, “Everybody shut the **** up!” Over something small.
And I was like, if he’s trippin’ over something small, that’s how you know you’ve got a good coach. That’s how you know he cares and wants it to be perfect. Because if you let things go that are small, it’ll grow into something bigger. And you’ll just keep letting it go like a domino effect.
But he came in there and took over something small and I was like, “Oh yeah, this is the guy.”
