Dave Odom
Dave Odom
George David "Dave" Odomis a retired American men's college basketball coach, who most recently coached at the University of South Carolina. He had previously held the same position at East Carolina University and Wake Forest University, and was an assistant coach at the University of Virginia...
ask campus coach high knew nobody offered school
I can just tell you there was nobody I recruited more. Nobody knew his high school coach more. Nobody had him on his campus more. Nobody offered him sooner. Why he went out of state, you'd have to ask him.
bad shoot
We didn't play bad the first half. We just did not shoot well. When you don't shoot well, you don't look good.
believed carolina coach demanding deserve fans good mixed national powers program schedule
Every coach makes a schedule that they think is right for their team. I've always believed that the fans deserve a good schedule, and I think to be the kind of program that Carolina fans want, we've got to play a demanding schedule with some national powers mixed in.
basketball beat certainly crowd fine front good highly led student supportive team tonight
Tonight it was particularly good that we beat a really, really fine basketball team... and we did it in front of a highly supportive crowd led by our student body. I mean, they were terrific. I think our team certainly responded to that.
coaches league players quickly rather southeast strong surprise
There is no league that can refurbish its rosters as quickly as this league, and I think the coaches have done that once again. The Southeast is as talent-laden as there is in the country. Coaches can go out and get (good) players rather quickly so it doesn't surprise me that our league is strong this year.
death door open smaller
What that really did was open the door for us to go to the smaller lineup, which was death for (S.C. State).
chance game good less
More is not always better, particularly with Renaldo sometimes, less is better. If you keep him uncomfortable, you've got a good chance of having a good game out of him. You want him uncomfortable.
argue country might needed team win
Some might say there was a team in the country that needed a win like this more than we did. I would argue that.
chance needed team win
We needed a shakeup; we needed a change; we needed a different slant. I thought our team had a chance to win the game. I really did.
guys seeing
I've been seeing it coming. In the back of my mind, we're doing the right thing by getting the big guys ready.
ball came further morris season shoot struggles time
Randolph Morris has to be more and more comfortable every time he plays. The further into the season he gets, I think he'll be better and better. The other thing is that I think a lot of Kentucky's struggles came because they did not shoot the ball the way they were capable.
school
This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.
blessed games great group
All of our games are like that. But this is a group that is blessed with great resolve.
either grow prefer time year
This is the time of year you either grow or you get worse. I prefer to look at it as it is time for us to grow up.