Oregon Ducks discuss one of Assistant Head Coach Ra'Shaad Samples most challenging weeks as a coach
Oregon Ducks Assistant Head Coach Ra'Shaad Samples discusses on of his most challenging weeks as a coach. Samples talks about the time around the Peach Bowl, he says it was a week like no other. He talks about all of the challenges they faced and how they had to teach some guys and get them up to speed last minute due to injuries and other issues.
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With the, with the mixture of injuries and, and the portal stuff that was going around on like around the Peach Bowl, what was that week like for you, just trying to get your room ready for that?
His eyes.
Yeah, that was.
That was a week like no other, man.
I, I, we had, uh, we had two guys that didn't play running back the week before, uh, come over and we were teaching the offense and it was, it was, it was a crazy week, man.
But it's exciting.
It's part of the job, man.
It's what makes, it's, it's why they call us coach.
How, how fast can you move guys along?
How fast can you get guys up to speed, but you talk about a hectic week with a bunch of early mornings and a late, a bunch of late nights.
I don't think Uh, I slept that week.
I think that was the, uh, that's probably been one of my most challenging weeks as a coach, for sure.
It's kind of going back to Jordan and and Derre, uh, online, a lot of Duck fans have come up with a lot of different nicknames for the combination of those two.
I'm wondering, do they call themselves any nicknames, or what do you call them together?
Uh, no.
I don't think they've earned nicknames, but I know a lot of Duck fans call them nicknames, Sonic and Knuckles, like Thunder and Lightning and.
You know, I, I think it's, I think it's good when you like hold things like that a little higher than everybody else does.
So I don't call them any nicknames.
I call them Jordan and Deerre.
Sometimes I call them Goofy.
Uh, so I got a bunch of nicknames that I probably shouldn't say, but they're, they're not good.
So I, I challenge them.
They earn nicknames like that, when you got to dominate competition consistently, and those guys haven't arrived yet, but they're, they're, they're working towards it.
They understand that and You know, they, they take the challenge every single day.
They don't act like guys that think they've arrived.
They're, they're working every single day.
They're attacking the grind.
