10. From Bad to Super
The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly
Sport & Story
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Arkansas softball was in a bad place when Courtney Deifel arrived as the head coach prior to the 2016 season. Now, they’re headed back to the postseason for the third straight year. How did Deifel do it? We sit down with Coach Deifel to talk about her journey, beginning with a career in Japan (4:09), going back to school and beginning her coaching career (9:25). She gives insight into why, despite the program’s struggles, she never saw Arkansas as a bad job (15:10) and how she built a competitive roster (18:38). Finally, we learn what kind of coach she is and why she doesn’t get ejected (25:06), and what it’s like balancing being a mom and a coach (31:11).
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| 0:00.0 | Can you briefly go back to when you came over here three years ago and where this program was at that point? |
| 0:05.8 | Auburn takes down Arkansas. |
| 0:08.3 | 23 to nothing in epic run rule fashion. |
| 0:12.3 | To where you've taken it, did you think you would be standing here talking to us right now? |
| 0:17.0 | I would be lying if I said yes. |
| 0:19.0 | And this Wu Pig suey will be as loud as it can get here at Bogle Park. |
| 0:24.6 | The Arkansas Razorbacks, the Fayetteville Regional winners, setting them to the Super |
| 0:29.5 | Regional for the first time ever. |
| 0:32.6 | I am just so proud of them. |
| 0:36.7 | So. Welcome to another episode of the Hog Pot. I'm your host Bo Mattingly. This episode's made possible by our friends |
| 0:56.1 | at Ozark Outpost Casual Clothing and Footwear, Highway 412, Tawnytown, and First Security Bank, only in Arkansas. |
| 1:06.1 | You may find it surprising that back in 2015, |
| 1:09.4 | viewership of the Women's College World Series eclipsed its men's counterpart by 31 percent. |
| 1:16.3 | Did you know that on average only three men's college sports, football, basketball, and |
| 1:22.2 | baseball report larger revenues than college softball. |
| 1:26.9 | You probably find these numbers at least somewhat surprising, and if you're in Arkansas, |
| 1:31.8 | you may not know because the razorbacks haven't really been relevant. |
| 1:36.0 | Not until the last couple of years. |
| 1:38.0 | If we go back in 2015 and 16, Razorback softball |
| 1:43.4 | when a combined 2 and 46 in SEC play. |
| 1:48.0 | On top of that, the team was run ruled in two-thirds of their conference |
| 1:52.0 | games in that 2015 season. |
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