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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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With a 7-time Women's College World Series champion, Patty Gasso, for a mother, Razorback hitting coach DJ Gasso has grown up immersed in the sport of softball. After building a reputation as one of the premier hitting coaches in college softball, Gasso finds himself on Courtney Deifel's staff in his first season at Arkansas. We sat down with the new Hogs' assistant to talk about his life growing up with a softball legend for a mom and how it helped shape him into the coach he is today.
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0:00.0 | See that growing up where you try to like act out every big leaguer that you like that they're |
0:05.5 | Julio Franco, you know, the bat over the head. |
0:08.6 | There are some times that my brother and I would try to, hey, do this, but it wasn't't with this is really funny and I think really |
0:14.4 | cool but it necessarily wasn't MLB players it was my mom's players you know so it |
0:21.0 | it was hey try to simulate this girl, try and simulate, how do they swing? |
0:25.0 | And we would do that. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends at |
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0:50.0 | You better hit a bomb right here, because that's the only way you're winning. |
0:53.0 | Aye! |
0:54.0 | New Arkansas assistant coach DJ Gasso has a name associated with greatness |
0:59.0 | when it comes to the sport of college softball. Oklahoma caps off the winningest season in history |
1:07.0 | with a seventh national championship. |
1:10.0 | Oklahoma head softball coach Patty Gasso has been dominating the sport for decades. |
1:15.6 | But for DJ she's just mom. |
1:18.6 | Growing up you're around the field and you're playing wallball and a ball accidentally goes on the field and |
1:24.1 | you just start scrambling and trying to hide to some of my mom doesn't get back. |
1:28.0 | Gasso has been around softball his entire life. |
1:32.0 | Little guy you got a great cheer for your mom? |
1:35.0 | Go seeers and go mom. |
1:37.0 | All right, that was DJ Gassam. |
1:40.0 | And he's had a front row seat to the right way to coach the game. |
1:44.0 | My mom always says softball, it's not who you are, it's what you do. |
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