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Thunder & Lightning

T&L Bye Week Blitz: Coach James Armstrong

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports, Sports News, News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mississippi State soccer is coming off a historic season, and the Bulldogs are hungry to write more history in their favor. Brian Hadad caught up with Coach James Armstrong to ask about the incredible start to the year his squad is enjoying and this Friday's match up with the top ranked Arkansas Razorbacks. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

Transcript

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0:00.0

A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

0:07.0

You know, we call it soccer.

0:10.0

The English call it football. And so with that being said as I speak now to

0:15.8

Coach James Armstrong Mississippi State women's soccer coach, but I have to ask

0:20.1

are you the best football coach on campus right now?

0:23.0

Best soccer coach on campus. I'll go with that one.

0:28.0

We'll go with that then.

0:29.0

This question feels like it's more of like a pro sports kind of question, but we'll ask anyway when I say what's the mood inside the building right now because you guys have got to be on a little bit of a high as much as you can be knowing what you have to face coming up?

0:42.4

Yeah, that's a great question Brian. much as you can be knowing what you have to face coming up.

0:43.0

Yeah, that's a great question Brian.

0:45.0

Thankfully, you know, we have a motto never to be too high, never to be too low and

0:50.0

we've got a really experienced group of girls that obviously have high aspirations and high expectations and a lot of belief,

0:58.4

but they just truly take it one game at a time, you know, coming off some big wins recently, you know, the whole hooplaer

1:05.5

around Oklahoma and Texas was getting old and so, you know, getting them out the way early and beating

1:11.1

both of them, what was very important and then we had the

1:15.0

difficulty of going to South Carolina and not playing the game and a lot of people

1:20.1

think that's an advantage because you get an extra day of rest but it throws you off your routine so the girls have done an unbelievable job of just taking it day and day you know day and day out

1:30.9

focusing on winning the day and just trying to improve and don't look too far ahead and, you know, they do a really good job of turning the page and knowing that we'll celebrate the victory on the day of, but the next day,

1:44.4

unfortunate the page has already been turned

1:46.2

and the next opponent is on the horizon.

1:50.2

In American football, we have a saying that defense wins championships. Now, I don't know if that's still true or not because the game of college football and pro football has changed so much and offense really may be what wins championships in soccer defense wins championships.

2:03.5

I had something I really believe.

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