T&L Extra: Coach Samantha Ricketts Has Her Team Rolling

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's still early in the season, but for Mississippi State softball, it has never been a better start than this. Brian Hadad welcomes Coach Samantha Ricketts back to the pod to talk about her team's great opening to SEC play, and what a massive weekend awaits her team with the top ranked Texas Longhorns coming to Starkville. 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

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0:00.0	A Super Talk, Mississippi Media Production.
0:06.9	Mississippi State softball is off to a great start.
0:09.7	A school record start in the SEC and one game off the pace for the best start in 30 games.
0:16.0	What happened, Coach?
0:17.1	We can't get one more win.
0:18.5	What's the deal, Coach Ricketts?
0:19.6	Yeah, you know, we just, we don't like to do things the easy way. We always going to make them a little bit more difficult on
0:23.3	us. That's just what we do. Coach Samantha Ricketts joins us here on the podcast right now. And
0:27.8	coach, like I said, your team's off to a fantastic start. What surprised you about this team you know i just think i think how quickly it kind of all came together i think you see it in preseason
0:42.2	in the fall that we had a lot of tools and a lot of pieces in place to have a good year and it's just
0:47.2	really kind of how quickly is the team going to mesh and gel and kind of get rolling together and
0:51.5	i think it really was game one weekend one and they just came out ready to play and i just think how quickly it all kind of get rolling together. And I think it really was game one, weekend one. And they just came out ready to play.
0:55.4	And I just think how quickly it all kind of happened for us is probably what surprised me the most.
1:00.8	And you played a really good Texas team game one weekend one, a Texas Tech team, I should say.
1:06.4	And a game that, you know, against a ranked opponent.
1:08.9	And you didn't really, you know, we didn't know exactly what your team was going to be. Leaving that game, did you walk off the field going,
1:14.8	we might have something here that maybe we didn't expect? Yeah, I think the biggest thing with that
1:19.0	was just the mentality. You know, we knew that we had the talent to compete, but there was just
1:23.9	no fear and the competitiveness and the fire to get after it. And it was the
1:27.7	entire lineup, the entire dugout, the ones that were on the field and not. And I think that was
1:31.3	where it was really kind of a little bit of a moment of, okay, like we might be able to
1:35.3	roll with this here. And then we lost game too, but we learned from that. So I don't know,
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