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Former Diamond Dog, Cole Gordon, good enough to join us here today.

And Cole, I really appreciate some of your time and coming on the podcast.

I wanted to talk to you about playing for an interim coach and what that means.

Now, obviously, a whole different set of circumstances for you versus what

this team is going through. Your coach was changed after the first weekend of the season.

By the time we got to this point in the year, the last weekend, you know, you've been with

them this whole time, but just take us through like, what are the first couple of days like as a

player when a coaching change happens mid-season?

Yeah, I think the biggest thing that at least what happened for us was there's just a lot

of questions now, right?

Like, what does our day-to-day look like?

What kind of things should we expect from the coach taking over?

But I think the biggest thing you'll see, and I think you've seen it how they've played here recently, has been there's just, especially for them, there's probably a relief of stress, right?

Like when you're with the coach for so long, you know their job relies on how you play and how, you know, the successes of the team.

And when you get the head coach loses their job that pressure

kind of leaves right because the expectations theoretically go to zero now obviously depends on

your locker room with our locker room that was not our expectations our expectations were to

win and to have success but the the stress of knowing someone else's you know livelihood relies on that is kind of gone

um and like you said ours is ours is very different uh first weekend you know no one really saw

it coming as far as reasons right there's no public perception of. I think Lamonis had a little more pressure

on his. Ours was kind of sudden. And so at that point, you know, just becomes, okay, like, you know,

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