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Horns247 Podcasts: Longhorn Blitz, The Flagship and State of Recruiting

The Flagship Special: Exclusive interview with legendary Texas men's swimming and diving coach Eddie Reese

Horns247 Podcasts: Longhorn Blitz, The Flagship and State of Recruiting

247Sports, Texas, Texas Longhorns, Texas Football, Texas Basketball, Texas athletics, Arch Manning, College Football

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9810 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In a special edition of The Flagship Podcast, we have an exclusive interview with legendary Texas men's swimming and diving coach Eddie Reese. A 14-time national championship winning coach, Reese opens up on his impressive career as the most successful coach in University of Texas athletics history, and what keeps him going after so many seasons leading the Longhorns. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Joining us now on the flagship podcast.

0:02.6

It is our great privilege.

0:04.0

And look, he's got fans right there at the house, cheering for him.

0:09.2

The one and only 14-time national championship men's swimming coach, of course, diving, handled by Matt Skagen.

0:20.4

But the one and only Eddie Reese, I mean, diving handled by Matt Skagin, but the one and only Eddie Reese.

0:23.4

I mean, Olympic gold, he's done it all, folks.

0:28.7

And in times like this, when we're in time of uncertainty, we come to Eddie Reese for to be the voice of reason. No pressure, Eddie. How are you doing?

0:42.0

I'm pretty good. I mean, pretty good. When I get a text from somebody and they ask me how I'm doing,

0:51.2

I just write down A and then about 10 H's with an exclamation point.

1:00.0

And that's just, it's, you know, we're all so good at structure and you take that away. But personally, I've used this time, try to catch up on any of the

1:19.7

research that they're doing. It might help swimming. And sad to say, I'm in better shape than I used to be.

1:33.0

Well, and here's the, I mean, there's a lot of things, obviously, we want to talk to you about here on the flagship podcast.

1:43.1

First and foremost, you're okay. Your family's okay,

1:48.0

immediate family, that kind of thing. Sure. Okay. And what did you, your team was number one

1:58.5

and looked like the favorite to win the national championship again

2:05.3

and you're never going to get that back even though you know i mean what what do you tell

2:14.1

your incredibly talented swimmers who many of whom are also training for the

2:18.9

Olympics and now the Olympics are pushed back a year what what do you tell them eddie in a time

2:25.4

like this well one this is totally unforeseen.

2:37.4

Maybe one person in our society in the last five years talked about something like this.

2:47.0

But one of the best things and worse things we've got going for us in this country

2:53.9

is it won't happen to me and it did happen to us like it had never happened before

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