Dave Shoji Quotes (13 Quotes)

We didn't have a scholarship for Tamari. She's a good volleyball player. I don't know what our plans for her would have been. We would have evaluated her if she had been here.

I thought all our middles hit for good percentage. At times our block looked good.

They beat us in every phase of the game. It was not a match. We were just not ready to play at that level.

I'm hoping the third game was more indicative of our team than the first two. We started so slow. They obviously are a great team, but we couldn't do anything right. We couldn't pass, couldn't defend it, couldn't block it. We were just half a step slow the first and second game. It was disappointing we weren't ready to play.

Kari has done such a tremendous job for me. She has been here eight years and quietly gone about taking on a whole lot of responsibilities. She has been a very good and loyal coach. She needed to be rewarded. Now is the perfect time.

I think the travel and being on the road so much the last three weeks finally caught up to us. The kids didn't have enough gas. We didn't have another gear to go to. We kind of ran out of magic here at the end.

Maybe the final four a few years ago (2002 against Stanford). Just too many weapons. Nebraska was too balanced tonight. A lot of times we were confused because they were running an offense we really hadn't seen. We just finally got down. We needed to have somebody to rally the troops and no one did. Everybody was in a daze.

It just wasn't pretty for a long time and that's disturbing. It felt like our team just wasn't prepared, and that's the fault of the coach.

I thought he would give us a fresh and different approach to the game. Almost all the other candidates were women's coaches coming from the game the way I had seen it.

There's a lot of interest from very qualified coaches, coaches who have had success at their programs. I was very surprised that it would create that kind of interest, and that quickly.

Because of injuries and Alicia's virus, we've been forced to play Houston more than we expected. I thought we'd be going with our older, experienced players, but she has accelerated her growth over the weekend. She's a terminator and, for the moment, the (starting) job is hers.

It's not going to be an overnight situation with UOP. When you're down a little bit, it's going to take longer nowadays because the competition for kids is so much greater than when UOP won the championships.

We're going to have to play smart. Hit around the block and there are some players we just can't challenge. We have to pick our spots. They are big everywhere.