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Oklahoma postgame press conference with Coach Skip Johnson and Dasan Harris after loss to #UNC
Jun 1, 2025
Oklahoma postgame press conference with Coach Skip Johnson and Dasan Harris after loss to #UNC
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real quick. Um, when you don't play
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catch, what is this? Which one am I
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supposed to talk? The one on the right.
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All right. When you don't play catch in
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the first inning and you give a team
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like that, that's the difference in the
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momentum. They had the momentum of the
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game and um and we Kyson was pretty good
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after that. I mean, he logged in and
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tried he tried to do the best he could.
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Um, I would want to pitch that guy in
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that game every day. And so, uh, uh,
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then we got past the point of trying and
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started competing at the end of the
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game, which is really fun to watch. And
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when we do that, we're a pretty good
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baseball team. Questions? Just raise
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your hand. I'll get to you.
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Coach, I was going to ask you just that.
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I mean, after that first inning, your
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team settled down. Kyson settled down.
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Just what what was different from that
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first inning? Obviously, a little bit of
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a boot early in first play. I think
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playing catch. I mean, big as anything.
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I mean, uh, first softline drive hit to
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Dawson, panic set in and all of a sudden
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you had to make some pitches and then we
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had a double play ball and we throw
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away. I mean, you want those balls hit
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to those two young men on the left side
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of our infield all day long. I mean, uh,
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they worked really hard in practice and
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they're good players and so, uh, that's
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really what took the wind out of his
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cell a little bit. He's trying to pitch
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out of it and he's attacking the strike
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zone and those guys are hitting balls
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hard and um, that's what happens when
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you're in a
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That's like a super regional game. When
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you're in those deals and you walk a guy
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or you make an error and you give the
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momentum away, that's what when they
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talk about hitting gets contagious,
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that's when the game gets really
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spiritual for the other team and it can
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and it kind of got spiritual for us when
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we kind of got rolling there a little
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bit. Got big hits and had maybe had to
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use some guys they might not have used
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before and and whatnot. So, it's and it
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was really and reason why I'm in
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coaching is the last guy we threw. I
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mean, the guy threw really good early
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for us and uh he hadn't thrown in a
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while, been throwing live BP for us and
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all of a sudden to walk out there and he
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was electric and he broke through it
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when now he knows whatever he does in
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his life, he can accomplish it. That's
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what coaching's about and that's why I'm
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in coaching. It ain't about the wins and
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losses for me. It's about watching guys
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break through a mold and something
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negative happened to them and they break
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through it and they're back and it's fun
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to watch.
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Yeah. Skip, speaking of pitching, what
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will be your plan for tomorrow against
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Nebraska? Well, my my dad paid his bills
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uh pulling the bills out of a cowboy hat
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and that's what we'll do tomorrow. We'll
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figure it out. I know crossing will
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start tomorrow's first game and uh uh
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we'll go from there.
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Coach Sean Kim Johnson, he hasn't
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pitched since April. What went into the
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decision to bring him in tonight? But it
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was a big moment for him. I mean, a good
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crowd. You see him pitch in that crowd
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to see if he can battle through that
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deal. And he did. And that's really the
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decision. I mean, we're already getting
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beat by, you know, five or six. We see
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what happens. You know, he goes out
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there and he's he's got a really good
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arm. He's electric. Uh I mean, it's uh
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he he put his time in. He's worked
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extremely hard at it. And now he's broke
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through it. He understands that. And
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that's what really coaching is about is
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watching young men battle through what
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he battled through. Something happened
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really unique tonight for the University
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of Oklahoma. You got to see a young man
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battle through demons and then walk back
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out there and do what he did. It's
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pretty special.
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Uh just you go three or four tonight. Um
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you know, what are you seeing? What are
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you thinking at the plate knowing that
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y'all have such a big deficit that
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you're trying to overcome? Um, well, we
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talk about one pitch at a time. So,
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taking in one pitch and passing the
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baton to the next guy and keeping the
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rotation going. Like you said earlier,
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hitting is contagious. So, just trying
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to pass the bat over to the next guy.
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Um,
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Skip, what did you make of the way that
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UNCC was seeing Kyson's pitches tonight?
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It it just looked like they were able to
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pick him up. You might want to ask them
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that question cuz I couldn't answer that
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for you at this moment. You might want
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to ask those guys that question because
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after the first inning, he got a little
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bit different. Then when he got
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tired, he got a little bit different
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again.
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Just what was it like to see Cam come
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back on the mound after such a long
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absence? Awesome. Honestly, to see him
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go through what go through what he went
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through and to come back and shine in
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the light is awesome to see.
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Anybody else?
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Okay. Thanks, guys. Thank you guys.