Dishin & Swishin Podcast: Louisville coach Jeff Walz will settle for nothing less than NCAA title

[DishNSwish]

Always enjoy talking with Jeff; I'm going to miss him this season, with them not coming up here.

In this week’s podcast, Jeff Walz commented that at Louisville, he does not worry about winning conference championships, he worries about national championships.


Think about that for a second. This is a head coach in his first year in the prestigious, fierce and intense Atlantic Coast Conference, taking on established conference members Duke and North Carolina, to name two. Last year Notre Dame, a perennial national power joined the conference.


Yet Walz has his sights set not on winning the conference championship, but the big prize, the NCAA title. Heck, even Geno Auriemma said that defending champion Connecticut’s first goal is the conference championship. When you have one title as a top assistant, then make five trips to the Sweet Sixteen and two trips to the finals in your seven years as a head coach, it is easy to have lofty aspirations.

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[Striper69]

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[DishNSwish]

Everytime I try to paste the link, it shows up as something different.

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[Striper69]

I enjoyed listening to Jeff's interview. I haven't been able to sign up for Verizon's College BB package yet so I haven't seen Louisville play yet.

 

[Striper69]

I'm able to watch Louisville play Iowa on the Watch ESPN thing.

 

[PalPa]

Tell Jeff we're sorry but the NCAA title is reserved for UCONN.

 

[jennyo70]

We absolutely destroyed Iowa. Played 2nd string for most of the last 11 minutes and we still won by 30+. Bria Smith and Mariya Moore played suffocating defense. I was very impressed with the effort on both sides of the ball tonight. Bigger test coming on Sunday. I am very close to saying that I believe this is a better team than last year. It is still early, and we still need to play a T10 team, but these freshman are very, very exciting. Bria Smith is playing like the Mc D's All American we have been waiting to see. Exciting times for the Cardinals.

 

[Striper69]

Jude made a few "Shoni-like" passes in the second half. I think they're headed for a showdown with ND in February!

Great test this weekend against Kentucky.

 

[Striper69]

BTW- this Watch ESPN thing is awesome!

 

[Wbbfan1]

Like most coaches, Jeff overstates how talented the weak teams they've played as part of their OOC Schedule.

Number of interesting games between top 10 teams in next couple of weeks. How about having coaches/media experts discuss the games on your podcast.

 

[DishNSwish]

Like most coaches, Jeff overstates how talented the weak teams they've played as part of their OOC Schedule.

Number of interesting games between top 10 teams in next couple of weeks. How about having coaches/media experts discuss the games on your podcast.

I kind of chuckled when he threw that out there. Yes, Western Kentucky is a quality mid-major, but his early schedule before last night was really not impressive.

With Iowa, Kentucky and Cal in December and then the ACC schedule, they'll get plenty of tests.

I like the make up of this team. They could be a legit Final Four candidate if they can get another outside shooter to roll. They're only taking around 10 threes per game.