Dan Fisher

And then the final one is mastering serve receive reading and communication and

By a guy named Dan Fisher.

His

team is doing pretty well right now.

I think ranked number two in the nation.

That is it.

And they're just behind Nebraska, but Dan Fisher's team is playing well.

So that is a great little list from some of the masters in our, in our craft.

Head coach Danny Bustam-Kelly getting the team ready for UCLA on Thursday, USC on Saturday night.

But coach, over this communication platform called Twitter, sometimes X, Dan Fisher was quoted as saying, I'm really, really disappointed in this recommendation.

In almost every other sport, The NCAA has found a way to get the portal out of the season.

For whoever's listening, I hope we can put some pressure on the powers that be so they can do the right thing.

But, um, you know, just we gotta keep showing up, and that's, that's all we can do.

And would it, would it be the same if you were, let's say you're Dan Fisher at Pitt, and you've got Babcock on the right side.

Would you still, like, would you set, oh, you know, we've gotta have these outcome goals, like, you know, winning a national championship, you know, making the Final Four.

Mm.

So how do we manage our mental part of that?

Yeah, it's really hard and painful, isn't it? Like I was watching Dan Fisher in that game and I'm looking at him and we all probably thought the same thing as they were losing that match with all the preparation.

We were ready to go and we're still even the greatest lose a game once in a while, right? So, but it's very difficult because our egos are right there on the surface.

So my answer to that is, you know, as coaches, we have to remind ourselves, like we asked the athletes, You know, we know that we're continually learning.