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Don’t BOX Me In! Inside the Coach’s box of Coach Trisha Stafford-Odom
Chris Reese: Look, you sparked the first question by being the great coach that you are. Why are haters trying to box you in with something or anything you say on Twitter?
Trisha Stafford-Odom: I guess in general the more success I’m experiencing, with the security in where I am and who I am and what university I’m working for, the more and more; I mean I got people. It sounds so……. I’m bout to make this non-professional!
TSO: The word “Hating.” It’s not that I use, have used, or will use hate or hating towards the powers that be. Do you Tweet? Do you follow me on Twitter?
CR: Coach…….. I tweet to piss off Hill Harper. Prank call like thing. And besides, what is a number? And why do I have to use it in a sentence? Watch this. Last night I used my number to …………… What is that? Why do you ask though?
TSO: It doesn’t matter. My point was……. Basically I’ve been mandated to shut down something on Twitter. Crazy stuff! Just like, “Shut up!” I was basically told to shut up on some stuff. Not because I’ve done anything illegal, but because so many coaches, Head Coaches and coaches and schools have been calling our AD and calling NCAA on me saying the areas I’ve entered into Tweeting haven’t been touched. No one says I’ve done anything illegal but because of the success and people basically saying that I’m reaching kids that they haven’t thought to Tweet. It’s so stupid! In other words they know it’s not wrong but nobody else does it so I can’t do it. And because of the success it’s like, you know how Twitter works.
TSO: So basically I found a new way to Tweet! I found some gray areas. Not that I was “finding” gray areas. What I’ve done, I knew it wasn’t illegal and everybody ridin’ my AD over nothing that’s illegal. And it’s in the books; Just stupid stuff like that. It’s all about the critics when you’re successful. When you’re losing and you’re not doing well, nobody cares. But when you start doing something that (Trish trails off)………… Now everybody in the world finding something wrong with how I’ve been doing what I do.
CR: That’s how it is.
