Coach Roger Cador Part II

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Our Living Legend on success despite obstacles, how to inspire young people, the difficulties of building a program at a university with limited resources and his take on what is the future of baseball.

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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Roger Cador

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Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Coach Roger Cador

Good evening. Good evening. Good evening it’s 4:00 PM. Stand up it’s count time, time for every man and woman to stand up and be counted. Welcome to another edition of Count Time podcast. I am brother LD Azobra. Thank you for joining us today.

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RC
I really didn’t start thinking about playing pro sometime after my junior year, it started hitting me that I might have a chance because remember I thought I couldn’t play baseball at all here. I said, man, and the coach said he said, you’re going to be a really good player, and I’m saying, what? So because I didn’t get opportunity that much in the first two years, I didn’t think at all in baseball. You got me. But something clicked in my junior year, and I won the batting title. I won the SWAC batting title in my junior year. And then the next year I hit even better, and that’s when I got drafted.

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But my senior year, I was really good in basketball. I had came under a different coach, a different style of basketball.

LD
Who was the coach?

RC
Carl Emerson Stewart. You heard of him? So he brought in a different style of basketball, and it fit what I could do, you know what I’m saying? I really thrive in there. The one with where you can fast break. I could run I could play defense and I could jump a little at 6’5″. I was a jumper. I could really jump. I had the right attitude for it.

I really didn’t start thinking about playing pro sometime after my junior year, it started hitting me that I might have a chance because remember I thought I couldn’t play baseball at all here. I said, man, and the coach said he said, you’re going to be a really good player, and I’m saying, what? So because I didn’t get opportunity that much in the first two years, I didn’t think at all in baseball. You got me. But something clicked in my junior year, and I won the batting title. I won the SWAC batting title in my junior year. And then the next year I hit even better, and that’s when I got drafted.

But my senior year, I was really good in basketball. I had came under a different coach, a different style of basketball.

LD
Who was the coach?

RC
Carl Emerson Stewart. You heard of him? So he brought in a different style of basketball, and it fit what I could do, you know what I’m saying? I really thrive in there. The one with where you can fast break. I could run I could play defense and I could jump a little at 6’5″. I was a jumper. I could really jump. I had the right attitude for it.

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I understood players, that they’re people. I understand that I had some coaches that they only wanted to win. And I said, if I ever coach, I was never going to be like that. I’m never going to put winning ahead of teaching a player how to do things right. You can teach players how to win without putting winning as the priority thing in front of them. You show them how to do the mechanics right. You teach them about situations, and you help them to study their opponent. I think all of those things is what help people to win. Rather than drilling something in them about winning, you got to teach them what it takes to win, and then the winning point will come. I just think the point with the winning is delivered wrong in many cases because it’s drilled in them rather than taught in them. Something about teaching. Listen, the things I learned when people taught me has been a key part in my life. So I try to distribute it back to them.

Against All Odds by Roger Cador