Jody Avergan
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536 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 2 Aug
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Really?
I think that would surprise people, right?
I think people, you know, three quarters of the way through the season, like, you know what kind of team you are, but really people expect to win.
My name is Jody Avergan, and this is Good Sport from the TED Audio Collective.
Today, we're talking about winning and losing.
Look, yes, in sports, you play to win the game, as coach Herm Edwards famously yelled during a press conference.
But if he's right, then what do you do when the wins just aren't happening?
What do you do with the pain of losing?
And how do you truly keep expecting to win, as Nicky McRae put it?
On this episode, how a losing team keeps going.
I'm so blown away by Nikki McRae's insistence that the expectation to win is still there on a losing team.
Even when all the signs point to the fact that, you know, that team's probably going to lose the next game just like they lost the last one.
Expecting to win is a little different, a little deeper than just wanting to win or deluding yourself that you have a chance.
In a way, when I hear Nikki say that even a losing team expects to win, she's kind of saying even a losing team should keep their expectations really high.
And when I asked Nikki about where that expectation came from, she told me about playing for Tennessee under legendary coach Pat Summitt.
At Tennessee, you recognize the culture immediately as you walk through the door.
Decades of excellence.
You just knew that, yeah, we're probably going to be one of the best teams in the country.
And that practices are going to be just as hard as the games.
Do your job.
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