The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals #534 - The Championship Secrets of Longhorn Softball Coach Mike White
Aug 13, 2025
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Texas Longhorns softball coach Mike White chats with Trey Elling, shortly after leading the program to its first-ever national championship. Topics include:
- 0:00 Life since winning a natty
- 3:50 Men's fast-pitch softball in the 1980s &'90s
- 5:56 Growing up in New Zealand
- 11:04 Moving to the US
- 15:18 Entrepreneurial spirit
- 17:42 Getting into coaching
- 23:24 Learning how to properly instruct
- 26:29 Becoming head coach at Oregon
- 28:15 Quick program turnarounds
- 31:00 Fostering a killer instinct in players
- 33:46 Business lessons for coaching
- 36:55 Controlling emotions
- 38:53 College softball's changing landscape
- 43:59 Odes to coaching & fatherhood
- 45:03 OKC & double birds
- 48:13 Learning from Chris Del Conte
- 49:39 Advice to Steve Sarkisian
- 50:32 Toughest coaching gig ever
- 51:41 ATX food recs
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