Just a few leftover gems from Joe Cravens, former Weber State coach, who is now mentoring the girls' team at St. Joseph Catholic High School in Ogden:
-- On being hired at SJCHS after being fired at Weber: "Parents say how excited they are to have me. I tell them all the other jobs I got, they were real excited at the start, too."
-- On what it's like to be down one with eight seconds to go: "It's actually more of a challenge in high school. It's linked to what you can do. In college you have a number of scorers. Here, there are only a couple. In college you have options and you've got to figure what will work best. "
-- On staying in Ogden so high daughters could finish their educations (one is at the University of Utah, one still in high school): "I stayed here for our family. (He got an offer to coach small college in California.) When I was first fired at Weber State, I had the challenges of living in a city you were fired from. They say the first thing you do when you're fired is get the heck out of town."
-- On coaching girls: "You try to be assertive, but it's not like the D-I men where there's no language barriers on what you do."
-- On his girls stopping to help opponents up: "It's a challenge on how to do things when you have 17-year-old females. I try to tell them you can't help anybody up. It's not like I'm trying to turn them into horrible people, but this is what we do."
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