This calmer Jake interview helped the university calm down the players' family and show that everything would be all right, the other star players on the team were very shaken by the revelation that Coach Smith was retiring and seeing calm Jake helped the university.
This was natural because Jake already knew about it, but it showed people that he had better control over his emotions, in the next few days Jake was calmer with all this and continued with his marathon training with Zack.
They also interviewed Eva about Coach Smith's retirement and she was neither shocked nor worried about it, she had rarely seen and spoken with Coach Smith because it was Coach Guthridge who spoke to her more often and Jake told her that everything was fine.
Coach Davis had also returned from Miami and was at the hotel where he had previously lived with his family, he just had to supervise Jake's training because temporarily he had nothing more to teach Jake.
