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Seg 3 - FB Show w Jason Candle 9-21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the UConn football coaches show. Jason candle
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  Speaker 1: with us Huskies two and one, uh, first time since 2016,
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  Speaker 1: a two in one start and their biggest margin victory
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  Speaker 1: on the road since 2015.
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking.
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  Speaker 1: About decade of, uh, football games, uh, on the road.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, that's 60 plus road games. That's pretty
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  Speaker 1: impressive number, but, uh, coach, let's go to the D
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  Speaker 1: for now. Cause, uh, defense came up with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of nice turnovers, uh, INTs that, uh, really kind of
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  Speaker 1: changed what was happening in that game. And Aslukman, that
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  Speaker 1: was a beauty. And then Braden Moore, too. How important
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  Speaker 1: are those turnovers? I mean, we always talk about plus
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  Speaker 1: or minus in that category, but it always seems like
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  Speaker 1: they matter a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we were able to affect the quarterback, and I
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  Speaker 3: think we were able to get our hand on a
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  Speaker 3: lot of passes. Got a couple tipped up in the air.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't sack the guy a bunch of times, but
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  Speaker 3: we got a bunch of hurries and a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: pressures where we were able to put a little heat
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  Speaker 3: on him and move him off the spot and make
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  Speaker 3: him a little bit uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I think when you're able to do that, you.
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  Speaker 3: Can, you can really play really good defense. So that
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  Speaker 3: balance that we were just, we were talking about earlier
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  Speaker 3: on offense, I mean, every team is striving for that.
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  Speaker 3: And when, you know, we were able to limit them,
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  Speaker 3: take away the run game for the most part and
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  Speaker 3: make it kind of one dimensional, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 3: able to do that, you know, I think it does
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  Speaker 3: speed the QB up a little bit. And we saw that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with us offensively a little bit against Maryland and,
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  Speaker 3: We were able to do that to that guy Saturday
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  Speaker 3: night by good defensive pressure up front. And then the
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  Speaker 3: defensive backs doing a good job of getting their eyes
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  Speaker 3: in the right place and covering the guys.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot about the roster, obviously, since
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  Speaker 1: you arrived and having to put together a team. And
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  Speaker 1: Anas Lukman is a guy who wears number 15. He
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  Speaker 1: transferred from Ohio, also played at Arkansas Pine Bluff. Finding
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  Speaker 1: players like this, what kind of a job is that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is it easier than we think or is
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  Speaker 1: it harder than we all think?
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  Speaker 3: Exhausting process. I still think there's, I mean, look, it
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  Speaker 3: is what it is. I mean, that's the world we're
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  Speaker 3: in and you have to be able to go and
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  Speaker 3: first of all, you have to identify what you're looking
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  Speaker 3: for and what you want and what you need. And
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  Speaker 3: then from there, you know, you have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to say no to some guys because there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of easy, easy answers and easy yeses that you could
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  Speaker 3: bring into your organization. But if they don't fit who
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  Speaker 3: the culture of your team is, you know, is and
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  Speaker 3: what you're trying to build that to look like, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a really hard off season, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: which will lead to a really toxic season. So I
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  Speaker 3: think our staff did a really good job of trying to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, put the time and energy in the right place,
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  Speaker 3: which it does require a lot in the long hours
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  Speaker 3: to get this thing right. You know, there's year one,
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  Speaker 3: we mean, my gosh, we had to bring in I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you count the freshmen in next year's class that
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  Speaker 3: are already committed to us, I mean, we've recruited over
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  Speaker 3: 100 guys in eight months, really. So, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: a different time in college football. But you still have to,
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  Speaker 3: I think, recruit like-minded people and bring people around your
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  Speaker 3: organization that think like you and want to be successful
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  Speaker 3: like you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to talk to Jaden Davis in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes. This guy is amazing to me. Fresno State
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  Speaker 1: played 33 games there. He was there for four years.
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  Speaker 1: He's a fifth-year linebacker. But he'll be describing to us
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  Speaker 1: the process with you and him talking and texting and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And we hear a lot of this
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  Speaker 1: from Dan Hurley and what he has to do in
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  Speaker 1: the basketball world. I think, obviously, you have a tougher
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  Speaker 1: job in some ways. You've got more guys you have
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  Speaker 1: to do this with. How do you decide, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to spend time getting this guy to come east,
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Davis, all the way from Fresno, California? You know,
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  Speaker 1: at some point you probably say, I don't know, enough's enough.
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking to this dude, but he hasn't committed
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  Speaker 1: to us. What do you do in that case?
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  Speaker 3: You're looking for a cultural fit first. You're looking for
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  Speaker 3: somebody that you you know can, you know, look like
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  Speaker 3: this is a two way street and a guy that's
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  Speaker 3: got one year left to play.
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  Speaker 2: I have no interest in that. It doesn't mean.
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  Speaker 3: Zero favors to bring a guy here that is going
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  Speaker 3: to have a miserable time and he's not going to
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  Speaker 3: get out of it what he wants for his senior
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  Speaker 3: year so maybe with a guy with one year it's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more of a delicate process and you
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure you you really cross t's and
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  Speaker 3: dot i's because you got to get that right.
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  Speaker 2: Because nobody wins in that situation so um you know
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  Speaker 2: you want to you want to do a good job you.
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  Speaker 3: Know you know cultivating a relationship in a short amount
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  Speaker 3: of time and then ultimately like once you figure out
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  Speaker 3: that the guy's a fit for you and you feel
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  Speaker 3: like he can be successful from, he can get his
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  Speaker 3: feet on the ground and, and get acclimated to what
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to do quickly. You know, eight, nine months
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  Speaker 3: down the road, it's probably going to produce some good results.
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  Speaker 3: And that guy will leave your program with a really
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  Speaker 3: good taste in his mouth of, you know, what college
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  Speaker 3: football was last college football experience, you know, is and
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  Speaker 3: would have been, or will be.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where it kind of starts from there. Obviously you,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta get good players.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta get guys that, you know, a defense that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that, they don't just bark, they tackle, they
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  Speaker 3: go put their face on somebody and they get guys
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  Speaker 3: on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: And Jaden does that. You know, he's a, he's very mature.
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  Speaker 2: He's an older guy.
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  Speaker 3: He's very comfortable in his own skin. So leaving Fresno,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure is a little nerving for everybody. If you've
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  Speaker 3: grown up there your whole life, becoming clear across the country,
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  Speaker 3: but he's, he's adapted, you know, wonderfully and he's done
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  Speaker 3: a good job of fitting into, you know, and making
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  Speaker 3: some really good genuine relationships with the guys.
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  Speaker 2: On the team. And he's a good player. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy he's here and happy he's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an experienced guy, as you mentioned. He's an
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  Speaker 1: academic All-American in the Mountain West Conference twice. He played
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  Speaker 1: in a bowl game, the famous Idaho Bowl game. So
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  Speaker 1: experience does matter for you, right? When you're looking at guys,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you're going to recruit young guys, some freshmen you
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  Speaker 1: hope grow up, but you've got to find experienced guys
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  Speaker 1: who've done it, right, to really get off and running
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  Speaker 1: in any season, I would think.
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  Speaker 3: It definitely helps. You don't want to take too many
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  Speaker 3: one-year guys that don't have any experience. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're rolling your dice there on, you know, more times
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  Speaker 3: than not, that's not going to end up well. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that you want guys with at-bats and reps and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, videotape, but so does everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: And that becomes who's got the bigger checkbook sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that you have to have a clear
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  Speaker 3: picture of what the vision is for your team in
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  Speaker 3: all three phases. And then from there, Could a player
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  Speaker 3: fit into that? And then at what price point does
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  Speaker 3: that look like? So you sometimes you have to say
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  Speaker 3: no to some good players because of what you have
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  Speaker 3: to spend or, you know, you can't get them right. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you don't want to just take and you
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  Speaker 3: get what you get and figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: And what was me?
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  Speaker 3: You got to really work hard to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: that that combination fits how it's supposed to fit.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jason Candle with us, and we'll be back
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little Miami of Ohio. That's the next opponent,
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  Speaker 1: the Red Hawks. On the road, Huskies have them next weekend, 3.30.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start the pregame at 2 o'clock. Be sure to
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  Speaker 1: join us. This is UConn's Football Coaches Show on Learfield.