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Seg 1 - FB Show Nov 11 w Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It's the Yukon Football Coaches Show and welcome you aboard on
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  Speaker 1: Mike Crispino along with Jim Mora. We'll talk to a
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  Speaker 1: couple of the players a little later on in the hour,
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Branch, Lou Hanson the tight end about what the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies were able to accomplish on Saturday against the Duke
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  Speaker 1: Blue Devils, and we'll also get into air Force. That's
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  Speaker 1: the next opponent on Saturday at the Rent as you
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  Speaker 1: contries to finish off an unbeaten slate at home this
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  Speaker 1: season at six and zero.
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  Speaker 2: But coach got to begin with Duke. The thing that
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  Speaker 2: stood out.
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  Speaker 1: Among many things was the resilience that Yukon showed five
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  Speaker 1: deficits in one game. You were down once in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, twice in the third quarter, once right away
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  Speaker 1: off the top of the first and once in the second.
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  Speaker 1: I mean five bouncebacks by a football team. That's not easy.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not easy. But I think it says a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things, Mike. It says that this team has
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  Speaker 3: confidence in their ability to adversity and they have resilience.
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  Speaker 3: I think it says a lot about the energy that
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  Speaker 3: we were able to We were able to extract from
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  Speaker 3: the great crowd. You know, it just always felt alive
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  Speaker 3: in there. It never felt dead, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: had an effect on our players, and you know, it
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  Speaker 3: never you know, the fact that it never got to
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  Speaker 3: a two score game was important. And I know I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure that at times people get frustrated when I kick
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  Speaker 3: field goals because.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone wants to go for it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the things I try to do is
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  Speaker 3: think a couple series ahead, you know, and sometimes play
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  Speaker 3: Devil's advocate. Okay, okay, if we go for it here
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  Speaker 3: and we don't make it and they score, now we're
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  Speaker 3: down x amount, how does that change the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the game. And so just being able to stay in
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  Speaker 3: it is so important. And having the confidence that we
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  Speaker 3: have in our ability to move the ball and score
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  Speaker 3: in critical situations because we've been able to do it
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  Speaker 3: through the U is critical in.
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  Speaker 4: Our decision making.
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  Speaker 3: So, but the resilience of our players, the confidence of
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  Speaker 3: our players, and then the energy created by the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: I think all three of the three of those factors
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  Speaker 3: just really helped us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a perfect example of having an offense that's
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  Speaker 1: productive like yours is scoring in the mid thirties pretty
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  Speaker 1: much every game. I felt like going in you needed
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  Speaker 1: to score at least thirty five to beat.
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  Speaker 2: This team because they're a very good offensive team.
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  Speaker 1: Having Joe Finnano with the kind of year he's having
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  Speaker 1: in Skyler Bell and these playmakers on offense, does that
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  Speaker 1: give you a little bit of a chance to breathe
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  Speaker 1: easy somewhat when.
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  Speaker 2: Things aren't going your way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean always going to look over and go, well,
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  Speaker 1: I know those guys are going to figure out something.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean I would think, as I'm the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We got a shot, we got our guys, we're gonna score.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I always feel that.
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  Speaker 3: I always feel like, you know, hey, we have a shot.
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  Speaker 4: We're in it.
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  Speaker 3: You know we're going to compete because that's built into
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  Speaker 3: our team. But come on, Mike, I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: if I breathe easy until I'm in the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the game is like, you know, ten minutes
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  Speaker 3: over before I can really kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of breathe easy. So yeah, I confidence, yes, breathe easy. No. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever ask you this, but I'm gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: you this time. When you got in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: after that game, and obviously the crowd came out, was
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  Speaker 1: celebrating with the team, et cetera. Now you get a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes, you go into the locker room, what's the
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  Speaker 1: first thing you addressed with your team? What was the
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  Speaker 1: first thing you basically said to him after what was
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  Speaker 1: a really emotional day and night.
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  Speaker 3: So I missed the whole crowd on the field. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't even know they rushed the field. I typically when
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  Speaker 3: the game's over, you know, I love, you know, meeting
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  Speaker 3: an opponent, the posing head coach, shaking his hand, and
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  Speaker 3: then I try to get to the locker room as
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  Speaker 3: fast as I can because I like to be in
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  Speaker 3: there before the players come in so I can shake
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  Speaker 3: all their hands when they come off the field. Just
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  Speaker 3: always been something I've enjoyed doing. So I'm up in
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  Speaker 3: the locker room and I like, where's our football team?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: And I kind of look out of the tunnel and
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  Speaker 3: I go, oh my god, they stormed the field.
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  Speaker 4: I missed it. But at that point I was like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna just sit in here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna take a couple of breaths, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: let the players enjoy having some fun with their fellow students,
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  Speaker 3: and David Bennett came in and we were able to
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  Speaker 3: have a nice conversation and you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 3: we don't get to do that a lot after game
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  Speaker 3: because it's so chaotic, that we got to kind of
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  Speaker 3: talk about the game. And then as the players came in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, greet him. And then the first thing is, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have a we have a we have
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  Speaker 3: a saying on our on our wall there up in
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  Speaker 3: the locker room, and I stole it from Danny Hurly. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I walked into the basketball building once and he said
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  Speaker 3: relentless competitive effort. And that's one of Danny's core principles,
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  Speaker 3: relentless competitive effort.
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  Speaker 4: And so I plagiarized. I stole it. No, and we haven't.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Right up on the you know, kind of the top
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  Speaker 3: of our locker room, one of the things is relentless
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  Speaker 3: competitive effort.
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  Speaker 4: And I just pointed to that.
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  Speaker 3: I said, read that, and they said that's really I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: how do we win that this? I said something like,
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  Speaker 3: how do we win this game? I said, look at
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  Speaker 3: that right there, and they said relentless competitive effort. I said,
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  Speaker 3: your damn right, and then that was kind of then
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  Speaker 3: they you know, they start going crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So I got to give Danny a lot of credit
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  Speaker 3: from my post game well, hell, I got to give
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  Speaker 3: Danny and Gino a lot of credit for what they
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  Speaker 3: did pregame to help get that place full. And then
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  Speaker 3: I got to give Danny hell a lot of credit
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  Speaker 3: for giving me a postgame talk.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he is, he's a football fan.
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  Speaker 1: I could I watched a couple of football games with
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  Speaker 1: him while he's having practice, which is funny because on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday he's watching the Bengals and he's a huge
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  Speaker 1: football fan. Yeah, it's great to have that support, no
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  Speaker 1: question about it. You won the game on the last
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  Speaker 1: play defensively, and that's I think as exciting as it gets. Right,
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  Speaker 1: your defense getting pushed up against the wall, basically they're
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  Speaker 1: driving the football. They're putting this thing in danger right there.
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  Speaker 1: All they need is a field goal to tie this thing,
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  Speaker 1: to win it with a defensive play boy, that that's exhilarating,
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  Speaker 1: I think for the fans who were there that day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what I think settle us down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit defensively was the fact that Joe got
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  Speaker 3: that two point conversion and make it a field goal
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  Speaker 3: to tie, and it gave us a chance to play
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  Speaker 3: the game a little bit differently on defense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where we weren't trying to defend a field goal to win,
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  Speaker 3: but a field goal to tie.
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  Speaker 4: I think that.
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  Speaker 3: It was a result of a lot of work by
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  Speaker 3: our defensive players and staff in terms of figuring out
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  Speaker 3: how we can be better in the two minute situation
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  Speaker 3: and going through the experiences that we've gone through this
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  Speaker 3: year in the two minute situations, at the end of games,
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  Speaker 3: the end of halves, you know, even some of the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that's happened in the overt times has forced us
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  Speaker 3: to really look inside and.
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  Speaker 4: Understand why we'd.
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  Speaker 3: Struggled in those situations, and then our players really taken
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  Speaker 3: ownership of it. I think that helped us tremendously On Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: when we got in that situation again, there was a
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  Speaker 3: different level of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: It was a real high point for Yukon this year.
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  Speaker 2: They go seven and three.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit about the emotion
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  Speaker 1: of playing at home with the lead or the deficit,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the guys who made it happen. Takeaways
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  Speaker 1: another category of Yukon's starting to excel in where with
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  Speaker 1: Jim Moore, We're back with more the Yukon Football Coaches
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  Speaker 1: show on lear Field in a moment