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Seg 3 - FB Show Nov 7 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Huskies will be hosting Sacred Heart Saturday, November eighteenth, twelve pm kick.
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  We'll start the tailgate at nine am on the Yukon Sports Network for tickets Yukon
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  tickets dot com. Jamora with us a coach, just looking ahead a little
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  bit to that. You got a number of guys on the roster. There
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  are seniors and grads. Some will have eligibility, some will run out of
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  eligibility. When you look at your roster trying to manage it going forward,
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  how does that play into the overall composition? Do you kind of figure out
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  which seniors are going to be around and which guys have eligibility? How do
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  you start that process? Well, there's certain guys that we know are going
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  to graduate and they've exhausted their eligibility and we're getting ready to honor them at
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  Senior Night. And then there are certain players that have graduated, are already
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  in grad school and haven't graduated from grad school yet that have eligibility, and
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  then you have to decide whether or not you're going to have them back on
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  your football team or if they want to come back on your football team.
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  And then there's some guys that will graduate undergrad and still have eligibility left.
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  And it's the same thing. You know, you have to decide together,
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  you know, what their future looks like. You know what I think about
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  some of these seniors that are going to be departing the program. I think
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  about guys like Christian Haynes and Jackson Mitchell and Alfred Chia and you know,
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  guys like that, you know, Eric Wattson Noel and all that they've been
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  through in their time here, and the resilience that they've shown and the lessons
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  they've learned and the impact that they've had that will continue to be felt for
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  years and years and years to come. Yeah, I mean, I hope
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  you come football fans community appreciates these guys because you know, I've been around
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  them since their time here. I understand there's been a lot of hardship,
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  you know, good bounce back last year, some unlucky stuff this year.
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  These guys don't bring it any less though. I just think that is a
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  tribute to you guys on the staff, but to them too, because I
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  mean, the culture we live in now, the exit doors are always there,
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  They're always open. You can get out, you can do something else,
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  you can you know, I don't know what the term is, but
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  it happens too often. We're trying to keep guys on the you know,
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  on the path, trying to do the best they can. That's not easy,
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  but you've been doing it. And these guys I think are a great
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  example of that. Well, if you quit in life, you're never going
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  to get anywhere. And these guys got no quit in them. And that's
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  a credit to them, certainly, not us. That's just who they are,
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  that's their character, that's their fiber, that's because of their mom and
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  dad and their families, and really just what they've built themselves into and their
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  mental toughness. And I respect the heck out of those guys. I consider
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  myself very fortunate to have been able to spend a couple of seasons with these
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  guys, and I've learned a lot from them, and I feel beholden to
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  them to make sure that we stay on track with this program and get it
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  where they were, you know, trying to help us get it. Any
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  success we have in the future will be a direct link back to guys like
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  Jackson, and to guys like Christian and back to Nowell. I'm back to
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  Eric and guys like that and Rayonte, and you know, we gotta we
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  got to honor them, and then we got to honor them in the future
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  by by building on what they've done, the example they've set through tough times,
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  you know, through a little, like you said, a little tiny
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  bounce back. But uh, those are guys that you can always look back
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  to and say, do it like that guy did it. Do it like
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  he did it. Yeah, act like he did it, have his mindset,
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  have his attitude, have his work ethic, and then you've got a
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  chance to be successful. Yeah. I had this discussion with Dan Hurley,
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  the basketball coach last year or two ago, I think when the transfer portal
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  became a real big thing in sports, right college sports. So I'm gonna
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  ask you the same thing. Dan was saying, I got to get into
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  that portal because I got to get some experienced players who are available to help
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  us. Everyone else is doing it and we're falling behind. And he was
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  able to do it two years ago and that really helped. So going forward,
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  for you, what's the plan, what's your thought on how you're going
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  to attack that part of setting up a roster, because it seems more and
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  more every year. Every team we play, they're loaded with guys. So
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  I guess that's a never ending struggle or whatever you want to call it to
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  try to get in that portal and find the best players to help your team.
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  Well, we're attacking the portal hard. We've got eleven or twelve high
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  school commits, and we're done with this year's high school class. It's all
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  about the portal now. And we've identified guys that we think may go into
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  the portal, Guys that have been already gone into the portal. We've evaluated
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  them. At a certain point in time. We'll be able to make contact
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  with them if they are in the portal or if they're going in the portal,
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  and we have a plan in place, but we are going to be
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  super aggressive this. You know, I don't know who says it, but
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  someone says, you know, Yukon will be open for business or whatever they
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  say, you know, when they're talking trades and stuff in pro sports.
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  We have to add talented, experienced players to this roster. And you you
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  know, we've made the point on this show before how unfortunately or fortunately there's
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  been a shift and the portal is directly related to name, image and likeness
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  or the ability to compensate these athletes, and it's a it's really become a
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  necessity that you have the ability to compensate these players, either through your collective
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  or through corporate you know, outside or they have agents now that are helping
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  them get things. You know, I'm really excited that there's people in the
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  Yukon community that fully understand that and are stepping up. And I know it's
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  a hard ask because you know, your money is your money. Just the
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  last few weeks, we've made a lot of progress in that area, and
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  we need to make a lot more, but we got a lot of people
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  that are completely committed to helping us there and that allows us to attack the
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  portal that we wanted the way we wanted and to attract some players that are
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  going to be able to help this team become the a team that all of
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  us Yukon people wanted to become. Yeah, it's so important, no question
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  about it. Take a quick break here, we'll be back. We'll take
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  a look at or hear from coach about James Madison. What a year they're
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  having nine and Oero. They are on a major winning street that's coming up
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  next on the Yukon Football Coaches Show from Learfield