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Seg 4 - FB Show 10-21 w Jason Candle · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Jason Candle, the UConn football coach. Huskies
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  Speaker 1: face UMass Friday night at the Rent. We'll start our
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  Speaker 1: coverage at 4 o'clock. Network coverage starts at 5.30. But
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Coach here. A little bit
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  Speaker 1: of big topic stuff in college football. We try to
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  Speaker 1: do this every week. Jason, this 2014 playoff thing now
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's going to be reality in 2027. To me,
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  Speaker 1: that waters down the whole deal. Everybody's in. What's your
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  Speaker 1: thought on that initially? I know it is maybe not
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  Speaker 1: in the front of your mind, obviously, but you're, you're
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  Speaker 1: a college football coach. You're watching this stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, landscape of college football is changing. It's
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  Speaker 2: a different time. It's not, you know, traditionalists are upset.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a traditionalist as well. I like, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: way it was in a lot of things. I can
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  Speaker 2: say that as it pertains to many different avenues here,
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  Speaker 2: but it's different, it's changing. You either adapt and figure
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  Speaker 2: it out or you get passed by. Whatever the rules
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  Speaker 2: of engagement are for us here at Connecticut, you know,
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  Speaker 2: tell us what we got to do, how we got
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  Speaker 2: to do it. We're going to do it to the
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  Speaker 2: best of our ability, you know, and go try to
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  Speaker 2: fight to be one of the 24 teams. That's ultimately
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  Speaker 2: going to be the goal. So whether it's 12, 24, 48, 108,
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  Speaker 2: don't care. You try to get in the dance and
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  Speaker 2: try to get there and get your team there. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of work that goes into
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  Speaker 2: that and a lot of preparation to even be in
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  Speaker 2: that conversation. That's what we're fighting hard to do right now.
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  Speaker 1: Are you putting another idea out there?
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  Speaker 2: 48? We're going to 79.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many basketball everyone's in. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: always comes back to, I mean, you know what it
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  Speaker 2: comes back to. I mean, you know, money's the answer.
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  Speaker 2: What's the question, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. It really is.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: This weekend, obviously you, So on Saturday, did you watch football?
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  Speaker 1: I was watching. I just wrote down all the games
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  Speaker 1: I watched. And there were like over 10 games that
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  Speaker 1: I actually watched parts of. And I don't have time
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  Speaker 1: to go through them all. But what did you do
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Well, early morning of UMass prep. Watched a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio State and Indiana. And then went and watched
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  Speaker 2: the West Hartford flag football game. houston texans team play
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  Speaker 2: and get a good win there um my son's team
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  Speaker 2: and then i got back and was able to catch
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of uh auburn and georgia penn state
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  Speaker 2: and michigan so you know a lot of you know
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  Speaker 2: college football coach is never sitting around doing anything and
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  Speaker 2: sitting on the couch he's he's constantly thinking about what
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  Speaker 2: he's got to do next for his team yet trying
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  Speaker 2: to make sure you you tune in so you're in
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  Speaker 2: you see some other teams what they're doing well and
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  Speaker 2: what they're maybe the mistakes they're making and try to
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  Speaker 2: find teaching moments for your guys. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're, we're into true game week, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're seven days out yesterday. So we're, our focus is
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  Speaker 2: on UMass and, but I did get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: catch a little bit of, you know, some of those games.
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  Speaker 1: How about the gadget play BYU Notre Dame? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there were a couple of them that, that were kind
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  Speaker 1: of sneaky good. I thought sometimes you, do you ever
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  Speaker 1: pick up something like that watching?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you probably all of it. Come on. Yeah. Always.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, always, you always, I mean, we just, you
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  Speaker 2: have so much access to the all 22 film that
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  Speaker 2: you can, There's billions of ideas that fit or that
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  Speaker 2: are out there. The real challenge is, is can you
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  Speaker 2: find ones that fit what you do and the personnel
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  Speaker 2: that you have? And I think, you know, that's what
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  Speaker 2: really good coaching is, is being able to find key
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  Speaker 2: things to put your players in a position where they
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  Speaker 2: can be successful. And it's not what I know or
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  Speaker 2: what our coaches know. It's what our players can go execute. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Coach, we appreciate it. Friday night, let's get
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  Speaker 1: under the lights and get some excitement going and get
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  Speaker 1: to four and three. That would be a good step forward,
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  Speaker 1: as you say. Strong schedule coming up in these last
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  Speaker 1: six games.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Go Huskies.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's Jason Candle coming up. Shamar Porter and
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  Speaker 1: Tajay Mullix. We continue our coverage of UConn football here
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  Speaker 1: on Learfield.