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Seg 1 - FB Show Mora Oct 24 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Football Coach you show Mike Christino with every Tuesday with Jim
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  Moore as the Huskies get set to take on Boston College of an alumni Stadium
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  twelve noon on a Saturday. Coach, thanks for the time. This has
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  been an interesting season, to say the least, one in six I haven't
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  won it the rent yet, but I got to tell you these games are
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  exciting. I mean, I can't be a fan because I'm a broadcaster,
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  but I had to say when you got four losses by total of eighteen points,
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  games could have gone either way. This could be a whole different scenario
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  we're talking about, but it's not so. I guess the question we start
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  with is how do you build on what's been happening so far in this season
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  for Yukon Football. Well, you're right, could have would have should it?
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  You know? I think the only thing you can do in a situation
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  like this is is keep grinding, keep working, recommit every day, and
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  as a coach to find for your players what that means. You know,
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  a lot of people say we just got to win a game, We just
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  got to recommit, we just got to try harder. But I think it
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  goes so much deeper than that. You got to teach them how to try
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  harder, What does that mean, What does that look like to try harder,
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  to be more detailed, and so we spell that out in great detail.
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  I think the other thing is that you have to while understanding the reality
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  of this situation, you have to point out the positives. You know,
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  the last two weeks or the last two games that we've had, the opposing
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  coach has come up to me after the game and made a very strong point
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  to me about how hard our team plays on film and on in person,
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  and that that's a that's a you know, that's that's something that we're after.
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  If we keep doing that, and we keep working hard, and we
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  pay attention to the details, and we keep putting our players or trying to
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  put our players in the best position to play and have success, we will
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  have a breakthrough. We are a much better football team than our record indicates,
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  but we are what our record indicates as well. So you know,
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  you ask these young men to stay focused. I think you impress upon them
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  the lessons that they're learning that are going to help them down the road,
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  not only on the football field, but in life as well. When you
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  go through through things like this, because you and I we're older, older
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  gentlemen. You much older than me, but we're older gentlemen, we understand
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  that. You know, life is full of adversity and roadblocks and twists and
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  turns and the roads always winding uphill. And these guys don't know that yet.
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  And you know because of your success, and I know because I've you
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  know, been around some successful peoples, that the road's never easy, and
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  so embrace the hard growth comes. Growth, growth comes in the most difficult
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  times in your life. And so we talk a lot about that. We
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  do, We just do. I'm very honest with these guys, you know,
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  very very very very transparent. That's one of the things I think is
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  one of your strengths, too, is that you've been through a lot,
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  You've had a lot of success, you've had adversity, so you can tell
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  you can speak to the stuff legit. And I wonder when you do talk
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  about that, when you use the word adversity to your players, does it
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  get through? Do guys get it? Do they understand it's gonna be hard.
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  You said this last year and it worked, but it's hard to win
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  on any level and any sport. So, guys, we ain't winning right
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  now, but we're doing the things required for us to win. Is that
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  kind of the message you have to bring We're doing well. I hope it's
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  getting through Mike, and I think it's certainly getting through to some of them.
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  But that's consistency of message, because eventually it gets through, right,
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  you just keep hammering it that rock and hammering it and eventually it cracks.
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  So and I'm not calling them rocks. I'm just saying that that concept.
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  So, yeah, I continually talk about it and not a you got to
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  teach them how to handle adversity, you know, like what mindset they have
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  to have and what earth work ethic and what attitude they got to carry into
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  it. It's not enough to say we got to overcome adversity. I just
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  think those are empty words. So I really try to work hard at that.
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  Sunday nights we meet, we don't meet, We have dinner, we
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  have a team dinner, and I usually talk. My wife started calling at
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  my Sunday night sermon. That's when I usually try to hit them with,
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  you know, kind of a message that's bigger than just the game. But
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  it's based on the game, you know, based on what happened the previous
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  day, but maybe has implications for the rest of their lives. But it's
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  no hard. But you know, you said we're doing things to win the
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  games, we're not winning the games. So that means we're doing most of
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  the things to win the game. We're not doing enough to win the game.
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  Like you look back at this game that we just had last week,
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  and we played hard, right, we played hard, but there was way
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  too many missed opportunities, you know, and we can we can talk about
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  them. I think everybody this listening probably saw them. But we dropped three
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  interceptions, right, we dropped six passes. We turned the ball over four
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  times. So the fact that we're even in that game is you know,
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  almost a miracle, you know, and it's a testament to the way they
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  they that how hard they play, the effort they play with. But we
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  have to capitalize on opportunities, and we have to create opportunities with the effort
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  we play with. And so it's just asking them every week to come back
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  and recommit, and they do it, and if they keep doing that,
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  then eventually this program will have the breakthrough that we're all looking looking for.
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  And that's like a perpetual breakthrough, you know, not a one year breakthrough.
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  Yeah you kind of well, prior to your arrival you kind of won
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  four games in three years. You've got seven wins here to you and a
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  half anyway, so you're going in the right direction. But it's a week
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  two week deal. And everybody, you know, has a bottom line.
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  And I hear from Housekeep fans all the time, what happened we had that
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  game, We're up twenty one to ten. We should have won this and
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  that. And obviously they're fans. They're going to get crazy passionate about what
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  you're doing. And I appreciate that. With you come to why, Yes,
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  we want if they don't care, they don't care, you want to
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  be exactly, and if you want if they're passionate and they question things and
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  they I mean even if they're pissed. Man, I'd rather have that than
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  not have anything. You know, Like we haven't had many people at the
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  rent. You know, we got to win them back, you know.
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  I love I want passion. I want I want them to be pissed when
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  we lose, and I want to be happy when we win. And I
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  want them to be interested, and you know, I want them to ask
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  questions. I mean, I don't think some coaches like that. You know.
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  Yeah, man, I'm craving it right now because I want I want
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  people to embrace this program. Well that's why I'm here, by the way
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  on Tuesdays to ask questions. I will be back with Jim More. We'll
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  find out what's missing if there is such a thing in a football game.
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  We're gonna talk about Malik Dixon Williams. He'll be visiting with Bob Joyce a
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  little bit later on and Towey form Mea Brown as well on the show.
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  Stay tuned youukon Football Coaches. Show continues on lear Field