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UConn FB Coach's Show - Seg 1, Aug 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Well, let's do and we are here live in the
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  Speaker 1: dunk and Music Lounge at iHeart headquarters at Hartford. Have
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  Speaker 1: we got a live audience with us and we like
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  Speaker 1: to do it with each of the coaches at least
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  Speaker 1: once a year when we get Jim Moore obviously tonight,
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  Speaker 1: with the football season just a couple of ten days away,
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  Speaker 1: I'm counting them for ten days.
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  Speaker 2: Coach.
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  Speaker 3: Great to see you. Let's start with the head coach job,
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  Speaker 3: because you've.
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  Speaker 1: Been the head coach now this is the third year here,
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  Speaker 1: but you're really the head coach for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in that that's your real job. Now you're not the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and other jobs. You're the head coach. How
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  Speaker 1: different is that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that was the plan all along, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: things happened in that first year that kind of forced
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  Speaker 4: to change. But I think it's really been beneficial to
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  Speaker 4: I know for me and I think for the players
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  Speaker 4: and the team. You know, I was hired to be
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  Speaker 4: the head coach. I wasn't hired to be the defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoyed doing that, but I think the best thing
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  Speaker 4: I did is fire myself last year and bring in
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  Speaker 4: someone that's that's really really, really good at it, Matt Brock,
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  Speaker 4: and it gave me a chance to do it. I
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  Speaker 4: feel if there's anything that I feel like I do well,
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  Speaker 4: it's probably just the relationships with the players, managing a team,
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  Speaker 4: you know, recognizing where they are emotionally and mentally, and
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  Speaker 4: then managing a game. And I honestly that first year
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  Speaker 4: went pretty well, but last year just it became overwhelming
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  Speaker 4: to me, you know, in the way that I like
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  Speaker 4: to operate.
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  Speaker 2: As a head coach. So it feels it feels pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I have a better grasp of the team,
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  Speaker 4: the personalities on the team. I feel like I'm able
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  Speaker 4: to understand how to make the players as individuals in
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  Speaker 4: a group kind of tick and and go. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's tough getting fired, but I think it all worked out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so far, you got your job back. I did.
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  Speaker 1: I got my job back. Yeah, that doesn't always happen.
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  Speaker 1: We get fired, that's the end of it. But all right,
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  Speaker 1: So you've been in camp. I've been out running around
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  Speaker 1: playing golf in Ireland and running in the mountains in Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: You've actually been working, getting back to work in the
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  Speaker 1: summer in football. I don't know, if everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: room gets that, that's a hard gig for the players
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  Speaker 1: and the coaches too, because of the heat you're in
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  Speaker 1: and the intensity of it all and you're trying to get.
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  Speaker 3: So much done. Describe this one, this is your third
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  Speaker 3: one here at Yukon. What's it been like.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a grind, and it's a real you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: the players, it's a real grind for the players. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that people really understand what they go through,
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  Speaker 4: the time commitments really in the season, but especially this
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  Speaker 4: time of the year. I mean, they're in the building
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  Speaker 4: by six thirty and this week we kind of transitioned.
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  Speaker 4: But for the first three weeks, you know, they weren't
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  Speaker 4: getting out of the building to ten thirty, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and that's hours and hours and meetings and you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's an hour walk through at two hour and forty
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  Speaker 4: five minute practice, it's you know, their meals, their treatment,
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  Speaker 4: they're taping their recovery.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a real grind, and we went
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  Speaker 2: through it. This year. We went hard. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: needed to.
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  Speaker 4: We have twenty seven transfer players that came in, a
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  Speaker 4: new quarterback, five new receivers that weren't with us in
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  Speaker 4: spring practice, and so we really had to hit it
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  Speaker 4: hard and I appreciately appreciate the way that they've worked.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're.
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  Speaker 4: Transitioning more into season mode. But you know, still it's
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  Speaker 4: these guys. You know, during the season, we practice at
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  Speaker 4: seven thirty in the morning, then they you know, they
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  Speaker 4: have their weightlifting, and then they they have school and
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  Speaker 4: then they're back at four forty five till seven every night.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's a lot, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's different than other sports because in other sports
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't demand that the time commitment to meeting and
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  Speaker 4: watching film because it's so choreographed. Football is very choreographed,
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  Speaker 4: where you know, sports like baseball or basketball for instance,
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  Speaker 4: they're not really I mean they are choreographed to a
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  Speaker 4: certain extent. But the meeting times just amazing. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you ask Kathy, I mean just always in meetings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kathy's here because it's more with us.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see her opener coming up ten days away
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  Speaker 1: at College Park, Maryland Big ten. You kick it off
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  Speaker 1: of the Big Ten, then you have a home opener
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  Speaker 1: with Merrimack, and then you.
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  Speaker 3: Go acc on the road. So three real challenges to
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  Speaker 3: kick off your season. Do you like that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you like that to face the best of what
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to face right away?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I love to compete, So from that standpoint, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I love it. I think you know, in this day
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  Speaker 4: and age, when you have so many transfers coming in
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  Speaker 4: and you don't really know what your team's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: until they get on the field in a competitive environment
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  Speaker 4: against an opponent, not against you know, some of they
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  Speaker 4: see every day in practice. It would be beneficial to
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  Speaker 4: maybe play some games that you know that maybe aren't
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  Speaker 4: big ten in acc but that's you know, that's just
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  Speaker 4: not the reality of it.
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  Speaker 2: So we just got to go out and compete. I
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  Speaker 2: feel good about where we are.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you mentioned three teams there, and
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  Speaker 4: two of them are Power four teams that are really
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  Speaker 4: good teams, you know, teams that have done a lot
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  Speaker 4: lately and really improve.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, uh, it'll be a heck of a test.
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  Speaker 4: We just got to We've got to find a way
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  Speaker 4: to to to win those games, you know, and take
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  Speaker 4: them one at a time, and then we get a
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  Speaker 4: great stretch at home, you know, we get six home
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  Speaker 4: games in a row, and if we can have some
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  Speaker 4: momentum going at that point in time.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and people are excited about us.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we can we can get the rent going
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  Speaker 4: and we can create a really fun environment I think
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  Speaker 4: for our team and for our fans.
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  Speaker 2: And in that six weeks, Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 1: Home stands phenomenal. We'll talk about that. We'll be back
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment. Jimora with us the Yukon Football
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  Speaker 1: Coach This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 3: We're live in studio
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  Speaker 1: Here in Hartford, iHeart Headquarters, and we'll be back in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment on