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Seg 3 - FB Show Oct 31 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  The football Huskies will host in state foe Sacred Heart on Senior Day. That's
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  Saturday, November eighteenth, a noon kick at Brenton Whitney Stadium. Tickets available
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  at Yukon tickets dot com, Yukon Huskies Football, football, tailgating and fun.
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  Yukon travels to Knoxville. First time they've met the volunteers on the football
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  field. It's the volunteers ninety ninth homecoming game. They won ten straight.
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  They're really on a roll. Josh Heipel, who came from UCF, now
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  he's won seventeen of his last twenty one games there after his first year going
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  seven and six. I'm looking at their roster, Jim, and they got
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  fourteen out of their twenty two on the depth chart, you know as grads
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  super seniors. So not only are they you know, they quality players,
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  they're older guys. And we talked about this a few times. The offense
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  starts five super seniors, defense has three super seniors. You're competing against that.
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  It's tough. It's a tough road to hope, but I mean this
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  is this is the Nate Sure the game. At this point, these schools
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  are just attacking the portal on all levels and putting teams together annually. I
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  mean, it's really hard to develop a team, you know, one year,
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  two years, look at at a three year development. Now, well,
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  I mean they've done They've done a really good job of attacking the portal
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  and you know, taking advantage of this nil that's the name of the game
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  in college football right now. And you know, I don't know that anyone
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  really likes it, at least to the extent that it's become what it is.
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  I think that you know, players should be compensated for sure, for
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  their name, image, their likeness when others are benefiting off of them.
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  But if you don't have money, it's tough sledding, you know, it's
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  tough sledding. If you have money, you can go get players. Now.
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  You never want a player to come to you just because of money,
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  right you just don't. But if you don't have money to compete, they're
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  not going to come to you, you know. And that's what's that's just
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  the nature of the game right now. And like I said, you know,
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  I don't love it, you know, I don't love where it's at.
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  But it is what it is, and they've done a really good job
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  of retaining players. Number one, so paying the players on their team so
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  that people can't come and poach them. And number two, they've done a
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  great job of going out and seeking out guys that are in the portal that
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  can help them be a good football team and get them, you know,
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  through their recruiting and through their ability to pay them. And that's not exclusive
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  to Tennessee. So it's not like I'm sitting here like some coaches say that,
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  well, they sure bought a good team. No, they didn't buy
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  a good team. They recruited a good team. They figured it out,
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  they had money. They did what's necessary in college football today, just like
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  Boston College. Did you know, like I said earlier in the show,
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  it's a different team. So it's the new world, man, it's the
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  new world. It's it's in this way in basketball. It's just waying football,
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  and you know, you gotta you gotta be able to adjust to it
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  if you want to if you want to compete. And boy, they've done
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  a really good job. And those schools like we just talked about Tennessee,
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  Duke acc I mean, the rights fees they're collecting in these conferences is substantial,
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  you know, money to really put a foundation together financially to keep these
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  teams going and recruiting grads and super seniors. And one, you know,
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  one guy that's not like that. He hung around Jackson Mitchell, and we
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  all love the guy. I was watching him on special teams, coach.
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  He got down and made some plays amazing on punt punt returns. Oh my
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  goodness, I'm thinking to myself, this guy is is the linebacker in on
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  ten fifteen tackles a game, and yet he's down on punt coverage making plays.
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  Yeah, and then really he runs down like four yards on a pump,
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  makes a tackle, and then he asks the lineup and play linebacker.
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  It's it's inspiring. And it's funny that you bring that up, because we
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  were telling guys, the young players, the young players on our team that
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  maybe get tired or whatever. Take a look at Jackson Mitchell all right,
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  and ask him how he does it? Like how did you? How do
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  you do this? What is what is it about you? What is it
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  about you that it gives you the ability to play so hard on special teams,
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  so hard on defense, to never get tired, Like what do you
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  do during the week, what's your mindset, what's your thought process, what's
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  your you know, your preparation, because you're special, man, and he
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  he's special. And man, I'm so glad you recognized that and brought it
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  up today because it was a point that the coaching staff made. Is watch
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  Jackson Mitchell practice, watch him prepare, and then watching him play and it
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  all is connected and it's amazing. Yeah. Uh, Victor Rosa couldn't play
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  last week. You you had said that you thought he was you know,
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  he was available, was in uniform, he was going to play, and
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  then he did not play. What happened in pregame? Was he sore?
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  What would happen there with Victor? Well, we watched him in really in
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  one on one and some of the team in pregame, and he wasn't ready
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  to go, you know, I mean he was close, but he wasn't
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  ready to go. And I just don't think it's fair to put a young
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  player like Victor, really, any player out like Victor that's going to have
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  the ball in his hands with eleven guys coming to try to get it and
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  get him, and if he can't protect himself because he's a little bit gimpy,
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  that you cannot you can't put a player in that position, right,
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  and it's dangerous. It's a dangerous sport anyway, And so the decision was
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  made that we're going to hold him, you know, and it was the
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  right decision. He wasn't he just wasn't quite ready to go quite Frankly,
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  I was surprised that he was as far along as he was on Saturday,
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  which was really encouraging. And it just goes to show you how important it
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  is to him and how hard he worked and how hard our athletic trainers and
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  Bob Howard worked to get him back. Yeah, here's this week's questionable call
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  question, Chris Shearon. That was not past interference. In my mind,
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  that was a big call against Chris. I thought he played that almost perfect.
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  If I'm a defensive back, that's the way I make that play.
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  Yeah. I watched the film from every angle and I didn't think it was
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  PI either. And once again, it's a third down call. It keeps
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  the drive alive. You know, those are killers. And you know,
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  I don't know what to tell Chris on that other than it's a hell of
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  a job and you know, unlucky break. Yeah, all right, quick
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  time out back with Jim Moore. We wrap up the coaches segment and we
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  get ready for Nick Harrison, Malcolm Bell as well. This is the Yukon
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  Football Coaches Show on Lear Field.