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Seg 3 - FB Show Mora Oct 24 · Coaches Corner

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  You become bad at it at home against Sacred Heart on Senior Day Saturday,
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  go to Yukon Huskies dot Com. Back with Jim Moore on Mike Crispino Coach.
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  I've heard this a lot lately from not only football coaches, but basketball
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  coaches too, and it's actually come to fruition. There are now guys around
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  the country who were considered gms for just the transfer portal. Is that going
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  to be a new position that has to be created to manage all the moving
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  parts of personnel around the country and your sport. Do you think, yeah?
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  I do. I think you have to have a you know, people
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  assigned specifically to the portal and evaluating players that are potential enters into the portal
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  so that you can be ready to go should they enter the portal. You
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  know, we need to be active in the portal again. We you know,
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  we're going to lose some guys that we need to replace. We need
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  to continually try to upgrade the talent on this team and we're going to be
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  ultra aggressive in the portal. We've identified some positions where we can get better
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  and add depth and add skill, and we're going to attack that hard.
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  And we've got people in our organization that have evaluated potential portal targets at every
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  level from FCS to SEC you know, and guys that could come in here
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  and fit our culture and help us win football games. Now, we talked
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  about this last week with the portal, you know, the NIL you know,
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  I mean, it's a real deal. It's like, the portal is
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  a real deal. The NIL is a real deal. And I know that
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  we've got people here that we are working really hard to help us get some
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  money so that we can be active in the portal. It's hard to be
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  active in the portal unless you have an NIL program that can support you being
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  active in the portal. It's sometimes pointless to be active in the portal if
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  you don't have money to go secure these players. So they work hand in
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  hand now, and the landscape of college football has changed so dramatically in such
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  a short time because of those two factors, and they really fit together.
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  It's hard to separate them, it really is. Yeah, it makes recruiting
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  way different from when you were at UCLA. Let's say, you know,
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  finding guys that want to be in your program for three four years, et
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  cetera, et cetera. Let's get into evaluation now every week here down the
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  home stretch, second half of the season. Will you be doing that weekly
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  and moving guys up and down the depth chart a little bit and looking at
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  maybe the future next year for Yukon football. How will you do that.
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  Our philosophy won't change, and that is to put the players on the field
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  that we give us the best chance to win that game. If that's a
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  young guy, then it's a young guy. I think one thing that's important
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  to do is constantly have competition. So there are guys moving up and down
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  all the time, but at the same time, try to create some consistency.
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  And so that's a dance that you have to dance. But at no
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  point in time are we going to, you know, say, well,
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  this season's over, let's just play a bunch of young guys and get them
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  time. But we will look for opportunities to get young guys time. We've
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  done that on defense, you know, in particularly with a couple of guys
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  Lee Mallett and Isaiah Davis in the secondary. You know, the more they
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  play, the better they get. So we're finding opportunities for them to play.
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  We need to do that on offense with some young guys as well.
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  We need to get Kylie Shicks some snaps. You know, we're gonna need
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  to get Zach Droudy some snacks, some snaps here eventually. You know,
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  the offensive line is very secure and you don't really sub offensive lineman in and
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  out like you do any other position other than quarterbacks. So you know,
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  we got some young offensive lineman. You'd love to get him some time that
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  you know. That's situationally based. So you know, like I said,
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  every week, it's the same thing, how do we win this game?
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  How do we win the game that we're about to play. And that's irregardless
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  of the record that we have or the situation that we're in. Now,
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  this isn't a quote for me. This is from Frank Zappa. He said
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  necessity is the mother of invention. I'm referring to Cam Edwards. The dude
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  went for a buck forty nine the other day. He made four catches,
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  he carried twenty two times, he cramped up, he carried the offense for
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  a while. That's one of those deals we're out of nowhere from the defensive
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  back depth chart. He ends up running with the football like he did in
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  high school, and he's he's really proven to be some kind of running back.
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  You know, we talked about him, I think, kind of starting
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  in the spring and then in our summer camp the improvement he'd made, because
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  I'll be quite honest with you, when he got here, I was disappointed.
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  You know. I thought he was very immature. I don't think he
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  didn't take things very seriously. We didn't know that we had a position for
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  him. But like a lot of these kids that you know that you coach
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  in college, all of a sudden, the light bulb goes on and it
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  did for Cam And all of a sudden, you saw this kid that had
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  grown up really fast and had taken the time to develop his body and had
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  become very serious about things, and I think had felt maybe felt maybe felt
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  like he had a home at running back. And this is a guy that's
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  taken advantage of his opportunities. And he's a war daddy. I mean,
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  he's a dog. And I say that as a sign of respect. Man.
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  It's just been really fun to watch a kid that initially you were like
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  I don't know. I don't know, you know, I don't know if
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  he's going to be what we want. Turning to a guy that you can
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  point to as the poster child for what you want, and that's just a
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  tremendous credit to him. I mean, just his ability to just recognize the
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  situation he was in and change it with an attitude adjustment was It's like something
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  you just keep pointing to as a coach. And I mean, you love
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  seeing it, man, you love seeing it. Love seeing it because he's
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  a hell of a good kid. That's another life lesson for guys out there
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  in whatever pursuit they're in, whether it's sports or anything else in life.
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  Right, I mean, hey, it ain't working out for me, Well
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  I could bolt, I can take the door and go that way, or
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  I can figure out something to make myself better. He figured it out,
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  and like I said, it's just a great credit to him because I mean,
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  and he knows this. There are some times where you're like, I
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  don't know, man, I don't know if this guy has like the mindset
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  that you want. And it was just it was just immaturity, you know
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  what I mean. He's a kid, right, he was a kid,
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  And it's so rewarding in this industry when you can watch these you know,
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  these people we call kids transform into men, you know, and uh,
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  I don't know, I mean, Jesus, it's just like you just go
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  wow. Wow's that's what it's all about, right there, watching a kid
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  like this turn into the man that he's becoming, and the ballplayer's becoming in
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  the leader, he's becoming, in the respect that he's garnering now in the
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  locker room as opposed to being, you know, a locker room clown.
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  Now, all of a sudden, he's a freaking dude, and that's awesome,
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  so cool. You can't have enough of those guys, that's for sure.
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  Back in a moment, final time out with Jim Moore. We'll talk
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  Boston College football when we return on Lear Fields