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SEG 4 - Wbb Show w Geno & Cav Mar 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Conversation Bob Joyce, gen Ore, I'm and Mike vas here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of hockey women's hockey. Yeah, by
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  Speaker 1: win last night. They're hosting the Hockey East Championship game
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  Speaker 1: against their arch nemesis, Northeastern Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's what three.
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  Speaker 1: Three thirty something three thirty at Toscano, So if you
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  Speaker 1: have never been there, it's a great chance to go
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  Speaker 1: watch hockey. And by the way, both teams are really good,
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  Speaker 1: and I think regardless of what happens, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: the NCAA is right both, Yeah, they're both in fantastic
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  Speaker 1: You and I, Mike, we're talking about with Tage being
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  Speaker 1: an Olympian, you're gonna have a hockey player's name on
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  Speaker 1: a statue somewhere on campus that Andy Bissett, who worked
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  Speaker 1: for Travelers, was a Yukona Lump was an Olympic Olympian
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  Speaker 1: shot put I think track and field. There's a statue
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  Speaker 1: where and I'm sure many of his former players around this.
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  Speaker 2: Where is this? Do we know where this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Is located right across from the Union by the
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  Speaker 3: UH Dog is about Yeah, exactly right by where the
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  Speaker 3: ticket office is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so it's down a little bit down. Yeah, right there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you've never seen it.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're on it. I'll go over there tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go take our picture.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm just curious because you talk about it
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  Speaker 1: all the time. It's like, where is this thing? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the side of gaff lighte ever going?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's right on. It's a closed off road.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: You've been here a lot longer than side hill side.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever it is, it'll be r E M A waste?
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  Speaker 2: Do you what's it called? D row statues there?
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  Speaker 3: But he's inside right or is he out?
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  Speaker 2: Now? De Row statues outside? Is it? It's not inside?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? It's inside?
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was like kind of like in as.
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  Speaker 2: Is Jack Hays. By the way, that's works at Yukon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, I got you. Yeah, I know. I back
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  Speaker 4: when I started, the campus was really small. I could
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  Speaker 4: go wherever I wanted in a short period of time.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, did you guys walk now?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 4: I need a golf cart to go from my office
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  Speaker 4: to the Roe statue?
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of birthdays.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys watch practice today and hear the pings
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  Speaker 1: of bats off ball bats.
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  Speaker 3: And today I actually went out and watched half an inning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Home opener.
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  Speaker 1: My former neighbor Evan Menzel hit hit for the cycle today.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Menzel, who started at Maine and now was at Yukon,
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  Speaker 1: lived three houses down for me as a younger kid
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  Speaker 1: before they moved, but him and his brother always out
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  Speaker 1: playing catch.
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  Speaker 2: They won today, they won, right, you know.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's that's like one of the great things that's
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  Speaker 4: happened there too, is they get a new field for
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  Speaker 4: baseball where they can just go and play no matter
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  Speaker 4: what the weather is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jamie and the crew did a great job getting
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  Speaker 1: the field ready.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, where before they got this like artificial stuff. Now
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  Speaker 4: looks like dirt, but it's like field turf, but it's
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  Speaker 4: field turf. Yeah, so it you could just snow blow it.
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  Speaker 4: So if there's snow on it, they did, you just
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  Speaker 4: go and you snow blow it and then you could play,
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  Speaker 4: whereas before you couldn't play a whole game until June
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  Speaker 4: because of the mud and the dirt. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: anybody who plays baseball in Connecticut, you got to love
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  Speaker 4: the game because you're playing in something other than baseball weather.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing worse is being a parent of a
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  Speaker 3: baseball player.
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  Speaker 2: We've been there, Yeah, we've been there. We've been there.
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  Speaker 2: Yea been there. Yeah. What did Mike play? What position
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  Speaker 2: it might play? Did you play in high school? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I had him for a Twilight League game once. I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea because he had his full beard. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: who the heck is the saying hi to me my son, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and then come to find out it was your ring
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  Speaker 1: them up. I think I know, Yeah, maybe I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think he was swinging miss strike.
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  Speaker 2: Three, swinging a miss strike three. But no, no, I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember. No, No, he was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a hell of a picture he matter
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  Speaker 4: of fact, Jimmy Pender's dad, sure, he pissed at Mike
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  Speaker 4: that he played basketball instead of baseball. And I think
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  Speaker 4: he would have been a better baseball player than a
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  Speaker 4: basketball player. And he was All state basketball player. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, when you're when you're big for your age
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  Speaker 4: and you can throw really hard and you know how
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  Speaker 4: to pitch, you know, those those guys are hard to
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  Speaker 4: come by.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, six foot six foot one, six foot two, white
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  Speaker 4: guys to play basketball.
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  Speaker 2: They do.
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  Speaker 4: They don't have a long shelf life.
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  Speaker 2: No, they get rotten pretty quick.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: This might be a tough question to ask both of you,
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  Speaker 1: but someone that you recruited that you didn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: you brought them in, but you weren't sure what you
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  Speaker 1: were going to get out of that particular person that
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  Speaker 1: just totally took off and blossomed into something really special
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  Speaker 1: for whether you're at BC or here at Yukon, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: and for you, Geno, is there one or two players
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  Speaker 1: that stand out for both of you that really took
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  Speaker 1: off that you didn't really expect to to the level
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  Speaker 1: that they went.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly here at Yukon. It was Mark Gatcombe. He was
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  Speaker 3: a kid that you know, I always find the kid
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  Speaker 3: some of the best recruits I ever got. I was
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  Speaker 3: going down to watch someone else and someone else jumped
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  Speaker 3: off the ice at me, and I was going down.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I was. It was a Salisbury I drove
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  Speaker 3: out to Salisbury, which is about like an hour and
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  Speaker 3: forty five minutes from here, even though it's probably forty
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  Speaker 3: five miles total, but it takes forever to get there.
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  Speaker 3: And they were playing the Gunnery School at the time
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  Speaker 3: and whatever it is now Frederick Gunno, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they call it now. But they were playing the
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  Speaker 3: Gunnery School and I went out to watch a couple
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  Speaker 3: of kids on Salisbury and this kid kept jumping off
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  Speaker 3: the ice at me from Gunnery And it turned out
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  Speaker 3: his dad was a Boston cop, and we kind of
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  Speaker 3: hit it off, and I started talking to him, and
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  Speaker 3: we offered him a partial scholarship to come to Yukon,
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  Speaker 3: and his freshman year he was fine, and he just
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  Speaker 3: kept getting better and better and better. Eventually, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we upgraded him to a full scholarship and now he's
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  Speaker 3: a full timer with the New York Islanders. There's a
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  Speaker 3: kid that just really kept going and competing, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I never ever expected that from him. And in some
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  Speaker 3: ways I knew I thought Tage Thompson would play in
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  Speaker 3: the NHL. I never thought he'd be a fifty goal
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  Speaker 3: scorer or on the US Olympic team. To be on
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  Speaker 3: the US Olympic team, you got to be one of
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  Speaker 3: the best fifty players in the world. That's how good
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  Speaker 3: you are. And I just, you know, i'd be lying
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  Speaker 3: if I said when I saw him as an eighteen
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  Speaker 3: year old that I thought he'd be that all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna wait on Geno's answer for a minute
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  Speaker 1: because we're a little behind the skit, behind the eight
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  Speaker 1: ball here time wise, so we're going to take a break.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get Gino's answer when we come back in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches show Gino and Cavire
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  Speaker 1: from Cafe or on Learfield