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Seg 2 - FB Show Sept 19 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for the Football Husky is the eighteenth ranked Duke Blue Devils Pratton Wood.
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  He stayed him Saturday afternoon network coverage at two with Bob Joyce and the
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  Hard Auto Group countdown a kickoff game time three thirty here along the Yukon Sports
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  Network, gonna online be the Varsity Network app and the Varsity Network dot Com
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  Mike Chrispino with Jim Moore uh coach. Some other positives from that game.
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  DeVante Houston had a nice game one hundred twenty six yards running and thirty seven
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  yards and receptions, scored a touchdown. It was good to see him back
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  being DeVante Houston. Give him a little room, and that guy is dangerous.
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  Yeah, you know he can. He's he has a really great understanding
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  of our run scheme and he understands where the hole is going to be and
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  when it's going to open up, and then he understands how to get out
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  and back up the field. And he's really hard to catch when he's open
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  in the open field. And you know, they made a couple of shustring
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  tackles there that if he breaks, make a big difference in this game.
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  But you know, that kid is so he's so aren't tough, you know,
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  I mean, he's just he's a great kid. He works his tail
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  off, and he's one hundred and sixty five pounds. He takes vicious hits
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  and he just keeps getting up and going again and again and again. I
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  have so much respect for him. Yeah, he's one of our favorite sets
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  for sure. Victor Rosa a little banged up, I understand from the game
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  on the weekend and maybe the prior week as well. What's his status right
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  now? What do you expect he can do this weekend? And if he's
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  unable to go one hundred percent, what do you do in terms of backing
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  him up. Victor's beat up, but every running back in the country's beat
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  up a little bit. You know. It's just that he's got, you
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  know, his back, little backspas him and then you know, his shoulder
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  was bothering a little bit on Saturday, but he practiced today. He was
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  fine, He'll he'll be good to go Saturday. That being said, though,
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  I think it's important, you know that we can continue to work Jalen
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  Mitchell in there a little bit and probably give Cam Edwards some tries. You
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  know, I was really impressed with him after spring ball and especially after our
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  summer camps. You know, I think just you know, given DeVante a
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  break once in a while, given Victor a break once in a while,
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  especially when he's beat up a little bit, because we need him at full
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  speed. Because when he's at full speed, you know, we all have
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  seen what he can do. Yeah, you went without freshman kick returning this
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  past week. Brian Domino four times. He took it back for eighty four
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  yards. Twenty seven was his longest. Uh, that's not something you expected
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  to do, but you you were kind of forced into that one because Brian
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  Bruton decided he wasn't going to be part of the Yukon's football program anymore.
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  That's correct. Brian decided that he wants to preserve his red shirt and enter
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  the portal. And we wish him the best. You know, we'll miss
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  him, you know, I know, we really valued Brian. He's fought
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  through a lot. You know, he's an undersized guy that's been injured and
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  uh, you know, but he had a great attitude, a great work
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  ethic, brought a lot of juice to the team. But you know,
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  he made the decision. They did probably I'm sure I'll probably go down to
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  an FCS school or something and you know, or they'll take a guy his
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  size and play a little bit more. So that being said, it's you
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  know, that next man up mentality, and Brian Domino has been doing a
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  lot of really good things for us on the practice field. He shows a
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  burst, he shows some speed, he's got a great work ethic. The
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  players have a lot of respect for him, and it was time for him
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  to step up. And I think he's going to do a really good job
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  for us in that role. You know, this team last year and what
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  I want to look back too much, but you know, it was a
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  great turnaround year for the Huskies, the UKON program. You came aboard and
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  got things roll in the right direction a lot. You know, a lot
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  of people came back. You've got some experience on this squad. But there
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  are others who are not back. They used up their eligibility. I don't
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  think an Ian Swanson, you know, the linebacking crew, Brandon Boyder,
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  Randall, the corner, Trey Wortham. Replacing guys like that, it's not
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  as easy. Sometimes it's just plugging a hole with another guy, is it?
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  No? And it takes some time for people who adjusted their role and
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  for us to adjust to their skill set. It's not easy at all.
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  But but everybody really kind of now in college football faces those same problems.
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  So you have to make it happen a little bit faster, you know,
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  because there's just attrition and there's you know, guys graduate and move on.
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  So you know, that's one of the challenges. And uh, that's something
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  that we're working through right now. And you know, I think you're going
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  to see the guys that replace those guys step up and start to really make
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  some plays. I see Noah plaque coming on, and you know, it's
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  good to see two he getting chances to play at the nice sack the other
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  day. He's doing a good job. And you know, the more of
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  those guys play together and the more reps guys that haven't played much get the
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  better and better they'll start to play. So you know, there are some
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  hidden positives in in the oh and three start. It's just you know,
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  it's hard to find him. It's hard to talk about him, but you
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  know, I part of my job is to see him and realize that you
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  know, we knew, we knew this was not going to be an easy
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  and easy task, you know, getting this thing, you know, on
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  track, heading in the right direction. And you know, I've said this
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  a lot. You know, if the easy path leads nowhere, it's gonna
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  be hard, and there's gonna be some bumps in the road. And if
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  there's no bumps in the road, you're proy on the wrong road. So,
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  especially when you're trying to build something, and I feel very fortunate to
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  be here and I feel very confident that that we're headed in the right direction
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  as a program. I think that it's masked by the own three start and
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  we're results oriented business. But and that's ultimately how we're evaluated is wins and
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  losses. But you know, when you're trying to build something that was,
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  you know, struggling, you gotta you gotta find bits and pieces that indicate
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  to you that you're doing the right things and you have the right people.
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  And I'm able to find those still, So that that's what gives me a
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  lot of hope. Yeah, that's that's definitely important, no question about it.
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  Time for a break. We'll be back in just a moment with Jim
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  Moore. This Ukon Football Coaches Show on liffield