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Seg 1 - FB Show Jim Mora Sept 26 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to board for the UKON Football Coaches Show, We get together Tuesday's six
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  pm with head coach Jim Moore. I'm Mike Crispino, Ukon's play by play
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  guy for football and basketball and baseball, and coach. Here we are end
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  of September, uk still looking for their first win of the season. My
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  thought is, there's a long way to go in this season. I mean,
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  you got eight games left, there's two months of football remaining, so
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  all is certainly not lost. No, I mean last year we were one
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  and four after five games and went to a bowl game. So we're just
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  trying to figure out a way to play our best game in this week.
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  It's Utah State, and we've put the previous game behind us, learned the
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  lessons we need to learn. And as as as Bill Belichick said, we're
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  onto Utah State. We're done talking about Duke. That one's over and so
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  all eyes are on getting to win this week and into Utah State. So
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  that's that's the attitude in the building. That's the attitude of the players.
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  That's uh, that's the attitude of the coaches, and that's all we're talking
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  about right now. Yeah, earlier today, Jim, and you're presser.
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  You mentioned, you know, referring to the past. Obviously kind of had
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  a tremendous turnaround in your first year here. You know, franchise it had
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  won four games and their previous thirty six. You win six, get to
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  a bowl game. But here you are, you know, on four and
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  trying to get this thing on track for this year. And you mentioned something
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  about referring to the past and deciding how to act in the future. You
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  can use what you've done in the past here with Yukon football to get this
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  thing turned around. I'm surmising after what you said. I said you refer
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  to it, and you do. You have learned lessons from it, but
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  you don't want to constantly talk about the past. Every years a new year,
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  Every year's a new challenge, every new year's a new team, Like
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  this is not last year's team, this is this year's team. So as
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  a coach, you have to learn the lessons, uh, not just from
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  the previous year, but from your experiences in coaching U and you have to
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  reflect on you know, what went right when you had a good year,
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  and what went wrong when you were struggling, and what went right when you
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  turned something around and try to bring those lessons into play. So it's not
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  just the previous year, uh, it's your previous career. So that's what
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  we always try to do, you know. But I think this, you
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  know, some of the members of this team having the experience of you know,
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  turning something around last year, it can it can benefit us. But
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  you know, we have to we have to go out and we just have
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  to We have to execute better as a as a program, and that's our
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  objective every day. But we're not going to spend you know, a whole
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  lot of time thinking about the past, because that doesn't help you for the
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  present in the future, other than the lessons you can learn and apply going
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  forward. Yeah, one thing you all so mentioned, I believe in the
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  postgame press conference, and I learned this from being in the NBA for a
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  lot of years working with the Knicks. Jeff Van Gundy was their coach,
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  and he was saying, one year, coming into camp, you know,
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  getting to five hundred like we did, that's one thing. But then the
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  tough part is getting above that and getting into playoff contention and getting too you
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  know, semifinals and your conference and all that and at the time, I
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  didn't understand what he was saying, but I get it now, all these
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  years later, because it happens sometimes to make that jump like you did last
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  year. That's one thing. Now you got to sustain. You gotta get
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  better. It's not automatic, is it. It's much harder to go from
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  six wins to seven wins it is from one win six wins. I mean
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  that's a fact. So so we're working harder, you know, And nothing
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  has been decided yet this year on our win total. For us, it's
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  all about trying to get win number one and doing everything possible, everything in
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  our power as a staff, as a program, as players to make sure
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  that we're completely focused on what we need to do this week to play our
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  best football and give ourselves an opportunity to go out there and win the game.
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  And so you're drawing everything that you can think of to try to get
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  your mind right and get your players focused and put them in a good position.
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  But we like it when it's hard. You know. This is a
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  great challenge if you're a competitor. You know, I said this a lot.
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  I mean, you love these you don't necessarily want to be in them,
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  but you thrive in situations like this. So yeah, I mean,
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  I think our team has a really good attitude. I thought that they made
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  improvements last week against a really good football team, and now we need to
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  put those improvements into play going forward. Yeah. One thing I've learned over
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  the years, when you tell a player or a competitor, well, you
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  can't do that, that's the most motivating thing for any athlete. And I
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  love that about athletics. That's kind of why I've stayed in it for forty
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  years, because it's all about that challenge and trying to overcome it. You're
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  so right, I mean, you know, adversity turns weak people into victims,
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  and it turns strong people into warriors, you know, And and you
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  very quickly find out which camp everyone is in. They're either victims or warriors
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  because adversity reveals that. And so what has been nice is that, for
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  the most part, the overwharlming majority of our team, I see a warrior
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  mentality emerging and that's encouraging. And where we don't see it, then it
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  tells you something about that person, you know, and you're probably you know,
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  Bill Belichick said at the bed, I'm gonna go back to another Bill
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  Belichick for you here. He said, oh no, actually this wasn't Bill
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  Belichick. Nick Saban said this, but I don't know that he invented a
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  lot of people have said it is high achievers don't like medio people and medioc
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  where people don't like high achievers, and you can't let that dynamic exist on
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  your team, and so times like this we'd out the week and elevate the
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  strong. And so that's what we're looking for. You con'll have UTAs state.
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  We're going to talk a lot about them here in the next a few
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  minutes with coach Jim Moore. But quick note on the Duke game. I
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  thought, on the positive side, this team came in Duke eighteenth in the
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  country running for two hundred and forty two yards a game. Twenty seven times
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  they tried to run it. They got seventy eight yards against yukon the other
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  day. I thought, you know, that's something you can hang your hat
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  on here going forward. If you can slow the rushdown of any team,
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  ultimately you're gonna be able to get their offense under control. I would think,
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  yeah, I think we're making improvement on defense. I think we're improving
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  in all areas. The thing that's hurting us is, you know, we've
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  had a couple of big plays against us that aren't typical for us, so
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  I got to get that under control. But a lot more consistency on defense.
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  I think that's because we've we've kind of found who we are and what
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  we do best, and then we're sticking with it. We're getting repetitions,
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  and we got some guys that really care and they're well coached by Dalton and
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  Serenke and Kenny, and they take that coaching and they apply it and it's
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  fun to work with that group. All Right, we'll with Jim Moore.
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  This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show. We're gonna go Day in the Life
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  of Jim Morra that's coming up, and we're going to talk about field position
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  coach, So get your notes ready. We're going to continue here. This
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  is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on Learfield