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SEG 3 - Wbb Show w Geno & Cav Mar 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back at Cafe Or with Geno Oriema and Mike Kavanaugh.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about the Olympic team, the amount of Hockey
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  Speaker 1: East guys played in the games in the US and Canada.
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  Speaker 1: These two guys, Geno is a big hockey fan. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of which, Mike, you have an interesting dynamic. You worked
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  Speaker 1: for Jerry York not only at BC but at Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry is the all time winning his coach in the
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  Speaker 1: history of college hockey. You work alongside and also friends
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  Speaker 1: with the winningest coach in college basketball history. You know
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  Speaker 1: him in a different way, but you see the same dynamic,
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  Speaker 1: the same amount of success that both coaches have had.
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  Speaker 1: What's that dynamic like when you watch from afar, how
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  Speaker 1: Jerry works, how they like and how are they different?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Jerry wouldn't be having a Manhattan at this radio show,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure, But what would.
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  Speaker 3: He be having, say like Ginger Ale Ginger, Yeah, probably
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  Speaker 3: I knew he was a dud.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so I fit right in with him?
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  Speaker 2: Then, No, I think you know, I think where they're
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  Speaker 2: both very similar is and it was I got a
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  Speaker 2: chance to during COVID when you came to the game.
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  Speaker 4: I was able to put you to finally together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think were it both very similar, is like
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  Speaker 2: they really are passionate about their school. Jerry was very
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  Speaker 2: very passionate, and he taught me that, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: support all the sports here at BC when I was
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  Speaker 2: at BC, Like, I want you to go to a
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  Speaker 2: field hockey game, I want you to go to a
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  Speaker 2: volleyball game. I want you to be part of the
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  Speaker 2: fabric of this community and just don't be in your
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  Speaker 2: own little bubble. And I think Geno's very similar. I
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  Speaker 2: remember one of the first head coaches meetings. I went
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  Speaker 2: to Nathan First, who's in the background, was giving an
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  Speaker 2: admission speech, and the track team was whatever. The tracks
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  Speaker 2: team was all upset because they couldn't get early reads.
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  Speaker 2: And there's Genos sticking up for the track team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking at him, going wow, I mean this
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  Speaker 2: is pretty cool, Like this is the all time winning
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  Speaker 2: a women's basketball coach and he's sticking up for the
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  Speaker 2: track team. And I think that's where they were both
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  Speaker 2: very similar. They're just passionate about their university. But the
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  Speaker 2: other thing I learned is they're very different, but you
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  Speaker 2: can be effective leader in different ways. Jerry was a
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  Speaker 2: very effective leader, doing things differently. He probably wasn't as
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  Speaker 2: vocal and tough on his players as you were.
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  Speaker 4: He probably let me do that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, the way that Gino runs practice and
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  Speaker 2: the way Jerry runs practice was very different. But they're
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  Speaker 2: both effective. Jerry was tough when he had to be,
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  Speaker 2: and Gino's tough when he has to be. But the
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  Speaker 2: thing that I think they both do really, really well
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  Speaker 2: is that they recruit good kids. They recruit good players.
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  Speaker 2: They demand discipline and respect, but they let the player play.
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  Speaker 2: Like I can imagine I wasn't here when you had
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  Speaker 2: Diana Tarazzi, but and she was.
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  Speaker 3: Here today right practice was around, but.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like I coached Johnny Gudreau. And how
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  Speaker 2: do you coach Johnny Gudreau. You open the door and
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  Speaker 2: you let him go like he has a canvas and
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  Speaker 2: you let him paint, like you don't complicate him. And
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine with Diana at times it's like I
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  Speaker 2: always say, there's two types of players I hate. One
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  Speaker 2: that never does what they're told and one.
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  Speaker 4: That always does what they're told.
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  Speaker 2: Like you need a player that is just going to
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  Speaker 2: act sometimes on instinct and make a play when they
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  Speaker 2: have to make a play.
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  Speaker 4: Even though the coach might not love that play, They're
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  Speaker 4: going to make the play.
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  Speaker 3: Who's the best player that you've ever coached.
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  Speaker 2: Talent wise would probably be Johnny He was really special.
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  Speaker 2: He just couldn't teach a lot of the stuff he did.
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  Speaker 2: But if I had to start one team, it would
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  Speaker 2: have been Brian Gionta. He was our Diana Tarazzi. He
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  Speaker 2: was mean, he was tough. He was five to five.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he played a thousand games in the NHL
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  Speaker 2: at five to five. But he was just mean, tough,
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  Speaker 2: and all he cared about was winning. He was the
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  Speaker 2: best player in the country. We won a national tournament
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't score one goal in the national tournament,
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  Speaker 2: but he had so much of an effect on every
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  Speaker 2: single game because of the way he played. He just
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  Speaker 2: he willed people to win. He was probably the if
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  Speaker 2: I had to start one team, he'd be the guy
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  Speaker 2: i'd start with.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always curious when I'm talking to coaches about how
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  Speaker 3: early do you know? When I saw Diana play in
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  Speaker 3: high school, I remember thinking there's just.
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  Speaker 4: There's just something that.
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  Speaker 3: She does that normal players, even exceptionally talented players, don't do,
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  Speaker 3: and they do it at exactly the right time when
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  Speaker 3: it needs to be done. So there's players that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I call it. There's players that hit a three run
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  Speaker 3: homer in the ninth inning when their team is up
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  Speaker 3: eight to two. And then there's guys that strike out
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  Speaker 3: with the bases loaded when it's a one run game,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And then there's the guy that gets you know,
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  Speaker 3: clears the bases when you're down to and he wins
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  Speaker 3: the game for you. So and you can recognize that really,
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  Speaker 3: really really early, I think in some kids, but some
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  Speaker 3: kids maybe you can't. Now, we just had our first
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  Speaker 3: Olympic gold medal hockey player, right you guys watched the
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  Speaker 3: Olympic state Thompson and played it at Yukon and want
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  Speaker 3: a gold medal for us. And so when you're recruiting
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  Speaker 3: a kid like that, do you go, this kid's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a fifty goal scorer in the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: No. Tage was a funny story. He was.
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  Speaker 2: They have a summer tournament every year for the top
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and seventeen year old kids in the country. And
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  Speaker 2: I went up to Rochester, New York, that's where it was,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm watching. I can't I remember the color of
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  Speaker 2: the jersey.
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  Speaker 4: It was red.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the team was, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: who is this kid without a number? Like he didn't
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't in the program and he was a late
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  Speaker 2: ad to the team.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody recruited him. He was six' five at the.
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  Speaker 2: Time he was gangly and my assistant knew his dad
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  Speaker 2: AND i had a connection with his advisor and that's
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  Speaker 2: how we got. Him led the country and power play
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  Speaker 2: goals as a freshman and had a great year as a,
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  Speaker 2: sophomore and then he turned. Pro but he also got
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  Speaker 2: lucky because you, know then the pro team takes. You
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  Speaker 2: Saint louis took him right. Away they traded him six months,
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  Speaker 2: later you, know, Crazy, YEAH i mean when you become,
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  Speaker 2: pro you basically you're a piece of. Meat if you
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  Speaker 2: can help, them, Great if you, can't they're going to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of.
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  Speaker 4: You and he was just so. Young they traded.
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  Speaker 2: Him now they trade him For ryan O'Reilly and they
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  Speaker 2: won A Stanley cup and it worked out great For Saint.
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  Speaker 4: Louis But tage was it In.
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo and where he got really lucky was the coach
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  Speaker 2: got fired and the coach that they hired had coached
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  Speaker 2: him at a younger, age so he had an appreciation
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  Speaker 2: for his. Game but if that doesn't, happen who. Knows
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really sometimes you got to be in the
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  Speaker 2: right place at the right.
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  Speaker 1: Time yea more With geno And mike cavan on a,
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  Speaker 1: moment it's THE u kind of women's basketball coaches. Show
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  Speaker 1: Coach cavar a guest here back in a minute here On,
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  Speaker 1: learfield stay with.
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  Speaker 4: Us