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UConn WR Coach Kashif Moore - August 15 · Coaches Corner

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  So what's it like being back? Ah? Man, it's great. It's
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  almost unreal, you know, to come in to work every day and walk
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  into this facility. You know I was once in. I'm super grateful,
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  really thankful to be able to come back here and come back home right.
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  And I understand that at this level, you know, a lot of coaches
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  don't get the opportunity to come back home right or go back to their alma
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  mater. So I'm really thankful to coach Moore, coach Charlton for getting me
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  back home just to be a part of this journey because you know, something
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  really special. How does that help you? Being a former player coaching in
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  a program you've played in, that that's a help. I think it just
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  helps, you know, my word resonate with these players, right, uh,
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  in terms of having them understand that I've once sat in that meeting room,
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  right, I've you know, shed my blooded sweat and tears on this
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  practice field, you know, at the rent in the weight room. And
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  you know, I think that's what's most of them born. For me as
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  a coach's you know, that relationship and you know, I'm able to continue
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  to build and cultivate that you know, as we come along here and and
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  and work towards uh the season, we have some of the adjustments maybe made
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  in the kind of the wide receiver area from from last year where you know,
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  I've just beat up a little bit. But right, yeah, that
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  was kind of what people kind of pointed at. Yeah, I mean in
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  terms of adjustments. You know, I wasn't here last year, right so,
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  but healthwise, just like you said, we got guys back healthy.
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  We have a few new pieces right through the transfer portal and if you guys
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  got a chance to see some of them throughout camp and uh, you know,
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  uh, those guys will be some valuable assets to the past game.
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  Who's impressed to you's actually coming from Springs, coming from Springing to the fall.
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  I would say Kylie Hicks has done a really good job. You know,
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  he's a young guy that's continuing to develop and uh uh the last few
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  days he's made a lot of big plays for us, and we need him
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  to continue to you know, stay on the rise. Basically, a couple
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  of graduationers, short reporters. Those guys what do they bring, you know,
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  obviously they first year here already have experienced play us above us. First
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  year here, and I think just like you said, you know, what
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  they bring to the table of the value that they bring to the table is
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  that they're veterans, right, They've been in multiple offenses, so they were
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  able to come here and and really do a good job picking up our offense
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  and playbook and you know, get right step right in and make an impact.
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  And uh that's what we're looking for, uh, for those guys,
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  and you know they're gonna bring a lot of value. It's a competition,
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  and like in the group, you know we're doing the guys, it's been
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  really competitive, right, you know, no starters are set at the moment,
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  so guys are fighting, they're still competing, they're getting extra work in.
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  But at the same time, you know, it's a brotherhood. We've
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  got a great culture within our room and U guys help each other out.
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  No animosity, no big ego, none of that stuff. It's been like
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  working with Cameras so a couple of years series bout ye will, Yeah,
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  how has she been able to speak with the guys leading by from his example?
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  Absolutely? Cam is a great leader for us in the room. And
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  I told him day one, you know, when I got hired here,
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  I'm gonna look to him for some leadership for the room, and he's been
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  doing a really good job stepping up in that area. And I mean he
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  has a lot of experience, right, and he has a lot of adversity
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  that others can learn from. And uh, those guys are really you know,
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  listening to him and uh real learning through his experiences as well. I
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  coachhould take it a little slow, caught the ball here in the corner.
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  But for me, I did the show Bush, Yeah that was colleague ships
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  YEA true? Is that the design? I may have been Zion, I'm
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  not sure. Yeah. Can you tell us about the fifth qualities of this
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  room? You know, I know that everyone brings something specially the table when
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  he gets some up this group, whether it's speed, maybe it's signfle What
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  is one physical aspect of his wider secret us? Look now? Yeah,
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  I would say the ability to make a big play. Right. If you
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  look at our room, it's truly different shape and size as you look around
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  it, right, and you know we have bigger body guys like Casey.
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  You know, we have your smaller guys with with a lot of speed like
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  Cam and James Burns. You know, we have some guys that are more
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  athletic, you know, and maybe have some size and speed, right,
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  So you know we're gonna be looking to our guys to make an impact not
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  only in the past game, but in the run game as well. If
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  you really had to mold that really link, right, because those these guys
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  just got here, right, Well, how big of a challenge is that
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  for the position coach? I think it's really challenging. But you know,
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  you try to set the foundation of building the relationship first, right, And
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  that's what type of coach I am. You know, I look at myself
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  as a player coach, and you know, as long as that as long
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  as you can set that relationship with those guys and let them know that you
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  have their best interests not only on the but off the field as well.
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  You know, those guys who run through a brick wall for you, and
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  we're going to continue to build here. How did you see yourself camp full
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  game coach? How did you start writing? Yeah, I'm gonna be honest.
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  Throughout my playing career, I never really thought about it. I know
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  when I was with when the Kansas City Chiefs letting me go back in twenty
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  sixteen, you know, I was talking with the GM and some of their
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  guys in the front office and they asked me. They're like, hey,
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  man, we see you being a coach one day, and you know that
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  may have planned to see a seed you know, uh in me just hearing
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  that. But I didn't get in the coaching until twenty nineteen, right,
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  so three years after that. But you know now I feel like I'm walking
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  in my purpose, writing my passion to be a servant leader and to use
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  my experiences to to help you know, these young men both falling off the
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  field. We after playing at the highest level. What's the white teaching eighteen
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  nineteen year olds for? Its playing for a really hard a game. Yeah.
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  I think my experience starting out coaching at the high school ever really helped
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  me because you have to know, you know what motivates these young men,
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  right, you have to know you know what makes them laugh, you know
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  what what what kind of ticks them off? And but with that experience,
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  I'm able to you know, pair my knowledge and my experience, uh playing
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  at the highest level, and you know, again it's all about relationships.
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  Fifth, for me, what's your first coaching job? Where was that?
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  My first coaching job job was with my former wide receiver coach from when I
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  was here, coach Master Sosimo at Connor High School and West Side Flift,
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  Okay. And did you know when you first started that, Yeah, this
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  is for me. What were you? What was it? Some uncertainty I
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  knew right away. And then you know, just getting back to the game
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  now as a coach, it made me fall in love right with the game
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  that I once played and I once loved now as a coach, right,
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  a little less tall on my body, right, but just the fulfillment of
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  uh, you know, teaching a young young man something and seeing into fruition
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  was something that was really gratifying for me. Coach. One of the newer
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