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Seg 4 - FB Show with Jason Candle 9-15 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's the UConn Football Coaches Show. Jason Candle, three,
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  Speaker 1: four minutes left with him. I'm going to go a
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  Speaker 1: little bit back into your history as an athlete, because
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  Speaker 1: I know you're a very good golfer, and obviously you've
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  Speaker 1: been in the football world for a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm only bringing this up because I just watched an
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  Speaker 1: interview with Jack Nicklaus. I mean, being an Ohio guy,
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  Speaker 1: you probably follow what he did in his life. I
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  Speaker 1: can't get enough of Jack Nicklaus. But anyway, what he
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  Speaker 1: was saying in this interview is that as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: someone asked him, what sports did you play? You know,
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  Speaker 1: how did you get into golf? And he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I was a football guy. I like basketball. I thought
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  Speaker 1: I could play at Ohio state, maybe baseball and all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. And I'm just curious, you were a football player,
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  Speaker 1: but what were you as a youngster in terms of athletics?
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  Speaker 1: What was your favorite sport? How did you end up
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  Speaker 1: in football?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I played them all. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: probably grew up, you know, the first love being basketball,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you. But, um, played four sports
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  Speaker 2: in high school, I golfed in high school, played football, basketball, baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Did them all.
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  Speaker 2: I just tried to, you know, anything that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that would keep me going after school, always wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be involved. You know, track was a, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: jumped for a year or two in track, but obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't fast enough to make an impact
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  Speaker 2: in that one. So, but yeah, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: I fell in love with football just because I think that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the action, the, the, the opportunity I've actually
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  Speaker 2: played golf as a freshman and went back to playing
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  Speaker 2: football as a sophomore. And I just thought golf was boring. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've been a five or six handicap since
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  Speaker 2: I was 15 years old and haven't gotten any better
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  Speaker 2: in the, in the 30 years of that gap from
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  Speaker 2: then until now. But I think, you know, it's, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 2: that's a great sport. It's a very challenging sport. And
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the mental piece of it, I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had more time to play and, and really
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  Speaker 2: quite honestly, I wish I had time to practice. to
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  Speaker 2: get better but yeah I mean I think I always
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  Speaker 2: pay attention just to to all sports and I think
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  Speaker 2: more importantly it's not it's not the sport that gets
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  Speaker 2: me it's just the competition piece of it so you
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  Speaker 2: know when you're done playing you know what's the next
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  Speaker 2: best thing to playing and that's coaching you know can
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  Speaker 2: you can you feed that need for competition through coaching
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  Speaker 2: and can you ultimately at the end of the day
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  Speaker 2: help people be the best version of themselves through competition
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  Speaker 2: and That's just kind of how I found my way,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how it's gotten me to the point where
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  Speaker 2: I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so what did you learn as a player that
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  Speaker 1: you use in coaching these days? And that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a big question, but do you find yourself going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I did this in your mind, and
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  Speaker 1: then saying something to a player and going, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, to kind of translate a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of what your experiences were?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that, you know, I played at Mountain
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  Speaker 2: Union College. We won 54 games in a row. We
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  Speaker 2: lost one and then we won 55 in a row
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  Speaker 2: after that. So we won 109 games out of 110
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  Speaker 2: when I was there as a player and as an
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach. So at that time at 22, 3, 4, 5,
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  Speaker 2: when I was there, I was just dumb enough to
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  Speaker 2: believe it was all because of me. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're young, you're in your late teens, your early 20s,
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  Speaker 2: you're having success. or you're having failures, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: you easily, you point the finger at yourself and you
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  Speaker 2: don't really realize the environment that you're in. For me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so fortunate, so lucky. You mentioned Nick Sirianni, Matt Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many guys around the country that are coaching
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  Speaker 2: football at a really, really high level. And without that
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  Speaker 2: start at Mount Union and without being there and learning
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  Speaker 2: the foundation of football and really what putting together a
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  Speaker 2: team and making young people, helping young people become the
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  Speaker 2: best version of themselves, without that, we wouldn't be where
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  Speaker 2: we were. So, yeah, I think that, It takes humble beginnings.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a consistent approach. It takes a really good
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  Speaker 2: process that you can buy into individually. And then ultimately
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  Speaker 2: from there, when you get a bunch of individual buy
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  Speaker 2: into that, then you should have good team buy into it.
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  Speaker 2: So I just try to share those experiences. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how I look at it now is a lot different.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my experience there, what I look at now
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  Speaker 2: is a lot different than maybe what I looked at
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  Speaker 2: it when I was 19 or 20.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yep. We all got, we got to grow up.
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  Speaker 1: We got to learn from our early mistakes and getting
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  Speaker 1: off the mat. That's what UConn's got to do this
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  Speaker 1: week at Southern Miss. Coach, we appreciate you and good
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  Speaker 1: luck this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 1: Go Huskies. That's right. Go Huskies. That's Jason Candle. Back
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  Speaker 1: with more, the UConn Football Coaches Show coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a moment on Learfield.