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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 16 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Remember season Tickets for the football Husky's twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: home schedule at Pratt and Whitney Stadium are now on sale.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Yukon Huskies dot com slash football to learn
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  Speaker 1: more and get your tickets. Today, we're back with Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hurley and coach a little quick football thing, because I
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  Speaker 1: know you're a guy that pays attention to what's going
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  Speaker 1: on on the gridiron. Not only you come, but professionally.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about the Bengals. They made a nice run,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't get into postseason. Yukon won nine games this year,
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  Speaker 1: best year in quite a while. They got into a
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  Speaker 1: postseason situation. They won a game up at Fenway Park.
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  Speaker 1: As you view it from the outside looking in, how
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  Speaker 1: important is that? Do you think to the university that
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  Speaker 1: the football team turning it around like that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you know, I think it's critically
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  Speaker 2: important to the athletic department obviously, to the university and
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  Speaker 2: to Yukon basketball selfishly. You know, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the for us to have a quality football program, a
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  Speaker 2: program that could compete, you know, and against you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best teams in college football, and to have the
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  Speaker 2: resources you know, and potentially at some point, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: a permanent conference set up, you know, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: Coach k talking about the Big East and the A
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  Speaker 2: C C. You know, combining, which sounds like a great
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  Speaker 2: idea to me, sounds like a a no brainer. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think football, I think there's there's an opportunity I
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  Speaker 2: think for for football with what Coach Moore is doing
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  Speaker 2: and the support and and the way that the Yukon
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  Speaker 2: is is a This is a Husky state with three
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  Speaker 2: million people, of which everyone is as a Yukon fan.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't tell me that we couldn't as this
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  Speaker 2: product has grown and improved and now won a Bowl
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  Speaker 2: game and won nine games and have created this level
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  Speaker 2: of excitement that we can't sell out or have huge
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  Speaker 2: crowds at Wrenschler and become a top flight football university
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  Speaker 2: as well. We're great and everything that we do athletically,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a world class university from an academic standpoint educationally.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's just you want to be at
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  Speaker 2: a place where on weekends in the state of Connecticut
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  Speaker 2: you can go and tailgate watch a big time for
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  Speaker 2: everyone loves football. Everyone loves football, and there's nothing better
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  Speaker 2: than going to a great football game and a packed
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  Speaker 2: out stadium. The only thing that could equal it is
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  Speaker 2: going to a big time college basketball game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was like the best things to go and see
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  Speaker 2: college football, college basketball, intense, high level games. And you
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  Speaker 2: know that the state could support it, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's critical as we had the revenue
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  Speaker 2: sharing and all these different things that are going on
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  Speaker 2: as the sports are changing forever. We need a healthy,
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  Speaker 2: outstanding football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll tell you what. I was sold on
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  Speaker 1: it at Fenway because they're about twenty seven twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand people in there, and I swear there was twenty
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  Speaker 1: thousand plus Yukon fans maybe more. It felt like it
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  Speaker 1: was a Yukon home game. And obviously it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: right up the mass Pike from where we are, but
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. I got to say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get back quickly to Liam McNeely. Now we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about him for a week or two or three,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopeing his progress is moving along, and then
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  Speaker 1: he's getting closer to being able to play. What can
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  Speaker 1: you tell us there? Has he been able to practice?
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  Speaker 1: Where's he at?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So he's at a little boot and he's feeling
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  Speaker 2: a lot better. So but you know, his timeline is
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  Speaker 2: is not obviously you're not going to see him this week,
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  Speaker 2: I think is uh, you know, he'll eventually be able
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  Speaker 2: to uh, you know, to transition to the court of
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  Speaker 2: doing some non live things. Uh, you know, potentially uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this week into next and then you're just
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're hoping to see him, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: some point in January without you know, without obviously you know,
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  Speaker 2: speeding him up in any way whatsoever. You do not
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  Speaker 2: want a lingering high ankle sprain. You know, we're able
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  Speaker 2: to uh, you know, he's doing everything he can from
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  Speaker 2: all of the traditional things too, you know, uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all the different red light therapy and you
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  Speaker 2: know I've suggested the hyperbaric chamber and some different you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's get this guy the latest, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the latest advances and in technology. Let's not just do
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  Speaker 2: the cookie cutter high ankle spraining things here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this is uh, this is big time sports. Like let's
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, let's make sure we're doing whatever the Celtics
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  Speaker 2: would be doing. Uh, let's make sure that we were
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  Speaker 2: doing that for for Liam, Uh, not just to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the court quicker, Uh, but to make sure
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  Speaker 2: this guy who's a who's gonna be a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lottery pick. Let's make sure this guy is ready
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going into the mail bag here. My wife
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  Speaker 1: Jean had a question for me. You use the word aquleman.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't know what you were talking about. So can
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  Speaker 1: you extrapolate on that a little bit what you meant
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  Speaker 1: by that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously Liam has got superpowers, uh, as
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  Speaker 2: an athlete and as a basketball player, he's he's uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's one of the top handful of freshmen
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  Speaker 2: in the country, top two or three in terms of
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  Speaker 2: how much he does for his team. So he's got
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  Speaker 2: superpowers when he but when he's in the pool, because
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  Speaker 2: he can't do anything on the court on a hard surface,
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  Speaker 2: those superpowers that he's no longer thor he now comes there,
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  Speaker 2: he's aquaman because he's in the water doing training. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you think like that, he doesn't. You know, It's
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  Speaker 2: like Bill Parcells, how he would needle his players that
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  Speaker 2: were hurt a little bit, you know, like I've got
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  Speaker 2: I'm an old school coach that way. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: players that are injured, you know, you can needle them
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about hey man, are you hey ackeman,
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  Speaker 2: are you going to be out in the courts room?
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good Parcels reference. You're right about him, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Quick thought on Creighton. First of all, I got to
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  Speaker 1: start with cal Brenner, the big dude seven seventy's played
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty college games out of Saint Louis, Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: three time Defensive Player of the Year. How does he
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  Speaker 1: compare to that big dude at Purdue that the Huskies
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  Speaker 1: took down from the championship game last year, Zach Edy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, is his defensive impact is a lot different. He
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  Speaker 2: just he just shuts down so much at the rim.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's more of a comp to to
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  Speaker 2: Donovan than it is to Zach Edy in terms of
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  Speaker 2: you know, his his impact as a roller in the
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  Speaker 2: ball screen game on offense, and then his rim protection
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  Speaker 2: is similar to Donovan's. Uh. And then now his low
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  Speaker 2: post game with how seasoned he is as a fifty
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  Speaker 2: year player and he's such an older player. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: got a low post arsenal. Uh, that's grown a great deal.
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  Speaker 2: So it's rare that a that a player of his
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  Speaker 2: ability is still in college at this point. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, you're dumbfounded that the NBA hasn't come
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  Speaker 2: and got him, uh as a first round pick by now.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. The other thing too with him, he made
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  Speaker 1: nine threes in his first three years playing in college
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  Speaker 1: last year sixteen. And he's not afraid to shoot it
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  Speaker 1: out there. So I mean, how much of a threat
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  Speaker 1: is that in a game like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would prefer him not shooting. I would prefer
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  Speaker 2: him shooting him and not making him than him dunking
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  Speaker 2: and fouling out my centers. Yeah, you know. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best thing that he does is that cult does
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  Speaker 2: is obviously dominate around the basket at both ends of
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  Speaker 2: the court. But he's a capable three point shooter. He's
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  Speaker 2: a very good passer. I mean, he's he's one of
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  Speaker 2: the best players in the country in college and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just you you, and he's a first round pick.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know why it's taking so long for
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  Speaker 2: the NBA to recognize this guy as somebody that you know,
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  Speaker 2: could go right into an NBA team and be a
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  Speaker 2: rotation player right away. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm totally with you on that, all right, coach,
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We're gonna see a Saturday twelve noon tip.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get gamble rock and early and get back and win.
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  Speaker 1: Call him again, Yes, let's do it. Sounds like a plan,
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  Speaker 1: all right. That's Dan Hurley back in a moment with
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  Speaker 1: more of the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show onlear Field.