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Seg 3 - FB Show w Mora Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back on the Yukon Football Coaches Show. This is the first of Yukon
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  Coaches Show triple header tonight. Bob Joyce and Genoa Rim will be talking about
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  Yukon Women's hoop at seven, then I'll join Dan Hurley at eight. I'm
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  doing double duty here coach for the men's basketball show. It's all tonight on
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  the Yukon Sports networking online via the Varsity Network app and the Varsity Network dot
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  Com. I quick thought before I forget this, you're talking about finding players.
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  The running back who played quite a bit the other day for JM you
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  Tyson Lawton war number seven, Redschert Senior, came from Stony Brook. I
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  mean, that's not what you think of as a big time college. But
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  he was a very effective runner. I thought for them the other day.
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  Well, he's been a really good runner for them all year. He's a
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  good player. And I think, you know, you good players come from
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  everywhere, and players developed at different times. You know, this might be
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  a young man that coming out of high school. You know, he hadn't
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  developed. And I don't know because I don't remember him coming out of high
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  school. Obviously, I wasn't you know, coaching, but he may have
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  been a guy that you know, was a little bit undersized or you know,
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  he didn't quite have the speed the physical makeup at that time. But
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  then he he went to Stonybrook and he took an opportunity, took a chance,
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  and he developed, you know, and he had good coaching, and
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  then he had a chance to go to a school like Marshall, you know,
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  a pretty prominent football program, and he took advantage of it. That's
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  why when you're evaluating players, you can never discount where they come from.
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  There's good players everywhere, but your evaluation has to be correct, you know,
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  you have to know why they where they are, where they were or
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  where they are before you bring them up. And you got to do a
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  really good job of evaluating them. But to discount kids from FCS schools or
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  IVY schools, you know, I think it's a mistake. You got to
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  look at them and you got to make your own determination because they develop at
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  different times in their life. Yeah, we see a lot of that in
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  basketball. And actually there's a couple of IVY guys who went to Penn and
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  another school here playing for Saint John's now and very good players, and you'd
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  say, well, they're in the IVY League, but it doesn't matter.
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  These guys can play in their sport. Quick thought, though, I want
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  to ask you about the speed aspect of this game. Their white outs had
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  a bundle of catches the other day Phoenix Sprolls, Reggie Brown, Elijah Surat.
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  How much of that was speed in the ability for them to get open,
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  because it seemed like it was a quality that was awesome if you're a
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  JMU fan. They had really good receivers. They're big, fast, physical,
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  and sure handed, and that's what you want on your football team.
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  Guys that can separate versus man, they can get off the press and get
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  down the field, and then guys that ultimately are going to catch it in
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  tight windows. And they had we knew going in they had a really good
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  receiving core. They're not a bunch of household names, but they're really really
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  good football players. And as we go forward here, you know, we've
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  got some young guys in our program that we think have those traits that we're
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  trying to develop. I think, you know, the last two games,
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  you've gotten to see Zach Growdy play. Zach is a you know, he's
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  a red, he's a he's a true freshman out of Florida, a guy
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  that you know over on the defensive scout team was doing a really good job
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  and so we've moved him into the rotation. He's got some plays and he's
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  got some of those traits, so we're trying to get him a little work.
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  Kylie's Hicks has those traits. We're getting him a lot more work.
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  But you need you need, you know, uh, you need guys that
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  can They can they can beat bump and run, they can separate versus tight
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  man coverage. They can you know, uh, get yards after the catch
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  versus zone break tackles. And number one, you know, sure handedness.
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  And you know, we had a guy having a hell of a game the
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  other day, Cam ross Right, who really the last couple of weeks has
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  kind of come on and uh, as you talked about a guy that's overcome
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  a lot, my goodness, has he overcome a lot. So there's some
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  promise here. But we're gonna go out once again and we're going to scour
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  the portal. I've probably looked at thirty receivers at the junior college at the
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  portal level that you know, we're evaluating and we're going to be very aggressive
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  in that in that that window because we need to be able to stretch the
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  field vertically and horizontally. That'll help our run game and I'll help everyone else
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  get open. Yeah, no question about how do you have an update on
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  Cam because he got whacked pretty hard on a targeting hit right on the sideline
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  where the JMU bench was. How's he feeling. Do you have a sense
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  of where he will be and by Saturday? Yeah, you know what,
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  he he took a shot. You know, we never minimize those. Obviously,
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  it's so critical that you take him seriously. But fortunately he recovered very
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  quickly on the sideline. He felt better after the game. He felt really
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  good today. There's a there's a very strict concussion protocol that you have to
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  go through that is independent of certainly the coaches and our training staff and doctors
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  that administer it. And they've told me that he's made great progress and we
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  think that he'll be able to do some things at practice tomorrow and if everything
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  goes according to plan, and he'll be cleared for Saturday. And it's just
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  you know, really I hope he can play and I feel so confident that
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  if he is able to play, that he's safe to play because the protocol
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  place is being followed to a t. Yeah, you got to do that
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  every week, Jim more with us of course, Mike Crispino here, we
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  have a little fun with this. It's not really funny, but sometimes it
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  is. A play happens, an official miss is a call, a flag
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  doesn't come out. This week, they scored a touchdown on an eighty yard
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  reception on a play that you thought that there was an illegal formation. I
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  know you were upset. I could see you on the sideline and you got
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  the attention of the official so much so that he eventually throw a flag on
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  you. I'm not being trivial here because it's all important, trust me.
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  But that was something that you know, it kind of broke the game open
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  a little bit when they scored from eighty yards on one play. Yeah,
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  so I'll tell you what happened. So they came out in an unbalanced formation,
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  and college football has some crazy rules about formations and unbalanced stuff that I'm
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  not used to even after eight years, because I think they're insane rules.
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  So they came out an unbalanced formation. You have to figure out who's eligible.
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  And initially the number two guy was covered up by number one, so
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  he was ineligible. And at last moment, the number one guy kind of
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  stepped off about six inches to create a little blade of grass as they call
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  it, so number two became eligible, and he ran the post and got
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  the touchdown. And I looked and saw them ineligible. Then I looked at
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  our alignment, didn't see the guy step off, so technically I was wrong,
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  and it was a legal formation. I didn't see this legal formation gets.
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  I don't like the unbalanced rules in college football, but no one cares
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  what I like, so it doesn't matter. I abide by him. I
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  know. I was upset, you know, and I'm going to stick up
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  with my team, and that's a tight game. And I wanted an answer
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  and they weren't give me an answer. And I wanted an answer, and
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  they wouldn't give me an answer. I just kept going, and then at
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  something at a certain point, it's like, well, I might as well
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  just keep going because it doesn't matter. They're in the end zone. I'll
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  take a fifteen yard penalty right here to keep our team fired up or show
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  them that, you know, I got some dang fire on my belly because
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  all they're going to do is kick it off from the fifty, which means
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  they're going to kick it out of the end zone or pooch kick it.
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  We're getting on the twenty five yard line, so I knew it was a
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  harmless Now, I still didn't think I should have got called for a penalty
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  because the guy that called it wasn't even near the discussion. He couldn't even
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  hear what we were talking about. But I did. I've in my career,
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  I've had I've been flagged four times, and every one of them I've
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  known I was going to get flagged. And well, no, the one
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  against Marshall last year, didn't know I was going to get flagged. Three
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  of them knew I was going to get flagged, and they were predetermined by
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  me that Okay, I can get flagged here and it'll be okay. But
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  you've got to make a statement for your team at times. Now, I'm
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  with you. It's kind of like basketball coaches getting the tee. They just
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  get them on purpose. Sometimes I want that bench to get fired up and
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  get into the game one hundred and twenty percent. All right, we'll be
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  back with Jim Moore, will wrap up with him. We got Isaiah Davis
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  coming up, Lou Hanson as well, as we continue on the Yukon Football
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  Coaches Show here on Learfield