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Seg 5 - WBB Coach's Show Dec 15 · Coaches Corner

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  You know, having put on with the audience talking about scheduling. Here,
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  I have a I have one Twitter question here. This is from Josh.
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  Can you look for players in the portal between semesters? Is that allowed?
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  Uh? Well, you can look all you want, but they can't play,
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  Okay, So even if they show up, you know, a mid
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  semester or mid year, they lose all that time anyway. Okay, So
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  no, right, simple, that doesn't work. All right. Who's got
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  a question for coach here in the audience trading deadlines past? Just to follow
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  up on that, coach, Uh, what does the portal look like for
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  Yukon women's basketball in the future. I don't think there's been a lot of
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  a lot of portal uh activity to date. What does it look like?
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  And if we can ask you to look into the future, well, uh
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  huh. Two two transfers that we Dorka and loub are both worked out pretty
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  well. So I think if you if you go into that, it's got
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  to be the right people. It's got to be the right fit that fit
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  your program, and it's got to be they're leaving for the right reason.
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  We had before there was a portal when Azree Stevens came here from Duke.
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  There's got to be a good reason why the kids are leaving. Okay,
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  if they're leaving, I don't like the coach, well you're not gonna like
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  me either. Now my teammates, I don't like my teammates, Well,
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  you're not going to like our teammates. If you're that kind of kid,
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  that's what you're going to be. And I don't want any part of that.
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  So finding the right fit, finding the right kid that fills a need
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  for us. Yeah, it's like NBA free agency. You know, you
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  have somebody on your staff that just monitors that, which is kind of nuts,
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  right, And and I can see where as the years go on,
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  we'll probably have kids going to the portal that don't play as much as they
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  think they should play, or it's not what'sn't a good fit for them.
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  And we'll go into portal and bring some kids here that you know, who
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  knows why we didn't recruit them or you know, and they end up being
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  They're going to end up being pretty good players. And it could be like
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  real high end players from high end, big time schools, or it could
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  be like a lou a mid major from Fairfield. You just you know,
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  it could be like Dorka from Ohio State, or it could be lou like
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  at Fairfield. You can find really good players that are good fits anywhere,
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  and I can imagine and what's happening now, it's which, this is bad
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  for high school kids. But if you're a college coach, now you're like,
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  why do I want to recruit a seventeen year old kid when I can
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  recruit a twenty year old off of another team that's already played college. So
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  the high school kids get screwed in all this. And now if there's a
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  lawsuit where these kids can transfer any time they want, well, now it's
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  supposedly you can only transfer once. The second time you transfer you have to
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  sit out. Well, you know they're going to sue. Some players are
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  going to sue the NCAA and go, why my mental health is being affected
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  by being So it's a disgrace to people that actually have mental health issues that
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  players are bullshitting their way through college saying I can't play here. I'm not
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  playing here, so I'm going to leave. But I can't leave, so
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  I'm going to say I have mental health issues here? What those go away?
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  On that plane fight. You could take a plane now to another school
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  and fix your mental health issues. Wow, I'm want to sell tickets on
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  that plane. How you doing, Coach? I remember growing up watching some
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  legendary games with you and Tennessee, and I always remember just and excited about
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  that, and I always wanted to know how it felt leading up to that
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  game. What was the energy leg You know, it was crazy because in
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  the beginning, in the beginning, it was they were They were, you
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  know, Goliath, and we were David, and then we would And it's
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  interesting the way that whole thing started because there was almost three times where if
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  we had won this NCAA tournament game, our next game would have been Tennessee
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  And actually was our very first NCAA tournament that we that we made, and
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  we lost to LaSalle, and our next game would have been Tennessee. The
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  following year, we lost to Clemson on buzzer beater, like we shot it
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  to win and the ball went I think it even touched the net and it
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  came out, and the next game would have been against Tennessee. And and
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  finally when they put the series together, no one really gave us like we
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  didn't we weren't the favorites. So that first game that we played on Martin
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  Luther King Day, I've never seen Gamble Pavilion like that before or since,
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  and no one wanted to leave the building and it was just the most incredible
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  atmosphere ever. And then we played them in the National Championship game three months
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  later in April, and we beat them again, and like nobody does that
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  beats them twice in a row. Then we had to play at their place
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  in December. So in a span of less than a year, we played
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  them three times in one all three, and that's when all hell broke loose.
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  Now it just became half field and McCoy's. It became really really anti
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  agonistic. It became you know, even though everybody tried to make like,
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  you know, yeah, I respect you, you respect me. It was
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  bad. It was really bad. And the best part about it though,
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  was, and Jamel will tell you, because she was on all three of
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  those teams that in all three of those games, they didn't know a single
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  player on Tennessee. I didn't even show them film of the first Tennessee game.
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  They had no idea who they were. They knew it was Tennessee but
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  they had no idea what they were going to. We just went over our
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  stuff in practice, no film, no nothing, and you know, and
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  then after that it became you know, what suits am I wearing? What's
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  Pat wearing? You know, it just became stupid. Right, you did
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  that comment off air because we got to get to one last break here.
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  Yeah, final segment with Gino next year on the Yukon Sports Network from Lairfield,
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