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Seg 1 - FB Show Sept 10 - Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, and that means that the Yukon Football Coaches
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  Speaker 1: Show is on the air. Jim Mora joins us from
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  Speaker 1: stores on, Mike Crispino and coach. Coming off a win
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  Speaker 1: like you had at home, to kick it off in
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  Speaker 1: front of all those happy tailgaters and husky fans must
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  Speaker 1: have been a good feeling. Getting back in the building Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great, and especially seeing the students section
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  Speaker 2: fool like it was and feeling their energy. They were
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  Speaker 2: in there early, they were having fun. Thankfully we were
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  Speaker 2: able to give them something to cheer about. And going
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  Speaker 2: into the stadium on the buses and seeing the parking
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  Speaker 2: lot filling up and people out there throwing the ball
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  Speaker 2: around and tailgating and having a couple of beverages getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. It was a great feeling. It was
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  Speaker 2: an exciting feeling. It's the way you want to feel
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  Speaker 2: at home. Yeah, we really appreciate our students and the
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  Speaker 2: people that came out on a Saturday and enjoyed the
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  Speaker 2: day with us.
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  Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day for football, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: played a beautiful football game, that's for sure. I did
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to wander around in the tailgating area
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  Speaker 1: before the game and between some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we have to do. And I've really felt a sense
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  Speaker 1: of enthusiasm among the fans you know, who were there,
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  Speaker 1: and I see a lot of folks regulars that I know,
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  Speaker 1: and I see a lot of new people coming in,
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  Speaker 1: and I really liked that feeling. There seems to be
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  Speaker 1: some momentum maybe building here and you got this home
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  Speaker 1: stand ahead of you, but obviously you got Duke on
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  Speaker 1: the road first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, Here's what was impressive to me is
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  Speaker 2: that coming off of disappointing, you know, really a blowout
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  Speaker 2: loss at Maryland, I didn't know that we'd get the
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  Speaker 2: kind of reception that we got. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the credit has to go to people
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  Speaker 2: like Neil Dom who work with football and their efforts
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  Speaker 2: to get the students out there, are marketing people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pushing the team on people, and then the people like
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  Speaker 2: Mike Burton and John Moftone and Dennis Naden and Jared
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  Speaker 2: you know, guys that have really kind of pushed the
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  Speaker 2: NIL initiative and helped us bring in some players that
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  Speaker 2: have some name value, name recognition that people were excited
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  Speaker 2: to see and those guys ended up making some plays.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we got a tough game this week
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  Speaker 2: against Duke, as you said, and then we get into
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  Speaker 2: a nice, you know, six game homestand and we need
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  Speaker 2: to give our fans a reason to keep coming out
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  Speaker 2: to the games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. You know, you've got to appreciate all
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  Speaker 1: those folks you mentioned because you know, day to day
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  Speaker 1: they're putting the same you know, kind of efforts in
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  Speaker 1: a different area than you and your staff are. But
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  Speaker 1: it takes so much of an effort to build a
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  Speaker 1: football program, get a foundation going, get it moving forward
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  Speaker 1: in this era we're in. So I really, I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the fact that you compliment these folks because they're
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  Speaker 1: so I mean, they're so important really to this success
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to have.
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  Speaker 2: They're critical, and you know they're behind the scenes, but
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  Speaker 2: their role is so important. Are success really anyone that
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  Speaker 2: touches this program, anyone from you know, the guys that
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  Speaker 2: are in charge of helping us have healthy fields to
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  Speaker 2: miss Pam and the kitchen to you know, you name it.
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  Speaker 2: Every every single every single person is responsible when we
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  Speaker 2: have success and you know, accountable when we have failure.
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  Speaker 2: And they all take it on that way, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's a healthy environment and it's a good environment. It's
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  Speaker 2: an environment that you can win in and we just
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  Speaker 2: have to keep cultivating it and.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, I know, with the transfer portal, we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this already a couple different times. You bring in so
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  Speaker 1: many players, it's part of the deal now, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you're really getting. You're interviewing people, they
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  Speaker 1: want to come, you want to bring them on. But
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  Speaker 1: it looks like you've hit a couple of home runs
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  Speaker 1: here early. And I want you to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit because it's such a different chemistry for you.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it as a coach to kind of recruit guys
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  Speaker 1: that have already played somewhere else or maybe two places
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  Speaker 1: before they come to Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you don't know them as well. I've made
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  Speaker 2: this comparison a lot. It's a little bit like speed dating,
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  Speaker 2: you know, high school recruiting, you get to know these
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  Speaker 2: kids pretty done well. Portal recruiting, it happens very very fast.
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  Speaker 2: So you rely on people that you know to give
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  Speaker 2: you some knowledge about these people in terms of their character,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on and off the field. But we we
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  Speaker 2: at this point feel good about the guys we brought
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  Speaker 2: in both their production on the field and the way
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  Speaker 2: that they have handled them themselves off the field, the
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  Speaker 2: way that they've you know, integrated themselves into this team.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, that's just so important because it's more
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  Speaker 2: than about talent. It's about you know, giving yourself to
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  Speaker 2: the team. And we've got a bunch of guys that
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  Speaker 2: are doing that. So that's a great thing for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also a couple of freshmen we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get into talking about the game obviously, but impressive personnel wise.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a guy like Darrell Robinson comes from Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: he's only a red shirt freshman. And the great catch
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  Speaker 1: by Schamar Porter down there in the end zone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got these young guys too. I mean it's a
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  Speaker 1: good feel in terms of the building of a foundation
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  Speaker 1: of a roster, it seems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, those guys are red shirt freshmen,
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  Speaker 2: so they've had some time. But there's also a couple
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  Speaker 2: of true freshmen that you know, maybe haven't heard their
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  Speaker 2: name yet, they haven't made a play yet, but they're
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  Speaker 2: on the verge of it. You know. You guy like
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  Speaker 2: Rock Montgomery who's the receiver and has played significant snaps.
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  Speaker 2: He just hasn't had a target yet. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: have high hopes for him. Not a lot of freshmen,
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  Speaker 2: true freshmen playing for us right now, but guys that
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  Speaker 2: are improving every week. You know, a lot of red
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  Speaker 2: shirt freshmen playing. So but yeah, I feel good about
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  Speaker 2: our young guys, you know. I like the way they work,
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  Speaker 2: I like the way they respond. I feel good about
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  Speaker 2: our depth, feel good about our depth.
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  Speaker 1: And you had a veteran quarterback in Joe Finnano who
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  Speaker 1: came off the bench really because your starter, Nick Evers
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  Speaker 1: couldn't make the start, and you couldn't have asked for
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  Speaker 1: a better performance, I don't think. I mean, he pretty
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  Speaker 1: much ran the offense for Gordon Samus about the way
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  Speaker 1: you'd want it to be run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did a great job. You know, Joe is
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  Speaker 2: an experienced player, He's a veteran player. He's obviously was
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  Speaker 2: disappointed when he wasn't named the starter, But rather than
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  Speaker 2: sulking and wasting time feeling sorry for himself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just continued to throw himself into this program. And
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  Speaker 2: I knew that if he needed to be called upon,
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  Speaker 2: he'd be ready to go. That's just who Joe is.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a real pro. He's a mature kid. We
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  Speaker 2: love him to death. And he went out and he
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  Speaker 2: showed you know what can happen when you get over
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  Speaker 2: your disappointment, your frustration. You just keep working. And he
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  Speaker 2: did a great job on Saturday. And he did a
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  Speaker 2: great job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, threw ball well, obviously, but also ran the ball. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: he got out there and he ran pretty well when
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  Speaker 1: he had his hands on it, thirty eight yards gained.
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  Speaker 1: He had a nineteen yarder. No Jo can run.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's you know, he's not the fastest or
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  Speaker 2: the most nimble guy in the world's you know, but
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  Speaker 2: he's certainly athletic enough to do some really good things.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw that Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. All right, to a quick time out and we'll
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  Speaker 1: be back in just a moment with Jim Moore of
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon Football Coaches Show on liar Field