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UConn FB Coach's Show w Jim Mora- Segment #1 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Football Coaches Show. Of course it's the Men's Football
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  Coaches Show. Jim Morrow with us and our second goal around last week we're
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  in the studio on iHeart with the live audience. That was a blast and
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  coach, now we get back to real business. You have a game under
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  your belt, Huskies fell at home to end the state. Let's begin with
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  playing on a Thursday night to open. Can that be helpful going forward here
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  because you get a couple of extra days to kind of review what happens and
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  make preparations for the Saturday night road trip to Georgia's State. Yes, I
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  think it's helpful on the front end and the back end. You know,
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  you get a little more time on the front end because you get to come
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  into camp a little bit early, and but on the back end you really
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  pick up some advantages. And now they have the same advantage as they played
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  as well that night. But number one, your players get a little more
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  rest and a time to recover and get rehab from any any bumps and bruises
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  from the game. As a coaching staff, you get a chance to prepare
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  a little more completely because of the time allotted. You also get a chance
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  to kind of take a mental break and watch some other teams play football,
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  and so I think, yeah, I think there's an advantage to it,
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  for sure, but they've got the same advantage, so you know, it
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  kind of cancels each other out in this situation. Yeah, watching a lot
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  of other football is something that we all do obviously, but you don't get
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  a chance that often because you're playing on Saturday. For the most part,
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  it's just a quick summary of what did you see in other football games that
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  maybe surprised you or maybe you know was enlightening on some level because there was
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  so much football on the weekend. I mean, I think there was a
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  game Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, the last few days. Uh.
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  You know. The only thing that just really was amazing to me is
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  amount of points that are being scored in games. You know, Oregon scores
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  eating one, well, miss course, seventy three. Someone else scored seventy
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  three. You've got games in the sixties, the high fifties, the high
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  forties. I mean, it's just, you know, it's amazing how many
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  points people are putting up. It's really hard to play defense at this day
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  and age, you know, college football, and it keeps it exciting.
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  I'm not a big fan of the eighty one seven blowouts, you know,
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  I think you know that's it's a little crazy, but you know, college
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  football is a is a game where you never know what's going to happen.
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  You know, it's hard to predict what's going to happen, and I think
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  that makes it exciting. A perfect example of that came with Clemson and Duke,
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  and You're gonna play Duke in a couple of weeks. I was listening
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  to Dabbo Sweety talking about it. I've never been in a game like this.
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  They were in the red zone four times, they couldn't score any points.
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  They lose the Duke twenty eight seven. So it just proves, no
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  matter how much you think you can predict what's gonna happen in college football,
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  you can't. Well, if he's never been in a game like that,
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  and he's you know, either the luckiest man alive or the greatest coach alive,
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  because there's not many coaches that can say they haven't been in a game
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  like that, and uh, you know I'd say that those two. Uh,
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  he's a damn good coach, so but yeah, you know, you
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  can't predict. You know, you watch the Florida State LSU game and it's
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  it's back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Great players
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  making great plays, great coaches doing a heck of a job, and then
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  all of a sudden, you know, Florida State just pounces on some opportunities
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  and you know, next thing, you know, it was at forty five
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  to seventeen or something like that, and it's, uh, you know,
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  a great game ends up looking like a blowout. Coach the home opener,
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  and I know you guys are working hard at this getting people into building,
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  and the messaging has been great with the athletic department, and I thought the
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  turnout was tremendous. I mean, the most for a home opener since twenty
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  ten, the most in the building since twenty thirteen. I think, you
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  know, step two, the reload. You're calling it your second year here.
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  I gotta feel like you're making progress in terms of getting people excited about
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  this football program. And I thought that that was had to feel good for
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  you guys to walk into that stadium and have thirty thousand plus behind you.
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  Oh, it was fantastic and it started just with our student section, you
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  know, and what those kids were able to generate in terms of enthusiasm and
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  excitement and noise, and you know, our tunnel comes out right there underneath
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  them, and you could feel them having that place, you know, almost
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  full, was fantastic. You know, going down that first drive and going
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  forth on fourth down and scoring, you could tell that our fans, you
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  know, we're into it. We had to go out and do a better
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  job that first drive on defense, not let them come back down and score
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  because that kind of you know, it takes a little air out of the
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  building. But we're making progress. We're a better football team. I hope
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  people recognize that. Very disappointed to lose. I think if you come to
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  you win that game, you know, you generate even more enthusiasms. Now,
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  we've got to find a way to regenerate that enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm
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  amongst our fan base. And the most important thing we can do is play
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  good football and win and make it worthwhile for people to take their time and
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  spend their money to come out to the rent and say, hey man,
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  that's my team, and that's you know, that's one of our objectives Jamore
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  with US Yukon football coach on Mike Christino. One thing about you know,
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  reaction from fans. We get it all the time as broadcasters wherever we are,
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  I mean anywhere in public. And I gotta tell you, for the
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  most part, i'd say almost ninety nine percent of your fans felt like,
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  Okay, we lost that game. Maybe they were a little better, maybe
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  we had a couple of things go wrong, but they can see it.
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  You know. The Yukon football base, to me, is a very knowledgeable
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  group. They've seen a lot, They've seen ups, they've seen downs,
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  they saw the remarkable job you did last year, and I think they're on
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  top of what's happening. So just so you know, the response I got
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  all around in the last few days was very positive after a loss. You
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  don't get that around the country very often, but I gotta feel that that
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  is something important and taking a step forward with this program. Yeah, you
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  know, it's good to hear that. I make it a rule during the
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  season to get on social media, not to you know, obviously, don't
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  look at Twitter. I don't really read articles win or lose. I just
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  think it's important for me to stay you know, right where I am and
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  and focus on the things I can control, so I kind of avoid that
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  stuff. But that's nice to hear that people recognize that there is there is
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  progress being made. I mean, we're we're a better football team than we
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  were at any point last year. You recall last year we went down to
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  North Carolina State and it was thirty one and nothing at the end of the
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  first half, you know, and it was ten to seven this week,
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  you know, So there's progress. But at the end of the day,
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  Mike is you know, we're ultimately going to be measured by wins and losses,
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  and so for us, we've got to make sure that our mindset as
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  a football team is it's not to come cloaks, it's to win. But
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  the only way you win is to continue to improve. And I think I
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  see improvement, and that is one thing that's encouraging, you know, in
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  the middle of what was a discouraging loss or disappointing loss, not I think
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  to say discouraged would be wrong. Disappointing to lose, but never discourage because
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  because of our effort, because of our fans. Yeah, I'm totally with
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  you on that one. We'll be back. We'll take a quick break with
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  the Jim Mora. This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on lip Field.