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Seg 1 - FB Show Oct 31 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  It's time for the Yukon Men's Football Coaches. Of course, it's the Men's
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  Football Coaches Show, and with us is head coach Jim Moore on Mike Crispino.
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  The Husky's coming off a one score loss at Boston College twenty one fourteen
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  homecoming there, and they've got homecoming with Tennessee in Knoxville this coming weekend.
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  So we'll talk about the volunteers. We'll talk about a couple of guys that'll
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  be visiting with us on the show later on, Nick Harris and Malcolm Bell.
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  We'll talk to coach about them as well. But Jim, this Boston
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  College game I thought was amazing in some aspects. They ran eighty three plays,
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  You had a forty three I think, and yet it was a twenty
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  one to fourteen game. You kept him at twenty one. I thought,
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  you know, had a chance to win the ball game in the sense that,
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  you know, despite the fact he didn't have the ball very much,
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  you still were right in it. Yeah, you know, football games are
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  funny. You know, sometimes the stats don't match up to the final score.
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  First of all, that that's a very good football team. The improvements
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  that they've made in the last years since we saw them left last were very
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  very obvious. They spent a lot of money in n I l UH,
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  securing some really good football players, and we walked down on the field,
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  well you could see it on film going into the game. When you walk
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  down on the field, just the size and the physicality of their team was.
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  You know, it was like a complete turnaround from what they had last
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  year. So I give them credit for doing a great job in the portal
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  and doing a great job with their with our NI l and and and building
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  the team. It's you know, we talked about this a lot. The
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  way you build a team now is kind of changed. You know. It
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  was recruiting, and it was personality, and it was UH facilities, and
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  it was opportunities and it's still those things, but you know that the NIL
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  is such a big deal, and they you know, they added a significant
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  chunk of money that helped them look a lot different and play a lot different.
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  I give our guys credit, you know, we we we fought,
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  man, And if you don't fight, you don't have a chance. And
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  even if you do fight, you might not win. But if you don't
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  fight, you don't have a chance. And so we fought and we were
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  able to keep it close. The problems were this is we struggled to stop
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  the run, and you know, they were big and physical upfront and uh
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  and so if we weren't perfect in our in our technique or our execution from
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  our assignment, you know, they were able to hit some big plays.
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  So they stayed on the field. You know, we had we struggled to
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  get off the field on third down and fourth down. They've always been a
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  team, or at least this year, that goes sport on fourth down.
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  They've got a quarterback that can make things happen, and he made some things
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  happen. So they stayed on the field a little bit too long. And
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  then when our offense had the ball, you know, we didn't do enough
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  to sustain drives and keep the ball. And so that's why you had such
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  a disparity in the number of plays. But the positive, if you can
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  find a positive and a loss, is that you know, we were in
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  another game competitively at the end, with a chance to do something to win
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  it. Now the next step is winning, and you know, it's a
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  process. It's a learned it's a learned behavior, and we've just got to
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  continue to grind away at the things that we think are going to help us
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  win, emphasize the things that we're going to help us win, continue to
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  add talent to this football team, and continue you know, if we do
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  that, if we if we continue to do the things we're doing, if
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  we maintain a great attitude and a great work ethic and this toughness that our
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  guys have, and we just find a couple more pieces and adjust some of
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  the things that we're doing coaching wise, because it's always all of us,
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  then you know, we'll have the breakthrough we're looking for. God, I've
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  been amazed at the resilience of these guys. When I talk to the players
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  every week, they just have a focus that's amazing. You know, regardless
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  of record, regardless of what happened in the previous week, whether it's a
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  heartbreaker that came down to the fun will play and that's happened a couple of
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  times. Your players, I feel, you'll have a real sound of respect
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  for the game and you as a coach and the coaching staff. They just
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  don't want to let down and give anything less than what they got week after
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  weekend. And you know, regardless of records. I feel like that's an
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  accomplishment in some ways. Well, it's what we preach, it's what we
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  look for in the character of the men that we add to this football team.
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  Fortunately, there are some great examples here that we can build off.
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  Guys like Christian Haynes and guys like Jackson Mitchell, and guys like Kai Kwan,
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  and guys like Durante, and guys like Dalmont, and guys like Noel
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  you know, and others. I don't want to slight anyone, Chris Sharon
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  Malie, I don't want to leave anyone out. But fortunately there's a there's
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  a group of men here that that set an example of, you know exactly
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  what it's what it's got to look like, what it's got to feel like,
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  how you got to do it if you want to have a chance for
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  success. And I tell you what, it was funny. I was watching
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  the Monday night game Detroit and the Raiders just a little bit and Dan Campbell
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  came on and it was an interview they did with him his first year when
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  I think they were three and thirteen, and he kind of came to tears,
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  but he was talking about the fight on their team, the fight,
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  the fight, the fight, and then just adding more talent base. And
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  how if they maintained that fight and they added some more talent and they did
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  a better job of coaching it that they could have, you know, they
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  could get where they wanted to be and they're turning that thing. And I
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  feel that way about our guys is we got a bunch of guys that will
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  fight that they they are disappointed, they're discouraged, and then they just bounce
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  back fast. And that's that is the foundation of a good football program.
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  That's a good foundation of really any anything that you're going to be successful at
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  is having that will to win and working towards winning regardless of circumstance. You
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  can never let circumstance to determine your attitude or your effort. Never. You
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  can just never do that. And if you never let attitude determine your circuit
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  or circumstance determine your attitude or your effort, you always got a chance.
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  Yeah, And you know, there's a I think that's a talent to be
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  honest, to be a guy or a player or a coach that's facing adversity
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  week after week and yet don't bring anything less than everything you have. I
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  mean I was talking to my son about this the other day. He was
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  on a couple of teams in baseball where they had awful results. He hung
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  in, he, you know, took the ball every five days when they
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  play in these tournaments around the country whatever. And I said to him,
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  I think that really helped you in your life. And he said, I
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  think so too, because I didn't quit. I just kept coming. And
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  the guys that played with did the same thing. It's it's just so true
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  in all facets of life, and and our guys have that. You know,
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  none of us, none of us are going to go through our careers,
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  no matter what our careers are. In football, you know, they
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  keep score right and they keep a standings and all that, but none of
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  us are going to go through a career unscathed. It doesn't matter what we
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  do. And you know, the greatest players of all time in any sport
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  of that seasons where you know it was it was crappy, and yet they
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  never relented. And because of that, you build a strength. I've said
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  it before. I think you know, you build strength in the struggle,
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  and build toughness in the struggle, and you build resilience in the struggle,
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  and uh, you know, I mean that's just how I'm a glasses half
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  full guy no matter what. Anyway, So I think we're gonna I think
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  we're gonna come out of this thing and we're going to be a much better
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  team and much better men because of it. Yeah, I totally agree with
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  you on that. All right, we take a quick break back with Jim
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  Moore in a moment. This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on liar Field