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Segment 3 - MBB Show w Dan Huley Dec 12 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show and The Yukon
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  Husky. He's got a late night clash coming up on the West Coast and
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  Seattle against Gonzaga, the Bulldogs and the Continental Tires. Seattle tip off the
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  Old Key Arena out their pregame at nine thirty, tip off shortly after ten
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  Eastern here along the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network app, and the
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  Varsity Network dot Com and as if on Q coach Jalen Stewart gave you a
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  nice lift against Arkansas Pine Bluff the other day. He's a Seattle guy.
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  He hadn't played for a couple of games, freshman, trying to you know,
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  get his feet wet and figure it all out. What do you see
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  from him in that game that tells you that had maybe maybe there's a chance
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  he's going to deliver some stuff for us this year. Yeah, he was
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  definitely, you know, Mike, you know, he had an impact.
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  He was assertive, he was you know, he scored the ball the seven
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  you know, seven big points or three buckets there in the first half,
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  and then you know was you know, had a saved us from a three
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  point play on a weak foul by Haas and transition, you know, which
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  was a splash defensive play, and you know, just played with more authority,
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  and you know, he's he's a young player, you know him,
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  and you know, and Jaden Ross in particular, just just trying to keep
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  these guys positive and keep their feet on the ground here in stores and and
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  not get down about their current playing situation. The transfer portal and that extra
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  COVID year haven't made it have made it very tough on on incoming freshmen to
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  get on the court. You know, we still have these COVID players that
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  I think we still got one more year of it. So there's going to
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  be, you know, not a lot of freshmen playing in really good programs
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  in college basketball. And I know he's dying to get on the court and
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  we want them to play. We're working really hard to develop him for both
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  now in the future because we want to get to nine. I don't want
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  to be stuck at eight. I want to, but I'm not going to
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  play nine in less. Nine guys really could play at a championship level basketball.
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  Dan Hurley with listened to ukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Dan you're your
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  postgame press conferences are becoming more and more entertaining. I don't know if you're
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  if it's something you think about at all, but you know, we get
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  into these subjects sometimes in the postgame where there's extra time, there's extra questions
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  after the game stuff, and you start talking about, you know, the
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  world of college basketball and people recruiting your players and people going out of their
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  way to kind of tamper with other teams. I mean, is this stuff
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  happening on a level that we don't know about and you do or what you
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  brought that up a couple of times recently. Yeah, I mean it's going
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  on. I mean, it's going on right now. I mean, if
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  I took some of the freshman's phones or you know, the some of the
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  sophomores, or any of the players, you know, and whether it's a
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  middleman or old AU coach, old high school coach, you know, directly
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  to the family, directly to the player. It was going on with us
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  last year, you know, it went on. You know, it went
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  on with some of our best players schools that wanted them to go into portal
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  that were offering the huge money, uh, you know, to leave you
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  know, over a million dollars to go into portal with nil some very well
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  known programs that are often involved with you know, the free agents that come
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  on to the market in college. So you know, it's, uh,
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  it's unfortunate. It's not the way that that we run our program. I
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  couldn't live with with with myself if that's how I built a roster and built
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  an organization. It's you know, it's embarrassing. The media. Uh,
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  unfortunately, I think is uh, through player empowerment has turned the blind eye
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  to uh, you know what, what's not good for the sport uh and
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  not good for young people in terms of the long term lessons learned. And
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  uh, you know, and I think we we we kind of we're now
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  just handing out the fish in turn of instead of teaching how to fish.
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  And and then for me, you know, listen, I think I see
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  a lot of other coaches just kind of being themselves more, doing a lot
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  less coach talk. So I see other coaches just kind of being themselves.
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  So I think I'm gonna be myself more and and not do the company coach
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  line. And and then also too, I think when you win the national
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  championship, you're a lot more comfortable in your skin and more willing to just
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  say what you think. Yeah, well, we appreciate it. It's entertaining
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  at times. Are we headed in the direction of contracts for players? Is
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  that where this is going? Are we going to have to make guys commit
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  to playing let's say, at Yukon or anywhere else for three years when they
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  come to the school or is that some way to deal with this, this
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  rampant movement of players in the transfer portal. Some guys have played three four
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  schools already in their careers or five or bid in five, right, I
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  mean, so, yeah, I do think, you know, Mike,
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  it protects I think, you know, the players you need need protection,
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  you know, especially if they're lied to from an NIL standpoint. You know,
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  I think promises are made and you hear the horror stories of schools or
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  collect is not coming through or not even close to the numbers that were promised
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  or talked about, you know, And then I do think, uh,
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  you know, if we're headed towards a model of like free a total free
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  agency in this ni L era in terms of the portal and n I L
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  valuation, Yeah, I don't I don't think total free agency works in any
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  sport. You know, I know, and I know the media will say,
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  well coaches, well coaches, Uh, coaches can leave whenever they want.
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  That's not actually what happens. We we we have buyouts if we do,
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  if we do decide that we want to make a move. You know
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  that that that's millions of dollars in some cases three four or five million dollars,
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  eight million dollars to move to know the school. You know, we
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  have contracts, so I know it's not as simple as that, you know,
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  but if we want, you know, if we are now viewing college
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  players as you know, paid employees like I hear. You know, you
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  know from a lot of the you know, the leading voices in college basketball,
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  you know, the players need to be protected. And I do think
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  that, uh you know, the programs do as well. Yeah, No,
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  I agree one hundred percent on that one. Dan Hurley with US Yukon
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  men's basketball coaches that we're back with more in a moment on lear Field,