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2 - FB Show Oct 15 w Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Tickets for the three remaining home games Wake coming up
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  Speaker 1: this weekend at twelve noon, Rice three thirty the following
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  Speaker 1: and then Georgia State a night game seven pm, available
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  Speaker 1: at yukontickets dot com. Get them, don't wait. I've had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people telling me in the last week
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  Speaker 1: or two, as Jamor is with us coach, say here's
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  Speaker 1: how I here's how I monitor what Yukon football is
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  Speaker 1: generating as far as interest, people asking me, when is
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  Speaker 1: the game, who are we playing, what's our chances? How
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  Speaker 1: can we make it work? How can we get five wins?
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting that a lot. I was doing a basketball
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  Speaker 1: game Monday night and I got a lot of football questions.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a positive for me because it tells you
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  Speaker 1: that Yukon sports fans are paying attention. They see what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, and they're behind you. And now we get
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  Speaker 1: to get him in the stands. Let's get him in
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  Speaker 1: there and let's rock and roll at the rent. So
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  Speaker 1: just looking at that in the next little stretch, now,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for this team to keep the momentum going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if you're a Yukon sports fan, you
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  Speaker 2: want all the sports to be successful. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: you can come to every game of every team you can.
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible. But listen, we appreciate the people that are
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  Speaker 2: in the stadium, whether it's fifteen thousand or thirty five
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  Speaker 2: thousand or forty thousand, whatever it is. You know, those
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  Speaker 2: people that take the time and spend the money come
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  Speaker 2: out and support us, we recognize them. They do have
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  Speaker 2: an impact. Like I've said, you know, the more the merrier,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we'll take all we can get. Foss
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  Speaker 2: has said it's up to us to play good football
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  Speaker 2: and exciting football and winning football. So people want to
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  Speaker 2: take the time that it takes to come to our
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  Speaker 2: stadium and support us, and you know, we have some challenges.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our students. It's a heck of a heck
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  Speaker 2: of a commitment to come all the way down to
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  Speaker 2: East Hartford to the rent and watch their football team.
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  Speaker 2: And so if those kids are going to do that,
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  Speaker 2: then we have to make sure we reward them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not something that we fixate on because we
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  Speaker 2: want to just play good football. We know that it
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  Speaker 2: will be a byproduct of good football. So yeah, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. You know, we have to
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  Speaker 2: earn it. We have to earn it every stinking day.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long time since this program, almost to
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  Speaker 2: the point where you just could assume there'd be a
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  Speaker 2: good crowd. So it's up to us to earn those
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  Speaker 2: fans back and convince them to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember what we saw at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game, and we're going to get to that the
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  Speaker 1: Temple game in a second here, But what we saw
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  Speaker 1: was the players running up to the student section jumping
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  Speaker 1: over the fence, kind of like the Green Bay Leap there,
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  Speaker 1: the Lambeau Leap. That was pretty cool and it reminded
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  Speaker 1: me of the Liberty Game a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: when the when the Huskies got Bowl eligible, in the
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  Speaker 1: crowd went nuts, came out on the field, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a real celebration. I mean, sports to me is
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  Speaker 1: about celebrating. Yeah, you're not going to win every week,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to be the best team every year,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's kind of that relationship you develop with
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  Speaker 1: your fan base and your players and your coaches that says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're all in this together. When we succeed, you guys
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  Speaker 1: have fun and we put on a good show, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just enjoyable to be part of a
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  Speaker 1: sports spectacle like that.
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  Speaker 2: What I think is so unique to college sports is
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  Speaker 2: the connection between the player and the students. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the student athlete and the students that are at your
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  Speaker 2: game supporting you because they're in classes together, they're walking
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  Speaker 2: around campus together. I mean, there's a true alignment. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's a true connection. It's not like that in professional sports.
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  Speaker 2: And so and we recognize it's really tough for our
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  Speaker 2: students to get to the games because we don't have
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  Speaker 2: a stadium on campus. But we also know that our
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  Speaker 2: our administration is doing a lot of things right now
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  Speaker 2: to make it a little bit easier for our students
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  Speaker 2: to get here. The different parking lot, the pregame tailgate,
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  Speaker 2: the incentives to come in that are aligned with basketball
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  Speaker 2: tickets and all of those things. So I know that
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  Speaker 2: the first week, you know, there's a lot of excitement.
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  Speaker 2: Our Merrimack game, we had a ton of students there.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of tapered off. You know, Look, these students
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  Speaker 2: they got a lot going on, right, I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: got a lot going on. But I'll tell you this,
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  Speaker 2: we and usually when i'm kind of finishing up my stairs.
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  Speaker 2: They're letting the first students in, and it's always fun
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  Speaker 2: to see kind of the same crew getting there first
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  Speaker 2: and sitting down right above the tunnel, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I make sure to thank them all the time for coming,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, we appreciate the people that are there and
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  Speaker 2: the people that aren't there. We'd sure love to see
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  Speaker 2: you there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing that I've seen too over
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  Speaker 1: the years of working with Yukon is the coaches are
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  Speaker 1: so important to whatever is happening. And when the fans
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  Speaker 1: and we see this indoors at the Gample, when Yukon
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  Speaker 1: plays hoop there and then Dan Hurley comes out of
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, what they relate to the coaches too,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the coaches are the leaders of the pack,
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  Speaker 1: right They're out there and they're pumped up and they're
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  Speaker 1: doing their thing before a game. The coaches and the
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  Speaker 1: fans see that, and the students see that. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a great part of college sports. You don't really
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  Speaker 1: get that on the pro level. I think it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: cool it is.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing is the band. You know, listen
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  Speaker 2: during a game, I hear the band, but it's background
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  Speaker 2: music or background noise to me. I do know this.
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  Speaker 2: When we score, I definitely hear them. But I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you this my wife every single week, every single week,
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  Speaker 2: Kathy tells me after the game how great our band is,
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  Speaker 2: because you can't and she does, and she makes a point,
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  Speaker 2: you can't even believe how good our band is. You
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  Speaker 2: can't even believe how good our band is. The way
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  Speaker 2: they dance, their energy, their enthusiasm, all that. I saw
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  Speaker 2: that they were rewarded by being able to go up
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  Speaker 2: and perform at the Patriots game Sunday. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 2: just you know, the commitment of the band and the
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  Speaker 2: students that come to the games every week, especially with
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  Speaker 2: you know, a stadium being not on campus, which you
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  Speaker 2: know that is a big deal. It's something I'm used to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've never had a stadium on campus where
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  Speaker 2: I've coached other than when I played at you dubb
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  Speaker 2: So it's a hell of a commitment and we appreciate them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the atmosphere matters. College is so different. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you've been on ro level. It's just different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's younger, whatever it may be. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: almost more genuine. It's not business as much on the
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  Speaker 1: college level.
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  Speaker 2: Do you find that, Oh, for sure. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I think it's so much of it's
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  Speaker 2: the connection between the player and the and the students
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  Speaker 2: that are there in the student section, like they're in
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  Speaker 2: classes together. You know, they're the same age. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like an NFL game, there's disparity in an
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  Speaker 2: age and uh, and they're they're both representing their school.
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  Speaker 2: The players are representing their school, the fans are representing
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  Speaker 2: their school. It's just it's just cool. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the one of the things I just love
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  Speaker 2: about college football is that student section in the band.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome and that's why you're back and we're happy
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  Speaker 1: you are. All right, we'll be back with Jimour. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about a couple of
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  Speaker 1: guys who may or may not be available this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Could be very big. We continue on the Yukon Football
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show here onlear Field