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Seg 2 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  Or back with Jim Moore and the Yukon football coaches show up next for the
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  Football Husky Senior Day and the home finale against Sacred Heart. Radio coverage at
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  ten thirty with the Heart Auto group countdown to kick off. Then it's game
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  on at twelve noon here along the Yukon Sports networking online via the Varsity Network
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  app Varsitynetwork dot Com with coach as the Hussies get ready for Secret Heart.
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  This is a kind of an emotional week, Jim. I would think around
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  the team because it starts to you know, for a number of these guys,
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  they're going to start to realize this is it. This is the last
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  time I'm putting this uniform on here. Maybe you know, two more games
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  obviously, but at home, have you noticed anything about guys in what they're
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  you know, thinking and talking about at this point or is that something just
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  comes on Saturday. I haven't, but we talked about it, you know,
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  and really you talk to the underclassmen more than anything about honoring these guys
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  that have you know, been through what these guys have been through, because
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  it's been tough, and they've been resilient and they've shown great character and great
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  leadership and great growth. And I could name you know, you know all
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  the all the guys that have been here for you know, their entire career
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  and what they've been through. I don't need to name them. They know
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  who they are. People know who they are. But the thought that you
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  know, in twenty nineteen they struggled, and in twenty twenty they didn't get
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  to play and they you know, the COVID year was so hard on everybody,
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  but our young men here. They didn't even get to play a football
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  season, which would have given them a little bit of a life, you
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  know, and yet they stuck around and they stuck with it. And then
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  twenty twenty one, you know, there's a coaching change and the way that
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  affects them, the uncertainty of that. And then last year, you know,
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  to feel a little bit of success and value is great, and then
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  this year to know they're a better football team, but not have it reflected
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  in the record, not have a chance to go back to a bowl game.
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  That's really hard. And we need to make sure that we respect what
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  those guys have been through and that they're still here and they're still fighting.
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  And we got to go out and we got to play for them and play
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  for what they what they mean to us this program, what they represent and
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  what and the resilience that they've shown. And that's kind of what we've talked
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  about. I'm sure for the individual players there'll be emotional moments for them on
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  Saturday, you know, before the game, when when their families are there
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  and we you know, we call their name and they run out of the
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  tunnel. But we still got we got two games left, you know,
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  we got two left. So uh yeah, we want and on this week,
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  we want. We don't want to act like this is the end,
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  because it's not the end, No, no question about that. You got
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  you Mass right after Thanksgiving. So as you look into the portal and going
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  forward roster wise, you have some grads here who are obviously going to be
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  playing their last home game, Jordan Porter among them. And and are you
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  going to look for guys who are in their grad years and have one year
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  of eligibility left, or do you look maybe at seniors who have a couple
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  of years eligibility. How do you view that? We look for good football
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  players that can come in and have an immediate impact on this team, whether
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  that's a grad, it gives us a one year you know, kind of
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  a rent a player, or it's a guy that has more years. I
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  mean, obviously you like guys that have you know, multiple years. And
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  we also look at junior college kids. You know, there's a lot of
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  kids in junior college that are there for you know, for particular reasons that
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  you know, maybe they've they've overcome now or they're bounced back guys, so
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  you know, over of course, in the last four or five days,
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  actually starting last Thursday, I've looked at over one hundred players that are either
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  in the portal or junior college kids or we think may get in the portal
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  and great at them. And because we have you know, like we have
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  a staff of people that are constantly mining for information about guys who may go
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  into portal. We already know who's in the portal looking at junior college,
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  and then we have a filtering system and I just sit here and I watch
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  the positions of need for us and try to identify guys so that we are
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  we're ready to go. You know, when the ball drops, we're ready
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  to go, and we will be ready to go. But you know what
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  we want, Mike, is we want number one, we want good people.
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  Okay, number two, we want damn good football players that have those
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  things that I talked about mental toughness and competitive greatness and want to fit into
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  what we want to be here and are winners. So that's that's what we're
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  looking for. When you analyze a player from another school, whether it's junior
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  college, could be a community college, how do you do it? I
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  mean, how much tape is there available on guys at that level? You
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  don't think about community college teams having video of their games and stuff like that.
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  How do you go about analyzing that cape? You'd be surprised how much
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  is out there. You know, you can get almost every game of every
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  player from high school on up if you if you search for it. There's
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  resources that these kids use to promote themselves obviously and that you can access to
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  evaluate. So we have multiple ways to look at them, and we do
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  and then you know, if if it's a point in the process where we're
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  able to talk to them or talk to someone around them, we do that.
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  So there's a lot of ways that you evaluate, and mean obviously evaluate
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  the performance, and then you know, the thing you always have to keep
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  in mind is level of competition. You might get really excited about a guy,
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  but then you look at the level of competition and it's it's poor and
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  it doesn't translate to what we need at this level. But there's some guys
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  that play a poor level of competition, but you just see the physical traits
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  that indicate this guy can can level up. And so you know, it's
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  really it's a lot of experience and it's a lot of different eyes looking at
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  each player. So it's not just one person saying, hey, yeah,
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  I like this guy. You know, we we got to come to a
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  consensus as a staff and we and we we've been able to do a decent
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  job of that. Yeah, I thought an example, you know, I'm
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  disappointed we missed on a couple of guys in the portal this year and that
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  and that bothers me, you know, because that's that's a wasted spot.
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  And going forward in the future, if we're in the portal and you know,
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  we're we're able to be active with the NIL piece, Uh, we
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  absolutely can't miss on one. Not on one, because it's not just a
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  spot, it's also it's also financial resources that we that we need. Yeah,
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  there's a lot to it, that's for sure. We'll wrap up our
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  little discussion on JMU. They got some guys came from small colleges that were
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  pretty good for them the other day, and then we'll get into Sacred Heart
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  and that long touchdown that JMU got away with that I know, coach you
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  were not happy with. I watched you on the sidelines. I was with
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  you all along on that one. That's coming up. We continue on the
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  Yukon Football Coaches Show here from Blearfield