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Seg 1 - FB Show Nov 7 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show. Jim Mora
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  with US Mike Crispino. Here, Husky's coming off an experience, let's put
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  it that way. At Tennessee. I've never been around that many people except
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  at Michigan one hundred and one nine fifteen. All the pageantry and they get
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  up for it. I got to say, coach, tell me about the
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  experience for your players, because it's something different. You don't do that every
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  day, at least not in the in the independent world the Yukon lives in
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  right now, Well, you don't do it every day. And as disappointing
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  as the game was, it was a good experience for our men. I
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  don't know if they know, they'll tell you that right now, but you
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  know, going and playing in the SEC or an SEC team at their place
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  is fun. I've been able to do it, you know, as a
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  player, as a coach, and it's just always a little bit of a
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  different experience, you know. I've always believed that football is different down South
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  and all. I always will believe that because it, in my opinion,
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  it's true, and people got a taste of it. You know, it's
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  just different down there, Mike. It's different, and it's different in it
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  a lovely, lovely way. Yeah. You know, one of the things
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  I found interesting is I hadn't seen this. I only knew this because I
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  talked to some folks from Tennessee. They got all those people coming to that
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  ballpark, that stadium. And I asked one of the guys, I said,
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  where does everyone park? I don't see any parking lots. And he
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  goes, well, there's really no parking on the campus and you know,
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  to really put cars in. And I'm like, well, where do they
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  go? And he said they just park everywhere, like a mile and a
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  half and two miles away and walk to the game. I've never heard that,
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  and I was pretty damn impressive, I got to say, so I
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  had. I asked the same question of the security guy outside of the locker
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  room. I said, where does everyone park? And he said, they
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  just park wherever and they just walk in and listen. It's an amazing environment.
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  Those people are one hundred percent committed to their school that they went to.
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  It was homecoming. You saw families, you know, kids dressed out
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  in the orange. You saw grandpas, and I mean you saw everything and
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  everyone was one hundred percent in on their school and their team, and it
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  was really fun to see that. You know, that's kind of what I'm
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  used to. I mean, I played at University of Washington, you know,
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  Uh, that's how we were played at UC at coach at U c
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  l A. That's how we were you know, it didn't matter if we
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  were having a good year a bad year. Man, you were a faithful
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  and if you were faithful, you showed up. And uh, like I
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  said, it's it's even more amplified in the South and those people they live
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  and they die. And it was great. I mean, it was great.
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  It was It was great to see. It wasn't great to lose.
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  It was great to see. It's it's what to me, football is all
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  about, you know. I mean, I'm kind of used to that environment
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  in the NFL. You know, every every week the stadium's full and you
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  know, people are they're they're fighting with you and they're booing you when you
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  when you suck. And they shouldn't have that right because they paid the tick
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  paid the money for the tickets. But but they're there, and then,
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  uh, our players needed to feel that it was it was it was you
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  know what it's like. God, I don't know how to answer you it
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  because it was great, but it sucked at the same time. So I
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  think you're talking about US Giants fans when you say they're booing us in the
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  in the stadium, So let you know what, listen, fans boom,
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  right. And I don't necessarily like it in college football because well, in
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  the old days, you could say they weren't getting paid to play. Now
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  they are, so maybe they're professionals in a sense. But uh, I
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  always felt like in college when you bow a kid and if it's fair and
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  you know, boo, the coach bo the guys that are getting paid in
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  the pros boom, you know. I mean, it's it's kind of part
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  of sport, right, So you can't take the personal. I think it's
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  always a sign of passion. I'd rather have people there booing us than you
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  know, people not there. But it was, it was it was everything
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  that I kind of told these guys that would be from the pageantry on the
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  sideline to the energy in the stadium, to the men that we were facing
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  and their side and their strength and their speed and the numbers that they had.
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  And uh, I mean numbers in terms of the number of people.
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  But it was it was a it was a crappy day overall right, you
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  know, all that being said, was still a crappy day. So I
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  got I got completely mixed emotions. Yeah, I really don't have a mixed
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  emotions. It was a crappy day. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna
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  say, you're a bottom line guy. You gotta enjoy what you're doing.
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  I'm just trying to Hey, look, I'm trying to be a glasses half
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  full guy here with you on this, on this on this show. What
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  the truth? It was a crappy day, all right, all right,
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  thanks for being honest. All the thing before we get to the x's and
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  O was which is strange to me in that environment. And Yukon has got
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  a great marching band, okay, but Tennessee's marching band might even be a
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  little better. And Coach, they were playing all the way up till the
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  ball was being snapped in the stadium. I don't know if you you realize
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  that I saw I heard it. Yeah, A strange as that. I
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  don't think I hear that very often. And wherever we play, that was
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  very weird me. Yeah enough not to me. I'm used to that.
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  You know. Well, first of all, I'm not used to bands in
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  the NFL. One of the things I said I love most about college football
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  was the band. And here in the band, yeah, because you don't
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  get that in pro football. And that just adds to it, and that
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  the cheer squads and the Kings and all that and uh, but everywhere I've
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  always been the band they play, man, they play up to the snap
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  because you're allowed to, and they wanted the opponent. And when the band
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  wasn't playing, they had the DJ thumping that music the snap, right,
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  I mean it was it was noticeable to me, and and uh, that's
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  how it should be, you know. And uh, you know, our
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  band missed the game this year, which was unfortunate. But you know that
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  that's the environment that you want an opponent to have to face. You want
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  it to be suffocating, you want it to be confusing, you want it
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  to be loud. You want the band playing up to the last second.
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  You want the the the PA and out or the official come on and say,
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  hey, you guys got to stop playing your music five seconds sooner,
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  you know, because now you know you're getting in your opponent's head. Oh
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  man, I'll tell you what. That was an experience, as you say,
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  a crappy one. It sucked, but you have to go through it.
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  I mean, if I'm a player, we're gonna go to break here.
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  But if I'm a player, I get through that. I try to
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  block it out. I feel better about myself. I get through to sixty
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  minutes, I go, it didn't really bother me. And actually, one
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  of your guys, Valentin Sen, later on, he's gonna tell us the
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  same thing. I don't know. We just block it out. We get
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  in a zone and we don't worry about it. So anyway, Jim More
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  with us ukon Football Coaches show continues in a moment on lear Field