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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Alex Karaban Mar 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. We talked
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  Speaker 1: to Dan Hurley for a bit. Now we got Alex
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  Speaker 1: caravan with us from campus at stores and Alex, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go back in history right now, four years
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  Speaker 1: ago if you can remember this, What was your recruitment
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  Speaker 1: like to Yukon. Did you have a lot of choices?
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  Speaker 1: What did you have to think about when you were
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  Speaker 1: deciding where am I going to go to college?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I really had. I had a good amount of choices.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was recruited pretty heavily by a couple
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  Speaker 2: of high majors, but I felt like Yukon really wanted
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  Speaker 2: me the most and they recruited me extremely hard. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think some factors at consider was being
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  Speaker 2: close to home. Yukon's obviously only like an hour away
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  Speaker 2: from me. And then you just see the history when
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  Speaker 2: you come in to the building, you see the national championships,
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  Speaker 2: you see the pedigree, you see all the legends. Like
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  Speaker 2: for me, that was just so hard to turn down.
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  Speaker 2: On top of who coach Hurley and the coaches staff,
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  Speaker 2: who they are as people, It just it just seem
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  Speaker 2: like the obvious choice to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So when you when you come into the building
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  Speaker 1: and the worst center and you see where you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be practicing, and you got all those pictures up
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  Speaker 1: on the wall that could be intimidating. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: You're standing among these giants and wondering, I'm guessing that
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  Speaker 1: where am I going to fit into this whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely, I think you see all those legends and
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  Speaker 2: you be like, can I be one of those? And
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  Speaker 2: can I do the things that they did? But I
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  Speaker 2: think the confidence gives you is that you've seen guys
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  Speaker 2: like Ray Allen or a Mecca okafor or Andre Jammed,
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  Speaker 2: just guys who've had successful MBA or college careers do
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  Speaker 2: it at Yukon and you know you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: in that same facility, You're going to be in the
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  Speaker 2: same location. Why can't you do it?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: I think that just gives you a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: And just if I want to reach the goals that
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  Speaker 2: I want to reach, and I've seen those players do it,
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  Speaker 2: why can't I?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got I got you. Uh first impressions of
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Now watch the first practice. My mom told me, She's like,
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  Speaker 2: are you sure you want to play for them? Like,
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  Speaker 2: how just how intense the practices are. Just you see
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  Speaker 2: the yelling, you see the coach, and you see the
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  Speaker 2: hard coaching. You know it could be a lot for
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  Speaker 2: a player, But I thought, I've always heard stories of
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  Speaker 2: how hard colleges and how difficult it is to make
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  Speaker 2: that transition. So my mindset was just like, why not
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  Speaker 2: go do it for a coach who does it the hardest,
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  Speaker 2: does it the right way, and will push me past
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  Speaker 2: limits that any other coach could do.
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  Speaker 1: And did that happen your first year? I know you
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  Speaker 1: came in January before you started actually playing the following fall,
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  Speaker 1: but were you standing there at practice or after practice
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  Speaker 1: sometimes going what have I gotten myself into?
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  Speaker 2: I think every player has. When you come to Yukon,
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  Speaker 2: you realize you know how hard and tough it really is,
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  Speaker 2: and you know there's obviously good days, but there's also
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  Speaker 2: bad days where you have a bad practice, you have
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  Speaker 2: a bad film session, and it's a lot on you.
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  Speaker 2: And but you always got to remember why you came
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  Speaker 2: to Yukon, why you committed to coach early, and that
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, he's pushing you for
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  Speaker 2: a reason. And when you look back in your career.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to thank him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just real quick here, when you come growing up
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  Speaker 1: in Southborough, mass looking at Yukon, I mean they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: Boston colleges right up the right up the road too.
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  Speaker 1: Been local, that would have been your backyard.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm it was. But they didn't recruit me as
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  Speaker 2: hard as I thought they would as a local kid.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, no disrespect to BC either, but just
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  Speaker 2: the history that Yukon has, I think it's just undeniable
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  Speaker 2: compared to you know, programs across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. It's tough to compare anything to Yukon
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  Speaker 1: in my mind. When you talk about six national championships
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  Speaker 1: in twenty five years, exactly right. There's schools out there
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  Speaker 1: that never won a national championship. Yukon's got six. We're
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  Speaker 1: with Alex Caravan and this is the Yukon men's basketball
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  Speaker 1: coaches show back after this from lear Field,