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Seg 1 - FB Show Oct 22 - Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show. It's Tuesday. That
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  Speaker 1: means we get together with Jim Moore of the Yukon
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  Speaker 1: Football Coaches. The Huskies are four and three on. Like Crispino,
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  Speaker 1: they get set for rice on the weekend three point
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  Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon. That's a perfect time to play football.
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  Speaker 1: I think in New England and October, you get the
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  Speaker 1: tailgate going, then you get in the stadium and you
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  Speaker 1: start roaring. As Yukon tries to go on five and three,
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  Speaker 1: three game win streak snap Jim, back to back games
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  Speaker 1: really came down to the final minute. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can't ask for more exciting football. Unfortunately, one went your
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  Speaker 1: way and one didn't go your way on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the question to start with is overcoming any
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  Speaker 1: emotional letdown by the team when you give everything you
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  Speaker 1: have and then it turns out not falling your direction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's part of our makeup as a
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  Speaker 2: football team. I think that these guys are different. They
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  Speaker 2: they learn from it. They probably are a little bit
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  Speaker 2: motivated by it, but they essentially let it go and
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  Speaker 2: move on to the next one. And there's a real
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  Speaker 2: determination to win every week, regardless of what happened the
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  Speaker 2: week before, or where we're playing or who we're playing,
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  Speaker 2: or what the weather's going to be like or the
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  Speaker 2: surface were on. And I admire that about these players,
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  Speaker 2: is that you know, you and I have talked about
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  Speaker 2: this a lot. I think it's a really mature group.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a tough, hard nosed group. And from
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  Speaker 2: the indications that I had in practice today, there's no
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  Speaker 2: there's no negative carryover from the loss, the tough loss
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. We all realize that we got to do
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  Speaker 2: a better job in our roles and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't come down to you know, somebody else's decision. We
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  Speaker 2: have to make the decisions that win games for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the thing after the game, but from
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  Speaker 1: the players that I heard quite often was I could
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  Speaker 1: have done this. I could have done that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really taking responsibility. I mean that is impressive to me.
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  Speaker 1: No lamenting, Well, we got screwed, something went wrong. It
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  Speaker 1: should have gone our way, but it didn't. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear that. I mean that is pretty impressive. And when
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  Speaker 1: you think about it, you give everything you have and
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  Speaker 1: it ends up going the other way, and you know
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  Speaker 1: it could be a questionable call, whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 1: But your players, to a man, basically said I could
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  Speaker 1: have done something better. I could have been better, we
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  Speaker 1: could have done this. I think that serves this organization
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  Speaker 1: well going forward.
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  Speaker 2: I told him in the locker room after the game,
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  Speaker 2: I said, we all know that that was at best
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  Speaker 2: a questionable call, and I said, let me deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll deal with it. I'll express my displeasure. What I
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  Speaker 2: want the rest of us to focus on immediately, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll focus on it as well, is what can we
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  Speaker 2: do better so that it doesn't come down to a
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  Speaker 2: judgment call by one human being or two human beings.
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  Speaker 2: And our guys embraced that. You know, I asked them
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  Speaker 2: to do that. They did it. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: really important to immediately, you know, get that mindset going,
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  Speaker 2: and like I told them, I'll go be the jerk,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll go bring it up. I'll go express
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  Speaker 2: the frustration we all have. But you guys focus on
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  Speaker 2: what we can do better, and I commend them for
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  Speaker 2: doing that.
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  Speaker 1: It really is interesting in sports. I mean, every game
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  Speaker 1: that's played in any sport, somebody wins, somebody loses, occasional
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  Speaker 1: ties and soccer. But you know what I'm saying, it's
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  Speaker 1: like the thrill of victory they used to say on
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  Speaker 1: ABC with the Olympics and the agony of defeat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's agonizing to end up walking off the field having
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  Speaker 1: lost a game like that, but it is all about
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  Speaker 1: what do you do afterwards? What do you do next?
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I admire about athletes that do this
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  Speaker 1: stuff on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh yeah, I mean that was an agonizing defeat.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I said it in my presser on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the most frustrating defeats I've I
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  Speaker 2: can remember in my career, and you have to find
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  Speaker 2: a way to move past it and learn from it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie to you. It took me
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  Speaker 2: a little bit longer this time than it has and
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  Speaker 2: I think that, to me is an indication of what
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  Speaker 2: I have in terms of expectations for this team and
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  Speaker 2: this program and where we're headed. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: in tough games, you know. I mean, listen, football is
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  Speaker 2: a hard sport. It's hard to win. Wake Forest is
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  Speaker 2: a good football team. Rice is a good football team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are no gimmes there are no easy
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  Speaker 2: ones at this level, and we have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to learn consistently to win at the end, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or to execute better earlier, or as coaches, make adjustments
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  Speaker 2: earlier so that we don't get ourselves in a situation where,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, just a minute ago, one person's making
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  Speaker 2: a decision that has that much impact on a game.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, it's excruciating, it's awful, but you have
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  Speaker 2: to be able to move forward. You have to be
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  Speaker 2: able to and if you can't, then you don't belong
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  Speaker 2: in this business as a player or as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't. You got to go find something that's
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  Speaker 2: less stressful for you. And I think that all of
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  Speaker 2: us that are in this building we would rather have won,
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  Speaker 2: but we also embrace the challenge that faces you when
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  Speaker 2: you lose a tough one like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people really, fans, observers, broadcasters, anybody that
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  Speaker 1: follows sports really looks at away a team bounces back
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  Speaker 1: from adversity. We use that word resilience all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's overused, but it's meaningful, isn't it. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: have to be resilient if you're in this business as
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  Speaker 1: a coach, as a player or whatever you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be resilient play to play, and you
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  Speaker 2: have to be resilient game to gain. You know, somebody
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  Speaker 2: told me that one of our Yukon sites was and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see it was crushing us during the game,
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  Speaker 2: like yo, we're embarrassing and we're not playing good. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you can have your opinion, and that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: You're a fan or what. Maybe you're not. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know who you are, but this is tough, like you know.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same point, the fact that we do
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  Speaker 2: have some fans or some critics or pundits that now
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  Speaker 2: are have we been able to raise their expectations? You
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  Speaker 2: got to look at it. Oh, okay, they expect more
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  Speaker 2: out of us, so let's give them more. So it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a double edged sword. But the resilience that
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  Speaker 2: you have to have to compete down in and down out,
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  Speaker 2: because bad things happen in football games. It's it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a space play, a sport played by humans that
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  Speaker 2: you know, they have scholarships too. That was an acc team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're you know, good football players. And then
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  Speaker 2: the resilience to balance back after a tough loss. And also,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know if you'd call it resilience, maybe
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  Speaker 2: focus the focus to or the the the ability to
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  Speaker 2: get back to focus when you have a really good win,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we stress out all the time with
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  Speaker 2: our players. Just live in the moment, play the next play.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about this game right here. It's not about
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  Speaker 2: the past, it's not about the future. Just staying where
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  Speaker 2: we are, and our guys do a really good job
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna take a quick break here. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the things you've done, I think here with this
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  Speaker 1: team in the last three years, your teams don't give up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they don't let go of the rope. You get behind
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  Speaker 1: twenty to six, things aren't going well, blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: you're at home. All that stuff could make you go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not our day. But no, this team doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's really significant because that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do. That's what you're trying to build an
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  Speaker 1: organization that never quits.
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  Speaker 2: Never competitive athletics, Mike, I mean that true competitors never
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  Speaker 2: give in. They never quit, they never give up. There
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  Speaker 2: are going to be tough days in competitive athletics, we
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  Speaker 2: know that you can never give in, you can never
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  Speaker 2: give up, you can never blink, you can never relent.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we're trying to build here and I
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  Speaker 2: think that you're seeing it happen now. We just got
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  Speaker 2: to get better results.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no question, all right back in a moment with
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  Speaker 1: Jim Mora. This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on
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  Speaker 1: liar Field