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UCFB Coach's Show Aug 24 - Seg 2 · Coaches Corner

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  With Jim Mora will be with him every week for the Coaches Show, an
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  hour show. We got a live audience here in with us and coach.
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  Just to finish up our thoughts on the d line. You had a lot
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  of injuries last year and the offensive receiver group's defensive line people. You lost
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  a couple offensive linemen. Tell us about the defensive line right now. You've
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  got you mentioned the eleven players. I'm looking at this little chart of mine.
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  I don't have eleven here. Let me see your chart. It doesn't
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  include the guys I tell you you're missing. Okay, you got price Yates,
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  really good player. I mean last year was his first year playing,
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  is very versatile, can play all over the place. You got Daumont and
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  Jilani inside. You know on here, you don't have Sequoia McDuffie or r
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  J. Wilkins, who's a transfer from Illinois. So there's four really good
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  defensive tackles right there, along with a guy named Timothy Passmore who's a freshman
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  last year. That's really come on. You got Eric Watts and you got
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  Carter Hooper out there, and then you know we've got some guys that can
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  rush the passer. I don't know if you guys remember Langston Hardy, who
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  came in here pretty highly acclaimed. His dad played in the NFL for a
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  long time, and he's really coming. He's had two knee surgeries in less
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  than two years, and he stayed healthy through camp and done a really good
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  job. Donovan Mitchell, who has just done not Donovan No, give it
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  to Donovan Branch. God, dang, I'll screw that one up. He
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  understands, he's he's he's studying right now. He's not listening. So number
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  fifty eight really good pass rushing. And then Nate Vorhees, who's another,
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  you know, young guy that's a really good player. So you know,
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  we've got some guys that can do some things up front, and it's nice
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  to have some depth. Eric Watts is you know, probably of that group,
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  the guy that you know has had the most impact and should have the
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  most impact. He's a very skilled guy. He's a six six, two
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  hundred and seventy five pound kid that can run really fast. He'll play in
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  the NFL. So you know, we've got to we've got to find a
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  way to maximize those guys, keep him healthy, keep him fresh. We
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  can get into the you know situation the end of the game where team's thrown,
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  then we can have some guys who can rush the pastor a little bit.
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  You have a new special assistant. Let's let's find out about how John
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  Pagano is his name. He's got a really deep NFL experience on his resume.
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  Will he be helping you on the defensive side? What's the story there?
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  So John Johnny as I call him, Johnny, and I go back
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  to Boulder, Colorado, when we were both kids. I've known him since
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  I was six years old and his dad was a head coach at Fairview High
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  School and my dad was coaching at the University of Colorado, and we used
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  to run around together. You've probably heard the name Pegana. His older brother,
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  Chuck, was the head coach of the Colts, tremendous coach, was
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  a demonsive coordinator in the NFL for a long time. So Johnny and I
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  have known each other our entire lives. When when I was with the New
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  Orleans Saints back in the nineties with my dad, Johnny and I were on
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  the staff together. And then my dad, when he went to Indianapolis,
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  hired Johnny with him, and then Johnny stayed in the league for a long
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  time. Was a demons of coordinator of the San Diego Chargers, has a
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  lot of success. Was the demons of coordinator assistant head coach of the of
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  the Oakland Raiders, had a lot of success. He's been with tremendous coaches
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  his entire career, Vic Fangio being one that's had a tremendous influence on him.
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  You know who's one of the top defensive minds in the NFL right now.
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  So Johnny was out of football this year living in Colorado. Like as
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  said, he's, you know, one of my close friends. And I
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  gave him a call in the spring. I said, you know what,
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  First of all, I tried to hire him at UCLA when I was the
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  head coach. He's the first guy I called and said, you need to
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  come to college football. It's awesome, you know. And I'm say in
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  the league for a while. And then when I got to Yukin, I
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  said, you need to come to Yukon. It's awesome. College football is
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  the greatest. I'm gonna stay in the league for a while. Had him
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  come out this spring and spend about five weeks with us, so he was
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  around our players and he fell in love with our players. Our players fell
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  in love with him. He's a great football Mine was able to convince him
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  to come back this season as a special assistant, and he's he works with
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  all the positions, you know. I mean, he'll going to meet with
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  the offensive line and give them the perspective that a defensive has what they're doing.
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  He'll meet with the running backs, He'll meet with the linebackers, you'll
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  meet with the defensive line, you know, and he's not meeting to talk
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  about what we're doing, but just you know, kind of big picture stuff.
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  And he's a great asset to me right now. You know, there's
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  a there's a lot on my plate, you know, being the head coach
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  and really the acting defensive coordinator, and so having a guy that I'm very
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  familiar with it has so much experience. Being able to just sit down and
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  watch film the two of us that have such a strong background together has been
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  really helpful. So we're it's a great addition. He's a big time addition
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  to our staff. Unfortunately, you know, his son is a college football
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  player, so he's gonna you know, and I'm not going to take him
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  away from his son. So he'll be in and out a little bit.
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  He won't be at every game, you know, but big time addition,
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  let's talk about those two hats you have to wear. Obviously, defensive coordinator,
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  there's game planning a lot of that stuff. Then on game day,
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  obviously when your team's on defense, you're totally in there. And then what
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  happen when the ball goes to the offense. Do you switch hats and become
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  the coach? The head coach? How does that work? Yeah? I
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  do? I have to You know, first of all, I'm blessed with
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  an amazing staff. I mean, you know, from from Nick Charlton as
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  our offensive coordinator and Doug Shear as our special news coordinator. I don't have
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  to worry about those two sides of the football, you know. And on
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  defense, working with Kenny McClinton and Sreaky Debaate, our linebacker coach, and
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  Dalton Hilliard, our defensive back coach. You know, we all worked very
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  well together. So it's easy for me to click over on my headphones,
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  go to offense, plug in with Nick because he needs me there to help
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  him situationally. You know, what are we going to do when we get
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  to fourth down? What you know, what am I thinking about? You
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  know, where we are in the game and how our philosophy needs to adjust
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  or change depending upon what's happening big picture stuff. So you know, Fortunately,
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  I've been doing this for a while, so it's not as hard as
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  maybe it could be if I was new to this. But it's a challenge.
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  But I love that part of it. You know. I don't want
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  to be standing there doing nothing during the game. I mean, I feel
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  like I have a lot to add and I want to. I want to
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  add it. But first and foremost, I can only do that because I'm
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  blessed with a great staff. Well, it all begins a week from tonight,
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  the twenty twenty three season opener. Football Huskies will be hosting the Wolfpack
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  of NC State of the ACC and we're going to talk about that in a
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  second. Local coverage begins at four thirty. We've got Yukon game Day on
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  ninety seven ninety ESPN network coverage begins. It's six the Heart Auto Group countdown
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  to kick off, and it's game on shortly after seven thirty. Here along
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  the Yukon Sports networking online via the iHeart APP and coach night game to start,
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  I gotta go to break. Okay, let's take it wasn't here.
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  What would I do? All right, we'll be back with Jim Mora.
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  This is the Yukon football coaches show on their field.