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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 29 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. We get together with Dan Hurley
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  as often as possible, sometimes on a weekly basis, sometimes a little longer
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  than that. But coach number one for all those weeks, six weeks in
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  a row, won ten games during that stretch, ten and one. Second
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  longest in Yukon history stretches Number one. The ninety eight ninety nine team that
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  went on to win the championship was the number one for ten weeks, seventeen
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  and one. Do you ever stop to think to yourself, Wow, I'm
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  in this place. They've won these championships. Now I've won one, and
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  you seem to be adding to the legacy. It doesn't seem to be a
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  problem in the sense that, you know, all of the stuff that's stacked
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  up there on the walls and the pictures of the NBA guys, that hasn't
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  really, you know, gotten in the way for you. It seems,
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  yeah, you know, the it's obviously what we it's what we all came
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  here to do. It's it's been a lot of hard work that's gotten us
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  here. Obviously, some you know, some some really hard times, some
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  breakthroughs. I think there are times where you do you know, on acr
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  ride home, you know, or at different points in the staff meeting where
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  you know we will have a level of appreciation for for where we have things
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  right now. And you know, as far as the ranking goes, I
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  mean, you know, you know, we had it for a while and
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  uh, you know, it was fun and we enjoyed it. But I
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  think when you get to this time of year, you know, if somebody
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  else is going to happen number one, uh, you know, they can
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  enjoy it for a little while. We're trying to trying to win championships this
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  time of year, trying to win win tournaments, trying to win the regular
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  season. Yeah, the regular season has been something you've been talking about for
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  a lot of weeks. You're closing in on it. You got three games
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  left, two on the road, Uh in Seaton Hall of course, coming
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  up on Sunday. We'll talk about that. But before we get to all
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  that, why is the regular season that meaningful in the sense that these days
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  everyone talks about, Oh, you got to win your conference championship, you
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  got to win the NCAA championship, let's get to a regional championship. But
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  you've been talking about this Big East regular season for quite a while this year,
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  and I wonder what goes into that, What is the motivation, what's
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  the driving force for you to win this thing in the regular season? Yeah,
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  you know, you want to accomplish as much as you can when uh
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  as a player, as a coach. Uh, you know, in the
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  end, you know, we'll all spend whatever time in the in the sport,
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  and it's you know what what you know, what what can you What
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  have you accomplished? You know what have you won? You know what what
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  have you done? I think we all have a back of our baseball card,
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  so to speak, that is going to speak to you know, just
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  what we accomplished. Obviously, we love the game. We we love hard
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  work. Yeah, but we we also pursue things and uh, you know
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  we we're pursuing, yeah, regular season championship, which hasn't been done here
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  in a while, and it's very hard to do it. It's a real
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  measure of your toughness to be able to do it, to be able to
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  win a championship over the course of twenty games in such a brutal league.
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  Yeah, and Dan, it's it's a kind of league that this year,
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  especially, I mean, nine of the eleven teams are certainly capable of beating
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  anybody. Georgetown De Paul struggling these days. But you talk about I don't
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  care who it is, Butler, Providence, Saint John's just beat Creton the
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  other day. When you try to explain that to people, what do you
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  get back from people when you say this conference is really hard? Sometimes people
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  overlook this conference and I never understand that. Yeah, well, you know,
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  we play, you know, when we play at Fox, and we
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  play obviously on CBS, and but a lot of people, you know that
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  they you know, they'll listen to ESPN or they'll put on you know,
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  the college basketball coverage of ESPN, and and uh, you know it's hard
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  for us to as a league to get their attention because you know, we
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  don't play on that network, uh at this point. And and we're able
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  to obviously have them on campus, which was great, But I think their
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  conference gets overlooked. You know, it's for me, it's it's got to
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  be uh, you know, six or seven bid league this year, you
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  know, and uh, you hope that we that everyone gets enough wins to
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  get rewarded that Yeah, speaking of ESPN, being on campus. That was
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  that was a treat for those who got to come in the building and watch
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  everything that happened. And it is meaningful to have, you know, guys
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  like Seth Greenberg and Jay Billison company on campus. What what do the guys
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  get out of that? The players do they get impressed by those kind of
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  things. Are they just doing their own thing oblivious to it all? No,
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  they're I think it's definitely a lot of juice and a lot of electricity.
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  I think, you know, the day before too, you know,
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  just to have you know, have the students camped out, and to have
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  the trucks, you know, and on campus, it was a big deal.
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  And yeah, I think it certainly helped with the atmosphere and and it's
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  I think, you know, it means you're doing some really good things with
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  with your program. And on that day, Dan, I had to bring
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  this up, but I know you had a ton of chances to chuck it
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  in from mid court. You've done it before many times in your career.
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  However, on that day, yeah, you were unable to come up with
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  the goods. And I'm a little surprised by that, but I also wasn't
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  ready for that and you know it's game day and I game day, I
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  run and I run, you know, I run distance, and I run
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  it at a pretty brisk pace. And then I also, you know,
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  I'll do some some body weight, you know, push up, some squats,
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  some different things. So I was tired a little bit and a little
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  fatigue in my upper body. Plus the basketballs they were not They were like
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  the type that you would autograph. There were like real basketballs, and they
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  were slippery. They say, well, rip, Hamilton made it. Well
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  rip. The reason why rips? As a retired Jersey here and Seaton Hall
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  barely acknowledges me. No, wait a minute, wait a minute. All
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  right, we have to go to a break. We're not gonna leave that.
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  We're going to talk about Hamilton fire and one in from fifty feet when
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  we return. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan Hurley.
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  I'm Mike Crispino here on lair field