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Seg 1 - FB Show 10-21 w HC Jason Candle · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the Yukon football coaches show on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Crispino, along with Jason candle a little bit later on,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to Shamar Porter. We'll talk to Tajay Mullix,
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  Speaker 1: the defensive lineman, uh, Shamar, of course, the wide receiver, uh,
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  Speaker 1: coach coming off a win and a bye week. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to start there. We want to, we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to forget about what happened at temple because that
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  Speaker 1: was a positive result. Uh, The first half was kind
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  Speaker 1: of wild. I didn't know who was playing defense. There
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  Speaker 1: was so much going on in that first half. Good
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  Speaker 1: recovery in the second half, but let's start there. In
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  Speaker 1: the first half, I mean, offense ruled the day, didn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, nobody was playing any defense, to answer your question. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, one of these days we're going
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how to win a coin toss, too,
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  Speaker 2: and not have to take the ball every time. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were able to get a score on
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  Speaker 2: the first possession, and they had to kind of broke
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  Speaker 2: us into a little bit of a rhythm and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just stayed hot through the first quarter there. And I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, think like, or give credit to our defense.
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  Speaker 2: We did a really good job in the second half where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the third quarter, we didn't do much
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  Speaker 2: of anything on offense and they really hung in there
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  Speaker 2: and kept us in there. We punted the ball well
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  Speaker 2: in the third quarter. So we were able to flip
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  Speaker 2: the field. Like we were 46 plus and average, you know,
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  Speaker 2: net punt in that third quarter, the two times we
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  Speaker 2: did punt, you know, so we made them drive the
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  Speaker 2: long field and our defense, you know, got stops and
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  Speaker 2: then we were able to, you know, hit, get back
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  Speaker 2: in stride and back in rhythm in the fourth quarter. So,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, hot start on offense, uh, not what you
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  Speaker 2: want to see out of your defense to start the game, but, uh,
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  Speaker 2: really proud of the response.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Starts have been a real positive for, for your teams,
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  Speaker 1: your team here. And I'm assuming throughout your career, it
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  Speaker 1: just feels like you guys come out of the gate
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  Speaker 1: ready and you got, uh, you know, momentum to start
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  Speaker 1: a game and that's not easy. You know, sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: can't get on track, but first quarters have been UConn, uh,
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  Speaker 1: UConn strength so far this season. What goes into that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll give our coaching staff a lot of, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of credit, give our players a lot of credit,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to, you know, to be able to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get our guys ready to go in the morning at
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  Speaker 2: the hotel and, and get them, you know, ready to
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  Speaker 2: go out and start and start fast. It's a great
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  Speaker 2: asset to have if you can do it, but you can't,
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  Speaker 2: you can't count on it every week.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many variables that you can't control.
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  Speaker 2: And the other teams that you play, they got scholarships too. So,
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be able to plan for those, but
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  Speaker 2: if it doesn't go your way, so what? You've got
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  Speaker 2: to get back and you've got to figure it out
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to coach in-game and make the adjustments
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  Speaker 2: necessary to be successful. Credit to our kids Saturday because
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  Speaker 2: I think that hot start really set the table for
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  Speaker 2: the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: That first half was a seesaw affair. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: something you've been talking about the last few weeks about
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  Speaker 1: bouncing back, being resilient. It's something I think football coaches
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  Speaker 1: all talk about, but the chemistry of that and making
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  Speaker 1: that actually happen game day, what goes into that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how do you develop that? How do you get your
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  Speaker 1: team to be resilient and not, you know, get down
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  Speaker 1: when things don't go well?
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  Speaker 2: I think it starts with, you know, just being able
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  Speaker 2: to have a vision for how you want to create
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  Speaker 2: the culture of your football team, you know, and in
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  Speaker 2: recruiting and player acquisitions, you, you just, you got to
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  Speaker 2: say no to some guys that just don't have that
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  Speaker 2: toughness element and don't have the, you know, the ability
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  Speaker 2: to get off the mat when it doesn't go their way.
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  Speaker 2: Because in this game, it's not going to go your
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  Speaker 2: way more times than it does go your way. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you get 12 guaranteed opportunities a year, roughly
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  Speaker 2: three hours and some change of football, you know, per
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  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon or whatever they let you play. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're under 40 hours in the season of actual gameplay. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the other time that goes into just for
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  Speaker 2: those 40 hours is it's incredible. So, guys got to
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  Speaker 2: be able to be very process driven. They got to
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  Speaker 2: be very, you know, I heard Kirby Smart said it
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  Speaker 2: best yesterday, right? I mean, humility is only a week
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  Speaker 2: away and, you know, that's just, just what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's good. Anybody, everybody can beat anybody. And
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  Speaker 2: the parity is, you know, with this NIL stuff and
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  Speaker 2: the transfer portal, there's more parity than there's ever been. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you gotta, you gotta hone in on the
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  Speaker 2: things and have a good process back in January and
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  Speaker 2: then hope that the, you know, what you did for
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  Speaker 2: eight months that way, you know, produces really good results
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  Speaker 2: on the game days that you have in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We're going to talk to Shamar Porter and Tajay
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  Speaker 1: Mullix a little bit later. Both guys transferred. Shamar Porter
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  Speaker 1: came before you were here, but Tajay Mullix was telling
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  Speaker 1: us about his conversations with you, his meeting with you.
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  Speaker 1: how quickly can you analyze a person, a player, when
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  Speaker 1: they come to you? And they're thinking, well, I might
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  Speaker 1: come to UConn. I don't know. That's a tough spot
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  Speaker 1: for you, I think. And I wonder what you look at.
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  Speaker 1: How do you converse? What are you trying to find
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  Speaker 1: in a player who you don't really know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not changing. So, you know, me, you know, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is what the program wants and this is what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to do. And um who we want to
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  Speaker 2: be trying to get kids to believe in things that
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  Speaker 2: they don't believe in that's just a that's uphill that's
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  Speaker 2: an uphill battle that's just it's just hard so um
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  Speaker 2: you try to really do a good job in the
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  Speaker 2: in the evaluation phase of trying to find like-minded people
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  Speaker 2: i mean you really got to love football and i
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to you don't have to love the
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  Speaker 2: things that go along with football because i think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of young people love the things that go along
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  Speaker 2: with football um you know, I watched my seven-year-old son
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  Speaker 2: play flag football, and every kid's got a pair of gloves,
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  Speaker 2: two arm sleeves, a binky mouthpiece, and pink cleats, and
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  Speaker 2: high socks, and they look great. I mean, it looks like,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like, man, oh man, this guy just maxed
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  Speaker 2: out mom's credit card at Dick's, right? So, but that
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  Speaker 2: stuff's all out the window when you get to this
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  Speaker 2: level of football, because it's four to six seconds of
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  Speaker 2: somebody else, another grown man hitting you right in the
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  Speaker 2: mouth and putting his hands on you. So, You know,
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  Speaker 2: nobody really cares what you look like. It's about, you know, really,
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  Speaker 2: did you really buy into the process of preparing really well?
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  Speaker 2: And are you ready for those tough moments? And I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be part of an organization. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to coach a team that lacks toughness and lacks
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  Speaker 2: resiliency and lacks the heart to fight when things don't
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  Speaker 2: go their way. So I really just try to really
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  Speaker 2: hard to make sure we don't bring people into our
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  Speaker 2: program that, you know, that fold when things get tough.
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  Speaker 1: You got to, you have to be that way. No
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  Speaker 1: question about it. All right, Jason Candle with us. Quick timeout.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back in just a moment. The UConn Football
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show on Learfield continues.