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Seg 2 - MBB Show Dec 19 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. We're
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  Speaker 1: joined by Dan Hurley. Of course, a couple of promo
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  Speaker 1: nights coming up in the new year. I want to
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  Speaker 1: tell you about January fourth, Sunday, two o'clock game at Gamble.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Catt will be in. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: blue out. We usually get white outs, coach, but this
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  Speaker 1: one's going to be a blue out. So when you
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  Speaker 1: look up in the stands, you're gonna see some dark
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  Speaker 1: color up there. That's gonna be something a little bit different,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, and that's always nice and it's
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  Speaker 2: not you know, it's like when you go to certain
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  Speaker 2: places and you know, you just see the school colors,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think it's it enhances the atmosphere and
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  Speaker 2: the ambiance, and that's a you know, cool thing about
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  Speaker 2: going to you know, when you go to the game
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  Speaker 2: of Kansas, it's like you just see all that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Kansas blue or the Kansas white or you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like and it's it's just it makes the home
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  Speaker 2: game experience, you know, just the ambiance, the feel when
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  Speaker 2: you when you listen to the them and you look
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  Speaker 2: up in the stands and it's like, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: see people you know in the Yukon stuff or in
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  Speaker 2: blue or white or whatever we're doing marketing wise, it's just,
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, that's what big time atmosphere is, big time arenas.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it matters. We haven't really talked about that
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  Speaker 1: Kansas game, but one note on that. They're fans are fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously Yukon fans are crazy good, but they're they're unison
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  Speaker 1: cheering that they do in a game. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen anything like that, and I got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to see it now twice in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: That's special, you know what I mean, that's to me
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  Speaker 1: is what college sports is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when they were champing f Dan Hurley, that was
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  Speaker 2: special for you, Mike, like.
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  Speaker 1: That, No, that was not to you. How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Yea.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing what they do in the stands there. They
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  Speaker 1: seem like they have ten thousand students. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they do, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Overwhelming almost, Yeah, I mean they've got tradition and obviously
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  Speaker 2: incredible history and uh you know, legends of the game
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  Speaker 2: going back. You know, damn near a hundred years right,
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  Speaker 2: so to the invention of the sport. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's it's a special place to take in a game.
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  Speaker 2: And and uh, you know, for me, I hope I'm
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  Speaker 2: able to get, uh, you know, to this bucket list
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  Speaker 2: of places, you know, before I'm done coaching, to certain
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  Speaker 2: places that you want to be able to go and
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  Speaker 2: coach a game that hopefully will get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: go and coach. Love to be able to go coach
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  Speaker 2: at Kentucky. Love to you know, go coach in Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: you know, love to go coach a game at Cameron Indoor.
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  Speaker 2: Love to go coach a game at Paulie Pavilion or Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's places that you just want to coach
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  Speaker 2: before you know, before you're done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's five great places. I was wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get to Paulie Pavilion. I was lucky
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  Speaker 1: enough to do a game way back when when I
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  Speaker 1: was with Saint John's and and John Wooden was at
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  Speaker 1: the game and I interviewed John Wooden at halftime. It
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  Speaker 1: was it was just amazing, great place they got to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they got a great coach with Mick Cronin.
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  Speaker 1: They got it going out there. Yeah, I mean, is
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  Speaker 1: that possible that you kind of could play some of
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  Speaker 1: these teams, whether it's there or at our place in
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  Speaker 1: the next few seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you hope, So, you know, you hope, So you hope.
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  Speaker 2: I put a lot of confidence in my general manager,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Moore, so to make these things happen. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just that it's this has been the
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  Speaker 2: most I think the most interested people have been in
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  Speaker 2: college basketball this time of year, when you're battling the
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  Speaker 2: NFL and you're battling college football. And the reason, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've had more interest is because we've had
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  Speaker 2: a lot more better games. Ranked teams I think at
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  Speaker 2: all time high in terms of games. So yeah, more
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  Speaker 2: big games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And everyone's doing it too. Arizona, you have, Florida's
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  Speaker 1: playing everybody they can get get their hands on. Illinois
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  Speaker 1: you played them all too. And by you, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's it seems like every night in college hoop. Now
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  Speaker 1: you got there's a couple of must see games out there.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and it's you know, I think it's good,
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  Speaker 2: it's great, it's great sports. It's you know, because the
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  Speaker 2: games you know, because every game is so important every
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  Speaker 2: every game feels like a playoff game. Every game feels
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  Speaker 2: like game seven because you're you know, you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: position yourself either for regular season championship or try to
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  Speaker 2: get in the NSABA tournament or seeding to the NSLABA tournament.
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  Speaker 2: And every game matters in college. So people love their
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  Speaker 2: sports to be where the participants, you know, where the
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  Speaker 2: outcome of the game is urgent, it's life or death.
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  Speaker 2: It's people giving their most and best, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: it's the last game they'll ever play. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, people don't like to watch sports when the
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  Speaker 2: people playing the sport don't look like they care relative
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  Speaker 2: to their effort whether they win or lose the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the beauty. That's the beauty of sports, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure. One other problem I gotta tell you about, Coach.
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  Speaker 1: You probably know about it. Jersey Night coming up January
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  Speaker 1: tenth at People's Bank to Paul. It's an afternoon game.
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  Speaker 1: You can rep your favorite Husky by wearing a Yukon
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  Speaker 1: basketball jersey or an NBA alumni jersey to the game.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna see some stuff in the stands there
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about all the guys that are in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, you know, Camp Spencer, Stefan Castle, Donovan Klingen
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the list goes on, and all the
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  Speaker 1: other guys who played before Ray Allen and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Kemba Walker. I mean, it's gonna be kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool to see some of those old jerseys broken
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  Speaker 1: out in that afternoon game against A Paul.
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  Speaker 2: People gonna have some hard choices to make. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be some tough choices. There's you know, do
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  Speaker 2: I go with the uh, you know, we got newer fans,
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  Speaker 2: older fans, you know, do I honor players that you know,
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  Speaker 2: we championship players here or the players that you know
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  Speaker 2: went on to the NBA and and and did amazing
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  Speaker 2: things there. It's you know, it'd be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: where where people's priorities are tough choices.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the fact you're wearing the old school
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut jerseys. You're doing that almost every game.
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Is that your call?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, obviously I'm superstitious. So if something's working,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and you win, you know when you win,
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  Speaker 2: and the you know, if it's the if it's the
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  Speaker 2: home whites, with the with the with the Connecticut, the
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  Speaker 2: old school Connecticut Jersey. Yeah, we're gonna ride the uh
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  Speaker 2: the hot hand. Uh that's we That's that's obviously my
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  Speaker 2: m O.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a way to go. It makes sense, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley, well us back in a moment, quick time out.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Ukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on lear
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