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Seg 3 - FB Show Oct 17 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  The football Huskies will be hosting the Bulls of USF Homecoming Day Saturday. This
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  is coming October twenty first three thirty game tickets available for the game Senior Day
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  against Sacred Heart also available at Yukon tickets dot com. Yukon Huskies Football Football
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  Tailgating and fun Back with Jim Moore. A quick question on schedule. Coach
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  Duke now signed on for I think four times in the next six seven years.
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  So you got talking about next year, a couple of acc trips to
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  Duke and Wake Forest. You got to go to Maryland, Big Zen,
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  you got to go to UAB. You get an army at home too.
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  So as you look at these schedules, obviously not in a conference right this
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  moment, but how important is it to have name opponents on your schedule that
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  you got to face and beat. It used to be in my opinion more
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  you mean to like to recruiting, Yeah, recruiting or your whole effort and
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  what you're trying to do. I'll tell you what's more important right now is
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  money. It's just a fact of the life that we're in, that the
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  time we're in. That if you the kids that that you're recruiting now is
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  they don't necessarily care as much about who you're playing, they don't necessarily care
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  as much about facilities. They do care about conference and that's a real deterrent
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  to us right now. Not being in a conference is absolutely killing us.
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  But more than anything, it's not having nil money. And so if we're
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  going to go play those teams and expect to compete with them, then we
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  have to be able to track athletes that are going to be able to compete
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  with them, and in order to do that, we're gonna need nil money.
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  And if we don't have nil money, then it's going to be there's
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  gonna be some really really tough tough days. You know the way it's working
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  around the country, And I don't know that in particulars. You're obviously more
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  privy to all that stuff, but it just sounds like guys are handing out
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  dollars to get guys to come to the school, almost like a professional contract.
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  I mean, is that really happening as much as we all conjecture it
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  is, yes, And it's not even like a professional it's if it was
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  a professional contract, it would probably be better because it be more regulated.
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  It's I don't know if I want to say it's unfortunate, it's just a
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  matter of fact that if you want to compete, if you want to if
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  you want to track players that can go beat the teams that you just mentioned
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  on our schedule, then you have to pay them, and you have to
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  pay them an I own money, and you have to increase their cost of
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  attendance, and you have to give them better housing, and you have to
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  give them opportunity to earn money. And unfortunately, right now, we don't
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  do much of that, and I'm fearful for this program if that doesn't happen,
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  because those teams that were you know, tasked with trying to beat have
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  those things and they can go attract players with money. We have great facilities,
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  you know, we have a lot of people around here that care,
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  but without the money to go get players. I hate I hate them saying
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  that because it's just you know, it's a new concept, but it's a
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  true concept as well. And I hope people realize that that if you want
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  to win, you have to pay football players to come to your university,
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  and that is the bottom line. And it's like that in basketball, you
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  know, I mean, you know that you cover our basketball team. You
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  know that recruiting is not just about opportunity to play or playing for particular coach
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  or playing against a particular opponent. These kids today, they want money.
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  You know, they feel they deserve the money, and quite frankly, with
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  the money that's being generated, they do deserve some of it in my opinion.
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  So yeah, I'm I mean, I look at those those schedules in
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  the future and I realize that if we don't get some money pouring into this
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  program, that some dark days are ahead. The you know example of that,
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  and this goes back to the realignment thing that's going on around the country.
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  SMU doesn't take any rights fee to go to the ACC and then turns
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  around and raises one hundred million from like four people to support the program moving
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  up to a different conference level. So I mean, we're talking about certain
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  parts of the country where huge amounts of capital are pouring in. So programs
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  like SMU, which is not as big time as it used to be at
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  one point, but obviously there's financial support in the state of Texas. It's
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  it's fact, like I said, if you want to win, you got
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  to have financial support. Emotional support's great passion. Fans are great. But
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  you can ask any coach in a revenue sport nowadays what they need most,
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  and it's money. And I don't want to be DeBie Downer here, but
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  there are realities that people that want to see this program be successful have to
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  face. And I mean I wanted to be successful as much or more than
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  anybody, because it's my livelihood. It's not just something, you know,
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  it's not a hobby, it's not an interest. But I also know without
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  a doubt that if we don't get financial support that you know, there's at
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  the end of this year, there's only three independents left in the whole country,
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  and that's Yukon UMass and Notre Dame, right, and Notre Dame's not
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  I mean that they're different, right, But Armies going to a conference.
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  So yeah, it's hey, man, it's there's some certain you know,
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  I think, I guess we got this, you know, I guess we
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  got to decide what we want to be, you know, and then people
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  have to make it happen. We're going to talk to us up a little
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  bit here, but first I want to ask you about Chase Lund. Here's
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  a guy junior offensive lineman played a ton of games last year, same thing
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  this year. I've noticed him and your offensive line. Going back to that
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  for a minute, those guys kind of stand in the middle of your team
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  a lot. I've noticed that, and I say to myself, is that
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  a typical thing? Because you've done this for one hundred years? So through
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  offensive linemen get in front of people lot like your guys do. I think
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  it's pretty cool. It's a unique group. I found in my dealings is
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  that all offensive line groups are really tight knit and kind of unique in their
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  own way. They're usually very intelligent, you know, they have to function
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  as a group in order if you have success, and so they're very tight
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  knit these guys. However, here there's a level of maturity and discipline and
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  toughness and all the good things that you're looking for. That's, in my
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  experience, pretty unique and it's awesome, you know, and Chase exemplifies that.
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  They all do it. They all exemplify it. But they just care,
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  you know, and our team respects them. You know, they're not
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  they call themselves mushrooms, you know, just over in the corner. You
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  know, don't renotice them. But on our team, on our team.
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  You know, they're arguably the most respected group, and not just as players
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  but as men. And a lot of that, you know, has to
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  do with Gordy in the way that he's molded that molded them, but most
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  of it has to do with their character and the type of young men that
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  they were raised to be and the commitment they've made. And it's there.
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  I'm gonna tell you what it's. It's you know, you use the word
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  inspiring. It is inspiring to be around them. It's fun. It makes
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  you, you know, with all those things that he's talked about with the
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  nil and the dark days and stuff. You do this stuff because you get
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  to be around guys like Chasing Lunt and Christian and I can go down the
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  line with that offensive line and I can name every single one of them,
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  whether they're playing or not and say, yeah, I like being around that
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  guy. That guy makes me want to come to work every day. That
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  guy inspires me to do a great job. That kind of inspires me to
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  look for ways to win and and look under every rock and around every corner.
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  And that's what's awesome about our offensive line. It really our whole team.
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  But they they as you said, they exemplify it. Yeah, I'm
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  with you. I love that group, no question. All right back in
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  the moment, we're going to talk about USP. The Bulls are in town
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  on Saturday. This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on lear Field.