Speaker 1: Let's do it. Welcome live the Dunkin Music Lounge. Great
Speaker 1: crowd on hand this Tuesday night. As the season gets underway.
Speaker 1: I'm like Chrispino, this is Jim Moore to my right.
Speaker 1: We will be talking on.
Speaker 2: Tuesdays about what happened over the weekend and what's ahead
Speaker 2: for the Huskies in football. So we hope you'll be
Speaker 2: joining us on the ninety seven nine of the Yukon
Speaker 2: Sports Network. But nothing better than a live audience. You
Speaker 2: get to meet some of the folks that come to
Speaker 2: our games. We get to meet the coach and hear
Speaker 2: what he has to say. Not for public consumption, for
Speaker 2: the press, like sometimes you have to act a certain
Speaker 2: way in front of the press, But when you're here,
Speaker 2: I noticed that you're able to say things, and you
Speaker 2: say things that we don't hear as a member of
Speaker 2: the press staff. Is that fair to say? Yes, and
Speaker 2: that is a good thing.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It can be. It can also be
Speaker 3: not so good for me if I say the wrong thing.
Speaker 2: No, you don't say the wrong thing. Listen, well once
Speaker 2: in a while, Well that's all right. Nine and four
Speaker 2: last year, let's go back to that first before forward
Speaker 2: Fenway Bowl one of the great moments, I mean in
Speaker 2: Yukon football history in my mind. Weird, crazy weather day
Speaker 2: and playing in a baseball stadium against North Carolina, an
Speaker 2: acc team. We haven't beaten enough of them yet. We'll do.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that. But that day I felt and
Speaker 2: the way the Yukon fans showed up there and got
Speaker 2: behind this program was tremendous. I think that's a step
Speaker 2: in the right direction.
Speaker 3: It certainly was amazing, and I believe it's a step
Speaker 3: in the right direction. We flud you can carry on
Speaker 3: them with that energy and that success, But it was
Speaker 3: a special day, you know. And been able to play
Speaker 3: in a lot of big games in my career, participate
Speaker 3: in a lot of big games, and that was one
Speaker 3: that I'll never forget. Just being in Finway, historic Finway.
Speaker 3: I've always been you can boom me if you want,
Speaker 3: but I've always been a Red Sox fan. Hey, all right,
Speaker 3: there we go. You know, the Green monsters behind us.
Speaker 3: We're playing Carolina Belich's new team, and we got after
Speaker 3: him pretty good. But I think the thing that'll stick
Speaker 3: with me most was just the energy in the stands,
Speaker 3: and it was a Yukon crowd. I mean it was
Speaker 3: overwhelmingly a Yukon crowd and they were excited to watch
Speaker 3: their team play. And I felt that at moments since
Speaker 3: I've been here, but we hadn't you know, we have
Speaker 3: to earn that. I believe I said that for years,
Speaker 3: and I felt like at that moment it all kind
Speaker 3: of came together with our team and our fans, and
Speaker 3: it was It was unique, and it was fun and
Speaker 3: it was exciting, and we were pulling off the energy
Speaker 3: of the people that were in the stadium and we
Speaker 3: were able to get it beat a good team, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it was It was really a fun, fun day went off.
Speaker 2: Remember forever head coach to Morris with us on Mike
Speaker 2: Chrispino to play by play voice Lawski's. Another element of
Speaker 2: that day that I think you appreciate, and I think
Speaker 2: the University of Connecticut football people appreciate, is there were
Speaker 2: several guys on the field that day that had been
Speaker 2: in the dumps prior right and saw this thing building
Speaker 2: and saw you come to a culmination with that squad
Speaker 2: last you know, December, and win a game. And you
Speaker 2: could see it. The Delauney staff Johnnie Staffers and guys
Speaker 2: like that had been around and struggled and tried to
Speaker 2: fight their way up the mountain. You got them there,
Speaker 2: and boy, they loved it getting up there, didn't they.
Speaker 3: Well, they got themselves there. You know. They just you
Speaker 3: talk about Delawney or Jilanni, but you know, you think
Speaker 3: about Dumont and Chase and I mean the list goes
Speaker 3: on and on. These guys that have just persevered and
Speaker 3: they were one and eleven a few years ago and
Speaker 3: they hung in there and they kept believing and they
Speaker 3: kept working and they never lost the faith and the vision.
Speaker 3: And so to see some reward for that was pretty
Speaker 3: darn special. You know, those are things as a coach
Speaker 3: that you really value is when the players that you're
Speaker 3: able to coach, you watch them, you know, fulfill their dreams,
Speaker 3: you know, and their achievements, and it's it's pretty unique
Speaker 3: and it was a great day for that.
Speaker 2: Football, to me, is the sports that's the toughest because
Speaker 2: there's so much physical pain you got to go through
Speaker 2: to be successful, and it's a twelve month commitment. And
Speaker 2: to see some of those guys who's you know, suffered
Speaker 2: really trying to win football games come to that point
Speaker 2: in Fenway and play like that and then celebrate it
Speaker 2: with the Yukon's football fans. I mean, it doesn't get
Speaker 2: much better.
Speaker 3: No, you know, football is different than basketball, baseball, hockey,
Speaker 3: some of those other sports. We get twelve shots, you know,
Speaker 3: we don't get in the thirties. So every game takes
Speaker 3: on so much importance. And you know, those guys have
Speaker 3: been through a lot, you know, and just to see them,
Speaker 3: you know, go out the way they did, and like
Speaker 3: you said, just that connection with the fans in their
Speaker 3: last game, and I feel like they really felt that
Speaker 3: they had accomplished something. And they got their rings last
Speaker 3: actually this week or last week, and I wish I
Speaker 3: had been able to see some of their faces when
Speaker 3: that ring showed up in the in the mail form,
Speaker 3: because it was it was a special day. I have
Speaker 3: so much respect for those young men and just the
Speaker 3: way that they they hung in there and they persevered,
Speaker 3: you know, they had resilience.
Speaker 2: I was on the sideline today at practice with Ronte Jones,
Speaker 2: who was part of that team. Obviously, he asked me
Speaker 2: if I got my ring, I'd like, ring, what ring?
Speaker 3: It's in my desk. It's in my desk. I'll go
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 2: That is uh, that's a special moment. I got to say,
Speaker 2: you win a bowl game, coming from where the Yukon
Speaker 2: was just four years ago, it's an amazing, amazing climb.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about what happens from here. That's
Speaker 2: next when we continue on The Yukon Football Coaches Show
Speaker 2: with Jim Moore.