November 19, 2024 • 16 mins
Coach Mora meets the Media ahead of the Huskies matchup with the Orange Saturday in Syracuse
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How's there one doing week?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Huge challenge for US alway, No, You're good. Huge challenge
for us. Obviously, a very good team seven to three
Frans got him rolling. Did a great job I thought
in recruiting and in the portal and retaining his players.
And they play with a lot of speed, physicality, They're big.
They got a quarterback from Ohio State that's a heck
(00:28):
of a player. They throw it around a lot. I
just respect the way they play the game, and I
think it's gonna be a heck of a challenge for
us to go up there and in that environment. They'll
be you know, we haven't worked in front of a
crowd with noise on offense in quite a while, so
we have to be able to handle that environment. But
(00:49):
I think our guys are looking forward to the challenge.
They had the bye week, they got a chance to
recover a little bit, but they jumped right back into
preparations when we started on SYRAC and they all had
a chance to watch the cow game on Saturday, which
was very impressive win. It's tough to go all the
way across the country and perform the way they did,
(01:11):
but they did a heck of a job so it
looked like they really put it together. They ran the
ball well, they stopped their ball, stopped the run well,
they threw it well, defended the pass well. Uh, a
lot of a lot of players on the ball and
scored a lot of points. So you know, we just
got to go play to the best of our ability,
and I hope we can create a couple of breaks
and and uh, you know, see what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, fourteen coms.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
What's that? I don't know. I mean, confidence is based
in the work that we do every day, you know,
so that game's twelve days ago, like that's that's that's
way out of our minds. So uh, but they're confident
because they practiced well today. You know. That's how we
try to look at it. And uh, you know, you
(02:00):
gain confidence throughout a week with your work and through
out a game with your play. So that's that's where
we're at. Oh, he can make every throw. He knows
how to throw guys open, which is a term that
you hear often when guys are covered up. He puts
it where they can't get to it. When he throws
(02:22):
his fade ball, he's outstanding. He throws a great back
shoulder fade underthrown fade. He You know, sometimes with college
quarterbacks the missing ingredient that deters them from being good
professionals is anticipating where to throw the ball and when
to throw it. In the NFL, guys are never open,
and if you wait for them to even look like
(02:43):
they're open, by the time the ball gets there, they're covered.
But he has the ability to anticipate and throw where
they should be and be right most of the time.
He can extend plays with his legs and I'm not
talking about necessarily being a runner, but extend plays in
the pocket and let guys get open down the field.
And uh, I think he's got a really high football IQ.
(03:04):
His completion percentage is really good. He's just a very
solid player. His poise is something that stands out to me.
You know, the maturity of the way he plays the game,
that emotional maturity. Oh, he stands out. Yeah. Yeah. I
(03:28):
mean he's so versatile, he does everything well. He's uh,
he's kind of the the core of the defense in
terms of those qualities that I was just talking about.
He's incredibly smart, he has great anticipation, he has tremendous length.
They can play him anywhere. He can cover backs, he
can go out and cover wideouts, He runs to the ball, well,
(03:50):
he's physical. I mean I have watched him now for
three years and had great respect for him. I think
he's gonna be a great NFL player someday as well,
just because of the traits that he has, you know,
and you can use him anywhere in today's game, the
way the game's played in space. He has all the
(04:10):
attributes you need to be a great player, you guys.
I guess I don't know about the I didn't know
we added a game with him. I know we play
him Saturday. I mean, if you wanna be competitive in
(04:33):
recruiting in the Northeast, and you gotta be competitive on
the field in the Northeast, So that's our objective. But
I didn't I didn't know that we have added anything. Yeah,
situations good, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Uh. You know,
Nick went out with an injury. He's working back through
(04:54):
that and uh hopefully he's you know, a hundred percent
by Saturday. It was like a hip. But he's also
got a toe and that's bothered him a little bit.
I think the week off, the week off, but the
week without a game helped all our guys. Oh, it
(05:17):
really wasn't. In terms of structure. We still got our
work done. We still took some time at the end
of the week to get them, you know, some rest.
They still lifted and things like that. But our practices
were basically the same. I think we practiced one last day.
Maybe you know, it's it's week eleven, week twelve for us,
(05:37):
I guess, or thirteen, whatever it is. You know, we're
deep into the season, and so I think you have
to make considerations as you prepare a practice week during
the bye as to where you are physically, you know,
and what's most important either you're getting work on the
field or getting you know, some rest and maybe some
extra lifting and some extra film and things like that.
(06:00):
We just try to be really methodical in how we
we structure a week during the by.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It seems like a deep evaluation of the first weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you met like the what
we did on the field. Oh for us as coaches, Oh,
same thing. Yeah, I mean you're always Here's what it
does is, you know, every week you're self evaluating what
can we do better? What are we doing well that
we need to continue to emphasize, but you're also preparing
for a game, you know, so you're you know, you're
(06:31):
kind of under the gun. But when you have a
bye week as a coach, it gives you a chance
to you know, you're, yeah, you're looking ahead at Syracuse
and you're starting your preparations for them, but also you
have some time where you can go in and self
scout yourself. You know, who's playing, well, how do we
accentuate what they do well? Are we putting them in
the right positions to make plays? You know, we ask
(06:51):
them to do things that they're capable of doing. What
are areas we need to improve on, so you have
more time to do that. So from that standpoint, it
was exactly the same. I thought you're talking about the
on the field work. The on the field work was similar.
I think we had one less day of practice, But
in terms of us as coaches, it's the same thing.
You're you just have more time to kind of look
at yourself as you go forward, and you never want
(07:13):
to stop doing that, and we never do stop doing that.
You do it on a week to week basis, but
with a buy you know, you got it's a little
bit more settled in terms of the ability to focus
on just that and not the opponent. You're always tweaking.
You're always tweaking. You know, you have your concepts that
(07:35):
you've that you've taught and that the players have learned
and you know are working every day to master, but
you're always tweaking formations, movements, personnel groups. You know. Game
planning is is is you know, watching your opponents, seeing
what they do well, trying to find ways that you
can exploit things that they do, uh, finding tendencies, and
(07:56):
then you set up your your your plan, the concept
you're going to use based upon that as well as
you know what what your guys feel comfortable doing. But
it's a constant tweak, constantly tweaking. You know, really, if
that's the only way that you're going to make progress,
you can't become too predictable. Sorry, Joe, I think we
(08:20):
can go We can't, und I don't. I just don't.
I don't know. I mean, you ask them. I mean
my focus is on what do we do today that
can help us be ready for Saturday, and I just
try to keep a narrow focus. And I want the
team to keep a narrow focus, you know, I don't
(08:41):
want the message to get too big, but I think
that human nature would tell you that when you when
you have success doing something, or you know, you overcome
some adversity, or you you know, you win a game
like the Temple Game, or you know some of these others,
that hey, we've done it before. If you get in
that situation, we're experienced at it, we know we can
do it. But you still have to do it. You
still have to perform, you still have to make the plays.
(09:03):
So uh, but we know, we don't go back and
talk about that stuff. You know, you try to build
on what you've accomplished, and you try to correct the
things you're not doing well, and you just try to
we just try to stay We just I know it's
a cliche. I know it's the ultimate cliche, the ultimate
coach cliche, but it honestly truly is about what do
we do today to get ourselves more prepared, better prepared,
(09:27):
and a step closer to going out and performing well
on Saturday, going back for a team who's that oh Wes, Yeah,
it's obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Going to be exciting for him and everything. What's his
personality like to be able to handle that and not
get too excited and not go crazy and to play
the kind of game that he capable.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean, he just has to play with emotional maturity,
you know, and he will be able to do that
because he's an emotionally mature kid. He gets fired up,
you know, we've all seen that during the year. But
Wes is very intelligent. He's he's very selfless. He cares
about this team and he's not going to do anything
to hurt this team. You know, he's just not I
(10:11):
think it's really important that he put the personal feelings
aside and just focus on his assignment on every single play.
And that's you know, talking to him about it a
little bit. But he understands that, you know, he he
gets it. And there might be if there's a time
in the game we have to settle him down, we will.
We'll watch him. But I have great confidence he'll go
out there and he'll play, you know, very focused football.
(10:32):
It was to come back. What you learn about your
team the way that he came up. I don't know.
I mean, like you said, I I haven't thought about
that game since I got on the airplane, which was
you know, twelve days ago. I just haven't I mean,
(10:53):
I just haven't. I mean, what do we learned? Ah?
I mean we just you just I mean, it's like
you just gotta keep playing. You know, you just gotta
keep playing. You just gotta keep playing. You just gotta
keep playing. You just gotta no matter what the situation,
you gotta play the next play with the same competitiveness
(11:13):
and toughness and energy that you played the last play with,
whether that last play was a good player or a
not so good play. And you just keep doing that,
and they you give yourself a chance.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
What kind of just kind of strange to see college
coaches get Yeah, do they go in a couple more
this week and a couple of your opponents from a
first lit standpoint, having done this for so long, does
it just how this has happened? Or do you understand
the business that is part of it, or how do
(11:45):
you feel about it?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We all understand it's a business part of it, but
it's also very very personal. I was fired from UCLA
seven years ago today, and uh, that memory is very
very vivid with me. We focus on the coach that
got fired, but we forget all about all the people
that it affects as well. The families, the kids, the
(12:07):
wives that have to you know, pack up and move
their families, and kids that have to go to new
schools and make new friends. All the players that it affects.
So yeah, it's very sobering. Like I hate it, you know,
I don't like hearing about you know, Herman and Biff
and and Dan and those guys getting fired. They're good men,
(12:31):
they're good football coaches. They've given their life to this profession.
But we also understand it is a business. It's a
reality of the business, and if you can't handle it,
you shouldn't be in the business. You know, that's just
the way it goes. But it's no fun. It's no
fun at all, you know. I mean I can seven
years ago, I can tell you about every single second
(12:52):
of that day. So sucks. Yeah, He's just made he lose,
made huge strides. He's very versatile. He plays a lot
of different roles for us. You've seen him kind of
move into the old Rob Burns role a little bit
(13:13):
at times. You know, in the backfield. He always gives
us great positive energy. He's very team oriented, very smart,
so we can do a lot of things with him.
Has become very reliable plays with a lot of emotion
and passion. I think our players really like him, but
they respect him as well.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
When when you to yourself the team, what was it
you came away with or is there one thing where
you said, you know, they breach strides in this area
in particular, I think.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You've this year nothing that I would want to talk
about because I think it, you know, it's something that
we don't necessarily want to alert opponents to. You know,
I think it's I mean, I'd love to answer your questions,
but I don't want to answer their questions, you know,
And that's uh, that's always a rub. As you come
in here and wanted to help. You know, you have
(14:05):
a job to do, but I don't want to do
their job for them, So I respectfully decline to answer
that question in specifics. Good, Yeah, set the record.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who look for a following torm Likely.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Something crazy happens to someone that you have.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How much do you appreciate a guy or even a
woman and that who'll spend that long in this in
your profession?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And I think one of the most incredible things is
he's been able to do it here the entire time, right,
And that's uh, that's remarkable longevity and consistency, and to
be able to to generate the type of passion and
perfectionism and intensity that he's able to still show, you know,
(15:02):
at practice or during games or in recruiting, to me,
is remarkable, you know. And I mean he's a legend,
and and that's beyond dispute. And when you get a
chance to watch him work and listen to him talk,
you understand why he's a legend. I mean, you know,
every time he opens his mouth, something profound comes out
of it. And I'm lucky to be on campus with
(15:23):
him and have some access to him. But I mean,
I have so much respect for for all coaches, but
a guy like Gino who's been able to do it
over such a long period of time with such consistency,
I mean, it's it's not just rare, it's it's it's
he'll be the best ever. You know, he's going to
set a record. No one will ever be better, or
no one's been better. So I'm excited to see that happen.
(15:45):
Congratulations to him. You know, we all have a lot
to learn from him. So when when I first got hired,
I went out to dinner my wife and I went
to dinner with you and his wife, and we sat
there for a couple hours at his restaurant, and you know,
had a little wine and whatever he ordered for me
(16:08):
was great. And I wished at that time that I
had been smart enough to push record on my phone,
but I wasn't. And after we walked out, I said
to Kathy, why didn't I just record all that? I
can't remember it. It was just like everything he said
resonated with me. You know, everything he said about coaching,
about dealing with players, about recruiting, about hand on his staff,
(16:31):
about just mindset competitive. I mean, it was just, you know, amazing.
Nothing specific stands out to me, but the feeling of
the meat or the feeling of the dinner stands out
out to me. You know, I don't think I could
get enough Geno. I mean, I love listening to Geno,
you know, and when I'm around Geno, the most important
thing I can do is keep my mouth shut and listen.
(16:52):
So all right, thanks everyone,
How's there one doing week?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Huge challenge for US alway, No, You're good. Huge challenge
for us. Obviously, a very good team seven to three
Frans got him rolling. Did a great job I thought
in recruiting and in the portal and retaining his players.
And they play with a lot of speed, physicality, They're big.
They got a quarterback from Ohio State that's a heck
(00:28):
of a player. They throw it around a lot. I
just respect the way they play the game, and I
think it's gonna be a heck of a challenge for
us to go up there and in that environment. They'll
be you know, we haven't worked in front of a
crowd with noise on offense in quite a while, so
we have to be able to handle that environment. But
(00:49):
I think our guys are looking forward to the challenge.
They had the bye week, they got a chance to
recover a little bit, but they jumped right back into
preparations when we started on SYRAC and they all had
a chance to watch the cow game on Saturday, which
was very impressive win. It's tough to go all the
way across the country and perform the way they did,
(01:11):
but they did a heck of a job so it
looked like they really put it together. They ran the
ball well, they stopped their ball, stopped the run well,
they threw it well, defended the pass well. Uh, a
lot of a lot of players on the ball and
scored a lot of points. So you know, we just
got to go play to the best of our ability,
and I hope we can create a couple of breaks
and and uh, you know, see what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, fourteen coms.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
What's that? I don't know. I mean, confidence is based
in the work that we do every day, you know,
so that game's twelve days ago, like that's that's that's
way out of our minds. So uh, but they're confident
because they practiced well today. You know. That's how we
try to look at it. And uh, you know, you
(02:00):
gain confidence throughout a week with your work and through
out a game with your play. So that's that's where
we're at. Oh, he can make every throw. He knows
how to throw guys open, which is a term that
you hear often when guys are covered up. He puts
it where they can't get to it. When he throws
(02:22):
his fade ball, he's outstanding. He throws a great back
shoulder fade underthrown fade. He You know, sometimes with college
quarterbacks the missing ingredient that deters them from being good
professionals is anticipating where to throw the ball and when
to throw it. In the NFL, guys are never open,
and if you wait for them to even look like
(02:43):
they're open, by the time the ball gets there, they're covered.
But he has the ability to anticipate and throw where
they should be and be right most of the time.
He can extend plays with his legs and I'm not
talking about necessarily being a runner, but extend plays in
the pocket and let guys get open down the field.
And uh, I think he's got a really high football IQ.
(03:04):
His completion percentage is really good. He's just a very
solid player. His poise is something that stands out to me.
You know, the maturity of the way he plays the game,
that emotional maturity. Oh, he stands out. Yeah. Yeah. I
(03:28):
mean he's so versatile, he does everything well. He's uh,
he's kind of the the core of the defense in
terms of those qualities that I was just talking about.
He's incredibly smart, he has great anticipation, he has tremendous length.
They can play him anywhere. He can cover backs, he
can go out and cover wideouts, He runs to the ball, well,
(03:50):
he's physical. I mean I have watched him now for
three years and had great respect for him. I think
he's gonna be a great NFL player someday as well,
just because of the traits that he has, you know,
and you can use him anywhere in today's game, the
way the game's played in space. He has all the
(04:10):
attributes you need to be a great player, you guys.
I guess I don't know about the I didn't know
we added a game with him. I know we play
him Saturday. I mean, if you wanna be competitive in
(04:33):
recruiting in the Northeast, and you gotta be competitive on
the field in the Northeast, So that's our objective. But
I didn't I didn't know that we have added anything. Yeah,
situations good, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Uh. You know,
Nick went out with an injury. He's working back through
(04:54):
that and uh hopefully he's you know, a hundred percent
by Saturday. It was like a hip. But he's also
got a toe and that's bothered him a little bit.
I think the week off, the week off, but the
week without a game helped all our guys. Oh, it
(05:17):
really wasn't. In terms of structure. We still got our
work done. We still took some time at the end
of the week to get them, you know, some rest.
They still lifted and things like that. But our practices
were basically the same. I think we practiced one last day.
Maybe you know, it's it's week eleven, week twelve for us,
(05:37):
I guess, or thirteen, whatever it is. You know, we're
deep into the season, and so I think you have
to make considerations as you prepare a practice week during
the bye as to where you are physically, you know,
and what's most important either you're getting work on the
field or getting you know, some rest and maybe some
extra lifting and some extra film and things like that.
(06:00):
We just try to be really methodical in how we
we structure a week during the by.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It seems like a deep evaluation of the first weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you met like the what
we did on the field. Oh for us as coaches, Oh,
same thing. Yeah, I mean you're always Here's what it
does is, you know, every week you're self evaluating what
can we do better? What are we doing well that
we need to continue to emphasize, but you're also preparing
for a game, you know, so you're you know, you're
(06:31):
kind of under the gun. But when you have a
bye week as a coach, it gives you a chance
to you know, you're, yeah, you're looking ahead at Syracuse
and you're starting your preparations for them, but also you
have some time where you can go in and self
scout yourself. You know, who's playing, well, how do we
accentuate what they do well? Are we putting them in
the right positions to make plays? You know, we ask
(06:51):
them to do things that they're capable of doing. What
are areas we need to improve on, so you have
more time to do that. So from that standpoint, it
was exactly the same. I thought you're talking about the
on the field work. The on the field work was similar.
I think we had one less day of practice, But
in terms of us as coaches, it's the same thing.
You're you just have more time to kind of look
at yourself as you go forward, and you never want
(07:13):
to stop doing that, and we never do stop doing that.
You do it on a week to week basis, but
with a buy you know, you got it's a little
bit more settled in terms of the ability to focus
on just that and not the opponent. You're always tweaking.
You're always tweaking. You know, you have your concepts that
(07:35):
you've that you've taught and that the players have learned
and you know are working every day to master, but
you're always tweaking formations, movements, personnel groups. You know. Game
planning is is is you know, watching your opponents, seeing
what they do well, trying to find ways that you
can exploit things that they do, uh, finding tendencies, and
(07:56):
then you set up your your your plan, the concept
you're going to use based upon that as well as
you know what what your guys feel comfortable doing. But
it's a constant tweak, constantly tweaking. You know, really, if
that's the only way that you're going to make progress,
you can't become too predictable. Sorry, Joe, I think we
(08:20):
can go We can't, und I don't. I just don't.
I don't know. I mean, you ask them. I mean
my focus is on what do we do today that
can help us be ready for Saturday, and I just
try to keep a narrow focus. And I want the
team to keep a narrow focus, you know, I don't
(08:41):
want the message to get too big, but I think
that human nature would tell you that when you when
you have success doing something, or you know, you overcome
some adversity, or you you know, you win a game
like the Temple Game, or you know some of these others,
that hey, we've done it before. If you get in
that situation, we're experienced at it, we know we can
do it. But you still have to do it. You
still have to perform, you still have to make the plays.
(09:03):
So uh, but we know, we don't go back and
talk about that stuff. You know, you try to build
on what you've accomplished, and you try to correct the
things you're not doing well, and you just try to
we just try to stay We just I know it's
a cliche. I know it's the ultimate cliche, the ultimate
coach cliche, but it honestly truly is about what do
we do today to get ourselves more prepared, better prepared,
(09:27):
and a step closer to going out and performing well
on Saturday, going back for a team who's that oh Wes, Yeah,
it's obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Going to be exciting for him and everything. What's his
personality like to be able to handle that and not
get too excited and not go crazy and to play
the kind of game that he capable.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean, he just has to play with emotional maturity,
you know, and he will be able to do that
because he's an emotionally mature kid. He gets fired up,
you know, we've all seen that during the year. But
Wes is very intelligent. He's he's very selfless. He cares
about this team and he's not going to do anything
to hurt this team. You know, he's just not I
(10:11):
think it's really important that he put the personal feelings
aside and just focus on his assignment on every single play.
And that's you know, talking to him about it a
little bit. But he understands that, you know, he he
gets it. And there might be if there's a time
in the game we have to settle him down, we will.
We'll watch him. But I have great confidence he'll go
out there and he'll play, you know, very focused football.
(10:32):
It was to come back. What you learn about your
team the way that he came up. I don't know.
I mean, like you said, I I haven't thought about
that game since I got on the airplane, which was
you know, twelve days ago. I just haven't I mean,
(10:53):
I just haven't. I mean, what do we learned? Ah?
I mean we just you just I mean, it's like
you just gotta keep playing. You know, you just gotta
keep playing. You just gotta keep playing. You just gotta
keep playing. You just gotta no matter what the situation,
you gotta play the next play with the same competitiveness
(11:13):
and toughness and energy that you played the last play with,
whether that last play was a good player or a
not so good play. And you just keep doing that,
and they you give yourself a chance.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
What kind of just kind of strange to see college
coaches get Yeah, do they go in a couple more
this week and a couple of your opponents from a
first lit standpoint, having done this for so long, does
it just how this has happened? Or do you understand
the business that is part of it, or how do
(11:45):
you feel about it?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We all understand it's a business part of it, but
it's also very very personal. I was fired from UCLA
seven years ago today, and uh, that memory is very
very vivid with me. We focus on the coach that
got fired, but we forget all about all the people
that it affects as well. The families, the kids, the
(12:07):
wives that have to you know, pack up and move
their families, and kids that have to go to new
schools and make new friends. All the players that it affects.
So yeah, it's very sobering. Like I hate it, you know,
I don't like hearing about you know, Herman and Biff
and and Dan and those guys getting fired. They're good men,
(12:31):
they're good football coaches. They've given their life to this profession.
But we also understand it is a business. It's a
reality of the business, and if you can't handle it,
you shouldn't be in the business. You know, that's just
the way it goes. But it's no fun. It's no
fun at all, you know. I mean I can seven
years ago, I can tell you about every single second
(12:52):
of that day. So sucks. Yeah, He's just made he lose,
made huge strides. He's very versatile. He plays a lot
of different roles for us. You've seen him kind of
move into the old Rob Burns role a little bit
(13:13):
at times. You know, in the backfield. He always gives
us great positive energy. He's very team oriented, very smart,
so we can do a lot of things with him.
Has become very reliable plays with a lot of emotion
and passion. I think our players really like him, but
they respect him as well.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
When when you to yourself the team, what was it
you came away with or is there one thing where
you said, you know, they breach strides in this area
in particular, I think.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You've this year nothing that I would want to talk
about because I think it, you know, it's something that
we don't necessarily want to alert opponents to. You know,
I think it's I mean, I'd love to answer your questions,
but I don't want to answer their questions, you know,
And that's uh, that's always a rub. As you come
in here and wanted to help. You know, you have
(14:05):
a job to do, but I don't want to do
their job for them, So I respectfully decline to answer
that question in specifics. Good, Yeah, set the record.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who look for a following torm Likely.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Something crazy happens to someone that you have.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How much do you appreciate a guy or even a
woman and that who'll spend that long in this in
your profession?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And I think one of the most incredible things is
he's been able to do it here the entire time, right,
And that's uh, that's remarkable longevity and consistency, and to
be able to to generate the type of passion and
perfectionism and intensity that he's able to still show, you know,
(15:02):
at practice or during games or in recruiting, to me,
is remarkable, you know. And I mean he's a legend,
and and that's beyond dispute. And when you get a
chance to watch him work and listen to him talk,
you understand why he's a legend. I mean, you know,
every time he opens his mouth, something profound comes out
of it. And I'm lucky to be on campus with
(15:23):
him and have some access to him. But I mean,
I have so much respect for for all coaches, but
a guy like Gino who's been able to do it
over such a long period of time with such consistency,
I mean, it's it's not just rare, it's it's it's
he'll be the best ever. You know, he's going to
set a record. No one will ever be better, or
no one's been better. So I'm excited to see that happen.
(15:45):
Congratulations to him. You know, we all have a lot
to learn from him. So when when I first got hired,
I went out to dinner my wife and I went
to dinner with you and his wife, and we sat
there for a couple hours at his restaurant, and you know,
had a little wine and whatever he ordered for me
(16:08):
was great. And I wished at that time that I
had been smart enough to push record on my phone,
but I wasn't. And after we walked out, I said
to Kathy, why didn't I just record all that? I
can't remember it. It was just like everything he said
resonated with me. You know, everything he said about coaching,
about dealing with players, about recruiting, about hand on his staff,
(16:31):
about just mindset competitive. I mean, it was just, you know, amazing.
Nothing specific stands out to me, but the feeling of
the meat or the feeling of the dinner stands out
out to me. You know, I don't think I could
get enough Geno. I mean, I love listening to Geno,
you know, and when I'm around Geno, the most important
thing I can do is keep my mouth shut and listen.
(16:52):
So all right, thanks everyone,
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