September 9, 2025 • 7 mins
Coach Mora & Mike Crispino on the overall take on the loss at Syracuse Saturday
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're back at it on a Tuesday with Jim Mora,
Mike Chrispino. The Huskies one on one headed to Delaware.
Should be interesting. Thirty thousand seats will be jammed full.
They're in the FBS world now down there, the Blue
Hens and the Huskies will make a visit. They'll go
on the road again, back to back and the coach
the road thing. It's different, right, It's not as comfortable.
(00:25):
You got all the travel, you got to get into
a hotel, you got your meeting rooms.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a little more complex, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It is here, right, Yeah, But we try to stick
to the routine as much as we can, and we
have a certain travel routine as well. And once you know,
our guys learned that, we try to make it as
seamless as possible. You know, the people on our staff
and Justin Morrow and Taylor Riddick and Daniel Mohitade Mohika,
(00:55):
they do an amazing job working with the hotels and
the airlines to make it a seamles as possible.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And at the end of the day, it's not something.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You really talk about with your team, you know, What
matters is what happens between the white lines and all
the rest of us just noise and distractions.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
One thing that impressed me we were up in Syracuse
for the weekend the game Saturday. You have all these transfers,
guys that are you know, with Yukon for the first
time on the road, for the first time with their teammates.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It was so organized.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm, as you know, eavesdropping on some of some of
the conversations. The guys are all talking football. Yeah, Ramelo
Murphy's going to be on the show with us shortly
and ty Chan two guys that came from other places.
I mean, getting that cohesion going in the chemistry going
and then putting it on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's pretty important, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's critically important. And Mike, we actually practice that stuff.
And I know that sounds really silly maybe to some,
but we practice it. You know, we went during training
camp and we spent a night at the at the
downtown hotel we stay at the night before games and
took them through a night before game routine. We also
(02:06):
did it here at our facility. And you know, I
don't think you any want to You don't want to
ever take anything for granted. And you don't want the
first time that they spend the night before a game
at the hotel and go through all the meeting process.
You don't want that to be before the first game.
So we've we've done it obviously, as you mentioned, a
little different on the road because of the flight, but
after the flight. Really it's just, you know, it's just
(02:28):
a routine that we've developed that we believe in, and
uh it's too you know, designed to get us to
kick off in the right mindset.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, very few wasted minutes on the road. When pressed
me is there was? I think we got in there.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't know, maybe an hour later, guys are doing
run throughs in the parking.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Lot outside the hotel and I'm like, wow, they.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Got their little playbooks and uh so no wasted minutes.
I guess that's kind of what you want when you
got to you got to kill you know, half a
day before you actually play it again.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's just about maximizing every moment to get yourself mentally
and physically prepared to play that game. And you know
you mentioned the walkthroughs. It's you know, you don't want
to ever take for granted that you're prepared. You know,
the Hayes never in the barn, as they say, people
say the Hayes in the barn.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
For us, the Hayes never in the barn.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And so it's just maximizing our opportunities to get ourselves
ready to play. Our players are mature, they understand that
and they do a really great job of focusing in
and maximizing those those those times that we have to
be together and get better.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Jim more will us you can football coach On Mike Crispino,
I'm so much positive to talk about in the road
game against the Orange, except the final result that felt like,
and I said it on the ear, you con won
that game for fifty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
They just didn't win the last five, six, seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Now you probably have a different view of that, but
I'm curious what you think.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I kind of think the way you think.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And that's but always, you know, it comes down to
the end, being able to perform as a program, as
a as a team at the end. And you know
you've seen it. You saw it Sunday night with the
Bills and and the Ravens, and you saw it last
night with the the Bears and the Vikings. It's in
(04:19):
those crucial moments. It's all of us being at our
best and not panicking and not stepping outside the boundaries
of what we're what we're supposed to do on a
particular play. And unfortunately, that's simply what happened on on Saturday.
Is Uh, at critical moments, we did not perform the
(04:43):
way we had previously in that game and stepped a
little bit outside of the confines of our job, and
it really cost us.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And when I say we, I mean all.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Of us, I mean me, I mean everybody that you
know besides you, really that was on that play. We
all we call we all have to own it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
We don't point fingers around here. We try to figure
out solutions and we try to apply lessons learned going forward.
And Uh, I like the makeup of this team, Mike,
It's a mature group.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And I liked the I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Didn't like the loss, obviously, it was a devastating loss,
but I like the way they responded.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The the tough part about any you know, sporting event,
is someone's got to lose. Someone wins, someone loses. You
don't want to be on the down side.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Of it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But there you are so fifty win and fifty lose,
and you want to have fifty percent of win, you know,
And it's uh.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And then the other thing is.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You don't ever want to rationalize it by, you know, saying,
well there's this factor, that factor, this happened or that happened.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
You got to hit it head on, man, you got
to own it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And I feel like we have a group of guys
that that they don't point fingers unless they're pointed at themselves,
and they don't rationalize and make excuses.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They responsibility.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And when you're working with people like that, whether it's
coaches or staff, or it's players, and especially our players
are that way, it's uh. It always gives you a
feeling of hope. And then it's you know, having that
resolve and determination and never let it happen again.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's so important.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of cliches and
sports that one about you got to play sixty minutes,
you got to play till there's nothing but zero's on
that time clock on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I mean that really applied to that game, didn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I mean, like I get and I'm not taking exception
with what you're saying, because I think you're absolutely right.
It's we played hard like guys, played their butts off
and competed like crazy. It was, and it sounds so simple,
but it was doing our job at the always consistently,
(06:53):
you know, even in crunch time, just not stepping outside
the boundaries of what each of us are supposed to
do and making the ordinary plays that you're supposed to make,
or being where you're supposed to be, or getting the
call in the way it's supposed to get called. You know,
I'm talking about as a staff, putting our players in
good positions to make plays. And that's where we got hurt.
(07:13):
Because we played well, we played hard, We didn't ease up,
we kept doing what we'd been doing. We made adjustments
as we went along. But at the end when we
had to come up with the routine play, we stepped
out of character. And that's why we lost.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Jim Morris with us. We will back in just a second.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We got to time out, we got to hear from
our commercial sponsors.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
We'll be back in just a moment. Do you count
Football Coaches Show on lear Field
Welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're back at it on a Tuesday with Jim Mora,
Mike Chrispino. The Huskies one on one headed to Delaware.
Should be interesting. Thirty thousand seats will be jammed full.
They're in the FBS world now down there, the Blue
Hens and the Huskies will make a visit. They'll go
on the road again, back to back and the coach
the road thing. It's different, right, It's not as comfortable.
(00:25):
You got all the travel, you got to get into
a hotel, you got your meeting rooms.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a little more complex, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It is here, right, Yeah, But we try to stick
to the routine as much as we can, and we
have a certain travel routine as well. And once you know,
our guys learned that, we try to make it as
seamless as possible. You know, the people on our staff
and Justin Morrow and Taylor Riddick and Daniel Mohitade Mohika,
(00:55):
they do an amazing job working with the hotels and
the airlines to make it a seamles as possible.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And at the end of the day, it's not something.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You really talk about with your team, you know, What
matters is what happens between the white lines and all
the rest of us just noise and distractions.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
One thing that impressed me we were up in Syracuse
for the weekend the game Saturday. You have all these transfers,
guys that are you know, with Yukon for the first
time on the road, for the first time with their teammates.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It was so organized.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm, as you know, eavesdropping on some of some of
the conversations. The guys are all talking football. Yeah, Ramelo
Murphy's going to be on the show with us shortly
and ty Chan two guys that came from other places.
I mean, getting that cohesion going in the chemistry going
and then putting it on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's pretty important, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's critically important. And Mike, we actually practice that stuff.
And I know that sounds really silly maybe to some,
but we practice it. You know, we went during training
camp and we spent a night at the at the
downtown hotel we stay at the night before games and
took them through a night before game routine. We also
(02:06):
did it here at our facility. And you know, I
don't think you any want to You don't want to
ever take anything for granted. And you don't want the
first time that they spend the night before a game
at the hotel and go through all the meeting process.
You don't want that to be before the first game.
So we've we've done it obviously, as you mentioned, a
little different on the road because of the flight, but
after the flight. Really it's just, you know, it's just
(02:28):
a routine that we've developed that we believe in, and
uh it's too you know, designed to get us to
kick off in the right mindset.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, very few wasted minutes on the road. When pressed
me is there was? I think we got in there.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't know, maybe an hour later, guys are doing
run throughs in the parking.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Lot outside the hotel and I'm like, wow, they.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Got their little playbooks and uh so no wasted minutes.
I guess that's kind of what you want when you
got to you got to kill you know, half a
day before you actually play it again.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's just about maximizing every moment to get yourself mentally
and physically prepared to play that game. And you know
you mentioned the walkthroughs. It's you know, you don't want
to ever take for granted that you're prepared. You know,
the Hayes never in the barn, as they say, people
say the Hayes in the barn.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
For us, the Hayes never in the barn.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And so it's just maximizing our opportunities to get ourselves
ready to play. Our players are mature, they understand that
and they do a really great job of focusing in
and maximizing those those those times that we have to
be together and get better.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Jim more will us you can football coach On Mike Crispino,
I'm so much positive to talk about in the road
game against the Orange, except the final result that felt like,
and I said it on the ear, you con won
that game for fifty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
They just didn't win the last five, six, seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Now you probably have a different view of that, but
I'm curious what you think.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I kind of think the way you think.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And that's but always, you know, it comes down to
the end, being able to perform as a program, as
a as a team at the end. And you know
you've seen it. You saw it Sunday night with the
Bills and and the Ravens, and you saw it last
night with the the Bears and the Vikings. It's in
(04:19):
those crucial moments. It's all of us being at our
best and not panicking and not stepping outside the boundaries
of what we're what we're supposed to do on a
particular play. And unfortunately, that's simply what happened on on Saturday.
Is Uh, at critical moments, we did not perform the
(04:43):
way we had previously in that game and stepped a
little bit outside of the confines of our job, and
it really cost us.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And when I say we, I mean all.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Of us, I mean me, I mean everybody that you
know besides you, really that was on that play. We
all we call we all have to own it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
We don't point fingers around here. We try to figure
out solutions and we try to apply lessons learned going forward.
And Uh, I like the makeup of this team, Mike,
It's a mature group.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And I liked the I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Didn't like the loss, obviously, it was a devastating loss,
but I like the way they responded.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The the tough part about any you know, sporting event,
is someone's got to lose. Someone wins, someone loses. You
don't want to be on the down side.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Of it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But there you are so fifty win and fifty lose,
and you want to have fifty percent of win, you know,
And it's uh.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And then the other thing is.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You don't ever want to rationalize it by, you know, saying,
well there's this factor, that factor, this happened or that happened.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
You got to hit it head on, man, you got
to own it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And I feel like we have a group of guys
that that they don't point fingers unless they're pointed at themselves,
and they don't rationalize and make excuses.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They responsibility.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And when you're working with people like that, whether it's
coaches or staff, or it's players, and especially our players
are that way, it's uh. It always gives you a
feeling of hope. And then it's you know, having that
resolve and determination and never let it happen again.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's so important.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of cliches and
sports that one about you got to play sixty minutes,
you got to play till there's nothing but zero's on
that time clock on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I mean that really applied to that game, didn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I mean, like I get and I'm not taking exception
with what you're saying, because I think you're absolutely right.
It's we played hard like guys, played their butts off
and competed like crazy. It was, and it sounds so simple,
but it was doing our job at the always consistently,
(06:53):
you know, even in crunch time, just not stepping outside
the boundaries of what each of us are supposed to
do and making the ordinary plays that you're supposed to make,
or being where you're supposed to be, or getting the
call in the way it's supposed to get called. You know,
I'm talking about as a staff, putting our players in
good positions to make plays. And that's where we got hurt.
(07:13):
Because we played well, we played hard, We didn't ease up,
we kept doing what we'd been doing. We made adjustments
as we went along. But at the end when we
had to come up with the routine play, we stepped
out of character. And that's why we lost.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Jim Morris with us. We will back in just a second.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We got to time out, we got to hear from
our commercial sponsors.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
We'll be back in just a moment. Do you count
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