September 23, 2025 • 6 mins
Jim Mora & Mike Crispino on the 31-25 Huskies win over Ball State Saturday
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome aboard everybody. It's signed for the Yukon Football Coaches Show,
we get together with Jim Moore every Tuesday six pm
on the Yukon Sports Network and we're going to talk
to a couple of players as well. Malaka MacLean will
join us out of the secondary and Ben Morosky the
tackle for Yukon. Where's number seventy seven. We'll talk to
coach about these guys too, But first, coach, let's get
(00:23):
to two and two. That was the job. That was
the goal at home on the weekend, and the Huskies
accomplished that. It was not easy, and I don't know,
sometimes in the coach's mind, do you do you feel like, Okay,
we had to work harder. Maybe that's good for us.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
When you win a game and you don't play up
to your capabilities, it can always be a really good
thing from a coaches standpoint because it can bring you
back to reality very quickly and it gives you things
that you can stress. Our team, fortunately, has made up
a bunch of guys that, like I don't have to
(01:00):
say a lot. They know when when we perform well
and they know when we haven't. And you know, listen,
in the locker room as I'm talking to the team
after the game on Saturday, typically when they bring it
up to me, you know, the kind of the way
the locker room set up. The offense is on one
side of me and the defense is on the other
(01:20):
side of me, and I'm trying to talk to both
of them and talk to the team, and I could
just I could feel the disappointment out of our defense
in the way that they that we played the way
we performed on Saturday. And I could hear them saying
little things as I spoke, like reconfirming what I was saying,
and so you know, I knew that they'd taken it seriously.
(01:42):
And I'm trying to say, listen, win, a win, any win,
is a great win, Ton to learn, Ton to get
better at, Yeah, coach, and damn right, you know I
mean so yeah, Mike, to get back your to your question,
I mean, sometimes winning, winning when you don't play your
best is just a great chance to refocus your energies,
which is much more fun to do than after a loss.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I can tell you that, Yeah, we learned that the
previous two weeks when you so much went well with
the final bottom line was not what you were looking for.
You got off to a ten point lead. I think
you had a couple of ten point leads in the game.
You get the big breakaway touchdown by Cam Edwards. Let's
start with the offense. This offense has been moving the
(02:25):
ball and ripping up yardage through the air on the ground.
What would you say after looking back at what you
you know on tape, what you saw a Saturday in person,
about how the offense is functioning in that particular game
against ball State.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think my expectations have really risen with that group
to the point where if we don't put points on
the board on a drive or at least get you know,
two or three first downs, there's a feeling of disappointment.
And I don't think I'm the only one that has
those feelings. I think all of our players share that feeling,
and I think that that's a good things. You know
that we're reaching new heights and trying to do things
(03:02):
better than we've ever done it before. So that's how
I feel. But I also feel at the same time
that that we're balanced, and you and I have talked
about what balance means to me. You know, we're able
to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively
when we need to do either. And I think we've
reached a pretty good spot where we're balanced. But uh,
I think there's just so much more out there for us,
(03:24):
you know, And I guess it's a good thing, you know,
to feel like the expectations and the standards have risen
and we have to now go we have to go
meet those standards in those expectations and uh So to me,
that's you know, it's a it's another thing that that
is a positive that can come out of a win
(03:45):
that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Oh. I think sometimes when you
when you say, hey it was we didn't play well,
you're you're you're not giving enough respect to your opponent either.
You know, ball State is a tough football team and
uh you know, they're physical and they play the game
the way you're supposed to play it. So I don't
want to take away from them at all. But with
(04:06):
regards to us, which is my concern, you know, there's
a lot left out there for us and we've got
to go get it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, sometimes I think you start to measure your team,
you know, you can you can tell me if this
is correct or not. But you kind of measure your
team by where you're at in terms of wins losses,
how you played to get there, and I like where
you cons at and I know you're never you're not
going to be satisfied by it, but you know, really
think about it, two and two two losses that probably
(04:33):
could have been wins, weren't. You have to kind of
take things as you as you see them almost week
to week, don't you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You do? You know, you can't worry about the past.
You got to learn from it and you got to
apply those lessons and move on. But you can't live
in the past. You can let it fuelion motivate you.
You know, when you come close and you don't get
it done against the Syracusean, against a Delaware you know,
and you have to have the resolve to say, those
things aren't going to happen, and how do we make
sure they don't happen again? What steps, what actions do
(05:03):
we take to make sure that don't happen. But we
are where we are, We're tuned too. We've got a
lot of opportunities left in front of us. We've just
got to maximize those. And you know, it's all about Mike.
You know a lot of coaches speak but take it
one day, one play at a time, and just try
to get better. And if you do that, you know,
(05:23):
it's they say eat the elephant, one bite at a
time or something like that. You know, don't worry about
the big picture. Let's just bring it down to what
we can control in that moment. And that's that's continually
what you're stressing to your players. One of the things
that made makes out a little bit more difficult this
day and age is you know, social media, access to information,
you know, always having a phone in your hand, you know,
(05:45):
attention spans maybe not always being what they once were. Uh,
But our guys I think they really understand it. They
try really hard to stay in the moment.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, that's probably one of the biggest parts of your
job these days is to keep guys in the moment.
Back with Moore with Jim Moore, this is the Yukon
Football Coaches Show on Learfield
Welcome aboard everybody. It's signed for the Yukon Football Coaches Show,
we get together with Jim Moore every Tuesday six pm
on the Yukon Sports Network and we're going to talk
to a couple of players as well. Malaka MacLean will
join us out of the secondary and Ben Morosky the
tackle for Yukon. Where's number seventy seven. We'll talk to
coach about these guys too, But first, coach, let's get
(00:23):
to two and two. That was the job. That was
the goal at home on the weekend, and the Huskies
accomplished that. It was not easy, and I don't know,
sometimes in the coach's mind, do you do you feel like, Okay,
we had to work harder. Maybe that's good for us.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
When you win a game and you don't play up
to your capabilities, it can always be a really good
thing from a coaches standpoint because it can bring you
back to reality very quickly and it gives you things
that you can stress. Our team, fortunately, has made up
a bunch of guys that, like I don't have to
(01:00):
say a lot. They know when when we perform well
and they know when we haven't. And you know, listen,
in the locker room as I'm talking to the team
after the game on Saturday, typically when they bring it
up to me, you know, the kind of the way
the locker room set up. The offense is on one
side of me and the defense is on the other
(01:20):
side of me, and I'm trying to talk to both
of them and talk to the team, and I could
just I could feel the disappointment out of our defense
in the way that they that we played the way
we performed on Saturday. And I could hear them saying
little things as I spoke, like reconfirming what I was saying,
and so you know, I knew that they'd taken it seriously.
(01:42):
And I'm trying to say, listen, win, a win, any win,
is a great win, Ton to learn, Ton to get
better at, Yeah, coach, and damn right, you know I
mean so yeah, Mike, to get back your to your question,
I mean, sometimes winning, winning when you don't play your
best is just a great chance to refocus your energies,
which is much more fun to do than after a loss.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I can tell you that, Yeah, we learned that the
previous two weeks when you so much went well with
the final bottom line was not what you were looking for.
You got off to a ten point lead. I think
you had a couple of ten point leads in the game.
You get the big breakaway touchdown by Cam Edwards. Let's
start with the offense. This offense has been moving the
(02:25):
ball and ripping up yardage through the air on the ground.
What would you say after looking back at what you
you know on tape, what you saw a Saturday in person,
about how the offense is functioning in that particular game
against ball State.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think my expectations have really risen with that group
to the point where if we don't put points on
the board on a drive or at least get you know,
two or three first downs, there's a feeling of disappointment.
And I don't think I'm the only one that has
those feelings. I think all of our players share that feeling,
and I think that that's a good things. You know
that we're reaching new heights and trying to do things
(03:02):
better than we've ever done it before. So that's how
I feel. But I also feel at the same time
that that we're balanced, and you and I have talked
about what balance means to me. You know, we're able
to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively
when we need to do either. And I think we've
reached a pretty good spot where we're balanced. But uh,
I think there's just so much more out there for us,
(03:24):
you know, And I guess it's a good thing, you know,
to feel like the expectations and the standards have risen
and we have to now go we have to go
meet those standards in those expectations and uh So to me,
that's you know, it's a it's another thing that that
is a positive that can come out of a win
(03:45):
that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Oh. I think sometimes when you
when you say, hey it was we didn't play well,
you're you're you're not giving enough respect to your opponent either.
You know, ball State is a tough football team and
uh you know, they're physical and they play the game
the way you're supposed to play it. So I don't
want to take away from them at all. But with
(04:06):
regards to us, which is my concern, you know, there's
a lot left out there for us and we've got
to go get it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, sometimes I think you start to measure your team,
you know, you can you can tell me if this
is correct or not. But you kind of measure your
team by where you're at in terms of wins losses,
how you played to get there, and I like where
you cons at and I know you're never you're not
going to be satisfied by it, but you know, really
think about it, two and two two losses that probably
(04:33):
could have been wins, weren't. You have to kind of
take things as you as you see them almost week
to week, don't you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You do? You know, you can't worry about the past.
You got to learn from it and you got to
apply those lessons and move on. But you can't live
in the past. You can let it fuelion motivate you.
You know, when you come close and you don't get
it done against the Syracusean, against a Delaware you know,
and you have to have the resolve to say, those
things aren't going to happen, and how do we make
sure they don't happen again? What steps, what actions do
(05:03):
we take to make sure that don't happen. But we
are where we are, We're tuned too. We've got a
lot of opportunities left in front of us. We've just
got to maximize those. And you know, it's all about Mike.
You know a lot of coaches speak but take it
one day, one play at a time, and just try
to get better. And if you do that, you know,
(05:23):
it's they say eat the elephant, one bite at a
time or something like that. You know, don't worry about
the big picture. Let's just bring it down to what
we can control in that moment. And that's that's continually
what you're stressing to your players. One of the things
that made makes out a little bit more difficult this
day and age is you know, social media, access to information,
you know, always having a phone in your hand, you know,
(05:45):
attention spans maybe not always being what they once were. Uh,
But our guys I think they really understand it. They
try really hard to stay in the moment.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, that's probably one of the biggest parts of your
job these days is to keep guys in the moment.
Back with Moore with Jim Moore, this is the Yukon
Football Coaches Show on Learfield
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