September 2, 2025 • 7 mins
The 2nd year transfer from Gardner Webb had 83y rushing in the season opener Saturday v CCSU
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the You Come Football Coaches Show on
Mike Crispino along with Melo Brown number seven on your program.
Guy that had nine runs for eighty three yards and
the win over Central Connecticut on Saturday a forty nine
yarder as well, and mel thanks for joining us. A
good start for the Huskies. You want to be one
to zero. You want to get through it without too
(00:21):
many injury issues, and it looked like that's what happened
for the team. Yes, sir, when you get into a
first game and any schedule, you don't have preseason games,
you have scrimmages with each other. How much different is
that first game than the scrimmages you had with your
own team.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, if I'm being honest, I would say the tempo
and the face that we practice at is not much different.
You know, we do a lot like this fall camp
and just the week leading up to the game, we
had a lot of team like, We had a lot
of team periods, a lot of situation periods like. There's
nothing we weren't prepared for honestly, So it wasn't much.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And you know what, I noticed that the two minute drill.
I know you do that every practice that pace you
play at at the end of the first half, I
think it was twenty eight to ten at that point,
and we sat on the broadcast. Boy, this would be
a good, good example of Yukon showing what they can
do in a two minute drill. And you were able
to get down the field and add another touchdown. I
(01:22):
thought that was meaningful.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh yes, sir, we like.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I really don't think that nobody in the country has
had as much like too many operation reps that we
have had here at Yukon.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You are a guy that's from Georgia. Obviously football country
down there, about a half hour east of Atlanta. Tell
me about that Stone Mountain, Georgia. That's a great name
for a town. I'm assuming that's a small town, but
I could be wrong on that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Tell you about Stone Mountain, Georgia. Stone Mountain, Georgia. Great
football there. You know, center to cab Stone Mountain. You
got a lot in that area.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's a lot of teams that's over there, Tucker Stevenson,
that whole area. You know, we we we breed a
lot of Division one guys and a lot of us
know each other, like even after games.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You might see us see a lot of us talking
to each other.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Because you know, just out of that area, a lot
of recruits coming.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's a lot of great talent.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, you came from a smaller school last year and
you're not a huge guy, you're five eight, one seventy six,
but lightning quick. Tell me the transition of coming from
a different level of football now playing on this level
of football. You've been here a year plus a game,
how how is that going for you? Because it's got
to be a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would The biggest difference, I would say is just
the pace. Everybody's a lot faster, Like you know fcs.
It was easy, you know, just outrun the secondary like
at my position, and that's just what I did and
I put that on film here. Everybody's just that much faster,
like from d Lion, the O lineman, everything like that.
(03:02):
Everybody's a little bit more sound and everything they do
with the details.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Mel Brown will this's you kind of running back? Where's
number seven for the Huskies. Last year, the Huskies put
together a ton of running yards twenty seven hundred plus
five hundred and sixteen times. They ran the ball average
about five yards and carried twenty three touchdowns by the
team running the football. Is it fun to be on
a team that really features the run, because if I'm
(03:29):
a running back, I kind of liked that idea.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, sir, there's no other team, Like, there's no other
team I would want to be on, especially with this
outside zone. You know how he running a coach, Sammis,
he does his thing, he's the scientist. I mean, that's
what we're expecting to do, just running down everybody's throats.
Especially with the running back room that we have, all
the talent that we have. Anybody could go in and
it could be a touchdown any play.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now, you had a forty nine yarder, Cam Edwards had
a career high seventy three yarder for a touchdown. The
guy I feel bad for, though, was Terrence Smith. He
had an eighty one yard touchdown and then the flag
comes out. Oh man, I felt bad for him.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I did too, Like that was we knew like
when he went in, we knew like that was gonna
be a touchdown play. Like, especially with his speed, I
believe that he's the fastest on the team. With his speed,
I don't think like once you get past that first level,
nobody's touching.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You are a guy that as a running back. It's
really interesting to me because you're sort of shifty, but
you have great burst in your second level running. I
think is that something that's instinctive or do you play
to play kind of figure out? All right, here's the
spot I gotta I gotta accelerate here.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I would say it's a mixture of both. I would
say it's a mixture of both.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
A lot of times, you know, there's there's our my
you know, coach Wilcots and teach us to split too.
You know, you gotta believe that you're gonna come through.
Like when it comes to two guys, two or three
guys or maybe even more, you know, coming to make
a tackle on you, you have to believe that you're gonna
come out of that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You're gonna come out of that bubble. So you have
to hit it that way. You have to hit it with.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The mindset that I'm gonna explode through this and I'm
gonna come out running. So when it comes in, when
it comes to that, and also when it just comes
to like you know, beating an angle, you know, you
have to be able to beat angles.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And that's what I focus on.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, you did that up in fen White Park. Not
that we're gonna go back in history too much, but
early in that game in Boston and the weather was
kind of lousy and you got the team off to
a great start in that Bowl win by breaking one.
Running on grass versus artificial turf. You're gonna get turf
this weekend at Syracuse. You got natural grass at home.
(05:46):
What do you like better?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Honestly, I would say I honestly would say the turf.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know, depending on what's up under it, you can
get a little bit more turnover.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Grass, you might get stuck it in a little bit
when it comes to cuts and things like that, but
turn if you bounce right off of it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, all right, quick thought on Syracuse before we let
you go. You got them on the road. Had a
one score game last last week a year that you
weren't able to win. I know you guys kind of
take things day to day here as you get ready
and still early in the week, but this game ahead
of you in week two I think could be one
of the more important ones you play this year.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, sir, you know this is this is what we've
been waiting on. This is what we come here to do.
You know, a lot of people, we've been looked over,
you know, especially being at another Northeast team, like a
lot of people that were recruited. You know, we look
at it as like we're the underdogs and we're ready
to come take everything.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You know, we were looked over.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You know they didn't want us, but you know we're
coming to take it all, honestly, and you know they
probably Syracuse is probably looking at us like a like
a chump, Like they're not they're not really worried about us.
They're wried about their a SEC schedule, but they coming
there with that mindset.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They're not gonna be ready.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, they're gonna be hungry too, So get ready for that.
They're zero to one, You guys are one to zero
and we're looking forward to you guys, the Huskies taking
on Syracuse. Thanks so much to Mel Brown, one of
our best guests here on the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
I'm Mike chris Pino. Back in a moment, we will
be joined by Devin Pringle, lot of the defensive secondary
of the Huskies here Onlearfield
Welcome back to the You Come Football Coaches Show on
Mike Crispino along with Melo Brown number seven on your program.
Guy that had nine runs for eighty three yards and
the win over Central Connecticut on Saturday a forty nine
yarder as well, and mel thanks for joining us. A
good start for the Huskies. You want to be one
to zero. You want to get through it without too
(00:21):
many injury issues, and it looked like that's what happened
for the team. Yes, sir, when you get into a
first game and any schedule, you don't have preseason games,
you have scrimmages with each other. How much different is
that first game than the scrimmages you had with your
own team.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, if I'm being honest, I would say the tempo
and the face that we practice at is not much different.
You know, we do a lot like this fall camp
and just the week leading up to the game, we
had a lot of team like, We had a lot
of team periods, a lot of situation periods like. There's
nothing we weren't prepared for honestly, So it wasn't much.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And you know what, I noticed that the two minute drill.
I know you do that every practice that pace you
play at at the end of the first half, I
think it was twenty eight to ten at that point,
and we sat on the broadcast. Boy, this would be
a good, good example of Yukon showing what they can
do in a two minute drill. And you were able
to get down the field and add another touchdown. I
(01:22):
thought that was meaningful.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh yes, sir, we like.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I really don't think that nobody in the country has
had as much like too many operation reps that we
have had here at Yukon.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You are a guy that's from Georgia. Obviously football country
down there, about a half hour east of Atlanta. Tell
me about that Stone Mountain, Georgia. That's a great name
for a town. I'm assuming that's a small town, but
I could be wrong on that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Tell you about Stone Mountain, Georgia. Stone Mountain, Georgia. Great
football there. You know, center to cab Stone Mountain. You
got a lot in that area.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's a lot of teams that's over there, Tucker Stevenson,
that whole area. You know, we we we breed a
lot of Division one guys and a lot of us
know each other, like even after games.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You might see us see a lot of us talking
to each other.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Because you know, just out of that area, a lot
of recruits coming.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's a lot of great talent.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, you came from a smaller school last year and
you're not a huge guy, you're five eight, one seventy six,
but lightning quick. Tell me the transition of coming from
a different level of football now playing on this level
of football. You've been here a year plus a game,
how how is that going for you? Because it's got
to be a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would The biggest difference, I would say is just
the pace. Everybody's a lot faster, Like you know fcs.
It was easy, you know, just outrun the secondary like
at my position, and that's just what I did and
I put that on film here. Everybody's just that much faster,
like from d Lion, the O lineman, everything like that.
(03:02):
Everybody's a little bit more sound and everything they do
with the details.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Mel Brown will this's you kind of running back? Where's
number seven for the Huskies. Last year, the Huskies put
together a ton of running yards twenty seven hundred plus
five hundred and sixteen times. They ran the ball average
about five yards and carried twenty three touchdowns by the
team running the football. Is it fun to be on
a team that really features the run, because if I'm
(03:29):
a running back, I kind of liked that idea.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, sir, there's no other team, Like, there's no other
team I would want to be on, especially with this
outside zone. You know how he running a coach, Sammis,
he does his thing, he's the scientist. I mean, that's
what we're expecting to do, just running down everybody's throats.
Especially with the running back room that we have, all
the talent that we have. Anybody could go in and
it could be a touchdown any play.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now, you had a forty nine yarder, Cam Edwards had
a career high seventy three yarder for a touchdown. The
guy I feel bad for, though, was Terrence Smith. He
had an eighty one yard touchdown and then the flag
comes out. Oh man, I felt bad for him.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I did too, Like that was we knew like
when he went in, we knew like that was gonna
be a touchdown play. Like, especially with his speed, I
believe that he's the fastest on the team. With his speed,
I don't think like once you get past that first level,
nobody's touching.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You are a guy that as a running back. It's
really interesting to me because you're sort of shifty, but
you have great burst in your second level running. I
think is that something that's instinctive or do you play
to play kind of figure out? All right, here's the
spot I gotta I gotta accelerate here.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I would say it's a mixture of both. I would
say it's a mixture of both.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
A lot of times, you know, there's there's our my
you know, coach Wilcots and teach us to split too.
You know, you gotta believe that you're gonna come through.
Like when it comes to two guys, two or three
guys or maybe even more, you know, coming to make
a tackle on you, you have to believe that you're gonna
come out of that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You're gonna come out of that bubble. So you have
to hit it that way. You have to hit it with.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The mindset that I'm gonna explode through this and I'm
gonna come out running. So when it comes in, when
it comes to that, and also when it just comes
to like you know, beating an angle, you know, you
have to be able to beat angles.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And that's what I focus on.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, you did that up in fen White Park. Not
that we're gonna go back in history too much, but
early in that game in Boston and the weather was
kind of lousy and you got the team off to
a great start in that Bowl win by breaking one.
Running on grass versus artificial turf. You're gonna get turf
this weekend at Syracuse. You got natural grass at home.
(05:46):
What do you like better?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Honestly, I would say I honestly would say the turf.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know, depending on what's up under it, you can
get a little bit more turnover.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Grass, you might get stuck it in a little bit
when it comes to cuts and things like that, but
turn if you bounce right off of it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, all right, quick thought on Syracuse before we let
you go. You got them on the road. Had a
one score game last last week a year that you
weren't able to win. I know you guys kind of
take things day to day here as you get ready
and still early in the week, but this game ahead
of you in week two I think could be one
of the more important ones you play this year.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, sir, you know this is this is what we've
been waiting on. This is what we come here to do.
You know, a lot of people, we've been looked over,
you know, especially being at another Northeast team, like a
lot of people that were recruited. You know, we look
at it as like we're the underdogs and we're ready
to come take everything.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You know, we were looked over.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You know they didn't want us, but you know we're
coming to take it all, honestly, and you know they
probably Syracuse is probably looking at us like a like
a chump, Like they're not they're not really worried about us.
They're wried about their a SEC schedule, but they coming
there with that mindset.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They're not gonna be ready.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, they're gonna be hungry too, So get ready for that.
They're zero to one, You guys are one to zero
and we're looking forward to you guys, the Huskies taking
on Syracuse. Thanks so much to Mel Brown, one of
our best guests here on the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
I'm Mike chris Pino. Back in a moment, we will
be joined by Devin Pringle, lot of the defensive secondary
of the Huskies here Onlearfield
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