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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 13 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Baffle Football Coaches Show. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host RhE Island Spencer along with me as always
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Speaker 1: as the head coach of the Baffle Cougar's Tom Banner Coach.
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Speaker 2: How are we doing doing great? Good to see it.
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Speaker 2: Nice to be back again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, excited to get back doing these podcasts. You know,
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Speaker 1: it is a little challenging in the fall with I mean,
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Speaker 1: I guess the way I'll say it is, I was
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Speaker 1: full time here at school and helping out with the
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Speaker 1: sophomore team before you know it just didn't really find
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Speaker 1: a groove that we could get in. But you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of heard from some of the alumni and some
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Speaker 1: of our own players that hey, when's the you guys
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Speaker 1: got to get back to doing the podcast. So here
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Speaker 1: we are doing the podcast again. In this one, we
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Speaker 1: will be covering a little bit of everything from the offseason,
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Speaker 1: from fundraisers to spring football, Gridiron A champions and including
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a look ahead at a season
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Speaker 1: that is getting here faster than it feels like it should.
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Speaker 1: But before we get going, I want to put a
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Speaker 1: bug in some ears here. We are in need of
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Speaker 1: volunteers for a variety of positions. If you had to
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Speaker 1: bafflefootball dot Com, look for the volunteers tab for more information.
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Speaker 1: We'd need some committee chair spots available for things like
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Speaker 1: senior night team meals. There's need for help on picture
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Speaker 1: Day in August, so if you have the ability to
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Speaker 1: volunteer and help us out, that would be great. Some
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Speaker 1: of you may have seen the latest social media post
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Speaker 1: about the new Apparable apparel store available online. This is
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Speaker 1: a little bit different than how we've done things in
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Speaker 1: the past. Baffle Football will get a portion of the
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Speaker 1: proceeds from sales, so not only are you getting great
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Speaker 1: baffle football gear, coach, but get a chance to support
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Speaker 1: the Kougs a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And you know, I think we're just kind of
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Speaker 2: moving into the times now where things are delivered directly
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Speaker 2: to your house and everything is expedied and you don't
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Speaker 2: need the volunteers on game nights and all of the
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Speaker 2: things that you do storing merchandise and whatnot. So we're
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Speaker 2: excited to try this. It should be beneficial to both
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Speaker 2: our community and fans, and then of course our football
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Speaker 2: program as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a few other changes that are going
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Speaker 1: to come that people will notice. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: we'll get into it here in the podcast and then
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Speaker 1: don't know that there's really a need to. But stuff
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Speaker 1: that people will see that they'll go, oh, it's a
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Speaker 1: little bit different once they get used to it. I
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Speaker 1: think it's stuff that they're going to absolutely love, including
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Speaker 1: these this apparel. I mean, there's Nike car Heart. One
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Speaker 1: of the things I love about it is you can
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Speaker 1: have those, you know. I think I saw like a
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Speaker 1: two hundred dollars car heart like vest, but then I
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Speaker 1: also see a twenty dollars T shirt available, so all
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Speaker 1: the different pricing levels, whatever you want. I even saw
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Speaker 1: somebody ordered a Nike Duffel bag and put a Baffel
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Speaker 1: logo on the side of it. So it's going to
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Speaker 1: be great seeing all kinds of baffle football gear around
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Speaker 1: and really just making it available. You can also that
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Speaker 1: this is something for parents or family members. You can
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Speaker 1: personalized things, so they'll have the ability to put their
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Speaker 1: son's number, name, whatever they want on the back of it.
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Speaker 1: I think some of you can even go on like
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Speaker 1: the sleeve different places. So definitely going to be cool
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Speaker 1: to see all the different names and numbers and you
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Speaker 1: know those things. Just make sure that you know what
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Speaker 1: your son's number is for this upcoming season before you
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Speaker 1: order it. I mean, the last thing you want is
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Speaker 1: your son's number. You know, fifteen from last year. Oh
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, he's wearing four this year. You know,
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Speaker 1: doesn't look good that way, but yeah, attention alumni. Homecoming
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Speaker 1: is set for Friday, September twenty sixth, the seven pm
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Speaker 1: kickoff against the Skyline Spartans. Would love to see everybody
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Speaker 1: out there wearing blue celebrating baffle football coach. I think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of fun playing Skyline on an
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Speaker 1: event like homecoming where we have this huge crowd. But
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Speaker 1: you know, Skyline brings not only some I what do
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Speaker 1: you call it, some history where these two teams have
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Speaker 1: played so many big games in the past that I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of the younger alumni will really relate
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Speaker 1: to wanting to beat Skyline.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had some epic battles in the past, and
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Speaker 2: the two thousand and eight nine seasons I recall and
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Speaker 2: you know a big you know King Co Championship win
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Speaker 2: it pop Keeny that was it was broadcasted on kJ
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Speaker 2: our Sports. That was fun, and then of course they
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Speaker 2: knock us out in the Semis and the Tacoma Dome,
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Speaker 2: and we've just had some great battles over the years,
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Speaker 2: and there's been some great history of players from both sides.
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Speaker 2: So we're looking forward to continuing that that rivalry and
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Speaker 2: it'll be fun to host them on a big night
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Speaker 2: like homecoming.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's I don't think I need to say it,
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Speaker 1: but nowhere better to be on a Friday night than
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Speaker 1: pop KINI. So we expect to see everybody out there. Everybody.
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Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, you're going to be
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Speaker 1: out there. Let's talk a little bit about the off season.
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Speaker 1: Coach fundraising always something that is one of those things
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Speaker 1: it's never exactly say fun to do, but it's something
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Speaker 1: that we have to do because you know, you have
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Speaker 1: to be able to fund a lot one of the
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Speaker 1: things that we do. And the first one of the
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Speaker 1: off season was a night down at mcminimon's tavern on
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Speaker 1: the Square. Mcminimons has been a great supporter of Bafel
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Speaker 1: Football in the past with events like these. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's called a friends and family night where a good
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Speaker 1: portion of the proceeds go back to Baffle Football. I
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Speaker 1: believe you and the family made it down there, right.
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Speaker 2: We did. And you know that mcmnimon's has always done
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Speaker 2: a great job of supporting the communities and the schools
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Speaker 2: around the community, and so it just doesn't benefit Bothel
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Speaker 2: High School and it just doesn't benefit our football program.
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Speaker 2: But certainly every couple of years or so we get
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Speaker 2: to host this event down there, and it's always been
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Speaker 2: a fun night of good food and beverages and and
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Speaker 2: you know, camaraderie. You meet friends and family down there,
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Speaker 2: and then of course we get a nice you know
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Speaker 2: check to support our football program from them, so we're
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Speaker 2: very appreciative of that. But yes, another great diet of
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Speaker 2: food and friends.
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Speaker 1: We also need to thank Custom Fundraising Solutions of Seattle
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Speaker 1: for their work on the Mattress fundraiser back in May.
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Speaker 1: This was the tenth annual event and Custom Fundraising Solutions
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Speaker 1: done just a tremendous job over the last decade in
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Speaker 1: supporting Bothel football.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a great partnership, and you know, it
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Speaker 2: kind of kind of ebbs and flows with with how
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Speaker 2: many people need a mattress each each year and and
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Speaker 2: kind of the job that the kids do in getting
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Speaker 2: the word out. But we look forward to another great
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Speaker 2: you know, fundraising opportunity with them next spring or summer
6:30
Speaker 2: whenever we decided to do it. But it certainly helps
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Speaker 2: our players to pay for a camp and it gives
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Speaker 2: them away to earn the money that they need to
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Speaker 2: do those fun things.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of funny when you think about it, Like
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Speaker 1: if you go back, say, fifteen years ago, I don't
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Speaker 1: think you would have ever saw yourself having a mattress fundraiser.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't seem normal. But it's one of those
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Speaker 1: things that everybody's got to sleep. Everybody's got to have
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Speaker 1: a nice mattress, and you know, you got to buy
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Speaker 1: a new one every few years. You might as well
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Speaker 1: do it through custom fundraise solutions because not only do
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Speaker 1: you get a great price on it, but you get
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Speaker 1: a good brain name or your brand names, you know.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of one of those weird fundraisers that
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Speaker 1: people go really mattresses and then you see how it
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Speaker 1: works and you're like, actually, this is brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I when I first met them, and
7:16
Speaker 2: you know, I've told this story one hundred times, but
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Speaker 2: you know, I thought, oh my gosh, this is fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 2: I'm never going to get back in my life because
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Speaker 2: we're selling mattresses. That's what they're trying to sell me on.
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Speaker 2: And after listening to it, I thought, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: this is brilliant. And you're right. There is a percentage
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Speaker 2: of the population that needs a mattress every year. And
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Speaker 2: and you know, our kids are their advertising and our
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Speaker 2: school is their showroom. And so the money they save
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Speaker 2: and those two things allow us to sell a product
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Speaker 2: that you can buy anywhere in any store for a
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Speaker 2: lesser costs and you get all the same benefits. They
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Speaker 2: take away your old mattress there, they deliver, set up.
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Speaker 2: They you know, if you don't like it, they return
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Speaker 2: it and try something else. So it's it's been a
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Speaker 2: great partnership and and we appreciate what they do for us.
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Speaker 1: The last fundraising that we had here was the auction
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Speaker 1: we want to give a thank you to. As always,
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Speaker 1: it seems like Ron and Sally Joe Nardoni they hosted
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Speaker 1: out at Nardo Land. Always a great night not only
8:15
Speaker 1: supporting but also kind of celebrating Bothel football coach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it really is. And every year you
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Speaker 2: get some new you know, younger players, parents involved, and
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Speaker 2: and first of all, you know, Ron and Sally Joe
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Speaker 2: are just so gracious and so supportive of anything Bothel,
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Speaker 2: and to have it at a iconic place like like
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Speaker 2: their home and is just perfect. The weather was tremendous.
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Speaker 2: Even though Tim Hunter wasn't there this year, Michael bump
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Speaker 2: Is filled in and and Bumps, you know what, did
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Speaker 2: a great job and so much fun to have him
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Speaker 2: there as well. And you know, it was a great night.
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Speaker 2: The weather was perfect, the food was outstanding, the beverages
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Speaker 2: were you know, thirst quenching. And then of course, you know,
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Speaker 2: you had a group of parents who really did a
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Speaker 2: great job of supporting Bathel football and it might have
9:07
Speaker 2: been one of our best actions ever.
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Speaker 1: And I guess we do have another fundraising opportunity coming
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Speaker 1: up towards the end of August. Do you have a
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Speaker 1: date yet for the Cougar cards.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Cougar cards will be sold on Yeah, you're
9:24
Speaker 2: making me do some math here. We start on the twentieth,
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Speaker 2: so the Saturday is the first Saturday is the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty third, So on the thirtieth August thirtieth is when
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Speaker 2: our kids will get into the community and sell those cards.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, if you're looking to help support Bothel, football
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Speaker 1: or get yourself some great deals. I've seen a lot
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Speaker 1: of different things on there that I know I would use,
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Speaker 1: and I have used them in the past. But yeah's
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Speaker 1: coming up, so be on the lookout for that. Towards
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Speaker 1: the end of August, coach, let's talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: about the football side of things.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 1: We're in the first first week of the summer conditioning
10:01
Speaker 1: and lifting program. Uh, obviously Darius Terry on board running
10:05
Speaker 1: the program again, really setting the bar high for our athletes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I I there's there's got to be
10:13
Speaker 2: guys that are as good as him somewhere around in
10:16
Speaker 2: the world, but man, I have yet to see one.
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Speaker 2: He has does a tremendous job of getting our athletes
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Speaker 2: ready mentally, physically, Uh not just not just with getting
10:29
Speaker 2: stronger and the ability to move more, but to the
10:33
Speaker 2: you know, the things we do help to prevent or
10:35
Speaker 2: reduce risk of injury and and so you know, it's
10:39
Speaker 2: it's fun to have him. It's fun to have him
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Speaker 2: back and listen to the the way he works with kids,
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Speaker 2: and and uh, you know, he's top notch. He's he's
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Speaker 2: he's one of the best. And so we're so so
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Speaker 2: happy that he's back in and running everything and things
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Speaker 2: are going smoothly. Uh. We finished our our we're finishing
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Speaker 2: our first week this week, and and it's going as
11:00
Speaker 2: as good as I could hope for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we'll wrap up this week. We're recording this
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Speaker 1: on Thursday. We'll wrap it up tomorrow with a morning
11:07
Speaker 1: lift and then marching in the Fourth of July parade
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Speaker 1: down I guess it's what Main Street and then Bothel
11:14
Speaker 1: Everett Highway or whatever it is. It looks like it's
11:17
Speaker 1: gonna be another fun one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, the parade is something we've done in
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Speaker 2: the twenty six years I've been here, and it's just
11:23
Speaker 2: tremendous to see the community pour out onto Main Street
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Speaker 2: and up five two seven just to support, you know,
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Speaker 2: the events that happen on Fourth of July and the
11:33
Speaker 2: people in our community. And we're very fortunate to be
11:36
Speaker 2: a small part of that. And I think it's great
11:38
Speaker 2: for our kids to see how many people care about
11:42
Speaker 2: Bothel and the things that go on here and and
11:45
Speaker 2: why it's important to do right and to you know,
11:47
Speaker 2: be a good representative of our community. And so it's
11:50
Speaker 2: fun funded for me to see our kids interact with
11:52
Speaker 2: little kids giving out candy and and you know sometimes
11:56
Speaker 2: we have little plastic footballs and just a fun time
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Speaker 2: and screen great place, you know, a great reminder of
12:02
Speaker 2: why it's great to be in Bothel.
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Speaker 1: I probably had not been in a parade and I
12:07
Speaker 1: would say like twenty years until a couple of years
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Speaker 1: ago when I was in my first one with Bothel Football,
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, it was eye opening to
12:16
Speaker 1: see how the community comes out for that event. And
12:20
Speaker 1: just you know, you come down main Street, I think
12:23
Speaker 1: it is right, yes, and as you start to turn
12:25
Speaker 1: that corner, you go, whoa, there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: people out here and they're roaring, making noise, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we're throwing candy all over the place, and like you said,
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Speaker 1: sometimes we got the little footballs out there, and you know,
12:38
Speaker 1: a couple of little guys in the back of a
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Speaker 1: truck just hucking footballs all over the place. The players
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Speaker 1: are throwing stuff all over and it's really really a
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Speaker 1: cool event. I'm excited for it. So yeah, I'd be
12:48
Speaker 1: sure to get out there and look for us and
12:50
Speaker 1: try to get yourself a piece of candy or I
12:51
Speaker 1: don't know if we're gonna have footballs, but let's go
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Speaker 1: back talk a little bit about June and spring football.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was a little bit shorter this year
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Speaker 1: because the w i a A had kind of pushed
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Speaker 1: some things back, you know, one of the things, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, a little bit less in terms of preparation
13:09
Speaker 1: before heading out to the grid Iron Champions camp down
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Speaker 1: at Pelu and Tacoma. But lots of teams down there,
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Speaker 1: including Mount Sign Skyline who are on our schedule this
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Speaker 1: year again. But practices, scrimmage is team bonding, tons of
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Speaker 1: stuff going on down at peel.
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Speaker 2: You yeah, you know, I always say that the greatest
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Speaker 2: thing we get from team camp is everything other than
13:32
Speaker 2: the actual scrimmaging and playing. You know, we we do
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Speaker 2: a rootbeer float goals night and kids bond and they
13:38
Speaker 2: hang out and they eat eat meals together and you know,
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Speaker 2: they're they're The bonding part is is what's real special.
13:46
Speaker 2: But we did have some great football as well. Uh,
13:49
Speaker 2: there's some good football teams are starting with oday the
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Speaker 2: defending three A state champion. We had Archbishop Murphy who's
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Speaker 2: really powerful this year, and pull Up and a number
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Speaker 2: of teams, uh, you know outside the code that that
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Speaker 2: we don't normally get to see. But it's sure. It
14:03
Speaker 2: was fun to see inglemore down there this year. And
14:05
Speaker 2: of course we always see skyline and and out side Mountside.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. That's that's the other school I was thinking of. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's it's fun, it's a it's a
14:16
Speaker 2: great time. That the weather was okay after it rained
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Speaker 2: a little bit. Uh, That the competition's good. They do
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Speaker 2: a great job. It's fun to get our kids on
14:24
Speaker 2: a college campus and eat in a college cafeteria and
14:27
Speaker 2: just get a little feel of what life is like
14:29
Speaker 2: after high school. But I'll tell you the the overall,
14:34
Speaker 2: you know, entirety of of what football camp does is
14:38
Speaker 2: really good for our program.
14:40
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny. The first, I think, first couple
14:43
Speaker 1: of days, the theme was get all your stuff off,
14:45
Speaker 1: hang it up, and get it as dry as possible.
14:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then.
14:49
Speaker 1: It became all right, hang it up, get it get
14:51
Speaker 1: all the sweat out as much as possible because it's
14:53
Speaker 1: starting to smell pretty bad in the dorms. But no,
14:57
Speaker 1: I think it was good down there. It's kind of
14:59
Speaker 1: one of those things that's it's funny. You go into
15:00
Speaker 1: a camp like that and you have a lot of
15:02
Speaker 1: questions you know, because a lot of newer varsity guys
15:06
Speaker 1: that are getting some playing time this year, and then
15:09
Speaker 1: as things go on, you start to go, wow, this,
15:11
Speaker 1: you know, this guy really made some strides or you
15:13
Speaker 1: know whatever. But then it's almost one of those things
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Speaker 1: where you come back with more questions that you had
15:17
Speaker 1: never even pondered before because of some of the things
15:20
Speaker 1: that stepped up and happened and guys you know picking
15:23
Speaker 1: up I mean, I'll just give an example. You know,
15:26
Speaker 1: right tackles. Zach Foltz was down at a hammer throwing
15:29
Speaker 1: event and he's very very good at the hammer throw,
15:32
Speaker 1: which I didn't even know until about a month and
15:34
Speaker 1: a half ago. That blew me away. I said, the
15:37
Speaker 1: hammer throw, Like I didn't even know they did that
15:38
Speaker 1: in high school. But but because of that, we had
15:42
Speaker 1: i don't know what three or four different right tackles
15:44
Speaker 1: getting some serious time down there. And then you come
15:48
Speaker 1: back and you go, hey, that guy, that guy might
15:50
Speaker 1: actually give us a little something more than we kind
15:52
Speaker 1: of anticipated this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Camp's a great opportunity to see, you know, where
15:57
Speaker 2: where kids align, where where what position maybe they should
16:01
Speaker 2: be in or or not be in. And uh, and
16:04
Speaker 2: you get to you get a lot on film. You
16:06
Speaker 2: get to go home and then watch it and study
16:08
Speaker 2: it and and evaluate it. And yeah, people, uh, people
16:12
Speaker 2: definitely had opportunities to to show what they can do.
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Speaker 2: And we're very proud of that. And we saw some
16:17
Speaker 2: great things and so we're excited. We've we've got some uh,
16:21
Speaker 2: we've got some areas of competition on our football team
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Speaker 2: that's fun. You know, Quarterback is probably the biggest area
16:28
Speaker 2: where you know, we're we're undefined right now what we're
16:31
Speaker 2: gonna do there, and and that's going to be a
16:33
Speaker 2: fun you know a couple of weeks to see who
16:37
Speaker 2: emerges and you know can take that role. And we're
16:41
Speaker 2: pretty solid on our lines, you know, with with uh,
16:45
Speaker 2: you know, that's probably the area that we're we're most
16:47
Speaker 2: experienced in on both sides of the ball. And then uh,
16:50
Speaker 2: a lot of skill positions that are are still yet
16:53
Speaker 2: to be won and and uh that that makes for
16:56
Speaker 2: a fun off season of summer lift in and seven
16:59
Speaker 2: on seven and then we'll get right into two A
17:01
Speaker 2: days and things will start to you know, iron themselves out.
17:05
Speaker 2: We'll kind of see who emerges there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you kind of told the team or talk
17:09
Speaker 1: to the team a couple of days ago about various
17:11
Speaker 1: seven on seven opportunities that we're gonna have. Really, the
17:14
Speaker 1: one that I think a lot of people look at
17:15
Speaker 1: is the Lakewood Passing Tournament that I think it's maybe
17:18
Speaker 1: called the Cougar Passing term. I can't remember exactly up
17:20
Speaker 1: at Lakewood High School in Smoky Point. I guess we'll
17:23
Speaker 1: call it North or Lakewood North. I can't remember exactly
17:27
Speaker 1: what they call it, but but yeah, that's a big
17:30
Speaker 1: event that's been going on for a long time and
17:34
Speaker 1: we've wanted a couple of times in the past, maybe
17:36
Speaker 1: been eliminated earlier than we would like to have a
17:39
Speaker 1: couple of times in the past, but that's kind of
17:42
Speaker 1: the last opportunity we get to work with the kids
17:46
Speaker 1: before going into the dead period before camp botha hood.
17:49
Speaker 1: So it's one of those events almost that y'all you
17:52
Speaker 1: kind of look forward to, and this year, I think
17:55
Speaker 1: it's something that's going to be not only great for
17:58
Speaker 1: our athletes, but also very beneficial for the coaches to
18:01
Speaker 1: kind of see where we're at.
18:02
Speaker 2: Absolutely that those experiences up there you get, you know,
18:05
Speaker 2: you get four games for sure, but hopefully you play
18:08
Speaker 2: five or six and it's a long day, but it's
18:10
Speaker 2: a great day. And again the competition's great. You get
18:14
Speaker 2: to see your your players one last time, you know,
18:17
Speaker 2: football related. And then they also have a lineman competition,
18:21
Speaker 2: so linemen are up there as well, and they do
18:24
Speaker 2: some fun things, including the four by one relay with
18:28
Speaker 2: a football, and they're pushing things and pulling things and
18:31
Speaker 2: benching and all kinds of strong man stuff. So it's
18:36
Speaker 2: a really nice event for us to kind of, you know,
18:39
Speaker 2: culminate the summer, if you will, and prepare ourselves for
18:44
Speaker 2: the start of two days in camp bathlehood.
18:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's another one of those events too where
18:49
Speaker 1: team bonding can really become a thing because you're there
18:52
Speaker 1: early in the morning and you're there all day. Yeah,
18:55
Speaker 1: I mean you are there all day and hopefully you're
18:56
Speaker 1: there into the almost dinner time, because that means you
19:00
Speaker 1: you're going deep. And you talk about an event that
19:03
Speaker 1: can be a real challenge for your athletes. I mean,
19:06
Speaker 1: I've seen it over the years where you get to
19:08
Speaker 1: the semi finals in the finals and half of your
19:10
Speaker 1: team is cramping up, so you've got backups in playing
19:13
Speaker 1: and I mean it gets pretty crazy and there's usually
19:16
Speaker 1: some very very good competition up there. I feel like
19:20
Speaker 1: it somehow works out that every year we got to
19:22
Speaker 1: play Lake Stevens at some point. I don't know how
19:23
Speaker 1: that happens, but you know, it's always good to play
19:27
Speaker 1: those teams that are the top teams, so to kind
19:29
Speaker 1: of see where you're at. So that's another event coming
19:31
Speaker 1: up here soon that we are definitely excited for. You
19:34
Speaker 1: mentioned Camp baffle Hood just really briefly there. I mean,
19:39
Speaker 1: we're what about forty seven days away from Camp baffle
19:42
Speaker 1: Hood and that is the official start to Fall camp. Yeah,
19:47
Speaker 1: it seems like it's going to be here, you know,
19:49
Speaker 1: in about a week is kind of what it feels
19:51
Speaker 1: like at the moment. But yeah, you know, Camp Bafflehood
19:54
Speaker 1: a big event for us and something that you talk
19:56
Speaker 1: about team bonding and really getting the intensity football, kind
20:01
Speaker 1: of setting that tone early in fall camp.
20:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's a three day event for us,
20:05
Speaker 2: and it's just really a focus. We try to focus
20:10
Speaker 2: around the clock on football only for the first couple
20:12
Speaker 2: of days, two and a half days, and it's been
20:15
Speaker 2: something that we've benefited from. It's been a great event.
20:20
Speaker 2: We try to do something fun at night, we try
20:22
Speaker 2: to make it meaningful in terms of developing relationships. But
20:27
Speaker 2: you know, at that time of the year, football is
20:29
Speaker 2: important too, and install and schemes and fundamentals and all
20:34
Speaker 2: the things that help you to be a good football team,
20:37
Speaker 2: you know, come into play and you're kind of mixing
20:38
Speaker 2: all that in it together, and and it is it's
20:42
Speaker 2: not putting your toes into the water. It's diving off
20:46
Speaker 2: the board and going deep. And so we look forward
20:48
Speaker 2: to that, you know, But like you said, we really
20:51
Speaker 2: look forward to the time between now and then as well.
20:55
Speaker 2: It's good to have a break. It's good to reset,
20:59
Speaker 2: and you know, I hope our kids are doing that.
21:01
Speaker 2: They have the ability after lifting in the morning to
21:04
Speaker 2: spend the rest of their day, you know, being kids,
21:06
Speaker 2: and that's important too. So it'll all come in due time,
21:10
Speaker 2: and when it gets here, we'll be excited, but certainly
21:12
Speaker 2: enjoying the off season right now.
21:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as soon as camp ballhood bafflehood is over,
21:17
Speaker 1: we go right into picture day, some two a days,
21:21
Speaker 1: cougar cart sales, and then it's game week. Schedule for
21:24
Speaker 1: the upcoming season is basically the same as last year,
21:26
Speaker 1: but you know, obviously flipped the home and away. So
21:29
Speaker 1: first game of the year is locked in September ninth.
21:31
Speaker 1: That's a Saturday one pm kickoff at Highline Memorial Stadium
21:35
Speaker 1: in Burying against the Kennedy Catholic Lancers. And then mark
21:38
Speaker 1: your calendar September twelfth, first home game of the year,
21:42
Speaker 1: Friday night, seven pm kickoff at POPKINI against the Arlington Eagles,
21:48
Speaker 1: a team that you know, they lost a lot of
21:51
Speaker 1: talent off last year's team. We obviously lost what we lost.
21:56
Speaker 1: This was a fifty to forty nine game last year.
21:59
Speaker 1: One of the crazy these games I've ever seen. But yeah,
22:03
Speaker 1: Friday night POPKINI coach. It doesn't get much better than that.
22:06
Speaker 1: And September twelfth will be here before you know it.
22:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's You're right, there's nothing better than
22:11
Speaker 2: parading down to the pop to play a football game.
22:14
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, we have a tough schedule to start with.
22:18
Speaker 2: Our non league is real challenging, and that's great. We'll
22:21
Speaker 2: play Kennedy in Burien and you know where I I
22:24
Speaker 2: grew up, grew up playing football and at my home
22:26
Speaker 2: stadium when I was a kid, and that's always fun.
22:29
Speaker 2: And the Lancers are are always tough as we all know,
22:32
Speaker 2: and you know, Arlington has has always been a great,
22:36
Speaker 2: good program, and it kind of became great the last
22:39
Speaker 2: year or so, and I can see them doing the
22:41
Speaker 2: same thing this year. They'll they'll continue to build and
22:45
Speaker 2: grow and and you know, they do a great job
22:48
Speaker 2: up there. And then of course we'll head over to
22:49
Speaker 2: Lewiston in Idaho, and that'll be a fun trip, a
22:52
Speaker 2: quick trip and over and back, but we'll play a
22:55
Speaker 2: really good football team there as well before we start
22:57
Speaker 2: our league play.
22:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that I think that trip to
23:02
Speaker 1: Lewiston is one of those ones where it'll it'll be
23:05
Speaker 1: it'll be kind of a long day, but it'll be
23:08
Speaker 1: very rewarding in a lot of different ways, especially if
23:10
Speaker 1: you can go go over and get a win. But
23:13
Speaker 1: the ride over, the ride back, just being together with
23:16
Speaker 1: the teammates and experiencing something like that is you know,
23:21
Speaker 1: in a way unique to high school football. And you know,
23:24
Speaker 1: in colleges you're not really taking a lot of actual
23:27
Speaker 1: road trips like that necessarily. But then obviously in the
23:31
Speaker 1: NFL they don't really take buses anywhere other than to
23:33
Speaker 1: and from the airport. But and I guess hotel to
23:36
Speaker 1: the Stadium, But that'll be a lot of fun. I'm
23:39
Speaker 1: excited for that trip. Other than that, yeah, I mean,
23:42
Speaker 1: the schedule is basically the same, so we're looking at
23:44
Speaker 1: a lot of the same teams. But if you head
23:46
Speaker 1: over to baffle football dot net you can find the
23:51
Speaker 1: you can find the schedule just right there. It says
23:53
Speaker 1: game schedule twenty twenty five. Game schedule right at the top.
23:56
Speaker 1: So Senior Night is set for October eleventh against Woodinville.
24:01
Speaker 1: Homecoming September twenty sixth against Skyland. We talked about that
24:06
Speaker 1: and then finished with a couple of road games against
24:09
Speaker 1: Mount Sion East Lake before heading into the Kinko crossovers.
24:12
Speaker 1: So as of right now on the schedule, only three
24:16
Speaker 1: guaranteed home games, so not as many opportunities as maybe
24:20
Speaker 1: in the past to see the Kougs, but definitely excited
24:23
Speaker 1: to play in front of not only the community, but
24:26
Speaker 1: the fans and the alumni and everybody. So yeah, that'll
24:30
Speaker 1: I mean, those games will be here before we know it.
24:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess technically the first game of the
24:34
Speaker 1: year is just barely over two months away at this point,
24:37
Speaker 1: so still a lot of work going on in between
24:40
Speaker 1: now and then but yeah, coach, it's been fun talking
24:45
Speaker 1: talking football again and talking Baffel Cougar football specifically. But
24:49
Speaker 1: we'll let you get out of here. Lots of stuff
24:50
Speaker 1: still to do the rest of the day, so thanks
24:54
Speaker 1: for your time.
24:54
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Always good chatting with you, Yllan.
24:57
Speaker 1: I'm Rylan Spencer. You've been listening to the latest episode
25:00
Speaker 1: of the Bathel Football Coaches Show with head coach Tom Banner,
25:03
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you. I don't know. We'll probably
25:05
Speaker 1: try to do this again in a couple of weeks