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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 177 - Brian Young Zoom Interview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Greetings and welcome into the Welcome Preps podcast. This is episode at one seventy
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seven, a special Zoom interview. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always,
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Tyler Anderson ofl What Coome Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing great?
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Man? We gotta keep rolling on and introducing some of the new head
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coaches around the county. And we got another one of those coming up.
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This is gonna be a lot of fun. We inched closer and closer to
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the football season. Let's introduce the third part of today's Zoom interview. Now,
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this was written by Tyler, so I'm just gonna read it as is
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and we're gonna have fun with this. If you rank all the Whatcome he
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had football coaches and their abilities as a voice actor, he is undisputedly number
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one. He is New Sea home head football coach. Brian Young Coach,
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how are we doing? I'm doing just fine, just fine. Thanks for
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me on we are now while we're recording this in what July? This won't
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be posted until August, but we're recording it here in July. Coach,
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you've been now essentially, you know, doing football activities. I guess if
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you will you've had the ability now for basically two months. How'd the spring
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slash summer go so far? Here at see Home? Well, the spring
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went pretty much as I expected it to go. You have to understand when
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you come into a new program, you have to kind of convert the culture
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over to what you needed to be. Adjustments with new coaches, building relationships
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with players. Uh, these guys have worked their tails off for us,
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right and the spring was great. You know, we got out there,
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we got to mix it up a little bit, we got to see who
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we were mentally, and then of course when we went to camp at Eastern
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Washington, oh boy, you know, we just blossomed as a team.
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Cohesion, really got going really well. We've been in the weight room doing
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those things in a weight room that you need to do to be effective on
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the football field. So right now, from a perspective, we're pretty much
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exactly where i'd hope we would be going into getting ready for the season upcoming
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in August when we start fall practice. Awesome. Yeah, I've been over
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there to that Eastern team camp many times, and I know Tyler went for
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his first time this year. I think that's just a tremendous camp, and
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you learn a lot about teams while you're over there as a media member and
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kind of like walking around. You can talk, you can do all kinds
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of cool stuff. So you're coming over from Squalacum. Not many people maybe
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around the area are super familiar with your name. They might know you from
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some of the other things that you do. I mean them, you know,
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but also they know you, they know your work because the Qualcom defense
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has been very good in your I'm there. What could give the listeners,
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the viewers if they're watching on YouTube, here a little bit of your football
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background. Where have you been? Where did you play anything like that?
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Well, we'll start with college played at Towson University. After that, did
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a few tryout things with the CFL. NFL didn't go exactly the way I
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wanted, but I wouldn't change those experiences for anything. Played some semi pro
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football up here for Bellingham Eagles, played for Sam Adams, former Seahawks.
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Super Bowl guy, went to the national title with that thing with the East
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Side Hawks. So football has been ingrained in me for a long time now.
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Coaching wise, if you've ever heard of the Walking County Raiders, Bellingham
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Bulldogs, Bellingham Blitz. Well, I won titles with all of those teams
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and got great opportunities to coach some guys like Matt Overton who went on to
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the NFL. Will Davis was a third round draft pick Ryan Lucas who won
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the CFL Gray Cup up there. So I been doing a football thing in
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this area for a long long time, and about nine years ago, when
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most of the semi pro football is shut down up here, I decided,
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Hey, let's let's try the high school level. And so, you know,
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for the past nine years I had the blessing of being associated with Nick
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Lucy and the crew that he brought in. Their phenomenal experience for me helped
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me grow in some areas as a coach that I needed to grow in.
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And you know, when that nine years came to an end and to see
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home position became available, I thought, you know what, it's an opportunity
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for me to continue my coaching path but also reach one of my goals,
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which as a coach and a player, is to give back to the game
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of football. Right, so this is my opportunity to do that give some
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other guys an opportunity to coach some positions they probably haven't had before, and
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you know, helped develop a program that obviously was hit some rocky paths year
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and so we'll straighten all that out, and you know what, we'll put
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a team on the field that's going to compete every day on Friday night that
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we're out there. Hey coached a few years ago. In twenty twenty one,
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you were named the Northwest Conference Assistant Coach of the Year. You coached
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against Sea Home over the past few years, so you kind of saw it
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from that side of the field, right, and you saw the kind of
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talent that they had when you took over the program. What were some of
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the things that you learned that maybe you didn't know just from seeing them as
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players, just getting to know them as people. Well, when you go
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into a situation, because I also in business, have kind of a corporate
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management background, so I always asked the three magic questions to me, what
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are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? What can we do
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better? And as I started to talk to individual players, you know,
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I found out some things about these guys as young men. They're phenomenal dudes.
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They really are. They're phenomenal dudes. Now some of them. It
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was rough. It was really rough last year and some of the things that
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happened, So, you know, even though I had nothing to do with
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it, wasn't involved. My first thing is to say, hey, I'm
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sorry that happened to you. That's not what this high school football thing should
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be about. And then I started to talk to them, Hey, so
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what can we do together collectively to clean this up? How can I support
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you? What do you guys need from me? And all these guys have
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done is respond in a very very positive way to that. I've watched guys
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grow from the time we started with our first conversation we had to meet and
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greet in the weight room, and those guys went from that and now they're
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sitting down collectively having conversations with me. Hey, coach, can we do
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this team building activity? Hey coach, you know, how can I help
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this guy on my team get better? So, you know, just the
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biggest thing I've learned from these guys is they're really good individuals and they really
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want to do well with this, and they buy in. And I'm expecting
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these guys to get out there and compete their tails off every Friday night.
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So obviously you return quarterback multiple starting receivers. Do you see your offense being
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a little bit more pass heavy or what kind of what kind of a game
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plan do you bring to the offense. Well, Tyler, you know you
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have to always go by what's going to work best against that appuntment. Right,
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So we'll balance it off a little bit more. Let's just call it
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what it is. Man Nolan right can spend the rock. Okay, So
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the fact that he can spend the rock is going to allow us to put
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the ball in the air a little bit. Found out. There's some guys
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out there, Braddock, Duckworth, Andre Watson, theo Quigley. I mean,
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these guys, these guys are good football players, they really are.
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So we're going to have a system that is a little bit more flexible throwing
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the ball, and we'll be a little bit more dynamic in regards to just
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not running straight ahead. We'll move across the line of scrimmage a little bit
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more to kind of put everybody in their best position starting their skills. Couch,
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when you think about think about how when when people think of see home
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football, what do you kind of want that vision to be? If I
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said to you, Hey, if I said to somebody outside, Hey,
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when you think of Sea Home, what do you what do you think?
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What is that? What is that idea that you're you guys are trying to
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present to them? Oh that's a great question. So I this is for
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me. I heard all kinds of stuff going in, all kinds of stuff
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not just about the players, but about the people associated with See Home,
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and I always go into something. I go, hey, feelings aren't facts,
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right, So I'm gonna sit down, I'm gonna find out facts.
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Now. Obviously, some of the things that people say they're spot on,
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and they may not be the greatest things. They may be fantastic things.
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Other times you're going to find out that people are saying things and you always
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consider the source because you go, well, what's that person's angle for saying?
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Right? So what I did, and in meeting with some of the
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players that veteran guys that are coming back, you know, I said,
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hey, well, what do you want the team to be? Because football
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teams are about the players maybe right, It's not about the coaches or the
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fans or any of that. It's about those kids playing on that team.
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They're what really matters. So I said to them, well, what do
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you want the team to be. So they came up with four words,
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four cornerstones that we base everything on, right, you know, and those
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four things are kind of what we look at as our teams. So when
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we talk family, right, that's our first word, and family really means
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you don't want that Everybody is out there, is welcome, everybody is value.
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Right, that's the whole thing. We take care of each other as
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a family. Now, in any family, you have disputes, you have
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bumps in the road, whatever, but you always come back, you love
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each other up and you get right back out there on the field, right.
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So you know, then we go dedication, right, or discipline and
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those basically things I'm looking at these guys going, hey, football is a
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game of inches. If it's fourth and one, you get a half yard,
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you're off the field. So when we think about that, we say
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to ourselves, hey, you know what this discipline right is doing the right
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thing whether somebody's watching or not. That's our whole thing with That's how we
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define it. And these guys took the time to define like these cornerstones of
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what our program is going to be, and that's really how we hold everybody
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accountable. We hold everybody. Hey, you know, what is this what
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a good teammate looks like. So one of the really cool things that we
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did was when we went to camp. You know, we had everybody and
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we got in our family groups because we have little family groups. We had
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this awesome draft and we drafted up family groups or team leaders and they've got
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a second guy. Well, we sat back and said, what does the
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good teammate look like? So they had that whole ride from Bellingham all the
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way up to Eastern to just talk about that. And then we got in
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the room and we're writing all the things on the board and so then we
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come up with three things. You know that they want each other to be
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to each other, and that's what we hold them, you know, And
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it's just it's like, you know, trust that those type of things,
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right, So that's what we and be by we I'm talking about the coaches
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and players. That's what we're building the team to be. Now, people
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on the outside, hey, they're gonna say what they're gonna say. But
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as my grandmother and grandfather used to tell me, it's never about what you're
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called, it's about what you answered to. So it's not about what other
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people say about us as the football team and as a group. It's about
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who we are, what we represent, and we're going to represent all the
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right things. We're gonna do what we're supposed to do right, We're gonna
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be accountable for stuff, and we're just gonna keep moving forward. I like
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that the tyler is obviously going to geek out about a lot of the players
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here. In just a moment you mentioned how the coaches it's about the players,
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not the coaches. I do want to ask about coaches though, because
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of a whole new staff here, So as coaches, who are some of
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the assistants. I'm sure there's quite a few names that people around the county
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now and what positions are some of these guys coaching? Well, I think
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I've got one guy. First up is Russ Robinson right now. He was
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over at Squalacon with me for nine years. That's one of my most trusted
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resources and he really, like that really solidified things for me because you know,
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I had a guy I've been in the trenches with. He has the
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same mindset in reference to the accountability and what we want to hold our players
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too. So Russ coming over with me really meant a lot to me.
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Then we kind of reached out and I've got some guys that I coached semi
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pro with and I've watched them. They've been at other places. Addison parent
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is going to come over. He's going to be the defensive coordinator. The
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other thing is might be th On Terry Tolan right, Terry is welcome County
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legend as far as high school player. But Terry was my offensive line coach
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during my whole entire nine years of semipro So Brock Terry over Terry, I
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worked with the offensive line Nick Roja, a former Sea Home player. He
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was doing some Division three coaching. I picked up the phone and called him,
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said, hey, man, I need you. Four days later,
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he's back at home. Let's go. So, you know, we have
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I have guys that I'm familiar with that I know guys who have some high
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school experience. The thing you have to understand about a coaching staff. And
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we went through this a little in the spring. We're still feeling each other
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out. We're still you know, hey, you know, how do we
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want to do this? What do we want to do that? Still breaking
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Some of the thought process is one that I had one coaches meeting where I
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looked at all the coaches and I basically said, hey, I'll give a
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damn where you came from, right, I want you guys to start thinking
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about this. What we do here is the sea home way. I don't
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want to do whatever they did over there. Obviously some things are successful,
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Obviously mimic some things, but we are putting our own stamp on this.
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We're not doing it any other way than the way that fits our guys the
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best. And we're getting more and more to that, right. So,
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got some good guys, got some trusted guys, got some guys who have
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been in this area about just players and coaches, and you know what,
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We're just going to keep building off of that and putting it together with our
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guys and getting ready for the season. I know it's the most exciting time
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of the year, coach, I hear you. You know we touched on
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it a little bit with the offensive personnel and stuff like that, but is
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there a kind of a base offense that you run and who are some of
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the big names that we should be looking at as far as uh skill guys
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and the guys up front on the line for your offensive players. So you're
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killing me small as I can't give away my package. Hey, that's why
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you say you said an earlier coach balanced, that's all balanced. I'll tell
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you. I'll tell you, Tyler. Here's something that we did really well
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when I was working with coach Lucy. You know, we had things that
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we that we did traditionally, but we would look at that opponent and go,
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hey, we need to tweak it this way or flex it that way.
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Right, And that's really how I came over from semi pro. Like,
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if you don't know semi pro, you practice twice a week and you
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talk about you talk about it justice, right, because you don't know who
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you're going to have all the time. So I learned to coach, you
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know, in the game, in the moment, really really well. Right.
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So that's like one of the things that we'll do. Like when we
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were over in Eastern we were doing Friday night Lights and we're going up against
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Monroe, right, and Monroe, Oh, they're licking their chops. Maybe
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they're just licking their chops. They're coming in. They have no respect for
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us at all. But by this time, these guys that are playing for
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me, they're developing the same attitude I have, which is, hey,
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man, I don't give a damn who you are. We're playing in a
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parking, right. We believe we can get down with anybody if we do
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what we're supposed to do. And you know what we did just that,
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we ran the Philly Special on them in sudden death, right, and we
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scored and always broke their heart. Oh and that made Eastern's Instagram page,
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which was fantastic, right, and that was really adopted basically what I saw
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against them. I knew we couldn't just road grade them up front. They
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were a little faster than we were. So it's like, okay, let's
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get these guys moving latterly, put the ball in the hands of my best
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players, right, and let's make this thing work now, Tyler to your
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question up front, Colterrell, awesome, dude. Awesome dude, Right,
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Bachelor Arts, awesome, dude. These guys are good, solid, sound
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football players. Now, let's just call it what it is. This football
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team is very young, very young. I'm gonna have two seniors. I
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got a lot of guys. And that was one thing that I stepped back
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and went, wow, I stepped in there. I got a lot of
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guys who are technically like freshman right now going into be sophomores that are the
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top players, like no one right. I have to sometimes remember this dude
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is a freshman, like he's just going into a sophomore season. So you
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know, the learning curve is a little bit heavy. But you know,
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Baxter and Cold they're going to anchor that thing for us. You know,
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inside Finn greg War is going to step up and learn to be a really
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good football player. You know, We've got a couple other guys that are
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gonna grow and come in there. But these guys are young. But the
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offensive line, they're my favorite guys. They're the most important guys out there.
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Those guys will you know what, they get the big burgers, they
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get, the big steak, they get the love. They're gonna be talked
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about over and over because I don't give a damn who your skill players are.
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If you can't protect them, if he can't block, you're not gonna
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do a damn thing. So the offensive line is love those guys. You
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know, they put their hand in the dirt, they go to work for
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you. This Hunter standing as a guy you've probably never even heard of,
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him. If I had thirty guys that worked that hard, we go down
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to Katie, Texas and win a game. Right, This kid never misses
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anything. He might not be the biggest, he might not be the strongest,
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he might not be the best athlete, but the way he goes about
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it, right, is really impressive and it's really inspiring to me. But
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you know, we're gonna we're gonna count on those two guys Backster and Cole
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to kind of anchor that offensive line and lead the way with it and their
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cohesion, their unity, their time that they spend together. As they go
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further and further into the season, right, I expect those guys to mesh
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better and better and better. Yeah, that's the great thing about offensive line
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is it's such a it's such a unit. It's it's five guys working as
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one. And as the season goes on, if if you know everything works
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the way you want it to, you see it every week. Right,
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Yes, on the deep defensive side of the ball, you know, and
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correct me if I'm wrong, But see Home traditionally and Squalicum traditionally, it's
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kind of run the same kind of three four type of defense. You kind
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of see that kind of continuing on, well, you know what, Tyler,
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if a broke, don't fix it, right, So there's a couple
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of things that work really well, especially at the high school. Then if
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you're able to move your defensive line, it just it creates some different challenges
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for guys, right. So the thought process in a lot of what we
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do defensively is trying to prevent those vertical lines. Right, that's straight line
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getting to the end zone, pretty easy to get there. We want guys
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to have to run around things. So we've we've made a few position changes
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from what you saw some guys playing last year. Like I won't tell you
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where Braddick Duckworth is playing right now, but he definitely is not standing back
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there in the secondary and he reaked havoc at Eastern Read havoc at Eastern,
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you know with that length, you know, just being able to do those
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things defensively, So like offensively, we have what I just consider some guys
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household names. You know, Hey, Nolan writes quarterback, you know who
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he is. Andre Watson Hayes received, you know he has Braddock Duckworth's you
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know who these guys are. Defensively, it's more of a collective effort.
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It's more of eleven guys messing up together, you know, doing the right
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thing. Now, we got some great corners. Kobe Chambers is a better
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player than I knew he was. And we're coaching Colby to the details now,
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right. So now you get a guy who was just kind of out
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there working off of talent, and now you start putting some things into him
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where you're teaching him, you know, some hip movements, some footwork,
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You're teaching them how to read things a little bit better, right, and
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then you're putting a package in and around him that allows him to play a
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little bit freer. So I'm expecting to really have an outstanding year and really
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be an anchor, you know, over their corner. Now, again,
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we're young, so in some positions, you know, we have guys who
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are really just getting their feet wet. But boy, they're they're really buying
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in and they're sitting down learning and as we get into the fall, you
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know, part of how I coach and what I do is is the cerebral
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aspect, right, because I believe football is a cerebral game. It's a
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thinking person's game. You got to be smart to play the game. So
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one of the things we do pre practice is for about ten or fifteen minutes,
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we just talked the cerebral part that might be drawn up something, walking
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a guy through visually on the board, that might be showing some film to
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the entire team, so they visually, so they start to get the intellectual
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part of football. Because there's two kind of players, right, one that
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thinks and one that knows. The guy that thinks is always a half second
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late, but the guy that knows what to do, plays with his talent,
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plays fast, plays, violent plays effective on defense, and that's really
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what we're looking for. I like that. I completely agree. I was
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working with some centers recently and one of the things I told them is,
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every time you walk up to the ball, you got to know who do
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you have to block, what can the defense do to me? And how
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do I got to get the job done? And away you go. You
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know what I mean, put your hand on the ball, snap and let's
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go. But if you can't figure that out by the time you put your
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hand on the ball, then you're late, you know. Now, coach,
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I want to talk defensive scheme. What are your blitz packages? How
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are they going to coach, let's do a thing called five names here.
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So I'll give you. I'll give you a name, and you just kind
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of give me the first thoughts you have on that player or that person,
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whoever it is. There's a couple of names on here that you might expand
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a little bit on as we get deeper into it. But and if you
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want to expand on it, go right ahead, all right. The first
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time I'm going to give you is Brandon raina bib. I played a long
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time with that dude. Yeah, man, I ran a lot of runs
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behind that guy. Say, Brandon Rain is one of the best. He
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is absolutely one of the toughest dudes out there. Right, Brandon goes to
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work. He's the guy that so so I'll give you come on, all
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right, come on, we'll get cranked up here. Right. So we're
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playing the Pugatown Jets, and this is back when I was playing for the
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Bellingham Eagles. Pugatown Jets are legendary. They won like, oh, I
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don't know, four or five national titles. Kenny Austin, great coach that
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Brandon Rain is going up against this guy named Pat Gilbert, who was a
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pretty damn good defensive lineman and Brandon got a hold of this guy, and
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Pat Gilbert was a good three twenty. Brandon picked Pat Gilbert up and he
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slammed him down, all legal, and this is on real, not that
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crap they play on today. This is on the turf that's got the concrete
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underneath it. He slammed, yeah, yes, on that turf, and
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the air went out of Pad Gilbert. And I just looked down at Pat
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Gilbert and I was like, oh, I know that hurt and that guy
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that's Brandon raining. That's what he would do. That's what Brandon would do.
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He's also a lot better athlete than Yes. Was there any runs where
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you're running down the field right, because I was a fullback at that time,
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it would be runs I got the ball and running down the field and
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Brandon is running ship for tat with you like condor boing you down. Right.
24:40
Someone thought it was just like a beautiful thing to just have that guy.
24:42
But the hell of a human being and a great football player, absolutely
24:47
great man. Now Tyler, I might mess up the last name on this
24:51
next guy, but because we talked about it yesterday and then I kind of
24:53
forget how to say it. Oh, Okay, Tyler is typing it out
24:59
for me right now, Simon, Oh, Toby sign the human Highlight,
25:03
real baby, Okay Toby. There's a picture of Toby catching a ball against
25:11
a team called the Rent and Ravens, and Toby went from a standing position,
25:17
he's in a vertical lead. Now his knees in the picture are at
25:19
the guy's helmet and Toby wasn't at all. And the best part, the
25:25
best bar. Toby was a football player. When he first came out to
25:27
play for me for the Wacom County Raiders. He's playing the first couple three
25:33
games and he's just kind of out there running around. We had an injury
25:37
and so that next week we were really down on receivers and all of a
25:41
sudden, you know, we're throwing the football to Toby sim and everybody's like,
25:45
who the hell is that? Right, Well, it didn't take long
25:48
for us to figure out who it was. He became a phenomenal receiver.
25:52
But his blocking, oh my god, Toby Toby, legit knockout artists,
26:00
legit knockout artist. We played a game over in the Peninsula against this team,
26:04
Peninsula Eagles, and they had an inside linebacker and I mean this dude
26:10
looked like he was something out of a muscle and fitness magazine. He was
26:12
all tattooed up and he's running and doing all the things. Man. Toby
26:18
hit him on a down block, coming in the middle on a suite.
26:23
That guy got up like he had had fifteen beers in a bar, staggered
26:27
down fell. We didn't see him anymore. Right, that was a straight
26:32
woo. Toby was just wou hits baby all the time, right and again.
26:37
But just a great guy. Toby was with me. I think he
26:41
played for me on almost every championship at Semi program. And he's just a
26:45
phenomenal, phenomenal athlete man, right, great player. Love that dude,
26:51
now, Tyler, this next one I should have had. I should have
26:52
had his music ready to go, but I don't. Baker slam my god,
27:02
oh man, Oh this dude, he's he's just a good. First,
27:08
let's say this about him. He is a really good human being.
27:12
And his story to get where he is. I don't want to hear any
27:18
excuses about people complaining about oh it's rough on me. Hey, that dude
27:22
and what he survived to get where he is. Nobody else should say a
27:26
damn thing, right. He oh Cedro Woolley a couple of years ago.
27:33
And you know what's bad when your own team is saying stuff on the field
27:40
about it. He stiff armed a kid, and I mean, oh my
27:44
gosh, espn, I heard the music in my head. Na, no,
27:48
no, right, he stiff armed this kid. Their players we're going,
27:52
oh right, And I'm like, wow, that's rough when your own
27:55
teammates us. He's a he's something special man, And I'm gonna go down
28:00
this year at some point be able to watch him Layton and Bryson Lamb,
28:07
you know, playing for Wazoo and just be able to go, wow,
28:10
this is phenomenal man. All three of those guys had him at one time.
28:14
And you know what, I I just can't wait to watch all three
28:17
of them play. But I want to see Davinski get types of football and
28:21
really get his gallop on one time. But great football player, really good
28:26
human being, right, love him, love his family, nothing but positive
28:30
things to say about it. Well, let's not go too far away from
28:33
him, but let's get a little red with you, will. Let's go
28:34
Bryson Lamb, Yes, Babe, b Lamb. I was just texting him
28:41
the other day. Right. So Bryson Lamb, right is your correction team.
28:48
You make a mistake on something, he corrects him. So when Bryson
28:53
was playing in the senior year, if I had a problem on defense,
28:57
I'm just going to Bryson and going, hey, man, I need this
29:00
fixed. That means I'm gonna send you on a blitz. And I felt
29:04
bad for the kid playing across from him, because if the kid was in
29:08
front of him, right, Bryson was gonna put him on a poster.
29:12
The interesting thing about Bryson Lamb is when he was a first came in as
29:19
a player a little bit of a knucklehead, right, But as he matured
29:25
he became exactly what you wanted him to be. And I can remember his
29:30
senior year. We were talking through something one time and Bryson he just wanted
29:36
to get out of practice. He started to fall in love with the process
29:40
of practice, which is really that's where you win your games, right,
29:44
And so he had fallen so much in love with that that he was like,
29:47
man, I just want to get on the field. I want to
29:48
start doing the work. And to his credit, when he went to Wazoo,
29:55
he didn't go with a scholarship. He went and said, you know
29:59
what, I'm to bet on the one short thing I know in life myself,
30:03
and damn it, he did. And he you know what, he's
30:04
got that scholarship and he'll be out there this year as a nose tackle right
30:11
playing Division one football and damn and he earned it. He earned it.
30:15
He's actually gonna come back and stop by and visit me and see him.
30:19
I'm gonna let him talk to the players for a little bit. Uh so,
30:22
you know, just so they can get that same story. But Ryce
30:26
into something mouse Man, He's he's something else, really really good. Dude.
30:32
Love him to death. Yeah, that guy was fun to watch.
30:36
Last name on the on the five here is uh maybe the most obvious one
30:40
of them all, Nick Lucy. Well, I have nothing but love for
30:45
coach Lucy. Ah. So he gave me an opportunity to coach U school
30:51
football. It was very interesting. We go back to the other piece of
30:55
it. Couldn't get an opportunity from anywhere else. None of the other schools
31:00
in town would give me an opportunity, but he did, and he gave
31:04
me an opportunity, and he also challenged me as a coach. Up until
31:10
then, until I started coaching with him, I was one hundred percent strictly
31:14
an offensive guy. Didn't do anything on the defensive side of the football.
31:18
As a player, didn't play any defense. But from day one he looked
31:23
at me and he's like, well, what can you coach on defense?
31:26
And in my head I was like, oh, I just tell him,
31:30
Hey, whatever you want me to coach. And he goes, what are
31:32
you to coach? Nside linebackers? And so I had to go in the
31:34
lab, as I call it, right, and you go on the lab,
31:37
and that's basically where you started bringing from them, you started understanding.
31:41
So I'm looking up all kinds of inside linebacker stuff and getting it down.
31:44
But what happened as I went on, you know, and he challenged me
31:48
to be a special teams coordinator. Then he says, hey, let's elevate
31:51
you to the defensive coordinator spot. All that did was make me better.
31:53
All that did was make me better. And when I called defense, and
32:00
as I felt I had was I didn't call it like a guy who'd only
32:04
worked defensive stuff. I called it from an offensive perspective. I was always
32:09
thinking, what would I do if I was THEOC, how would I try
32:14
to combat? And so I would try to get two or three plays ahead
32:17
of those guys in what I was doing with the defense. But that's all
32:22
on Coach Lucy giving me the opportunity, helping me to grow and preparation.
32:29
Coach lute this second to none. Now, I'll tell you guys this,
32:31
this is my perspective. There is not a better football coach in this area
32:36
than Nick Lucy. And I'm not just talking next to s and knows,
32:38
I'm talking to human being wise, he's a hell of a human being.
32:42
But one of the things that he was really really good on is his preparation
32:46
and so that I definitely have taken with it. So you were talking earlier
32:51
about the coaching stad One of the things I've noticed with my new coaching staff
32:54
is I'm having to teach them a little bit. Well, this is how
32:58
you are, this is how you get yourself ready for practice. Right,
33:02
And coach Lucy coming from a high level college background, well that's what he
33:07
brought in. And so as a teacher, you know, because I teach
33:12
at Squalo Command see home now, right, as a teacher, I have
33:15
the philosophy that I teach up. So if you're in the ninth grade,
33:17
I'm not teaching you to stay in the ninth grade. I'm teaching you go
33:21
to tenth grade. So I've always coached up. So Coach Lucy helped me
33:24
take that to another level. Right, even if these guys aren't going to
33:28
go on and play college. You look at it and say, if you're
33:30
playing freshman football, I'm coaching you to go to JV. If you're playing
33:32
JV football, I'm coaching you to be a varsity guy. If you're a
33:36
varsity guy, I'm coaching you to go playing college even if you don't.
33:39
Isn't it a smarter thing to do to elevate somebody, to bring them to
33:44
a higher level. You know both and how they think and how they act
33:46
on what they do. So that's all from Coach Lucy, right, and
33:52
one of the toughest things that I had to do. But I want to
33:55
make sure I did it right. Was my love for that dude, my
34:00
respect for him. When I accepted the job at SEEM, I told h
34:05
Colin Kushman the AD, I said, Hey, the one thing I want
34:08
to do is I want him to hear it from me. Right, I
34:12
want him to hear it directly from me. And I went and I talked
34:15
to him, and you know what, man, again he was nothing but
34:19
supportive, nothing but supportive, it right, And I don't know, like
34:23
I can't speak for him. I know it was it was tough on both
34:29
hands. But you know, people, people have to think like this,
34:32
like change is one of the few certain things in life, so you know
34:37
things are gonna happen different, and you know what, you embraced the change
34:40
and you move forward with it, and I will always like And the other
34:45
thing was tell didn't want to burn any bridges with that guy. You never
34:47
know, you know what I mean. We may end up coaching together again
34:51
somewhere down the line, and again that would be a great position for me
34:54
to be in. Right, But nothing but but praise and love for coach
34:59
Lucy across the board. All right, that's five names. Now I've got
35:04
another one. But I don't want to get your opinion on this guy.
35:07
Okay. It's somebody that I think you and I both know. Tyler probably
35:14
doesn't know him as well as I do, but Tyler knows the name,
35:15
all right. So I know a guy. His name is Kelly Fee,
35:22
and I hit up Kelly Fee and I said, hey, I know you.
35:25
I know you played for this guy, probably played with him. And
35:29
I said, what can you give me? I said, give me something
35:31
where I can I can make I can make coach a little a little uncomfortable.
35:37
And he he goes, give me time, let me get back to
35:39
He's like, let me think, all right, So then he says,
35:43
he goes, man, he goes, you know, I don't really have
35:45
a whole lot. He goes, but you could ask him about the time
35:47
that he tried playing quarterback for us. So he said, it's kind of
35:52
funny. So I need to know what is the story about you trying to
35:55
play quarterback? As for the Bellingham Bulldogs, I think it was. I
36:00
think Kelly might be guessing you up a little bit, right, Like,
36:04
you know, I tell you what towards one one story that I told the
36:08
players one time, I said, hey, I will put on the gear.
36:15
I've been coaching now for about four or five years. I think I
36:19
was like, all right, you know, if we do well in this
36:21
game, whatever, I think, I'm gonna put on the gear and I'm
36:24
gonna go in the game. And I don't play fullback for a little while,
36:27
right, And I did. David Wells was the fullback and I was
36:31
actually the tailback at that point, and I got him to feel with these
36:36
guys and actually Ransom runs, you know, ran enough to get a first
36:39
down. And then my mind was like, hey, man, you know
36:43
your body's only got so many shots you can take with us, right,
36:45
so they don't carry you off. You better walk off right and not.
36:50
And one thing like when Kelly tells you that I used to with my semi
36:55
pro teams and I first started, I used to when we would do our
37:00
inner squad scrimmage. I used to put the gear on and participate. Now
37:05
I play it that right. And then I just gotta remember one day at
37:07
Civic it must have been four hundred degrees. Man, I was looking around
37:10
for the devil somewhere. How does hell right? But I put the gear
37:15
on, I put the helmet, and I flipped it up, and my
37:17
mind just went, yeah, this isn't what it used to be. And
37:22
I just took it off that day and I was like, I think I'm
37:27
just gonna be that guy now. It just talks about what I used to
37:30
do, right, But to Kelly's point. Every now and then I would
37:36
get on the field with the guys. And I think as a coach,
37:39
when you make yourself vulnerable to your players and you're not afraid for them to
37:45
laugh at you or laugh with you, whatever it might be, it just
37:50
it just endears the relationship a lot, you know, And do the same
37:53
thing with my guys now see home. You know, we'll crack jokes with
37:58
them, you know, whatever it is that we need to do. Right.
38:01
Like if you guys could have been in our team meetings, you know
38:05
at Eastern Washington, you know, we did something. It was basically interview
38:09
days. So each coach sit in a chair and these family groups of these
38:15
players, they would be able to ask questions of coaches. And they had
38:17
like a five minute window and they were asking all kinds of questions to coaches,
38:22
right, And so they asked me this question, and it was if
38:28
you were invisible, coach, what would you do right now if you don't
38:31
know coach Bethorn. Coach Bethorn, Yeah, big Mike is a large individual,
38:39
right, and love him to death. But I said to the team,
38:43
I said, if I was invisible, I would just go get a
38:45
Hamburger and just go in front of Mike and just wave it back and forth
38:50
like this, just to see and and and seeing. So in the random
38:53
rooms, lasting and that like that. When you're coaching, I think when
39:00
you make yourself vulnerable for stuff like that, that's that's what the fun of
39:07
the coaching pieces, you know. So there's there's a few. I mean,
39:10
I don't you know, look, look run I don't really get uncomfortable
39:16
with stuff. I will just embrace it and go, yeah, maybe that
39:21
was my best moment or yeah, I'm just gonna laugh with you, you
39:25
know what I mean. And so I will tell you one time at uh
39:31
squallaking was pretty funny. Cretan Cali was a linebacker at the time, and
39:38
we're doing a drill and you know, the drill was an angle drill for
39:44
tackling. I would just run with the ball and you know they would come
39:47
and tackle me. And if you if you were ever around me as a
39:52
player, like, I love talking smack with these guys, right, It
39:55
keeps it keeps you light hearted. It may sit more fun when you're out
40:00
there grind and so I'm just having fun. I'm out running these guys to
40:05
the point. And you know what, I Creton was up there and I
40:09
tried to catch him off guard, you know, and I'm gonna take off,
40:13
right, because hey, defense has to work on movement. Man.
40:15
I took off and Creton got me that time. He tackled me and he
40:20
got up jumping up and down, screaming and hollering, and of course in
40:24
my fast and I just looked at him. I said, off side five
40:28
year a penalty didn't count, right, So that's that. There's all kinds
40:32
of little stories like that, you know that they go around and that's good,
40:37
right, But Kelly, Kelly was Kelly played through a lot of pain
40:42
with us, right, He had a bad knee when he played. But
40:45
you know again, another guy played his tail off right, won a lot
40:46
of championships with that guy, you know, right, X Western dude too,
40:51
So you know it's funny, funny guy too. Yes, he's kind
40:55
of one of those quiet, funny guys where when he says something, you
40:58
know it's gonna be great. It just is. But well, I have
41:01
to tell you guys, when he would pull up to the games in his
41:05
white Cadillac, he would get out of that because you would see the car
41:12
pull up and you would in your mind kind of have an expectation of who
41:16
you thought was going to get out, and Kelly would get out and you
41:20
would go, That's not what I expected. How do they fit that guy
41:24
even in that car? Yeah, oh boy playing. I do tell sometimes
41:30
I tell the high school players like semi pro football. They like very few
41:36
people know, especially years ago. It was basically guys who had played Division
41:44
one football and just wanted to keep playing. And back when I was actually
41:47
playing, they only had ten teams. Now they got thirty, but they
41:52
only had ten teams. So it was a lot of ex University of Washington
41:55
guys, you know, playing in this league, and it was everybody was
42:00
three hundred and fifty pounds across the line. I remember a few years ago
42:04
in Yakama, Lobostall was playing quarterback for the Yakama Mavericks. Well he had
42:09
just finished playing for Wazoo. Yeah, his brother was out there playing as
42:14
well. Right, So it was back when Kelly was playing. You know,
42:19
there were some phenomenal athletes playing out there. And yeah, Kelly was
42:23
one of the many three hundred plus spounders you mentioned earlier, The Rent and
42:29
Ravens I went to a remember going to a Rent and Ravens game against I
42:31
think it was the South County Cults if I remember correctly. I remember Mike
42:37
Bush was playing for the Rent and Ravens, and I can remember correctly,
42:42
I think. Didn't Sam Adams have something to do with that Rent and Ravens
42:45
team? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean there was, Yeah,
42:47
I remember, I remember that team, and and you know, we didn't
42:51
get rosters at the gate or anything. And I remember like remember like looking
42:53
out there and being like, bro, I don't know who some of those
42:55
guys are, but those guys definitely played at a high level. Like there
43:00
were on any given day at that time when I was playing, you would
43:05
have four to five guys who were x NFL guys when I was playing for
43:12
Sam oh I can't remember who the guy was, but somebody flew in from
43:15
Alaska to play a game that day and he and Sam also because he was
43:22
so he's planning for the Raiders and the Bills at the time that you know
43:27
he was doing that, and so he was also opening doors for guys to
43:30
go get pro trialts, which was pretty phenomenal. Right, We and we
43:35
would have guys who like you were talking about Mike Bush when Mike had just
43:39
come back from a trial with the Green Bay Packers. I think, you
43:43
know what I mean. And if you're if you're that your quality is that
43:47
you know, just to get that shot. Yeah, there's a hand tryouts
43:53
out like you gotta you have to have done something. Yeah, there was
43:58
just a lot of It was a lot of fun for me because it was
44:02
the closest thing to like college football, but I could find the competition was
44:09
really really awesome. I can't remember who. We played the national title game
44:14
at the Walt Disney World Complex down in Florida, which again was just great.
44:21
And you know we're playing I can't remember where that team was from,
44:23
but you go down to roster man, it was a who's who of guys
44:29
who had been pretty damn good D one players or x NFL guys, and
44:34
it was a lot of fun. You know, so before they expanded it
44:37
out, it was a lot of fun, highly competitive, and you know,
44:40
I do it again. I do it again for sure. Right Hey,
44:45
coach, you were talking about, you know, great athletes and stuff
44:47
like that, And one of my favorite players to watch, especially this last
44:52
year was Andre Watson. And when you watch him play both sides of the
44:57
ball or in the return game, you look at me go, oh,
45:00
he's not the biggest guy. Oh he mightbe not have the best straight line
45:02
speed, right, but there's stuff about him. He's not the tallest guy,
45:07
but if you want to throw it up, he's the guy that's gonna
45:08
go get it. What are those things that just make him better than those
45:14
guys? I know he tried out for track to get his speed better.
45:15
He want a state champion. He win a state championship and the relay team.
45:21
But you know what is it about him that just makes him such a
45:23
great football player. Well, I think there's there's a couple of things.
45:28
Like, first of all, you have to want to play. You have
45:31
to want to play the game. So other sports you can go out there
45:37
and you can just get by because physically they don't tax you the same way.
45:42
But football is really a sport that you have to go, hey,
45:44
I want to be good at this, and then you have to know you're
45:46
gonna have to bleed sweat and you don't have to pay the price if you
45:50
want to get good. So Andre wants to be a great football player.
45:55
He really wants to excel. So of the things I've seen from him when
46:00
we first came in in my mind in how I coached the game andres have
46:06
been on discipline. So we've worked to get his discipline down. We worked
46:10
to get him to understand, hey, this little thing you do can make
46:15
you twice as good on the field. And he's embraced all of that,
46:21
really stepped up, you know, worked on being a great team leader,
46:25
worked on himself. You know, things that he knows in his character.
46:30
Hey, you know, I want to be better with this, right,
46:32
And so two things that I'll say this right, One, he has some
46:37
talent, but two, he takes the talent he has and he gets every
46:42
single thing he can out of that talent, every single thing he can.
46:47
Now here's the challenge this year, sing challenge and Nolan, Right's gonna happen.
46:52
Right when you first take the league by storm, it's because nobody knows
46:57
you, you catch everybody by surprise. Right, Well, this year they
47:01
know exactly who that dude is. So one of the things I have to
47:06
do is make sure that a scheme to get him in great positions. But
47:09
another thing I look at him and I go, hey, you're probably gonna
47:14
get bracket coverage. They're probably gonna play you over and under it. So
47:15
now you've got to be more discipline and what you're doing. You gotta be
47:19
more patient and what you're doing right when you get your shots, you gotta
47:22
make him work. And he's growing and understanding that, right, tireless worker,
47:27
tireless worker when we're out there on the field, tireless way. He's
47:30
actually the guy that I put the ball in his hands for the Philly Special,
47:34
right, and he actually made the play like he actually he came back
47:37
across the field through the ball to kolbe Chambers. That's on him just wanting
47:43
to be that guy, wanting to be him as they call it now,
47:46
right, And so that focus, that dedication, that understanding of putting in
47:52
that work, combined with the fact he gets every damn thing because Tyler,
47:54
you're right, he's not the fastest dude, he's not the biggest dude,
47:59
but wouldn't the balls in the air. He's got that mentality, Hey,
48:01
it's my damn ball, I'm gonna go get it. And that's great.
48:06
That's what we want guys to have. So yeah, he's fun dude to
48:09
coach love joking around with him if I was like all the guys at see
48:15
him now. One of the things that was interesting to me when I first
48:19
got over there, they were a little tight to me. They were like,
48:22
you know, I felt like every time I interacted with him, they
48:27
were the guy going in for his first corporate interview. And I was like,
48:31
like, have fun. And so now as we fast forward a little
48:35
bit, you know, we get to joke around with these guys, We
48:37
get to kind of rip them a little bit about this and that, and
48:40
they can rip us back, and I love that stuff. But yeah,
48:44
andres A, he's a hell of a player. And what I'm really liking
48:49
is he's also growing into a pretty damn good human being, understanding that that
48:54
talent, you know, has some other things that come along with it,
49:00
right, And I love the fact that I had a little conversation with him
49:05
just about you know, the importance of the classroom. And boy, he
49:07
got down the last couple three months of school, really got more focused on
49:13
that, you know. With that, And I've talked to some coaches because
49:15
he's he's being recruited pretty damn pretty damn heavily, right, And one of
49:22
the things about me is I'm not going to sugarcoat anything, and I'm gonna
49:28
tell it like it is. So I look at all the players and go,
49:30
hey, if you want me to look at a college coach and tell
49:34
him positive things about you, then I better see you doing positive things because
49:37
I'm not going to guess this person up and lose the credibility with him,
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and then they won't come back to see him anymore to recruit anybody. Yeah,
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and so understanding that, you know, these guys have gotten it together
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and they're like, okay, you know. And coach Best from Eastern was
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he's pretty good. He he came in and I said, he sat in
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the room with Andre and Braddock and Baxter and a few other guys and Nolan,
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and he said something. I thought it was great. He said,
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you're either helping us or hurting us. And so I've kept that in my
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mind. And that was in reference to grades. That was in reference to
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behavior off the field on the field, So you're either doing one or two
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things. You're either helping us or you're hurting us. And so right now,
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you know what and the things I see this dude, he's doing nothing
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but helping us, and that's what we want all our players to have that
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mindset is this helping us or is this hurting us? Right? So good
50:30
stuff. I like what you say about not, you know, not lying
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to a coach because I think I think there's a lot of people at home
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that think that a high school coach's job is to get a kid recruited.
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And it's like, it's it's not like, that's not that's not your job.
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Your job is to maybe help them along the process. But at the
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end of the day, if you if you're to lie for Andre Watson,
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well now that school doesn't recruit see Home anymore and you just screwed it up
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for fifteen twenty kids down the line. So you know, I think people
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don't realize how honest a head coach has to be because at the end of
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the day, these college coaches, their job is on the line with every
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kid they recruit. I mean, let me, let me tell you guys
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this, so you guys understand this right, and college coaches are tight.
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They're not recruiting the kids. You know what, They got a list,
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They got thirty names on a list when they come visit. You know what
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they're doing they're crossing the names out. That's what they're doing. They're going
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sitting in a room and they're gonna ask their five or six questions. And
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if this kid doesn't hit it, or this kid doesn't if they cross his
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name out, then they get down to their list of their two or three
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guys. Those are the guys they actually go talk to. Those are guys
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they actually recruit right around. I'm not going to because here's the other thing.
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They're gonna find out who you are for real anyway, So why wouldn't
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I just tell it like it is from the beginning. And you're correct,
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I'm not just looking at it for you know, recruiting Braddick Duckworth, because
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he's been recruited quite well. I'm not, you know, doing it just
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for Nolan, right because they've already been people come to talk to Nolan.
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I'm looking at it down the road two, three, four or five years
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from now. You want those same schools to come back because they go,
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hey, when I go talk to that coach and kids would come out of
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that program, they're exactly what he says they are, and that's critical and
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that's really there's a kid that's gonna play seventh grade football this year that by
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you not lying about in Andre Watson or Brad Duckworth, that's going to help
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that kid get recruited. And people don't think about that. You know,
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it's pretty crazy. Mean, I love what you say too about like they're
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there to cross names off and almost And a really good friend of mine,
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Sheldon Cross, he's the offensive coordinator down at cal Poly now. And Sheldon
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told me one time this is actually when he was at Idaho State before he
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went to Kennedy Catholic and was there for I don't know, seven or eight
52:52
years whatever it was, but he told me there was a kid that they
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were recruiting and they were really really high on and they wanted him bad.
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And he went into that kid's school and you know, just like they always
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do, they have to check in at the front office or whatever you said.
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He was checking in at the front office and he just mentioned the secretary,
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hey, what do you what do you know about this kid? As
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he was waiting for the head coach to come get him. You know,
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he said he what do you know about this kid? To the secretary and
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and she kind of gave the kid a bad rap. Yeah, and then
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the he asked the head coach. He's like, hey, your secretary down
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there said this, and the head coach was like, uh, yeah,
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she's not far off. And they literally crossed him off and stopped recruiting him
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that day. And people don't know that, man, that it happens.
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They don't. And you have to have the mindset that you're always being an
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interviewed. Yep, you have to have the mindset right, even even some
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of the coaches on my staff right now, because part of the job as
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the head is the mentors to those guys too. Well, I look at
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them and go, hey, you're always being an interview right, How you
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say something, how you look, how you come across you know, it's
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just the reality of the world. People are going to judge you as soon
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as you walk in the room. That's just how it goes, right,
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And so you want to put yourself in the best possible position we can.
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So I want to have the reputation with a college coach that hey, if
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you if they ask me a question, they're going to get an honest,
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direct, true answer. Because recruiting and so both of you guys know this
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recruiting film they can watch like they can click on huddle and see all that
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stuff on the field. But nowadays it's just as much about what you do
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off the field because nobody's going to invest forty fifty thousand dollars a year and
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a knucklehead. You know, kids are gonna get he's gonna make it a
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few good plays, but they're gonna end up in a newspaper because this kid
54:45
does something that destroys the program. So you know, we're we're always as
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long as I'm you know, doing this thing and see home, it's always
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going to be that. It's always going to be a straightforward answer. This
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is who he is, this is who he's not. And you know what,
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I'm never gonna do anything too for a player, right, but I'm
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always just gonna be honest and tell the truth about my experience and what happens
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with them. Yeah. I remember a kid about seven eight years ago that
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actually the school was a little apprehensive to offer him, and he went to
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camp and you know, they were still just maybe not fully sold, and
55:19
then camp lets out, they're done, and all of a sudden they look
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over and he was picking up all of the water cups that had been thrown
55:25
on the ground and he was thrown. They put him in and offered him
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on the body and that and that's you know, something just character like that
55:35
that just got But yes, all right, coach, Well we got to
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get out of here, Tyler. What are we now? We're gonna be
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a couple of days away and then we're right into fall camp. And you
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got previews, you got all kinds of stuff coming up there on Wacomb preps.
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Right, that's right. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of work.
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It's gonna be a lot of fun. He's gonna be going out to
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practices. Coach, I'll see you out of practice, get some headshots at
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your guys, and and we'll be able to write that preview about Sea on
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football. And it's gonna be exciting. It's gonna be a fun year.
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And and uh, you know, I just want to thank you, coach
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for coming on, because this is this is what we love to do,
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and I know you love football. So a lot of fun. You guys
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know, just by coincidence that I see a Mount Baker helmet and I see
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a Sea Home helmet, you know, that's week one, right, they're
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facing each other through How about that one baby, I'll kind of laugh into
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myself the whole time going for the coincidence. Yeah, we play on that.
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No, we did not. The only Wacom County thing I got.
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You know what, you know what see Home had on. We'll take care
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of that, Rod. I'll make sure that you get something else. I'd
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like to say this to you guys before we cut out all of us coaches
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players. We appreciate what you guys do. Thank you very much for the
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tireless efforts that you give and all the positive stuff you do for all the
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sports a Walkoc County, right. Really appreciate you guys and keep up the
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great work. Coach. Yeah all right, Well he's Tyler Anderson. I'm
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Rylan Spencer. This is episode one seventy seven of the Welcome Preps podcast.
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Head coach Brian Young. Thank you for your time. M