Latest / Tailgate Talk - Bartlesville Radio / Week 9 - NE Oklahoma Football Picks - 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi, this is Chris Revard, Market President for Gateway First
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- 0:42Speaker 2: All right, let's get into it. A week nine edition
- 0:45Speaker 2: of Tailgate Talk. Chris Rivard, Chris Batchelder with you. Nighthawk
- 0:50Speaker 2: is on assignment on this week nine edition. Edition of
- 0:54Speaker 2: Tailgate Talk. And guys, Bartlesville, Caney Valley, Ramona, Dewey, Copan, Nowata,
- 1:00Speaker 2: Caney Valley, Kansas all got wins last week. So pretty
- 1:03Speaker 2: successful week a week ago. And we're looking like we're
- 1:07Speaker 2: going to have quite a few playoff teams. We'll see.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Dewey is probably on the bubble the most of any
- 1:14Speaker 2: of those local teams. Obviously, Pawhuska is going to get in. Obviously,
- 1:19Speaker 2: Bartlesville is going to get in. Copan is going to
- 1:22Speaker 2: get in. Nowata punched their ticket with that win over Commerce.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Kenny Valley, Kansas begins their postseason journey on Thursday night.
- 1:30Speaker 2: That's kind of a high-level view of football across the
- 1:34Speaker 2: area as we get into Week 9.
- 1:37Speaker 3: If we extend Washington County north to the Bullpups... It
- 1:42Speaker 3: was another really, really good Washington County week.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Yeah, you're exactly right. And, hey, can we go back
- 1:47Speaker 1: to Nighthawk being on assignment?
- 1:49Speaker 3: In the snowy tundra of the Great North.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Yes.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Yeah, boy.
- 1:53Speaker 1: He went up to Canada to check out some high
- 1:55Speaker 1: school football up in Canada.
- 1:57Speaker 3: He wanted to check out the CFL and see the
- 1:59Speaker 3: extended field and all the other.
- 2:01Speaker 1: The Canadian Ducks.
- 2:02Speaker 3: All the other weird rules they've got up there.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Do they play high school football in Canada? I don't
- 2:05Speaker 2: think they do. Of course they do. Yeah, why wouldn't they?
- 2:08Speaker 1: Sure. Why wouldn't they?
- 2:09Speaker 2: Yeah, because they don't want to play high school hockey
- 2:11Speaker 2: or something else.
- 2:12Speaker 1: I'm sure they do that, too.
- 2:13Speaker 3: We'll check with that.
- 2:14Speaker 2: What's the name of that? Have you seen the picture
- 2:17Speaker 2: of the Alaska football, that high school stadium in Alaska
- 2:21Speaker 2: that's on the edge of the ocean up there?
- 2:23Speaker 3: It is. It's on a little strip of land surrounded
- 2:27Speaker 3: by ocean on three sides.
- 2:28Speaker 2: It's cool. It's wild.
- 2:29Speaker 3: It's cool looking. And it's heated. Yeah.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cool. But, geez, let's go back to
- 2:35Speaker 1: the high school football here, local high school football. Evan.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Can you remember a time when Washington County or our
- 2:42Speaker 1: area teams have had this many teams in the playoffs?
- 2:46Speaker 1: I know it.
- 2:48Speaker 3: It's been decades.
- 2:49Speaker 2: And if you throw Nowata and Bajuska being pretty decent
- 2:52Speaker 2: at the same time, you know the wild thing, we'll
- 2:54Speaker 2: get into this when we go to that game, it
- 2:56Speaker 2: sneaks up on me a little bit, is that Nowata
- 2:59Speaker 2: and Bajuska, in theory, if Nowata wins, they're going to
- 3:03Speaker 2: have a home playoff game. They're at the same district record.
- 3:06Speaker 2: That's insane. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, you don't
- 3:08Speaker 2: think about it that way.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Good for them.
- 3:10Speaker 2: But seriously, they're both 3-1 in their district.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Tony, guys, Scott Martin, right, is their coach. He's legit.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:18Speaker 3: I've been talking about it all season.
- 3:20Speaker 1: I love it. Coach Spalpa fighting for the second year
- 3:22Speaker 1: in a row to get in. I know, I know.
- 3:24Speaker 1: And this is two years in a row since he's
- 3:26Speaker 1: taken over.
- 3:27Speaker 2: It's great.
- 3:28Speaker 1: And they're fighting to get in and got a legitimate
- 3:29Speaker 1: shot to get in. I remember my first year as
- 3:32Speaker 1: a head football coach. This was a good one. And
- 3:37Speaker 1: so it came down to week 10. If we win,
- 3:41Speaker 1: we're in the playoffs. Who can play? Well, hold on.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Mind you, the Dewey Bulldogs hadn't been in the playoffs
- 3:49Speaker 1: since I think 96 or 97 or something like that.
- 3:54Speaker 1: And we're playing week 10 for the playoffs. And everybody's
- 3:57Speaker 1: fired up. Except for we're playing Berry Hill. And Berry
- 4:02Speaker 1: Hill was way good, guys. They won the state championship
- 4:06Speaker 1: that year. Oh, yeah, rolled everybody.
- 4:07Speaker 2: And you guys won.
- 4:09Speaker 1: No, negative.
- 4:10Speaker 3: No, negative.
- 4:10Speaker 1: But it was fun to actually have something to play
- 4:13Speaker 1: for for everybody for Week 10.
- 4:15Speaker 2: And Dewey was in that same spot last year, if
- 4:17Speaker 2: you recall, or a similar type of spot.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Yeah, you obviously didn't listen to what I said because
- 4:22Speaker 1: I said it's two years in a row for Coach LaPulpa. Right.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, but I would say it was Week
- 4:26Speaker 2: 10 last year. This year it's Week 9.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I follow you.
- 4:30Speaker 2: And, yeah, they're winning their end now. I think they
- 4:32Speaker 2: needed a little help a year ago, if I remember correctly.
- 4:35Speaker 2: They had lost.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Pretty exciting. Let's get to the Bull Pups playing their first.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Round playoff game.
- 4:40Speaker 3: I'm just flipping the page.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Three and five.
- 4:45Speaker 2: The way Kansas does two-way playoffs, they have two 16-team brackets,
- 4:51Speaker 2: the east and the west side. Caney is the two
- 4:54Speaker 2: seed in the East bracket, and they will take on
- 4:57Speaker 2: Jayhawk Lynn. Do you know what their mascot is?
- 5:00Speaker 1: Jayhawks.
- 5:01Speaker 2: They're the Jayhawks, and it's a little Jayhawk. It's a
- 5:05Speaker 2: red Jayhawk, and he's got on a cowboy hat. Okay.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Let's see if I– I think I had it pulled
- 5:10Speaker 2: up here.
- 5:10Speaker 3: Evan, how do they decide the seating? Why is Caney–
- 5:13Speaker 3: why are the Bullpups second?
- 5:15Speaker 2: I don't know how they determine– yeah, there he is.
- 5:18Speaker 2: He's got a little– Yeah, he does. He's red and gold,
- 5:20Speaker 2: and he's got a little cowboy hat on.
- 5:21Speaker 3: He does, and a piece of straw in his mouth
- 5:23Speaker 3: or something.
- 5:24Speaker 2: No, but he's just smiling. I don't know 100% how
- 5:28Speaker 2: they determine when you're undefeated in your district who is
- 5:33Speaker 2: going to be the one and who the two is.
- 5:34Speaker 2: The one seat is Silver Lake. And Keeney is the
- 5:38Speaker 2: two seed. And they'll take on Jayhawk Lynn. They just
- 5:41Speaker 2: beat Galena last week, 52-6, forced a three and out.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Got a 32-yard touchdown drive from Traxon Garden. Garden finished
- 5:50Speaker 2: with three touchdowns. Next possession, Connor Pauley got an interception.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Jace Buckley turned that takeaway into points, punched in a
- 5:59Speaker 2: two-yard touchdown run. Caney was up 16-0. Pauley then got
- 6:03Speaker 2: another interception to pick six. He added a touchdown reception.
- 6:07Speaker 2: She had two interceptions, one of them to pick six,
- 6:09Speaker 2: and a touchdown catch for Connor Pauley. Caney Valley has
- 6:13Speaker 2: outscored their opponents 52-7 this year, four shutouts. That is
- 6:19Speaker 2: a total of 419-60 over their three games. Just coming
- 6:24Speaker 2: off wins over Galena, as I mentioned, 52-6, Riverton 52,
- 6:28Speaker 2: and Cherryvale. Jayhawk Lynn has lost three in a row.
- 6:31Speaker 2: They're 3-5, and they're the 15th seed on the east side.
- 6:35Speaker 2: They've lost Central Heights, Neodoshay, and Humboldt in three straight.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Common opponents really favor Caney. Again, they just lost to
- 6:43Speaker 2: Humboldt by two. Caney beat that Humboldt club 44-0. They
- 6:48Speaker 2: also both have ballgames against Neodoshay. Jayhawk Lynn lost by 38.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Caney Valley won by 24. Winner of this one will
- 6:56Speaker 2: face the winner of Baxter Springs and Royal Valley. Caney
- 7:00Speaker 2: Valley at home against Jayhawk Lynn. This ballgame is Thursday
- 7:04Speaker 2: night at 6 o'clock up in the state of Kansas.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Evan, looking at the playoff bracket, it looks like Caney
- 7:08Speaker 1: Valley is going to have a home playoff game until
- 7:12Speaker 1: they get to the semis. I'm assuming it's the top semis.
- 7:15Speaker 2: That is, yeah, that is correct. That'd be the semifinals,
- 7:20Speaker 2: and then if you win that in the East, obviously
- 7:22Speaker 2: you face the West winner.
- 7:24Speaker 3: There does not appear, I wish the viewers could see this,
- 7:27Speaker 3: maybe I'll post it along with the Facebook post, but
- 7:32Speaker 3: I wish the viewers could see the bracket, because there
- 7:34Speaker 3: does not appear to be a lot of creativity in Kansas.
- 7:37Speaker 3: We've got Clemson, we've got the Minnesota Vikings, Northwestern, the
- 7:42Speaker 3: LA Rams... We have the Kansas Jayhawks, Detroit Lions. I
- 7:48Speaker 3: could keep going down these.
- 7:50Speaker 1: I mean, yes. Of the mascot.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Of all the mascot ripoffs here.
- 7:54Speaker 2: The one thing I will tell you.
- 7:55Speaker 1: The Riverton donkeys. The Riverton rat donkeys.
- 7:58Speaker 2: The one thing I will tell you. The nice thing
- 8:02Speaker 2: about Keeney is, I mean, you own that win over Neodoshay. Again,
- 8:07Speaker 2: I mentioned that earlier in the broadcast. Keeney beat Neodoshay
- 8:10Speaker 2: by 24. Neodoshay is the four seed. So. You're the
- 8:15Speaker 2: two seed. Neodesha, that team you beat by 24 is
- 8:18Speaker 2: the four seed.
- 8:19Speaker 3: That's bananas.
- 8:19Speaker 2: So, I mean, there's a few teams in there like Sabetha.
- 8:23Speaker 2: And let's see who's the– yeah, Sabetha is really about it.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Maybe the five seed, Riverside. But, boy, the path is
- 8:33Speaker 2: pretty clear to get to the semifinals at least for Keeney, Kansas. Well,
- 8:38Speaker 2: that's brought up.
- 8:39Speaker 1: A great point. How are they two?
- 8:42Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I don't know how Silver Lake
- 8:45Speaker 2: obviously is undefeated. I know it. Yeah, I'm not sure
- 8:49Speaker 2: how they would determine that.
- 8:50Speaker 3: I mean, they crushed the Riverton Rat Doggies.
- 8:53Speaker 1: The Rat Doggies.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Silver Lake is 8-0. And, I mean, yeah, they've won
- 9:01Speaker 2: by similar amounts. All right. They don't have any common opponents. But, yeah,
- 9:06Speaker 2: Silver Lake, their last four games, they've won 77-6. 89-0, 61-0,
- 9:13Speaker 2: and 42-0. Well, there it is.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I hope those Bulldogs are going to flog them. Bullpups. Bullpups. Bullpups.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to crush them.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Well, good luck to Caney Valley, Kansas again Thursday night
- 9:28Speaker 2: at home. They'll be taking on Jayhawk Lynn. Jayhawks.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Hey, wait a minute.
- 9:33Speaker 2: They're at home?
- 9:35Speaker 1: Thursday night.
- 9:36Speaker 2: That's what they were saying. We talked about that. Cody
- 9:39Speaker 2: Meade tagged us. Cody Meade said, this is your chance.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Fake book.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Okay. I don't get on the Facebook.com.
- 9:46Speaker 2: He said, this is your chance. They play Thursday night.
- 9:50Speaker 2: I'm in.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I don't have nothing to do Thursday night.
- 9:53Speaker 2: All right.
- 9:55Speaker 3: Let's call Jeremy Barnes. Okay. All right.
- 9:58Speaker 2: All right. Next ballgame. Barnes. Hold on, Evan. Are you
- 10:01Speaker 2: going with us? Sure. Okay. Next ballgame, Barnes-Dahl on the
- 10:05Speaker 2: road at Hominy. 100.1 KYFM. Video coverage, K1TV. com. Barnes-Dahl struggling.
- 10:13Speaker 2: They lost to previously 0-6 Afton last Thursday night. 22-7.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Panthers have now lost four straight after a 4-0 start.
- 10:24Speaker 2: They've been outscored 133-39 during that skid. Harmony, they've won
- 10:30Speaker 2: a couple straight. Just beat Fairland and Oklahoma Union by
- 10:33Speaker 2: a combined 86-14. Harmony now 3-2 in the district. Harmony
- 10:36Speaker 2: won both these games in 2024 and 2025 by 35
- 10:38Speaker 2: and 24 points respectively. Barnsdall's last win Over Hominy was
- 10:50Speaker 2: in 2019. The Bucs lead the overall series 13-1 since 2006.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Next week, Barnsdall will host Oklahoma Union. Hominy will host Afton,
- 11:01Speaker 2: but it is Barnsdall on the road at Hominy. We
- 11:04Speaker 2: kind of thought this might be a game to maybe
- 11:06Speaker 2: squeak into the four seed for the Panthers, but obviously
- 11:10Speaker 2: after that kind of unexpected loss to Afton last week,
- 11:14Speaker 2: Barnsdall has now put itself in a a nearly impossible
- 11:18Speaker 2: situation to try to make the playoffs out of class
- 11:21Speaker 2: a two district four guys.
- 11:24Speaker 3: I don't really know where to start here and I
- 11:26Speaker 3: don't know what is going on at Barnstall, but it
- 11:29Speaker 3: is bizarre. And, um, you guys know, I love the
- 11:32Speaker 3: fighting stashes, but man, they're, they're in a tailspin and
- 11:37Speaker 3: they're on the road, um, against a hominy team. That's one,
- 11:40Speaker 3: two in a row. Um, I got to go– it's
- 11:44Speaker 3: the Bucs, right? How many Bucs?
- 11:45Speaker 1: How many Bucs?
- 11:46Speaker 3: I got to go how many Bucs here? I hate that.
- 11:48Speaker 3: I'm pulling for the stashes, but something has happened over there.
- 11:53Speaker 3: And I just hope they haven't quit on Kylick Sweeney
- 11:57Speaker 3: because he doesn't deserve that, and he's a good coach.
- 12:01Speaker 3: And so I hope they can get it figured out.
- 12:04Speaker 3: Maybe this will be a reverse, you know, jinx that
- 12:08Speaker 3: I'm putting on them, but I just– I don't feel
- 12:11Speaker 3: good about this game.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Yeah, Coach Swinney is a great coach, and he's been
- 12:16Speaker 1: there a long time, so there's no way the kids
- 12:18Speaker 1: quit on him or anything like that. So we don't
- 12:20Speaker 1: even talk about that side of it. Maybe they've had
- 12:22Speaker 1: some injuries. Maybe they've had something. Who knows? And the
- 12:25Speaker 1: last four games have kind of been a surprise to us.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Definitely last week was a surprise. We were all hoping
- 12:32Speaker 1: this game right here would be for that three or
- 12:34Speaker 1: four spot. Unfortunately, it's not going to be. And I've
- 12:37Speaker 1: got how many bucks winning this game at home. And
- 12:40Speaker 1: then– The Barnstall Panthers, they'll come back and they get
- 12:44Speaker 1: Oklahoma Union to finish the season and finish 5-5.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good luck to Barnstall. Barnstall and Harmony, again,
- 12:50Speaker 2: we'll have that game for you on 100.1 KYFMK1TV. com. Next
- 12:56Speaker 2: ball game, it is Oklahoma Union on the road at Afton.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Cougars may be trying to get their first win of
- 13:04Speaker 2: the Josh Middleton era in Class A2 District 4. Oklahoma Union,
- 13:08Speaker 2: a 48-8 defeat at the hands of Hominy last week.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Cougars did end a run of three consecutive shutouts, but
- 13:16Speaker 2: still looking for their first win. Senior Bryden Heikenreich broke
- 13:20Speaker 2: free for a 29-yard touchdown into the game for Oklahoma
- 13:23Speaker 2: Union's only scorer. A week ago, Corey Henry's Afton Club,
- 13:27Speaker 2: I mentioned, coming off their first win of the year.
- 13:30Speaker 2: They beat Barnsdall last week 22-7. Eagles had only scored
- 13:34Speaker 2: six points in their previous two games. Last few meetings,
- 13:37Speaker 2: Oklahoma Union has owned. They won 51-0 in 2021, 53-6
- 13:40Speaker 2: in 2020, 26-0 in 2019, and 24-0 in 2018. Oklahoma
- 13:42Speaker 2: Union allowing only six points against Afton. in those four
- 13:53Speaker 2: previous wins. Oklahoma Union on the road at Afton. Again,
- 13:58Speaker 2: Afton just picked up their first district win. Cougars are
- 14:01Speaker 2: 0-8 under Coach Middleton.
- 14:03Speaker 3: Rev, this is the one you pointed at all year,
- 14:06Speaker 3: saying this might be the one they get. And so
- 14:09Speaker 3: I'm going to take them. I got Oklahoma Union at
- 14:12Speaker 3: the end of the season here getting... Getting a season-defining
- 14:17Speaker 3: victory to head into next season. I think they're going
- 14:22Speaker 3: to pull it off. I don't love it on the road,
- 14:24Speaker 3: but I'm rooting for them.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I'm taking them as well.
- 14:26Speaker 2: All right.
- 14:26Speaker 1: I'm going with you. I got faith in the Cougars.
- 14:29Speaker 3: All right.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Come on, Cougars. Make us proud right here. Beat them
- 14:32Speaker 1: sorry Afton Eagles.
- 14:33Speaker 3: We need Briar Heidenreich to get busy now that he
- 14:38Speaker 3: knows he can do it.
- 14:40Speaker 2: All right. Good luck to Oklahoma Union at Afton. on
- 14:43Speaker 2: Friday night. Big, big one. Senior night up in Copan
- 14:46Speaker 2: in Class B2, District 3, 7-1, Copan Hornets. take on
- 14:51Speaker 2: the 8-0 Pawn Creek Hunter Panthers. Copan coming off a
- 14:55Speaker 2: 49-0 win over Cave Springs following a bye. Coach Kallenberger
- 15:01Speaker 2: is telling me Cave Springs asked for a running clock
- 15:04Speaker 2: with 10 minutes in the second quarter. Oh, gosh. He goes, well,
- 15:08Speaker 2: we haven't played in two weeks because of the bye week,
- 15:10Speaker 2: and we've got this big game with Pawn Creek Hunter
- 15:12Speaker 2: coming up. I don't think he really wanted to have
- 15:14Speaker 2: a running clock in the second quarter. They wanted to.
- 15:17Speaker 2: to work on some stuff. Raiden Martin, 125 yards, three touchdowns.
- 15:21Speaker 2: That freshman quarterback, Presley Zimmerman, threw for a score, ran
- 15:25Speaker 2: for a score. Gavin Barnes, 12 tackles. That was, again,
- 15:28Speaker 2: Hornets' first game since that loss to DePue back on
- 15:32Speaker 2: October the 9th, ended their 6-0 start. Loss would almost
- 15:36Speaker 2: certainly mean Copan's headed on the road in the first
- 15:39Speaker 2: round of the B2 playoffs. A win put them in
- 15:41Speaker 2: the mix still for the top three spot in the district,
- 15:44Speaker 2: depending upon what happens next. between Depew and Pond Creek
- 15:47Speaker 2: Hunter during Week 10. That could be a district title game.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Pond Creek Hunter coming off a 64-28 win over Welch.
- 15:54Speaker 2: They have won their games on average 46-19, just moved
- 15:59Speaker 2: down from Class B1 to B2 this season. If you
- 16:03Speaker 2: follow eight-man football in Oklahoma, you know how good Pond
- 16:06Speaker 2: Creek Hunter has been. They were in the state title
- 16:10Speaker 2: game in 2012, 13, 16, 17, and then beat Winoka
- 16:15Speaker 2: in the 2019 Class B state championship game. They've not
- 16:19Speaker 2: won a playoff game, though, since until last year. They
- 16:22Speaker 2: just snapped a six-year playoff losing streak, did end up
- 16:25Speaker 2: losing to Laverne in the Class B1 semifinals. Their only
- 16:29Speaker 2: common opponent is Cave Springs, Pawnee Creek Hunter run ruled
- 16:33Speaker 2: them as well. And again, Copan will go to Welch
- 16:36Speaker 2: next week for week 10. Pond Creek Hunter hosts Depew
- 16:39Speaker 2: in what could be a district championship game. Big one
- 16:42Speaker 2: in B2-3. Senior night for six Copan seniors at home
- 16:47Speaker 2: against Pond Creek Hunter.
- 16:48Speaker 3: Man, you talk about the type of game you want
- 16:52Speaker 3: at this time of year with the weather and everything.
- 16:55Speaker 3: This is what high school football is all about. And
- 17:00Speaker 3: What a huge game for Copan. Because I assume what
- 17:04Speaker 3: happens then is they both go to 2-1. Correct.
- 17:08Speaker 1: And they have the.
- 17:08Speaker 3: Head-to-head, so they would be the two-seed.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Well, not necessarily. You could be looking at a three-way tie. Okay, okay.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Yes. They have to beat Pond Creek, and then Pond
- 17:19Speaker 1: Creek has to beat DePue. Okay.
- 17:21Speaker 2: In order to tie, yeah. And to be honest, looking
- 17:24Speaker 2: at the points... Copan's pretty far behind. God, the points
- 17:28Speaker 2: are crazy.
- 17:28Speaker 3: I was going to ask you about that, Rob.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Honestly, your best-case scenario, in my opinion, I could be wrong,
- 17:34Speaker 2: is that Pongreek Hunter loses the next two. And you're
- 17:37Speaker 2: the two seed if you're Copan. And that gets you
- 17:39Speaker 2: a home game at least in the first round. Because
- 17:43Speaker 2: that's the only scenario where you're really feeling good about
- 17:46Speaker 2: playing at home.
- 17:47Speaker 1: That's right.
- 17:48Speaker 2: I got them.
- 17:49Speaker 3: Man, home, senior night, coming off a nice win. The
- 17:54Speaker 3: bye week two weeks ago, so they're not totally worn
- 18:00Speaker 3: out or anything like that with tough games behind them
- 18:03Speaker 3: and all that. They're fresh. I believe in Coach Kallenberger,
- 18:07Speaker 3: and I believe in the environment. It is going to
- 18:10Speaker 3: be rocking at Copan, so I think it's going to
- 18:13Speaker 3: be awesome.
- 18:14Speaker 2: I'm in. I got them. I agree.
- 18:15Speaker 1: That whole community has bought into this football program, and
- 18:18Speaker 1: it's so exciting to see where they were five years
- 18:21Speaker 1: ago to where they are today. is absolutely amazing. And
- 18:27Speaker 1: Coach Kallenberger, great job. Great job by the kids. Great
- 18:30Speaker 1: job by the community. You know, you're seeing they've got
- 18:33Speaker 1: the quarterback club involved now.
- 18:34Speaker 2: I know.
- 18:35Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing a lot of great things up there.
- 18:39Speaker 1: And this is a big game. Now, do I think
- 18:41Speaker 1: they're supposed to win this game? No, I don't. But
- 18:45Speaker 1: do I think they're going to win? I do because
- 18:47Speaker 1: what happens when you get all this support and all
- 18:49Speaker 1: this excitement and everybody coming in, You end up beating
- 18:52Speaker 1: somebody you're not supposed to beat, and I think that's
- 18:54Speaker 1: going to happen on Friday night. I think they are
- 18:56Speaker 1: going to beat Pond Creek Hunter, and then, you know,
- 19:00Speaker 1: DePue beats them in their second place, get a home
- 19:01Speaker 1: playoff game, and so that'll be exciting.
- 19:04Speaker 3: Rev, is that David Kerr from Hennessy? Do you know
- 19:09Speaker 3: Coach Kerr?
- 19:10Speaker 1: I don't. Okay. No.
- 19:11Speaker 3: I think he played at Hennessy, and, you know, during
- 19:14Speaker 3: their run of really good teams.
- 19:16Speaker 1: Really?
- 19:17Speaker 2: No, I don't know him.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway.
- 19:21Speaker 2: I'll tell you that Pond Creek Hunter, when I was
- 19:24Speaker 2: in northwestern Oklahoma, I worked in Woodward for a year.
- 19:29Speaker 2: They were always playing Tipton or Laverne.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:33Speaker 2: I know.
- 19:33Speaker 3: Every year.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Class B state championship.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Laverne still plays for it. Every year. It's incredible.
- 19:39Speaker 2: There was a girl in my freshman English lit class
- 19:42Speaker 2: from Laverne at Oklahoma State before I ever knew anything
- 19:46Speaker 2: about Woodward or Laverne.
- 19:47Speaker 3: Right.
- 19:48Speaker 2: And she was always going home for the football games.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:51Speaker 2: Instead of staying for Oklahoma State games. At OSU for stuff, yeah.
- 19:54Speaker 2: And I was just like, what is this loser girl
- 19:57Speaker 2: always going home for her Laverne football games? And when
- 20:01Speaker 2: I got to Woodward, I realized, well, I see now
- 20:04Speaker 2: why it's a big deal up here.
- 20:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 20:06Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Awesome.
- 20:08Speaker 2: Good luck to Copan at home against Pond Creek Hunter
- 20:11Speaker 2: for Coach Kallenberger and the Hornets. That, again, is their final.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Home game, it's guaranteed here in 2026. Let's move on
- 20:19Speaker 2: to Dewey. Could be for a playoff spot. 5-3 Bulldoggers
- 20:23Speaker 2: at 4-4 Bethel on Friday night. KRIG 104.9. Video coverage, krigtv.com.
- 20:30Speaker 2: Class 2A1. Could be for fourth place. Dewey 3-2. Bethel
- 20:35Speaker 2: is 2-3. In the district, kind of win and you're in.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Dewey would clinch a playoff spot. With a victory, Bulldoggers
- 20:41Speaker 2: will be 4-2. Bethel could finish no better than 3-4.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Dewey already owns a head-to-head victory over Perry, who's also
- 20:49Speaker 2: now 2-3. It's because the Bulldoggers snapped a two-game losing
- 20:53Speaker 2: skid with an 18-8 victory over Perry. Dewey, by the way,
- 20:57Speaker 2: if they get in the postseason, just their second berth
- 21:00Speaker 2: in the past 10 years. They made it in 2019
- 21:03Speaker 2: and 2016. Before that, last playoff win was in 2009.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Dewey coming off that win over Perry. Dewey will go
- 21:12Speaker 2: to Casha Hall next week on the road. Bethel visits Perry.
- 21:16Speaker 2: District top three teams only have two league losses combined.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Talking about Casha Hall, Kiefer, and Chisholm. Those teams are 5-0, 4-1,
- 21:26Speaker 2: and 4-1 respectively. So those three are going to probably
- 21:29Speaker 2: carry the top three spots. And this one very well
- 21:32Speaker 2: could be for the fourth spot. Dewey on the road
- 21:35Speaker 2: at Bethel.
- 21:36Speaker 3: Well, I'm just telling you right now, it is. It's
- 21:39Speaker 3: going to be for that fourth slot. And I'm assuming
- 21:43Speaker 3: this is senior night, Evan, as well at Dewey?
- 21:45Speaker 2: No, this is at Bethel.
- 21:47Speaker 1: This is at Bethel.
- 21:47Speaker 3: Yep. Oh, at Bethel.
- 21:49Speaker 2: Yep. They already had that. They play on the road.
- 21:51Speaker 3: Yeah, senior night was last week. They play on the
- 21:52Speaker 3: road twice during the season. Well, I don't love it
- 21:55Speaker 3: on the road, but I'm going to take the Bulldoggers
- 21:58Speaker 3: here because I think that they're good enough to win it.
- 22:02Speaker 3: And I think that he's got them playing well. And
- 22:05Speaker 3: I like them. coming off a win and having everything
- 22:09Speaker 3: on the line for this playoff spot. I want the
- 22:12Speaker 3: Bulldoggers to get in so badly. I think they know
- 22:15Speaker 3: that and they're going to do it.
- 22:17Speaker 2: I got them.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Well, I think Bulldoggers are going to win because they're
- 22:21Speaker 1: going to out-coach Bethel. Coach Spalp and his staff, they
- 22:25Speaker 1: knew all season that there was a pretty good chance
- 22:28Speaker 1: they had to beat Bethel to get into the playoffs. Now,
- 22:32Speaker 1: where that spot ended up, whether it's One, two, three, four,
- 22:35Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You've got to beat Bethel. They're pretty evenly matched.
- 22:40Speaker 1: And so if they're evenly matched, I'm going to look
- 22:42Speaker 1: at the head football coaches. I'm going to go, I
- 22:45Speaker 1: like this one. And I like Coach DePaul, but I
- 22:47Speaker 1: like his staff. They've done an incredible job. Defensively, they've
- 22:50Speaker 1: played very well for the most part all season long. Now,
- 22:55Speaker 1: what the players have to control is you've got to
- 22:57Speaker 1: control turnovers. You cannot turn the football over. If you
- 23:01Speaker 1: turn the football over more than twice, you lose this game.
- 23:04Speaker 1: So they cannot turn the ball over at all. And
- 23:07Speaker 1: if they will not do that, once again, they're going
- 23:09Speaker 1: to win and get themselves in the playoffs. And they
- 23:13Speaker 1: know this is all or nothing because you're either in
- 23:16Speaker 1: or you're not. That's it. So I've got the Bulldoggers.
- 23:20Speaker 1: beating Bethel in a close game that's going to come
- 23:23Speaker 1: down to a kickoff return.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Oh, really? You're calling us special teams?
- 23:28Speaker 1: Remember last year, boys?
- 23:29Speaker 3: I do. The re-kick? I do remember.
- 23:31Speaker 2: The re-kick.
- 23:32Speaker 1: The re-kick.
- 23:33Speaker 2: The re-kick.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Yes.
- 23:35Speaker 2: Yeah. It was this week. It was. I remember watching
- 23:38Speaker 2: that game on Halloween night after the trick-or-treaters rolled through.
- 23:41Speaker 3: Guys, not Bethel-Lakers. Bethel. No, it's Bethel Acres.
- 23:46Speaker 2: No, no.
- 23:46Speaker 3: Bethel Acres is down by... Oh, it's Bethel Acres?
- 23:49Speaker 1: Bethel Acres.
- 23:50Speaker 3: And let me tell you, I told Evan before the show,
- 23:52Speaker 3: let me tell you how I know where Bethel Acres is.
- 23:54Speaker 3: Tornado coverage. Because Pottawatomie County is the bullseye of tornadoes
- 24:00Speaker 3: in Oklahoma. And they're always talking about Bethel Acres right
- 24:03Speaker 3: there by Shawnee. And it goes right through there. Pot County,
- 24:06Speaker 3: everybody knows.
- 24:07Speaker 1: So you Bulldogger fans who are traveling down there, don't
- 24:11Speaker 1: get on your Google.com... And hit Bethel and get in
- 24:14Speaker 1: your car and take off.
- 24:15Speaker 3: Because you'll end up at.
- 24:16Speaker 1: You'll end up north of Hokotown. Yeah.
- 24:19Speaker 2: So don't do that. And don't go to Bethel. The
- 24:22Speaker 2: school that Okwu plays. Because then you'll be going to Missouri.
- 24:26Speaker 2: North of Wichita.
- 24:27Speaker 1: Yeah. So make sure you enter Bethel Acres.
- 24:30Speaker 2: Bethel Acres. And those are the Bethel Threshers. These are
- 24:33Speaker 2: the Bethel Wildcats.
- 24:35Speaker 1: Okay.
- 24:35Speaker 2: By the way, I did not go over common opponents. Obviously,
- 24:39Speaker 2: Dewey and them have a lot of common opponents because
- 24:41Speaker 2: of district play. But I did want to mention their wins.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Bethel beat Blackwell 42-20. Dewey beat Blackwell 42-0. But then
- 24:51Speaker 2: Bethel beat Crooked Oak 56-14. Dewey only beat Crooked Oak
- 24:55Speaker 2: by six, so hard to count.
- 24:57Speaker 1: You know, I drove by the football field yesterday on
- 24:59Speaker 1: my way up to Peters Hardware. I had to get
- 25:01Speaker 1: some Traeger pellets. Oh, I love Peters.
- 25:03Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 25:04Speaker 1: So it was just before 5 o'clock, and I went
- 25:06Speaker 1: by there, and I saw Coach Sepulpa. He had all
- 25:08Speaker 1: the kids gathered up there and was, you know, giving
- 25:10Speaker 1: them that. Did you stop? Did you go over there?
- 25:11Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. And I went to Peters, and
- 25:14Speaker 1: I got my pellets, and I come back, and he
- 25:18Speaker 1: was still talking to them. So I thought, man, I'd
- 25:21Speaker 1: love to know what he was telling them kids.
- 25:23Speaker 2: I bet you could go figure it out.
- 25:24Speaker 1: I bet you could, too.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, good luck to Dewey. That is the ballgame,
- 25:29Speaker 2: by the way. We will have for you from that
- 25:31Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Metro Area Contest on KRIG 104.9 and KRIGTV.com
- 25:36Speaker 2: with B-Money McSween, Brian McSweeney. on the call. All right,
- 25:41Speaker 2: let's go to another big ball game. Nowata at Pawhuska.
- 25:44Speaker 2: We'll have it for you on Sports Talk, 99.1 FM, KPGM, kpgmtv.com.
- 25:51Speaker 2: This one could be for second place in Class A1,
- 25:55Speaker 2: District 3. We'll see. Both those teams are 3-1 in
- 25:58Speaker 2: district action. As I mentioned, Nowata's won two straight. Got
- 26:02Speaker 2: that wild win over Colcord we spent a lot of
- 26:04Speaker 2: time talking about. They followed it up with a 49-13
- 26:08Speaker 2: win over Commerce last week. They gave up a 10-minute
- 26:11Speaker 2: touchdown drive to start that game. And then on the
- 26:14Speaker 2: very next play, Caleb Woolman got a 69-yard kick return
- 26:18Speaker 2: to tie it up. Then the Ironmen scored 14 straight
- 26:21Speaker 2: late in the first, led 14-7 at halftime. No water.
- 26:25Speaker 2: We get four more touchdowns in a row in the
- 26:27Speaker 2: second half and scored 49 of the final 56 points
- 26:31Speaker 2: after that 10-minute drive. I talked about, again, the win
- 26:33Speaker 2: at 49-13. Ironmen have now scored 75 points in their
- 26:37Speaker 2: last two wins. Of course, this is the first of
- 26:40Speaker 2: two really tough games for Nowata to finish things out.
- 26:43Speaker 2: They go to Pahuska this Friday, then they take on
- 26:46Speaker 2: Pawnee at home during Week 10. Now, Pahuska, they're coming
- 26:50Speaker 2: off their first loss of the season. They just fell
- 26:53Speaker 2: to Pawnee 36-12. First game since they had that October
- 26:58Speaker 2: 9th contest. They had a bye last week as well.
- 27:01Speaker 2: They were down 12 at halftime. Huskies got a touchdown
- 27:04Speaker 2: from Jimmy Wildcat, 59 yards out to make it 8-6,
- 27:08Speaker 2: Pawnee early. Other touchdown was a Jensen Snodgrass keeper. Mark
- 27:12Speaker 2: Fry did not like the penalties in that game, said
- 27:15Speaker 2: the Huskies did not come ready to go from the
- 27:17Speaker 2: start and let Pawnee get into a lot of third
- 27:20Speaker 2: and short opportunities, which the Black Bears converted. So a
- 27:24Speaker 2: win over Nowata would put Pawhuska in a position to
- 27:27Speaker 2: secure a second-place finish in their district. Pawhuska's won four
- 27:31Speaker 2: straight in the series. 2022, they won 62-8. 2023, they
- 27:33Speaker 2: won 50-6. 2024, they won 50-6. And last year, they
- 27:34Speaker 2: won 60-12. So in those four straight wins, Pawhuska has
- 27:36Speaker 2: outscored Nowata 222-32. Ironman's last win in the series was
- 27:38Speaker 2: in 2015. Nowata did win four in a row. from
- 27:54Speaker 2: 2012 to 2015 before Bajuska's current streak. And these teams
- 27:58Speaker 2: did not play one another from 2015 till 2022. And again,
- 28:03Speaker 2: Bajuska will take on Commerce during Week 10, while Nowata
- 28:06Speaker 2: faces Pawnee. Big one between the Ironmen and the Huskies.
- 28:09Speaker 2: We'll have it for you on Sports Talk 99.1 FM KPGM,
- 28:14Speaker 2: video coverage on kpgmtv.com.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Rev, what in the Nowata Ironmen is happening here?
- 28:21Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
- 28:21Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if it was their start.
- 28:26Speaker 3: You know, they didn't get off to a great start overall,
- 28:29Speaker 3: not in district, but just in the season, losing a couple.
- 28:34Speaker 3: And I don't know if I just was kind of
- 28:36Speaker 3: sleeping on them a little bit. I think everybody was.
- 28:39Speaker 1: It's crazy what happens when you run the football all
- 28:41Speaker 1: the time.
- 28:41Speaker 3: Now they show up.
- 28:42Speaker 2: Oh, here we go. Here we go.
- 28:44Speaker 3: Hey, don't worry. We're going to talk about the win
- 28:46Speaker 3: team when we get to the Ponca City-Barlsville game. But
- 28:50Speaker 3: here they are at this point in the season tied
- 28:54Speaker 3: with Pawhuska in district play. This is absolutely bananas.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Yeah, would you ever guess that? Never. No way.
- 29:01Speaker 3: Especially not with those two early losses. No chance.
- 29:04Speaker 1: You're right.
- 29:04Speaker 3: And so I'll tell you, I'm going to take Pawhuska
- 29:08Speaker 3: here after getting a wake-up call last week at Pawnee.
- 29:13Speaker 3: I did not pick that game right.
- 29:16Speaker 2: I don't know if any of us did.
- 29:17Speaker 3: Yeah. And so I think Pawhuska's going to win here.
- 29:22Speaker 3: Nowata has two really tough games to close out the season.
- 29:27Speaker 3: And I think it'd be a great story if they
- 29:30Speaker 3: won it. I just don't think they will.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Yeah. Once again, congratulations to Nowata. No doubt. I mean,
- 29:38Speaker 1: they've had a rough go at it the last several years.
- 29:40Speaker 1: And Coach Martin's got those kids believing in themselves. And
- 29:45Speaker 1: they're doing the right stuff, guys. They're keeping the ball
- 29:48Speaker 1: away from the other team. And that's what's going to happen.
- 29:51Speaker 1: I know that's what Coach Martin's playing is Friday night.
- 29:53Speaker 1: He's going to run the ball and eat the clock
- 29:55Speaker 1: and keep it out of Husker's hands. I mean, That's
- 29:58Speaker 1: what they're good at. Let that clock tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,
- 30:01Speaker 1: and then keep their offense off the field. And if
- 30:03Speaker 1: they get a turnover, whether it's on special teams, defense, whatever,
- 30:08Speaker 1: that's going to be huge for the know-what Ironmen. And
- 30:11Speaker 1: so I think this is going to be a really
- 30:13Speaker 1: good game. Unfortunately, it's at the beach, guys. The Pawhuska
- 30:20Speaker 1: Huskies are really, really good at the beach. And so
- 30:23Speaker 1: that's where Pawhuska has a huge advantage. And so I
- 30:27Speaker 1: think that's where the Pawhuska is going to come out
- 30:29Speaker 1: on top right here. So I've got Pawhuska in a
- 30:34Speaker 1: close game.
- 30:34Speaker 2: It'll be close.
- 30:35Speaker 1: It's going to be a close game.
- 30:36Speaker 2: It is.
- 30:36Speaker 1: This game's going to be over by 9 o'clock.
- 30:39Speaker 3: And the Huskies are going to struggle with what no
- 30:42Speaker 3: one is going to do with ball control.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
- 30:46Speaker 2: You're right. Yeah, and it's similar to last week, right?
- 30:49Speaker 2: And Isaiah Sabian, I don't think mentioned no water without
- 30:53Speaker 2: mentioning Isaiah Saxton because that's probably– you've got a team
- 30:56Speaker 2: that doesn't throw the ball, and that's your running back.
- 30:58Speaker 2: And he's running for like– in most of those wins,
- 31:01Speaker 2: I think he's running for like 250 yards.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Right.
- 31:04Speaker 2: That's huge. He's their bell cow, and he's the one
- 31:07Speaker 2: who caught the 87-yard touchdown.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Crazy. The only catch of the game. Yeah. It's crazy.
- 31:14Speaker 2: Anyway, he's been a lot of fun to watch.
- 31:16Speaker 1: I guarantee you, and the know-what Ironman fans over there,
- 31:19Speaker 1: that community, they'll support them. If they're winning, even if
- 31:22Speaker 1: they're not winning, they still come out and support them.
- 31:24Speaker 1: They'll have a whole bunch of them traveling over there
- 31:25Speaker 1: to Puska. It'll be rough. They better have Osage County
- 31:28Speaker 1: Police there.
- 31:29Speaker 3: There's something about those coaches coming out of the Northwestern
- 31:33Speaker 3: Rangers programs. The special old Coach Dillbeck.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Coach Martin. These are a couple of really good dudes.
- 31:41Speaker 1: The old Rangers.
- 31:42Speaker 2: All right, final ball game on K1, K1TV. com, Bartlesville and Muskogee.
- 31:47Speaker 2: Bruins improving to 6-2 after a 31-point beatdown at Ponca
- 31:53Speaker 2: City last week. Muskogee is 5-3. Ruffers lost pretty big
- 31:58Speaker 2: to Stillwater. A week ago, 59-6. Muskogee has won five
- 32:03Speaker 2: straight in this series. Muskogee, a first district loss, ended
- 32:07Speaker 2: up losing to Stillwater. So, ruffers are looking at it
- 32:10Speaker 2: and thinking, hey, I can get the two seed if
- 32:12Speaker 2: I beat Bartlesville. Own the head-to-head, get that one district
- 32:16Speaker 2: loss and move on. They'll have Sand Springs on the
- 32:18Speaker 2: road next week. Bartlesville's thinking the opposite. If the Bruins
- 32:21Speaker 2: win this one, the Bruins clinch the two seed. So,
- 32:24Speaker 2: this is basically a fight for the two seed, assuming
- 32:27Speaker 2: Muskogee wins. That takes care of Stillwater. We'll see. I
- 32:30Speaker 2: don't know if that's a good assumption or not. But
- 32:32Speaker 2: if you do assume that, this is going to be
- 32:34Speaker 2: a ballgame that decides who the two-seed is behind the
- 32:38Speaker 2: Stillwater Pioneers. Of course, Bartlesville thinks they can probably win
- 32:40Speaker 2: the district if they beat Stillwater the week following. So
- 32:43Speaker 2: Bartlesville taking that high-powered offense. Bruins 46.1 points per game
- 32:49Speaker 2: going to Muskogee. Ruffers only averaging 22.5 points per game
- 32:53Speaker 2: so far. They got three common opponents. Muskogee did get
- 32:57Speaker 2: a narrow win over Claremore earlier this year. Obviously, the
- 33:00Speaker 2: Bruins lost to them. They beat Booker T by three touchdowns.
- 33:05Speaker 2: Bartlesville beat them by 26. They beat Ponca City, though,
- 33:09Speaker 2: very narrowly a couple weeks ago. And, of course, the Bruins,
- 33:12Speaker 2: if we want to start there, really owned the Wildcats,
- 33:15Speaker 2: led 44-6 in that ballgame before Ponca had a little
- 33:18Speaker 2: bit of a comeback in the second half. But Game
- 33:21Speaker 2: was over. I mean, it felt like to me as
- 33:22Speaker 2: soon as it got to be 20 to nothing, the
- 33:25Speaker 2: game was over in the first quarter. So I thought
- 33:28Speaker 2: Bartlesville's defense responded really well last week to a run-heavy
- 33:33Speaker 2: Ponca City offense. And then the Bruin offense just continues
- 33:37Speaker 2: to do what they've done now for four straight games
- 33:39Speaker 2: out of the bye week, which is score unlike five
- 33:42Speaker 2: of every six drives they have.
- 33:44Speaker 1: At will.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that now, sorry, Batch, I think that
- 33:48Speaker 2: now they are, I'd have to re-look it up, but
- 33:51Speaker 2: they're like 20 of 27 in two-point conversion their last
- 33:55Speaker 2: four games. So that's really starting to cook up a
- 33:58Speaker 2: little bit, too. They're well over 50% on those two-point conversions.
- 34:03Speaker 2: attempts over their last four games.
- 34:04Speaker 3: How'd that wing T work out for the Wildcats?
- 34:07Speaker 1: They don't run the wing T yet.
- 34:08Speaker 3: I'm just asking.
- 34:08Speaker 1: It's not even close to being the wing T.
- 34:10Speaker 3: I'm just asking how it worked out.
- 34:11Speaker 1: It's not even close. Okay. Ponca City is a poster
- 34:14Speaker 1: child for let's do all this stuff and not be
- 34:16Speaker 1: good at anything.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
- 34:18Speaker 1: And they are. They're a poster child for.
- 34:20Speaker 3: We're going to spread it out. We're going to be
- 34:21Speaker 3: in the wing T.
- 34:22Speaker 1: We're going to do this. And they're not good at anything.
- 34:24Speaker 1: So you obviously don't know the wing T because that's
- 34:27Speaker 1: not wing T offense at all. None whatsoever.
- 34:30Speaker 3: Okay. Let's start with.
- 34:33Speaker 3: Because I've got several coaching-type things I want to ask
- 34:36Speaker 3: you about. One is, what was your reaction when Coach
- 34:43Speaker 3: Hennessey subbed all his guys? Because this game was over, guys, early.
- 34:49Speaker 3: So Coach Hennessey subs all his guys out, and then
- 34:52Speaker 3: the Ponca City coach starts calling timeouts. Well.
- 34:59Speaker 1: I don't know the exact situation of the Ponca City,
- 35:03Speaker 1: you know, their situation either. But as a young coach,
- 35:13Speaker 1: he probably wanted to score. He wanted some success out
- 35:16Speaker 1: of a beatdown that was supposed to be a close game,
- 35:19Speaker 1: and it wasn't. So as an older veteran coach, you
- 35:26Speaker 1: sub yours in. You know, let's get this over with.
- 35:29Speaker 2: Play it out.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I mean, he is saying, hey, I'm going
- 35:33Speaker 1: to put my twos in, put yours in, you know,
- 35:36Speaker 1: and let's get this game over with. So, you know,
- 35:41Speaker 1: I see both sides of it, you know, to be
- 35:44Speaker 1: honest with you. Like I said, as a veteran coach,
- 35:47Speaker 1: as you get older, you're like, yeah, I'm going to
- 35:49Speaker 1: put my twos in. As a young coach, you still
- 35:51Speaker 1: want to score. You're still trying.
- 35:54Speaker 3: Well, guys, let's talk about– just a few quick highlights
- 35:59Speaker 3: from that game. Um, obviously Michael Kent is, is playing
- 36:05Speaker 3: at a very, very high level, about as good as
- 36:07Speaker 3: he can right now. I mean, it is, he is
- 36:09Speaker 3: really dialed in and, and I don't want to pass
- 36:13Speaker 3: over giving credit to his guys because the line is
- 36:18Speaker 3: playing great. These receivers are catching the football where it's thrown. Um,
- 36:24Speaker 3: you know, Bowdoin Roberts has turned out to be an
- 36:27Speaker 3: unbelievable tool for this offense. It gives you an option
- 36:31Speaker 3: that a lot of teams do not have. And when
- 36:34Speaker 3: you can, you know, look at your split outs and
- 36:39Speaker 3: they're all covered up and you've got this big old
- 36:42Speaker 3: kid that's ready to take that football and catch it
- 36:44Speaker 3: and go, that is really special. And Wyatt Mathis is
- 36:48Speaker 3: playing great. You know, Goins is playing great. They've got
- 36:52Speaker 3: a couple of good running back options now. I'm really
- 36:55Speaker 3: impressed with this Bartlesville football team, and I don't want
- 36:58Speaker 3: to skip over the way they're playing defense. And I
- 37:01Speaker 3: know Ponk is not great, but the Bartlesville defense has
- 37:04Speaker 3: improved about as much from game one to game eight
- 37:08Speaker 3: or nine or whatever it was as I can remember.
- 37:11Speaker 3: I mean, they are really playing great. And I just, God,
- 37:16Speaker 3: as a coach, I know it's got to grind on
- 37:17Speaker 3: you guys. How bad do you want that Claremore game back?
- 37:21Speaker 3: I mean, just a few more seconds and they are
- 37:24Speaker 3: winning that game. And it's a little bit of a
- 37:26Speaker 3: different situation here because we'll get to Muskogee in a second.
- 37:29Speaker 3: I want to let you talk and then let's talk
- 37:31Speaker 3: about Muskogee.
- 37:32Speaker 1: Yeah, you're kind of comparing apples and oranges when you
- 37:36Speaker 1: start talking about the Bruins in week two or whatever
- 37:39Speaker 1: it was at Claremore to right now. I mean, they're
- 37:43Speaker 1: not the same football team at all. And they're all
- 37:46Speaker 1: getting comfortable with the system and all that good stuff
- 37:48Speaker 1: like that. Now, talking about the Ponca City game, guys,
- 37:52Speaker 1: last week I said, you know, where I did worry
- 37:54Speaker 1: about the Bruins defensively was getting lined up to all
- 37:58Speaker 1: the stuff that Ponca City does and stopping it all.
- 38:01Speaker 1: But it turns out that they had zero issues getting
- 38:03Speaker 1: lined up to it, and Ponca City had zero success
- 38:07Speaker 1: doing anything that they did. And so the defense played very,
- 38:13Speaker 1: very well. They're playing with a lot of energy and
- 38:16Speaker 1: a lot of confidence right now. which is huge. The
- 38:19Speaker 1: offense guys, the Bruins are so hard to defend. I mean,
- 38:22Speaker 1: I sit there and watch them. I'm like, okay, what
- 38:24Speaker 1: would I do? And it's hard to bring pressure because
- 38:28Speaker 1: if you bring pressure and they could, they have the
- 38:31Speaker 1: receivers to, to, to get loose on you, but they
- 38:35Speaker 1: also got Michael Kent's legs and my gosh, that kid,
- 38:39Speaker 1: he could get out of a freaking rat trap. So
- 38:42Speaker 1: I know it. And he squirts away and scrambles around and,
- 38:45Speaker 1: You know, his receivers continue to do a great job
- 38:48Speaker 1: of extending the play, and that's what they're doing. And
- 38:52Speaker 1: so they're so hard to defend. And I was talking
- 38:55Speaker 1: to somebody the other day about how I would defend
- 38:59Speaker 1: the Bruins, and I would probably rush one guy, maybe two,
- 39:05Speaker 1: and that's it. I'd drop everybody into coverage, and I'd say, okay, Michael,
- 39:09Speaker 1: if you're going to run it, we're going to sit
- 39:10Speaker 1: here and wait on you.
- 39:11Speaker 3: But he's going to run it for 400 yards if
- 39:13Speaker 3: you do that.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Well– I'm going to sit there with that defense line
- 39:16Speaker 1: and my defense line, and we're going to sit there
- 39:17Speaker 1: and wait on you. Okay.
- 39:18Speaker 2: When I got rushed.
- 39:19Speaker 1: Did the same thing against Metro Christian the first round
- 39:22Speaker 1: of the playoffs.
- 39:22Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:23Speaker 1: We would rush one guy, two guys, maybe three every
- 39:26Speaker 1: now and again because they would screen you to death,
- 39:28Speaker 1: and they had a quarterback that was really good. And
- 39:30Speaker 1: we beat them in the first round of the playoffs
- 39:31Speaker 1: just because of that. And it was so funny to
- 39:33Speaker 1: sit there and watch their offensive linemen. They would kick step.
- 39:36Speaker 3: And just stand there.
- 39:37Speaker 1: They're just standing there. Yeah. And our guys were just
- 39:39Speaker 1: standing there like.
- 39:40Speaker 3: That's funny.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Throw the ball.
- 39:41Speaker 2: Go ahead. Throw it. Run it.
- 39:43Speaker 3: Throw a screen.
- 39:44Speaker 1: We're standing right here. So. Anyway, I would have to
- 39:48Speaker 1: play some sort of umbrella coverage on them and then
- 39:52Speaker 1: rally to the football once Michael took off. But like
- 39:55Speaker 1: I said, they are so hard to defend. And special
- 39:59Speaker 1: teams continues to play well. You talked about the two-point conversion.
- 40:03Speaker 1: I would like to know what they were the first
- 40:05Speaker 1: three games. Yeah, I think they did. The first three
- 40:09Speaker 1: games because they probably weren't over 50%. And now they're
- 40:14Speaker 1: getting used to it. They know what to do. Yeah.
- 40:16Speaker 1: You know, Coach Hennessy's doing what Coach Hennessy does with
- 40:20Speaker 1: the two-point conversions. And I tell every coach, any of
- 40:23Speaker 1: you coaches that are listening out there, this winter, travel
- 40:27Speaker 1: to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and learn how to do those two-point
- 40:30Speaker 1: conversions because they put you in a bind. And I've
- 40:33Speaker 1: talked about it from the very beginning. You used to
- 40:35Speaker 1: play them. It's a mess, one, to defend it, and
- 40:40Speaker 1: two– Once you get yourself in a situation where you're behind.
- 40:42Speaker 3: It changes the game.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Oh, it does.
- 40:44Speaker 1: What do you do?
- 40:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 40:45Speaker 1: So you end up finding yourself chasing points. So, you know,
- 40:50Speaker 1: you coaches, travel down to Bartlesville. I'm sure he'll talk
- 40:53Speaker 1: to you. He's always nice.
- 40:54Speaker 3: And you saw it. After the second or third touchdown,
- 40:57Speaker 3: I can't remember that Bartlesville scored. Whatever Ponca did score,
- 41:03Speaker 3: they tried it.
- 41:03Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Put some in and buy.
- 41:06Speaker 3: Yeah, wild.
- 41:07Speaker 2: Some numbers from last week, Michael was 26 of 36,
- 41:11Speaker 2: passing 292, three touchdowns, no interceptions, had 82 more on
- 41:17Speaker 2: the ground and 13 carries. So, again, he's been right
- 41:21Speaker 2: around 350 to 375 all-purpose yards and then like five
- 41:27Speaker 2: to seven touchdowns every single week. He got six more.
- 41:30Speaker 2: In total, last week, he had 64 yards from Wyatt
- 41:34Speaker 2: Mathis on the ground. Again, Logan Goins had been that
- 41:36Speaker 2: guy for a little bit, and then Wyatt ran the
- 41:39Speaker 2: ball well this past Friday. You mentioned Bowdoin Roberts, six catches,
- 41:43Speaker 2: 74 yards, both team highs in the ballgame on Friday.
- 41:48Speaker 2: Eman George had four for 46. Price Lusk, six for 48.
- 41:52Speaker 2: Handful of other guys had two, three, one catch apiece.
- 41:56Speaker 2: So Bartlesville gets to 6-2, best start since 2015 for
- 42:00Speaker 2: the Bruins. They're 3-0 in district play, first time since 2015.
- 42:03Speaker 2: They've been 3-0 in district play and taking on a
- 42:07Speaker 2: team in Muskogee that has really owned the last decade
- 42:11Speaker 2: of this series. Obviously, it's been an above-average 6-8-2 program.
- 42:15Speaker 2: Ruffers are dealing with a second-year head coach now, and
- 42:19Speaker 2: obviously they've got a new offensive coordinator, I think the
- 42:22Speaker 2: offensive coordinator that they hired to replace Mason Fine ended
- 42:25Speaker 2: up leaving again for a head coaching job. Technically, I
- 42:30Speaker 2: think they're on their second offensive coordinator since Coach Fine,
- 42:33Speaker 2: but it's been a while now. We'll see how the
- 42:35Speaker 2: Bruins do against Muskogee. Guys, your picks.
- 42:38Speaker 3: I want to start by saying we all know this
- 42:44Speaker 3: is the worst kept secret ever. This game is personal
- 42:48Speaker 3: for Coach Hennessey. And These Bruins are going to be
- 42:52Speaker 3: ready to play this game. And they've been pointing out
- 42:55Speaker 3: this week for a while. Even if the playoff complications
- 43:00Speaker 3: or implications weren't what they are, this is a big, giant,
- 43:05Speaker 3: huge football game. And I think it's going to be
- 43:09Speaker 3: extremely exciting. And I'm going to pick the Bruins because
- 43:13Speaker 3: I think they're going to be better prepared. I think
- 43:15Speaker 3: they're going to be better coached. And I think he
- 43:18Speaker 3: is absolutely going to have a plan for how to
- 43:21Speaker 3: win this game. And they do not like what has
- 43:24Speaker 3: happened in the recent history with Muskogee because the Bruins
- 43:27Speaker 3: have been whooped a couple of times, and this is
- 43:29Speaker 3: their chance. And I know that there's all this, if
- 43:33Speaker 3: they win it, they will host and get a bye.
- 43:37Speaker 3: If they lose, they're still going to host and get
- 43:39Speaker 3: a first-round game, but they want to win this game,
- 43:41Speaker 3: and I got them the.
- 43:43Speaker 2: Whole way, man.
- 43:45Speaker 3: It may even be a little bit of a tail kicker.
- 43:50Speaker 1: Well, the thing that you're talking about, about Coach Hennessey
- 43:56Speaker 1: having the Bruins ready to play and having it all
- 43:59Speaker 1: start and all that, is because, guys, this is a
- 44:02Speaker 1: battle between two very, very good future Hall of Fame
- 44:07Speaker 1: high school football coaches in the state of Oklahoma. Del
- 44:10Speaker 1: Condit was at Wagner High School for however many years, won, what, six,
- 44:15Speaker 1: seven state championships, however many, and did an incredible job. Muskogee,
- 44:22Speaker 1: they paid him a lot of money to come over
- 44:24Speaker 1: there last year, and he is a great football coach,
- 44:29Speaker 1: just as Coach Hennessey. So both teams are going to
- 44:33Speaker 1: be ready to play. Going to Muskogee is always kind
- 44:37Speaker 1: of a tough place to play. We all know that
- 44:40Speaker 1: Coach Hennessey was the head football coach there and had
- 44:42Speaker 1: a lot of success there at one time, and so
- 44:45Speaker 1: he's going back to his old stomping grounds in Ruffer Nation.
- 44:49Speaker 1: The Indian Bowl is where they used to play. It
- 44:53Speaker 1: was called the Indian Bowl. And now they've got a
- 44:56Speaker 1: new stadium out at the high school. So this is
- 44:59Speaker 1: going to be an exciting game. Now, Bruins, don't fall
- 45:05Speaker 1: into the trap. And this is what I mean by
- 45:07Speaker 1: the trap right here. Muskogee is not the most disciplined
- 45:13Speaker 1: football team in the state of Oklahoma. I know they
- 45:17Speaker 1: had some issues whenever they played Booker T. And they
- 45:20Speaker 1: historically have not been disciplined at all. So the Bruin
- 45:25Speaker 1: players cannot fall into their trap. Don't get caught up
- 45:27Speaker 1: in mouthing off and, and getting ridiculous flags and all
- 45:30Speaker 1: that stuff. I do not anticipate out of a, out
- 45:34Speaker 1: of that, out of a coach Hennessy team, but the
- 45:37Speaker 1: kids need to know that. And I'm sure coaching to
- 45:39Speaker 1: see is preaching that to them as well. Don't fall
- 45:41Speaker 1: into that trap. Cause they will try to get you
- 45:43Speaker 1: to know, that'll happen. Um, But it's going to be
- 45:50Speaker 1: a good game. I do got the Bruins winning because
- 45:54Speaker 1: at this point in time, I don't know that– I
- 45:57Speaker 1: have not seen any team in the state of Oklahoma
- 46:00Speaker 1: that can stop the Bruins offense. I have not. And,
- 46:03Speaker 1: you know, the last three or four weeks I've been
- 46:05Speaker 1: kind of like, well, the defense can get a few stops,
- 46:09Speaker 1: you know. But, geez, guys, they proved it last week.
- 46:12Speaker 3: Yep.
- 46:13Speaker 1: You know, they can play too. So– So that's exciting.
- 46:18Speaker 1: You know, looking at the Muskogee schedule here, they beat
- 46:22Speaker 1: Claremore by four. We don't even count that game. Who cares? Choctaw,
- 46:28Speaker 1: they got thumped pretty bad by Choctaw. Choctaw, we obviously know,
- 46:31Speaker 1: is really good. They got beat by Piedmont in a
- 46:35Speaker 1: close 28-31 game there. Piedmont's pretty good. This year.
- 46:40Speaker 2: Probably the two seed behind Choctaw.
- 46:42Speaker 3: And probably going to go up a class, by the way.
- 46:44Speaker 3: Probably going to step up a class next year.
- 46:46Speaker 2: Probably.
- 46:48Speaker 1: Still water pounded on them pretty good. But the one
- 46:50Speaker 1: game that catches my eye that I don't understand was
- 46:53Speaker 1: the game that they played, Ponca City.
- 46:56Speaker 3: I know.
- 46:56Speaker 1: They beat them 33-28. They should have lost.
- 46:59Speaker 3: They beat them late, Ralph.
- 47:01Speaker 2: Ponca City did not have that Inel DeRogers, their main tailback.
- 47:05Speaker 2: who had like 700 yards on the year going into
- 47:08Speaker 2: last week. He didn't play in that game. And they had,
- 47:11Speaker 2: I think, two or three turnovers, and they gave up
- 47:14Speaker 2: a kick return for a touchdown. Talking about Ponca City now.
- 47:17Speaker 1: Yes. Now, I wonder, it leads me to wonder a
- 47:20Speaker 1: little bit, because we played Booker T when they played
- 47:23Speaker 1: Ponca City. And I know there were some issues in
- 47:27Speaker 1: that game. Did Muskogee have players out as well?
- 47:31Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 47:31Speaker 1: How do you know that? Because we know Booker T did. So.
- 47:35Speaker 1: I just wonder if that, that was the case, but, uh,
- 47:39Speaker 1: you know, Bruins going to win this game. I think
- 47:42Speaker 1: they're going to win it by 13. Okay. I think
- 47:46Speaker 1: it's 13. So it's going to be great.
- 47:48Speaker 3: And then I don't want to look ahead, but man,
- 47:50Speaker 3: there might be 150 points scored in that, in that
- 47:54Speaker 3: still water. Okay.
- 47:55Speaker 2: Yeah. If you win this one, you set up the,
- 47:59Speaker 2: the biggest regular season game for Bartlesville in a decade.
- 48:04Speaker 2: I mean, Yeah, I agree. Long, long time. Long, long time.
- 48:07Speaker 2: If you're able to take care of this one, this
- 48:10Speaker 2: one is up there just in general anyway because getting
- 48:13Speaker 2: a first-round bye is something that they've not been able
- 48:15Speaker 2: to do since the playoff format changed. Dale Condit, by
- 48:18Speaker 2: the way, you mentioned 20 seasons at Wagner, won six
- 48:23Speaker 2: 4A state titles. He was at Comanche for seven years
- 48:26Speaker 2: before that, made the playoffs in his final five seasons
- 48:30Speaker 2: there from Okmulgee. And anyway.
- 48:34Speaker 3: He's a stud coach.
- 48:35Speaker 2: He's a great coach.
- 48:36Speaker 1: His daddy was a coach and was a stud coach
- 48:39Speaker 1: for many years. And, you know, he's a good man.
- 48:42Speaker 1: He knows that.
- 48:43Speaker 3: Weren't there some Condits in Dewey when we were growing up?
- 48:46Speaker 3: Steve Condit.
- 48:46Speaker 2: Does that name ring a bell?
- 48:48Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't think they were born. Yeah.
- 48:50Speaker 3: Okay.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Yeah. One that 2023 682 state championship lost by one point.
- 48:57Speaker 2: And they're only lost in 2024. And then Coach Condon's
- 49:01Speaker 2: first season was last year after Broken Arrow hired their
- 49:04Speaker 2: coach away. Awesome.
- 49:06Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be exciting.
- 49:08Speaker 2: It is. K1K1TV. com, myself and Coach Poole on the call.
- 49:12Speaker 3: And even though Nighthawk is not here, I'm sorry, even
- 49:15Speaker 3: though Nighthawk is not here, he's covering.
- 49:18Speaker 2: He's on assignment. He's on assignment.
- 49:20Speaker 3: In Canada checking out the Canada high school football teams.
- 49:25Speaker 3: I know that 6th grade Bruin White plays a huge
- 49:31Speaker 3: game against Jinx Saturday at home at 1 o'clock. He
- 49:35Speaker 3: wanted me to be sure and put in a plug
- 49:37Speaker 3: for folks to come out on halloween uh to watch
- 49:41Speaker 3: the sixth grade brew and white uh uh try to
- 49:45Speaker 3: overcome another one of their kind of bugaboos over the
- 49:48Speaker 3: last couple years in jinx and so.
- 49:50Speaker 1: You finish the regular season undefeated undefeated so big might
- 49:53Speaker 1: be a bit rainy big deal for those guys it
- 49:55Speaker 1: could be yeah yeah.
- 49:56Speaker 2: The might be rainy friday night as well there's a chance.
- 49:59Speaker 3: I'm i'm i'm forecasting it to hold off.
- 50:02Speaker 1: Hey, what about Thursday night when we go up and
- 50:05Speaker 1: see the bullpups?
- 50:06Speaker 2: I think we're clear there. Yeah, we're good.
- 50:08Speaker 1: The weather's going.
- 50:09Speaker 3: To be great for that.
- 50:10Speaker 1: Oh, perfect.
- 50:11Speaker 3: We'll reach out to old Jeremy Barnes and see if
- 50:14Speaker 3: there's a stop on the way necessary to see the
- 50:17Speaker 3: old Caney bullpups.
- 50:18Speaker 2: There you go, guys. Appreciate it.
- 50:19Speaker 3: Good luck to the teams.
- 50:20Speaker 2: Good luck, everyone.
- 50:21Speaker 3: Come on, Bulldoggers.
- 50:23Speaker 2: Come on, baby. Come on.