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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 12 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into episode twelve of the Bafel Football
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. I'm your host of Ryland Spencer along with me,
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  Speaker 1: as always is the head coach of the Baffle Cougar's
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  Speaker 1: Tom Bayner coach.
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  Speaker 2: How are we doing doing great?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great?
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  Speaker 1: Excited to talk a little Bathel football today. But before
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  Speaker 1: we go in too far, we'd like to mention that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to talk about. Last time we
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  Speaker 1: did one of these podcasts was all the way back
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  Speaker 1: in April. We're going to cover a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: everything today, from the fundraisers that went on Spring football,
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  Speaker 1: Gridiron A champions and even a look ahead at Camp
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  Speaker 1: Baffelehood First off, though, we need all listeners to set
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  Speaker 1: their calendars for Saturday, September seventh, one pm and just
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  Speaker 1: right in, I need to be at pop Keeni. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that is the first game of the season against Kennedy Catholic.
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  Speaker 1: Follow our social media channels. We will have links to
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  Speaker 1: where you can buy tickets. I believe it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the go Fan app again this year, So head
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  Speaker 1: over to the app store that you use, download Go
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  Speaker 1: Fan and get yourself tickets to the game again at
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  Speaker 1: September seventh. It is a Saturday one pm kickoff at
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  Speaker 1: pop Keeni. Coach coming up here, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the fundraisers that went on, but more importantly, we
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  Speaker 1: got a fundraiser coming up here, Cougar Cards. Every year
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  Speaker 1: we sell these Cougar cards that get discounts all over
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  Speaker 1: the area.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even need to be in the area. If
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  Speaker 1: you just want to support the program, you can get
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  Speaker 1: yourself a Cougar card. We can get you hooked up
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  Speaker 1: with the student athlete. August thirty. First, this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of the last fundraiser before the season.
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  Speaker 3: Coach. Yeah, absolutely, we do a one day fundraiser. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we get the cards to the students at about eleven
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  Speaker 3: o'clock and then they get out and they come back
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  Speaker 3: at six o'clock and hopefully they've sold all twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a wonderful fundraiser for us. It helps
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  Speaker 3: to pay for a lot of the equipment. It helps
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  Speaker 3: to pay for a couple of coaching sipens, it pays
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  Speaker 3: for uniforms, it does a lot of things, and so
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  Speaker 3: it's an important fundraiser and our kids do a great
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  Speaker 3: job of it, and I have no doubt this will
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  Speaker 3: be another successful one.
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  Speaker 1: I was playing high school football, what about twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years ago. We were selling cards back then, still selling
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  Speaker 1: cards today, so obviously this is a important time for us.
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  Speaker 1: So if you would like to potentially get some Cougar cards,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you're not in the area, just respond on
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  Speaker 1: some of the social media channels and I will see
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  Speaker 1: it and we can hook you up and give you
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  Speaker 1: somebody that can help you out there with getting a card.
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  Speaker 3: Coach.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back. I mentioned that we haven't on one
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  Speaker 1: of these sents April. So last time we talked, we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about the Mattress fund raiser was coming up
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  Speaker 1: that was in May. We need to thank Custom Fundraising
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  Speaker 1: Solutions of Seattle for their work. It's truly an incredible
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  Speaker 1: thing because really our kids just kind of like they
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  Speaker 1: kind of just get people there. They don't really do
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  Speaker 1: any selling nothing, you know, as far as it goes.
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  Speaker 1: And then Custom Fundraising Solutions they do really a good
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  Speaker 1: chunk of the work. And then at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day they even brought out some ice cream to practice.
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  Speaker 1: I know the kids were going nuts about the ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: But this is I want to say, the ninth time
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  Speaker 1: this year as far as Mattress fundraiser, and it was
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  Speaker 1: another successful year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, great success. And Nancy and Derek do a wonderful
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  Speaker 3: job and they really we provide the place, and we
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  Speaker 3: help out with the advertising, and our kids get out
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  Speaker 3: in the intersections and you know down in Bothel with
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  Speaker 3: some Mattress costumes and signs and we're just trying to
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  Speaker 3: get people to go through. And and they do a
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  Speaker 3: good job and Nancy and Derek are fabulous and so
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  Speaker 3: and then they you know, they surprised us with some
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  Speaker 3: ice cream after a spring practice, and so who doesn't
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  Speaker 3: like ice cream?
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  Speaker 1: Right, I Mean, you can't see me because we're on
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  Speaker 1: the radio here, but I like it a lot. This fundraiser.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's such a great thing. And I've had so
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  Speaker 1: many people that I know that have bought mattresses from
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  Speaker 1: it as well. And I even just recently bought a
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  Speaker 1: new bed and I was looking at mattresses and it's
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  Speaker 1: funny because I'm sitting here just losing my mind. It's
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  Speaker 1: driving me absolutely nuts. It's one of those things. I
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  Speaker 1: just I haven't bought a mattress in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I realized I hate buying mattresses.
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  Speaker 2: So what did I do.
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  Speaker 1: I went out and bought like a four hundred dollars mattress,
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  Speaker 1: and I said to myself, you know what, I just
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  Speaker 1: need to get through till next spring, and I'm buying
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  Speaker 1: one at the fundraisers, So I already know we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: sell at least one next spring.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of who's the kid that gets
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  Speaker 1: credit for it, right, We'll figure that out.
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  Speaker 3: When you walk into that that the commons in this case,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it's the gym, but there's twenties five to twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight beds laying out there. You could go and lay
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  Speaker 3: on each one of them and you could tell if
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  Speaker 3: you're a firm or a soft or an in between
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  Speaker 3: or man, it's nice. And you can take a nap
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  Speaker 3: too if you want, probably if you needed to. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm going to test it out, I
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  Speaker 3: might as well go the full way, right. Another fundraiser,
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  Speaker 3: we had the auction every year. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: long it's been at Nardo Land, but Ron and Sally
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  Speaker 3: Joe Nardoni very gracious they host us there at Nardo
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  Speaker 3: Land and I'll tell you what, if you've never been,
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  Speaker 3: that's almost worth the price of admission in itself. But
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like it was another good year. I was
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately unable to be there, but it sounds like it
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  Speaker 3: was another good year out there at Nardaland yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the facility is unbelievable. It's just you know, you could
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  Speaker 3: go there and spend hours and just look at all
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  Speaker 3: the antiques and the signs and the things that they've
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  Speaker 3: collected over the years. And Ron and Sally Joe do
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful job of supporting all things Bothel. There was
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  Speaker 3: a class reunion there weekend, so uh, they continue to
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  Speaker 3: allow us to be there, and uh it's a wonderful event.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, and then I would tell you that
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  Speaker 3: Kim Nole does a wonderful job with all of the
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  Speaker 3: the the the stuff that it takes to run it,
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  Speaker 3: to set it up, to feed people, to have beverages,
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  Speaker 3: to silent auction, live auction items, and and I know
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  Speaker 3: she's got a crew of people. And the greatest thing
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  Speaker 3: is I don't know much about that crew because all
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  Speaker 3: of this is done without me having to worry about it.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a wonderful event and uh, another successful fundraiser,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, these are the things we need to
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  Speaker 3: do to keep you know, doing the things we want
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  Speaker 3: to do at Bothel High School.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the same auctioneer or mc whatever? That guy
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who he was last year when I
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  Speaker 1: was there, but he was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Carson and and Tim Hunter. Those two guys are
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  Speaker 3: the best. And uh they're they're funny, They they they
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  Speaker 3: they care, they're they're both north Shore District type people
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  Speaker 3: and and uh, you know they they do. They do
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful job. They get the paddles up there, they
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  Speaker 3: make it fun and exciting and and and there's comedy
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  Speaker 3: too as well. So yeah, those guys have been doing
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  Speaker 3: it for a number of years and hopefully we've got
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  Speaker 3: them locked in again next year already.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was It was a lot of fun when
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  Speaker 1: I was out there last year. It's something that I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to. It was, and actually the food was
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal last year. I don't know what it was like
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  Speaker 1: this year. I would assume it was probably pretty good though.
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  Speaker 3: But it was the same.
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  Speaker 1: So those were really the two big fundraisers. Another thing
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  Speaker 1: that went on earlier in the day from the auction
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  Speaker 1: was the Alumni seven on seven tournament. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to pump too many tires here, but I know Eric
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  Speaker 1: Vainter and a group of guys took home some hardware.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Dazel Wilson was on that team. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: sounds like it was another fun year at the Alumni
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  Speaker 1: seven on seven.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's it's a fun day for me
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  Speaker 3: because I get to see all these kids who used
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  Speaker 3: to play Boffel football, and some of them I see
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  Speaker 3: all the time, and others I see once a year
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  Speaker 3: or maybe even less, and so it was wonderful to see. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some of the guys, we called them the veterans.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, the oldest of the group won
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  Speaker 3: it all for the for the second year in a row.
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  Speaker 3: There has there's something to do with with wisdom over
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  Speaker 3: youth when it comes to you know, completing passes when
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  Speaker 3: it counts and knocking balls down when you have to.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's it's a fun thing our our young
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  Speaker 3: guys playing it too. But it's fun to see all
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  Speaker 3: those guys. Yeah, we had jas l was there and
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  Speaker 3: of course Jim r Man hadn't seen it in a while.
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  Speaker 3: He showed up and and James corn is always there,
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  Speaker 3: and so we had Trevor Hadley had an important interception
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  Speaker 3: in one of the games, and so the games went
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  Speaker 3: down to the wire. They were really close. Uh. But
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  Speaker 3: but the biggest joy for me is just getting a
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  Speaker 3: group of people together that I haven't seen very much selfishly.
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  Speaker 3: And then Coach Clark flew up from Florida and and
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  Speaker 3: then Rodschoff was there again and actually snapped the ball
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  Speaker 3: and played. He was the oldest of the alums playing, uh,
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  Speaker 3: at the age of one hundred and seven. Rod So
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  Speaker 3: if you're hear and you're hearing this, it's a young
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  Speaker 3: one hundred, yeah it is. And he moves well for
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and seven but uh yeah, it was fun
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  Speaker 3: to see all those guys. And you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: say thanks to to Ray Iikoff who brings all the
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  Speaker 3: music and in all of the noise and and that's
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  Speaker 3: that's good stuff. And and uh the the bean cheeches
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  Speaker 3: Don especially who who kind of helps put this together.
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  Speaker 3: And Kyle McCallister who flew up and played in it
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  Speaker 3: and then also provided T shirts for us. So what
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  Speaker 3: a fun group of people who were there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's never as big as I'd like it to be,
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  Speaker 3: but it's I think we had we had four teams
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  Speaker 3: and that was fun. And and one one day maybe
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  Speaker 3: we'll we'll get you know, fifty or sixty alums there
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  Speaker 3: and that'll be a great time.
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  Speaker 1: We need to give the thanks also to Greg Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: who was out there. Unbelievable photographer. If any of you
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  Speaker 1: follow the social media and you see some of the
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  Speaker 1: graphics that I make when I use pictures of players
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  Speaker 1: or anything, it's all him. I mean, I take some
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  Speaker 1: pictures and I do, okay, but that guy's unbelievable. And
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you don't even need
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  Speaker 1: to tell him. He just shows up at everything. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's truly unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: He is at everything, and I don't think that anybody
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  Speaker 3: in the country has somebody like we have with him.
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  Speaker 3: And it was his birthday. We celebrated his birthday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I want to say he was twenty seven or twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight birthday.
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  Speaker 1: But so we went really old with Shot and young
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  Speaker 1: with Greg. So I see what's going on. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, just to I don't think people truly
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  Speaker 1: understand like he paid his own way to New York
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  Speaker 1: last year and just kind of did it on his
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  Speaker 1: own and was a part of everything. It was truly
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  Speaker 1: like when you told me, like, oh yeah, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be there too, I'm like, oh man, that's
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  Speaker 1: awesome for me because I'm thinking about it from picture standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: and I know the athletes and the parents and they
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  Speaker 1: just they love it, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Just he truly does a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to baffle football dot Net, there's actually
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  Speaker 1: a thing in the upper right corner that says photos
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  Speaker 1: you can find everything Greg does. And he's even I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he did it this year. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know he does the Blue White game,
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  Speaker 1: but in the past. He did the Fourth of July parade,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in downtown Boffel, and it's like he's just
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  Speaker 1: out and about anything that we are going to be.
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  Speaker 3: A part of.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to find a way to be there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's truly incredible the amount of time
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  Speaker 1: and effort he puts into things. Having people like that
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  Speaker 1: is what makes you know, not only this program special,
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  Speaker 1: but just it's it's unique in a way. There's just
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not a lot of that.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of off the field.
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  Speaker 1: I guess a little bit on the field too with
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  Speaker 1: the alumni seven on seven, but that's kind off the
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  Speaker 1: field stuff. Coach, let's talk about the off season as
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  Speaker 1: a whole and kind of where we're at. Again, we
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  Speaker 1: haven't done one of these since April, so we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football to talk here as well. We
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  Speaker 1: are about ten days away from the start of Camp
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  Speaker 1: baffle Hood. We'll talk about that here more in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. There's probably some people listening going what the
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  Speaker 1: heck is Camp Bofflehood. But I think we need to
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  Speaker 1: give a huge thanks to coach Darius Terry for his
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  Speaker 1: tremendous work with the athletes, this entire offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, our off season program starts in January and man
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  Speaker 3: four days a week from January all the way till
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  Speaker 3: we do spring football. We take a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: off of spring football and camp, and then we're right
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  Speaker 3: back at it again in the summer. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're actually just finishing up a lift today, So another
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  Speaker 3: seventy kids in the weight room this morning. We had
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  Speaker 3: as many as one hundred and twenty at the end
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  Speaker 3: of right before spring football when we were doing our
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  Speaker 3: Blue Crew stuff. You can't say enough about Darius Terry
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  Speaker 3: because you have to see it first, and you can't
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  Speaker 3: even witness it in a day. You've got to You've
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  Speaker 3: got to watch his ability to develop rapport with every athlete, everyone,
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  Speaker 3: no matter the position group at shoot when he's in
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  Speaker 3: our seventh period strength and Fitness pee class, he's working
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  Speaker 3: with every athlete in all sports, male and female. And
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  Speaker 3: his ability to connect with kids is is uh outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: But but he's got an expertise that most don't have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, anybody, I guess could learn how to teach
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  Speaker 3: a technique, but it's it's uh, it's the in depth technique,
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  Speaker 3: the small things that Darius is good at but his
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  Speaker 3: ability to understand when a player needs to relax a
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  Speaker 3: little more or or be pushed, and and to set
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  Speaker 3: the weekly you know, reps and sets and weights and
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  Speaker 3: percentages and and is is tremendous. But what I love
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  Speaker 3: about Darius is his He's got a wonderful a knack,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, of demanding from these players, but they
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  Speaker 3: know is out of love, and so he can be
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  Speaker 3: firm with him and they know it's still out of love.
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  Speaker 3: And and uh he he he he laughs. He's firm,
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  Speaker 3: he demands, he's it's he's perfect. That's all I could
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  Speaker 3: tell you. And so I just I enjoy watching his
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  Speaker 3: rapport with our players, and I love the way our
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  Speaker 3: kids respond and when they're not doing it, he lets
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  Speaker 3: him know it. And when there's a penalty pay, we
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  Speaker 3: do it. So it's perfect. It's a thing that you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody wishes they had, not everybody can have somebody like him,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're certainly fortunate for the things he does
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  Speaker 3: for us, both in the classroom and in the weight
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  Speaker 3: room and on the football field. So he's a superstar.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think we've maybe ever really talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: But during the off season from January through May, he
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  Speaker 1: comes in, runs the morning workouts, then he goes to
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  Speaker 1: his actual job where he's running his own gym, and
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  Speaker 1: then he comes back and teaches a seventh period where
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  Speaker 1: it's open to pretty much all of the athletes that
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  Speaker 1: are in this I guess it's three classes kind of
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  Speaker 1: in a way in one, but it's all of the sports.
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  Speaker 1: And so you walk up there during a seventh period
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  Speaker 1: between January and May, and you might see some baseball players,
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  Speaker 1: you might see some volleyball players, you might see some
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  Speaker 1: you know, wrestlers. They're all sports are open to it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's up there working with anybody and everybody that's
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  Speaker 1: in the weight room, and he's really demanding the same
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  Speaker 1: things out of them that he is demanding from the
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  Speaker 1: football team at six o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and and there's tennis players and golfers and gymnasts
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  Speaker 3: and it is it is. His ability to understand what
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  Speaker 3: each sport and each athlete needs is pretty pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, his his time, commitment and dedication and he's
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  Speaker 3: there all the time. It's a it's it's pretty pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's I mean there's a handful of schools
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  Speaker 1: that have a dedicated strength coach, but I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think for the most part, it's another thing that is
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  Speaker 1: pretty unique as far as Bofel goes.
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  Speaker 2: Coach.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Let's go back, let's head back to June. We'll talk
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit about spring football. Good numbers again this
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: year in the program as a whole. I think if
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: we were to do like a State of the Union
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: or a state of the Program type address, I think
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: you would by saying the program is strong.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm pleased we we have you know,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: we have one hundred and thirty plus kids in final forms.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Now you know how many will come out to the
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: fall when we start on the twenty first. You know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: my guess is probably somewhere between one and twenty and
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: one thirty. But you know, our numbers were good for spring.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: We took one hundred and eighteen kids to a football camp.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: We got, we got what we wanted to get done
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: in spring. We we we got kids to learn and
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: know each other a little bit better. We we've we've
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: got our incoming freshmen to be up on the field
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: and practice, and we installed uh, you know, our base
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: offense and defensive schemes and terminology and techniques and all
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: those good things that you do. And then you go
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: to camp and you participate against other schools and we
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: competed well, I thought, and and at all at all levels,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: and uh and so yes, you know those things are good.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: You are trying to build numbers back up. You know.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: It's uh, it won't probably ever be the same as
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: it used to be when we had two youth football
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: programs at every level. You know. Right now we're trying
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: to get enough at our youth level in the small
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: you know, cub and rookie ages to to have an
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: eleven man again. But right now, you know, it is
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: what it is, and we get a lot of kids,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: like everybody probably who who is just learning how to
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: play football as a freshman and coming out their first time,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: and so uh, very pleased with that. Love the character
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: of our team, love the way we're we're coming together.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: We've got really good leadership, and so yeah, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: everything a head coach could want you you've got. You know,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that means. We'll have a tremendously
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: wonderfully tough schedule, which is which is great, Uh, but
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: but are. You know, I'm very pleased with the way
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: our kids have gotten to this point and their their
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: work ethic and dedication and discipline has been wonderful for
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: the most part. So excited about that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: You mentioned one hundred and eighteen student athletes down at
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the grid Iron of Champions camp at Pacific Lutheran University
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and Tacoma. One thing I just kind of want to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: talk about really quickly before we get even too far
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: into that is you mentioned the freshmen and Coach Lago
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and the freshman coaches that I think it's unbelievable the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: job that they do.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: We go down there to the.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Grid Iron Champions and it's one of those things where
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: you kind of you almost never know what the freshman team,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because you don't know where
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you really stack up against these other other programs. And
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: then we get down there and I'm watching our freshman
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: team in the loutis and.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm watching I'm watching the compete.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Level and the kind of fire that they play with,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know why I might have
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: even slightly doubted Coach Lego and those guys. I mean,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I don't even think it was a doubt so much
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: as like a you know, an uneasiness of I don't
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: know where we're at this freshman team, and then all
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, here they are, and I'm watching the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: quarterback lower his shoulder and just barrel into the end
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: zone at one point. It's it's a lot of fun
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to watch coach Lego and coach Madisener and coach just
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: all of those guys and just the passion that they
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: coach with at the freshman program.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: You know, so many people incorrectly think that the higher
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: level you coach, the better you are, and they they're
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: just people that are not in the know. They think
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: if you're in the NFL, you're the greatest, and if
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: you're in college, you're next, and then it's you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: junior college. It's not that way, and it's not that
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: way within a high school program. Some of the best
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: coaches on my staff are freshman coaches, and you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I've talked to them about moving up, and a lot
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: of them, because of family or you know, life situations,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: they just can't or they don't want to. And I'm
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: really excited that they don't want to, because I have
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a tremendous freshman coaching staff who has again I'll use
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the word rapport. They develop a wonderful rapport with with
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: the the players and the Uh. The the mark of
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a good freshman head coach is how many freshman football
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: players return to play as a sophomore, you know. Uh.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: And and our numbers are always good. Those those numbers
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: carry over. And so uh, my high school coach told me,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: long before I even knew I wanted to be a
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: head coach, he said, if you ever become a head coach,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the most important person you'll hire is your freshman head coach.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: And uh, you know I didn't. It took me a
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: long time to realize and understand what he what he
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: was saying and what he meant by that. And and
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: we have that. Uh. Our our freshman coaching staff are
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: wonderful men of character and and men for kids. And
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: they they understand the game of football and the techniques,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: and they know what the kids are capable of and
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: what they're not and they and they they make it
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: so that what we do schematically is appropriate with the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: ability of our players. And so we were undefeated last
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: year as a freshman team playing and a freshman and
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: sow More League they do a wonderful job, and you
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: know it's our numbers are up again, and yeah, you'll
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: see that at camp, and you'll see it throughout the season,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: and you'll see it at practice. And so we're excited
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: about that young group.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Grid Iron A champions camp down there Pacific Lutheran University
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and Tacoma. For those of you that maybe know, like
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this has always been the Steve Jervis Camp. Pacific Lutheran
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: is kind of taking it over now in a way,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: but Jervis is still involved, and so it's really cool
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to see so many big time football brains down there,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: if you will, between the staff that runs the event,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the teams that were there. I mean oday was there,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Pwallup is there, A couple of the better programs at
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the three A and four A level, and then there's
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: a couple of programs from our conference, Mount Science Skyline.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: We're there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But overall practices, scrimmage is team bonding. I mean, lots
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of great stuff goes on at that camp. That's the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: first time I've ever been a part of it. Was
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: able to be down there for a couple of days
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and just kind of seeing everything that goes on. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: see why it's such an important part of the off season.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we we've always loved this Steve Jervis
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: camps and he does a wonderful job with coaches and
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: players and allowing us to have a say in what
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: we want camp to look like and and help us
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to develop, you know, our fundamental skills, but also our
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: our team camaraderie and and so that's what it's all about.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: You You now put it back to a college campus
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: with Brent McAdams and his staff at POU and you've
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: got wonderful facilities. And then of course of course you're
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: you're there with the likes of Monty Cohler and and
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: oday you you get to see the like the you said,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: the skylines, the mount size, the pew Alp was there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Capital has a great program and they do some great things.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: And uh there there were you know, many more teams
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and and lots of things going on. Probably the best
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: thing you get out of camp, in my opinion, is
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: your kids. You know, eat together. They they you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: they stand a dorm. They they're with each other twenty
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: four hours a day. And the team building that goes.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: We do a root beer float goals night and we
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: do other team building events where we're purposeful in our
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: attempt to make it, you know, like we all say
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: when we break, you know, family, and you can't get
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: every kid to buy in. There's no way, just not
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: when you have one hundred kids plus in a program.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: But how many kids can you get in the circle
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: that say I'm in and I'm all in and teams
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: first and and this camp helps to develop that and
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: foster that and and teach that, and so we are
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: we're blessed to be able to go there. And it
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: was another, you know, great experience for the Bothel Cougars.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I think one of the things I never really noticed
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: as a member of the media vet was a little
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: i don't want to say eye opening, but like kind
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of cool to see is when we show up and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: play Washington High School, we don't know anything about their players.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: We don't know anything about their offense, about their defense.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And for the kids, it's the same thing. So you
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: go through springball and you know it's our offense versus
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: our defense, or in season you have a general idea
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: are they running an odd man front and even front,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: what are they doing offensively? Are they pass heavier, they
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: run heavier.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: What are they?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: You show up to this stuff and it's almost like
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you have to adjust rapidly or else it's going to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: go downhill really quickly. And I thought, for the most part,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I thought our kids handled that challenge really well.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you'd never know what you're gonna get.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: You know, we play teams that we never see, like
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Ballard and Lincoln of Seattle and the ones you mentioned
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Washington and and more. And you know, we played Liberty
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: and you see a four man front, a four three
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: or four to two five of a three three stack,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: a three four, a hybrid defense. Uh, you see six
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: in the box, seven in the box, eight in the
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: box sometimes nine. And then offensively you see you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: everything from the wing tea to no backs to fly everything.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: And you're right, and you don't have time to prepare
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: like you do throughout a week. And so yeah, you
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: just you you figure out what kids can do with
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: a base knowledge and a you know a little bit
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: of understanding of what we're doing. Is it's only been
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: three weeks, right, and then you go in and you play,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: and so what a great experience is fun? It's it
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: it It helps teams to develop and Yeah, what a
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: what a fun time for us.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, that's kind of generally off season. We also had
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the I guess the Lakewood seven on seven. I didn't
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: even talk about that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I believe our lineman finished third in the Lignement competition
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: up there, which is I mean, I don't want to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: say it doesn't mean anything, because it's a great day
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and it's a great event, but I've seen over the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: years where a team might win the Lineman comp go
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: two and eight in the season or something, so like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: as far as that goes, it is what it is.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: But I think it's good to see our alignment up
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: there competing, working as a team, doing the things that
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: they did. And then you know, on the field, it's
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting because you know, there's vacations going on,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: there's guys away at camps. So we were getting to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: see some guys in the seven on seven that we
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: hadn't maybe seen.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: A ton of this year.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And I thought overall, the compete level was pretty good
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: from a lot of a lot of guys, and there
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: was guys getting hurt, guys having to leave for baseball.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: So we're seeing some guys out there were putting them
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: in some situations that they were not comfortable, but overall
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I thought that they were competing hard and getting better
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: on the day.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agreed completely. You know, the the great
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: thing about that tournament's last weekend. You can work with
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: your kids. And there's there's great football programs up there
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Lake Stevens and Kennedy and North Creek's there, and we
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: have and a Cortis who won the Stay Chammanship this year.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's fabulous. Not your typical to eight team, right,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Corts off for sure. Uh, And we the goal is
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: to compete, right, The goal is to you're it's always hot.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: You play a game. After a game, after a game,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: fatigue sets in, soreness, you you you your rests are
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: twenty thirty minute breaks before you're warming up for the
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: next one. And then in our alignment are going through
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: a series of six or seven different competitions and and uh,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: the greatest thing for me is that you you get
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: kids there who have to look another opponent in the
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: eye and give it your all against them. And so
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: it's to me that's about how do we learn competition
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: no matter what, when loser draw, when we're ahead, when
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: we're behind, when it looks good or what doesn't look good?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: How do you can you display the same focus and
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: demeanor that you do at any point in a game.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: And so that's what we're teaching there. And you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you're right, not everybody can make it. It is in
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: the summer, or there are vacations and camps and things
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: that others go to. But you know, the guys we brought,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I love the way they competed. I love their effort
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: and attitude. And we went four and one and our
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: lineman finished third, and so I thought we competed really
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: well and proud of our guys.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: So that is officially the stuff that has already happened.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Let's look ahead now. Camp Bofflehood just over a week away. Now,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for those who don't know what Camp Bothlehood is, and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some listeners that maybe were not part
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of the program, or maybe there's some parents that don't
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: know what Camp Bofflehood is. Can you give the listeners
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: just a little preview of what's in store for the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: athletes and coaches as far as Camp Bofflehood.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Goes, Yeah, it started out as Camp Brotherhood. There was
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a camp just north of Lake Stevens called Camp Brotherhood.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: That was the name of it, and we used to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: go there for the start of two a days and
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: we'd go on a Wednesday morning. We'd do two on Wednesday,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: two on Thursday, one on Friday, and come home Friday afternoon.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: It was a time for Bothel football to just be,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: you know, secluded if you will. We didn't. There was
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: no self service, you didn't have phones to worry about.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Nobody had to go to work, nobody had to come
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: in late because their alarm didn't go off. It was
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: a wonderful time to spend together and do football. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: we would do five practices in three days and come
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: home and man, we felt like we got a lot
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: of stuff in. Plus we did team building and bonding
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and again we spent the night and we ate together,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: and so it was just a continuation of what we
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: started developing in summer camp. So Camp Brotherhood sold and
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: they no longer provided opportunities for outside groups like us
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to come up and use it. So we looked around
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: the state, couldn't find the same thing we were looking for,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: and decided, well, why don't we just save money and
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: do it at our high school. And so we call
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: the camp bothelhood. Now, our kids will show up seven
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: o'clock on Wednesday morning, the day we start, and we
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: will have a team meeting, and then we will we
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: will get into position meetings and we'll get into practice.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: And the difference is instead of going home after practice
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to get a bite to eat and rest, they'll go
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: down to our cafeteria and have lunch, and then we'll
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: do some team building and team bonding stuff, and then
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: we will have another practice, and then we will do dinner,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: and then we will have a some type of a
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: team activity we do. We always surprise them with different things.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: We don't tell them ahead of time, but we'll do
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: something on Wednesday night, and then we spend a night
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in a gym, and then we get up and we
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: have a breakfast and a practice and meetings and we
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: get a lift in and we do everything. We just
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: stay the night for a little over forty eight hours
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: at Bathwehigh School. And so we'll again have five practices,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: we'll eat six meals, we'll do two or three team
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: building type events, and we'll be able to totally engross
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: ourselves in Baffel football and without the worry of I
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: have to go to work, I have to, you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: my phone. We ask our kids to leave their phones
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: at home. And so that's what it is. It's a
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: it's an opportunity to start the season where we're all
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: all in.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's I mean last year was my first
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: camp botha hood and to me, it's as close to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: like a college type camp as you can get. I mean,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: they are here, they are just completely just I don't
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: even know, engulfed, I guess is maybe the word I'm
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: looking for here, but in football for for basically two
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and a half days, and and and it's it's not
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: just football, but it's it's football because you're around all
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of your buddies that are football guys. And so even
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: though we're watching a movie or you know, there's a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: little campfire that goes on where it's truly unbelievable what
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I saw there, you know, watching guys just kind of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: open up their hearts a little bit, if you will,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and talk about anything. I mean, it's it's really really
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: unique and something that's cool. You mentioned saving money, Now
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it's free. We still got to pay
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: for and that's where these these fundraisers that we did
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: come in and pay for stuff. And so that's why
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you know, when people maybe listen, they hear me talking
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: about fundraisers and it's like.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Ah yah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: No, those are very important for stuff like Camp Bafflehood
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and Camp Boflehood is incredibly important for just the program
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: as a whole. I mean, it was it was really
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: cool to see it last year and just how much
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: fun the kids have. And when you talk to guys
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: about it later, they go, man, it was it was
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: just so much fun. It was the best couple of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: days of my life, you know what I mean. And
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: it really is cool. It's a lot of fun. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: like I said, just over a week away, we were
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: going to get right into it. And you know, there's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: almost no time to waste because in high school football,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: you don't get a you know, a full month of practice.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: You get a couple of weeks and it's go time.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, just a couple of weeks of
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: practices and we're right there. Kennedy Catholic again September seventh
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: at POPKINI one PM.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Coach.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Let's finish it off here by talking about the tenth
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: anniversary of the twenty fourteen state championship team. Nothing concrete
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: yet as far as what we're gonna do, but be
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: sure to follow the social media's. We will be announcing
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: whatever plans we have. We've got a few ideas. We
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: got to run and buy some people. We got to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: figure some things out. If you have pictures or anything
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you think that we could use on social media, we'd
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: love to start posting some stuff.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: You can try.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I would say, email our alumni chair don Vin Cheech
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: at alumni at Baffelfootball dot net, or you can you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: message us on social media's. I will respond to all
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of those and if you got anything, if you got
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: anything you think we could use for anything, be sure
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to just reach out and we'll see what we can do.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: But coach, let's talk about that twenty fourteen team. I
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: was in media at the time, and I go back
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to thinking about that team, and that really was one
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of my favorite teams as far as any state championship
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: team I've ever been around. In I remember picking you
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: guys to win the state championship in April of the year,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: of the offseason, and people going, what are you thinking,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: what are you thinking? It's no, no, way, no way,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: And I remember going, I don't know, man, they return
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a lot, they return a lot. Was there a point
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know, was it freshman, sophomore, junior? Maybe it
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: was week seven or eight of the football season. Was
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: there a point where you kind of thought to yourself,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you know what, this team could be pretty special?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Pretty special. I knew that from like you did the
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: year before. But I will tell you that I don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: know if this is a cursor a blessing, but I
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: see the weaknesses in our team better than I see
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: our strengths. And I don't know if that's helpful because
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: you know, it helps to make our weaknesses stronger, or
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: if that's more of a negative look on I don't
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: think it's negative. But I never you know, we won.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: We played for the state championship two thousand and six,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: and if you would and we lost our first game
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: forty two to twenty, wasn't that close? Forty eight to twenty.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Actually we played a team in Oregon. But what I
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: would tell you is this, we I never see us
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: as good as we are, so I never thought this
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: team could win at all. I've never had that mindset
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: we talk about as are goals, but I don't look
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: ahead like that. I remember our first game we went
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: up to East Lake and we really didn't play well.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Our offense didn't move the ball well. We scored thirty
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: four points, but we were thirty six or what. I
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: don't remember scores very well, but we it was thirty
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: something to eighteen or seventeen. I think it was like
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: thirty four to seventeen or eighteen. But the thing is
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: we scored on big long plays. We had a trick
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: play for a touch and we had a long pass
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: for a touchdown. We had a long run for a touchdown.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: But we didn't really put together. I remember sitting on
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: the bus not feeling great about beaten East Lake, a
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: powerful school in in in that fashion. And later on
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I would come to realize that, wow, I I should
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: have had a different outlook on this team. But you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: they they were, they were they were kids of character.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: You had. You had probably the toughest linebacker I've ever
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: coached in Sean Monroe. He he, I don't. I don't
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: even know if he likes me to this day. I
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: would never let him just kill our own kids. He
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: wanted to hit every day and squish people and crush
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: them and break them. And I was like, Sean, we
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: can't do that. And and you know, he he he
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: hit the hy pad. Oh man, he just he would
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: just glare at me with like you're you're you're preventing
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: me from having fun. And you know, you had Ross Bauers,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: who who still is one of the funniest people I
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: ever come around to talk about. He makes me laugh
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: all the time and the way he and Dazel interacted.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: But we had tremendous athletes on the line of scrimmage. Uh,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: at every position, we really did. We had a wonderful
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: receiving corps, we had great backs, We had you know,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: wonderful linebackers and offense and defensive linemen. And we were
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: a complete team. And there's no question when I look
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: back over the years of all the teams I've coached
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: that you know, wow, yeah, that was a special group
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: of players and talent and and commitment and character and
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and and so uh uh.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: It was fun. But as far as when did I know,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: I never really knew. I always felt like every game
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: was a tough game. I always felt like, we're gonna
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: have to squeak this out and and I guess I
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: knew when the final horn sounded and we were in
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: the Tacoma Dome and hugging each other and and tears
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: of celebration that that we'd finally wanted. But what a
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: fun group of young men and and uh, great memories.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: It's it's funny you mentioned some of these names, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you know, Ross Bauers and Dazel Wilson, these guys, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I remember the state championship game specifically. I remember afterwards
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: and being in media. The first thing that I'm supposed
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: to do is, you know, go find a guy to interview.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here and I'm looking around and I'm like,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I could go interview Ross. You know, he had the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: flip into the end zone or whatever it was, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Dezel I remember he had a I think maybe it
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: was on the boot back or something where it was
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the touchdown, and and I just remember thinking to myself, like, man,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: there's so many guys.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Do you know who it is?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I went and interviewed you guys, knowing you.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Sam McPherson would have been a guy
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: to interview. He was injured, but he was such an
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: important part. But I don't think he did it. I'm
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: sure it was a lineman. Maybe maybe Cody he was playing,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, maybe no.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: So on the defensive side to me, and I'm glad
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you met Monroe was unbelievable. Monroe and Tyler Warf, those
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: two guys were just we had a bunch of good man.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: But I went and interviewed Monroe because I wanted to
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: interview one from the defense, one from the offense. And
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I interviewed Monroe and then I'm looking around and I'm going,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you know who I'm gonna interview because he just had
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: one of those games that was like sneaky, really really good.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I went and interviewed a little slot receiver, Sean Sewan
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: always had this game, you know what I mean, Like
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: before that game, i'd heard the name or whatever, but
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: it was one of those ones where it was like,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: this guy played such an important role in that game,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: but yet he's gonna get none of the spotlight, I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: mean none of the spotlight in that game. But I
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: don't know how many catches he had. I don't know anything.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I just remember walking away from that game going, I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they should have used this guy a
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: little bit more throughout this season, like, you know what
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was. But that's what I think made
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: that team so special is that every single week there
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: was one or two guys that stepped up and just
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: did something. You know, Sam McPherson goes down with an injury,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and there.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Was two running backs who ran over one hundred yards
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: in the state championship game of sophomore in a junior.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: And oh man, now this is gonna drive me crazy
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: because I should know their names. One of them was
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I can see it was a Caleb Meyer.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, now that's a good one.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: There.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: He was the.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Junior, right, Caleb was the junior yep.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And was the Now the sophomore is gonna I don't
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: know who the sophomore is. On top of my head
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: trying to think of some names. There was Watkins, Saint
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: John Watkins, I Monty Saint John Watkins. No, was that
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: who it is?
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not gonna say my memory
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: is still strong. I'm not Rod Schofstrong over here. But
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive. You gotta give me credible.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, coach, you are impressive. But you know the
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: thing I hate about name and names is that you
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: if you don't name them all, you're doing a disservice.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: And that the problem is everybody. I mean, you know
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: you talk about guys who everybody contributed that. You know,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: you go across the board in every position. Man, you know,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna name any more names because I'll leave
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: out a bunch and they deserve to be to be
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: named as well. But what a team, what a group
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: of young men? Yeah, we had a We had a
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: group of the kids who really you know, Dale Gongs
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: replaced Sammy on defense and did a wonderful job. And
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: you know, when Sam went down, we sat in the
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: room we're in right now and we talked about how
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: important it was to have everybody just do one or
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: two percent more because you know, you can't replace Sam,
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: but if everybody did better, then we could be better.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: And you know, I I tried to explain this, and
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I'm right when I say this,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: but in some ways we were a little better without Sam.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is because every person,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: to a man, got better. Everyone focused just a little
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: bit more, demanded a little bit more themselves, and and
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: had had taken their game to a slightly higher level
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: and collectively they were all better. Now. You know, you
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: can argue that Sam was our best player, and man,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: he was tremendous, but the way everybody you know stepped
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: up in his absence was pretty incredible. And so those
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: are things I'll never forget. Those are the fun things
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: about coaching that those characters and the you know, the
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: things we did afterwards, and we got to go play
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: down and uh and uh Boca Ratone and play a
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: game you know, Miami Central, and those experiences and you
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: know that that that that whole group of young men
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: where that's a special time in our football history here
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: at Bothel and and uh, something nobody's ever done since
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: and done before. So uh, you know, kudos to those
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: guys in that team and and the coaches who were
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: there on that staff. And looking forward to hopefully seeing
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: some of those guys, like you're saying, maybe before a
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: game this year, and if we can we can pull
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: all this off and make that happen and be a
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: wonderful tribute to those young men and the things they
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: did leading up to that year.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's something again follow the social medias. We
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: will will announce it once we have some concrete plans,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: but we are definitely excited to honor the twenty fourteenth
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: state championship team their tenth anniversary of that season, and
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, we'll find a way to do some stuff.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: We'll probably do some more reminiscing here on the podcast
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: throughout the season. We are expecting to do this podcast
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: again every week as the season goes along and talking
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: about not only the varsity team, but the jv the freshman,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: the sophomore team. This year, Coach, you know gonna have
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: a fourth bawful Cougar football team here this season. I
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: know you've mentioned it in the past. There was I
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: believe years where we had two sophomore teams, correct.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: That's correct, when we were ten through twelve, there were
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: two years where we had seventy sophomores turnout in sixty
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: five the next year and we had two football teams
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: those two years at the sophomore level.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's I mean, honestly, that's pretty incredible when
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: you consider it was just the three years of school.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Now we got four here, but working to get those
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: numbers back and have an opportunity to do with this year.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna go gung ho with that one, Coach,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: the only other thing we need to mention here, alumni,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: be sure to mark your calendar is Friday, October eighteenth.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: That is our homecoming game as we take on the
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Mountside Wildcats at POPKINI kickoff seven pm. That is a
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Friday night again, so be sure to mark your calendars
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: for that. You know, I'm sure we'll maybe have an
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: opportunity to talk about some more you know, former alumni
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: things going on as we get towards that homecoming game.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: It's always fun to see some of the some of
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the old players out there, Guys that I see and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going, oh, my goodness, like that's you know, whoever
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: from the twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen team, and people
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: are going, what are you doing?
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Like what are you talking about? I'm just like, man,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: that guy was awesome.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Coach, I guess that's all I got to
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: say for this week. We're at forty five minutes. That's
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. Twenty five minutes, maybe even longer than
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: we normally go. But all in all, I think we
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: are just about ready to start the football season again.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: We're about ten days away, coach, But you've been doing
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: this now what probably over thirty years total as far
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: as head coach and assistant coach. You still get some
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: butterflies as we get close to the season.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and if you don't, you know you should be done.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's what I've always said. As soon as that
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I'll get nervous before a game where at the start
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: of a season, or or you know, have that difficult
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: night sleeping before we start the next morning, then it
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: might be time for somebody else to run the Blue Crew.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: But I still feel that it's a fun thing to do.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: You know. The kids keep you young, and I love
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: the competition in the sport and so looking forward to it.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: It'll be a great year.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: We're recording this on a Friday, it will be posting
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: on a Monday. But I walked into the weight room today, coach,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, Wow, it is great seeing
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: everybody wearing blue.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: And then I remembered, oh, yeah, blue Friday.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: So I guess it's time for me to start ramping
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: up those posts again on the social media. But yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: we are ten days away from camp bothlehood. We are
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: not too far away from the first game of the
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: season Saturday at September seventh, one pm, Popkini Stadium. Mark
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: it down on your calendars, download the go Fan app,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: get your tickets once they become available, and we will
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: be ready to rock and roll at the pop. Coach,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I guess that's it. Thanks for your time, and yeah,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to you soon.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, and Rylan, I'll just say this real quickly before
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: you hang up. Thank you for what you do. You
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: don't get. We got so many guys in here. Tim
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Martin's who films every practice and games, and you know,
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Greg Nelson like you mentioned, and yourself. We have people
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: that most programs don't have. And what you do for
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: our program on social media and and for our community
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: members to keep them, you know, engrossed in Bothel football
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: is not something that everybody has. And sure appreciate you.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Thanks for what you do. You're great at it.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: That means a lot. Coach.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I am having a great time at Bothe. I love
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: everything about it. And as long as you're here, you're
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get rid of me unless
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: you throw me out, So be prepared for a lot
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: of it until you're ready to hang up those black
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: and white shoes.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: You got there.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: But yeah again, coach. Thanks for your time and we'll
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: talk to you in a couple of weeks.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you realm again.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Be sure to set your calendars. Homecoming Friday, October eighteenth.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: That is a seven pm game at Popkini, but most
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: importantly first game of the year Saturday, September seventh, one
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: pm Popkini.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Mark it down on your calendars. I'm Rylan Spencer.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: You've been listening to episode twelve of The Bathel Football Coach,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: a show with head coach Tom Banter.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: We will talk to you in the coming weeks. Gokus
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: m HM