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The Elwood Panthers Report ... with Ryan VanSkyock (2.136.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the Elwood Panthers Report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every Thursday on the Central Indiana Sports Report, we catch up with Head Coach Ryan Vanskiak and his Elwood Panthers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And join us Friday for a recap of the Panthers game at Muncie Burroughs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well coach, the inaugural Elwood Panthers Report here with
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  [SPEAKER_00]: L. Woodhead coach Ryan Vansky.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can talk about the early season for his team and what's coming up before we get to that coach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Have some breaking news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You responded to some rumors that you might be leaving the CIC, but you sent out a tweet yesterday saying that you're not.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we really looked at it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The MEC is a really good conference.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot smaller than the CIC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe competitive-wise, it might have been better for us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I just kept going back to have all the hard work we put in the four years I've been here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we're the laughing stock anymore so I feel like we're doing a really good job of turning around our programs and to me is I have that mentality is I'm not giving up on some so we're gonna continue to keep working hard
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  [SPEAKER_01]: continue to keep working with our youth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The coaches are bought in just to try to get us to a point where we are really competitive in the CIC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So before I got here, it was hardly any winning and anything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now we're winning some games, now we're winning some conference games and we're just going to continue to keep building on that and see what the future holds for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Plus, for anybody who knows the history, the CIC was formed in the 1930s, and Elwood was at the center of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of their conference, the only school that's had football in the CIC every single year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alexander has also been in the conference every year, but at first they didn't have football, and then Blackford as well, but they were known as Hartford City, so, um,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of in a way of what's conference.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a very prestigious conference.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The thing I love about is there are just so many great people in it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All the athletic directors are awesome to deal with.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Usually the fans and communities that come in are just awesome to deal with.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we just feel like we have something special.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be a lot of talks of us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe expanding the CIC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So those are discussions as athletic directors all on the whole.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And some of that will be coming out maybe in the next couple of months, but we're just looking at different possibilities with that, but we really feel like we have a great conference and a great tradition and we're excited to stay in it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So are you four CIC expansion?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yep, yep, I'm one of the big ones I brought up a team that I won't disclose right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I feel like there's a team close to us that really fits the mode of what the CIC is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think a lot of the other athletic directors and schools feel the same way.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we feel like if we go to nine, that still leaves one non-conference game for football to stay open.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what those talks end up being.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I know we have our next CIC meeting next week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we feel like just getting a few more teams brought in the CIC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think benefits all of us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it really benefits our smaller sports.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like swimming half the people don't have swimming.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So then that makes that a full-blown sport with another school that has it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it really helps us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I've mentioned these schools that kind of started the CIC.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the smaller schools in the conference now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Any thought of going to big school and small school divisions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they talked about that, but I think most of the people like playing each other, like playing each other.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, most of them for football, like to have that set schedule and not conferences where you're rival or you're playing some of these and you'll cross over in a tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think we'll ever go that route, but you see some conferences do and I seem like it's a pretty good idea for them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I just overall feeling is I don't think we'd ever go to that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: with population movements being what they've been the last three decades.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's understandable that the conferences have changed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why are we seeing so much of it right now though?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you're seeing either schools really explode and their numbers and enrollments really went up or you're seeing the other direction of numbers and enrollment of really went down.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think in 2005, 2006, they had 900, some kids.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: or 800, 900 or some kids.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I would use to be a 3A school, now we're down to 420 in the entire high school.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, our numbers have really dropped 4500 people in 20 some years.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I think you're seeing a lot of that of teams and communities trying to get to a more competitive place and more balanced overall school enrollment wise with other schools.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: how much just football make these decisions?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Football had a big big part of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The MEC only had two football schools, Southern Wells, they invited us in Southern Wells.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I would have been four for me to feel comfortable.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I needed to be at least 16, because then you're scheduled on three non-conference.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd only have four teams and trying to schedule five non-conference games in football.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I was a crucial
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd say non-selling point for me, and then the other thing I really looked at was, and football, you only have week one, week two available on the CIC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So if we leave the CIC, Frank did not examine your Madison Grant right next to us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One of those teams were not going to be able to play, and maybe you're not even able to play all three on depending on their schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I just feel like for our parents, I
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't make sense for us to go an hour and a half the Randall Southern or our Blue River and we're driving right past Frank to Alexandria, a Madison Grant, that's right next to us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So the football had a very critical part into playing and what we did.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Coach, so what we're going to do every week is me and talk about what happened the previous week, what's going to happen in the coming week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 10, 15 minutes, and I'll talk to a player at Coach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll, every weekend, decide some kind of, you know, feature story with your team about basketball, but also about the kids and their other interests, things like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But for today, just gonna talk to you because of the breaking news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One thing that was the CIC, the other is that the Central Indian holiday tournament was a big success, and it looks like is going to expand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, our overall profit in it was $19,000 just on ticket sales.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you add in all the other things, we're probably $24,000-25,000 profit as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We made off the tournament, which was really good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Me and Brand are like, man, how can we make this thing even bigger or better?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We decided to just send out an email to all the AEDs, and I was never expecting to get big for a program to come down, but it's turning into some special, so Ben Davis confirmed a day, so Ben Davis giants.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: a really prestige basketball state champions going to come down my senior year now try West you as a really good 3A programs going to come down Westfield who is a really good program is going to come down and play so there's just a lot of good teams Evansville bossy
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When we look, there's not hardly anybody played New Year's Day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think anybody played New Year's Day last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to have the marquee players, teams, matchups.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We feel like, and people are going to be able to just and Madison County County County and join and watch some of the greatest basketball in this day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we're really excited to where this is going.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're at 19 teams already today and two days of sending it out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to expand it to 24.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've asked a couple of the area schools, Chippons going to join.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've asked a little pelth, they would like to join, and they might be a host site for it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, Marion's Commons, which is going to be great.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're near us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, we're really excited what it's going to turn out to be, and I think it's going to be marquee matchups, players.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Two days just going to be a lot of fun basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And as I mentioned, a brand, it doesn't have to stop at 24 because you've got the ten o'clock game, the new game, they can all be champion ships all day with sites being played at all different places.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you might have created a brand new model.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I think it's pretty special.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when you look at us, Frank, the Alexander seven miles between each other, I mean, a person wanted to watch his team and it takes him five, seven, eight minutes to go down the road and watch another game and another venues.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's something special about it is us all being so close by where people can watch multiple games and not feel like that to drive a ton.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's something special and we're excited.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've had a couple of teams from various states reach out to me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: yesterday from Kentucky one was in Michigan couple from Tennessee so however I don't know how that's getting spread out but people are hearing about it and people are excited about it so we are really excited to have some of those big-time teams come in and play in it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a very cool event and sounds like it's going to be even better.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, nice to have one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right coach, now let's talk about your basketball team come into this game at five and four went two and one at the holiday tournament two wins at home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was a lot of fun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: every year, Coach comes into a season with expectations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Would you say your team has met, exceeded, or come short of your expectations coming into the season?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, our big goal is to have a winning season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not been done for a long time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think 12, 13 or 13, 14, and that time friends last time we had a winning season that I would.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... so we're right on path where we need to be uh... we go back and look at the film democratian we started the game ten zero final start off that bad we feel like we were the one that game i mean we feel like we out competed on the plate uh... outplayed them for three quarters but just that one quarter discuted so we look at some of the other games blackbird uh... we feel like we had a chance in that uh... they shot twenty four three
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Three and one and the one loss was to Eastbrook.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you know, they've beaten teams like Frankton and Tipton worse than they beat you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so we feel like we got a really good program in players.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One thing was a shell shop to us is and and not going much into it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So after the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the tournament games on Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Jackson Gordon has decided to go to Hamilton Hyes and he's transferred.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's a big part of what we do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a really good shooter for us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we've been taking the next couple of days to really adapt to how we want to play differently without him and we wish him the best luck and whatever his future holds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're looking forward with the group we have.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're excited
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been a really good couple of days of trying to adapt and we're not over drastically changing how we play, but we're going to do a little bit different things with the lineup we're going to have.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to share your thoughts on the recent transfers?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: a kid deserves the right in my opinion to do whatever they want to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's thanks for us as a middle of the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if we feel like we're having a great year, but I'm never going to say anything negative.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If they feel like that's the right move for them, then hopefully it works out for them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're just, I'm worried more worried about the kids are here and want to get better and want to play for us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's our focus and that's our mentality right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of which, what in particular have you liked that you've seen?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're going to play end up playing a lot quicker than what we have.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we feel like with five, six really quick guards, we're going to press her a little bit more, and try to speed the game up and try to get some easy buckets.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're really excited about that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We feel like great defense can lead into some good offensive points for us because that's the one thing is in the half core was Jackson this shoot the wall very well So we feel like a way for us to make up with that is to get down the floor and get some easy buckets get some layups and train So that's definitely going to be a focal point moving forward
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We feel like we have really good shooters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's times that we get stagnant on offense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we've been really focusing on the kids that run offense today for five minutes straight without defense and then with defense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we're working on just becoming a better offense of team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Last segment coach, and we are every week going to talk about your players.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We haven't mentioned your players very much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get to know them for the rest of the season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to talk to them from time to time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But for now, let's turn our attention to the games coming up in the next week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Until the next time we have an O. with Panthers report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You start at Burris on Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then you go to Indiana Def on Tuesday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's two road games, two road trips, but also two opportunities to get wins.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Muncie Burris has a couple really good guards.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like they're probably going to pressure us and get after a slow bit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's going to be great for us to get used to because when we play Frank, Tim, Miss Sennelaw on the next couple weeks, Alexander, it's going to be pressure on us the full time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be a great
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  [SPEAKER_01]: but we feel like we feel like a very, very winnable game coming up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana School of the, of the death was one of those things I wanted to take our kids.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Our kids don't communicate very well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like this is a great opportunity for them to watch kids that can't hear, of communicating a different way to each other.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like that's going to be very beneficial on our kids of we really preach communication communication communication.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: allows them to see a different form of communication and how those kids really got to react to each other.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that'll be a really cool game for us to go play in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So two winnable games, two games on the road.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we hope we come out of that seven and four going in Alexandria next to the following Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we will hear from you after each game or one of your fine coaches about the games and we will talk to you again next week coach, thank you so much for your time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for everything you do, we appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Coach Vanskayak and his staff and everyone at L Wood for being so welcoming and hospitable and for participating in the podcast.
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