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Recap: Elwood 39, Tri-Central 0 (Sports & Beyond with Michelle Garmon, 3.13) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to sports and beyond with Michelle Garmin, and it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: On this edition, Tipton Tribune and Elwood Collider Sports Editor Michelle Garmin and I will be recapping Elwood's 39 to nothing win over Tri Central.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also a little later today, we'll be a recap of Tipton's win over Manchester.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome sports fans to the Central Indiana sports report for sports and beyond with Michelle Garmin.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Gregman Gelt here with Michelle Garmin who is on the sidelines at Elwood's 39 and nothing went over Tricentral on Friday night.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle is going to give us a quick recap here.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be joined by Elwood Head Coach Sammy Morellis and Tricentral Head Coach Adam Ritz with their thoughts and Michelle and I are going to talk about their thoughts.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So,
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Elwood's first win of the year after just struggling to feel the team, their first shot out in 16 years, and it has to feel really good in that locker room right now.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, it does.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you could tell they, yeah.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kids were super excited.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did the school song at the sidelines.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were smiling when they came off the field.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Coach Samy and Morales had a great make smile, as well as the other elbow coaches and administrators that were there.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fantastic night for the Panthers.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's off night for the Trojans, but it's gonna be a tough season for a tries to intro.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't realize I think until you go see game like that live and actually see the team.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: you miss out by missing a pretty much a whole varsity season.
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Michelle, I've said this on this podcast when I went out to an L would practice early in the year.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't have very many kids, but the kids they had out there look like football players.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're pretty big.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're pretty athletic.
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to be competitive against teams of the tri central and the team they have coming up blackford at the like of that because they have some good football
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it does.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have some younger kids.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be interesting.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have good athletes for where they are and what they are.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The best thing for Elwood would have been if they could just be class A as opposed to class 2A.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: They might have a better shot in the
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: postseason.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just hard to judge, but they have a right to be enthusiastic and those kids were and you know, credit to the kids that came back out that young kids that haven't played, that came out, the freshman, they have a lot of freshmen and a couple freshmen that's some really nice things for the Panthers on Friday night.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So the future can be bright if they can they can just get the numbers.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: They can't fight a numbers battle every year.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So something has
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they are.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite all that, you know, they probably have a perfect head coach when it comes to patients.
• 3:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And a positive attitude and staying positive with the kids and Sammy Morales, because he's just even killed an ES patient.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he's trying to teach.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's like he said, it's kind of one practice at a time.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: One day at a time, one week at a time, just trying to keep everybody healthy and get more kids out there.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's just playing with the hand he stelt, but he's done a nice job.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we can hear from Sammy, because his tone was really pretty positive after
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Friday's win, what you would expect because it wasn't win, but he was pretty positive with his kids and the attitudes they've had and everything showing up to practice as well.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations on with Coach Sammy Morales and his football team and that question a little bit with numbers, but you battle through that and he meant really strong performance tonight and Jati 39 to zero win over a tricentro so has to go good.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, everyone is a good wing of the way.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: Don't get very many of them, but you know tricentro struggling just like we are but
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: We worked on a lot, our first game, we only had one game last week and it kind of hurt us not having as scrimmages and stuff like that.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: This our second game works some bugs out and we still got a lot of work to do with the young team got 11 freshmen, you know, out of 20 kids and that's, it's struggling.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: But anyway, we, we're, we're, we're putting the X's and O's together.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's going to say a win like tonight has a little bit extra pep in the step and make the kids because he's going to turn hot next week.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: So should make practices more enjoyable even though there's going to be some really hot temperatures early in the week.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: We got black for next week, you know, I don't know if they want it out, but they're getting better.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's just like we are.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so it would be a good ball game next week, strapping up and less work on our
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Spadlin kid is really nice, sizing.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: He threw some good balls tonight and Harpel made some two really nice.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: The first one he was wide open, but to catch it in stride.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, so it was a great throw in everything.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The second catch for a touchdown.
• 5:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Harpel went up and got it.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and what was funny when that first catch on Harpel is fourth and third in Harpel.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Harpel just, our defensive coach just says, what are you guys doing?
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we got, oh, we got this, we got this, but that was,
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, good throw, good strike with Harpel catching it and it worked it in our favor for us, though.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just, in the fourth and third ever, like, how they're going for, but then I thought, well, you know.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do know that with the way the weather has and missy some things, special teams is probably the unit that is the least ready for Friday and that's, I don't mean any offense by that.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just mean that it's hard sometimes to get all of that in.
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: It is.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like our special teams, we try to get the kids who don't get a lot of playing time and I think we got seven or eight freshmen on our kickoff team and we know we're like, oh, please don't kick it over here.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, we work and we work because we got such young kids doing it and but so far so good Your defense did a pretty nice job and you had the interception.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: You caused some fumbles and just overall good performance We got a couple of freshmen linemen
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I think we got five freshmen on defense, but uh, uh, Keegan Cramer played a good job at knows got no tackle and, uh, we're getting a ball good.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so we had a few heads down, blue right by the guy, but just working on getting our heads up and breaking down a little bit and making a good tie tackle.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, Sammy.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: For early, big week for L would as they go into a schedule with some question marks after that, because they're going to be playing a lot of the CI, C, B, and it's been kind of some developments on that.
• 7:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Vance guy up, he left the CIC no.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Number wise, what they were battling this year, and he gave the CIC.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Opposite teams, the option he told him he would understand if they wanted to drop Elwood from the schedule, because I'm not knowing that way they didn't possibly lose out on a game during their season.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: The interesting thing will be to see how the kids respond to their third straight road trip.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Tri-central trip is easy, no longer than 20 minutes from a wood-to-trice interval, but they had to go to southern Wales the first week, so that should prepare them for the black road trip, because that's another long bus ride, and that's the thing with a lot of young kids that are a long bus ride and how quickly can they get revamped and be stoked to play.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I expect the kids to be fired up, and like I've always said, if you're going to black for
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bride the kids tell me the bus will definitely stop it.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've had hose on a way.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's right.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the way to do it All right Michelle.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: We know for fact that they are playing at Blackford on Friday.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then their home opener September 11 against Madison Grant Then it gets a little hazy as you said the Invitation to find other opponents.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We know Oak Hill has done that For October 2nd now Oak Hill is playing Northwestern and Elwood you said it looks like they're gonna try to find another opponent
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, yes.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like they're going to get wall bash to replace.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think at another team is dropping from their schedule.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe they found somebody else.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's really hard to keep up.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to double check with Ryan this week to see what his upcoming schedule looks like.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: We definitely know they're not playing a game.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: The, he announced that the flag football team is going to play Friday night under the lights.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we definitely know that night,
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: and big task ahead of Adam Rich, they're try central, they're probably facing kind of the same situation, but it sounded like he was a little positive to, especially with the kids' attitudes, of course, it's a difficult situation.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have quite the numbers issue that Elwood does.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have about 30 kids out there.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not all healthy.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an experience issue there.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an experience issue there, and you know, just missing a whole year of football.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're in this stand age grade where you play so much, and now that the school's play all summer, basically kind of like the other sports, the coaches can take these kids as parents.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Missing a year of that is just detrimental.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you can top it off by the fact that you hire Adam Rich, he's had six weeks with his kids, six weeks.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: from hiring the callout meeting and everything through Friday night's game six weeks.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a lot.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: When we talked earlier to coach told a preseason, 75% turnout for his summer stuff and they'd be fucked up their summer schedule.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of what you're combating.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Short off season with a new coach, no varsity last year, basically.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they play two games out of your guaranteed 10 because you get nine regular season and you get a first round of the section if you have enough kids for a team.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, and I really feel sorry for the Trojans because they have Sheridan coming up next.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's going to be a very hungry and very angry, only two shared and team that they're going to face and, you know, there have been years in the past that Trescentral would have been salivating.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good only two shared and team.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I watched the game against Alexander and they're good.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: They are.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they just have all of the tradition on their side here in a minute.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll hear my post game interview with Adam Rich from Friday night.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the big thing is, and we hear, and I talk, the P word patients.
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's preaching patients for himself and his coaches to realize it.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: They may want it.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: They may expect it.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're used to having kids that know when you say something and being able to snap to it right away.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not the case now.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you get to be patient patients for the fans and the parents to understand rooms not built and was never built on a day.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So patients is going to be the key word out there.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do remember a few years ago when George Gilbert started out there.
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he told the parents at what happened overnight.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: but they needed to be patient, they needed to follow the things he said.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be interesting, especially in this day and age now where you players can transfer one time without any repercussion.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Trash Central has lost a few of those kids.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they lost some kids that had maybe had some worst experience, maybe not last year, but from a couple of years ago, they moved on, they moved on to like Eastern, or I think Tipton's got to cup kids from Trash Central.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what happens when you're not sure what you really want to play football when you're not sure if you're going to have a team and kids that they really want to play.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what's going to happen nowadays and it's it's it's sad, but that's just the way it is and it's going to be a lot hard to make your place to place to be Michelle that's what you got to do you do but you know it gets it gets harder and harder to build that program I was talking with go chair and told a little bit and we were talking about that that it's so much harder now to take and build a program because
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nowadays, head coaches work loving the half months out of the year, basically.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you have your players and you do all of these offseason, activities, and your summer games.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: 20 years ago, you didn't have the summer.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: You got one week of team camp in the summer.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was it.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And wait, lifting.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was a little easier to do that and now with the option to travel somewhere else.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're right.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have to make your school be the place to be.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's hard.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: They can be hard for small schools in that regard sometimes.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: No question about it.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Coach Adam Rich and I talked a little bit about patience and that lack of varsity experience and him getting the late start with these kids, but he is pretty positive.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: He believes that they can get the ship turned around there and he knows what they need to work on and the struggles he talks about all of that in my close game interview with them.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: So here's out of
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here with the first-year head coach for Tri-Cincial, Adam Rich in Adamite, another tough loss, but there were spots tonight.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought where your kids really did some things well.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just couldn't put it together.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: We just, in the first half, I think we beat ourselves.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can't give up the fourth and 25.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that changes the game.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, if you give up a fourth and 25 and they score touchdown on it, that just, yeah, I mean, it just demoralizes everybody.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think we, we could have hung in it.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got down a little bit.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't beat ourselves in the first half.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then honestly, we just got some kids hurt and kids tired.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's hard being a small school and not having a lot of experienced football players because I think that's where we struggle.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we're building experience.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: But going away, you can build experiences on the field, right?
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that you didn't get a full offseason with them, you had to have a short offseason and then bringing a new system and everything.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it takes a while.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean we're we've been at this for six weeks now.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't have the full of all season that everybody else does we didn't have every player Everybody else does when I took this over.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was five players right we're up to 32 and we're still pretty strong at 30 So it's hard for me because I'm a competitive first thing but You got to take the wins where they are and the fact that we're gonna have a football season.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're having a football program
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we're going out and competing every week and getting better day by day is all I can ask for these kids.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the biggest thing that you have to maybe even tell yourself and kind of preach to everyone is patients.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rome was never built in a day.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Rome was never built in a day and unfortunately I don't want it built now.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure all these people want it built now, but it's a process.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's call it what it is, it's a rebuild.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's 100% a rebuild.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: and we'll get through it, but it's not going to be overnight.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Adam.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle, I think it's pretty cool what the schools and the conferences are allowing the schools to do to mix up their schedules and not make the bottom tier teams and the conference play the top tier teams and kind of switch them out through the who's our heart land and the three rivers and the CIC and get some competitive opponents.
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: So number one, their competitive games, number two, kids don't get hurt and number three,
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: You don't want kids who don't want to get out there, so they don't get embarrassed and get hurt.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you're playing more competitive, and at oyster, so you're playing more competitive games, rather than these blowouts between the best and worst teams in the conference.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're right.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: In those games, there's blowout games where you have, it's that the clock doesn't become running to the second half, but you already year in a blowout situation by the end of the first quarter, the best teams in the conference and those, the worst teams in the conference when they play those matches, it doesn't, or those games, it does not benefit either school.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're not.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: It benefits your stats, but that's about it.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're about it, I mean, you know, you could probably have an interest team scrimmage amongst your own players sometime if you're one of those top level schools and get more out of it like a practice than that.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, that said, you know, Greg, you and I talked about this once and I think we'll delve into it on a later episode of mine, but I'm just going to bring this up briefly.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: You and I've talked about how we really think that
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Comforts just need a look and we need to adapt to football only conferences at the high school college level.
• 17:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right, sections or regions or something like that.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just get rid of the conferences and football.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: They do nobody any good.
• 17:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, you could do relegation, not make everybody make the playoffs.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're all kinds of things you can do to kind of keep football relevant because, unfortunately, even in just the last decade, Michelle, we've seen such a degradation and the numbers.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And for lots of good reasons.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, all right.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much as always to Michelle always good Dawkins sports with her.
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much as well to Coach Marales and Coach Richard joining us.
• 18:05
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• 18:07
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• 18:25
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