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July 9, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 8: Rapley here filling in for Chip on this Thursday. It
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Speaker 8: is July ninth. Happy birthday to Tom Hanks. We've got
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Speaker 8: a lot to talk about here today as we continue
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Speaker 8: to make our way through the dog days of summer.
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Speaker 8: Coming up at four fifteen, the second segment of the show, we.
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Speaker 5: Will have a listen in.
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Speaker 8: We're gonna hear what former Texas A and M offensive
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Speaker 8: coordinator now the head coach of Kansas State, Colin Klein.
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Speaker 8: We're gonna hear what he had to say at Big
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Speaker 8: twelve Media Days yesterday. We're gonna get into a little
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Speaker 8: bit of an MLB Draft preview and all the other
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Speaker 8: festivities that are going on during the MLB All Star
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Speaker 8: Week with the you know, obviously the All Star Game
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Speaker 8: Home run derby, but also the All Star Futures Game
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Speaker 8: with some of the top prospects in MLB organizations, along
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Speaker 8: with the Celebrity Softball Game, which is always a lot
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Speaker 8: of fun.
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Speaker 5: The final segment of the.
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Speaker 8: Four o'clock hour, we will hear producer Riley's interview with
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Speaker 8: the head coach of the Brass Valley Bombers that she
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Speaker 8: does every week with the head coach, Ryan Targoch, former
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Speaker 8: Aggie baseball player Ryan Targoch, So that's coming up.
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Speaker 5: At the end of the hour. At five o'clock, we
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Speaker 5: will have.
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Speaker 8: The president of the Reed Rowdies student organization in the studio,
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Speaker 8: mister Ren Delos Santos. I'm gonna talk all about what
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Speaker 8: Reid Rowdies is and do a little bit of preview
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Speaker 8: for the Aggie volleyball and Aggie men's basketball season as well.
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Speaker 8: Wren will be with us for most of the hour,
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Speaker 8: and to close out the show, we're gonna hear from
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Speaker 8: Aggie basketball player Caid Phillips. There was a media availability
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Speaker 8: earlier in the week. Bucky McMillan, the head coach, along
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Speaker 8: with Caid spoke to the media, so we're gonna hear
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Speaker 8: what Cad had to say. I'm really excited to see
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Speaker 8: him play this year, but we will get into that
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Speaker 8: later in the show. The World Cup quarterfinal round is
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Speaker 8: now underway. France and Morocco are at halftime zero zero.
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Speaker 5: The score there.
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Speaker 8: France obviously the heavy favorite and also the betting favorite
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Speaker 8: to win the whole thing. Right now, I think it's
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Speaker 8: around plus two hundred plus one eighty four. France is
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Speaker 8: favored to win the World Cup among the eight teams remaining,
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Speaker 8: and they're really heavy favorites in this game against Morocco.
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Speaker 8: But zero zero halftime Morocco holding their own, So that's
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Speaker 8: shaping up to be a really good match.
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Speaker 5: See who comes out on top. Later in the day.
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Speaker 8: Texas A and M Baseball continues their run of just
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Speaker 8: dominating the transfer portal. Another pitcher commits to the Aggies,
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Speaker 8: a left handed pitcher from Lamar University, Jarrett Williams three
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Speaker 8: eight to three ER, fifty two strikeouts across fifty six
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Speaker 8: innings of work in twenty twenty six, the seventh pitcher
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Speaker 8: to transfer to Texas A and M in the portal
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Speaker 8: this year. So new pitching coach Barry Enwright has never
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Speaker 8: really had to do recruiting before. He's more of a
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Speaker 8: professional baseball type of guy until the Aggi's hired him,
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Speaker 8: but they've done a really good job. Him and coach Early,
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Speaker 8: along with Nolan Kin, have done a really good job
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Speaker 8: in the transfer portal this summer. Really excited to see
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Speaker 8: when fallball rolls around, we get to see some of
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Speaker 8: these new guys for the first time, and then this
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Speaker 8: twenty twenty seven season is shaping up to be a really,
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Speaker 8: really solid squad for the Aggies. In other baseball news,
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Speaker 8: Justin Verlander, absolute legend of Major League Baseball, has announced
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Speaker 8: that he will retire at the end of the twenty
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Speaker 8: twenty six season. Three time Cy Young Award winner Verlander
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Speaker 8: one of the greatest pitchers of all time. He was
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Speaker 8: named to this year's All Star team as a Legend pick.
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Speaker 8: He's barely pitched this year, but this legend designation is
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Speaker 8: something that has been introduced over the last few years
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Speaker 8: and it's a really cool way to see some of
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Speaker 8: the top legends of our sport get to go out
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Speaker 8: in one of their in their in his final season
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Speaker 8: as an All Star take part in those festivities. So
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Speaker 8: that'll be fun to watch, but it'll be it'll be
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Speaker 8: very different. Justin Verlander has been in Major League Baseball
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Speaker 8: longer than I've been alive. Uh So I think that's
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Speaker 8: he's one of the last players that can say that.
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Speaker 8: Was obviously an absolute icon in the Houston Astros uniform,
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Speaker 8: helped lead us to our first ever World Series championship
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Speaker 8: back in twenty seventeen. Obviously, there's a lot of controversy
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Speaker 8: associated with that one, but they still won it, and
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Speaker 8: they haven't taken the trophy away, so we still get
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Speaker 8: to claim it. Verlander was acquired in a mid season
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Speaker 8: trade in twenty seventeen, finished out that season the only
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Speaker 8: five He only made five regular season starts in an
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Speaker 8: Astros uniform in twenty seventeen, but it was absolutely dominant,
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Speaker 8: a one point six ERA five and zero record and
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Speaker 8: ended up winning the World Series that year.
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Speaker 5: He was definitely a big catalyst on that team. So
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Speaker 5: sad to see him go.
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Speaker 8: He was also a big part of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 8: two World Series team for the Astros. But congrats on
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Speaker 8: a great career to Justin Verlander. Be interesting to see
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Speaker 8: what he does in his retirement. I'm sure he'll spend
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Speaker 8: a lot of time with his family, but I wonder
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Speaker 8: if he'll stay around the game at all, but we
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Speaker 8: will see news in the high school baseball world, which
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Speaker 8: is not something he gets talked about very much nationally,
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Speaker 8: but has been trending over the last day or so.
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Speaker 8: Yesterday it was announced that the high school baseball bat
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Speaker 8: regulations are going to have some big changes coming. So currently,
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Speaker 8: high school and college bat regulations are the same. Players
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Speaker 8: are required to swing a bat that is a drop
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Speaker 8: three and meets the bbcore requirement. If you don't know
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Speaker 8: what the drop three means, basically you have the length
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Speaker 8: of the bat is. The length of the bat is
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Speaker 8: measured in inches, So if you have a thirty three
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Speaker 8: inch bat, which is probably about the average length for
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Speaker 8: that's used in college baseball, drop three would mean the
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Speaker 8: length is thirty three and then the weight of the bat,
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Speaker 8: which is measured in ounces, is thirty ounces, So thirty
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Speaker 8: three thirty is a drop three bat. What is happening
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Speaker 8: now is that in high school anyway, they are going
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Speaker 8: to expand what is allowed in that weight ratio, so
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Speaker 8: up to a drop six is going to be allowed
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Speaker 8: starting in twenty twenty eight, So these players are going
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Speaker 8: to be able to swing bats that are a lot
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Speaker 8: lighter that's going to check change their bat speed and
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Speaker 8: probably home run distance and exit velocity as well. I've
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Speaker 8: seen a lot of people say they're concerned about player
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Speaker 8: safety just because of how hard some of the balls
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Speaker 8: are going to be flying off of those bats with
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Speaker 8: the lighter weight. So it will be very interesting to
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Speaker 8: see how this impacts the game. This is not changing
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Speaker 8: anything for college. College is going to say how it is.
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Speaker 8: This is only for high school, but there are still
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Speaker 8: plenty of players in high school that are strong enough
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Speaker 8: to swing a lighter bat hard enough to really hurt somebody.
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Speaker 8: So we will see if any regulations get changed on
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Speaker 8: the player safety side of things in reaction to this.
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Speaker 8: But this is definitely going to have an interesting impact
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Speaker 8: on high school baseball starting in twenty twenty eight, so
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Speaker 8: there will be one more season of the current regulations
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Speaker 8: and these new ones will go into effect twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 8: so it's going to be really interesting to see how
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Speaker 8: all that plays out. In NBA news, the Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 8: trade is currently on hold. He was announced that the
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Speaker 8: Clippers would be sending him to the Toronto Raptors in
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Speaker 8: exchange for brandon Ingram Greedy Dick two unprotected first round picks,
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Speaker 8: a first round pick swap, and two second round picks.
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Speaker 8: But the NBA is investigating the salary, the salary cap
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Speaker 8: Shenanigans that the Clippers have been getting up to. Allegedly,
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Speaker 8: the NBA thinks that they might have been funneling money
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Speaker 8: or that the Clippers might have been funneling money to
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Speaker 8: Leonard through a third party so as to not go
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Speaker 8: over the salary cap, and they were paying most of
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Speaker 8: his money through a different company, again allegedly, So I'm
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Speaker 8: not exactly sure how that's going to affect whether or
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Speaker 8: not he is allowed to be traded or if he
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Speaker 8: will be so, but this is pretty big news.
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Speaker 5: In the NBA world.
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Speaker 8: Morocco and France are now back to action in the
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Speaker 8: forty sixth minute, still zero zero ninety eight degrees is
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Speaker 8: the feel like temperature there, so you know those players
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Speaker 8: are sweating. Lebron James has The suitors for Lebron James
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Speaker 8: have supposedly narrowed down to just a few teams now,
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Speaker 8: with Schams Sharania saying that the main teams in the
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Speaker 8: mix to land Lebron are the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat,
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Speaker 8: the Golden State Warriors, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Philadelphia
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Speaker 8: seventy six.
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Speaker 5: Ers, and there's been a lot of buzz.
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Speaker 8: There was a lot of buzz right after he announced
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Speaker 8: he wouldn't be returning to the Lakers, that he would
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Speaker 8: be going to the Warriors, and that the Warriors would
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Speaker 8: be acquiring Anthony Davis. I don't believe that the eight
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Speaker 8: trade is going to happen now, so that kind of
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Speaker 8: I think that lowers the Warriors' chances of getting Lebron
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Speaker 8: and they just had some big resignings that are gonna
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Speaker 8: make the salary cap again pretty difficult to deal with.
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Speaker 8: But it would be a lot of fun to see
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Speaker 8: him play with Steph Curry and Draymond Green. They would
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Speaker 8: also be probably the oldest starting five in the league,
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Speaker 8: but that would be a lot of fun to watch.
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Speaker 8: The Heat obviously are getting a lot of buzz. He's
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Speaker 8: played there before. But I really do think it's gonna
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Speaker 8: end up being the Cleveland Cavaliers. I think he wants
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Speaker 8: to end his career where he started it, maybe win
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Speaker 8: one more chip for the land as they call it.
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Speaker 8: But I think my pick is Cleveland. I think that
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Speaker 8: all these other teams are just a lot of smoking mirrors.
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Speaker 8: I think it will end up being the calves and
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Speaker 8: with that, we're gonna take our first break. When we
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Speaker 8: come back, we will hear from the head coach of
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Speaker 8: the Kansas State Wildcats football team, Colin Klein. You're listening
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Speaker 8: I'm Caleb Rapley filling in for Chip today and we're
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Speaker 8: going to get into our first listening. Kansas State Wildcats
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Speaker 8: football head coach Colin Klein, formerly the offensive coordinator of
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Speaker 8: the Texas A and m Aggies, was part of the
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Speaker 8: Aggies run.
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Speaker 5: To the College Football Playoff in twenty two.
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Speaker 8: And now takes back over takes over at Kansas State,
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Speaker 8: where he was a Heisman candidate back in twenty twelve,
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Speaker 8: played quarterback for the Wildcats, was a finalist alongside Johnny Manziel.
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Speaker 8: Obviously Manziel ended up winning that then was an assistant
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Speaker 8: at Kansas State before being hired to come to College
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Speaker 8: Station to be the offensive coordinator for the Aggies for
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Speaker 8: a few years, and now goes back to Kansas State
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Speaker 8: to take take the head job, which I think is
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Speaker 8: probably what he always wanted to do. If I had
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Speaker 8: to guess this is it's just a perfect fit. Played
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Speaker 8: quarterback for the school, was an assistant for a long time,
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Speaker 8: now gets the opportunity to lead the program. And I
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Speaker 8: think Kansas State has kind of had a history over
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Speaker 8: these last few coaches that they've had to have very
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Speaker 8: long tenures, and with Klein being as young as he is,
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Speaker 8: I think that he probably will end up leading this
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Speaker 8: team for a long time, assuming.
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Speaker 5: That he does a decent jo and I think he
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Speaker 5: probably will.
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Speaker 8: The Big Twelve is a league that you know, will
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Speaker 8: kind of allow him to have some time to get
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Speaker 8: his footing. And he's only thirty six years old, which
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Speaker 8: is pretty is very young for a head coach in
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Speaker 8: any sport. But if he does a good job out there,
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Speaker 8: which I think he will, he probably will be be
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Speaker 8: out there for a long time. But let's hear what
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Speaker 8: he had to say at Big twelve Media Days yesterday.
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Speaker 8: Here's Colin Klein.
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Speaker 4: Thank you all for being here, Thank you for all
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Speaker 4: that you do for the greatest sport in the world.
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Speaker 4: It's great to be back in the Big twelve. I
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Speaker 4: grew up a Big twelve kid, and being able to
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Speaker 4: be part of this conference as a fan, as a player,
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Speaker 4: as a coach and now being part of helping move
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Speaker 4: our game and our conference forward is absolutely tremendous to
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Speaker 4: be a part of. I thank the Lord every day
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Speaker 4: that I get to come to work at a place
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Speaker 4: that has impacted my life tremendously, and our program at
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Speaker 4: Kansas State, my two predecessors have been so much. Uh
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Speaker 4: it's been so much bigger than just the game of football.
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Speaker 4: And yes, we're going to do football well, but the
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Speaker 4: impact of that we want to have and that they
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Speaker 4: have had on young men and uh setting the trajectory
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Speaker 4: for the rest of their life at an incredible angle.
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Speaker 4: Being able to teach them the lessons and and give
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Speaker 4: them the opportunity to compete is something that that I
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Speaker 4: don't take for granted.
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Speaker 13: This is this is home for me.
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Speaker 4: It's it's a dream come true. And UH so grateful
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Speaker 4: for our administration, our players, and all the effort that
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Speaker 4: that has been put in in the last six months
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Speaker 4: as we build this thing and and move it forward
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Speaker 4: and have four of our players with us here today,
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Speaker 4: and just how they have have led our football team
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Speaker 4: and bought into what what we are doing and what
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Speaker 4: we are building is absolutely tremendous. It's incredibly exciting for
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Speaker 4: for the future of Kansas State football, and I'm excited
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Speaker 4: for the season to get started.
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Speaker 13: Her well, sir, with a center left second.
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Speaker 17: Brock coming Barry tram or Tulso. You mentioned your two
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Speaker 17: precessor quarterback for one coach for the other great success.
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Speaker 17: How much will you rely on what you learned from
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Speaker 17: each and sort of putting your inpred.
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Speaker 18: On the program.
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Speaker 4: I think it's an incredible situation top to bottom. I think,
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Speaker 4: starting most recently with coach Climban, I think our relationship
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Speaker 4: is very unique. I think it's very genuine. I think
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Speaker 4: both of us have come at everything through the different
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Speaker 4: course of our professional journey what is best for the
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Speaker 4: other person.
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Speaker 13: And I think that is something that again I don't
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Speaker 13: take for granted.
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Speaker 4: He's been there every step of the way if I've
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Speaker 4: needed something or had a question with I know my
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Speaker 4: and our program's best interest at heart.
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Speaker 13: Coach Snyders has been tremendous.
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Speaker 4: Again, I'd be here all day if I was going
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Speaker 4: to go through all the ways that his fingerprints had
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Speaker 4: been on my life and probably a big reason I
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Speaker 4: got into coaching. You know, to be perfectly honest with
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Speaker 4: you and all of those little things that I didn't
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Speaker 4: even know he was teaching me at the time. Being
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Speaker 4: able to apply those and have those come to fruition
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Speaker 4: through the course of my journey is incredible.
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Speaker 13: Center right, second row, Coach Lane hearing to stay Alive?
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Speaker 13: Power five?
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Speaker 19: How you doing today? How you doing?
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Speaker 13: I'm good.
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Speaker 16: Welcome back to the Big twelve. So you're back at
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Speaker 16: Kansas State in the world where it's like costs you
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Speaker 16: a lot of money to you know, get quarterbacks from
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Speaker 16: the transfer portal. However, he was able to retain Avery Johnson,
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Speaker 16: who seems like he fits your style of offense to
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Speaker 16: a t with this breathtaking mobility, quick release. You know,
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Speaker 16: his style of play is similar to marsaw Ree where
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Speaker 16: you are officeive coordinator at Texas A and M last year.
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Speaker 16: Can you talk about the value that Avery Johnson brings
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Speaker 16: to the office.
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Speaker 4: Well, Avery and I's relationship goes back a long way.
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Speaker 4: It's incredibly special to me. And you know, I would
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Speaker 4: argue that some of his best attributes are not physical.
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Speaker 4: And I know everyone sees how fast he is and
21:26
Speaker 4: how fasty and and how well he can run. Everybody
21:29
Speaker 4: sees the arm talent and the zip and spin on
21:32
Speaker 4: the football. He's one of the best competitors I've been around,
21:36
Speaker 4: and he works hard at his craft, and he's a
21:41
Speaker 4: very stoic, laid back guy. But those you know that
21:44
Speaker 4: that processor is going and his motor's going hot under there,
21:48
Speaker 4: even though he is very, very calm and collected on top.
21:51
Speaker 13: And I think that's what why we got so close
21:55
Speaker 13: and why we think because that gives me energy every
21:58
Speaker 13: day working.
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Speaker 4: With him and as we have in the past and now,
22:02
Speaker 4: and I know that's what he gets from me too,
22:04
Speaker 4: because we care about We both loved the game of football,
22:07
Speaker 4: we both love competing and winning, and we both love
22:11
Speaker 4: team and that's a good combination.
22:14
Speaker 13: It's again a privilege to be back.
22:17
Speaker 4: The history we have, I think has given us a
22:19
Speaker 4: head start to be able to get back thinking the
22:22
Speaker 4: same way and on the same page, to do what
22:24
Speaker 4: we want to do and excited for the future.
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Speaker 8: Center right there, Rope Hey, Colin, Colin Wilson with the
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Speaker 8: Action Network.
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Speaker 13: Not too many of us.
22:34
Speaker 20: Jordan Peterson comes with you as your defense coordinator from
22:37
Speaker 20: Texas A and M, but he had some time at
22:38
Speaker 20: Kansas before that.
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Speaker 13: How much of this defense will be the four two.
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Speaker 21: Five alco nastiness, stop the run.
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Speaker 22: Everything that they have, will it resemble that or something
22:48
Speaker 22: different to matchup personnel.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think in today's world of college football, and
22:53
Speaker 4: something that was very very important to me as I
22:57
Speaker 4: was putting our staff together, and then also Jordan and
23:01
Speaker 4: I talking and then me and envisioning that position in
23:04
Speaker 4: general is in today's world, you have to be multiple,
23:09
Speaker 4: and you have to present different pictures, different fronts, and
23:12
Speaker 4: so our ability to be multiple was important. With his
23:17
Speaker 4: experience level in the different places that he's been feel
23:21
Speaker 4: very very confident that we're going to be able to
23:22
Speaker 4: put the package together that will fit our personnel and
23:26
Speaker 4: also be multiple.
23:30
Speaker 13: Central Epe second.
23:30
Speaker 6: Mark Mikayla Booker D two ten sports How much for
23:35
Speaker 6: you is when you took over as head coach, what's
23:38
Speaker 6: the first thing you wanted to preserve for the team
23:41
Speaker 6: And the first thing you wanted.
23:42
Speaker 13: Is to change the transition.
23:45
Speaker 4: Timing is crazy in college football right now because you're
23:49
Speaker 4: doing ten thousand different things, and when you're in the
23:51
Speaker 4: middle of getting ready for a playoff game while starting
23:55
Speaker 4: to put together staff, start to trying to hold together
23:59
Speaker 4: for the roster. Think I was very fortunate having been
24:03
Speaker 4: here two years before not too long ago, to have
24:07
Speaker 4: a little bit of the lay of the land, a
24:09
Speaker 4: little bit of an understanding of the personnel on the roster,
24:12
Speaker 4: personnel staff wise in the building, uh to give me
24:15
Speaker 4: a head start. But the biggest thing was trying to
24:17
Speaker 4: build relationships with the players as fast as I could
24:21
Speaker 4: and really get to uh bridge that gap with them
24:26
Speaker 4: to understand where they were at, what they were thinking,
24:31
Speaker 4: doing our own evaluations, to see and feel who and
24:34
Speaker 4: how we were going to retain and hold that together.
24:39
Speaker 13: Coach Climbate had done an unbelievable job.
24:41
Speaker 4: Our culture has been very, very strong, So a good
24:47
Speaker 4: situation to walk into as a first time head coach.
24:51
Speaker 19: Center right in the back, Hey, coach add Drake KGSL Radio,
24:56
Speaker 19: Which it's all.
24:57
Speaker 5: I'm curious about your approach.
24:59
Speaker 19: You mentioned you want this team to have a new
25:01
Speaker 19: old school sort of way to go out there on
25:04
Speaker 19: the field. You were there for the glory days the
25:06
Speaker 19: fans back in Kansas remember the nineties and two thousands.
25:09
Speaker 19: What does new old school mean for the on field product?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think, uh, you know from the jump, and
25:18
Speaker 4: it's it's really the only way I know and I've
25:21
Speaker 4: been very, very fortunate to be around coaches and mentors
25:25
Speaker 4: that have have lived that out, and I think there's
25:30
Speaker 4: a level of investment, there's a level of sacrifice, there's
25:34
Speaker 4: a level of toughness, there's a level of grit that
25:37
Speaker 4: uh sometimes can be unpopular, you know and in from
25:41
Speaker 4: a cultural standpoint or uh sometimes people don't like it
25:44
Speaker 4: because it's uncomfortable. And and that mantra for me is
25:48
Speaker 4: that you know that that that's a place that we're
25:50
Speaker 4: going to live. And if there's people that that don't
25:55
Speaker 4: like that or make that make them uncomfortable, then there's
25:58
Speaker 4: plenty that will embrace it and will embody that and
26:02
Speaker 4: when they put on that power cat, they will represent
26:05
Speaker 4: it in the way that and be willing to make
26:08
Speaker 4: the sacrifices work at the level.
26:10
Speaker 13: That we need to work and become everything that they
26:14
Speaker 13: can be.
26:15
Speaker 23: Center right, second rope, Dan Tor to wake up call
26:19
Speaker 23: DT dot com coach for your journey to be the
26:23
Speaker 23: quarterback at case State, now be the head coach, just
26:26
Speaker 23: being on that special road that you've been on and
26:28
Speaker 23: not a lot of people get to take reflecting on that,
26:31
Speaker 23: what that's meant to you, and then where your faith
26:34
Speaker 23: kind of works into that. Because I know you mentioned
26:35
Speaker 23: your faith when you started off today, I appreciate you
26:38
Speaker 23: asking that.
26:39
Speaker 4: I think, top to bottom my faith, my relationship with
26:44
Speaker 4: Jesus is the most important thing. These situations are completely
26:49
Speaker 4: because of Him and everything that He has blessed me
26:51
Speaker 4: and my family with.
26:53
Speaker 13: It's not because of.
26:54
Speaker 4: How hard I've worked or how smart I am, and
26:56
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with that. He's made all the
26:58
Speaker 4: pieces and put them in place at the right time,
27:02
Speaker 4: the right way to make all of this a reality.
27:04
Speaker 4: In understanding the reason and the mission that I'm called
27:09
Speaker 4: here and that we are called here every one of
27:11
Speaker 4: us is to serve and impact those around us, and
27:17
Speaker 4: how that is the most important thing. And that's the
27:21
Speaker 4: context that I'm able and very very blessed to approach
27:25
Speaker 4: this opportunity with. I'm very blessed that that culture has
27:28
Speaker 4: been weighed for a very very long time here that
27:31
Speaker 4: way from Coach Snyder and Coach Climbing that it was
27:34
Speaker 4: never about them, It was about the people.
27:36
Speaker 13: It was about serving others.
27:37
Speaker 4: It was about making their life and their situation better
27:41
Speaker 4: while striving for excellence in everything we do.
27:43
Speaker 13: Time for a couple more questions of those Sinner Randa.
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Speaker 22: Back, Big Colin Tamyverson, Manhattan Burk. I wanted to ask
27:52
Speaker 22: about the two defense of the guys that you brought
27:55
Speaker 22: Wesley and in Braggs. What's impressed you most about what
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Speaker 22: you what you've seen in this office.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think both are exemporary work ethic, character, investment
28:08
Speaker 4: and care for our team. We've really developed our leadership
28:14
Speaker 4: council through the winner in the spring, voted on that
28:17
Speaker 4: after that.
28:18
Speaker 13: To build that nucleus of guys.
28:20
Speaker 4: We're waiting to vote on captains until two weeks into
28:24
Speaker 4: training camp to give those guys a chance to work
28:27
Speaker 4: and compete with.
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Speaker 13: Each other and develop with each other, learn one another.
28:32
Speaker 4: And these two guys defensively over the last month in
28:36
Speaker 4: the summer have done.
28:38
Speaker 13: A great job and our.
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Speaker 4: Player representation meetings bringing issues to the table, helping serve
28:45
Speaker 4: their teammates and solve problems, being sold out to our
28:48
Speaker 4: team concept. And that all of those characteristics translate directly
28:55
Speaker 4: to the field. And so that's and I could say,
28:59
Speaker 4: I'm we could definitely have brought ten, twelve, fifteen guys
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Speaker 4: that are doing that.
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Speaker 13: I thought those two really stood out over the last
29:06
Speaker 13: month time for a final question, far upside in the back.
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Speaker 13: How's it going?
29:11
Speaker 8: Wesley Fair, Kansas State Football?
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Speaker 4: So I got a question for you, being a former quarterback,
29:18
Speaker 4: do you find yourself cheering for offense or defense?
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Speaker 13: Or how do you go about that?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think I need to answer that by what's
29:27
Speaker 4: on the line of who wins or loses? Because after
29:30
Speaker 4: that dinner.
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Speaker 13: We had, I think, I think I remember which one
29:32
Speaker 13: I would want.
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Speaker 14: To be on. You know, here we go.
29:34
Speaker 24: I like the sound of that. Thank you for your
29:38
Speaker 24: time today, coach, and get luck this season.
29:40
Speaker 13: Thank you guys, all right?
29:42
Speaker 8: That was Callin Klein, head coach of the Kansas State Wildcats,
29:45
Speaker 8: going into his first year at the Helm up in Manhattan.
29:52
Speaker 8: Going to be a really interesting season. See how they
29:54
Speaker 8: bounce back from going six and six last year. He
29:58
Speaker 8: does return every job like they talked about, who you know,
30:02
Speaker 8: was seen as one of the top quarterbacks in the
30:05
Speaker 8: nation last year. Didn't quite live up to it. Had
30:07
Speaker 8: a decent season, but a little bit disappointing. I think
30:10
Speaker 8: he was hampered by injuries a little bit too, if
30:12
Speaker 8: I remember correctly. But he's very talented quarterback and Colin
30:17
Speaker 8: Klein's that's kind of his calling card is getting the
30:20
Speaker 8: most out of quarterbacks, and Johnson fits into that mold
30:24
Speaker 8: of a dual threat kind of guy, so I think
30:27
Speaker 8: that he will be able to get a lot out
30:29
Speaker 8: of him. CBS Sports has Kansas State projected to go
30:33
Speaker 8: seven and five and four and five in conference, so
30:38
Speaker 8: it'll you know, I think it's one of those years
30:41
Speaker 8: that could be really high floor or sorry, really high ceiling,
30:45
Speaker 8: pretty low floor. That's just, you know, that's just kind
30:47
Speaker 8: of the nature of the Big Twelve as a conference overall,
30:51
Speaker 8: especially with the team that's in their first year under a.
30:54
Speaker 5: New head coach.
30:55
Speaker 8: But I think Colin Klein in the long run will
30:57
Speaker 8: be really good for Kansas State. I think they probably
31:00
Speaker 8: will be middle of the pack this year. They definitely
31:03
Speaker 8: have the pieces to contend, but I don't know if
31:05
Speaker 8: they'll be able to put it all together in year one.
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Speaker 8: We're going to preview All Star Week in the MLB,
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31:33
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Speaker 8: great seasons. Definitely a lot to look forward to. But
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Speaker 8: right now we're going to preview All Star Weekend.
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Speaker 5: In the MLB.
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Speaker 8: So that gets underway on Tomorrow actually, which with the
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Speaker 8: HBCU Swingman Classic, so student athletes from Division one programs
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Speaker 8: from HBCUs will be playing, presented by USA Baseball. That's
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Speaker 8: at six o'clock tomorrow night. On Saturday is the first
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Speaker 8: round of the MLB Draft, the first four rounds of
36:08
Speaker 8: the MLB Draft on Saturday, and then Sunday will be
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Speaker 8: rounds five through twenty.
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Speaker 3: On.
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Speaker 8: Also on Sunday will be the All Star Futures Game,
36:20
Speaker 8: so top prospects from around the league will be taking
36:23
Speaker 8: part in that. That's at eleven am Central time on Sunday.
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Speaker 8: Monday will be the T Mobile Home Run Derby with
36:33
Speaker 8: the new format once again because they just they can't
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36:38
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Speaker 8: the All Star Game at seven o'clock Central time. And
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Speaker 8: the All Star festivities this year are taking place in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 8: which I think is very fitting for the two hundred
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Speaker 8: Star Week to be taking place in Philadelphia is really cool.
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Speaker 5: So let's get into the draft here. There are a
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Speaker 5: few aggies that are on a lot of draft boards.
37:08
Speaker 24: So the.
37:11
Speaker 8: Highest ranked player that has worn a Texas A and
37:14
Speaker 8: M uniform in twenty twenty six is Chris Iccopian. He's
37:18
Speaker 8: kind of like unsensus Top twenty. MLB dot Com has
37:23
Speaker 8: him at number fourteen. I believe they have him as
37:27
Speaker 8: the fifth best college hitter in this year's draft class.
37:32
Speaker 8: It's just it's going to be interesting to see how
37:34
Speaker 8: teams evaluate him. You know, he wasn't at full strength
37:38
Speaker 8: hardly at all this year for us, but when he
37:40
Speaker 8: did play, you saw flashes of the hitter that he is.
37:46
Speaker 8: When he was in the lineup, he was always one
37:48
Speaker 8: of our best hitters, which is really hard to do
37:50
Speaker 8: in the lineup that we had this year with Chris
37:53
Speaker 8: Ocopian alongside Gavin Grohovac and Cayden Cerell. Speaking of those
37:58
Speaker 8: two guys, they are also on the Top Draft Prospects list.
38:02
Speaker 8: Surrell at number thirty three, and Grohovac at thirty eight.
38:07
Speaker 8: Shane Sedeo also in the top two fifty. He's at
38:09
Speaker 8: number ninety five, left handed pitcher for US. Also coming
38:15
Speaker 8: off kind of a down year in an Aggie uniform,
38:18
Speaker 8: but his draft stocks still pretty high. He's definitely, definitely
38:22
Speaker 8: has a really high ceiling, but will be interesting to
38:25
Speaker 8: see how he develops in the minor league system of
38:28
Speaker 8: whatever team he ends up going to. A couple Aggie
38:33
Speaker 8: commits that will be freshman if they make it to
38:36
Speaker 8: campus in the fall. Connor Komal, an infielder. He's number
38:41
Speaker 8: fifty five on MLB dot COM's list, so probably not
38:45
Speaker 8: gonna make it to campus. I imagine he'll get taken
38:48
Speaker 8: early enough that he will just go ahead and sign
38:50
Speaker 8: and take that money and start his minor league baseball
38:54
Speaker 8: journey at the end of the summer. And two other
38:58
Speaker 8: EGGI commits that are on the top two fifty. Trey Ebel,
39:02
Speaker 8: another infielder, a son of Dino Ebel, the third base
39:07
Speaker 8: coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's at number one
39:09
Speaker 8: oh seven, and then Ryan Harwood, and outfielder, is at
39:13
Speaker 8: number two twenty six.
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Speaker 5: So Harwood I could see maybe making it to campus.
39:17
Speaker 8: He's ranked low enough that there is a chance, but
39:21
Speaker 8: come Out and Ebel are both probably just gonna go
39:23
Speaker 8: ahead and sign with whatever team drafts them. The number
39:29
Speaker 8: one pick is in the hands of the Chicago White Sox,
39:32
Speaker 8: and there's a few different options.
39:33
Speaker 5: That they could go with.
39:35
Speaker 8: Grady Emerson high school shortstop out of Texas, and then
39:40
Speaker 8: two college hitters, UCLA shortstop Rock Chilowski and Georgia Tech
39:44
Speaker 8: catcher Vaughan Lackey. Chilowski was kind of the consensus number
39:49
Speaker 8: one for most of this past season, but it's been
39:53
Speaker 8: a little bit of a discussion. Some sites have Grady
39:56
Speaker 8: Emerson at number one, some have uh Chilowski, and I
39:59
Speaker 8: think a do have Lackey. I think it probably will
40:02
Speaker 8: end up being Chelawski. He's kind of the most proven
40:04
Speaker 8: out of those guys. That'd be my pick, but we'll
40:09
Speaker 8: see what the White Sox do. The Astros and Rangers
40:14
Speaker 8: pick back to back. The Rangers are at number sixteen,
40:16
Speaker 8: Astros at number seventeen, and I would really love for
40:23
Speaker 8: at least one of our Aggie's in the draft this
40:28
Speaker 8: year to go to one of those teams. I'm personally
40:30
Speaker 8: an Astros fan, so I would love if the Astros
40:32
Speaker 8: went ahead and took Cayden Surrell or Chris Jacopian or
40:35
Speaker 8: Gavin Grohovac in the first round. We will see how
40:38
Speaker 8: that goes, though, as the Astros did pass on Jason
40:41
Speaker 8: Lovolette last year, which doesn't look like a great move
40:44
Speaker 8: as he has I think he said thirteen homers in
40:48
Speaker 8: his minor league career so far this season, But we
40:52
Speaker 8: will see where that goes. The All Star Futures Game,
40:55
Speaker 8: there are I think there's only one Astros prospect on
40:58
Speaker 8: the roster, Xavier Nine, who was that first round pick
41:01
Speaker 8: last year. He's currently at Single A with the Fatteville Woodpeckers.
41:07
Speaker 8: And then the Texas Rangers have one prospect, a pitcher
41:13
Speaker 8: Caden Scarborough.
41:14
Speaker 5: The Astros actually have two.
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Speaker 8: Kevin Alvarez, an outfielder also playing at Fayetteville right now,
41:18
Speaker 8: is the other one. So that game is on Sunday,
41:22
Speaker 8: the Home Run Derby. Five of the eight participants have
41:25
Speaker 8: been announced. That's Jack cagleone from the Kansas City Royals,
41:29
Speaker 8: Junior Cameron Naro from the Tampa Bay Rays, Wilson Contraras
41:33
Speaker 8: from the Boston Red Sox, Ben Rice from the New
41:35
Speaker 8: York Yankees and Jordan Walker from the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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Speaker 5: That'll be on Monday.
41:40
Speaker 8: Three more participants yet to be announced, and the All
41:44
Speaker 8: Star Game will be on Monday Night. Only one Astro
41:52
Speaker 8: on the or sorry, Tuesday Night not Monday Night. Tuesday
41:55
Speaker 8: night at seven o'clock the All Star Game. Jordan Alvarez
41:59
Speaker 8: is in the starting lineup designated hitter, the only Astro
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Speaker 8: to make the team and the Texas. The only Texas
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Speaker 21: Potentially ninety feet away.
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Speaker 14: All right, welcome back in Riley Dorsey here, and we're
45:19
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Speaker 14: Bombers head coach Ryan Targosh. Ryan always appreciate you taking
45:25
Speaker 14: the time to join us, and I know it's been
45:27
Speaker 14: another busy week for y'all, so we're just gonna jump
45:29
Speaker 14: right in. I know y'all picked up a couple of
45:32
Speaker 14: nice road wins this past week, and then you'll followed
45:34
Speaker 14: that up with a big win over Strman last night.
45:37
Speaker 14: So as you're kind of looking at where this team
45:39
Speaker 14: is now, are you starting to see guys settle into
45:41
Speaker 14: their more defined roles or is that something that's still
45:44
Speaker 14: kind of evolving with each game.
45:48
Speaker 24: I think so. I think it's a mixture of both.
45:51
Speaker 24: Some guys are still moving around. Some guys you know,
45:54
Speaker 24: they're they're maybe finding their permanent spot, but it's it's
45:58
Speaker 24: still overall, it's just understanding what your role is for
46:02
Speaker 24: that game. That's go out there executing your job.
46:05
Speaker 19: And that's what I.
46:06
Speaker 24: Trusted them before every game. It's, hey, you know your job,
46:10
Speaker 24: maybe this, your job could be this later on. It's
46:13
Speaker 24: just got there to do your job for that moment.
46:15
Speaker 24: And if you can just continue to stack that over
46:19
Speaker 24: a course of a game, I think we're going to
46:21
Speaker 24: keep getting good results that we have been for sure,
46:24
Speaker 24: and so.
46:25
Speaker 14: Then whenever guys are trying to figure out where they
46:27
Speaker 14: fit into all of this, as a coach, how do
46:30
Speaker 14: you help make that happen naturally without trying.
46:33
Speaker 27: To force it.
46:35
Speaker 24: I think it's getting guys just to play and just
46:40
Speaker 24: watching place see how they move, just because you know
46:44
Speaker 24: some guys they may move a certain way and they're
46:47
Speaker 24: fit for a spot than what they're playing. And I
46:51
Speaker 24: think when you kind of instruct them and tell them
46:55
Speaker 24: that and you enlighten them about it, they can kind
46:57
Speaker 24: of see it and they may build some confidence. But
47:01
Speaker 24: I think as long as you take the time and
47:03
Speaker 24: work with them in a certain spot or a certain position,
47:06
Speaker 24: and you build confidence in them and support them in that,
47:10
Speaker 24: I think that makes a world of difference. I know
47:12
Speaker 24: we've already had several guys play spots they haven't played before,
47:16
Speaker 24: but they look like a natural play in that spot.
47:19
Speaker 24: So I mean that's also what summer.
47:23
Speaker 14: Ball is about.
47:24
Speaker 24: You can try new things, see what happens. Maybe you
47:26
Speaker 24: can go go back to your school and play a
47:30
Speaker 24: different spot and help the team. That's what it's always about,
47:33
Speaker 24: is just how how can I help the.
47:34
Speaker 13: Team and what can I do?
47:37
Speaker 24: For that, But as long as long as guys are happy,
47:41
Speaker 24: they're they're encouraging and encouraging each other in those moments,
47:48
Speaker 24: I think I think that means a lot, and that's
47:50
Speaker 24: that's going to help them out.
47:52
Speaker 14: Yeah. Absolutely so. Then, kind of staying on the coaching
47:55
Speaker 14: side of everything, now that you've had a few weeks
47:57
Speaker 14: to kind of settle into your first season as a
47:59
Speaker 14: high head coach, has there been anything about the job
48:02
Speaker 14: that's been maybe a little different than you expected coming
48:05
Speaker 14: into this.
48:07
Speaker 9: Yes, for sure.
48:08
Speaker 24: I mean it's always you can you can set your
48:12
Speaker 24: expectations of what the job may look like, but then
48:14
Speaker 24: once whenever you get down into the the nitty gritty stuff,
48:20
Speaker 24: you know, things can be a lot different. And it's
48:22
Speaker 24: all it's all for the better, it's all.
48:24
Speaker 26: For the good.
48:24
Speaker 24: I've I've loved doing this. That's been been a pleasure,
48:29
Speaker 24: I would say definitely. What has been a challenge is
48:33
Speaker 24: managing a roster and trying to get you know, thirty
48:38
Speaker 24: thirty guys on a team and trying to work between
48:42
Speaker 24: guys schedules because guys leave, Guys want to go home
48:46
Speaker 24: and see their family, or maybe they just need time off.
48:50
Speaker 24: There's a lot of different aspects that you have to
48:54
Speaker 24: account for. But besides that, I mean, that's why I
48:58
Speaker 24: have two great assistant coaches that helped me out with that.
49:00
Speaker 24: And it's definitely it's still a team aspect. It's not
49:04
Speaker 24: just about the players. It's about the three coaches that
49:07
Speaker 24: we have, it's about all the support, about all the
49:10
Speaker 24: support staff that we have that just makes the game
49:13
Speaker 24: that even happen, and of course the players that everyone
49:18
Speaker 24: gets to watch and see. But it's definitely a team
49:20
Speaker 24: effort all the way around.
49:22
Speaker 14: Yeah, for sure, that that makes complete sense. So just
49:26
Speaker 14: with like instincts wise, have you found yourself trusting those
49:29
Speaker 14: instincts a little more as the season has progressed, Yeah.
49:33
Speaker 24: I think so. That's that's funny that you that you
49:36
Speaker 24: say that, because there's there's been There's definitely have been
49:39
Speaker 24: some moments to where it's like, I know I should
49:43
Speaker 24: make this decision, but you know, maybe someone else tell
49:47
Speaker 24: me something else and we'll kind of see how it
49:49
Speaker 24: plays out. And I'd say there's been a lot of
49:53
Speaker 24: times where if I would have just trusted my gut,
49:55
Speaker 24: I think things would have worked out for the better.
49:58
Speaker 14: But that's.
50:00
Speaker 23: Kind of like how life is.
50:01
Speaker 24: It's just sometimes you live and you learn and mistakes.
50:05
Speaker 24: Our mistakes are good because you can you can learn
50:07
Speaker 24: from those mistakes and if you just keep nobody's perfect.
50:12
Speaker 24: There's only one person in this world that has been perfect.
50:15
Speaker 24: And so uh, as long as you can just continue
50:19
Speaker 24: to learn from those mistakes and move on from them
50:23
Speaker 24: and be better, I think that's the name of the
50:25
Speaker 24: game for for everybody and myself included.
50:29
Speaker 14: Yeah, I could definitely say that. So then, obviously you've
50:33
Speaker 14: had the chance to play for a lot of different
50:35
Speaker 14: coaches over the years and everything like that. So as
50:38
Speaker 14: your first year being head coach, have you kind of
50:40
Speaker 14: caught yourself saying or maybe doing something this summer that
50:43
Speaker 14: reminded you of one of your own coaches?
50:47
Speaker 24: Oh? Yes, for sure, I think I like to I
50:52
Speaker 24: definitely like to lane on my old, old or past
50:56
Speaker 24: coaches just because a lot of what I know is
51:02
Speaker 24: being taught from them and so but I also know
51:06
Speaker 24: that having my own identity and having my own philosophy
51:09
Speaker 24: is just as important, just because it's true to who
51:14
Speaker 24: I am and not trying to be somebody else. But
51:17
Speaker 24: that who I might be is a mixture of several
51:22
Speaker 24: past coaches that I have. So it's it's taking what
51:26
Speaker 24: I what I have learned from them, and taking what
51:30
Speaker 24: I know and just kind of combining those two things
51:33
Speaker 24: and then implementing it into this team and to this program.
51:36
Speaker 14: That we have going on. Absolutely, and just like you said,
51:40
Speaker 14: I feel like you're just you're always learning in every
51:43
Speaker 14: new situation. So then just as you continue to grow
51:47
Speaker 14: as a coach this summer. Once this season is all
51:50
Speaker 14: said and done, is there anything that you hope your
51:53
Speaker 14: players remember most about playing for you?
51:55
Speaker 24: I would say what I would want the players to
51:59
Speaker 24: take away away from this year is that. And I
52:03
Speaker 24: think that we've talked about this before, but whether you're
52:08
Speaker 24: playing collegiate summer ball for the Brass Valley Bombers, or
52:12
Speaker 24: you're going to play school ball at a d one
52:16
Speaker 24: at a juco wherever that may be, or if you
52:19
Speaker 24: get any professional opportunities, that the game doesn't change. And
52:25
Speaker 24: that's that's the mindset that you should go into it
52:27
Speaker 24: is that it's the bags are still ninety feet, the pitching,
52:32
Speaker 24: the rubber is still sixty feet six inches. But besides that,
52:37
Speaker 24: it's still the same game. It's the only thing that
52:41
Speaker 24: may change is your preparation and your routine, and that's
52:44
Speaker 24: just dependent on the person. But every every player knows
52:48
Speaker 24: what works for them, what.
52:49
Speaker 23: They need to do.
52:50
Speaker 24: It's just always it's the challenges going out there and
52:54
Speaker 24: executing it. And I always stretch to these guys that
52:59
Speaker 24: you know, it's not it's not always about your outcome.
53:01
Speaker 24: It's not about the performance, even though that is a
53:03
Speaker 24: big part of the game. But if you can continue
53:06
Speaker 24: to keep working the process or your preparation that you
53:11
Speaker 24: have and you just trust that you're going to make
53:16
Speaker 24: it a lot further then you think you will, or
53:19
Speaker 24: of what you had in mind, just because if you
53:22
Speaker 24: have a if you're just solely reliant on performance getting
53:27
Speaker 24: you through your career, I mean, baseball is a game
53:31
Speaker 24: of failure. You're you're gonna be you're gonna be down
53:34
Speaker 24: a lot more than you're gonna be riding the highs.
53:38
Speaker 24: And so if you can just take playing the game
53:42
Speaker 24: the same and trusting your routine and process, which I've
53:47
Speaker 24: stressed these guys a whole lot, I think if they
53:49
Speaker 24: take those two things away from the summer, I think
53:53
Speaker 24: these guys will find some success later on or even
53:56
Speaker 24: this next year for their school ball Yeah.
53:59
Speaker 14: And I think that's a great way to look at it.
54:01
Speaker 14: And like you said, you've just been reiterating that mindset
54:04
Speaker 14: over and over again, so as you get ready for tonight,
54:07
Speaker 14: is the message to just kind of keep building on
54:10
Speaker 14: that and stacking those good performances on each other.
54:13
Speaker 24: Yes, one hundred percent. That's that's the name of the game.
54:17
Speaker 19: I believe.
54:17
Speaker 24: I think that's. Uh, that is what I believe successful
54:24
Speaker 24: teams have is that you know, there's not a there's
54:27
Speaker 24: not a whole lot of uh, there's not a whole
54:32
Speaker 24: lot of different mindset. It's mainly just one or two
54:35
Speaker 24: keep it simple, and then you go out there and
54:37
Speaker 24: you attack that mindset, and it's just to keep the
54:41
Speaker 24: game is getting more complex and complex as the day
54:45
Speaker 24: goes and so but I believe this game was made
54:48
Speaker 24: to be simple. And whenever you can keep it simple
54:51
Speaker 24: and you have your own mindset, your routine, your preparation,
54:55
Speaker 24: and you go out there and execute it, I think
54:58
Speaker 24: that's whenever you can have success. That's gonna be our
55:00
Speaker 24: game plan going out there tonight.
55:02
Speaker 14: Yeah, for sure. Definitely just mind over matter. It sounds like, well, yeah,
55:07
Speaker 14: I think that's all I have for you today. Thank
55:10
Speaker 14: you again for joining us, and best of luck tonight
55:12
Speaker 14: for y'all. We'll catch back up with you next week.
55:15
Speaker 24: And yeah, yes, thank you so much for having me
55:17
Speaker 24: on here.
55:18
Speaker 13: All right.
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Speaker 8: That was the head coach of the Brestfelly Bombers and
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