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The Football Report: Tipton Head Coach Aaron Tolle (Co-Host: Michelle Garmon; Podcast 353.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and fifty three point three the football report with Tipton had coach Aaron told with the football season underway just a week from today we sat down with coach told to talk about his blue devils
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coming next week, we will have our first full week of high school football coverage, including our previews and predictions on Thursday, our scoreboard show on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then we'll talk to some coaches about what happened on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Please tune in all three days.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The next weekend, enjoy this podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you're listening to the central Indiana sports report with your host Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, what are you expecting to see from your team tomorrow night, but to the listeners tonight?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, we're really excited about this year's team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this is year twenty one for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We might have had the best summer we've ever had to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We did a lot of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We were more active.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we, we skrimmage tricentral engine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We, we went to Eastbrook and skrimmaged, four, three, and four A schools in July.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We went to Team Camp the next week in July, skrimmage three, A, four A schools.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when we started camp, we feel, we felt like we were almost a month ahead of where we have been, but we haven't gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've played a webinar on eleven, we've played seven on seven, we've played that skrimmage, but we haven't played true football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really excited to see how far ahead we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we've got some really good players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got we've got a nice mix of experience back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we have thirteen or fourteen starters back off the last year's team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we're also bringing in some some new soft moors.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll start some soft moors tomorrow night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of their first starting experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that can be an adventure sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the expectations of our team this year are very, very high and high as we know while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I would say so as high or higher than the last number of years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited to see his boy to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll go back to the team for a minute by my friend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will forget this question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With the way the schedule was out of a nine game, she only get three at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thoughts on that, well, that changed in the future or it will change in the future.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a matter of week one, our contract with South Adams ran out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: South Adams signed a contract with Sheridan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a connection there with Coach Wright.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we were kind of stuck and it's not easy to find games so we were kind of faced with at fifty-fifty chance we can keep sticking around or hanging around and trying to find a home game and run the risk of well we didn't get a home game so now we're traveling two hours to get any game or Frank didn't popped up and we said or we can take the plunge this year travel thirty minutes get a local team
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[SPEAKER_01]: and play on the road this one year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We thought that was a safer bet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why we did that and next year, it should be all even now after this year or so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know that, I know, Brent Robinson was happy to have that you were back on Franklin's schedule, at least for this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's, I mean, it's a local team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a CIC team, not right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are three A were two A, but you know, we play them play them in baseball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We play them in basketball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had a great basketball section all over there this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the best sectionals I've been to in a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's more of a natural rivalry a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's a lot better than getting on a bus and going to play somebody that you don't know anything about, you don't even know where the school is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rinsalier, of course, is this going to be the last year you play them since they're leaving the conference at the end?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And how well does that, if that happens, I want to, that look for your future.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I probably will be the last year we play Rinsalier and I believe the plan at this point unless something else changes, which
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the who's your conference who knows right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a wild, wild west, but I believe we will be going to where we will play everybody in the conference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that means we would pick up West Lafayette.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Means we would pick up Logan Sport.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We would play Indian all teams in the conference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody would do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it would be that format.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who replaced heritage is here?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because I don't have the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't play heritage again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You do play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You go there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of our three hour and a half bus trips.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you go two-bit central two-red, so where are two heritage?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did remember looking the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought, because that's what I thought.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought, not only do they place six of their nine games on the road, a third of those are at, uh, our long trips.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our long trips paired for a tournament run.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: just as we just have to be tough minded.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what football is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Be tough minded and overcome obstacles and if I want to have bus ride is going to prevent us from playing well then we're not very good anyway.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Overall how do you how do you see your schedule overall as far as getting you prepared for the section?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well I think every year
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every year, I mean, we've got to the point where through smaller on our schedule, I mean, school-wise than we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Franklin is now bigger than us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Elwood might be smaller than us, but we're the smallest team in the Hoover Conference outside the LCC, and they don't count.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't count because they've waited everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they wanted everything because their kids give school their for a reason.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have four hundred forty kids here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How many of those kids play sports?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not four hundred forty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You go, you go to Lafayette Central Catholic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They may only have two hundred fifty, but they all do something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no dead weight.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're all going there expecting excellence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's there's a reason they're going there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they have a roster of sixty every year and they will this year too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're the smallest team in our conference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an uphill battle, but again, if we can stay healthy during the year, and battle with teams that are bigger than us, then that should really prepare us for the sectional when we are playing schools our size.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you said you have thirteen starters back, who, who are... Perfect.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Was that the only thing you understood?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is there anything different?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Frankden is the only new team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Frankden is the only new team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just... And he just put them away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, let me confess that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Real fast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So before we move on, the other new addition was Franklin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You talk a little bit about that, but really nice to get something close to home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A program similar to yours over the years, I'd say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That has to be a nice addition to the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the number one I've posted against Marty Wells for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: years and years and years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He coached against you when you were playing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and so he, you know, he's a good friend of mine and have the utmost respect for him and know most of not all of their staff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That makes it fun, especially in today's society.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We as coaches don't see opposing coaches all that often.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Used to you go on a Saturday and you drive and you, you know, I'd meet Marty at Hob's rest park and we'd stand out there and exchange VHS tapes and talk for an hour.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now he sends me an email on hull and we're done and I've seen fifteen minutes for the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it is nice to interact and coach against people that you know and that you like and that you respect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So from that aspect it's great to have them on the roster and like I said it's kind of a backyard rivalry getting to that point and it's a lot better than driving somewhere where you don't know anybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to ask about returning stars, but before I do that, I'm going to ask because you had some key losses from as far as graduation from last year's team in Cabin Condent and Cole Hussie and Dallas Cap Shaw.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who are some of those guys you're looking to to replace?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, you mentioned them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the three guys you just mentioned were the three leading tech wars on our defense now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think our defense was our mainstay last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think for the season we gave up eleven or twelve points a game for twelve games, which is pretty darn good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and a big part of that was those three guys you just mentioned Cole Hussie was a four-year starter three-year-old conference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Calvin Condit was a three-year starter two-time all-conference Dallas was a two-year starter he was an all-conference player so
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[SPEAKER_01]: especially defensively.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a big question for me not starting tomorrow, but on through the early in the season we've got to find guys that can replace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that you replace a four year returning starter, but through numbers somehow some way we've got to, we've got to try to fill those roles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Chase Hussie is going to be our inside linebacker that's called Brother.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's been a three year starter for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he brings a lot of experience to the position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brady Henderson played quite a bit last year when Chase was banged up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's got, he's got half a year of experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Slade Springer is a returning starter outside linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got some experience there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to find another outside linebacker in between.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Zane Durung who's a sophomore, Zach Ridgeway that's a senior.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jared Aller is kind of playing both inside and outside another sophomore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to try to fill those roles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a question mark.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Replacing two all-conference linebackers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's never easy to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Secondary wise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dallas graduates, Oliver Connoway graduates from corner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got to replace those two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we've got some really good athletes back there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Isaiah Mahaney returns a corner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're looking at Quintole and Dakota Garmin at safety and then Joe Clouser and Zach Inberton at corner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that kind of gives us three, three that we consider above the line at both positions in the second.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, Joe got some experience because of Oliver being missing at the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Joe played quite a bit last year also, so yes, there's some experience there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Defensive line, you return a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we return all three starters and the next two guys and we've added the guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So defensive lines should be definitely be a strong point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Starts with, I think, Joe bought our team in Sachs last year as a freshman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: he was very impressive, especially lightning year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he's going to be a pain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He plays with, he plays with a fire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a motor and he can play for four quarters and we're not half in play on offense right now, so that's even better for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But between him,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Grace and Witherow, who's a senior, played a bunch of defensive line for us last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nathan Hawkins, who was an all-conference football player for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He started on a defensive line last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We still have Jack Roach, who's our biggest lineman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have Ethan Klauser, who's an up and coming sophomore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's shown a lot of promise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've added that we've got a move in Mason Tice from Iowa, who's a six four, two hundred and fifty pounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got a freshman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: there's a threat we've got a nice a freshman that I think is going to be on a radar by midseason uh... he's also about two hundred thirty two hundred forty pounds so uh... there's six or seven kids that we can rotate in there that uh... do i get a system uh... the freshman is a branded race okay yeah so he's had a nice camp and uh... is is kind of all nicely but do you have a quarterback uh... we do have a retard returning starter quarterback this year uh... who's that quintal and honestly you kind of forget
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[SPEAKER_01]: how far ahead you are, offensively when the quarterback is returning with some experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just puts you light years ahead of where you are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If there's a quarterback competition, or if you're having to replace a two or three year starter, it just makes things so much easier.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Quinn is really the first one I call true quarterback returning starter that you've had since about Sam Edwards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's where things start and I think he's doing a really good job of, you know, it's not easy to
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[SPEAKER_01]: to step into the huddles of sophomore and demand respect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think over the last nine games last year, I think he earned that respect from his teammates.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's just as much his huddles as it is anybody else's.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they're willing to pass the reins on to him because he's proven that he can do it on Friday nights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it all starts there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know how our offense is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We want to be extremely balanced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We want to spread the ball out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think with him,
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[SPEAKER_01]: with him behind center, I think, you know, that gives us a really good run pass option, depending on what the defense gives us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know running back, I know you're going to return a Slage Bringer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chase Sassie is basically going to still play some running back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you're going to, well, sophomore that's probably going to be pretty good to, and Zayne Durham.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got the last couple of years, anytime you're playing a tip, and you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we have that this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't need that this year, because I don't know that we have a Calvin Condon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what we do have is, I think we have a stable of running backs that we have not had for a long time, which means we have three or actually four deep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have two seniors and two sophomores that I envision all getting carries on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of fresh legs against tired defense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Especially when some of them are playing both ways, that really is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to take those twenty, twenty two carries, split them up three, four ways.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The quarterback can carry it occasionally also.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's five ball carriers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we always kind of do that in the preseason as we sit down and go, okay, we're going to get sixty plays.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How many times do we want to throw?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How many times do we want to run?
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, if we want to run it throw at twenty and run it forty, how we mix in those forty carriers up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, when you're splitting them up amongst four or five guys, you're not killing somebody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I think we've got a great stable running backs, starting with our two seniors, Slade Springer, who was probably our number two last year, Chase Hussie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a really good running back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably our best blocker out of the back field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll place some H-back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When I realized about Chase last year was when he was injured, how versatile he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He can play tailback, he can play fullback, he can play tight in, he can play inside back or he can play outside back or when you lose a guy like that, you got to reach quite a bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So those were our two seniors and we've got two up and commerce that I think are going to impress a lot of people in Zane Durham, has had a awesome offseason.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... he's up to a hundred eighty five pounds and then uh... cable cook is another sophomore that we're really really high on so uh... amongst those four uh... that's probably our stable of running backs okay i guess no big question is who is uh... who's going to be thrown to on fire tonight
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we feel like we're pretty strong out there too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We play Jaren all or as a sophomore, he could either play tight in or we can't split him out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's had an unbelievable off season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's lost some weight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's two hundred pounds now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and has probably gained two steps.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's always had great hands, but now we feel like he can get himself open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the most improved players on our team, my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Dakota Garmin who's had to me kind of a breakout season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't had that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've had good receivers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't had that all state type receiver that goes
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when we went to ball state this summer that I kind of saw that attitude in him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think he can be that go to guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Zach Ridgeway is going to play out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's six five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we've got Isaiah Mahaney that's the fastest kind of team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, we've kind of talked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We think this has the makings of the best receiving core we've had.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe since our last section on championship team in twenty twenty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right in the versatility, especially if you're
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[SPEAKER_02]: with the way of Chase Hussein and even Isaiah Mahaney.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They just give you a little bit of things if you want to get a little tricky and play calling or sets or whatever you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: create a matchup problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we're going to try to get the ball Isaiah's hands because we don't play very many people little catching so we want to get him ball on green grass.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's been injured a little bit for the last couple years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's as healthy as he's been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I think he, you know, we've had really high expectations for him for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is as healthy as he's been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And his attitude has been awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he could be another one that has a really break out season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, we talked about Colhussi, what he did on defense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was your center last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And center is really, especially with the way you guys, the offense that you run, center is a huge position.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who is going to be your center this year?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've moved Grayson with a row.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He started it right tackle for us last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've moved him to center.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No offense to Cole.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have missed a beat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a credit to Grayson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has a year of experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's extremely smart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he can make all the line calls right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's been a great move for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's doing an outstanding job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he is between him and Jack Roach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are our two senior leaders up front.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I supposed to say how nice is it to have a Jack Roach be what left apple and protect his he's a fourth year starting so he knows he knows the offense as well as I do and you know you never have to he's always he can be in the huddle teaching the other lineman so we've got between him and Grayson and Nathan Hawkins say Nathan lining up again on the left Nathan Nathan is a right guard right now
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nathan and Jack were both all conference last year, Grace and his returning starter, so you take those three guys with a ton of experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You get a move in and Mason ties that's six four two hundred fifty pounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got him penciled in a right tackle right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's been a pretty sharp learning curve.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is a great kid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he is very, very smart.
19:07
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a smart as anybody on our football team.
19:09
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a sponge.
19:10
[SPEAKER_01]: He picks things up quick.
19:12
[SPEAKER_01]: And we did find out the other night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He does have a little bit of a switch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So coaches like that sometimes too.
19:18
[SPEAKER_01]: So we just not came in there.
19:20
[SPEAKER_01]: And then maybe one of the, you know, we needed this to happen, but maybe one of the surprises of camp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is Nathan Hawkins, Nathan Hawkins, a little brother in Andrew, another, who's a sophomore.
19:32
[SPEAKER_01]: He was on our radar, but he would, I kind of had him penciled in as the backup center.
19:38
[SPEAKER_01]: He played center on the JVT last year, and we got into a team camp, and this is a true story.
19:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Nathan and Andrew don't talk all that much like ever so so we had an injury or somebody go down so we sneak Andrew into our lineup at team camp and I was talking with Jack and I said hey Andrew did a pretty good job tonight here's I didn't even know what Nathan until we're about two thirds of the way through neither one of them talk and he did a real good job so
20:08
[SPEAKER_01]: So we kind of found something that Team Camp and Andrew's done.
20:11
[SPEAKER_01]: He's done a great job and he's in that starting role right now.
20:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got him, you know, I got the inexperienced sophomore wedged in between two experienced seniors.
20:22
[SPEAKER_01]: He's left-handed, so we're playing him at left guard.
20:25
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why we've moved Nathan to right guard.
20:28
[SPEAKER_01]: So that gives our new right tackle, somebody in all conference guy right next to him.
20:32
[SPEAKER_01]: So we think that we think that's probably the best lineup for us.
20:37
[SPEAKER_01]: And we think we might have as good offensive wines we've had a minute.
20:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So what I'm hearing is,
20:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't say that.
20:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We play a darn good schedule, but I think expectations are high for sure.
20:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Our team attitude, that's probably what makes me feeling so good as much as anything, is our team attitude has been awesome.
21:05
[SPEAKER_01]: As it goes, it's been a long time.
21:07
[SPEAKER_01]: This team camp was a new thing that we have done.
21:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I was worried, you know, how are we going to do this?
21:13
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go to Anderson.
21:14
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to stay for three days.
21:15
[SPEAKER_01]: It's two hundred and fifty dollars a kid.
21:18
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've got kids on our roster that can't afford to do that.
21:21
[SPEAKER_01]: The booster booster club can't afford to send an entire football team over there.
21:26
[SPEAKER_01]: So we did a fundraiser, a one week fundraiser and our kids made twelve thousand dollars.
21:32
[SPEAKER_02]: So what you, is that what quince, you know, that I've got on right away because I wouldn't know.
21:38
[SPEAKER_01]: So our kids went to team camp and
21:41
[SPEAKER_01]: On our roster of thirty-eight, I guess it's now thirty-nine to thirty-eight at the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe thirty-four of them went and we didn't pay a dime.
21:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Every our entire football team went over there.
21:53
[SPEAKER_01]: They bought their own pizza.
21:54
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they bought.
21:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Other than that, their camp was paid for.
21:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of started with that.
22:00
[SPEAKER_01]: And we took thirty-three or thirty-four out of thirty-eight over there for three days.
22:04
[SPEAKER_01]: They made that sacrifice.
22:06
[SPEAKER_01]: We did a canoe trip this summer.
22:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think thirty-three or thirty-four out of thirty-eight were there.
22:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And I told them the other day, just on Saturday, I think.
22:17
[SPEAKER_01]: We went through the first week of practice.
22:19
[SPEAKER_01]: and everybody on the team was accounted for.
22:22
[SPEAKER_01]: There was not one time I had a manager in go.
22:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Where's this kid?
22:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Why see not here?
22:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Why see wait?
22:29
[SPEAKER_01]: This kid quit.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: They were thirty eight out of thirty eight for the entire first week.
22:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that's ever happened.
22:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
22:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone on their physicals on time and everything.
22:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it was, I think we're hitting the ground running.
22:44
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm excited to see his play.
22:46
[SPEAKER_02]: When you return your kicker.
22:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Return our kicker for sure.
22:49
[SPEAKER_02]: But the third is, and Hockens is back to.
22:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Hockens is, Hockens is returning, he's returning a punner.
22:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here in fifteen though.
22:58
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had to find a, we're looking for a new long snapper.
23:01
[SPEAKER_02]: This is going to be a question.
23:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's a key.
23:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, people don't realize how big a key role that long snapper is.
23:07
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why the holder.
23:08
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's why the guys can have longer.
23:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're kind of way.
23:10
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a really good holder.
23:13
[SPEAKER_01]: We're trying some guys out there, and it's coming along.
23:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Our goal was always to hit ninety percent of our extra points.
23:21
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think, Dakota, he went to, not Dakota, but Ferg went to, he went to kicking camp, and he really kicked well.
23:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Brogan Ferg, sorry I said Dakota, but
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to kicking camp.
23:37
[SPEAKER_01]: He really kicked the last half of the year.
23:39
[SPEAKER_01]: He was really, really solid.
23:41
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to kicking camp this summer.
23:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think he could be, he could be a strength.
23:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I think from thirty-five yards in, he could be, you know, I think that would be a viable option.
23:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he would feel comfortable kicking it that far.
23:52
[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got some things rolling.
23:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Any changes on your coaching staff?
23:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Well Brett Soker retired.
23:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Sim I retired.
23:59
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes when he wants to come.
24:00
[SPEAKER_01]: He will still be a part.
24:02
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not a practice every day, but he will
24:05
[SPEAKER_01]: he'll be here on Sundays, coaches meetings, probably on the press box on Fridays during ball games.
24:11
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes the game-pointing part, he likes the camaraderie part.
24:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess forty years will earn you a beat here when you want to be here.
24:19
[SPEAKER_01]: He's still going to be around, he's still going to be a part, but outside of that, we're bringing everybody back, so we've got a lot of continuity there.
24:28
[SPEAKER_01]: My offensive and defensive coordinator, Josh has been under, I guess.
24:33
[SPEAKER_01]: We've considered him the defensive coordinator or co-defensive coordinator for a couple of years now.
24:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Brett Stone, a wonderful job of teaching him the ropes and trying to hand it over to him a little bit of time.
24:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Dustin's been calling plays for seven right years now.
24:46
[SPEAKER_01]: So my dad always said the reason he won two hundred games was because he had four assistants, the same four assistants that were in the building for twenty straight years.
24:58
[SPEAKER_01]: He said that's your replacement.
25:00
[SPEAKER_01]: He would tell you that today.
25:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
25:02
[SPEAKER_02]: You always told me your dad always said that and he always said that a great head coach is only as good or great as the guys on his staff.
25:11
[SPEAKER_02]: He said he can't be a great coach if you don't have a good staff.
25:17
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a very, very true statement, and I don't know that you realize that until you're actually that guy, and you realize how much you're counting on those guys, but I've got a great staff, and a very, very boil, put in a lot of time, make a lot of sacrifices in the off season so we can be successful in the season.
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