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Brandon Bulldogs Coaches Show with Sam Williams - State Championship Edition · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 1: JQS.
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Speaker 2: We're in the first week of December, and if you're
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Speaker 2: hearing this, there's only a few people doing this this time.
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Speaker 3: Of year, which means you've made it to the end
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Speaker 3: of the road.
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Speaker 2: It's the championship edition of the Paco's Cantina and Grill
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Speaker 2: Coaches Show with head football coach and athletics director Sam
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Speaker 2: william The Mississippi Sam Williams, the Mississippi Sports Medicine an
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Speaker 2: orthopedic Game of the Week State Championship down in Hattiesburg,
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Speaker 2: Brandon versus two PLO coach. A lot to get into
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Speaker 2: in the next thirty minutes. Congratulations, we're sitting here, everybody's
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Speaker 2: at the house, and we have now come to the
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Speaker 2: end of the Primrose Path, so to speak.
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Speaker 4: It ain't no doubt. It's a good feeling. You know.
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Speaker 5: I got asked this week, you know, how does it feel,
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Speaker 5: you know, getting back does it feel any different? I said,
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Speaker 5: it don't feel any worse every time you get here.
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Speaker 5: So happy to be here. I'm super proud of our kids,
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Speaker 5: proud of our coaches. It's a lot of hard work.
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Speaker 5: It's you know, it's something that sometimes when you've gone
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Speaker 5: as many times we have.
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Speaker 4: The last couple of years.
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Speaker 5: You can take it for granted, but you shouldn't because
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Speaker 5: you know, not very many people get to do this
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Speaker 5: in a career.
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Speaker 4: Actual last three times in the last four years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, never get tired of win it right, no win
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Speaker 2: It never gets old or it doesn't.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't.
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Speaker 2: So we'll get into Tupelo and the matchup and everything
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Speaker 2: going on down at the Rock on Thursday night. First,
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Speaker 2: let's go back as always, took the long road trip
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Speaker 2: down to Ocean Springs. Fourth straight year, your group plays
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Speaker 2: for a South State championship. It was a cool, cold
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Speaker 2: night down in Ocean Springs. Dogs really got out in
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Speaker 2: front of a seven to nothing. They made it a
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Speaker 2: seven to six ball game. You blocked the extra point,
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Speaker 2: then took off from their thirty one to thirteen ball game.
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Speaker 2: I thought, you know, out of we were joking on
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Speaker 2: the broadcast. Out of all of the South State championships,
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Speaker 2: this was I don't want to say easier, but you
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Speaker 2: breathe a little lighter in this one.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we did, and you know it kind of. I
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Speaker 5: thought they did a really good job early on. I
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Speaker 5: told you know, coach Braman, I thought they did a
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Speaker 5: great job with hit those kids all year, and they
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Speaker 5: did a really good job early on kind of kind
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Speaker 5: of slowing us down, dictating the pace a little bit
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Speaker 5: maybe if you want to call it that, you know,
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Speaker 5: moving the chains a little bit.
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Speaker 4: We had a couple penalties early that were allowing him
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Speaker 4: to do that.
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Speaker 5: But you know, so as you got to that interception
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Speaker 5: where they got a little aggressive right for half time
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Speaker 5: when we were up fourteen to six, and then when
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Speaker 5: you get the ball with thirty eight seconds, you know,
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Speaker 5: most people are going kind of, you know, hang on
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Speaker 5: to it, let's get the halftime and talk, and you know,
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Speaker 5: we kind of put our foot on the gas, had
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Speaker 5: rang gt counter and then ran four verticals and then
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Speaker 5: we had to play that we had drawn up that
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Speaker 5: we had had kind of in our back pocket for
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Speaker 5: a while and hit that to Tyson right there, and
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Speaker 5: you kind of felt like that was a little bit,
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Speaker 5: you know, use the word knockout blow. That was kind
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Speaker 5: of the one that kind of took a little wind
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Speaker 5: out of their sales. And then kind of held serve
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Speaker 5: in the second half, did a really good job on defense.
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Speaker 5: I continued to play really well starting defense, only gave
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Speaker 5: up six points, and then the offense just did a
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Speaker 5: continue to do a good job of moving the football
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Speaker 5: even though we didn't have a ton of points in
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Speaker 5: the second half, had ten points in the second half,
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Speaker 5: but really controlled the pace of the game, control field position,
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Speaker 5: and never gave them really.
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Speaker 4: A chance to breathe.
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Speaker 3: Let's go back to that moment. Just what you said.
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Speaker 2: And now obviously we all know the way your brand
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Speaker 2: of football, brand of bulldog football. It's you know, we
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Speaker 2: joking kid, it's left late and hit the gas, it's fast,
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Speaker 2: it's fun.
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Speaker 3: And it is all of it. But at some point
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Speaker 3: football changed. When did it change for you?
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Speaker 2: And that used to under a minute minute, fifteen, minute,
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Speaker 2: thirty you got to leave people, sit on it, go
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Speaker 2: to the locker room. We don't do that. It's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: if we got time, we're.
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Speaker 5: Going yeah, I mean, and that's you know, everybody talks
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Speaker 5: about like, you know, you talk about creating the culture
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Speaker 5: or mentality like our kids. When I tell you that
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Speaker 5: we want to play aggressive, Like if I don't, my kids,
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Speaker 5: the kids.
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Speaker 4: Are looking at me like, hey, what are we doing?
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Speaker 5: You know, if I got timeouts in my back pocket
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Speaker 5: at the end of the first half or somebody, you know,
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Speaker 5: they that's just what they want to do. They want
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Speaker 5: to run, man, they and when you got good players,
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Speaker 5: that's what you do. You know, you let them play.
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Speaker 5: You want to extend the game. That's kind of our belief.
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Speaker 5: That's what we've talked about a lot this week is
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Speaker 5: playing fast, extending the game, doing a good job of
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Speaker 5: staying on the field, dictating the pace. And a lot
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Speaker 5: of people that play play us. That's one of the
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Speaker 5: things that they struggle with, right It's in the back
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Speaker 5: of their mind all the time, like how do I
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Speaker 5: how do we kind of take them off their game
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Speaker 5: when they're going to play so aggressive and if you
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Speaker 5: if you get behind versus us sometimes it can be really.
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Speaker 4: Tough to do that.
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Speaker 2: Slade and Shine thought, coming off the injury, came in,
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Speaker 2: did not look phased at all, had one of his
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Speaker 2: best games of the year.
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Speaker 5: He did play great man really really did a good job.
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Speaker 5: Got the ball where it needed to go. That's his job,
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Speaker 5: make sure that you drive the ship, make sure you
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Speaker 5: get it where it needs to go. I thought he
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Speaker 5: did a fantastic job of being efficient while making some
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Speaker 5: huge throws. He had some really big throws in the
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Speaker 5: game that he made. But you know, he showed a
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Speaker 5: little bit of that dog that you want to see
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Speaker 5: in a kid this time of year. You know, he
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Speaker 5: pulls the ball early on a on a counter read
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Speaker 5: where you know, hey, if you got a banged up ankle,
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Speaker 5: maybe you just hand it off just because you don't
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Speaker 5: want to run. But h you know, he showed a
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Speaker 5: little different side, a little bit to him. And I've
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Speaker 5: known he's had it in him. He's he's progressed every week,
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Speaker 5: he's gotten better every week, and he's peaking at the
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Speaker 5: right time.
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Speaker 2: Also, you know, limited possessions. Like you said, I thought
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Speaker 2: coach Bramlett and an Ocean Springs did a good.
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Speaker 3: Job of trying at least control the tempo.
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Speaker 2: But I think maybe four times we had the ball
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Speaker 2: but took advantage of every situation just about we have.
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Speaker 5: We did and and and that's what you do as
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Speaker 5: a coach, right and the coaching staff as you talk
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Speaker 5: about that, you know it's gonna be a slower game.
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Speaker 4: I think this Thursday will be a slower game.
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Speaker 5: You know it's going to be a game where when
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Speaker 5: you get possessions, you gotta get your money's worth. You
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Speaker 5: got to make sure that you're efficient and efficiency and
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Speaker 5: execution this time of year is huge, man, You've got
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Speaker 5: to do that, and that's what we did. We were
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Speaker 5: really good early. One of our keys we talked about
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Speaker 5: all the time is being efficient, staying on schedule, and
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Speaker 5: and taking the fight to somebody early.
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Speaker 4: Attacking.
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Speaker 5: We call it that all the time. You see that
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Speaker 5: on our shirts. But that's what we did Friday night.
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Speaker 5: We really attacked early on good stops on defense, good
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Speaker 5: defensive possessions, and then offensively, really really really quality possessions
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Speaker 5: earlier in the game.
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Speaker 2: What changed on defense because since Reagion play, I think
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Speaker 2: we're unofficially giving up somewhere around ten to twelve points
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Speaker 2: per ball game for the season around twenty one. But
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Speaker 2: something snapped Reagion play forward.
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Speaker 5: Man, I just think that our guys are really playing
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Speaker 5: inspired football right now. You know, sometimes you can get
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Speaker 5: caught up in scheme, you get caught up in players.
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Speaker 5: But when you have a collective group of eleven guys
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Speaker 5: that are going out there and really fighting to get
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Speaker 5: the ball carrier on the ground or fighting to make
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Speaker 5: sure that they're locking in to do their job if
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Speaker 5: it hits the air, it's it's really a special thing. And
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Speaker 5: you've seen that weekend and week out. You know, we've
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Speaker 5: really had a bunch of guys that have stepped up.
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Speaker 5: But more than anything, you know, whether we rotate on
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Speaker 5: a given night, eighteen guys twenty guys on defense, every
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Speaker 5: single one on the standard doesn't drop and they really
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Speaker 5: run to the football make things happen. It hadn't been
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Speaker 5: one of those deals where we're making a ton of turnovers,
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Speaker 5: but we're just creating negative plays. We're creating average plays
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Speaker 5: for the offense, getting them off schedule. And man, I
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Speaker 5: think I could speak to a lot of different things,
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Speaker 5: but more than anything, I think the senior leadership on
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Speaker 5: defense has really stepped up and held the standard of
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Speaker 5: what we wanted to be a perfect seguator.
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Speaker 2: Where I go next is seniors and that you know
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Speaker 2: last year, I know we talked about this is last
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Speaker 2: year's senior class the most decorated senior class ever in
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Speaker 2: Brandon history. I mean, you're talking about seniors that played
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Speaker 2: in two state championships, three straight South State championships. These
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Speaker 2: seniors now kind of set that in a little set
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Speaker 2: those seniors in a different.
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Speaker 3: Light as well.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we're just waiting on that one, you know,
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Speaker 5: where they can distinguish themselves above everything else. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: I mean this is with a win. You know, they'll
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Speaker 5: be the first one in school history with a state championship.
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Speaker 5: They'll be the first one to win thirty four games,
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Speaker 5: first one to win three consecutive district championships with that. So, man,
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Speaker 5: it's a great group of seniors. And when you look
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Speaker 5: at those guys, man, not all of them are D
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Speaker 5: one kids, not all of them are even college players.
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Speaker 5: They're just high quality individuals, really really great teammates and
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Speaker 5: guys that have grown to love each other, compete, and
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Speaker 5: they love to win. You know we talked about before
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Speaker 5: we become a man, they don't get tired of winning,
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Speaker 5: you know. I mean, those guys go out and they
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Speaker 5: hate to lose. And that's why I'm excited to see
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Speaker 5: them get one more opportunity to go out compete, do
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Speaker 5: something special for their school and for their community because
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Speaker 5: it means so much to them to make sure that
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Speaker 5: they accomplish that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking about now a senior class that
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Speaker 2: has played in ninth grade, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth. If
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Speaker 2: they played in ninth grade, they have will leave here
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Speaker 2: have played and they know nothing but South State championship appearances,
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Speaker 2: championship type football. And that sets your culture, I think
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Speaker 2: differently than most it is, and I mean that's what
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Speaker 2: you want.
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Speaker 5: You know, if you're at a place, you want to excellent,
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Speaker 5: you want to be elite, you want to be great.
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Speaker 5: You got to keep showing up, right, You got to
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Speaker 5: keep giving your kids opportunities because you never know, uh,
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Speaker 5: when you get to big games. There's I mean, there's
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Speaker 5: a lot of factors that go into it. You know,
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Speaker 5: we've we've we've come up short with the last two
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Speaker 5: and the kids know that that's not something that like
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Speaker 5: we shy away from. You got to learn from those
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Speaker 5: right there learning experiences. But as you as you get
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Speaker 5: there and as you show up, man, you learn so
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Speaker 5: much from him. You learn how to be a better coach,
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Speaker 5: You learn how to be a better player, you learn
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Speaker 5: how to ride the highs and lows. You know, you
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Speaker 5: learn how, you learn what you need to do to
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Speaker 5: make sure you get through those tough moments. You learn
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Speaker 5: what you need to plan for that you maybe you could,
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Speaker 5: you don't plan for throughout the year. So it's a
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Speaker 5: it's really a cool deal for these kids getting another
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Speaker 5: shot at this. They've won a lot of championships. They
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Speaker 5: are champions in my eyes no matter what happens. But
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Speaker 5: it's really cool to see these kids get out there,
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Speaker 5: get that shot. Get the shot against uh, the other
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Speaker 5: team that I'm not gonna say which one is the
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Speaker 5: best instake you wanna find that out on Thursday, but
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Speaker 5: get a shot against to the other team that has
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Speaker 5: been one and two all year unanimously.
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Speaker 2: Of course we're gonna talk about too below in the
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Speaker 2: next segment. Let me ask you this about playing in
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Speaker 2: a stadium like the Rock. Uh, A lot of people
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Speaker 2: like to talk about it. You know, you take a
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Speaker 2: team like Hollideal Simmons one, a school by the Delta,
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Speaker 2: small school, then you throw those kids inside the Rock
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Speaker 2: that's massive. Is there something to a you know, being
9:11
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Speaker 2: to State played Madison Central. Was it a shock value
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Speaker 2: at all to the kids that had not done that?
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Speaker 5: I don't know that it is with our kids, just
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Speaker 5: because we play in such good atmospheres a lot of times.
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Speaker 5: But at the same time, you know, the emotion of
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Speaker 5: getting there and having that finality, you know, that's what
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Speaker 5: I've seen so much about our kids.
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Speaker 4: This week is like that.
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Speaker 5: You know, they know it's the last Monday practice, or
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Speaker 5: today it was the last padded practice.
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow will be the last ball through.
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Speaker 5: It's just that emotion of kind of getting through the
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Speaker 5: pre game, getting to the game, but then realizing, hey,
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Speaker 5: the field still the same dimensions, the ball still the
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Speaker 5: exact same there's still twenty two players in the field,
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Speaker 5: and you know that's what you got to get through.
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Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, it's football, man.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of championships, dogs heading to the Rock place they
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Speaker 2: You know when you start talking about Tuplow and Brandon,
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Speaker 3: But about a month ago.
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Speaker 2: People started saying, well, it looks like you know, it's
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Speaker 2: at the end of the road here now this week
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we are, man and I think this is what
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Speaker 5: everybody wanted to see, you know, I think it's two
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Speaker 5: really good teams, a lot of Division one talent, you know,
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Speaker 5: I was. I was talking to the guys a day about,
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Speaker 5: you know, doing the little game preview and getting them
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Speaker 5: stuff for the broadcast, and you know, they were saying
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Speaker 5: it and I believe it. You know, probably one of
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Speaker 5: the more talented state championship games that's been played Mississippi
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Speaker 5: in a long time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a number of D one guys on the field.
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Speaker 4: It's a really cool deal.
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Speaker 5: Excited to see it, Excited to see how we play.
16:23
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, it'll be a
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Speaker 5: it'll be a big challenge playing a really good team.
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Speaker 2: Two Polo of course plays in Region two seven A
16:30
Speaker 2: with our friends at Madison Central and Clinton in Germantown
16:33
Speaker 2: and Startville.
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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, they've had their moments. I mean, obviously
16:36
Speaker 3: thirteen to o.
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Speaker 2: They had a moment against Startville a couple of weeks
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Speaker 2: ago where they had to breathe a little bit. But
16:41
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about this team. JJ Hill, the
16:44
Speaker 2: seven A mister Football Player of the Year. Uh you
16:47
Speaker 2: know you talk about running backs, boy, you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: two of the best, I think, well for sure, two
16:52
Speaker 2: of the best in this state, and I think two
16:53
Speaker 2: of the best in the country.
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Speaker 3: On display Friday, night.
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Speaker 5: Ain't no question, There ain't no question. And uh, you
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Speaker 5: know two contrasting styles, you know, JJ. You know, for
17:01
Speaker 5: the for Brandon Bulldog fans, we've seen Nate one for years,
17:03
Speaker 5: a bruiser, physical bat, gonna run through arm tackles, got
17:07
Speaker 5: a little more speed than maybe Nate had just top
17:10
Speaker 5: in speed, but you know that kind of guy that'll
17:12
Speaker 5: beat you up over four quarters. And uh, he does
17:14
Speaker 5: a great job. They really ride him hard. They do
17:18
Speaker 5: a great job of putt him in position to be successful.
17:21
Speaker 5: And then Tyson Robinson, who you know, we've all grown
17:24
Speaker 5: to be accustomed to, sure, who generates touches in a
17:26
Speaker 5: lot of different ways, whether it's offense, catching balls out
17:29
Speaker 5: of the basket, out of the backfield, or special teams.
17:33
Speaker 5: I mean, he's just a fun kid to watch, a
17:36
Speaker 5: fun kid to coach every week. He's healthy, he's ready
17:38
Speaker 5: to roll. I know, both guys are gonna probably exceed
17:41
Speaker 5: twenty five touches and gonna they're both gonna be very,
17:44
Speaker 5: very very key for their respective teams.
17:46
Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about what you've seen out of Tupelo.
17:48
Speaker 2: You know, it's a team we haven't seen since twenty
17:50
Speaker 2: eighteen at least on the field. Uh, five times, let's
17:54
Speaker 2: see three, four, five, five or seven times? I come
17:56
Speaker 2: ever with the exact number Brandon has played to below.
17:59
Speaker 2: We went through a straight there twenty fifteen through like
18:01
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen and did the home and home thing with
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Speaker 2: those guys. But you know, you talk about two below
18:05
Speaker 2: a team that hasn't played for it the championship since
18:08
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, kind of on a trajectory like Brandon, where
18:11
Speaker 2: the last three or four years they've been building their program.
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Speaker 5: They have and they've done a really good job. Coach
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Speaker 5: Charge's done a good job. You know, this will be
18:17
Speaker 5: their first state championship since twenty thirteen, like you said.
18:20
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, a program that's
18:22
Speaker 5: experienced a lot of success, they've sent a lot of
18:24
Speaker 5: guys to the next level. And you know, there are
18:26
Speaker 5: another program just like us that's you know, kind of
18:29
Speaker 5: kind of really really really ready for that state championship
18:32
Speaker 5: and they're knocking on the door. They've been there, they've
18:34
Speaker 5: played some big games, they've won some big games, but
18:37
Speaker 5: this is as big as it gets, you know, I mean,
18:39
Speaker 5: and like I said, they've got to come out just
18:40
Speaker 5: like we do.
18:41
Speaker 4: They've got to XQ. Well, they've got to do some
18:43
Speaker 4: of the same things I.
18:43
Speaker 5: Talk about all the time, and it'll be really interesting
18:45
Speaker 5: to see the chess match between the two teams and
18:48
Speaker 5: two coaching staffs. Is there a team that we have
18:51
Speaker 5: seen this year, at least from a contrast of style,
18:54
Speaker 5: that Brandon fans could look to and you say, hey,
18:56
Speaker 5: they're they're they're kind of like them, if that makes sense,
18:58
Speaker 5: just as far as style and the way they call
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Speaker 5: plays and things of that nature. I mean, stylistically, probably
19:03
Speaker 5: the closest thing would be golf court. Offensively, you know,
19:05
Speaker 5: they're they're they're gonna be a little more run heavy,
19:07
Speaker 5: they're gonna take their shots.
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Speaker 4: Down the field, and everybody will go, oh, we all
19:10
Speaker 4: be golf port for it.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm stylistically that's that's the same Churm style of offense.
19:15
Speaker 5: What they want to run that a big back, really
19:18
Speaker 5: physical upfront on the offensive line, and then some receivers
19:21
Speaker 5: that can make plays down the field. And then defensively,
19:24
Speaker 5: you know, defense is really hard to me to kind
19:26
Speaker 5: of to kind of say, well, hey, who do they
19:28
Speaker 5: look like, because everybody plays different schemes and stuff, but
19:31
Speaker 5: you know them in Madison probably have.
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Speaker 2: Coach we lost you there, Sorr. We lost signal there
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Speaker 4: Up and be there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, you know we've had we I think
19:54
Speaker 5: everybody's kind of like a you know, a thing of pride,
19:56
Speaker 5: right like Brandon when people people know when we show
19:58
Speaker 5: up at state championship game, we're gonna be there. We're
20:00
Speaker 5: gonna be there in person, We're gonna be there early.
20:02
Speaker 4: And that's what we want. That's what like.
20:04
Speaker 5: It's like I will say before we went off, that's
20:05
Speaker 5: what the kids deserve. That's what I want to see.
20:08
Speaker 5: I want everybody to be there. I know it's a
20:09
Speaker 5: Thursday night. It can be kind of tough, but hey,
20:12
Speaker 5: everybody's got days. I can take off in life, right,
20:14
Speaker 5: Even my dad may take off the next day.
20:16
Speaker 10: You never know.
20:16
Speaker 5: I don't think he's ever taken off a day in
20:17
Speaker 5: his life. But let's let's worry about Friday after.
20:20
Speaker 4: But let's come out. Let's support these guys one final
20:23
Speaker 4: time this year.
20:23
Speaker 3: What's your final message to your team this year?
20:26
Speaker 5: I mean, they know what it is, man, Just you know,
20:28
Speaker 5: do the things that got you here. You know, play
20:30
Speaker 5: as a group, play as a family. It's been such
20:32
Speaker 5: a special group. They've really grown tight, they've grown together
20:34
Speaker 5: really well. They believe in each other. But but don't
20:37
Speaker 5: do any more than what you have to, you know.
20:39
Speaker 5: I mean my all saying is your best is good enough.
20:41
Speaker 4: And I believe that.
20:42
Speaker 5: I believe that Thursday night and we go out, if
20:44
Speaker 5: we play our game, we dictate the pace, we really attack,
20:48
Speaker 5: I believe our best is good enough. If we prepared
20:50
Speaker 5: all year for this moment. We've been preparing for four
20:52
Speaker 5: years for this moment. We've shown up and we've been here.
20:54
Speaker 4: We know what to do. So we're gonna go out
20:56
Speaker 4: there and finish it.
20:57
Speaker 2: And is the Brandon Bull on his Coaches Show as
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Speaker 2: we rolled through the rest of the day, Coach, I
21:02
Speaker 2: just want to say congratulations, Congratulations to you guys, Congratulations
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Speaker 2: to Brandon and just a heck of a year. And
21:09
Speaker 2: you know, thank you for always teeing us up and
21:11
Speaker 2: spending time with us this week, for sure man.
21:13
Speaker 5: Special shout out tonight, and I know we talked about
21:15
Speaker 5: other sports. Special shout Braven Barnes for making the day
21:17
Speaker 5: he does. Released it on the week of a state
21:19
Speaker 5: championship football. Not real sure why, but that kid's work
21:22
Speaker 5: super hard. Been a great ambassador for Brandon Bulldogs basketball
21:25
Speaker 5: and Brandon Boggs Athletics.
21:26
Speaker 2: We'll be back, of course next year with more coaches shows,
21:29
Speaker 2: but get down to Hattiesburg. It's a state championship. Brandon
21:31
Speaker 2: versus two Pelow hashtag Boe Brandon over everyone. Let's go
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Speaker 2: get a state championship on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: See you then, good night.