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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 333 - 2024 Football Awards Show · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is football Official Nick Parago and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four awards show on the Walcome Preps
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  Speaker 1: Podcast with Tyler and Ryland.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the walcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode three three three, that's three hundred and thirty three,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Walcome Preps Football Awards Show. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Brylan Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson
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  Speaker 2: of Walk Them Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing great?
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  Speaker 3: This one I get pumped for every year, This specific
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  Speaker 3: podcast every year gets a lot of listens because this
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  Speaker 3: is the only place where you can find out who
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  Speaker 3: won the awards. So I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait to get going on it the
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  Speaker 2: only place. And for those of you listening, if you
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity, get your snubbed button ready so you
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  Speaker 2: can comment, because we know you're gonna do it all right,
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  Speaker 2: and it drive Tyler nuts. Hey. We need to give
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  Speaker 2: a thank you to Nick Parago. He is the winner,
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  Speaker 2: was the winner. I guess he's been ousted now of
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three Football Official of the Year Award.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to him for that big fan of the program.
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  Speaker 2: We know he's always listening, and I know he wants
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  Speaker 2: to get a burger at some point. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: remember where, but I'm sure he'll probably DM me now
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  Speaker 2: and let me know where it is. Yeah, Tyler, this
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  Speaker 2: would be a great thing for somebody to sponsor if
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to sponsor it. Unfortunately we don't have one
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  Speaker 2: for this. So yeah, I mean, if somebody wants to
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  Speaker 2: become a sponsor. We talked about on some other podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Spring starting to fill up, there's still opportunities left in
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  Speaker 2: the spring, even some things left maybe a Top fifty
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  Speaker 2: countdown here or the state basketball tournament coverage, or there's
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff even left here in the winter.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody wanted to get on board, Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And again it's about you know, being creative of uh
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  Speaker 3: and and coming up with something because there's always something
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  Speaker 3: that can be sponsored. And a great, a great idea
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  Speaker 3: that was had was someone reached out to me and
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  Speaker 3: wanted to sponsor the baseball preview coming up.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Just be up, just be a podcast, which is perfect,
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  Speaker 3: Like that's something I wouldn't think about, and I said absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: And so that you know, there's always things like that,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what's that's what's really cool. I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 3: maybe I'll put together a mid season breakdown of the
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  Speaker 3: spring sports, you know, or something like that, or the
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  Speaker 3: baseball like during spring break or something like that. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's something like that could be sponsored. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's all sorts of you know, things like that that
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  Speaker 3: can happen. And the best way to get a hold
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  Speaker 3: of me is just reach out through social media, search
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  Speaker 3: for walk and preps, send send a personal message in
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  Speaker 3: on there and and uh and I should see it
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  Speaker 3: pretty quickly, so so yeah, I mean, and we can
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  Speaker 3: just talk and get the ball rolling and see see
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  Speaker 3: where it goes and and you know all about positivity
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  Speaker 3: and community and all that kind of good stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: I just want to be able to keep doing this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working on this amazing project right now. Maybe you
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  Speaker 3: can get sponsored, but I will. It's something that I
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  Speaker 3: should probably work on in the summer. But I've been
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  Speaker 3: able to figure out a few more things by watching
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  Speaker 3: some YouTube videos. Isn't it amazing how YouTube how you
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  Speaker 3: much people can learn things that they've always wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do just from watching YouTube videos.
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  Speaker 2: Are you talking about like spreadsheet stuff. Is that what
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  Speaker 2: you've done a little deeper than that little database stuff. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I think I told you before. I've
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  Speaker 2: got like the kin Ko record books all the way
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  Speaker 2: back to nineteen fifty two, and I've started watching YouTube
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  Speaker 2: videos learning a few more things about spreadsheets. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: good with spreadsheets, but not like, you know, super fantastical
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  Speaker 2: or anything. And so I've been kind of like going
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  Speaker 2: through it and watching some YouTube videos here there while
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  Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be doing other stuff, and yeah, figuring
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  Speaker 2: out how to like make them talk to each other
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, and like getting a little bit more, getting
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  Speaker 2: a little better with it to where I have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to look stuff up a lot quicker, you know. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And it's been it's been fun. Like you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a firm believer. You're always growing and always learning, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, and so I watch more YouTube university than
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  Speaker 2: probably anybody, you know. I mean, I'm constantly I've always
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  Speaker 2: got the earbut on in class and sometimes when the
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  Speaker 2: teacher thinks I'm paying attention, it's just like being back
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  Speaker 2: in high school, Tyler. Yeah, I mean I still fall
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  Speaker 2: asleep on occasions. I mean, you know, teacher smacked me
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  Speaker 2: the other day. I woke right up. I was ready
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  Speaker 2: to go. But Tyler, we've got a lot to talk
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  Speaker 2: about here tonight. Yeah. Yeah. Now before we get going, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: I have a oh wait, hold on, I do have
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  Speaker 2: something that I think people could sponsor. What's that We've
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  Speaker 2: never done this before, but I was thinking about it
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  Speaker 2: the other day. You know what we need to do.
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  Speaker 2: We need to have a boys and a girls team
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  Speaker 2: of the week. Hmmm.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great idea. It could be any sport.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be any Let's say Lynden Tennis goes
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  Speaker 2: nuts in a week. Boom, Yeah, that's your team of
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  Speaker 2: the week.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great, great call.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And and you know, so here's the other thing is
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  Speaker 2: you go around and get headshots from like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: different things. If we can get a team photo from everybody,
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  Speaker 2: then you've got them ready to go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's a that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, you want to know what the
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  Speaker 2: only bad thing is, whenever I.
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  Speaker 3: Think of stuff like this, forget it the next day.
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  Speaker 2: No, I got to make the graphic.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, that's true. You just do it once though,
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  Speaker 3: and then yes, that's true. That very Yeah, then I'll
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  Speaker 3: be said, after that's that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. But it's funny that, I mean, you just
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  Speaker 2: mentioned it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, I'm thinking, like, I got to
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  Speaker 3: write this down. I got to write this down because
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to forget it because that's brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's something we should have done a long time ago. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 2: and another one that you and I had talked about
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  Speaker 2: at some point we kind of never never really went
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  Speaker 2: much further into it was having like a three Stars
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  Speaker 2: of the week. You know, in the National Hockey League
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  Speaker 2: or hockey in general, they do three Stars of the Game,
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  Speaker 2: who are the three best players in the game tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And doing something like three Stars of the Week or
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  Speaker 2: something I think could be cool, you know, because that
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  Speaker 2: would allow us maybe to maybe to pub the other
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  Speaker 2: sports a little bit more. You know, that would give
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  Speaker 2: us an opportunity. Hey, there was a girl that you
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  Speaker 2: know went five and oh this week in tennis or
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever, you know, give us an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: pub those ones a little bit more. But I think
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  Speaker 2: a Team of the Week would be great because it
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  Speaker 2: could I mean, it could bounce around and be so
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  Speaker 2: many different things.
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  Speaker 3: Especially for the spring because there's a lot of sports
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  Speaker 3: going on. Yeah, and the most sports are happening, So
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of teams. I think there's something like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my goodness, I can't remember exactly, but it's like
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  Speaker 3: eighty something teams going on in the spring in Walkwaa County.
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  Speaker 2: Crap.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot to pick pro and that's total's
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  Speaker 3: that's boys and girls.
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  Speaker 2: But still, yeah, it'd be pretty cool. So, Tyler, we
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  Speaker 2: need to talk about some awards tonight. Yeah, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen is what I see. Yeah, fifty fifteen awards. Fifteen
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  Speaker 2: awards one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine.
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  Speaker 2: Ten of them were voted on. One just by the fans.
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  Speaker 2: That's the fan favorite. It's all seniors. Uh. The others
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  Speaker 2: were voted on by the fans and then also some
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  Speaker 2: of you, some of me. But Tyler, before we get going,
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  Speaker 2: I have another award I want to hand out. And
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  Speaker 2: and I know you don't like this because anytime I
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  Speaker 2: go off script, you're going, crap, where's he going with this?
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  Speaker 2: I don't like this, but I am gonna personally award
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  Speaker 2: the drinking out of the Toilet Bowl Award, which goes
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  Speaker 2: to Jeff Wood for finishing last place and to pick
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  Speaker 2: him this year, Tyler, So congratulations to coach Would Coach Wood. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not every day you win something, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, finally he gets a win.
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  Speaker 3: He went out on a limb a little bit at
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  Speaker 3: the end there to try to make up some ground
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  Speaker 3: and then he did it backfired and he got last place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, backfired terribly. He went over four in the final weekend, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: which also meantwalkhom count went over four. But yeah, yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we just want to give a shout out to coach Would.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't talked to him in a little while, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, when football season ends, I don't hear
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  Speaker 2: from the guy a whole lot, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know what, we gotta have a little
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  Speaker 2: fun with the guy. That being said, Tyler, voting was
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  Speaker 2: a little different this year. I'm sure people noticed, but
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  Speaker 2: the fan voices were a little stronger than normal, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's kind of interesting. We'll talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about it before we actually get going here, because I
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  Speaker 2: do have something I want to say about that, which
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  Speaker 2: I think is fun. But we had six semi finalists
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  Speaker 2: for the nine categories that got voted on. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 2: fan favorite was one from every team, but the fans
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  Speaker 2: vote narrowed those nine categories from six down to three.
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  Speaker 2: Once we had three, voting took place again. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was what like twenty four hours later or something,
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  Speaker 2: and the fans vote now became twenty five percent of
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  Speaker 2: the overall vote. So basically what it was was if
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  Speaker 2: the fans voted for you know this guy to be
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  Speaker 2: number one, well that was three points for him. The
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  Speaker 2: guy that got second place was worth two points, the
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  Speaker 2: guy that got third was worth one. Then the exact
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  Speaker 2: same thing happened twenty five percent for coach would our
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  Speaker 2: guy Coach's Corner the winner of the Drinking out of
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  Speaker 2: the Toilet Bowl award also twenty five percent for me
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  Speaker 2: and twenty five percent for Tyler. So really there's two
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  Speaker 2: things that need to happen here, Tyler. One, we might
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  Speaker 2: need to find a fifth person for next year. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: Joe Consensus gets a vote, Yeah, although he maybe Maybe Mikayla.
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  Speaker 2: Mikayla there you go, who, by the way, almost won
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  Speaker 2: that award. If it wasn't for the Final League of
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  Speaker 2: the Year, she would have won the Drink It out
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  Speaker 2: of the Toilet Bull Award, which would have been really
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  Speaker 2: bad because I know she wouldn't have liked that. But
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  Speaker 2: there is possibilities for ties in this obviously there could
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  Speaker 2: be even in the other one too. But yeah, so,
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  Speaker 2: and we've had ties in the past, I believe, haven't we.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a few. There seems to be one
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  Speaker 3: every year. I think there was two of them last
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  Speaker 3: year or the year before, which the way I look
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  Speaker 3: at it is like all that means is that I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting more you know, trophies and plaques made, but and
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  Speaker 3: more people you got to go visit, right right? So
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  Speaker 3: uh yeah, I remember, like we had like Freshman of
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  Speaker 3: the Year, there was a tie a few years back,
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  Speaker 3: Sophomore of the Year. If you're back a few years back,
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  Speaker 3: there was a tie. I think there was a ya.
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  Speaker 3: I think there might have been a tie on Defensive
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  Speaker 3: Player of the Year once, like a couple of guys.
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  Speaker 3: So there's there's been a few here and there, but
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  Speaker 3: it seems like there's like one every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So with those awards, there's also a few other
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  Speaker 2: things that go on. By the way, Tyler, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna admit it. I hopped onto the fan vote and
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  Speaker 2: I voted. I mean I did two. I did. I
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  Speaker 2: have to like I you know, I hate to admit it,
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  Speaker 2: but you know what, I'm a fan, so I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I get a vote plus one vote. Yeah, probably
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  Speaker 2: isn't gonna change a whole lot, but yeah, so that
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  Speaker 2: are There are some other awards. The ones that are
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  Speaker 2: that got voted on, Freshman of the Year or Sophomore
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  Speaker 2: of the Year, Assistant Coach of the Year, Special Teams,
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  Speaker 2: Player of the Year, Lineman of the Year, Defensive and
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  Speaker 2: Offensive Players of the Year, Coach of the Year, and
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  Speaker 2: then Player of the Year. Fan Favorite is also again
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  Speaker 2: voted on, but no percentages. It's just whoever gets the
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  Speaker 2: most votes. Tyler, you specifically had a few that you,
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  Speaker 2: I guess awarded yourself this year as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's four of them that I did the same
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  Speaker 3: as I did last year. We have Official of the Year,
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  Speaker 3: PA Announcer of the Year, Cheer Squad of the Year,
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  Speaker 3: and Band of the Year. So kept a keen eye
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  Speaker 3: and took some notes and I have those ready to
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  Speaker 3: go for tonight's awards.
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  Speaker 2: The only other award that gets put out today or
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  Speaker 2: tonight whenever you're listening to this, I mean we're recording
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  Speaker 2: at nighttime. It's ten ten pm right now. But the
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  Speaker 2: only other one is the Mark Newton Award. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk more about that award. But essentially that's one that
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  Speaker 2: I award to a senior center. Only a center. You
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  Speaker 2: can't be a guy that maybe played one game at center,
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  Speaker 2: like you got to be a center here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to be a guy. And it's going to
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  Speaker 2: go to a senior And we'll talk more about kind
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  Speaker 2: of what that award means and how it kind of
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  Speaker 2: came to fruition. And you know, Tyler can tell us
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  Speaker 2: about Mark Newton because a year later, having talked about
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  Speaker 2: this again, I remember a good chunk of it, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember everything about the guy. And it's good
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  Speaker 2: to honor mister Newton. So we will talk about that one.
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  Speaker 2: But Tyler, the first one we've got here is Official
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  Speaker 2: of the Year. Are you ready to get going? We
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to talk about here. Yeah, Okay, Official
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  Speaker 2: of the Year. I guess I should And one thing
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  Speaker 2: we should have done, Tyler, we should have brought up
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  Speaker 2: like we need to keep a list somewhere on yeah,
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  Speaker 2: prior winners, Like how on Wikipedia you can you know,
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  Speaker 2: go look up prior winners or something. We need to
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  Speaker 2: do something like that. How about this last year was
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  Speaker 2: the first official of the year, I believe, right yep,
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  Speaker 2: And it was Nick Perago who gave us the intro. So, Nick,
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  Speaker 2: you're out the door, Tyler Official of the year. Kind
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  Speaker 2: of give the people an idea of kind of what
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  Speaker 2: goes into this as well well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean last year it was it was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of texting coaches and try to get a feel for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, different people and who they liked and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. And this year was more now that I
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  Speaker 3: kind of knew what was going on, I was paying
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more attention to certain things and I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to see just how they handled themselves in tough
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  Speaker 3: situations or how quickly they were to make a call
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  Speaker 3: or you know, if they were making the right call
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  Speaker 3: at the right time, or just professionalism all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, so that was that's that's basically it,
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  Speaker 3: and looking for who I thought was the best official.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot goes into this. I mean this
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  Speaker 2: isn't just a real quick and easy thing. Like Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: you put a lot of thought into this, and I
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  Speaker 2: know how serious you take these things too, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. Like sometimes you look at it and
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  Speaker 2: I know you're a lot like me, where it's like
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  Speaker 2: you're about to put something out that's a big time
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  Speaker 2: and then you go, God, I hope I picked the
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  Speaker 2: right guy, Like I hope I did the right one here,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So that being said Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: who is the twenty twenty four official of the Year
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  Speaker 2: from watkom Preps. It is Damon Bruland.
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  Speaker 3: And boy, he's really really good and and he's very
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  Speaker 3: concise with this stuff. I saw a moment in the
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  Speaker 3: Fern I'm trying to remember who Ferndal was playing. It
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  Speaker 3: might have been Oak Harbor, and that was kind of
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  Speaker 3: an intense game and there was some intense moments and
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  Speaker 3: the way he handled it.
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  Speaker 2: Was really really great.
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  Speaker 3: He was out there during that that that three way
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  Speaker 3: Texas or Kansas tiebreaker, you know, in the wind and
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  Speaker 3: stuff doing that and did a great, great job just
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  Speaker 3: right on top of the moment and everything. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he was just he was just fantastic and so Congratulations
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  Speaker 3: to Damon Bruland for being the WALKOM Preps Official of
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  Speaker 3: the Year.
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  Speaker 2: I wish this was one of those times too, where
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  Speaker 2: where we had something written out to where we can
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  Speaker 2: tell people like, hey, if you're thinking about becoming an official,
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  Speaker 2: this is the way to do it, because obviously officials
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  Speaker 2: are needed. And I can tell you from having traveled
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  Speaker 2: around the state, Wokam County is I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: far it goes. I believe it's walk them and s gadget.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that area is very fortunate because the officiating up there,
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  Speaker 2: I think is tremendous. And I say up there for
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: those of you who don't know, I live in Kirkland.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a king Ko guy, a coach football at Boffel,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't get up there very much anymore. But
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  Speaker 2: having been around the state covering football, man, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what you guys got it. You guys got a
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  Speaker 2: good most nights up there. I'll say it that way
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: because the officiating is very, very good. And congratulations to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Damon Brule in the twenty twenty four Official of the Year.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Here on the WALKM Preps Awards Show, we move on now.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Tyler Pa, announcer of the Year. I don't remember who
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: it was last year. I think was the last year,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the first time we ever did it, Yeah, it was
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: It was the Meridian announcer Marty Gray and okay, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: that that's who won it last year. And he had
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: that he has that like throwback way of announcing, like
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I'm fucking like, you're like it sounds like you're back
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: into like the fifties or sixties, you know, when you know,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: they show like the old highlights and they show Bob
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Coosey dribbling the ball and they're.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Like, hey, is the most unbelievable thing we've ever seen.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: You know, it's like that, it's almost you know, it's
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: like he has that kind.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Of delivery and he's so he's so good and I
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: and he does basketball games too, and and you know
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: that's another Meridian first down, you know, and it's just
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: got that old school.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Did they have like the old speakers there too, you
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, where it's like that's part of
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: his voice as the speakers. Like if they ever get
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the really really good speakers, you're gonna be like, Wow,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: who's this guy.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Right right right?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: And it's it's really cool it's a he did a great,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: great job.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: And I remember showing up to his house to give
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: him to give him the award, and you know, he
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: didn't even I think I got a hold of him
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: or I called him or something, and he didn't even
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: know about it. And he was just like oh wow,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Like he's like this is great. You know, he's like,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: who are you. Yeah, he was just like, Okay, this
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: is awesome.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's like, well, thank you, thank you, Taylor. That's
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: very nice of you. So this year I did a
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: lot of listening again. Yeah, and you attended a few
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: games too.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I did, and I heard them all. And I tell
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: you what, I really like Scott Ellis of Blaine.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: He does an amazing job. He's been doing it a
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: long long.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Time, and he's got you know, he's got his own way,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: which I love that. I don't like, you know, if
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: they're trying to be like somebody or else, somebody else
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: or anything. And uh, but he's he's very you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: he's a big guy, which kind of helps. I mean,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you're a big guy. You get the booming voice going
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: and it sounds good. You know. He's about six four
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: six five and big, strong voice and h and you
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: remember remember Cam Ellis there was a quarterback for Blaine
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: probably about when we started in the podcast.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: That's his son, okay.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: And and so he uh yeah, he's been doing a
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: long long time. And the catchphrase at the end of
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: every single game doesn't matter if they won big or
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: lost big. He always ends it by saying it's and
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and he goes and as always it's a great night
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: to be a border Right.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I just I love it. And it's just
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: it's so cool and he does such.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: A great job.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So so Scott Ellis of Blaine is your twenty twenty
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: four PA Announcer of the Year Tyler. When he was
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: announcing games and his son was a quarterback, did he
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: ever like use his middle name when he threw an
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: interception or something, you know, like like Cameron Jacob Alice
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: with the interception, like full government name or something, just
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: to shame him a little, you know.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't think that happened.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: But no, maybe he didn't throw an interception at all.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe maybe not. What I do remember that it
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: was at the it was the old stadium, you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the stands were on the other side.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: It was the natural grass the stands were looking north.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I remember, yeah, yeah, so yeah, And it was.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: So weird to think that's the same field. It's just
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: everything else is everything's.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Flipped on it now, Isn't it funny too? Like as
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: great as the new stadium is, and it's unbelievable, like
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: it's so cool when when I look at that stadium
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to the newer one or the new one, I see,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I guess it's not even the new one. It's the
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: current one. Uh. When I look at that stadium, as
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: far as like new high school stadiums go, that should
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: be like the example, you know what I mean. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: guess it has been the example once already.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I think exact model.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, But I've seen so many newer stadiums that are
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: built and it's like, man, they did not do a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: very good job here, like they like they went super cheap,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: or there's a lot of poles that are in the way,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and and like you know, it's no stadium is gonna
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: be perfect. I get it, we're working on school district budgets.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: But sometimes as cool as that place is, and I
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: do love it, man, I miss old stadiums like the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: one that they used to have, you know what I mean,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like ones that almost looked like third tier English soccer league,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like where the opposing fans
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: pull up for the first time and they go, what
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the this is where we're playing? Like what is going
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: on here? You know, those old stadiums had so much
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: character to them, you know, and it's just like baseball,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: right like you and I obviously huge baseball guys. Those
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: old stadiums that had weird quirky you know, while the
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: like the triangle in Fenway or you know the the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: was it Crosley Field that had the hills that went
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: up to the to the outfield wall. There was one
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: of them. I don't remember which one it was, but
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: you know, all the character of those old ones, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: now that you know the new ones that's you know,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: big metal structure or whatever, which don't me wrong again,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Like I think it's a fantastic stadium. And I get
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: why they play so many different things there, you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: tournament playoff games and stuff like, I understand why teams
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: want to use that place. But yes, Tyler PA announcer
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of the Year Scott Ellis of Blaine. Now we've got
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: freshmen of the year, which brings us to the first
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: one that actually had votes. And so we've got three guys,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: So what's going to happen here? I'll give you the
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: three guys and then I'll turn it over to you, Tyler,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: and you do your thing and you go from there.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: All right, So the first one that made it through
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to the semi finals here. Uh. He's a five to ten,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifteen pound left tackle defensive end from Ferndale,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: number fifty two, Chance Hatchett, who had eighteen tackles, two sacks,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and one tackle for a loss while also playing offensive line.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Obviously no stats there because we don't need him. Uh,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: six foot, one hundred and sixty pounds. He's a kicker,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: number twenty six from Knoksack Valley. It's Tyler Marton, who
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: finished the year with twenty eight extra points and five tackles.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Kind of a guy, a little more on your side, Tyler,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: a kicker. And then we've got five eight, one hundred
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and thirty five pounds from Meridian. Now, Tyler, if you
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: know anything about Meridian, he will be that same height
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and weight even when he's a senior.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: But well that's not from the roster. All the players
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: write it down, so I have the true height.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the roster five to two buckle four wide receiver
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: in a corner. He's number eleven from the Meridian Trojans.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: It's River Todd. Sixteen receptions, two hundred and thirty three yards,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns, and then on defense twenty one tackles, four
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: passes defended, and one tackle for a loss. Tyler, We've
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: got Hatchet Martin Todd, who is the Watcum Preps Freshman
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: of the Year for twenty twenty four. And I get
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to say it right off the bat, we have a tie.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Oh geez, here we go. My goodness. The people can't
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: make up their minds, Tyler. I mean I guess we can.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: We just all decided a little half and half here.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and and it just you know, that's just
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: what happens sometimes. So congratulations to Chance Hatchet of Ferndale and.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: River Todd of Meridian. They are the co freshman of
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the Year, the second time I believe we've had co
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: freshmen of the year. You know, Tyler, I'm gonna say something,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and I don't want people to take this the wrong way.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Of the three that we've talked about over the years,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Chance Hatchett, he's the best looking of the three. You know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: we used to talk about how the older brother. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: don't want to put his name out there because I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: don't want to give him too much credit. You know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the guy played ugly. He did a lot of things,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and ugly is a word that we use with a
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: lot of love. Chance Hatchett, he's got some nice hair
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: on him. I mean, there's something going there. If he
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: keeps that thing growing out, ooh, you're gonna look better
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: than the older brother, I'll tell you that much, or
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: least one of them, by the way, both of them.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Isn't it nice to have both those guys that you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: dub again?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And how about that? And Kate Eldridge going to you
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: dub twos?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I didn't even notice that one. Nobody told me about Kate.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: What's going on here? You did? Yoh yeah?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Transfer portal? He's he's at U dub Now.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Wow, how about that? That's awesome. That's I love it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I mean for Walkam County, that's that's fantastic. Yeah, you know, Tyler,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: you just might have to make a game this year.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I can't. Oh no, you can, you can, because I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: do way too much on Saturdays. I know, I get it. No,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the podcast is gonna come out on a Tuesday. We're
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna push everything back to day. I'm gonna
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: force you to come down. You can go out on
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the boat with us. You can sailgate, have a little fun,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of hot dogs. I'll bring you a root beer.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I've never been.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: To a college football game other than like some Western
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: games back in the day.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it this year.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: You're you're you know, you don't have a choice. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: know that you don't like that idea. I do not,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: but it's happening because we got to get down here.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: We gotta get you down here, Tyler. There's too many
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Walkham County guys. I'm sure there's more than just those
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: three too. Right, Well, Garan might still have eligibility by
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the time Chance is available, So.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Just wouldn't that be something.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Well, nowadays you get guys that are like thirty five
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: in there, and I know Garan's only about a year
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: two off of that, but yeah, so there it is Chance,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Hatchet River Todd co Freshman of the Year. We've now
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Tyler got sophomore of the Year, which by the way,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: was also voted on. Let's see here, We've got five eleven,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty five pounds. He's a wide receiver
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: in a corner. It's number one from the Linden Lions,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Sam Orango. Sam had forty two receptions, eight hundred and
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: ninety three yards and eight touchdowns, nine tackles, three passes
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: defended on defense, and then he also had two kickoff
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: returns and one punt return. Two kickoff returns for fifty seven,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the one punt return for ten. We've got five six,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: one twenty six. Another one here from Meridian with some
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: some although again he is is real. That's real height, yeah,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: real height, and waight wide receiver in a corner. Number four,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Casey Brennan. He was the Northwest Conference one A All
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Northwest Conference. I guess I should say NWC one a
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: all conference. I'm saying conference twice. It's not a terrible
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: NWC one A All Conference first team wide receiver. He
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: had twenty nine receptions, four hundred and sixty five yards
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and three touchdowns. On defense, twenty six tackles, eight passes defended,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: two tackles for a loss, one force fumble. He had
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: twelve kickoff returns for two hundred and twenty yards, one touchdown,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: two punt returns and twenty three yards. Malachi Caanan the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: next one up, Tyler five nine, two hundred. By the way,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: he has a really nice jaw line. And look at
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: the hair on that guy.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know where he grows all that hair. It
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: just keeps coming. Man.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: It's like it's like he's growing to mohawk without even
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: knowing this. That's crazy he does. He has got a
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: really nice set of follow calls up there. Let me
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: tell you, five nine, two hundred pounds. That's a thick dude.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Running back, inside linebacker, kicker, punter. Is there anything else
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: that he does? Tyler seems like he does a lot.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: He's number nine from Lyndon. He had twelve carries fifty
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: nine years, three touchdowns, one reception for twenty four yards. Defensively, though,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: is really where he made his money this year, which
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: is maybe even arguable because he's also a pretty dang
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: good kicker. But eighty eight and a half tackles, nine
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: tackles for a loss, two interceptions, one fumble recovery, one
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: pass defended a half a sack, one kickoff return for
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: twelve yards. He also had thirty seven extra points eight
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: field goals. He had ten punts for three hundred and
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: fifty two yards in average obviously of thirty five point two. Yeah, Tyler,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now, at the beginning of
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the year, I don't think any of us could have
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: anticipated the numbers he would put up on defense, which
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: is unbelievable to me when you just look at it,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: it's kind of eye popping, you know what I mean.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: But we've got Malachi Caden, Casey, Brennan, Sam Orango, Tyler
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: who is the twenty twenty four Watkom Preps Football Sophomore
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of the Year.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: It is somebody that I had no clue about going
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: into this shoe, and that is Lindon's Sam Morango. He
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: had just a tremendous year. Again, I had didn't I'd
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: never even heard of him going into the going into
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: this year. I heard some good things at practice that
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: first day of practice, so I said, Okay, I gotta
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: keep my eye out and uh, and I mean right away.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I mean he was a big time factor and never
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: never let up. Uh, you know, was put in on
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: defense a little bit when there were some injuries at corner,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and boy, he is just what a route runner. He
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: catches everything great speed. Looking forward to some big, big
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: things out of him for the next few years. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: congratulations to Sam Morango for being the walking perhaps sophomore
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's wow. I mean that many yards
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: from a sophomore is just not typical. I mean not
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: typically anywhere around the state.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Tyler, I think his receiving numbers are probably extremely comparable
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to on Watson's when he was a sophomore.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And that that's saying a lot, because I think it's
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I think it's very very close. I'm bringing up Watson's
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: right now. You have orangos in front of you there.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I don't, but I can pull it up really quickly.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Sophomore of the year. It's right here, So Orango. Forty
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: two receptions, eight hundred and ninety three yards, eight touchdowns
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: is what he had as a receiver.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: And I'm bringing up andres right now as a sophomore.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I'm on dead air. Okay with that he had, Okay,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: you're ready, this is check this out. Forty eight catches, Yeah,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: for six hundred and ninety eight yards and nine touchdowns.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, so a few more catches, less yards,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: one more touchdown, but very very comparable. I mean yes, yeah,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Now we're setting up Orango for failure here. I mean,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: this isn't fair for us to do, Tyler. But you
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: gotta remember we also said Andrea Watson wasn't gonna break numbers. Yeah, exactly.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: So what do we know I mean other than nothing,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: we don't know anything. Yeah, I mean if it wasn't
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: for nothing, Tyler, we would know nothing. Yeah, that's that's
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: truly unbelievable. But yeah, congratulations to Sam Arango of Lyndon
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Sophomore of the Year. I mean, Tyler,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: he went, like you said, he went from a guy
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: that we we didn't know anything about to getting picked
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: like every other week on the on the pick'ems or
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the Fantasy I mean, I know I picked him at
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: least three or four times. Yeah.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's a special player. And he had a
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: really good connection with with Brent Hepner, and I'm sure
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: that him and Lucas Logi will be, you know, working
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: hard in the offseason running routes, getting things ready, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: he's just he's just a guy that wants to be great.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: So he's been great so far.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: It could be wrong, but those guys are the same year,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: right they are, So we get him for two years. Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be pretty good.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be fun already again sam Arango Sophomore
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: of the Year, Tyler. The next two we've got here
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: are voted on by you, Tyler. So yeah, uh this one.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Do you remember who won last year?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, cheer Squad of the Year last year was Ferndale.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I was really impressed with the cool stuff they did,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: the creative stuff they did doing push ups after the touchdowns.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was likely to do that.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved all that stuff. So yeah, it was
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a it's a it was a really really cool deal.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: And and are there any student sections that do the
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: do the push ups to you know what I mean,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: where like they like put somebody up above, it's like
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: they crowdsurve somebody then they do No.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I have not seen that in the and the or
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: the students.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing that. There's a handful of places around
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the state that do it. It always cracks me up because
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: it's almost like the people down below start doing push
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: ups too, and they like they look like they're gonna
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: toss the guy up on the roof. Uh. Anyway, Tyler
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: cheer squad of the Year here for twenty twenty four.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Who you got this year?
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: And it's not a bias, but I'm going with Mount Baker.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Oh this wash this is pretty cool.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, they do an awesome job. Even when they
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: go down to like pick up the pomp pumps, they
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: all do it in unison and stand back up like
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: it's really uniform. It looks really cool.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: It looks like like the crowd.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: It almost looks like a like a like a drill team,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: you know, like when they It just looks really good.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: And there's a couple of things that stood out because
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: this is this is obviously about the fall. And I
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: was out in a volleyball game and the football cheer
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: leaders came in and cheered at it at the senior
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: like the home the final home game for volleyball, which
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I've never seen that before.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think we did that at Bofel. I
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: was there for senior night this year. I don't remember
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: seeing the cheerleaders.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I mean I didn't see I haven't seen cheerleaders ever
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: in a volleyball game.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: But they came and did that and with to put
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: the you know, to put the icing on the cake
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: there a little bit. They asked to get a picture
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: with me, So I guess my votes can be bought
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: in that way. So that's not even They didn't pay
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: you for it, no, no, but the field, no no, no,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: it made it made me so pretty good.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: So so yeah, they were, they were. They were nice
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: enough to ask that, so hey that you know that
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: goes a long way.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Cheer Squad of the Year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Next time I see you, Tyler, I'm gonna ask for
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: a picture just so I can win an award. Yeah,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's definitely not one for me anywhere any Yeah. Shoot,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I'm up for that every year, I mean yeah, or
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: at least in the top five. Yeah yeah, I mean,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I'm I just hope to make the top six and
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and the fans will vote me through to be a
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: semi finalist. Uh. Next up, Tyler, we've got Band of
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the Year obviously. You know, you and I are such
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: high school football junkies and just nutcases that we love
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: every aspect of of high school football. We love good
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: cheer squads. We love good bands. We love great student sections,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: we love good pa. Now you know what, we don't
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: have a student section of the year, Tyler.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: That's true, that's true. There's also there's always things to
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: add and.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the goalpost of the year. Yeah yeah, But Tyler,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the band. I've said for years, a really really good
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: band is worth seven to ten points. And I firmly
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: believe that. Like that isn't me just saying something because
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I think it's funny. No, I have seen games where
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: a team is down and the band starts playing, and
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: then you know, team comes back a little bit and
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: they start playing louder, and then they come back a
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: little bit more. Before you know it, they're playing every
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: stinking stoppage of play and they're you know, making your
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: headache and and but you know what, the boys are
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: humming and before you know it, they're up ten and
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: you're going this. Yeah. You know the cheerleaders, you know,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I love I love a good cheer squad, and Bathel
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: we got a really good one. They win. They won
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the national championship a couple of years ago. Like they're
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: always doing good things. But I'm telling you, there's something
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: different about a band. That can just really get a
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: place rocking and rolling, and when they are so loud
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: that like if you show up late to a game,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: you can hear them from like well outside the parking lot,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: you know, or or when you're driving up to the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: to the school and you can see the lights from
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a distance, and if you roll your window down, like
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: if you can hear the band like forty houses over,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: that's a good band to me. You know who was
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: it last year? Do you remember? Yeah, Lyndon won it
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: last year. The bands always always always additionally great.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I and I give a lot to how
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: well they played the anthem.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Oh yeahs.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Like I always say, if you're gonna nail one song,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: please nail that one.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: And you want to know Tyler bad ones over the past.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Oh trust me. Yeah, a guy who went to six
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: hundred high school football games in a little over ten years.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: One time I walked into Seattle Memorial Stadium Tyler, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I was I was a few minutes late, I was
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: coming from another game. I go running down the uh
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: what is it called, like the walkway in the stands
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and I come out and the anthem's gone, and I went, oh,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: what are they doing Oh it's the anthem, And I
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: took my hat off and I'm standing there for a second.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I'm going, I don't even know what part they're at.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Are they yeah?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Are they tuning? Or is this yeah? I'm like, yeah,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm going and I'll say it's it was Oday's band,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and Oday typically does a good job. But I'm sitting
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: there going, I don't know if if the bombs are
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: blasting or you know what. I like, I'm good saying
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: they're going, I don't even know where they're at, like what?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: And then they finished and I went, oh, okay, well
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: there we go, and.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this. And you know, I was in
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: the band and so I get it and everything. But
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: if it's a smaller band and and and what's what
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: happens a lot of times, especially with like the trumpets
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: have like the main part, right, yes, So if the
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: trumpets are a little weaker and you're hearing a baritone
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: horn playing a note that is not the main note,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: but it's a company. It's supposed to accompany the lead
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: note to make a harmony, and you only hear the
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: backup note, that really sounds bad if the lead.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Note isn't strong Yeah, that's a good point and depth, right,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: and that's what that's what you hear.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I mean if you take out the you take out
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: the melody part and you just have the harmonies in there,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: then it doesn't sound right. So you know, if if
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: if you have a if you have a weak section,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: then that can that can really be be tough.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: But I always say a good band will always nail
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: the anthem. What's that? What's it called at the beginning
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: where the where the drummer goes like super fast, you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: drum roll? Is that is that called the drum roll?
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, so is that like are they actually going super
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: fast or is that like a playoff, you know, or
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: play something.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a way to hold the stick and you
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: kind of like trying to even like it's almost like
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: your hands are like kneading the dough a little bit.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, and you're just you're just.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Kind of going back and forth and you're holding it
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: firm enough to where it's not too loose, but you're
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: not too strong, and it's bouncing a certain way really
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: fast with two hands, and you can just go like
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: and you're but your hands are like almost doing like
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: a little mini doggie paddle.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you're saying. So it's not as
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: it's not as like big as impressive, but it is
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: actually technically sounds great. Yeah it does. It sounds like
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: they're going a mile a minute, you know what I mean.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: It's not like they're going really fast. You know. The
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: other thing I like in the anthem, and we're getting
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: way off topic here. I do love the anthem though,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Tyler love I love the park kind of towards the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: end where the symbol starts crashing and the and the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and the drums going yeah ah, that's the best, man,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: It gets me so fired up. It, don't get me wrong.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I love a good anthem singer. Like if you've got
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: what was her name from heart that did it for
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks game. I can't remember her name now, but like, yeah,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Ann Wilson did it the one time, and like man
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: or there's the there's the marine that comes like once
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a year to Seahawks games and does it. And he's
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: got a great voice. Man, A good high school band,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah that gets me going, man So Tyler Band of
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: the Year twenty twenty four from Wakome Preps. Again, this
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: is just The Fall is all we're talking about here.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: We're not talking about these same bands doing basketball. We're
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: talking just the Fall. Tyler, Who's the band of the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: year this year? It was Lynnon Christian. Oh.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: They were amazing. And it wasn't just they knocked out
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: the anthem every time. It was strong. But it's the
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: choice of songs they played. Yeah, we're really really good.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: They were. They were just tight as a band. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: mean there was it wasn't fully low. I mean, it
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: wasn't like a ton of people, but they sit up
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: there in the section and they and they they just
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: rip them out and like as soon as they start playing,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: like you know, the song, and it sounds great every
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: single time, every single time they played. And there were
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: a lot of times when I would take like, you know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: a video before the game, and BOYD always if the
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: band was playing on a lot of those, I always
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: got a lot of comments when I was at LC
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: and yeah, and they and they were right. I mean,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: they played some grace, they played Life as a Highway,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: you know, Tom Cochran, they played some they played some
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: awesome stuff. But I was just like wow, And they
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: played you know, crazy little thing called love by Queen
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: and yeah, and it was just kind of some unique
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: things you don't hear a lot of other bands play,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: so they really got my attention. So, Lennon Christian is
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: your band of the Year.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I think I told you a couple of days ago
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: that our band at Bothel this year has been all
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: about cold hearted snake yes and that. I'll tell you what.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: The first couple of times I played it, I didn't
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: quite pick up on it, and I was like, wait
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: a minute, what a this is awesome? You know what
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I mean? You know what? Other song was played a
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: lot for Like I don't know why or what it was,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: but for about a three or four year period, there
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: was a lot of high school bands in our state
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: that were playing Painted Black by the Rolling Stones. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the first couple times I heard it again, I was like, man,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I know this song, but what am I listening to
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: right now? And then somebody came up to me down
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I think it was at Graham Capas and I think
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I remember the dad specifically walked up to me and
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: he goes, can you believe they're playing the Rolling Stones?
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god, that's what it is, Like,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Like what why are they playing that, you know what
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I mean. But it's so cool. And you know, Tyler,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: do you happen to know who the band director is?
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: I saw him.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't remember his name. I even know him.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: If I saw him, he's somebody comment, somebody comments somewhere,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: put it in the comments of this. If you're listening
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: to it, you know who it is, because.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I know, I know I have it like on a
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: program or something.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: He does a great job.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: You know what I love too, is I love like
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: some of these places where you look over and you're like, hey,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: who's that, Like fifty year old dude played with the band.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Then you realize it's the band director and you're like,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: oh wow, this dude's over there with the with the
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: obo or you know whatever he's doing, Like that's awesome.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Like you know, there happens a lot of really small schools,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: like though there's one.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's been a few times, especially at basketball games,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: because you're indoors and have a drum set and I'm
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: always like, I wonder if they'd let me sit in.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: On a song.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: But I don't know how many people know that. Like
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I was a professional drummer, Like, I don't know people
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: know that. Yeah, so I'm always kind of like, I
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: don't know if they'll let me. But uh, there's been
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: a few times, uh out at Nooksack out of Blaine
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: where they got the you know, the drums going and
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: and you know and that. Then I heard them play
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Hot Stuff by Donna summer and I'm like, oh, get
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: me on the drum set, man, I could rock this place.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: See that's where all right, Well, we're gonna put it
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: out there. Tyler. There's got to be a high school band,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: a band director somewhere. Reach out to Tyler. Let him know, Hey,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: we got a spot for you. We got a spot
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: for you at the drums. Well, what are some songs
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: you know? And or what's a what's a high school
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: band song that you know that you could play and
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: we'll have it ready to go for Actually, how about
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: that tier, give me give me two or three songs
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: you got let's see what we got here.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. I could all play them alone. That's
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: the great thing about being a drummer is that it
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter what key it's in. Yeah, you know it does,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: it does. None of that matters that they're all, you know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I just got to know when the breaks are if
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: it's something I haven't heard, and I have to know
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: where the breaks are. I mean when I you know,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: when I when I played with the Wanderers back in
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: the nineties, it was we we had six thousand songs
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: in the catalog. It was it was just a it
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: was just a fifties and sixties and some seventies rock
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: band and it was but it was everything was by request.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: You never went with a song with the setlist. You
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: just went out there. Someone yat a song. You had
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: to play it. And that's what's great about being a
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: drummer is that you don't really need to know you know,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: all the stuff you know or what you know.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: What key it's in.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So and that's what's great too, is you can hop
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: around and play with different bands and you don't have
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: to worry about that kind of stuff. You know, everybody
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: plays Black Magic Woman, but everyone plays it in a
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: different key because it bait based on the.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Singer and yeah, all that stuff, and so.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: The drummer doesn't need to worry about any.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: About say the drummer, he just hops behind the the
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the yeah exactly, Well there it is somebody reached out
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: to Tyler. Let's let's get him out there now that
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: being said, Tyler, Yeah, if you do that and you
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: don't record video, I'm gonna be furious.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: No, they're definitely recording video.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Don't got to be video. It's got to go on
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: walk theme preps. Uh. And then I will tag ESPN
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: and make sure that they put it out on the
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: not so top ten. All right, Right, old guy finagles
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: his way into a high school band exactly. All right.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: That's band of the hear Lyndon Christian. The title stays
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: in Linden, just moves across town. Uh, fan favorite, Tyler.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: We've got all seniors and the fan favorite. And uh,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: this one's gonna be a little bit different. I'm not
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: gonna give you stats on this one because we've got
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: ten people to talk about here, but we will go through.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: We'll give all of the names and then Tyler, Uh,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: we can break it down a little bit kind of
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: say some things. Uh, maybe even about a couple of
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: these guys, because, uh, there's some guys here that we've
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: been talking about for a long time. So let's go
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: through it. First. Up, we've got from Lynden Christian. He's
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: sixty one at two hundred and ten pounds tight end,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: inside linebacker. Obviously a senior, but he's number thirty three.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: It's Trey Bosman from Seahome. Six one two ten inside linebacker.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Number twenty two. Fisher Hall. We've got from Lyndon, sixty six,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty pounds. He's the quarterback and number two.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Brant Hepner. By the way, he looks very laid back,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: like hey, yeah, you're doing in his picture, and actually
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: his hair looks very much like the cloud over the
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: top of Mount Rainier that I see a lot. Let's
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: see here, Meridian. We've got six five, two fifty five.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: He looks matt at the world right tackle. Defensive end.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: It's number sixty two. Lincoln Hofer from Blaine. We've got
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: six foot two hundred and twenty five pounds tight end,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: defensive end. He is number thirty five. Blake Kureski Mount Baker,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: oh Sorry, from Mount Baker High School. Six foot two
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: oh one running back, inside linebacker. It's number twenty four.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Dylan Moa from Squalicum. We've got six foot one, one
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: hundred ninety pounds running back, outside linebacker, Number eight Marcus Nixon.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Look at a smile on that guy. That's a happy
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: dude right there. Nooksack Valley not nearly as happy looking,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: but he looks serious. Six foot one, sixty five wide
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: receiver and safety. It's number three, Corey Only from Ferndale,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: six to two, two hundred and twenty five pounds tight end, linebacker, kicker.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Number five Lincoln Thomas from Bellingham. We've got six foot two,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: two hundred and twelve pounds tight end, inside linebacker. Number
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: forty two Gabe van Hofwagon Tyler, he played more positions
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: than just those two. I know that too over the years,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: at least he has Well, yeah, how about this, Tyler,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: how about you just give me who were the top
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: three in the final voting for this one? Oh?
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I got to bring it up to him.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, well I'll give it to you then, okay, yeah,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: you start with number three at number three with what
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: does it say here fourteen percent of the vote. Tyler
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Fisher Hall of Seahome finishes in the top three of
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: the fan vote at number two with fifteen percent of
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the vote, It's Dylan Moa High School. And then how
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: about you give me number one? Tyler well, what was
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: the percentage of the vote, Oh, seventeen percent of the vote,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: so I mean pretty close vote percentage wise.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Very very close vote. And for the second year in
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: a row, Ferndale wins it. It is Lincoln Thomas of
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: the Ferndale Golden Eagles, and Lincoln Thomas is a very
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: likable kid obviously, uh, you know, great representative of the school,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: a great choice for a fan favorite. It was Kellen
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: le Fay last year, so I think, I mean, I
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: think we had it was two k Nooksack ballet kids
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: and now two Ferndale kids in a row. So you're
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: kind of starting to see, you know, where I kind
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: of use this as almost like a measuring stick of
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: you know, how many followers I have. We're like, where
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: the most of our friend because I can all ten
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: schools represented, So you know, you go from there, and
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: if you don't have a if you don't have a
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: you know, Jeff Bearden's voting, who is he voting for?
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: You know it?
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: You know or you or me? You know, we don't
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: have a person in the you know, a school representative,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: so we vote for somebody else. But for the most part,
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: you're voting for someone from from you that from it's
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: on the team that you follow. And and Lincoln Thomas
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: is a great vote. I mean, he's just he did
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: it all in all three phases, and yeah, what a
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: what a great career. And and he was All Conference
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: first team, got tight end and kicker, which is pretty
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: cool taking over kicking duties like in the week three
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: or four or whatever it was.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Remember that.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: And and he was just lights out. And then he
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: was named All Conference first team.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: So how about that.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: So a guy that you know, you could probably put
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: him in a lot of different positions and he would excel.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: He'd probably be a good offensive lineman. He's quick, he
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: could be a good guard. He's strong, but you know,
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: use him as a tight end. You know, grew up
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: as a quarterback. I mean he's he's.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Done it all.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: So awesome career and and deserving of the fan favorite
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: for Walking County.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: You know, Tyler, I feel as though the me being
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: the representative fat body in for walcome preps here. I'm
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: a little disappointed that there's only one offensive lineman available
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: for picking here. But I do notice something. The one
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman also had a reception, So I see what
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: you did here. I see, I see what you do.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Well, it's weird how I did it because in the
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: past it would be.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Who I figured was the top rated senior that wasn't
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: wasn't award, wasn't up for an award.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: But a lot of those guys were up for awards
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: but didn't make the finalist list.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, I did. So when you look at when you.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Look at Trey Bosman and Blake Kureski and Brent Hepner,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: and those guys were and Lincoln Hofer, those guys were
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: up for awards but didn't make the final three. So
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: then because they weren't in the final three, then they
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: could be up for this award. So you know, in
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: years past, then it would have knocked those guys out
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: because that you know, they would have been finalists before
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: before I did the two tier voting and then maybe
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: more Lineman would have been included in that than that.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: So well, yeah, and you know something I mean won
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: it last year. So yeah, And and I think that's
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: maybe a little something to be said there as well
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: about the voting, is that, you know, I think there
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: were some guys that people might look at the final three,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: the semi finals, whatever, and go, I guess they'd be finalists. Huh.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: But I think they look at that and go, how
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: did that guy not get in Defensive Player of the
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Year or something, you know what I mean. And I
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: think there's some guys that you and I were probably
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: anticipating would get through. And then it's like, hey, the
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: fans have spoken, you know what I mean. We love
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: the fans here, but Tyler, I think I think one
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: thing we need to do here is we do need
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: to mention the stats or whatever you want to say
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: for Lincoln Thomas. So he was the West Coat three
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: A North All Conference first team tight end, also the
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: WESTC three A North first team All Conference kicker. He
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: had eight receptions for one hundred and twelve yards, forty
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: two and a half tackles on defense with four and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: a half tackles for loss and three pass deflections. And
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: he also had twenty seven extra points kicked. So you
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: talk about a guy, Tyler that just you know, embodied
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: he is like the definition of high school football. I mean,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: this is one of those guys. This is a guy
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: that did a little bit on offense, he did a
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: little bit on defense. He was the special teams for
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: the most part, you know, as far as kicking goes,
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: and I mean, would you say he took over in
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: week three?
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying. I think the injury happened in week
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: three and he kind of started kicking in week four.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he misses what basically like a third of
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: the season as far as kicking goes, and he still
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: wins first team. I'll lea kicker, I mean, yeah, tells
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: you what the coaches think of him. I mean that's
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: pretty cool. So yeah, congratulations Lincoln Thomas of Ferndale. He
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: is the winner of the fan favorite that the fan vote.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: He does win it. There. The next one, Tyler is
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: a voted on award here it is Assistant Coach of
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: the Year, and I think, to everybody's surprise, well doesn't
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: get through to the final this year. Whitman at home.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: I did receive a report he was crying. Yeah, I
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's true or not. It was reported
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: from a source that I trust. Though. That being said, though, Tyler,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the names here. I heard a tear
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: came out of just one eye. Too soon, I mean,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: definitely not. It's been a while. Yeah, we do we
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: you know, and you know, what talk about, like, you know,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: we don't talk about guys or you don't hear from people.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: You know. I haven't heard from him since the season.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, what's going on here? The guy just doesn't
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: call me anymore football ends and he's just pieced out.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't he's married.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's true. You've got things going on. Yeah, well,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: allegedly that being said Tyler, I am looking at a
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: picture of a coach right here has arguably the best
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: beard as far as coaching profession goes. I mean that
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: is beautiful. Uh. The three we have left though here, Uh,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: two of them I know the names, one of them
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: never heard of him. I'm gonna be completely honest. We've
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: got Ed Bamber, unbelievable long time Linden offensive line and
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: defensive ends coach. We've got Jesse Dykstra Nuksack Valley defensive coordinator.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: He was also the north West Conference won a co
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Assistant Coach of the Year. And then the guy I've
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: never heard of, Tyler from Blaine, and I will say
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: I do. I have heard of his name, but I
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: didn't really know who he was. Right from Blaine running
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: backs coach strength and conditioning coach Trey Lopez. So we've
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: got ed Bomber, Jesse Dykstra, Trey Lopez. Yeah. I mean,
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: we could talk about these guys a little bit, but
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: let's first find out who the twenty twenty four WAKAM
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Preps Football Assistant Coach of the Year is.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the votes are in, and congratulations to Blaine's Trey Lopez. Yeah,
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: that's I mean, that's pretty awesome. I mean to take
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: you know, what he did with the with the especially
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: with the running game. I mean, if you think about
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: that and how they were able to break off into
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: seven wins this year after winning three the year before,
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: and a lot of it.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Had to do with the strength of that running game
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: and the strength and conraditioning that running game right and
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: you know, being in the weight room every morning and.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Stuff like that. I mean, all those kinds of things,
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: and that's what Blaine did. They got bigger, they got stronger.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: It really changes the culture when you get the weight
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: room more and more involved, opening it up before school,
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: all those things, and he was a big, big part
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: of it. So congratulations to Trey Lopez of Blaine.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean when you start talking about like how
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: do you change a program, a culture. How do you
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: build things? The first thing you have to have. The
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: two most important things really are like who are your
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: assistant coaches? And who is your strength and conditioning coach?
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Because that guy is the one that everybody's gonna love
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: in the off season. And then maybe he's not gonna
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: work with everybody during the season because he's got his
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: own position to coach or whatever. But in the off
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: season he's the guy, you know what I mean, he's
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: the guy putting plans together, doing all that stuff. And
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, having a guy that you can
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: trust that is going to build those young men because
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: let's face it, you have to be You got hit
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: the weight room hard to really have a chance to
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: be competitive nowadays. And you know, it's just it is
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: what it is. And then you talk about what they
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: accomplished on the ground at Blaine this year, and I mean, Tyler,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: there was there was days. You know, I woke up
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: just smiling because I I the first thing I did
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: was read the box score, you know, and I'm just going,
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: oh baby, I mean my kind of football man. You
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: know That's what I'm saying, Tyler. You know, a lot
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: of bar down the middle face past type of guys
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: on that team, and you know, when you think about
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: what Jade and Piez did and he's up for an
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: award here today. Yeah, I mean Trey Lopez just you know,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: congratulations to him. Congratulating that's a I'll guarantee you too.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: He's sitting there going, oh, that's really cool. It's a
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: program thing, right, like everybody's a part of it. And
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: I won't disagree. But obviously when you look at the
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: two things that he does, you know, is in control
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: of the running backs and the strength and conditioning. That's
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: two things that this year, very very impressive from Blaine.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: So congratulations Ray Lopez for the UH twenty twenty four
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: watcom perhaps Assistant Coach of the Year, very very well deserved. Tyler.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, really really well done. And a young guy too.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I think he'll be around for a while. So it's
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: a fun coaching staff to be around. And I was
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: a little cautious a couple of years ago when coach
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: Olsen took over because I knew coach Olsen, but I
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: didn't know any of the other assistant coaches. Yeah, and
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: that was a weird thing for me because usually I
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: have an assistant coach on every team that I can
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: kind of pick his brain about if I can't get
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: a hold of the head coach or I don't want
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: to bug the head coach. And and so I've gotten
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: to know some of these guys. I don't know Coach
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: Lopez very well, but I've I've gotten to know some
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: of the other assistant coaches.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: And it's a fun group.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: It's a it's a it's a good young group, and
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I think that it's going to be really exciting for
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: the years to come.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna get to know him because you've got
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: to go to his house to drop off the award.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Personally myself, Tyler, I hope he lives on like Orches Island.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: I hope you got to go somewhere far, you know what, Roberts. Yeah,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: there you go, Yeah, point Roberts. You gotta get your
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: passport like crap. I gotta drive the border four times
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: in one day. Yeah, exactly. Although you could stop at
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Tim Horton's, Tyler. And if you're gonna, I know a
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: guy that would take some you know, that's a that's
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: that's just to me. That's awesome because this time last
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: year we weren't talking about Blaine, you know what I mean,
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: we just weren't. And to see what they were able
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: to do in just you know, a year, and now
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: obviously the the the years going forward, it becomes all right,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: how do you build on that? Because they're going to
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: lose a big senior class, But how do you build
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: on it? Tyler? What's the first thing you gotta have?
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Off season strength and conditioning? Yep, And you know, I'm
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: sure that sure there's a plan in place, you know
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: what I mean. So that's awesome. I'm very happy for
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: those guys. I'm sure that they all take a little
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: pride in in anybody getting recognition. So that's really cool.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Let's see here, Tyler. Next up, we have got Special
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Teams Player of the Year, and this one really should
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: be named after like Troy Pets right, Like I mean,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, yeah, I will.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: I know that's pet Pet's real estate. That's why they
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: kind of sponsored this the Yearly award as well.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, Tyler, we've got three young men here.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Just looking at their pictures, I mean, one or two
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: of them could be models. I'm not gonna say which
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: one couldn't but yeah, and you know what, I like
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: all three of these guys too. I really do. These
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: guys are fun football players to watch. Here. Now the
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: stats were going to give you. There's no offense, there's
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: no defense. We're only talking special teams numbers here. So
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: when I give you numbers and people are going, well,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, but he had this many catches, that
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. We weren't voting on catches when we're talking
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: special teams here. All right, So let's start with five ten,
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: one and sixty pounds kick return punt return senior number
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: seven from Knooksack Valley. It's Evan Bravo. We've got five
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: eight one to fifty five kick return punt return Junior
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: number seventeen from Blaine. It's Kai Kerwin. We've got five nine,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: two hundred pounds kicker and punter. He's a sophomore number
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: nine from Lynden. It's Malachai Canaan. Now, Tyler, here's the thing. Yeah,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: we've got two kick returners and one kicker. So we're
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: kind of comparing different types of stats here, which is
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting. But Evan Bravos sixteen kick returns, two
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: hundred ninety nine yards three punt returns for seventy three
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Kai Kerwin, ten kickoff returns one hundred and sixty five yards,
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: ten punt returns for one hundred and forty nine and
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: a touchdown. And again we've talked about it many times.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Anytime you're over a ten yard average as far as
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: punt returns, that's very impressive. And he was at fourteen
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: point nine. And then Malachi Canaan, he had thirty seven
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: extra points kicked, eight field goals, kicked, ten punts three
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty two yards for a three thirty five
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: point two average. Tyler, I know you left off a
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: stat for Malachi Canan touchbacks. No, he had he had
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: a kick return or something.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Now he had a catch for twenty four yards?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Did he have Oh? I thought he had a kick
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: return is what it said on the on the Sophomore
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: of the Year. Oh maybe he did have a kick return.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong. I thought it said that on the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Sophomore of the Year. Maybe I don't know, But either way, Tyler,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: we've got Evan Bravo, We've got Kai Kerwin, we've got
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Malachi Canan. So who is the twenty twenty four Watkam
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: preps Special Team Player of the Year.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is tricky, like you said, kind of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: different stats for different guys. Last year it was Jorgan
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: Boom Boom Vigory and this year it's a player that
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: won an award. Last year he won Freshman of the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: Year last year. This year Special Teams Player of the Year.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: It's Malachi Canan from Lindon.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: He just you know, the touchbacks, the punting, but then
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: later in the year he started kicking a lot more
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: field goals. You have eight field in a year. That
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: was just that was just too off the Walkham County record.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Wow. You know, I can't remember.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: I think the last time someone had eight in a
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: year might have been Kyle Sankowski. It's been a little while,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: so very impressive season, and it's really interesting to see
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: what's gonna happen the next couple of years because he's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: being pushed by his younger brother to do some kicking
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: or punting duties.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: So we'll see kind of how they split that up.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: As far as I can see, I think Malachi has
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: got the stronger leg.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Marcus Kanan is more.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: He's got I think a little bit more elevation, but
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: and a little bit maybe maybe even a little more accuracy,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: but not as strong of a leg. So you might
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: see Marcus Kanon do pats and shorter field goals Malachi
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: longer field goals and kickoffs. They might they might want
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: to give Malachi a break because he'll probably be, you know,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: again taking a lot of snaps linebacker and and you know,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: as the second running back when they go heavy. So
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: oh uh, you know, we'll just have to wait, wait,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: wait and see. But but congratulations to Malachi Canaan for
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: winning the Special Teams.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Player of the Year. Something tells me, when it's all
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: said and done, if he wants to play football in college,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: he's gonna have opportunities at a few different levels for
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: a few different things, you know, running back, inside, linebacker stuff.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe doesn't have the size, you know, to
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: go to the higher levels in terms of right now,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: he's five nine, two hundred. You know, they're usually looking
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: for that six foot number is a real key and
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of it, right it just is. But as
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: far as kicking goes, I mean, who knows. I mean,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: he's still got two more years left, which is crazy,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: but two more years left, so he could still pull
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: something off. And who knows now, Tyler, I went back
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: and looked at Sophomore of the Year. One kickoff returned
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: twelve yards is what you have? Oh? There you go that? Yeah,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: I mean he might have got one or two more votes.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: Well he did win, so it's a yeah.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: I mean it didn't Yeah, it didn't hurt him. I
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: mean yeah, yeah, all right, Tyler. So that is Special
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Teams Player of the Year again, Malachi Canaan of Lindon.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Next up, we've got Lineman of the Year. The big
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: beautiful guys we got here, Tyler. Uh. The first one
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: we will talk about six foot four, two hundred and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: sixty five pounds. He's a left tackle and defensive end
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: senior number sixty four from nuksack Valley. It is Brady Ackerman.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: We've got sixty two three oh five. And this is
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: a good looking dude U center, defensive tackle junior number
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: sixty five from Ferndale. And he's got a great name too,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Coulshan la Valley. I mean, if I said to you, Tyler,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: the kid that plays football over here, his name's Coulshon
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: la Valley, what position do you think he plays? One
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: hundred percent you're saying offensive line. Yeah, you're not, like,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: that's not a quarterback name, right, It's just not We've
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: got sixty four, two hundred and fifty pounds knoksack Valley
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: right tackle, defensive end, senior number fifty eight. It's Lance
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Van Berkham Tyler Lineman of the Year. Though. Yeah, we
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: can't have offensive stats, right, it's it's a mixture of
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: offense and defensive numbers. And you know, yeah, now there
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: is a little bit of offense we can put here.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: We can put first team All conference, yep, first team
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: All State. We've got some of those. We got some
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: of those here. We've got first team All State offensive line.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Brady Ackerman. He was also Northwest Conference one A first
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: team offensive and defensive line. Not just one side of
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: the ball with this guy. Yeah, he also had or
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: two hundred twenty That'd be a lot of tackles, especially
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: for a defensive end. Now twenty two and a half tackles,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: seven tackles for a loss, two fumble recoveries, one sack.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: That's just Brady Ackerman culsham La Valley West Co North
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: three A All Conference. I don't know why that's so
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: hard to read. First team offensive line. He also had
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: ten and a half tackles, three tackles for a loss
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: and a sack. Lance Van Berkham Northwest Conference First team
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Offensive Line and defensive Line in one a forty four
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: and a half tackles, twelve and a half tackles for
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: a loss. That's a really big number. Yeh four sacks,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: three passes deflected, two force fumbles, four fumble recoveries returned
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: night oh four. I'm trying to read this and that
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: part didn't make sense to me. He recovered four fumbles
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: that went for nineteen yards and a touchdown, is what
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: it says here, right, Yeah, yep, My goodness, Tyler. That
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: is a lot of stats for a defensive lineman. He
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: had a great year. Yeah, I mean he made the final. Mean,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: holy cow, I mean that is a lot of stats
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: for a defensive lineman. Like, I don't care who you are,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of stats. Yeah, Tyler. We've got Brady
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Ackerman Hulsham La Valley, Lance Van Berkham, who is the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four WACOM Preps Lineman of the Year.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it went to Brady Ackerman of Knooksack Valley and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: he's a guy that I don't know I would It's
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: hard to say, but I would think that if you
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: if you knew about all these awards in August and
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: you said, who would you put your money down on
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: winning one of these awards? That might be the guy. Yeah,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: you'd say, you know, I have a pretty good feeling
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Brady Akron is gonna win Lineman of the Year. He
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: was just he's just that good overall offensively and defensively,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: especially offensively, and just had another tremendous season. You know,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: I think, well, third year in a row first team
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: on the offensive side of the ball. I think second
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: year in the Row first team on the defensive side
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: of the ball, and like, like you said, all State
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: first team this year, and just you know, just an
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: incredible player, a great incredible kid too, So great, great
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: deal there. And what's cool about him and Lance Van
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: berkham Is is they're the you know, they're the center
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: and backup center on the basketball team, subbing for each other,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: and uh, it's it's it's pretty.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Cool to see and and coach from the valley just
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: a junior. I mean, he's he's.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: Going to have that spotlight on him next year to
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: possibly win this award. You know, it might get pushed
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: by Cole Terrell and guys like that. But yeah, it's uh,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: it's a good it's an awesome group of three guys.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's for darn sure. And and you
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: know what's great about all of these awards And I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: haven't said this yet, but like they were all really close.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: Like there's been years past where the fan vote, your vote,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: my vote, like we all voted the same way. Yeah,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: that did not happen this year at all. It was
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: jumbled all around everywhere because I think it's just the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: hardest year to.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: Vote, and which makes it fun. I thought there was
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: gonna be like four ties or something like that. I
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: was worried about that.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: There wasn't. It just kind of came out a certain way.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: And maybe adding Coach would as a as a personal voter,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: made it so it wouldn't do that. I don't know,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: but but there was a lot of just really and
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: these are all they're all really close, and that's what
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: that's what makes it really fun. We're talking like a
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: point difference like for most of these so and a
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: lot of them were like when it got to my vote,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: all three were tied, Like there was I think two
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: or three awards were all where the three finalists were
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: all tied. When I did my vote at the end,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, I'm the one like deciding this,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: and it was just it was crazy.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: So it's it was It's a.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Lot of fun. Congratulations Brady Ackerman walkin Prep's Lineman of
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: the Year.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Now Tyler had it been Mullet of the Year, Cultional
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: La Valley runs away with it. Yeah, I mean the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: hair that guy has is unbelievable. That being said, I
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: do see some hairs poking out from the backside of
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Brady Ackerman here. It doesn't a pretty strong one. There,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: a little strong mullet going on.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: And he had it going in basketball too until he
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: went down to you know, went down during Christmas break
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: and went and attended a wedding.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: He had to get all cleaned up, and he came back.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: And started playing basketball and he looked like he looked
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: like he was twelve, you know.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and now he's missing shots. Remember he was
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: at one hundred percent there you go.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, mullet Ackerman was like a ninety percent fueld
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: goal shooter.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate weddings. I mean, I just I don't
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: want to get too off top. I mean maybe Tyler
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: kolch Lavalley, would he win in the business slide or no,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: that's a party slide, guys. And actually I'm gonna I'm
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: gonna say something here. Not a whole lot of business
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: going on in the front. There not a whole lot
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: of business going on in the front. I'm just saying,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: although this is after a practice. You can tell he' sweaty,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: so maybe that's not too fair. I just rainy that
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: day out in Ferndale. Oh okay, all right, well, very
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: very rainy in August.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was pouring.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Well it's a good thing that got Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: We went out to marid In that day and we
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: went out to see home and we went out to
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: Ferndale and all three places were just pouring rain.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, let's move on Tyler the next one
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: in line. Here. We have got to talk about defensive
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: Player of the Year. And I'll tell you what I think.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: For me, when when I was putting in my pick,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: this might have been the hardest one for me. Yeah,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: it really might have been the hardest one. And I
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: looked over the numbers multiple times and I just went
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: my goodness, I don't know what way to go with this.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Like I truly did not know what way to go
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: with this. And if I'm being completely honest, and we
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: we kind of said up before, there's one, maybe even
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: two names on here that I don't know that I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: was really expecting. But when I was looking at the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: what would be called, I guess, the semi finals, I'm
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: looking over the numbers, going whoa, Like this is actually
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: way tougher than I thought. And then it gets narrowed
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: down to these three and I went, oh, great, now
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: it's even tougher than that. I mean, it's a tough
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: one here. So and there were.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: Guys that didn't make the semi finalists like Tyler Frost. Yeah,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: like there was there were some dudes that didn't make
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: the semi finalists that were that had huge numbers.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Guys that you want on your team, you know, Like yeah,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, just picking the semi finalists was tough.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: And then luckily the fans got to narrow it down
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: to three and then we can go from there. So, yeah,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: they picked three pretty good ones.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: Well, let's start off with six foot two h five
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: outside linebacker senior number thirty two from the Meridian Trojans.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: It's Landed Downy. We've got five eight one seventy five
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: inside linebacker senior at number four from Ferndale Jacob Gandy.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: And we've got six two, two d and twenty pounds
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: inside linebacker senior number nine from Knooksack Valley. It's Culton
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Lentz Tyler. We've got All league guys here. We've got
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: a ton and I mean an absolute ton of tackles
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: to talk about here. When we talk about Landon Downey
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: one a co Defensive Player of the Year, he was
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: also a first team All Conference linebacker, fifty eight tackles,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: thirteen and a half tackles for a loss, four passes defended,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: two sacks, two interceptions, and two fumble recoveries. When we
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: talk Jacob Gandy, We've got three A North All Conference
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: First team linebacker, eighty four tackles, sixteen and a half
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: tackles for a loss, four passes defended, one forced fumble,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: one sack, one fumble recovery. Clton Lentz. We've got Northwest
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Conference All Northwest one A All Conference First team linebacker
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: eighty seven and a half tackles, ten and a half
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: tackles for a loss, three passes deflected, three forced fumbles,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: two and a half sacks, and two humble recovery Tyler,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, stat just machines. Here is what we got. Yeah,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: these guys put a lot of numbers into your spreadsheets. Tyler.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you. Yeah, we've got Landed Downey, We've
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: got Jacob Gandy, We've got Colton Lenz. Tyler, who is
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: the watkom perhaps defensive Player of the Year.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: And this year and this is this is a first.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: I believe it's somebody who in four years has now
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: won four different awards. And it goes to Nuksack Valley's
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: Colton Lentz, who was Freshman of the Year, Sophomore of
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: the Year last year, he was Offensive Player of the Year.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: This year he's Defensive Player of the Year.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: So wow, that's.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: Pretty that's pretty amazing and uh yeah, what what an
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: amazing year. And a lot of people look at his
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: offensive numbers for great reason and we'll we'll get to
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: that in the next award as well. But but defensively,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: I mean he was moving him from afety to linebacker.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: I mean it was kind of the obvious move. You
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: had a hole there and you plug it with a
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: guy that's the best natural fit and you know, playing
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: linebacker at the next level next year, so it all
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: kind of made sense. But boy, he really took to
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: that position and played so well, and in those games
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: when they really needed him is when he had.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: His best games.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: I mean his you know, he put up amazing numbers
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: in those conference games, and and uh, just a you know,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: a punishing tackler, great at reading things and reacting, just
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. And and they were like, like you said,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: awesome people going up against him in this in this category,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: you know, and guys that you know didn't even I
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: mean his teammate, Koby Martin, you know, Fisher Hall. I
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: mean there were some guys, yeah you play Keureski's and
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: Trey Bosman's. I mean there were some dudes this year
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: on defense and and uh but yeah, what a what
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: a great, great year for Colton lens And and I
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: know he'll probably take a lot of pride in this one.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: He's running out of room for trophies and plaques I've
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: been giving him over the years, but this is just another,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: so just another thing to add.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: To his collection. He's gonna have, like his Wakam preps wall. Yeah,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: it's just gonna be a wall full wakam prep stuff.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Tyler all right, next up, Offensive Player of the Year.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: And I don't know that how do I say this?
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the final six guys, there's three of
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: them that got left off of this that were pretty
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: impressive themselves. But oh yeah, when you look at the
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: three that got picked, man, I'll tell you what, the
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: fans did a good job. I mean they did a
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: really really good job with this one, because you got
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: two of the best running backs in the entire county
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: and then you've got a wide receiver that broke so
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: many different records, and I mean it's truly unbelievable. So
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: what we've got here. We will start off with six
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: to two hundred and twenty pounds running back senior number
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: nine from Nikzack Valley. Have you heard of him? Culton Lentz.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: We've got five nine hundred and eighty five pound running
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: back senior number twenty three from the Blaine Border Rights.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: It's Jaydon Piez. And then we've got five eleven, one
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty five pound wide receiver senior number seven
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: from the Seahome Mariners. It's Andre Watson. Now, Tyler, much
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: as I said about Colton Lentz on offense or a defense,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: we got a lot to say about on defense or
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: offense here too. I've got offensive defense just all mixed up.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: You know what, Colton, stop being so good on both
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: sides of the ball. Guy, now you're screwing me up here.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: He is A one A All State Offensive Player of
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: the Year, one A All State first team running back,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Northwest Conference one A Offensive Player of the Year Northwest
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: Conference one A first team running back. Two hundred carries
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: on the dot one hundred one three hundred and ninety
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: nine yards. If he was at one hundred yards, he
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: not be on this list. Twenty eight touchdowns, two receptions
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: for twelve yards, and oddly enough, three of five passing
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: for one hundred and two yards and two touchdowns. Jade
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: and Piez first team or excuse me, well, yeah, first
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: team All State running back at the one A level.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: One A Northwest Conference first team running back. Two hundred
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: and thirteen carries, eighteen hundred and fifteen yards and twenty
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: three touchdowns, ten receptions for one hundred and fifteen yards.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: And then here we go, Andre Watson. Two A All
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: State First team wide receiver, Northwest two A All Conference
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: first team wide receiver, one hundred receptions, sixteen hundred yards,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: sixteen hundred and seven yards, sorry, don't want to short him,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: and twenty four touchdowns. Tyler. Absolutely unbelievable year. I mean
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: all three of these guys just on real years. For
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: these three guys. We've got Colton Lentz, We've got Jayden Piaz,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: We've got Andre Watson. Tyler, give it to me. Who
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: is the twenty twenty four Offensive Player of the Year.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: Another extremely close vote here and it went to Jade
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: and Piez of Blaine.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and what an amazing like you know, like if
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: you did. I mean, I don't want to talk about
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: betting or anything because this is high school sports, but
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: like you know, people see odds and stuff all the time.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yea.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: You know, like the Broncos made the playoffs this year, right,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: and I forget season started. Beginning of the year, they
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: were like one hundred and fifty to one to win
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not so. And it's like it's one.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: Of those things where like beginning of the year, what
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: were Jayden Piez's odds to win Offensive Player of the year,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: it wouldn't have been great. And but boy, just the
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: numbers he put up was just was just crazy. And
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: and you know, and this was where you know, this
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: is a very very close vote where you know, he
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: probably won I think he won the popular vote, and
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: so that went.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: Did win the vote from the fans. I did see
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: that he won forty of the fan vote.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean that's that's pretty impressive and probably
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: what put him over the top. And and he had
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: a great, great year, and yeah, congratulations to him.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: And and you.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: Know, maybe maybe Coach Olson's listening right now and he's like, well,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: we got another one, So yeah, congratulations to him.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Tyler. I obviously I've watched film
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: on all three of these guys kind of as as
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: the season goes, I catch some things here there, But
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: once the season really ends, for me, I really start
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: focusing a lot more on on watching film and doing
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: different things. And I'll tell you what Andre Watson's you know,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: there were some unbelievable things that he did. I think
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: we talked about it, maybe in the Top one hundred
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: podcasts or so, I don't remember where we talked about it,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Like his film didn't necessarily surprise me because I knew
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: who he was, I knew what was going on. What
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: surprised me with him was how much yard after catch
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: he had. Yeah, because it was unbelievable how he would
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: catch the ball for five yards on a little hitch
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: and then juke and guy duke another guy turned the
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: angle and burst up for twenty five yards and you're
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: just like, how did he even pull that off? There
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: was like four guys in the area, you know. Yeah,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: But really, I'll say it, Jade and Pie is a
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: film I was not expecting to see what I saw. Sure,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: the numbers were there, and obviously you're going, all right, well,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: he obviously did some things, right. You watch his film.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, man, holy cow, I mean, his
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: film it blew me away. It really did. It was.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't know the burst was there. I didn't know
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: the top end speed was there. I didn't know that
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: the vision was there. You know, the ability as a
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: running back that when you see the hole to just
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: go all right, here we go, and to just turn
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: on the jets. Wow, and and and from what I saw,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: and I didn't I don't just watch highlights. I will
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: watch film and to see that ability just consistently over
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: and over. And something I think you talked about maybe
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: in the Top one hundred podcasts as well, was about
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: how like even his bad nights were still nights, Like
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: even his even his worst nights, he was still putting
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: up numbers. And and obviously some of that goes to
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: the offensive line and and I'm sure he's the first
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: one to say it, you know, but my goodness, his
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: film was was truly impressive. So yeah, I mean, I'm
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: very happy for that young man. That is really really cool. Uh.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, if it would have gone to any
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: of these three, I've been very I would have been
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: very happy for the guy. I mean, yeah, that that
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: one there, when when we talked about Defensive Player of
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: the Year just being ridiculously hard, that was another one
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: that was that was very hard. But also like I
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: knew that whoever got it and whoever I picked, I
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: knew that, like I was going to be very happy
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: and not really questioned myself because I'd be very happy
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: with any of those three guys getting it, you know. Defensively,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: it was like second guessing myself a little bit, you know,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: I Mean, it was a little bit harder, but yeah,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. Jade and Pie is year twenty twenty
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: four WACOM Preps Offensive Player of the Year. Now, Tyler,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: this one here a little bit different. We now move
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: on to the last award that didn't get voted on,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: and that is the Mark Newton Award. Kind of talked
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: about a little bit earlier in the podcast where this
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: one specifically awarded by myself. I talked about last year
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: about trying to come up with a with an actual
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: like trophy for the award or something. You know, I
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: have figured it out. I just need to get it done.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: Hopefully I can get it done by some point here,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: although basketball ends and then baseball starts, so who knows
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: when I'm gonna get time to do that, but I
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: am gonna. I am in the process, like I've got
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: it going now. I just gotta get it done. That
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: being said, Tyler, we need to talk about Mark Newton. Yeah,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: this is something that you know, I kind of brought
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: up to you and I just said like, hey, I
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: want to give out like an Alignment award or something.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: Then it was like, no, you know what, it's not Linement.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: It's Center like to me, it's Center, because I mean, Tyler,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: I I spent the last week. This is no joke.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: I spent the last week looking over mock drafts and
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: seeing who the top centers are that are like you know,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: rated in the draft coming out. And I've been on
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: this website and I could send you the link to
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: their spreadsheet sometime, Tyler, you would lose your mind at
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: how much, just like how much film there is. It's
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: a it's a hidden spreadsheet, like you got to get
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: access to it. And yeah, yeah, of course I find
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: a way. But I've been doing nothing but watching centers
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: for like the last week, and it's so much fun.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I could. I could do this stuff all day, right,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: because that's I just I love Center. That's just my thing.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: So I say to you, I remember saying it to you, going,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: if we were to name it after somebody in the county,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: a pass player, Tyler, who do you name it after?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: And boom instant Mark Newton? And I'm like, who, Like,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: who the heck is Mark Newton? Tyler. So I think
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: this is something that every year we're gonna kind of
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: have to tell that story a little bit, because every
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: year there's gonna be new people going who the heck
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: is Mark Newton? So Tyler, who the heck is Mark Newton?
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, there's kind of three stages to this. The
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: first stage is when I went back and started really
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: going because I started all this stuff in nineteen ninety
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: two where I really started digging in and figuring out,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: and I was always going forward from then. And in
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: the late nineties, I started going backwards from nineteen ninety
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: two and started learning.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: About those guys, guys that I would just read about
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: in the newspapers and never saw him on film or anything,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: but I just had names, and I had all league.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: Awards and stuff like that. So I learned about Mark
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: Newton there. He graduated in nineteen eighty five from Meridian.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: He was a smaller center that he was like five nine,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: and he was just full of just spitfire and guts
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: and and just nasty. And you know, I showed you
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: that picture of his helmet where it's all chipped off,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: you know, it's all.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was a black helmet. Yeah. And that's
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: that's football, man, Like that is football. That's old school
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: that you and I remember right there.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and and so and then the second tier
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: of this is when I interviewed coach Bob Ames a
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: little over ten years ago and we just sat and talked.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: This was when the Top five hundred list came out,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: and we were talking about old guys. And it's like
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: a four hour interview. It's nothing all ever released or anything.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: It's just good information for you.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: Guys, talking ball, having a good time, Yeah, you know,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: getting for you. It's getting information that maybe you didn't
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: have before. And this is a perfect warmple yeah.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's just stuff about players that I've read
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: about but I've never seen or whatever, you know. And
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: his senior year.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: Was a special year.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: It was the first time that Meridian ever did anything
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: big in the playoffs. I mean, his junior year was
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: the first time Meridian ever went to the playoffs. And yeah, playoffs.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: And then the second year, they get all the way
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: to the state championship game and they're beating teams they
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: shouldn't have beat and it was just crazy. And they
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: lose to Cashmere in the state championship game. But I mean,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: for them to get there, it was just insane. And
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: I asked him about that team and we talked about
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: different guys and and he said just kind of flat
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: out he goes, Mark Newton's the best center I've ever had.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: And this is coming from a guy that played center
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: in college and knows centers and coached some really good ones,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: you know, and coached a guy that was, you know,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: like that played center in college, Spencer Blackburn. I don't
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: think he was a center in high school, but you
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: know what I.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: Mean, wasn't He was a left tackle in a defensive end.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: Right, And so I mean he's seen he's seen them all,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: and he had some high, high price for Mark Newton.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: That's kind of the second part. The third part is
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 3: me trying to find more out about him, finding out
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: that he passed away at a pretty young age. He
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: was in his forties, I believe, And and and getting
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: to know his brother, Chad, who's the father of Casey Newton,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: who's a really good baseball player at at Nuksack Valley.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: And he was the one that supplied like the pictures
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: of his helmet and stuff like that that he still has.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: And and it's just and I since then I've been
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: able to get film from the from like the mid
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: eighties Meridian era, and seeing him play was just awesome.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: Man, it's really cool.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: And he's just he was great. He's small, but holy cow,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: he's tough. So it kind of a lot of that
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: kind of all fits together. And and it's a it's
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 3: a it's a fun thing to have.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, people talk about the Dick Buckets Award and
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: the you know, Dope Walker Award and the you know,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: all those things in college, and it's like, I'd love
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: to have some day like awards for each position named
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: after legends that played in Walking County and and you know,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: to get them to sign off on it.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: And this was kind of the first step with that,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: with with Mark Newton Award. And and it's cool that
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: you that you've thought of it, and I'm glad we were
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: able to, you know, bring his name up once a year.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was something too, like I remember I
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: remember at one point kind of bringing it up to
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: you like, hey, do you know anybody from his family? Though,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: like I feel like we shouldn't name it after somebody
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: without the family saying yeah, that's great, you know, and
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: you were like, yeah, you know, his brother's on Facebook.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll respond, Like, I don't know
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: if he you know, looks at Facebook or if he
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: looks at messenger or anything, and it was like, well, hey,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: let's let's at least reach out and see if And
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: I remember, I think you even told me like it
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: was like an instant almost like absolutely.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: Do it, like yeah, yeah, he was all about it.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, which would which I think this makes it
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: all the better because to me, that says, that says
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: that they recognize it too, you know what I mean.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: And so what I do with this is this is
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: centers only. Like now, if a guy, if a guy
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: plays an occasional stap at guard or tackle or somewhere else,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: like that's fine. If your primary position on the offensive
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: line is center, you're up for the award, but you
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: got to be a senior. Ye last year, Vance Lawrence
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: mount Baker. To me, when I look at a guy
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: like Vance Lawrence, it was like instant, like even if
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: I wasn't watching, say the play, but I'm like looking
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: at a guy on the sideline, I'm like that guy
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: right there just screams football, Like look at that guy.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: So you just kind of know at times who the
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: guy is. Yep. And when I look at this year's Winter,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: it was a guy where I was like you know what.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: I like the way he plays the game. He's kind
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: of mean, he's kind of nasty. And then I remember
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: at one at one point, Tyler, we're sitting there, we're
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: going through the top one hundred, and this man was
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: on the top one hundred, as a matter of fact,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: he was number fifty and and you have him listed
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: at center and nose tackle. So that instantly got my attention, right, yeah,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: because that's me center and nose tackle. I'm going, hey,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: all right, yeah, And then I see five eleven one five,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's it. That's our guy. Yeah, that's
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: our guy. And I think I even said to you
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: when we got done recording that podcast, just so you know,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: that's that's the guy I have in mind. Yeah, and
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: you were like one hundred percent like absolutely, that's the guy.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: And to me, when I when I figure out who
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: I want, and you're like yeah, done, like yes to me,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: and then it's like, all right, I know, I know
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: I got the right guy. And this year, I think
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: it's even maybe a little more special, Tyler, because this
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: guy's from Meridian, YEP. And that is Carson Campbell. And
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: when when I look at him, I'm just looking at
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: his picture right here. I mean, this guy just looks
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: like a football player, Like he looks like either he's
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: a diesel mechanic or a center, and maybe he'll be
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: both at some point, you know, well maybe not so
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: much a center anymore. I don't know if he's gonna
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: play after you know, today. But to me, this guy
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: just screams Mark Newton Award. He even had some numbers
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: on defense, Tyler, which is truly amazing because you know,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: when you think about centers, typically when they're on the
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball, we're not talking about a
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: guy that's gonna have twenty five and a half tackles,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: three tackles for a lost, two sacks and a fumble recovery.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: You know. Usually when you're talking about the center playing
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: on defense, he's got you know, ten to fifteen maybe tackles.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: You know, It's just kind of the way it goes
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: typically with centers. Now, obviously Landon Hatchett totally different. I
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: get it. But Carson Campbell to me, just screams Mark
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: Newton Award. And when I want him play the game,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: he plays it the way I would have wanted it played.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: He plays it the way you're supposed to play it.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: And to me, that is everything that embodies this award
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: is that is what this award is about. This is
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: about playing the game the right way, playing it at
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: a level that deserves something like this, and a guy
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: that is maybe a little bit of an unsung hero
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: in a way that offensive lineup Meridian some big dudes, man, yep,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: some big dudes, and if you line them up, you'd
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: be like, hey, why is there somebody missing in the middle. Oh, no,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: there is a guy there, you know what I mean?
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Like you just well, there's a big offensive line, man.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to give it to Carson Campbell, very
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: very well deserved and honestly, like, man, it just gets
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: me excited to see you here talking about it. Tyler.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the heater that I have on,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: like shooting me in the face right now or what,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: but I'm sweating over here. I haven't been sweating all night.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: It's like nine below here. I don't even know how
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: cold it is, but my window was frozen over to
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: the point today Tyler, I wanted to punch myself in
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: the face for forgetting to put my little like tarp
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: on it or something, you know, like whatever. Yeah, but
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: it is so cold nine inches to the left of
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: me right now, and I'm over here sweating. I mean
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: I got I got actual sweat on my forehead right now, Tyler,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: because we're sitting here talking about centers, you know what
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: I mean. Like, that's just how fired up I get
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: about this. And I'm hoping to be able to have
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: what I considered to be my side of the award here.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: And just so you know, Tyler, this is like a
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: we got to get it back from the guy for
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: next year type of thing is what I'm planning on
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: doing here. This is like the Stanley Cup, you know
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: what I mean. Right, This isn't like a print a
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: new one every year. I mean, you know, I'm sure
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: you're still going to probably do that side of it,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: but I'm working on something here, Tyler. We're gonna have
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: a little fun with this. But yeah, again, Carson Campbell,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: you're twenty twenty four Mark Newton Award winner. Yeah, that's it, Tyler,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: that's a good one. I'm very very happy with who
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: we who we're handing them out to this year. Awesome, Yeah,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: sounds good. I love it. We've got two left, We've
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: got coach of the year. We've got player of the year.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: Oddly enough, I am up for neither of them, but
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: let's start with coach of the year here, Tyler. And
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: not a whole lot of hair going on in these
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: pictures here, because Van Dalen's got a hat on, but
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he leads the coaching, the coaching possibilities,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: and hair. First up, we've got Craig Bartell Nooksack Valley,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: the one A coach of the year for the conference
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: Class one A state semi finalists record of nine and three.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: We've got Blake Van Dalen out a Linden Northwest Conference
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: to a co coach of the Year. He's also a
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: Class two A state quarterfinalist ten and two record on
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: the year. Lastly, and certainly not least, we've got Brian
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: Young of Sea home Class two A state quarterfinalists. We
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: got all quarterfinalists here and an eight and four record, Tyler.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: This is uh, this is a tremendous group. I mean,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: if I'm looking this over, I've got a kid playing football.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: I'm very happy to have him played for any of
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: these three guys here. So uh yeah, who is We
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: got Bartell van Dalen Young Tyler give it to me,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: who is the WAKAM Preps Coach of the Year. Another
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: incredible vote by one by one point one point is
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: the Yeah.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: I think, like I said, I think like four or
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: five of these awards were decided by one point.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 3: And uh and it goes to Craig Bartle of knok
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: Sack Valley and uh and good for him. I mean,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: talk about you know, it's crazy to think about how
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: good they've been the last few years, but this is
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: the first conference championship they've won in like twelve years.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 3: And it's like really like yeah, yep, and.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: Uh, like outright, this is what I mean, yes, yeah,
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: by themselves.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, And it's uh. And it all came down
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: to the end.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: And to lose that many seniors the year before, Yeah,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: you had some dud's coming back, but it was a
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: huge senior.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 3: Class the year before. H That says a lot, you know,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 3: getting a making a deep runt of the state playoffs
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: for the third third year in a row. And and
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: uh and he's just you know, he's just one of
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 3: those guys that he he knows a lot. Is he
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 3: kind of play I think he kind of plays dumb
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 3: a little bit, but boy, he's sharp, you know what
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, Like he's like, oh, yeah, I don't really
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: do anything, blah bah blah. And then you really, when
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: you really look at it, you're like, oh man, he's
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: got his fingertips on everything. It's it's pretty crazy. And yeah,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: just uh and congratulations to him. And again, like I said,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 3: really really close. And what's funny is just on Friday
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 3: night I saw him and I was talking to him
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: and Van Dana at the same time, and they were
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: and we were discussing that, and they were like, well, yeah,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: but who's gonna beat Who's gonna beat Coach Young? You know,
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: he got the you know, the Mariners to the semi
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 3: final or those the quarterfinals for the first time in
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: twenty nine years, and and uh, you know it's like
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: he goes, it's a great group, and it's a really
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: fun group. And and like I said, only was decided
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: by one point. In congratulations to Craig Bartle, the twenty
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 3: twenty four Walkin Preps Coach of the Year.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: Yet excuse me, I think it is important too, Tyler.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: The way that you said that, you know a lot
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: of times you look at it in the professional ranks
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: and you go, well, yeah, Steve Kerr, like, of course,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: you know he's gonna win the championship, But those guys
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: don't typically win Coach of the Year, you know what
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: I mean. And I'm saying Steve Kerr from a few
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: years ago, and the Warriors were actually good, not like
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: under five hundred, which I think they might be right now.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: But it's totally different with high school where you go, oh, well,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: they got Lance and they've got Akerman, They've got you know,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: these guys return Yeah, but man, they lost dudes, and
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: they lost a lot a lot of dudes. Sure they
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: returned to top five guys in the county, but they
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: had to replace so much so for them to do
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: what they did this year, I mean, my goodness, And
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: especially when you look at the offense and you go, hey,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: if I'm playing these guys, what am I gonna do?
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: We gotta stop Lens? Yeah, and they still find a way.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: They they they've got other guys that are making plays
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: for him, you know, and guys that sure had a
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: role and made some plays the year before, but not
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: with that offensive line being I don't want to say decimated,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: but a whole lot of new guys on that offensive line.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, four out of guys.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, so for them to accomplish what
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: they did was was huge. I mean it really was.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: And and and you know as well as I do,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: and I've said this before and a few other ones here,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: Bartow will be the first one to go. Yeah, but
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: you know, TJ and and you know, all these other guys,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: all these other coaches. It's it's a group effort, and
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: it is and and you know, we talk about this
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: weekly with the offensive Line Award, you know, and it's yeah,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: it's going to this guy, but it's because he was
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: the best player for that offensive line and that offensive
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: line out performed everybody this week, you know group. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: And so you know, congratulations to coach Bartell. I'm trying
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: to remember Tyler. Did he win it last year too?
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 3: No, I believe it was year. I think it was
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: Van Dalen and it was before that and Van Dalen
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: before that, That's right, it was, Yeah, Van Dalens won
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: it a few times. And yeah, and yeah, lep wint
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: it that year when they got all the way to
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: the finals the Royal.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: With like nine losses that they had, I don't remember
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: how many it was. There was a lot of losses
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: on that team, but man, they got hot at the
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: right time and they were playing like that is one
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: of the more enjoyable teams that I that I've watched,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: you know, in the years that I've paid really close attention,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: Like that was some of the most fun watching them.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: Just all of a sudden they got hot and I
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: remember you just tell me Tyler, like, hey, they might
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: make a run here. And that was like three weeks
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: before they even started making the run, Like you were
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: like it was yeah, you were like, hey, there's we
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: could have something here. Yeah, yeah, Marcus George started just
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: going off. Yes, it was just on after that. Oh man,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: that team was. That team was a lot of fun,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: especially because it was like it's kind of a bunch
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: of no names, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: we know him at Wauckham County, but around the state,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: nobody was talking about Marcus George, you know what I mean.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: It was a lot of guys, it was.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: There was a lot of guys coming back from injuries,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: you know. Yes, it was will or alec or not Yeah,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: Willem Mololely and Ethan Larson and these guys were all
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: injured the year before.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: And I forgot about Larson got hurt at the game
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: I was at, right, Yeah, and then they came back. Yeah,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: and then they came back and just had these great
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: senior years. And Landon Smith was injured as a junior,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: you know, and and was supposed to be the quarterback
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: that that year prior, but you know, broke his thumb
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: and didn't play the whole year.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: He played a little bit on defense, and uh so
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: these guys all came back as seniors and had strong
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 3: years and it was just kind of all perfect circle
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 3: and beating Lyndon Christian, who was the top ranked team
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 3: in the state. They beat Royal that year. You know,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 3: it's for them to beat them, and then it just
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: kind of changed everything.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was. It was the heck of a run.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: Perfect circle. Underrated band, Tyler, We've got one left, Tyler.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: We've got the twenty twenty four Walk On Preps Player
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: of the Year, which also had a fan vote along
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: with it. Uh we've got three guys here, Tyler that
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, we got a lot to talk about.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: So everybody kick your feet up, because we're gonna go
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: for a few minutes. Here we've got six foot two,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty five pounds a running back, defensive end,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: senior number thirty one from Ferndale. It's Talon bun Guard.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: We've got a guy here that we haven't talked about
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: at all, six two two twenty running back, inside linebacker,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: senior number nine from Nikzack Valley. Excuse me, Calton Lentz.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: And then we got another guy five eleven one eighty
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: five wide receiver and defensive back uh and kick returner,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: punt returner, a lot of different things Senior number seven
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: from Seahome, Andre Watson Tyler. Uh. Let's start off with
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: Talon bung Guard west Coat three, a North All Conference
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: first team running back and defensive line. I mean, we
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: were talking about him as a linebacker for years, and
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, here he is at a
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: defensive end. Two hundred and forty carries sixteen hundred and
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: forty eight yards, seventeen touchdowns, two receptions twenty seven yards
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns. Efficiency if I've ever seen it, thirty five
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: and a half tackles, eleven and a half tackles for
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: a loss, five sacks, one forced fumble, one pass deflected
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: and a fumble recovery that he returned forty two yards
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: for the touchdown. We've got Colt Lentz one A Offensive
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: Player of the Year for this entire state by the
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: Coaches Association. Right yep. He's also first team running back
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: All State. He is also the one A Northwest Conference
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: Offensive Player of the Year. He was also first team
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: running back and linebacker in the conference. Two hundred carries
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: one three hundred and ninety nine yards, twenty eight touchdowns,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: two receptions for twelve yards, three of five passing I'm
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: running out of breath, eighty seven and a half tackles,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: ten and a half tackles for a loss, three passes deflected,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: three forced fumbles, two and a half sacks, two fumble recoveries,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: and wildly enough one kickoff return for fourteen yards. Andre
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: Watson two A All State First team wide receiver the
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: Northwest Conference two A All Conference first team wide receiver.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: One hundred receptions, sixteen hundred and seven yards, twenty four touchdowns,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: forty two tackles, five tackles for a loss, two forced fumbles,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: two interceptions, one pass deflection, one fumble recovery, seventeen kickoff
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: returns for three hundred seventy four yards, seven punt returns
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: for eighty eight yards, and a partridge in a paratree. Tyler.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think we've officially used all of the
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: letters were allowed on the internet. No more. We got
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: nothing else. We can't type, no more articles Tyler, Andre Watson,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: Colton Lentz, Tallon bung Guard Tyler twenty twenty four WAKAM
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: Preps Player of the Year. Give it to me.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 3: And everybody's sitting here listening, going who is it?
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: Who is it? Get to it already, would you? It's
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: Andre Watson, the Sea Home. How about that?
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 3: Wow, It's it's what an amazing overall year. It's just incredible.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 3: You look at the numbers that and I don't want
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 3: to say that they'll.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: Never be broken, but holy can because we probably said
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: it before.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but like he took numbers that I
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 3: thought would never be broken and he added like another
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: twenty five percent to them. All yeah crushed and yeah
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: and and uh, like I said before, you know it's
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a line from friends, but it's like,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 3: you know, those records were a certain line and even
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: so far past the line, the line's a dot to him. Now, Yeah,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: you know it's it's you know how they have like
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: those those weird kind of graphics where there's like a
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 3: million dots and it makes like a like a smudge.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And but like it'll show.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 3: Like Ricky Henderson's like way over here where noone else
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 3: is because it's like you know, stolen bases or whatever.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: It's like a massive gap and you're like, wait, what
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 2: is this? Oh yeah, and it's like that's the Andre
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: Watson thing. It's the same thing of like, you know, there's.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 3: Those there's those awesome videos that show numbers like progressing
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 3: over the years.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where like the things like build up and then
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: they move up and down and they do all that. Yeah,
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: Watson's gonna be the one where it just goes to
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: the top and then it just and then and then
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: it just it just keeps going or like black lines.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: It's like minimized.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like that's you know, you just can't get
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 3: better than that. And and when you look at someone
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 3: who did not carry the ball but still had over
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 3: two thousand yards from like all.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: Purpose yards's I didn't even think about.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 3: That, you know, without taking a handoff. I mean that's
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 3: that's crazy. Easiest way to get yards is a handoff. Yeah, right,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: And and uh and so I think his I think
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: his stuff as a kick returner, punt returner, and what
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 3: he did on.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: Defense, Uh it not that I mean it.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: It takes a back seat because he's so good offensively.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 3: But if you just if you even if you took
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: away all his offensive numbers and he just looked at
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: his defense and special team stuff like it's it's remarkable.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: And and I keep I keep on wanting to say, well,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: he had a great year as a sophomore, but it
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 3: was more of like a breakout year because he had
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 3: seven interceptions as a sophomore and he returned I think
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 3: two of them for touchdowns, and he had a kick
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: return for touchdown. He had a punt return for touchdown.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: And then his junior year, I think he only had like,
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 3: you know, three or four interceptions or something. And then
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: interceptions kept kind of going down, but the tackles went up,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: and the tackles for loss one up, and the force
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: fumbles went up, and he was more aggressive and he
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: was doing more stuff and teams were forced to kick
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: to him because he'd be the only one back there,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 3: so his kick return numbers went up. I mean, he
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: almost had over a thousand kickoff return yardages in his career.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: He was really close. He was at nine hundred and something.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 3: And the only player I have to have over a
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 3: thousand kickoff return yards is Ben Peterson.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: And I know there's other guys.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 3: And I haven't gone back and seen all the film
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: of every game, but from what I've seen and I've watched,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 3: I've totaled up, you know, probably close to a thousand games.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 3: Now it's you know, it's it's Ben Peterson, and then
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 3: it's Andre Watson. And then you look at how many
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: interceptions he had in his career. I mean he's at
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 3: like thirteen or something like that, like one away from
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 3: the or you know, two away from the sea home
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: school record, and so you obviously he has all those
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 3: offensive records, but he's he's right up there with defenses
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 3: and special team stuff.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: The entire county.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: I think the most interceptions in the county is Ryan
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: Vandist had like seventeen, and I think Andre's got like thirteen.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: I mean it's back Tyler. Was he mostly corner safety? What? Yeah?
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 3: Mostly mostly corner? Yeah? Yeah, I mean I put that
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 3: because sometimes he was kind of like it depended on
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 3: the offense, Like, yeah, he would kind of almost be
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 3: like a strong safety type, you know, because he like
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 3: playing the run. He's such a good tackler that they
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 3: needed him more closer to the box and just depending
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: on the offense they would play against. And he did
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: that a lot more. As a junior too, played some safety,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: but he was strictly had corners as a sophomore and
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: then as a junior was more of a safety in
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: this year. It was just kind of you know, wherever
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 3: they really needed him.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and which made the most sense that week type thing.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just you know, my goodness, you know a
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 3: player that you know when you you when you pay
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 3: the admission, like he is worth the admission.
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  Speaker 2: Like every time he would he would never have an
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: off game. He always had.
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  Speaker 3: He would always do something that would make you go
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 3: oh whoa like and you could feel it in the crowd.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: You could feel the the arro gets sucked out, or
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 3: you could feel the sound, or you could feel the emotion.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 3: You could feel everything just stop for a second and
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 3: and then then and then the cheers because he's making
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 3: a guy miss or he's stiffing arm, stiff arming a
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 3: guy that's fifty pounds heavier than him, or or you know,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 3: it's just so many things and that you know, all
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 3: the work that he put in and everything.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: Is just it's just crazy.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 3: And that's what's fun about having multiple people vote and
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: and the fans vote and everything. Is this is the
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 3: second year in a row where and this and it's
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 3: happened more than even that where the player of the
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 3: Year was not necessarily the number one on the top
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 3: one hundred list. You know, last year was Connor Walker,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 3: who I think was number three on the list, and
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 3: and that that's what's fun about getting different people's opinions
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: and and I think it's really cool and and you
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 3: just never know how it's gonna go. And you know,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 3: these three were all separated.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: A point each.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's how close it was. It's it was
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 3: really really impressive. And so yeah, there was all sorts
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: of varying you know, orders and everything, and like I said,
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 3: like all of them, they were so close. And it's
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 3: just been a fun it's been a fun project. And
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 3: now it's time for me to put in my order
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 3: for some trophies and plaques and different things and then
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: hop into the car and you know, usually usually with
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 3: joking census and we just drive around the county for
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 3: a day and so you can take pictures and I
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 3: always try. It's hard to do because I got to
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 3: make sure everyone is there and and it's usually on
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: a Sunday, and it's gotta be it's got to work
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: out just right where, you know, Okay, I'm gonna go
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: into town. Okay, I'm gonna head into Linden, so I
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 3: gotta get Linen Linen Christian kids. Oh but I can
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: just stop by Nooksack, but Baker's out there too, And
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 3: then on my way back, I'll get this guy. And
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: a lot of times they're like, well I'm available from
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 3: like one to three, and I'm like, okay, well then
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 3: it changes this. So we're gonna go out here where
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 3: this PA announcer lives and then we're going I mean,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: it's just it's so funny because and then it will
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 3: magically work somehow.
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  Speaker 2: So and a lot of them, you got to find
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: out where they live, like yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: most coaches don't typically live like right down the street
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: from their school, you know, right right. And the PA
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: guy who knows where he lives.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 3: Well, that was so funny last year was that Nick
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 3: Perago and and our guy bj Hosel Brian Hosel from
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 3: the coach at Ferndale as an assistant coach. They lived
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 3: like in the exact same neighborhood. I had no idea
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 3: where either of them lived.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: You hit the all Google maps and you're like, whoa, hey,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: that don't work out.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, And they actually both lived like really close
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 3: to Squalkhum High School, which is kind of funny, you know,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 3: and it's like, okay, perfect, boom boom, okay, got those
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 3: guys done first, now, you know. And then you know,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 3: but you start having conversations, you start talking, it's like, oh,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 3: I got to get to somebody else's house and you know,
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 3: and then Joe Consensus is getting in trouble because his
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 3: wife needs him home, and you know, so yeah, so
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 3: uh yeah, it's a fun it's a fun deal. And
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: and hopefully all have some time to hand out those
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 3: awards again and and and I've done it in a
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 3: lot of weird ways. I remember giving Connor Walker his
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 3: sophomore year of Sophomore Player of the Year award after
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 3: a basketball gat like a district basketball game. He's in
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 3: his basketball uniform with me holding the award. Yeah, you know,
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 3: I gave Laine Herring his Player of the Year award
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 3: after a baseball game. He was where he's in full
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 3: you know, baseball uniform. I'm carrying this trophy down to him,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 3: give it to him, get the picture taken. I mean
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: that was just one where he was. He was in
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 3: Hawaii when I was handing out the awards. Remember that,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 3: And so I had to wait a little bit and
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 3: then you.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: Know, remember somebody that like maybe still doesn't have it.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 3: Or Layton Smithson never got his award, okay, and Douke,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 3: Douke CALLIAPIAPPI never got his Freshman of the Year award,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 3: what Duke. I know, it's still it's still in my car.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 3: And I think the land and Hatchet doesn't have one
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 3: of his Linemen of the Year awards because he enrolled early.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, because he didn't play baseball. Yeah, that's I
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 2: forgot about that.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 3: So there's all sorts of these funny things that happen
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 3: every once in a while.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and that's good.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I I've twice when I've given Jaevensky
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: schleim Baker's award had to give it to his mom
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: because he wasn't home. So I got the picture taken
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: with with Kendra both times. Yeah, it just and then
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 3: eventually like he'll get a picture taken with it and
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 3: send it.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: To me, and well, it's no offense to Javinski, but
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: I think we both know she loves that award, you know,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: as much as he does.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And when Tavin Van Dalen was a Defensive Player
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: of the Year, I he was I think he was
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 3: like in the hospital or something. So and so Blake
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 3: Van Dalen ended up giving it to him and he's like,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 3: I did the Tyler Anderson point in everything where he's
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 3: pointing over and.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's fun. It's taken on a
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: life of its own with these awards and handing.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 3: Him out and and uh, you know the kids, the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 3: kids get excited about it, and.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: It's it's pretty cools. It's a cool deal.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 3: I remember I remember giving Corey only his Freshman of
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 3: the Year award and he's out there chopping wood. It
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 3: was like the first time I ever really talked to him.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 3: And that's only just out just out on a Sunday afternoon,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 3: just chopping wood, just going, going, going, and I was like,
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 3: can you take a break to get a picture. He's like, yeah, sure,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 3: and then right away boom he's done chopping more wood.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 3: Agains a hard working kid, So you just kind of
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 3: never really know what you're going to run into and
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 3: handing out these awards and and it's pretty fun.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: Who was the kid that told you the one time
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: that he was listening to the podcast while like writing
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: his tractor? That was U Ellen Boss, Chris Ellen Boss,
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: Chris Chris Allen Boss. Yes, that's right.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he when he's when he's driving the tractors,
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 3: when he finds the time to listen to the podcast.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: That's that's so Linden.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 3: You know, that's perfect. That's exactly how it should be.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Linden Tyler, really quickly, I'm thinking to myself about,
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: you know, like student section of the Year or whatever.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: What about Fan of the Year?
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the actual fan of the year.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's lots of ideas fan of the year,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 2: and I already know who can who we can name
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: it after. Yeah, I'm looking at him right here on
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 2: the on the side of the web page, on.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 3: The side of the web page.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got pictures here. We got a girl, uh
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: what she wearing squalcumbe storm and she's got a couple
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 2: of softballs in her hands. We got some It looks
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 2: like five guys diving off a diving board or something.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're doing like a like a picture like the
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 3: next step.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is that the the Beatles thing? Yeah kind of, Yeah,
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: it kind of looks like the Beatles thing from where
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: they're crossing the street whatever that road. Yeah. I see
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: some score sheets over here, and then I see a
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: Linden player jumping for a ball and it looks like
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 2: it looks like maybe a Mount Baker kid trying to
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: get it, like trying to defend it. Yeah. And who's
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: standing right there on the sideline, Tyler?
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brick is right there.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: Brick. Yeah, we got to find an award for Brick.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 3: You know he gives an award out every Linden football Well,
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 3: then he really did breaks. It's the Brick Award where
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 3: he paints a brick green and gold and he gives
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 3: an award out to like the player that you know
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 3: that he wants to give an award at too. And
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 3: like the who you know embodies being in Linden Line
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and he always does a good
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 3: job with that.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: And maybe we should just give out a Fan of
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: the Year awards give it to him every year. I'll
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 2: tell you what, though, Tyler, this picture is maybe not
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: the best of him. He's got all black on and
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to tell. I'm sure it's shorts,
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: but it almost looks like he's got a kilt on. Yeah,
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: I know he does. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying it.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying it kind of looks like I'll just
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: tell you, like, you watch that guy during during pregame
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: warm ups. Yeah, he's the Andre Watson a pregame warm ups.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 2: He's worth the price of admission. Absolutely, the way that
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 2: guy gets up and down the field, running all over
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: the I love it, man, I love it. And you
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: know what it is, it's guys like that that are
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: just like that's high school football, baby, you know what
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, Like the dedication, the love for your team,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: and oh man, it's so much fun. I'm sad, Tyler,
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 2: because we are officially done talking football. That's true. I mean,
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: boom done, cap on it and yep, no more, I
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 2: mean sadness crying emoji with no laughing. Yeah, all right,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: how about one last run through, Tyler. We've got Player
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: of the Year Andre Watson, Coach of the Year Craig Bartell.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: Mark Newton Award goes to Carson Campbell. Offensive Player of
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: the Year Jaden Piez, Defensive Player of the Year Colton Lentz,
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: Lineman of the Year to Brady Ackerman, Special Teams Player
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 2: of the Year to Malachi Canaan, Assistant Coach of the
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 2: Year to Trey Lopez. The fan favorite was Lincoln Thomas.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 2: Band of the Year to Lyndon Christian Cheer Squad of
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: the Year, Mount Baker, Sophomore of the Year Sam Morango
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: Freshman of the Year. It was split vote Chance Hatchett
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: and River Todd. PA Announcer of the Year goes to
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: Scott Ellis and the Official of the Year the Official
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: Official of the Year, Damon Brulin Tyler. That's it. What
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: do we got anything else? You want to say anything
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 2: before we get out of here, or what do you
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: what do you got left for me?
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 3: I'm just glad that we got it just under two hours.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: I think we fit it in and we did it's
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: an hour fifty eight just turned to what hour fifty
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 2: eight is what I have?
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think I think we did a good.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 2: Job, which I think our fifty eight is about what
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 2: we had last year. So let's officially wrap it up, Tyler.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah sounds good. All right. He's Tyler Anderson, WAKAM Preps,
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: watcompreps dot Com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 2: episode at three hundred and thirty three, twenty twenty four
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 2: WACOM Preps Football Awards show here on the Walkom Preps podcast.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: We will talk to you in a couple of days.