Latest / Whatcom Preps Podcast / Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 236 - 2023 Whatcom Preps Football Awards Show

Transcript

Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 236 - 2023 Whatcom Preps Football Awards Show · Whatcom Preps Podcast

• 0:00
  This is CM sophomore Nolan right, and you're listening to the Football Awards Show
• 0:04
  and the Walcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Riley. Go Mariners. Greetings and
• 0:32
  welcome into the Watcome Preps Podcast. This is episode at two hundred and thirty
• 0:36
  six. It's the twenty twenty three Watcomb Preps Football Awards Show. I'm Brown
• 0:41
  Spencer along with me as always Tyler Anderson of Watcome Preps. Tyler, how
• 0:46
  are we doing? Doing great? I feel a little under dressed for this.
• 0:49
  It seems like we should be wearing a you know, black tie affair
• 0:53
  for this big, prestigious award show. But we're doing But like you were
• 0:57
  saying earlier, maybe maybe in the future, this will be become a big,
• 1:00
  big thing. Like here's the thing. First off, I'm wearing a
• 1:06
  black shirt, so that's the closest thing I got. Okay, I got,
• 1:08
  I got a black What is this awful? Football? So at least
• 1:12
  I stuck with the football theme. And then I've got sweatpants because it is
• 1:15
  really really cold out and I've got a heater on over here, one of
• 1:19
  those I don't even know what you call it, satellite dish looking things.
• 1:23
  You know. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's just hit me
• 1:25
  right in the face. I've got air full of the beard. Yeah,
• 1:30
  yeah, be careful with that there. I don't know why, but Wheel
• 1:34
  of Fortune is on TV. Yeah, I'm in my living room. Normally
• 1:38
  I'm in the office. Yeah, it is way too cold in that,
• 1:42
  in that back half of the house. I mean, it is ridiculously cold
• 1:45
  back there, Tyler. And you were telling me, you guys got a
• 1:47
  lot of snow up there in Walkham County right now. Huh, that's crazy.
• 1:49
  People are listening to this right now, probably everyone who's listening to this
• 1:53
  that's in Walking County has about a foot of snow. It's it's pretty nuts
• 1:56
  and it's probably not gonna go away for a few days. So yeah,
• 2:00
  yeah, it's been it's been a little crazy. There's only one person happy
• 2:02
  about that, Tyler. Who's that, Randy Small. I thought you're gonna
• 2:07
  say Jeff Bearden because he moved away and he doesn't have to walk around and
• 2:10
  delivering mail in the snow anymore. Well, yeah, still does about to
• 2:14
  say they're getting hammered like sure, of course, or if they're not,
• 2:17
  they get more consistent snow out that way. Yeah, right, yeah.
• 2:22
  I have a buddy that lives out in Port Huron, I think is what
• 2:24
  it is, and he's always posting pictures and it's like there's no snow on
• 2:29
  the ground and he's like, where's the snow? I want the snow,
• 2:30
  And I'm like, dude, you are nuts. Yeah, Tyler, we
• 2:35
  need to give a thank you to Nolan Ryant from Sea Home, last year's
• 2:38
  Freshman of the Year award winner. Yeah, so that's why he did the
• 2:43
  intro for US tonight. Freshman of the Year last year, and he is
• 2:46
  up for an award this year, right, yes, yes, So we'll
• 2:50
  talk about him and some Uh, We're gonna talk about a lot of people
• 2:53
  tonight, Tyler. But I'm really excited. This is this is a fun
• 2:55
  one every year. This is a really fun one. This is the last
• 3:00
  football anything. This is. This is unless some something unexpected happens. But
• 3:05
  this is the last time we're gonna be talking about football for quite a while.
• 3:07
  And sometimes it does happen. I mean something it does. You never
• 3:09
  know something every now and then it's it's the it's the old barstool sports.
• 3:14
  Dave Portnoy, We got to have an emergency press conference. We got to
• 3:16
  do a show, all right. Other than that, we're just gonna keep
• 3:20
  doing the the Winter Sports weekly wrap ups or whatever it is we're bringing calling
• 3:23
  them, and uh, those ones are I don't know, I'm having a
• 3:27
  little more fun with those and I than I expected. Yeah, they're they're
• 3:31
  long, but they are what's the word I'm looking for here, I guess
• 3:37
  informative A lot of Yeah, I was just gonna say, there's a lot
• 3:38
  of information. There's a lot of a lot of stuff going on. Yeah,
• 3:45
  so it's crazy. And I and I found out today actually that one
• 3:47
  of the swimmers, Miles Kratzenberg, is going to be swimming for the University
• 3:53
  of Utah next year. So uh, he's a big time guy, like
• 3:58
  like he's he's like he was. There was a story written about him a
• 4:01
  while back about you know, trying out for the nationals and Olympic trial type
• 4:05
  stuff. So uh so yeah, pretty pretty pretty cool. So it's it
• 4:11
  is very informational all that stuff, and it's something kind of new and fresh
• 4:15
  for what we're doing. Yeah, who would have ever thought you and me
• 4:17
  a couple of meatheads over here talking swimming and diving and wrestling well wrestling,
• 4:23
  maybe it makes a little bit of sense. But yeah, Tyler, we
• 4:26
  need to give it thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm and their website Kurtmayberry Farm dot
• 4:30
  com. They are a fourth generation, family owned and operated a berry farm
• 4:33
  committed to growing the highest quality berries strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries. Now,
• 4:40
  something tells me the snow doesn't doesn't help them too much, I would
• 4:46
  imagine. I mean, it's it's maybe they're I don't know, I was
• 4:48
  gonna I was just gonna say they probably have ways to you know, do
• 4:54
  certain things and certain you know, they kind of stay ahead of the game
• 4:57
  a little bit. But I mean, obviously it's there this time the Yeah,
• 5:00
  yeah, maybe this is just the time of the year. Maybe they
• 5:02
  sprint some manure or something, you know what I mean exactly, Yeah,
• 5:05
  you get the uh, you know, fertilize the ground. You know.
• 5:09
  It's funny because growing up as a kid, there was a there was a
• 5:13
  dairy farm close to my house and that's where we used to get all of
• 5:15
  our milk and our man they had the best mid chocolate chip, Oh baby,
• 5:19
  I mean so good that even Michael Scott would have loved it. You
• 5:23
  know, what I mean chocolate chip. But uh, I remember, you
• 5:28
  know, every now and then you drive by and you'd be like, oh
• 5:30
  my goodness, it stinks over here, and then you find out later in
• 5:32
  life like actually that's a pretty important part of the process. But uh so,
• 5:39
  yeah, Kurt Bayberry Farm kurkbaberry farm dot com. That's Kurt with the
• 5:43
  c M A B E r r y Farm dot com. That is the
• 5:46
  website, Tyler. Uh, there's a lot of stuff going on. We
• 5:51
  you did. You told me you picked up a new sponsor. We'll talk
• 5:54
  about that on on the on the the Winter Sports wrap up or weekly wrap
• 5:58
  up. Uh. But if people want to get in touch with you about
• 6:01
  becoming a sponsor, because there's a lot of stuff coming up. I mean,
• 6:06
  we're gonna even do. I guess what what are we gonna do?
• 6:09
  Is it gonna be a top fifty for basketball? Oh boy, I mean
• 6:14
  that seems like a lot. You're putting me on the spot. Maybe a
• 6:17
  top twenty five. Well, you know, I think I think let's say
• 6:23
  this. Maybe we don't commit to a number, but we're gonna be doing
• 6:27
  countdowns, okay for both girls, right girls? Yeahhh, so we'll do
• 6:31
  some countdowns. But somebody wants to sponsor that, that's gonna get some numbers.
• 6:35
  I mean, it just is that's gonna get some serious numbers. So
• 6:39
  there's that there's gonna be. I mean, maybe maybe we even do some
• 6:43
  awards for basketball. I mean, who knows. There's all kinds of stuff
• 6:46
  going on. What basically what I'm saying is we're popping out all kinds of
• 6:49
  content over here. There's gonna be spring sports. There's we can already start
• 6:54
  talking football for next year. We're not done. Well, you and I
• 6:56
  are going to talk football for at least a couple of months other than maybe
• 6:59
  you know, little things here or there. But if somebody wants to get
• 7:01
  a hold of you about some sponsorships because the numbers are going crazy. Actually,
• 7:06
  Tyler, how many clicks did you have the last couple of days on
• 7:10
  the website. Now this doesn't happen every single day because there is you know,
• 7:15
  the voting was a huge thing of it. But yeah, everybody,
• 7:19
  look, we know the numbers went crazy the last couple of years. What
• 7:24
  did they do this year? Well, I'll just kind of give an idea,
• 7:27
  a grand idea too, so you can kind of understand all of it,
• 7:30
  but usually for me, at least a few years ago, a really
• 7:33
  good day was a thousand clicks on the website, and I always kind of
• 7:36
  went with that. Well, last year was great, was a great year.
• 7:42
  I was averaging probably close to, you know, fifteen hundred to two
• 7:46
  thousand clicks a day for the entire year, even during summer when there was
• 7:48
  no sports going on. And I committed myself for this year to try to
• 7:55
  get a million clicks in twenty twenty four, which means i'd have to average
• 7:59
  twenty seven one hundred and change a day, which is that's a lot,
• 8:03
  twenty seven hundred clicks a day, when usually a thousand's pretty good. So
• 8:05
  I'm really working hard to get between twenty five hundred and three thousand clicks a
• 8:09
  day, and i've been averaging above that. And then when the voting went
• 8:13
  out, the biggest day I had last year with the voting was nineteen thousand
• 8:18
  clicks in one day. Yeah, and I didn't you were going nuts.
• 8:20
  Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I'd never seen numbers like that before.
• 8:24
  I was sending you screenshots, yeah, like every hour you were updating me.
• 8:28
  Yeah, And then and and this year, I, you know,
• 8:33
  I don't know how it's going to go, but it it was going crazy,
• 8:37
  and I would refresh like every two minutes and it would go up like
• 8:39
  another like two hundred, and I was like, are you kidding me?
• 8:43
  This is crazy. So it ended up being I think it was around thirty
• 8:48
  six thousand or a little over thirty six thousand the first day, fourteen thousand
• 8:52
  the second day, and then by that you would mean Monday. Yeah,
• 8:58
  I'm sorry, Monday was thirty six thousand. Yeah, Tuesday was fourteen thousand,
• 9:01
  and so it really helps my averages to try to reach a million clicks
• 9:07
  for the year, I'll tell you that. So it is awesome and I
• 9:11
  just can't I mean, you know, people i've I haven't heard from forever
• 9:13
  told me, Hey, I voted on your thing. You know. I'm
• 9:16
  like, great, Like that's awesome. I hope you were educated enough to
• 9:20
  do it. And that's why I put all the stats out there and everything.
• 9:22
  But it was cool because I even heard from a football announcer, like
• 9:26
  a radio football announcer today and who doesn't have any skin in the game,
• 9:31
  but he saw a lot of different teams and he thought that was really cool,
• 9:33
  and he was able to vote, and you know, obviously people are
• 9:35
  going to vote for, you know, the players that they know. But
• 9:37
  I love it when people you know have a vote that there's no bias at
• 9:43
  all, you know, it's just and they saw multiple teams, which is
• 9:46
  great, so they actually got to see stuff and they were able to vote.
• 9:50
  And what he thought was really cool was the fan favorite thing. He's
• 9:52
  like, this is awesome, Like, like I had a lot of these
• 9:54
  guys were guys that I love to watch, and so I voted for so
• 9:58
  and so I was like, that's cool, man. So it's that's really
• 10:01
  really cool. Yeah, it's a it's a really neat deal. So it's
• 10:05
  so thank you everyone who voted and who uh you know, took the time
• 10:09
  to go to the site and look for everything and do all that, because
• 10:13
  yeah, the numbers were just outrageous. It was the best day of clicks
• 10:18
  I've ever had since Walking Preps started. And just keep you know, just
• 10:22
  hope to keep it going and he'll get better and better. Now, Tyler,
• 10:26
  I'll give you an example of bias here. All right, Okay,
• 10:30
  you remember when we had coach young on and we were talking with coach young
• 10:33
  about the old Uh was it Watcom Bulldogs or something? Yeah, Belly and
• 10:37
  Bulldogs, Bellihan Bulldogs. You remember we were talking about Kelly fee Yeah.
• 10:43
  His sister hits me up and and she says, do you know Vance Lawrence?
• 10:48
  I said, yeah, I know Vance Lawrence? Like, how do
• 10:52
  you know Vance Lawrence? And she says, I just voted for him on
• 10:56
  Walcome Preps. I said, what are you talking about? Well, his
• 11:00
  his mom or aunt or somebody is my coworker. And I go oh,
• 11:03
  and she goes, yeah, I clicked on the website. What's the first
• 11:07
  thing I see? You're ugly mug? I go what? And then I
• 11:09
  looked at the website and sure enough that it was the podcast from the day
• 11:13
  before or from a few hours before or whatever, and I go, oh,
• 11:16
  my goodness. Yeah. So it's really cool to see random people even
• 11:22
  voting, you know what I mean, people that I would have never thought
• 11:26
  she would be on their voting for somebody, you know what I mean?
• 11:28
  Right, yeah, exactly. So anyway, Yeah, we got fifteen awards
• 11:35
  to talk about tonight. Yes, five of them. Nobody voted on,
• 11:41
  so five of them, and I'll give you give you those ones, Official
• 11:43
  of the Year, Public Address Announcer of the year, Band of the Year,
• 11:48
  Cheerleaders of the Year. And we say cheerleaders, we're talking a whole
• 11:50
  cheer squad that got everybody fired up on Friday nights. And then the Mark
• 11:56
  Newton Award, which is one I'm going to hand out I guess technically not
• 12:01
  handed out, although maybe I will come up and do it. Who knows
• 12:03
  that one is a special one. We'll talk more about that one when we
• 12:07
  get to it. But what we're gonna kind of do is bounce around a
• 12:11
  little bit. So we're gonna start off with Official of the Year, We're
• 12:15
  gonna end with Player of the Year. There's gonna be all kinds of in
• 12:18
  between. I guess technically thirteen of them. In between that being said,
• 12:22
  we've got Freshman of the Year, Sophomore of the Year, Assistant Coach of
• 12:26
  the Year, the Pets Real Estate Special Teams, Player of the Year,
• 12:28
  Lineman of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the
• 12:31
  Year, the fan Favorite, the Coach of the Year, the Player of
• 12:35
  the Year, and those were all voted on now the way the voting works.
• 12:41
  The last couple of days, as Tyler mentioned what almost sixty thousand clicks
• 12:45
  or something the last couple of days, right, that counts for a third,
• 12:50
  Tyler. You got to vote that counted for a third. I had
• 12:54
  a vote that counted for a third. And really the way it works if
• 13:00
  you so, if I gave a first place vote to a guy that was
• 13:03
  worth four points, I also had to give a second place vote that was
• 13:07
  worth three points, third place vote, you know, so on and then
• 13:13
  it all adds up. There's a point system to it. Boom, here
• 13:15
  we go, add up all the points. Bam, there it is.
• 13:18
  There's your winner. So I don't even know who the winners are, right
• 13:20
  now, that's the fun part for me. I have them all here.
• 13:24
  Yes, actually I only know one winner and that's the Mark Dooton Award because
• 13:28
  I'm giving that one out exactly. There's fourteen awards tonight that I don't even
• 13:33
  know who's getting them. Yeah, that being said, the fan favorite.
• 13:39
  Actually, technically I did vote on that one too, because I will admit
• 13:41
  I went in and voted. Yeah, But I mean, I'm a fan,
• 13:45
  right, so I wanted to vote on it. But the fan favorite
• 13:50
  that one was straight up one hundred percent the vote was the vote. Yes,
• 13:54
  there was no this guy gets half percent nothing. It's straight up boom
• 14:00
  there it is, or I guess woomp there it is, right, yeah,
• 14:03
  right, that said Tyler, Like I said, we got fifteen to
• 14:07
  talk about. We are already thirteen minutes in. Yes, what do you
• 14:11
  say we get going here? I think people are excited to find out who
• 14:13
  what so, Like I said, we are starting with official of the year
• 14:18
  and this is a new one. We've never done an Official of the year.
• 14:22
  Tylery, you and I are both big fans of just the officials in
• 14:26
  general. Likes. It's one of those things that you know, people get
• 14:30
  mad, oh that's a bad call, rep. And you and I are
• 14:31
  sitting there going actually, I think that was a pretty good call. I
• 14:35
  mean more often than not now at the same time, you and I also
• 14:37
  if there's a bad call, well if there's something that was ruled it correctly
• 14:43
  or you know, or you know what you and I or really me the
• 14:48
  North kidsap lending game, right, yeah, I kind of got up on
• 14:52
  what do they call it? Not on my my soapbox? Yeah right,
• 14:56
  yeah, I got up and a minute, you know it is what it
• 15:01
  is that being said Tyler. We are big fans of the officials. I
• 15:05
  think the official I've been all over the state watching football. I think the
• 15:09
  officials in Wakam County do a tremendous job. I really do. Now,
• 15:13
  there's probably some head coaches out there that are right now going and I don't
• 15:15
  know about that one guy. Like there's that one guy, you know,
• 15:18
  just like on the podcast, everybody's like, you know that guy with the
• 15:22
  beard. Yeah, that guy, let me tell you about him. Official
• 15:26
  of the Year Tyler. There are a lot of names to pick from,
• 15:28
  yes, and there's a lot of guys that I'm sure have been doing it
• 15:31
  for many many years. Oh yes, And this isn't like the Officials Association
• 15:37
  picked it. No, this is our guy. This is the one that
• 15:41
  well, I guess technically your guy because you're the one making the call here.
• 15:46
  But this is who Watcomb Preps is giving the official of the year for
• 15:50
  football in the fall twenty twenty three. Give it to me, Tyler,
• 15:54
  who is the watcam Preps Official of the Year. Well, I had a
• 16:00
  pretty good idea. I did reach out to some coaches and they, you
• 16:07
  know, for the most part, they can kind of confirmed what I thought.
• 16:11
  And the official of the year is Nick Parago. So he is very
• 16:17
  very well liked and does an awesome job. And he's out there all the
• 16:22
  time. I mean you'll see him doing all like you'll see him out there
• 16:26
  any level of football. I mean he is. He's all about it and
• 16:32
  just a you know, class act guy. And that's that's what you want
• 16:36
  an official. You want someone that stands by their convictions and is confident and
• 16:41
  knows the game. And he's all those things. And I think he loves
• 16:45
  the game and he'll be doing it for a while and that's a really good
• 16:48
  thing for Walkin County. Could be wrong, Tyler. I think he follows
• 16:52
  me on Twitter. Hey, I wouldn't doubt it. I really think he
• 16:56
  does, yeh, because I think he and I have gone I think we've
• 17:00
  gone back and forth a few times. But I can't remember. What does
• 17:03
  he do for a living? Do you know? I don't know for sure.
• 17:07
  I don't know for sure. Hmm. I'm I think he might think.
• 17:14
  I think he might follow me. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
• 17:17
  Y he knows what's going on. Trying to remember what his Uh let's see
• 17:22
  here, let's mabe try this real quick. Let's see. Nope, nothing,
• 17:27
  Yeah, but that's awesome. I mean I like that, and I
• 17:30
  know that there's you know, there's always multiple guys you could pick. Oh
• 17:34
  yeah, I think it's a great idea to reach out to a couple of
• 17:37
  coaches and just go, hey, this is what we're doing. What do
• 17:40
  you think about this? Who's the guy? If maybe maybe if you could
• 17:45
  pick one, who do you like? And they go, I like this
• 17:48
  guy? And you go, that's exactly what I was thinking. There we
• 17:51
  go. So there it is official of the air. By the way,
• 17:55
  official not referee you and I kind of had to go over that one real
• 17:59
  quick. But official of the year for twenty twenty three. Uh, Tyler,
• 18:04
  we've got yeah. Let's see here we are on Freshmen of the Year
• 18:10
  now, yes, just okay, hold on, skod here did you tell
• 18:14
  me before the show? Did you say this is our fourth year doing this?
• 18:17
  Yes, well, I'll just put it this way. It's the first
• 18:21
  year we did it was just I think it was just me coming up with
• 18:27
  awards. There was no voting or anything, gotcha. So this is our
• 18:32
  third year of actually doing voting and and doing it the way that we're that
• 18:37
  we currently do it. We're a third, a third and a third and
• 18:41
  so and we've added some since I think that I think we dropped an award,
• 18:47
  and I think we've added some. We added the fan favorite. I
• 18:52
  don't I don't even think we had Special Teams Player of the Year the first
• 18:55
  year. So there's been some changes a little bit. But yes, but
• 19:00
  this is technically the fourth year we've been giving us out, so since these
• 19:03
  seniors were freshmen, gotcha, So do you know off the top of your
• 19:08
  head who the other Freshmen of the Year have been. Let's see here,
• 19:15
  Well, Nolan Wright gave us the intro. He was the Freshman of the
• 19:18
  Year last year. Yeah, it's literally on my sheet right here in front
• 19:22
  of me too. By the way, two years ago it was it was
• 19:26
  a tie with uh, Colton Lentz and Corey one Oh I remember that.
• 19:34
  Yeah, And then and three years ago it was Duke Halapiapi Duke. Yes,
• 19:42
  my goodness, all right, now Freshman of the Year this year.
• 19:48
  Yes, we've got four names here. Uh, We're going to start off
• 19:53
  five, six, one, sixteen out of Meridian Wide Receiver and corner number
• 19:57
  twenty three. Casey Bran in Big guy, real big guy. We've got
• 20:03
  five eight one eighty five Linden High School running back, linebacker, kicker,
• 20:08
  punter number forty six Malachi Canaan. Now speaking of a big guy here,
• 20:15
  uh, six five two oh nine Mount Baker High School guard, defensive tackle
• 20:21
  number sixty seven, kel Reardon. Now, Tyler, you told me this
• 20:26
  young man's doing some damage on the basketball court too. Huh. Yes he
• 20:30
  is. He is a true big man in the center, in the post
• 20:33
  and the paint. He is getting the job done. It's been great to
• 20:36
  see. I love it. Uh. And the last one here, six
• 20:38
  one two fifty Linden Christian right tackle number sixty six, Kyler Sterk. So
• 20:47
  those are the four guys that are up for Freshmen of the Year, Tyler,
• 20:52
  go ahead and give it to me. Who is the twenty twenty three
• 20:53
  WACOM Preps Football Freshman of the Year. Well, congratulation relations to Linden's Malachi
• 21:03
  Canaan, And it was it was a great year for him. And you
• 21:10
  know he was named All Conference first team as a kicker. And what I
• 21:15
  love to see out of freshman, and you could say that about pretty much
• 21:18
  all four of these guys, is if you're watching, could you tell that
• 21:22
  they were a freshman? And the big thing about Canaan is is what I
• 21:27
  noticed in practice actually, and it was not his kicking ability that I noticed
• 21:32
  first. It was he would go up and pop people. I mean it
• 21:37
  was every time he hit somebody, it sounded different. And they basically put
• 21:42
  a black shirt on him, which means you're one of our main guys on
• 21:45
  defense. And he was one of the first backups at linebacker. He when
• 21:52
  they would go in and run even like he would come in at full back
• 21:56
  and block like a lead block for quarterback keepers like and as a freshman,
• 22:00
  you know, I mean that is saying a lot and on a team that's
• 22:06
  that that went that far and to get to you know, to get in
• 22:11
  there on offensive defense. Obviously, he was a great kicker at punter forty
• 22:14
  extra points, kicked a forty yard field goal, averaged thirty eight and a
• 22:17
  half yards of punt also at twenty yards rushing, nine and a half tackles,
• 22:22
  one tackle for loss when pass broken up. And this was a pretty
• 22:26
  this was a pretty close vote. But but yeah, Malachai Canan is your
• 22:30
  Freshman of the Year. Freshman of the Year Malachi Canan. By the way,
• 22:36
  I just looked it up real quick. I did find him. Nick
• 22:38
  Parago does follow me on Twitter. Nice, Yeah, I'm you know,
• 22:42
  sneaky, sneaky good following up there in Walcome County for myself, Tyler,
• 22:48
  we are onto Sophomore of the Year. Now, off the top of your
• 22:52
  head, do you happen to remember who some Sophomores of the Year have been
• 22:53
  in the past? I guess, I guess this is something we're going to
• 22:56
  do for the rest of the show here, huh, it sounds like it.
• 23:00
  Yeah, let's see here. Colton Lentz last year was Colton Lentz and
• 23:04
  Andre Watson tied. Oh, that's a couple of good, good players.
• 23:08
  Yeah. By the way, they're both up for I believe the same award
• 23:11
  later on though, yes they are. Uh. And two years ago it
• 23:18
  was Connor Walker not decently and you on the same vote, not on the
• 23:26
  one that both of them are on, but he's on another. Yeah.
• 23:29
  Uh. And and I remember when I went off because I always hand out
• 23:32
  the trophies and his was the last one that day and I couldn't get a
• 23:36
  hold of them. But then I remembered he had a basketball game that night.
• 23:40
  So I went to his basketball game to hand him the trophy on the
• 23:42
  basketball court and uh yeah, awesome. So and and I didn't bring my
• 23:48
  camera with me, but luckily my buddy is with me. He had an
• 23:49
  iPhone, so he or he was at the game, so he took the
• 23:52
  picture for me. And then three years ago it was Isaiah Carlson. Nice.
• 24:02
  Yes, yeah, well, tell you what I mean, it's kind
• 24:06
  of a good thing to win that award. Huh yeah, kind of means
• 24:08
  something. My goodness. Uh that being said, Tyler, let's talk about
• 24:14
  the sophomore of the year. We've got four guys here. The first one
• 24:18
  five to nine from the Bellingham BayHawks wide receiver and safety is number twenty one,
• 24:22
  Owen Hanstead. Was this the young man that had all those interceptions like
• 24:26
  in a row? Yes, it is. Yeah, he just I mean,
• 24:29
  he was a stinking nightmare for opposing quarterbacks. Yes, well, actually
• 24:33
  I guess not, because clearly they didn't know who he was. They just
• 24:37
  kept throwing the ball. As way another tell you what. I'm just looking
• 24:41
  over this list here, Tyler, this is a really really good list.
• 24:45
  Five eight from Sea Home. It's safety number four. Hudson nef Oh,
• 24:51
  that's right, here we go. We got Seahome, Seahome Seahome here six
• 24:55
  two, two thirty five again from Seahome offensive line defensive line number sixty five,
• 25:02
  colterral five ten one seventy five from Sea Home quarterback and punter number two,
• 25:07
  Nolan Wright, the young man that gave us the intro obviously, and
• 25:11
  freshman of the Year last year. Tyler, But we've got three Sea Homes
• 25:15
  and a Bayhawk, so it's a it's a full Bellingham contingent here, Tyler.
• 25:22
  Why don't you go ahead and give it to me? Who is the
• 25:25
  twenty twenty three watkom perhaps a football sophomore of the year. Well, I'm
• 25:30
  gonna start off by saying there was a couple other sophomores that I really wanted
• 25:33
  to add to this. Danny Bohler obviously had a great, great year,
• 25:40
  and Lackey fog Otto was awesome as well, So there it was really tough
• 25:44
  to pick four. And so I just kind of want to start by saying
• 25:47
  that, but this year, the sophomore of the year the twenty twenty three
• 25:52
  season plays at Sea Home. It was Nolan Wright. So he just unbelievable
• 26:02
  what he did at the quarterback spot. Put up huge numbers for over two
• 26:07
  thousand yards twenty three touchdown passes, two touchdowns on the ground as well averaging
• 26:12
  thirty six point eight yards of punt. He's just a weapon and throws a
• 26:19
  unbelievably great ball. You know, you see guys that just can flick it.
• 26:25
  You know, I'm not saying he's Aaron Rodgers or anything like that,
• 26:29
  but you know how when you watch Aaron Rodgers throw compared to other NFL players,
• 26:33
  it looks a little different. There's something about it that's just like,
• 26:36
  man, how did he do that? I have that feel when I see
• 26:38
  Nolan Wright throw the ball as compared to some other high school players, It's
• 26:41
  like, how did he do that? You get that same kind of holy
• 26:45
  cow like it's just the straight up athleticism. But I love his leadership too,
• 26:49
  you know, even just as a sophomore, to be a leader tells
• 26:53
  me a lot. And yeah, I really really like his game. And
• 27:00
  and it's great because get a few more years out of him. Right,
• 27:03
  We've been talking about him for a while. He's halfway done with his football
• 27:06
  career and in high school and it's just excited to see him grow as a
• 27:12
  player and just and learn the game more and continue to put up big numbers
• 27:17
  and win some games. Yeah, Tyler, it seems like just yesterday you
• 27:21
  were you were getting us in trouble by throwing out things like windmill dunks and
• 27:25
  stuff about Nolan Wright. And now here we are freshman and sophomore of the
• 27:30
  year in just two years. I mean, it's it's pretty amazing what that
• 27:33
  young man has done. And you know, Tyler, I think people here,
• 27:37
  give me how many yards did he throw for? Again? Do you
• 27:38
  have that? Yeah? Twenty and twenty two yards? See, And I
• 27:41
  think people hear that and they and they don't. You know, two thousand
• 27:45
  yards that's not that Yeah, compared to Michael Pennix and compared to Patrick Mahomes.
• 27:49
  And you know what I mean. When you're talking some guys in the
• 27:52
  NFL throw for five thousand, like, yeah, a little different. Two
• 27:56
  thousand yards in a high school football season, that is a really really good
• 28:00
  number to hit. I mean yeah, And did they play a full ten
• 28:04
  games this year? Yeah? I think they played ten. I think he's
• 28:07
  only I think the only second player in school history to throw for over two
• 28:11
  thousand yards in a season, so that kind of puts it into perspective a
• 28:14
  little bit. I mean, you average two hundred a game. Yeah,
• 28:18
  I mean that's really really good. It really is. Now, don't get
• 28:22
  me wrong. There's you know, Brett Rippen was out there throwing, you
• 28:25
  know, I mean that guy was throwing like sixty passes a game though,
• 28:29
  you know, like Max Brown was throwing. You know, well, he
• 28:32
  was probably only throwing thirty five, but that's you know, they were throwing
• 28:36
  the ball a ton, you know, So it's a little different. And
• 28:40
  you know he's got the running element as well. I mean he's got legs
• 28:44
  where he could well we already said, you know, I mentioned it,
• 28:48
  windmill dunks. I mean, the guy could run too, so and we
• 28:51
  don't know that he can't actually do windmill dunks. I mean maybe he can.
• 28:55
  I mean, if he's listening, let us know, and if he
• 28:57
  can maybe send a video. It'll be the first person to say, you
• 29:02
  know, I can't do that. I mean, even if he could,
• 29:03
  he would say that. I'll I'll tell you this, when you see him
• 29:07
  take a jump shot, he's probably still in the air from the game the
• 29:11
  other night when he took a jump shot, he hangs in the air.
• 29:15
  You know, there's certain guys, like most high school players when they shoot,
• 29:17
  they look like a high school player shooting in basketball. When he shoots,
• 29:21
  it looks like an NBA player that shoots. It's it's totally different.
• 29:25
  It's really impressive. And that goes to show why is the leading you know,
• 29:29
  free throw percentage guy, You know it's the form is perfect. Yeah,
• 29:33
  just just a great overall athlete and an awesome kid too, which goes
• 29:37
  a long way. That's one thing I can do. Tell her I can
• 29:40
  shoot some free throws. Yeah, yeah, not really that much else,
• 29:44
  but I can shoot some free throws. Yeah. You play a game of
• 29:47
  half court basketball where you only got to take it outside the three point line.
• 29:51
  I'm not half bad. I'm not half bad. But if I need
• 29:52
  to run, if I need to run down to the other side, yeah,
• 29:56
  it's probably not gonna happen. It's probably gonna be five on four,
• 29:57
  you know what I mean. It's just that's the way it's gonna That being
• 30:00
  said, don't call me a cherry picker, because I'm not about that life.
• 30:04
  Tyler. We've got an award up now. This one's different. We've
• 30:07
  never done to this one before and this one here was not voted on.
• 30:11
  So this is from you. You are giving out the public Address Announcer of
• 30:15
  the Year. Now, this one's a little special to my heart now,
• 30:18
  Tyler, because I'm doing the public address announcing. Now, I'm no,
• 30:22
  I'm no Tom Hutler, you know down there with the Mariners. But you
• 30:26
  know or lou Gellerman. Do you remember him, the old husky. His
• 30:30
  big thing was Hello dog fans. I'm not that guy. I've been told
• 30:37
  I'm pretty good, though I don't know. I don't know the truth.
• 30:40
  I don't know. People are just gassing me up or what. But that
• 30:42
  being said Tyler, public Address Announcer of the Year, there's some really good
• 30:47
  choices, and Walkom County does. Walkom County's got a lot of really good
• 30:52
  ones, and they've always had good ones. But we're picking one here tonight,
• 30:56
  and again this is just you picking it. So this is the official
• 31:00
  WATKAM Preps Public Address Announder of the Year for twenty twenty three. Tyler,
• 31:04
  who is it? Yeah? There are some great ones and ones that have
• 31:10
  been doing it a long time, and you become familiar with certain voices and
• 31:14
  like you said, you've done it. I've done it. It's it's not
• 31:18
  easy, but once you get into your rhythm, you find that cadence and
• 31:22
  you find your you find your way and it's fun and you get and you
• 31:27
  just get used to it and it's the best seat in the house. This
• 31:32
  year, the one that stuck with me the most is Marty Gray from Meridian.
• 31:40
  He is I don't want to say he sounds like a throwback, but
• 31:45
  there's a little bit about his voice that makes it sound more important. When
• 31:49
  you're at the game, like you hear you hear him and you just go
• 31:53
  and it's very crisp. You can hear everything he's saying every time. It's
• 31:59
  not too load, it's not too much. And I just he has that
• 32:05
  PA announcer voice. I don't even know how to I don't know how else
• 32:07
  to put it. Yeah, I love it when I go to a Meridian
• 32:09
  basketball game and then I hear them like, oh, Marty Gray is doing
• 32:13
  the game. This is awesome, and I just you know, I I
• 32:15
  love that feeling. Our our buddy, Jeff Wood is a PA announcer for
• 32:20
  Sea home Boys basketball, so he's done it. Yeah. So he's always
• 32:24
  out there doing stuff. He's doing the flags during volleyball. Now he's a
• 32:28
  PA announcer for boys basketball. But uh, but yeah, Marty Gray at
• 32:32
  Meridian just you know, good evening Trojan fans. You know, it just
• 32:38
  kind of has like that almost like sixties baseball field to it, and it's
• 32:43
  just fantastic and he just does a great job. And so yeah, he's
• 32:47
  the He's the There was there was a few others that I really like a
• 32:52
  handful of others actually, but but yeah, when I go to Meridian,
• 32:55
  there's things that you can count on. I can count on great food and
• 33:00
  Marty Gray coming through the speakers and it's just it's that's high school football to
• 33:05
  me, you know. So so yeah, so he's the winner. Yeah.
• 33:07
  You can get some really good like and I don't you know, we
• 33:12
  want to keep this positive. I've been to a lot of games at a
• 33:15
  lot of different places. Trust me when I say this, there are some
• 33:17
  really really bad ones. But when you get a guy that's good manh yeah,
• 33:23
  it makes it better. It's just that the atmosphere, it's the best.
• 33:25
  I don't know who the guy is at french Field down in Kent,
• 33:30
  but he and he does all four schools, so four schools using one stadium,
• 33:35
  and they start off with the Monday night football theme song, dun Dune,
• 33:39
  you know. And it's like when you're there, the teams aren't very
• 33:44
  good. Usually Kent's usually kind of good. Man, that guy's good,
• 33:49
  you know. Yeah, and uh, you know at Bathel we got a
• 33:52
  good one. But the other there's North Creek and Woodinville. Their announcer is
• 33:57
  Rob Simpson. Man, that guy is really really good. And one of
• 34:00
  the things you said, Tyler, that and this kind of sticks with me.
• 34:04
  And you know, Bob Shephard, oh yeah, number two, yeah,
• 34:08
  the old Yankees, and actually he did he did a New York Giants
• 34:12
  football for a long time too, Bob Shepherd. There's there's a video.
• 34:15
  It might have been when he passed away, but there's a video of him
• 34:20
  talking. And he was a speech teacher, I believe if I can remember
• 34:24
  correctly. So obviously that's a little bit of an advantage if you're going to
• 34:30
  have that job. But the thing he always talked about, and this always
• 34:34
  sticks with me, and when I do a public address announcing, I'm always
• 34:37
  thinking about this, he said clear concise, correct. Yeah, you have
• 34:44
  those three things. Man, you're doing really really good job. Yeah.
• 34:49
  Absolutely, And and that's what I always think about, is like I want
• 34:52
  to make sure that the people can understand what I'm saying. You know,
• 34:54
  is it clear? You know, is it concise? And most of all
• 34:59
  is it because if it ain't correct, yeah, you're not doing your job
• 35:02
  right here, it doesn't matter right, you know. And so it's it's
• 35:05
  kind of funny every every time I do games, there's always parents that record
• 35:08
  stuff and and a lot of times it ends up on social media, and
• 35:12
  I'm always listening to myself, Hm, you know, oh did I did
• 35:15
  I do a good job there? Which is funny because I don't ever listen
• 35:17
  to the podcast? Yeah I don't either. Yeah, no way. So
• 35:21
  you and I what are we on here? Two thirty six? Yeah,
• 35:23
  I've probably listened to I don't know three. Yeah, Like, I'm just
• 35:29
  gonna be honest. I mean, actually, I guess maybe more because I
• 35:31
  did. I did kind of watch those YouTube videos we did and those do
• 35:35
  those did count as podcasts? So yeah those are Yeah, you're you're right.
• 35:37
  I've seen those a few times, but showing different people yeaheah. I
• 35:40
  watched the Jake Locker one a couple of times because people bring it up every
• 35:44
  now and then they're like, oh, yeah, I remember I saw the
• 35:45
  Jake Locker thing, and I'm like, oh, really, like you know
• 35:47
  what I did? Like that one? It was fun. Yeah, So
• 35:52
  yeah, we that is what. That's number four. So we got number
• 35:53
  five here, Tyler, we're not assistant Coach of the Year now, I
• 36:00
  guess we've got to go back to it, Tyler. Do you remember who
• 36:01
  the previous assistant Coach of the Year have been? Well, I this is
• 36:06
  one of those ones. I think we added after the first year. Okay,
• 36:10
  so there's only been two of them in the past two years. Ago
• 36:15
  it was Blake Whitman. Well, all right, Blake Whitman. And then
• 36:23
  last year it was tj Ackerman. Okay, T j Ackerman. Yeah.
• 36:29
  Who. By the way, both guys are up for it exactly. That's
• 36:34
  a little crazy, isn't it. Yeah. Now that being said, I
• 36:37
  mean, this is a star studded affair right here. Yeah. I mean
• 36:40
  when I'm looking at this one, Tyler, I mean, this is a
• 36:43
  really, really good bunch and I'm not even going to go back and look
• 36:47
  at the way I ranked them. But I'm looking at this right here,
• 36:50
  going, I mean this is a good look at well, I wouldn't say
• 36:52
  good looking group, you know, like physically speaking. Look, I don't
• 36:58
  know. Ken Bauma, Yeah he's a good looking guy. Yeah. Holsel
• 37:04
  nice beard, you know, got a little bit of like Nick Rolovich to
• 37:07
  him. Whitman, I mean, you know it is what it is,
• 37:10
  TJ. I mean that being said here t j Ackerman Nikzack Valley offensive coordinator,
• 37:16
  Kent Bauma, Linden Christian defensive coordinator, Brian Holsel, Ferndale defensive line
• 37:23
  and special teams. Wait a second, here is that how Landon Hatchett ended
• 37:29
  up doing the kick? It had to do with Osel. I'm almost positive.
• 37:32
  I mean it had to do like right, uh. And then Linden
• 37:36
  defensive coordinator Blake Whitman Tyler, who is the twenty twenty three watcham Perhaps Football
• 37:42
  Assistant Coach of the Year. This was the tightest vote we had. And
• 37:49
  what I mean by that is you know your your votes, my votes,
• 37:52
  the fans votes, and when you total up the numbers, every single person
• 37:57
  was separated by one point. Wow. So top to bottom this was the
• 38:01
  closest one. Yeah. So and it's going too Brian Hosel of Ferndale.
• 38:13
  Nice. Yeah, it's you know what a great I mean when I see
• 38:17
  him, he's different than the other coaches on the sideline. First of all,
• 38:22
  he's wearing this slicker that's from like Ferndale, like twenty years ago.
• 38:28
  Like it's got like the old colors on it. You know, it's just
• 38:30
  a throwback. And he is intense. He commands respect. He has kind
• 38:38
  of a routine before the game on the sideline where he's kneeling down and and
• 38:44
  it's almost like he's he's almost like he's punching the ground a little bit.
• 38:47
  But I think he I think he's just getting him, just getting psyched up.
• 38:52
  Boy. Players love to play for him. And what a player he
• 38:54
  was. All four of these guys were actually really good players for the schools
• 38:59
  that they coach for. And really and all Ford are actually from the schools
• 39:02
  that they played for. That's really cool. Yeah, and so it's uh,
• 39:07
  but he was he was something special. Is a defensive end, holy
• 39:12
  cow, just off the ball. It was crazy. I went to play
• 39:16
  at Western, I believe, and just you know, one of those one
• 39:20
  of those dudes that you didn't want to, you know, meet up with
• 39:22
  on the if you're running a sweep or something like that. But uh yeah,
• 39:28
  awesome coach, whole assist All this, all the whole coaches have aff
• 39:31
  at Ferndale is very very good. But congratulations to Brian Hilssel for being named
• 39:36
  the Walk and Preps Assistant Coach of the Year. I'll tell you what,
• 39:39
  Tyler, I mean, you say you don't want to meet him in the
• 39:42
  hole there. I mean, I don't know that you want to meet him
• 39:44
  down there on State Street in Bellingham. I mean, you know, at
• 39:46
  a back alley or something even today. I don't know you want to do
• 39:51
  it. But he's a bad dude, man, Yeah, bad bad dude,
• 39:55
  Tyler. We are back again now with an award that is given by
• 40:01
  you. You're giving an award here, Tyler, and this one here I
• 40:06
  love. I love this one because you and I have talked about it before.
• 40:10
  A good band is worth seven to ten points. And that's what it
• 40:14
  is. Band of the year, ban of the year. No, that's
• 40:19
  the band on the run. Yeah, band of the band of the year,
• 40:24
  Tyler. Yeah. So I mean there's some really good bands all over
• 40:30
  the state. Wakem County's got a good bunch of them. Yes, I
• 40:34
  didn't go to any games this year, so I can't make a judgment.
• 40:37
  Did I go to any games? No, I can't make a judgment in
• 40:42
  the past. I know there's a couple of them that I've really really liked.
• 40:46
  I remember one time going nuts because Seaholmes band for homecoming was playing like
• 40:52
  old Nintendo theme songs. Yes, like I might have even texted you about
• 40:57
  that, just going nuts, like dude, they are legitimately and I remember
• 41:00
  they were in the shape of an anchor and I thought that was just awesome.
• 41:05
  I've always loved Squalcum's band. Yep. You know Linden's band always does
• 41:09
  a great job. I mean, yep. You though you went to every
• 41:15
  you would do a home game for every team, I assume, oh yeah,
• 41:17
  multiple times. So you heard the bands everywhere. Yep. So there's
• 41:21
  nobody more qualified than you to give Band of the Year. And I mean
• 41:24
  your band guy right, like exactly Geek Usa, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 41:29
  you were. You showed me the picture the other night, Tyler of
• 41:31
  yourself sitting there along the court at that what's the name of the gym?
• 41:35
  There in Deming. Yeah, it's just well just called the Deming Dome.
• 41:38
  Yeah, oh that's right, the Deming Dome. I forgot. It looks
• 41:40
  like the Tacomba Dome were kind of in a way. Yeah, Tyler band
• 41:45
  of the Year for twenty twenty three in Walcome County. Yes, this one
• 41:50
  is important to me. And it's funny because when I mentioned it and on
• 41:53
  social media there was a kid that said something about they just said Mount Baker
• 42:00
  all the way. The Kilts do it for me every time, and and
• 42:05
  I and I think it was a student at Mount Baker. So I replied,
• 42:08
  and I said, I said, hey, I'm all about it.
• 42:12
  Next time you're in the band room. Check who the the musician of the
• 42:15
  year was in nineteen ninety seven at Mount Baker. Was it was me?
• 42:20
  Oh? I mean I figured, but I didn't know if you were going
• 42:22
  somewhere else with that, like, you know, well, I wanted to
• 42:23
  let him know that, like, hey, I'm all about wearing that kilt.
• 42:27
  Yeah, I wore it. I work for three years. And I
• 42:29
  justn't know if it was like you know, TJ. Bass Senior or something,
• 42:31
  you know, right, I didn't know. No, So so yeah.
• 42:37
  So I love a good band, I love a good anthem, and
• 42:42
  uh it's and but I'll tell you what, there's one band that strikes me
• 42:46
  different than the rest of them, at least this year, and that was
• 42:50
  the Linden Lion Band. Uh. They are just a powerhouse band. Yeah.
• 42:57
  And it's and it's it just it works with everything they do. When
• 43:01
  they come out with one hundred kids and make the big circle and that band
• 43:06
  is blaring. I mean it is. I mean I'm getting chills now just
• 43:09
  thinking about it. But you can't you can't do it unless you have the
• 43:14
  good players and there you all buy in. And you know when they had
• 43:19
  that you know, two hand touch football game basically where they two thousand people
• 43:22
  showed up. They didn't have the game, the band was there, you
• 43:25
  know what I mean. When they played the road game and the playoffs,
• 43:30
  the band was there was standing on the sideline or standing on the side,
• 43:34
  yeah, next to the stands. I mean it, I mean it is.
• 43:37
  They are hardcore. I love it. There was I think they I
• 43:42
  don't know if they do it still, but there was one year where they
• 43:44
  all had like hockey uniforms, like they look like the Mighty dust uniforms kind
• 43:49
  of is it Randy that has one or well, Randy's daughters in the band.
• 43:54
  Well, that's what it is, Randy. That's right. There's a
• 43:57
  picture of Randy and his daughter and she was wearing one, and I was
• 44:00
  just going nuts. I was like, I need one of those. Yeah,
• 44:01
  And it's like they just kind of there's just something man and it and
• 44:07
  I love that band. And you're right, there are some great, great
• 44:08
  bands. I mean, there are awesome bands as far as uniforms go.
• 44:13
  Yeah, Mount Baker they've been wearing those uniforms for I want to say one
• 44:16
  hundred years now. It's been a long time. Holy Cow really yeah,
• 44:21
  yeah, there's been very few adjustments. And but you know, and like
• 44:25
  you said, like Squalk and their drum lines amazing. Ferndale year in and
• 44:30
  year out is great. Yeah. See, I mean there are some really
• 44:34
  really good bands, but man, Linden, Linden Christian's band is awesome as
• 44:37
  far as like man, they they played some great songs like I love the
• 44:40
  I love the songs that they play. But Linden, Man, that band
• 44:46
  is is for real and I don't see them going away anytime soon because uh,
• 44:52
  it's it's fully loaded and it matches the atmosphere and it works great.
• 44:57
  Yeah, you just you know, Tyler, and maybe you know it better
• 45:01
  than anybody because you show up to games late. You're not late, but
• 45:06
  you know what I mean, you're coming from another game. So sometimes you're
• 45:07
  showing up at like halftime when you're like in the parking lot and you can't
• 45:14
  even see the field. You can't see it, but you can hear that
• 45:16
  stinking band. Yes, oh man, there's not I mean, especially there's
• 45:22
  been a couple of times where you know, I've been coming from one game,
• 45:24
  you know, long long day, and it's like I'm driving from you
• 45:30
  know, Skyview High School in Vancouver and I'm trying to catch a game late
• 45:34
  at Sumner on a Saturday night or something, and you know, the valley
• 45:37
  is packed, and I gotta park five blocks away and I get out and
• 45:42
  I can hear du du du d d duh duh, you know, and
• 45:44
  it's like, oh yeah, the band, And all you can see is
• 45:46
  the lights in the distance. As you're getting closer, the band's getting a
• 45:51
  little bit louder. Oh man, I'm getting fired up right now. If
• 45:54
  my walls weren't frozen, I'd run through one. I mean, my goodness,
• 45:59
  I love a good band. I just I really, Tyler, do
• 46:01
  we know who the band directory is? Over there? Not top of my
• 46:06
  head? Let's see if let's let's uh, I'm gonna what I'm gonna do
• 46:12
  right now. We'll see if we can't maybe get it before the end of
• 46:15
  the show. Here, let's send uh, let's send uh, how about
• 46:19
  b v D. Well, we'll send the Blake's a text quick text?
• 46:25
  Okay, Yeah, and uh, let's uh, let's add the Let's add
• 46:29
  that other Blake also in there. Uh Blake and Blake? What do you
• 46:34
  know? Their names happen to be right next to each other. Ah,
• 46:37
  and uh, it wants me to name it too, Blake's don't make a
• 46:40
  riot? Who is the band director at Linden? And let's see if see
• 46:52
  if we can't get a response before the end of the show. That's something,
• 46:54
  you know, Tyler. This is where we're just not good at our
• 46:57
  job. Well, I mean we are, but we're not right like,
• 47:00
  yeah, technically we're I mean, I guess technically you are a professional at
• 47:04
  this Now me I was, Yeah, I was a professional. Now I'm
• 47:09
  not. But yeah, so we'll well, hopefully we can get that before
• 47:14
  the end of the show. If not, or Tyler, do you have
• 47:16
  like, do you have like a picture of the roster? Maybe maybe it's
• 47:19
  on the roster. I was just gonna say, that's like one of the
• 47:22
  few that I don't actually have in my hand. I might have taken a
• 47:24
  screenshot at one of them once. But yeah, we'll just we'll just wait
• 47:29
  for the blake, so we'll see, we'll see if they respond. If
• 47:30
  not, maybe I'll try to pressure on you guys, even though you're hearing
• 47:34
  this a day later. But yeah, yeah, well yeah, if we
• 47:38
  get it, we'll we'll pass it along. If not, I don't know.
• 47:42
  Maybe we'll try to bring it up on Sunday is what we'll try to
• 47:45
  do there. Either way, Tyler, we've got where are we at here?
• 47:49
  Special Teams Player? Is that where we're at now? Yes? Yes,
• 47:52
  Special Teams Player of the Year. And by the way, Tyler,
• 47:57
  people can sponsor the Special Teams Player of the Year, and this one is
• 48:00
  sponsored by Pets Real Estate. As a matter of fact, it should just
• 48:02
  be called the Troy Pets Special Steams Player of the Year. No Pets real
• 48:07
  Estate Special Teams Player of the Year. PETS real Estate is your preferred real
• 48:12
  estate agency in Walkam County. Tyler Pets real Estate dot Com, p e
• 48:15
  t Z Realestate dot Com. We've got some really really big names here.
• 48:22
  We're gonna start off with five ten, one hundred and sixty six pounds from
• 48:27
  high school thanks coach, kick returner. He is a junior number twenty five,
• 48:31
  Brady Brulin. The next one is a young man we've already talked about
• 48:36
  before. Five eight one eighty five Lynden kicker and punter, freshman number forty
• 48:42
  six. It's Malachai Canaan five seven, one forty five from Squalicum kick returner,
• 48:46
  punt returner Junior number one, Joaquin Ortiz. And then last, but
• 48:52
  certainly not least in this one six to one, one hundred and ninety pounds
• 48:57
  from Nukxack Valley kicker senior number eight, Big big, big boom boom,
• 49:05
  Jorgan Vigory. That's who it is, Yes, Tyler, We've got four
• 49:08
  awesome names here. Who is the twenty twenty three Pet's Real Estate Watcome Preps
• 49:15
  Special Teams Player of the Year. Well, this was a crazy one because
• 49:19
  you're kind of looking at completely different aspects of special teams almost with a lot
• 49:23
  of these different guys. And you know what was fun was Miss Walkham Preps
• 49:30
  voted on this and she she sat there and she, I said, you
• 49:34
  can ask me any questions you want, but the stats are right there.
• 49:37
  And and she said, you know, you should really have an Excel sheet
• 49:40
  so you can like see the stats compared with each other easily. And then
• 49:45
  I and but once we got to this one, that wouldn't work really well
• 49:49
  because you got returners, you got kickers, you got guys that kick in
• 49:52
  punt, you got returners that do just kick returns. You got some of
• 49:53
  the do kick and punt returns. So it's it makes it a little a
• 49:57
  little tougher, and it's kind of the flavor of how you want to vote.
• 50:01
  And in this case, the Special Teams Player of the Year, I'm
• 50:07
  sorry, the that's real estate Special Teams Player of the Year is Boom Boom
• 50:13
  himself, Jorgan Vigory from Nuksack Valley. And what a year he had.
• 50:17
  Yeah, sixty eight extra points kicked. That is just a fu shy of
• 50:22
  the Walkham County record for a season. Six field goals made. He basically
• 50:30
  rewrote the kicking record book at Nuksack Valley for extra points and field goals like
• 50:37
  in a game, a season, and a career. I mean, he
• 50:38
  took all those and that. I mean, it was just an unbelievable year
• 50:45
  for him, for and a guy that worked at his craft over and over
• 50:49
  again, started kicking a year ago, you know, the twenty twenty two
• 50:52
  season. Yeah, and just and it just got better and better and better.
• 50:57
  And by this year, I mean, he was so automatic, you
• 51:00
  know, and I you know, it's just it's just a great thing.
• 51:04
  And it's cool to see him on the basketball court. He hit a three
• 51:07
  the other day. You know, just it just you could sell. He
• 51:10
  just wants to be with his guys, you know. I mean that basketball
• 51:15
  team, I think eighty percent of it are football players, so they just
• 51:19
  have that really tight, you know group, you know. And three of
• 51:22
  them, yeah, three of them are linemen. So I mean you're talking
• 51:28
  about some muscle down there with Brady Ackerman, Dalton Hickey and Brock Linkar are
• 51:34
  all on the team. But uh, yeah, Vigory, what a great
• 51:37
  year. Great kid, and congratulations to him on winning the Pets Real Estate
• 51:42
  Special Teams Player of the Year. Yeah, that's uh, that's really cool.
• 51:46
  I mean for the fact that he hasn't played football very long, you
• 51:50
  know what I mean. And the guy's got a just a thud, you
• 51:54
  know what I mean, it's got a different tune to it. And yeah,
• 51:58
  that's that's always cool. Tyler. I got a text from Blake Van
• 52:01
  Dalen nice Trevor Gallaghan. Oh there you go. G A L L I
• 52:07
  G A N. I assume that's love it, he says, rock star
• 52:12
  and huge hockey fan, So thats why. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
• 52:20
  Yeah, on the fly right there. That's how we do things here
• 52:22
  at Welcome Preps. Uh. Let's see here, Tyler. Where are we
• 52:25
  at now? Lineman of the Year. Yeah, speaking of lineman, you're
• 52:30
  mentioned in basketball players in a lineman. I mean, here we go.
• 52:35
  We're right into it, Tyler. Uh, this is the I would say,
• 52:38
  maybe the third most important category on this list today. Wait, hold
• 52:45
  on here, we don't have any centers, do we? We do not,
• 52:49
  Tyler? I mean I guess that's kind of what the award is.
• 52:53
  Later, Okay, I want right here, Uh, let's talk offensive lineman
• 52:58
  defensive lineman. Here the big beauties if you will the first one on the
• 53:02
  list. Oh and you know what, Tyler Man, we forgot to We
• 53:07
  even said we wanted to mention the beginning of the show, and we totally
• 53:08
  forgot. What's that? These are in alphabetical order. Yes, yeah,
• 53:15
  there's no. You don't put a guy at the top because you want him
• 53:17
  to win. No, No, these go right in alphabetic order. So
• 53:20
  when people look at the at the website and they see the voting for the
• 53:23
  Lineman of the Year, it was straight right in a row. It just
• 53:28
  boom, boom boom right there there we go. So and that's how we're
• 53:32
  just going through. It is just right in a row. So uh yeah.
• 53:36
  The first one here on this list sixty four two hundred and fifty five
• 53:38
  pounds from Nuksack Valley, left tackle, defensive and he's a junior number sixty
• 53:43
  four. It's Brady Ackerman sixty three, two hundred and sixty pounds from Lyndon,
• 53:50
  left tackle, defensive lineman, senior number seventy one. Kuiper Ossinc.
• 53:54
  Six' one three twelve little guy, uh from Nuksack Valley, Levguard,
• 54:00
  defensive tackle, senior at number seventy one. Duke Halap Yappi and last,
• 54:06
  but certainly the best looking of the bunch, because look at that smile he's
• 54:08
  got there. Six to two hundred and eighty pounds from Ferndale a tackle defensive
• 54:14
  tackle senior at number seventy five, Camden Raymond Tyler. Give it to me
• 54:20
  who is the twenty twenty three Watkom Preps Football Ligneman of the Year? Another
• 54:25
  really really close vote and our first tie. Oh wow, So we have
• 54:32
  two here and this has happened in the past. We've done this. This
• 54:37
  has happened usually once sometimes twice a year. Yeah, where the queen flip
• 54:40
  or anything. No, no, no, they will each get the award,
• 54:45
  and it happened again here. So congratulations to Linden's Kuiper Assink and Ferndale's
• 54:57
  Camden Raymond. Those are your two Lineman of the Year. And what's great
• 55:01
  about all four of these guys was how they dominated on both sides of the
• 55:07
  ball. All four of them got All Conference First Team on each side,
• 55:10
  which which says a lot. You know, it's a it's and you've done
• 55:15
  it. You've played both sides of the line, and it is man when
• 55:19
  that once that game's over, it's your you know your toast. No you're
• 55:23
  not. You're ready for more well oiled machines of these guys, Tyler,
• 55:29
  ready for somemores. Is that what you said or did you say a little
• 55:30
  bit of both? Yeah? Uh? And what's so? This is?
• 55:35
  And this is just happenstance. I'm sitting here in my office and I look
• 55:38
  up and I have still in my possession the twenty twenty two trophy for last
• 55:46
  year's Lineman of the Year. Oh you didn't it? But no, I
• 55:52
  did not get it. I was in the running. No, I'm just
• 55:54
  kidding. Uh it was. It was Land and Hatchet won it. But
• 55:59
  by the time it was time for the awards and everything, he had already
• 56:01
  gone down to U dub. Yeah, And so I was never and I
• 56:05
  still have it. I'm sitting here looking at it right now. So it
• 56:08
  does look good in the office. It looks like I've done something athletically in
• 56:13
  my life. But wait, didn't you have like the what did you say?
• 56:16
  You were? Like the band direct? What were you? I?
• 56:20
  I was? I was. I won Musician of the Year and I was
• 56:22
  also the drum major mess senior year. So isn't there like a kilt or
• 56:28
  something to put up on the wall. I mean, you gotta have something,
• 56:30
  don't you guilt? Uh that joke, that joke kilt? Oh hey,
• 56:37
  but no, Yeah, I mean I've won a few awards. You
• 56:39
  know, it's usually like it's usually like those uh like most uh like best
• 56:49
  Team bate and that kind of stuff. You know what I mean, like
• 56:51
  most inspiration inspirational. Thank you. I actually have an most Inspirational from the
• 56:57
  baseball team. I won one award, Tyler. You want to know it
• 56:59
  was. It was called the Turnaround Award. Oh yeah, not because I
• 57:05
  had a nice butt. It wasn't that. It was because my grades were
• 57:07
  really bad for one semester and the next one I was like top of the
• 57:10
  class. That's literally what it was. I didn't win one for going the
• 57:14
  wrong way, but I won one for going back the right way. But
• 57:19
  yeah, Kuyper ossinc. Camden Raymond, those guys, yeah, were just
• 57:22
  and they went up against each other in Week one and man, just you
• 57:29
  know, the last two years it was won by Landon Hatchet. The year
• 57:35
  before that it was Gavin Or Tega, and so it's a pretty big time
• 57:40
  award. All those guys going off to college. I know kuyper Osinc.
• 57:45
  Has an offer I'm trying to remember where from might be University, Puget Sound
• 57:52
  or PEELU. And Camden Raymond has accept an offer to go play baseball,
• 57:57
  although playing in the Cleats Versus Answer game. I know that he was talking
• 58:00
  to some other coaches and stuff like that, so you just never know if
• 58:05
  he's gonna decide football over baseball. Plu kyper Ain Plu for kuyper Assink.
• 58:10
  Okay, yeah, and man, both those guys could could have that great
• 58:15
  size and athletic ability. I mean, and it's it's crazy to see the
• 58:21
  linemen these days and how athletic they are and how they can move and how
• 58:24
  well they're coached, you know. I mean, these guys have tremendous coaches
• 58:29
  too, that have been in the trenches and done the hard work and and
• 58:34
  it shows on the field. Just great, great young men. I mean,
• 58:37
  I'm telling you right now, Tyler, you give me Duke to my
• 58:40
  left, Camden Raymond to my right. I'll Sink on the outside to the
• 58:44
  right, and Brady Ackerman outside to the left. Yeah. Oh we're running
• 58:49
  that rock, baby, Yeah, we are going down hill. You know
• 58:52
  who could play running back. Tyler you, Oh, I love it.
• 58:57
  We'd be opening a hole so big it would look like the blame border crossing.
• 59:01
  I tell you what. I played quarterback my seventh grade year, and
• 59:06
  well, whoa whoa quarter Well okay, yeah, okay, never mind,
• 59:12
  I take it back. What kind offense we talking here? Yeah? I
• 59:14
  wishbone okay, yeah, hey, now you're really speaking my language. Yeah.
• 59:17
  And it was crazy because our seventh grade, our class quarterback, the
• 59:22
  guy who was always the Mount Baker quarterback through pee wee's and everything. When
• 59:27
  you get to seventh grade, you can still play on the juniors team,
• 59:30
  which is sixth graders if you don't weigh very much, and he had me.
• 59:34
  I weighed by thirty pounds at least. I was probably seventy one pounds
• 59:37
  in seventh grade. Ye, and he didn't, so he played on the
• 59:40
  sixth grade team. So our first day out of practice, they're like,
• 59:44
  give me a center and a quarterback. We're gonna do cadence, we're gonna
• 59:46
  start, you know, And no quarterback went out there. So I was
• 59:50
  like, screw it, I'm going out there. So I ended up playing
• 59:52
  quarterback my seventh grade year. And I tell you what. I did not
• 59:54
  act to kneel. I could put my and I had the you know what
• 59:59
  face mask. I had, Steve largent face mask, like the two little
• 1:00:01
  bars right next to each other. That's what I had. And and talk
• 1:00:06
  about old school. And I could just rest that on basically on the lower
• 1:00:10
  back of the center. I didn't even have to kneel. I'd have my
• 1:00:14
  hands up to my chest to take the snap and they couldn't see me.
• 1:00:20
  I was almost standing straight up. But yeah, I think I tempted like
• 1:00:22
  seven passes that year, maybe, yeah, right, I know I had
• 1:00:29
  one touchdown and one interception, and the touchdown was to a Moa, So
• 1:00:34
  you know that's good. Oh yeah, yeah, that's really good. I
• 1:00:37
  love it. I'm telling you though. A little little thirty six blast over
• 1:00:42
  here, Tyler, just get me all warm and fuzzy. Yeah, little
• 1:00:46
  wishbone. You know, we used to run a play it was like the
• 1:00:51
  wishbone motion where the full back would motion out and then come straight down and
• 1:00:55
  just absolutely destroy that defensive end. Yeah. Used to fake and man,
• 1:01:00
  it was fun. Nice the wishbone offense. The good days of football.
• 1:01:05
  Let me tell you, been all downhill ever since, nor let's see here
• 1:01:09
  that is Lineman of the Year Tyler. We are now onto another one of
• 1:01:14
  the new categories, this one here you are handing out again a little different
• 1:01:19
  category. We've we've talked about him in the past because you and I both
• 1:01:22
  think as much as the band is a part of the game, the PA
• 1:01:28
  announcer, you know, the cheerleaders are as much a part of it as
• 1:01:32
  anybody. And there are some great cheer squads all around the state. Really,
• 1:01:39
  I'll tell you what I have watched. I think you and I might
• 1:01:43
  might have talked about it on a podcast. So we are Bothel girls.
• 1:01:47
  We were like national We the Bothel Girls were national champions last year. In
• 1:01:52
  cheerleading. It's a little bit different though, right, It's like it's I
• 1:01:55
  mean, it's still the same girls that are on the sideline on Friday nights,
• 1:02:00
  but it's different. It's like the the what's that movie? You remember
• 1:02:04
  that movie? Bring It On? Ye, you know, like that's the
• 1:02:07
  type of competition they're not. Like, it's not like the stuff that they
• 1:02:10
  do on the sideline. So it's different, like the tumbling and they throw
• 1:02:13
  them in the air and they do all kinds of crazy stuff. The stuff
• 1:02:16
  that we see though on Friday night. Man, there is a lot of
• 1:02:20
  practice that goes into it, yes, and I mean a lot of practice.
• 1:02:23
  And I never I never knew how much practice goes into it until I
• 1:02:29
  started working in the school and I see our girls in their work and all
• 1:02:31
  the time many I mean all the time. And you know what, Tyler,
• 1:02:36
  I'd like to hang out with our trainer because he's a pretty funny guy
• 1:02:37
  from Helma. By the way, he played in the All State game way
• 1:02:40
  back in the day. But the cheerleaders are in that in getting work from
• 1:02:47
  the trainer quite a bit too. There's a lot of injuries going on there.
• 1:02:51
  Absolutely, I can't believe how athletic and just how much effort and what
• 1:02:54
  they actually do. I mean, it's pretty crazy. That being said,
• 1:02:59
  welcome on. He's got some good ones too. One that I remember.
• 1:03:01
  I remember the squal of them girls one night when I was down there,
• 1:03:06
  Like that cheer squad was awesome. I remember them specifically. Maybe it's because
• 1:03:10
  like them and the band were like just they were working well together, you
• 1:03:14
  know what I mean. That being said, Tyler, you've seen them all.
• 1:03:16
  You've been to the home games, you've been to the away games.
• 1:03:20
  You've seen them all the twenty twenty three Walk Them Preps Cheerleaders of the Year,
• 1:03:25
  Who is it? Well, this was out of the ones that I
• 1:03:30
  had to choose myself. This was probably the toughest because they're all great,
• 1:03:36
  and so you have to find little things that are like that make that stand
• 1:03:38
  out or things that you remember or whatever they do a halftime show or yeah,
• 1:03:43
  interact with the crowd more. Do they throw people up and make them
• 1:03:45
  do flips like rett thing? You gotta come up with some stuff. Are
• 1:03:49
  they doing push ups after the touchdown? I do love that and I can't.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah, and if they score sixty, can they pump out sixty of
• 1:03:55
  them? You know? And so uh and the cheerleading staff that or the
• 1:04:03
  crew or you know, are the cheerleading team that made that? Made me
• 1:04:08
  that a squad that made me, you know, go that was awesome the
• 1:04:13
  most or the Ferndale Golden Eagles, they were awesome and they were they were
• 1:04:19
  they were into it. And also what I listened for is like little things
• 1:04:25
  like a defensive cheer when the other team's on offense, like they got to
• 1:04:29
  know what's going on, you know what I mean? And and and vice
• 1:04:32
  versa and stuff like that. So I think they were very football savvy.
• 1:04:36
  I thought I thought they were awesome. They also do the push ups everything.
• 1:04:41
  They were just really really good and and I you know, I got
• 1:04:45
  to see them a handful of times and every time they never disappointed. They
• 1:04:49
  do a fantastic shop. So the Ferndale Golden Eagles. You want to know
• 1:04:55
  what the worst cheer on the sideline of a football game is, Tyler that
• 1:05:00
  you know, the one where they go, hey burrito. You ever heard
• 1:05:03
  that one? I don't think so. You've never heard the hay burrito chant.
• 1:05:11
  It's weird because that kind of like they go hey burrito, and then
• 1:05:15
  the student section will say hey burrito back, and then they go hey,
• 1:05:18
  hey burrito. Burrito, Yeah burrito. Yeah, Yeah, they go taco
• 1:05:24
  bell and taco bell. That kind of sounds familiar, but I it always
• 1:05:29
  makes me hungry. Yeah it does. I mean, I love that they're
• 1:05:33
  interacting, but can we not talk about food? Yeah? I stand on
• 1:05:38
  the sideline and now all of a sudden, I'm sitting here going, you
• 1:05:40
  know, I could go for a Chipotle ranch burrito. You know, forever
• 1:05:44
  there was only Taco Bell in Bellingham, and then they put one up in
• 1:05:47
  Ferndale, probably six years ago or so, and then just in the last
• 1:05:51
  year a new one up in Blaine, and just about a month or so
• 1:05:56
  ago a new one in Lindon. See Taco bells are going up, and
• 1:06:00
  all because of the cheer, I guess. Yeah. They were yelling Taco
• 1:06:01
  Bell, Taco Bell. It was getting echoed back and people were like,
• 1:06:03
  you know what, we should open one? Yeah, Tyler, are you
• 1:06:06
  a Taco Bell guy? Yeah? I mean I prefer Taco Time. I
• 1:06:11
  think it's because because I worked there in high school and I and I know
• 1:06:15
  that things are. Yeah, it's better, and I know it's more fresh
• 1:06:17
  and everything. It's more expensive. I get that, but I have no
• 1:06:19
  problem. I have no I have no problem stopping at a Taco Bell.
• 1:06:24
  Yeah. And that white chicken chili they got at the Taco Time Yes,
• 1:06:29
  wow is that good? Wow? And I love their natural soft burrito.
• 1:06:32
  That being said, though, Taco Bell, man, they got some.
• 1:06:36
  They got some just delicious stuff, don't they. Yes, they do.
• 1:06:40
  Their breakfast is fabulous too. I know you're not a breakfast guy, but
• 1:06:44
  man, they got a good breakfast. Yeah. Yeah, they got a
• 1:06:46
  Chipotle Ranch grilled chicken burrito, though it's like two dollars mm hmm, and
• 1:06:50
  they're they're big. Man, Oh, those things are good. I'm sweating
• 1:06:55
  right now. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sweating, Tyler. We need
• 1:06:59
  to get a Taco Bell or a Taco Time. Somebody's got to own them,
• 1:07:01
  right, those are locally owned. Usually, somebody's got to got to
• 1:07:04
  own one of them. They can. We need a sponsorship, that's what.
• 1:07:09
  That's why I need somewhere to eat lunch. When I come up to
• 1:07:12
  give out the award, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to make that happen.
• 1:07:15
  Taco time. Hot Sauce. Oh yeah, goodness. I used to make
• 1:07:19
  it at Taco Time, and I wish I remembered how because because it is
• 1:07:24
  so amazing. And they always say, like, how many hot sauce does
• 1:07:27
  you want? And I say, as many as you're allowed to give me
• 1:07:29
  before you get fired. And and now they only give you two. And
• 1:07:33
  it's costs more if you want more, but two, but like two per
• 1:07:38
  order totaler per meal, I think, okay, well then I'd probably buy
• 1:07:43
  a couple more meals. Yeah, I mean I used to just store them
• 1:07:45
  in the fridge, and I'd put them on everything. I put them on
• 1:07:47
  my hot dogs. Oh me too, did you really? Yeah? I
• 1:07:53
  do, because the thing is is I don't so it's weird because I don't
• 1:07:57
  actually like it too much. With the breathe. I think it's really hard
• 1:08:00
  to eat a burrito and like dump sauce on it as you Yeah, no,
• 1:08:02
  I just use it for the for the tater tots. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:08:04
  I dip the tater tots in it. And I only use one per
• 1:08:08
  box of tater tots so that I can have the other one for other stuff.
• 1:08:10
  Sure, yeah, no, I will put and and so I fully
• 1:08:15
  admit, fully admit I do actually like the Is it fire sauce or something
• 1:08:18
  from from Taco Bell? Yeah, and I'll put that on hot dogs.
• 1:08:23
  Yeah yeah, yeah. It's just a little bit of kick on a hot
• 1:08:26
  dog. Man. So yeah, that's why it's a hot dog. That's
• 1:08:30
  not why. But uh oh okay, Tyler, where are we at here?
• 1:08:32
  Defensive Player of the Year. Yes, so we've got what do we
• 1:08:36
  got here? Six left? We're at an hour and eight minutes. The
• 1:08:39
  only person right now that cares Blake Whipmen. Uh. Defensive Player of the
• 1:08:45
  year Tyler, and boy, we're this is you know when we when we're
• 1:08:47
  doing the Top one Herd countdown, we get down to like twenty five,
• 1:08:50
  we're like, we're into the We're into the names now. M M boy,
• 1:08:56
  are we into some names? Yes? Absolutely so. We've got defense
• 1:09:00
  player of the Year in the first one here six foot, two hundred and
• 1:09:02
  eighteen pounds from high school Thanks coach, defensive end senior number sixty four,
• 1:09:08
  Alex Mololi, six three, two hundred and fifty five pounds from Nukzack Valley
• 1:09:13
  inside linebacker senior number fifty two, John Stremler, sixty four to two hundred
• 1:09:18
  and thirty pounds Lyndon Christian inside linebacker senior number twenty five, Cadence Stite and
• 1:09:25
  six three, two hundred and ten pounds from Ferndale Senior safety number twenty five,
• 1:09:30
  Connor Walker Tyler, who is the twenty twenty three Watchum Preps Football Defensive
• 1:09:35
  Player of the Year. Oh yeah, this one. And I think the
• 1:09:42
  crazy thing about this one is I think this one has had to tie maybe
• 1:09:47
  the last couple of years. I mean it's always No, it wasn't last
• 1:09:51
  year. Last year it was Jake Mason yeah, the year before that,
• 1:09:55
  obvious last year or the year before that, it was tied with Davin Beeson
• 1:10:00
  and Tavin Van Dalen. I mean there's just been some dudes. Yeah,
• 1:10:05
  and this year we have another tie and so really really close vote again,
• 1:10:15
  but the tie. The two winners here are Caden Stite from Lyndon Christian and
• 1:10:23
  John Stremler from Nukzack Valley. Both guys for just difference makers in the middle
• 1:10:30
  of the field playing that inside linebacker spot and different a little bit, different
• 1:10:35
  players, but a huge impact both ways. Yeah, just you know,
• 1:10:45
  Caden Stite led the whole county in tackles with one hundred and seven and a
• 1:10:48
  half. He had nine and a half tackles for lost, two pass deflections
• 1:10:53
  of force, fumble, fumble recovery, had interception that he returned forty four
• 1:10:57
  yards. He was named the Northwest Conference one A Defensive Player of the Year,
• 1:11:01
  which you know he had to beat Strembler out for that. That says
• 1:11:05
  a lot. Strembler was also All Conference first team linebacker. Seventy two tackles,
• 1:11:10
  twelve and a half tackles for lost, six sacks, three passes broken
• 1:11:14
  up, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery. I think a little bit
• 1:11:18
  different as far as I think Caden Stite had a little bit more speed and
• 1:11:25
  sideline the sideline, but Strembler struck fear too. Like he there was like
• 1:11:30
  a big circle in the middle of field where like nobody ever ran and that
• 1:11:34
  was kind of because of number fifty two standing there. So they're a little
• 1:11:40
  different. Super excited that they're both going to Eastern and they're just unbelievable players,
• 1:11:47
  both deserving, really pumped that they both got this award. Funny thing
• 1:11:51
  is neither of them are going to play inside linebacker in college. That's very
• 1:11:56
  true, Tyler. You know, like the in baseball, your baseball guy,
• 1:12:01
  know, you know, like the spray chart, you know, yes,
• 1:12:03
  yes, yeah. Can you imagine that if it was like where do
• 1:12:06
  they run the ball? You know, for like John Stremler, it would
• 1:12:10
  look like a like like area fifty one right in the middle. Yeah,
• 1:12:14
  area fifty two, you know what I mean exactly? Could you imagine running
• 1:12:17
  a three four and having these two idiots right there in the middle of the
• 1:12:20
  line. It's uh like like you know, and we love the line the
• 1:12:28
  middle linebackers at Lyndon, you know, but can you imagine if they had
• 1:12:30
  two guys? I mean, first off, if they had two guys like
• 1:12:32
  this, they wouldn't be playing inside linebacker. But you know what I'm saying,
• 1:12:35
  Like, can you imagine with the way that like those Linden guys are
• 1:12:39
  like, with the way that they play, you know what I mean inside
• 1:12:42
  linebackers? Just putting these two guys in there. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:12:45
  my goodness. The funny thing is the of the of the four guys on
• 1:12:48
  this list, the smallest one out of them all is probably the defensive end.
• 1:12:56
  Yeah, you know Molowly, I mean Grant Walker six three two ten,
• 1:12:59
  But you know, he's a He's a little bit bigger of a body
• 1:13:01
  in a way than right, Melowey's a little bit shorter. But and I
• 1:13:05
  tell you what, when you talk about like the biggest necks in the history
• 1:13:08
  of Waalkham County, Malowe's gotta be right there. Yes, yeah, twenty
• 1:13:12
  and a half, twenty and a half tackles for loss this year. Yeah,
• 1:13:15
  that's insane, man, Like, Yeah, it's crazy. Is there
• 1:13:17
  are there any teams that didn't have twenty and a half? I don't know
• 1:13:21
  for sure, but I think I would think there are. Yeah, I
• 1:13:25
  mean there's probably a couple of them. I mean, you know, I
• 1:13:28
  mean that's just wild. Twenty and a half tackles for a lost, Like,
• 1:13:32
  that's just dumb, now, Tyler, when it says fifty eight point
• 1:13:35
  five tackles, are twenty point five of those tackles for a loss? Yes,
• 1:13:42
  I mean what is that? Like that that's what a third? Yeah?
• 1:13:47
  A little more than a third? Yeah, yeah, I mean it's
• 1:13:50
  insane. Yeah, you know, that is just absolutely insane. And then
• 1:13:55
  you look at some of the stats of like these other guys too, like
• 1:13:58
  John Stremler. His stat line is like a mile and a half long,
• 1:14:00
  you know, in Cadence Stighte here, you know, one hundred and seven
• 1:14:04
  and a half tackles. Yeah, what world are we living in here?
• 1:14:09
  I mean, especially because of how how strict you are with tackles too.
• 1:14:14
  Yes, absolutely, you know. I mean every year is there's somebody that
• 1:14:17
  gets a hundred you know what I mean is that like does that help?
• 1:14:20
  No, it does not happened very often. Laine Herringe had it last year,
• 1:14:25
  but before that, I think I think Davin Beeson had like ninety eight
• 1:14:29
  maybe, I mean it's yeah, yeah, I mean, but it's a
• 1:14:32
  hard number to reach, really hard, by the way I do it,
• 1:14:35
  so very very impressive. Yeah, that's yeah, that is just truly incredible.
• 1:14:43
  Let's see here we are on to Offensive Player of the Year Tyler,
• 1:14:47
  and there's been some big names that have been Offensive Players of the Year over
• 1:14:51
  the last few seasons. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just trying to think,
• 1:14:59
  trying to think about nothing. Man, Why am I blanking? I know
• 1:15:05
  I shouldn't be Offensive Players of the Year. Well, I think I know.
• 1:15:11
  Logan Dykester won it the first year. I remember that, yeah,
• 1:15:15
  because I remember it was weird because like handing out trophies for during COVID was
• 1:15:18
  impossible, Like I'd like deliver them to the schools, you know, and
• 1:15:21
  then they would deliver I remember having that conversation with you. Yeah, I
• 1:15:27
  remember you and I talking to being like, I mean, I guess we
• 1:15:29
  could just give them to the school or something, right, like right,
• 1:15:31
  yeah, And let's see here, I think, oh, a couple of
• 1:15:39
  years ago, Jackson court Lever, Oh yeah, and and that guy was
• 1:15:45
  good. Yeah, And why am I blank? Well, let mean,
• 1:15:50
  why am I blanking on? Last year? Was it? No? I
• 1:15:55
  was gonna say, was it Isaiah Carlson, but it wasn't. Why can't
• 1:16:03
  I remember who the Offensive Player of the Year last year was? I don't
• 1:16:06
  know, I don't. I don't want to think about it anymore. Whoa,
• 1:16:13
  whoa wait wait a second here, what does it say? So?
• 1:16:16
  I just typed in Walkham Preps Awards twenty twenty two. Right, yeah,
• 1:16:20
  yeah, and one of the first searches is on IMDb. What it does?
• 1:16:28
  It says walk Them Preps Podcast, Filming and Production. What how did
• 1:16:31
  we end up on IMDb? Are you serious? Yeah? I mean I'll
• 1:16:35
  send this to you right now. I have no idea what this is.
• 1:16:39
  I mean, we're huge, but we're not huge. No, I mean
• 1:16:43
  we're not at all. Well can you tell me at least you're the Offensive
• 1:16:47
  Players of the Year nominees were last year? No, I don't know.
• 1:16:50
  I'm trying to find that. I was trying to find it, but I
• 1:16:53
  ended up on IMDb. I don't know how that happened. Goodness gracious,
• 1:16:58
  Yeah, what a gong show we got going on here? Yeah? No
• 1:17:00
  kidding. Yeah, remember when he said black tie affair. That's definitely not
• 1:17:03
  happening. I mean, it's gonna happen but I don't think either you or
• 1:17:08
  I will end up. Well maybe I'll wear black, but you're not gonna
• 1:17:11
  do it. No, I got my different suits. Yeah, you're gonna
• 1:17:13
  show up, and you're gonna show up looking like like Lloyd Christmas or you
• 1:17:17
  know, it says here that it says here that the run time was two
• 1:17:25
  hours and three minutes last year. There are really two hours. We really
• 1:17:29
  go that long? I'm sure he did. I mean you never know,
• 1:17:34
  yeah, I mean, what are we doing here? Tyl? Oh?
• 1:17:36
  You know it was last year? It was Marcus George. Oh yeah,
• 1:17:39
  that's right, because he went in nuts in the playoffs. Yeah, you
• 1:17:42
  ran for over two thousand yards. I yeah, I totally remember that.
• 1:17:45
  I remember giving him the trophy and everything. Yes, Marcus George last year.
• 1:17:48
  Yeah, it wasn't he the one that you were like, I'm not
• 1:17:50
  even sure if I'm gonna be able to give him the trophy. Yeah,
• 1:17:55
  I mean it was really hard to get an intro out of him everything,
• 1:17:58
  that's right, Yeah, the intro. That's what we're probably with him.
• 1:18:00
  Yeah, he does not want any limelight at all. No, well,
• 1:18:04
  I don't think he knows what it means. He just yeah, he just
• 1:18:08
  didn't, ye, Tyler, We've got four awesome names here. The first
• 1:18:14
  one six to two hundred and fifteen pounds from Knooksack Valley running back junior number
• 1:18:18
  nine. It's Colton Lentz. Sixty four to two fifteen from Bellingham Quarterbacks senior
• 1:18:24
  number one, Josh Leonard, five to nine one hundred and eighty pounds from
• 1:18:29
  Bellingham wide receiver senior number five Josh Tole and five to eleven one hundred eighty
• 1:18:34
  pounds from Seahome wide receiver junior number seven, Andre Watson. Tyler, tell
• 1:18:41
  me who is the twenty twenty three WATKUM Preps football Offensive Player of the Year.
• 1:18:46
  Huge numbers this year, all around records being broken, school records,
• 1:18:51
  all sorts of things, and at the offensive player of the Year voted this
• 1:18:58
  year was the junior from Nuiksack Valley, Colton Lentz. And he was also
• 1:19:04
  the Northwest Conference winning Offensive Player of the Year. And I don't know if
• 1:19:10
  you saw this, but each classification put out there, all state teams voted
• 1:19:14
  on by the coaches. And I heard from Ben Dalen a little bit about
• 1:19:17
  how a lot of the coaches went on and got on zoom and did their
• 1:19:20
  own teams, which is awesome. Colton Lentz was named All State running back
• 1:19:25
  in that category. They came out right after I put this up with their
• 1:19:30
  acknowledgments and stuff like that. But he ran for one four and two yards
• 1:19:34
  that led the county. Twenty five rushing touchdowns led the county. You know,
• 1:19:41
  you're talking about everything as far as the speed, power, balance,
• 1:19:45
  vision, toughness, everything you want out of a running back. Hard to
• 1:19:48
  believe. He's just a junior and it's you know, he's won an award
• 1:19:56
  all three years now, pretty impressive, and he is on the fast track
• 1:20:01
  of doing some big time things coming up and in life and in football because
• 1:20:08
  he's a great kid. You know, I'm really excited to see what he
• 1:20:12
  does in the football field next year and then and he's going to have a
• 1:20:14
  decision to make about what school, what side of the ball. Well,
• 1:20:18
  he might not have a decision on what side the ball, but it could
• 1:20:20
  depend on what school. Well, lots of options might depend on what side
• 1:20:26
  of the ball. That's right. If one school says running back and he
• 1:20:29
  wants to play a linebacker, well maybe he goes somewhere else. Yeah,
• 1:20:31
  you never know. So you know, it's uh, it's crazy. There's
• 1:20:36
  you know, like when his dad was going through it, it was all
• 1:20:40
  set up to play running back at you Dub and then when they had the
• 1:20:43
  sanctions and didn't and things kind of fell through, he was kind of nixed
• 1:20:48
  last second and went and played linebacker at Eastern and got and got a great
• 1:20:53
  degree, and and you know, it just kind of you never really know
• 1:20:56
  how it's going to happen, so you just don't know. And and and
• 1:21:00
  I'm sure Eastern's quite high on him, as they've been really high on certain
• 1:21:04
  kids from Walkham County as of late, and why wouldn't they be, And
• 1:21:09
  so just a great year from him, And so yeah, Colton Lentz is
• 1:21:15
  your twenty twenty three Walkham Preps Offensive Player of the Year. Great hair too,
• 1:21:20
  oh yeah, really really nice hair on that guy. He's he's got
• 1:21:26
  some good follicles. Tyler. We were on to fan favorite, and again
• 1:21:30
  this is the only one that every vote was the same. Every vote online
• 1:21:34
  was the same. My vote was the same, as you know, I
• 1:21:39
  don't know, maybe coach Lepp he probably didn't get on, but you know
• 1:21:42
  what I'm saying, Like every vote was the same and joke and Census is
• 1:21:45
  the same. It's funny you say that because I was just as you were
• 1:21:49
  talking. I was trying to again find the awards from last year. Yeah,
• 1:21:54
  I couldn't find them, but I did find the podcast, and I
• 1:21:57
  was hoping that maybe you'd written it down below, but I knew you didn't.
• 1:22:00
  And what do I see at the bottom? Joe Consensus commented on the
• 1:22:03
  post and they said, awesome. Yeah. Anyway, that being said Tyler,
• 1:22:10
  that view, I think, yeah it is. We're gonna run through
• 1:22:14
  all ten names. Every school had one fan favorite up for the voting.
• 1:22:20
  We'll run through the names. I'm not gonna give you the the heights and
• 1:22:25
  weights of everybody, but let's just run through the names here and again.
• 1:22:28
  They're in alphabetical order by the last name of the player. So from Lyndon,
• 1:22:32
  Charlie Ayers, Lyndon, Christian Dawson, Bauma, Blaine, Jesse,
• 1:22:39
  Deming, Seahome, Braddick, Duckworth, Meridian, Josh Tin, Elmer,
• 1:22:45
  Ferndale, Kellen LeFave. By the way, that's a good looking dude,
• 1:22:49
  Malt Baker, Vance Lawrence. You know what's really funny to think about,
• 1:22:54
  Just look at the two pictures between Vance Lawrence and Kellen le Fave and they
• 1:22:57
  both play essentially the same positions. All right, I mean that is just
• 1:23:00
  wild. Uh Squalakum Colby, Lewis Bellingham, Wyatt Stephen and Nuzack Valley Skyler
• 1:23:11
  Wittern, who, by the way, did I see that he got on
• 1:23:14
  All State? Also? Yes he did. That's awesome. I mean,
• 1:23:16
  this guy's really really cool, that being said Tyler fan Favorite twenty twenty three
• 1:23:24
  Watkum Preps fan favorite. Who is it? Well, you know, it's
• 1:23:30
  it's crazy because since we've had this fan favorite vote in there, it's the
• 1:23:36
  deep. You know, the valley is strong. As far as it's been
• 1:23:43
  Nuxack Valley players, it was I think it was Trey Silva a couple of
• 1:23:46
  years ago, then it was Ryan Hughes last year. So the Nuxack Valley
• 1:23:51
  Pioneer faithful comes out strong in this vote. But the trend has been broken
• 1:23:58
  this year. Oh I thought, you devil you what you know what that
• 1:24:02
  was, Tyler. That's one of those that's being the witness. Yeah,
• 1:24:06
  no, you know what that is. That's one of those like bait and
• 1:24:10
  switches, like you know, it's a tease right like Mary Pop. It's
• 1:24:14
  like like, you know, you say you aren't the father, she says
• 1:24:16
  you are. We'll find out after that, after the break. Yeah,
• 1:24:20
  exactly. So so that means no, no nooksact value. So who was
• 1:24:27
  it? It was Ferndale's Kellen the Faves good looking guy, and it was
• 1:24:33
  it was a tight race and the most voted on category out of all of
• 1:24:39
  them, which I love because the fans really didn't get involved in this and
• 1:24:45
  just a really really cool deal. And Kellen the Fave, man, I
• 1:24:48
  tell you what, I so glad you got to play this year after that
• 1:24:53
  nasty arm injury last year. And and I love and you know, it's
• 1:24:58
  like you can almost name the award after the fan the fave, you know,
• 1:25:02
  the fan the favorite. Here do what? Oh come on, I
• 1:25:05
  don't get anything for that. That's pretty good. Oh yeah, so we'll
• 1:25:12
  give you one of these, the fan the favorite. It's like a French
• 1:25:18
  award this year. No, no, we we no. I don't know,
• 1:25:23
  but it makes me want crepes. I just want French fries. I'm
• 1:25:27
  good. Yeah that sound good. I got some in the freezer I bought.
• 1:25:30
  I bought like a big old bag of French fries and I've been putting
• 1:25:34
  them on like sandwiches and stuff. Really. Oh well, have you ever
• 1:25:39
  heard of like the Primanty Brothers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, kind
• 1:25:42
  of get like, you know, obviously they I'm doing a little different than
• 1:25:45
  them, But I was like, you know what, I'm gonna start experimenting
• 1:25:48
  with different things and find out what I like. Yeah. When I find
• 1:25:51
  out that a roast beef sandwich with a little horseeradish some French fries a heck
• 1:25:59
  of a sandwich, man, let me tell you, Yeah, that's awesome.
• 1:26:03
  Kellen the fave who I mean, let's face it, like until this
• 1:26:08
  year, I don't know we ever said his name. Yeah, I mean
• 1:26:12
  he would have started last year, he would and I think he did.
• 1:26:14
  The first game he tore up his arm really bad and I missed basically the
• 1:26:19
  entire season. He might have come back and suited up for the quarterfinal game,
• 1:26:24
  but I mean, just horrible luck and had a great senior year both
• 1:26:29
  sides of the ball. And it's just and he's got I mean, you
• 1:26:32
  know, obviously people love him. I mean, you know, fan favorite,
• 1:26:36
  you know, it's it's it's great to see and the most voted on
• 1:26:41
  he I mean, yeah, the most voted on category. So it's really
• 1:26:44
  really cool. Yeah, and when when that voting came out, Man,
• 1:26:46
  it was just a matter of pride, That's what I was. Absolutely,
• 1:26:50
  it was just a yeah, Callen the fave. That's awesome, fan favorite,
• 1:26:56
  Tyler. We were on to the last of the new awards, and
• 1:26:59
  that is the Mark Newton Award. And you know, this is one we
• 1:27:04
  talked about it on the podcast a couple of days ago, and you know
• 1:27:10
  when I mentioned it to you, and I just said, hey, you
• 1:27:12
  know, I'd like to give out an award, and and my original idea
• 1:27:15
  was just kind of like, you know, mean nasty linemen like you know,
• 1:27:17
  but then I was like, you know what it's about centers though.
• 1:27:20
  You know, I love centers. That's my thing. I think I've made
• 1:27:24
  that pretty clear over the over the two hundred and thirty six podcasts that we've
• 1:27:27
  done. And you know what, Jason Kelsey just announced this his retirement the
• 1:27:31
  other day. You know, I mean, the greatest athlete in NFL history.
• 1:27:38
  I obviously I don't believe that, but I'm saying it. Yeah,
• 1:27:43
  I mean, this is an award that I think is one that I think
• 1:27:47
  it's special, and you know, I'm going to come up with with a
• 1:27:51
  with an actual like award at some point, you know what I mean.
• 1:27:55
  Like, there's going to be something I don't know what it is, but
• 1:27:58
  it's gonna come to me at some point pot I don't know. Maybe it's
• 1:28:00
  a piece of wood with a plunder on it, you know what I mean.
• 1:28:02
  I don't know. It's gonna be something though where maybe it's maybe it's
• 1:28:06
  a lunch pale that will paint gold. You know, I don't know what
• 1:28:10
  it is. We're gonna come up with something, though, the Mark Newton
• 1:28:14
  Award, and it's going to go to you know, a a center that
• 1:28:20
  is the best center in the county. That's not what this is about.
• 1:28:25
  This is about who embodies the position? Who is the position? You know,
• 1:28:30
  a guy that has like, you know, tape on his wrists and
• 1:28:33
  at the end of the night he's got blood on his knuckles, you know,
• 1:28:36
  like that kind of guy. Now, when I came to you and
• 1:28:41
  I said, this is what I want to do. This is kind of
• 1:28:44
  what I'm thinking. I said, who's the first name that comes to mind,
• 1:28:47
  Tyler? You said, Mark Newton, And I said no idea who
• 1:28:50
  that is. Tell me about him and yeah, Mark Boosey, Yeah,
• 1:28:55
  Mark Newton graduated from Meridian High School in the mid eighties. He was an
• 1:29:00
  unbelievable center for Meridian. And you know, when I talked to coach Bob
• 1:29:06
  Ames years ago and we were going over players here and there, he with
• 1:29:13
  a straight face, just flat out said, that's the best center I've ever
• 1:29:15
  coached. And that told me a lot for someone that had been coaching for
• 1:29:20
  nearly fifty years and and they've had some unbelievable centers. And at that point
• 1:29:28
  I had read about him. I'd never seen film or anything like that,
• 1:29:32
  and he was like, you just wait till you see some film. I
• 1:29:36
  was able to get some film from coach James. I watched it and he
• 1:29:42
  it's it's I don't know how to explain it, but like it's rare that
• 1:29:45
  the center stands out really if you really think about it, you know what
• 1:29:49
  I mean, Like usually right, Yeah, and he stood out in a
• 1:29:55
  different way as far as you know, from snap to contact was was there.
• 1:30:02
  Speed was great, a former running back, only five nine and eighty
• 1:30:06
  pounds. I mean, he was a guy that was undersized, didn't care
• 1:30:12
  he wants to pick the fight. It was blocking downfield, and you know,
• 1:30:18
  his helmet was totally different than everybody else's as far as I mean it
• 1:30:24
  is dinged up, it is it. I mean, even on the old
• 1:30:27
  grainy mid eighties VHS film you could see that it's different than everybody else's.
• 1:30:32
  It's awesome. I And so it really struck a chord with me when he
• 1:30:39
  told me how great he was when I saw the film, and how I
• 1:30:42
  agreed with it. And he passed away at a young age, and you
• 1:30:48
  know, it's it's but he's a guy that needs to be remembered, and
• 1:30:54
  I think this is a great way to do it. And so yeah,
• 1:30:58
  just really really excited about it. And and this is our first one doing
• 1:31:00
  it, so Ryland, we did get the blessing of the family as well.
• 1:31:05
  Yes, yes, I did reach out for us, like, yeah,
• 1:31:09
  yeah, definitely, We're not just willing nilly going through with this.
• 1:31:13
  I reached out to Mark's brother Chad and and he thumbs up all for it,
• 1:31:20
  excited about it, and you know, he was a he was a
• 1:31:24
  big time lineman at Meridian later on, so he you know, and and
• 1:31:29
  he still has ties to the community. His son plays at Nuoksack Valley,
• 1:31:31
  so a really really cool deal and he was all for it. So just
• 1:31:38
  really excited about being able to do something like this. So Ryland, this
• 1:31:43
  was your choice. Yeah. And you know, Tyler, this is something
• 1:31:45
  that I got. After we put out the podcast the other day where we
• 1:31:50
  kind of talked about this a little bit, I got a text from somebody
• 1:31:54
  and I'm not going to say who it is. I'll tell you off the
• 1:31:56
  air, but because I didn't ask them if it's okay for me to say
• 1:31:59
  this, but they sent me a text and they said, your award is
• 1:32:01
  named after a guy who was five nine one and eighty five pounds a WTF
• 1:32:06
  lol, And I said, yeah, only about one hundred pounds less than
• 1:32:11
  me. But I was about five nine in high school, you know,
• 1:32:15
  Tyler, But to me, this is high school football. It's guys like
• 1:32:19
  this. And when I think of the center position in Watkom County this year,
• 1:32:26
  and I watched film on all of them. I mean I watched enough
• 1:32:30
  film on all of them that I feel comfortable giving the first the inaugural if
• 1:32:36
  you will, Mark Newton Award to five eleven one and eighty two pounds center
• 1:32:43
  from Mount Baker, Vance Lawrence, and I just every time I watch Mount
• 1:32:49
  Baker and every time, you know, Tyler Seahawks games. I sit in
• 1:32:55
  the end zone and I watch from that angle and I'm always looking at lineman
• 1:33:01
  and that's what I love. That's what I love doing, and especially the
• 1:33:04
  center position. And I just love watching Vance Lawrence play football. I mean
• 1:33:11
  just the way he gets after it. One hundred and eighty two pounds,
• 1:33:15
  Are you kidding me? I mean, Tyler, when you look at the
• 1:33:17
  picture of him and Kellen le Fave, I mean, he looks like Kellen
• 1:33:21
  Lafave's dinner. Or you go below it to see Colby Lewis another line.
• 1:33:27
  Yeah, there you go, Colby, I don't even look at it.
• 1:33:29
  Yeah, go one south and boom, there we go. I mean,
• 1:33:31
  you've got two massive dudes. And I'm telling you right now, if I
• 1:33:35
  had to go to battle and we had Colby Lewis on one side of Vance
• 1:33:39
  Lawrence and Kellen LaFave on the other, We're running the ball up the middle,
• 1:33:43
  baby, and away we go, you know what I mean. And
• 1:33:45
  when I think of when I think of what high school football is all about,
• 1:33:50
  it's guys like Vance Lawrence, you know, and just the way he
• 1:33:55
  gets after it. And now he steps over on the wrestling mat and he's
• 1:33:58
  just a badass over there. I mean, this guy is I mean,
• 1:34:02
  yeah, I think of a guy wearing a hard hat with a lunch pale
• 1:34:08
  boots, showing up to work, you know what I mean, wearing car
• 1:34:11
  hearts, you know what I mean. Like, that's what I think of
• 1:34:13
  it. And it's not the it's not the new guys wearing car hearts with
• 1:34:15
  their their jeans with the holes already built into them. Now, these are
• 1:34:19
  like jeans that have holes because they've been on their knees, you know,
• 1:34:24
  working hard, you know what I mean. That's what I think of when
• 1:34:28
  I think of that. As far as high school football goes, it's it's
• 1:34:31
  Vance Lawrence. I mean he of all the film I watched this year as
• 1:34:38
  far as offensive line play goes, was he the greatest that I saw?
• 1:34:43
  No? But man, he has a lot of fun to watch and I
• 1:34:46
  just I love everything about it. And that's why he gets the first Mark
• 1:34:50
  Newton Award. Awesome. Yeah, I mean, and I'm excited to I
• 1:34:56
  don't know what I'm gonna do. You know what I mean, I'm gonna
• 1:34:59
  come up with something. I'm gonna come up with it with with something I
• 1:35:01
  don't know if it's uh you know, I kind of have an idea actually
• 1:35:04
  right now, but I'm not gonna do it because I need to talk to
• 1:35:08
  somebody else before I can actually like say, get permission to do what I
• 1:35:12
  want to do. But and I'll tell you after we're done recording here what
• 1:35:15
  my thought process is. But uh yeah, I mean we're gonna do something
• 1:35:19
  up. Maybe this year he just gets a regular award, you know what
• 1:35:23
  I mean, But in the future, I've got some ideas. I've got
• 1:35:27
  some ideas here, so uh yeah, well we'll get a good one there.
• 1:35:30
  But yeah, vance Lawrence the first Mark Newton Award, which leaves us
• 1:35:34
  with two left. Tyler. Yeah, we've got Coach of the Year and
• 1:35:38
  we've got Player of the Year. So first off, we're gonna go Coach
• 1:35:41
  of the Year here. And this is an interesting one because you know,
• 1:35:47
  when when you have it, maybe like a state champion, it kind of
• 1:35:50
  like makes it a little bit easier to pick something or you know what I
• 1:35:54
  mean, Like there's sometimes there's like an obvious that guy's winning Coach of the
• 1:35:59
  Year this year. There really wasn't you know. So when you break it
• 1:36:03
  down, you look at these four. This is a this is a really
• 1:36:06
  fun group. I mean, I hate to say it here on the Walk
• 1:36:11
  and Press podcast, but this is the group. I'd like to have a
• 1:36:14
  beer with these guys. This would be this would be a fun round table
• 1:36:15
  right here. Let me tell you. Let's let's go over the four here.
• 1:36:19
  We've got Adam Leonard from Bellingham. I mean took a team and for
• 1:36:27
  this team to go six and four with what they've you know, battled through
• 1:36:30
  the last few years, that's truly incredible. Andy Olsen one of our favorites
• 1:36:34
  over there at Blaine. He was the Northwest Conference one A Coach of the
• 1:36:39
  Year. That is awesome. Jamie Plankovich from Ferndale. You talk about teams
• 1:36:44
  that lost a lot. These next two are are those guys. And that's
• 1:36:46
  Jamie Plankovic and Blake Van Dalen from Lyndon. We need to like when I
• 1:36:54
  think of Blake Van dale it's like the old ball coach, you know what
• 1:36:56
  I mean, Like this is that type of thing, Like I look at
• 1:36:58
  this picture of him with the with whistle half hanging out of his mouth and
• 1:37:00
  the hats on, and you know, it's like it almost looks like his
• 1:37:04
  hat is like tilted down a little bit too, like it's not properly fitted
• 1:37:09
  to the back of his head, you know what I'm saying, Like he's
• 1:37:12
  got a little little uh kind of like a what's the word, Like when
• 1:37:16
  you think of like an old movie that has like you know that was like
• 1:37:20
  based in like the seventies, and they've got that that coach that's like climb
• 1:37:24
  that rope like that looks like Van Dalen in this picture, you know what
• 1:37:27
  I mean. I know that picture. I remember when I took it,
• 1:37:30
  and he was not happy. Not even not that he wasn't happy because I
• 1:37:33
  took the picture, but like at that moment, he wasn't happy. And
• 1:37:36
  for a guy who every every media person will tell you that's their favorite coach,
• 1:37:42
  you know, like everybody's like, oh, he's just so positive and
• 1:37:45
  so happy all the time. So it was so funny when I took this
• 1:37:47
  picture of him who saw something he didn't like for a couple of seconds and
• 1:37:51
  I was able to get that picture of him, And yeah, you know,
• 1:37:55
  I like using it because it looks like a real coach's picture, like
• 1:37:58
  you said, with the with the whistle half hanging out of his mouth and
• 1:38:00
  everything. Yeah, oh it really does. I mean it almost looks like
• 1:38:03
  you should have, like like you could remove that whistle and put a piece
• 1:38:08
  of straw in there. Nobody would even notice, right, you know what
• 1:38:10
  I mean? But Tyler, who is the twenty twenty three Watch Them Preps
• 1:38:14
  Football Coach of the Year, This was crazy because it was only one point
• 1:38:17
  that separated first to second place, which there were a few ties that we've
• 1:38:24
  talked about, but there's only two others where, you know, counting this
• 1:38:30
  one where there was only one point that separated first and second place. And
• 1:38:34
  your coach of the Year for this year is the man with the whistle.
• 1:38:39
  It's Blake Van Dalen from London, you know, coming back from two state
• 1:38:44
  champions with a team that and when you looked at those two state championship teams,
• 1:38:50
  a lot of those guys were on both of them. Yes, so
• 1:38:54
  you know it was kind of like when they won and won two years ago.
• 1:38:57
  He won Coach of the Year that year because it kind of came out
• 1:39:00
  of nowhere. But when they when they repeated he actually didn't win it.
• 1:39:06
  Coach Left won it last year for getting his team to the state championship game,
• 1:39:11
  and this year they kind of went into it with They had a few
• 1:39:15
  guys that have been that had played on those teams, you know, the
• 1:39:17
  Kuiper Rossinks and Bennett Rordas, and you know, Isaiah Audman was on the
• 1:39:21
  year before, Brent Hepner was on the year before. But there was a
• 1:39:26
  lot of new varsity guys and and I remember talking to a Linden assistant coach.
• 1:39:33
  It was not Whitman, but I'm not going to say who it was,
• 1:39:36
  but I was talking to a Linden assistant coach, you know, about
• 1:39:40
  week seven ish out a volleyball game, and I just and I just said,
• 1:39:45
  this has got to be a really fun year for you guys. And
• 1:39:49
  he goes, well, what do you mean? And I said, you
• 1:39:53
  kind of have like this completely new ball of clay that you're that the coaching
• 1:39:58
  aspect of it, you're there at well, coaching part of teaching has got
• 1:40:02
  to be great because it's it's you know it, even though you still have
• 1:40:10
  the bulls eye on you because you're Linden, You're doing it with so many
• 1:40:14
  new varsity guys, and he kind of smiled and nod and said, you're
• 1:40:17
  right. This has been a really fun year and they are a great team
• 1:40:21
  to work with. And it's just, you know, it's expected to win
• 1:40:28
  and it's not always easy. And you start out the year with the loss
• 1:40:31
  at home, and that's that can really shake you. And after that,
• 1:40:38
  you know, your only two losses were to anachordus you who you held the
• 1:40:42
  fifteen points and to a North KIDSAP team that you know had you know,
• 1:40:50
  their seasons have been ruined by Linden the last couple of years, and they
• 1:40:54
  had a huge revenge game there. It goes into overtime. They like to
• 1:40:59
  play with more players on the field and it's just you know, okay,
• 1:41:02
  and and but that's it. And so they had an amazing season. Lennon
• 1:41:08
  Lyons coach Van Dalen just he just he did a great job. And he
• 1:41:15
  might not it might not have expected this, but he earned it. And
• 1:41:18
  it was a great year for the Linden Lions. Yeah, And I mean,
• 1:41:23
  you know, you look at the record and you go, wow,
• 1:41:25
  eight and three, like that's that's coach of the year. But you're one
• 1:41:28
  hundred percent right, I mean they they you know, we knew. I
• 1:41:35
  remember talking in preseason and and you and I were talking about like they still
• 1:41:40
  return some guys, but they didn't return guys that everybody knew. They returned
• 1:41:48
  guys that you and I said, you know, to each other, that
• 1:41:51
  like, hey, if these guys do what we think they can do,
• 1:41:56
  this team could do some damage. Yeah, you know, but it wasn't
• 1:42:00
  like they were returning you know, five offensive linemen in a couple of quarterback
• 1:42:03
  you know what I mean, Like yeah, like like they had been.
• 1:42:05
  Yeah, yeah, like they had been. I mean I remember when that's
• 1:42:10
  when when those guys won that first one. I remember you and I going,
• 1:42:15
  there's no way they don't win a second one. Yeah, it was
• 1:42:18
  like they are winning a second one. And then this year it was like,
• 1:42:23
  you know, they might have the pieces to do it again, but
• 1:42:27
  it's totally different, you know. It was they have to do it a
• 1:42:30
  different way. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a totally different
• 1:42:33
  set of circumstances, you know what I mean. It just it just was
• 1:42:36
  I mean, and and you know what next year is going to be,
• 1:42:40
  you know, probably pretty similar. You know, they returned some really nice
• 1:42:43
  pieces but they you know, and and and maybe they have a couple of
• 1:42:47
  bigger names this year that we already kind of know or you know, for
• 1:42:51
  next year. But man, they're going to be again replaced, I mean,
• 1:42:56
  kyper Rosink. But you know as well as I do. They're gonna
• 1:43:00
  somebody, sure, somebody we're gonna be talking to. I'm sure we're gonna
• 1:43:02
  have Lineman of the Year. Next year is gonna have somebody from Linden.
• 1:43:04
  I don't know who it is, probably gonna be in there, you know
• 1:43:08
  what I mean. So that's really cool. It's cool to see, you
• 1:43:13
  know, a guy that we both know, and a guy that you know
• 1:43:15
  helped us out on the podcast tonight, by the way. That's true.
• 1:43:17
  That's true. Yeah, that's actually as a matter of fact, what people
• 1:43:19
  don't know if somebody else was gonna win it, but we actually flipped it
• 1:43:23
  last second just because no, Tyler, we're down to the last one here,
• 1:43:29
  and that is the the Player of the Year, the the the big
• 1:43:33
  award, if you will, And we've got four unbelievable guys here. Yeah,
• 1:43:42
  yeah, I mean unbelievable. So, uh, six to two,
• 1:43:45
  two hundred and fifteen pounds Nooksack Valley running back and strong safety, Junior number
• 1:43:51
  nine. Colton Lentz six four, two and thirty pounds from Linden Christian tight
• 1:43:57
  end and inside linebacker or senior number twenty five. It's Caden Steit sixty three,
• 1:44:03
  two hundred and ten pounds from Ferndale running back, wide receiver and safety,
• 1:44:10
  Senior number twenty five. Connor Walker and six foot five, two hundred
• 1:44:15
  and twenty two pounds Lynn and Christian quarterback, outside linebacker and punter. Senior
• 1:44:20
  number six. It's Jarah Maya Wright Tyler. Yeah, give it to me.
• 1:44:27
  Who is the twenty twenty three Watcom perhaps Football Player of the Year.
• 1:44:34
  Well, I'll tell you this. When we the first two years we did
• 1:44:41
  this, Javinski slim Baker won it both years shocker, yeah, and last
• 1:44:45
  year. And also those two years he was number number one on the top
• 1:44:50
  or top one hundred list. Yeah. Last year it was won by Laine
• 1:44:56
  Herringe and he was number three on the top one hundred list. But because
• 1:45:00
  of everything he did and both sides of the ball, and the importance to
• 1:45:03
  the team, state championship and everything, he was named the Walker Preps Player
• 1:45:08
  of the Year with the vote and our vote and everything. And this year
• 1:45:13
  again it was the number three player from the top one hundred list and that
• 1:45:16
  is Ferndale's senior, Connor Walker. So Connor Walker doing so many different things
• 1:45:24
  on the field, you know, probably playing a little out of position on
• 1:45:30
  offense, but finding ways to get him the ball. He had so many
• 1:45:34
  weeks where he was so dominant where he may have touched the ball nine times,
• 1:45:40
  but he had like, you know, one hundred and sixty yards of
• 1:45:43
  total offense. And then on defense, he is he looks like the guy,
• 1:45:48
  you know, the kid you know on the peewee team that is just
• 1:45:53
  better than everybody else, but at the high school level, and I'm just
• 1:45:59
  un believable a character and just really I don't know, it's it's hard to
• 1:46:09
  explain. And you know, he hits all the everything as a player,
• 1:46:14
  and we've we talked about it in the past, but it's like as far
• 1:46:17
  as you know, speed, size, good student, good person, toughness,
• 1:46:29
  everything, I mean, there's just it hits every single thing. And
• 1:46:31
  we've we you know, we've talked about it a lot, and and my
• 1:46:35
  goodness, it's just, uh, he's become one of my favorite players.
• 1:46:40
  To watch, but also just one of my favorite kids to say hi to,
• 1:46:45
  and just his he's just such a I don't know, welcoming person,
• 1:46:50
  welcoming human. When I when he was ranked number three on the on the
• 1:46:58
  Anytime Fitness Top one hundred list, I posted, you know, I posted
• 1:47:01
  on social media and stuff like that, and when he was named I want
• 1:47:05
  to read a comment that somebody wrote because it it just made it just made
• 1:47:13
  so much sense. I'm kind of scrolling here to find it, and I
• 1:47:15
  know I'm gonna find. Okay, all right, listen to this for a
• 1:47:18
  second. This is pretty well said, and this kind of hits it pretty
• 1:47:21
  well. It says it doesn't matter what this guy does on the field,
• 1:47:27
  and he is the man on the field, his real value is the impact
• 1:47:30
  he has off the field. He is a general ed player on our unified
• 1:47:34
  basketball team. He volunteers numerous hours at an elementary school. He always says
• 1:47:40
  please and thank you. He is always willing to help. He treats everyone
• 1:47:44
  like there are a million bucks. He sees the value in everyone and celebrates
• 1:47:47
  the most random things about random people, but he never talks about himself.
• 1:47:53
  Connor is every ounce of every definition of leadership. But the most important aspect
• 1:47:58
  of leadership that he has demonstrated time and again is his utmost focus on others.
• 1:48:02
  This recognition is well deserved. And when I read that, I was
• 1:48:05
  like, man, you just put it exactly how it is, and I
• 1:48:11
  think that is I am so proud to be able to put an award that
• 1:48:16
  says Wakam preps on it, that has his name on it, because that
• 1:48:19
  just makes me feel, you know, that much better And what an amazing
• 1:48:27
  player. I mean, you know, you've seen the film, you've seen
• 1:48:30
  him in person, and it's he's he's different. And you know we talked
• 1:48:36
  about that one point lost to Marysville Getchel. He didn't play in that game,
• 1:48:42
  and you know it could have been completely different with a different seed and
• 1:48:45
  everything different just for one game. And that shows to his importance of what
• 1:48:50
  he did on the field. The one of the things I'm thinking about,
• 1:48:55
  too, Tyler, is you know, he how do I say this,
• 1:49:00
  He didn't really like this year was was different for him. Right. He
• 1:49:04
  carried the ball way more time than he ever had, oh by far.
• 1:49:09
  Right. Yeah, So when I think about it, and I think if
• 1:49:13
  he had played running back and dedicated nothing but running back on offense this year
• 1:49:19
  and put up Jacob bros Cell numbers. Mm hmmm, he's probably number one.
• 1:49:26
  Yeah, you know, like honestly, like he very easily could have
• 1:49:30
  been number one because you know, Brossel was rushing for about a thousand a
• 1:49:33
  year. Yeah, you know, and and he had some catches too,
• 1:49:38
  right Oh yeah, yeah. So that's the thing is like when you think
• 1:49:41
  about it, it's like, you know, and and that's the difference between
• 1:49:44
  the awards and in the top one hundred, right, the top one hundred,
• 1:49:46
  it's it, you know, there's it's a lot of statistically driven you
• 1:49:50
  know. Yeah, you know, it's just like it's it's and it's not
• 1:49:55
  about what you're gonna do at the next level. It's basically how you did
• 1:49:58
  that year that Yeah, and you know, yeah, by the way,
• 1:50:00
  Tyler, I'm just Kiro seven News is on right now, says nook Sack
• 1:50:04
  river freezes over. Yeah, I could skate that thing. I mean I
• 1:50:12
  wouldn't. I've never skated a river before, Tyler. That would be awesome
• 1:50:16
  anyway, But yeah, Connor Walker and you know, Tyler, I'll never
• 1:50:19
  forget And and you don't do this often early on like his second varsity game.
• 1:50:30
  Yeah, you told me, hey, this is a guy, this
• 1:50:33
  is a guy. You need to know who he is. Yep, And
• 1:50:38
  you don't do it often. I don't because you get bombarded with a lot
• 1:50:41
  of guys. So I really try to hold back as much as I can.
• 1:50:44
  But you know what, that also speaks a little bit of you know,
• 1:50:45
  from my side of things, speaks a little bit credibility on your on
• 1:50:49
  your end, right, So I know, like, hey, when Tyler
• 1:50:53
  Toad like Brandon Huffman, I probably bring way more guys to Brandon Huffman than
• 1:50:58
  you do to me. But when I tell Brandon Huffman, hey, actually,
• 1:51:03
  as a matter of fact, I'll give you an example here. When
• 1:51:06
  we went to New York this year and played in New York, there was
• 1:51:09
  a kid from the team in New York that was really really good, and
• 1:51:14
  I looked him up on twenty four to seven Sports and he had just a
• 1:51:16
  blank you know, it's just like his name and his height and waight.
• 1:51:20
  And I even got a picture of the kid. I don't know if I
• 1:51:23
  actually remember to put that picture in the database, but anyway, I said
• 1:51:28
  to him, I said, hey, there's a dude on that team that
• 1:51:30
  we played. I said, I'll get his name here in a second,
• 1:51:32
  and his response back was I'm intrigued waiting. Yep, you know what I
• 1:51:38
  mean. And that's what it is. Like, you know, when you
• 1:51:40
  tell me, like, hey, this is a guy, like you're gonna
• 1:51:43
  need to know about this guy or you're gonna want to You'll know about him
• 1:51:45
  eventually, Like want to make sure you know about him now, yeap.
• 1:51:48
  When you told me about Connor Walker, it's like, all right, well
• 1:51:50
  we'll keep an eye and then it's like, all right, well he's got
• 1:51:53
  the size, he's got the frame. And then I see him in person
• 1:51:55
  a couple of times it's like there's definitely something here and he has had that.
• 1:52:01
  I don't want to say, like, I think it sounds bad to
• 1:52:03
  say it this way, but this is the best way to say. It's
• 1:52:05
  been that slow, steady progression, right. Yeah, it's just been every
• 1:52:11
  single year he's getting better and better and better, and he just keeps getting
• 1:52:15
  better. And that's exactly what it is. And I'll tell you what.
• 1:52:19
  There's a team they wear some red and they're getting a steal. They're getting
• 1:52:26
  an absolute steel out of this guy. Because when I look at Mountain West,
• 1:52:31
  so those guys are making a mistake, you know what I mean.
• 1:52:34
  There are some some definite teams that have made mistakes, and one of them
• 1:52:40
  is on Connor Walker. That guy can absolutely play the game of football.
• 1:52:43
  And I'll tell you what. It could be a linebacker, it could be
• 1:52:46
  a tight end, it could be at you know, an H back,
• 1:52:49
  you know, like a true H back. It's kind of you know,
• 1:52:53
  on offense, that's that's kind of what he is. You know, Hey,
• 1:52:55
  you could run a little underneath handoff with him. You know, you
• 1:52:58
  could run him out on some passes. You could send him up the whole
• 1:53:00
  and watch him absolutely destroy a linebacker, you know, and he'd be willing
• 1:53:04
  to do any of them, oh absolutely, you know. And then on
• 1:53:08
  defense, he's athletic enough to play at safety, but you could bulk him
• 1:53:13
  up and make him a solid you know, two twenty to twenty five.
• 1:53:17
  Yeah, I mean, hope, man, I'll tell you what. And
• 1:53:20
  again, like you know, he's a kid that a couple of times I've
• 1:53:25
  met him has always been very respectful. Yeah, you know, and that's
• 1:53:30
  there's something to be said about that. And you know, I think it's
• 1:53:31
  interesting. You know you read off that comment from from was that on Facebook
• 1:53:36
  or something? Yeah, so you read off that comment. And one of
• 1:53:40
  the things that always sticks with me is, I don't know who that person
• 1:53:44
  was. Well tell me this, were they related? No, so then
• 1:53:48
  they didn't need to do that, right, you know what I mean.
• 1:53:51
  And one of the things you may know Sheldon Cross, the old Kennedy Catholic
• 1:53:58
  coach, one of the things he told me many years ago when he was
• 1:54:01
  at Idaho State and he was he was the offensive coordinator there and he was
• 1:54:06
  recruiting the Seattle area and he and I got lunch and I I said,
• 1:54:11
  when you walk into a school, because at the time I didn't really know,
• 1:54:14
  like, like, how does it? How does it work? How
• 1:54:15
  does a coach just go to a school? Like, well, like how
• 1:54:17
  does that work? And I said to myself, when you go to a
• 1:54:19
  school, like, like, what do you do? And he goes,
• 1:54:21
  well, you know, I got to go check in at the office,
• 1:54:24
  and you know, usually I stand there and you know, maybe wait for
• 1:54:28
  the head coach or you know, whatever it is. And I go,
• 1:54:30
  oh, that's that's kind of interesting. I never really thought about that.
• 1:54:33
  And he goes, Yeah, he goes, and you know, one of
• 1:54:34
  the things I like to do is he said, I like to talk to
• 1:54:36
  the attendance ladies. I was like, oh yeah, and he goes,
• 1:54:41
  I like to ask them about the kid I'm there to see, right,
• 1:54:45
  and you know, I'll just ask him about you know, hey, what
• 1:54:47
  do you know about Connor Walker? You know? And he said, more
• 1:54:53
  often than not, they would always say really good things because that's the type
• 1:54:57
  of kids that they're looking to recruit. And that's the type of kid that
• 1:55:00
  Connor Wall. You know, that's the that's the guy. Yep. And
• 1:55:02
  when people go out of their way to say stuff like that, man,
• 1:55:05
  that says a lot. Yeah, it really really does, you know.
• 1:55:09
  So that's really cool to see. Yeah, I mean I'll say this,
• 1:55:14
  I'm what's I don't know, happy satisfied that that's the you know, that's
• 1:55:21
  the guy that we're getting into in the Player of the Year here, because
• 1:55:26
  man, is he just a tremendous all around athlete and from all accounts it
• 1:55:30
  sounds you know, I haven't heard people say a bad thing about the guy.
• 1:55:33
  Yep. That's always a good thing when we have a representative like that
• 1:55:40
  being our Player of the Year here yep. So yeah, that's awesome,
• 1:55:45
  Tyler. Yeah, I mean that's fifteen awards, fifteen very well deserved.
• 1:55:51
  I was gonna say, people, but it's actually even more than that because
• 1:55:55
  technically two of them have two and then the cheerleaders that's like twenty people,
• 1:56:00
  and that's a ninety I mean like yeah, I mean, especially the Linden
• 1:56:03
  band, that might be two hundred, right, Yeah, so that I
• 1:56:08
  mean, this is this is fun. We're closing in on two hours,
• 1:56:11
  which is I mean, you never know, you never know how long these
• 1:56:14
  things are gonna go. There's been times Tyler where you've been, you know,
• 1:56:16
  forty five minutes, hour and fifteen later we're still talking. But yeah,
• 1:56:21
  I mean, this is this has been fun. I mean, officially
• 1:56:26
  wrap up. It's over football. We're done, and I mean this is
• 1:56:30
  the earliest we've ever gotten done. But yeah, we're on now fully into
• 1:56:36
  the winter sports. The winter sport's been going for a few weeks. The
• 1:56:40
  Winter sports weekly wrap ups. We've been dominating those. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:56:45
  we've don a really good job there, six of them, five or six
• 1:56:46
  of them, I think, So yeah, it's been going well. Yeah,
• 1:56:49
  and I'm having a lot of fun doing that, and I can't wait.
• 1:56:53
  I guess at some point we're gonna have to change the name of it
• 1:56:55
  from the Winter Sports Weekly wrap Up to the Spring Sports Weekly wrap Up.
• 1:56:59
  Yeah, but we'll be doing that. We'll be talking softball, baseball,
• 1:57:04
  whatever. Crack and field. Yeah, Stopper Insurance is on for track and
• 1:57:09
  field. Yeah, yes, they are, Yes, they are. They'll
• 1:57:11
  papa be some boys soccer, I hope if there's some some help with the
• 1:57:15
  coaches and stuff and and boys and girls golf and yeah. So yeah,
• 1:57:20
  lots of lots of stuff. It's never gonna slow down for you, Tyler.
• 1:57:25
  I know at some point you're just gonna stay awake for like six months
• 1:57:29
  straight. Yeah. Well, you know, you gotta pick one, either
• 1:57:33
  sleep or eat, and sleeping is free, so you know which one I'm
• 1:57:40
  doing. Yeah, I know what joy dot and I do the other one.
• 1:57:43
  I sleep, you eat. We're good. Yeah, there you go
• 1:57:45
  combined. Yeah, we're normal human being almost all right. Well, let's
• 1:57:50
  wrap it up right there, Tyler, What do you say? Sounds good
• 1:57:53
  to me? Again? Thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt Maabery Farm
• 1:57:56
  dot Com is the website for their continued sponsorship of watcomb Preps. He's Tyler
• 1:58:01
  Anderson. I'm Ronan Spencer. You've been listening to the twenty twenty three watcom
• 1:58:05
  Preps Football Awards show here on the watchum Preps podcast. We will talk to
• 1:58:10
  you in a couple of days. What that from M Bigger High School.