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INSTANT REACTION: 1st Round Playoffs Part 2 · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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Speaker 1: What up, guys. This is John back at you with
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Speaker 1: another Instant Reaction podcast, reacting from day two of three
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Speaker 1: of this weekend in the first round of the Saint
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Speaker 1: Louis Area Playoffs concerning both MISHA and the Issa, Missouri,
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Speaker 1: Illinois Playoffs. First round tonight was honestly pretty pointless.
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Speaker 2: I must admit, not much going on.
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Speaker 1: We had probably one big game, which I'll talk about
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Speaker 1: in a moment. First off, the first round of the
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Speaker 1: MISHA Playoffs is mostly kind of meaningless. Just the way
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Speaker 1: it's set up is. It's not good. It's never been
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Speaker 1: really great, and I hope they can change it. They
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Speaker 1: probably won't, I mean, because coaches are going to have
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Speaker 1: the vote on it. I don't see a vote coming
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Speaker 1: anytime soon. So it is what it is. Sorry to
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Speaker 1: crap on it really quickly out of the gate here,
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Speaker 1: I will talk about the games that happened tonight, A
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Speaker 1: lot of blowouts, starting off with Cardinal Ritter seventy eight
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Speaker 1: to nothing victory over the McClure Commets. I can't say
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Speaker 1: it's surprising because we knew Ritter is really good, and
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Speaker 1: when they put it all together, they are a top
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Speaker 1: fifteen team in the state. Arguably top ten. Haven't quite
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Speaker 1: seen them at their total best against a quality opponent
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Speaker 1: yet this season, but they have one. They do have
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Speaker 1: a handful of pretty good victories fifty nothing over fifty five,
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Speaker 1: zero to nothing over Francis Howe, and then they had
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Speaker 1: a twenty point victory over Luther North. And they've been
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Speaker 1: in some really close games as well with Jackson and
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Speaker 1: then Massalon from Ohio. East Saint Louis with a sixty
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Speaker 1: three seven victory over Plainfield East and the game in
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Speaker 1: Class six in Illinois. East St. Louis will now await
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Speaker 1: the winner. They will be on the road no matter what.
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Speaker 1: Next week, they will wait the winner of Chatham Glenwood,
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Speaker 1: the one seed versus sixteen see Julie at Catholic Academy,
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Speaker 1: who is a very competitive I believe they're five and four.
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Speaker 1: They might even be four and five, but nonetheless they
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Speaker 1: are a very competitive team and don't be shocked if
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Speaker 1: they beat Glenwood and then East St. Louis will have
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Speaker 1: to travel up to Juliet to face the Hilltoppers in
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Speaker 1: that one.
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Speaker 2: And I know they're the Hilltoppers.
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Speaker 1: Because that's the high school that Rudy went to in
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Speaker 1: the movie Rudy. U City with a forty six nothing
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Speaker 1: victory over Lutheran Saint Charles. Interesting game because Teddy Stevens,
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Speaker 1: he was a sophomore quarterback. He's a pretty good softwa
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Speaker 1: quarterback at U City. He transferred from Lutheran Saint Charles
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Speaker 1: back to his school district in U City. So but
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Speaker 1: his team gets to win. The Lions are now nine
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Speaker 1: to one on the season. They've been pretty great this
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Speaker 1: year so far. Parkway West with a predictable forty nine
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Speaker 1: to thirteen win over Parkway Central. Predictable as in a
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Speaker 1: darn near turbo clock, and it actually was. It was
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Speaker 1: forty nine to six at one point in the game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Longhorns with their second victory of the season over Parkway
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Speaker 1: Central and they're building up a win streak over them.
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Speaker 1: It's been a few years since Central has taken down
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Speaker 1: the long Horns. There. Then Fox with another pretty solid victory.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they had that big, big, unexpected victory over
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Speaker 1: lou last week and didn't appear like they.
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Speaker 2: Were over emotional going into this one.
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Speaker 1: Not that they had to be, just I guess what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying is maybe this could have been a trap
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Speaker 1: game coming off a big emotional win for Fox, but
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Speaker 1: they took care of business forty nine to fourteen, and
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Speaker 1: it was never really close. They were winning twenty eight
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Speaker 1: to nothing at one point in the game. And so Foxes,
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Speaker 1: they really.
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Speaker 2: Look like the type of team that, honestly, if they.
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Speaker 1: Just got a few breaks here and there throughout the
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Speaker 1: course of the season, their record would be drastically different.
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Speaker 1: And they're kind of looking the part of a team
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Speaker 1: who is who would be kind of being have a
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Speaker 1: record over five hundred at this point right now. So
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Speaker 1: I think they play Secment if I'm not mistaken or no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: Secmond's in classics.
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Speaker 1: I thought, I got to change They're not in Class six,
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Speaker 1: they're in Class five. I got to change that. I'm
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Speaker 1: changing that on the fly right here. But Fox they're
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Speaker 1: in Class five District one, and I believe that was
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Speaker 1: the four or five games, So that means they play Farmington.
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Speaker 1: So that's going to be a pretty tough game for Fox.
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Speaker 1: They're going to have to go on the road to Farmington,
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Speaker 1: who have a very good offense the Knights do, and
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a pretty good game next week
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Speaker 1: there because Fox is playing at a pretty high level
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Speaker 1: right now. It seems like they're playing to their potential.
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Speaker 1: Warrington with a really what was I gonna say, an
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Speaker 1: epic come from behind victory over Marshall thirty to twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like it was a back and forth game,
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Speaker 1: but the Warriors were able to score, getting the end
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Speaker 1: zone with under a minute to go in the game
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Speaker 1: and preserve the victory. So Warrington's just not as good
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Speaker 1: as last year.
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Speaker 2: It happens.
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Speaker 1: They just they graduated a pretty good senior class, but
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Speaker 1: they're still competitive and yeah, it's nice, nice win. They're
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Speaker 1: able to notch there and Class four District five and
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Speaker 1: the game of the night by far in our area.
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Speaker 1: Concerning our area, it didn't take place in our area.
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Speaker 1: The Waterloo Bulldogs taking down Mount Zion the Mount Zion
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Speaker 1: Braves led by four star tight end going to Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss J. C. Anderson. The Bulldogs take down the Braves
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Speaker 1: fourteen to thirteen on the road in Mount Zion, which
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Speaker 1: is right outside of Decatur, Illinois and Central Illinois. The
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Speaker 1: Bulldog did it in Bulldogs seated eleventh, Mountain Zion seated sixth.
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Speaker 1: But the Bulldog or the Braves, I should say, they
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Speaker 1: were ranked eighth in Class four in Illinois, and they
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Speaker 1: are the one team who's beaten Brie.
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Speaker 2: Central this season.
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Speaker 1: And I don't Waterloo held these guys only the thirteen points. Now,
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Speaker 1: I did follow the game on Twitter and Mountain Zion
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Speaker 1: apparently had a lot of chances to score a lot
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Speaker 1: of good opportunities got into the red zone, and I
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Speaker 1: think in the first half I read that they had
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Speaker 1: only gotten like six points at one point in three
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Speaker 1: tries in the red zone. Three trips to the red zone.
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Speaker 1: So that might have been the game right there. If
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Speaker 1: they score touchdowns on all those drives, it's probably over.
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Speaker 1: But they weren't able to do that. And I got
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Speaker 1: to give a shout out to Waterloo running back the
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Speaker 1: Red Sales, who is pretty much stamped his legacy in
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Speaker 1: Waterloo history, who is now the all time leading rusher
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Speaker 1: with yards, scrimmage yards and touchdowns. There you go, through
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Speaker 1: I Sales, you are the best running back in Waterloo
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Speaker 1: football history. That's an awesome achievement and it's it's always
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Speaker 1: really cool to acknowledge that in real time when a
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Speaker 1: player's career is still going and you know they'll be able.
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Speaker 2: To savor this.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be an awesome bus ride back home Halloween,
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Speaker 1: got a huge victory, stunned a lot of people driving
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Speaker 1: all the way back down the Waterloo. That's those kids
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Speaker 1: are going to remember that that for the rest of
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Speaker 1: their lives as priceless. Absolutely love to hear it, absolutely
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Speaker 1: love to see it. And they will host the Rochester
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Speaker 1: Rockets next week next Saturday. I hope, I hope to
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Speaker 1: god that is a night game, so that gives us
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Speaker 1: a pretty good opportunity to go to go film it.
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Speaker 1: And three years ago Waterloo won their first round game.
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Speaker 1: They played Sacred Heart Griffin from Springfield, the SAHG Cyclones
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Speaker 1: for some of you who know them a little bit.
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Speaker 1: SAHG ended up winning state that year. This is still
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Speaker 1: in Class four, but Waterloo was the closest team to
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Speaker 1: beat them. In fact, Waterloo led for most of that
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Speaker 1: game and we filmed that game.
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Speaker 2: You can check it out on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: It was a low scoring game, but Waterloo's defense just
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Speaker 1: somehow someway heavily limited sahg's spread offense and they were
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Speaker 1: out like out athleted in that game, outskilled, but you know,
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Speaker 1: their ground game was able to you know, they were
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Speaker 1: able to sustain drives and just have their defense came
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Speaker 1: up clutch and they had some big runs, but ultimately
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Speaker 1: they just they just could not hang on and they
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Speaker 1: lost that game. Rochester is going to be a different animal,
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Speaker 1: a very very well coached team by Derek Leonard, who's
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Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, he's going to be
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Speaker 1: a Hall of famer, maybe more than just in Illinois.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, you know what his if you could be.
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Speaker 1: A like a National Football Hall of Famer in a
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Speaker 1: certain way as a head coach, but he's he's got
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Speaker 1: to be one of the greatest. He already is one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest head coaches in Illinois history. And I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's even fifty years old yet, so legend
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Speaker 1: of a coach down there at Rochester. I think they've
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Speaker 1: won nine state championships since he's been there since like
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, I think two thousand and eight whenever,
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Speaker 1: so it's not that long ago, seventeen years or so,
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Speaker 1: and Rochester's won nine state championships, which is that's a
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Speaker 1: lifetime really amount of state championships, and they all did
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Speaker 1: in that less than twenty years, so it's incredible. That's
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Speaker 1: that's what's coming to that's what's coming to Waterloo next Saturday.
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Speaker 1: So we're really excited for the Bulldogs and excited if
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Speaker 1: we can go film that game, so and so not
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Speaker 1: the preview many games coming up. I mean, we've already
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Speaker 1: kind of given you our two cents on these on
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Speaker 1: our last podcast, our second to last podcast to go.
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Speaker 1: But if Kahokia, now, if they can beat Centralia, that'll
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Speaker 1: mean that we'll have a that we'll have four teams
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Speaker 1: in Class four in the second round. So that would
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Speaker 1: mean let's say, hopefully Kahokia, you got Waterloo and then
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have Brief Central or Colombia. Most likely Brief Central,
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Speaker 1: but we'll see what happens. And then Freeburg or Highland,
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Speaker 1: and Freeburg is the five seed, Highlands the twelve. I
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Speaker 1: think that game I think can go a lot of
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Speaker 1: different directions. Highland is a team who has been really
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Speaker 1: up and down. They have a good offense, but their
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Speaker 1: defense has been pretty shaky all season. And Freeburg has
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Speaker 1: done a pretty good job on both sides of the ball,
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Speaker 1: especially on defense, and they've just been a lot more consistent.
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Speaker 1: You kind of know what you're going to get out
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Speaker 1: of them. Highland not so much. And then for Central
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Speaker 1: versus Columbia, Columbia had a shocking loss in Jerseyville last week,
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Speaker 1: So I mean, if they weren't playing with house money already,
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Speaker 1: they are certainly now. Central's on a roll. They're eight
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Speaker 1: and one and their defense has been fantastic all season long.
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Speaker 1: Their offense has been solid, and I think they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a really good offense in the next few years.
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Speaker 1: With their quarterback Owen Carrera, who's only a sophomore right now,
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Speaker 1: He's only going to get better and better, and so
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Speaker 1: Central's got a bright future and I think they I
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Speaker 1: think they're going to be Columbia in that game personally.
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Speaker 1: So things are looking great in Class four for our area.
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Speaker 1: And that also means because the winner of Central Columbia
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Speaker 1: and Freeburg Highland will play each other, so that means
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Speaker 1: we're going to have a guaranteed quarter finalist form the
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Speaker 1: Metro East, and that'll be awesome. We had two quarter
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Speaker 1: finalists last year, Central and Kahokia. They both lost in
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Speaker 1: those games, and I think there's a good chance. I
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Speaker 1: don't have the bracket with me right now, but I'd
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Speaker 1: like to think there's a good chance we'll get someone
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Speaker 1: to the semi finals in Class four, and then Mascuda
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Speaker 1: takes on Bloomington tomorrow night at six o'clock.
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Speaker 2: On Saturday.
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Speaker 1: So for a lot of you listening, that's that's tonight. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk in present tense right now, assuming
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Speaker 1: it's you guys are listening on Saturday, because that's when
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Speaker 1: this is gonna come out pretty much. It's late at
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Speaker 1: night where I'm recording here, previewing Saturday, because I just
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Speaker 1: don't have a ton to say about just tonight. I
12:36
Speaker 1: would only kind of have rants about the Misha system.
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Speaker 1: And I talked to you guys about Thursday night last night,
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Speaker 1: which actually was a more fun than Friday Thursday. We
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Speaker 1: had a few decent games on Thursday Friday. There is
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Speaker 1: really no good games in the Saint Louis area. We
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Speaker 1: do have a really good one with CDs traveling the
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Speaker 1: long Voyage to l Do all about less than less
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Speaker 1: than a half a mile, not even that less than
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Speaker 1: a mile away down Warson Road to Ldue Horton Walkin's
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Speaker 1: High School. I was just giving you my thoughts on
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Speaker 1: this real quick. This is a game where right now
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Speaker 1: I know mics they have. They're five and four, they
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Speaker 1: have a worse record, they're seed fifth. But I think
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Speaker 1: I think the way things are going with will Do
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Speaker 1: right now, I think might be a little bit more
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Speaker 1: talented overall. But I think I CDs right now. They're
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Speaker 1: just a little better coached than Le dou and I
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Speaker 1: just think they got they just got their act together
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Speaker 1: right now. Lou Is just lost offensively. It's been a
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Speaker 1: really tough season with that quarterback for them. They just
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Speaker 1: they don't have a great quarterback in their system, and
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Speaker 1: when they run a spread offense like that, you need
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Speaker 1: to have least an above average quarterback, and frankly, they
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Speaker 1: just have not gotten that this season out of Jack Hensley,
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Speaker 1: and I think they're still gonna They're still gonna go
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Speaker 1: with him, despite benching him against Fox in their last game,
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Speaker 1: which is really head scratching, and you know, hey, it
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Speaker 1: is what it is. I'm not going to pretend to
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Speaker 1: be a coach and be a Monday morning quarterback.
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Speaker 2: But it's just really intriguing.
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Speaker 1: And then nobody I've talked to within like parents and whatnot,
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Speaker 1: seem to understand. But then again, their parents are not coaches,
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Speaker 1: so hey, I could eat you know tomorrow night, when
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Speaker 1: the game is over, I could be happily eating a
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Speaker 1: hat about this. So I just I just think that's
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Speaker 1: ultimately going to be. What it comes down to, is
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Speaker 1: this quarterback play. I know, m my CDs they've had
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Speaker 1: their troubles at quarterback this year, but LJ. Triplett and
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Speaker 1: Noah Maneke they've actually done okay ever since they started
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Speaker 1: putting triple it in their quarterback They in the two
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Speaker 1: games that I've I've actually filmed. This will be the
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Speaker 1: third game in a row I filmed in my CDs,
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Speaker 1: and those two guys they will take two. They'll have
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Speaker 1: two possessions and then trade offs, like one goes in
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Speaker 1: for two possessions and then the other one goes in.
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Speaker 1: Triplett gets a start, and then Minek comes in on
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Speaker 1: the third, third and fourth series and then ay, it's
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Speaker 1: every other two possessions for those guys. The Rams, I
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Speaker 1: gotta say m c SM will do because both teams
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Speaker 1: have the same nickname, M I CDs. They have a
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Speaker 1: good offense. They got athletes, Gabe Weavers, a tight end
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Speaker 1: committed to Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: Graham Faust.
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Speaker 1: He's primarily the defensive back, but he's a solid receiver.
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Speaker 1: He's been a good receiver's whole career. And then Henry
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Speaker 1: Rohan he's a track star, but he's a he's a
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Speaker 1: really quick receiver as well.
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Speaker 2: So they got three, two really good.
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Speaker 1: Receivers and in a very capable tight end to throw to.
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Speaker 1: And then they have a nice junior running back, Justin Bishop,
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Speaker 1: who is more known for his lacrosse skills.
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Speaker 2: He's a little.
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Speaker 1: Running back, but he's a He had a nice game
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Speaker 1: against Mexico and he's been he's been all right for
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Speaker 1: uh for the Rams this season. The thing about m CDs,
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Speaker 1: they haven't won any big game really all season. They're
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Speaker 1: own four and against any teams where he maybe could
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Speaker 1: consider like, hey, this is this would this could be
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Speaker 1: a signature win for them or whatever, but so they've
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Speaker 1: they've lost all those games. They did beat Mexico, who's
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Speaker 1: five and four. I don't know. Their season might be
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Speaker 1: over now, I don't know, but that was a Mexico
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Speaker 1: team who had a key player hurt. They were five
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Speaker 1: and three going into the game, So yeah, they do
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Speaker 1: have a win over a winning a team with a
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Speaker 1: winning record, But still it's uh, something's got to give
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Speaker 1: in this game, But I'm I'm my edge is for
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Speaker 1: my CDs and this one, even though the do's at
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Speaker 1: home and a very rare afternoon game, first ever afternoon
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Speaker 1: game at Ludus New Stadium, where that the purpose of
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Speaker 1: that stadium is to never have afternoon games again. So
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Speaker 1: there will be a lot of nostalgia for me personally
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Speaker 1: because I used to go to a lot of we
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Speaker 1: DO games before they had lights, and this would be
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Speaker 1: the first time in a long time that's happened. So
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Speaker 1: I'll be there filling the game, and it'll be a
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Speaker 1: good one for sure, I hope.
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Speaker 2: So at least they could be could get ugly, I think,
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Speaker 2: I think. I think the only way.
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Speaker 1: It gets ugly is if in my CITs gets control
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Speaker 1: early and really dominates, because LaDou has not dominated a
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Speaker 1: game all year against a good again against a good opponent,
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Speaker 1: But then again, either is m my CDs, so it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be. Like I said, I think, I think it'll
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Speaker 1: be a pretty good one. Both both these teams have
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Speaker 1: looked really looked forward all season before the districts can't
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Speaker 1: come out, and then after they did, they were really
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Speaker 1: excited that potentially they could play against each other and
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Speaker 1: I'll say this right now.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's.
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Speaker 1: Adam Hamilton of LDU and then Matt Irvin and then
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Speaker 1: my CDs both applied for the LaDue job.
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Speaker 2: This is this is a fact.
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Speaker 1: They both applied, they were the final two candidates, and
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Speaker 1: LADU decided on Adam Hamilton. Not gonna give an opinion
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Speaker 1: on that, but that's just that's how it went. I
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Speaker 1: don't think the players are really gonna play off of
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Speaker 1: that so much, but it could be a potentially interesting
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Speaker 1: thing to see with that game. Otherwise, again, I I
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Speaker 1: don't like them as the current Missouri playoff format with
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Speaker 1: where everybody qualifies, it takes away I think from the
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Speaker 1: meaning of the playoffs where you got to have a
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Speaker 1: certain level of team quality in order to qualify. In
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Speaker 1: my opinion, if that means, you know, teams with four
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Speaker 1: more wins get in and so be it. Or you
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Speaker 1: could seed the districts. But then in classes two through five,
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Speaker 1: where there's seven teams in every district, then the the
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Speaker 1: lower three seeds out of seven get eliminated and they
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Speaker 1: don't qualify. So you have to be a top four
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Speaker 1: seed and that means you qualify for the playoffs. I
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Speaker 1: think that's a good start. There's other ways to go
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Speaker 1: about it, but I like that immediate start because I
18:52
Speaker 1: like how they seed it. I like how Misha seeds
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Speaker 1: the playoffs with the playoff point system they have. I
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Speaker 1: like it. It's pretty good overall. It's a you know,
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Speaker 1: it's a nice little power ranking way of seeding the team,
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Speaker 1: so you it avoids seed meetings like in basketball or
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Speaker 1: and I think they do that in baseball too, and
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Speaker 1: I think just most about every other sport where it's
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Speaker 1: just decided by the coaches essentially, so it takes takes
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Speaker 1: potential human air out of out of out of the way.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I like how they see them, but I
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Speaker 1: don't like how I don't like how they place the teams,
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Speaker 1: and it signed them based entirely on geography, and you
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Speaker 1: get you get some really lopsided scores and you get
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Speaker 1: kind of a meaningless week one of the playoffs. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna get a few, you know, you're gonna you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get a few top heavy districts like Class five District three,
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Speaker 1: which is why we have a really competitive four versus
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Speaker 1: five game with We'll Doo and m I c DS
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Speaker 1: on today. But for the most part, and then we
19:57
Speaker 1: had that with Troy versus Francis Howe on Thursday. But
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Speaker 1: other than that, you get a lot of overmatched opponents
20:03
Speaker 1: and games and lopsided games, and I just I have
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Speaker 1: a really hard time. It really reeks of participation trophy mentality.
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Speaker 3: Where everybody gets to the playoffs. Yay, Hey, every team
20:19
Speaker 3: has a chance. You never know they could win a
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Speaker 3: state championship. Of course they don't.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think anything anything tonight didn't change that argument.
20:31
Speaker 1: Those people have nothing to go off of after tonight.
20:34
Speaker 1: I mean, and the only thing is one guy said, like, hey,
20:37
Speaker 1: East Saint Louis Bete plainfieldies sixty three to seven. It
20:40
Speaker 1: happens in Illinois too. There's gonna be outliers. I'm not
20:43
Speaker 1: saying that doesn't happen in Illinois, but you get way
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Speaker 1: more competitive games in the first round compared to Missouri.
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Speaker 1: It's not even close. I'd like to see the average
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Speaker 1: amount of the average points spread and all the first
20:56
Speaker 1: round games combine, you you average it oull out.
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Speaker 2: Compared to Illinois.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna take a really long time, but I bet
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Speaker 1: you it's gonna be The point difference is going to
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Speaker 1: be pretty high because in Illinois tonight you had some
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Speaker 1: you had some ups ups, like or in near upsets Westland,
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Speaker 1: who is a sixteen seed in the in Class two.
21:13
Speaker 1: They're in our area, they're in Clinton County, which is
21:16
Speaker 1: where Briece Central's at. Then you almost beat Johnston City,
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Speaker 1: who's the one seed. And look, Johnson City, they're not
21:21
Speaker 1: the best team in Class two, but they you know,
21:24
Speaker 1: they separate with they have a sixteen seeded North bracket
21:28
Speaker 1: and a sixteen seeded South bracket in classes one, three, six,
21:31
Speaker 1: so thirty two teams qualify and they split them up
21:33
Speaker 1: on geography, so it's it's almost like they seed regions essentially,
21:36
Speaker 1: which is what Missouri can do under the current format.
21:40
Speaker 1: But anyway, that was still you know, that's a nine
21:43
Speaker 1: to zero team versus a five and four team, and
21:46
Speaker 1: that was a pretty good game right there. You don't
21:48
Speaker 1: get that in Missouri. And then I think we're gonna
21:51
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some pretty good games on Saturday as
21:53
Speaker 1: well in Illinois. So that's why every year when we
21:55
Speaker 1: do the Pick of the Week, it's dominated by Illinois
21:58
Speaker 1: first round games. I'm gonna let you guys go, i
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Speaker 1: gotta get some sleep.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a big day tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: We're only filming the LDO on my CDs game. We
22:06
Speaker 1: did film the East Saint Louis Plainfield East game, so
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Speaker 1: if you want to go see East Saint Louis just
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Speaker 1: absolutely ball out on Plainfield East, it'll be. The video
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Speaker 1: will be up sometime tomorrow hopefully, and we'll get you
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Speaker 1: We'll set you guys up that game, and then we'll
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Speaker 1: have coverage of the LDO m I CDs football game, which.
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Speaker 2: Is our game of the week.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know, we had the Francis Hali, Timbert
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Speaker 1: LaTroy Bucin game is our number one game of.
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Speaker 2: The week, but.
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Speaker 1: This will do on my CITYS game should really be
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Speaker 1: the game of the week. I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a lot closer than that. So I'm excited for that
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Speaker 1: one and we'll see you guys out there. Thank you
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Speaker 1: all for listening. Happy Halloween, peace and God bless see
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Speaker 1: you