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Coach Ty Harden Discusses his Golden Wave Football team for 2025 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We're gonna carry you all the way through the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five MATT Conference here on the Refuge here in
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  Speaker 1: Flowood As We're glad to be at the shared and
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  Speaker 1: it is the Multi Sports Clinic, brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: our friends at ce Spire.
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  Speaker 2: They are customer inspiring.
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  Speaker 1: Our high school football road Tour kicks off here momentarily
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center.
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  Speaker 1: Our next guest friend of the program coach Ty Harden
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  Speaker 1: two below the Golden Wave Coach. I caught you coming
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  Speaker 1: in right in and shit pulled into town. So thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's always good talking with you, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So, man, I tell you, how's the spring bend? How
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  Speaker 1: was the spring? Rather, how's the summer bend? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know we say summer, it's it's one thousand percent hot,
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  Speaker 1: But then the summer is so short, right, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're dedicating you know, seven on seven weights and then oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, oh wait a minute, we gotta go
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  Speaker 1: back to school.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has flown by. You know, spring. We did
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  Speaker 2: spring late.
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  Speaker 3: You know, played a high quality opponent and youwitt trustful,
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  Speaker 3: so worked a lot of young guys. You know, didn't
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  Speaker 3: have some of our baseball guys they played so late
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  Speaker 3: into the season. But you know, there's a lot of good,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of you know, totally different teams, so there's
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  Speaker 3: some different obstacles, different pros and cons, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: right now, we're just doing everything we can to become
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  Speaker 3: a team. And we go four days a week all summer,
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  Speaker 3: take for July week off. And I mean it's you
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  Speaker 3: come back before July, like this week, especially you come
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  Speaker 3: back from the clinic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's football season.
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  Speaker 3: It's here, and it's you know, there's no break after that,
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  Speaker 3: so you better find some time during that time in
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  Speaker 3: the summertime to wind down for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of today, of course you're in town for the
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  Speaker 1: clinic with your coaches and such. Talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about how you've seen this event involve what Johnny and
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  Speaker 1: they may see has done. I think it's phenomenal. This
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  Speaker 1: is a and I've been saying it all week. It's
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  Speaker 1: a many sec media days. And I say many for
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  Speaker 1: high school because there's nowhere to park. There's people from
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  Speaker 1: softball coaches, baseball coaches, football coaches. I mean, obviously football
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  Speaker 1: is the theme. We know that's in the air, but
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  Speaker 1: just the event itself is a great event.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is unreal.
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  Speaker 3: This is the first time I've been to this one
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  Speaker 3: since it's been here. I've always been to it when
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  Speaker 3: it was in Ridgeland at the Hilton, and this venue
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  Speaker 3: is unreal. I mean, it's a lot to do here
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  Speaker 3: right here, at this spot. It looks like it's twice
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  Speaker 3: the numbers in what it used to be. I think
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  Speaker 3: it is, I really do. Just look at the vehicles outside.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, folks are parking on the highway out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's they're doing a fantastic job. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Johnny and them, they can pack themselves on the back
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  Speaker 3: right now. Because it's seeing all the people come through,
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  Speaker 3: seeing all the smiles, seeing the people get the network
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  Speaker 3: and see old friends and all that.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's always great.
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  Speaker 1: Visit with Ty Harden, and he's had football coach of Tupelo.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Wave open up the season here. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that here momentarily. Let's talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about the team. I mean, obviously football. How many guys
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  Speaker 1: you're dressing this year ninety nine, so, I mean every
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  Speaker 1: one of them is important.
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  Speaker 2: But the face of the program.
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  Speaker 1: JJ Hill return of mister seven, a football player committed
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 2: We won't get into recruiting.
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  Speaker 1: I never try to do that with coaches, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's going to continue to manifest it. So he
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  Speaker 1: can probably go anywhere to go. But what's next for him?
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  Speaker 1: How good can he be this year?
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's a kid that he's worried about the
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  Speaker 3: moment that right now, what he's doing right now, he's
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  Speaker 3: worried about that. He's an unreal kid. I think you've
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  Speaker 3: heard me say it five million times. He's a better
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  Speaker 3: person than he is a football player. He's a kid
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  Speaker 3: that I have to make to leave the make leave
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  Speaker 3: the field house every day, like I'm I get there
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  Speaker 3: real early, I stay, you know, try to get there
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  Speaker 3: at a decent time. And he's a kid that he'll
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  Speaker 3: make he'll he'll find somebody every day to stay back
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  Speaker 3: with him and get some extra work. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to go be his best him, try to be
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  Speaker 3: a great teammate.
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  Speaker 2: He cares about the.
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  Speaker 3: Team more than he does himself. You know, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: all he's all about, you know, the Goldenway.
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  Speaker 2: Taking the next step for sure, you know, talk talk
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  Speaker 2: about everybody rightfully. So when you say J. J.
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  Speaker 1: Hill, everybody goes, man, this guy he'll run over like
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  Speaker 1: he could run over junior college guys.
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  Speaker 2: Be. The guy's a phenomenal runner.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that pressed me last year he caught a
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  Speaker 1: couple of passes in that state championship game.
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  Speaker 2: You got can catch football that's soft hands. Yes, so
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  Speaker 2: people his features that people really don't know about.
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  Speaker 3: He's you know, obviously the size that he is, but
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  Speaker 3: he's got hands like an NBA basketball player, size fourteen
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  Speaker 3: HU and he's actually should be a twenty twenty seven kid.
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  Speaker 3: He just he just turned sixteen wow, recently in the
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  Speaker 3: past month, So he'll be he'll be enrolling into a college.
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  Speaker 2: At seventeen years old.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, like I said, those those hands are
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  Speaker 3: like like baseball gloves. I mean, he's got it. And
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  Speaker 3: he's a baseball guy too, so I mean it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's got it going on for sure.
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  Speaker 1: How important is that for running backs because you've been
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  Speaker 1: a part of you know, college staff recruiting. When coaches
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  Speaker 1: look at a running back, they want to see more
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  Speaker 1: than a guy that can run between the tackles, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you don't want to have a guy
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  Speaker 1: where you're just subbing him in and you know he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna cut throat the ball. For a back to be
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  Speaker 1: able to be versatile like that today in today's game, right,
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  Speaker 1: you got to.
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  Speaker 3: You got to be able to catch it out of
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  Speaker 3: the backfield, You got to you know, the offensively, you
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  Speaker 3: got to be a three phase team. You got to
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  Speaker 3: be able to you know, run the ball, get to
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  Speaker 3: be able to passball and to me the screen game
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  Speaker 3: in the next phase of the game. And so if
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  Speaker 3: you're not, you turn very predictable. And when you have
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  Speaker 3: backs that can do stuff like that, you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: got one that's playing Juco ball right now that played
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  Speaker 3: before him, and he's so marketable because he can do
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  Speaker 3: so much out of the backfielding line up in slot,
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  Speaker 3: and you know you've got to. It just makes you better,
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  Speaker 3: makes your offense better and more dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: So I hord on your radios, we're talking two Plow
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  Speaker 1: Football twenty twenty five. Over the season. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that here in a minute, highlighting some of their players.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be visiting with them on the road tour here
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  Speaker 1: coming up in a few weeks. Tell us about quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've got one off the app state, but
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  Speaker 1: you got one you kind of like to come.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Braylen Williams, the guy is still a name.
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  Speaker 2: People know.
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  Speaker 3: He's committed to Ole miss To played defensive back. A
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  Speaker 3: totally different quarterback that we've had the past few years.
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  Speaker 3: A dynamic, elusive type of guy. A guy that threw
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  Speaker 3: for three thousand yards at his previous school when he
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  Speaker 3: was at Nettleton, and you know, he's he hadn't played
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in a year, so you know, there were some
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  Speaker 3: growing pains coming in the spring and stuff. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know you'll see a different type of offense of
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  Speaker 3: what we do.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we're gonna rely on the run game of who
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  Speaker 2: we are.
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  Speaker 3: We want to run the ball, we want to control
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  Speaker 3: the game, and he's going to open up some other
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  Speaker 3: windows of some things that.
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  Speaker 2: We can do. He's he's got a rocket.
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  Speaker 3: For an arm and that's good and bad. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: just see, you man, his his his best football's ahead
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  Speaker 3: of him. You know, we had to sit down talk
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  Speaker 3: with him other day, you know, like, uh, he knows
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna play second day on the next level, but
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  Speaker 3: he knows like, hey, you know, a lot of those
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  Speaker 3: guys you see on Saturdays that are you're all sec
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  Speaker 3: DB's and stuff, they probably play quarterback at their high school.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know you guys are the schedule. Uh move
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  Speaker 1: back to Region one after the shuffle.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Just looking through the schedule here. Obviously you guys will play.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like Columbus in a in a preseason game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Then of course come down back down here to take
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  Speaker 1: on Brandon CPA, Houston, Oxford West Point, Heartfield Academy comes
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  Speaker 1: to you guys from right here outside of the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers, y'all left just about you're
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  Speaker 1: playing just by everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: It's I'm big about giving our kids some different experience.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Kids like hard things. I like doing hard things, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's the only way you get better is
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  Speaker 3: to play great teams. And all those teams that you name,
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  Speaker 3: those six teams and your nine that you named a
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  Speaker 3: non division can beat about anybody. And you know, you're
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  Speaker 3: playing the best private school in state of Tennessee, one
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  Speaker 3: of the best public schools in the state of Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: your best private.
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  Speaker 2: School in the state of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a team that easily could have won the
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  Speaker 3: seven A state championship last year, your five A state champs,
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  Speaker 3: and West Point the team the team that is known
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  Speaker 3: for Mississippi football.
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  Speaker 2: And then you got Oxford. I think Oxford will sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: I think Oxford this year is a team that people
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  Speaker 3: aren't talking enough about. Chris Cutcliffe is one of the
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  Speaker 3: best high school football coaches in the state, if not
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  Speaker 3: the best, and we got our work cut out for him.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just want to take those six games for
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  Speaker 3: us to get better and you know, have us prepare
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  Speaker 3: for division and in playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the town of two Polo, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you say Tupolo and it's a historic
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  Speaker 1: town of the state Mississippi, a beautiful place. Love North Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons we're coming up there, just
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  Speaker 1: that the area is awesome. Not too far from Starville,
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  Speaker 1: not too far from Oxford. So kids that grow up there,
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  Speaker 1: if they want to go to in state schools, they
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  Speaker 1: can do it other places. But just the community feel
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  Speaker 1: what it meant to Tupelo to win another state championship
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  Speaker 1: last year, and just the buy in of the community.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was it was huge. I mean, they've
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  Speaker 2: been starving for it for a while. You know. It
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  Speaker 2: was it was thirty two years since they.
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  Speaker 3: Had won one, you know, and Tupelous had kind of
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  Speaker 3: had a persona they couldn't win the big game, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So that monkey's kind of all far back, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of opened some eyes and I think it was
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  Speaker 3: just a kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Relief for our city and our school.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we're kind of we were the butt
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  Speaker 3: ufs and jokes for a while, and we've used that
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  Speaker 3: for motivation in the past, and you know, now we're
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  Speaker 3: kind of there and people have our number, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: now it's gonna be a lot harder going forward because
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  Speaker 3: you know, people people won't want a piece of us.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: But with the town of Tupelow not a better place
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  Speaker 3: to raise your kids, Uh send your kids to school
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  Speaker 3: to my wife from there, I'm from thirty five minutes
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  Speaker 3: down the road in Houston, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'll be there till they fire me. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's interesting. I love I love hearing coaches talk
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  Speaker 1: about their hometowns. And I've said this for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You could really take the state of Mississippi and divide
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  Speaker 1: it up into four states. You know, you got the
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  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast. I tend south and I make jokes with
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  Speaker 1: my friends down there. Y'all are a different breed of
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  Speaker 1: people on the coast. So, but that's like a state
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  Speaker 1: in itself. You got the Pine Belt, which is totally
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  Speaker 1: different Central Mississippi here than North Mississippi. But you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of segment that the Delta's Delta.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly well, you can almost segment another way.
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  Speaker 3: You got to Soto County that's kind of by itself,
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  Speaker 3: and you have the Delta, and then you have Northeast Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're all great places.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it unique.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it very unique.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's pride, you know, prideful of their uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: their regions and their areas. And you know, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: Northeast Mississippi boy, you know, being from Houston, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Love where I grew up. I loved the the.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I saw growing up with your amoryes,
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  Speaker 3: your Ponotae ye O Wambazz. You know, like I'm People
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  Speaker 3: don't know my background, but my mom was a bookkeeper.
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  Speaker 2: At the high school. So my babysitter was the high school.
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  Speaker 3: And so from four years old on, all I knew
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  Speaker 3: was the high school, the field house and stuff. So
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in public I didn't come from a coach.
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  Speaker 3: My dad wasn't a coach, but you know, I grew
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  Speaker 3: up in that type environment. But I loved it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: public school football and public school Mississippi is great. You
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  Speaker 3: know we have some negatives out there, but then it's
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  Speaker 3: the best.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, coach, look, thank you so much for taking time.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the conference this week. We'll see you in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. The best of luck this year.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jake. I appreciate it all you do.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Ty Hard and Tupelow head football coach. On
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  Speaker 1: back in a moment.