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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 22 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Bothel Football Coaches Show. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Ryland Spencer along with me as always, the
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Speaker 1: head coach of the Bothel Cougar's Tom Painter coach. How
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Speaker 1: are we doing? Doing great? How about you? I am
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Speaker 1: doing fantastic. This is a week nine podcast. We'll be
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Speaker 1: talking about last week's freshman game at East Lake. J
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Speaker 1: v and varsity did not play, so what did they
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Speaker 1: do all week? We'll talk about that. So I guess
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Speaker 1: we will start with the freshman game because it was
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Speaker 1: the only game that we played last week, the freshman
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Speaker 1: team final road game of the year. They went up
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Speaker 1: to East Lake and lost thirty nine to thirteen. They
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Speaker 1: are home tonight for their final game of the season.
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Speaker 1: It's a seven pm kickoff against the North Creek Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Coach four and four on the season, and you know,
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Speaker 1: really there is no playoffs, nothing like that for freshman
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Speaker 1: or j football. But an opportunity tonight to finish the
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Speaker 1: season with a winning record.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it's important, an important game for
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Speaker 2: many reasons. Number one, we get to play a rival.
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Speaker 2: You know, back in the day, we used to play
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Speaker 2: with all the schools in the district and now we
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Speaker 2: just play one. And you know, I hope that changes.
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Speaker 2: I hope we get back to traditional rivalries. I think
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Speaker 2: it's good for your league. I think it's good for
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Speaker 2: your district. I think it's good for money coming in,
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Speaker 2: and yet we don't. So hopefully that'll change. But tonight
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Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna see a classic North Creek versus
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Speaker 2: Bothel freshman football game that we've been doing year to year,
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Speaker 2: and so I'm glad this tradition keeps going. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: it'd be good. It's always better to have a winning season,
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Speaker 2: and so that's what's on the line.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's one of those things that's interesting. You know.
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Speaker 1: What you talk about there is you grow up playing
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Speaker 1: all these junior football teams, and then you get into
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Speaker 1: high school and for some reason, you're not playing two
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Speaker 1: of the closest teams you have too. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you talk proximity, those are two out of the
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Speaker 1: three closest teams. They're in your district, and then you
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Speaker 1: know you don't really play them. So it's kind of weird.
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Speaker 1: But Monday night typically is JV night, but nogate JV
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Speaker 1: game this week and it wasn't without trying a couple
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Speaker 1: of different teams scheduled over the course of the season.
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Speaker 1: In the end, though, a couple of teams canceled, so
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Speaker 1: not much you can do about it. Tried to look
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Speaker 1: around at some you know, Metro League other places and
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Speaker 1: just wasn't able to find a game. So JV finishes
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Speaker 1: the season four and four. I'd love to get Jim
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Speaker 1: Munson's opinion on what a four and four season feels like.
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Speaker 1: But but yeah, JV, I mean I would consider it,
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Speaker 1: you know, a successful season and the fact that so
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Speaker 1: many guys are getting opportunities to continue playing football and
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Speaker 1: get prepared for varsity at the next level.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we started off with four teams, a freshman,
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Speaker 2: a sophomore, a JV in a varsity and after our
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Speaker 2: first game, I think we sent thirteen or fourteen JV
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Speaker 2: kids over to Meadowdale and we had twenty or twenty
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Speaker 2: two sophomore as well. With injuries and things like that,
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Speaker 2: we just had to combine those guys. So yeah, they
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Speaker 2: competed well and we found games for them. And and
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Speaker 2: you know, because a lot of teams in our league,
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Speaker 2: as you know, do not have a JV program now
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Speaker 2: and and so we were able to play Glacier Peak,
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Speaker 2: and we played some other teams from out of our
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Speaker 2: conference and and so it was it was good. We
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Speaker 2: We've got to see some growth and development. You know,
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Speaker 2: I think it's important that kids play football is different
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Speaker 2: than a lot of sports.
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Speaker 1: You grind all.
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Speaker 2: Week for one game, and it's important that you have that.
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Speaker 2: And so disappointed this last week we couldn't find an opponent,
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Speaker 2: and and a little concerned about the state of football.
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Speaker 2: You know, when when four A schools and Big three
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Speaker 2: A schools are having to drop their JV teams for
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Speaker 2: lack of participation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and that's it's one of those things
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Speaker 1: that's kind of interesting in a way. It's it also,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it makes the freshman record look
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Speaker 1: even maybe a little bit better at four and four
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Speaker 1: because a lot of these teams that they're playing are
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Speaker 1: actually C teams with you know, older guys on it.
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Speaker 1: So the freshman team getting out there and playing teams
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Speaker 1: that have sophomores and maybe even a junior or two,
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Speaker 1: who knows. But yeah, I mean, it is slightly concerning
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Speaker 1: when you have, you know, some of the best teams
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Speaker 1: in the conference and they're struggling to put together a
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Speaker 1: JV team. But you know, not much you can do
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Speaker 1: about that. You just got to obviously keep grinding with
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Speaker 1: what you have and try to get as many numbers
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Speaker 1: as we can here at Bothelin and just keep moving on.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of moving on, we've got the varsity game report
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Speaker 1: and there isn't one this week because last week was
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Speaker 1: a bye, but practices still went on, so, you know,
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Speaker 1: just no opponent to plan for, which is kind of
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Speaker 1: weird at this point of the season. You know, when
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Speaker 1: you're when you're in the middle of August and you're
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Speaker 1: trying to install offenses and different things, you're not really
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Speaker 1: planning for an opponent. But it's a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: You've got to get everything in and everything, you know,
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Speaker 1: some of the new stuff. But this week co which
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Speaker 1: when you start looking at a buy in terms of practice,
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Speaker 1: what kind of things are you trying to accomplish in
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Speaker 1: the five days?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, it's it's a it's a
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Speaker 2: it's too bad you don't get a game. But you
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Speaker 2: got to look at the silver lining in the you know,
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Speaker 2: in the clouds, and and the fact is that we
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Speaker 2: got to we got to rest our kids a little bit.
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Speaker 2: So we had we gave them Monday off other than
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Speaker 2: film and watching video. Uh, we had a we had
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Speaker 2: a helmet only practice on Tuesday, halfpack on on Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: and then we kind of geared it up and uh
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Speaker 2: full packed it and kind of full went on Thursday
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Speaker 2: and Friday at times, and so had a mini scrimmage
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Speaker 2: and situational stuff.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: We we use it as an opportunity to get back
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Speaker 2: to some of the fundamental basics. You know, you're you're
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Speaker 2: so focused on adding and adapting to the next scheme
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Speaker 2: you're playing, and we kind of just went backwards and
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Speaker 2: went back to the base fundamentals and uh, you practice
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Speaker 2: all the things that you don't get enough time to
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Speaker 2: do uh in a bye week, and so, uh it
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Speaker 2: was it was beneficial to us. I was pleased with
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Speaker 2: the way our players handled it. And you know, you
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Speaker 2: got to make the best of everything, and I think
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Speaker 2: we did this last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I saw it certain times out there
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Speaker 1: the defense was going up against some garbage cans on offense,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, Owen Bayner had had himself a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a scout team there on the offensive
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Speaker 1: side and so you know, a lot of it is
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Speaker 1: fine tuning some things that maybe in a normal week
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't get an opportunity to do. So, you know
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Speaker 1: it's tough. You obviously want to try to simulate game
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Speaker 1: day as much as you can at certain points, but also,
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Speaker 1: like you said, rest up. And you know, as you
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Speaker 1: were talking about resting up, Trainer Dan comes walking in
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Speaker 1: and talk about a guy that got a week off. There,
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Speaker 1: Trainer Dan. Not a whole lot going on for him
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Speaker 1: this week, a lot of sitting around. He's given me
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Speaker 1: a looker.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't think I've ever seen Trainer Dan sitting around.
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Speaker 1: I've never had the opportunity to get him. The only
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Speaker 1: reason I did today is because Coach China is not here.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk opponent preview Coach. The Opponent Preview is brought
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Speaker 1: to you by Passionate Tequila Family Mexican restaurant just a
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Speaker 1: few blocks north of Pop Keeney Stadium and open seven
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Speaker 1: days a week. Passionate Kila is serving great food you
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Speaker 1: can enjoy with your friends and family. The battleground at Tigers.
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Speaker 1: They are coming to town this Friday, seven pm kickof
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Speaker 1: at Pop Kinty Stadium parade will start about five point
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Speaker 1: thirty or so. Be sure to line the streets and
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Speaker 1: welcome the Koogs down the hill towards the stadium. Battleground
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Speaker 1: five and four on the season, coming off back to
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Speaker 1: back wins two weeks ago, beating Skyview thirty five twenty
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Speaker 1: one for the first time since two thousand and four,
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Speaker 1: beating the Storm last week, officially securing a playoff spot
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Speaker 1: with a thirty eight fourteen win over Union. Coach. First,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about their offense. Senior quarterback Ethan Adams leading
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Speaker 1: the way over a thousand yards on the ground and
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Speaker 1: through the air. You know, he leads the team in
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Speaker 1: both passing and rushing as far as we can tell.
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Speaker 1: So a guy that obviously is gonna garner a lot
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Speaker 1: of attention this Friday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's a tremendous athlete and maybe the
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Speaker 2: best quarterback we will have faced so far this year.
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Speaker 2: He's got great feet, he's got a really quick release,
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Speaker 2: He's accurate, he he he understands the game incredibly well.
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Speaker 2: He knows where he's throwing, you know, probably for the
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Speaker 2: ball gets to him, and and he's just he's going
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Speaker 2: to be a tough one for us. We're going to
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Speaker 2: have to find a way to contain him a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And and you know, some of his best players are
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Speaker 2: when things break down and then he escapes. And you know,
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Speaker 2: we watch the NFL and college football enough to know
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Speaker 2: that those quarterbacks are special, and he's one of those kids.
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Speaker 2: But they also have, you know, a good physical line.
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Speaker 2: They have receivers who run great routes, catch the ball well. Defensively,
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Speaker 2: they they they kind of attack you. They're aggressive. They
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Speaker 2: play a lot of man but they'll blitz a lot,
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Speaker 2: but they'll play two or three other coverages as well.
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Speaker 2: They're well coached. It's gonna be a wonderful challenge for us.
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Speaker 2: They play in a tough league. You know Camus and
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Speaker 2: Skyview and and and Union in the past, and when
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Speaker 2: you play those teams, it makes you better. And and
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Speaker 2: certainly they got him, you know, they got Skyby this year,
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Speaker 2: and so we're looking forward to the challenge. It'll be
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Speaker 2: a tough one, but fun for our fans to come
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Speaker 2: and see a team that maybe they've never seen before
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Speaker 2: and and get to experience a really good football game.
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Speaker 2: So looking forward to Friday night.
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Speaker 1: As far as I can tell, this should be as
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Speaker 1: you said, a team they've never seen before. From what
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Speaker 1: I can see, it appears as though Boffel has never
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Speaker 1: played Battleground, and it would have been kind of tough
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Speaker 1: because they weren't exactly in the same classification for many years.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, seven o'clock on Friday out at pop Kini Stadium,
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Speaker 1: So be sure to get out there. It's not on
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Speaker 1: the normal schedule, right, it's a little bit tougher to find.
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Speaker 1: You got to pay attention a little bit more. But Coach,
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Speaker 1: one of the things I want to talk about before
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Speaker 1: we get out of here next year the Greater Saint
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Speaker 1: Helens League where Battleground is now only four teams in
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Speaker 1: that league with Camus Skyview Union and Battleground. Next year
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Speaker 1: they're going to go to a home and home for
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Speaker 1: league games. I've never the only time I've ever seen this,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure it's happened in other places, but the
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Speaker 1: Wakam County, the Northwest Conference up there, they're one a's
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Speaker 1: for a few years, would play home and home. And
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Speaker 1: this is very interesting because over a six week period,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna play the same three teams twice. Obviously, I
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Speaker 1: don't know that that'll ever happen here in Kingco. Because
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Speaker 1: we just have so many teams. But it's got I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's really hard for Battleground when you look at it.
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Speaker 1: They have to schedule what would be six weeks of
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Speaker 1: non league games to start the season, and I mean
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Speaker 1: they're going all over the state. They've got Eisenhower from Yakama,
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Speaker 1: They've got Post Falls from northern Idaho. There's you know,
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Speaker 1: teams from all over the place, even playing some one
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Speaker 1: A and two A schools. Granted they're playing two of
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Speaker 1: the best teams in one A and two A when
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Speaker 1: they do it, but yeah, as a coach, it would
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Speaker 1: be I mean, I would think it'd be very interesting.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not as much fun because you're only gonna you know,
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Speaker 1: you're having to play the same teams a couple of
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Speaker 1: times right there at the end. But what are your
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Speaker 1: general thoughts having to play the same team twice back
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Speaker 1: to back kind of in a way like that.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's it's interesting the number of kids,
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Speaker 2: or excuse me, teams in your league can can kind
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Speaker 2: of you know, make or break how you schedule. You know,
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Speaker 2: the Greater Saint Helens has ten teams or excuse me,
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Speaker 2: the Greater Spokane League has ten teams, so they don't
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Speaker 2: they don't get to play anybody outside their conference. And
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Speaker 2: I would tell you that that that's probably disappointing for
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Speaker 2: most of those schools. We know that, you know, when
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Speaker 2: we allowed schools to have independent schedules, that you know
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Speaker 2: you can come up with nine games. I'm under the
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Speaker 2: belief that that you know, the number six is probably
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Speaker 2: the perfect number in the league if you had divisions
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Speaker 2: of six. Here's here's why I say this. The good teams,
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Speaker 2: the middle of the road teams in the week teams
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Speaker 2: all have an opportunity for for two or three independently
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Speaker 2: scheduled games. So if you want to leave the state,
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Speaker 2: if you want to play somebody tough, you can. If
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Speaker 2: you want to if you want to play somebody that
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Speaker 2: gives you a competitive advantage to you know you can
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Speaker 2: maybe beat and get a couple of wins, you can.
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Speaker 2: I think it's important to play teams at your level,
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Speaker 2: and I think it's important to play teams slightly above
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Speaker 2: your level. It's the way you grow. It's what you
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Speaker 2: understand is a is A is a coaching staff that
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Speaker 2: you can relate to your kids that this is how
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Speaker 2: we this is where the bar is and we have
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Speaker 2: to up our game and practice and you know, and
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Speaker 2: watching film and huddle and and that that's what makes
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Speaker 2: you better. And so you know, four is a is
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Speaker 2: a small number, it really is. I would i would
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Speaker 2: not be in favor of that myself. I'm I'm more
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Speaker 2: in the line of let's let's create games of our
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Speaker 2: own so our kids can experience travel and new competition
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Speaker 2: and but uh, you know, whatever, whatever works for you.
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Speaker 2: I'm I'm certainly no expert on everybody, and and uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, everybody's got a different opinion as well. So uh,
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Speaker 2: that's that's interesting. You know. I wish them well. I
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Speaker 2: hope that works out for them. Uh, I could see
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Speaker 2: a lot of uh you know, we beat each other,
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Speaker 2: and those two beat each other, and now here we
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Speaker 2: are in week eight or nine trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: how we rank, and we've we've all beaten each other.
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Speaker 2: So that'll be interesting to see how that works out.
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Speaker 2: I wish them well. You know, I'm hoping we get
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Speaker 2: back to classifications and and let our let you know,
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Speaker 2: you'd be amazed at the number of students in the
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Speaker 2: schools that are opting down and we keep trying to
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Speaker 2: make it easier for those who struggle, and it makes
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Speaker 2: them worse. I believe that's my philosophy. And and people
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Speaker 2: will argue, well, they're win records better, and you know,
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Speaker 2: and we're seeing that right now. And we saw it
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Speaker 2: last year at Mercer Island. They were nine to zero
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Speaker 2: and they didn't play a home game, and when they
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Speaker 2: played somebody tough on the playoffs, they were, you know,
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Speaker 2: running clock at halftime, and and so I really don't
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Speaker 2: know if that does them any any good. Uh, certainly,
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Speaker 2: perception is it looks better, But you know, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm I guess I'm different philosophy. I thank you you
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Speaker 2: get through tough and you get better at hard instead
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Speaker 2: of let's just gift easy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I'm with you there on that.
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Speaker 1: I think that it's yeah. I mean, you talk about
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Speaker 1: lowering the bar raising the bar, and when you start,
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Speaker 1: when you start just saying, hey, we're okay with having
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Speaker 1: a good record, but not challenging ourselves, I think that's
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Speaker 1: a real problem for not only the life of football,
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Speaker 1: future life of football, but for future down the road
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Speaker 1: for the student athlete. I mean, I think you're making
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Speaker 1: it easy on them, and football is not supposed to
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Speaker 1: be easy. It's supposed to be hard, and I think
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Speaker 1: all athletics are supposed to be hard. Now that being said, coach,
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Speaker 1: just thinking about the home and home. You go back
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Speaker 1: a few years ago when Camis Skyview Union were three
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Speaker 1: of the better teams in the state. Holy cow, could
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Speaker 1: you imagine that six weeks of just mayhem? I mean,
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Speaker 1: every week would have been a huge game and it
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Speaker 1: would have been just great. But I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: just think about it, let's say we would have taken
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Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, let's take a Bothel,
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Speaker 1: Woodenville Skyline and you know, East Lake and put them
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Speaker 1: all into one thing and just play each other every
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Speaker 1: single week. It would have just been absolute chaos. All right.
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Speaker 1: That's all I got, coach. Not a whole lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about this week, by far, the shortest podcast we've
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Speaker 1: had in a few weeks. But that's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: We'll get out of here. Coach China can get his
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Speaker 1: paperwork done without the background noise. So thanks for your time, coach,
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you next week.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Rylan.
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Speaker 1: A reminder of the freshmen play their final game of
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season tonight at home against North
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Speaker 1: Creek seven pm kickoff here at the high School. Admission
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Speaker 1: to free. Concessions will be available to come on out
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Speaker 1: support the freshman Kogs one last time. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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Speaker 1: He's Tom Bainter. You've been listening to episode twenty two
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Speaker 1: of The Baffle Football Coaches Show. We'll talk to you
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Speaker 1: next week and as always, go Koog's