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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 11 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Greetings and welcome into episode eleven of the BAFEL Football Coaches Show. I'm your
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  host Ryland Spencer, along with me is the head coach of the BAFEL Cougar's
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  Tom Bainer Coach. How we doing doing great? Thanks? Today's episode of
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  Koogs coach. We got a lot of things to talk about here. The
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  first thing, we kind of got some housekeeping, if you will. We
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  got some things to talk about, calendar stuff for people to kind of remember.
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  The first one coming up here. We are actually recording this April third,
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  so this is where we're getting into. Spring Break is next week,
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  so kind of give people, if you're listening to this, maybe a couple
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  weeks down the line, kind of a timeline of where we are at right
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  now. But parent meeting first, I guess not the first, but the
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  big parent meeting for the football program is coming up April twenty third at seven
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  pm in the library here at Baffel High School. We're gonna be covering everything
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  from fundraisers to spring football, Polu, grid Iron of Champions camp and Camp
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  Bothehood. This is kind of the biggest informational meeting of the offseason. Coach.
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  Absolutely, we had to invite all parents and players alike in any question
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  and all questions will be answered, And yes, we will cover the fundraisers
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  we'll be doing. We'll cover and get over the calendar on spring football.
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  Some are camp, some are workouts, all the way up until we start
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  football in August, so lots of information. The first fundraiser coming up is
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  the Mattress Fundraiser. This is something that happens every year, hear at Bathel.
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  I believe is that the ninth, tenth, ninth annual. It says
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  here Sunday, May nineteenth, that's from ten am to five pm at Baffel
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  High School in the gym. I assume it's in the commons. Actually,
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  okay, in the commons. So some of you made cafeteria. We did
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  the We did the postseason the banquet there last year. This is a big
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  fundraiser for us here. What exactly like if somebody's coming or they maybe they're
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  looking for a new mattress or new betting. What are some of the things
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  that kind of go on there. First of all, it's it's funny it's
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  called the Mattress Fundraiser, but our kids don't sell anything. Our kids are
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  only advertising. We're putting information out to the public that if you need a
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  mattress, that you can come and buy one at our facility and at a
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  reduced rate. And so what happens is all this money that is raised through
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  the sale of mattresses and pillows and comforters and and all kinds of things.
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  They the money goes back to our program, but goes directly to kids to
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  help pay for camp. So it's not a team fundraiser. It's basically a
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  player fundraiser that helps to pay for camp and spirit gear. And if you
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  have any questions, feel free to call or text three to six zero four
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  five four three two one zero. They will get you taken care of.
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  A couple other things just to kind of throw out there, almost like save
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  the date, if you will, the auction, the Big Booster Club Auction,
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  Saturday, July twentieth at Nardo Land. Tickets are going to be available
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  starting in May, so kind of keep an eye out for that. We
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  also have a tentative date for the alumni seven on seven. That's going to
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  be the same day, so it'll be earlier in the morning, so kind
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  of a full day of baffle football, if you will, we can do
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  some alumni seven on seven those of you. If any of you're coming in
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  from out of town, great opportunity to stick around and go to the auction
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  later that night. That is a tentative date for the alumni seven on seven
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  there. Keep an eye on social media. We will have all of that
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  information in the coming weeks. Coach. Let's talk about the off season.
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  We're about two thirds of the way through our winter lifting program here with coach
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  Darius Terry, who he's there every day. Bring him. I don't know
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  how he does it. I don't know how he walks in with as much
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  energy as he does at six am. Coach, but it looks like we've
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  had a pretty good numbers in pretty good progress so far this offseason. It's
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  been outstanding. We are in our competition phase now too. We're averaging about
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  today we had one hundred in or we didn't lift today, but yesterday we
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  had one hundred and nine there, one hundred and twenty total on teams,
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  we're always above one hundred, which is outstanding. Coach Terry first of all,
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  runs a great program and he does a great a bunch of energy,
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  and he's a professional. He does this, this is what he does and
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  he does it very well. I do want to shout out to Greg China,
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  Scott Danyert, Peter Fisher, Keller, Brad Munson. Trainer Dan's there
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  most of the time as well, and and those guys are there every day
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  also to help run what what Darius does. So it's outstanding. I would
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  tell you that I please with our participation. We just did some testing this
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  week. We'll finish it up Thursday Friday, and we're seeing great results.
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  Love the results we're seeing in both the physical lifts but also the movement drills,
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  and so our kids are working hard. It's a lot of fun to
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  enjoy it. It's player led a lot of the things we do now once
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  we get into teams, so it's kind of fun to put the ownership on
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  them in terms of attendance and participation and effort. So it's going. It's
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  about as well as you would want it to go, and so we're very
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  pleased with that. And when you talk about teams and the competition side of
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  it, we're specifically we're talking about Blue Crew, and this is something that
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  you know, we promote a little bit on social media. We don't go
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  real crazy with it, but overall Blue Crew, we've got ten teams,
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  ten leaders, if you will, of those teams captains, and they've all
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  got names and you can go back on social media if you want to see
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  these names and who the leaders are. But you know, this is a
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  real good chance to kind of not only getting good workouts and good lifts and
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  everything, but it's really about getting kind of competitive in the off season.
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  It is. It's about competitiveness and about being all in. It's about developing
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  the entire student athlete person you get graded and and kids. You know,
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  I should back up. Our players voted for for lift leaders. Our lift
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  leaders came in and we had a draft. They got to choose their teams
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  and then they name their teams and now and now they're in charge of it.
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  I show up with a tenants clip clipboard. The other coaches are helping
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  to run the program, and Darius leads it. And and really though the
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  players are responsible for at tenants for effort, for getting everything done that's required
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  of them, but there's also other pieces to it. There's a there's an
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  academic portion to it. We'll we'll do grade checks and they'll get points systems
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  for that. There's a discipline component to it. If you get in trouble
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  at school, your team gets minus points. So we're trying to hold them
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  accountable for their actions not just in football, but in the classroom and outside
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  as well. There will be a fundraising portion to it. There will be
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  a community service portion to it. And then you know, there's there's competitions
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  that we do with with agilities and things like that that also come into play.
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  So we're trying to build each individual into somebody who can buy into something
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  that's bigger than themselves. And and you know, when we do that and
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  people are coming because they want to and it's fun and they want to be
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  with their teammates, you know, I think you've got something special. So
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  that that's the goal. That's what we're striving for and our kids are doing
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  a great job with it. And really, so far as as far as
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  Blue Crew goes, it's it's kind of been attendance the discipline side of things,
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  but then also just kind of one on one team competitions, if you
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  will, Whereas coming up here after spring break, we're going to get into
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  the circuit of things where they're going to have different stations to go to where
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  they're competing head to head against another team for the entire day. And having
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  been in some of the Blue Crew stuff last year, watching it, it
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  gets real competitive, and it's the teams are fired up going against each other
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  because every day they get somebody new or you know, it's it's it's something
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  truly fun that I think is maybe a little unique to Baffle. I know
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  there's some schools out there that do some things just like it, and you
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  know, we've all got our own way of doing things. But yeah,
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  the off season is definitely going strong, and you know, we've got some
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  athletes out there doing track and baseball and other sports right now. I mean,
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  one of the guys that just is gonna graduate here in a few weeks,
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  Kyle Ortch thrown two hundred in the JAV. I mean, that's a
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  guy that last year. I don't even know that he was taking the JAV
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  all that serious, you know. So it's kind of cool to see the
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  other athletes or the athletes that we have playing you know, multiple multiple sports
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  and you know, trying to better themselves there as well as still getting in
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  the off season lift. So that's going Coach, let's talk a little bit.
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  But we've got to schedule the schedule. We kind of know it now.
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  There's still some some some times that we got to get figured out as
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  far as the schedule goes. But the dates the homecoming is now listed available.
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  Will have a big, a bigger release here soon. But one of
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  the things that kind of popped up a lot of people asking me questions Bellevue.
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  How's Bellevue. We're playing Bellevue this year, but it's in the middle
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  of the season. Is that a league game? Now? It's it's a
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  league game, it is, and it is not. It's a it's a
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  funny thing. We're going to tiers this year and they've they've created Jesse Snyder,
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  the the creator of the tier system, the the a d at Newport
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  thinks it's best that we're all in tiers, and and it might help the
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  teams in the lower tiers. But what what we're doing is we've we've been
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  ranked by his system of wins and losses, and then you know, some
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  teams have been manually maneuvered from one one tier to another to to even things
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  out or or put him where they he thinks they should be appropriately. But
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  so we have tiers in our tier is Tier one, and it does include
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  Bellevue. Bellevue will play east Lake and Skyline and Mount Sigh and Wooden Bille
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  and Bofel and and so that's the six teams in Tier one we'll play each
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  other. Our games against Bellevue will not count towards our playoff position or anyth
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  because they're in a different classification. So but but yeah, we'll see Bellevue.
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  We used to play Bellevue every now and again back in the mid and
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  and well mid teens and early teens. We played Bellevue probably four times since
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  I've been here in non league games. So it'll be fun to get them
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  back on the schedule again. Yeah, it's it's going to be a fun
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  schedule and outstanding schedule. We've got our three non league games. We open
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  up with with Kennedy Catholic, and then we're playing Arlington week two, and
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  then we got a team from Lewiston, Idaho coming to play US week three.
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  So two year schedule. We're still trying to figure out Week nine and
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  how we get into the round of thirty two. It's very complicated with tiers
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  and three or four classifications and teams in varying tiers classifications, so not sure
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  when that'll be complete. I don't know if you know that's an easy thing
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  to do, but something will happen and we'll play. But yeah, we're
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  excited about our schedule, our opponents, and should be a lot of fun.
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  Yeah. I think the three questions I got most about the schedule was
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  the Bellevue question, and then it was who the heck is that team in
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  Week three, which is Lewiston of Idaho, which then people go, well,
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  does that mean we're going to Lewiston next year? And the answer to
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  that is, yeah, absolutely we are. So next year we will head
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  out to Lewiston. It's a bus trip, but it's a it's a fun
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  trip. I'm excited for that one. But then The other question is what's
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  going on week nine, and you kind of mentioned it. It's still a
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  little bit up in the air because the big thing that a lot of people
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  notice is again no Inglemore and now no North Creek. And I told the
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  thing I kept saying, hello people, is hey, hold on a second
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  here. We won't know about week nine. It's possible we could end up
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  with either of those two teams a week nine. We don't really know,
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  So maybe there are still some more North Shore games. I think that's kind
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  of what a lot of people like. They like the idea of the North
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  Shore teams. But Woodenville still on the schedule. That will be a Woodinville
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  home game this year, so we will be away at Popkini. But other
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  than that, a couple of games later in the season with homecoming and Senior
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  Night. All of that information will be on the website. You can check
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  out bothelfootball dot net and actually if you head there right now, you can
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  go to click on upcoming events and the player gear stores open. The store
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  closes April eleventh with a late May delivery, so student athletes if they want
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  to get some gear for springball or for this summer it's all open and it's
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  open to anybody, so you can click on it. But you can see
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  it right here on the website under Upcoming Events twenty twenty four Upcoming Events.
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  April third is when it opens, which is actually today as we're talking,
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  and we only get eight days to this, so get online order some gear.
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  It'll take you to a way website BSN Team Sports and there's all kinds
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  of good Cougar gear on there. I'm looking at some stuff right here.
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  There's good Nike stuff and again it's all official Baffle football gear right there.
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  Coach, I don't really have much else other than that. You know,
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  we got a big off season coming up, and it's it's going really quickly.
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  It starts to feel like, you know, it's the season ends,
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  and then you kind of got you know, the holidays with Thanksgiving and Christmas
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  and and and then all of a sudden boom, you're right back into workouts
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  in January, and uh and and we're going crazy. Now we're we're fully
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  into it and uh and away we go, and we got the kind of
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  slowly working towards spring ball, if you will. Yeah, you know it,
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  it never seems like there's an off season for coaches and and you know,
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  and then the players who come and lift in the morning starting in January,
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  you know they must feel the same thing. But you know, it's
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  it's funny. Anywhere else in the United States, especially the South and the
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  East, athletes lift you around. You just do it. It's it's what
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  you do. And so, uh, we we lift in the morning to
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  allow our athletes to play three sports and still be a lifter. And so
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  we're we're we're pleased with our system. It works for us. We have
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  a number of kids who are getting up in the morning and then we'll play
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  a spring sport. We're seeing a lot of success with a lot of those
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  athletes. It's fun to go to a baseball game or a lacrosse match or
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  or track meet and see the number of football players that are participating in something
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  else. And and so you know that allows that and yeah, it's it's
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  busy. The life of an athlete should be busy. I mean, you're
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  you're you're constantly trying to grow and improve, and so pleased with our athletes
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  and all of our sports. It's, uh, it's been fun to watch
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  and be a part of that. And yeah, you know, as a
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  staff, we we have a we have a little staff retreat coming up in
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  at the in the end of April, and we've got, you know,
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  a trip to a college and we'll we'll meet with those staff members and see
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  some spring football and so yeah, I think you're continually trying to grow and
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  educate and learn and become better. And so that's certainly the goal of our
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  off season program. Yeah, and I think that's something maybe to even touch
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  on really quickly, is these you know, the coaches. You guys are
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  headed out to go to a college. I don't know if you want to
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  say who it is, but you guys are headed out to go to a
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  college. And some of that is is to kind of learn and see how
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  some how other people do things and how you can improve. And I know
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  that during the playoffs last year, you guys even went and visited a high
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  school trying to figure out, you know, what do they do that we
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  like anything like that, because at the same time, you know, we're
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  trying to grow these young men, but you know, as coaches, we
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  still got to grow as well. Absolutely. You know, the Blue Crew
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  thing that we got was when we traveled to Alabama in two thousand and nine,
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  and we didn't we didn't go there to meet with the high school.
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  But we did. We went to a high school there and met with the
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  staff, and we didn't talk any x's and o's, but we talked about
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  program growth and development and what we do with our kids and all that.
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  That led to the competition part and the lifting in the morning so that they
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  could be a lifter and play other sports. So you know that that's what
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  you get. We've been to a number of colleges, and sometimes it's four
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  staff members and sometimes it's eight. But we've traveled to Alabama, and we've
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  been to Notre Dame. We've been to Washington State. We've been to Oregon.
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  We've been to cal We've been to Boise State when when Peterson was there,
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  we went down. One of our best trips was going down to Nashville
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  and looking at Vanderbilt and being being involved in that. We're gonna head out
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  to a Montana school. I'll say that this this coming weekend or actually tomorrow
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  morning, and and we will get to meet with staff and watch film and
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  talk football and see practices and and learn and grow. You know, that's
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  that's what we have to do. Development of coaches is just as important as
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  as players, and so we take that seriously here and we're gonna start,
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  uh, we'll continue, but we'll do that this week. It'll ramp it
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  up for sure, all right, coach, Well, let's wrap it up
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  right there. Enjoy the trip out to Montana this week and we will get
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  back at it. We'll do another one of these podcasts probably, I would
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  say a little bit before springball is probably what we'll try to do. So
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  sometime in the middle of May, be on the lookout for another one of
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  these podcasts. And yeah, thanks for your time, Thank you, Rylan.
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  A reminder, today's episode of The Coaches Show is probably sponsored by Steve
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  Brad and Mellan vin Cheech of Wilson Realty. If you need help with your
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  real estate or just have questions, take a time out and give Steve a
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  call at two zero six two nine ninety nine oh nine. I'm Rylan Spencer.
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  You've been listening to episode eleven of the Bothel Football Coaches Show with head
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  coach Tom Bainter. We'll talk to you soon and go KOs