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Football Friday Previews: Danville at Anderson with Anderson Coach Shane Arnold (Co-Host: Michelle Garmon; 2.19.12) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome football fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for our football Friday preview Anderson versus Danville and Michelle Shane Arnold helped the Anderson Indians snap a 15 game losing streak last week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Very cool for Shane and very cool for those kids.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it most definitely, you know, for him it's great because when you come in and he knows he's
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You still want it's nice to get your first win as quickly as you can, especially when you take over a program that has just struggled to get wins and hadn't gotten win for more than a year.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately for him, the follow-up basically gets to play a Danville team and a Danville team that's probably better than the York,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They get Anderson got a big win, and fortunately, they're pro, they can't end up struggling to put points on the board.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I talked to Shane Arnold about that earlier today, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I said, are you telling your teams, hey, we're going to go beat them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Look, they're Owen, too, and he's like, oh, no, we've been talking all year about how good Danville is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're Owen, too.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They've lost the two top four teams.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they haven't been by very many points.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: His coach Arnold said they could have won both games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And against Cascade and Gibson Southern, and that means they're really, really good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, they are really, it doesn't mean they're really good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, like I said, that's the tough luck for Shane, but I think there are games coming up on his schedule that are going to have the opportunity for Anderson to get another win and even to be competitive in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With here from Coach Arnold.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the central Indiana Sports Report Anderson Head Coach Shane Arnold.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: coach, I want to ask you what it means to you having gotten your first win at Anderson, but more importantly for those kids who have lost a been part of a program that's struggled to win games for such a long time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How nice was it for them to get that one off Friday?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was amazing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It really was.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Take some of that stuff for granted and see in those kids
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  [SPEAKER_02]: a handful of kids come up and hug me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was their first win ever in high school, but when you hear that 16 game losing streak, that's a, that's quite the streak.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But the kids have been working hard.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they've been really bought in and working hard.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So it was good to see their hard work pay off and get that W, but it really, it really, it's
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For an old coach like me, there's your heart good to see kids that excited and that fulfilled for their hard work pain off.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I also have to be a bit of relief and jubilation for you as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, as a coach any time you can win, it's a relief, but, you know, we're getting there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: When you're rebuilding a program, it takes patience and time, and that's where we're at, and we're completely revamping the offense, we're completely revamping the defense, and the kids are working hard.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We got a lot of young kids playing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we have several seniors, but we got a lot of young kids on the field.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're learning different styles and different techniques and they're really doing a good job, so I'm very proud of them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then anytime you win a game as convincingly as you did on Friday, it's a it's a complete team effort, but what are a couple of things that you want to point out that stood out to you in a positive way in the win?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Our line play was light years better than week one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We knew our assignments, we stayed on our assignments, we opened big holes and our running backs really got the benefit of that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They had huge holes to run in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was very proud of our kids.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Washington had
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  [SPEAKER_02]: quite a few penalties.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, we cleaned that up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We only had three penalties all night.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we, we, we didn't make silly mistakes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, we didn't retaliate with silliness.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, when we did mess up the turning point of the game, it was 14 12.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We was moving all down the field and was going to close out the half and score and we was getting the opening kick off the second half and we fumble.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They take it down and they had four cracks.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: inside the five.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The last play they ran with 32 seconds and a half was fourth and goal from the one and we stopped them twice inside the two.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, to love seeing that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we hang our hat on our defense.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We always have our defense.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Defense wins championships, offense, puts butts in the seats.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we scored well, first play of the game that we had on offense, Willie D took it to the house.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And everybody got excited, but they found out real quick.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: when the kid from Washington took at 99 yards back on the kickoff that she can't relax for a minute.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So just very happy with the complete effort.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We faced adversity.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We rose up through it, battled through it and come out on the better end.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Is it changing anything about the expectations for the rest of the season?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Now the expectations are what they are.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: When
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You've been around the game long enough.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, when you're rebuilding, you have highs and lows.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Last Friday was a huge high for us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I told the kids take the weekend off and enjoy it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They deserve that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Come right back to work this week and know that this week is a much, much tougher opponent.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have to play much, much better, much cleaner.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's just to try to compete.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If you want to win, we got to play the perfect game
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  [SPEAKER_02]: take the night off.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But I have confidence in our boys.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to show up and battle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And the only way you're going to get better when you're rebuilding a program is to play good competition, so you can find out true measuring sticks of what you got to fix and get better with.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How much have you told your players to ignore that, oh, and two, because it's not in the kind of
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I've been bragging on them all summer.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I told them week three was going to start what I call a murderous row.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to have to be our whole mindset was, you know, to get to this point, to be playing clean and physical because we're going to have to be at a higher level to even hang with them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They have a tremendous program.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're well established.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But again, that's where we want to be.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, we want to take them on and see where we're at and what we've got to do to be better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because for those who don't know, they've lost by a total of 23 points to two teams, both ranked in the top four in the state.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, Gibson Southern and Cascade and when you watch those films, that is to really, really good programs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, they have lost a really good teams.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: that o and two is very deceiving there's very few teams that bat play those two and come out one and one or two and out very few they would be in six a probably good for new pal coach we have not talked since the news of what's happened to try central and I just want to get your thoughts
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel terrible for the kids in the program and the community.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a good group of kids, great community and great school injuries, mountain up, and I hate to hear that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's really too bad, but the plan is to come back to a varsity level and as you know, it tries to control it is possible to reach the highest of heights.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I think they'll come back and be stronger and better than ever.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Cochagans, a great coach and a great man.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He'll get that program going.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Steel does a great job as the AD.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Long is the principal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They'll come back and be better than ever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How cool would it be coach to see the Anderson Indians have a great football program?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That is our goal, I don't want to promise them the world.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I told them that it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think with patience.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We, we can get there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you give us time will be able to compete at a high level consistently, but that's a ways down the road right now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're, we're just trying to to figure out, you know, what we can do and what we do well and what we don't and trying to find to that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Anderson had coach Shane Arnold coming off his first win as the Anderson had coach.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for your time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Always appreciate it coach.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for everything.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You are a blessing to us all and the work you do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you for everything.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was awfully nice of you to say things again.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We kind of already hinted at our prediction for this game before we heard from Coach Arnold.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But what are you expecting on Friday?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: do to the mercy rule.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I would love to see that not happen.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Anderson's quite there yet.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and part of that is, too, is, you know, before the season, before that week one opener, you know, Shane was talking about how much sickness and illness they had kind of going through their team.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, that even said they're developed back a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I said
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  [SPEAKER_03]: more advantageous competition for them ahead, but I don't think that's going to be the situation Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We're tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Always appreciate it and everybody Michelle and I will be together on Friday night to do our football Friday scoreboard show.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll have all the scores from around central Indiana and the biggest scores from around the state and we'll talk to several coaches.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to Coach Arnold and to Michelle Garman for joining me.
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