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Wednesday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 4: Ums right out of Mobile will come to Jackson on
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Speaker 4: uh you know to to two state tier Alabama versus
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Speaker 4: at four thirty. We're in Pearl today, Pearl on radio yesday.
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Speaker 4: As we're there, we're most off. You've got the m
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Speaker 4: here for us. We're glad to be from rule today.
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Speaker 4: We'll be right to it. ESPN has announced that they're
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Speaker 4: Patrick Schooler, hit football coach here at Pearl coming up
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Speaker 4: point thirty and other guests as we move through the
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Speaker 4: day again, Auburn has sold a program record of eighty
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Speaker 4: student season tickets for the third consecutive years. So the
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Speaker 4: I thought that was pretty cool for him to do that. Also,
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Speaker 4: the Patriot League has denied Villanova quarterback Patrick mcwade's eligibility
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Speaker 4: in Pearl today, Pirate Country. It is Pearl Pirate Day
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Speaker 4: on your radio right now. Their head football coach Patrick
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Speaker 4: schooler is on your radio, coach. Always good to see you, sir.
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Speaker 4: How are you.
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Speaker 8: I'm doing great? How are you? Man?
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Speaker 4: It's hot, it's hot.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 4: We were talking about that, me and you when I
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Speaker 4: pulled up, and it was funny to hear you talk
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Speaker 4: about you know, we were at Northwest yesterday and Coach
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Speaker 4: Cooper was saying, y'all obviously know each other well, a
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Speaker 4: little hotter in flow Wood than Pearl. It's weird how
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Speaker 4: that just works that way.
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Speaker 8: It's almost where do you go, like, you know, places
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Speaker 8: on the field to get different reading. So it's something
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Speaker 8: everybody's dealing with. So we'll all deal with it, Brent.
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Speaker 8: So we figured it out.
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Speaker 4: Let's get into this football season. You know last year,
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Speaker 4: you guys were extremely competitive, had some big wins last year.
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Speaker 4: You know, went down to Pedal, I got to win
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Speaker 4: the week before Halloween. You know, you you played at
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Speaker 4: Grove really close for most of the game. Northwest ranking
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Speaker 4: you lost a close when there was there was some
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Speaker 4: good wins, there was some tough losses. Battling some injuries
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Speaker 4: last year. Kind of take us through last year. Maybe'all
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Speaker 4: were so close.
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Speaker 8: Like every game I could play here, play there, you know,
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Speaker 8: I told you gays, we got to figure out how
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Speaker 8: to score seven or defend seven more this year to tough,
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Speaker 8: tough schedule, so you have very few margin vera.
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Speaker 4: Now, there's no doubt about it. And you know you
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Speaker 4: play these we know non conferences coming up. We'll get
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Speaker 4: into this weekend next week here in a bit, but
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Speaker 4: you play those those tough games the first month to
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Speaker 4: get your guys ready. Of course, the region you guys
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Speaker 4: play in, I still say is one of the best
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Speaker 4: in the state, no doubt.
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 4: You know, I think Region two maybe by just a
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Speaker 4: hair but it's not much. But Region three definitely one
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Speaker 4: of the toughest. So tell us a little about how
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Speaker 4: spring went the summer and kind of what you guys
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Speaker 4: were you're at today.
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Speaker 8: I love way to get spring. A bunch of young
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Speaker 8: guys come in playing. Summer was really good for I
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Speaker 8: thought the tenants was the best pabists I've been here.
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Speaker 8: Did some seven old seven's on Tuesdays. We did a
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Speaker 8: little seven on seven camp in Memphis. Thought the kids
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Speaker 8: got acted pretty well. You know, we've got a good
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Speaker 8: fall camp. You know, we've been able to dodge the
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Speaker 8: bullets on the heat so far, Uh kids have been
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Speaker 8: short practice like they're supposed to be, and we're just
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Speaker 8: gonna we're gonna be young. You know when young kids
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Speaker 8: scared you a little bit. But they're talented and we'll
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Speaker 8: just hopefully little growing pains. We can win a ball
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Speaker 8: game or two with them.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you look at this version, you had
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Speaker 4: some guys graduate now obviously new quarterbacks, some different players.
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Speaker 4: Kind of take us through who some of those guys
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Speaker 4: may be.
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Speaker 8: Crew that would gonna be the quarterback right now. And uh,
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Speaker 8: Crew's got some some valuable snaps his first year whenever
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Speaker 8: Jack got hurt. Uh then last year just played JV
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Speaker 8: and a few few high school games and not very
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Speaker 8: many when uh we didn't we wouldn't never winning big
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Speaker 8: or losing big enough to bring the JV quarterback in.
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Speaker 8: So uh but he's got command the offense. I think
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Speaker 8: he's gonna do a good job for us hopefully. Uh
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Speaker 8: really good in the backfield. Got two big running backs.
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Speaker 8: Alexander and Parks are two big body that you got
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Speaker 8: to defend over and over again, and people don't want
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Speaker 8: to defend that. So did get a couple of kids
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Speaker 8: to come out one young one one young sophomore receiver
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Speaker 8: got us finally got a senior receiver come out from
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Speaker 8: from the gym. Uh jedd and' stringfellow is gonna. I
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Speaker 8: think that chance will be really special. Usaid a really
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Speaker 8: really good off season. Did not do spring with us.
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Speaker 8: But so it's just seven on seven, Uh, Friday night
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Speaker 8: be his first real game for US. So we're excited
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Speaker 8: to see what he can do. Uh six three six
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Speaker 8: four bodies hard to defend sometimes, so we'll be young
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Speaker 8: up front. We're gonna start two sophomore and two juniors
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Speaker 8: and one senior. Uh. The senior and one of the
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Speaker 8: juniors played some last year with so three nine players
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Speaker 8: last year playing this year, so you know that's always scary.
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Speaker 8: But with two big running backs in the backfield, you
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Speaker 8: didn't get a block great and the youth fall for
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Speaker 8: a yard or two to keep you in a good
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Speaker 8: spot on the down distance.
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Speaker 4: Talking with the head football coach Pearl Pirates Patrick Schooler
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Speaker 4: on your radio it is Wednesday, stream US on the
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Speaker 4: Zone one of five nine dot com. You know you
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Speaker 4: just mentioned something there. I was going to ask you
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Speaker 4: when you got offensive linemen that are young, it's it's
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Speaker 4: hard to hide them, right, especially if they're going to start.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna be every snap. But if you've
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Speaker 4: got some experienced backs and you've got some bigger backs,
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Speaker 4: just what you said is that kind of the message
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Speaker 4: to the to the young offensive lineman is, Hey, you
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Speaker 4: don't have to be perfect, you just need to be effective, good.
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Speaker 8: Getting away defender, me ball here, make it happen something.
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Speaker 8: I like that. So, but we had we had a
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Speaker 8: pretty good old line and we've moved over D Line.
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Speaker 8: He's always played online. He's really D line is what
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Speaker 8: he is. And he's gonna be a senior. And I
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Speaker 8: was like, just put him over there. Let the young
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Speaker 8: guys learn this year when they got to be great
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Speaker 8: because of those two big, big guys in the backfield'll
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Speaker 8: make up for a lot of myths blocks. So, but
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Speaker 8: that's gonna be be the model. Run the ball at
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Speaker 8: people and be real physical and play good defense and
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Speaker 8: trying in the game in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 4: You know, hear, And you also talk about moving young men.
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Speaker 4: We've talked with several coaches on our road tour so far.
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Speaker 4: They said, hey, yeah, we took a guy, maybe he
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Speaker 4: played receiver, but we moved him to corner off of lineman,
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Speaker 4: a defensive lineman. I think that's a lost start that
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Speaker 4: we don't even talk about that that you coaches have
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Speaker 4: to do and have to be able to say, hey,
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Speaker 4: we had him here, but we need to put him
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Speaker 4: way over there. That's that's very difficult to do. You know,
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Speaker 4: coaches have an act for that. And then also how
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Speaker 4: do you get the kid to buy into that because
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Speaker 4: some kids will say, no, sir, I'm a center or
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Speaker 4: I'm a right tackle. You're not a I'm not a
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Speaker 4: nose guard.
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Speaker 8: That's what you don't give a choice. Right if they
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Speaker 8: want to play, they'll do what we ask him to do.
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Speaker 8: And like, nobody's gonna bucket really because then they say,
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Speaker 8: we're trying to build a build a good, good program here.
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Speaker 8: They want to win ball games, so we whatever we
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Speaker 8: say do, they're gonna do it for the most part,
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Speaker 8: or they're just that's how they raise how they are. Uh.
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Speaker 8: But I think we got a good chance to be
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Speaker 8: really really good this year if we can stay healthy.
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Speaker 8: But we can't. We can't get injured in certain spots
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Speaker 8: this year, but maybe everything like that, Sure, nobody wants
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Speaker 8: to lose a quarterback. I mean, everybody's got he's a
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Speaker 8: starter for a reason because he's better than the next one. Uh.
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Speaker 8: We just you know, some of our depths not as
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Speaker 8: good as it needs to be. Maybe have some good
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Speaker 8: players back behind them. They just gonna be young and
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Speaker 8: not ready to play, you know, but sub may football
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Speaker 8: will exposure in a hurry. If you're not ready to play,
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Speaker 8: you don't.
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Speaker 4: But one of the things about Pearl, uh and it's
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Speaker 4: always been this way, and you've kept that that tradition going,
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Speaker 4: is your kids are tough. They get after it, and
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Speaker 4: you know they that if you're gonna be in a
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Speaker 4: game with Pearl, you know that you've been in a
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Speaker 4: football game when it's over with.
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Speaker 8: That's all the time. Is just a mentality we're gonna
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Speaker 8: have here. You know, last year's team a great little team,
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Speaker 8: but they weren't very great. If you look at them,
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Speaker 8: they wouldn't have a very talented football team. They didn't
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Speaker 8: uh you know, no no superstar out there. But we
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Speaker 8: were in every ball game but won last year. You know,
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Speaker 8: play some really tough games all way down in the
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Speaker 8: fourth quarter with and we laugh. But a day we
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Speaker 8: had four linebackers, none them were six ft nonem were
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Speaker 8: over one hundred and eighty pounds in this league, and they
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Speaker 8: play their tails off. So it's one of those deals
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Speaker 8: that you know, you play bigger than you are, you
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Speaker 8: play tougher, and you can be in all the ball
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Speaker 8: that you won't be in. This year's team have a
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Speaker 8: chance to be more athletic than we've had to hear
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Speaker 8: in the past. So if we can put it all
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Speaker 8: together and make a little run at it and stay healthy,
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Speaker 8: it's gonna it should be some fun Friday night for us.
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Speaker 4: Who do you guys play Friday? In the scrimmage?
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Speaker 8: Kenton? Kenton got two quarters and a quarter of j V.
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Speaker 4: And then you know, what, what do you look for
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Speaker 4: in a moment like Friday night? What are you trying
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Speaker 4: to What do you try to accomplish.
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Speaker 8: On and off the field? You know, uh, not really assigned.
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Speaker 8: Of course you want signing to be great, but like
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Speaker 8: on off the field, such teams sudden changes's gonna make
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Speaker 8: sure we all got to live on a field and
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Speaker 8: all those things like that. Of course, the game we
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Speaker 8: want to be perfect execution and but not gonna happen,
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Speaker 8: but it's gonna be. It's just gonna be good. To
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Speaker 8: see somebody besides us. You know that's by tell my
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Speaker 8: all time. I'm tired of hitting that same guy every day. Sure,
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Speaker 8: Uh so they got to be why that's why I
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Speaker 8: wanted to play on Thursday night next week because we've
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Speaker 8: had plenty of practice.
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Speaker 4: Now are you guys playing on Thursday night?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you said that. So that Madison Central week one,
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Speaker 4: that'll be right here at Pirates Stadium Ray Rogers Stadium,
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Speaker 4: And uh, that's so that's a Thursday night. Didn't know that.
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Speaker 4: So I'm glad to know that. So Thursday night ball
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Speaker 4: game Madison Central. Then you guys go to Warren Central.
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Speaker 4: That's always a big game for you guys at Florence
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Speaker 4: Clinton and then at Germantown and then also, uh, Terry
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Speaker 4: so doesn't like you guys take a week off this week.
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Speaker 8: We didn't be at Bali last week, and coach Thick
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Speaker 8: Penn called, I wanted to play, and I wanted to
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Speaker 8: play Terry, but we need to play a game that
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Speaker 8: we played for homecoming because I didn't want play and
17:09
Speaker 8: Reid homecoming type deal and nothing against Terry whatsoever. Then
17:12
Speaker 8: they're really good poking. I didn't want play. I don't
17:13
Speaker 8: want to play a division ball game for homecoming, so
17:16
Speaker 8: when Terry wanted to play and another home game for so,
17:19
Speaker 8: I guess they don't like that part of it, but
17:21
Speaker 8: uh be a big test, you know that there's I
17:24
Speaker 8: don't see baby weaknesses on that schedule there.
17:26
Speaker 4: So no, no, it's it's it's one of the it's
17:27
Speaker 4: a seven day schedule when I look across it. And
17:29
Speaker 4: of course then you guys will play Meridian at Northwest,
17:32
Speaker 4: Pedal at Brandon and then Oak Grove. You know this schedule,
17:36
Speaker 4: Like you said, I mean, you play a schedule like this,
17:37
Speaker 4: and uh, obviously I would ask you what you think
17:40
Speaker 4: about weeks off or nine, but obviously you're four playing it,
17:42
Speaker 4: playing games.
17:43
Speaker 8: You know, early on I didn't care. Then then I
17:45
Speaker 8: was like, why we need to break her once in
17:47
Speaker 8: a while. But sometimes he's played the football game. You
17:50
Speaker 8: know that that that week's a dead week, and it's
17:52
Speaker 8: kind of like, you know, sometimes you need to break
17:54
Speaker 8: the middle of the year. I get all that, but
17:56
Speaker 8: the kids want to play football. We want to play football.
17:58
Speaker 8: So he called no travel really playing home games and
18:01
Speaker 8: no travel all. But uh so it should be a
18:03
Speaker 8: good game for us in a good game play homecoming
18:06
Speaker 8: for so we an't gotta get a division game. We
18:08
Speaker 8: did it.
18:09
Speaker 4: So let's wrap it up with coach Patrick school that
18:11
Speaker 4: we appreciate him. One more question for you, coach. You
18:14
Speaker 4: guys got the place looking great. Phil looks good you
18:16
Speaker 4: coming to campus. Everything looks really good Friday night here
18:19
Speaker 4: at Friday nights here are fun, you know, with the
18:21
Speaker 4: led lights and the music and uh the band. Of course,
18:24
Speaker 4: Pearl's got one of the best bands in the state,
18:25
Speaker 4: one of the best bands in the region. Talk a
18:27
Speaker 4: little bit about that experience, because it is a great
18:29
Speaker 4: experience here on Fridays.
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Speaker 8: It's still a you know, a lot of times, the
18:32
Speaker 8: bigger you get, the less you get of that feeling
18:35
Speaker 8: of a of a missy football game. Right but here
18:40
Speaker 8: we're still a community here, so we're gonna pack it
18:42
Speaker 8: out like that. We do a good job with the
18:44
Speaker 8: Jim Bow tro on the video board, and the coach
18:45
Speaker 8: Golf does the good job of getting the videos up there,
18:47
Speaker 8: and you know, getting a little the crayll pumped up
18:50
Speaker 8: that and we'll we'll fill the stands up and get
18:52
Speaker 8: the smoke in the air a little bit. When the
18:53
Speaker 8: when the Hamburger is being cooked and it's just so
18:56
Speaker 8: football is all about. You know. I've been to the
18:57
Speaker 8: stadiums on Friday nights and it's like dead. It's not
19:01
Speaker 8: like that here, especially if we can score some points
19:03
Speaker 8: and win some ball games. Gets it gets better.
19:05
Speaker 4: No, And you're right, And you and I have had
19:06
Speaker 4: several conversations on this because I believe if you tell
19:09
Speaker 4: me you're one of the only coaches in the state
19:11
Speaker 4: uh that's coached darnare at every classification.
19:13
Speaker 8: One of them. I've been every class station there is now.
19:15
Speaker 4: Every classication one to seven. And there's something about that
19:18
Speaker 4: small town field right Yeah, and it does No, don't
19:23
Speaker 4: get me wrong. The bigger classifications sometimes depending on match up,
19:25
Speaker 4: will while you. But you go into uh. We see
19:28
Speaker 4: this when we call the state championship games. It's a
19:30
Speaker 4: different feel for a three a game and a four
19:32
Speaker 4: a game versus a six or seven.
19:34
Speaker 8: It's important the whole community, like you go, liwis one
19:37
Speaker 8: and that shuts down right. I mean Lewis, Willeknoxie play
19:39
Speaker 8: and Seemi people is either one of the stay either
19:41
Speaker 8: one of those towns that's playing away. It's just they
19:43
Speaker 8: I mean, that's what it's all about that. They eat
19:45
Speaker 8: and breathe it up. Uh, you don't get ready big
19:48
Speaker 8: schools like yet, just cause it's so much to do.
19:50
Speaker 4: Right.
19:51
Speaker 8: I remember going Q years ago when they played in
19:53
Speaker 8: North against South Panola two other people in the stands
19:57
Speaker 8: maybe for a North half champion game. And they have
19:59
Speaker 8: been North having for ever a time. I was with
20:01
Speaker 8: you all lot. He ride the street up at the
20:03
Speaker 8: bowl now either doing this that port deal, that's amazing.
20:07
Speaker 8: That is amazing. So you know, smaller towns and small
20:10
Speaker 8: community like yet. I mean this football is what it's about.
20:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. He's Patrick Schooler, head football coach.
20:15
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20:19
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20:22
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20:24
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20:26
Speaker 4: They'll be taking on the Madison Central Jaguars. Coach. Thank you,
20:28
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Speaker 4: get him on X cats. Are you stay in h
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Speaker 4: Are you staying cool in North Mississippi? How are you?
22:10
Speaker 9: I'm trying the best I can. It's it's it's it's
22:14
Speaker 9: pretty rual right now. But I keep telling myself that
22:16
Speaker 9: we're maybe like a month and a half, maybe a
22:19
Speaker 9: little bit more away from that, like true fall weather.
22:22
Speaker 8: Yeah.
22:22
Speaker 4: And you know the thing is is we get both ends, right,
22:25
Speaker 4: So we get really hot now on the other side
22:27
Speaker 4: of the sandwich, the other piece of bread really cold
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Speaker 4: in December, we get just a small window of really.
22:32
Speaker 9: Good weather, right, Yes, but I will take cold. And
22:37
Speaker 9: I might be the minority on this. I will take
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Speaker 9: easier than I can cool down. That That's that's my logic.
22:45
Speaker 9: It's easier to bundle up than it is to stop sweating.
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Speaker 4: No, fair enough, fair enough, I can. I can go
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Speaker 8: All right.
22:52
Speaker 4: Let's let's get inn Ole miss football first. Let's go
22:55
Speaker 4: the most important thing health. Any updates on injuries or
22:58
Speaker 4: no injuries, kind of the health of the football team.
23:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's pretty status quo in terms of
23:05
Speaker 9: what we kind of knew before in terms of guys
23:08
Speaker 9: that were expected to have gotten there to be back
23:12
Speaker 9: out there after the spring from getting stuff cleaned up.
23:14
Speaker 8: We're all good.
23:15
Speaker 9: And of course you're you're going to get some guys
23:18
Speaker 9: here and there who just are being held out for
23:20
Speaker 9: precautionary reasons. But it does not sound like there's anything
23:24
Speaker 9: anything major of notes that anyone should be worried about,
23:27
Speaker 9: at least as of now.
23:30
Speaker 4: Obviously, Trinidad Chambliss I saw where he made First team
23:33
Speaker 4: All American team from the athletic He's got several of
23:36
Speaker 4: those now pre season awards under his belt. Keewan Lacy,
23:40
Speaker 4: the guy shares the backfield with him. What kind of
23:42
Speaker 4: season if he stays healthy, what kind of season can
23:44
Speaker 4: he have?
23:46
Speaker 9: It's interesting because I think in a perfect world, and
23:49
Speaker 9: offensive coordinator John David Baker has mentioned this, he doesn't
23:54
Speaker 9: want Keywan Lacey to get three hundred and six carries again.
23:58
Speaker 9: He led the nation last year in carries. He has
24:01
Speaker 9: three hundred and thirty five total touches and that I
24:04
Speaker 9: believe was also the most in the nation because of
24:06
Speaker 9: the catches and whatnot. But but that doesn't he still
24:10
Speaker 9: wants to get the same number of touches, which means that, okay, well,
24:14
Speaker 9: if he's got less carries that needs he's catching the
24:16
Speaker 9: ball more. I think that, you know, obviously he's he's
24:20
Speaker 9: your guy, he's your playmaker back there. You're going to
24:22
Speaker 9: give him the ball. But you know, there were probably
24:25
Speaker 9: some times when he needed a breather and they didn't
24:28
Speaker 9: feel like they could afford to And now I think
24:31
Speaker 9: they feel like they can because they've brought in some
24:33
Speaker 9: really good running backs with you know, with big kind
24:36
Speaker 9: of experience and production. So you know, is it possible
24:40
Speaker 9: he runs for fifteen hundred yards again, of course, and
24:43
Speaker 9: maybe more efficiently because he's got a little bit more juice.
24:46
Speaker 9: But I wouldn't be surprised at all to see maybe
24:51
Speaker 9: like less rushing but more receiving, because by all accounts,
24:55
Speaker 9: he's a tremendous receiver, and I think that's another part
24:59
Speaker 9: of his game. You know, he can get him on
25:01
Speaker 9: the field. With some of these other backs, I think
25:05
Speaker 9: you're just putting the defense in a really tough spot.
25:07
Speaker 9: So I think that if he stays healthy, he is
25:11
Speaker 9: an All American. He is, he is a first round pick.
25:15
Speaker 9: He is, he is He's in a Doak Walker conversation.
25:18
Speaker 9: I think I think he's the real deal.
25:20
Speaker 4: Visit with Michael Katz talking Ole Miss football ReBs in
25:23
Speaker 4: camp getting set for next weekend as they'll take on
25:25
Speaker 4: Louisville in a classic game, neutral site ball game. We'll
25:28
Speaker 4: get with cats of course about that next week. One
25:30
Speaker 4: of those backs she talked about, I believe you talking
25:33
Speaker 4: about Makai Frasier. He comes over from Michigan State. He'll
25:35
Speaker 4: be a junior five ten, about two hundred and twenty,
25:38
Speaker 4: A really big back, I mean, a nice size back.
25:41
Speaker 4: I believe he had one hundred and sixteen carries for
25:43
Speaker 4: five to twenty last year, two touchdowns, you know, played
25:46
Speaker 4: in nine ball games. But the most important thing he
25:48
Speaker 4: ever right at four and a half yards per clip.
25:51
Speaker 4: He could be that complementary back or someone else for
25:54
Speaker 4: Keywan Lacy.
25:56
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think what's so what's so rare
26:00
Speaker 9: about Kwan is is you know, obviously if he's fast,
26:03
Speaker 9: he's got track speed, but he's also just a physical bruiser,
26:08
Speaker 9: and you know, finding that combo is hard, and so
26:10
Speaker 9: I think they've done a really nice job of finding
26:12
Speaker 9: guys who can do some of those things. And I think,
26:17
Speaker 9: you know, Frasier is again he was productive at Michigan State.
26:21
Speaker 9: You know, that's the big ten is a it's if
26:23
Speaker 9: they've won, they they've won a lot recently, and he
26:26
Speaker 9: was very productive there. He's a powerful guy. You look
26:30
Speaker 9: at him and and he looks like he's he can
26:33
Speaker 9: run between the tackles, and so I think between Matt
26:37
Speaker 9: and you know, bringing in Josh Die ran for eighteen
26:40
Speaker 9: hundred yards at Southern Utah Chicai Mills night is still there.
26:44
Speaker 9: I mean, you've got a lot of backs who I
26:47
Speaker 9: think can help take the load off to keep Keewan fresh.
26:51
Speaker 9: But no, I I think the bringing in a guy
26:54
Speaker 9: who is has produced it at a in a major conference,
26:58
Speaker 9: to like Fraser, it's really really big because then you're
27:02
Speaker 9: not afraid to take keywan off the field to put
27:05
Speaker 9: them out. Why if the situation calls for it.
27:09
Speaker 4: Douce Alexander returns as a big target on the on
27:11
Speaker 4: the field. I know they got a couple of transfers
27:13
Speaker 4: and Darryl Gill and John ta Cook who come over
27:16
Speaker 4: from Syracuse talk a little bit about the depth of
27:19
Speaker 4: that wide receiver room or is it something like a
27:21
Speaker 4: lot of units around the country where you know, we
27:23
Speaker 4: know there's dudes out there. We don't know the Pekan
27:26
Speaker 4: order yet, but we're gonna find it out together.
27:29
Speaker 9: Yeah, it reminds me a little bit of last year
27:32
Speaker 9: in a way. Like last year we knew that they
27:35
Speaker 9: had Kaden Lee and this year we know that they
27:39
Speaker 9: have Duce Alexander. You feel pretty good about what you're
27:42
Speaker 9: going to get from those guys, though, I do think
27:44
Speaker 9: there is another level to Doce Alexander's game. I think
27:46
Speaker 9: he's going to have a really big year year two
27:50
Speaker 9: in the system. I think he's dynamic. I think there's
27:53
Speaker 9: definitely more for him on the field. But you know,
27:58
Speaker 9: we you know, we need to Sean Stribbling and Harrison Wallace.
28:01
Speaker 9: We're good players, I don't I don't think we knew
28:05
Speaker 9: quite what was in there and they emerged and so
28:07
Speaker 9: it's a really big playmakers. And so I think there's
28:10
Speaker 9: there's a few guys. John Tay Cook has been one
28:12
Speaker 9: of the guys will be We've talked a lot about
28:15
Speaker 9: and heard a lot about, and you know, he was
28:17
Speaker 9: a five star kid coming out of high school and
28:20
Speaker 9: it just hasn't come together for him completely. And he's
28:24
Speaker 9: a guy who if if it clicks and he's dynamic.
28:28
Speaker 9: Horatio Fields is another guy, the Auburn transfer, and before
28:32
Speaker 9: that he was actually at Wake Forest with Duce Alexander.
28:37
Speaker 9: I think he's a good side speed guy to to
28:42
Speaker 9: have out there. So I think there's a lot of talent.
28:46
Speaker 9: How exactly it all kind of divides up, and you
28:49
Speaker 9: know who who ends up with nine hundred yards, who
28:51
Speaker 9: ends up with whatever. I'm not sure, I'm I'm willing
28:56
Speaker 9: to go there yet, but I do think that I'm
29:00
Speaker 9: confident that this offense and sure that Shamblers are going
29:03
Speaker 9: to have a lot of really good options one because
29:08
Speaker 9: they always almost always has really good wide receivers and
29:11
Speaker 9: you've got, you know, the best quarterback in the country
29:13
Speaker 9: back there. I think they're going to be just fine.
29:16
Speaker 4: Got a couple of minutes left here with Michael Katz
29:18
Speaker 4: talking all Miss camp. ReBs open it up next week
29:20
Speaker 4: against Louisville neutral site ball game. As we get ready
29:23
Speaker 4: for game week, all right, Defensively, we've talked about Centterion Perkins,
29:27
Speaker 4: and we've talked about Cam Franklin and some of these guys.
29:30
Speaker 4: It looks like by reports that Ole Miss may be
29:34
Speaker 4: deeper this year defensively, bring over a safety from Georgia
29:37
Speaker 4: and Florida State. You know, they've got some returners on
29:40
Speaker 4: the on the corners. Talk a little bit about the
29:42
Speaker 4: depth of this defense and what it may look like.
29:45
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think that even if you're just
29:48
Speaker 9: looking at like the court unquote starters on the defensive front,
29:53
Speaker 9: you're already feeling really good because you know, you've got
29:55
Speaker 9: Echols and Cam Franklin and depending where you want to
29:59
Speaker 9: classify sin Teraron Perkins at an edge or a linebacker.
30:02
Speaker 9: But then they brought in a lot of really talented
30:05
Speaker 9: debts in the portal from big name programs, you know,
30:08
Speaker 9: purchased from Oregon and reynag from UH from Alabama. They
30:13
Speaker 9: they brought in a lot of guys. I think we
30:15
Speaker 9: we're really gonna see a difference is in that linebacker room.
30:20
Speaker 9: You know, obviously they they lost DJ Dottery, but bringing
30:24
Speaker 9: in you know, Keaton Thomas and Luke Farelli and having
30:27
Speaker 9: Perkins there, I think that is a chance to be
30:29
Speaker 9: a really really talented linebacker room.
30:31
Speaker 2: Uh.
30:32
Speaker 9: You know, Farrelli and and and and and Keaton Thomas
30:35
Speaker 9: have been extremely productive. I Philly Thomas was second team
30:38
Speaker 9: All Big twelve last year at Baylor, and Frelli was
30:40
Speaker 9: the A C C you know, rookie of the Year.
30:44
Speaker 9: So I think that that room has a chance to
30:46
Speaker 9: be really, really good. And then you know, in the secondary,
30:49
Speaker 9: you've got your two top corners back in Antonio Kite
30:52
Speaker 9: and Jalen Blaxton, and Blaxton's healthy now, and then it's
30:56
Speaker 9: gonna you know, he can quite safety, but I think
30:58
Speaker 9: you probably want him a corner. He brought in more
31:01
Speaker 9: corner help. Jim Crawford's a really talented guy. And then
31:05
Speaker 9: of course you brought in those safeties as you mentioned,
31:08
Speaker 9: you know, big time talented guys who have played a
31:10
Speaker 9: lot of football at a high levels. So you know,
31:12
Speaker 9: the conversation has kind of been like, is this defense
31:15
Speaker 9: as good as the twenty twenty four defense, And it's
31:17
Speaker 9: gonna take a lot to be that good because that
31:19
Speaker 9: defense was second nationally and scoring and LB the nation
31:23
Speaker 9: and sacks per game and the number two rush defense.
31:26
Speaker 9: I mean, all these insane staffs. You know, is the
31:29
Speaker 9: top end talent going to be quite as good? I
31:32
Speaker 9: don't know. I mean Wilson Nolan and Princely Moniellen and
31:35
Speaker 9: Poop Paul were pretty incredible and training emos. But I
31:38
Speaker 9: think that there's some really talented players on this defense,
31:41
Speaker 9: and it's deeper, like when you have to take a
31:43
Speaker 9: guy out, you're okay with it because the next guy
31:46
Speaker 9: coming in is going to get the job done. And
31:48
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31:49
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Speaker 7: How you doing, Oh, I'm doing well.
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Speaker 12: I appreciate the opportunity to talking about pro athletics and
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Speaker 4: the bathrooms, you don't have the coke machine run out
34:19
Speaker 4: like it really is a lot to get ready for
34:21
Speaker 4: a Friday night.
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Speaker 12: Oh, it definitely is, especially in our in our day
34:25
Speaker 12: and age with all the jumbo trons that everybody in
34:27
Speaker 12: the metro has, and all the recognitions and on the
34:30
Speaker 12: community engagement and everything, the sponsorships.
34:33
Speaker 7: It's a lot that goes into it.
34:34
Speaker 12: When you talk about a district, the size of our
34:36
Speaker 12: district and the number of kids and athletes and the
34:38
Speaker 12: fans that show up every very night. There's a lot
34:40
Speaker 12: of things that go into it that a lot of
34:41
Speaker 12: people don't understand how much time it actually takes and
34:43
Speaker 12: how many things that have to fall in line to
34:45
Speaker 12: make sure it runs smoothly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean, and you mentioned it. I mean there's
34:49
Speaker 4: things now that you guys are having to deal with
34:52
Speaker 4: that you did before. Jumbo trons everybody loves them, but
34:55
Speaker 4: you got to make sure. I mean if a bulb
34:56
Speaker 4: goes out or you know, the lights, the lighting, I
34:59
Speaker 4: mean just everything. Let's talk a little bit about peerl
35:02
Speaker 4: you guys, Like I told Coach School, I got the
35:03
Speaker 4: place looking great as always. Friday nights here are really
35:06
Speaker 4: really fun. You guys do a great job with that production.
35:10
Speaker 4: Talk about you know, some of the things that you
35:12
Speaker 4: guys have done as far as I approvement's here the
35:13
Speaker 4: last several years.
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Speaker 12: You know, at our football facility, I think it's really
35:17
Speaker 12: a fantastic one. You know, anybody that shows up, you
35:19
Speaker 12: can see it. We have two video boards that we
35:22
Speaker 12: we show a lot of things, the content that create
35:24
Speaker 12: that our kids and our broadcasting group might help create
35:26
Speaker 12: things that our kids get excited about. We talk about
35:28
Speaker 12: hype videos, our graphics, and recognitions. When you're able to
35:32
Speaker 12: honor kids from all different activities, whether it be r
35:34
Speaker 12: O t C. Whether it be somebody that's getting in
35:37
Speaker 12: enroled in the military, whether it be uh, you know,
35:40
Speaker 12: kids that score high achievement marks when some of our
35:42
Speaker 12: state tests with our elementaries and some of our high
35:44
Speaker 12: school We like to recognize kids every time they do
35:46
Speaker 12: something phenomenal. We want our community to understand and see
35:49
Speaker 12: the good things that are going on because we have
35:51
Speaker 12: a community and we have a city that's growing. You
35:54
Speaker 12: look at the neighborhoods and the roads, every things popping up.
35:56
Speaker 12: You know, it's growing, it's booming, which is phenomenal for
35:59
Speaker 12: us in our school. So we want to promote those
36:01
Speaker 12: things that people understand this is a great place to live,
36:03
Speaker 12: a great place to send your kids at school.
36:05
Speaker 7: And then look at our facilities.
36:06
Speaker 12: You look at track, you look at football, you look
36:09
Speaker 12: at baseball, softball, everything that we offer. You go down
36:12
Speaker 12: to our junior high and look at our our weight
36:14
Speaker 12: room that we that just got done, you know down
36:17
Speaker 12: there in the team meeting room, and that those.
36:18
Speaker 7: Facilities are the phenomenal.
36:20
Speaker 12: So we want to promote those We want to and
36:22
Speaker 12: you know, our people in our community to understand that, hey,
36:24
Speaker 12: we have things to offer your kids.
36:26
Speaker 7: If they come here.
36:27
Speaker 4: Ty Wayims is the athletics director here at Pearl Wednesday
36:30
Speaker 4: edition of your radio program. Yeah, you know, it's it's
36:33
Speaker 4: just and there's so much more now that schools offered,
36:36
Speaker 4: you know, Pearl, Northwest, Frank and whoever it may be,
36:39
Speaker 4: you know, just from it. And I love it too.
36:41
Speaker 4: You know, I always joke about the first time I
36:43
Speaker 4: ever heard a coach reference bass fishing U and you know,
36:46
Speaker 4: for a high school kid, I thought he was kidding.
36:48
Speaker 4: I didn't realize that. Archery, you know, pickle ball, I'm sure.
36:51
Speaker 4: I'm sure at some point pickleball will be a sanctions board, right.
36:54
Speaker 4: I think I think it'll You'll see it.
36:55
Speaker 12: You see the grow in across the nationally, how fast
36:57
Speaker 12: it's picking up, and and just at our city we
37:00
Speaker 12: have pickleball courts, you know, and things like that. I
37:02
Speaker 12: think it'll make us way into high school athletics.
37:04
Speaker 7: You look at.
37:07
Speaker 12: Our flag football with our girls, yeah, you know, like
37:09
Speaker 12: it's boom it took off. Look at esports, you know,
37:12
Speaker 12: all the things, archery, all these sports and these activities
37:16
Speaker 12: that we offer, like you know, our theaters, band core
37:20
Speaker 12: music on everything that we have going on, not just
37:23
Speaker 12: counting your clubs that you have in our building for
37:25
Speaker 12: our kids to do. There's a million of them, so
37:27
Speaker 12: it's hard to find something. I always tell kids, like,
37:29
Speaker 12: there's something that you can be involved in. We want
37:31
Speaker 12: kids to be involved and have good experiences while they're
37:33
Speaker 12: in high school, whether it be athletics or whether it
37:35
Speaker 12: be activities, you know, cheered in, like whatever it might be.
37:38
Speaker 12: Find your niche get involved because it's going to help
37:41
Speaker 12: you grow socially as a person, you know, and prepare
37:43
Speaker 12: you for life when you leave high school. So it's phenomenal,
37:48
Speaker 12: you know, especially a school of this size. We can
37:50
Speaker 12: offer so many things to kids. It's just it's a
37:53
Speaker 12: joy for me, you know, coming from this this home
37:56
Speaker 12: for me, so coming from here and seeing everything, seeing
37:58
Speaker 12: how it's grown from twenty five years ago to now.
38:01
Speaker 12: You know, back then it was just the major sports.
38:03
Speaker 12: You always say, you're right, you're soccer, your baseball, your
38:05
Speaker 12: you know, football, basketball, right, all those, But now, like
38:09
Speaker 12: you said, you look at everything else that they offer.
38:11
Speaker 7: It's amazing.
38:12
Speaker 4: Fisting with tyweemc is, the athletics director here at Pearl.
38:14
Speaker 4: We got a couple of minutes left until we at
38:16
Speaker 4: the top of the hour. I call it the high
38:19
Speaker 4: school sports or high school football arms race. It's amazing
38:23
Speaker 4: to see how high schools have evolved and now you know,
38:25
Speaker 4: obviously athletic director independently roles, some have sids. You know,
38:30
Speaker 4: some have obviously staffs that are are are massive, and
38:34
Speaker 4: you've got guys that just come and fill in. It
38:37
Speaker 4: very resembles a college now, a college model. Talk about
38:40
Speaker 4: how you've seen that change in the high school level,
38:42
Speaker 4: because you know what's going on here. You got to start, well,
38:44
Speaker 4: Jay Hobson's the athletics director, you go to two plow
38:47
Speaker 4: all around the state. You're seeing athletic departments evolve into
38:51
Speaker 4: a miniature college version.
38:53
Speaker 12: I think that's the way it's trending, the way it's
38:55
Speaker 12: going because everything that goes into running the day to
38:58
Speaker 12: day operations is not simply can I get money to
39:00
Speaker 12: a ticket and.
39:01
Speaker 7: Some workers right to show up. It's not that anymore.
39:03
Speaker 12: Everything else goes into planning just the daily events and
39:08
Speaker 12: then multiple games have going on and then the overlapping
39:11
Speaker 12: of sports seasons. It's hard to find somebody nowadays that
39:14
Speaker 12: if you're a coach, I'm coaching, but then I'm gonna
39:16
Speaker 12: take care of all the other duties that might come
39:18
Speaker 12: along with be an athletic director. I've been, you know,
39:21
Speaker 12: I've been an athletic directoran football coach, be four you know,
39:23
Speaker 12: and it's a lot.
39:24
Speaker 7: It's taxing, you know.
39:26
Speaker 12: But when you get to a school that offers this
39:29
Speaker 12: many different things for kids to get involved in, it's
39:31
Speaker 12: your time is limited and it's hard to be everywhere
39:33
Speaker 12: at one time, and so I think you're seeing that
39:36
Speaker 12: go that direction. Sometimes you can divide it up between
39:39
Speaker 12: you know, multiple coaches can help out on different avenues
39:43
Speaker 12: like this, I'm out of season, so I can pick
39:44
Speaker 12: up some duties and cover some things in this time
39:46
Speaker 12: while somebody else is focusing with their end season, and
39:49
Speaker 12: that makes it a lot easier to be able to
39:51
Speaker 12: manage all that. But I think you the bigger schools,
39:53
Speaker 12: you're gonna see them start going more to Hey, an
39:55
Speaker 12: athletic director, I need you to handle.
39:57
Speaker 7: This because all the things we're talking about.
39:59
Speaker 12: Had they mentioned the social media, Oh yeah, I mean
40:01
Speaker 12: in the communication and the community engagement and website.
40:04
Speaker 7: That's a full time job and of itself.
40:06
Speaker 4: No, there's no doubt about it. Ty Weims, he's one
40:08
Speaker 4: of the good ones. Athletic director here at Pearl, ty
40:11
Speaker 4: we thank you so much for having us over today.
40:13
Speaker 7: Thank you for joining us man, thank you so much.
40:14
Speaker 7: I appreciate that opportunity.
40:15
Speaker 4: Absolutely the best of luck this year. Ty Weems Athletics
40:18
Speaker 4: Director here at Pearl. As we get close to the
40:21
Speaker 4: end of our number one, we'll be here till six o'clock.
40:24
Speaker 4: A couple notes real quick, as we'll get into more
40:27
Speaker 4: notes here at the top of the hour. Let me
40:29
Speaker 4: get back over here too, the note section real quick.
40:33
Speaker 4: We'll get into some stuff from Bill Conley. Offensive efficiency
40:35
Speaker 4: has never been higher and scoring is down in college football.
40:39
Speaker 4: Why as Adam Rittenberg and Bill Conley dove into slower
40:43
Speaker 4: tempos and also the good bad reasons for it and
40:47
Speaker 4: time out usage in the effects of the fourth down
40:49
Speaker 4: revolution on scoring and place sequencing. We may get into
40:52
Speaker 4: some of that today, if not tomorrow. Also, All Miss
40:55
Speaker 4: quarterback Trinidad Chambliss has built on his twenty twenty five
40:59
Speaker 4: breakout season strong offseason quote. He's had a more muscle
41:02
Speaker 4: mass in his lower half and he's a little bit
41:05
Speaker 4: more zip on the football. That's great for All Miss,
41:08
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