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Tailgate Talk on a playoff round two weekend. Heavan far By, Chris Batchilder,
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Chris Reevard, nighthawk with you. We're previewing all the playoff football games.
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Unfortunately, there's not a lot left here in northeast Oklahoma for a round
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number two of the high school football playoffs, and we're going to probably speak
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a little bit about each of the ballgames that the teams may have lost a
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week ago. Guys, good afternoon, How are you? Good afternoon?
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Good afternoon, Evan, We're fantastic we're still here. Can I start the
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show with a little bit of a news update? Okay, So Craig Nighthawk
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can tell you that last week I was able to spend a relatively significant amount
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of time during the evenings researching the corporate structure at the ownership group for Nighthawk
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Wines. And I do believe that now that we have contact information for the
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entire c suite, that we'll be getting in touch with them. And I
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feel very strongly that by the time we start the show next season, we'll
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have a full sponsorship in place. I believe that potentially Nighthawk Box Wine will
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be in the studio for the show, possibly at We'll see what we can
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do. Okay, so we're just don't We've gone down the Nighthawk drails and
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I think it's gonna it's gonna benefit everybody. I thought we go the other
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way, meaning there's a trademark behind Nighthawk. Oh, so we'll reach out
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to the site with potential season exactly. All right, Let's go over the
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ball games for a week one of the playoffs. Okay, last week we
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had quite a few good games. Unfortunately, not many of them went our
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way. In fact, out of the eight closest games to Bartlesville, I
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believe we only had three winners. In Bartlesville High, Hominy, and Collinsville.
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You had Bajasca, Wesley and Christian School, Barnesdall, Copan, Ooliga.
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I'll lose in the first round. Woodland did get a win as well,
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but as far as you know outside of Tulsa up in our neck of
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the woods, that's about it. Scores. Bahasca fell to Kansas twenty eight
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to twenty four, Graham Dustin Leslie and Christian School forty to thirty three,
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Barnsdall, feld O, Walika forty six to nothing, Cope Band lost at
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Thackerville fifty two to six, and then it was Uliga losing against eight to
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thirty four to seven. Collinsville did be Koweita in a good ball game twenty
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three to twenty, Homedy over Allen forty seven to nothing. And then of
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course Bartlesville High got a win over Putnam City North forty five to fourteen.
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So today we will pick Comedy and Windott and the Bruins and Edmund Deer Creek,
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but we can't wrap up. I think we can spend a moment or
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two wrapping up the seasons to some of the teams that lost back on Friday.
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Guys and We're gonna take it one at a time. Let's start with
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Bahaska. Tough ballgame. Kansas beat him twenty eight to twenty four times,
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kind of ran out, was back and forth. I think Bahaska had the
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lead for most of it, but Kansas came down and scored Huskies. I
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think got inside the thirty as time expired, just right out of time.
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Did you watch that game? Nine, Honk? I picked that game,
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remember, twenty eight twenty four. I said, hey, it's going to
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get four more game. It could go the other way. No, no,
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I didn't like Well. I watched it at the bruin game and watched
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it on my phone with coach diel Beck and I. We sit there because
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he's no Husky alumni, and uh so we watched it. It was it
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was an exciting game. And but Huska takes the lead with about two minutes
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and thirty seconds left and Little Kansas gets a couple of big plays and next
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thing you know, they're on the one. Gosh, and they're on the
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one with fifty seconds left to go in the game. And I thought that
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Little Kansas was just going to run the clock down to you know, one
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second and kick field goal. But they didn't end up scorning and Gabe Pusko
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a little bit of time, Uh, the Hymen kid, he drives them
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down the field and like I said, Evan, they get inside the thirty
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and they just couldn't. They just couldn't. They ran out of time.
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Ye, exactly what you said. They just ran out of time. But
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man, I really thought there were two minutes and thirty second left and Kansas
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having to drive the field on Pehusca, that it wasn't going to happen.
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But that quarterback, you know, we talked about him for little Kansas.
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He made some big plays, he really did. I didn't good close to
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swinging Puska's way. It sure was it. And I was keeping up with
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Gregor and I saw that on uh score doable. That's such a tough decision
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getting down there with forty seconds left. What do you do? Do you
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give that offense or you're like, you know, I mean, but at
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the end of the day, when you try not to score, then things
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just blow up on you. Yeah, I'm I'm a firm believer. Boy.
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Get the points when you can't exactly and then go play defense. I
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think so. And they had first and goal at the one. Yes,
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first and goal at the one and then the quarterback fumbles the ball the snap
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and Pusca tackles him at the five. So another second goal at the five
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and end up punching it in. And then if you're Pehusca, what do
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you do? Yeah? Do you let them go ahead and punch it in
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so you get a little bit of time? Well what do you do at
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the But I mean they kick field goal? They win too. You know
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that's an extra point. Do you guys remember a couple of years ago?
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I think it was some A. J. P. Ryan in the Bedlam
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game and he was running for a touchdown. There was nobody within thirty yards
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of it, and instead of giving the ball back to s U he took
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a knee only one to Well. I think that score though, wasn't that
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that was out of hand? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, wasn't that
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game out of hand that time? No? It was, it was,
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I think it was it was. I think yeah, it was more than
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just I mean, he's just I mean, he's a class. He could
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have Well, I'll tell you, I'm glad you watched it. I I
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really thought Husky would win. I don't. So do you think Little Kansas
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could could win again this week. I don't know. I don't even know
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who they play this week, be honest, will do of it? I
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don't know. Nas there's something to finish up about Phusca guys. Guys are
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going to Class A and they're returning quite a few players don't and they're dropping
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down the Class A. So yeah, so it's going to be a you
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know, exciting year next year for the post Kouskies. So Bahusco falls to
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Kansas, Kansas gets Ida Bell on the road. That was the road trip
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that was ahead of Bohusca. Had they won. Uh on a man,
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you talk about it deep deep in the woods, but as deep that's Bigfoot
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country. That is Bigfoot country. It is not Naxie monster country, which
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is up here. So Graham Destin they beat Wesley and Christian School. Uh,
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you don't know what the naxi now? And I hunt and so I'm
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in the woods by myself. I don't want to hear. Yeah, that's
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a I mean you've heard of the Naxie monster, right, I have talked?
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Hey you have haven't? You really haven't? One has have you?
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Oh? Man? Well, look at don't tell it. You need to
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Google. I hunt in the woods and then I'm not afraid of the dark.
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The dark. No, my good friend, good friend, doctor J
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scared the Death of the Dark. Well, he shouldn't listen to no,
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I know, don't tell listen to it. He loves this show. Even
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talking about it. It's going to give him nightmares. It's only in Water
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County. It's only nons I'll tell you real quick. Thirty second story of
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a grown man being afraid of the dark. We're hunting in Kansas, deer
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honey, and you don't get to hunt with people, so you have the
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guide take you out. They get you close to mine. Hey, walk
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up this path. It's you know, five hundred yards this way. Just
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follow the path. Jay would shut his eyes and count his steps and that
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on the path. No, and what, I'm sorry. He would go
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out during the day, count of steps, and then the next morning when
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he'd go back out, he would close his eyes and count those steps.
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Five hundred and fifty steps this way, three hundred steps this way. Incredible,
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And the outfitter said, there's no way he goes. I'm telling you,
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I shut my eyes as soon as that car turns around. And the
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guy went out and stepped with him. He was he was on the spot,
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he said, the last five steps he's doing this. Oh thank youanding
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isn't it darker with your eyes shut than it is with your eye but he
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can't coming at you. Yeah, when the Oklahoma Union kids come up for
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class days, they always talk about the Naxi one. Anyway, let's talk
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about Wesley and Christian School of Fela. Graham Dustin forty to thirty three,
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tough ball game. Got a chance to talk with coach Cloud just yesterday.
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Said the Mustang scored on five of their eight possessions, scored touchdowns five of
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their eight possessions. Two of the times they didn't were with less than three
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minutes in the game down seven. So uh, that was tough at the
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end when they had they had scored I guess on five of their first six
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possessions. But it goes to show you they're late in the fourth quarter that
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Graham Dustin was just grinding the ball. He said, they couldn't stop him.
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They're just getting six seven yards of carry. They had multiple drives that
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took five, six, seven minutes, and they had, you know,
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way bigger offensive linemen and they just couldn't. They just kind of ground him
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down and played keep away and Graham Dustin ends the Mustangs run forty to thirty
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three. A little background, They've got six seniors Mustangs do. Three of
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them have been in that program forever. Carson Tennyson, Kale Seemers and Tyrell
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Cloud. Those are the three that really kind of built that thing back up
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since they were in middle school. I'm not sure if coach Cloud's going to
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do it again next year or not. He sounded like he was on the
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fence about it. He's going to decide in the next couple of weeks.
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His son, Tyrell is going to play college basketball, so I know that's
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that's kind of part of the equation too. But regardless of whether Kirk Cloud
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comes back or not, that is the end of a really special era of
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westni football. Four straight playoff and pair intance, three home games. They
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won a game in the first round two of those years. So a lot
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to be proud of there for a program that again five years ago, didn't
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even have a team, no doubt about it, and and losing those you
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know three seniors, and particularly the two really you know lynch pins of their
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team is going to be tough, but they have established now. I think
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that that Wesley and Christian is you know, they have a program now,
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and that was really really important. So I really hope that carries over and
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that and that those kids going to school there decided to play football because I
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think it's it's important for them to have that tradition. That last week's game
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was the biggest shock of I was was area teams. I really thought Westland
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would win that too, you know at home, and in fact, I
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wasn't sure we wouldn't. Wouldn't look across, you know, to the east
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from the stadium and see those lights go out early, I thought they would
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kill them. Yeah, I think we all picked them that it was going
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to be an early game. And you know, you've got to give the
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team they played. Graham Dustin credit that if you're a coach and you've that's
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exactly what you have to do against those guys is grind the ball, get
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five six yards, keep that offense off the field. There's nothing more frustrating
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when you have a really good offense than your offense standing on the sideline and
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their offense is out there getting six yards on first down. Eight possessions.
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Guys, that's crazy, and two of them with what did you say,
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less than two minutes? Less than three Yeah, So they got the ball
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back after they went I think I think you said two and out. I
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think they might have had a turnover on one of those drives. Still got
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it back after they had struggled to get back the whole game, and that
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was probably the only stop the guy, I think the entire time wile and
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then they got the ball back and they went four and out. We got
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to give a lot of credit to Graham for coaching staff. They did it.
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That's that's a great game plan. Yeah. So the other ballgame I
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wanted to spend a moment talking about copin Thackerville. Thackerville beat the Hornets fifty
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two to six. Talk to coach Foreman earlier this week, said Thatckerville had
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it. They passed the ball one time and it was on their opening drive
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and they had it fourth and eighteen backed up, and they converted a fourth
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and eighteen with their only pass play, and he thought that that really kind
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of broke the Hornet spirit a little bit early on that that was a big
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play and they end up driving down the field and scoring, and then they
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just had trouble keeping up, had some turnovers and a copin a different spot
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obviously in the Western Christian School. Talking about two teams with first round losses,
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Hornets have most everyone back. They had only two seniors. I think
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fifteen of their twenty players were freshman or sophomores, and they have four or
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five other eighth graders coming back. Western Christian School, I might add,
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is going to be in Class B two next year, so they are technically
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moving up a little bit of a division. Coping stays in Class C,
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so the Hornets are in a little bit more of a deluded district. With
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a team that has its entire core coming back after making the playoffs for the
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first time since two thousand and nine, they're definitely our most improved team of
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the season. No, yeah, about tremendous, you know, great year.
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Congratulations to the Hornets, and and you know they're they're starting to set
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a foundation there and expectations of getting in the playoffs, and I know they're
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going to have a phenomenal offseason. You know, good that many kids coming
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back and staying down in Class A, and and the tradition they they've now
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built of going to the playoffs. So it's gonna beat year. And that
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was a long road trip. You know, it was cool for those boys
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and and kind of for the community to send them off and they stayed down
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there a couple of nights and got treated real well by by the community and
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are more and I know, went out to a big dinner and yeah,
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you know for the Yeah, I'm excited for the future at Copana again,
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kind of like Wesley and I hope I hope a bunch more kids come out
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and play for Coach Foreman. They'll be better for doing it. And I'm
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excited for what they'll do next year. Yeah, Coach Foreman's doing all the
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right stuff. It's gonna be fun to watch the off season, Like you
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said, Coach that, I know. I went back and watched their highlight
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videos from the off season and then you go into the year they had a
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good year that made the playoffs, they go on the road. You know,
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they're doing the right things up there because they're bringing a lot of attention
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to that program and there's gonna there's kids right now in that middle school going,
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Man, I want to be a part of this is cool. I
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want to be out there. I want to be like those kids right there.
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So tremendous job by coach. Once I saw a place on Facebook from
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coach Callenberger where he posted a text message that a kid had sent him who
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wanted to know when weights start for next season, and he said, these
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are the kind of kids you want to coach as the kids you want to
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know. You know when when Wade starts. Yeah, yeah, congratulations,
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Yeah that's right. Yeah, congrats to all those teams. Really good years.
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I will also shout out. Batch reminded me last week. We did
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not give a shout out to Oklahoma Union a week ago. In fact,
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we're going to talk about that ballgame in a moment. But Oklahoma Union did
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get that first victory. Oh picked by someone in here. He picked the
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entire season. He did. And not only that, but they won by
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like thirty. I went and so I went back and looked, and Evan
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started talking about that Chelsea game in our fourth show. Okay, wow,
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yeah, well it was just funny. It was just the easiest game I
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had left. You can tell that they were getting better. So good for
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the Cougars who got to win. And then obviously we didn't wrap up every
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one season. We just spent some time talking about the playoff teams, but
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I didn't want to shout that out since they were zero to nine. Glad
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that they got their last win. Two games were going to talk about today
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Bartlesville Deer Creek, and we'll begin in Class A hominy against wine Dot.
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Bucks got to eleven and oh after a forty seven to nothing win at home
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over Allen. Last week, wine Dot got a win over Panama twenty four
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to twenty two. Wind Dot's good. Uh, the players are nine and
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two and uh, if you remember the reason I mentioned Oklahoma Union, wind
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Dot only beat Oklahoma Union by three back in week one of the year.
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Yeah, thirty two to twenty nine. So hominy over Allen, wind Dot
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over PanAm Panama? What did I say? It's Panama? No? You
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said it is that? How you say? No? I was laughing because
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it's just funny. Where's a song about it? Where's Panama? Oklahoma?
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Harma Oklahoma? My wife was born in Panama? Where is country or the
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town? The country? Hey, you guys want to know a quick little
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bit of trivia? Sure this is a palindrome? Are you ready? A
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man al? A canal Panama. I knew that. Actually, I've heard
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that before the same frontwords that Panama is just to the southwest of Fort Smith.
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Oh wow, okay, and they're coming to wind at this I'm getting
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it. Well, I think the I think we talked last week about the
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how many Bucks rolling through to the gold ball, and I don't see any
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reason why we would change that prediction. They are really, really good.
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I really want to try to get a chance to go watch them. If
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it was not hunting season right now. Yeah, yeah, I would go
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over and watch them, and I might still on a Friday night, we
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should make a trip over there. Yeah, or where not be playing for
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a while though, so that could be tough. Well, how many Bucks
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are going to continue to roll here? It's not even close. I mean,
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I think they blow wind Dot out. Yeah, I agree, I
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really don't think it's I think it's a forty seven nothing probably right. But
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if you're an Oklahoma Union fan, by the way, hey, you're three
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points away from beating a team and doesn't on a game in the playoffs,
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so you're not that far. Can I give credit to Revardrookquick on something he
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says. He says wind Dot the way they say it in wind dot as
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opposed to city slickers like me, who would say wyan dot Yeah, it's
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wine dot wine win wine night Hawk wine. You wouldn't say whyan Yeah,
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you would wind. I think I probably would wind. Why you're not Bartlesvielle
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anyway, Panama, that's true? Yeah, I aluady told you by Spiro,
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winner of Homedy Wine Dot against the winner of Apache Stratford. Stratford got
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a twenty six seven win over Hinton. Apache beat Thomas F. Custer fifty
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two thirty one. I assume they're still doing the deal where you can't play
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three straight games at home, So I would guess that that game would be
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in Apache or Stratford. Well, I guess a patche would also have two
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straight. That's a semi final game. They don't play that at a neutral
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site. It's a quarterfinal. No, Yeah, he's talking about this week.
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Next week. I guess if Apache wins, I don't know how they
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determin I think they might coin flip for it. But I think if Stratford
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happened to win, that game would be in Stratford. I think it's not
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just back up. I just want to clarify. Is that wrong. Apache,
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that's how they've done it before. Really beat Thomas fay Custer a three
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way combination. Yeah, I'm just fifty to thirty one. Sure Custer was
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defeated by Apache. Oh wow, talk about a flip of the script.
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I'm just yeah, it's exciting. Good for them. So did everyone pick?
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Do we get that one out of the way there for the books?
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Okaymy, So we can spend some time talking about Bartlesville and Edmund Deer Creek
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Bruins that there's a lot of history on the line last few years. Obviously
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a lot of this has to do with the expanded playoff format six they do.
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There's another round, so it's it's not an apples to apples comparison,
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but it's still happening. So it's worth pointing out Bartlesville won a playoff game
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in consecutive seasons for the first time since nineteen eighty seven and eighty eight last
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week with their big win over Putnam City North forty five to fourteen. Bruins
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were up twenty four to seven at halftime. Both the PC North's touchdowns came
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in pretty long plays. They were long plays, didn't drive down the field,
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but did hit a couple against the Bruins Deer Creek. I think they
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where's their score against Putnam City North they beat them. I saw it.
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I had it on here and I have thirty five thirteen, so it was
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one point more than Bartlesville did. And that was Week ten, so you
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know, teams changed, but that was the last game. So both these
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teams enter with their last games being against Putnam City North. Obviously, Deer
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Creeks was in Week ten of the regular season. They got the first round
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by by way of winning District two, which is the West side. Antlers
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are eight and two overall. They got that big win over Choctaw which improved
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them to seven and zero in the district twenty five to twenty. Their two
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losses weren't a non district play the six A one teams and Edmund Memorial and
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Mustang. They also got a six A one non district win over Edmund North,
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so you had that up. That's how they get their eight and two
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record. Antler's quite good. Bruins still playing good football. I thought,
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you know, particularly early on in that game against Puttenham City North, that
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it wasn't a super crisp start. You know, they marched down the field
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and then Bartlesville kind of got kicked on their heels a little bit. But
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I thought they did a good job of stabilizing and kind of you know,
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forcing their will on them throughout the first half, and then they scored three
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of the four touchdowns in the second half of the game. Really wasn't ever
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in doubt after the first part of it. I've got like four things I
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want to touch on here. Can we start. Let's go back in time
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a little bit because the last time the Bruins made, you know, consecutive
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playoff years we have we had a captain, uh sitting in the room with
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us today, and so you know that was that was quite a while ago,
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eighty eight years ago. Yeah. Yeah, so that was my senior
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year. Uh, loaded class. I'm telling you those you know, the
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group that I played with. And if we would have had Ron Johnson,
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I mean nothing against Matt Mark Gentry, our quarterback, if Ron Johnson would
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have kept playing boy anyway, but yeah, that was Uh. Then we
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got beat by lot Nike in the semi final, which I think is where
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he developed his bus ride theory. It was at two years in a row.
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My junior year I remember we went and played lott And High in the
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quarterfinals after beating Muskoga in the first round at home. We go down there
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and they had three cats that were all pros in the NFL. Will Shields,
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Dewell Brewer, actually he was not all Pro but obviously a great career
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at OU, and then James Trapp that went to Baltimore, Ravens. What
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was the guy from Lowton High the year before that went to OU, Dowell
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brother. Yeah. So we played Lotton High junior year and they smoked us
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twenty one nothing. They were three. Oh I think this best high school
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team. Yeah, boy, arguably that's ever played in Oklahoma. Yeah,
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it was twenty one nothing and there was five minutes gone into the game.
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I don't I don't remember the number, but of those twenty two starters at
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Lawton High that Craig's junior year, they put like seriously, like thirteen into
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Division one. It was open. Let's talk about the structure of high school
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football when you were playing. We didn't have six A then. Now what
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we had was five A. It was five thirty two or sixty four teams
24:44
in five A. That's a good question, but I would assume thirty two.
24:48
I don't ever remember five A being sixty forty. I don't think it
24:52
was I remember. And then they broke him up obviously into six A.
24:57
We broke up into six A, and then we brought up again into six
25:00
A one six A two. You must have had sixteen playoff teams that because
25:06
they won two games to get the semis. So to assume that that's sure
25:08
it was top four. There was four divisions back then in eighty eight and
25:12
eighty nine. To be honest, we Us and Booker T those two years
25:18
were the power and Must Go Give were the powerhouses, and then Midwest City
25:21
was on the other side. Obviously Lot and Lot Nike, but Tulsa Union,
25:25
Jinks and those guys, I mean to be honest, for acuse we
25:30
just ran through three or four. Yeah back then, Yeah, I don't
25:33
even know what Bixby. But Booker T my senior year, we beat Misco
25:36
get Home. We went to Booker T. There were the number one team
25:38
in the state. We upset them twenty to twelve in a lightning delayed game,
25:44
and then that put us on that really put us the favorite to win
25:47
state. To be honest, Lot Nike upset us that night. Everyone had
25:49
picked us to be playing in the finals. We would have been playing Ron
25:53
Smith. He was a not a head coach, but he was off at
25:57
quarterback and off its coordinator, and of course they went on to win it.
26:03
You know. The other thing too, I want to talk about the
26:04
two thousand and nine and twenty ten teams because those were two teams that I
26:08
was coaching on the varsity staff. You know, that was the last time
26:11
that we went back to back playoffs as well. In two thousand and nine,
26:15
we went down and beat Awaso in the first round the playoffs, and
26:19
then of course went Southmore and just they were it was not we couldn't tackling,
26:26
but that was their first year, right, Southmore's first year as a
26:30
Yeah, I think so. I think so. And they had three kids
26:33
because all the good kids from Westmore all went to Southmore. That was a
26:37
big deal and they were really really good. And once again travel went down
26:41
there and they had I think they had six Division one kids. Obviously the
26:45
three that went to Oklahoma, but then they had some other kids that were
26:48
going in different places. And then twenty ten, you know, we got
26:53
up. I mean we had Union on the ropes that year. We're up
26:56
nineteen points at halftime. Very questionable call at the end to go forward on
27:03
fourth down instead of maybe punting it to the you know, to the five.
27:07
We threw the fade route on fourth and five at the thirty. They
27:11
ran it back to the forty and kicked the field goal as time expired.
27:15
You know, could have should have. The head coach at that time at
27:19
Southmore, he yeah, he'd left Bartisville, was see at Bartisville and went
27:25
to start the program. Oh really, yeah, and now he is at
27:30
is he over in Arkansas with him? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
27:33
Oh, that's right, started that program. And then here's another trivia deal
27:36
for you too. He left Barnisville to go there to start Southmore's football program.
27:41
Who left Barnisville to go start the basketball program? Brown, wasn't it?
27:47
Yeah, West Brown. He didn't leave Bartsville. He left Anita.
27:48
He went from Bartsville to Ana to the Southmore. Had a great career there.
27:53
That's awesome. Yeah, there's an obviously a connection with the superintendent or
27:57
something with Bartzille. But a lot of times you know Barzil right now,
28:00
I mean to kind of switch gears a little bit. Boy, they're playing
28:04
good football right now. They're playing exactly rev what you talked about all year
28:10
all podcasts. And if you can run the ball and play good defense,
28:15
I'm really intrigued to see how our defense gets after that pro style. Yeah,
28:19
let's talk about Deer Creek in a second, because I want to talk
28:22
about the exact same thing. But i want to tell you something. I
28:27
know that they started off a little bit, a little bit slow, but
28:33
I'm telling you right now that wass as well oiled a Bartlesville game as I've
28:41
watched all season, and you want that to be happening at the right time.
28:45
For one thing, it was a clean game. The only real,
28:48
you know, penalty bubbleheaded deal was the very first play of the game and
28:53
Aiden Pugh got called for a late hit out of bounds and I'm not sure
28:57
that it was looking back, I went back and watched the play again.
29:02
It was on their sideline. Bartilsow's got this reputation and so I think they
29:06
were establishing, you know, we're gonna call it pretty tight. There wasn't
29:10
another blip after that. They had the situation when Putnam City punted the ball
29:15
and we hit the hit the center, Yeah, recovered the ball. That
29:18
was a weird deal. And we spiked spiked the football in the end zone,
29:22
so we got thirty yards worth. Yeah, that was strange. And
29:26
so Rev. Rev can tell you. He was in the box with me
29:27
when this happened, and he can tell you what happened. So you can't
29:30
do this. I didn't know the center. No, you can't go over
29:34
the center or rough the center because he's got his head down. I didn't
29:38
know that. Yeah, that's that's you can't make contact with a deep snapper
29:45
until it touches another and that's and that's what they got called fort And then
29:52
knew it as soon as he did it. Yeah, because as soon as
29:53
he did it, and that's how I knew because he turned around, was
29:56
like oh yeah yeah. And then they recovered the end the ball in the
30:00
end zone, they scored the touchdown and spiked the fall. So that was
30:03
another that's a little silly. And it wasn't really a spike. He kind
30:07
of spun air, you know it was I mean, it wasn't. He
30:10
turned around and they I know, okay, let's go back if he would
30:15
have spiked the ball, and like Matt said, he really didn't spike the
30:21
ball. He just kind of spun it and he didn't spin it on the
30:23
center. It was him and his two of his teammates. It was celebrating.
30:27
Yeah, it's the playoffs. I think that's a little silly. How
30:32
back to back to what I was saying. Okay, I got a text
30:34
from a couple of different people, one of which was my lovely bride,
30:38
and she said, I got to tell you something. This is as good
30:41
as I've seen Nate Neil play ever. She said, him breaking his collarbone
30:47
and whether he was studying tape, lifting weights, whatever it was he was
30:51
doing. He has come back now and is really in a groove and he
30:55
was throwing. He was throwing a really good ball the other night. You're
30:59
exactly what He threw the ball real well, they rushed the ball well,
31:03
He had command of the game. He audibled several times and was getting them
31:07
into the right set. I mean he was. He was really really in
31:10
a good place. And they're gonna have to do that this week. They're
31:12
gonna have Deer Creek's got a safety, that is, they got a linebacker
31:17
in a safety, they get an offensive lineman too. That's really good,
31:19
is that right? Yeah? Yeah, Yeah, he's gotten offers from U
31:22
c O. They really but some of the other programs they'll screw that safety
31:26
down. I watched some of this their stuff that's safe. That safety is
31:30
involved in the run game. Yeah, so, but that's what they want.
31:33
He's involved in the and he's definitely going to against Wartisville. They're gonna
31:36
scream down. But in order for Deer Creek to be successful, they're not
31:41
gonna be able to scream down all the time. They're gonna they're gonna have
31:45
to move him around and play some different coverages because if they're screwing a safety
31:49
down, then you're either in man or you're running some sort of cover three.
31:53
You're doing something. I mean, you can't be you can't be in
31:56
quarters, you can't be in halves if if you expect in your safety.
32:01
Yeah, which brings me to the point. The Burns are gonna have to
32:06
run play action. They're gonna have to run some play action, and they're
32:08
gonna have to do it early to get them to loosen that safety up because
32:13
the safety is good. Guys. Well, that's what I was going to
32:15
ask you guys, as coaches was so Deer Creek gets the tape of this
32:20
piec North game, and you know, from a just from a planning perspective,
32:25
I think you wanted Nate Neil to really be throwing it well the other
32:30
night because they're gonna see that we're on tape now and they're going to need
32:34
to prepare for that. But we all know that the strength is really in
32:37
PJ Wallace's feet, and so I think it was the right time for Nate
32:40
to be to be really slinging it around. You know what I mean.
32:44
I'm gonna ask Evan. I didn't look at the stats, but how many
32:49
different receivers caught passes last Friday night? Well, I know for sure for
32:54
did it's important. I was gonna say it was six or seven. It
32:58
could easily have been. You know. The thing about that that's interesting is
33:02
I don't know how much Jet Scully played because he was banged up. They
33:08
did not have him with the reception. They had five guys catching the ball.
33:12
Last week. He had Yuribay, who really I think until like two
33:16
weeks ago, and he's caught passes now in two soft straight games. You've
33:22
got Chase Eves who really hadn't done a lot in the passing game until two
33:28
three weeks ago, and now all of a sudden, Really, the Sand
33:30
Springs game is when he started touching the ball a lot more. Niko,
33:35
who didn't have a catch in the first half, had three, and he
33:37
had Austin Zinc who wasn't able to be at the Tahlequad game that came back
33:42
and he got a couple passes as well. Yeah, that's gonna be important
33:45
sure for the Bruins, because I mean, that's gonna if you can spread
33:51
the ball out more, then that's gonna eliminate them from just sticking their best
33:55
corner on Nico. I mean, the reality of it, Nico is good,
34:00
and that's another one target. Yeah, I mean they can take their
34:04
best corner and say we're gonna bring the house. If you're gonna beat us,
34:07
you're gonna beat us deep. And he's playing his best at the right
34:09
time. Oh yeah, he made an incredible catch there in the end zone.
34:13
Yeah yeah, yeah. If you're Deerfield, you know Neil is hitting
34:17
at the right time. I remember having a conversation with Coach Hill from Uskogi
34:22
when Neil was a freshman and he said that kid's a really good quarterback,
34:25
because at the time there was quite a quarterback battle here and he said,
34:29
it's not even close to everybody in the district of who the better quarterback is.
34:32
We've all seen that freshman. So I guess this was so Neil.
34:38
We knew that he had it in them to play like this, and now
34:45
he's getting comfortable again, getting into his groove. And then he got Wallace
34:47
because the run is always going to set up to pass. It happened,
34:51
and so Deerfield is going to have to put people down in the box because
34:53
it comes to a numbers game, and they got to outnumber the blockers because
35:00
Wallace will find a scene and so rep to your point, they're gonna have
35:02
to play a lot of man to man, some cover three, but Cover
35:07
three is gonna give those short and passes and to an accurate quarterback. Yep,
35:13
he's gonna make those all day. And I almost I want to say
35:15
another thing here. This is this is so important right now, the bars
35:21
the Bruins cannot go for it fourth and two at the fifty or at midfield
35:27
somewhere punt the football and they've got to play the short field. They are
35:31
not gonna, you know, rush eighty yards down the field and score on
35:36
Edmund Deercreek. It's not gonna happen. They have to have the short field
35:39
to score. Well, let me tell you guys something. We've spent this
35:43
entire conversation talking about the Bruins offense. This game to me comes down to
35:47
the Bruins defense because deer Creek is loaded up with talent. This quarterback is
35:54
getting recruited all over the place. They got two wide receivers, one of
35:59
which is a big six' to three stud who is getting recruited all over
36:04
the place. These guys have D one linemen getting recruited, They've got receivers
36:08
getting recruited. They are loaded up. But I got to tell you something.
36:13
Their schedule was terrible, terrible, and they got beat by the only
36:17
two teams that they played that are even remotely good. They got beat by.
36:22
And so this I don't care how many I'm gonna just toss this paper
36:27
in the air. I don't care how many. I don't care how many
36:30
D one guys you have on your team. This Barsville is the best team
36:34
they've played this season, and they're getting ready to you know, none of
36:37
that is gonna matter, and the Bruins defense is gonna affect whether or not
36:42
they win this game. I still think Edmund deer Creek having a week off
36:45
is gonna equivalate to a slow start for them. Yeah, it's They're gonna
36:52
have a slow start. The Bruins need to take advantage of that. Yeah,
36:55
I'm not sure that you don't take at all conversation last week. I
37:01
think he might be right a little bit, you know, to lose that
37:05
week. I know that you know, obviously a great coach, great staff,
37:07
they had them engaged. I think it's gonna come down Batch. I
37:13
agree with you that front seven of the barzel defense. Uh. And I
37:16
say that and people might be going, well, yeah, you got a
37:19
quarterback, what about the back. They're gonna have to get pressure on that
37:22
guy. Yeah. Uh. And I think Barzil's defense, especially their defensive
37:27
line, has played really really well, Like they get a lot of pressure,
37:30
and I love their scheme. They play that three man front and they
37:34
bring it from everywhere. So that's what they're gonna have to do. It's
37:36
gonna have to come down to schematics and they're going to have to bring that
37:38
pressure and confuse that quarterback to where he doesn't know where the pressure is coming
37:43
and he can't make that quick read to get the ball out. Well,
37:45
look what the Bruins did against Muskogie. I mean, guys, their receivers
37:51
are the best in the state. Yeah, I mean they're good, and
37:52
they're quarterbacks a goin Barzil' seen better talent for sure, So Muscogee now,
37:58
I don't even they've proved they can't cover Pece. Here's what worries me night
38:00
talk about the about the front Evan. How many rushing touchdowns did the quarterback
38:07
have? I don't They did not have this year's updated stats, but I
38:09
know I was going he's he had six last year he had eighty yards rushing
38:15
and a touchdown against Lawden then one box score. I was able to run.
38:19
He will will Well, he's a good athlete, so he's gonna run.
38:22
Contain. I'm just saying when you see someone and if and if you
38:27
get on rivals. He's a pro style, so it means he's I mean,
38:30
he's good enough athlete to run. I think the keys of this game
38:36
defense and running the ball, but most important obviously special teams and though that's
38:40
so cliche, the three phases of the game. But Barzil's gonna have to
38:45
keep their head because this is a good football team. They're eight and two.
38:50
They're going to have to handle and Barzil, I know some of the
38:53
kids. Listen, there's going to be some adversity. That's some bad things.
38:59
Really scores early, score, a fumble, whatever, And I promise
39:04
you Deer Creek players know that they're a little bit heady. Don't give them
39:07
any They got to keep the penalties down. They got to play between the
39:12
whistles. Playoffs, they're gonna play hard, but man, they can't give
39:16
fifteen yards thirty yards. Not in the playoffs. You can't do it anytime.
39:21
But boy, against a good team on the road in the second round
39:25
the playoffs, you can't do it. And if you go down a couple
39:29
scores, don't drag, don't worry about it. Just play your game.
39:32
Yeah, that's that's what you worry about in a game like he was talking
39:36
about, it's the next play, that's it. And you can't have memory
39:38
of a goal fit. Yeah, can can Decker kick the ball in the
39:42
end zone and he kicked the ball? Yeah, kicking the enzone. Yeah,
39:45
he can have it. He can kick it out of the end zone.
39:46
On kickoffs they start to do that, they well start pouching it.
39:50
But gidn't you give him the ball at the thirty five? Guys wonder for
39:52
not about it. It's not about Decker kicking it far. It's about if
39:57
he doesn't every return they give up. I was like sixty yards, all
40:01
right, So if you're gonna give them the ball at the thirty five,
40:04
you may as well give your chance, yourself a chance to get it.
40:07
I get that. But you're also giving them ball ah thirty five one first
40:12
down there at midfield, I guess it. And even if you hold them
40:15
once again that they punt the ball, you've got to drive eighty. Yeah,
40:19
at a minimum eighty to score. And that's just not gonna happen.
40:22
Yeah, it's not gonna happen. You kick the ball in the freaking end
40:25
zone. Get get I get what you're saying. Well, a few things
40:29
I wanted to mention before we can maybe move on to the picking portion of
40:31
this. The quarterback you guys been talking about Grady Adamson as they mentioned pro
40:37
style pastor. According to most of those recruiting services. One Power five offer
40:42
from Pitt offers from North Texas to Tulsa, Dartmouth, all from this past
40:45
summer. He's a junior. Mason Smith is the six' three wide receiver
40:50
that Batch just talked about. Colton Neil the other kind of big time wide
40:54
receiver. Smith's a junior. Nil is a senior a Mason Miller. They're
40:59
returning a starting and running back. He is a senior. The offensive lineman
41:02
that Nighthawk was talking about is Torreyn Smith. Hes a couple Division one offers
41:07
offers Museo Pitt State as well. Defense, they do only have three returning
41:13
starters and all were either defensive linemen or linebackers. That's where they're a little
41:17
bit younger is on the defensive side of the football. Deer Creek again eight
41:22
and two coach by Wade stan Lee's in his thirteenth season as a head coach.
41:27
He had been at Norman North and Ada prior to that. And guys,
41:30
the other thing I wanted to mention before we picked the ball game,
41:32
the one thing I've been really impressed with in the biggest games the Bruins have
41:37
played in. I guess I'm specifically talking about Stillwater and Muskogee, was the
41:43
plan that Coach Wright and Jason Munios had an offense. Both of those ball
41:47
games, the Bruins were able to come out in something and immediately have success
41:52
on offense, whether that be throwing the ball a little bit. They didn't
41:55
have Nate Neil for either of those games. You know, I think it's
42:00
something that gets lost in the fact that he's back that when the Bruins played
42:02
Muscogee and Stillwater, they didn't have their starting quarterback. They had Brett Eves
42:07
a quarterback both of those ball games. But they were able to come up
42:10
with a plan and both those games where they had a lot of success and
42:15
offense in the first half. I know they didn't score against Stillwater, they
42:17
moved the ball just enough that you made it feel like they had a chance.
42:22
Against Muskogee, they ran right down the field on him a couple times
42:24
early in that game. And I think that's going to be important as well,
42:28
is to have a good start, feel like you're in the game.
42:30
Don't go three and out and get down ten to nothing or fourteen to nothing
42:34
or whatever, have to punt. You know, a couple of times,
42:36
get two three first downs. Maybe you don't score whatever, But I thought
42:38
that the plan at the beginning of some of these big games was really really
42:43
key and why they played so well against the Pioneers and Roughers earlier this year.
42:47
Yeah, that offensive line coach as well too, is doing a tremendous
42:52
job with that offensive line. I watched, you know, obviously a lot
42:55
of line play. When I watch football game off the line is playing really
43:00
well. They're blocking, they are from a technique wise, their zone steps
43:04
are correct, their hand placement, their power steps. That that adds to
43:08
success in the backfield, and also their past protection is good. Yeah,
43:14
and it starts. It starts in the trenches. All right, let's pick
43:16
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We have a Apple TV and Roku app as well. Yeah, I'll go
43:32
first. It's Bruns all the way. For me. I think they're playing
43:37
their best football at the right time. I think that this coaching, I
43:42
believe in this coaching staff. I think they're going to have them ready.
43:45
I can tell you for a fact that I know at least a couple of
43:47
those guys started watching Deer Creek tape that night, and so they will have
43:54
thoroughly studied these guys. They'll they'll do the best they can with the personnel
44:00
they've got, And I really think, again, I think it's going to
44:04
come down to defense. But I like the way the offense is playing right
44:07
now, and I agree with with when you were touching on kicking it out
44:12
of the end zone ref. I think that it may end up coming down
44:16
to special teams play and they're going to have to have a plan for that.
44:20
But yeah, I'm going with the Bruns all the way. I am
44:24
also going to take the Bruins and guys, I'm gonna this is just my
44:30
buddy Spence. Rigden used to always say, it's part of the script,
44:32
and it's part of the script that Decker kicks a game winning field goal to
44:37
win this game. You know, he's had a couple of games where you
44:43
know, he just missed a field goal or whatever it was, down on
44:45
himself and he should not be at all because the kid's incredible. He's done
44:51
a phenomenal job for the Bruins, and it's all part of the script that
44:54
he kicks the game winning field goal right here and wins his football. I
44:58
love it, all right, Yeah, I hope that's not the case,
45:04
you know how I feel. I don't ever want to leave it in the
45:06
kickers' hands, but I hope that happens in a sense for the decord kid.
45:09
I want to back up real quick because you know, I'm kind of
45:15
I'm going to call out Bartlesville because this is a good football team and they've
45:21
got a chance. I mean, I'm picking Bartsvil to be in the semi
45:24
finals with the rematch versus Muskogee, and I'll have them picking beating Muscogee to
45:30
play in the finals. Back up the last Thursday night, Bartleszil. All
45:35
I've heard the last thirty years is gosh, we won a football team and
45:38
this and that. You know, we've had some classes come through to start
45:42
a tradition. But you know, all of us in this room will be
45:45
out at restaurants talking football, and everyone talks about man, it's just football.
45:50
Barzil's not a football town. Last Thursday we had a pepper Rally.
45:53
We're hosting a home field playoff game, and the tendance the quarterback club did
45:59
a tremendous uh and there was no one there from the community. So hey,
46:05
barceloling out the town. I'm calling out the town. Get behind this
46:07
Dame team, get down the deer field. And if you don't make Deer
46:15
Deer Creek, I don't even know who we're playing. Yeah, doesn't watch
46:20
a game. And Josh, if Bartswel wins, which I'm picking them to
46:23
win, get to the semi final game, support your team. Otherwise,
46:28
keep you know, keep your mouth shut in the off season, Burzels.
46:31
Let's get behind this team and get behind this this program. And you know
46:37
the crowd. I wasn't impressed with the crowd last Friday night. It was
46:39
great weather. Should that those stands should have been packed. And if you
46:44
go to other communities, you go to Bixby and you go to these other
46:46
communities that people talk about, they're packed and they've got support from everywhere.
46:52
So I'm picking Bartlesfield. I think it's gonna be a great football game.
46:54
On paper, it's a great football game. But I think barzil is I
47:00
read one thing about what you just said. And we talk and you have
47:04
talked a lot about this, calling out the Bruin football players, you know,
47:07
and some of their unsportsman likes and things, and you said this,
47:13
those football players, you represent our community, you represent our school all that.
47:17
What's the same thing, Bartzow community, those kids represent you get down
47:22
there in sport them. I agree. And it is such an easy drive.
47:25
It is a piece of cake. And it's only a couple hours.
47:30
Let's go places to eat too. Let's go Friday night and pack that place
47:36
and support this team because they have been fighting their butts off and they're,
47:39
like I've been saying all day. They they're playing their best football at the
47:43
right time. We need to do our best at the right time also,
47:46
and that support matters. It does. I know people think that it doesn't
47:52
matter. It matters. I'll never forget back in the eighties, eighty seven,
47:55
eighty eight, the basketball teams. Yes, And I'm telling you,
48:00
when you left the Maybe Center, yep, after a Bartsville High basketball game,
48:05
it was bumper to bumper from North Tulsa all the way back into Bartosville.
48:09
Yeah. Yeah, they said at the Hall of Fame the other night,
48:13
they the video. Tom Desolm and Ben Frasier and I narrated the nineteen
48:17
ninety one State champion basketball video and one of the things they said in there
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was those Maybe Center games were like home games for the Bruins, if not
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more people because they have kept having to close the field house by the fire
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marshal so only a certain number of people could get in. The Maybe Center
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was packed with this entire town one hundred and that matters. It all runs
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linear between a great program where it's basketball, wrestling, football, is to
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have that support. Back in those days, you had to get there at
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four thirty in the old gym house to watch the girls JV game, Yeah,
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because just have a seat because it it was shut off yeah the fire.
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So I mean we were packed, so you have to get there early.
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But that kind of support. My point being that support from the community
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matters these kids and this program and then these coaches, and it has resounding
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effects later on down the line for the youth program to be looking up to
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this team, to these kids, to these coaches going I want to be
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a part of that. It's all a numbers game, it is, and
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they're they're leaving at one from high school. They're doing a big fireworks send
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off and all that kind of stuff. Everybody should just follow those buses down
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there. I agree. All right, guys, that was fun. Hopefully
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we get to do one next week. Yeah, come on, Bruns,
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give us one more week, one more week. Everybody loves to week.
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We do. Got to talk about Barsel White. Oh that's right, we
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did have one more season. We should have touched on it. Touched on
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bus. Yes, we lost the championship game, got beat seven to six.
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They scored with four minutes with three minutes left, got the extra point
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and and uh then we had a fumble. And so the season end.
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It's Saturday down and Verdigris versus Watso Nighthawk. I get to do a lot
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of cool stuff as a as a PA man, I got to announce James
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Drose's touchdown and stuff like that. You know, it's not always the end
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game stuff. That's the exciting stuff. And announcing to the crowd on Friday
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night that those boys were going to be playing in that game, with the
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kids all out there and stuff, it was pretty freaking cool. They were
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still talking about it Saturday morning. That was the guys. Let's get focused
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about the game. They were talking about being a fifty yard line. They're
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in a home field playoff game with that crowd. But that's the stuff.
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And I know we were the lucky ones, the fortunate ones would be able
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to benefit from that. But hopefully there were some kids up in those stands
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going, I want to be a part of it. I want to come
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out for FOXT year, which is a lot of reason why we did it
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right, correct, It's a lot of next year, our goal, a
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lot to be announced, more than one team, correct, and their ranked
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all the let's say that's a whole bunch of teams agree. You know,
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I'll how you build it. That's exactly right, all right, boys,
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I look forward to our show next week. That's right. Thanks to Gateway
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First Bank, it's Tailgate Talk on the Green Cancer Kickoff Show.