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Week 10 - NE Oklahoma Football Picks - 2026 · Tailgate Talk - Bartlesville Radio

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  Speaker 1: Tailgate's got a chance, I can tell you that. That's
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  Speaker 1: happening today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the last one of the year.
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  Speaker 3: There's your soundbite.
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  Speaker 1: There's your soundbite.
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  Speaker 3: How we could only hope. Welcome in to a Week
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  Speaker 3: 10 edition and the season finale. No, not really. Of
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  Speaker 3: Tailgate Talk here on Thanks to Gateway First Bank. Evan Farbach,
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  Speaker 3: Chris Batchelder, Nighthawk. Coach Rivard is on assignment on this
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  Speaker 3: Week 10 Wednesday morning that we're recording the program. We've
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  Speaker 3: got the second week of the playoffs up in Kansas.
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  Speaker 3: Regular season finale here in Oklahoma. So a lot of
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  Speaker 3: playoff scenarios going to be talked about. when we delve
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  Speaker 3: into the ballgames this week. Nowata is really the only team, guys,
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  Speaker 3: that's anywhere near the bubble. Ironman do have a chance
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  Speaker 3: to get bounced out of the postseason if things really
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  Speaker 3: don't go their way on Friday and some other ballgames.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, we're settled on whether teams
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  Speaker 3: are in or out across the area. Barnsdall obviously not
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  Speaker 3: going to make it after their five-game losing streak, but
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  Speaker 3: Huska obviously is in. and can wrap up the two seed.
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  Speaker 3: Elsewhere in Washington County, we know Kenny Valley Ramona certainly
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  Speaker 3: has no postseason because they're independent. Bartlesville is in. We
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  Speaker 3: know they're the one or the two. We'll delve into
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  Speaker 3: the individual teams when we get to their segments. Copian
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  Speaker 3: is in. They're trying to clinch the three. Dewey is
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  Speaker 3: in as the four. Nowata, again, kind of on the bubble.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma Union is out. Obviously, we talked about Kansas being
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  Speaker 3: in the second round of the postseason so not a
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  Speaker 3: ton of intrigue as far as whether teams are in
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  Speaker 3: or out outside of know what up but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of playoff positioning going to get decided on Friday night a.
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  Speaker 1: Few things to start number one don't you dare for
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  Speaker 1: one second Evan act like you don't look forward to
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  Speaker 1: every week recording tailgate talk we are your best friends
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  Speaker 1: And don't you dare make those listeners think that you
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  Speaker 1: are anything other than completely enthusiastic about seeing Nighthawk back
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  Speaker 1: in this studio and many, many weeks to keep recording.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise, if Nighthawk wouldn't be here, it'd just be me
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  Speaker 3: and you. It'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, best podcast ever. Easy. Hey, there's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of online chatter right now.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Rev. it's Nighthawk and Rev the same person because we're
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  Speaker 2: not in the same room.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. Superman, Clark Kent type, you know. I would
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  Speaker 2: wonder myself. Similar, I don't know. So I guess I'd
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  Speaker 2: be Clark Kent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not going to fuel any of that
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  Speaker 1: speculation because– I don't want to get into that. But
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  Speaker 1: I do want to– two things I want to hear about. One,
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  Speaker 1: what did you think of the high school football atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: in Canada? And I'm looking forward to hearing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we sent Nighthawk north. We sent Rivard south. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing what he brings back as well.
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  Speaker 1: So welcome back, Nighthawk. The show's not the same without.
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  Speaker 2: You, buddy. Oh, you guys. Not the same. It actually
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  Speaker 2: sounded better without me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say this. Canada takes– That CFL, seriously.
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  Speaker 2: That stadium in Regina, Canada, is unbelievable. Really? It looks
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  Speaker 2: almost like North Texas Stadium. You know how it comes
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  Speaker 2: up and over and on the east end, and their
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  Speaker 2: field runs east and west, not north and south.
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  Speaker 1: How about it?
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  Speaker 2: But it was open on the end. It was just gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Gorgeous stadium. Big stadium. About 60,000 people, I bet.
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  Speaker 1: So they're the Saskatchewan. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember, Evan? They're not the Rough Riders. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Saskatchewan is the Rough Riders.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Pretty serious up there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's the only report. Other than that, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see a lot of high school football fields up there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll look forward to your article coming out, and
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing that assignment.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah. Good luck. It's going through editing right now. Great.
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  Speaker 2: Good job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, bartlesvilleradio.com will have the– Nighthawk expose from high school
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  Speaker 3: football in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then the only other thing I want to say,
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  Speaker 1: and I know we'll talk about it with each team,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd love this time of year when teams clinch
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  Speaker 1: playoff spots and stuff and see in their celebrations and
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  Speaker 1: especially a program like Dewey with Coach Sepulpa and his
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  Speaker 1: ethos that he's brought to that program. And they've been
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  Speaker 1: so close. And so to see them get over the
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  Speaker 1: top and hear his comments and the comments from the
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  Speaker 1: kids and fans and stuff. It's just been so great.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: It is great. You know, this time of year, I
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  Speaker 2: agree with you, Batch, that, you know, first day of practice,
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  Speaker 2: the goal of every, I guarantee it, every coach says
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  Speaker 2: we're planning to make the playoffs. Yeah. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: if you're in first grade or you're a senior. You
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  Speaker 2: hear we're going to make the playoffs. Doesn't matter what seating,
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  Speaker 2: because once you get in the playoffs, it doesn't matter. Right. Now,
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  Speaker 2: There's also other goals that will happen, district titles, state championship,
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  Speaker 2: but the number one thing is make the playoffs. So
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  Speaker 2: congratulations to all these teams that have clinched. It's great
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  Speaker 2: because you work all year. Starting January, some guys start
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  Speaker 2: in December. But all that sweat, all that running, all
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  Speaker 2: the weightlifting, all the seven-on-sevens, all the camps, all comes
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  Speaker 2: down to clinching. So that pressure's off. Finish the season tonight. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Bartlesville we'll talk about later playing for a district title.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the playoffs, baby. It's the playoffs. Nothing better.
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  Speaker 3: Looking forward to it, guys. And let's hop into the ballgames.
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  Speaker 3: Week 10 of Tailgate Talk. We will start with our
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  Speaker 3: lone Thursday ballgame this week. Caney Valley Ramona, 3-5, hosting
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  Speaker 3: 1-8 Summit Christian Academy. Mentioned it, I think, during the
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  Speaker 3: show last week. Caney Valley had their game called off.
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  Speaker 3: They were supposed to play Coweta JV last week. That
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  Speaker 3: game did not happen, so Caney Valley is only going
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  Speaker 3: to play nine games. Their last contest was a win
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  Speaker 3: over Cornerstone Christian Academy. back on October 22nd. Summit Christian
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  Speaker 3: lost at home to Morrison last week. Only win for
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  Speaker 3: those Summit Christian Eagles over Mounds, 36-14. These teams actually
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  Speaker 3: have three common opponents. Now, Caney Valley beat Mounds 19-6.
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned Summit Christian beat them 36-14. Both teams played
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  Speaker 3: no water. Caney Valley lost to no water, 48-0. Summit
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  Speaker 3: Christian lost to no water, 56-21. Both teams played commerce.
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  Speaker 3: Summit Christian lost 38-20. Caney Valley lost 30-8. So it
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  Speaker 3: is Caney Valley at home against Summit Christian on paper.
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  Speaker 3: Looks to be pretty evenly matched for senior night down
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  Speaker 3: in Ramona on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you just score compare, it looks like Summit
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  Speaker 1: Christian's defense isn't as good and Caney Valley's offense maybe
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  Speaker 1: isn't quite as good. So that's a good matchup. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like Caney Valley's defense is good. really pretty strong.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to tell you guys something. On my
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  Speaker 1: way into the studio, I heard Evan interviewing Coach Hammer,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe in this team, and I believe in
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  Speaker 1: what he's saying to them here at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season to try to get this fourth win. And
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  Speaker 1: it was some impressive comments. I got them. I got
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  Speaker 1: a fourth win coming down in Ramona. I love that
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  Speaker 1: they'll end their season that way. Coach Hammer was speaking
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  Speaker 1: to what this will lead into in the offseason and
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  Speaker 1: over the summer and coming back next year. And so
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  Speaker 1: I love it. And what they've done down there after
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  Speaker 1: the past four years is something easy to get behind.
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  Speaker 1: So I got the fourth win coming tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Batch, I'm going to agree with you. We talked
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  Speaker 2: a little bit before the show. It's so great to
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  Speaker 2: see Caney Valley. You're exactly right. I've got them winning
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  Speaker 2: this last game. They're going to finish with four wins.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, the momentum going into the offseason, people
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  Speaker 2: will start to believe in that program. And then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you start to see other kids show up.
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  Speaker 2: So I wish I knew more about the team to
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  Speaker 2: be able to talk specific about certain players' ages and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, are they senior heavy or are they young?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, four seniors, I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Which, yeah, that's not a lot. No. So
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  Speaker 2: playing a lot of younger players. But Coach Hammer's done
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous job down there. And kudos to that team.
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  Speaker 2: After the last four years, you know, there was only
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  Speaker 2: one win, and it was a JV, and for them
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  Speaker 2: to bounce back, get four wins, go out and finish
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  Speaker 2: is what I'd tell them. Get that fourth win, finish
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  Speaker 2: four and five, and you can mark that season up
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  Speaker 2: as a win.
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  Speaker 3: And they get them at home, so good luck to
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  Speaker 3: Caney Valley, Ramona at home against Summit Christian Academy coming
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  Speaker 3: up on Thursday night. Let's go into Friday's ballgames now.
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  Speaker 3: We'll start north of the border, 9-0. Caney Valley, Kansas
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  Speaker 3: Bullpups hosting the 5-4 Royal Valley Panthers. Second round of
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  Speaker 3: the 2A state playoffs, East 2 against East No.
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  Speaker 2: 10.
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  Speaker 3: Caney Valley, of course, ended up finishing first in their district.
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  Speaker 3: Royal Valley was in District 4, went 2-2. Caney Valley
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  Speaker 3: coming off a 66-6 win at home over Jayhawk Lynn
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  Speaker 3: in the opening round of the 2A playoffs last Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Jace Buckley scored on the first play for Caney Valley.
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  Speaker 3: Traxon Garden got back-to-back touchdowns. It was 24-0 Pups midway
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  Speaker 3: through the second quarter. It was 52-0 Caney Valley at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: Said younger guys played in the second half. Royal Valley
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  Speaker 3: got a 32-14 win at Baxter Springs in the first
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  Speaker 3: round last Friday. Now, Baxter Springs, only common opponent. I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned Royal Valley won by 18 last week. Caney Valley
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  Speaker 3: beat Baxter Springs 62-26 back on September the 25th. In
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  Speaker 3: this round a year ago, Caney Valley got a win
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  Speaker 3: over Riverton by 20. Royal Valley, I'm sure you guys
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  Speaker 3: want to know, is in Hoyt, Kansas. That is north
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  Speaker 3: of Topeka, and it will be a two-hour and 58-minute
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  Speaker 3: bus drive from Hoyt down to Caney on Friday. The
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  Speaker 3: winner of this Caney Valley-Royal Valley ballgame will take on
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  Speaker 3: the winner of Sabatha and Osage City next week. Caney
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  Speaker 3: Valley at home against Royal Valley in the second round
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  Speaker 3: of the two-way state playoffs in Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Nighthawk, we always talk about what happens at
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  Speaker 1: this time in or the next round, um, in the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas playoffs. And it is so great that the bull
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  Speaker 1: pups aren't the ones taking the three hour bus ride
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  Speaker 1: this time up to some, you know, corner of Kansas
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  Speaker 1: that nobody's ever been to in Northwestern Kansas. I love
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  Speaker 1: that the bus ride is going to be so long
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  Speaker 1: for these guys coming to Caney, who is absolutely on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's funny. So there was a, Revard was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get me to go look at, um, the warm-up
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  Speaker 1: that caney was doing for their second half of their
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  Speaker 1: game last week and and i had been watching it
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  Speaker 1: but i i had gone off and done some stuff
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  Speaker 1: during halftime and come back during the third quarter and
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  Speaker 1: so when i went to rewind on the video because
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  Speaker 1: there was a running clock in the second half which
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  Speaker 1: by the way a running clock in the second half
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  Speaker 1: of a playoff game means the other team is really,
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  Speaker 1: really good. And so as I'm trying to find halftime,
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  Speaker 1: the second half of that game couldn't have been like
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  Speaker 1: 10 minutes of actual lifetime, Evan. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: so short. And so like the whole bar of the
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  Speaker 1: video is the first half and then just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the second half.
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  Speaker 2: 24 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they get in a giant circle and
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  Speaker 1: do jumping jacks. It's old school second half warm-ups.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome. So not only are.
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  Speaker 1: They throwing square bales, they're doing old school warm-ups. Caney is,
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  Speaker 1: the bullpups are absolutely rolling. And I loved having a
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  Speaker 1: chance to watch that game. Don't usually get to. And
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  Speaker 1: let me just say, they're gigantic. Evan, did you notice that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're huge.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty big.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm here for it. They're going to win
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  Speaker 1: this one. I think it's going to be another second
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  Speaker 1: half running clock. They're just completely dialed in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think it's going to be a running
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  Speaker 2: clock situation, but I do think Caney Valley is going
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  Speaker 2: to win by 28, 35 points. So Saturday night I drove,
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  Speaker 2: after our game, drove to Rulo, Nebraska, which takes you
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  Speaker 2: straight up 75 through Topeka. I went right through Hoyt
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  Speaker 2: and then went over to Rulo and then hunted Missouri
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  Speaker 2: the next morning. That is a horrible drive. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: so much that on the way back, On Sunday night,
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  Speaker 2: I almost drove through Kansas City and added another 30
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  Speaker 2: minutes just because I didn't want to drive 75. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's just that road. There's no shoulder. It's a two-lane road.
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  Speaker 2: There's construction everywhere. It's not that far, but it's two hours,
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  Speaker 2: 45 minutes. So that is a horrible bus trip. Small towns,
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  Speaker 2: you're 65 miles an hour down to 25, 55, 65,
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  Speaker 2: back to 35. It's a horrible drive. So to your point.
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  Speaker 2: it's great that they got to travel down south to Caney, Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: And driving through Caney, Kansas, you can see all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: typical high school town. Yeah. Signs everywhere. Go Pups. There's
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  Speaker 2: flags on the stadium. You can tell that just electricity,
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  Speaker 2: the community is behind it. It's going to be packed.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a gorgeous night for Friday night
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  Speaker 2: playoff football. But I got Caney Valley winning by a bunch. Evan.
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  Speaker 1: Will they continue to host games?
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  Speaker 3: I believe so.
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  Speaker 1: And then do they go neutral side like for the semis?
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe when they get the semis, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who was the number one on the east side? We
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  Speaker 2: had this discussion and.
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  Speaker 3: How they decided. It was Silver Lake, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 3: Silver Lake.
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  Speaker 2: Silver Lake, yeah. Same record.
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  Speaker 1: And we were trying to figure out how the heck
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  Speaker 1: they decide that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It can't be on points because Kenny has smashed everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Silver Lake actually did have, I believe, a better
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  Speaker 3: score differential. Now, it wasn't by a lot, but. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Silver Lake was the one, for instance, I think they
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  Speaker 3: might have, yeah, they got a forfeit win in their
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  Speaker 3: first round, looks like to me. They play Humboldt, but
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  Speaker 3: Silver Lake is also undefeated. They're 9-0, and they won
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  Speaker 3: their games this year, 27-0, 42-27, 55-21, 61-14, 77-6, 89-0, 61-0, 42-0,
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  Speaker 3: and then a Forfeit win over West Franklin in the
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  Speaker 3: first round.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope the Bull Pups get those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, they've definitely got a good recipe
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  Speaker 2: right now for winning late season games.
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  Speaker 3: Silver Lake is who my high school lost to in
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  Speaker 3: the 3A state championship baseball game in 2008, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 3: We were wanting to know.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. What did you do that game?
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  Speaker 3: I took in and out, and I cheered in the
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  Speaker 3: top row.
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  Speaker 1: Good job.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Next ballgame, Barnstall at home over Oklahoma Union.
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  Speaker 3: Ballgame we'll have for you on 100.1 KYFM, K1TV. com. Someone
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  Speaker 3: going to snap a losing skid in Class A2, District 4.
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  Speaker 3: Panthers coming off a 46-8 loss at Hominy last Friday.
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  Speaker 3: They've lost five straight. Oklahoma Union lost to 1-7 Afton
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  Speaker 3: last week, 44-14. Cougars are 0-9. Oklahoma Union hasn't won
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  Speaker 3: since mid-October of last year when they beat Caney Valley.
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  Speaker 3: Barnsdall's last win was in their district opener over Fairland
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  Speaker 3: in overtime back On the 25th of September, Barnsdall 0-5
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  Speaker 3: in their last five. They've been outscored 179-47 in that span.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma Union's been outscored 430-60 this season. Barnsdall did beat
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma Union a year ago, 54-18. Cougars won in 2024, 48-20.
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  Speaker 3: That snapped what had been a six-game Barnsdall winning streak
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  Speaker 3: in the series from 2012-20. to 2017. Barnstall, Oklahoma Union, 100.1 KYFM, K1TV. com,
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  Speaker 3: our area game of the week on Friday night. Neither team, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: in playoff contention.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something. I have picked those
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  Speaker 1: stashes in every one of these five games.
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  Speaker 2: Every one of them. Ever since you start calling them
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  Speaker 2: the stashes.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying they are going to break this skid.
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  Speaker 1: Kylie Sweeney's too good a coach. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: quit on him.
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  Speaker 2: Blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something right now. Oklahoma Union
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  Speaker 1: is going to win this game. And they are going
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  Speaker 1: to get their first.
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  Speaker 2: Win of the season. That's just dumb.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to win it. I'm just telling you right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to happen. And you guys watch and see.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. The Tommy rule is in full effect. Barzell's got
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  Speaker 2: to be disappointed with the last four games, the way
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  Speaker 2: that they came out. Yeah. Yeah, but one of them was,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was one opponent that they were going
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  Speaker 2: to beat.
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  Speaker 3: They almost beat Ketchum, who is probably one of the
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  Speaker 3: better teams they've played in that span, which is one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that makes this losing skit all the more.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: If you're coming with a touchdown to beat Ketchum, I
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: don't know how you lose to Afton.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I don't either.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Because that score surprised us all, too, because we thought
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: it was going to be a bigger spread there. But, yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I know they're disappointed because. Something just went off the
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: rails at about week five. So I'm not going to
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: blame Batch 100%, but it was really when he started
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: to get on the bandwagon. 93%. Yeah, 93%. But I'm
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: going to go Barnsdale. They're going to finish 5-5. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it's always good to win your last game of the season.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: It just leaves a different taste. Oklahoma Union, obviously playing
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: a bunch of young players. They've got to bring that
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: program back around. But I'm going Barnsdale this week.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: All right, good luck to the Panthers and Oklahoma Union
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: on Friday night. Next ballgame, Copan at Welch. Class B-2
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: District 3 finale for Copan. They're 7-2, Welch is 4-5. Copan, though,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: and Welch both 1-2 in that B-2-3 district because Copan
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: lost at home to still unbeaten Pine Creek Hunter last Friday.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: 40-6 was the final. A little bit closer than that
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: score would indicate.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It was 8-0.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: In the last moments of the second quarter, Copan roughing
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: the passer penalty, then set up a Hail Mary opportunity
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: for Pond Creek Hunter that they completed as time expired
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: at the end of the second quarter. That made it
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: 16-0 at half. Pond Creek Hunter then scored to begin
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the third quarter to go up 20-0, and it was
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: 20-0 until the latter moments of the third quarter. That's
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: when things kind of snowballed on Copan just a little bit.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: According to Tritt and Kallenberger, the Hornets had three touchdowns
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: called back on first half penalties. One of them was
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a scoop and score on a defensive penalty. They had
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: a couple more offensive touchdowns called back as well. Welch
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: did not play last week. Wildcats, they lost to Pond
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Creek Hunters 64-28 back on October 23rd. Winner of this
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: game will finish third and beat 2-3. Loser going to
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: finish fourth. Of course, they've all played the four teams
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: in the district. Copan is plus 59, a point differential
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: against those other clubs, New Heights, Christian, Cave Springs, Depew, Poncary, Conner.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Welch is plus 12. Again, Copan plus 59, Welch plus
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: 12 in the four teams they've played in common opponents.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Copan's district, by the way, matched up against B2 District 4.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Looks like the 1-2 seed will be decided on the
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: winner of Davenport and Wetumpka on Friday night. Both those
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: teams are 3-0 in a five-team district. Welch has, by
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: the way, won three in a row in this series.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Kallenberger says those Welch Wildcats are one of Copan's rivals.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Welch has won nine of the last ten matchups dating
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: back to 2010. Only Copan winning that span was in 2020.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Last matchup was a 28-26 narrow Welch win in 2023.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: So again, if Copan could finish third, they'll likely face
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: the loser of Davenport, Wetumpka, in the first round. They
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: have to win against Welch to finish third. Should they
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: lose to Welch, they will take on the winner of
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Davenport and Wetumpka. It's going to be a tough first-round
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: matchup regardless. Davenport is 9-0, and Wetumpka is 7-2, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: they've won seven straight. So, Copan at Welch on Friday night.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you would have to work really hard to talk
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: me out of thinking that Pawn Creek Hunter has to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be the favorite in B2.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: They're one of them.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: They're really good.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Holy smokes.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: They're always one of the favorites in B1. Now, they
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: haven't been quite as good the last three or four years,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: but this is their first year down in B2.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Oof. I mean, they are really playing well.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But I got to tell you, if this game was
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: at home, I would tell you I don't even hesitate
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to take Copan. The only hesitation I have is that,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: like you mentioned, Evan, it's kind of a rivalry game
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: on the road after a loss against a team that's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: had two weeks to prepare. None of that sounds great.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But I believe in Coach Kallenberger, especially this time of year.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And I think Copan will go down there and get
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the win. heading into the playoffs in a good spot
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: with a lot of confidence and hopefully be able to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: make it happen at home in the first round of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and get a win. And so I like
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: them at Welch.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take them. Yeah, I'm also going to talk, Copain,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to talk a little bit about last
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: week's game. Pond Creek Hunter is a dang good football team.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Here's something that... You know, there's so many games and
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: statistics and trend lines in the game of football. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I remember Coach Rader had a full belief that we
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: call it the four-minute rule, which is you win the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: last four minutes of the second half, of the first half,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and you win the first four minutes of the second half,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: and your winning percentage goes to like 75%. meaning that
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: if you have more positive plays, if you outscore those opponents,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you go through all the trend lines. I use that
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: same statistic line because that's coming from the NFL down
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to college and then high school. I used the three-minute
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: rule when I coached here at Bartlesville. Win and watch
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: games and look. And you know exactly what I'm talking
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: about because we've all seen it. High school football, the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: last three, first three, That six minutes is so critical.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: So if you look at what happened Friday night in
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that ballgame, obviously, Pond Creek Hunter won the last three,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the first three. So I do think Copan is a
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: better football team than Welch, even though statistic lines are
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the same. I think Kallenberger is a better coach. He's
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: going to have those kids ready to play. You get
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a little momentum going into the playoffs, which I like
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the position that they're in. So I'm going to go
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: with Copan.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Nighthawk, I got to tell you something. Thinking through this
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: as you've been talking, I think in every single football
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: game I watch, no matter what level, at some point
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I think to myself, they can't let them score here
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: at the end of the half because they get the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: ball coming out of the locker room.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: And that's going to give them another chance to score.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Almost every game. Yeah.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And you always think it in a close game. They
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: got a hold of here because they get the ball
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: back coming out of halftime.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That is absolutely accurate.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Well, it's just so tough, you know, as far as
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: motivation kits. Just like anything, you can't go, hey, go
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: win the next 48 minutes. You can't. No. You've got
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: to look at all these trend lines and what can
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: put your team in a position to win. And that
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: is a critical, critical time period. The end of the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: first half, first of the second half, sets the whole tempo.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Like with my little league team, we call it the
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: two-minute rule because they're eight-minute quarters, so we're only playing
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: 32 minutes. So if I go out to those kids–
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: a bunch of 12-year-olds and go, hey, go win the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: next 32 minutes. I'll talk to you after the game. No,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: you got to keep them motivated. You also got to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: narrow their focus down and keep those kids playing. And statistically,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: if you can do it, you're going to win more
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: of the ball games than what you're going to lose.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It's like in basketball where, you know, you have to,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: like in college basketball, you got to win the next
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: TV timeout, right? So between the 12-minute mark and the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: 8-minute mark, We just need to go out and win
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: this segment of the game, and let's just win those
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: segments and try to– yeah, that's brilliant.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Coach Rader, man.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Coach Rader.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Well, good luck to Copan on the road at Welch
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: on Friday. Again, Hornets can clinch the three seed out
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: of their district in Class B2 with a win. Next ballgame,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Dewey at Casha Hall. Bulldoggers 6-3 in a 2-1 district
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: one after a big, big win at Bethel last week.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: 36-30 the final score. Dewey, by the way, at 9-0
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Casha Hall. Offenses didn't do a lot early. Dewey, though,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: did score a couple touchdowns in the first three minutes
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: of the third quarter. both from Braxton Braden. So Dewey
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: was up 36-18, but man, Bulldoggers almost ran out of gas.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Bethel scored two unanswered touchdowns, got within six, then Bethel
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: had the ball, drove all the way to the Dewey
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: six-yard line in the final moments, could not score, though,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: on the last play. Dewey held on 36-6. Bethel went
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: 0-5 in two-point conversions. in that game. Now, Kasha Hall's
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: coming off a 49-0 win over Perry. Bulldoggers win or lose,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: locked into the four-seed in 2A1 District 1, regardless of
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: how they do against Kasha. Who Dewey plays next week
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: will depend upon Chandler and Washington, who play one another
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: for the district title over in District 2. Dewey will
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: get the winner of that game in the first round.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Bulldoggers 0-8 against Casha Hall since 2004. The last ballgame
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: was a 47-6 Dewey loss in 2023. Tough one down
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: in Tulsa. Dewey at Casha Hall coming up on Friday night. Again,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Bulldoggers will be the four seed out of 2A-1-1, regardless
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: of how they do against the Commandos this week.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So a couple things. Number one, Evan, who does the games?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: For Dewey.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Brian McSweeney.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome. That end of that game was awesome.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I wish we could go back and play it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And you had... Yeah, they had had some officiating issues
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: prior to that that I think led to some of
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: the disgust on the broadcast. But they never really said
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: whether the guy scored a touchdown. He got to the
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: goal line-ish, like the one.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: It was weird.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: They never said if it was a completed pass. It
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: was kind of a dive for the ball. Was it
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: a fumble? The play prior where Bethel got to the six,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: the quarterback– was getting sacked, and as he described it,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: he kind of threw the ball backwards over his head
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: like he was facing the opposite end zone. So his
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: offense was to his back. The quarterback got turned around.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: He threw it over his head like that. Well, that
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: to me is an incomplete pass, but they called it
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: a fumble, and they allowed Bethel to pick it up
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: like five yards toward Dewey territory.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And that was also part of the problem toward the
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: end of that ballgame. So anyway, it was a weird ending.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're going down to play against Casha Hall, right?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Your playoff position, nothing changes at all, no matter what
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: happens down here against Casha Hall. How in the world
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: do you get your team in a mind frame to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: go down and compete in this game? How do you
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: do it, Nighthawk?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Well, Sepulveda was such a great coach. It doesn't matter
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: records or anything because I'll tell you why. They're going
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to be extra motivated, obviously, because it's a big game.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: It's a district game. Casha Hall's 9-0, and I tell–
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: It's tough to go 10-0. It's tougher to go 10-0
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: than it is to go 0-10.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And they might be a little checked out because nothing
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: changes for them either. They may not even play, guys.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Now, I know Coach Medina at Cache Hall, one of
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: the winningest high school football coaches. He's been there, I think,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: 20 years. And if you look at his record, he's
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: going to be a Hall of Fame coach just as
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: soon as he wants to be, as soon as the
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: age requirement. But he's a stud. Um, so he's going
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to have those kids ready, but yeah, it's, it's, it's tough,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: but you're going to have two great high school football
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: coaches squared off with each other with playoffs, you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: right around the corner. The last thing Medina is going
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to do is take foot off the gas. Now he's
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: going to keep his team healthy. Yeah. A hundred percent.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: There's going to be some players not get as many reps, uh,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: if it's a close game, even if it's a close game.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, Medina's going to
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: have him ready to go. He does not have the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: mentality that he's going to lay off with any chance
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: to not go 10-0.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Well, Dewey and Catchahall, good luck to the Bulldoggers down
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: in Tulsa again. They are going to be the fourth
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: seed and will take on the winner of Chandler and Washington.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: So that's the ballgame to watch if you're score-watching and
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: a Dewey fan on Friday because that will determine the winner.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: of District 2 in Class 2A1.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Just in case a listener wants to say, well, they
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: didn't pick that game. I think Nighthawk and I are
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: both taking the commandos. But it's going to be, again,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: should be fun for the Bulldoggers. Let's go down there
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and have a chance.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, let's see. I mean, there's a reason we
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: play for 48 minutes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: All right. next ballgame, K-Rig 104.9, K-RigTV.com, no water, 5-4,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: taking on Pawnee. This is going to be our one
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: matchup where we really have to get out our abacus
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to figure out the weird playoff positioning. for Nowata in
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Class A1, District 3. They're 3-2 in the district, Pawnee 5-0,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: 5-4 overall, Pawnee 7-2. Nowata lost 42-12 at Bahuska last week.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: That was a 21-12 Bahuska lead following Isaiah Saxton touchdown.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: With eight minutes in the second quarter, I saw the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: score then. I thought, okay, that's a little bit closer
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: than I would have thought at the time. Huskies, though,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: outscored the Ironmen 21-0 after that. The other touchdown was
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: an Adrian O'Dell pass to Caleb Woolman when Nowata was
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: down 14-0. They made it 14-6 at the time. Pawnee
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: coming off another district win at Commerce, 40-0. Playoff scenario
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: is kind of messy for Nowata, both in whether they
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: get in and who they will play. Now, Pawnee is
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: probably going to be a heavy favorite. I will say
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Pawnee has the district championship locked up. So the Black
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Bears are not playing for anything. I assume that they'll
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: play all their guys. But in theory, they do not
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: have anything on the line. If Pawnee beats Nowata by
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: 15 points or more and Colcord were to upset Morrison,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Nowata would be eliminated. Ironman would have minus nine district
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: points in that scenario behind both Morrison and Colcord. So
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: if you're a Nowata fan, you're a big Morrison fan.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: on Friday night. Now, Bacola and Panama is the other
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: game that's going to determine who the Ironmen play. The
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: scenarios for Nowata. Nowata wins this game over Pawnee. Morrison loses.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: They're the three seed. If Nowata wins and Morrison wins,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: they're the four seed. Now, if Nowata loses and Morrison
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: still beats Colcord, they're the four seed. Again, where you
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: get messed up is if Nowata loses and Colcord wins,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: then it comes down to points. And right now, the Ironmen...
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Do have 10 district better points than Colcord, but again,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: if you lose by 15 or so, all of a
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: sudden you're in a little bit of trouble moving forward.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Now the games that are going to decide the other
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: side of the playoff bracket for Nowata and who the
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Ironmen play, if they're the three or four seed, will
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: be Pakola at Panama and Haskell at Colgate. If Pakola wins,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Pakola going to take that district championship, that would be
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: who know what to play is probably in most scenarios
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: because if the Ironmen lose and Morrison beats Colcord, probably
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: on paper is what you think is going to happen,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: then they'll play Pakola should they win at Panama. If
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Panama wins, though, and Colgate loses, Panama will take that
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: district championship. And if Panama and Colgate both win, Colgate
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: wins the championship on a head-to-head tiebreaker. We have the
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: district standings on the next page. As you can see,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: there's a three-way tie for the lead in A14 between Bacola, Panama,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: and Colgate. Again, they all kind of play each other
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: except Colgate plays Haskell. And then in A13, Nowata, again,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: has six district points. Colcord has minus six. and Morrison
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: is 15. Nowata and Morrison are tied at 3-2 in
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: the district. Colcord is 2-3. All that really boils down to, regardless,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: if Morrison beats Colcord, you're good, Ironman fans. That's probably
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: the most likely scenario, but if Colcord does upset Morrison,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: you are in a bit of trouble, depending upon points.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Apologies to any of our ADHD listeners with short attention spans.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the first half of the show.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: It was great having you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I told you it was messy.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I never dreamed that I'd be adding Pecola, Panama, Haskell,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and Colgate to my scored old favorites so that I
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: can watch their games, but I'm going to. Pawnee's going
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to win this game, and so Nowata has had a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: surprisingly great season. I mean, I think we can all
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: agree— We weren't sure what to expect from the Scott
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Martin Ironmen coming from Northwestern this year. And it has
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: been impressive. And so let's watch those other games and
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: see what happens. Hopefully, you know, have it be a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: normal night. I'd love for no water to get that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: three seed. But, you know, the most likely scenario is
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the fourth. And and and then we'll see what happens. But, yeah,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: we'll be watching those other games. Good luck to the Ironmen.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: against Pawnee. Pawnee's really good. And so let's watch and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: see what happens.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about, hey, this is very impressive. It is.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Well done.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I'd have AI help me.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So if my math is right, and you probably
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: said this, but my mind was swirling. So there's a
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: 12-point difference between Nowata and Colcord. Yes. There's a good chance,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: nothing against Nowata, they've had a great season, but Pawnee
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: is a really good football team that Nowata could lose
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: by 15 points. And a Colcord win by any, I mean,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter, they can win by one, and they're going
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: to get it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Correct, yeah.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: So they have to keep it within 15, you know,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: whatever that point difference is. So if they lose by seven,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: then they have to win by more than five. Yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: So that's the, you know, and.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: And obviously the cleanest way is just to have Morrison win.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 100%.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: And Morrison is probably a favorite on paper.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, five and four, three and two in the district,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: and two and three with Colt. I mean, they've got
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the same records. I think it's going to be a
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: great football game. So, yeah, I mean, I think the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: one that I'm going to add to my squirtle is
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: going to be, obviously, that Colt Cord Morrison game. But, yeah, Morrison,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: come on, Morrison. Come on. Because then it doesn't matter.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Yep, no doubt. I, by the way, did ask, because
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I was on AI working to try to figure all
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: this out, to do a Colcord Morrison betting line. And
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: they did have Morrison minus 12 and a half. And
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Colcord money line would play plus 260.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: According to AI.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Now, when you say AI, is that Tanner? No, it's
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: not Tanner.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, Morrison minus 12 and a half. at a
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: 34-21 projected score between Morrison and Colcord.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: God, that's why you love high school football.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Yep, no question. All right, that'll be a big one again.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: You're a Morrison fan if you're know-what-a. Maybe Pawnee sets
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: a bunch of guys and something wacky happens. Maybe they
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: just decide we're going to go JV and rest everyone.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know what Pawnee's health situation is like at
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: all going into that game, but we'll see moving forward.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Next ballgame, final one before we get to Bartlesville. Bahuska
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: taking on Commerce. Huskies 8-1, Commerce 4-5. We'll have that
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: game for you on Sports Talk, 99.1 FM, KPGM, kpgmtv.com.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: A one-district three battle. Bahuska 4-1 in the district. Commerce
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: was 1-4. We already talked about Bahuska's 42-12 win at
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: home over No Water last week. 21-0 Bahuska run for
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: the second quarter on had them pulled away. Win for
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Pawhuska locks the Huskies into the two seed out of A1-3.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: So just like Pawnee is locked into the one and
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: just like some other teams are locked into their spots,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Pawhuska is locked into the two. This means Pawhuska will
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: play the three seed out of A1-4. And guess what?
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: We're talking more Pakola, Panama, and Colgate in that scenario.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: So probably the last man out of that little trio
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: will be coming to Pawhuska. the beach for the first
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: round of the playoffs. And to be honest with you,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I don't really love that because that's going to be
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: a pretty decent team. Agree. That's going to be a
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: team that's in line for a district championship going into
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Week 10. That's going to end up as a three
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: seed in that ballgame. Commerce lost 40-0 at home to
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Pawnee last week. Bahuskas won three of the last four
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: in the series. By the way, just some notes on Bahuska.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Been to the playoffs now every year since 2018, so
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: ninth straight year Bahuska's been there. A win would move
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Bahuska to 9-1. which would match their 2019 and 2025
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: seasons as their second best records in that nine year stretch.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: But Husker did go 10 and O in 2020. And
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the Huskies have won at least two playoff games in
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: each of those three seasons that they finished nine and
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: one or 10 and O that I mentioned before. So
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: hopefully setting up a run for the Huskies, but again,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: they're at home against commerce on KPGM and KPGM TV.com.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I've, I've got the Huskies all the way here,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be a great, great opportunity to really,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: really have a good, gigantic win heading into the playoffs.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: And again, with the team coming over from the other side,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: battling for a district championship, emotionally and physically, that's going
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to be a lot for those guys. And so if
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Pawhuska can get kind of an easy win and you've
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: got this other side coming in, having a rough and
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: tumble game, You got to like the Huskies at home
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: in the first round. But this is kind of like
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Bartlesville where that other district is just significantly weaker than
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: the district that Pawhuska's playing in. Nighthawk, we talked about
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: it last week, but Pawhuska goes over to Pawnee and
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: gets a really surprising butt kicking. I mean, Pawnee is
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: really playing good football, but we all thought Pawhuska would
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: go over and win that game. and um and Pawnee
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: just took it to them and so I'm really glad
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: coming back home last week against a good know what
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: a team a rival um that they were able to
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: to win that game the way they did and they're
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna smoke uh commerce and so um I'm
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: glad that they've kind of you know did what they
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: needed to do last week do what you need to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: do this week and then get ready for a really
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: good um game first round of.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: The playoffs i got them yeah i'm also going by
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: huska and yeah talk about that district we talked about
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: it i mean pawnee to start the way that they
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: did and then to get on the run that they
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: are they are playing at a very high level and
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: it all shocked us all with that game i think
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: we all picked by huska to win that game they
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: ended up just getting be pretty bad. But yeah, I'm
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: going to go by Huska. Coach has done a tremendous
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: job over there with, we talked about with the off season,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: you know, losing a coach like Hennessy and then also
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: losing another coach before he even started for this guy
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: to step in and do the job. So, but I
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: do agree with you. They are going to be battle
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: tested for the playoffs. They have gone through the gauntlet
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: as far as this district and, you know, to finish
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: nine and one, You know, they've only done it a
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: couple of times. I know they finished unbeaten in 2020.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm going Pawhuska and they're going to play
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: at home and they're going to get a playoff win.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: And then after that, you know, you get through that
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: first playoff game. You know, your season starts to shorten. Obviously,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the goal is season is 0-0. Let's go 1-0 in
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. I mean, let's go 2-0. Let's, I mean,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: like go 4-0 to win the state championship. So I'm
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: going Pawhuska.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: You want to talk about bus rides? Don't want to
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: look ahead too far, but I was just trying to
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: kind of figure out other brackets and everything. If this
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: turns out how we think it's going to, if Bajuska
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: ends up winning their first round game, their most likely
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: second round opponent will be Mangum.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Which is four.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Hours and 45 minutes away from here.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I've done it several times. Southwest Oklahoma.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: It's near Altus.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's down near, what's that state park down there? Yeah. Anyway,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: where the big art installation is.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: It's way, way down there. It's 445.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: It's west of Altus, northwest of Altus.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: God, that would be horrible.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: You could not go much further away.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: No, I say from here. It's probably maybe a little
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: closer from Pawhuska.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Quartz Mountain is what that's called. Anyway, it's wild.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: That's when you go down the night before.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I do think that they're playing Hooker in the first round,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: and that could, again, I don't know.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: That's northwest Oklahoma.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: That's a little closer, but Hooker would have to come here,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I think, in that scenario. But anyway, that's all off
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: in the distance. So good luck to Pawhuska at home
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: against their Week 10 opponent coming up on Friday night
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: in commerce on KPGM with Ty Loftus on the call.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Next ballgame.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Lonnie Ty Loftus.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Lonnie Ty Loftus. Thank you on the call. Next ballgame,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Bartlesville on the road at Stillwater. This is a winner-take-all
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: 6-8-2 District 2 championship. Both teams are 4-0 in district play.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Each has secured a top-two district finish and a first-round
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: playoff bye. So Friday will determine who the one seed
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: is in the winner and the two seed is in
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: the loser. Stillwater 6-2. Their losses are to Bixby 56-28.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: And Owasso, 21-6. So that tells you the Pioneers have
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: been pretty good. They're undefeated in the district. I have
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: the score comparisons between the two teams on this sheet.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Stillwater and Bartlesville, of course, have played the same district opponents.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Stillwater has outscored them by 185. The Bruins have outscored
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: them by 95. Stillwater has actually scored six more points
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: in district play than Bartlesville has. They've outscored their opponents
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: 220-35 points allowed today. in their four district ballgames. Bartlesville
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: has outscored their opponents 2-14 to 1-21. Stillwater leads 8-5
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: in 13 games from 2004 through 2023. Bartlesville, of course,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: played them two times in the 22 season, both on
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: the road at Pioneer Stadium. Only two times the Bruins
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: have played there in recent memory, and they lost 55-7
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: and 56-0. If you're wondering about playoff scenarios, a win, obviously,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: would set Bartlesville up For their first district title since
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: the high schools combined, they'd be the one seed out
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: of 6A2 District 2 as the outright district champion. Loss,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: of course, puts them in second. A loss would mean
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Bartlesville face the winner of the East 6 West 3
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: ballgame in the first round or Bartlesville's first game November 20th.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: A win for Bartlesville, making them the one seed. means
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: they would face the winner of the West 4 and
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: East 5 first-round matchup. By the way, the West games
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: are Choctaw at Lawton Ike, Putnam City West at Norman,
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: and Putnam City North at Piedmont. Looks like there really
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: could be a three-way tie for second if Choctaw, Norman,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and Piedmont all win those ballgames. That would put Norman, Piedmont,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: and Putnam City at 4-2. Then it would come down
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: to points on the other side, but of course, You're
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: really not looking at here going to play in the
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: first round of the West because Bartlesville clinched a bye
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: with that win over Muskogee last week. And, guys, we
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: can start there. A pretty impressive win for the Bruins
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: on a lot of fronts. Bartlesville ends up winning by 26, but, boy,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: it felt pretty dicey to me for at least a
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: little bit of time. They were up by 29. They
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: end up giving up 19 unanswered. In about six minutes
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: to begin the third quarter, in that span, Michael Kent
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: went out with an injury. Then I thought the play
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: of the game was Price Lust's kick return. He returns
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: the kick after you stop them on a two-point conversion,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: which I think also maybe gets overshadowed.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I thought he was going to go.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: So did I. Instead of maybe being up only eight,
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: you're up ten because you stopped the two-point play. Then
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: you've got it set up first and goal. Bartlesville punches
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: it in with Michael Kent returning. They get the two-point conversion.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden... That's a 10-point swing if you
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: go back to the two-point conversions. You're up 18 instead
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: of 10. Then you get a stop. You get another
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: score and two-point conversion, and the game's basically over. But Stillwater,
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: or sorry, Muskogee ends up punting after the next possession,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: and they were up 26 with, I think, seven minutes remaining.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: And that ended up being the final, 52-26. But a
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: gritty win over Stillwater after it looked like it might
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: end up being a blowout at halftime, and it sets
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: up one of the bigger games in regular season program
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: history in Stillwater on Friday night?
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Well, let's start with the obvious, which is, you know,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: they're at Muskogee. It's kind of rainy and nasty and cold.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Muskogee is not awesome to start with. I mean, their
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: football team's awesome. It's not an awesome place. And I heard, Evan,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: that we had a big crowd there, which is great.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: And people are pointing to the Michael Kent injury, you know,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: as what let Muskogee back into the game. But I
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: got to say, if you weren't watching, the Kent injury
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: actually came toward the end. of that 19-point swing. And, Evan,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just like you. Muskogee and Nighthawk, back to Coach Rader.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Muskogee gets the ball coming out of the first half ends.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Muskogee gets the ball coming out of the locker room
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and just boop, boop, boop, and scores. And you're going, oh, yeah,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you know, Bartlesville's still up, blah, blah, blah. And then
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: they score again, and you're going, oh, man, I've seen
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: this movie before, and I didn't like the end of it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And you're right, Evan, at 10 points, I've watched enough
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Bruin and Oklahoma State football to know I don't feel
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: good about this right here.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: There was a ton of time left.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: And then Michael goes down, and the way he was
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: writhing around and stuff, you could tell this is not
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a finger out of place or something. He was hurt.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: And so now you're going, oh, man. And not only
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: were we saying that watching it, I think the team
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: was saying that a little bit because they end up
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: putting Price Lusk in in a wildcat formation. That doesn't
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: go great. And then Bartlesville was able to score on
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: that possession when Kent got hurt. Do you remember that, Evan?
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: He came back in.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Came back in.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: After the kickoff. Yeah, after the kickoff.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, after the kick return. And like you said, all
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you breathe a little easier. But he
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: is dealing with that injury. It's not in his throwing shoulder.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: He's got an AC joint situation in his left shoulder,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: but he's got to play. They'll shoot him up and
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff they need to do to
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: get him ready to go.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: We won't talk specifics about his injury because Stillwater coaches
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: might be listening to us. He's fine or maybe not.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Stillwater's really good. Before we do that, your thoughts on
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the Muskogee win.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: That Muskogee game You guys have talked about it. Thought
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: it was going to be a blowout, but Muskogee's got
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: two good athletes. And to be honest, there's a reason
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: that coach is also going to be a Hall of Fame. 100%.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: He came from Wagner, did a great job there. So
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: for them, I think the play of the game, you're right,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: is price loss. But I'll tell you, I talked to
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Hennessy about what happened. What was going on? Yeah. After
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: first and goal to five. And then all of a
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: sudden I go, why is Michael Kent in the game?
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Why is he out at receiver? He was. We've talked
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: about Michael Kent and his statistics. We've talked about the
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: grittiness of this team. So he wanted to be on
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: the field. So we run two Wildcats center with Bowdoin Roberts.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: It's a great play. That's who it was, Roberts. On paper.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: They took two sneaks. Flashbacks to Claremore. When we fumbled
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: on the five, it was going through my head. So
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: then they called a timeout. Michael Kemp, and these are
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: things that aren't ever measured, goes, Coach, when are we
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: going to stop screwing around and win this game? Put
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: me at quarterback. So you give the kid the ball.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: They weren't going to give him the ball. He wasn't
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: supposed to run it. They told him, hey, this is
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Mason Fines going, hey, this read's going to be open.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Throw the dang ball. Throw it. And it ran. And
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: then took the hit at the goal line.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: And then fast forward, when he was back in the game,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: they kept telling him, get down. Don't run the ball.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: On these zone reads, give the ball. Remember that time
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: he ran out? Oh, yeah. And I'm like, what are
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: you doing? So, Hennessy said, that's just the grit and
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: the warrior that's inside, that warrior mentality that Michael Kent had.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Those are numbers. Numbers will never, ever be able to
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: gauge that. You just know. Yep. And if you look
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: at all the statistics, of course all the high stats follow. So, yeah,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: I thought it was a gritty win. That's one of
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: the few Barzill teams in a long time that I
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: would say would win that ball game. Yeah. Because then
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: it's just, oh, woe is me. Here they come. This
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: is how it's supposed to act. So, great job by
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: the staff and even better job by the players to
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: win that game. And then after that, they kind of
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: got back onto a roll and And obviously we know
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: what the final score was, but boy, that was pretty impressive.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Pretty impressive to watch.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: So, Evan, did they play for a district championship or
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: win a district championship in 15?
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: They lost to Booker T, and I don't know how–
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Booker T beat Bixby. I assume
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: there was a three-way tie, and they must not have
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: won it outright on points. I don't remember.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: But they were playing last week for a championship in 2015?
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, because they had lost to Booker T earlier
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: in the season.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Well, this is– God, I wish Coach Revard was here, Nighthawk,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: because– When we start the season, talking about Coach Hennessey
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: and the Bartlesville Bruins, this is the moment that we
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: point toward. Again, I wish we could rewind and get
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: that Claremore game back, but honestly, it doesn't matter.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Because Friday night, tonight, they're going to be playing for
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: a district championship against a team that they have a
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: chance to beat. And I told you guys before the show,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: there could be 150 points scored in this game, and
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: I mean it. And it is going to be absolute
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: fireworks over at Stillwater. I can't wait. And the Bruins
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: are playing really good. They're getting some guys back. You
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: heard Coach Hennessy talk about it last Wednesday on his
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: coaching show before the Muskogee game about some of these
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: guys on defense that they're slowly working back in. It's critical.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Carter Sauer has been able to come in at linebacker
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: and really fill a position that has had just decimating
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: injuries this season. And now all those guys... are starting
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: to slowly roll back in. He's playing with that big mitt,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: you know, that club.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: It's awesome. And Coach Hennessy mentioned it, but Carter's another
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: kid that just has guts and wants to be out there.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: So they put that cast on his hand, and he
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: goes out there. He can't grab anybody.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: He can club somebody.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: He sure can.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: There's a thing called club rep in football. He's doing it.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: And so I'm just saying. I know everybody's going to
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: talk about what a powerhouse Stillwater is, and they are.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: But if there was a team that was going to
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: maybe have a chance against these guys, it's these Bruins
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: and this offense. I don't know that if Stillwater wins,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: it's going to be because they outscore them. I don't
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: know that there's a defense in the state of Oklahoma,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: in 6A2, that can stop the Bruins. I mean, they
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: are just on fire.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: I agree, but on paper... You've got the highest scoring offense,
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: and you've got the lowest scoring defense. So you've got
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: the best defense against the best offense. So you talk
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: about matchups. So they're only averaging, giving up 16 points.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: And to answer your question, in 2015, Booker T was
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: number one. Barzell was number two in the district.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: So they lost to— Did Booker T beat Bixby in
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: the regular season?
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Must have, because that's when— the roller kid went down.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: And they only lost 17-14. It was a heck of
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: a game. Heck of a game. But then, of course,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: because that's what I was thinking. I said, okay, I
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: know we beat Bixby in 15 during regular season. Of course,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: that's who ended up knocking us out in the semifinals
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: and then ended up winning the state finals as well. But, yeah.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: And this is the first time since the Brewers.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Who did Bixby almost lost the game before? we played
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: them in the semifinals, correct? Their first round or their, their,
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: their quarterfinal game. I have to look it up.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I knew that Nick roller was coming back in that game. Uh,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: you know, obviously one of my roommates in college was
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Keith roller, the older brother of that whole group. So
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I've known Shane and all of those kids. Uh, uh,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: and of course Nick was Keith Keith's boy, but yeah. Um,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: and of course he was a great high school football player,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's going to be, um, And, of course,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about it here in a little bit. But
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: these Bruins are gritty and they're battle-tested. And I know that's,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: you know, I've used that twice now, so it's not
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: word of the day. But you really start evaluating teams
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: with how the first nine games, eight games of the
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: season has gone. And they're dealing with adversity better, night
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: and day difference, compared to the Claremore game.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: 100% agree.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: And that's just, once again, that culture really digging in now.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: and they play with high energy. But anyway, we can
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: talk about Martinsville.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: And you know this better than anybody, but this culture
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: change and the attitude and even the physical change for
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: kids when a new coach like Matt Hennessey that brings
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: an entire program mentality that's packaged up and ready to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: go to another town That takes years to convert, and
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: it has just been.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: Absolutely mind-boggling to watch the way these kids, and I've
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: got to say, these fans have bought into this entire thing,
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: and it takes an entire community, and it takes.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Getting kids out of the hallways to want to come
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and join what you're doing, and that's happened.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Look at the number of kids on the sidelines. You know, Hennessy,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: any coach, any good coach, There's no doubt in my mind.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Day one, they set a non-negotiable standard. And we used
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: it in our company. We used it for sixth grade football.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: We used it for Friday night games because I played
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: for two coaches in junior college and also at Tulsa.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: It was non-negotiable. And what Coach Rader would always say, actually,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Coach Wolfe over at NEO, It's like, guys, what I
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: mean by non-negotiable, meaning that the decision makers have already
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: negotiated this, and this is what it is. There's no if, ands,
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: and buts. It's not a democracy. No. Look at Saban.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: And I haven't watched the series, so don't blow it.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: I haven't either.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: But I guarantee you, if you go back in history,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: there's non-negotiable standards in any good organization if you're a
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Fortune 5 company or you're a second-grade football team. It's non-negotiables.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: And the kids buy into that. Everyone buys it. We
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: want to be a part of a system, and we
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: want to be able to know how we can be successful.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: But it's, you know, I know we're going to talk
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: about this game, but here's a little tidbit, and you'll
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: like this. So you know how I said I went up.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: To– Yeah, Nebraska and over to Missouri.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: I met a gentleman from Stillwater that you know, Mike Levitz.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no way, Lovitz.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: Mike Lovitz is a realtor over there. Yeah, so I
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: hunted with him.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a big hunter. I should have known that's
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: who you were going to say.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: And here, we're sitting there talking, and one of you goes,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: you know, Chris Batchelor. I said, well, I don't know
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: him as Chris, but I know him as Batchelor. Of course,
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: you know, we trade stories back and forth. He graduated
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: in 1989, same age as me. He is. And he
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: played on the Stillwater team that upset us. And they
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: won 16-7. So he played guard. I played defensive end.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: And so, of course, we're sharing those stories. And, of course,
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: we were both in the semifinals. They played Midwest City.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: We played Lotnike. And, of course, we said, hey, we
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: were the favorite versus Lotnike. So we were going, we
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: want Stillwater. Because they had a defensive end tied in
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: that ended up playing the NFL. Artie Smith. Yeah. I
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: think he had like seven sacks.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Artie's still around, or was he?
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no. No, he still is. And we went
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: on a recruiting trip to Louisiana Tech, so I know
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: him really well and kind of followed his career. And
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: we kept in touch throughout college. But, yeah, I thought
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: it was just such a small world. And I go,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: you know what? I said, I'll tell you how big
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: a rival this is for Barsville. Because we've been talking
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: about this game since, you know, for us. But every
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Barsville team, Stillwater's always good. I said, 1980s– or– 2007,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: you guys opened this great, beautiful stadium. Guess who the
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: first game was in that nice, beautiful stadium? It was.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Guess who beat the fire out of Stillwater? I said,
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: even though you might have won an 88, you're christening
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: because they had every event. They had parachute jumpers. Beautiful stadium.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely gorgeous.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: And guess who was doing PA for Stillwater?
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: You were? I was. No, you weren't. Absolutely.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Ask John Kane. Because during the game, I decided I
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: was going to.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, I wish I would have known that.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I knew some Barnesville people that were there. And so
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: during the game, Barnesville was up. And so I would say,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: you know, on the tackle for Bartlesville, John B. Kane. And,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: you know, nobody from Stillwater knew any different.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: And, of course, I'm never going to notice that during
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: the game. If you remember when Michael Thompson returned that punt,
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: you know, Michael Thompson, I've been around Bartlesville football since
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: early 80s, you know, saw that 81 group, I saw
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: the 85 class when we beat Booker T at home
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: with Mitch Nash. And, you know, they had six division ones.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Michael Thompson was arguably the best athlete to ever come
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: through Barswell. 41-inch vertical without even trying. 4.2. Every coach
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: said that he had NFL talent. I mean, tremendous kid
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: to coach. Great kid. He has passed on. unfortunately at
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: way too young of an age, but when he returned
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: that punt, I'm so dumb because I'm, you know, there's
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: a white area that coaches can't be in because they'll
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: let the refs work. He's gone and he's fast. So
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: the referee was running behind me straight down the line
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: and I'm kind of six inches on the line and
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: he was He was not moving. Nick Bunning, at the
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: last second, you see it on tape, grabs me and
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: yanks me out. Of course, Nick was a Tulsa linebacker.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: And you see that ref, he was going to hit
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: me and throw the flag.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: He would have thrown it.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: 100%. And that was a big pivotal moment.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: In that game.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: No way. And for me to— Bun! Atta boy, Bun! Yeah,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Coach Smith would have fired me because the pressure was
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: on him. Oh, yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: And, of course, we went 7-0. lost the jinx, ended
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: up winning a playoff game versus Owasso, and then had
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: to go to Southmore with those three OU commits. But, yeah,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: I wish I had the clip because McKee was like,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: we looked at it. He goes, that ref was literally
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: a step away from hitting me right in the back.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: Nick Bunning literally saved your job.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, there is no doubt. Smith would have fired me
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: right then because he would have said, who did it?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Because all the time he.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Was always saying, back off, coaches, back off, coaches.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: So, anyway, a lot of history between Stillwater and Bartlesville.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Now, the game. I'm taking the Bruins. I just want
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: to see this district championship after what these Bruins have
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: been through. And it's not even the last couple years.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: It's the last five, six, seven, eight years. I want
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: to see the district championship that comes home to Bartlesville
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: written in the, you know, the, Annals of history. Just
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: what a fairytale finish, and I'm going to pick it
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: to happen. I got the Bruins.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, on paper, Stillwater, if it was a betting line,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: and I bet if you AI'd it, it would say
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: a 21-28 point. We can do that.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Line.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe more. Because on paper, because you got two high-scoring offenses. Right?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: One's averaging 40, the other one's averaging 37. The difference
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: is we're giving up more points than them. If you
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: look at total points and total giving up, I think
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: they're going to get up 160. We've given up a lot.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: Again, I had that number in district play typed out.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: In district play, Bartlesville has given up 121, Stillwater 35. Oof.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: And the points scored are almost identical.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Okay. But... You can throw all that out.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: With this team. 100% because of what we talked about
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: with Michael Kent. He's the beacon for the team as
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: far as the heart and soul that this coaching staff,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Coach Hennessey, has instilled in these kids. Stillwater is going
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: to have a tough time stopping Barsville. And they've got
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: a great linebacker over there, Division I, already committed to Baylor.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: The kid can play. I think he's number five. Stud moves,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, he covers sideline to sideline. The problem is
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: the scheme. The scheme. It's not athlete on athlete because
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: we have beat some teams and scored a lot of
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: points on teams that are way better athletically than us,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: Muskogee being the last one. Muskogee had better athletes than
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: what Barzell High School football has. Stillwater's coached different than, obviously, Muskogee.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Stillwater's got a– I'm not saying that he's not a
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: great coach. It's just his culture hasn't set in to
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: that discipline that– It's his style of football at Muskogee.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Stillwater has got a great coach, great program. They've got
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: great athletes. But I'm telling you, this thing can go
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: down to the wire. Barswell-Browan defense, because I know Hennessy
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: is heavily involved in the defensive planning, not that the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: other coaches can't handle it, but it's always good to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: have a 40-year high school football coach. As the head coach,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: you're not involved on the daily planning. But I guarantee it,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: he is involved. And I know the pressure and the
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: practices have been way up the intensity. It's a district title.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Exactly what you said. We haven't ever– you think about
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: all the good teams that have come through. Not to–
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: you know, I feel like Napoleon Dynamite, Uncle Rico. But 1988,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: 89 class. But that 88 season, we had, you know,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: four Division I's on that team. We were a really,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: really good football team. And after we lost to Broken
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Arrow and Memorial– We finished third in the district. Now
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: we ended up going to the semifinals and beating Booker
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: T and Muskogee, who was the number one and two
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: that year in the district. Yeah, one and two. So
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a great football game.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Get down there. It's a great stadium. It's a great environment.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: If you can't, obviously you can watch it on TV.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: But I think it's going to come down to, The
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: defense has got to– if we can keep their offense
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: to 42, and I know this is horrible even saying
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: these numbers, anywhere from 35 to 42, we'll win the ballgame. Okay.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Because that means we have some stops. Yeah. We've got–
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: they've got a great running back. He's averaging over 100
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: yards a game. They've got a great quarterback that's averaging
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: 230 yards a game. Everything leans towards it's going to
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: be a great matchup. Number one defense versus number one offense.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: They've got a great offense. Our defense has struggled, but
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: at times they're making– they're getting off the field. They
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: have to minimize big yards.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Big plays.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: That's it. And what do they do at Muskogee? Was
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: it the first play of the game, Evan?
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: First or second play of the game, they give up
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: a 75, 80-yard run. I think it was 60.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: Just a run.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: And then in the third quarter, we talked about those
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: three scores. They were all big plays. So they've got
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: a minimum. Now, I think 100% the phase that we
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: will win in is going to be special teams. Price
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Lusk has a way of finding that scene.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: And they're going to need him on the defensive side,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: but he's got to have a big night on offense too,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: and I think he will. Because I also know there's
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of rumors out there that OSU is really
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: close to offering him. So that would be huge for Price,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: and I know that he knows he's playing at Stillwater.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you there's going to be OSU football coaches
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: at that game. There's going to be a bunch of
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: scouts at that game. So selfishly, there's a lot of
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: motivation for these potential college players to be playing. And
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: if you think that doesn't matter, I guarantee it matters.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: It does. Because all the years that I coached here
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: at high school, we had a bunch of Division I's
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: come through, college kids come through, They know what coaches
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: are there, and they just play a little bit different.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: So they play a little bit more because they want
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: to continue their playing career for the next four years.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to play Division I. So OSU, I mean,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a bunch of scouts at that game.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a great environment, first district title,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: potential for Bartlesville since the schools combined. What else can
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: you ask for? I know. I mean, what else can
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: you ask for? You got them? I'm taking Bartlesville. Yes.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. We'll get Coach Rebar's pick. Yeah. after his assignment.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, I believe in this team. Yeah, me too.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: The culture of this team is what I played under,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: how I coach under. I just love it. And I
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: think that they're going to– I mean, Michael Kent has
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: got to have a big game, but Price Luss has
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: got to have a big game. And you're seeing other
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: receivers start to be involved. My question is, and I
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: didn't ask, is Sears back?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I don't either.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: We'll find out tonight. You going to ask tonight?
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: I assume I'll find out tonight.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: And not that we would say it on, you know,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: we don't want to obviously talk about it on air. But, yeah, yeah,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: the offensive line. I talked to one of the offensive
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: line parents who was a college football player and also
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: was a varsity coach here in Barsville. And he was
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: a stud, the offensive line coach.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, yeah, for sure.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: If you look at the way that offensive line is playing.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Because they don't have big monsters up there or D1
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: guys that are, you know what I mean? It has
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: been a coaching clinic from that dude.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, their technique is so much better. I mean, they're
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: not small. I mean, you know, now that they're sophomore
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: and juniors, they're not small by any means. And, of course,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: you've got Chambers out on the edge, and we've been
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: healthy across the offensive line. Their technique is really good.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: If you look at their first steps on their zones,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: it's perfect, 45 degrees. On their outside stretches, it's, you know,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: 60 degrees. If you look at their pass protection, I mean,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: they're sitting– I look at the lines playing. The defensive
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: line has gotten a ton better technique-wise. You can see linebacker.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, just all across the board. We're just so
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: much better than we've been in a lot of years.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: And I'm even talking, and McKee's one of my best buddies.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: But to be honest, this is probably technically, from a
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: technique standpoint, one of the best Barzill teams I've seen
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: in 20 years. That's awesome.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Real quick, because we've got to shut it down. Congrats
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: to 6th grade Bruin White. We've been following them all season,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: and they won the championship. Way to go, 6th grade
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Bruin White.
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  Speaker 2: Just district.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet that was awesome. I'll bet it was awesome.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these kids came ready to play.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: But I also bet I know enough about these kids
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: to know that's great, but we got bigger goals, and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: they're ahead of us.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Season's over, so now our season is 3-0. We'll host
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Saturday at 1 o'clock versus Collinsville, which is a good
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: football team, but we're a better football team. I'll tell
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: you what, I'll talk just real quick, you know, We
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: were 8-0 going into Saturday's game, and I did listen
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: to the podcast because you called Jinx a bugaboo, I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: think is what you said. We've played Jinx four times.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: We've beat them every time, but they've all been tight games,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: like two of the games that have come down to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: the wire, last second play. We knew they were going
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: to be ready. These kids, so Hennessy let them in
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: the locker room, used the varsity locker room. That's awesome.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: He came and talked to them pregame.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Also awesome.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, we had some kids. You talk
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: about some juice.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: Bryson Dorsey. I mean, I could name a bunch, but Dorsey,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: once again, had a game on paper, but in the field.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: You know, he takes a kickoff back. First play on offense,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: he gets hit in the backfield. Two guys on him.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: They ran a blitz that we didn't pick up. Spins off,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: goes for 65. That's awesome. Another one he ran 70 yards.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: I think he had like 250 yards rushing with about
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: eight touches. Barrett Atkinson played linebacker and tight end. He,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it was a high school type tackles
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: that we were seeing out there. But the whole team,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I could just name a ton. The offensive
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: line played great. Ronan, Alex Garrish, you know, Cam. I mean,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: we've got a three-headed Darian Manuel, which is Mikey Thompson's nephew.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: But Cam Durant, I mean, we've got kids that are just,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: You talk about buy-in, and then first two nights of
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: practice this week after going 9-0, there's always kind of–
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, we had the switch fields that had lights.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: They just handled it.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, they just come out and handle business. It's
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: just like, okay, you know, we put our scheme in
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: on Monday. We rep it last night. Thursday we'll do
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: the same. And then so Saturday 1 o'clock.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Speaking of getting out to do something, 1 o'clock Saturday
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: is going to be gorgeous. And these kids are fun
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: to watch. And so get out.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: And do it.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: And the community needs to– this is a time of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: year where these kids need more support than ever. And
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: so coming out to watch those games Saturday afternoon should
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: be a blast.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's great is, you know, we talk about high
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: school football, but if you look at the youth program
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: right now, we're at an all-time high on numbers. We've
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: got more wins than we've ever had. We've got teams hosting.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: As well at Barzill High School. So, boy, anytime you
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: can get out there and watch those kids, you know,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: I'd encourage it because that's the future that you'll see
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: on Friday nights.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: That was fun, guys.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Good luck to the teams. This is a great time
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: of year. It should be fun. Go watch your local
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: school play.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: We'll be back for playoffs next week.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: All right.