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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 30 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome to the Bothell Football Coaches Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Rylan Spencer. Along with me, as always, is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Bothell Cougars, Tom Bainter. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: how are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Doing great, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The Coaches Show is brought to you by Passion Tequila
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  Speaker 1: Family Mexican Restaurant. Just a few blocks north of Popkini,
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  Speaker 1: Passion Tequila is open seven days a week. They are
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  Speaker 1: the perfect, and I mean perfect, pre- or post-game spot
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  Speaker 1: for any event at Popkini. Coach, we've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things to talk about. We've got freshman games, JV games.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Glacier Peak, Woodinville. And I will apologize to
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  Speaker 1: the listeners because I sat down and I listened to
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  Speaker 1: last week's podcast and I said to myself, why is
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  Speaker 1: it so short? And then I realized, oh yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't talk about the freshman or JV games. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about those guys right off the bat
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  Speaker 1: here Coach, last week the freshman lost a close one
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  Speaker 1: at home to Lake Stevens, 32-26.
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  Speaker 2: I was not out there.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually sick most of last week, but I
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  Speaker 1: know you're always at those home games here, whether it's freshman, JV.
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  Speaker 2: What can you tell me?
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  Speaker 1: Give me maybe a little game report from last Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the freshman team from that program from
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  Speaker 3: Lake Stevens brought up about 60 to 70 players. They
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  Speaker 3: just seem like... They kept coming off the bus and
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  Speaker 3: our team fought well. We competed well. We got into
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  Speaker 3: a little hole at first and then we come back and.
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  Speaker 2: They'd go up by a score.
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  Speaker 3: We'd match it and then they went up a couple
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  Speaker 3: and then the second half we really turned it on
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  Speaker 3: and made a great game of it. We scored late
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  Speaker 3: to make it a one score game. We kick an
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  Speaker 3: onside and it goes out of bounds but we gave
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  Speaker 3: ourselves a shot there with under a minute to go
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  Speaker 3: to to maybe steal a possession and drive down and
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  Speaker 3: get that winning score. So real proud of the way
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  Speaker 3: our kids are playing. And, you know, they fight hard
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  Speaker 3: and they fought to the end. So that's all you
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  Speaker 3: can ask for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's exactly all you can ask for.
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  Speaker 1: As long as we start, you know, it's like you
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  Speaker 1: want that improvement every single week. But if the effort
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  Speaker 1: is there and, you know, the wins will come. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as long as the effort stays high and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's a ton of confidence in, Coach Legault and
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  Speaker 1: the staff down there. So it's good to see, especially
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  Speaker 1: you said, you know, like 60 kids. It's almost like
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  Speaker 1: a two-bus freshman team. That's a pretty amazing thing they
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  Speaker 1: got going on there. Last night, and I say last
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  Speaker 1: night because we were recording on Tuesday morning, but then
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  Speaker 1: later in the show I'm going to say a reminder
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  Speaker 1: that later tonight, which would be Wednesday, which is funny.
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  Speaker 1: But last night the JV Cougs hit the road 24-20
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  Speaker 1: win over Glacier Peak. Uh, as the coaches down there
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  Speaker 1: would say, it's the JV life coach.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Fun to hear the results there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously we'd practice in here and it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to make it, you know, way, way on away games, but, uh, yeah, we,
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  Speaker 3: we competed well. It was at eight, eight, uh, tie
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  Speaker 3: at half. And, uh, um, I think, uh, Glacier Peak, um,
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  Speaker 3: took the lead. Uh, and you know, we, we battled again. We, we,
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  Speaker 3: we won it in the end. Uh, Uh, we, we,
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  Speaker 3: we made conversions, we performed well. Uh, uh, and I
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen our team play the last two weeks. I
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  Speaker 3: saw us when we were in Hawaii, of course, but, um, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's good. You know, you, you're hoping that, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: your kids compete. That's really what, what everything, I think everything, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we could ask for with kids is just compete,
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  Speaker 3: get out there, you know, love one another and, and
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  Speaker 3: play your tails off and let's see what happens. And
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like, uh, sounds like we did that last night.
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  Speaker 3: So real proud of that. Um, and happy for our
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  Speaker 3: kids and, and, um, you know, all of these wins
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  Speaker 3: are good for the program.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of these things too, that's, it's always
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  Speaker 1: interesting with these sub varsity levels is, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: JV team for the most part throughout the week, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be, you know, using the plays of, of
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  Speaker 1: our opponents. So there's not exactly a ton of time
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  Speaker 1: for them to get a work on our offense and
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  Speaker 1: our defense. I mean, they get some, but not nearly
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  Speaker 1: as much as, as you kind of wish you could
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  Speaker 1: get these guys So to see them make these improvements,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as we go is something that's always huge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we try to carve out some time
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning of practice, the first 15 minutes to
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  Speaker 3: kind of rehash and work on the things that they
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  Speaker 3: need to do. But you're right, you know, everybody has
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  Speaker 3: a role in a football program and, you know, every
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  Speaker 3: varsity player has played that role at some point in
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  Speaker 3: their careers too.
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  Speaker 2: And you just, it's part of the process, right? You're
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  Speaker 2: preparing players.
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  Speaker 3: The varsity, but yet you get to play a game
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  Speaker 3: as well. And, and that, uh, there's a fine line between,
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  Speaker 3: you know, how much do you work on our own
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  Speaker 3: stuff versus scout, but, uh, the individual and the group
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  Speaker 3: periods are where, where development is made and then they
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  Speaker 3: get to see it, uh, come to fruition or not
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  Speaker 3: on a, on a game night.
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  Speaker 2: So again, uh, you're right. Fun, fun JV life.
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  Speaker 1: Again, the JV Cougs 24 20 win over Glacier Peak. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the varsity game coach and, um, You know, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I had to watch it online, but I was watching
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. Thank you to STSPN for their broadcast. It
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  Speaker 1: was phenomenal. So much fun being able to watch, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just really any high school game. I mean, on Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: I watched Puyallup and Lake Stevens on the same network, and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that was just a tremendous football game. But
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  Speaker 1: 35-21 win over Glacier Peak on Thursday night at Popkini.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we like to run the ball, and we do
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good job of doing that, 241 yards this week.
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  Speaker 1: What really impresses me when I look at the numbers
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  Speaker 1: especially is it was a little more balanced than maybe
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  Speaker 1: we're used to here at Bothell, at least in the
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  Speaker 1: last couple years, is 241 on the ground, but then
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  Speaker 1: another 155 through the air, and this is, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say a shock or a surprise
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  Speaker 1: or what, but I almost did not expect to see
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  Speaker 1: those numbers at the end of the day when the
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  Speaker 1: game was over.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the goal is to, to mix it up.
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  Speaker 3: The goal is to, you know, not quite be 50, 50,
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  Speaker 3: but close, you know, you, you do want to control
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  Speaker 3: the ball on the ground, but you'd also want to
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  Speaker 3: keep people out of the box and be able to
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  Speaker 3: throw it. And, and our passing game is developing and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it, uh, well, you know, we didn't see
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  Speaker 3: it much against Lake Stevens. Their, their, their rush was dominant. We,
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  Speaker 3: we had very little time to get the ball off. And, um,
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  Speaker 3: And so we ran plays that wouldn't cause too much
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  Speaker 3: damage or that we could try to move the ball
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  Speaker 3: down the field and control the clock. The fact of
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  Speaker 3: the matter is we have good receivers and a good
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  Speaker 3: quarterback and our pass pro will continue to get better
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  Speaker 3: and the running backs blocked particularly well in the pass
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  Speaker 3: game last week, which was an improvement and something that
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  Speaker 3: we needed to get done. So We want to be well-balanced.
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  Speaker 3: We want to give everybody a chance to touch the ball.
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  Speaker 3: We want to be well-rounded. At the end of the day, though,
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  Speaker 3: the goal is to move the ball down the field
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  Speaker 3: and get in the end zone and score more points
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  Speaker 3: than your opponent. We'll continue to find ways that best
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  Speaker 3: fit our players and our personnel. That'll be the goal,
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  Speaker 3: to keep working on improving in those areas.
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  Speaker 1: As I go through some of the numbers, too, I
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  Speaker 1: see you know, there was, uh, let's see, four different
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  Speaker 1: guys with, with a reception, um, Kyson Warnock, Carlin Gawkner,
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  Speaker 1: both six catches. Uh, Griffin Taylor had a long one
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  Speaker 1: of 41 yards. Uh, one of the things coach and, and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were doing this on Monday as we
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  Speaker 1: were watching film and, you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say we make fun of the guys, but everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Gets a good laugh.
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  Speaker 1: The excitement that the team was playing with on Thursday night, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Hackenmiller intercepts a pass and, and, and returns it
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  Speaker 1: for six. And, uh, One of the things you end
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  Speaker 1: up showcasing is Britton Hubbard just going nuts on the
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  Speaker 1: field and having a good time. And you always kind
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  Speaker 1: of wonder how the team is going to respond after
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  Speaker 1: a tough loss. They come out and it was almost
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  Speaker 1: like didn't know that they'd even played a game of
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  Speaker 1: the week before. It was really cool to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the things that I enjoy because it
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  Speaker 3: shows when you start celebrating somebody else's success, we're moving
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  Speaker 3: towards the goal, which is put the we in front
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  Speaker 3: of the me. And it's just a difficult thing to
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  Speaker 3: do for kids.
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  Speaker 2: These days, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we live in a world where it's all
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  Speaker 3: about them. And when we were, you know, their age too,
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  Speaker 3: we wanted the things that, you know, were about us
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  Speaker 3: as well. And so we're gaining independence, yet we're playing
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  Speaker 3: a sport that really, you know, one person doesn't play
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  Speaker 3: a big role in. It's the wholeness of the team.
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  Speaker 3: And to get everybody to buy in is a difficult thing.
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  Speaker 3: But as the season moves along and you start to
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  Speaker 3: see Our kids celebrating one another. You know you're in
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  Speaker 3: the right, you're moving in the right direction. And that is,
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  Speaker 3: that's some of the most enjoyable things to watch on
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  Speaker 3: film is kids getting excited for each other.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I want to talk about here is Colin
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  Speaker 1: Dunn kind of finally back to full health or at
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  Speaker 1: least getting really close to full health. He really got
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  Speaker 1: in though and he hit a punt that ended up
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  Speaker 1: being 43 yards. And I want to say it was
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  Speaker 1: Trey Rocky who ended up downing it. It was a
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  Speaker 1: 43-yard punt that ends at about the two-yard line. That
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  Speaker 1: is a weapon that you have there, Coach.
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  Speaker 2: There's very few high school.
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  Speaker 1: Teams in the state that can say they have a kicker,
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  Speaker 1: a punter, with the abilities that Colin Dunn has.
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  Speaker 2: Um and he's just a junior.
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  Speaker 3: Well you know kickers are are a big weapon you
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  Speaker 3: know not just for points uh but but field position
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  Speaker 3: you know how many times we kick the ball into
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  Speaker 3: the end zone and they start on the 20 when
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  Speaker 3: you look at the statistical chances of a team scoring
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  Speaker 3: having to go 80 yards uh versus maybe maybe 60
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  Speaker 3: yards or or 55 even a huge difference um So
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  Speaker 3: we constantly were putting them back in, you know, their
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  Speaker 3: end of the field having to go a long way.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a tremendous, you know, punter. He's a tremendous kicker.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great kid. You know, he had a weird injury,
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  Speaker 3: we'll call it, if you will, at the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: the season. He's overcome that. And each week he's, or
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  Speaker 3: each day he's getting better and better. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the kid's got a funny smile that, you know, is
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  Speaker 3: contagious and, It's fun to have around, and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's an important piece to our success for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it for last week, Coach.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on and talk about the week coming up,
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  Speaker 1: which is an away game at Popkini, which, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you start looking at the schedule and stuff, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to be able to travel to Popkini for
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  Speaker 1: a game. You know, when you start looking at your
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  Speaker 1: schedule and you see an away game being– you know,
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  Speaker 1: at your own home stadium. That is a really nice thing. All-time,
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  Speaker 1: Bothell leads Woodinville 25-19 in the series. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that really stands out is the overall points for
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  Speaker 1: and points against, 884 to 810. So even though it's a,
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  Speaker 1: you know, six-game difference, the points for and the points
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  Speaker 1: against are right next to each other. And it's one
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  Speaker 1: of these things, Coach, you know, you and Coach Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: go way back to when he was in high school
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  Speaker 1: at Englemore High School. You were on the coaching staff.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne was a tremendous player. You know, arguably one of
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  Speaker 1: the two or three best players, maybe even the best
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  Speaker 1: player that you guys had on that team that I
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  Speaker 1: believe went to the King Bowl, correct? Against Tom Water.
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  Speaker 1: I remember leaving that game crying because King Co.
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  Speaker 2: Had lost.
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  Speaker 1: I was so devastated. I believe I was like 10
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  Speaker 1: years old. So give me a little credit here, would you? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: my dad made it up to me though. He took
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  Speaker 1: me to Jack in the box, got me a double
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  Speaker 1: cheeseburger and we were good to go. Uh, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's, there's no secrets, you know, you've played them. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I believe the number we came up with was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: 24 times. Uh, this is Wayne's 23rd season, I believe. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's the one playoff game, which still to
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  Speaker 1: this day is, is the best atmosphere I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: at a high school football game was unbelievable. But, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's gotta be fun to compete against somebody
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  Speaker 1: that you know so well. And, um he's the defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator you're the offensive coordinator it's uh you know there's
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  Speaker 1: so much familiar familiar I'm not even trying to say
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  Speaker 1: it again but uh just the rivalry and the respect
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  Speaker 1: and everything that goes on when you get to play
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  Speaker 1: against Woodinville.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah don't forget there was another athlete that was pretty
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  Speaker 3: good on that football team Corey Smith who's also one
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  Speaker 3: of their coaches and you know um I was a
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  Speaker 3: younger coach back then learning a lot from Frank Nash
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  Speaker 3: and I mean, we had a great football team, and
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  Speaker 3: those two were certainly, you know, big key parts of it. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is a fun challenge, you know. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: tease a little bit and say that, you know, Wayne
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  Speaker 3: probably knows my offense better than anybody but me, and
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  Speaker 3: I might know his defense better than anybody but him.
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  Speaker 3: And those are, you know, false statements. They have a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful staff. You know, you look at their team, and
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  Speaker 3: they're young. They're young and young. But they got the
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  Speaker 3: right people around them to make sure that they progress.
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  Speaker 3: And when you watch their film from week one to
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  Speaker 3: two to three, they do that. And that's what Woodinville does.
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  Speaker 3: They're well coached. The kids have a burning desire to
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  Speaker 3: play Bothell. And you get their best every week. And
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  Speaker 3: so that's what's fun about coaching. There'll be a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people at the game. We both want to win greatly.
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  Speaker 3: But you know... We respect the heck out of their
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  Speaker 3: program and their coaches and the things they do and
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  Speaker 3: have done for decades. And so fun challenge for us,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we'll just try to work on what
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  Speaker 3: they're going to work on, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is getting better day by day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, again, it's their home game. So it's
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  Speaker 1: their crowd noise. It's their band. It's, you know, their
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  Speaker 1: student section. And the beauty of it is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: here at Bothell, we have an opportunity to match it
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  Speaker 1: in everything but the band. I mean, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: fans can come out and make more noise than them.
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  Speaker 1: Our cheerleaders are going to be out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how many, 35 strong probably, you know, back,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're, what, they got to be behind the
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  Speaker 1: fence this week instead of in front of the fence.
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  Speaker 1: But the student section, we've got an opportunity to come
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  Speaker 1: down and why not fill up two sections?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you might as well do it.
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  Speaker 1: So, and I got confidence in our students, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, our students don't, you know, they don't mess around,
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  Speaker 1: they come to play. So, excited to see everything that
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  Speaker 1: could go on this weekend, Coach. This is also the
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  Speaker 1: first step to the playoffs. This is the first King
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  Speaker 1: Code game, so a little bit of something to play
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  Speaker 1: for this week that maybe we haven't had yet so
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  Speaker 1: far this season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that anybody's going to be thinking about
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  Speaker 3: that once the kickoff goes. It's just going to be
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  Speaker 3: a backyard brawl, and it's going to be a fun night,
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  Speaker 3: and If you're a fan of just competition and teams
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  Speaker 3: that are going to play hard against each other, it
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  Speaker 3: seems like it always comes down to the end. It'll
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  Speaker 3: be a great place to be Friday night at Popkini
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  Speaker 3: watching the green guys and the blue guys go after
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  Speaker 3: each other.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Coach, that's all I got. Thanks for your time,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you again next week. Thank you, Rylan.
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  Speaker 1: A reminder, the freshmen are home later tonight for a
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  Speaker 1: 7 p.m. kickoff against Glacier Peak. Admission is free, and
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  Speaker 1: the concession stand will be open. Come on out and
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  Speaker 1: support the future Cougs here. I guess the current Cougs,
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  Speaker 1: but the future varsity guys. I'm Rylan Spencer. He's Tom Bainter.
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  Speaker 1: You've been listening to episode 30 of the Bothell Football
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. We'll talk to you next week, and as always,
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  Speaker 1: go Cougs!