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Summer Report: Franklin Football with Head Coach Mike Leonard (Podcast 343.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the central Indian sports report podcast number three hundred and forty three point one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Our latest in the series of summer reports.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Reporting on teams in their off seasons today with Franklin football head coach Michael Leonard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A championship coach, a Hall of Famer who is back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach the Grizzlies once again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here he is, the tell us why and a lot more.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Franklin Grizzly fans first time I've said that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I am here with Head Coach Mike Leonard and Coach, where you been?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could answer that in a bunch of different ways, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just got back from a five day guitar camp down in Nashville, Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did not get noticed by anybody down there, so I'm back to be a football coach as opposed to country music star or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was a great experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Made a lot of great people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Learned a little bit about guitar, but it was more about meeting some new friends.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So golf guitar and coaching football.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the Central Indian Sports Report Coach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My father speaks so highly of you, of course, he is a Franklin alum, very connected to the football program, of course, absolutely adored coach fought.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And speaks very highly of you, which let me tell you, he speaks highly of a lot of people, but he doesn't speak highly of football coaches that often because he is a very critical of football coaches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if he likes you, that means you're good at your job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: well he played for one of the best in coach red fought who was the head coach here at Franklin from nineteen fifty seven to nineteen eighty eight so your father dr. Tom uh... mingel was part of that deal it was it's a pleasure to get to know your father he's a great man is such a great guy
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I love that he's now feels very connected to the program, especially now that you're back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I asked where have you been?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, you were the Franklin coach for twelve years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, it twelve, including five more, seventeen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, seventeen years total.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was away for five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why you asked me where have I been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, I just got hired in mid December of this past year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's been a pleasure to reconnect with many of the alums like your father who really care about this program in this school, this institution, because they had great experiences here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't move as a family when I resigned from coaching here at the end of the twenty nineteen season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I've been around real close actually to campus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I did some various other things that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're kind of bucket list things that that I can say that I've now done, but when the job opening happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of my friends said, hey, I'm going to throw your name in the hat and I hadn't really thought about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: until then, and I'm like, wow, yeah, I think I can still do this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I consider myself thirty six years old, but I'm dyslexic age wise, but I still get some time to do this and I love it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you think when you when you resigned your position five years ago that it was retirement from coaching football?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this was not part of my plan to come back and coach tackle football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Within the five years that I was away, I got asked to coach unified flag football at Franklin High School.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a blast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did that for two years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was kind of my football fix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got asked to
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[SPEAKER_01]: be the streaming announcer for the high school games here at Franklin High School.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And did that for at least one season, if not two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I helped run some youth league games being an administrator at those local youth league games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did some things within football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I also taught beginners how to play guitar and I also with a friend of mine we ran a non-profit to help boys without a father figure in their life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So those were the things that kept me active.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like the word retired.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just seems like you're sitting on a couch and watching TV or going for easy strolls.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I keep busy and I love that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this new job I've got this coaching Franklin College football is definitely going to keep me busy and I love it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I bet what's the what's a bit like since mid December for you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, hit the ground running with learning the staff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't have to let any staff members go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I liked them all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I knew that they would be good for what I wanted to do as the head coach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was getting to know the staff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was getting recruiting cranked up and bringing prospects to campus with their families all the way from, you know, first in January all the way through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's a bit of a late start.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now it is a late start when you're the head coach because nowadays that the recruiting cycle gets ramped up a lot faster than it did in my early days as a coach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, that's been a little bit of an adjustment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I love doing it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love helping, you know, seventeen, eighteen year olds and their parents figure some things out how this can really be a benefit to their journey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, by coming to a college like Franklin playing football, learning some valuable lessons, meeting some great friends.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that will really springboard their future.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I love sharing with anybody that comes here knowing that we'll probably only get about a third of them to actually attend the college, maybe even a fourth of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we meet a lot of people in the recruiting process.
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[SPEAKER_03]: you enjoy recruiting?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't, this should not be your profession.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely love it because I've been in their shoes as seventeen year olds, you know, trying to figure out what's the next chapter of life and I just love the level as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, this level is awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean division three, NCAA division three means we have no athletic scholarships.
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[SPEAKER_01]: all of these young men are coming here because they love playing the game, not because they're getting, you know, NIL money or contracts, you know, for a hundred thousand dollars to play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is, this is truly a educational experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just part of the educational process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I think anybody that plays athletics, whether it's junior high high school, college,
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's lessons that you can learn through these activities that you can't learn in a classroom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we preach this and it's true as I talk to business leaders that they love hiring college athletes because the college athlete has been through the discipline.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They understand what it takes to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They understand how to be a rolled teammate where you have a role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You may not be the star, but you've got, you've got your role and you have to own that role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I think people are looking for in as they hire professionals nowadays.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You were here, seventeen years, and took the program.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it was new heights, because Coach Fatt obviously set the standard originally, but to very high heights, as you might say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it has unfortunately gone a different direction the last few years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coming in and starting fresh, what should Franklin fans expect this coming season?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want anybody that comes and watches our games to enjoy the experience of the game day atmosphere that we have here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as they watch the competition on the field, they're going to see the Grizzlies play with great spirit, great sportsmanship, great fight, and play the game that I believe it, the way it was meant to be played.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tough game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tough game for tough people from snap to whistle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But how you treat people after the play is over, whether it's the opponent, whether it's the officials, whether it's your teammates.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want that guy or that gal that comes to the game and doesn't even know anybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want them to come away inspired by something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They see a great play being made and they see guys high five without being derogatory toward the opponent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, watch TV and that's the way, unfortunately, that you see a lot of bad along with some good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think people do what people see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kids do what kids see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just want to be a good role model.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want our players to be good role models for any youngsters that are watching us play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That is a fantastic aspiration.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But the question I'm asking you is, when are the Franklin Grizzlies going to be a double-digit win team again?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's something that I cannot control right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I can only control.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, you feel like you can do that again or you wouldn't be back here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is the goal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the innocent climb.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of fun taking over a program that we're not terrible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were so close to winning a lot of games last year, but lost a lot in the fourth quarter with some bad ball bounces or whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can control what we can control.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can control who are opponents are and they're from good opponents on in our schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I love this, like I was talking about the slow innocent climb where, you know, it's building the mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people call it culture, whatever you want to call it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's, I'm the head coach, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, my role is to coach the head, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and the heart coach the head and the heart together I'll let the straight coach take care of the you know the muscles and all that stuff in the offensive coordinator take care of the plays on offense defensive coordinator special teams coordinator everybody has their role with your charge up I'm the head coach I'm a charge of the head and the mindset and so that's the fun that I enjoy and when you get that going great and the heart going great and the one one heartbeat going great as a team
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the wins will come.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the recruiting starts to happen better because people see that and it's like, man, Franklin's got it going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go check them out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And from a facility standpoint, what we have is nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is what we have fantastic great no okay there's many other programs that have facilities that would blow ours away but what I always like to share with with guys that I have learned in my life having been back to
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, twenty-fifth year and forty-year high school classroom unions is that you know what you don't talk about when you go back to your high school or at home coming in college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what you don't talk about with your buddies?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't we have a great locker room?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't our weight room beautiful?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, didn't we have great uniforms?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You talk about, even over that time we did this together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And remember that time that we had a blast after the game or remember that play you made, those are the kind of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all relationship and people things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Last Franklin Grizzlies related question before we get into some background of yours.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some questions I have about your background.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you look for in a recruit when you are recruiting?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As simple as the letters ABC, if you were the high school coach and we're stopping in the school, say coach, nice job this season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, I'm here to talk to any of your seniors that are interested in going on to play college football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're looking for three things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: ABC, ability we want your
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[SPEAKER_01]: And your best players, if you will, B is the books.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've had to done well with their GPA in high school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want guys that are truly interested in getting a college degree because it's not going to be easy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then C, most importantly, is character.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want good guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, they're not perfect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they've probably made some a mistake or two in their high school career doing something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they're good people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, those three things, Craig.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How hard was it to become a Grizzly?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, every day is a great day to be a Franklin Grizzly, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Difficult was it to become the head coach after playing a handover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't even look at the colors a little and go, oh, you know, Franklin had always, I visited Franklin when I was in high school and I was a quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Franklin at the time had some phenomenal quarterbacks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Steve Ray went on to have some NFL playing time, Pat Brennan as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And those were guys from the late seventies early eighties that were here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So a long story short, Franklin is a place that I've always admired.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Hanover is a place that I ended up going to school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and also coaching their twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yes, their natural rivals because the schools are so similar, but to become a head coach, those jobs just don't come along very often.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't really go searching this job.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was justing a bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you were.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't really search this job out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was very happy being an offensive coordinator thinking that was going to be the rest of my life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I got the call from Coach Prayther, who's now president, Prayther at the time, to come up here and interview for the job, I thought, yeah, I'll do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, it's been great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Both great institutions, educational institutions, Franklin and Hanover.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you buy any chance to know what he handles?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Woody was a year ahead of me in school down there in the eighties.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, not great friends, but in the same dorm.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's one of my favorites.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just absolutely think he's the best.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great career and individual mindset, you know, that he has.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How shocking was it to see him show up on two years old?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was a prideful thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I know that guy when you see him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I bet he on TV.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Also in your background, you grew up in Speedway.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You must be an Indie car fan though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, sitting the fourth turn Northwest Vista, one of the greatest seats.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, it's in my it's in people's DNA that grew up in that town.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm from L Wood, and it's an idea, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't imagine what it's like in school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're a loser.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It should be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it was great in grade school back in the late sixties, early seventies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No air conditioning in the school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So those windows are open and every day in May, that's all you heard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a class reunion every year when you go back a couple nights before the race.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hang out on Main Street and Speedway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a on car.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Never thought of it like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be a really cool connection.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: spark plugs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speedway spark plugs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think all the only one in the world, maybe, you know, and such a great name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe no one else isn't used it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is that, a literation?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that what that's called?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is called a spark plug.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speedway spark plug.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That out of my English teacher from nineteen seventy eight.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Speedway high school education.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me about your family life and
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[SPEAKER_01]: wife, children, sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So speaking of Speedway High School, I met a gal who sat right in the front of me in US history class junior year and then we started dating the summer before our senior year and yeah Susan and I got married and
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great wife in that long story short, one of the things why she's a great wife is that I got offered a job on an elevator in Atlanta, Georgia to coach football in Tokyo, Japan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I called her up and told her about this and she said, Mike, when I promised to marry you what would have been six years prior, she said, I promised you that I would follow you anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You wanted to coach football, but then she follows it up with, I meant the continuity of the United States.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You bet never seemed like an option.
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[SPEAKER_01]: but actually we moved to Japan twice she moved basically the family twice we also have two children son Bart and daughter Emily Emily was actually born in Tokyo in the mid nineties so
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really proud of our family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got some additions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a daughter-in-law now to our son, Kayla, and then our daughter Emily, married one of the Franklin College football players that I coached here, and I now have a son.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we had a awkward with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not awkward at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was awkward.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was probably awkward for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm mad at you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm asking out the head coach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anybody else?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we have a grandson who was born during the national anthem of the Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's kind of a claim to be a football guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, okay, which Super Bowl was it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the Super Bowl where the Bengals lost to the Rams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I should say the Rams beat the Bengals, is how I should say it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's three so he's three and a half years old so whatever you're that was twenty twenty two February or twenty two never forget that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you have a University of Alabama connection any chance the Bart is a name for Bart star.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't so much Alabama as the Green Bay Packers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, mid sixties, late sixties, when, when I first found out about football, the Packers were rolling in Super Bowl one and two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's, that's my first memories of football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just love Bart Star.
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[SPEAKER_01]: wrote him that letter like most kids did back in the day, hey, you're my favorite player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you please send me an autograph picture?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure enough, boom, two weeks later there's the autograph picture.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then sadly I wrote a bunch of other of those letters, hey, you're my favorite player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have probably twenty of those things, you know, from football, the basketball, the baseball, but Bart was the first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And just to have a first-born being a son, I was able to talk my wife into calling him Bart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not a football guy, my son is not, but he loves football, but he was not, you know, an athlete per se, but he's a great artist, fantastic artist.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're kind of artists.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he took to the tattoo world and he owns a couple tattoo shops.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And another prideful thing, he named it great day tattoo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I always come in as he's getting ready to wake up, go to school, I'm like, hey, come on, wake up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great day to be alive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he kind of took that great day mantra and made it his part of his own.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every day is a great day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: To be alive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's the mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I've got a brother-in-law in just got out of intensive care and he'll be in a bad way for the, you know, probably the rest of his life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think about it every morning as I get up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to complain about a little ache.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've got my shoulder what not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can do whatever I want, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So everything is mindset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is attitude.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I try to
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[SPEAKER_01]: try to convey to the team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, thank you so much for your time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope we can do it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely Greg's been my pleasure to do this interview and to finally meet you after hearing about you for so long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tell your father I said hello.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll do, of course.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey dad, Coach Leonard says hello.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The coach Leonard for joining the Central Indiana Sports Report seriously quite an honor to be able to spend some time with him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not only a great football coach, but from every account, a great guy and certainly enjoyed getting to know him a little bit.
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