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Hour 2 · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: On your radio.
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  Speaker 2: One oh five point nine The Zone. H m hm
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  Speaker 3: All right, and so this team's gonna be built on
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna kick you in the teeth, all right, and
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  Speaker 3: when you punch us back, we're gonna smile at you.
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  Speaker 3: And when you knock us down, we're gonna get up.
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  Speaker 3: And on the way up, we're gonna buy a kneecap off,
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  Speaker 3: all right, and we're gonna stand up, and then it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna take two more shots to knock us down, all right.
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  Speaker 3: And on the way up, we're gonna take your other
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  Speaker 3: kneecap and we're gonna get up, and then it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: take three shots to get us down. And when we do,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna take another hunk out of you. Before before long,
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  Speaker 3: where there gonna be the last one standing.
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  Speaker 4: You're damn right we are. We are the Out of
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  Speaker 5: reservation bow Bound, Straight Funk with you as we march
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  Speaker 5: into the twenty twenty six football season. And it just
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  Speaker 5: depends on where your focus is high school, college, NFL
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  Speaker 5: or for some of you, you love it all, which
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  Speaker 5: is great. I can't wait for Friday Night lights, I
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  Speaker 5: can't wait for Saturday, and I can't wait for the
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  Speaker 5: red Zone on Sunday? Is there anything better than background
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  Speaker 5: music on a Sunday after you've watched college football all
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  Speaker 5: day on Saturday? Than having the red Zone on and
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  Speaker 5: you get see Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert and Dak
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  Speaker 5: and Josh Allen and Mahomes and Dart and Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 5: It's just it's awesome. Who knew that we would have
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  Speaker 5: that years ago? In nineteen eighty five. That would have
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  Speaker 5: made our brain explode if someone would have said, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna have the red zone. You're gonna get to
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  Speaker 5: watch all these games when teams cross the fifty, but
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  Speaker 5: definitely when they're inside the thirty and the twenty yard line.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm in.
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  Speaker 5: I'm down with that and your picture and your TV
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  Speaker 5: and your broadcast is going to look amazing. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: y'all remember watching the Saints games in nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 5: Not only was the team garbage, but it looked terrible.
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  Speaker 5: What was going on? I mean, it didn't even look
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  Speaker 5: good in two thousand and one. And then all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden things started to happen. Right, technology TVs go
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  Speaker 5: down and we get more access to games, and then
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  Speaker 5: eventually we get the red zone. It's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 5: And of course you get your Mississippi State. I mean
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  Speaker 5: that's good and bad for MSU, but you get yours.
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  Speaker 5: You get all your MSU and Ole Miss football games
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  Speaker 5: on TV. You guys, just five minutes ago, we didn't
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  Speaker 5: have that. I mean, just five minutes ago you had
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  Speaker 5: your team was on like three or four times a year.
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  Speaker 5: Now every single baseball game is on. Like when you
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  Speaker 5: play Roast Beef Tech in Texas in early March and
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  Speaker 5: Ole Miss or Mississippi State are playing them, you get
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  Speaker 5: to watch.
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  Speaker 4: It is that wild? I know this, it's good for
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  Speaker 4: this show.
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  Speaker 5: Every single SEC basketball game is on, every single one.
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  Speaker 4: You get it. Just a minute. When Rick Stansbury was winning,
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  Speaker 4: you had to be there, and that wasn't that long ago.
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  Speaker 4: And all Rick did was win, and he won with
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  Speaker 4: no money.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we talked about Ole Miss and Mississippi state
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  Speaker 5: coaches who won with no money. You know, Ron Polk
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  Speaker 5: won with no money, and and Brewer was able to
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  Speaker 5: get the fire going to a pretty good level with
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  Speaker 5: no money. Share all one with no money. Tuberville won
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  Speaker 5: with no money. Richard Williams won with no money. Stansbury
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  Speaker 5: no money. It's pretty pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Pete Golding and Jeff Levy walk in this morning. They
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  Speaker 5: got everything they need. It is the taj Mahal, Ritz
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  Speaker 5: Carlton everything you need. I mean, I was in there
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  Speaker 5: last year, and I mean the food bars and everything
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  Speaker 5: in the facility. What I mean they were having steak
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  Speaker 5: and lobster. Asked John Bond what he had? A cold
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  Speaker 5: turkey sandwich craft cheese.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Bond's like, well.
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  Speaker 5: We stacked, right, We stacked fourteen pieces of white bread
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  Speaker 5: with some blowney salami and turkey and cheese, and we
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  Speaker 5: ate until you know, Kenthle and tyrone keys and I
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  Speaker 5: ate until we were full. Asked Reggie Collier what they
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  Speaker 5: had to eat at Southern Miss in nineteen eighty one.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't have any money. State didn't have any money.
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  Speaker 5: Ole miss didn't have any money today, Golding and Levy
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  Speaker 5: walk in. I mean, there's actually millions of millions and
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  Speaker 5: millions of dollars invested around them. All the furniture's nice,
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  Speaker 5: the fixtures are nice, the food bars are nice, the
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  Speaker 5: weights are brand new. Everybody's got thirty five different shirts,
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  Speaker 5: thirty five different pairs of shoes, isn't it. It's absolutely
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  Speaker 5: remarkable that our two athletic departments combined are four hundred
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  Speaker 5: million dollars in revenue. That doesn't count all the money
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  Speaker 5: that's going to get spent in Oxford and start Bull
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  Speaker 5: from September one to Thanksgiving, which will be a couple
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  Speaker 5: hundred million dollars a pot. Ole miss will have more
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  Speaker 5: because they've been winning. But there's still going to be
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  Speaker 5: a ton of people and money in Startboro, Mississippi rolling
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  Speaker 5: through throughout the year. Because even when you're in Missippi,
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  Speaker 5: State may be good. I mean, there's no reason why
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  Speaker 5: they can't win six or that. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 5: a herculean task at all, winning six or seven games
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  Speaker 5: this year, considering this is the most watered down the
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  Speaker 5: league has been in forever, and ever and ever and
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  Speaker 5: your Vanderbilt Commodore's the worst recruiter in the Southeastern Conference,
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  Speaker 5: went ten and two last year and could have gone
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  Speaker 5: eleven in one.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all remember that game.
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  Speaker 5: All right, bo bound straight funks, straight funks. Tea's in
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  Speaker 5: the week is going to be brought to you by
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  Speaker 5: the Rogue Men's store. So Luke and the Rogue have
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  Speaker 5: all the old miss and Mississippi State Peter Malar gear
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  Speaker 5: right now. And he did several different logos and several
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  Speaker 5: different colors of golf shirts and Peter Malar thin pullovers
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  Speaker 5: and hoodies.
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  Speaker 4: And they look great, okay.
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  Speaker 5: I mean from powder blue to maroon, to red to
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  Speaker 5: white to this to blue.
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  Speaker 4: Da da Da da da.
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  Speaker 5: And he's got the walking bully, you know, the old
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  Speaker 5: miss script, the State script, the sip. He's got the interlocking,
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  Speaker 5: which a lot of you have like really loved from
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  Speaker 5: the I go back to the Jackie Cheryl days.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, But.
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  Speaker 5: I will say in nineteen eighty six when Don Smith
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  Speaker 5: went to Knoxville, Tennessee, I was there with my good
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  Speaker 5: friend Stephen Clay. This was very rare with any team
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  Speaker 5: but Mississippi State old. I don't know what happened that
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  Speaker 5: year for that day, but those uniforms were electric. But anyway,
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  Speaker 5: Luke has the interlocking m SU at the Rogueman's store
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  Speaker 5: right now Mississippi State, Old miss and it's Peter Millar.
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  Speaker 5: It's great looking and it's gonna last. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm wearing a Peter Malar pullover from the Rogue.
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  Speaker 5: I just thought about that. We've got our out of
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  Speaker 5: Bounds Mike logo, which I think is electric, and the
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  Speaker 5: Whiskey sixty one logo. You can find the out of
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  Speaker 5: Bounds hats and Whiskey sixty one hats on Whiskey sixty
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  Speaker 5: one dot com. I really like our Patriot line that
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  Speaker 5: we did, and that lady was super talented. But the
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  Speaker 5: Patriot line that was created, it's red, white and blue theme,
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  Speaker 5: is really good looking. You can find out of Bounds
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  Speaker 5: and Whiskey sixty one hats on Whiskey sixty one dot com.
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  Speaker 5: of game Day, we talked about how Luke has your
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  Speaker 4: We'll be back in just a second. Who do we
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  Speaker 4: have next?
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  Speaker 5: Scott gral the dean of the College of Business on
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  Speaker 5: the campus of Mississippi State University. He's taken his power
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  Speaker 5: for competitive temperament where he paid played at Iowa State,
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  Speaker 5: and he has injected that into the College of Business
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  Speaker 5: at Mississippi State University Business dot m S State dot edu.
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  Speaker 5: Times All right, good morning, Welcome into the Out of
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  Speaker 5: Bounds Show ESPN one oh five nine. The Zone Show
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  Speaker 5: is brought to you the Mississippi State University College of Business.
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  Speaker 5: Visit the site today, Business dot MS State dot edu.
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  Speaker 5: The online NBA program last year, or maybe it was
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  Speaker 5: the year before, number one in the country best value
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  Speaker 5: NBA program name. I mean, that's a hell of an award.
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  Speaker 5: Business dot MS State dot edu. We've got Dean Scott Graw,
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  Speaker 5: who's dean of the College of Business on the campus
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  Speaker 5: of Mississippi State University, joining us on ESPN one oh
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  Speaker 5: five nine to the zone. And uh, usually Scott is
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  Speaker 5: the star of the show when he's on, But now
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  Speaker 5: his nephew has decided to kind of throw a trump
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  Speaker 5: card out an ace here because Nolan Gral has signed
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  Speaker 5: with Brian O'Connor to play baseball. And Scott Gral, who
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  Speaker 5: is sitting next to me in the studio, played baseball
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  Speaker 5: at Iowa State and now his nephew will play baseball
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  Speaker 5: at Mississippi State. How cool is that? First of all,
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  Speaker 5: good morning, good morning, thanks for having me. Happy uh,
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  Speaker 5: happy summer to you and your crew. What like, walk
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  Speaker 5: me through this. Your your nephew is is now on
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  Speaker 5: the Mississippi State baseball team. You were recruited by Ron Polk.
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  Speaker 5: You wanted to stay close to home, which makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: You played at Iowa State, which is cool. You've you've
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  Speaker 5: taken that competitive drive and temperament to the College of
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  Speaker 5: Business in a good way.
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  Speaker 4: What did it? What did it mean to you? And
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  Speaker 4: and walked me through who Nolan Gral is?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: So, Nolan is my nephew.
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  Speaker 6: So he is my brother's son and it's my brother
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  Speaker 6: played played baseball Wartburg College. We're a baseball family. We
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  Speaker 6: all love and almost live and breathe baseball a lot.
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  Speaker 6: But Nolan had a fantastic high school career, has been
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  Speaker 6: playing at South Dakota State for the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 6: and honestly, this has been a whirlwind because we had
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  Speaker 6: a great season.
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  Speaker 4: And again, who knows.
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  Speaker 6: What's going through his head, But I have got no
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  Speaker 6: clue that he's planning to enter the transfer portal or
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  Speaker 6: anything else like that. He's just loving playing ball and
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  Speaker 6: having a successful season in South Dakota State. And then
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  Speaker 6: I get a text from my brother, Hey, we're coming
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  Speaker 6: down to check things out, and and it was and
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  Speaker 6: he was in and out in you know, a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 6: And I get a text before they leave town. Nolan's
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  Speaker 6: a bulldog, and we're we're over the moon, We're excited.
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  Speaker 6: So it's I'm still trying to process the whole thing.
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  Speaker 6: So it happened fast, very fast, very fast.
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  Speaker 5: And like you didn't know for weeks, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: this wasn't something where you knew for weeks this could happen.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, he he finished. So South Daosta State, they
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  Speaker 6: had a they had a great run. At the end
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  Speaker 6: of the season, they went to the regionals. They were
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  Speaker 6: in that regional with Nebraska, Arizona State, and Old Miss Right,
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  Speaker 6: so they had a gauntlet to get through. Obviously he
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  Speaker 6: didn't get through it, but I just knew that they
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  Speaker 6: were finishing up the regionals.
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  Speaker 4: He was he was heading up to Alaska to play
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  Speaker 4: summer ball.
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  Speaker 6: And next thing I know, he's he's on a plane
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  Speaker 6: from Alaska to Starkville, Mississippi, and meeting with the coaching
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  Speaker 6: staff and everything else. And even while they were here,
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  Speaker 6: you know, anytime families in town, you're gonna get together,
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna hang out.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, they were, I mean jam packed.
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  Speaker 6: So get I get a text for my brother about
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  Speaker 6: quarter to ten at night, Hey, you're still up. You
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  Speaker 6: want to get together and kind of debrief the day,
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  Speaker 6: And of course I jumped at that. Sure, yeah, we're excited.
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  Speaker 5: So where where do they live? They live in Iowa,
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  Speaker 5: so Appleton, Wisconsin. Oh Appleton, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, thirteen hours and twenty five minutes away by
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  Speaker 6: Google Maps, as my brother has texted me, let me know. So, yes, uh,
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  Speaker 6: they'll be done a lot.
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  Speaker 5: How would you played college baseball? Dean Scott graw on
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  Speaker 5: the out of Boundshe of dean of the College of Business,
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  Speaker 5: Mississippi State University, hanging out with us on one oh
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  Speaker 5: five nine The Zone ESPN. How would you describe him
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  Speaker 5: Nolan as a player.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, relentless, committed.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the guy.
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  Speaker 6: Is a sponge when it comes to learning and adapting
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  Speaker 6: his swing.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, he loves the basketball.
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  Speaker 6: I mean there's not a fastball out there that scares him.
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  Speaker 6: So he's he's excited to play against SEC pitching.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: He's also phenomenal defender. I read that he had a
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  Speaker 6: great year.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: One of the things from a family standpoint, you yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you had a great season, but you know what, you
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  Speaker 6: had the number three play on Sports Center Top ten
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  Speaker 6: one night because of a defensive uh play that he made. So,
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  Speaker 6: I mean we get excited about things like that. But
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  Speaker 6: he's he's a he's a very strong defender, a good hitter.
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  Speaker 1: He's he hits for power.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, he's a small smart ball player.
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  Speaker 5: South Dakota State, like Scott said, they went to the
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  Speaker 5: regionals out Nebraska, which is a big deal. And now
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  Speaker 5: Nolan Grahl will transfer to Mississippi State and.
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  Speaker 4: Your daughter will be a sophomore.
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  Speaker 5: She will, and so we'll have we'll have the gral
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  Speaker 5: cousins on campus.
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  Speaker 6: It's it is and my daughter, my daughter's excited to
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  Speaker 6: have a cousin on campus.
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  Speaker 4: She'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 6: You know, We've spent some time talking about my connections
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  Speaker 6: to Iowa State and so forth. But you know, by
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  Speaker 6: the time it's all said and done, I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: have a nephew with the Mississippi State degree, daughter with
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  Speaker 6: Asissippi State degree, my wife with at least one Mississippi
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  Speaker 6: State degree because she's.
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  Speaker 4: In the grad school.
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  Speaker 6: Uh here, so we're gonna have more Mississippi State degrees
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  Speaker 6: on our walls than any other school in the country.
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  Speaker 5: I love hearing that business dot m s State dot
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  Speaker 5: edu to find out more about everything that's going on,
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  Speaker 5: uh in the College of Business on the campus of
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  Speaker 5: Mississippi State University. How far is Iowa State to Appleton, Wisconsin, Scott.
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  Speaker 6: Iowa State to Appleton, Wisconsin. That's probably about six hours?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so so bad? Yeah? Okay? And did your brother
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  Speaker 4: play how school or college ball?
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  Speaker 6: So my brother played for Wartburg College Division three. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: he was a pitcher there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. We like I said, we we love our baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Is he older or younger? He's a year younger than
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 6: So so I was playing at Iowa State, same team
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  Speaker 6: at the same time he was playing at Wartburg. So
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  Speaker 6: we actually never really saw each other play in college.
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  Speaker 6: So we're both looking forward to being able to watch
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  Speaker 6: watch our nephew play together.
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  Speaker 4: Was he blown away with duty Noble?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's how can you not be right? You know
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  Speaker 6: that conversation that we had at that at the end
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  Speaker 6: of that that long day. Uh, most of it was
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  Speaker 6: on the facilities and just the the coaching staff and
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  Speaker 6: the way that he was treated and and the research
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  Speaker 6: that they had done before he even got to campus.
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  Speaker 6: They were amazed and blown away at how much film
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  Speaker 6: that they had already seen. They knew exactly what they
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  Speaker 6: were getting sure before he even walked on to campus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The attention to detail from O'Connor, both as you know,
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  Speaker 5: academically and athletically is insane.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean he does that whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he wants you to know here's what you'll
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  Speaker 5: be doing here, here is what my expectations for you
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  Speaker 5: baseball wise, but also here's what's happening academically.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's locked in on.
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  Speaker 1: That he is.
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  Speaker 6: He's locked in. We are fortunate to have him. We
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  Speaker 6: love having him at the Helm over there in the
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  Speaker 6: baseball program.
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  Speaker 5: Scott Gral on the Out of Bounds Show, ESPN one
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  Speaker 5: oh five nine to the Zone.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to join us for another segment.
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  Speaker 5: He may have a funny story about a coastal RecA
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  Speaker 5: trip here within the last couple of weeks, and then
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  Speaker 5: we'll talk about the momentum and some of the things
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  Speaker 5: happening in the College of Business. Summer doesn't stop. They've
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  Speaker 5: still got students on campus summer one and two. My
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  Speaker 5: daughter just graduated with a business degree from Mississippi State University,
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  Speaker 5: landed a phenomenal job with a eight company, and she
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  Speaker 5: was challenged throughout her her stay there. So that's a
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  Speaker 5: good Mom and dad are always excited when you get
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  Speaker 5: a really good job. You get a big time degree
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  Speaker 5: and a really good job, and we're moving her Sunday
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  Speaker 5: out of state. So that's exciting to Dean Scott Grawl,
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  Speaker 5: we'll hold him over for one more segment. His nephew,
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  Speaker 5: Nolan Gral is now on the Mississippi State baseball team
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  Speaker 5: and he is one of Brian O'Connor's players. That's pretty cool. Appleton, Wisconsin,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: South Dakota State and now Mississippi State University. Scott Grawl
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: on the out of Bound Show coming up next. All right,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: good morning, welcome into the Out of Bounds Show. Come
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: all right, we are the out of Bounds Show, ESPN
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: one oh five nine, the Zoned. We're streaming live on
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: the out of Bounds Radio app and the Zone one
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: oh five nine dot com. We have some special guests
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: in studio from the m AI S and we're excited
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: to have them in. They're gonna join us more than once.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: We're gonna get this school year kicked off. High school football, volleyball, softball,
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: all kinds of fun things going on with our m
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: AIS schools in the metro area and around the state
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: and around the state. And Barrett Donahoe and Ross Haley
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: joining us from.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: The m AI S on ESPN one oh five nine.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: The Zone.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Sports have already started, the academic calendar year has already started.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Orse I'm not sure it ever stops. And and football
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: is around the corner. Barrett Ross, good morning, how you doing.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're doing great. Thank you for having us in today.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: If you ask my wife right now about the academic years,
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: you would say it hasn't started because of the school
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: which our children are they attended.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: They start tomorrow and she is ready to get them
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: out of the house.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: But yes, yeah, I mean absolutely, But no, we're very
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: pleased to be in and very excited about the upcoming
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: year for m AIS athletics and all things m AIS as.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: We have started our fall sports seasons and we're getting
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: ready to kick off football Friday night.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: It's exciting. I mean, this is what Pete.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: You know, the student athletes have worked for months, right,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: they live in the weight room, they live on the
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: practice field, football, volleyball, softball, and now they get to
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: play somebody else. We all remember that. Remember when you
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: had to play each other for just dozens and dozens
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: of practices Barrett, and then you got to go play
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Prep or JA or Tri County or whoever it was.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: And then it was like, Okay, nowired up, I get
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: to play, I get to put the game day jersey on.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: And it's it's you know, you get to the point
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: where and previous coaching experience plus playing you get to
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: the point where it's it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You're you're tired of of.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Hitting and and competing against your own teammates.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I mean it's time to go, uh see what we're
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: all about.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: It's time to go see what your team's all about,
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: how how you're built and and week ones the great
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: opportunity for growth. And so we've got a lot of
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: games this Friday night, uh to kick off our season
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: and what we call Week zero, and it's gonna be
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: it's gonna be exciting to see what the outcomes are
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: and some different matchups.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I know the I know the coaches and
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the players.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: And for particular schools that we play in this this week,
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: are very excited to get back on the field.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: We're visiting with Barrett Donaho and Ross Haley on ESPN
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: one oh five nine the Zone m S a I
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: S Dot Org m A I S and Uh, they're
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: getting everything kicked off. People are getting in school, getting settled,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: and we got football, softball, volleyball.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Among other sports.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Rolling.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Now, how long have you been with the m AI
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: S spar Around eighteen months as the executive director.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: I've transitioned from the head of school position at Pillow
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Academy in Greenwood. Before I took this position, and it's
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: been it's been a very we We've got our challenges
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: in the association like everyone does and every aspect of business,
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: and you know what they do. But it's been a
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: very rewarding experience.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: And I'm really enjoying my position and.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Really grateful to have Ross Haley come join us as
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: our chief operating officer for athletics as we move forward
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: and working on marketing initiatives and different things that we
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: have just maybe not focused on enough in the past
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: to grow our brand sure, and and so we're excited
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: about that as we continue to try to grow our brand.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: But no, eighteen months on the job and I'm still here,
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: and it's it's it's a lot of fun. It's a
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: lot of fun interact with the heads of schools, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: leaders of the schools, to.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Be a part of that every every day.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: And you know, we're just we're blessed to be in
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: a position where we are in the MS right now,
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: where we have one hundred and thirty six schools across
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: four states and one hundred and thirty six schools, Yeah,
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: one hundred and thirty six schools across four states, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: you know, a large population base in Louisiana that compete
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: in our league, and.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: A couple in Tennessee and a few in Arkansas.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: And that's awesome.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: It's so anyway, we're blessed and excited about everything that's
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: happening right now.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: And you've never had better.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Athletes are deeper rosters all around the state states. I mean,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: this m AIS is loaded with big time athletes, men's
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: and women's sports.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think that goes to Major.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: League Baseball SEC G five you name it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you've got I mean you've I mean,
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: let's just take I mean Jackson Prepp for example.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I mean they've got four sorry, three former players.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Uh on MLB rosters right now, two on the starting yeah,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: starting yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And I mean and that's crazy, right.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: And we were talking about that the other day in
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: the office, like we need we've got to research that
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: to figure out does that exist anywhere else? Like does
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: any other high school in the country have three Major
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: League Baseball players?
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Probably not? Jake Mingham, Connor Griffin, and Will Warren. Will's
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: with the Yankees. We're gonna have him on next week.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Connor and Mangam who Barrett's talking about, or with the Pirates,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: and you got guys moving up in minor league baseball.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: I mean you that's but you're right, one school, three
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: players active, starting, win healthy in MLB. Yeah, two hundred
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: plus remarkable, absolutely remarkable.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: And then you then you've got the Brewers who have
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: the best record in baseball and they got to start
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: and Shorts top Magnolia high couper proud.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: That really is incredible, all right, And I'm glad you
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: brought that up because I didn't realize that and I
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: should have Barrett Donahoe on the Out of Bounds Show,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Ross Hailey, So I'm going to bring Ross here in
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: here for a second. Ross was with how long were
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: you at mra A twenty eight years? Twenty eight years?
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: And now you've been with m AIS for two months?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Two months? Okay, and congratulations, thank you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: It's been a great It's been a great uh been
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: a great opportunity. I'm excited about it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all are going to make a good team. Y'all
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: are on the same page.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: And you know, I've met with y'all and I'm excited
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: about you know, the mojo and the energy and the
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: excitement around m AIS.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I know you are too.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely month and a half monthday month and a half.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: This was fomal vacation.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: That's right, that's great, that's right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Half So does so football starts this Friday or next Friday.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: We had some jamborees h this past week and sub
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: scrimmages this past week.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: We have week zero Friday night.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Okay, we have some good matchups Friday night and and
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: some some teams that are eager to get on the field.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know the specific number of games, uh, Ross,
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: you may, but the you know it's you know, you
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: got I think Lamar Traveling Simpson, Okay, you've got they'll
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: get after it. Yeah, Jackson Academy Traveling the league. You've
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: got some really good eight man matchups.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And we have an eight man league which is which
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: is really thriving right now.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: And it's it's it's been exciting to watch those schools
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: get behind those that that that brand of football and
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: and what they that excitement that brings to those communities.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: It's really been nice to watch over the years.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: And and and so we've got some really good eight
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: man matchups this week as well. So and and I
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: just named a couple of games they're there are numerous
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: other games are going to be the great matchups.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: But and then everybody gets fired off on the twenty
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: twenty first, So we'll have a bunch of games this
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Friday night and then everybody gets rolling next Riday.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: That's right, which is exciting.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: M R A usually plays in that week zero week,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: but they're they're not playing I think because I had
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I had Weaver on two days ago, I think, and
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: they're playing Ravenwood or somebody.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: They travel to Nashville. Yeah, okay, all.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Right, Barrett Donahoe and Ross Haley m A I S
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: on the Out of Bounds show M S A I
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: S dot org. So you've got four classifications Barrett right now, Yes,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: that's correct.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Okay, four A, three A, two A, one A and
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: uh I think fourteen schools in the top classification. Then
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: it tears down from there from four athletic purposes before
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: classifications and and you know, we're we're in a realignment
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: year this year, so we'll be you know, a typical
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: realignment year.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: We've gone through some challenges over the last two years with.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: The alignment, and I think the people that serve on
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: our Athletic Commission would laugh. If they heard me say that,
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: they would probably call it more than challenges.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: But we but we are.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: We're in a typical realignment cycle year this year, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: so we'll start those conversations in October about what what
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: we look like moving forward. But I don't see a
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: lot of changes coming up. I think that we're kind
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: of kind of feeling like we were in a good
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: place right now with the classifications that we have.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: I know, y'all put a lot of work in it
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: the last couple of years. That's an understatement, a lot
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: of hours.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's yes.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: We did so four classifications four A, three A, two
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: A one A with m Ai is correct, okay, championships
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: all over and sports from from golf to football and
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: from volleyball to to basketball.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, and and you know, like right now, I mean
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: we've got you know, softball and volleyball. Volleyball has really
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: taken a hold in our league and it is growing
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: rapidly and it is it's it's a lot of fun
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: to watch.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It's a a sport that that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: I think of so many people have in our state
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: alone have started to embrace. And so we're we're excited
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: about what's happening there. And then softball, I mean, we
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: just have tremendous girls soft by athletes and really good
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: teams that can go compete against anybody.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: So the growth in softball has been going on for
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: a while now, and it's red hot. You're you're right
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: on volleyball, it's I think there's a lot more runway
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: and growth there as far as around here in this state.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, we had Todd sandrage On and his daughter
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: played at m ra A and now she's playing at Jones.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: And I mean I've had friends whose daughters have played volleyball,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: and it's it's action packed, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: So people get in and you're locked in and it's
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: not long.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's great. So that's what people want this
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: day and age.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Another another part of volleyball growing right now is it
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: grew through the high schools and because it grew through
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: the high schools, now the jucos have started offering.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Me that's a good point.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: There are there's so many there's so many more jucos
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: offering volleyball now than there were three years ago, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: that's just going to continue to help volleyball grow across
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: our state when there's that many more opportunities for them
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: to play, for for girls to play at the at
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: the next level. Yeah, the Jucos, the Jucos embracing volleyball
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: is going to increase the high school participation also.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Which is great. More scholarships, more opportunities.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, But what you said, I think is real. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: mean it's so fast paced.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and and and and that just keeps everything moving,
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: and and it's the girls are energetic on the court,
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: and it's I don't know, it's fun to want.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Coaching's gotten better, Development's gotten better from elementary and the
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: junior high which is feeding what y'all are talking about
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: in the high school and and post high school. So
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: softball and and let me get this right, so football
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: is full speed ahead, y'all have got softball full speed ahead, volleyball,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: cross country. So you got a lot of sports that
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: are already rolling big time and and either competing or
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: about to compete.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: I have a we'll have a spirit competition for our
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: cheerleaders and dancers coming up September ninth. We have a
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: we have a state swim meet coming up also, nice.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: So uh, there's you know, the the swim is mostly
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: still club swimming across across our league, but there we
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: have we have several schools that have regular season swim
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: meets also, So yeah, it's you know, it's it's out
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: there and there's a there's a nice there's a nice
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: group of kids that are out there swimming all the time,
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: swimming for clubs and swimming for their schools during the
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: regular season. And then the the the state swim meet
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: that comes up out at grit On Lakelands.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, great place, grit Fitness and Training.
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Ross, I can I can I can help
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: you throw some sponsors into sometimes.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Barrett Donaho and Ross Haley m A I S
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: M s a I s dot org. The school year
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: is underway and the athletic calendar has started, and everybody's
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: chomping at the bit with high school football. As Barrett mentioned,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: we're not been about forty eight hours away from week
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: zero where they're going to have a bunch of games
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: going on around the state or states that encompass this
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: great organization. And then next week everybody's playing game on
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: and then before we know it, we're gonna have the
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: j Preps and the MRA Heartfields and the it's going
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: to be crazy, or like Barrett said, you got Lamar
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: and Simpson right out of the gate. You know, they
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: want to get after each other and they know how
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: to play football over there.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Obviously, Jacob Land left.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: MRA to go, I mean left Lamar to go to MRA,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: and Simpson's been playing great football for a long time
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: down on Highway forty nine South.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: So that'll be.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: How about a chomping of the bit game this Friday
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: night between Lamar and Simpson MSAIS dot org Ross.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: How weird will it be?
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: So when Ricky Black or Richard Dewie stepped out or
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: retire legendary coaches and in this association, you know, I
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: mean it's crazy. It's going to be wild not to
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: see coach Dewise out there this year, just like it
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: was crazy not to see coach Black after the run
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: that he made at at Jackson Prepp.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, our coach Sojourner at JA. Absolutely. I mean you're
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: talking about Hall of Famers.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's uh, you know, we we've we've had lots
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: of uh. I mean I think people across I think
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: I think people across our state understand the level of
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: coaching that the m A. I. S has and uh
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: some of those, you know, some of those folks that
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: have been legendary coaches that have been in for so long.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: But we have so many great young coaches across our association.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: You mentioned Jacob and in the world of football, and uh,
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: you know, there's there's just there's a lot of great
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: coaches across our association. Harper Huddle is going to do
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: a great job replacing coach Deist there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Uh, those are a big shoot.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: We talked about Kaylin de Boor replacing Nick Saban, Harper
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Huddell's replacing Richard Dewise.
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, just the the entire if you
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: look at the entire Metro area of coaches, they're all
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: so much younger than, uh than they.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Used to be. Real, Yeah, you got a youth movement. Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: Ten you know, ten years ago you still had you
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: still had Bill Ball coaching, and you had uh, you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: coach Deuise, you had Tim Wise coaching at Jackson Prepp.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: Just an older, an older group of folks. Now you
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: look up and uh, I think Chris Goodman in the
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: Metro area is probably the oldest one and he's he's
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: probably only thirty three or thirty four years old.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: So goy who knew that Herbert's the senior guy or
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: some of those. I mean, because that's a great point.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: You had Ricky Black, Jan Sojourner, Bill Ball, Richard Deuise,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Joey Hawkins, all these people that had been coaching and
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: very successful for a long time, among others. You got
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: a look, y'all got a this is exciting. Y'all got
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: a youth movement going on here. I didn't even thought
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: about that within the m a i S.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think that it goes to show that
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: the caliber of young coaches in our association is eat.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, it really is.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: I mean these you know, you watch you watch these
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: young coaches on the sidelines, on the basketball.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Court, wherever they are, and whatever sport.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: And you just see that they're going to take the
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: place of that generation that is retiring and moving on
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  Speaker 7: and had had really starved the m a i S
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  Speaker 7: in a tremendous capacity of doubt and and and really
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  Speaker 7: created what we are today, right and put us helped
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  Speaker 7: us land in the map of on the map of
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  Speaker 7: success and athletics.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, the youth movement. I haven't really thought
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  Speaker 1: of it that way. It's a great way to put it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but and it's pretty awesome and excited. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you love what those men and women laid the groundwork, right,
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  Speaker 5: and now you've got this uh youth movement in m A.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: I s I'm gonna have to give Chuck Box a
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: hard time. I'm gonna have to tell him I'm at
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: a texting after the show and let hey, I just
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: thought of this with Barrett and Ross. You're you're one
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: of the old guys, I mean, Jackson and Cat to
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: be hired a guy off the Texas Longhorn staff, How
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: awesome is that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, glad to have him back in this up too.
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  Speaker 7: I mean it'll be it's going to be really unique
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  Speaker 7: to see how that dynamic plays out there. I think
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  Speaker 7: he's of course, everybody knows he's a phenomenal coach, so
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  Speaker 7: really really excited to have it back in the association.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know this, when you have coaches who elevate
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: their program, it makes the others, It makes the rivals
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: and the competitors get their act together, right, absolutely, I
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: mean that's that's what you want. And you know, prep
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  Speaker 5: one forever and then others started jumping on board, JA, MRA, Heartfield,
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: you know, Park, Layne Pillar. The list goes on and on,
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: and now it's almost like the portal with SEC. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: mean there's been a leveling of the playing field, which
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: is very you don't ever know who's gonna win it now,
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: especially in this metro area. Could be Heartfield, could be
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: m RA, could be Prep, could be JA. I think
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: that's exciting for you guys, especially knowing that they're going
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: to play in the reg or season and who knows
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: who's gonna tie up in the postseason in the playoffs.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Barrett Donahue and Ross Haley, m A I S joining
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: us on ESPN one oh five nine the Zone. So
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: the academic athletic year has started football this Friday night
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: week zero m ais and everybody's playing next week. And
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: then you're you know, you're seeing growth, You're seeing more
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: and more people go to games. I mean, this has
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: got to be exciting y'all. Have y'all have football games,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: basketball games. I mean, look at your Magnolia Heights Jay championship.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: In baseball. You got people showing up a lot of people,
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: big crowds to championship playoff games. It doesn't matter what round,
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: that's got to be exciting for you and Ross.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we were sitting there last year at the for
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: a football championship game at Mississippi College, Hartfield and Jackson Academy.
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  Speaker 1: It was is I'm not going to say it was.
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  Speaker 7: A record crowd for our for our largest classification. I would,
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: I don't have the numbers to back that up, but
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: it was a packed house, amiss to become, Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: and the people that are coming to watch the athletes
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  Speaker 7: in our association today is more than ever before, you know,
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  Speaker 7: And and so yeah, it's it's it's awesome. We look
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: forward to Friday nights and watching you know, and of
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: course it's it's a lot of that comes back to
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: the communities, sure, I mean the communities and the community
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  Speaker 7: love for their schools and going out and supporting on
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: Friday nights or or on Tuesday, Tuesday afternoons when a
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: softball matchups taking place, or you know, whatever that might
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: look like. But yeah, we're we're really excited about the
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: participation that we have and all of our sports and
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: the fans that are coming to watch.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: M AI S kicking it off for the twenty twenty
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: six twenty twenty seven Academic Athletic. Here, y'all have started
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: a podcast. Barrett Ross want to jump in here. This
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: is exciting to share share the story and the message
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: of m a i S coaches and players and teams.
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: We have we've we're calling the Legends and Leaders podcast.
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  Speaker 8: I like that, and it's the the first two episodes
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: have actually been released. It's at m a i S
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: Sports dot org. And there's gonna be a link on
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: the m s a i S dot org website also,
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: so we'll be able to go to the main website
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: and find the Legend and Leaders link. But for those
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: of you that just want to go out and find
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: it right now, it's m a i S Sports dot org. Okay,
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: we've we started out. The idea, uh, the idea Bart
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: and I came up with was, uh we wanted to
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: get and basically an oral history of our association. Yes,
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: uh you know, so we started out the first the
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: first nine episodes we've we've already recorded and and we
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: used our uh we used the most experienced leaders of
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: our association, so folks like David Derek and doctor Alan
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: Smithers and and Jan Sojourner has been one of our guests. Uh,
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: Peter Gernberg was at JAA and Indianola for a long time. Uh,
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: you know, so we wanted we wanted those, We wanted
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: the more experienced, the older generation of our folks to
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: come back and and tell us, you know, tell us
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: their fond memories of our association. Absolutely just to get
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: those recorded. And uh, we're partnering with the frascona law
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: firm and Mike Frascon and we've we've been visiting and
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: and we're gonna amp it up. We're gonna uh, we're
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: our next our next set of our next set of podcasts.
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: We're gonna include Connor Griffin in there. Josh Hubbard's gonna
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: be one of our guests, nice along with more more
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: of our older folks that have So it's gonna be
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: it's not just gonna focus on history any longer. It's
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: gonna focus on today and history. So every you know,
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: every week is gonna be a different type of guest
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: on there. But it's gonna be people that have been
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: through our association, that have that helped make our association better.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Sure, So y'all laid the groundwork with the first few
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: podcasts and now you'll be happening having Connor Griffin and
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: Josh Hubbard and other on m a i S.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Sports dot Org.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, those will come out. Those will come out weekly. So,
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: as I said, the first two of the first two
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: have already been published, and they'll start publishing weekly. You'll
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: you can kind of scroll through and see who the
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: see who the upcoming guests are, and and check back
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: in when those get released.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: That's exciting, all right, So we'll do this again soon.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: Is there any we got a minute here on the
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: way out? Is there anything that we need to hit
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: in the last minute knowing that that we can do
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: this again in a few weeks.
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: Barrett Ross, don't don't sleep on Parklan football. Okay, don't
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: don't sleep on Parklan football. Well they there's some tough
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: dudes down in Macomb, Mississippi. I remember going down there
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: and playing. Yeah we we missed.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: We mentioned a lot of a lot of teams, a
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: lot of park Lay football. Okay, they're strong.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Keep keep an eye out on park Laying football this
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: this season. And we've got week zero this week m
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: a i S. And then next week everybody gets it
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: kicked off. For Barrett Ross, I'm your host Bo Bounds.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: Go to maissports dot org. Maissports dot org. I think
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: this is a great idea on the podcast to one
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: share the story and then start talking about current coaches
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: and schools and players.
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  Speaker 7: Barrett, we appreciate it. Hey, thank you for having us An,
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: We really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Ross Hailey, thanks, thank you. We'll be back in just
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: a second.