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Monday Edition of the Drive - Hour Two · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 4: We'll talk from college football with Chris Landry.
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Speaker 5: Right now. Coach Kelly Bowser. He is they head.
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Speaker 4: Baseball coach, also assistant football coach. Here for the Pucket Wolves.
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Speaker 4: He has been here now fourteen years. This will be
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Speaker 4: year fifteen, and that correct, coach Bowser fifteenth. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 4: I appreciate you jumping in. You're from Richton down in
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Speaker 4: the Pine belt. Let's talk a little baseball. You guys
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Speaker 4: had a really good year last year, knocked out by Clarkdale.
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Speaker 4: You said that was the second year in row twenty
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Speaker 4: eight and eight overall. You know we were talking about
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Speaker 4: because you know, obviously when we go to these schools,
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Speaker 4: we try to introduce everything that goes on.
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Speaker 5: At the school. This is a very proud community. A
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Speaker 5: lot of football success here.
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Speaker 4: I know last year wasn't where they wanted to be,
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Speaker 4: a lot of basketball success, baseball success. Let's start right
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Speaker 4: there and talk about you know, Pucket sometimes shadowed in
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Speaker 4: northwest of Ranklin County and others, but when you start
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Speaker 4: looking into and kind of pilling the onion back, it's
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Speaker 4: a very proud, successful community down here.
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Speaker 6: It is. It really is. The students here and the
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Speaker 6: athletes here are real proud of the proud and the
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Speaker 6: community backs us one hundred percent of all athletics where
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Speaker 6: there's football, baseball, and you know softball. Last several years,
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Speaker 6: we've had big crowds all around and they you know,
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Speaker 6: they just really come out and support these kids.
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Speaker 4: So, you know, baseball kind of like we were talking
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Speaker 4: with your softball coach here and I renumber one is
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Speaker 4: it's one of those deals where you know, football and
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Speaker 4: you know this, some of you guys have and I'm
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Speaker 4: throwing a number at the wall, forty fifty guys out.
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Speaker 5: Maybe for football.
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Speaker 4: Can't match up with a roster of one hundred, but baseball,
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Speaker 4: if you got the right guys, like softball, you can
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Speaker 4: compete one eight to seven.
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Speaker 6: Eight, you can. And we the last couple of years
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Speaker 6: we've been really blessed with some good arms and two
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Speaker 6: eight baseball if you can you know, throw strikes and
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Speaker 6: got a mid upper eighties guy, you know you can compete,
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Speaker 6: and we've had we've been looking, you know enough, lucky
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Speaker 6: enough the last couple of years to have that, and
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Speaker 6: you know it's got us a long way.
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Speaker 4: When you look at your baseball team come back this year,
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Speaker 4: and of course, as you said, you off set the foundation.
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Speaker 4: This is a program that expects to compete at the
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Speaker 4: two A level. You mentioned Clarkdale, and it seems like
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Speaker 4: as long as I can remember on a given year,
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Speaker 4: Clarkdale and baseball and softball is they are very good.
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Speaker 4: I mean, here a big time program that you guys
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Speaker 4: take on. But talk a little bit about what you
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Speaker 4: got coming back and what the expectations are for the spring.
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Speaker 6: Well, the expectations they're they're high because, like you said,
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Speaker 6: the foundation has been set. We lost nine seniors last year,
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Speaker 6: so we're gonna you know, we got a lot of positions,
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Speaker 6: We got a feel we lost a lot of our pitching,
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Speaker 6: but we got some guys coming back that we can
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Speaker 6: build around and some young guys that're gonna have to
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Speaker 6: step up this year. And you know, we're still expecting.
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Speaker 6: Nothing's changed as far as our goals. We're still you know,
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Speaker 6: hopefully we've been there the last two years, gotten knocked
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Speaker 6: out in the third round, but you know, we're hoping
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Speaker 6: we're gonna knock the door down soon.
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Speaker 4: Well when you talk, of course, we're visiting with a coach,
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Speaker 4: Kelly Bowser. He's the head baseball coach here at Puckett,
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Speaker 4: also assistant at football. Got him off the field just
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Speaker 4: to take a break, So we're glad we could do that.
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Speaker 4: You talk about young guys, and we talk about this
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Speaker 4: all the time. We were talking about it. So some
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Speaker 4: of the other coaches here, be it travel ball that
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Speaker 4: helps develop young kids, or just obviously coaching here, parenting,
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Speaker 4: whatever it may be. We're seeing more and more kids
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Speaker 4: in baseball and softball play at a younger age.
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Speaker 6: They do. We got we've got to you know, it's
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Speaker 6: a lot of them start when they're four years old
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Speaker 6: and they play it's gotten like you said, travel ball,
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Speaker 6: they play year round just about, and you know, so
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Speaker 6: they get a lot of experience starting young, and they
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Speaker 6: continue that throughout throughout the course of their you know, lives,
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Speaker 6: and then when they get to high school, it's it's
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Speaker 6: a little easier for us because they've been around it
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Speaker 6: since they were younger.
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Speaker 4: And you know, you're from a place in Richton, down
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Speaker 4: in the pine belt Pedal Oak Grove summer all. I
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Speaker 4: mean that there is where you from where you are from,
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Speaker 4: there is big time baseball there. Talk about maybe coming
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Speaker 4: up in that in that part of the world, bringing
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Speaker 4: that to here. Obviously you're fourteen or fifteen now coming up,
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Speaker 4: but just the success because it seems like when you
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Speaker 4: go to Trustmark Park for the state championships, somebody from
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Speaker 4: that region is going to be playing out here.
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Speaker 6: I grew up playing you know, Riston and there in
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Speaker 6: the summer, I played it ted Us. I played with
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Speaker 6: a lot of those guys back in the nineties when
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Speaker 6: when they were real good, and and I actually played
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Speaker 6: for My head coach was Tony Farlow.
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Speaker 5: That's a purpose.
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Speaker 6: It's won a lot of state championships. So I learned
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Speaker 6: a lot a lot growing up and through him, and
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Speaker 6: you know, just all around playing with the guys I
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Speaker 6: played with and played under.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna pivot the football real quick, uh, and then
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Speaker 4: kind of bring it back to baseball. I know, at
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Speaker 4: a smaller school, kids play all sports, right, so it's
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Speaker 4: not like you got the luxury of you know, at
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Speaker 4: least nine guys on a baseball field that's going to
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Speaker 4: be you know, in a cage. They're playing fallball. They're
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Speaker 4: probably playing other sports as well. Some coaches are against specializations,
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Speaker 4: some coaches are not here. I would guess it's I mean,
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Speaker 4: but I would think that it helps your kids.
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Speaker 6: It does. We we encourage our kids to play multiple sports,
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Speaker 6: especially us in baseball. We encourage them to play football.
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Speaker 6: It makes them tough. For me, and my assistant both
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Speaker 6: coach football, help with football. So you know we're up here.
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Speaker 6: We do. You know, it is a luxury. The last
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Speaker 6: couple of years, during our fourth block, our assistant coach
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Speaker 6: has been able to go with the ones that only
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Speaker 6: play baseball and do stuff with them. Why I stayed
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Speaker 6: with football, and that has helped. But we encourage all
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Speaker 6: of them to play, to try to play another sport,
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Speaker 6: especially football, and make them tough. And if we're going
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Speaker 6: to be out there, might as well have our best
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Speaker 6: athletes out there and try to win.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely so when on the football field, we didn't get
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Speaker 4: a chance to scuss a position, unit or position you
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Speaker 4: coach on the football.
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Speaker 6: Side, this year, I'm probably gonna be coaching quarterbacks and
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Speaker 6: running backs and dbs. That's usually what I do sometimes,
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Speaker 6: you know, receivers, but on defense I'll coach DB's and
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Speaker 6: this year offensively, I think quarterbacks and running backs.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 4: And people may hear you say that and go, wait
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Speaker 4: a minute, what you just went from one side of
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Speaker 4: the ball to the other.
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Speaker 5: But I've said this coaches at a smaller school. I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's kind of feast.
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Speaker 4: You're famine, right, You don't have the luxury of a
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Speaker 4: fifteen man coaching staff, trainers and all this. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you've got to really know how to coach football if
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Speaker 4: you're gonna coach it.
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Speaker 6: I think since I've been here, the biggest coaching staff
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Speaker 6: we had was maybe maybe six, five, I know, but six.
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Speaker 6: This year we got five. We lost one here recently
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Speaker 6: that got a better job. You know, we were able
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Speaker 6: to pick somebody up, so we got five again. But
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Speaker 6: at a small school like this, you don't have, like
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Speaker 6: I said, like you said, have nine or ten coaches,
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Speaker 6: so you got to coach both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 4: But you know, when you start looking like at playoff brackets,
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Speaker 4: you know, year to year in the MHSA, I've always
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Speaker 4: said this, two A, three A four A those are
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Speaker 4: the hardest brackets because you'll look up and you'll have
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Speaker 4: it a two A bracket or a three air four bracket.
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Speaker 4: You may have three or four teams that are defeated.
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Speaker 4: And granted, you know, someone playing a little bit better
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Speaker 4: district than the others, maybe it's a little easier road.
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Speaker 4: But if you get to, for instance, startfell this year
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Speaker 4: in football, you're gonna made your money doing it, because
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Speaker 4: the competition is very tough.
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Speaker 6: Well down here in the South two A is very
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Speaker 6: to if our district is tough. We've we've always been
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Speaker 6: in a tough district. We either had Taylor's Little when
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Speaker 6: they were real good. We've had Scott Central when they
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Speaker 6: won several two A state championships, and you know, so
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Speaker 6: we're we're accustomed to having a tough district. And there's
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Speaker 6: been times where you know, the last four standing and
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Speaker 6: three of them will come from our district in the South.
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Speaker 6: So you know, it's it is, it's it's tough, very tough.
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Speaker 4: Let's finish it up with this question. We're visual with
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Speaker 4: coach Kelly Bowser. He's the head baseball coach and assistant
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Speaker 4: football coach offensive side quarterbacks, wide receivers. This year for
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Speaker 4: the Pucket Wolf's Mighty edition of the program, I want
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Speaker 4: to give a shout out to Ranking County School District too,
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Speaker 4: because you guys are finishing up a field turf right now.
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Speaker 5: Is now is that going to be ready for the season.
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Speaker 6: It is supposed to be. We're they're supposed to start
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Speaker 6: I think this week laying the turf. Our first game
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Speaker 6: for is a junior high game the twenty fifth and
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Speaker 6: it's supposed to be done by the end. In our
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Speaker 6: first high school game is the twenty eighth at home,
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Speaker 6: so we're hoping keeping fingers crossed that it is done
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Speaker 6: by then.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because McLaren got their field, pisc has theirs, you
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Speaker 4: guys will be the final and does Peela Hatchie have
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Speaker 4: one yet?
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Speaker 6: Pela Hatchie. They're finishing Peela Hatchie now and then then
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Speaker 6: they're starting to put the turf down on our somewhere.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, if we if me and you and Rod went
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Speaker 4: back in the time machine into the lore and you said, hey,
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Speaker 4: in twenty years, every field in Ranking County is gonna
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Speaker 4: have turf.
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Speaker 5: But like, no way, it's unbelievable though in.
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Speaker 6: It it is a couple of years ago they were
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Speaker 6: talking about it and we all of us here were like,
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Speaker 6: it doesn't there's no way. It'll be ten more years
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Speaker 6: or so far we get turf, and and it'stant They're
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Speaker 6: they're doing it. So hopefully, like I said, by the
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Speaker 6: first game, it'll be completed.
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Speaker 4: And people don't think about this, especially for small staffs
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Speaker 4: like here at Pucket or Peela Hatchie or Bay Springs.
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Speaker 4: That takes a load off on you guys as far
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Speaker 4: as field prep on Friday, having a paint lines, having
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Speaker 4: a cut grass talk a little bit.
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Speaker 5: I mean, just that's a load off there.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 6: I'm one that actually usually cut the cut the game
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Speaker 6: field and we usually started painting on Wednesday and then
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Speaker 6: it continued over to Thursday because we put a lot
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Speaker 6: of paint down. So this is gonna, it's gonna, it's
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Speaker 6: gonna take give us some more more time to do
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Speaker 6: other things and have to worry about that.
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Speaker 5: He is Kelly Boozer.
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Speaker 4: He is the head baseball coach also associate football coach
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Speaker 4: here at Pocket Coach, thanks so much for taking some time.
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Speaker 5: It looked best to luck this year.
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Speaker 6: Thank you. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: We got to take a time out. We're brought to
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Speaker 4: away from Pucket Back in a minute, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 3: Gentlemen, time back to the afternoon drive.
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Speaker 4: head principal here at Pucket Pucket Wolves is mister Brian Collins. Brian,
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Speaker 4: thank you so much for having us Ober, and thank
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Speaker 4: you for the hospitality you welcomed us in and I
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Speaker 4: told you earlier. Typically we don't get that treatment from
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Speaker 4: a principle at a school, which is totally fine.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. How are you absolutely doing good? Thanks for
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Speaker 5: having me so year seven at Pucket.
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Speaker 4: You said you've had some time in a couple stops
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Speaker 4: here in Rankin County from We're Mississippi, home of Decenzo Miller.
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Speaker 4: Talk a little bit about well, first off, kind of
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Speaker 4: your background from North Mississippi. Uh, it looks like you
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Speaker 4: guys have a North Mississippi feel here and a lot
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Speaker 4: of these staff and coaches here here in this part
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Speaker 4: of Ranking County.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's kind of funny how all that's worked out.
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Speaker 7: Myself obviously being from where small town how I grew up.
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Speaker 7: It's really all I know.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoons, afternoon and welcome back to the afternoon drive
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Speaker 3: No great afternoon right here Ron.
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Speaker 5: Little gremlin in the system. Sorry about that.
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Speaker 4: As we are in Pucket, down here Pucket High School
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Speaker 4: today having a conversation with head principal Brian Collins. Mister Collins,
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Speaker 4: sorry about that. We were talking about Rankin County school
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Speaker 4: district and when you go across the district, you know,
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Speaker 4: from one end from mclauren all the way down here
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Speaker 4: to Pucket, you go over to Pisca, up to Pelahatchie
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Speaker 4: and all the way across. A lot of things are
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Speaker 4: happening in the district here currently.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and like I was saying earlier, we're just so blessed,
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Speaker 7: so thankful to be a part of Ranking County School
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Speaker 7: District and our school board members, our superintendent Shane Sanders,
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Speaker 7: our district office personnel, they just support us, support every school.
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Speaker 5: In this district.
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Speaker 7: And it's not an easy job. There's eight zones and
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Speaker 7: everyone has different challenges. But we've been really blessed, whether
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Speaker 7: it's our turf project, Musco lighting systems.
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Speaker 5: We have the flash and.
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Speaker 7: Light shows at football, baseball and softball. We've gotten new
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Speaker 7: press box and concession standing facilities down at baseball and softball.
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Speaker 7: So and the building that we're in right now was
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Speaker 7: created through the bond issue that was passed a few
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Speaker 7: years ago. So very thankful to be a part of
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Speaker 7: the school district and it's a special place to be.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the lighting is one thing that I
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Speaker 4: never would have dreamed in Rod shaking his head, yes,
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Speaker 4: with the Missippi Sports Medicine that we would have seen
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Speaker 4: it any facility. Now you go on to a you know,
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Speaker 4: football field, baseball field. You know, young man hits a
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Speaker 4: home run light show, you know, touchdown light show. I
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Speaker 4: don't know that we've ever would have envisioned that at
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Speaker 4: any school in Ranking County.
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Speaker 7: That's right, And you know what it really does is
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Speaker 7: that it gives our students and our student athletes just
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Speaker 7: the experience they deserve. You know, we're down here southeast
14:34
Speaker 7: corner of Ranking County in a rural area, but our
14:37
Speaker 7: kids get that same exposure. They get that same experience
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Speaker 7: in the thrill of getting to play in our facilities
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Speaker 7: and in their first class.
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Speaker 5: So let's wrap it up with this.
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Speaker 4: As far as school challenges, I know everybody's talking about
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Speaker 4: AI and you know how things are moving it.
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Speaker 5: It is at such a rapid pace.
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Speaker 4: I mean we've gone from calculators to computers, to tablets
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Speaker 4: to mac books to now AI. Those are challenges at
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Speaker 4: every school how to navigate.
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Speaker 5: That kind of stuff in it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's something that we talked about from last
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Speaker 7: year and definitely starting it back this school year. We've
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Speaker 7: spent time on it and it's really just finding a balance.
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Speaker 7: You know, we want to make sure that our students
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Speaker 7: know how to use that appropriately. Our teachers are able
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Speaker 7: to integrate that in their classes because they are going
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Speaker 7: to have to use those tools when they leave here
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Speaker 7: to go into the workforce or college, which is the
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Speaker 7: ultimate goal. But how do we find a balance and
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Speaker 7: really spend our time teaching students the correct way to
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Speaker 7: use those tools.
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Speaker 4: We're down at Puncket today and that's head Principal Brian
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Speaker 4: Collins on your radio, doctor or mister Collins. Thank you
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Speaker 4: so much for taking some time with us today and look,
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Speaker 4: thanks for having.
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Speaker 5: Us out today, appreciate it. Thanks for coming. We've got
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Speaker 4: to break up some segments this week with our crazy schedule,
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Speaker 4: and we'll do one segment today later on this week
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Speaker 4: with Chris. Chris, I appreciate your movement and flexibility. How
17:04
Speaker 4: are you, sir?
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Speaker 8: I am doing good, just getting I mean closer and closer.
17:09
Speaker 8: It's this football season. If you count preseason count book prowing,
17:13
Speaker 8: college football is already here in some respect.
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Speaker 4: Oh it is, for sure, there's no doubt, Chris. Over
17:19
Speaker 4: the weekend, a judge in Colorado kind of threw a
17:23
Speaker 4: wrench into the system and said, hey, if you're twenty
17:26
Speaker 4: twenty two entry, we're going to give you another opportunity
17:29
Speaker 4: to come back and play. After everything that's going on
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Speaker 4: in DC with this bill, they're trying to get across
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Speaker 4: the floor.
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Speaker 5: We'll see if that happens. I'm still very hesitant about that.
17:38
Speaker 5: But what can you tell us about this?
17:40
Speaker 4: We were talking with David Murray Jean's page Mississippi State affiliate,
17:44
Speaker 4: and I were number one about this. I don't know
17:46
Speaker 4: that you can transfer place to place. It looks like
17:49
Speaker 4: correct me if I'm wrong. If you're caught up on this,
17:53
Speaker 4: you'd have to have been on a roster. You can
17:55
Speaker 4: come back to the same team. What do we know now?
17:57
Speaker 4: As everybody looks around and goes, what are we doing
17:59
Speaker 4: here with you know, twenty eight days to play?
18:01
Speaker 5: Now, we're going to add a new rule back.
18:03
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's confusion on top of confusion. You're right on that.
18:12
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, look, I'm all for kids giving
18:14
Speaker 8: in and get an opportunity, but it's becoming a point
18:17
Speaker 8: now our guys are getting the seventh or an eight
18:19
Speaker 8: year it's just hard hard to really kind of hard
18:24
Speaker 8: to really kind of understand and make any sense of it.
18:27
Speaker 8: But you know the problem is is every time they
18:33
Speaker 8: take something to court, the NCAA is going to lose.
18:37
Speaker 8: So it could just I mean, it's just really they
18:40
Speaker 8: lose every judgment, so anytime someone is going to take
18:45
Speaker 8: it to court, we're going to have basically a ruling
18:50
Speaker 8: that's in favor of the person filing the lawsuit. And
18:57
Speaker 8: it leads to these rules and exceptions in circumstances that
19:03
Speaker 8: quite frankly, none of us can figure out and make
19:05
Speaker 8: sense of.
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Speaker 4: You know, Chris, and somebody said this to me, and
19:09
Speaker 4: maybe in David earlier. It was somebody in another segment
19:12
Speaker 4: last week or maybe even off the ear said he
19:14
Speaker 4: I never thought about this, said, Hey, nobody's talking about
19:16
Speaker 4: the high schools. What is this doing for high school kids?
19:19
Speaker 4: I mean, we keep talking about we got to give
19:21
Speaker 4: people more eligibility, we got to give an opportunity to
19:23
Speaker 4: earn money every way you want to frame it up.
19:25
Speaker 4: What does this do on the back end of this
19:27
Speaker 4: thing for the guys and the girls that are trying
19:30
Speaker 4: to get into college. Nobody's even talking about this.
19:34
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm thinking it's less opportunities for them because you've
19:38
Speaker 8: got more college opportunities. There's certainly going to be there's
19:42
Speaker 8: a bubble there because you've got a number of them
19:45
Speaker 8: that because they can continue to play for X amount
19:48
Speaker 8: of years, a certain amount of those it's not going
19:51
Speaker 8: to affect anything amongst the top level players, but the
19:56
Speaker 8: next level player, it's going to have a difference. It's
19:59
Speaker 8: going to have an because there's just not enough spots
20:02
Speaker 8: for I'm certainly not at the big time level, you know.
20:06
Speaker 8: There Again, it is frustrating because every time we have
20:12
Speaker 8: one of these situations, it further emphasizes the fact that
20:16
Speaker 8: we don't have leadership in college sports. We don't have
20:20
Speaker 8: any way to look at all of the scenarios that
20:23
Speaker 8: could take place, all the repercussions, all the unintended consequences,
20:27
Speaker 8: and figure that out. We just don't have that. Everybody
20:31
Speaker 8: talks about it. We have a few of us that
20:32
Speaker 8: have been in football that talk about things like that,
20:35
Speaker 8: but nobody with any teeth that can figure these things out.
20:39
Speaker 8: And then it's like, oh, wow, look at this, and
20:42
Speaker 8: how do we handle this. I mean, it's just it's
20:45
Speaker 8: fly by the seat of your pants, and it's just
20:47
Speaker 8: getting more and more frustrating to be a college football
20:50
Speaker 8: fan and observer day in and day out.
20:54
Speaker 4: We're visiting with Chris Landry a little earlier on a Monday.
20:57
Speaker 4: We'll break him up and have him back on later
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21:08
Speaker 4: we'll come back to some college later on this week
21:09
Speaker 4: when we have a full segment there. Let's go to
21:12
Speaker 4: the league that does know how to do it, and
21:13
Speaker 4: that's the National Football League that's in practice now.
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Speaker 5: Camps are open.
21:17
Speaker 4: We've got the Hall of Fame game this week. But Chris,
21:20
Speaker 4: this thing happens quick for NFL teams to get to
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Speaker 4: a fifty three man kind of take us through the
21:24
Speaker 4: next few weeks in the process for everybody in the
21:26
Speaker 4: NFL as they have to evaluate cut guys. You may think,
21:30
Speaker 4: especially that came in this year, we'll have rosters spots,
21:33
Speaker 4: some of them will not kind of.
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Speaker 5: Take us through the next few weeks in the NFL.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, preseason is I know, kind of blase
21:40
Speaker 8: that fans are excited about it initially and then on
21:44
Speaker 8: up with that, we hate watching it. The games don't count,
21:47
Speaker 8: but they matter, and the practices matter. The scrimmages matter
21:52
Speaker 8: because you've got to make good decisions on who you
21:55
Speaker 8: keep on your roster. And it's not the front end
21:57
Speaker 8: of your roster, it's the back end of your roster.
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Speaker 8: The only way to really know that is to put
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Speaker 8: them through a competitive fire game situation scrimmages as best
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Speaker 8: you can. And so you've got to really expedite this
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Speaker 8: now as we've got best game less time and pads.
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Speaker 8: So this to me really as a huge factor and
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Speaker 8: how good you are come November, because the depth of
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Speaker 8: your roster is key. It's the guy that's gonna you know,
22:30
Speaker 8: this guy that lasts defensive back on your roster that
22:33
Speaker 8: might end up being your nickelback or your dimeback come
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Speaker 8: playoff time well beyond. So these things are really important
22:40
Speaker 8: that you go through the process evaluating every day you
22:43
Speaker 8: have personnel meetings, how guys are doing, how they're developing,
22:47
Speaker 8: how do you see them playing, what can they handle,
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Speaker 8: what can't they handle. You've got to combine that with
22:53
Speaker 8: the evaluation of other teams players, players that might get cut.
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Speaker 8: That's my preseason again is important because you got to
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Speaker 8: evaluate other people's roster and try to determine, Hey, players A,
23:07
Speaker 8: B and C on our roster. A and B are
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Speaker 8: good enough, but player C is not as good as
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Speaker 8: player X Y and Z at such and such a team.
23:18
Speaker 8: We've got to make this move perhaps if one of
23:21
Speaker 8: those guys get released yet, you know, when do they
23:24
Speaker 8: get released? Is that the final release date? You don't
23:27
Speaker 8: as much time to get them reader ready. So you've
23:30
Speaker 8: got to really combine how are you going to coach them,
23:32
Speaker 8: how are you going to develop them, and as well
23:35
Speaker 8: as just what their playing ability is. And that requires
23:40
Speaker 8: just very intensive study in every rep in practice.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Chris, I don't I don't think and I'm
23:47
Speaker 5: gonna put myself in this. We forget.
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Speaker 4: I mean, if it's a fifty three man roster and
23:50
Speaker 4: we say that all the time, well, we got to
23:52
Speaker 4: get to our fifty three man that's too deep on offense,
23:55
Speaker 4: too deep on defense. That's forty that's you know, that's
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Speaker 4: forty four players plus special teams guys, an extra quarterback.
24:02
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of room for error when you
24:03
Speaker 4: start talking about two deep in you know, two deep.
24:05
Speaker 4: You don't even really get into a three deep. You
24:07
Speaker 4: do have a what fifteen man practice squad. We're so
24:10
Speaker 4: used to college going, well, you know, Alabama's two three
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Speaker 4: deep and off offensive line, two three deep on defensive line.
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Speaker 5: NFL is not that way. It is.
24:17
Speaker 4: It is really razor thin when you start talking about
24:20
Speaker 4: roster depth.
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Speaker 8: It is, and when the injuries start to happen, you've
24:24
Speaker 8: got to be prepared, not just on your roster, but
24:27
Speaker 8: you have what we call a ready list. Somebody goes down,
24:31
Speaker 8: you got to add somebody. Now it's usually bringing somebody
24:35
Speaker 8: up from the practice squad, but it may mean in
24:39
Speaker 8: particularly if you're a contender, that you make a move,
24:42
Speaker 8: you make a trade so that you get somebody to
24:45
Speaker 8: replace somebody that got injured. If you feel good about
24:48
Speaker 8: your overall roster, but you always constantly are looking at
24:53
Speaker 8: who's available. We call it a ready list, so that
24:56
Speaker 8: you're ready to go and jump on them and bring
24:58
Speaker 8: them in if they're available. So look you you can
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Speaker 8: always it's important that you study everybody's practice squad too,
25:07
Speaker 8: because you can sign a player off somebody's practice squad
25:11
Speaker 8: and put them on your not on your practice squad,
25:13
Speaker 8: but you can put them on your active roster. So
25:16
Speaker 8: there's a lot of moving parts when it comes to
25:18
Speaker 8: the evaluation business in the NFL. Evaluating NFL teams the
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Speaker 8: college you know draft process, that's an entire college scouting
25:27
Speaker 8: department that handles that and you work through that through
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Speaker 8: next draft. But the pro personnel department, boy, this this
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Speaker 8: is a really important time to try to again make
25:38
Speaker 8: sure you fortify the back end of your.
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Speaker 4: thank you so much for breaking up with breaking up
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Speaker 8: Thank you, Take care.
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Speaker 4: if you want to Texas six or one eight, eight, five, three,
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Speaker 5: Some notes here.
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Speaker 4: Former Florida State quarterback Thomas castle Onis is trying to
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Speaker 4: return to college after everything going on this weekend.
27:33
Speaker 5: We'll see if that does happen.
27:34
Speaker 4: He would have to return to Florida State, and that
27:36
Speaker 4: is the one caveat on this little bill that they're
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Speaker 4: trying to order. This little amendment that they're trying to
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Speaker 4: do over the weekend is you have to come back
27:43
Speaker 4: to the school you're at now. I don't know that
27:45
Speaker 4: he would play at Florida State. They have a quarterback
27:49
Speaker 4: that they feel comfortable with.
27:51
Speaker 5: And if we've only.
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Speaker 4: Got four saturdays until college football, think about that. We
27:54
Speaker 4: got four saturdays until college football and we are ready
27:58
Speaker 4: to go. Texas Tech Joey maguire, head football coach for
28:02
Speaker 4: the Red Raiders, said they are quote not told on
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Speaker 4: three sports dot com and Peteeko's not the highest spending
28:08
Speaker 4: team in the country, he says. Quote I don't know
28:10
Speaker 4: the exact number, he says, but I know we're not
28:13
Speaker 4: number one as far as spending and payroll wise. He said,
28:17
Speaker 4: we're not even We weren't there last year. We're not
28:20
Speaker 4: even number two.
28:20
Speaker 5: He said.
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Speaker 4: They are a team spending way more than us that
28:23
Speaker 4: didn't win a national championship last year. And I would
28:26
Speaker 4: say that he's probably right. We know that Texas Tech
28:29
Speaker 4: is a high high spender in college sports right now,
28:32
Speaker 4: one of the top, but there's others. And again, we
28:35
Speaker 4: know a lot of these numbers, but I still think
28:37
Speaker 4: there's numbers that we don't for you know, for sure.
28:40
Speaker 5: Know on some of these schools.
28:41
Speaker 4: Peteeneko's on three says fall campus here QB one jobs
28:45
Speaker 4: are up for grabs at Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and more
28:48
Speaker 4: on three with the latest as far as quarterback battles,
28:51
Speaker 4: and again some of the you know, most of your
28:53
Speaker 4: places you have your your quarterback buttoned up, but there's
28:56
Speaker 4: still others like Tennessee, you're not gonna know until they
28:59
Speaker 4: kick off week one.
29:00
Speaker 5: They're not going to tell you.
29:01
Speaker 4: But Vezion Brandon and George McIntyre are entering fall camp
29:06
Speaker 4: as one to two, not necessarily in that order, but
29:08
Speaker 4: they will battle this thing out. Alabama Austin Mack and
29:12
Speaker 4: Keelon Russell, Kaylyn de Bor and the offensive coordinator Ryan
29:14
Speaker 4: Grubb have not shown any cards on which.
29:18
Speaker 5: Way they're landing.
29:19
Speaker 4: As far as the Alabama quarterback competition, it says here
29:22
Speaker 4: on on three quote. For all the experience Austin Mack
29:25
Speaker 4: has in the offense, the excitement Keelon Russell brings to
29:29
Speaker 4: the field is difficult to tamp down. The former five
29:32
Speaker 4: star recruits duel threat ability caught everyone's attention on a
29:36
Speaker 4: day sources have told On three in recent weeks, don't
29:39
Speaker 4: be surprised to see both quarterbacks play Week one versus
29:41
Speaker 4: East Carolina. Russell's upside has everyone talking, but Mack has
29:45
Speaker 4: been with a debor and Grubb through every step of
29:48
Speaker 4: his college career. A source this week told On three
29:51
Speaker 4: they expect a two man battle to be a dogfight,
29:55
Speaker 4: and again, it just depends on how these guys perform
29:59
Speaker 4: day to day. We know that how they're picking up
30:01
Speaker 4: the offense. But you know, you talk about a guy
30:03
Speaker 4: like Kelon Russell, he gives you that second dimension to
30:06
Speaker 4: be able to pull the football down and run play
30:08
Speaker 4: eleven on eleven. Defensively, he's a true duel threat guy.
30:12
Speaker 4: Does Kaitlyn de Borg go that route? Florida still in
30:15
Speaker 4: a quarter? Aaron Filo and Trammel Jones Junior John Summer
30:19
Speaker 4: All and offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner uh brought to Georgia
30:23
Speaker 4: Tech transfer and Filo in this past season because of
30:25
Speaker 4: his familiarity with Faulkner's offense with the Yellow Jackets. You know,
30:30
Speaker 4: Filo didn't pull away in the competition, Trammel Jones had
30:33
Speaker 4: emerged as a legitimate contender. Jones continues to turnheads, you know,
30:37
Speaker 4: through spring and summer workouts, so it is a legitimate
30:40
Speaker 4: one too. North Carolina Bill Belichick, who I have said
30:44
Speaker 4: is already off to an to two start after the
30:47
Speaker 4: general manager, uh, you know, got slapped by hr and
30:50
Speaker 4: is you know, likely going to lose his job. The
30:53
Speaker 4: university or North Carolina football is under investigations, investigations, So
30:57
Speaker 4: they've got Billy Edwards Junior and Miles O'Neill. As they
31:01
Speaker 4: look it looks like Clemson. Christopher Vizenia is Clemson starting
31:07
Speaker 4: quarterback here in fall camp, but Dabo Sweeney's not ready
31:09
Speaker 4: to name him as the week one starter versus LSU
31:13
Speaker 4: just yet. Vizenia patiently waited his turn behind Kate Klubnick
31:17
Speaker 4: for his shot at the starting job. They do have
31:19
Speaker 4: a true freshman, Tate Reynolds, who has had you know,
31:23
Speaker 4: a good who had a good spring, has had a
31:25
Speaker 4: good summer. So but Dabo, I'm not ready to quite
31:28
Speaker 4: yet just go ahead and name it as Virginia as
31:30
Speaker 4: the starting quarterback. Vanderbilt another place where you have a
31:34
Speaker 4: quarterback battle going on, Jared Curtis and Blake Belowitz, and
31:38
Speaker 4: Belowitz is the five star the one five star quarterback
31:42
Speaker 4: that has come to Vanderbilt. The most decorated quarterback at least,
31:46
Speaker 4: you know, star wise or see me. Jared Curtis is
31:50
Speaker 4: he is the five star quarterback they flipped from Georgia,
31:55
Speaker 4: the number one quarterback recruit in twenty twenty six a cycle.
31:58
Speaker 4: He decided to stay home in Nashville and play for
32:01
Speaker 4: Clark Lee. So we'll see which direction they go. Arkansas
32:03
Speaker 4: has a quarterback battle kJ Jackson and AJ Hill. Cincinnati,
32:08
Speaker 4: you know, has a battle of sorts. I don't know
32:10
Speaker 4: that it matters who plays there. J. C. French is
32:13
Speaker 4: the name of the quarterback who's there. West Virginia and
32:15
Speaker 4: Rich Rodriguez in year two of the Comeback Tour, Michael
32:19
Speaker 4: Hawkins Junior and Scottie Fox. Kansas has a battle out
32:23
Speaker 4: of two guys, Duke Walker Egott that is a very
32:29
Speaker 4: weird quarterback named Stanford, Iowa, Nebraska. You know, there's several
32:34
Speaker 4: around the country that when you start looking at quarterback battles,
32:39
Speaker 4: it's going on around the country now. A lot of
32:41
Speaker 4: these places, obviously, you know, you you bring in a
32:43
Speaker 4: guy in the transfer portal, for instance, Lane Kiffin, I
32:46
Speaker 4: think finally named Sam Levitt. The quarterback, the starting quarterback there.
32:50
Speaker 4: But you bring in those guys like that, and especially
32:54
Speaker 4: high priced guys in college football, and they're gonna be
32:58
Speaker 4: your guy unless just something absolutely, you know, just crazy happens.
33:03
Speaker 4: Athlons has released their pre season SEC Power rankings for
33:08
Speaker 4: what it's worth again outlets continuing to name, uh, you know,
33:11
Speaker 4: power rankings and such of that nature.
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Speaker 5: They have.
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Speaker 4: Georgia as the number one team in the SEC. Surprise, surprise,
33:19
Speaker 4: Texas number two. That I mean, You're gonna see those
33:21
Speaker 4: two teams back and forth, Oklahoma at number three and
33:24
Speaker 4: again you're starting to see more and more people jump
33:26
Speaker 4: in on Oklahoma. I've told you I like Oklahoma as
33:30
Speaker 4: a nine win team, maybe a ten win team. Photos
33:34
Speaker 4: of John Butttier continue to circulate social media channels, specifically x.
33:38
Speaker 5: And his build, and.
33:41
Speaker 4: Even some suggesting that maybe he's doing something illegal. I mean,
33:44
Speaker 4: the guy looks unbelievable. He looks more like a bodybuilder
33:47
Speaker 4: than he does a football player. We'll see if that,
33:50
Speaker 4: you know, translates to victories for Oklahoma this year. Texas
33:54
Speaker 4: ay and him at number four. Courtesy of Athlones l
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Speaker 4: s U five, Ole, Miss six, Alabama seven, and again
34:01
Speaker 4: Alabama has lived anywhere from five to eight on most
34:05
Speaker 4: preseason publications. It is the lowest preseason ranking of Alabama
34:13
Speaker 4: in the Southeastern Conference in probably seventeen years. I mean,
34:17
Speaker 4: it is amazing, you know, and again it's just preseason,
34:19
Speaker 4: so I mean it doesn't mean anything. Alabama could come
34:22
Speaker 4: out and look the park. Keilon Russell could be the guy,
34:25
Speaker 4: he could be the best quarterback in the league, and
34:27
Speaker 4: Alabama may win the SEC.
34:28
Speaker 5: We just don't know.
34:29
Speaker 4: I mean, they got dudes all over the field. Tennessee
34:31
Speaker 4: at number eight, Florida at number nine, South Carolina ten, Missouri, Auburn,
34:36
Speaker 4: Missippi State at thirteen, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Arkansas.
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