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MAIS Football Is BACK! 🏈 Ross Hailey & Barrett Donahoe Break It All Down · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: Volleyball, softball, all kinds of fun things going on with
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  Speaker 1: our m AIS schools in the metro area and around
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  Speaker 1: the state and around the state, and Barrett Donahoe and
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  Speaker 1: Ross Haley joining us from the m AIS on ESPN
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  Speaker 1: one oh five nine.
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  Speaker 2: The zone sports have already started.
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  Speaker 1: The academic calendar year has already started, or so, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure it ever stops. And football is around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Barrett Ross, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we're doing great. Thank you for having us in today.
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  Speaker 4: If you ask my wife right now about the academic years,
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  Speaker 4: she would say it hasn't started because of the school
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  Speaker 4: which our children are they attend, have they start tomorrow?
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  Speaker 4: And she is ready to get them out of the house.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, yeah, I mean absolutely, But no, we're very
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  Speaker 4: pleased to be in and very excited about the upcoming
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  Speaker 4: year for m AIS athletics and all things m AIS as.
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  Speaker 4: We have started our fall sports seasons and we're getting
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  Speaker 4: ready to kick off football Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is what Pete, you know, you the
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  Speaker 1: the student athletes have worked for months, right they live
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  Speaker 1: in the weight room, they live on the practice field, football, volleyball,
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  Speaker 1: softball and now they get to play somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: We all remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when you had to play each other for just
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  Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of practices Barrett, and then you got
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  Speaker 1: to go play Prep or JA or Tri County or
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  Speaker 1: whoever it was. And then it was like, Okay, now
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  Speaker 1: I'm fired up. I get to play, I get to
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  Speaker 1: put the game day jersey on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it's you know, you get to the
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  Speaker 4: point where and previous coaching experience plus playing you get
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  Speaker 4: to the point where it's it you're you're tired of
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  Speaker 4: of heating and and competing against your own teammates.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's time to go, uh see what we're
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  Speaker 3: all about.
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  Speaker 4: It's time to go see what your team's all about,
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  Speaker 4: how how you're built and and week ones the great
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  Speaker 4: opportunity for growth. And so we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 4: games this Friday night, uh to kick off our season
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  Speaker 4: and what we call Week zero, and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be exciting to see what the outcomes are
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  Speaker 4: in some different matchups. But yeah, I know the I
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  Speaker 4: know the coaches and the players and for particular schools
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  Speaker 4: that we play in this this week, are very excited
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  Speaker 4: to get back on the field.
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  Speaker 1: We're visiting with Barrett Donahan Ross Haley on ESPN one
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  Speaker 1: oh five nine the Zone M S AI S dot
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  Speaker 1: Org m A I S.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, they're getting everything kicked off.
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  Speaker 1: People are getting in school, getting settled, and we got football, softball,
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  Speaker 1: volleyball among other sports rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how long have you been with the m A.
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  Speaker 4: S Sparrett, Around eighteen months as the executive director.
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  Speaker 3: I've transitioned from.
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  Speaker 4: The head of school position at Pillow Academy in Greenwood
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  Speaker 4: before I took this position, and it's been it's been
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  Speaker 4: a very we We've got our challenges in the association
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  Speaker 4: like everyone does and every aspect of business and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know what they do. But it's been a very
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  Speaker 4: rewarding experience and I'm I'm really enjoying my position and
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  Speaker 4: really grateful to have Ross Haley come join us as
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  Speaker 4: our chief operating officer for athletics as we move forward
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  Speaker 4: and working on marketing initiatives and different things that we
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  Speaker 4: have just maybe not focused on enough in the past
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  Speaker 4: to grow our brand sure, and so we're excited about
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  Speaker 4: that as we continue to try to grow our brand.
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  Speaker 3: But no, eighteen months on the job, and I'm still here.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun interacting.
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  Speaker 4: With the heads of schools, the leaders of the schools, to.
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  Speaker 3: Be a part of that every day.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, we're just we're blessed to be in
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  Speaker 4: a position where we are in the MS right now,
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  Speaker 4: where we have one hundred and thirty six schools across
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  Speaker 4: four states.
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  Speaker 2: And one hundred and thirty six schools.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred and thirty six schools across four states,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, a large population based in Louisiana that
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  Speaker 4: compete in our league, and a couple in Tennessee and
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  Speaker 4: a few in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: And that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, we're blessed and excited about everything that's happening
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 1: And you've never had better at athletes are deeper rosters
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  Speaker 1: all around the state states. I mean, this m AIS
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  Speaker 1: is loaded with big time athletes men's and women's sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that go.
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  Speaker 2: To Major League Baseball SEC G five, you name it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you've guys, I mean you've I mean,
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  Speaker 4: let's just take I mean Jackson Prepp for example. I
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  Speaker 4: mean they've got four arm sorry, three former players uh
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  Speaker 4: on MLB rosters right now, two on the starting yeah, starting, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And I mean and that's crazy, right, And we were
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  Speaker 4: talking about that the other day in the office, like
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  Speaker 4: we need we've got to research that to figure out
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  Speaker 4: does that exist anywhere else? Like does any other high
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  Speaker 4: school in the country have three Major League Baseball players on?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not?
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  Speaker 1: Jake Mingham, Connor Griffin, and Will Warren. Will's with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have him on next week, Connor and Mangam
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  Speaker 1: who Barrett's talking about, or with the Pirates. And you
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  Speaker 1: got guys moving up in minor league baseball. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you that's but you're right, one school three players active, starting,
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  Speaker 1: win healthy in MLB. Yeah, two hundred plus mel remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: And then then you've got the Brewers who have the
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  Speaker 4: best record in baseball and they got to start in
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  Speaker 4: sport style from Magnella High souper proud.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that really is incredible, all right, And
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up because I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 1: And I should have Barrett Donahoe on the Out of
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  Speaker 1: Bounds Show, Ross Haley. So I'm going to bring Ross
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  Speaker 1: here in here for a second Ross was.
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  Speaker 2: With how long were you at mra A twenty eight years?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight years? And now you've been with m AI
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  Speaker 1: S for two months?
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  Speaker 3: Two months?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a great it's been a great uh been
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  Speaker 5: a great opportunity. I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all are going to make a good team. Y'all
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  Speaker 2: are on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I've met with y'all and I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about well, you know, the mojo and the energy and
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  Speaker 1: the excitement around m A I as I know you
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  Speaker 1: are too.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely month and a half Monday, month and a half.
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  Speaker 4: It's just finmal vacation.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: It's great, that's right, and half so does so. Football
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  Speaker 1: starts this Friday or next Friday.
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  Speaker 4: We had some jamborees, uh this past week and some
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  Speaker 4: scrimmages this past week.
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  Speaker 3: We have week zero Friday night. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: We we have some good matchups Friday night and and
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  Speaker 4: some some teams that are eager to get on the field.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know the specific number of games, uh, Ross
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  Speaker 4: you may, but the you know it's you know, you
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  Speaker 4: got I think Lamar Traveling Simpson.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you've got they'll get after it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jackson Academy traveling the league. You've got some really
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  Speaker 4: good eight man matchups, and we have an eight man
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  Speaker 4: league which is which is really thriving right now, and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's it's been exciting to watch those schools get
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  Speaker 4: behind those that that that brand of football and and
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  Speaker 4: what they that site that brings to those communities.
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  Speaker 3: It's really been nice to watch over the years.
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  Speaker 4: And and and so we've got some really good eight
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  Speaker 4: man matchups this week as well.
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  Speaker 3: So and and I just named a couple of games.
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  Speaker 4: They're there are numerous other games are going to be
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  Speaker 4: the great matchups.
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  Speaker 1: But and then everybody gets fired off on the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty first, So we'll have a bunch of games this
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  Speaker 1: Friday night and then everybody gets rolling next Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, which is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: M R A usually plays in that week zero week,
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  Speaker 1: but they're they're not playing I think because I had
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  Speaker 1: I had Weaver on two days ago, I think, and
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  Speaker 1: they're playing Ravenwood or somebody.
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  Speaker 5: They travel to Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, Barrett Donahoe and Ross Haley, m A.
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  Speaker 1: I S on the Out of Bounds Show.
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  Speaker 2: M S. A I S dot org.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got four classifications Barrett, right now, Yes, that's correct, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Four A, three A, two A one A and I
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  Speaker 4: think fourteen schools in the top classification. Then it tears
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  Speaker 4: down from there from for athletic purposes before classifications and
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  Speaker 4: and you know, we're in a realignment year this year,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll be, you know, a typical realignment year. We've
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  Speaker 4: gone through some challenges over the last two years with
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  Speaker 4: the alignment, and I think the people that serve on
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  Speaker 4: our Athletic Commission would laugh if they heard me say that.
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  Speaker 3: They would probably call it more than challenges. But we
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  Speaker 3: but we are.
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  Speaker 4: We're in a typical realignment cycle year this year, and
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  Speaker 4: so we'll start those conversations in October about what we
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  Speaker 4: look like moving forward. But I don't see a lot
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  Speaker 4: of changes coming up. I think that we're kind of
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  Speaker 4: kind of feeling like we were in a good place
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  Speaker 4: right now with the classifications that we have.
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  Speaker 1: I know y'all put a lot of work in it
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. That's an understatement, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's yes.
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  Speaker 1: We did so four classifications four A, three A, two
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  Speaker 1: A one A with M Ai is correct, Okay, championships
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  Speaker 1: all over and sports from from golf to football and
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  Speaker 1: from volleyball to to basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, and and you know, like right now, I mean
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  Speaker 4: we've got you know, softball and volleyball. Volleyball has really
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  Speaker 4: taken a hold in our league and is growing rapidly,
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  Speaker 4: and it is it's it's a lot of fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: It's a sport that that.
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  Speaker 4: I think of so many people have in our state
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  Speaker 4: alone have started to embrace and so we're we're excited
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  Speaker 4: about what's happening there. And then softball, I mean, we
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  Speaker 4: just have tremendous girls softway athletes and really good teams
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  Speaker 4: that can go compete against anybody.
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  Speaker 1: So the growth in softball has been going on for
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  Speaker 1: a while now and it's red hot. You're you're right
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  Speaker 1: on volleyball, it's I think there's a lot more runway
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  Speaker 1: and growth there as far as around here in this state.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we had Todd Sandridge on and his daughter
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  Speaker 1: played at m RA and now she's playing at Jones.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean I've had friends whose daughters have played
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  Speaker 1: volleyball and.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's action packed, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So people get in and you're locked in and it's
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  Speaker 1: not long.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's great. So that's what people want this
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  Speaker 2: day and age.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Another another part of volleyball growing right now is it
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  Speaker 5: grew through the high schools. And because it grew through
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  Speaker 5: the high schools, now the Jucos have started offering.
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  Speaker 2: Me that's a good point.
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  Speaker 5: There are there's so many there's so many more Jucos
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  Speaker 5: offering volleyball now than there were three years ago. And
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  Speaker 5: that's just going to continue to help volleyball grow across
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  Speaker 5: our state when there's that many more opportunities for him
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  Speaker 5: to play, for girls to play at the at the
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  Speaker 5: next level. Yeah, the Jucos, the Jucos embracing volleyball is
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  Speaker 5: going to increase the high school participation also.
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  Speaker 2: Which is great. More scholarships, more opportunities. Absolutely, But what
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  Speaker 2: you said, I think is real.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's so.
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  Speaker 4: Fast, yeah, and and and and that just keeps everything
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  Speaker 4: moving and and it's the girls are energetic.
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  Speaker 3: On the court and it's I don't know, it's fun
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  Speaker 3: to want.
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  Speaker 1: Coaching's gotten better, Development's gotten better from elementary in the
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  Speaker 1: junior high, which is feeding what y'all are talking about
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  Speaker 1: into high school.
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  Speaker 2: And post high school.
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  Speaker 1: So softball and and let me get this right, so
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  Speaker 1: football is full speed ahead. Y'all have got softball full
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  Speaker 1: speed ahead, volleyball, cross country. So you've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sports that are already rolling big time and and
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  Speaker 1: either competing or about to compete.
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  Speaker 3: Right. I have a h.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have a spirit competition for our cheerleaders and dancers
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  Speaker 5: coming up September ninth.
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  Speaker 3: We have a h.
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  Speaker 5: We have a state swim meet coming up also nice. So, uh,
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  Speaker 5: there's you know, the the swim is mostly still club
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  Speaker 5: swimming across across our league, but there are we have
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  Speaker 5: we have several schools that have regular season swim meets also,
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  Speaker 5: so yeah, it's you know, it's it's out there and
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  Speaker 5: there's a there's a nice there's a nice group of
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  Speaker 5: kids that are out there swimming all the time, swimming
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  Speaker 5: for clubs and swimming for their schools during the regular season.
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  Speaker 5: And then the state swim meet that comes up out
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  Speaker 5: at grit On Lakeland.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, great place, grit Fitness and Training.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Ross, I can I can help you throw
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  Speaker 5: some sponsors into sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Barrett Donaho and Ross Haley, m A I S
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  Speaker 1: M s AI S dot org. The school year is
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  Speaker 1: underway and the athletic calendar has started, and everybody's chomping
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  Speaker 1: at the bit with high school football. As Barrett mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: we're not but about forty eight hours away from week
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  Speaker 1: zero where they're going to have a bunch of games
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  Speaker 1: going on around the state or states that encompass this
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  Speaker 1: great organization. And then next week everybody's playing game on
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  Speaker 1: and then before we know it, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: the j preps and the MRA Heartfields and the it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be crazy. Or like Barrett said, you got
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  Speaker 1: Lamar and Simpson right out of the gate. You know
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  Speaker 1: they want to get after each other and they know
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  Speaker 1: how to play football there Obviously, Jacob Land left m
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  Speaker 1: R A to go, I mean left Lamar to go
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  Speaker 1: to m R A. And Simpson's been playing great football
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  Speaker 1: for a long time down on Highway forty nine South.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be uh, how about a chomping of the
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  Speaker 1: bit game this Friday night between Lamar and Simpson ms
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  Speaker 1: AI S dot org ross.
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  Speaker 2: How weird will it be?
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  Speaker 1: So when Ricky Black or Richard Dewiz step down or
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  Speaker 1: retire legendary coaches and in this association, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's crazy. It's going to be wild not to
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  Speaker 1: see coach Dewise out there this year, just like it
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  Speaker 1: was crazy not to see coach Black after the run
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  Speaker 1: that he made at Jackson Prepp. Yeah, our coach Sojourner
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  Speaker 1: at JA.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're talking about Hall of Famers.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh, you know, we we've we've had lots
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  Speaker 5: of uh. I mean, I think people across I think
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  Speaker 5: I think people across our state understand the level of
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  Speaker 5: coaching that the m a i s has and some
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  Speaker 5: of those you know, some of those folks that have
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  Speaker 5: been legendary coaches that have been at for so long.
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  Speaker 5: But we have so many great young coaches across our association.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned Jacob and in the world of football, and uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, there's there's just there's a lot of great
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  Speaker 5: coaches across our association. Harper Huddle's going to do a
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  Speaker 5: great job replacing coach to Eist there.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, those are.
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  Speaker 2: A big shoot.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Kaylin de Boor replacing Nick Saban, Harper
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  Speaker 1: Hudnell's replacing Richard Deuis.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, just the the entire if you
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  Speaker 5: look at the entire metro area of coaches, they're all
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  Speaker 5: so much younger than, uh than they used to be.
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  Speaker 2: Really, yeah, you've got a youth movement.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Ten you know, ten years ago you still had you
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  Speaker 5: still had Bill Ball coaching, and you had uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: coach Dewish, you had Tim Wise coaching at Jackson Prepp.
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  Speaker 5: Just an older, an older group of folks. And now
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  Speaker 5: you look up and uh, I think Chris Goodman in
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  Speaker 5: the Metro area is probably the oldest one, and he's
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  Speaker 5: he's probably only thirty three or thirty four years old.
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  Speaker 2: So golly, who knew that Herbert's the senior guy? Are
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  Speaker 2: some of those? I mean, because that's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: You had Ricky Black, Jan Sojourner, Bill Ball, Richard Deuiz,
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  Speaker 1: Joey Hawkins, all these people that had been coaching and
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  Speaker 1: very successful for a long time, among others.
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  Speaker 2: You got y'all got to this is exciting. Y'all got
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  Speaker 2: a youth movement going on here. I didn't even thought
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  Speaker 2: about that within the m A.
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  Speaker 3: I s yeah, and.
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  Speaker 4: I think that, uh, it goes to show that the
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  Speaker 4: caliber of young coaches in our association is elite.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it really is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, these you know, you watch you watch these
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  Speaker 4: young coaches on the sidelines, on the basketball court, wherever
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  Speaker 4: they are, and whatever sport, and you just see that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to take the place of that generation that
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  Speaker 4: is retiring and moving on and had had really starved
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  Speaker 4: the m A I s in a tremendous capacity of
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  Speaker 4: doubt and and and really created what we are today,
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  Speaker 4: right and put us helped us land in the map
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  Speaker 4: of on the map of success and athletics and so so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the youth, I haven't really thought of it that way.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great way to put it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but and it's pretty awesome and excited. I mean,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: you love what those men and women laid the groundwork, right,
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  Speaker 1: and now you've got this youth movement in m ais.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to give Chuck Box a hard time.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to tell him. I'm going to text
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: him after the show and let hey, I just thought
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: of this with Barrett and Ross. You're you're one of
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the old guys. I mean, Jackson Academy hired a guy
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: off the Texas Longhorn staff. How awesome is that.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad to have him back in this up too.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, it'll be it's gonna be really unique to
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: see how that dynamic plays out there. I think he's,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: of course everybody.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Knows he's a phenomenal coach, so really really excited to
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: have it back in the association.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Well, you know this, when you have coaches who elevate
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: their program, it makes the others, It makes the rivals
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: and the competitors get their act together, right absolutely, I
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: mean that's what you want, and you know, prep One forever,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: and then others started jumping on board JA, m R Heartfield,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: you know, Park Laye, Pillar, The list goes on and on,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and now it's almost like the portal with SEC. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: mean there's been a leveling of the playing field, which
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: is very you don't ever know who's gonna win it now,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: especially in this metro area. Could be Heartfield, could be
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: m ra A, could be Prepped, could be JA. I
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: think that's exciting for you guys, especially knowing that they're
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: going to play in the regular season and who knows
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: who's going to tie up in the postseason in the playoffs.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Barrett Donahue and Ross Haley m Ai S joining us
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: on ESPN one oh five nine The Zone. So the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: academic athletic year has started.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Football this Friday.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Night week zero m ais and everybody's playing next week.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And then you're you know, you're seeing growth, You're seeing
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: more and more people go to games. I mean, this
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: has got to be exciting. Y'all have y'all have football games,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: basketball games. I mean, look at your Magnolia Heights Jay championship.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: In baseball, you got people showing up a lot of people,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: big crowds to championship playoff games.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what round. That's got to be exciting
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: And Ross, Yeah, we were sitting there last year at
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: the for a football championship game at Mississippi College Hartfield
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: and Jackson Academy.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to say it was a record crowd
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: for our for our largest classification. I would, I don't
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: have the numbers to back that up, but it was
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: a packed house in Missippian I mean. And and the
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: people that are coming to watch the athletes in our
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: association today is more than ever before, you know, And
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: and so yeah, it's it's it's awesome. We look forward
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to Friday nights and watching you know, and of course
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a lot of that comes back to
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: the communities. Sure, I mean the communities in the community
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: love for their schools and going out and supporting on
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Friday nights or or on Tuesday Tuesday afternoons when the
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: softball matchups taking place, or you.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Know whatever that might look like.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: But yeah, we're really excited about the participation that we
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: have and all of our sports and the fans that
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: are coming to watch.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: M AI s kicking it off for the twenty twenty
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: six twenty twenty seven Academic Athletic Here, y'all have started
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a podcast, Barrett Ross, somebody want to jump in here.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: This is exciting to share share the story and the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: message of m AIS coaches and players and teams.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: We have.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: We've we're calling into the Legends and Leaders podcast. I
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: like that, and it's the first two episodes have actually
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: been released. It's at m aissports dot org and there's
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: going to be a link on the ms AIS dot
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: org website also, so we'll be able to go to
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: the main website and find the Legend and Leaders link.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: But for those of you that just want to go
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: out and find it right now, it's m aissports dot
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: org or uh, We've we started out the idea. Uh,
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: the idea Bart and I came up with was, uh
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: we wanted to get and basically an oral history of
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: our association. Yes, uh you know, so we started out
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: the first the first nine episodes we've we've already recorded
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and and we used our uh we used the most
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: experienced leaders uh of our association. So uh, folks like
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: David Derek and doctor Alan Smithers and Jan Sojourner has
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: been one of our guests. Uh, Peter Gernberg was at
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: JAA and Indianola for a long time. Uh, you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: so we wanted we wanted those, We wanted the more experienced,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: the older generation of our folks to come back and
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: and tell us, you know, tell us their fond memories
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: of our association. Absolutely just to get those recorded. And uh,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: we're partnering with the Frascona Law Firm and Mike Frascona
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: and we've we've been visiting and and we're gonna amp
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: it up. We're gonna uh we're our next our next
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: set of our next set of podcasts. We're gonna include
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Connor Griffin in there. Josh Evert's gonna one of our guests.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Nice along with more more of our older folks that
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: have So it's gonna be it's not just gonna focus
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: on history any longer. It's gonna focus on players and history.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: So yeah, every you know, every week is gonna be
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: a different type of guest on there. But it's gonna
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: be people that have been through our association, that have
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: that helped make our association better.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Sure, So y'all laid the groundwork with the first few podcasts,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and now you'll be happening having Connor Griffin and Josh
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Hubbard and others on m a i S Sports dot Org.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, those will come out. Those will come out weekly.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: So as I said, the first two of the first
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: two have already been published, and they'll start publishing weekly.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: You'll you can kind of scroll through and see who
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: the see who the upcoming guests are and and check
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: back in when those get released.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: That's exciting, all right, So we'll do this again. So
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: is there any we got a minute here on the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: way out? Is there anything that we need to hit
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in the last minute knowing that that we can do
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this again in a few weeks.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Ross, don't don't sleep on park Lay Football. Okay, don't
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: don't sleep on Parkland football.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Well, they there's some tough dudes down in Macomb, Mississippi.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I remember going down there and playing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah we missed.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: We mentioned a lot of a lot of teams, a
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: lot of Parklay football.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, they're strong.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Keep keep an eye out on park Laying football this season.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: And we've got week zero this week, m a i S.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And then next week everybody gets it kicked off for
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Barrett and Ross. I'm your host, Bo Bounds. Go to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: m AI sports dot org. M a I S Sports
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: dot org. I think this is a great idea on
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the podcast to one share the story and then start
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: talking about current coaches and schools and players.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Barrett, we appreciate it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Hey, thank you for having us on. We really appreciate it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Ross Haley, thanks than We'll be back in just a second.