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Episode 9- Seven Game Winning Streak & There's Still Work To Do! · Friday Night's At The Creek

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  Speaker 1: All right, folks. I'm not Doug Hess. I'm filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Doug Hess. He's on assignment. I'm James Lodge, your
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  Speaker 1: CEO and president of JLJ Media. And one thing, I
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to come on the podcast and talk
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  Speaker 1: to our extraordinary coach, Coach Max Gooden, here for Friday
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  Speaker 1: Night at the Creek. We're here, our hit podcast here
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  Speaker 1: on JLJ Media. And, I mean, Indian Creek football is
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  Speaker 1: doing so well. So let me welcome the coach on first. Hello, coach.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Not too bad. You know, we've talked about the weather.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're a sunny and 90 degrees out there
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  Speaker 2: in LA. He's got, maybe got some people jealous, but
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  Speaker 2: we're kind of in that sweet spot right now where
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  Speaker 2: we've got some really good weather rolling through here for fall.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, see, I like fall. See fall is great. Cause
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  Speaker 1: fall could be still not super freezing. There's no snow yet,
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  Speaker 1: but it starts to kind of cool down after I
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  Speaker 1: was in Indiana and Illinois where it was like tons
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  Speaker 1: of heat. The first couple of weeks I was there
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  Speaker 1: in September, Then the rain came and it started to
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  Speaker 1: kind of– so I'm like, I like the fall weather.
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  Speaker 2: We're in that sweet spot right now where it's 70
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  Speaker 2: and sunny outside.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: It's perfect. But I know that first freeze is coming
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  Speaker 2: up really, really quick.
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  Speaker 1: It is. So here's a great question that was off script.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this. So in terms of football,
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  Speaker 1: because you're playing football season, as we know, is one
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  Speaker 1: of the shortest seasons of all sports, obviously. Yep. But
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  Speaker 1: it's during a weird time because it's with preseason practice
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  Speaker 1: into season. But it's you got a little bit of summer,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of fall, a little bit of winter.
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  Speaker 1: So how is you as a coach prepare just the
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  Speaker 1: mental acuity for the weather changes for your team?
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  Speaker 2: So one of the first things that we I would
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  Speaker 2: say it's the second slide that we show them on
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  Speaker 2: a scouting report is details to know. Um, and it's, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what time is the game and what's the location of
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  Speaker 2: the game, even though they know, you know, everyone knows
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  Speaker 2: the schedule, but the second bullet point is the expected
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  Speaker 2: weather for a Friday night. Now, do you know that
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  Speaker 2: on a Monday?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to track those things?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But Hey, start, you know, there's a 60% chance of
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  Speaker 2: rain for Friday when you're on Monday, like, Hey, start
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  Speaker 2: getting mentally prepared. Um, But for me as a football coach,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that you want to prepare schematically
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  Speaker 2: and be able to have a team that is good
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  Speaker 2: in any type of weather or any type of condition.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell those kids all the time, we are
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  Speaker 2: trying to prepare or be successful no matter the circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: whether we're on a grass field and there's three inches
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  Speaker 2: of mud. or we're on a turf field, and hey,
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  Speaker 2: the footing's a little off. You know, just no excuses
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  Speaker 2: on that end, but we've got to have answers for
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  Speaker 2: that and have those answers built in for a Friday night. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we talk about rain and mud a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but what if it's 30-mile-an-hour winds? That makes it really
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  Speaker 2: hard to throw the footballs. So those are things that
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  Speaker 2: wind is almost worse than rain a lot of times.
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  Speaker 2: So it just depends, but you've just got to have
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  Speaker 2: those answers built in and just like you said, get
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  Speaker 2: them mentally prepared. But I think that starts as early
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  Speaker 2: as you possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you guys have, because we have all these
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  Speaker 1: podcasts on here, you have dealt with extreme heat, too. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, folks, the Midwest will do some heat.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 2: But I will tell you that a big point of
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  Speaker 2: emphasis for us as a program is spending money on
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  Speaker 2: hydration supplies, whether it's liquid IVs or, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say salt, like salt supplements that they
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  Speaker 2: can take before a game. just any edge that we
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  Speaker 2: can find specifically in hydration, because hydration is so key
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  Speaker 2: because you see kids cramp on a Friday night, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden they're out the game. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: bounce back from cramps if they're bad enough and you
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  Speaker 2: just got to know your kids. And you know, those
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  Speaker 2: are small areas that people don't think about, but I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a big area of investment for us is
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  Speaker 2: in nutrition.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I like that. Of course. Well, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are seven and oh, I mean, you beat Speedway 42-7,
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  Speaker 1: second week in a row, nice big lead. My question
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  Speaker 1: to you, first, congratulations, of course. Congratulations. Thank you. But
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  Speaker 1: my question to you is, when you're winning, it's different
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  Speaker 1: than when you are losing or win-losing. When you have
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  Speaker 1: a streak, how do you, as Coach Gooden and your staff,
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  Speaker 1: how do you keep yourself grounded and and your kids'
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  Speaker 1: eyes on the prize and grounded? Because before the show,
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  Speaker 1: you said something we say in Hollywood. You're only as
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  Speaker 1: good as your last TV show, your last gig. You're like,
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  Speaker 1: we're good this week. How do you keep them grounded?
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  Speaker 2: One thing I told them after practice is we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to get bored chasing excellence through ordinary greatness. And
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  Speaker 2: what I mean by that is We've got to show
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  Speaker 2: up every single day. And our motto is sharpen the
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  Speaker 2: spear for daily improvement. And it doesn't get boring. It's just,
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  Speaker 2: I think for kids, sometimes it's like, okay, like what's
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  Speaker 2: the next thing? What's the next big thing? And that's
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  Speaker 2: very common. I think it's very common in adults. However,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have that everyday excellence of, I know
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  Speaker 2: that we're practicing offense and it's this session and hey,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to complete the ball consistently. or we're doing
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  Speaker 2: defense against this look that the other team's offense does,
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  Speaker 2: and that's going to require me to have my eyes
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  Speaker 2: in the right spot. Well, then I'm going to transition
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  Speaker 2: to a portion of the offensive practice where, okay, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be closer to the end zone, and my
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  Speaker 2: mindset has got to be, hey, I've got to bury
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  Speaker 2: my guy and go score. And sometimes it becomes monotonous
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  Speaker 2: or tedious. It's week eight. The other thing that I
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  Speaker 2: think the average fan doesn't think about is it's almost
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  Speaker 2: fall break. And we've been at school for 10 consecutive
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  Speaker 2: weeks without a break. You know, Labor Day's in there,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not a true break. So you get the
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  Speaker 2: mental toll of, hey, we've been at school, and you
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  Speaker 2: get that excitement. And just being honest and real with
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  Speaker 2: the kids of, hey, everyone this time of year is
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  Speaker 2: either feeling it physically or mentally. And our sectional draw
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  Speaker 2: is coming up on Sunday. And that third season, as
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  Speaker 2: I like to call it, where you go non-conference, conference,
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  Speaker 2: And postseason, you know, you get those things, but you
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  Speaker 2: just got to circle back. Another thing that I told
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  Speaker 2: the kids this week is you're not going to be
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  Speaker 2: the most motivated person day in and day out because
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  Speaker 2: you might be you might wake up physically tired, but
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  Speaker 2: you've got to rely on your discipline and those things
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  Speaker 2: and handle your business. Don't just go through it, but
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  Speaker 2: handle it. So those are all things that we will
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  Speaker 2: talk about on a given week. But we're playing a
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  Speaker 2: five and two football team. that is playing really well
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  Speaker 2: this week in Beach Grove. I know they had a
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  Speaker 2: tough loss last week. But if you don't show up
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  Speaker 2: one week in our conference, you're going to get embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: And our kids have done a really, really, really good
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  Speaker 2: job of focusing in on the opponent every single week.
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  Speaker 2: Do they need reminders now and then? Absolutely. But they know, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we've got some really good teams that we're finishing out
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  Speaker 2: the season against. They're well coached. They play hard. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've got to show up and do your
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  Speaker 2: part every single day.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't that great though, when you, when you are
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  Speaker 1: opposite teams that are well coached and the teams are good,
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  Speaker 1: you want, you don't want just easy layup wins. You
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to, you want to play. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it elevates your program to force you to coach harder,
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  Speaker 2: play harder, being on your details. Hey, if you're not
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  Speaker 2: on your details, you're going to lose close football games.
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  Speaker 2: And we've experienced that a few times last year. And
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  Speaker 2: that was a tremendous point of emphasis for us this
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  Speaker 2: off season. But along with that, you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make it harder on us. Absolutely. But you want to
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  Speaker 2: elevate yourself throughout the season. And for you as a coach,
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  Speaker 2: it helps you in the fact of kids watching, like
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  Speaker 2: they watch the same film that you do. That's a,
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  Speaker 2: that's a big saying for us in the fact of
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  Speaker 2: if you turn on a film and the team is
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  Speaker 2: just horrible, like just really badly coached, you can't lie
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  Speaker 2: to the kids and be like, Hey, this team, like
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  Speaker 2: if the team can't, if, if they see on the film,
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  Speaker 2: like coach, this team can't beat us. When we show
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  Speaker 2: up every single week, you turn on the film and
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  Speaker 2: the Hoosier legends conference, the kids can turn on the
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  Speaker 2: film and say, well, if I don't play well, like
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  Speaker 2: they're going to get after us. And that's absolutely the
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  Speaker 2: case once again, this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing is you guys, I was laughing with this,
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  Speaker 1: but it was another coach, one of our other shows.
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  Speaker 1: I go, wow. When I was in high school, 10,000
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  Speaker 1: years ago and dinosaurs were on the earth, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have film. Right. You know what I mean? Like back
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  Speaker 1: when I played, well, we didn't, it was just like,
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  Speaker 1: we had, they had playbooks. We talked about how people
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  Speaker 1: had to pay attention to the game and tell us
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  Speaker 1: how we did. But I was like, you guys are
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  Speaker 1: so lucky now that you actually have on the side,
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  Speaker 1: you can look and say, look what happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at this.
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  Speaker 2: It's, it's, and there's give and take with technology and
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  Speaker 2: social media, but it's direct feedback, you know, and that's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of finding the edge or that little, that
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  Speaker 2: little thing that you can give them. But for us
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  Speaker 2: to be able to sit down and draw the mistakes
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  Speaker 2: that they made and put a note of, this is
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  Speaker 2: what you did. This is what you were supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you're really, really good with it and
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  Speaker 2: you're like clicking on all cylinders, the kids watch the
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  Speaker 2: film with the notes and then they come to the
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  Speaker 2: film session and say, Hey, I saw your note. Here's
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  Speaker 2: my question about your note. And then you've got an even,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's where you get to level three thinking of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I, I saw your note, I have a
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  Speaker 2: question about it. And there's an if then scenario, and
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  Speaker 2: then you get to coach those scenarios up. Blessed, fortunate,
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  Speaker 2: all those things, man, it's a big deal. But it's
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  Speaker 2: also a props to our school for knowing that those
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  Speaker 2: things are important and allowing us to in our community,
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  Speaker 2: to allowing us to have those things in order to
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  Speaker 2: be successful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, any high school or junior high school
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  Speaker 1: or middle school team is as good as his community. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it matters.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a.
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  Speaker 2: Coach is only as good as his players and the
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  Speaker 2: support that he has around him. And that includes administration.
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  Speaker 2: That includes the staff. That includes the teachers. That includes
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  Speaker 2: the people in the community saying, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be tough. We're going to be a football team. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be a football school. among other things, like
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  Speaker 2: there's other things that we enjoy here, but football is
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  Speaker 2: important to this community and the school. Um, and, and
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  Speaker 2: that's awesome. That's a place you want to be because
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  Speaker 2: if you're at a place that isn't as passionate about, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what you're passionate about, then it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I do. I love that. I've seen it. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen it. Um, so yeah, you guys beat Speedway 42, seven.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give it some shout. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give some standouts and get your thoughts on there's three
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  Speaker 1: players that have been brought up that did really well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's, um, Let's see, I can't read my own handwriting.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Dowdy, Hunter Worley, and is it Ewan Clark? Evan Clark.
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  Speaker 1: I'm left-handed in my own handwriting.
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  Speaker 2: So those three did an awesome job on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: Paxton Walters is a running back that's next to Patrick Dowdy. And,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we were right around 200 yards rushing and
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  Speaker 2: 200 yards passing. So very balanced. I mean, give or
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  Speaker 2: take a few yards here and there.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick and Paxton have done a great job being a
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  Speaker 2: two headed monster. Evan is our quarterback who likes to
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  Speaker 2: launch it down the field to Mr. Worley and Hunter
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  Speaker 2: will get some handoffs here and there. But all those
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  Speaker 2: things don't happen without a great offensive line and tight
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  Speaker 2: ends and the blocking that occurs up front. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a testament to all 11. You know, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you can list a running, a running back, both running backs, quarterback, receiver,
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  Speaker 2: like full team effort, To be able to run the
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  Speaker 2: ball and throw the ball evenly and do all those
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  Speaker 2: different things is a big testament to that group. But also,
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  Speaker 2: it helps when the defense gives you the ball back.
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  Speaker 1: As often as they do. Yes. Well, this is the
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  Speaker 1: second week in a row you've had a big gap win.
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  Speaker 1: And so, I mean, it doesn't always happen. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always happen, but it does happen. When your support staff,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you heavily lean on them. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure all the coordinators and everybody. And so... when you're playing,
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  Speaker 1: while you're playing, I was going to ask this question
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  Speaker 1: because while you're playing and you're scoring and you know,
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  Speaker 1: each quarter you're scoring everything, how do you keep the
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  Speaker 1: team from, again, just like resting on their laurels? Like say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I had, because it's different when you're, when you're
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  Speaker 1: like 21, 24, it's different when you're this, like when
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  Speaker 1: you have big leads, so how do you keep them,
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  Speaker 1: how do you get them going?
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  Speaker 2: So the biggest thing that we will kind of emphasize is,
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  Speaker 2: is the 35 point margin is the start of the
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  Speaker 2: running clock. So if you don't get to 35, there's no,
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  Speaker 2: there's no question like, Hey, we're going, we're trying to score.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to do all those things. But then it
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  Speaker 2: brings up the question of how long are our starters
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  Speaker 2: going to play? So that's a very natural question. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: am I allowed to go in? And those are things
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  Speaker 2: that the kids will ask to keep them motivated, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if it's not 35 points, Hey, our foot is on
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  Speaker 2: the gas and you've.
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  Speaker 1: Got to go.
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  Speaker 2: And usually the key number for me is like 14
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  Speaker 2: to 28. Okay. So, and for that, if you get
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  Speaker 2: up 14, it's like, all right, let's, let's build that gap.
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  Speaker 2: Keep our foot on the gas. Don't because that's a
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  Speaker 2: very manageable company. Now, when you get to 28, that
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  Speaker 2: carrot is out in front of them of, Hey, 35
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  Speaker 2: is running clock like that. that is almost the dagger,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, because if you get that running clock
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  Speaker 2: and that thing starts burning through, it's, it's nearly impossible
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  Speaker 2: to come back from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But what I'll tell you, it is, is 35 with
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  Speaker 2: a running clock. Like it's close enough that like, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not really confident that, Hey, we can, this team's
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  Speaker 2: really bad and we can put it away or it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Like you got to leave your starters in for at
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  Speaker 2: least another series to kind of that gap.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we've, we've been in that scenario a few times,
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  Speaker 2: but the other thing that, you know, we will talk
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  Speaker 2: about as coaches, if we're on a area of games where, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it was 42-0 at halftime the week before, and we
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  Speaker 2: hit 35 with 10 minutes left in the quarter, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Number one is, is there a kid that we need
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  Speaker 2: to get off the field because they've got some lingering injuries?
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  Speaker 2: You know, does one kid need some rest? Hey, he's
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  Speaker 2: got a solid backup. Let's get him off the field
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  Speaker 2: and allow him a little more rest time. But the
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  Speaker 2: other point is, okay, if we've had two weeks or
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  Speaker 2: three weeks where we haven't played a full football game,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to be physically in shape to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Because if we get asked to do that, we got
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  Speaker 2: to be physically prepared. So those are all big points
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  Speaker 2: of emphasis for us and things that we think about
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  Speaker 2: on a Friday night that maybe the average fan doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, you know, it's when you're in that
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  Speaker 2: range of getting up some scores, the constant reminder is
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  Speaker 2: foot on the gas. Don't let them back up and
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to bury a team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, because one thing about football that can be exciting,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how the sides are on, many things can
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  Speaker 1: happen within five minutes, five seconds. We've all seen things
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  Speaker 1: that happen at the last minute. You never know. And
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  Speaker 1: that clock, I mean, when it's running. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's your job as the head football coach
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  Speaker 2: to set the thermostat and the messaging and different things.
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  Speaker 2: So the biggest thing that I'll do, like, as soon
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  Speaker 2: as the drive's over, when those guys get under the tent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where they go to watch film or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: I will put my head under there and, hey, keep going,
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  Speaker 2: keep going, keep going. You know, this is your opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: You got them. Like, don't let your foot off the gas.
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  Speaker 2: And just echoing those things to them so they hear
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  Speaker 2: it and they can communicate it to each other.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Well, coming up, of course, Friday,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: as we said, Beach Grove. It's like one of your
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: conference teams. There's an away game. It is. So how
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: does that, so do you take, I know some schools
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: take a full squad, some take a certain squad. So
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: two questions, is it a full squad? And then how
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: do you handle away games?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: So first, first one is to answer your first question.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: We will take all of our sophomores through seniors with us.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: So we've got a roster of 80 for the first
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: time this year. We've got about 24 freshmen. Um, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: we hire three buses and that's a lot of gas money.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And all that.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: So we take two buses, um, and we have managers
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: to take all those different things. Uh, so we will
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: take those guys. If we've got freshmen that are like
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: rotating in the two deep, they will go with us. But, um, the,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the freshmen are allowed to join us, but they will
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: have to get a separate ride and like on the sidelines.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: But they ride it with their parents to the game.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: They're allowed to do that. A road game. The biggest
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: thing for us is trying to keep the routine as
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: normal as possible. Try to keep it like the home routine.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But for me, you know, I just try to, I think,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: do a walkthrough with them. You know, hey, we're going
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: to get on the bus. You know, when we get
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: on the bus, we need to be focused on the game.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't care if you're talking a little bit,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: got your headphones on if you want to fall asleep,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: try to wake them up a few minutes before we arrive.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: But we try to keep a very, very similar routine.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: It's not something we talk about a whole lot. You know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: it's it's a hundred yard field. It's it's 52 yards wide. And,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: you know, we're just going to go play and address
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it as normal. Now, we talk a little bit about
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: what it's like or how long to walk from the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: locker room. Sure.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: But it's nothing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: It's nothing too crazy.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Well, folks, I'm in California, so I don't know. How
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: far is the school from your school?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's about 45 minutes, depending on traffic. Yeah,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: so some places would be like 45 minutes. Man, that's far,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: but that's a fairly normal trip for us.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I don't say no. I don't say no. I know
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: it's literally like two hours away. That's a long ride.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's a long ride. So not too far.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Beach Grove is just on the southeast side of Indianapolis.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, okay. Got it. Okay. I'm learning about Indiana.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I'm learning about Indiana. I may get a house there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Everybody's trying to get me to get a house there.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Who knows?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I might.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I'm liking it. I was there for a month, Max.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: It's a lot cheaper than California.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: You can say that again. When your gas is three-something,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm like, three-something? Three? We're at seven over here, so
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: it's crazy. Holy cow. Yeah, it's crazy. But I do
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have the beach. I have the beach, so I do
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: like that. No, but this is, you know, we're going
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to send you the best luck. I guess, well, show
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: me if you say break a leg. or have a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: good show. What do we say to a team about
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to play? What do we say to you?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Good luck's fine with me. We'll take any good luck
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: that we can get, but Beach Grove is a, is
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: a very, very well coached football team. They play incredibly hard.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: And coach Mosley, ever since he got there three years ago,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: he's just really built them into a good program that
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: plays really good brand of football.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: So they're five and two. They're not that bad. That's
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: not bad at all. They are.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They play fast. They play physical. they're just a well-coached
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: team that he's done a really, really good job with.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: So hats off to them.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Folks, you can follow them and go to the gate,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: fill those bleachers, do it, support the team, support the kids.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: If you can, if I could be there, I would
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: be there. So go in my place. Tell them James
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: sent you.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you for that, man. And thank you for
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: all you do. And we appreciate your media team for
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: putting this podcast together. I know that means a lot
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to a lot of people in this community and it's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: been a really good thing and people really like to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: listen to it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: That makes me very happy. We are happy to have
• 20:11
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• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Hess and I are very happy to have you guys.
• 20:18
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• 20:21
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• 20:24
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• 20:26
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• 20:48
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• 20:52
  Speaker 1: thank you, Coach, for coming on. Everyone, let's be safe
• 20:57
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• 20:58
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• 21:00
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• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, James. Go Braves.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Go Braves.