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Thursday Edition of the Drive - Hour Three · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W RK guys, pick it's Jackson where it's time time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're back with Jake Wemberley on the Afternoon Drives Live.
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  Speaker 1: Let it's on ESPN one o five point nine online
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  Speaker 2: Hour three of your radio show brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: I get ready as football is almost here. You have
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  Speaker 2: the NFL Hall of Fame Game next week and then
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  Speaker 2: you're off and running with pre season football. Where at
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  Speaker 2: Clinton High School today it is Arrowed Day on your
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  Speaker 2: radio courtesy Assissippi Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center. So we
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  Speaker 2: continue to move around and visit with local high schools
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  Speaker 2: and we appreciate and of course high schools elsewhere around
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  Speaker 2: the state. We'll be getting to North Mississippi here in
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  Speaker 2: a coming weeks and visit with some of those teams
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  Speaker 2: as well. Right now, Hammer Morgan, he's the head football
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  Speaker 2: coach for the Clinton Arrows kind enough to give us
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  Speaker 2: some time. Coach Morgan, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Good? Appreciate you having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Jake, thank you so much. You know, you and I
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  Speaker 2: were sitting here just talking shop during the break. I
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  Speaker 2: did not realize you had been here since twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: and we were talking to the success of Clinton and
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  Speaker 2: you know with cam Akers in those years, and just
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  Speaker 2: you know, talk a little bit about the history of
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  Speaker 2: this program, because I mean there is a lot of
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  Speaker 2: history that has happened here in Clinton and football.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean that's a very successful program, you know,
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  Speaker 4: over historically and you know since I've been here and
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  Speaker 4: I got here in twenty fifteen and was fortunate enough
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  Speaker 4: to coach it far as high school for I got
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  Speaker 4: to think like fourteen years before that. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: a little Bigson conference, all that goes back and you know,
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  Speaker 4: even if you want through our hallways, now, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we got some things, some pictures and things up there
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  Speaker 4: that talks about those uh you know, those conference championships
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  Speaker 4: that they won back there, and then obviously it's just
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  Speaker 4: carried on to now, you know, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: talking about Cams years and uh, you know, obviously we're
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  Speaker 4: fortunate enough to win a state championship in twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, made some playoff runs you know
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  Speaker 4: after that, and uh, looking to get back there. Now
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  Speaker 4: that's the you know, that's the goal, you know, is
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  Speaker 4: to shoot shooting for that obviously.
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  Speaker 2: H we're here talking on Clinton to day, but a
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  Speaker 2: long span that it resident that lock at Forest, they've
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  Speaker 2: had some good teams. Talking about football, craze community, it's forced.
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  Speaker 4: Too, right, absolutely, Man, it was some fun times. You know,
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  Speaker 4: me and coach Balls were there together for a long
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  Speaker 4: time and uh you know, uh going back to the
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  Speaker 4: Mark Morton Forrest game, you know, the Golden Chicken game,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know obviously there we played for two
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  Speaker 4: state championships in one one in twenty ten. So uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, been fortunate to be being around some really
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  Speaker 4: really good players and really good teams and really good
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  Speaker 4: communities that love, uh you know, love Friday Nights.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, your first year as a head coach, there
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  Speaker 2: was some adversity there, but man, you guys really played
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  Speaker 2: some good football. I know that the record probably you'd
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  Speaker 2: want it to be a little different, but I saw
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  Speaker 2: you guys a couple of times really good defensively fundamentally sound.
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  Speaker 2: Your kids played really really hard last year.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate it, Jake. You know that's one thing we
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  Speaker 4: harp on and just like everybody else. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you get when you see them go out and fight,
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  Speaker 4: you know, all the way through the end. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: we started off really good, had a couple of big
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  Speaker 4: wins early and uh, you know then we then we
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  Speaker 4: kind of got into region play and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: played some played some good ball.
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  Speaker 3: We just didn't finish. And I think that was a
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  Speaker 3: you know, different thing.
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  Speaker 4: Some injuries here and there, but you know, turnovers kind
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  Speaker 4: of got us in some games. And you know that's
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  Speaker 4: one big thing we've been preaching on all all season
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  Speaker 4: is you know, we just got to do a better
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  Speaker 4: job of taking care of the ball and finished some
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  Speaker 4: of those games that we were in and uh punched
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  Speaker 4: that taken into the playoffs this year.
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  Speaker 2: Visiting with Hammer Morgan. He is the head football coach
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  Speaker 2: here at Clinton High School. Thursday edition of your program,
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  Speaker 2: UH talk about this version of Erro football. I was
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  Speaker 2: watching you guys go through uh drills and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, individual work here from what I can see,
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  Speaker 2: and of course, I know. It's just uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: shells out here, shorts and which is hot out here? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you got length, you got size, I saw speed, got
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that can throw it this on the hoof. And
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  Speaker 2: Coach Boswell told me, he said, hey, not trying to
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  Speaker 2: put pressure on coach Morgan, but he said, we look
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  Speaker 2: like a seven A football team this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely when we talked about that as coaching staff, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we look like it this year. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we graduated some length on the defensive side, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of seniors. I think we had seven guys sign and
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  Speaker 4: go on to the next level on that side of
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  Speaker 4: the ball, and uh, you know, offensively, we'll returning a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys and h uh so we're looking for
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  Speaker 4: good things. Uh we do have some some length, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, and some size up front. Got a couple
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  Speaker 4: of three year starters on the offensive line, quarterbacks coming back,
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  Speaker 4: got a year under his belt now be a junior,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, just about the whole running back field his back.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, you know, looking for some good things.
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  Speaker 4: Got uh you know, Dallas Johnson coming back on the
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  Speaker 4: defensive line up front, who had a really really good
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  Speaker 4: year last year. Looking for big things from him and
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  Speaker 4: Trevia oncast. Now I'll kind of anchor down to back
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  Speaker 4: in Forest on the on the back end of the defense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you and coaches talk about this all
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  Speaker 2: the time, you used to the old cliche was every
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  Speaker 2: sophomore you start, that's that's going to be a loss
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  Speaker 2: on the season. I remember coaches used to say that
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  Speaker 2: all the time in the eighties and nineties and early
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  Speaker 2: two thousands.
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  Speaker 5: We're seeing younger guys. They'll play more and more.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's due to you know, coaches like yourself,
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  Speaker 2: developmental programs. Really, you know, kids getting a lot of snaps,
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  Speaker 2: maybe playing seven on seven, doing other things camps. But
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  Speaker 2: how long does it typically take you start a tenth grader,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, for that game to kind of slow down
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  Speaker 2: Because I think sometimes that there may be some physical
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  Speaker 2: mismatches for some of these kids, especially on the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage. But a lot of times you hear coaches say,
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  Speaker 2: I got to get the game to slow down for you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think a lot too. It just depends on
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  Speaker 4: the kid, you know, in the position. You know, quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: obviously a toughest one you know, probably on the field
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  Speaker 4: to do, especially at this level, you know, people are
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  Speaker 4: disguising coverage is doing all those things that but you know,
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  Speaker 4: as far as you know the development of these kids,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're right, man, they're starting to just play.
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  Speaker 4: Even in seven eight earlier. You know, again, last year
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  Speaker 4: we I think I don't know the exact number. It
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  Speaker 4: was a bunch on offense that played, you know, started
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  Speaker 4: every game and you know, kind of talking about the
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  Speaker 4: cliche you know, birthdays minter. You know, even we could
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  Speaker 4: see it on our defense last year. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: had a bunch of guys the year before, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we were talking about the shootout we had with Brandon,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sixty five sixty two and as when all
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  Speaker 4: those guys that was their third game to start, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So then last year, you know, they played really really well.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, just birthdays matter, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of what we go back to, and just
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  Speaker 4: those guys just get better and better every year. But
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  Speaker 4: the bell metal piece, you know, here we go, you know,
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  Speaker 4: seventh grade. We try to just get them going in
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  Speaker 4: seventh grade and just really teach fundamentals and go from there.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, like every seven eight school it looks like
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  Speaker 2: play really tough schedule open up at Warren Central. You'll
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  Speaker 2: go over and play Northwest Rank and I believe home
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  Speaker 2: openers against Brandon couch Boswell and talking to will Nations,
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  Speaker 2: you guys, the field looks great, the new track looks great.
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  Speaker 5: You got some lighting going in right now.
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  Speaker 2: We'll play Brandon, then obviously you'll play Pearl Uh and
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  Speaker 2: then the region that you guys have excuse me used
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  Speaker 2: to everybody talked about and it's still a tough region.
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  Speaker 2: Region three seven A two seven A to me is
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  Speaker 2: the toughest region now. I mean when you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: you guys in Madison Central and Germantown, Uh, and startful boy,
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  Speaker 2: it is a it is a who's who and the
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  Speaker 2: margin veririer slim in that region.
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  Speaker 4: In it it is it is and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: going back we talked about earlier last year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we were you know, we had to lead on a
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  Speaker 4: couple of those games and uh, you know, a couple
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  Speaker 4: of late turnovers and it you know, it changed really
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  Speaker 4: quick for us.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, it is a tough region.
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  Speaker 4: But we you know, I think are you know, our
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  Speaker 4: non region schedule UH prepares us far it right and
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  Speaker 4: gives us a chance for sure playing those tough schools
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  Speaker 4: around here.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, you know we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: When you uh look at at the overall depth of
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  Speaker 2: seven A now, you know used to and we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about when y'all played Southola here, you know years ago,
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  Speaker 2: when Cambe was here. It used to be South Panol
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  Speaker 2: and everybody else, and then Meridian came along and everybody
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  Speaker 2: started changing. Now, I mean you go top to bottom,
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  Speaker 2: from Region one to Regent. Gulf Port won it last year.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody saw that really coming. I think the state of
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  Speaker 2: seven A is as good as it's ever been.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, thinking about it, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 4: really see it repeat in seven eighty very often, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So that speaks for itself right there, is how competitive
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  Speaker 4: he is and how again it's just really good coaches,
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  Speaker 4: really good players from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Well, coach, we appreciate you taking some time. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for having us over this year this year
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  Speaker 2: for the road tour. We'll see you in a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks and of course we'll visit during the season. Best
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  Speaker 2: of luck this year.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jake, appreciate you having me, only appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, we appreciate coach Hammer Morgan head football coach here
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  Speaker 2: at Clinton More coming your way.
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  Speaker 7: It's time just get back in the game.
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  Speaker 8: We see Wimberly and the afternoon frive that's entertained.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate Hammer Mortgane jumping in at football coach Clinton Arrows
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  Speaker 2: as we sit over Arrow Field here, it's Clinton Day,
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  Speaker 2: on the football championships.
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  Speaker 5: Ray, what's going on?
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  Speaker 7: Brother man? First of all, thank you for having me
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  Speaker 7: as always. You know, it's always a pleasure to be
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  Speaker 7: on with you. Talking about voices, I heard Uncle Beeve
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  Speaker 7: on the way back in Man, and I said, oh yeah, dude,
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  Speaker 7: it's time. It's time. When I started hearing my guy,
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  Speaker 7: Uncle Beeve on the other end. It makes me feel
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  Speaker 7: good because I know I'm getting to a space where
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to hear from them a lot more, which
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  Speaker 7: means we're getting close to the football season. Best time
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  Speaker 7: of the year. Man. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it is, and you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: we gripe sometimes because the sports window that we're in
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  Speaker 2: right now, Like man, I mean, we've got competitive eating
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  Speaker 2: on and you know ESPN, and to their credit, they
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  Speaker 2: get these weird sports that it's out there. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when pickleball wasn't a thing, they brought that in and
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  Speaker 2: they do the little tag thing.
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  Speaker 7: I saw pillow fighting on the time. This is the
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  Speaker 7: true story. They had a bag guys will hold in
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  Speaker 7: bags and they were literally having a pillow fight and
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  Speaker 7: a mini octagon and I said, oh, yeah, it's downtime
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  Speaker 7: right now, down time. We got to get some real
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  Speaker 7: sports coming back into this thing. Nephew, ray you sir,
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  Speaker 7: So you open this up now and now.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, So now that you said, you heard me and
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  Speaker 10: you know that it's time and you'll be hearing from
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  Speaker 10: me more, yes, sir, okay, so we're gonna put I
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  Speaker 10: think I think we may approach this. Last year we
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  Speaker 10: turned our private beef into public beef.
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  Speaker 7: We did, although it wasn't.
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  Speaker 10: Real beef, you know, But I like you, I like
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  Speaker 10: to embellish sometimes. Of course, I got a little upset
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  Speaker 10: with you the last last season when you came in.
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  Speaker 10: You were getting ready for Clinton football and you came,
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  Speaker 10: you came to our building to get all the you know,
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  Speaker 10: the equipment whatnot, and I felt very short changed. I
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  Speaker 10: saw you walk by the window and you never you
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  Speaker 10: know I was in here. I think I was running
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  Speaker 10: match show or something, and you didn't come to talk
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  Speaker 10: to me. So now that you have publicly, you're like,
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to get to talk to more.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Well that's up to you, sir. Yes, no, And
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  Speaker 7: you're one thousand percent right. First of all. First of all,
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  Speaker 7: Uncle Beeve is one thousand percent right. Charge it to
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  Speaker 7: my head and not my heart. When I came in
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  Speaker 7: that day, in particular, I had a one track mind.
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  Speaker 7: My wife will tell you that's all the time, a
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  Speaker 7: one track mind. But listen, man, Uncle Beeve is one
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  Speaker 7: of my favorite people on this entire station, family broadcast
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  Speaker 7: you name it, because of that very thing right there.
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  Speaker 7: He's gonna keep it all the way real with you.
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  Speaker 7: But also, man, he's just a genuine dude. I love
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  Speaker 7: hearing his voice. I love when he actually understands that
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  Speaker 7: his voice is not just to be behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 7: He actually, to me, man, the dude deserves a spot
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  Speaker 7: in front. And I know a lot of time he
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  Speaker 7: likes to be behind the scenes, but every time he
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  Speaker 7: adds something to any show, any show that he's producing
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  Speaker 7: and directing. It's awesome. So Uncle beeve you're right, I'll
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  Speaker 7: say this on the air. You know, I love you.
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  Speaker 7: You're my guy, and yeah, hold me to it, man,
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  Speaker 7: come on, let's do that. By the way, he won't
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  Speaker 7: mention this. I made sure to salvage the relationship that
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  Speaker 7: we have by bringing him like an apology gift. Do
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  Speaker 7: you remember that apology gift? Uncle?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was an energy drink, and Beaver loves energy drinks.
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  Speaker 5: Yes he does, Yes, he does, so no, and that's
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  Speaker 5: why I'm telling him. He does have a voice out front.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people will ask me more about Beaver if
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  Speaker 2: they see me out they do about me, which is
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  Speaker 2: totally fine.
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  Speaker 7: Dude, He's the man. I'm telling you. I've called him
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  Speaker 7: Uncle Bee for years just because of one time I
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  Speaker 7: did a show way back in the gap. But he's
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  Speaker 7: just he's a constant voice that every now and then
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  Speaker 7: he'll drop some nuggets, man, drop some gems, and it's like, man,
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  Speaker 7: we need more of that guy. So that's why I'm
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  Speaker 7: always kind of champion and Uncle Bee. Whenever I get
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  Speaker 7: on there, make sure to quote his name at least once.
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  Speaker 2: Or twice, there's no doubt. And I'll say this too
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  Speaker 2: because I know he doesn't like it. Sometimes he'll say,
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  Speaker 2: don't call on me. I'm like, no, I'm calling on it,
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  Speaker 2: like you're part of the show.
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  Speaker 7: What he no doubt? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of the show, man, I really like Hammer Morgan.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Man, he is a good dude and a good
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  Speaker 5: football coach.
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  Speaker 7: He's he's for me personally and what we do you know,
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  Speaker 7: day to day for play by play. Man, He's so
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  Speaker 7: easy to work with. He trusts what I'm doing on
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  Speaker 7: the air with the broadcast and that you know, that's
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  Speaker 7: so important folks, to just trust you man, that you're
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  Speaker 7: going to do the right thing by the kids, by
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  Speaker 7: the community. So he's given me free reign, man to
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  Speaker 7: just be and that's so important to me. But just
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  Speaker 7: for these kids, Man, to have a guy that first
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  Speaker 7: and foremost loves ball. Right. Yes, it's his job. Obviously
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: he wants to win, but he loves ball and he
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: loves his kids. So while he's trying to get the
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: best out of them on the field, he wants to
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: get the best out of them in the game of life.
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: And so that's the part Man that just immediately jumps
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: out to me that the guy cares, he cares truly
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: about this community, truly about this team. And to me,
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: when you add those things, man, and you get the
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: right players, that's when the wins came.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: And you're absolutely right.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: And you hear a lot of people talk about and
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna kind of take it to college. But college
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: is a little different than you know, like Lane Kiffin.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: You hear he's you know, Kiffin, wasn't it practice a
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: whole lot or he was gone? You know a lot
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: of that. Those kids are playing for a different deal.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: They're playing for money, but they're also playing for the
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: love of the game, and they play for their position
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: coaches high school, even though there's position coaches. If those
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: kids love their coach, they will run through a wall
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: for that coach, and they will.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: Run through a wall for them. So you know, just
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: little things like that extra rep, they'll do it for him,
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: right extra fifteen minutes after practice to get those get
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: those little nuances in to make your team that much better.
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: Because you love your coach, you'll do those things when
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: you're tired in the fourth quarter, man, and he's telling
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: you to not only believe in what he's trying to
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: tell you. But believe in each other. You buy it.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: You don't just say it's words coming across the page,
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: you actually buy into what he's saying, man. And so
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: I'm so excited for him to see what's gonna happen
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: in year two for him as the head guy. Man.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: I just like him as a person, but I want
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: the rest of the state to see what this guy
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: can do every Friday night, because you know the amount
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: of work that he has put in to get to
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: this spot, you know, in seven eight football and what
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: many considered the toughest classification in the state. So I'm
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: just excited for him to put it all together, man,
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: and show that product to the rest of the state.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: One more thing on that note than coach Morgan is
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: one of those guys if those kids know their head
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: got cares for them, like truly cares. Yeah, x's and
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: o's is one thing, you know, getting into workout rooms,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: but like truly cares.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Man, there's nothing they won't do for that coach.
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: And I think for folks who have played high school sports,
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: they'll know exactly what I'm about to say. My high
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: school basketball coach, I still text him to this day.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: I'm forty two years old. I still text the man
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: to this day because of what he meant to me
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: way way back then, because I knew what he said.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: He meant. He gave me ride home from time to time.
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: He gave me tough love. He taught me the basics,
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: the fundamentals. But they also told me not to back down,
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean, Like those things that stick
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: with you for a lifetime. So these young men know
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: that outside of the x's and o's, they can go
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: to Coach Morgan's office and just sit and talk to him,
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: man to man, you know what I mean. So like
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: those things, those things you can't put a price.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about this Eero's football team. A coach talked
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to coach Boswell, talked to Judge.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: He was in here.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: We had a segment together, and then of course Coach Morgan.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Arrows were on the practice field obviously like a lot
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: of people, and rightfully so. Shorts, shirts, yep, some helmets,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: they look long, they look big. Quarterbacks look good.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: Mobile.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Judd said to himself.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: He said, and Coach Morgan echered this, said Clinton, for
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: the first time in a while, looks like a seven
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: eight football.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Team coming off the bus.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, man, And you know that is a credit and
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: a testament to the work they've put in the weight
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: room first and foremost. You know this, Jake, Man, if
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: you're gonna play seven eight football, you gotta be strong.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: You can have all the athletes you want, but if
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: they can't move people around on Friday night, it is irrelevant.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: So that starts in the weight room obviously, So so
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: give give credit with credits due to that strength and
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: conditioning team. But also I want to point out, man
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: that like these young men last year, they had to
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: eat it man a lot of games because it was
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: a lot of young guys playing meaningful snaps. Maybe weren't
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: anticipating some were, some were, but then some were not
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: expected to go in and immediately contribute. And so they
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: had to find out week one, week two like, oh
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: this is the real thing, and they had to take
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: on meaningful snaps and go from role players to impact players.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: And I think for folks who don't watch the game
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: every Friday night, man, that's a huge jump to being
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: just a guy to being the guy.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: And so when you're talking about a quarterback in Jayden Jones,
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: who's now had two years in this system coming into
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: his junior year. Just having those meaningful snaps, whether they
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: were good, bad, or indifferent, those are snaps that you
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: just can't replicate and practice those things now are going
• 18:43
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• 18:45
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  Speaker 2: courtesy of Miissippi Sports Medicine. All right, so let's spit
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: some numbers here when I'm looking at Clinton overall first
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: team nineteen twenty, they won the state championship in twenty sixteen.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: They got multiple district or region titles. You know, Clinton
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: for the life of this program, fifty nine percent winning percentage,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: which is really good. Five hundred and ninety nine total
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: wins going for win number six hundred. When you guys
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: open it up against Warren Central four and thirteen losses
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: twenty two times. This is a team that's got a
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: lot of history. Longest running rival is Brandon, which is
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: crazy when you think about it, because now correct me
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I'm wrong, because you see these guys every year. Yeah,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Warren Central, massive game, Yes, Madison Central, massive game. Brandon Clinton.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Longest running rival eighty one. That's the biggest rival in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the metro in the Central Missippi eighty one times. Eighty
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: number eighty two coming up over here, right here on
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: this field here in about.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: A month, a little over a month. Who do the
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: fans who's the biggest matchup for.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: The I'll put it to you like this. I was
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: told by jud And he can correct me, you know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: if he sees me after this. I was told Warren
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Central is the biggest rival. When I first started, it
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: felt like and this is coming back from my TV days,
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: and I guess it was like Madison and Clinton were
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: both kind of fit their peak with cam Makers and
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: they were duking it out in the same region for
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: a spot in the title game or just that postseason
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: you know run. So to me, it felt when I
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: was in television that it was Madison all right. If
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: you ask jud and I guess some of the main
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: stays of this community, they'll probably say Warren Central. But
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: for me, personally, my favorite game is the Brandon game.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: It really is, just because to me, it's always, you know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: minus a few here and there, it's always been an
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: exciting matchup. It's always felt like a really big game.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: And don't get me wrong, this is no you know,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: disrespect to the folks that Warren't Central. Just the closeness
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: of it. You get bigger crowds, huge crowds, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: world at you guys place, Man, it's huge, it's cranking.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: You come here. It's sold out every time, and so
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: it's like it's a fun atmosphere and it just feels big.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: It feels like to me, it feels like college game
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: Day has shown up to a high school level every
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: time these two teams match up. So to me, it's
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: my favorite personally just calling it and just watching the experience. Man,
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: for me, and I think you might feel the same way. Man,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: I'm sitting in the stands. And sure, you know, you
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: go to certain places and you might not have many
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: fans traveled that week, or it just may not be
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: a big school or whatever. You know, they might not
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: be big into the football team. But when you get
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: a Brandon or a South Panola show up, or you
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: go to South Panola, man, these are huge crowds, right,
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: and so it just feels big and that's always exciting.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: I'm a fan first, and so whenever you get big
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: crowds and big energy, that's what makes a rivalry of
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: any kind special to me.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And yet I agree with you. I told coach Morgan this,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, and Judd and I've talked about this. Yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Brandon Pearl ranking County super bowls ugly, it's nasty.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they get.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: After Brandon Clinton.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: It's one of those deals where this is year fifteen
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: or sixteen for me if Brandon almost every year it's
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: a four quarterball game and then a lot of years.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: The team that shouldn't win wins.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Like I mean, I can remember on this field when
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Akers was here and I think it was his senior year.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Brandon bought a team over here. Tyler Peterson had a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: backup quarterback. Clinton was up seventeen to nothing. I thought
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: they were gonna run Brandon out of the building. Brandon
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: had a pickI. They took that game to overtime and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: then won that game on a on a trick play,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: and it was I mean, Clinton should have lost that game. Yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And the biggest wildest game that I've ever called was
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: right here on this field two years ago. Come on, man,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: sixty five sixty two. I mean, that's what I'm saying,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Like it does, it doesn't get any better.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: Like, if you love football, yeah, you might say, well
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: where was the defense that night? But I'm just telling you,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: if you were in the building for that game, it
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: was insane. And so I'm like you, this is this
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: will be my tenth year calling football for Clinton, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: that was one of the wildest, best, you know, crazy
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: however you want to you know, whatever s perlot if
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: you want to put on top of it. It was
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: one of the most exciting atmospheres I've ever been a
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: part of at any level, at any level. So that's
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: what I mean, man, Like, when these two teams get together,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: magic happens. And so that's why to me, just to
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: me personally, folks, can't pick others. To me, I love
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: that rivalry between the Brandon Bulldogs and the Clinton arrow
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: Yet I don't know if he's listened. I was showing
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: you this.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: There was a gentleman named Jay Jay Herbert who had
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: sent me this excuse me about two weeks ago, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: he said, hey, there needs to be a name, like,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: you know for the trophy. There needs to be a
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: trophy for Brandon and Clinton. And he sent us a
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and you see this the I twenty Rivalry Trophy. And
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: you know, baby, we need to talk to the brass
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: at Clinton Brandon, like you need a trophy for this game.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: We need to get them in the room.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: I think about like the Simpson County super Bowl, the
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Battle for the Golden Chicken, you know what I mean. Like,
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: there are so many different rivalries throughout this state, legendary
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: rivalries like to just go way back, well, what's longer
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: than eighty plus years? Man, Like, there's got to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: something that we all can get in a room together
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: and say this from this day for if shall be
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: called this, I think it would be super cool just
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: because of what these two teams, what they mean to
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: each other, what they mean to their communities, but also
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: like what it means to the metro area. If you
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: look at the local TV affiliates around here, when these
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: two teams get together, nine times out of ten, it's
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: their game of the week game and the local papers
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: you name it. So it only makes sense that we
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: make it as big as possible. Again, Madison Clinton for
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: US Warren Central Clinton. Those are big games, no doubt.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: But when you're talking about two metro powers that when
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: they get together, bring out the biggest crowds period, no
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: matter what location, you'd be hard pressed to find, you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: a better rivalry.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about visiting with the Ray Coleman play by
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: play boys for the Clinton arrors. That schedule, you guys
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: will play Vicksburg and a preseason scrimmage, then at Warren
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Central at Northwest Rankin Bulldogs are your home opener. Then
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you'll go to Pearl, you'll play Pedal right here, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: then that's your non region schedule. I mean, that's a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: tough non region schedule. That's a tough non region schedule.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: But you know, when you break down the region schedule
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: here in just a bit, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: You cannot and you know, I know certain people's philosophies
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: are are different. Maybe you want to give your guys
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: confidence before they get into regional play, but to me, man,
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: you can't really have cupcake games when you're about to
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: go in to Region two seven eight. It's just the
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: old commercial of the SEC. It just means more. I'm
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: not telling you that Region two seven eight means more
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: than your region or anybody else's. But I'm just telling
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: you when you sit up here and call a game
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: and every Friday night you are facing the Who's who,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: somebody who's probably gonna take a spot in the state
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: title game or if you two below win the Dagon thing. Man,
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: it's it's crazy. It's crazy crazy. So yeah, even in
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: the even in the non district schedule, you got to
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: play games that get you ready for that, you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: district district slate.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to Murrow.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: That is back as a as a region game, and
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see Murra back in the region. Absolutely Starkfold,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: which is a very interesting team this year because Rob
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Morgan comes over from West Point. They've got a quarterback
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: who's committed to Tulane, who is an absolute uh you know,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't think Kingston Johnson has reached his
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: potential yet. I mean, he he's a guy that can
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: You saw he can cut loose and get out and
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: rip one off.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: He can throw it. I mean, the guy's really good.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: He's he is, like you said, he's an unfinished product.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: And that's scary because the kid can flat out ball man.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: And so again, that's what I'm saying. On a Friday night,
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: you'll see a kid that everybody agrees has all the tools,
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: but it's not finished yet, and he is dominating. And
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: they're probably not the best team in the region.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because coming up the next week you got to
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: go to Oxford and a lot of people are raving
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: about Oxford. They return so much quarterback situation. You know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Knox Kiffin is gone with his dad. I believe they
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: had a quarterback move in. But a lot of people
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: are chirping that they may be the best team in
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the North.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, man, and rightly, so I can tell you what
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: they do have. They have some beef up front on
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: the lines both sides. One of my co workers I
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: working in Veterans Affairs for the folks who are listening
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: to state government, and one of our administrators who runs
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: the Oxford home. His son is on the old line
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: there and he may be one of the smaller ones,
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: and I'm just telling you he runs about three hundred pounds.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: And so when you have that type besides matching with
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: the ability and the skill positions, you're gonna give yourself
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: a chance every Friday night, irregardless of who you're playing.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: And so yeah, they they rightly, So they should feel
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: good about their chances even in this tough, tough division
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: we play in.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: You'll stay on the road on the night before Halloween.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: At Germantown. Russ Mitchell has really revived that progress.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Yes he has. Man. You know, I don't want to
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: call it a game that Clinton would normally anticipate winning,
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: but they felt good about their chances down the stretch
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: in the past if they were in a tight, you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: tight place when it came to the rankings. Dude, Germantown
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: has turned that thing around, and it's a testament to
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  Speaker 7: their coaching staff. But they are a formidable team that
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  Speaker 7: now has yearly aspirations and expectations of making the playoffs.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: So that's another game that we're in the past. Clinton
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: might look at that and say, oh, we can get
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: that win. Now, you know you got to go out
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: and play your a game if you plan on coming
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  Speaker 7: out victorious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you're gonna stretch lagers come home and
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  Speaker 2: play Senior Night against Madison Central.
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  Speaker 7: Man, It's it's weird, man, Like I'll go over to
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: Madison sometimes and they may not have the biggest crowds,
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: but when they get into a game, it feel it
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: feels crazy. Now, it feels like hostile territory. And then
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: when they come here, it's always a very chirpy It's
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: different like when you guys, when we play, I just
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: know it's gonna be an exciting game with Brandon all right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: When you play Matthew, there's gonna be a lot of yapping.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: And then when you play Warren Central, it's literally gonna
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: be like a dog fight, Like there's gonna be no
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: clean jerseys at the end of the game. And they
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: play on turb out there now. So it's it's always
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: unique to see these rivalries and how they play out.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: But you talk about it, Madison, Oxford, starkvil Germantown, Clinton,
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: only so many teams can go Jake. Everybody can't go
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: to the playoffs. So the thing that I always tell
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: anybody who talks about our region and yours too, to
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: be quite honest to your region as well. And now
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: the Gulf Coast region is is gonna be really, really
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: tough too. They're gonna be really good teams that are
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: at home when the postseason starts, it is and you'll
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: look at them and say, oh, they had a bad year. No, man,
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: they just they have dogs in their division that are
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: at another level. So we're gonna find out, like, who's
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: taking that next step. I hope it's Clinton. I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: they have all the tools to do it. I think
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: they're gonna have to be some guys that step up obviously,
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: but I think they have every tool in the toolbox
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: to make a postseason run this year.
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  Speaker 3: Ray.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this the switch gears. Obviously, I
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: know you know you being a former sports director, you
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: obviously love sports still do it because Yeah, that Chris
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: OKC had on looks really really good. Let me ask
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: you this, where are you with the state of college football?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: We haven't had a chance to speak on that.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So man, I never know how to answer this
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: question properly, So I just kind of I don't shoot
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: from the hip. But I also don't worry about what
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: people think about my response. So I have I have
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: long been a proponent of payers getting players getting paid
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: me too, all right, just because of what the player
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: produces for the university. But I'm also worried about where
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: we're headed now. So I've always said, listen, I'm not
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: the smartest guy in a ruin when it comes to this.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: So I'm never going to be like, here's the answer
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: to the tests. But I think if we all are
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: looking at the test right now, unless your team is
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: the one with all the money, you're not liking what
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: you're seeing, man. So we have to first and foremost
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: get some type of system in place. And in my
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: personal opinion, the NCAA is not going to put the
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: system in place. So who is who is going to
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: be that person, that group that's going to do that
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: to make sure that this thing can be I'm using
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: air quotes for the folks who are listening as level
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: as possible because you know, I'm a Southern misgrad. Southern
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: mists will never be able to ever, ever, ever get
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: into this this game of life that is high paying
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: college football. Now, so we've already xed out like your
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: Louisiana texts, your your Southern missus, your Arkansas State's any
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: mid major to you know lower forget about it. Now
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: we're talking about can Mississippi State survive in their own league?
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: Right now, we're talking about, hey, man, can we get
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: UCF and Duke University from a football standpoint middle you know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: whatever it is can they compete now with the big
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: dogs or Jake, Is everybody comfortable with just having the
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: same twelve to sixteen teams every year? If you are,
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: then it's not college football anymore. Now, it's the NFL minor.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: That's just my personal opinion. I don't know how we
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: fix it, but I think that is a huge, huge
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: problem because what I always loved about college football, and
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: I know I'm rambling a little bit, but my favorite
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: thing about college football is the traditions and the players
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: who became legends at these universities. Well, you can't have
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: that when the guys there are one year and then
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: the next year he's wearing a blue jersey, the next
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: year he's wearing a white jersey, the next year he's
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: wearing a maroon jersey. It just doesn't make sense to me.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: So I need people who are way smarter than Ray
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Coleman to figure this thing out for the average every
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: day a Saturday college football fan.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you, and I've always been for
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: them getting paid. I think you know right now they're
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: going on in d C. And I don't this thing's
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: not going to pass. The SEC in the Big ten
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: have kind of you know stonewalled the whole thing. There
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: needs to be a salary cap. There needs to be
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I mean Kyle Whittingham, the head coach at Michigan, this
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: will be his first year formerly Utah. He was asked
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: on a podcast on on three the other day, what
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: do you do to fix it? He set up do
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the NFL model. I go commissioner, I go salary camp. Now,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: obviously the universities don't want the players to be employees
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: at the university, but I think that's how you have
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: to fix it. I never thought that I would see
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: the divide between State no Miss is what we're seeing
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: right now. I mean they've always been I've always said
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: there's not a dimes worth of difference between State no
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Miss until three four years ago. Now, I mean Ole
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Miss is talking Heisman rightfully, so ole Miss is talking
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: playoffs rightfully, So State is saying, hey, are we going
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to have our coach next year?
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's crazy, the divide.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: It It's crazy, man, when you think about it, and listen, man,
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: it's a big business. So I'm not naive to think, oh,
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: it's just about the player and the Saturday experience. I
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: got it, man, I got it. We're talking about a
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: billion dollar industry, multi billion dollar industry. I understand that,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: but at some point, how far is too far before
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: we lose the experience of waking up on a Saturday
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: and rooting for your institution based on the players you
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: have gotten to know. I always think, like, to my kid,
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: my kid is seven years old. He and his friends
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: may or may not one day play college football, but
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: they'll go to college and they'll be fans of the game.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Are they going to be as enthused about the Saturday
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: experience or is it just, Hey, we're going to see
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: you know, Mississippi State and the old miss Rebels play,
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: And whoseever the new free agent is? That's whose jersey
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: I'm getting. I don't know what that looks like in
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: the future. So that's kind of always like my trepidation
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: about it. I love football, so I'm always going to
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: be watching Thursday night Saturday night. I'm saying, you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: give me a give me some action, as they say,
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: I'm all in on everything, man, But I do feel
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: like we're getting to a point now where y'all are
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: asking a lot for Mississippi States. And I hate to
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: keep us Missippi State, but since we brought them up.
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: How is Misssippi State going to compete with Texas and
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: money in Texas, A and M when it just comes
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: to funding the football program, right, How are we going
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: to ask them to then say, oh, yeah, you can
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: compete with Michigan and Ohio State.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Man, that's a lot. That's a lot to ask.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: We're asking guys to either choose loyalty to their institution
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: of what they come up in, or saying take this life,
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: change in money and come play with us for one
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: year with no commitment other than that. If that's what
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: we're heitded, then that's cool for me. But I don't
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: know if the average football fan is all in on that.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know that these kids, and I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: get it, this isn't a shot at young man now
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: that they have the loyalty that they used to because
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: they see their peers older than them and what they're doing.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: And those conversations are now started at eighth grade.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: In ninth grade, well you know, hey, look at look
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: at you know Johnny who's going off to college. He's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: making two hundred and fifteen or four hundred thousand. Now
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: those conversations are being ahead. So in there's houses and
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: even though parents may went to Jackson State or old
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: miss welly Son, don't you want to go play it?
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Old miss Well? I don't know, Dad. I mean, Texas
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: is spending a lot of money out there.
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: Right, It's true. It's true though, And that's what I
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: mean by like the generation gap. I like to call myself,
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: you know, an old young man. I'm right there in
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: the pocket. So I still have like these nostalgic moments
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: of college football that I see in my head. But
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: you're right, man, Like some of these young guys, they're like, dude,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: this is this is my way of making money, life
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: changing money, right for anybody, life changing money, but also
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: an opportunity to get myself in the best situation where
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: if I'm serious about this, this is my job at
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: the next level. So whether you want to call it
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: a paid internship or on the job training, whatever that
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: might be, I understand that aspect too. It's just for me, man.
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: It's happening so fast, and I just know that no
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: one has a real handle on it. So it's like
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: a a horse that you're trying to break in, but
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: he's got he has the reins right now, and so
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: we're trying to figure out, like what's the best step
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: to get this thing under control.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Hey's Ray Coleman and of course play by play voice
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: for the Clinton Arrows.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Ray.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I know you've had a long day. I know you
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: were over in Birmingham last night. Your wife went to
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: a great concert. It's about time for you to go home.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're gonna got a bead.
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: Man, I'm gonna have a nice rest. I think I'm
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: still running off of the fumes of last night's concert
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: in Birmingham, Usher Chris Brown concert. It was phenomenal. My
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: wife talked me into going. It was fantastic, but we
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: didn't get home until three am. So I think my
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: ramblin is just me like being in zombie mode right now. Man,
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: But Jake, you know, Man, anything for you, anytime you
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: need me, want me on this show, I'm here man
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: for you and Uncle beeB, I'll do it. Uncle beeB,
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: I got an energy drink coming your way before you
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: know it. You can book that.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I'll take it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: I'm ready to get pumped up.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: See, you're the only man that I know that Bee
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: would actually ask him all time you want some coffee?
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: And her drink.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Now see see, if you offered, he's gonna take it.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: He knows that's my tribute. That's like my peace offering
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: man to keep me and his good graces. Y'all don't
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: understand Uncle Bev. You know he's a large guy. Man,
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: he's always got the sun's out, guns out just in case.
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: You know, you've never seen this guy. He can be
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: an intimidating presence. And so this is one of those
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: things where you want to remain in the good graces
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: of a guy who controls all. So this is me
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: on the air paying a penance.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: If you will, there you go, There you go. That's
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Ray Coleman. We have come to the end of the
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: road today. Ray, Thank you so much.
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah Man, always always Dad.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: We want to say thanks to Heath Hinton, also Raphaellasparzombooki
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  Speaker 2: dot AG. Want to say thanks to Clinton High School.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks to all nations, jud boswill coach Hammer Morgan. As
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: we get ready to put a bow on it, remember
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: catch up his king. Bacon's a delicacy. Aloha means goodbye.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Be a man of increase. We have reached the crescendo.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: We'll be in studio tomorrow. I have a great Thursday afternoon.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: So long from Clinton, Go arrows, we'll see tomorrow.