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Episode 8: Charlie Sarafian | Tennessee Hockey · College Hockey Mouth

• speaker-0: Welcome back, everybody, to the College Hockey Mouth Podcast, a College Hockey South series. Episode eight. It's gotten into the swing of the regular season. So many games went on this past weekend. Another one of news, highlights, freaking everything under the sun in two or three days. We're gonna debrief it all. We're gonna talk some more about what's coming up. First, though, we're gonna introduce a new co-host. We've got Mario B. Betting Fields with us for episode eight. Student Austin P State. Mario, welcome to College Hockey Mouth. speaker-1: Thank you, Devin. I'm so happy to be here for College Hockey South. And I'm a sports communications major right now in my sophomore year, calling hockey games for Austin P on the Austin P Sports Network. Shout out APSN, APSU TV, and the great production crew we have behind that. It's a team effort. And I'm glad to be here, Devin. I'm ready to talk about Battle Life 4 or Alabama, Georgia on the women's side. It's a great weekend if you're a College Hockey South fan. speaker-0: One of the first episodes we had on here, we pumped the tires of Austin P, the governors, because you guys had those sweet unis. I think they were inspired by the the word mark inspired by the basketball team. Do you foresee Austin P coming out with some more crazy looks? speaker-1: I heard a little bit of a birdie. We might be introducing those traditional rights back next year. Hopefully, we'll introduce those back as the black and reds, especially calling games for Ospiockey, are kind of hard to see and make out. But those black and red uniforms, when they're on the ice and the fans see them, the crowd goes crazy. They're one of my favorite uniform combos in college hockey south. speaker-0: Broadcaster's worst nightmare is numbers either not on the shoulder pads or they blend in with the jersey and it's hard to read. Totally relatable with that point. We're gonna jump into it with another broadcaster who knows a thing or two about reading tough jerseys, Charlie Serafian from Tennessee. He's part of the Tennessee Club Sports Network, and our first media member we're gonna have as a guest. We'll bring that to you now. We are really, really pleased to welcome The one, the only, the character himself, Charlie Serafion from Tennessee Hockey, the voice of the Volunteers hockey program. Charlie, welcome to the College Hockey Mouth Pod. speaker-2: Hey Devin, thanks for having me. ⁓ super excited to be here. It's gonna be a fun year, a lot of good teams, ⁓ a lot of moving around as far as the conferences and everything. You know, I'm excited for what's in store. I miss working with you. We called games back in Fort Lauderdale. I think we had a blast. ⁓ really found our our chemistry there. ⁓ I actually saw one of your clips also the other day. I'll talk to you about that in a second. It's a little ⁓ behind the back pass from Tampa. That was pretty ni nifty. Good call on that. So happy to be here. speaker-0: We had a lot of fun in South Florida and Moore's on the way. I gotta I gotta comment on this. I before we went on there, I was I was giving you a hard time about having the best background. You you have by far the best, most professional looking background, microphone setup. I mean you look like you're ready to go on chiclets, dude. This is for real. Really respect. speaker-2: I didn't do it alone. I didn't do it alone. My I actually have ⁓ my right hand man right here sitting here handling the background, Sawyer Stacey. He's kind of my technical ⁓ we lost it for he's like our technical director for Tennessee Club Sports Network, the sports network we started. So Sawyer, he kind of handles all the technical stuff. speaker-0: Not the smart TV. No. I thought you had like the green screen effect going. speaker-2: No, this is not a green screen. It's we it's got a smart T V in the background. It looks pretty good though. I think we had you fooled, but Sawyer's our director of broadcasting, so he handles everything technical and getting the stream set up. So, you know, I I told him, I like, Hey, we're hopping on this podcast and he was like, you what, let's make it professional. So, you know, we got the good camera, we got the good setup with the mic, the background, ⁓ the lighting. So yeah, happy to be. speaker-0: Here. We're not even three minutes into this interview and Tennessee Club Sports Network is up on the list. You guys are top tier right now. Asking you about it's all well, the goal's already been surpassed. I mean, you're mak you're dog walking me right now, no pun intended. Talking about you, Charlie, you're a senior at Tennessee, one of the most involved guys there. We'll ask you about that a little later. Just tell us about how you got to where you are now. Tell us about growing up, what kind of sports did you play? Where you end up broadcasting, give us the Charlie Serafian origin story. speaker-2: Charlie Seraphian origin story. We're gonna have to go back a little bit. I've always been a big sports fan ever since I was little. ⁓ you know, I I was a big artist too. Played a lot of instruments growing up, piano, guitar, galele. I mean, taught myself how to play the accordion. I had a relative pitch so I could kind of, you know, listen to any kind of song and play it on you know, most instruments. So that was kind of something I was blessed with as a young kid. So I played a lot of instruments, but I was also always a big sports fan. I always really wanted to get into sports. ⁓ I moved away to Canada when I was about 10. ⁓ that's where I picked up hockey. Started playing puck over there in Toronto for a couple of years. I really liked it, played goalie, played a little bit of left wing, came back to the States, you know, not a lot of hockey in LA. So I kind of dropped that, you know, started playing soccer, basketball, pretty much anything I can get my hands on. Had really good time doing that. ⁓ so in middle school, the first kind of ever broadcasting I got into was in middle school. I was in seventh grade, eighth grade, and I wanted to be part of the broadcast. There was no spot. So I said, all right, what if I start my own thing? I'll do the weather if you want me to. So I started doing the weather. Comedy is also kind of always something I wanted to do. So I put my jokes into it. So I had one of my buddies, brought him into this room in the library. We pre-recorded the weather. Every ⁓ Friday for the morning ⁓ Saint Paul the Apostle newscast. So we did pre-recorded segments with the weather. No, I would make it up as I went. It was never accurate. I just made it up on the fly, didn't do research. It was all pre recorded too, but people thought it was live. So that was pretty funny. And the first day I went to class and it was being aired and people turned around and I was there and they're ⁓ I thought it was live. I was No, it's just this. That was the first kind of ⁓ chance at broadcasting I really had in high school. The first ever class I took was actually a sports broadcasting class, was an elective. Had no idea I wanted to do it. My ⁓ teacher, Bill Seward, ⁓ may you rest in peace. Now he unfortunately passed away. He actually is the one who got me sort of into broadcasting. I just kind of kept it in the back of my mind. He told me I had a lot of potential, told me this is something he thinks I could could have been good at. So I stuck with it. I never really took it seriously. I always wanted to be the guy on the field, not the guy talking about the guys on the field. ⁓ you know, all the girls always want the athletes. So I didn't really want to be away from that. So I continued playing sports and would kind of just, you know, fill in when they needed me. If they said, Hey, we need someone to call this game, I'd hop in, crack a couple of jokes on there, have fun doing it. Never took it seriously. I played soccer all four years of high school, varsity. And you know, I continued to do that. And then, you know, I lost kind of the love for it, never really did it when I got to my first year of college. ⁓ kind of a 180. I started doing marine biology. Thought I really wanted to work with animals. Turns out, did not like getting in the ocean at five AM and I know this is a lot. ⁓ just bear with me. It kind of all ties together. So I ended up transferring to the University of Tennessee. ⁓ no idea what I wanted to do. I know I wanted to work in sports or business. Just not really sure the angle I wanted to take. But one thing I also did like at the time was stand up comedy. So I was doing stand up comedy at these open mic nights, you know, just testing out new material. Really l enjoyed doing it and you know, I couldn't find any opportunities at Tennessee until one day I was scrolling on this website and came across the Tennessee hockey page. No idea we had a hockey team. So I started looking through and seeing, ⁓ maybe I can work for them. Turns out they were looking for a play by play commentator and you know, I sent some clips of me voicing over audio that almost like Bob Mannery. I was doing kind of jokes of clips, posting them on TikTok. I sent that in and they said, you know what? We love it. Why don't you come call some games for us this year? Completely lied, never called hockey in my life. I knew the sport, just never called it. And started doing play by play and here we are. And now it got to the point where ⁓ Sawyer and I we were working together. We we ⁓ asked Kyle Nell to bring us out to the college hockey South and he said yes. And ⁓ we called some games in Athens, Georgia, called some games in ⁓ Fort Lauderdale with you, Devin. That was really fun. And you know, I went out to the All-Star Break in Clarksville, Tennessee. And I'm just gonna say it, Clarksville, Tennessee, not really a tourist spot. Don't think I'll go back there, but I had a good time calling games there in the midst of a tornado. So it just all kind of spiraled and came together. And that's what ultimately led to the creation of this logo you see behind me, a Tennessee Club Sports Network. ⁓ you know, it started with just a small crew of my myself, ⁓ my other friend John Hansen, Sawyer All kind of coming together and saying, Hey, you know, there's a need for this at Tennessee. And, you know, we decided to create this thing. So that's just a quick rundown of the origin story. speaker-0: So much depth to you though, Charlie. The way you tied in. Finding out you want to do this kind of sports thing later on from a great mentor is awesome. I I feel a lot of relation to that. And for you guys, starting this network, you kind of explained it to a T, right? You and Sawyer filled a need for covering club sports. We know NCAA is well known there. I know the ESPN can be tough to break into. What is going on over there at the Tennessee Club Sports Network? What are you guys covering? Is it hockey, soccer, w what's under the umbrella? speaker-2: So originally the goal was to get more equipment to do hockey. However, there were just no resources available. The hockey team wasn't willing to fund kind of more equipment. They said they could get us some stuff. It just wouldn't have been enough to do what we were trying to do on a bigger level. Because as you know, I was posting my TikToks online, getting some attention. Barstal Sports reached out, wrote an article. So I I really thought we had something there. And I also had people reach out at Tennessee saying, How do I get involved doing this? And to be honest with you, Devin, there just wasn't enough room. There wasn't enough equipment. We couldn't have that many people. So the reason for the creation of Tennessee Club Sports Network, one day I kind of just was I was telling John, I said, Hey, like let's do do a let's go do a baseball game and see what happens. So we went out with a really bad camcorder from 2010. You know, just my laptop connected to some wires in the bleachers, freezing cold, did a game. It got like a thousand views. And that was just on a really bad setup. So I I kind of asked him, I've yo, what if we scale this to a big setup. What if we make this something where we could not just do hockey, but we could do baseball. We could do lacrosse. We could do soccer. We could do, I mean, heck yeah, I'm trying to push to do bass fishing, Devin. I really want to make this something funny, you know, fencing, whatever it may be, chess club, as long as we can get over there and get people to commentate a sport, that's that's the ultimate goal. Right now we're only doing hockey really 'cause that's all that's in season. We're working out the logistics to get, you know, baseball going or cross going. Those will kind of start in the spring. But I mean, ultimately the goal is to be a place where you can get on air experiences because at Tennessee they're not just gonna let you hop on a kneeling field and sideline report the football team. They're not gonna, you know, let you commentate the game. That's Mike Keith's job. So the guys who wanna do it but can't really get their foot in the door, don't want to kind of do production. They really want to get that real, that on air experience. You know, they come to Tennessee Club Sports Network because that's something we provide. And along with that, we also provide, you know. on air production experience, social media, feature writing, all of that you get with a real sports network. That's what we're trying to be, but for club sports at Tennessee. speaker-0: I love it. And I've seen some of your work and it's been terrific. We gotta ask you about the TikTok. You kind of alluded to it. Barstool, you had frickin' clips getting forty, fifty, sixty K views. So what is it about your TikTok page that made it so fun to do and ultimately blow up? speaker-2: You know, I don't know. The ver the reason I started doing the TikToks is because I I loved doing the play by play. But the one thing I loved more than actually calling the game is making people laugh and making jokes. Again, I've I've been doing stand up comedy for about two years now. It's always been in the back of my mind. I don't know if I really want to pursue it full time, but I always, you know, I'm gonna keep doing it. I'm gonna keep writing material. So to be given this platform to call play by play and also, you know, be funny with it where I'm not gonna really get in trouble. That's what inspired me to keep doing it. And I know one of my friends said, hey, ⁓ one of my friends, he's ⁓ how do I explain this? He's he has a lot of followers on Instagram, TikTok. He's you he went viral. He ⁓ he runs a company where he basically promotes people. He's called the mindset guy, he's the viral genius. He does street interviews and he's made a living out of this, dropped out of college, and he actually is the one, he's always been crazy, but this is the one thing I'll agree. He told me he said your personal brand is the most important. Important thing for you. And he said, You're funny. You need to post these. Because I sent in some recordings. I'm what do think about this? He said, start posting. So you know, I started posting a couple clips, nothing really happened. And then there was one game against Kennesaw State. And to be honest, all the comments were like, he didn't get that joke by himself. I found the joke online. It was just the timing I wanted to incorporate. It was like, ⁓ Kennesaw State, what is Kennesaw State and the Titanic have in common? They both look bad when they hit the ice. And then my name's Charlie Serafi, and we'll be back here. So it was just that timing. So I posted that and it went viral. I think it has like one point one million views now on TikTok. And I don't think it was so much the joke. I think it was just so unexpected that people don't expect they're watching a broadcast, watching club hockey, you know, from the eyes of other people, the logos, the jerseys. It looks like NCAA. So I think when people see that, they just think it's hilarious that this is being happened in a broadcast. And I think people are so sick of see hearing that traditional kind of broadcast where it's boring commentary. ⁓ and he gets the puck. And he shoots and he scores. They wanna they want to hear some funny stuff. ⁓ he gets the puck. ⁓ he's doing it for the hot girl in the crowd, like over there. So, you know, they want to hear that sort of out of pocket stuff, of course, to keeping it appropriate. But I think I found that perfect balance and I've been walking that fine line of, you know, coming up with very funny ideas and incorporating that, incorporating that into play by play. And I mean every guy I've talked to try to find internships, ESBN, CBF Sports, I've all showed them those clips and they said, I'd rather see this on your reel than you calling something boring because it stands out. Awesome stuff. speaker-0: The comedy thing you do is the best that I've seen. Among commentators for club hockey, you found a way at first I thought you were just jobbing. I thought you were coming on the broadcast just to job. And then you really impressed because you actually tied in the stories of your team, Tennessee, that you cover, and also gave a scope of the other players. I'm talking about the College Hockey South playoffs here, and that really impressed me about it. What what is it about Tennessee? club hockey that that sparked your interest. Why do you like doing the hockey so much? What what intrigues you about the game and also how are we looking at Tennessee? How are the boys looking over there for the volunteers? ⁓ two, ⁓ three, and women. speaker-2: Yeah, you know, it's gonna be a really really exciting year. And I think the one thing I like about Tennessee hockey is, you know, I had a relationship with some of the players before I started calling the games. And I think a lot of them didn't know it was me calling the games. So I have a couple of friends on the team who they, you know, they said send the clips around their parents, they they just say they love it. You know, it's their parents will come up to me after the games and say, You're you know, you're so funny, but you know, you also call the game as it is. I'll admit when I first started it was a little too much jokes and not enough you know, game commentary. So I really try to find that fine line of balancing, actually calling the game. So, you know, I'm gonna be useful as a commentator, but also being funny. So I'm gonna be entertaining as a commentator. And I think that's the most important thing when you're calling a hockey game. And it's it's easy, you know, when you have Tennessee hockey, a bunch of guys that are, you know, just normal fellas like yourself, just out there playing puck, having a good time. The stakes are low. They're just trying to have fun, you know, it's not on a serious level, but they're still taking it seriously to the point where they want to win, but they're having fun doing it. And I think that's why I try to make my broadcast. I try to be somewhat serious, but I also try to have fun while I'm doing it. And you know, the team last year was incredible. It was all the way up until February, I think. They were undefeated. ⁓ and you know, this year they're having a bit of a hard time. The men's you know, the men's M2 team. ⁓ to be fair, they're playing a lot harder competition this year. I mean, they're opener, they had to go to Chapel Hill, they had to play Kentucky, all at Kentucky, and these are teams that are playing, you know, ACHA teams. So when you get a team like Tennessee, who is, you know, used to playing AAU and you kind of switch over kinda as a test to see what they can do. So I think it's very, ⁓ very fresh still. They ⁓ dropped a couple of games to I believe Virginia Tech, you know, last week, which was, you know, tough. I watched some of those games. But, you they just beat off Al they just beat Alabama. And, you know, we got to see them at home too against West Virginia and they looked really good. It started off slow, but towards the end, last five minutes, they were able to put four pucks in the back of the net and, you know, win that game. The team, I think their most important attribute this year is they're very physical and they have a lot of team chemistry. And I think if they're able to, you know, connect those things and continue to be physical, they don't have to be the best down. They don't have to be the best, most athletic, the most, you know, talented. But if they can be physical and really just hold their own, I mean, the team's gonna be incredible this year. speaker-1: I was 'cause that was the question I was gonna throw in was the atmosphere of the fans for Tennessee hockey and how that's helped Tennessee grow. speaker-2: Yeah, you know, the fan base is it's really good. ⁓ you know, at the games it's tough. You don't always have a ton of people coming out to the games only because, you know, it's such late puck drops. You ran out the ice from the Knoxville Ice Bears. So sometimes you're not seeing that puck hit the ice till till midnight, ten thirty. I know our game on Friday against Tampa. That's a 10 30 puck travel right after the Knoxville Ice Bears. So that's a bit tough. Sometimes we'll get some of the Knoxville Ice Bears fans to come out support the crowd. But when we're playing at Cool Sports Arena, which is, you know, ⁓ 25, 30 minutes off campus, you're not gonna get a ton of fans. But the one thing I do notice on the broadcast, we'll have at least, you know, 200 concurrent viewers sometimes. Reporting, commenting in the chat. So there definitely is a big fan base for Tennessee. And I think that's one of the coolest things about it. You'll always see people on campus repping those Tennessee hockey jerseys, even though they're not, you know, an NCAA team. ⁓ if it's not a Joey Aguilar jersey, you're still gonna see other jerseys, you know, Tennessee hockey jerseys, which I think is pretty cool. And, you know, you don't see too often, ⁓ especially in the South. You know, hockey's not that popular popular. I think it's growing though, which is a really cool thing. speaker-1: How have you seen the growth of ⁓ three college hockey here down south particularly? speaker-2: Yeah, you know, I think it's slow, but I think it is growing. And I think the one thing that's helping it grow is hockey house pods, specifically that Instagram. They post so many clips of some SEC teams now, and you always get comments saying, I didn't know there were hockey teams in the South. And you know, it's really cool because those guys in the South, a lot of these SEC students, they're coming from up north. So you're getting a lot of talent. I know a lot of guys ⁓ at the University of Tennessee, I know a lot of Jersey kids, a lot of Philly kids, a lot of Michigan kids. So you're getting a lot of people from the north. ⁓ and that's where, you know, hockey's really played in the States a lot. And I think that wave of people coming south to these southern colleges and picking up a stick and just playing for their school and having fun is really good for the sport. ⁓ and you know, they're having fun while they're doing it. And all the Instagram accounts growing club hockey in the self and just college hockey in the self. It's really good. I think in a couple of years we're gonna start to see more schools add club hockey teams. We're gonna see schools like Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, all those schools that already are already established kind of just get better. I mean, look at South Carolina. They they've had so much success in the past couple of years. Cock hockey has grown a lot. I even saw a cock hockey jersey when I was back in LA and I went up to the guy and asked him. He said, ⁓ I just thought it was cool. So seeing these southern schools, jerseys, and parts of the states that aren't even in the South. I mean, that's just how you know the the sport is growing and it's gaining attention. speaker-0: We were talking a bit off air about you being from LA, being a Kings fan. Dude, so you you watch your team pretty late it would seem. What's it what's it like watching your team play at one in the morning almost every week? speaker-2: You know, it's not ideal and that's across all sports. I mean, when I'm watching the Lakers, Kings, even the Dodgers, you know, those late start times are just so it's really difficult. And, you know, I really try not to stay up and watch the whole game unless it's an important game, like the playoffs, of course. So I'm gonna watch the Dodgers tonight, but it's difficult. You know, I grew up where I was watching games that start around five or six, ending at around like, you know, eight, nine, and now I'm up till one AM watching games. College football's the worst. I'll be up One of my favorite college football teams to watch is the University of Hawaii. And I'll be watching their games till three thirty, four A. ⁓ My best friend, he goes to the University of Hawaii. So it's probably even harder for him. He has to get up, you know, at six AM to watch his his finers play every morning for f NFL. So, you know, just that time difference alone, it's it's really been hard being on the East Coast with these late these late sporting games. It's the one thing I really miss about the West Coast. speaker-0: Yeah, it's a challenge to be this far away from home. You know, for you, what is being at Tennessee done for you personally? I've been one time to Knoxville and went to a honky tonk and it was it was sick because you had bands play until three, four in morning. So, you know, we got the party school vibes or are you you're hard at the books being a senior, or like what's the atmosphere? speaker-2: You know, it's a little bit of both. I like to live by ⁓ you know, ⁓ what's it called? Play hard or work hard, play hard. And it's it's been like that since I've been at college. Last year I kinda locked in a little bit when I was calling hockey because I realized I kinda had to. You know, I'd still go out after the game sometimes, but you know, I'm really trying to find that balance of you know, 'cause I'm a senior, I'm really trying to lock in of having fun, but you know, also working hard. And I think you have to do both and you have to find that balance to be able to succeed at both. I mean, this weekend I had a great weekend. ⁓ it was fall break. I actually went to started at Auburn, saw my sister there, went over to Florida State. ⁓ they have a lot of fun over there. I'll tell you that. I won't get into really what I got into, but it was a fun time for sure. So just traveling to other schools, you know, trying to work some stress off, have some fun, you know, it's it's it's cool. But at the end of the day, it's also that kind of thing where I feel like I'm really know what I want to do and I'm so locked in of what I want to do. And it's hard to find people on that same wavelength, ⁓ you know, who wanna lock in and really pursue a career like that. Cause to be in the sports media business and production, you really have to start, you know, networking at an early age. So I don't think a lot of people understand that, which is hard, but it's also a blessing because sometimes that makes the field, you know, little less competitive. I'm you know, to get away from a bear, you don't necessarily have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun the person next to you. And, you know, sometimes I find myself doing that, just trying to work harder than people around me to, you know, get to where I have to be because at the end of the day you're kind of competing with everybody. That's the truth. So, ⁓ you really have to find ways to, you know, ⁓ help yourself but also network and find those important connections and find those people who are willing to run with you. speaker-1: With with what you said, Charlie, about being a college student right now and then also calling hockey games. I did the same here actually at Osipee State University. I'm five minutes away from Effery at the Fort Ice Center. I think trying to balance being a college student and having fun and being social but also locking in on those games and locking in on your studies. Academically it's very challenging but also rewarding at the same time. I think I speak to Charlie Spears. I actually have a sister up there, U T Knox right now, as well. So it definitely it's a challenge but it's also a balancing act and it's very rewarding when you can get both of those speaker-2: Right. Yeah, and I think ⁓ that's really important to bring up too. It's just finding that balance. I didn't know you actually called the so do you call the games for Austin P. ⁓ last semester we had a pretty interesting encounter against the against Austin P. You know, it was all love at the end of the day, but I will say, ⁓ this was when I was first starting out doing commentary and you know, it was a lot of jokes. I was poking fun at Austin P a lot. And I gotta say the parents were not happy with the jokes I made after the game. So I was kinda ushered out of there pretty quickly by that. ⁓ I don't think your guest coach is too happy with it too. But, you know, that's the thing about it. It's club hockey's so fun that you're able to kind of make those jokes and, you know, be funny with what you're saying and, you know, being a college student, you know, it's you're not supposed to be you're supposed to be serious all the time, especially you can be, but you're also supposed to have fun while you're doing it. I think that's what we're both, you know, trying to do here. speaker-1: I agree with that. speaker-0: You gotta you gotta tell us about the Outfront podcast, man. What what the heck was this when you were younger? Give us a debrief in the spark notes of it. speaker-2: You did some research on me, I see. I I'll be honest, Debbie. I have not heard that name in probably like five years. So the fact that you just brought that up is hilarious. The guy I did it with is gonna get a kick out of this when I call him after this that you brought that up. The Alpha Podcast was a podcast. It was my friend Colin Jones. He goes to Penn State now. It was his idea. We both watched sports. We were both really into the draft. It was during COVID. We had nothing to do. So we created this podcast. I think it ran for like twenty six episodes of us talking about, you know. sports, the draft. It was a lot of the NFL draft. I remember the specific one we were covering was the one where ⁓ I think it was like twenty eighteen or nineteen. It was like T Law. We did the one with like Tua and Burr Herbert, all those guys. So we would basically, you know, get together during COVID and film these podcasts where we just talk about sports and just give our takes and whatever and just, you know, be our funny teenage selves and it ended up turning into also, you know, some video gaming. Like we played Fortnite together and talked about sports while we were playing Fortnite. And you know, it was fun while it lasted. We started decided to stop doing it kind of once COVID ended. You know, and we had other stuff to take care of. But I did forget that I did that podcast. And, you know, I I my mom really wanted me to continue it. She's you're gonna have to start doing more sports media when you're older. And I was no mom, like I want to do marine biology, stand up comedy and Looking back, I wish I'd continued with it. But yeah, that was my I guess my first kind of look into doing some sort of podcast like that in sports media. That's speaker-0: That that's beautiful. Now that we mentioned it, what's the future of of podcasting for you? 'Cause you've you plugged the hockey house. I appreciate you for doing that. But, you know, y you've got the talents for it. What do you what do you think? speaker-2: That's a good question. I've definitely had a lot of ideas. I haven't really talked to anybody about those ideas yet. I think I'd rather, you know, execute them than kind of talk about them. That's one thing about me. I always have crazy fun ideas I want to do, but you know, the more I talk about them, the less I do it. So I think I just kind of want to execute on what I'm doing. I think what's next for me definitely is to continue networking, reaching out. The TikToks are gonna start to pick up a little. You'll start seeing a little more as the season goes on. I'll start posting. ⁓ some more as I start calling some more games. I've kind of adopted more of a behind the scenes role, you know, doing some producing and a little bit of directing and coordinating and everything. So trying to get my hands everywhere, learning how to, you know, work and, you know, run TCSN, help everybody out as much as I can. ⁓ but you know, I'm gonna continue doing stand up comedy. You're definitely gonna see a lot more TikTok videos. I think the ultimate goal one day is really to create my own sports network that blends professionalism and comedy almost like a ESPN mixed with S N L. That's the long term goal. short term, it's really just, you know, reaching out, trying to get a job with a big production company, you know, keep doing some sports media on the side. You know, whether that's like a bar stool or like a ESPN, just but just to keep putting out content, you know, I I know kind of the end goal. I just don't really know what the road looks like to get there. And I know it's gonna be a long, bumpy road. So I'm just kind of playing it by ear, seeing what happens, see what opportunities I get and taking those opportunities. And yeah, you know, I'm excited for what the future holds. And I think if I just kind of keep going, eventually I'm gonna, you know You know, land somewhere. speaker-0: Last thing we want to ask you, and we know the M2 team you talked about had some tough opponents start the year to say the least. On the road, Georgia, Kentucky, what have you. They're gonna play a really solid Tampa team who just came off taking it to FAU. So what do you think about this series? speaker-2: It's gonna be good, Devin. I'll be honest. That Tampa team, out of all the club hockey teams I've really seen, I've had a chance to, you know, see Tampa play a lot. They probably scare me the most. I mean, granted, I'm not coaching the game. I'm just calling it. If I were Tennessee, I would definitely say that's a game you want to take seriously. Tampa is a very good team. They beat us in the playoffs last year in Athens, Georgia. ⁓ Sora and I were actually both calling that game. And some questionable calls here and there, I will say, by the the stripes, but You know, I can't complain. Yeah, they they won Fair and Square. They're a really good team. Sorry's looking at me right now, like they did not win Fair and Square. But, you know, Tampa is a dangerous team. ⁓ a lot of guys from Tampa, all from Jersey. So yeah, a lot of kids coming up from, like I said, coming north, going south to play puck. So I think what Tennessee is gonna have to rely on from what I've seen is just playing very physical. You're gonna have to keep up with them physically. ⁓ you can't let Tampa start to dance around you. 'Cause like you s you called in that game, Devon, they can get fancy with the puck and the stick work. So you really gotta be careful if you're Tennessee, not let them start to get fancy. Don't let the game get away from you. I think Tennessee they've got a they got a handful Friday night and sa Sunday morning. So I'm pretty excited to call those games. It should be pretty entertaining. speaker-0: For your group, you've got a young season. Your ⁓ three team's just getting started. We're in early October. I'm gonna be tuning in a lot and we gotta get you down to South Florida again. But when you come, just know you know, Gavin can choose to keep this in or not. But ⁓ we're gonna we're gonna hit the ice and then we're gonna skate on down to club space at some point, maybe. I'll see if I can get you on the guest. speaker-2: Love to. No, I have I have no problem with ⁓ with that plan, I will say. You know, I think it would be a great team bonding ⁓ team bonding exercise to go over down to Club Space or Live Miami, any ⁓ one of those clubs. ⁓ but yeah, no, Miami's a fun town. I'd love to you know, you're living my dream. I'd love to end up there eventually. ⁓ I'm really excited for that weekend. So hopefully it all works out. I could, you know, make it down there. We'll talk about the details, but again, I'm I'm beyond excited to call some some Florida hockey. speaker-0: The John Summit of Club Hockey. I think that's what we can also calm with Charlie. Funny as hell. And we cannot wait to see you again. Good luck with the Tennessee Club Sports Network. Keep up the good work with the hockey teams and we look forward to talking to you again soon, Charlie. speaker-2: Hey guys, thank you so much for having me on. I had a blast. ⁓ you it's gonna be a fun season, so hopefully ⁓ get to see you guys, talk to you guys again. And ⁓ you know, it's gonna be it's gonna be a good one. Definitely a lot of good games, a lot of good teams in this league. ⁓ good luck to Austin P too, Mario. I know you guys got a good squad. Some pretty nice jerseys over there as well. I like those governor jerseys. ⁓ you won't catch me back in Clarksville, I'll tell you that. Much rather be in Miami, but definitely gonna be a fun season. So thank you guys for having me on. Seriously, it's been fun. speaker-0: Thanks to Charlie Sarafian, an absolute beauty coming on the Kala Chalky Mouth podcast. Mario, he talked a lot about the staint. A little bit of cross rivalry, a little bit of shots at your own town. What'd you think of him? speaker-1: I mean, with Clarksville, I mean, man, if you're gonna come after Clarksville, you're gonna come after the Austin governors. ⁓ we did held Tennessee in the first half in two thousand twenty four in in football. So I mean, hey, if they have hockey, we have a good football team right now. So that's all I have to say about that. But you know, it's a little friendly. You know, with Tennessee and Ospie it's a lot friendly. No. We're we're both college hockey, college hockey south announcer just trying to make it. And it's a small world connection having another club hockey announcer from another from the same state as you growing in Tennessee. speaker-0: You guys have had the Nashville Predators on the NHL side, but we know ⁓ I think it it was it ⁓ the Tennessee State has the the N C double A program coming. So the HBCU that's pretty awesome. So speaker-1: Sometime hopefully we're looking at maybe two thousand twenty six, maybe twenty seven, seeing Tennessee State play hopefully at Bridgetone Arena they can make an adjustment there. Maybe the Predators can make accommodations for Tennessee State since Tennessee State is only a couple minutes away to campus from Bridgestone Arena with the Predators and everything. We'll see, but hopefully there's more to come from Tennessee State on that. speaker-0: Might have to get college hockey south involved if they have an ACA program alongside the NCAA because I I would be a fan of that. Charlie gets the professional vibe. I like to give him a hard time because he he's a good dude. Met him last year playoffs. The thing that he that doesn't put on as much as he he maybe wants to is the ability of him to to navigate around those teams. Cause the he brought up the Kansas State joke before I was gonna. The the Titanic thing. He almost had to pay the price for that. Some people were really, really not happy about it. He's a good man, though. I would look forward to working with him again. He's gonna have a career in this field, no doubt. Getting to our debrief of what was a chaotic week in college hockey south recaps, starting with Tampa and Florida Atlantic. ⁓ man, where do we begin? Tampa proved that they are simply the best team in College Hockey South among every team. A sweep of Florida Atlantic, 9 2 on Friday night, 5-4 overtime victory late into the night and even into the morning of Saturday and then Sunday. And Sunday afternoon a 9 1 belting of the owls. I did see all these games, and the biggest thing I take away from this Tampa group is how good they recruited, how much of a great job Nick Kuzlik does getting every line, every defenseman. And both their goaltenders to play at their best level on nearly every shift. They kept the penalties down, which was their caveat coming into this series. They had seven different goal scores on Friday night. Alex Moeller was all over the place. Cole Velise had a hat trick in Sunday. This is one that Florida Atlantic is licking their wounds on because it was some of the worst losses they faced in a long time as a program. speaker-1: Tampa has a lot of championship pedigree and championship DNA. So when you step into these games as the Spartans have in this season, they they have a lot of experience. And that experience shows in games like these. And when the moments are brightest, they put their best players out there and they're able to get it done, whether it's offense, whether it's defense, whether it's special teams on the power play. And Tampa is just head and shoulders above the rest right now in college hockey style. speaker-0: You said it on all phases, especially the special teams. They started this series five for five on the power play. Through game one, they were perfect. The start of game two, they were efficient. Florida Atlantic had a comeback in this. They were down by three in the second game, and then they had to rely on some penalties that Tampa took. Get on a five on three, get on a five on four, knock some man advantage goals in. They got it to overtime. At the end of the day, it wasn't enough as They ⁓ fell in that one. The overtime winner from Jacob Penetrante, they have proven again that they're gonna be the team to knock off not just in college hockey south, but an M2 field that has as much as 180 teams in the nation. They're looking like one of the groups that's gonna compete for nationals come March. speaker-1: Especially pool play. They might roll through it and you might see them make another deep run as they have in the last two, three years. This is a great program going forward. speaker-0: They do have to get through their regional first. The goal for them now is where do they get seated? We'll get to them a little bit later. We talked to Charlie about them playing Tennessee this weekend, but also going on in Florida was the war on I-4. We got ourselves a split series. It was a dominating USF performance. 11 2 in game one from Orlando. Jacob Duhaim had the hat trick. Six points on the night in their win. Eight total on the weekend. UCF though made this interesting with a seven to four win on night two. We really tried our best to, you know, pump up UCF and and it worked. Andrew Cass, goaltender, talked to him last week. He said there was real hatred in this series. It showed what a comeback performance by UCF. I don't know if anybody expected them to flip the script on night two. speaker-1: Game one game ones and game twos are very different when you're playing on in the college hockey south level. You go home, you play your first game on Friday night, you take it on the chin, you come back on game two and night two and respond to what the knights did. It's a testament to what they've been able to build here throughout the season and their death and their resilience throughout that two game set. speaker-0: You're right. I think everybody talks about Grant Dietz, last year's M2 player of the year. And we don't look at what else this group has with their special teams. Ryan Laureus, Maxwell Mudge, who had two goals in their 11-2 win. They've got some decent goaltending there in Ryan Koch off to a great start. Four wins on the year, and they're gonna be in the race for this M3 pool come late in the year for sure. Right now they're on the heater. Looking at the Battle of the Hoot. Two teams that are nicknamed the Owls, Kennesaw State, traveling to South Florida to take on Florida Atlantic M3. You get a split series here. 6'5 FAU. They did it in comeback fashion. They were down early in this game to Kennesaw State. Had some leadership goals from Sam Watson. Drew Renzi got involved. Kennesaw State, a banged up group, started one and five, started one and six, and then they get the win on night two in their own comeback with the help of some big time goals. speaker-1: It's very interesting that both of these teams were in the playoffs last year and they play a close matchup with each other. And both of these teams are probably set again to see each other maybe sometime down the line. And also it just makes for compelling hockey when you see two quality teams facing off against each other in the middle of the season like this. speaker-0: James Kravis was able to put on this highlight reel goal that was to go ahead for them in game two. Shot this one basically between the far corner boards and the dots. Rockstar angle. He picked a top of the near post. Only a spot he could see against a really solid net miner and Matt McMillan. Good job by him leading the front there. Great decisions for Coach Stevenson. This group has really suffered the last two years early in games. Mario, you know this well. They've been a banged up team. They've not been very successful in the wins column, made college hockey South playoffs last year, were bounced to a really great South Carolina team that was undefeated through that year in that tournament. So you love to see this for Kennesaw State getting a quality win over a team that's very revered in Florida Atlantic. And they've got some things to figure out on their side, of course. The Fighting Knights of Lynn traveled to Tampa, take on the other Spartans team in their M3 program. Went handily Tampa's way, seven to three and eight to one wins. It's almost like no matter which way you chalk it up, this Spartan program from the ⁓ two to the ⁓ three to the women's are just rising to the occasion right now. And when they're at home, they're pretty unstoppable right now. Moving things along, Clemson traveled to Alabama, an M3 matchup. Really solid victories here by the Tigers. With Clemson, it feels like they're sort of re rostering this program. They lost a lot of great talent a couple of years ago. Last year had some problems with their eligibility and made a deep run in the college hockey south tournament. Danny Bohm talked about that a few weeks ago. Clemson's sitting right now at 3 2 0 0 and they're two-and-two in conference play. This was a really solid win for a team that honestly in Alabama, now that's dropped four straight. This was prime for the taking. And it's it's some quality wins out there around the Tuscaloosa area. speaker-1: Devin, this was actually the team that Ospia faced from the last season. And Clemston's hockey club just coming back and finally getting some form again here. It's nice to see him getting a little run going and to see what Clemson hockey is putting together here to getting back to where it was. And also with Alabama, another team that Ospie saw a year ago as well. Ospie didn't handle them too well. And Alabama has a lot of good talent on their hockey club. speaker-0: It's a rocky start for Alabama. Like you said, they're really, really solid. Early enough, I think they can probably turn this around. They've got some some pretty important games coming up in their schedule. Looking at the woman's side of things, we had some really lopsided scores this week. Clemson beat Georgia in a single game on Sunday, twelve to three. Needless to say, Clemson had a really solid week in Kalachocke South. USF also traveled to South Florida. couple of miles east for them. Twelve to two and seven to nothing wins over Miami. Chloe Valente earned our first star of the week with five goals, six assists, eleven points, the transfer. Grad student now from Northern Michigan. I mean, Mario, when you when you look at the the state of the women's division, what stands out to you? Why these scores are so big? speaker-1: First thing I have to say to you, Devin, is talent. Talent, talent, talent. The development of development of these of these women in college hockey South is amazing to watch. And it's the growth and it's the continued improvement of the stride that these women are putting in time and time out every night, night in and night out on the ice. And it is showing that now so much so that we're seeing a top heavy conference and you're seeing the the talent between teams now become a difference in the factor of who's winning these games and how large the amount is. speaker-0: No doubt you've got a decent enough gap between the North and the South Division where this South Carolina team now four two and ⁓ on the year, we talk about Tampa a lot being the best team. Although they play in separate divisions, South Carolina and Tampa. And right now, between Clemson, South Carolina, maybe we're talking about, you know, Alabama at some point in the North Division. Those three seem like the the clear cut in the north. And then in the the south, you've got really just Tampa. And USF and and you're starting to see that disparaging. It's all about the growth. But we're gonna be objective here. These are massive scores. I wish we could see a little more of these close back and forths. I I I think we're gonna get some at some point when we see those teams I mentioned play each other. Closing things out in the woman's side recap. South Carolina took down Auburn ten to nothing and six to one on Friday and Saturday. Now flipping sides in the show, we're gonna talk about Week five, some some matchups that are really, I don't know if you can call them early season turning points. They're for sure gonna be a telltale about a lot of these teams when we talk about the M3 side of things, which you know very well here. Looking at our game of the week in Kalach hockey South, Friday, six PM Eastern time. It's USF visiting the newest Kalachockey South program, Florida Gulf Coast. The Eagles trying to start their slate in a new conference the right way. Battle between two four-win teams. We talked about USF's Jacob Duhaim coming off an eight-point weekend for them. They show a lot of depth though. Florida Golf Coast Paul Johnston has a nice start to his season. This really has the chance to be not just the game of the week, but one that feels like two teams that are closely matched. speaker-1: And with Florida Gold Coast being one of the newest teams in College Hockey South in the M3 division, this is a huge chance to make an impact in college hockey south and make some noise. And of course with USF, with Duhane coming off an eight point weekend, it's a chance for for FGCU's defense to show that they belong in college hockey south and that they belong among the lead in this division. If I'm a hockey coach for FGCU, I'm telling the blue liners, hey, this weekend set This is yours for the taking. And to do that you'll have to contain one of the best. But to contain one of the best, you'll have to play like your best when it comes down to it this weekend. And we'll see if FGCU can do it. Yeah. speaker-0: I think one thing we're gonna we're gonna want to see is the the goaltending battle, right? You know, Florida Golf Coast runs with Jeff Wasco, who had a really solid weekend. Believe he was in net going two and one. South Florida's got Ryan Koch over there, but both sides feature some solid leadership, right? And and for you know, Florida Golf Coast we're talking about here, they feel like with some top goal scorer or point getters for them, Daniel Lasone having a good start to his year. Rosh Skipper is all over the fore check. We talked about Paul Johnston. This is one that I think USF and and Grant Dietz and and Jacob are gonna have to be diligent and and not take a lot of penalties. Florida Golf Coast is a former nationals program. They're always in the mix in the top twenty five. Of course, sixteen go to nationals in the ACHA ⁓ three division. For USF, if they wanna stand out at this point in the year, this would be a really good weekend. And vice versa, Florida Golf Coast, establish yourself is always the goal. This would be the perfect way to do that. Weekend set, but the game of the week is Friday, October 10th at 6 p.m. Eastern from Hertz Arena. Moving things along on the rest of our matchups to watch, Florida Southern taking on Jacksonville. Jacksonville has been off to a great start. We've mentioned them pretty much every week here, being the I don't know if it's a surprise that they're so good. They have taken on some M3 programs and done very well. They're 4 2 0 and 1 on the year. Florida Southern has gotta find something to go their way. They're one and three to start. They've gotten blown out in some games. Feel like this is prime for Florida Southern's taking, but a sneaky good game could be on our hands. speaker-1: And Devin, I think with Fortis Southern, they're like you said, they're gonna have to find they're gonna have to find something here and find something deep within them to end up making a run here in the middle of the season. Just with Fortis Southern, it's one game at time right now. It's one shift at a time. Just if the goals start flowing for them and they can start making some plays and and they can get at least a win here, a win there, then things can start turning up brightly for them. speaker-0: Gotta ask you this. Does Florida Southern have the cleanest look right now of any team? These white jerseys they have with the I wanna call ⁓ teal blue, like they're the look good, play good moniker has not shown up for them exactly perfect. They did play Tampa very hard, but like, you know, coming from the Jersey, the Jersey side of things, like like what are we looking at with Florida Southern here? speaker-1: I think Florida Southern has one of the best uniform combos alongside Osapy in Kalachalkey South. And those colors are very stunning and they're very they're very bright. They just have a good pop tone. Of course, we're not jersey designers or anything, but a good jersey to me is something that it just stands out among anything you see around the room. And it just lifts everybody up when you see it. Love Florida Southern's combos and colors and their colorway. speaker-0: Shout out to Will Marshall, also a former guest on the pod here. Him and Michael Wool are always the guys where I think we're talking about the most of these guys. They've got a really long weekend. They've got three games. They'll finish up on Sunday against Florida ACDC. Would love to see the Moccasins get their early season back on track here. Also going on Friday and Sunday, Florida Atlantic taking on Embra Riddle, the Ice Eagles. speaker-1: Looking at that A E R A U program, they were sitting last season, looked like about towards the bottom of the pack, trying to find their way into the middle. What this team is just is just trying to get chemistry and trying to get a culture in their program. And to do that, you gotta get wins in your culture and you gotta get results. But it's also trying to cobble together this group on the ice and making sure you're doing the right things when it comes down to it in the third period. and at the start of games. So for this ERAU program is just finding finding that right balance. And that's a theme here that we're gonna say in this podcast, in this episode, is just finding what your identity is as a team. speaker-0: Danny Finnegan did a nice little mic'd up section session with them on their social media. Ember Riddle, no matter what happens to them on the ice, they're one of the funniest social medias. I love seeing what they post because they're not afraid to show the sillier side of club hockey. Keep it up, boys. Love to see a weekly or or bi weekly mic'd up there. And hats off, like we said, to Danny Finnegan for for getting on that one. FAU feel like they need to bounce back. They need to stop taking a lot of penalties. We'll see if they can correct that. Friday is in Daytona at Embry Riddle. Sunday they both visit Boca Ice Center in South Florida. speaker-1: Hard place to play in Bocay Center, so speaker-0: Not if you're a Tampa Spartan, but historically, yes, a tough place to play for most college hockey South teams. The barn, the Boca Barn. Friday and Saturday, UCF at Kennesaw State. Kennesaw State coming off a big split against FAU. This is gonna be a tough challenge for them. They're struggling with health in their lineup. They find a way to come out with this with a split. Would do numbers to turn around what is a two-and-six start for them to the year. Also, a series where a team needs to kind of turn things around. Middle Tennessee is Taking on Lynn. Lynn is a former nationals team. Middle Tennessee started their first two games in a rough way. They are four and two now over the first five weeks of the season. Their captain, Lyndon Palmer, is leading the charge there. speaker-1: With Mill Tennessee State, they have a really good program on the when they were in the ⁓ two level, of course, a year ago. Now dropping down to ⁓ three with the new alignment, the new association. And this is gonna be a tough challenge facing Lynn coming up here for this Friday, Saturday weekend series. But they're they're very hot right now, four and two, dropping their first two games and winning four straight. That is a sign of a quality of of a quality hockey program and a hockey program that's finding their their fire at the right time. With Lin, I think the challenge for them is gonna be trying to contain MTSU but also trying to find some trying to find some offense there and goaltending. If they can if they can get some stops and get the help they need with their goaltending, then we'll see if they can get some goals to come along with it and try to win. speaker-0: Had a had a tough start in the record thing wise, but they don't mess up is another social media. They've also got a really solid broadcaster, Mario. Of course, us being two of them in the conference. Want to give a props to Sam Galfan, their new voice over there at Lynn. This guy has one of the deepest voices I've ever heard. He's a natural talent, though. Every time this guy commentates, you know, you're you're locked in. He has a series going. He titles it a Deeply unserious announcer. It's a clip of him making Instagram reels. He's basically just going off rip, talking about whatever comes to mind for him. I love stuff like this when you mix the professionalism and the fun. You know, Mario, you talked about in the podcast interview with Charlie, trying to build your career. You want to be sound professional, you want to build your craft. You gotta have fun in the middle because at the end of the day, this is club hockey. speaker-1: Devin, you're absolutely right on that. It it's a thing of trying to find your own style, but also trying trying to sometimes emulate others as well. And I do take a look at the other announcers and see what they're doing and see what they're doing right as well. But also trying to put my little own style into it, have some fun with it, but also trying to give a professional straight analysis and calls down the line between what's going on in our games here at Austin P. speaker-0: We're gonna put the hit on on you, Mario. We should do a segment. If you can get this on board with Austin P, you should have, because I'm gonna try and do this with FAU. And if you're listening to this, have your broadcasters do it. Make a list of all of the words you want your broadcaster to try and pinch in there on the broadcast. I've I've heard a couple of things in the past. Fortnite's been a big one. Usually it coincides with the meme that's going around. One year I did Mega Mine in 2022. Somehow threw that in there. Don't even remember how I did it. Aureo, h how do we feel about the idea of having the team get a list together and having you throw things in the broadcast? speaker-1: that would be fun. That I would like that. 'Cause then we can air that on the ⁓ on the podcast and we could do like a quick you do we could do like a quick edit or whatever. speaker-0: The social media managers listening, Kelly, round up all the clips of the broadcasters one of these weeks, and let's let's have a deeply unserious compilation of Kalach hockey South announcers. Sam Gill fan, Mario, and myself included. We talked about this series with Charlie in the interview. Tennessee taking on Tampa. Tennessee ended up leaving Kalachocke South. They're now part of the ACC. Tampa, though, just had this monster weekend against FAU. You know, Mario. Give us your your take. ⁓ based on what Charlie said, they're gonna have to play physical style to keep up with a really, really deep Tampa roster. speaker-1: Tampa's got a lot of talent and a lot of quality on their side. And this team is physical. They're gonna get on you. With Tennessee, it's w it's riding those waves and trying to just make sure that you're still level headed enough and you're still calm enough throughout those waves that you can capitalize on your moment when you have it. They're gonna get chances in these games. They're not gonna get many, but those moments that they do have, they have to capitalize. If they don't do that, they're not gonna win this game. speaker-0: Sure to listen and watch that game on the Tennessee Club Sports Network. Our man Charlie Serafian will have both of those games. It's the start of a four-game road trip for Tampa. We'll be talking about them again next week. Just a little highlight. They're gonna take on the reigning M2 national champions in ACHA in Lindenwood the week after this next series. Next two series and the woman's side to preview USF and Tampa in the Battle of the Bay. Really doesn't get much better than that. Kind of a gas gorilla style here. For USF to compete in this game, which, you know, full disclaimer on this pod, we've been talking a lot about the competitiveness and how things look and what do they have to do to win. Lizzie Penn told us that USF is getting used to playing full sixty minute games. And I'll be honest, I don't I don't know if this is the type of game, a type of series here where it'll need sixty minutes. I mean, Tampa right now looks like an unstoppable group. I'm putting the challenge out there. We need Chloe Valente to get Fifteen points this weekend. Should be fun to see what they do. I speaker-1: Agree, Devin, Battle the Bay. It it's USF, it's Tampa. It's two teams that just don't like each other sometimes. So it's gonna be interesting to watch how that all transpires this weekend. speaker-0: We can also put up the challenge for Lizzie to gain. You can't hit in women's hockey. So so we're we're we're gonna do turnovers. If she can get roughly eight to ten turnovers over the weekend, we'll give her flowers and and I'll pitch her for the for the star of the week. The Spartan group, not much more you can say other than they are the the cream of the crop right now in women's college hockey south. Alabama takes on Georgia Saturday and Sunday. Alabama, we talked about moments ago, could be one of the teams to look out for in the North Division and Georgia needing to to prove themselves a little bit early slate game year. As always, be sure to follow these closely on their social media pages, collegehockey south.com as well. We've had some great season recaps with the articles. Social media manager Kelly's been doing a great job putting those out. They explained it a lot better than simply put, I do sometimes. So we'll see what happens around College Hockey South. That's your slate. Mario, tell us what what what's going on with Austin P. What what do we got looking forward to with the governors? They had their opening weekend against eastern Kentucky. Pretty good for them on the split, but what's coming up? Well speaker-1: Devin, we faced UAH here last weekend. We had a tough time with them. UAH and Henry Hoff was incredible here individually for the Chargers. That whole Chargers group was just better bat out. Offensively, defensively, and special teams as well. And with the Governors, it's just trying to find a culture here and trying to find a team that has a chance of winning games and trying to find Trying find it one at a time, making sure that the team just has chemistry and the connection. Now, next up, October 17th and October 18th, we get Louisiana State University M3 Independent for the LSU Tigers. They're coming into town to Clarksville to the Ford Ice Center. And with Austin P, I think it's a good chance here to hopefully get our first win at home this season. It's been a tough challenge to do that here so far with Alabama Huntsville. And this team is definitely struggled compared to a season ago. So with this team being a new group of guys and trying to mesh in with the old guys, with the LSU Tigers coming in, it's trying to get a semblance of knowing who you are and knowing how you're gonna play with both these sets of groups of players. Maybe take the set against LSU. But also look out for LSU on the other side. They played UTSA a weekend ago as well, and they had a really good timeout with them. And then they split old miss as well. So very equivalent styles and very equivalent clash. Of quality, and you're gonna see an equal level of play, and both teams play really hard. And the result of that will only determine who's gonna come out with the weekend set. speaker-0: The first thing I I notice with Austin P is is how spread out the schedule is. You guys have this LSU series weekend off this past weekend, weekend off after this series, and then is this true you guys don't play a single home series in the second semester? This speaker-1: is true actually it yes it is because we're not playing any home series throughout january or february it's just all of our game are all of our home series are in the fall semester if i can put a shout out towards that october 17th 18th broadcast is gonna be on a psn tv start times for the game right now are 4 30 and 8 and 9 p.m so we got an early start time for that first game on october 17th right around live call right around a lot of college students fall break so hopefully you can join in with us for the broadcast And then a late 9 p.m. start time as well. Again, that's on A APSN and the APSU TV page. So you can tune in. You're gonna hear me as the play-by-play announcer, Hugh Wheeler, my partner, and this incredible APSU TV, APSN crew and production that all the students get hands-on experience with. And it's incredible what they're able what the communication department is able to do with this program and give the students the opportunities and chances. to be great sportscom students. speaker-0: Love it, love it, love it. The Austin Peace stock is through the frickin' roof. If your pep talk has any weight, it's it's gonna turn around their season. It's a one in five start for them. I'm curious to see how this LSU team looks. Also, Louisiana State, LSU, back in college hockey, sign me up. They got one of the sickest uniform sets among Tiger teams because there's frickin' a million of them now. speaker-1: Devin forgot to get you down to Clark's at some point. speaker-0: Well, I'm as far down as you can get. I think you mean up. I've passed through Tennessee. I haven't really been to the state though since I was a freshman in college and I went to Nashville. I don't know anything about that town. I I you know, I told Charlie I've been to Knoxville. You know what? When I travel back to Michigan, whether it be Thanksgiving, considering I can't find a flight right now, might just have to pit stop in there a little early, check out some Austin P hockey. With that, we're gonna wrap things up here on College Hockey Mouth. Thank you so much. Again to Charlie Saravian for joining us on episode eight. Mario Bettingfield, awesome job as well of joining. For our producer Gavin Coker, my name is Devin Cerro. You'll be listening to another episode of CHM. We'll see you next week. Good luck in all your games this weekend.