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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 4 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Greetings and welcome to episode four of the Boffel Football Coaches Show. I'm your
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  host, Ryland Spencer along with me as always, the head coach of the
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  Buffel Cougars, Tomping Deer Coach. How are we doing? Doing great?
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  How about you? Ryland? I'm doing fantastic as usual. We want to
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  Park Chick fil A. They're generous team meal last week field the team to
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  victory over North Creek. Pick up your next chicken, sandwich and waffle fries.
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  Add one two two zero, two hundred and twenty eighth Street Southeast in
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  Bothel Up there right there at the Canyon Park exit on the off a four
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  h five. So, I know I enjoyed the chicken sandwich. I don't
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  know about you, coach, but that was a nice little meal there before
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  heading down to watch a little football at POPKINI. But yeah, the Bottel
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  football program goes two and one since we last bot Coach, Let's talk about
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  the freshman game first. The last Wednesday, they went up to Lake Stevens
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  to take on the Cavallero Colts. Cavallero is a freshman a freshman team for
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  Lake Stevens. They actually have what's called the Middle High School up there,
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  so it's eighth and ninth grades. Kind of an interesting way of doing things.
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  But yeah, they went up there three and ozo. Now on the
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  season for the freshman team as they come away with a twenty eight nothing victory.
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  Coach, I mean, you have to it seems like every week we
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  talked the same theme with the freshman You've got to be really excited about the
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  future of the Bottel football program when you look at the freshman team and see
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  what coach Lego and the and the guys got going on down there. Yeah,
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  you know that that Cavallero programs a feeder program to Lake Stevens as we
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  know, and it's a good, good, good program, lots of kids
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  and and they got us last year and we were able to come back and
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  not just get them, but shut them out. And so just real impressed
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  with, you know, the way our our freshman program is played, the
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  way they practice, fun, fun group of kids to watch. Monday night
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  the JV team, it was a very very wet Monday, not just at
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  practice but out there at the JV game. They lost fourteen nothing to North
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  Creek. Game was suspended early because of lightning. But JV is now two
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  and two on the season. Games like that I think are always really hard
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  to get a good read on because of the weather. I mean, we
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  all know that, you know, the weather can affect games. Not making
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  excuses, but when you're trying to see how your team is going or see
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  what they're you know, doing well, weather like that can always be hard.
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  And it looks like we're going to deal with it maybe for the next
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  couple of days here at practice as well. Coach. Yeah, absolutely,
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  you know the weather. You know the weather plays of a role on both
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  teams, and so I thought North Creek did a better job of executing their
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  offense. They caught passes, they they ran the ball. Well we didn't.
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  We didn't particularly excel at the run game or the past game. We
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  had a couple opportunities to score, and North Creek did a nice job of
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  shutting us down. So hats off to them and back to the drawing board
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  for us and we'll continue to improve. Varsity game last week thirty six to
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  fourteen win over North Creek on Friday night down at the Pop. Three rushing
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  touchdowns on the night, I know, Coach Munson and Fisher Keller probably h
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  you know, I'm real happy about that one, but two from Colebrook one
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  from Jalen Viers. Virus also had two touchdown passes, one to Tyson Hoak
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  and another to Bryson Bell, who a name that we haven't really talked a
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  whole lot about, you know, maybe on this even though he is a
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  captain, but a guy that hasn't really had his shot to maybe shining games
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  yet, partly because he's been you know, tag team in the tight end
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  position with a couple of other guys. But now with some injuries he steps
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  up next, next man up. Mentality and Bryson Bell comes up with an
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  unbelievable catch in the corner of the end zone. Yeah, he's been playing
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  better each and every week. And he's such a great kid. He's he's
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  one of our captains. He's kind of a soft spoken kid who always is
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  doing the right things, efforts always great and and so you know, it's
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  it's so fun to see those guys get their opportunity and then and then sees
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  the moment. You know, we've we have about five or six kids who
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  who are able to step up and fill in and and he has just that
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  time of the year in football across the state where you're going to have injuries
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  and you're going to have starters out, and you know a lot of teams
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  do. Certainly we have had our share too. But I've been really pleased
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  with the way kids have have come in and uh and Emmett Kilstrom has did
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  did a wonderful job for us, stepping in and making plays and doing his
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  job. And like you said, Bryson Bell and we've had we Jude Roy
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  has done a great job filling in there. There's been some uh, you
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  know, we you know, I forget Noah Sarah Dallas, who's done it
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  for a couple of weeks now, and those kids have gotten the opportunity and
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  they they have have you risen to the challenge. Their preparation throughout the week
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  and in the off season has prepared them too to do good things. And
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  you know, we're excited to see them fill in and do just that.
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  Yeah, you know, and I think that's where also the JV game it
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  allows you to maybe get some of those those backup guys or those twos,
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  gets them an opportunity to maybe get some action and then have a couple of
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  days off and then they're ready to go if need to be called on on
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  Friday Night. And you know, you mentioned Emmett Kilstrom, Jude Roy,
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  Noah Saradellas who was a two to begin with and now he's kind of been
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  relied on as one. And then you know, Toby Johnson is a guy
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  that's seen his plays increase and I think he's really stepped up to the challenge.
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  And uh, you know, Nolan led is a two and a couple
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  of different spots on the offensive line. And when I think we had two
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  different guys go down at different points, they did come back into the game,
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  but two different guys go down and Nolan leduced into different positions at different
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  times, and you know, he goes in and plays his butt off,
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  and so I think there's something to be said about that. And uh,
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  you know, the compete level of those twos. They come in and they
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  work just as hard as the ones, absolutely, and you know, that's
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  that's the game of football. It's it's like that, and you know,
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  more than than most sports where you're you're you know, you're gonna go through
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  the season, You're gonna you're gonna have some kids who who will miss some
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  time. It's just the nature of the physicality of it. So you know,
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  I'm glad you mentioned those two kids. They both have done a great
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  job. No one will do is working hard and he's uh, he's starting
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  to develop an edge at the offensive line, and we kind of like that.
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  And and then you know, Toby has has uh you know, had
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  an opportunity early and uh, you know it, he continues to impress us
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  weekly with his ability just to get a little bit better each and every day.
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  And so we're excited about that, and certainly we need those people to,
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  you know, to continue to be successful even with a thirty six fourteen
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  win. There's always going to be things you need to get better with and
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  things you need to get better on. And this has kind of become a
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  theme a little bit. Is UH penalties creep up again. And you know,
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  we've talked about it before. Some of it's mentality or excuse me,
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  some of it's mentally. Some of it's just undisciplined. You know what,
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  what do you some of the things you look for? What are the things
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  that you know maybe you would like to see the team do better as far
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  as the penalties go. And how do you kind of fix some of these
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  things? Yeah, you know what. We have a core covenants. It's
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  LEAD and each of those UH letters start so you know, stands for a
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  word that we hope to stand by, and and the A and the D
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  our accountability and discipline and those are the two that that we're struggling with right
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  now. And we spoke about it at our coaches meeting on Sunday night.
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  We posed the question to our captains and football team yesterday at film meetings.
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  And it's the darnedest thing, but I will tell you this, I believe
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  that discipline is a twenty four hour a day thing. I think that that
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  kids who you know, show up late to class, who don't get in
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  assignments, who who are not doing chores at home, who are not following
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  what they're supposed to do all of the time, will have difficulty doing it
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  when they need to do it for one specific amount of time, like in
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  football, And so, you know, I think it's a it's a problem
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  that you know, we're we're trying different things. We're we've talked about it
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  enough, We've we've watched it enough. It's it's time to see some improvement,
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  and we're hoping to do that. But yes, we we uh another
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  eleven penalty outing just lack discipline. You know, it's not like the calls
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  are bad or there's one or two that you know you might might be difficult
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  to find, and a couple or effort based and you know you you're okay
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  with those, but there are some when we just downright just do things that
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  you know, just are uncharacteristic of sound football and what we try to stand
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  for. And so we'll continue to try to improve that and UH encourage our
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  guys to to be more discipline and focused and get better there. Kinko Conference
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  Play is now two weeks old. Obviously, last week was our first weekend
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  to Keiko Conference play. This this went over North Creek, but other scores
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  from around Kinko Wouldntville defeated Cortland twenty eight sixteen on Thursday night at Pop Kenni.
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  That was obviously a non conference as a non state game, I mean,
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  if you will, as a completely out of state game there. But
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  east Lake defeats is Aqua forty one twenty one to improve to two and oh
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  and Kinko play is Aqua falls two and two. Skyline got back in the
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  win column with a sixteen seven win over Mount Side. Both teams are now
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  one and one in Kinko Conference play. Uh, this week Skyline comes to
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  town. Skyline Bothel coach. You know a lot of tremendous games over the
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  years, Kinko Championship games won by some by Bothel, some by Skyline.
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  I mean some of the names that have played in these games, guys that
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  went on and some of them played on Sundays. You know. So Uh,
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  last year though fourteen ten loss up on the Plateau to Skyline. Obviously,
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  we don't want to, you know, we don't need to talk about
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  that. Game. But that's a well fought, hard, tough game against
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  a Skyline team that won the Kinko Championship last year. And you know,
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  at that point Bothel was, you know, and maybe the best way to
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  say it, a little bit on their heels. So to come out and
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  compete fourteen ten last year maybe a little bit encouraging at that point in the
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  season. Yeah, you know, the thing about the Kinko Conference is it's
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  tough weekend and week out. You're gonna you're gonna be challenged. There's great
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  coaches and great staffs and you're you're you know, you're gonna see great scheme
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  and they're gonna find weaknesses and attack you, just like you're trying to do
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  the same with them. And you know, there's the Skyline Bothel rivalry has
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  been long and going, and you know, they they've gotten the edge on
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  us they like they do on most teams over the years. A tremendous program.
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  Matt Taylor was there most recently. Jervis's back and he's the guy who
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  kind of started it up there. And you're talking about tremendous coaches, and
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  you know, you think about some of the assistants they've had that have gone
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  on to become head coaches as well. So another tremendou this challenge. You
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  know, Skyline loose is a really close, tough game to East Lake and
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  and and has the ball twice inside the three at different times and comes away
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  with no points. And you know they've got to feel like they let one
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  go there. And you know, and then Mount Say has a close game
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  with with Skyline where Mount Say has a couple of turnovers and a snap over
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  the head and some mis misfortune where where you know Mount Sie is probably thinking,
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  guys that games should have been closer, maybe we would have even had
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  a shot. So you know that's kind of the King Coo Conference. Uh.
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  You you have to play really good football and you have to you have
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  to play for four quarters or you know, any of those top teams can
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  can beat some somebody else. And you know, I just finished by saying
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  that I did get to see Woodenville a little bit, and you know,
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  I always think the world of Wayne and the job he does with his with
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  his group there and another really good Woodenville football team that just plays with They
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  don't hurt themselves, They're extremely disciplined, they're physical and and uh, you
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  know, you know that we need to get some of the discipline that that
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  they always have here and and you're out. So yeah, fun fun to
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  coach in the Kinko and difficult at the same time. It's kind of weird
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  in Kinko. You almost have it's it's it's a little bit. It's a
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  little bit like PAC twelve in away right, like the Huskies their rivalries true
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  rivalries are really Oregon in Washington State, but everybody goes back to the nineties.
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  We all remember the USC and USC even in the two thousands, how
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  much Washington and USC kind of got after each other. And so that's kind
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  of like a Boffel skyline thing where you know, regional either not right down
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  the street from us. But it has always been real good games. This
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  year coach homecoming. It's always a special week here at the at Boffel High
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  School. And you know, there's an opportunity for a lot of different distractions.
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  Not only you know here at school, there's a lot of different things
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  going on. There's a I believe an assembly on Friday that I was told
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  Coach andyar it might be dancing in which would be I might have to show
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  up for that. I've heard that rumor too. Yeah, if that's true,
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  I'm showing up. Maybe somebody can let me know if that's true or
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  not. But I will have my phone ready to go and it will go
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  on social media, trust me, and I'll make sure he gets locked out
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  of the account so we can't delete it. Perfect. But yeah, so
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  you know, lots of potential distractions. Coach, how do you how do
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  you manage that? How do you keep the kids focused? You know,
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  at the end of the day, there's a dance, and there's dinners,
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  and there's you know, different things going on. But you know, most
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  importantly as far as football goes is the game on Friday night. Yeah,
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  you know, it's a scary week for high school football coaches in the country,
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  you know, because of because of the dance and what happens sometimes after
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  dances and things like that. So we first addressed it last last week after
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  the game, and we, you know, we as we move forward,
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  we talked to our players about getting their their responsibilities for the dance done early.
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  If you haven't asked someone yet, do it now. If you haven't
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  set up a dinner reservations or buying a corsage or how you'd get in there
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  or you're planning you got to do that now. It can't interfere with the
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  preparation of the of the week. We we talk about and one of our
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  traditions here is after after our game on Friday, we will have, uh
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  we will have every kid look look one coach and three teammates in the eye
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  and promise that they'll follow the code. And and and our thing is we
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  say you can count on me, and they say, I promise you you
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  can count on me, And uh, you know it is there's temptations when
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  when there's there's dances and things like that. And we always talk about being
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  positive peer pressure. Peer pressure is not always negative. You can be the
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  guy or the team or the group that says, no, we're not going
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  to do that, but do it this way and come with us, and
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  let's have fun and let's enjoy it. And and uh, you know,
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  I think that's important for all kids, you know, around the around the
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  league and in the country for sure, is go on, have fun and
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  do it the right way and be positive in your peer pressure. And you
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  know, we we tell them if if you've got if you've got to have
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  uh, you know, something that's illegal to make your night better than you've
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  got a problem. You've got a social problem. And and uh and so
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  I I've I've I have faith our kids will will do what's right. And
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  uh, you know, I just hope they're they're disciplined this throughout the weekend
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  getting you know, there are things done that they need to be so we'll
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  look forward to that and and and kind of have that talk on Friday after
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  the game. Some cool things going on this week here at Bothel dress up
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  days coach. Uh, Monday was Barbie and Ken. Tuesday, I saw
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  I saw Jayden King come walking out looking like he was on a beach vacation
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  or something. The casual traveler. Over the years you've been to you've seen
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  a lot of this stuff. Anything funny come to mind? Any any good
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  stories of coaches or maybe some former players that dressed up that you just thought
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  were you know, funny. You know, years ago, we used to
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  do skits. They used to have the class skits and then the teachers would
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  do a skit. And and to me, that was the that was the
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  most enjoyable thing watching watching coaches and teachers and and and students play different roles
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  and and uh, you know, I I it's a tradition that's kind of
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  been lost, But those were the days. I remember being at Mount PI
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  and seeing we had a skit once at Mount si H where the teachers did
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  throughout the decades. And I remember our basketball coach, who was pretty reserved,
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  doing a Michael Michael Jackson dance to Thriller and all the moves and the
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  hip gyration and yeah, you just it was totally out of his character,
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  but fun to see. So, you know, things like that. I
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  just love it when when a school gets together and celebrates its tradition and its
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  pride and and uh you know, culminating in a in a football game and
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  a dance. So fun week for sure. Homecoming is this Friday at POPKINI
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  seven pm. Again, Skyline coach, thanks for a time and good luck
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  this weekend. Thank you very much. Later today, the freshman had up
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  the Bothel Everet Highway to North Creek. Kickoff is set for six pm at
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  North Creek High School. JV is back in action on Monday when they traveled
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  to Like, Washington to take on the Kangaroos. Kickoff for that game is
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  set for seven pm at I believe it's mac Field that like in high school.
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  Once again, it is homecoming week, so we hope to see all
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  Bothel alums at Pop Kenni on Friday night, kickoff at seven pm against Skyline.
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  Today's episode of The Coaches Show is proudly sponsored by Steve Brada and Milan
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  Viencheech of Wilson Royalty. If you need help with your real estate or just
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  have a question take a time out, give Steve a call at two O
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  six two nine five ninety nine zero nine. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been
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  listening to episode four of the Bothel Football Coaches Show with head coach Tom Bainter.
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  We'll talk to you next week and go kus