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Podcast Kickoff - Season 4 · Cover IV Podcast

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Cover Four.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you're a Section Four football fan, this is your podcast.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Coach Smith, and I'll be your host.
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• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Hey Section 4 football fans, it's that time of year again.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Cover 4 Podcast kickoff episode.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I look forward to bringing you the 2023 Section 4 football season.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: But first things first, thank you to everyone who helped make the Cover 4 Podcast such a success.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: The Cover 4 Podcast compliments and includes local sports media professionals from affiliates of ESPN, Fox, CBS, Print Media, and radio.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: You can expect the same professional level of knowledge and insight from our award-winning team of veteran Section 4 football analysts.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: The team returns Roger Neal and myself covering the Broome County teams.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Nate Loll, host of the Nate Lall podcast, will be covering the Eastern teams.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Tim Burney, the creator of the five sports reports, will analyze the Tioga County teams.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: And Andrew Laguerre, longtime sports writer for the Elmira Star Gazette, will provide coverage of the Western teams.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm happy to introduce to you our first round draft pick this year, Ryan Ginio.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: He's the play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN Ithaca.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: Ryan will cover the northern teams.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Now for the Section 4 classification overview.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like last season, there will be 39 Section 4 football teams competing in 2023.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: In the AA classification, it'll be the same three teams returning Binghamton, Corning, and Almira.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: In the A classification, one team has moved out, and that's Ithaca.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: They have moved to the independent classification, leaving three teams Horseheads, Unionicot, and Vestal.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: In the B classification, there will be six teams, with Shenango Valley moving up from the C classification.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Those teams in the B classification are Shenango Valley, Johnson City, Maine Enwell, Norwich, Owigo Free Academy, and Windsor.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: In the C classification there will also be six teams, with Sydney moving up from the D classification.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: That will be Shenango Forks, Oneana, Watkins Glen Odessa Montour, Sydney, Susquehanna Valley, and Waverly.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: In the D division there will be eight teams competing.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Newark Valley has moved down from C to D.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: The declassification is comprised of Bainbridge Guilford, Delaware Academy, Deposit Hancock, Harpersville Afton, Newark Valley, Spencer Bonetton Cander, Tyoga, and Walton.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: The eight-player classification will again have nine teams.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: And those nine teams are Green, Oxford, Unadilla Valley, Unitego Franklin, Groton, Moravia, Newfield, Thomas A.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Edison, and Trumansburg.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: And rounding out the classification is the 11-player independent classification comprised of four teams Dryden, Ithaca, Lansing, and Whitney Point.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Section 4 welcomes four new head coaches.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: In Owego, General Patton.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's actually Patton Taylor.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: He's the new leader of the Owego Free Academy Indians.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Patton replaces longtime Owego coach Steve Verkler.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Steve was much more than a head coach.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Steve was very active at the sectional and state levels of high school football.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: And actually, way back in the day when I received my New York State football coaching certification, Coach Verkler was my mentor.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Coach.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: Steve was also the head coach for the inaugural Big 44, Ernie Davis Floyd Little All-Star Classic, which was held last November in Syracuse.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: Patton graduated from Tower Central in 2011.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: He went on to pitch four seasons for the Penn State Nittany Lions.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: For the last eight years, Patton's been a strength conditioning coach and is heading into his third year as Ouego strength and conditioning coach.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: For the past two seasons, he's been an assistant coach for the Oigo JV football team and head coach of the Uego JV baseball team.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: On to Newfield, where Ian Valentine takes over the reins of the Newfield Trojans, replacing Hank Newbert, who is now Newfield's athletic director.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: Ian is a 2008 graduate of Newfield.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: Ian has spent the last two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Newfield.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Before returning to his alma mater, Coach Valentine spent eight years at Ithaca High School coaching football at every level.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: Valentine graduated from Southern Vermont College in 2012, where he played baseball for four seasons.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: After graduation, he spent six seasons as a varsity baseball coach at Ithaca High School and coached football in the fall.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Valentine also runs the Flag Football Program in Newfield, coaches eighth-grade boys' basketball, and he serves as the varsity baseball assistant coach.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: The Ithaca Little Red introduced Kyrie Brown as the new head coach at Ithaca High School.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Kyrie was an assistant coach the last two seasons under head coach Clarence Welch, who was also a Little Red alumnus.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Kyrie played at Ithaca High School from 2013 to 2016 and Ithaca College from 2017 to 2020.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: The Little Red have also added two assistants who played at Ithaca High School with Kyrie, Daquan Griffin and Naizir Lands.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Ithaca is definitely building a program from within.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: Now on to Groton.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Nick Dyson is the new head coach of the Groton Indians.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: He is a 2003 graduate of Tioga Central and is currently the business administrator at Groton Central School District.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Nick played baseball, basketball, volleyball, and was the quarterback for the Tigers football team.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: He was named the male athlete of the year for both Tioga Central and Tyoga County in his senior year.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: And when Nick graduated, he was the only student athlete who was a member of three teams who won IAC championships that year in football, basketball, and baseball.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: He takes over for Joe Manning, who led the Indians to an 11-1 record last season, the best record in the eight-player classification.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's one new playing surface in Section 4 this year, and that's at Tioga Central.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Haggerty Field has a facelift and they have a well-deserved new turf for their playing field.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: The football officials are the third team on the field, and their ranks continue to get thinner and thinner.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you or someone you know is interested in joining the third team on the field, visit their Facebook page at Southern Tier Football Officials.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's at Sign Southern Tier Football Officials.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: They definitely need your help and without them the game doesn't go on.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: This season, Fox 40 has rekindled their Section 4 football show called Fourth in Goal.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Sports Director Ian Mills will host the show.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: Ian has recruited some of our Cover 4 football podcast analysts for the show, which began airing Thursday, August 24th and will continue each Thursday at 6.30 following Fox News throughout the season.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: Keep visiting the Cover4.com website and sharing your next fan up ideas.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: The Cover4.com website contains all the links and information you need to satisfy your Section 4 football fan fix.
• 9:33
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• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: The website again is cover4.com and that four is Roman numeral.
• 9:41
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• 9:46
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• 9:50
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• 9:56
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• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: In football and life, it's not where we line up, it's where we wind up.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to the Cover Four podcast.