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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 28 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome to the Bothell Football Coaches Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Ryland Spencer. Along with me, as always, is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Bothell Cougars, Tom Bainter. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: how are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Doing great, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: The Coaches Show is brought to you by Passion Tequila
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  Speaker 1: the newest menu in Mexican cuisine. Passion Tequila is the
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  Speaker 1: perfect pre- or post-game spot for any event at Popkini Stadium. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of things to talk about here,
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  Speaker 1: but the first thing I want to mention is that
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  Speaker 1: fundraising is still going on. Vertical Rays, if you head
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  Speaker 1: to BothellFootball.net, you can find the Vertical Rays tab at
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  Speaker 1: the very top of the screen. Actually, it's a picture
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the screen. You can click on that.
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  Speaker 1: You can help support Bothell Football. Or if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be at the game on this Friday... Next Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: there are Cougar cards still available. You can get discounts
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  Speaker 1: at a lot of different places around the Bothell area.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, you can help support Bothell football. Got some
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  Speaker 1: things to pay for that we need to do some fundraising.
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  Speaker 1: So things are going good, though, generally, as far as
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  Speaker 1: vertical raise and Cougar cards go, but still need a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of help. Coach, been home for a few
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  Speaker 1: days now, but Hawaii was an absolutely just incredible experience.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we should start with Our thoughts and prayers
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  Speaker 1: are with the people of Hawaii as they deal with
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  Speaker 1: Hurricane Lowell. And now, I guess it's past, but they
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  Speaker 1: still have a lot of cleanup and things going on.
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  Speaker 1: Just devastation. Some of the pictures I've seen are pretty wild.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things I just have to say,
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  Speaker 1: I thought everywhere we went, everyone we encountered on the island,
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  Speaker 1: just truly amazing. The hospitality that Bothell football received. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: literally everywhere we went, was nothing short of just absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're talking about everything from the bus drivers to the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's start before that, the flight attendants on
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  Speaker 2: the flight over, just, you know, how accommodating were they
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  Speaker 2: and had a blast that they had a team on board.
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  Speaker 2: We get there, every aspect from a bus ride to
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  Speaker 2: a restaurant to a tour to the opponent, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the way to the end, feeding us after the
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  Speaker 2: game and And just so thankful and so wonderful that
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  Speaker 2: there's so many great people on this planet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned the bus driver. I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: the gentleman's name now, but there was one guy specifically
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  Speaker 1: that not only did he want the link to the broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: but then he came to me and found me later
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  Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, I wasn't actually able to watch.
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  Speaker 1: How do I get it? And I said, well, email me.
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  Speaker 1: And he did. And I sent him over the link
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  Speaker 1: just yesterday. I mean, it's just he wanted to watch
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  Speaker 1: the game. It was incredible. But before we talk about
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  Speaker 1: the game itself, I want to talk about a few
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  Speaker 1: non-football highlights. I think the first one we got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about was Pearl Harbor. And just it was truly
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  Speaker 1: a humbling experience out at Pearl Harbor. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that truly impressed me with our kids, during
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  Speaker 1: pregame walkthrough, you asked the team what they learned at
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  Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor. And it truly blew me away how many
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  Speaker 1: hands went up and started just throwing out facts that
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  Speaker 1: they had learned on the visit, whether it was numbers
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  Speaker 1: of men that died or certain parts of what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was, it was really cool to see how much
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  Speaker 1: information from Pearl Harbor that our kids truly retained.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, every, every time we go on a trip,
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  Speaker 2: there's an educational piece to it. And, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: this was, this was the educational piece. Um, or, or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the biggest, uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of World War II. And, and, um, uh, I think,
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  Speaker 2: I think what I took away is I thought kids, uh,
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  Speaker 2: felt the, um, impact of, of the men who were
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  Speaker 2: there based on their age. You know, we, we talked
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  Speaker 2: about how many of those, uh, servicemen were 18 years
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  Speaker 2: old and, and, um, young men in their 16, 17
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  Speaker 2: age range were, were lying about their age to, to
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  Speaker 2: get in and fight and help for our country. And,
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you go from war to a football game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what a stark difference. And what a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would say maybe eased the stress a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're just playing a game, for heaven's sakes.
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  Speaker 2: And this is something that, you know, will always be
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  Speaker 2: remembered in our history. So wonderful, wonderful trip. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the education was, you know, outstanding. And I thought our
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  Speaker 2: kids responded to it very well.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday, we got a little time on the beach, which
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome. Not only are guys getting
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of time to relax, but really just
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  Speaker 1: truly enjoy each other's company. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: really bad volleyball played, but it was competitive. It was
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  Speaker 1: our coaches against the players, players against the players. I
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  Speaker 1: saw other teams that were there, Columbine High School. What's
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  Speaker 1: the one?
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  Speaker 2: Riverdale Ridge.
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  Speaker 1: Riverdale Ridge in Colorado, they were there. There was even
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  Speaker 1: a couple other schools that I'm not sure exactly where
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  Speaker 1: they were from, but there was just so many people
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  Speaker 1: on this small island, and teams were playing against each other.
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  Speaker 1: I saw some chicken going on out in the water.
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  Speaker 1: It was really cool to see, but then we got
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  Speaker 1: to go to a luau on Saturday night, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: be completely honest, I really had no idea what we
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  Speaker 1: were walking into. All of a sudden, there's a pig
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  Speaker 1: getting carved up, and there's people dancing on a stage
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  Speaker 1: with fire, and I mean, you talk about just a
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  Speaker 1: day full of all kinds of fun. That was truly
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  Speaker 1: awesome to see, especially because, and I talked to Coach
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  Speaker 1: Cheen about this. I said, was this real authentic, like, dancing?
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  Speaker 1: And he told me, he said, he goes, yeah, he goes,
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  Speaker 1: when they were dancing, I could have told you what
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  Speaker 1: island they were putting together a performance for. That was
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  Speaker 1: really cool. Any highlights of the trip maybe specifically that
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  Speaker 1: stand out to you outside of Pearl Harbor?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I, I thought the kids had a blast
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  Speaker 2: at the, on the dinner cruise. You know, that was
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  Speaker 2: the first time we interacted with, um, uh, Columbine high school.
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  Speaker 2: And I, and I think, uh, Granite Falls was there too. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: there was, uh, there were cheerleaders, there were volleyball players
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  Speaker 2: or football players yet music yet. You had some entertainment,
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  Speaker 2: you had wonderful food and, and a big, a big
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  Speaker 2: ship to, uh, roam around on and be social. And
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  Speaker 2: where it was some singing and dancing and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: That was fun for me to just take in to
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  Speaker 2: see our kids enjoying themselves and the event and the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the game now. It
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  Speaker 1: was a 26-14 win. I think the best way to
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  Speaker 1: describe it is it kind of looked like a week
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  Speaker 1: one football game. There were some really good things. Some things,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's put it this way. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: never a football game that you play where you don't
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  Speaker 1: come out and have things to work on, obviously. There
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  Speaker 1: are some maybe bigger things to work on. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you get the win in comeback fashion. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the last five minutes or so were incredibly exciting from
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  Speaker 1: a Bothell football standpoint. But overall, satisfaction level, where are
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  Speaker 1: you at now that you've had a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: to digest and even get back to practice?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you know. uh, what, what do they say? Uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: an ugly losses is, uh, or a ugly win is
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  Speaker 2: way better than a pretty loss any day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know how ugly it was. There were
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  Speaker 2: times when we, it was not good. And there were
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  Speaker 2: times when we were really good. So, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you take the, you take the good with the bad and,
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  Speaker 2: and you, you find ways to improve. We've got to
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  Speaker 2: take care of the ball a little bit better. We
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  Speaker 2: have to execute, um, you know, the snap and, and
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  Speaker 2: the exchange better. Um, we have to continue to work
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  Speaker 2: on our extra points and figure out a way to
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  Speaker 2: get those in. You take care of those things and
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  Speaker 2: we'll be just fine. There was a lot of pluses.
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  Speaker 2: We ran the ball well. We were 10 for 14 passing,
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  Speaker 2: very efficient there. Defensively, we turned the ball over to
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  Speaker 2: start the game and we shut them out. We go
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  Speaker 2: three and out and they miss a field goal. So
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  Speaker 2: Those are the kinds of things you hope your kids
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  Speaker 2: rise to and those opportunities to get off the field
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  Speaker 2: with three points or less. We came off with less.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like our defense ran to the football. I
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  Speaker 2: felt like we were physical. Lots to take away that
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  Speaker 2: are very positive and then of course some things to
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  Speaker 2: work on that we would definitely improve on this week.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things, and I believe you mentioned it
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  Speaker 1: at one point post-game, was Uh, I would say it's
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  Speaker 1: a combination of, uh, of a few people, but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: trainer Dan, who just walked in the room, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like the fact that we're mentioning, uh, Darius Terry also was,
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  Speaker 1: I believe we got out of there, no cramping, um,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of a, a first game thing that
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  Speaker 1: happens quite a bit. Uh, whereas Moana Lua, they did
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  Speaker 1: actually have some cramping. So that's almost one of those, uh,
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  Speaker 1: not really seen things that is, uh, actually pretty impressive. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our, our, uh, The guys on our staff,
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  Speaker 2: the team doctors and trainers and strength and conditioning coordinators
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  Speaker 2: and all those people were on it spot on about
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  Speaker 2: taking electrolyte supplements with whether it be liquid IV or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Our kids did a great job of hydrating on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: When we got off the plane, the days before the
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  Speaker 2: trip and of course the days during the trip and Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was a pleasant surprise. I'm sure there were a
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  Speaker 2: couple of kids who tightened up on the sidelines, but
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  Speaker 2: we never had a kid on the field who had
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  Speaker 2: to come off because of that or stop play. And
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  Speaker 2: so really proud of our kids for taking that seriously
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  Speaker 2: and taking care of their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: Before we move on totally from last week, I guess
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  Speaker 1: we should probably give a thanks to Millie Lonnie. Farrington, Moanalua,
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  Speaker 1: three high schools that we practiced at the first two,
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  Speaker 1: played obviously Moanalua. Just everywhere we went with those teams,
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  Speaker 1: they had water ready to go for us. They had
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  Speaker 1: people there to help us if we needed anything. It
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  Speaker 1: was truly amazing, especially Moanalua, who I think you mentioned it,
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  Speaker 1: not only fed us after the game, but their athletic director,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe it was associate athletic director, anything we needed,
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  Speaker 1: they were running to get it almost for us so
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  Speaker 1: uh give a thanks to those guys uh let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the upcoming game here lake stevens obviously state runner-up
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  Speaker 1: last year a team that is consistently in the i
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  Speaker 1: mean you could maybe even say semi-finals at this point
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  Speaker 1: last week they got a 31 26 win over graham
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  Speaker 1: kapows and another team that is kind of always uh
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  Speaker 1: in the mix for a state championship um Obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to give too much away, but you've had
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  Speaker 1: time to watch the film. Anything stand out to you
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  Speaker 1: from Lake Stevens?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. They're very well coached, and they have great
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  Speaker 2: athleticism and speed. You know, they are a top one
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  Speaker 2: or two team in our state, and they've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of kids and a big school, and that community
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  Speaker 2: is large up there, and they've got great depth, and
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  Speaker 2: they're well coached. Like I mentioned earlier, they play fast.
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  Speaker 2: you know, and, and Graham Kapowson's fast as well. And so, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that was a good football game and, and, uh, they,
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  Speaker 2: they played, uh, they, they played, you know, playoff level
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  Speaker 2: football week one. And so, um, you know, we'll have
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  Speaker 2: our hands full, uh, what an opportunity for us to, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to go into a game and make some
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  Speaker 2: corrections and, and play a, a top team in the
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  Speaker 2: state and see where we're at and see what, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what we need to do, um, the rest of the year. So,
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  Speaker 2: Real excited for it. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a great community event. I know they'll bring a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fans. Our fans will show up. It's what high
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  Speaker 2: school football is about. And so love these type of
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  Speaker 2: matchups early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Should also mention the JV team played over there, kind
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  Speaker 1: of the JV team. A lot of the guys, because
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  Speaker 1: we were playing both JV and varsity in the same day,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys left at halftime to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get prepared for the varsity game. But they did fall
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  Speaker 1: 42-32 to Moana Lewis JV team. The freshman team will
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  Speaker 1: actually play later today. We are recording this on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast will go out Thursday morning. So the freshman
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  Speaker 1: game is already over. You can check any of the
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  Speaker 1: social medias. There should be a scoreboard there to tell
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  Speaker 1: you what the final score was. Yeah, other sports are
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  Speaker 1: getting ready around Bothell. And, you know, we mentioned Lake Stevens, Coach.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a pregame going on. So
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  Speaker 1: anybody that's listening, if you're going to get there, I
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  Speaker 1: suggest getting there early. You mentioned Lake Stevens is going
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  Speaker 1: to bring a lot of fans. Also, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to save yourself time at the gate, head to the
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  Speaker 1: GoFan app. You can buy tickets there. It speeds up
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  Speaker 1: the process at the gate a lot. And I know
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  Speaker 1: for a fact that the lovely Christy Tran will really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it that I'm even mentioning this on the podcast
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  Speaker 1: because she always tells me how great it is that
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned the GoFan app. So, yeah, we're expecting to
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  Speaker 1: see a big crowd. Coach, it's got to be good
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  Speaker 1: to get back home in front of the Bothell community. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's... It's always great to be home. We
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  Speaker 2: had a blast. It was fun. Nice to be home
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  Speaker 2: and get to normal again. So looking forward to this
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  Speaker 2: week and the rest of the season. Alrighty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's all I got for this week, Coach. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Ryland.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, other than that, mentioned the freshman team is playing tonight.
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  Speaker 1: There's volleyball going on tonight. Lots of awful sports going on,
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  Speaker 1: but Again, head to BothellFootball.net. You can find everything you
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  Speaker 1: need to know about what is going on with Bothell
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  Speaker 1: Football over there. I'm Rylan Spencer. He's Tom Bainter. You've
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  Speaker 1: been listening to episode 28 of the Bothell Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. And as always, go Cougs!