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Wednesday Edition of the Drive - Hour Two · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Remember you agreed R.
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  Speaker 4: Today where Jackson Prep Today high School Football Road Tour
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  Speaker 4: rolls on courtesy of our friends at Mississippi Sports Medicine
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  Speaker 4: and Orthopedic Center. Right now, we're gonna talk a little
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  Speaker 4: volleyball with first year had volleyball coach, miss our coach,
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  Speaker 4: Elizabeth Sandridge, and she is on your radio coach, welcome in.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh good, how are you? Thank you for having me?
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  Speaker 4: No, I appreciate you jumping in talking a little volleyball.
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  Speaker 4: You're one at prep, no pressure, right, So you were
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  Speaker 4: talking about last night and let's let's kind of go back.
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  Speaker 4: You're from told me you're from the state of Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, formerly at m ra A, end up here
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  Speaker 4: at Jackson Prep. You've got a daughter who is at Jones.
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  Speaker 4: I believe is what you said, I do. And you
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  Speaker 4: said it was kind of, uh, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 4: a weird moment for you, first time you had coached
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  Speaker 4: last night without her being on the on the floor,
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  Speaker 4: said you talked her. That was that was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a you know, kind of a nostalgic, you know,
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  Speaker 4: some nostalgia there also kind of some realization of man things.
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  Speaker 4: Life's changing a little bit, changing a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, she asked me in the fourth or
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  Speaker 5: fifth grade to try volleyball. She wanted me to coach
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  Speaker 5: her wrec team. And I said, yeah, absolutely, she knew
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  Speaker 5: I played. And then when she rolled into school ball
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  Speaker 5: at MRA. They needed some roles filled and asked me
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  Speaker 5: to come, and I really just agreed to it as
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  Speaker 5: a way to spend time with her and her friends
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  Speaker 5: and being part of her world. And somehow it turned
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  Speaker 5: into a full time job. So when she graduated this
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  Speaker 5: this past spring from m RA, I thought I would
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  Speaker 5: be finished coaching, and our son moved to PREP last
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  Speaker 5: year his sophomore year, and when Prep had a had
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  Speaker 5: an opening, they called and I finally conceded and continuing
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  Speaker 5: my career over here to spend now spend time with
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  Speaker 5: my son. But it has been a little surreal not
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  Speaker 5: having her as a part of that journey. That's that's
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  Speaker 5: for sure. But my prayer is that that ministry rolls
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  Speaker 5: into these other girls and some other families as they
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  Speaker 5: then move on and get ready to you know, go
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  Speaker 5: to college and see you in the real world.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Volleyball is such an interest, and we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about it with several coaches, you know, on our road tour,
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  Speaker 4: and we'd love to highlight other sports here, excuse me,
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  Speaker 4: especially in high school sports. Volleyball is one of those
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  Speaker 4: interesting ones. The fire is real in the state. We
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  Speaker 4: know that. I mean, just from the competition side to
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  Speaker 4: the travel side. All the schools are doing it. But
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  Speaker 4: when you start talking to coaches just like yourself, you said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I had never really coached it. I started
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  Speaker 4: doing it to spend time with my kid, and now
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  Speaker 4: here we are, it's become a career. Obviously you played yourself.
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  Speaker 4: But then you hear that story, you know, mixed bag
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  Speaker 4: of stories. You know, some coaches have experience in it.
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  Speaker 4: Some had no idea, you know, fifteen years ago they
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  Speaker 4: would ever coach volleyball. But one of the things you
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  Speaker 4: know is the community has really grown, and man, it
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  Speaker 4: is a fun sport here in the state.
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  Speaker 5: It is the fastest growing female sport here in the state.
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  Speaker 5: Both of my assistant coaches played college ball, so I
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  Speaker 5: am just infinitely blessed to have them on staff. They both,
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  Speaker 5: you know, came from different states where it was a
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  Speaker 5: little more prevalent. People like to say we're behind in volleyball,
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  Speaker 5: but I think at the rapid speed that it is
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  Speaker 5: catching up on the scene, I wouldn't say we're quite
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  Speaker 5: that far anymore. But the travel is real. You play,
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  Speaker 5: you play volleyball, you got to travel to get some
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  Speaker 5: really good competition, and I have been been thrilled to
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  Speaker 5: be a part of the growth of the sport here
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  Speaker 5: in Mississippi. It's a fun thing to see, especially coming
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  Speaker 5: from the north.
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  Speaker 4: You know, sure I grew up that was what you did.
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  Speaker 5: You don't play outdoor sports right when it's cold up there,
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  Speaker 5: so basketball, volleyball or I mean, you know back when
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  Speaker 5: I was in high school that that's what you did.
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  Speaker 5: And so moving here and seeing that it was just
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  Speaker 5: coming on the scene and getting to be a part
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  Speaker 5: of that growth has been special. I've enjoyed watching that.
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  Speaker 4: Having a conversation with head volleyball coach Elizabeth Sandridge on
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  Speaker 4: your radio Wednesday edition of your program, Yeah, talk a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about that. Coming from an area where you said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's massive. Where was it. I think Nebraska a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago they had a college match and
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  Speaker 4: there was seventy five eighty thousand people that they were there.
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  Speaker 5: A couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Really, yeah, it's awesome. So talk about that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you you've lived it, grew up in you know, where
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  Speaker 4: the mecca of it is of sorts, But then to
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  Speaker 4: come here and and be a part of you know,
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  Speaker 4: boots on the ground, you know, really kind of starting it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm wanna say, from scratch, but really kind of starting it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, on the front of the things.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, I think that I want to
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  Speaker 5: I do want to step in and say that when
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  Speaker 5: it pertains to prehaps specifically the the athletic department here,
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  Speaker 5: the administration here has gone full force in to support
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  Speaker 5: the volleyball program that they have seen the families and
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  Speaker 5: the girls come put put everything into it and love
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  Speaker 5: the sport and want to see it grow and want
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  Speaker 5: to see it change and kind of you know, catch fire.
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  Speaker 5: As you said here, I didn't necessarily in high school,
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  Speaker 5: as one in high school does. I didn't necessarily realize
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  Speaker 5: when I was playing it that that not everybody played
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  Speaker 5: it right, you know. So when I came here, I
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  Speaker 5: was kind of like, wait a minute, y'all don't know
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  Speaker 5: what volleyball is, you know, And then I just moved
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  Speaker 5: on with my life. And so it was really full
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  Speaker 5: circle moment when it really came on the scene. My
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  Speaker 5: daughter was coming up in in elementary to then get
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  Speaker 5: to be a part of that. The m AI s
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  Speaker 5: which is what I've been coaching in is really growing
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  Speaker 5: you know, and supporting volleyball. And I've gotten to be
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  Speaker 5: a part of being in a group of a lot
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  Speaker 5: of great coaches here that I have learned from and
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  Speaker 5: you know, gotten mentored from, and watching them go travel
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  Speaker 5: and learn about the sport and what can we bring
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  Speaker 5: here that you know, then we can put our own
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  Speaker 5: Southern spin on it. I guess as you could say.
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  Speaker 4: So let's talk about your team here. Talk a little
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  Speaker 4: bit about the excitement that's here. You you mentioned the
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  Speaker 4: support of the athletic department here at Jackson Prep. I
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  Speaker 4: would assume the the thirst and hunger from from your
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  Speaker 4: girls here in this school is massive because you see
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  Speaker 4: again across the state, just girls everywhere wanting to get
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  Speaker 4: into the sport, play in the sport. They're traveling, they're
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  Speaker 4: playing with travel teams. Kind of take us through you
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  Speaker 4: know what it's like here with your team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm very open about this. This is a
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  Speaker 5: ministry for me. This is not a job for me.
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  Speaker 5: I love volleyball. I love the sport, but more than that,
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  Speaker 5: I love the girls and I want to see them
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  Speaker 5: flourishing to you know, good young women who can go
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  Speaker 5: out in the world and you know, make a name
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  Speaker 5: for them here at Prep it has. It is astounding
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  Speaker 5: how quickly the administration, the athletic department, the parents, the
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  Speaker 5: girls have gotten behind our team. There was a good
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  Speaker 5: foundation when we came on and we're just building on that.
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  Speaker 5: The program is a big deal. I want to see
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  Speaker 5: the program, you know, thrive from the bottom up. We've
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  Speaker 5: got six graders coming in that can't get the ball
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  Speaker 5: over the net, and I've got seniors who you know,
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  Speaker 5: are tearing some people up on the other side. So
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  Speaker 5: Prep has been a complete delight to be a part of.
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  Speaker 5: Am honored to be a part of the family here.
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  Speaker 5: They they're building us a new locker room. The athletic
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  Speaker 5: department is finishing up a locker room for us. You know,
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  Speaker 5: anything that I've kind of put in front of the girls,
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  Speaker 5: they do it without question, to the point where we've
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  Speaker 5: had to slow down coaching a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's just like a fire drinking from a fire hydrant.
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  Speaker 5: They are hungry. The parents are very on board with
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  Speaker 5: whatever we you know it is happening in the program.
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  Speaker 5: They want to see it thrive. They want to see
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  Speaker 5: their girls involved in a program that's one to be
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  Speaker 5: proud to stand behind of and you know, I can't
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  Speaker 5: do it without my coaching staff, so I always like
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  Speaker 5: to throw them a big shout out. They really kind
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  Speaker 5: of make this whole thing, Jen. But this is a
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  Speaker 5: special place Prep has been a special place to be
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  Speaker 5: a part of already and we're just getting started.
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  Speaker 4: So well, we appreciate you taking some time and look
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  Speaker 4: best of luck this year, and thank you so much
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  Speaker 4: for chalking out some time I visit with us today.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 4: She is coach Elizabeth Sandrich. She is the head volleyball
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  Speaker 4: coach here at Jackson Prep. We appreciate her joining us today.
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  Speaker 4: gears here talking little girls basketball with head basketball coach
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  Speaker 4: coach Michael McNally. McNally, excuse me on your radio, coach,
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  Speaker 4: welcome in. How are you good, Jake? Thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you and you said, I can't believe that
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  Speaker 4: you'd want to talk girls basketball, you know, in August.
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  Speaker 4: But of course, like I told you, when we come
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  Speaker 4: around in the high schools, we want to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that we're highlighting all programs, you know, for those schools
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  Speaker 4: on that day and let's so let's talk a little basketball.
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  Speaker 4: It may be football season, but basketball never ends, does it.
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  Speaker 4: It really does.
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  Speaker 6: We're actually in a quiet period. You know, we joke
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  Speaker 6: in basketball world the basketball season is November to February
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  Speaker 6: and June. So we hit it really hard in June
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  Speaker 6: with a lot of camps. We play a lot more
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  Speaker 6: than we practice. We we hosted our fifth annual team camp,
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  Speaker 6: had about seventy four teams on campus the second week
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  Speaker 6: of June.
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  Speaker 4: So June is really busy.
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  Speaker 6: We had a good June and then we shut it
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  Speaker 6: down in July, so we say, hey, go to the
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  Speaker 6: beach in July and joy July and then we'll see
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  Speaker 6: you when school starts back here.
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  Speaker 4: That's amazing. Seventy six seventy four teams.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think we had maybe twenty nine schools.
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  Speaker 6: Of course that's multiple. You know, people bring their varsity
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  Speaker 6: and their jv. Maybe we even have you know, all
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  Speaker 6: the way down to seventh grade team. So we've had
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  Speaker 6: a great turnout. Like I said, it's our fifth summer
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  Speaker 6: of doing that, and yeah, we've had a great turnout
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  Speaker 6: and really good basketball, and we play a lot of
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  Speaker 6: games play from you know, start at nine o'clock and
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  Speaker 6: play until about the seven o'clock hour for for three straight.
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  Speaker 4: Days, thirteen years. This is your fourteen coming up for you,
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  Speaker 4: So starting starting, there's twelve starting thirteen. Yep. What's what's
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  Speaker 4: been the biggest change in basketball that You've seen a
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  Speaker 4: couple of changes over the last you know, thirteen years.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I think for us here at Prep is
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  Speaker 6: just our girls are so busy, you know, I know
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  Speaker 6: you just had coach Sandridge on for volleyball and volleyballs
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  Speaker 6: growing and our girls just have so many options. And
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  Speaker 6: to be honest with you, Jake, they're they're really good
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  Speaker 6: at a lot of things. And as they get older,
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  Speaker 6: and especially once they get to me at the varsity level,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they start trimming things down. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: we are we are fighting for we were fighting for
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  Speaker 6: time and space with those girls, and you know, so
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  Speaker 6: I think that's that's one thing for us at Prep.
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  Speaker 6: And then you know, I think as far as just
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  Speaker 6: the game goes, the game is just more athletic. There's
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  Speaker 6: just there's more training.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I think on the you know, everybody realized like, oh
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  Speaker 6: the football team, you know, strength, you know and waits
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  Speaker 6: in the morning. And I heard coach Goodwin earlier, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, that's something that we really try to implement
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  Speaker 6: as well, you know, on the on the girls side,
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  Speaker 6: as you know, we're trying to make lifting a year
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  Speaker 6: long thing. We try to give them some break you know,
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  Speaker 6: on the court, but we are trying to lift year round.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: And so I just think you see girls that are
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  Speaker 6: just they're they're stronger, and they're more athletic, and they're
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  Speaker 6: more versatile.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: And so I think you've seen the brand of high
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  Speaker 6: school basketball in our state, you know, improved because of that.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, we're visiting up with coach Michael McAnally. He is
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  Speaker 4: the girls basketball coach. Here you're thirteen, coming up here
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  Speaker 4: at Jackson Prep Wednesday edition of the program. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you hear coaches talk about that a lot about strength
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  Speaker 4: and conditioning, flexibility because I mean, yeah, you know, people
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  Speaker 4: have always lifted weights or done something, but you know, running, walking, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But the focus on you know, off the court, off
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  Speaker 4: the field, you know, better your body, your diet. It
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  Speaker 4: is prevention. Yeah, there you go. It's a premium today.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it really is, you know, and we've got a
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  Speaker 6: Cad Barrett is our strength and conditioning guy. You know
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  Speaker 6: coach Nick brew I know, you know Coach Brewer. He
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  Speaker 6: kind of runs the football locker room weight room. But uh,
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  Speaker 6: Cad Barrett does a great job for us and the
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  Speaker 6: thing he does, and he knows so much more about.
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  Speaker 4: It than I do. And I'm just in there just
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  Speaker 4: to play. I love it. I can play cheerleader, you know.
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  Speaker 6: But he does it where it's very sports specific, you know,
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of times we have girls come in
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  Speaker 6: and we have parents of young girls. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: we start school Friday, and we'll kind of get organized Friday,
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  Speaker 6: and then Monday we'll have seventh graders in the weight room,
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  Speaker 6: some of them for the first time. Some we saw
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  Speaker 6: this summer. But one thing we communicate to them, and
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  Speaker 6: we really communicate to the parents says, hey, this is
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  Speaker 6: going to be very age specific. It's going to be
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  Speaker 6: a lot of body weight, you know, because I think,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you start telling a parent of a twelve
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  Speaker 6: year old girl and they're picturing like, you know, bench
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  Speaker 6: press and they're picturing you know, squatting heavyweight and back
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  Speaker 6: injuries and all kind of the negative things you hear
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  Speaker 6: about it. So it's a lot of ply metric stuff.
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  Speaker 6: It's a lot of flexibility stuff. Like you said, it's improving,
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  Speaker 6: you know, your athletic ability and your explosiveness. That's sort
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  Speaker 6: of the things that we try to focus on in
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  Speaker 6: the basketball side of things.
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  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this because it feels like, and
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  Speaker 4: this is just me, I'm not a basketball coach, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. You can go m AIS, you can
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  Speaker 4: go MHSAA. You talk about fundamentals girls basketball, and I
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  Speaker 4: think it's because of the athleticism. You talk to boys
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  Speaker 4: basketball coaches, if they've got really athletes, they don't want
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  Speaker 4: to and I think girls is probably the same way.
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  Speaker 4: But guys, you don't want to harness that athletic ability,
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  Speaker 4: that that ability to get up on the court, that
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  Speaker 4: ability to get to the rim if they you know,
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  Speaker 4: can shoot the three. But there still has to be
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  Speaker 4: some structure. It still feels like the fundamentals in women's
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  Speaker 4: basketball and girls basketball much more in tune than maybe
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  Speaker 4: even the guy side. In twenty twenty, Seve, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 6: You know, before I was at Prep, I was at
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  Speaker 6: East Drinking Academy and I was there for eight years
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  Speaker 6: and I coached both the boys and the girls teams,
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  Speaker 6: And I got asked often, you know, what's the biggest difference,
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: you know, and and my my short answer to that
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: was girls are more coachable, but girls also have to
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: be coached more and they're you know, they're not just
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: quite as instinctive as boys and just reactive.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: And you know, when you ask that question, make that comment.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: My first thought is, like I tell our girls all
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: the time, like if I wish we could just play
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: five out motion on one end and play manna man
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: on the other end, And we try to do that,
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: and we not we try not to you know, constrict
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: them and their athletic talents, but obviously you've got to
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: have some structure and you want to be able to,
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: you know, make calls and offensive actions that go through
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: your best player. But you know, I think, you know,
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: at least for our program here at Prep, our girls
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: you know, do a.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Good balance of that.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, I'm gonna say sixty to
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: sixty five percent the time we can we can just
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: play is the term we use. And then I see,
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: you know, there's you know, time and score affects that
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: where we want to slow the game down a little
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: bit and and we want to be a little bit
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: more structured and we want to run a little uh
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: you know, time o'clock. So, uh, you know, I think
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: every team is different, you know, and I think, coach,
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: you've got to adapt to what you have, and uh,
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: you know, sometimes you can do one thing one year
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: and it's not gonna work with that team the next year.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: And so you've got obviously adapt to what you have.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: And but our girls are really smart. That's what always
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: when I get new assistants. I've got a new ninth
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: grade coach this year, and sometimes, you know, you look
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: at a play sheet and we've got a lot of
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: verbals between offensive calls, defensive calls, out unders presses, whatnot,
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: you know. And I had an assistant a few years
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: ago that said, coach, we got a lot of things here,
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: like can our girls gonna be able to remember this?
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: And so well, the great thing we have with Jackson
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: Prepp is we are extremely smart kids, very intelligent high
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: i Q. High basketball like Q. That's something we really
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: preach in our programs. We want to be high basketball
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: like you. We want to be fundamentally sound like you
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: mentioned earlier, and we certainly work on that, but we
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: want to teach not only the how we want you
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: to do it, but also the why. I think that's
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: an important element that maybe sometimes young coaches miss not
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: only how, but here's why we want you to do it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: And I think sometimes when they understand the why, like oh,
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: that makes sense, and so it just kind of clicks
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: with them better, It helps them remember it better and
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: them just do it better as they progress through our program.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Having a conversation with a head girls basketball coach Michael
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: mcinally on your radio Wednesday edition of the program. Coach,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: we've got a few minutes left here. Tell us about
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: your team this year and obviously expectations is always high
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: here off of Lakeland Drive. Yeah, expects always high.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: You know, we had a we had a pretty good
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: year last year. You know, we lost we had lost
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: three starters to graduation. We end up losing a four
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: starter ap point guard Tory Polk and graduated early, went
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: to Auburn to play soccer. And so we've got three
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: starters back this year. And you know the thing that
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: you know, it's kind of that time of year where
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: you know, I get asked what you just asked me?
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: You know, how are we going to be you know,
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: we lost we lost a stud in Meg Barber. Meg
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Barber was a sixteen point eight rebound in The Night
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Girl for US now playing for Missy Builder back down
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: at Southern miss So we obviously lose a lot of production.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: But the thing that I saw with our team this
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: summer is I felt like we've got four seniors, really
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: good seniors. Three of them started, one was our sixth
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: man last year that they all elevated their game. And
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: I think last year, as we look back and I
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: talked to those seniors, you know, at the end of
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: last season in the spring, I think sometimes we kind
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: of defaulted to Meg and sometimes we lost our aggressiveness.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: We lost our assertiveness because oh we we've got to
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: play through Meg and we've got to get Meg a touch.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: And you know, to our point earlier about structure, I mean,
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: there were times, yes, we wanted that to happen. And so,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: you know, I don't want to use the term maybe
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: you know, addition by absence losing a really good player
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: like that, but I feel like, because Meg Barber is
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: no longer an option, it's gonna make all the other
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: players on our team, you know, rise to the occasion.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: And you know, when you start looking at I'm a
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: math guy. I teach algebra too, So you know, sometimes
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: you start talking about sixteen points and eight rebounds, there's
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: lots for place. Well, you know, if you can get
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: four girls to score four more points, hey you got
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: your sixteen points. If you can get you know, four girls,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: you get two more rebounds, you've got that covered. And
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: so I really like, you know, how our seniors stepped up.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: We got a nice little crop of underclassmen. We'll start
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: a sophomore point guard, which is obviously an important position,
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: but I think I think she'll do a great job
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: for so, you know, we're excited in the league is tough.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: It's always tough, and uh, you know, we know we'll
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: have to play well. But again we're we feel like
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: we're gonna be funneling this sound. We feel like we're
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: always gonna fend pretty well. Really, you know, it comes
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: down to us. I tell PI all the time. It's
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: a game of made shots, you know, and so we've
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: got to be able to put.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: The ball in the hole.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: And that means you got to get in the gym
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: and get reps. You know, it's not it's not a secret.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: So we're excited about the summer we had and then
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: we're looking forward.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: To the season. It'll be here before you know it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: It's sure. Will coach visit with coach from Michael mcinally.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: He's the girls basketball coach he at Jackson Prep. Coach mcinally,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: thank you so much, appreciate your time today. Thank you.
• 18:54
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• 19:02
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• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Welcome here. By how you doing, Jake?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I only gave you good predictions last year when you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: had me on your glorious radio down and guess what
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do today. Let's do it and give you
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: some more good predictions. Man. We're only a month ish
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: away from the best sport of all time getting underway.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And Jake, I don't know about Jay. I'm guessing you're
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: not a huge World Cup guy. I love the World Cup.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: It is a thing of beauty. We only get it
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: once every four years, and they had the tournament and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the best country on the freaking planet. But now, Jake,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: as much as I love that other football, the real
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: football start now, baby, college football and all its glory. Baby,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a nine game conference schedule. I'm tired of everybody Jake
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: talking about oh Ollie had to play an extra conference game.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: If you're scared, day home, baby. We get eight more
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: great games from the best conference in America, while Kurtz
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and Netty just talks about, oh my goodness, we're not
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the highest conference. Oh well, Kirk, I saw your non
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: conference schedule for the next couple of years. It's softer
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: than sharmon. So I'm ready for the SEC to come
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with all the energy this year to show the world
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: that they are indeed the best conference in college football.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Jacob fired up? How you doing, buddy man?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I love the energy. I love the energy, and I'm
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: fired up too, and I think everybody is. You can
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: feel it. We're in August and as teams go back
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: to camp and get ready to go, I mean it
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: is here, So I'm open the floor. Tell me one, two,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: three is give me some of your predictions this year.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: What you see happening in the SEC.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Well, guess what. We start off with some breaking ish
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: news today with the LSU Tigers.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Jake.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They hit the practice field for the first time and look,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to attend practice, but I was able
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to see basically all the practice footage. We have a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: video for you power our LSU if you want to
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: see my latest practice breakdown. Sam Levitt is healthy. This
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: is the biggest storyline in the entire Southeastern Conference because
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Damn Levi is getting paid a pretty penny. He wasn't
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: really available to work out with the team during spring
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in terms of actually playing the game of football, but
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: he did dressed out. But now he is full out,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: ready to go. Now they're still going to monitor him,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: but that was the biggest storyline because the backup quarterback
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: room for LSU is very young and inexperience. So obviously
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: with LSU, this is the biggest team in the SEC
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: as far as storylines going into next season. And Jake,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: most people feel pretty comfortable about Clinton starting off the year,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and right now with LSU at that eight and a
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: half mark, I am leaning slightly to the over. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: had them as a nine to three team and we'll
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: just see how it plays out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Ye let me ask you this about Sam Levitt. And
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: you know, if you talk to fans and you know
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: outside of Baton Rouge and you you know SOU outside
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: of Baton Ridge, just you know, people that don't have say,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: purple and gold glasses on and not that everybody has
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: their colors on. But you know there's mixed bag of
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: opinions on Sam Levitt. Well, he didn't play good last year.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Here's what I look at. We know that he was
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: hurt last year, and I look at a couple of things.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: If you go back to two years ago, and yes,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: he had you know, Cam's Kataboo in the backfield, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: that made a big difference. Man, that dude was money.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: He was on point and he lit text us up
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: in a loss in the playoffs. And I look at this.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: I look at that performance that year of his, his
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: you know, kind of that body of work. And then
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I look at Lane Kiffin. Say what you want about Kiffin.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Kiffin has coached a lot of quarterbacks into you know
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: good into great, you know average into good. He picked
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Sam Levitt. So for him to pick Sam Levitt is
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: his guy to the portal. That tells me he sees
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: something special there. And when you pair that together, Sam
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Levitt may end up being, if he could stay healthy,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: the best quarterback in the league by the end.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Of the year.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely in the range of outcomes. Then I'm
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: gonna be honest, Jack, I'm not just playtating to your audience.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: When I sat down to watch Trinidad Chambliss and really
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: break down Lane's offense, and I've been breaking down Lane's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: offense for for years now, I wanted Lane to be
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: LSU's head coach. When the opening happened a few years ago,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I was truly blown away with how good Trinidad was.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is I thought going
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: in it was gonna be a lot of Hey, Trinidad's
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: just he's got open receivers all over the place. It's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Lane and Charlie White's just scheming things open. And honestly,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: there was some ridiculously good playmaking that Trinidad Chambliss did.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It's more than just that Georgia play that everyone knows
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in the college football playoffs. It was just week after
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: week Trinidad doing some really, really special things. So, man,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited about that game in a couple of weeks.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: But I'm with you, I think Sam Levit could be
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: just as good, if not a better playmaker than Trinidad
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: going in next year. And it would not shock me
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: at all if Sam Levitt's first team All SEC by
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the end of this season.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Would you talk about the league itself. Who do you
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: think is undervalued and who may be overvalued in the league.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was pretty clear to me. It's Oklahoma. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: love this team. And the reason why there's a lot
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of pausitive Oklahoma they're over under right now, sits at
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: seven and a half, is because the schedule is brutal.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You know, they only have six true home games. A
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: week two game versus a Michigan team that finally has
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a competent coach, and that game will be a very
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: hostile situation as Michigan tries to get payback. But honestly,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you have that game, you have Georgia, and then you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have Texas. Normally, oklahoma schedule isn't as frontloaded as this.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: It's normally towards the back end of the season is
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: when they play their tougher teams. But I kind of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: like that for Oklahoma because they have a nuclear team.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Right They return oc they returned defensive play caller, they
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: returned John Mattier, big Parker Livingstone was a nice pickup
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: for him in the portal. I'm a believer in Isaiah
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Satanium and I still think with them losing our Mason Thomas,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that's still the best front seven in the SEC going
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: into next year with Kip Lewis. I think Kip b.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Lewis honestly is the most undervalued player in the Southeastern Conference.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Single handedly beat Alabama last year. So I really like
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma Andy over at seven and a half, even though
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the schedule is absolutely brutal, and one team I think
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: is slightly overvalued and this is going to go to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: just go against everything as who I am as a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: person is Georgia. I think Georgia, with everything that they're returning,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of positive odds.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Georgia's won the SEC the last couple of seasons with
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Kirby Smart, and everyone thinks George is just one step away.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But honestly, when you break down their season last year,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: quite a few miraculous victories. I think Jake that was
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: won by Kirby's genius. I don't think people quite understand
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the coaching job that Kirby Smart did last year. And
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I think when you lose a guy like Oscar Delp,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I know that tight end room is still really good.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: That's still a nice, nice, nice piece that they lost,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and they lose Zachariah Branch, who made a record last
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: year in Georgia with Catches. I don't know. I don't
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: know how to feel. And Georgia had some injuries during
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the spring, and you worry about that pass rush that
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: was really non existing last year. So maybe, just maybe
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: George is a little overvalued, But I don't like baiting
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Georgia whatsoever.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Visit with Carter Bryant and of course you can get
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: him on X. Make sure to get his podcast. When
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: is the edition of the program? How let me ask
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: you this, We've got a few more minutes here are you?
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Are you buying or selling South Carolina? It feels like
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: that that you know, dark horse mantra on South Carolina's back.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Where are you with South Carolina?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I really like how things set up for them. So
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you take a look at the first six weeks of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: their season at Alabama's their toughest game, and there's a
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: lot of variants on who Alabama actually is this next
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: year softest opening two weeks of the year, which is
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: pretty key with the new offensive coordinator in Kendall Briles,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: who I still think is a pretty high level coordinator,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and South Carolina is the only team in the SEC
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Jake that has a bye week. That's perfectly symmetrical, as
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in they play six games by week and then six
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: games after that, so they get some teams in a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: pretty good spot. So let's say the Tennessee game. I
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: like Tennessee. I think Tennessee is a better team than
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: South Carolina. South Carolina gets a bye week before they
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: play Tennessee, and Tennessee will be playing their seventh game
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in seventh week. So that's just one example of many
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: breaks that South Carolina has on their schedule. And if
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you're to tell me that Lenora sellers when it comes
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: to raw talent, I think no one would have him
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: less than a top five quarterback in the SEC. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you also tell me that I get the best pass
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: rusher in the SEC and Dylan Stewart. And you also
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: tell me that I get a really nice deep option
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: in Nicholas Harbor, who many people think is actually going
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to break out. Sure, there's other holes on this team,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but I think there's enough talent for South Carolina to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: get to seven and five. And Shane Beemer save his job.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Make sure to get him on X Get a Show,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: and of course follow him along for LSU and SEC
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: content all year long. He's Carter Bryant. Carter, thank you, brother,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I appreciate your time. Look, we'll catch up here in
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: a couple weeks. Before we kick it off, it'll be
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Tigers v. Tigers down in Baton Rouge.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Jake, I need you to do me one favor.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: You know, I'll give you a little bit of homework
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: here at the end of this.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's do it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I need you during the break to ask Ben. I
• 29:29
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  Speaker 4: head baseball coach also coaches wide receivers. Here for the
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  Speaker 4: football coach, Brent Hevner on your radio coach havev How are.
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  Speaker 7: You, brother man, I'm doing good. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Great to talk to you and look visiting with you
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  Speaker 4: off the air and we'll start here. I know you
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  Speaker 4: probably hear it a lot. You're in rare company with
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  Speaker 4: with three guys who played baseball here that are now
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  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball players. You said you were in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 4: for open to Day. I believe as well, let's let's
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  Speaker 4: go there first. Just uh, you know, you've got to
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  Speaker 4: sit back and smile sometimes ago, Wow, man, it is.
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  Speaker 4: It has been a heck of a run here at
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  Speaker 4: Jackson prepping baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it really has.
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  Speaker 7: I appreciate that just watching those guys and men that
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  Speaker 7: would be a part of watching Connor and jab on
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  Speaker 7: the field together and then what Will's doing in New York.
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  Speaker 7: Like it's a testament to those guys, but it's also
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  Speaker 7: a lot of fun for us at prep and just
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  Speaker 7: get to follow those guys and get to see it,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, I understand it's rare company, but like
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  Speaker 7: it's just it's fun to just watch those guys and
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  Speaker 7: watch them compete at the highest level and realize they
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  Speaker 7: started here, this is where they started, and they're journey
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  Speaker 7: has expanded and Goneword has But couldn't be more proud
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  Speaker 7: of those three And you know when you talk about that,
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  Speaker 7: you know we've had seven players drafted in last seven
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  Speaker 7: years out of the school. And that's that's a testament
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  Speaker 7: to what Missippi baseball is. But it's also a testament
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  Speaker 7: what Jackson Prep baseball is.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm gonna finish the thought, you know. I
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  Speaker 4: we're talking off the air, just watching guys like Connor
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  Speaker 4: just work out. We were overre Grit and I was
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  Speaker 4: with his dad. It was about a year ago and
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  Speaker 4: we were doing some work over there and he was
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  Speaker 4: in the cage hitt and it just the ball sounds
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  Speaker 4: different coming off the bat, like it's it's almost scary.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just the you know, the torque and the speed.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just but just to see how those high
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  Speaker 4: level players play, which obviously he is surrounded by those
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  Speaker 4: guys now in the major leagues, but just the the
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  Speaker 4: ability that he has.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's it's really second to nine. Like you
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  Speaker 7: go up there and you watch him that opening weekend.
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  Speaker 7: I got to go to to BP with his dad
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  Speaker 7: and just to watch those guys the way they play,
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  Speaker 7: and to know that he fits in and he's right
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  Speaker 7: where he's supposed to be. And I thought the ultimate
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  Speaker 7: compliment came from Jake Mangham when Jake said, he's where
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  Speaker 7: he needs to be, and that's another big leaguer saying
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  Speaker 7: that about him. And just to watch him and to
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  Speaker 7: see how much he's fit in this year and how
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  Speaker 7: much he's contributed, I know he's ready to get back
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  Speaker 7: out there. Yeah, but you're you're right. He's different and
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  Speaker 7: he's a he's a one in a generation athlete. Uh.
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  Speaker 7: He was a lot of fun to watch in high
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  Speaker 7: school and he's gonna be a lot of fun to
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  Speaker 7: watch for several years in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 4: So let's pivot it back to Jackson Prep then, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, and you can go around the state in
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  Speaker 4: any state really, but in any program. You take a
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  Speaker 4: high level basketball team, you take a high level football team,
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  Speaker 4: baseball team. The expectations of the young guys, now they
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  Speaker 4: they know what they're that's in front of them when
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  Speaker 4: they see those guys come through the door where they're at.
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  Speaker 4: That has to put a little bit of pressure on
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  Speaker 4: the young guys. But then also the expectation if you
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  Speaker 4: play baseball here Jackson Prep, there is nothing but the
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  Speaker 4: best that's expected of you if you're gonna put the
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  Speaker 4: uniform on.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's absolutely correct, and that's that's where culture comes in.
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  Speaker 7: That's happened over the years, and it happened before I
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  Speaker 7: got here, and that it will happen after I leave.
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  Speaker 7: But the guys think when they get here they're supposed
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  Speaker 7: to win. They have an expectation of how to play
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  Speaker 7: the game. We try to teach how to play the
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  Speaker 7: game the right way, but they know that every time
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  Speaker 7: they step out on that field that they somebody wants
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  Speaker 7: to beat them. And so they've got to be at
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  Speaker 7: a high level and they got to make sure they're
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  Speaker 7: ready to play. And they know the expectation is we
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  Speaker 7: want to play in May for a state championship and there,
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  Speaker 7: and we don't apologize for that. That's what we want,
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  Speaker 7: but we also want to create the right way of
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  Speaker 7: doing it.
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  Speaker 4: And you reference Mississippi HIH School baseball, Man, you guys
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: playing a tough league, and then also just the state.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we were talking softball this week with some
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  Speaker 4: other coaches. Softball obviously it's such a high level, but baseball,
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  Speaker 4: and it is Football obviously is king, but baseball it
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  Speaker 4: is so competitive.
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  Speaker 7: Well it really is, and football always will be, especially
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  Speaker 7: in the South, and we know that. But baseball has
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  Speaker 7: been a lot of fun to watch in the state
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  Speaker 7: of Mississippi with the athletes we've put out, you know,
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  Speaker 7: three first rounders out of the high school level the
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  Speaker 7: last three years, and you know, you start to watch
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  Speaker 7: these guys, it's just it's different. It's it's really good baseball.
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  Speaker 7: Every time we step out on the field, we play
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  Speaker 7: good competition, and everybody wants to be better. And you've
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: got guys like the Parker and Connor and Jake Mingham
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  Speaker 7: and these other guys. What Will's done and now that's
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  Speaker 7: the expectation. So the guys are working harder at a
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  Speaker 7: younger age to try to reach that level because they've
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  Speaker 7: seen it and they get a little taste of it,
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  Speaker 7: and they think, man, I want to be like Connor Bright,
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  Speaker 7: you know, so that they're working for it. You know,
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  Speaker 7: most of Connor's god given. But the one thing a
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  Speaker 7: lot of people don't know is just how hard he
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: work to get where he's at.
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  Speaker 4: Visiting with the coach, Brent Heavener, he's had baseball coach
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: here at Jackson Prep. Eleventh year coming up, and of course,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: so wide receivers coach wide receivers to me a little
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: bit about a wide receiver room this year but then
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  Speaker 4: also I want to kind of expand on that because
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  Speaker 4: that position has changed so much. You guys know this,
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  Speaker 4: I mean from the size and stature. You know, if
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: you guy guys that are going to play on the
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  Speaker 4: sideline to the you know, sideline to sideline, they're gonna
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: split wide outside the hash guys that's gonna line up
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  Speaker 4: on the slot. Guys that can. I mean, there's so
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: many makes and models now of wide receivers.
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  Speaker 7: Right, It's it's really a lot of fun. It's really
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: changed over the years because now you're taking tight ends
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  Speaker 7: that are really good athletes that are you're spreading them out.
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  Speaker 7: You're putting you know, your f your fullbacks that are
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  Speaker 7: spread out, matching them up with linebackers. And you know,
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  Speaker 7: we ask a lot out of our receivers to be
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  Speaker 7: able to run the run up and down the field
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  Speaker 7: at a high level and a high high pace. Uh
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  Speaker 7: and do it NonStop. So you know, really excited about
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: what these guys are bringing to the table this year. Uh,
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: they work hard. We're kind of in our we're in
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: our second week of summer practice. Everybody's kind of getting
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: that point where trying to go hit somebody else. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: but they're they're gonna be a lot of fun. And
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: and the thing I love about Coach Goodman what we do,
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  Speaker 7: it's it's matchups. How can we put our guys in
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  Speaker 7: the best matchups? And we've got some really good players
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  Speaker 7: that are gonna be able to do that.
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  Speaker 4: It's still important. A lot of receivers, especially when you
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: get to the National Football League, they're they're divas, right,
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: we see that, but blocking is still so important talk
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  Speaker 4: about that and teaching that ability to Hey, you're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna always get the ball, but you could be the
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: guy that could spring our back in a run game play.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: You know, on a run scheme, you could spring the
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: quarterback if he takes off. Just the importance of being
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: physical when you're not getting.
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  Speaker 7: The ball right, because so many people still talk about
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: you want to run the ball first, even in the
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: high level offenses that we see all over the country,
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  Speaker 7: that you got to have a good running game. And
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: to have a good running game, you got to have
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: everybody blocking the front line is the main thing. But
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  Speaker 7: then like you said, you got to have those guys
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  Speaker 7: on the outside to spring it. Uh So we work
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  Speaker 7: on that a lot, work on a lot of thought
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  Speaker 7: blocking to make sure they're ready to go. But it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: all about selling the route and then being able to
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  Speaker 7: block when you're when you're asked to do that. And
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: if you can't do that, Coach good Good Ones team,
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: then you may not be out there very long, you guys.
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  Speaker 4: So we were talking to Coach good One about it
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  Speaker 4: to play really tough schedule this year. Ums right, coming
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  Speaker 4: in here from the state of Alabama. You guys will
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: play Cathedral obviously the normal uh, you know, casting characters
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  Speaker 4: along your schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Talk a little bit about you know, this year's team,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: just kind of your you know, your opinion of it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: You guys were so young last year, bringing back though
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: a lot of experience this year.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's really important, especially when it starts at quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: Bringing Luke back to be our starting quarterbacks a big
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: deal because he's got a year experience now and that's
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: always key to have a good good guy back there
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: kind of running the show. But you got a lot
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: of guys coming back on defense that if now had
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: that year of experience and that are going to be
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: really fun. And the speed of the game is the
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: one thing that changes from middle school to high school
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  Speaker 7: to colleagues. Now the guys.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Understand the speed of the game in high school.
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  Speaker 7: Now they've had a year of experience under their belt.
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  Speaker 7: Now they're ready to go again. So I think that'll
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: pay off for us as you see us as we
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: get into the end of the season.
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  Speaker 4: He is Brent Heavener, head baseball coach, also coaches wide
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  Speaker 4: receivers here for Jackson Prep coach, Thank you so much.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: It's great to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks and Jory, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. We are getting close to the
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: end where we are at the end of our number two.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Our number three from Jackson Prep. Coming up, we'll have
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: Jake Thompson talking ole miss camp as the Rebels are
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: getting ready to hit the field on the field as
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: they have high hopes for twenty twenty six. More coming
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: away from Jackson Prep. Hour three up next.
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  Speaker 7: D