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Nathan Werremeyer Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Turning to sports.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Jones at football coach here at Hines will join
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  Speaker 3: he is the athletics rector at Heines. He has teed
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  Speaker 3: us up today as Nathan. You brought the heat, you
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  Speaker 3: brought the tents. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 3: We're good, We're good. I appreciate you having us out.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to believe we are here. But the field
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  Speaker 3: looks great. I mean, everything looks ready to go as
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  Speaker 3: you guys, welcome not only the football team but back
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  Speaker 3: but students and everybody else here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm adjusting my camera on the fly.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the on the scoreboard now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh very n But yeah, thanks for coming out. I
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  Speaker 5: appreciate you coming out. We did this last year at
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  Speaker 5: Cane's down a byroom. We're having student comvocations tonight, so
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna have all the students out. It's just gonna
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  Speaker 5: be a great time. So I'm really glad that you
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  Speaker 5: can come out and do this and get talk to
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  Speaker 5: some coaches and see some some fanfare and you ready
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  Speaker 5: to play some football here in about two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell you, we're excited about it. Glad to
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  Speaker 3: have you guys back with us here on one O
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  Speaker 3: five nine the Zone. And you know last year was
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  Speaker 3: kind of you know, hey, Chris Jones is in. We
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  Speaker 3: know the track record here. You know Chris Jones' career
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  Speaker 3: at Kemper County at Startville, and you know, what is it.
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  Speaker 3: What does this look like for Hines? Well, I think
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  Speaker 3: we saw it pretty early and often as a matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, first play offensively the ball game on the
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  Speaker 3: road last year. Uh, you know, his team set up
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  Speaker 3: in a in a quad set ran a quick screen
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  Speaker 3: and that thing was off and running for like an
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  Speaker 3: eighty five yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: Really big year. Last year.
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  Speaker 3: Had a couple of losses won at East that had
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  Speaker 3: a chance to win and another one missed some opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: But man, what a year last year.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the up at Ittawamba. I remember that we had
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  Speaker 5: some some all kinds of trouble setting up our broadcast
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  Speaker 5: because it was it was the first time and we
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  Speaker 5: were trying to work all the kinks out. And then
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  Speaker 5: he throws a you know, a screen to the the
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  Speaker 5: out and uh and running for a touchdowns very first
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  Speaker 5: play from scrimmage as a college coach.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought that was really impressive.
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  Speaker 5: We uh, I think we got it framed and it's
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  Speaker 5: up in his office, uh for him his first college
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  Speaker 5: win against Ittawamba.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did really good.
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  Speaker 5: I remember vividly that game at East Misissippi and that
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  Speaker 5: one touchdown that that rough and scored and we lost
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  Speaker 5: seven to six because we missed the extra point. We
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  Speaker 5: had all kinds of missed opportunities in that game have
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  Speaker 5: won that game. And then uh, yeah, we lost to
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  Speaker 5: Jones that's down their place.
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  Speaker 3: And that was one of those weird Thursday nights too,
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  Speaker 3: because I think Hines had won two or three in
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  Speaker 3: a row. Was rolling and you know how it is
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  Speaker 3: in this league, and you know, people talk about it
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  Speaker 3: all the time, is how tough the junior college league
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  Speaker 3: is and the circuit is in the state of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 4: Rolled in the Jones.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of a cool afternoon and uh, their
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  Speaker 3: run game took over and nothing Times could do about them.
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  Speaker 5: It was the Uh it was the week after our
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  Speaker 5: off week, so we had we had went to East
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  Speaker 5: Central and beat them at homecoming handedly. I think they
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  Speaker 5: didn't make it across made it across halfield one time,
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  Speaker 5: I think in the second half, and uh, then we
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  Speaker 5: had a week off and then we went down to
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  Speaker 5: Jones and it was just the week off really hurt
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  Speaker 5: us last year. This year, this year, we don't have
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  Speaker 5: a week off. We're playing ten straight games, so we'll
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  Speaker 5: see how. We'll see how that goes. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a grueling, grueling season. It's gonna be a tough one
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  Speaker 5: this year. So I'm excited to see how how do
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  Speaker 5: I think the offense is going to be really really
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  Speaker 5: fun to watch with all the returners that they have
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  Speaker 5: with quarterback at receivers. He's got a great corps wide
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  Speaker 5: receivers that came back along with Ruffin who is a
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  Speaker 5: signal caller and doing a great job. We'll see how
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  Speaker 5: the defense does. They they lost a lot on defense
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  Speaker 5: and they're really young, so we'll see. We'll see what
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  Speaker 5: coach Folk can do on defense. We have all the
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  Speaker 5: faith in him that he can he can create a
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  Speaker 5: great defense. He's got some good coaches with him, and
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  Speaker 5: it's gonna be uh, it's gonna be fun to.
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  Speaker 3: Watch Nathan where my are the athletics director here at
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  Speaker 3: Hines on your radio at his Eagle Day on your
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  Speaker 3: radio Monday edition of the program. Yet, you know the
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  Speaker 3: energy that coach Jones has and of course with you
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  Speaker 3: and your staff, I mean it's a it's a team effort.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have such a great staff here, you know
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  Speaker 3: for game day staff. The thing I mean, this place,
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the things that I can say last year,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there was anywhere we went and for
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  Speaker 3: sure here where we didn't have full capacity crowds everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: People really embraced Segle football being back at a respectable
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  Speaker 3: level last year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've always had good crowds. I remember when I
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  Speaker 5: first came here five years ago and my first home game,
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  Speaker 5: I was just shocked at the amount of people we
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  Speaker 5: had in the stands and I took a picture of
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  Speaker 5: it and sent it to my former boss who it
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  Speaker 5: was is the ad at a school out in Kansas,
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  Speaker 5: And we never attracted crowds like that in Kansas because
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  Speaker 5: we played on Saturday afternoon. And playing on Thursday nights
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  Speaker 5: I think in this part of the country gets people
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  Speaker 5: to you know, we love our football. Whether it's high school,
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  Speaker 5: Juco or college. You can get it three nights of
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  Speaker 5: the week and then NFL on Sundays makes it for
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  Speaker 5: four straight days of football in Mississippi. So I love
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  Speaker 5: playing on Thursday nights. It's it's gives me my weekends off.
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  Speaker 5: It's been with the family. Yeah, and it's it's a
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  Speaker 5: great it's a great atmosphere and they treat it really really.
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  Speaker 1: Great down here in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 5: We go to all across the state at all our
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  Speaker 5: sister institutions, and it's really amazing that the game day
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  Speaker 5: atmosphere that they have at every institution, no matter where
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  Speaker 5: you're going, all the way up in the Delta Oklahoma
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  Speaker 5: and Delta. They do a great job up there and
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  Speaker 5: all the way down to Park and even you know, Southwest,
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  Speaker 5: and it's just everybody has their traditions at every place,
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  Speaker 5: and it's always fun to watch and every game is
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  Speaker 5: always tough.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean to step on you there. Everywhere
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  Speaker 3: we went last year, You're right to that point. I
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  Speaker 3: was blown away by just the tailgating and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just the like I said, everybody was different. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of fact, the first ball game we had, we
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  Speaker 3: laughed about it. That was the first place I've ever
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  Speaker 3: seen and I think Auburn does it too, where they
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  Speaker 3: actually had a DJ setup in the stands and I
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  Speaker 3: remember it's DJ Chris because I sent it to my
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  Speaker 3: producer who's said, men, check this out.
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  Speaker 5: They've actually got a dj't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I had a DJ in the stands, which was kind
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  Speaker 3: of comical because he was over over overshadowing the public
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  Speaker 3: address announcer at times. But I mean, you're right, all
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  Speaker 3: jokes aside. I mean, every campus is unique, has their
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  Speaker 3: own traditions, and if people aren't taking advantage of junior
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  Speaker 3: college football, they need to come out and check it out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, if they if you're listening and you haven't
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  Speaker 5: been to a community college football game in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: You need to go to one.
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  Speaker 5: There's fourteen schools around the state that have football, and
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  Speaker 5: every Thursday night there's six games going. So you can
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  Speaker 5: pick a game and go to it, or you can
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  Speaker 5: listen to it on one oh five nine in the
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  Speaker 5: ESPN all over the state and you can hear Heines
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  Speaker 5: football wherever you're at in the state and listen online too,
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  Speaker 5: And it's just the schools around this state do a
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  Speaker 5: wonderful job of keeping football relevant, especially across the country.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, we we try to be as best
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  Speaker 5: we can when we get to the national level, we
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  Speaker 5: get outside in the playoffs and things like that, and
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  Speaker 5: we do. The presidents do a wonderful job of trying
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  Speaker 5: to keep like I said, the game day atmosphere going
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  Speaker 5: across the state with the band and the cheerleaders and
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  Speaker 5: dance squad and visiting bands. Even will one of march
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  Speaker 5: at halftime, so we've got a whole full halftime of
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  Speaker 5: two bands that are performing and it's a family atmosphere
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  Speaker 5: at every game you go to.
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  Speaker 3: As the prefeas and polls come out. Yet for I
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  Speaker 3: looked this weekend. I didn't seen anything, but I could.
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  Speaker 1: Have missed it.
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  Speaker 5: Not yet, they have not come out. I personally, I've
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  Speaker 5: been harping on this for a while. I abhor the
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  Speaker 5: preseason polls because they at our level, they really mean nothing.
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  Speaker 5: You're basing it off of last year's record. And then
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  Speaker 5: you're at a two year school, so all these kids
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  Speaker 5: are gone after one year, possibly, so you're turning over
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  Speaker 5: half or more of a roster. You have no idea
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  Speaker 5: who you're bringing back, you have no idea about the transfers,
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  Speaker 5: you have no idea who's going to be quarterback of what,
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  Speaker 5: and then you do it so far ahead of the
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  Speaker 5: first game, and it's just like, it makes the committee
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  Speaker 5: look really bad when they put out a preseason poll,
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  Speaker 5: and it's not their fault because they've got to put
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  Speaker 5: something out. And after the first week of play, your
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  Speaker 5: first your top six teams could lose a game and
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  Speaker 5: you're like, oh, great, top six is on one, and
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  Speaker 5: then you got all these teams that are not ranked
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  Speaker 5: that are one. And so I hates a strong word,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm not a fan of.
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  Speaker 1: The preseason poll. But yeah, I mean you.
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  Speaker 3: Got to do it, and I mean, Stubby, I think
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the general public is that way with
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  Speaker 3: even college football now, because how do you have it?
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  Speaker 3: Just what you said, how do you have a preseason
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  Speaker 3: poll on not just the junior colleges, but you look
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  Speaker 3: at Division one where LSU's got forty eight to forty
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  Speaker 3: five new guys this year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, how do you quantify?
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  Speaker 3: You You can, yeah, again accurate probably you know within
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  Speaker 3: the top ten the big ones that have the most
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  Speaker 3: money to spend, But the rest of them you just don't.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, who saw Indiana coming last year?
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't not either.
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  Speaker 5: It it was for sure fun to watch. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: who knows if they're going to be that good again
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  Speaker 5: this year? They they should be, but you just it's
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  Speaker 5: it's like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks,
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  Speaker 5: and you're like, oh well, I mean let's put them
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  Speaker 5: up there. They they might be pretty good this year.
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  Speaker 5: They got this, They got a returning quarterback. I mean
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  Speaker 5: I would think that Hines would move up in the
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  Speaker 5: preseason poll this year because I think we finished thirteenth
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  Speaker 5: last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the poll.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean we've got our returning All American quarterback
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  Speaker 5: and starting receivers coming back and a lot of starters
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  Speaker 5: coming back, and we've got a lot of good freshmen
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  Speaker 5: that played well in high school. But we'll see what
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  Speaker 5: the committee does. We'll see if they turn out anything worthwhile.
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  Speaker 5: If Hines isn't ranked in the in the preseason poll,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to stress about it, and coach Jones
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  Speaker 5: is not going to stress about it.
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  Speaker 4: There you go, port, We let you go.
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  Speaker 3: We got to take a time out, Tiller buddy, where
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  Speaker 3: they can get more information as the first home game
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  Speaker 3: will be here coming up two weeks from Thursday. Tickets,
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  Speaker 3: information on game times and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, everything is on our website sports dot heinecc dot edu.
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  Speaker 5: If you go to Google and you google Hines Athletics,
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  Speaker 5: it'll be the first thing that pops up as our
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  Speaker 5: athletic website, and then you could find all the sports
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  Speaker 5: schedules on there, the rosters for all the sports as
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  Speaker 5: we put them up. You know, at the community college level,
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  Speaker 5: we're short staffed a little bit, so doing our sid
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  Speaker 5: to is an excellent job. And he's he's putting up
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  Speaker 5: rosters as quick as he can get them. Football won't
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  Speaker 5: finalize their roster and feel probably the day before the
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  Speaker 5: first game, because they've got to cut it down to
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  Speaker 5: sixty five kids, so it'll be it'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 5: see what what he cuts it down to. But you
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  Speaker 5: can find everything online on our website. We've got Twitter,
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  Speaker 5: Football has Twitter. I'm sorry, X. I got to get
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  Speaker 5: out of that habit of colling.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody still does the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they put X and it's parentheses formerly Twitter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then Facebook follow us on the Facebook page. We
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  Speaker 5: put everything out the week of the game, and we'll
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  Speaker 5: put everything out the day of the game where you
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  Speaker 5: could find links to tickets or links to watch it
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  Speaker 5: if you can't make it to the game, but if
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  Speaker 5: you if you do come to the game, we're ar
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  Speaker 5: we're cash less ticket gate, so we only take card.
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  Speaker 5: We encourage people to buy tickets online before they get
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  Speaker 5: here because the ticket prices do go up if you
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  Speaker 5: buy it at the gate and then you got to
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  Speaker 5: use a credit or debit card.
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  Speaker 1: So I always.
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  Speaker 5: Encourage people to buy them online before they get here
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  Speaker 5: and we can check them in. But yeah, first game
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  Speaker 5: is August twenty seventh. Then we got ten street weeks
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  Speaker 5: of football and then hopefully a state championship game and
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  Speaker 5: then hopefully a national semi final and then hopefully a
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  Speaker 5: national championship that we can tag you along with the
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  Speaker 5: whole time.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're hoping for. That is what we're hoping for.
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  Speaker 3: He is Nathan Waermeyer, the athletics director. Ad heine's doing
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  Speaker 3: a great jomp. Nathan, thank you so much today and
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  Speaker 3: of course so we'll visit again here it letter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: absolutely got to take a time out. Chris Landry on
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  Speaker 3: your radio coming up in just a bit.