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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 27 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Baffle Football Coaches Show. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Raylan Spencer. Along with me, as always is
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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Baffle Cougars, Tom Painter coach.
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Speaker 2: How we doing doing great? Thanks coach.
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of things to talk about here today.
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Speaker 1: We're just gonna kind of recap some things that went
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Speaker 1: on since the last time we talked, take a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a look ahead at the rest of July.
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Speaker 1: There's oddly quite a few things going on here in
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Speaker 1: July that we got So let's go back, though. We'll
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Speaker 1: start with spring football started. Let's see, it would have
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Speaker 1: been just barely into June, a little shorter than usual
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Speaker 1: this year with the Wavy State Tournament worked out for
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Speaker 1: baseball and track, only ten practices before we went down
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Speaker 1: to Pacific Lutheran down at Tacoma. Let's get your just
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Speaker 1: kind of general thoughts on how those ten practices went.
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Speaker 3: You know, it was a shorter you know, ten days.
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Speaker 3: Usually we get to twelve, uh, sometimes fourteen, but ten
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Speaker 3: days is what we had, and I think.
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Speaker 2: We we utilized the most of our time. You know.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of interesting how offensively and defensively we installed.
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Speaker 3: And you know, one one way, we we kind of
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Speaker 3: uh spoon fed them right one play at a time
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Speaker 3: and in one front at a time and the other
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Speaker 3: the other side of the ball. We we kind of
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Speaker 3: fire hosed it, right. We just we just threw in
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Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff and at the end, we we
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Speaker 3: kind of came out the same. It was fun to see,
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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I'm really real happy with our kids.
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Speaker 3: They Spring's tough for being an athlete. You know, You've
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Speaker 3: got you've got baseball season now with with their summer
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Speaker 3: teams going on. There's basketball, there's lacrosse, there's track, there's football,
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Speaker 3: there's everything, and so the multi sport athlete really is
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Speaker 3: juggling the the the different sports, you know. And and
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Speaker 3: I thought our kids did a good job of that.
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Speaker 3: And I was pleased with what we got out of
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Speaker 3: spring and and it transferred right into the POU camp
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Speaker 3: and so very very pleased with how Spring went.
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Speaker 1: Going into spring football. Is there something specific you're trying
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Speaker 1: to accomplish or is it kind of like we need
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Speaker 1: to get install in so we can go to PLU
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Speaker 1: and and and actually function down there, or is it
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Speaker 1: kind of more like, you know, you're trying to hit
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Speaker 1: certain maybe benchmarks along the way.
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Speaker 3: Now there's there's a lot going on. We we we
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Speaker 3: do want to install and we do need to prepare
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Speaker 3: for camp. But you know, I would tell you the
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Speaker 3: biggest piece of it to me is is team building
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Speaker 3: and getting our our new football team right to uh
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Speaker 3: to find its leaders and to uh, you know, find
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Speaker 3: its identity and to continue to grow as a group
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Speaker 3: each and every day. You know, you do that along
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Speaker 3: with you know, player development. You know, you're teaching fundamentals
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Speaker 3: a lot in the spring and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: not just the what to do, but to how to
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Speaker 3: do it, and then uh, you know, and then and
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Speaker 3: then we're we're constantly evaluating, right, do we have kids
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Speaker 3: in the right spot? Where are we you know, where's
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Speaker 3: our depth you know good? And where are we thin?
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Speaker 3: And how do we even that out? And so it's
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Speaker 3: a long process that will continue through the summer. But
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Speaker 3: by the time we get to fall, we will we
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Speaker 3: will have a great idea of what our identity is
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Speaker 3: and you know, what our strengths are and areas that
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Speaker 3: we will improve on. And so it's a long process
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Speaker 3: that that's sure is fun and it's great to have
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Speaker 3: the guys back out and and it's fun to start
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Speaker 3: anew you know, every year, and so yeah, those are
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Speaker 3: those are some of the things we're trying to accomplish
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Speaker 3: spring football.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, you're kind of I mean, obviously it's
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Speaker 1: a new team. It's some of the same faces, but
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Speaker 1: there's freshmen that are going to come up and play
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Speaker 1: varsity this year. There's sophomores that maybe saw a little
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Speaker 1: bit of varsity, they're going to see a lot more
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Speaker 1: varsity this year. So you kind of get to know
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Speaker 1: a little bit about your team, but you really get
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Speaker 1: to know about your team when you go to PLU.
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Speaker 1: Because so graduation was on Tuesday, last day of school
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Speaker 1: was on Wednesday. We have Thursday off, boom Peelu camp
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Speaker 1: on Friday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, full padded. Everybody's going
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Speaker 1: full speed. But it's more than just scrimmages. It's more
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Speaker 1: than just practices. There's we talk about it multiple times,
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Speaker 1: but team bonding. You mentioned it in spring football. But
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Speaker 1: there's also goals Night, there's root beer floats that we do.
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Speaker 1: There's I mean, I think one of the things that's
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Speaker 1: kind of funny that turns into a lot of team
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Speaker 1: building in a kind of a weird way. Is every
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Speaker 1: night the athletes have an opportunity to buy pizza, and
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Speaker 1: you go around to bed checks and there's eight guys
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Speaker 1: in one room and they're all sitting there eating pizza together.
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Speaker 1: You know, just little things like that. I mean, Domino
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Speaker 1: Who would have thought Dominoes would be one trying to
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Speaker 1: help bring the team together and they don't even know it. Granted,
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Speaker 1: maybe a little expensive on the pizzas I do, got
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Speaker 1: to say that, but but yeah, Peel you I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think maybe we start first with team bonding, goals nights,
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Speaker 1: rootier floats, kind of those things that aren't football, all
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Speaker 1: necessarily related, some really cool things going on while we're
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Speaker 1: down there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably the biggest takeaway we get from campus.
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Speaker 3: You know, we go there, we kind of know each other,
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Speaker 3: but we feel like when we leave and get on
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Speaker 3: the bus back that we're we're starting to be that
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Speaker 3: team that you know that that's going to keep rolling
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Speaker 3: into something even more and more special. You know, we
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Speaker 3: we do Rubert Flow Goals night. You know, it's it's
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Speaker 3: a it's a you know, it's a kid's game, right,
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Speaker 3: they play, we we kind of coach it and and
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Speaker 3: we're together on it. And they got to tell us
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Speaker 3: what they want to accomplish, and you know, whatever they
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Speaker 3: want to do, we're going to try to help them
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Speaker 3: to you know, succeed in that. And so we do that.
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Speaker 3: We do our we do our lead our core covenants
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Speaker 3: activity where you know, the kids break into groups and
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Speaker 3: they talk about what each of the letters stands for,
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Speaker 3: what that word looks like, you know, on the football field,
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Speaker 3: in the classroom.
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Speaker 2: And in the community.
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Speaker 3: And but you're right, I think the best time that
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Speaker 3: they have where they get to know each other because
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Speaker 3: they're not talking about football, is when they're eating, whether
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Speaker 3: that be breakfast, lunch, or dinner or pizza at night.
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Speaker 3: And and that's when they get to you know, find
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Speaker 3: out a little bit more about who they are to
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Speaker 3: each other. And that's when you know, the team begins
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Speaker 3: to grow. So, yeah, we we we had fun. The
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Speaker 3: loutis is a blast, and you know, we got to
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Speaker 3: take what we did and offensively defensively in the spring
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Speaker 3: and and kind of put it into game like situations.
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Speaker 3: But I think the real takeaway is the bonding that
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Speaker 3: occurs at camp scrimmages.
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Speaker 1: There's obviously, you know, there's some really good teams down
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Speaker 1: there for us to scrimmage, including a couple of teams
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Speaker 1: within the Kinko Conference. Now they're teams that at the
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Speaker 1: moment are not on our schedule with Skyline and Mount said, now,
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Speaker 1: who knows what happens in week nine, but you know,
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Speaker 1: you get down there and you scrimmage. Is there anything
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Speaker 1: specifically you're looking to get out of scrimmages as far
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Speaker 1: as you know, do we want to play the best teams?
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Speaker 1: Do we want to scrimmage the best teams? Do we
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Speaker 1: want to go against maybe some teams where we can
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Speaker 1: work on a little bit more. Is there anything specific
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Speaker 1: you're looking for out of those scrimmages?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, first and foremost, you're just
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Speaker 3: you want to see how the player plays in a
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Speaker 3: game situation. It's different when we're holding up a scout
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Speaker 3: card and they're going against ourselves and you know we're
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Speaker 3: not going full speed, and well we're going full speed, just.
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Speaker 2: Not full contact.
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Speaker 3: And you get to a situation now where there's an
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Speaker 3: opponent and you know the great thing about camp is
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Speaker 3: you could see three or four five different types of defenses,
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Speaker 3: three or four, five different types of offenses, different schemes, schemes
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Speaker 3: that we'll see during the year, and schemes that we
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Speaker 3: may not see, you know, the entire season. So it's
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Speaker 3: fun to see them kind of on the move, react
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Speaker 3: and adjust to those things. But what I love most
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Speaker 3: about it is to find in the kids who maybe
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Speaker 3: surprise you from the previous year. You know, a lot
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Speaker 3: of coaches have a preconceived notion of what a kid's
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Speaker 3: ability is going into the season, and I don't believe
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Speaker 3: that to be true. There's too many factors that occur
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Speaker 3: from January when we start lifting, all the way to
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Speaker 3: you know, spring football and then summer camp. There's there's
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Speaker 3: a physiological side to just you know, human development and
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Speaker 3: growth at that age. There's a there's a mental side
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Speaker 3: to it, where you know, I've this is yet another
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Speaker 3: year of experience and I understand the game a little
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Speaker 3: bit better. There there's a self esteem, self image side
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Speaker 3: to it, you know, where you find out who wants
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Speaker 3: to compete and who needs to be proud of a
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Speaker 3: little bit to compete. And so just the advancement in
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Speaker 3: in the athlete, the how well they're picking up this
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Speaker 3: scheme and and then you know, just just the standout
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Speaker 3: part of it is always so fascinating to me. And
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Speaker 3: you know, we get to we get to see the
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Speaker 3: film right at camp, and we get to watch it
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Speaker 3: right after it happens, and you know, we're we're we're
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Speaker 3: playing a game and we're evaluating it next morning or
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Speaker 3: later that afternoon in a meeting. So it's it's it's
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Speaker 3: it's a season or a week expedited, you know, three
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Speaker 3: or four or five times. So uh, super fun and
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Speaker 3: and you know, I think that's my most enjoyable takeaways
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Speaker 3: seeing their development.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, camp very important for all levels of the program,
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Speaker 1: but maybe the most important for the freshman group. Watching
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Speaker 1: those freshmen with Coach Lego and coach Harden and Handra
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Speaker 1: hand and Harden too is over there now too as well.
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Speaker 1: And you know, just watching those guys have to get
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Speaker 1: really hands on with everything, especially because they only had
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Speaker 1: the same ten practices that everybody else had before we
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Speaker 1: got down there. But you know, getting filmed for all
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Speaker 1: of those two just watching how much those kids improved
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Speaker 1: over the four days is really incredible.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that we do also is you
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Speaker 1: get a week off to kind of recover, because that
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Speaker 1: is a pretty intense four days. I mean we're talking
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Speaker 1: it's two Friday to Saturday to Sunday and then full
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Speaker 1: go on Monday. The body needs a little, uh needs
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Speaker 1: a little opportunity to recover and then boom right into
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Speaker 1: summer lifting and conditioning. As we are recording this, the
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Speaker 1: team is they're upstairs doing their thing with coach Darius Terry.
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Speaker 1: And how the guy shows up as early as he
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Speaker 1: does with the energy that he does, I don't get it.
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Speaker 1: But Darius Terry doing his thing up there with the
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Speaker 1: guys again this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's a pretty special human being. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's a he's a teacher, he's a coach, he's a mentor.
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Speaker 3: He's uh, you know, he has the ability to be
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Speaker 3: stern with him, but yet they know that he loves them.
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Speaker 3: And that's what I like about him. He just he
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Speaker 3: cares about the each individual.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: He coaches his tail off up there and it's a
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Speaker 3: wonderful program. And yeah, he does bring energy and that's
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Speaker 3: that's contagious and so an important piece. But yeah, that's uh,
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Speaker 3: that's you know, that's also the Baffel kid. You know,
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Speaker 3: I've been here for twenty seven years, and the one
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Speaker 3: thing that has always stood out to me is kids
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Speaker 3: will show up to work out, and they'll show up
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Speaker 3: to prepare, and you know, these are the things it's
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Speaker 3: it's it's not so much what you you know, how
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Speaker 3: much talent you have, it's the will. You know, you
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Speaker 3: can have all the talent in the world and sit
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Speaker 3: at home and get nothing out of it. But you know,
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Speaker 3: the will to show up and to get better is
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Speaker 3: what we're all pushing our athletes to be and to become.
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Speaker 3: And and so he does it as good as anybody
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Speaker 3: I've ever been around. You know.
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Speaker 1: One of the things this is on Monday, the first
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Speaker 1: day of summer lifting conditioning there, maybe the line of
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Speaker 1: the year comes on the first day, and Darius was
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Speaker 1: over there and he says, hey, where's Evan his son,
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Speaker 1: And one of the kids goes, Coach, that's your son,
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Speaker 1: And the look on his face was very Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: a really good point. But I think that's also kind
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Speaker 1: of to the point of like he treats everybody the same.
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Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's his son, he's gonna hold his
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Speaker 1: son accountable too. I don't know where he's at I
12:05
Speaker 1: don't know if he was on vacation or something. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure that there's a reason, but it was kind of
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Speaker 1: funny the way that he said it, and somebody just
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Speaker 1: about it back, Coach, i's your son, Like, what do
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Speaker 1: you asking us for Fourth of July Parade? We are
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Speaker 1: recording this on July third. I'm gonna try to turn
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Speaker 1: it around as quickly as I can. But Fourth of
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Speaker 1: July Parade pretty you know, it's not football related, but
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Speaker 1: this is a very big event for us, obviously, the
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Speaker 1: Community Pride two hundred and fiftieth. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: you call it, anniversary, birthday, whatever you want to say
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Speaker 1: for America here, and you know, to me, it's one
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Speaker 1: of those off season events that's just so much fun
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Speaker 1: to get to see everybody down there. I don't even
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Speaker 1: know the names of the streets. It's like Main Street
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Speaker 1: and Bothelway or.
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Speaker 2: Something, Bothel Everet Highway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just to see the amount of people that
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Speaker 1: come out down there, and now I know the little kids,
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Speaker 1: a lot of them are there for the candy that
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be tossing out. But it's so much fun
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Speaker 1: to get down there and see everybody and just see
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Speaker 1: the pride that our community has kind of almost everything
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Speaker 1: that they do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I I it is an event
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Speaker 3: for for our country and for our city, but I
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Speaker 3: think it's also a football event. I think it's important
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Speaker 3: that our kids, uh, you know, get to be in
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Speaker 3: front of crowds without their helmet on, you know, wearing
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Speaker 3: them bothel t shirt and shorts and uh and and
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Speaker 3: giving back to the appreciation that we get.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: It's fun to see the little kids reach out for candy.
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Speaker 3: It's fun to see our kids get to you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe maybe reflect a little bit, you know, for for ten, twelve,
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Speaker 3: fifteen years ago when they were little guys on the
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Speaker 3: curb and and you know the players before them were
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Speaker 3: doing the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Uh. It's a it's a prideful thing for me.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm very proud of our of our kids
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Speaker 3: and the ones that are there get to walk down
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Speaker 3: and you know, it's kind of different being in a parade.
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Speaker 3: You know, we've all we've all seen parades, but you
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Speaker 3: know how many how many of us have been in
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Speaker 3: a parade and and when people are clapping for you,
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Speaker 3: and you know, it's a it's a really cool thing,
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Speaker 3: and it's a prideful thing, and so it's so fun.
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Speaker 3: Our youth is there, our youth programs, you know, walking
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Speaker 3: right behind us or in front of us, there's our
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Speaker 3: cheer staff is there. And so it's a really cool
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Speaker 3: event to be prideful, to be a Bothel cougar, and
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Speaker 3: to be a to be a Bothel citizen, and to
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Speaker 3: live in our country. It's really cool.
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Speaker 1: I think it's especially fun watching Coach China get on
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Speaker 1: that little motorcycle and just kind of hum around and
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Speaker 1: act like a total.
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Speaker 2: Goofball for a little bit.
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Speaker 1: The guy is always so serious that when you get
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Speaker 1: to see him doing something like that, it's a little
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Speaker 1: extra fun.
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Speaker 3: But we got some bigger tires on that in that
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Speaker 3: thing for him this year, you know, so hopefully he's
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Speaker 3: a little more stable for sure.
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Speaker 1: So if he needs to go off road a little bit,
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Speaker 1: maybe he's got the capability now kind of next in line, well,
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Speaker 1: actually I guess, well, yeah, I'll skip I have it
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Speaker 1: out of order a little bit here. So next in
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Speaker 1: line for us as far as football goes. Obviously summer
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Speaker 1: conditioning lifting is going to continue on. But next in
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Speaker 1: line as far as competition is the Lake with seven
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Speaker 1: on seven Lineman competent up in Smoky Point, Arlington, North Lakewood,
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it up there at Lakewood
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Speaker 1: High School, something that Bobble has been going to as
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Speaker 1: long as I can remember. It's it was originally coach
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Speaker 1: Dan Teeter. Now it's moved on to I want to say.
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Speaker 1: His name is McShane, Adam McShane.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I.
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Speaker 1: Feel bad that I can't remember his name, but that's
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Speaker 1: just a tremendous event that goes on up there. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: getting to compete in seven on seven and bring the
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Speaker 1: linement along, It's it's kind of funny the linement competition.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me. Nowadays most people think it's the five on
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Speaker 1: five competition of you know, trying to quote unquote get
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Speaker 1: to the quarterback. But they do everything except that. They
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Speaker 1: do a tuggle war, they do you know, a four
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Speaker 1: by one hundred relay on the track, They do you know,
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Speaker 1: like tire flipping, they do all kinds of obstacle court.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. The stuff that they do is
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Speaker 1: linement competition. I think it's really cool to watch. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how much of that you get to watch
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Speaker 1: because obviously you're working to seven on seven, but some
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Speaker 1: of that linement competition stuff almost has the most energy
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Speaker 1: of the day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they flip tires, they they throw tires, they push sleds,
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Speaker 3: they they do a lot and and it does coincide
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Speaker 3: with seven on seven games, so it's uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's a struggle to see them see them all. But
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Speaker 3: oh yeah, when we when we have a half hour
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Speaker 3: break or in between games, we're definitely there supporting the
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Speaker 3: our alignment.
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Speaker 2: And it's it's just fun to compete. You know.
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Speaker 3: You've got to get your kids to compete and to
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Speaker 3: learn about competition and it's okay to lose.
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Speaker 2: That's uh.
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Speaker 3: I've always said that I think failures the greatest ingredient
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Speaker 3: to success if you if you're not.
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Speaker 2: Doing it right.
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Speaker 3: We've got to find that out so we can do
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Speaker 3: it differently and and overcome that. And so you know,
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Speaker 3: in a world where our kids are you know, afraid
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Speaker 3: to fail so they don't compete, we that's exactly what
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Speaker 3: we want them to do and get out there and
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Speaker 3: and and do those things against other kids their age,
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Speaker 3: and you know, across our western side of our state.
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Speaker 3: So fun day, it's it's put on very well. There's food,
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Speaker 3: there's there's a bunch of people, there's a ton of teams,
17:04
Speaker 3: and and it's NonStop. It's just go, go go. So
17:07
Speaker 3: it's a great day. But we'll we'll do some some
17:10
Speaker 3: sevens uh before that, we'll get some practices in and
17:14
Speaker 3: and you know, we'll we'll try to fine tune our
17:17
Speaker 3: past game and our past defense. And it's always the
17:20
Speaker 3: kind of culminating event where it's the last time we
17:23
Speaker 3: can really kind of be with our our team on
17:26
Speaker 3: a field, and and so we we look forward to that.
17:29
Speaker 2: Uh, And it's always it's always fun.
17:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, And traditionally over the years, Baffel has done very
17:33
Speaker 1: well in that. I mean when I was part of
17:35
Speaker 1: the media, it was always like I didn't really need
17:38
Speaker 1: to go watch Baffel early on because I knew that
17:40
Speaker 1: come you know, uh bracket play if you will, you know,
17:44
Speaker 1: single elimination, I knew I was going to get an
17:46
Speaker 1: opportunity to see you guys. I think you mentioned it
17:50
Speaker 1: with Alignment about you know, learning how to compete and
17:53
Speaker 1: and and really, I mean I think there's something to
17:55
Speaker 1: be said about you know, being mad about when you lose,
17:58
Speaker 1: but also figuring out out why why am I mad
18:01
Speaker 1: right now?
18:02
Speaker 2: You know?
18:02
Speaker 1: And if you're not mad about it, then you know,
18:05
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you got a little more to figure out
18:07
Speaker 1: about yourself. But the seven on seven it's one of
18:09
Speaker 1: those things also where one thing I've you know, not
18:13
Speaker 1: to toot our own horn here, but one of the
18:15
Speaker 1: things I've always respected is playing real football, not necessarily
18:19
Speaker 1: like playing to win, and so you play a seven
18:22
Speaker 1: on seven type version, but going out and actually playing
18:25
Speaker 1: your defense and running your offense and doing the things
18:29
Speaker 1: that are going to translate further on down the line.
18:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it's a it's an assignment before
18:36
Speaker 3: a test, right, It's it's part.
18:37
Speaker 2: Of the process.
18:38
Speaker 3: And yeah, you want to win. I think anytime you play,
18:42
Speaker 3: you should compete and try to win. I think that's
18:44
Speaker 3: just what life is about. But I also think that
18:48
Speaker 3: you got to do what you do and improve on
18:50
Speaker 3: what you're doing, so you know, you you can win, lose,
18:52
Speaker 3: or draw this this seven on seven tournament. And we're
18:56
Speaker 3: all going to be zero and zero going into week one,
18:58
Speaker 3: and the goal is to improve with what we do
19:04
Speaker 3: and get it on film so that we can correct
19:06
Speaker 3: our airs or fine tune, you know what we want
19:11
Speaker 3: to change. But absolutely, it's fun. We you know, last
19:14
Speaker 3: year we played Kennedy, we played them in our Week
19:17
Speaker 3: one game, and we played them in the semi finals.
19:20
Speaker 3: We played like Stevens. We will play them week two
19:25
Speaker 3: this year. I'm sure we'll see those guys again up there.
19:28
Speaker 3: There's great football teams, good athletes, so fun to compete
19:32
Speaker 3: and and you know, something we look forward to. So
19:36
Speaker 3: but but you know that also means the end of
19:38
Speaker 3: summers near, so you know we don't have to look
19:42
Speaker 3: forward to it.
19:42
Speaker 1: That's that quickly, yeah. And now after that, you know.
19:47
Speaker 1: So that's on Saturday the twenty fifth, a couple of
19:50
Speaker 1: days later, the Junior Koogs camp starts up. That's something
19:54
Speaker 1: that I think is very important to the program. So
19:56
Speaker 1: many of these guys I see coming in as freshmen,
19:59
Speaker 1: and some of them are still wearing Junior Coop's camp stuff.
20:03
Speaker 1: So many of these kids get down to it's pop Kini.
20:06
Speaker 1: It's listed as pop Kini or Boffel High School, one
20:08
Speaker 1: of the two. But so many of them that are
20:12
Speaker 1: playing for US now want to help out and want
20:14
Speaker 1: to coach because that's what they came through.
20:16
Speaker 3: That.
20:18
Speaker 1: So just to give you a little information on that.
20:20
Speaker 1: B c jf A dot org is the the link
20:23
Speaker 1: to the Boffel Cougar Junior Football Association. You can find
20:26
Speaker 1: more information on there about it. But that's another one
20:30
Speaker 1: of those things that maybe gets overlooked a little bit.
20:32
Speaker 1: But is I think vital to a to the long
20:36
Speaker 1: term health of a football program.
20:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. You know, we're trying to build numbers again.
20:41
Speaker 3: Everybody across the state probably is trying to build their
20:44
Speaker 3: youth numbers again.
20:46
Speaker 2: And and.
20:48
Speaker 3: You know, I think this is a great way to
20:49
Speaker 3: do it. You get you get our younger athletes, you know,
20:53
Speaker 3: our junior football players, uh, and they get to they
20:56
Speaker 3: get to be coached by some of our high school kids.
20:59
Speaker 3: And you know, it's powerful for the youth kid. It's
21:02
Speaker 3: powerful for the high school kid. The you know, the
21:05
Speaker 3: the mentorship, the kid looking up in his eyes and
21:08
Speaker 3: you know, hoping one day to be like him. And
21:12
Speaker 3: that's that's a humbling thing for high school kids. And
21:14
Speaker 3: I think it's a part of their growth too, to
21:16
Speaker 3: realize that my actions are are are really louder than
21:21
Speaker 3: I thought they were, and people are watching me and
21:24
Speaker 3: and so it's it's a great it's a great experience,
21:27
Speaker 3: it's fun to work with those guys, it's fun to
21:29
Speaker 3: teach and coach football, and and uh, yeah it is.
21:32
Speaker 3: It's it is vital to the growth. I think of
21:35
Speaker 3: a of a program, and you know, the more youth
21:39
Speaker 3: players you have, the more kids are more likely to
21:41
Speaker 3: play high school with experience, and so, uh, those are
21:45
Speaker 3: those are important pieces to success for sure.
21:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think about it a lot. And I don't
21:49
Speaker 1: know if I've ever told the story on here before,
21:51
Speaker 1: but when I was in elementary school, the uh the
21:55
Speaker 1: one of you, the football players used to come to
21:57
Speaker 1: our school. I don't know, it seemed like probably once
21:59
Speaker 1: a month. It was probably less than that. But I
22:02
Speaker 1: remember one guy specifically. His name was Chris Scott. I
22:05
Speaker 1: don't know if he I don't know what he's doing now,
22:08
Speaker 1: but the impact he had on me wanting to play
22:11
Speaker 1: football and wanting to you know, make football something that
22:14
Speaker 1: I just you know, eat, sleep, breathe was was huge.
22:18
Speaker 1: And really all he did was they would come to recess,
22:20
Speaker 1: but they were wearing their football jersey. They were one
22:22
Speaker 1: one eeded jersey. And that was so huge to me
22:26
Speaker 1: because it was like, wow, that guy is a superstar.
22:28
Speaker 1: But he's just a high schol football player. I don't
22:30
Speaker 1: even think he was All league, you know, I don't
22:31
Speaker 1: even know how much he played. But the connection that
22:35
Speaker 1: he made with me made me want to play. And
22:38
Speaker 1: our guys, you know, being able to do that now
22:41
Speaker 1: still here we are. You know, I don't kind of
22:45
Speaker 1: date myself. Oh that was like probably nineteen eighty nine,
22:48
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And I was probably six
22:51
Speaker 1: seven eight years old. But you know, it's it's something
22:56
Speaker 1: that can be huge in you know, the with the
22:59
Speaker 1: youth and when you talk out building numbers long term,
23:01
Speaker 1: that's really what it is. So that will take place
23:04
Speaker 1: at the end of July and then yeah, I mean
23:07
Speaker 1: it's kind of a couple of weeks off from the
23:10
Speaker 1: coaching side of things more, you know, the weight room
23:13
Speaker 1: and everything's still going to be open and the conditioning
23:15
Speaker 1: and the summer lifting is still going on. But then
23:18
Speaker 1: we're right into Camp Bafflehood and that starts August nineteenth.
23:22
Speaker 1: I mean we're a little over a month away from that.
23:26
Speaker 1: I mean, it's someone's going pretty quick already, and we're
23:29
Speaker 1: only what two weeks out of school being over, So yeah,
23:33
Speaker 1: Camp Bafflehood not going to be here kind of before
23:35
Speaker 1: you know it.
23:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does fly by, and you know, we keep
23:41
Speaker 3: checking off the boxes for our incoming seniors. You know,
23:44
Speaker 3: they've had their last spring football they'll ever have in
23:47
Speaker 3: high school, their last team camp they'll ever have, and
23:50
Speaker 3: you know, it goes by fast. And every senior football
23:54
Speaker 3: player and probably athlete and every sport tells the freshman
23:56
Speaker 3: man it's going to go by quickly, and you never
23:59
Speaker 3: think it is until you're there. And so yep, that's
24:02
Speaker 3: why you got to take it day by day and
24:03
Speaker 3: take advantage of the opportunities to improve and to h
24:08
Speaker 3: and to enjoy.
24:09
Speaker 1: And so that's what we're doing, all righty coach. I
24:12
Speaker 1: don't have anything else. I don't know if you've got
24:13
Speaker 1: anything else.
24:15
Speaker 2: You know, I don't.
24:16
Speaker 3: I would like to give a shout out to my mom,
24:19
Speaker 3: who is uh, you know, on the day when we're
24:21
Speaker 3: up at Lakewood, that'll be her eighty fifth birthday and
24:26
Speaker 3: the party will be on Sunday because of the.
24:29
Speaker 2: Of the that event.
24:30
Speaker 3: So I don't think my mom even knows that there
24:34
Speaker 3: is this podcast, but if if you're listening out there, Mom,
24:36
Speaker 3: I love you. Happy early birthday and I can't wait
24:40
Speaker 3: to see on the day after your eighty fifth birthday.
24:42
Speaker 1: I remember in your Hall of Fame speech you talked
24:44
Speaker 1: about how how important your uh, your wife Christina is
24:47
Speaker 1: to the program and just you know, supporting you and
24:50
Speaker 1: supporting the team. And mom is kind of the same way, right,
24:54
Speaker 1: Like she's gonna she's gonna have to step aside for
24:58
Speaker 1: one day, gonna, we're gonna have to put a birthd
25:00
Speaker 1: day back one day so that we can get up
25:01
Speaker 1: to Lakewood and compete with the kids. But yeah, I
25:05
Speaker 1: guess that's it. We will talk to you. I mean,
25:08
Speaker 1: I don't even know coach when we'll do the next time.
25:09
Speaker 1: We'll probably do it right before camp Bothlewood maybe.
25:11
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
25:13
Speaker 1: I'm Ryland Spencer. He's Dom Painter. You've been listening to
25:15
Speaker 1: episode of twenty seven of The Bothel Football Coach Show.
25:17
Speaker 1: We will talk to you in a few weeks and
25:19
Speaker 1: as always, at Goku's