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Monday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 1: WKS Pickings Jackson, Hey, what do you say were singing driving?
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Speaker 2: Soon?
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Speaker 3: There's not gonna be any singing around here, just real
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Speaker 3: sport on the Afternoon Drive with Jay Quimberly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just gonna be sweets all right here right
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Speaker 4: It is the third day of August twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 4: Champion of Chair Sports, mabon on your radio on a Monday,
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Speaker 4: as we kick a new week off. We're officially into August,
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Speaker 4: which means we will play football this month. You'll get
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Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame game coming up on Thursday. Rumors
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Speaker 4: are the Panthers will start quarterback Kenny Pickett. If you care,
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Speaker 4: can't you picket for the Hall of Fame game versus
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Speaker 4: the Cardinals that'll be on Thursday. Of course, in this month,
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Speaker 4: we'll have high school football. The m AIS kicks off
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Speaker 4: here in a couple of weeks, actually next week, MHSA
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Speaker 4: kicks off preseason game coming up in two weeks, and
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Speaker 4: then week or four. I have a look at the calendar,
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Speaker 4: you're gonna be playing football, college football, and more. We're at
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Speaker 4: Pucket Today down at the Pucket Wolves down in Rankin County.
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Speaker 4: Murray off Misissippi State at three point thirty. Chris Landry
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Speaker 4: will break him up this week. Because of our schedule,
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Speaker 4: he'll go a segment at four thirty. We'll grab him
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Speaker 4: later on this week as well, bib, I know we spoke,
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Speaker 4: but I've got to say ask you I always do.
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Speaker 4: Is there anybody in the office, because there was one
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Speaker 4: person in the office when I left the building.
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Speaker 5: I saw two.
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Speaker 4: That's good, so the show two is better than none.
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Speaker 4: But now it's probably you and the boss and the
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Speaker 4: girl up front.
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Speaker 5: SEEA's out there too. Oh okay, well I didn't see
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Speaker 5: the boss. I'm sure he's up there doing whatever he does,
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Speaker 5: earning that earning the most pay in the whole building.
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Speaker 4: Bang up job.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, there's probably four. I guess there's four.
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Speaker 4: Of us, four of us. But you're doing good though, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: very good, very good. All right. So a lot happened
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Speaker 4: over the weekend with the NC double A and uh
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Speaker 4: there was a judge if you missed it, it was
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Speaker 4: fast and furious over the weekend, almost like the uh,
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Speaker 4: you know, illegal gun running at activity that was years
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Speaker 4: ago into Mexico. A judge in Colorado ruled that you
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Speaker 4: could come back and play. If you were twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 4: you could come back and play. They had to clarify this.
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Speaker 4: It caused uproar on social media all weekend long. People
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Speaker 4: were talking about well, if you didn't make an NFL
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Speaker 4: roster this year that you could probably come back to college.
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Speaker 4: We'll get into that. They've kind of simplified this thing down.
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Speaker 4: It's not nearly as much smoke as it as it
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Speaker 4: looked like, but we will get into that. College football
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Speaker 4: playoff predictions courtesy of Jdpakel on three dot com. He
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Speaker 4: has Oregon winning the state or the state championship the
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Speaker 4: national championship in college football. He has them beating Georgia
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Speaker 4: Oregon over Georgia as Georgia is the number one overall
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Speaker 4: seed in his playoff bracket, Oregon number two, and he
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Speaker 4: also has Ohio States is number three and the University
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Speaker 4: of Miami is number four. Other playoff participants. In JD.
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Speaker 4: Pikel's playoff bracket, he has an eight to nine matchup
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Speaker 4: usc traveling out to Texas. He has a five to
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Speaker 4: twelve matchup Texas Tech hosting UTSA. He has Notre Dame
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Speaker 4: as a seventh seed, hosting Indiana as a ten, and
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Speaker 4: he has Oklahoma as a six hosting LSU as an eleven.
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Speaker 4: He has Ole miss out of the playoffs. His final
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Speaker 4: four looks like this, Georgia Miami with Georgia moving on
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Speaker 4: to the national championship and Oregon taken on Oklahoma as
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Speaker 4: a sixth seed. But he has Oregon defeating Georgia for
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Speaker 4: his national championship. That is JD Paquel's official stance. I
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Speaker 4: have Texas beating Oregon for min Also, I thought this
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Speaker 4: was funny. Brett mc murphy and others, you know, after
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Speaker 4: last week in Kirk signaty at Indiana clowning basically the
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Speaker 4: SEC and all the little you know podshots the Big
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Speaker 4: Ten have taken about scheduling and everything else. Well, Indiana
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Speaker 4: has released their future non conference schedule and says this
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Speaker 4: is after the Notre Dame series was canceled. They were
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Speaker 4: supposed to play Notre Dame on a home and home
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Speaker 4: basis at some point that has not happened. Here is
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Speaker 4: Indiana's schedule through twenty twenty nine, and they've got two
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Speaker 4: games scheduled for twenty thirty. This year, their non conference
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Speaker 4: schedule will look like this. They'll play North Texas Howard
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Speaker 4: and Western Kentucky, North Texas, Howard and Western Kentucky. Next
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Speaker 4: year their non conference schedule, it's Kennesaw State Indiana State.
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Speaker 4: In UMass twenty twenty eight, they will play Austin, p
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Speaker 4: Eastern Michigan, and Miami of Ohio. And in twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: nine they'll play Ball State, Eastern Illinois and Western Kentucky.
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Speaker 4: They do have two games scheduled out, they need a
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Speaker 4: third for twenty thirty after the Notre Dame drop off
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Speaker 4: Indiana State and Delaware. They're not playing anybody, I mean,
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Speaker 4: and they're they're not hiding it, you know. Again they
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Speaker 4: look at their schedule and say, hey, we play a
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Speaker 4: tough conference schedule. We're not gonna you know, Scott Strickland
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Speaker 4: was like that when he was a Mississippi State. I
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Speaker 4: have no problem up with this, honestly. But when you're gonna,
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Speaker 4: you know, browbeat the other conference, the SEC about your
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Speaker 4: schedules and such, you may want to pause on that
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Speaker 4: if you have this kind of non conference schedule. Speaking
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Speaker 4: of Notre Dame, the USC Notre Dame rivalry is back.
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Speaker 4: They have rescheduled this now after it came off the
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Speaker 4: table after last year. They've rescheduled now in a four
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Speaker 4: game series beginning in the Coliseum in twenty thirty. So
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Speaker 4: it'll it'll vake you know, they'll take a vacation of
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Speaker 4: the sorts from this this matchup from now until twenty thirty,
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Speaker 4: twenty thirty, they'll resume, they'll play in the coliseum out
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Speaker 4: in LA and they'll go home and home for the
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Speaker 4: next four years after that twenty thirty, thirty one, thirty two,
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Speaker 4: and thirty three. Bret McMurphy reports Costco, one of Beaver's
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Speaker 4: favorite stores, is selling discounted tickets. I don't pretend to
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Speaker 4: know how they got these tickets or what the setup is,
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Speaker 4: but they're selling discounted tickets for South Carolina this year. Washington, Lewisville, Lewisville, Louisville, Twulane, FAU, Temple,
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Speaker 4: and Yukon home games plus other teams. Tickets vary between
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Speaker 4: eleven dollars and ninety nine cents all FAU home games
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Speaker 4: to that's the low end of two hundred and two
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Speaker 4: dollars in ninety nine cents. That's Indiana at Washington, Penn
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Speaker 4: State at Washington. Some include twenty dollars food and beverage
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Speaker 4: credits or parking credits as well. So I don't know
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Speaker 4: how Costco got tied into this. I don't know their
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Speaker 4: affiliation with these schools, but there you go. If you
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Speaker 4: want to look for some costco deals if you shop there.
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Speaker 4: Ross Jellinger earlier today an update on a timeline for
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Speaker 4: the Protect College Sports Act intel from Congressional staff meetings
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Speaker 4: today painting an incredibly busy final week for the Senate
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Speaker 4: before it's month long recess and could put in jeopardy
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Speaker 4: the bill reaching the floor for a full vote this week.
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Speaker 4: And there was an update twenty five minutes ago to
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Speaker 4: this saying the Senate Commerce Committee is planning to soon
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Speaker 4: release the final text of the Protect College Sports Act,
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Speaker 4: per a committee aide, and there remains hope that the
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Speaker 4: bill will be voted on this week. All right, So
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Speaker 4: we are at Pucket today. We're going to be at
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Speaker 4: Jackson Jackson Preplader on this week and Florence, and as
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Speaker 4: we continue to move around to high schools locally, we'll
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Speaker 4: have some other venues. We'll be visiting Pucket Wolves. They
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Speaker 4: are a two A school and when you start looking
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Speaker 4: at their football program over the history and life of
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Speaker 4: this program, this is a history rich program here at Puckett.
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Speaker 4: This is a program that has won three state championships
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Speaker 4: all past twenty the year two thousand won a state
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Speaker 4: championship in football in two thousand and two, two thousand
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Speaker 4: and six, in two thousand and eight, they have multiple
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Speaker 4: district championships. Overall, they have a fifty eight percent win percentage.
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Speaker 4: For the entire life of this program, Puckett has won
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Speaker 4: four hundred and sixty six football games in the life
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Speaker 4: of this program, three hundred and forty three defeats in
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Speaker 4: eighteen ties. And you know, last year was not the
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Speaker 4: tope of year that this program is used to having.
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Speaker 4: They went one to nine. They're looking to bounce back
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Speaker 4: this year. But when you start looking at the numbers
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Speaker 4: of this program, this is a program down here in
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Speaker 4: this part of Rankin County that has had some monster decades.
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Speaker 4: When you go back and look in the eighties, Puckett
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Speaker 4: went eighty five and twenty four through the entire eighties,
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Speaker 4: that's nineteen eighty to eighty nine, slipped in the nineties,
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Speaker 4: came back in the two thousands. Two thousand to two
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Speaker 4: thousand and nine, they won one hundred and twelve football
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Speaker 4: games in high school football. I lost fifteen fifteen losses
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Speaker 4: in nine years twenty ten to twenty nineteen, almost a
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Speaker 4: five hundred program, fifty nine and fifty three, and then
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty to twenty twenty. You know, up to twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty six, they're thirty one and thirty one. But this
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Speaker 4: is a very proud program. Again, ninety four seasons that
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Speaker 4: they have played. This will be the ninety fifth in
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Speaker 4: the history of the program. They've had forty eight winning
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Speaker 4: seasons and they've also had some big time winning streaks
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Speaker 4: for this program as well. So we'll continue to highlight
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Speaker 4: Pucket today. We'll have several guests coming in. David Murray
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Speaker 4: will join us at three thirty. We'll talk Mississippi State football.
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Speaker 4: Also Chris Landry National College Football. Maybe some NFL will
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Speaker 4: Taking you through your Monday. We are brought to you
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Speaker 4: by the Missisippi High School Activities Association. The MHSA officially
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Speaker 4: become official today. Got to m I s s HSA
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Speaker 4: any sport here in the state of Mississippi, make sure
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Speaker 4: zero zero from officials to umpires. If you want to
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Speaker 4: it all at the MHSAA. We're down in Pucket today.
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Speaker 4: Glad to be on your radio. It's Wolve's day on
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Speaker 4: your radio the Pucket Wolves and kicking us off today
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Speaker 4: here at Puckett is coach Georgia Wilson, and she is
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Speaker 4: the head softball coach here at Puckett. They went thirty
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Speaker 4: one and six last year, about out in the third round.
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Speaker 4: They got nine girls coming back. This is going to
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Speaker 4: be a big time program this year. Coach Wilson, how
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Speaker 4: are you I'm good. How are you good? I appreciate
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Speaker 4: you take some time. Let's see. I believe you've told
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Speaker 4: me ten years here at Pucket. You're from Sturgis up
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Speaker 4: there in the close. Is that considered Golden Triangle?
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Speaker 7: It is?
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Speaker 4: It is? You know, it's amazing and we've done a
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Speaker 4: lot of shows up there over the years. When you
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Speaker 4: start talking names like Startville and West Point two, Pulo Columbus,
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Speaker 4: I know you've been down here now for a decade,
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Speaker 4: but talk a little bit about athletes Lewisville just in
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Speaker 4: that whole part of the world. Football obviously is going
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Speaker 4: to be king. But when you start talking about other sports,
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of good athletes.
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Speaker 7: In the gold Triangle, there definitely are.
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Speaker 4: So let's talk a little bit about Pucket. You've been
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Speaker 4: here for ten years. You said you came North Mississippi,
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Speaker 4: this part of Rankin County. We were talking about the
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Speaker 4: rooftops that's going up out here. There's a lot of
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Speaker 4: homes out here. Just talk about the growth and kind
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Speaker 4: of what Pucket, you know, means to you in ten years.
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Speaker 4: Obviously you like it here.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 7: I like it a lot. It's changed a lot since
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Speaker 7: I've started here, their neighborhoods that are growing and built
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Speaker 7: being built, their houses being built on the side of
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Speaker 7: the road that weren't here before. There's a lot of
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Speaker 7: trees before. The school itself has changed. You know, you
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Speaker 7: used to drive through this driveway right here, and now
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Speaker 7: we have a building here, so it's changed a lot.
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Speaker 4: It has. And you know you talk about the facilities,
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Speaker 4: you look around, not just Pucket, but the Rankin County
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Speaker 4: school district every and a lot of people may not
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Speaker 4: know this. It's outside Rankin County. I know they're putting
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Speaker 4: turf on your football field right now. They just put
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Speaker 4: turf I believe on mclauren Piska every facility and I
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Speaker 4: don't know if does that includes softball and baseball.
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Speaker 7: They say that we'll get it eventually, So.
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Speaker 4: Can you man? I mean, I know I was telling uh,
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Speaker 4: I believe it was the principal here when he pulled in.
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Speaker 4: I never would have dreamed today where you just saw
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Speaker 4: turf fields all through Ranking County, right, But that's where
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Speaker 4: we are. That is so when you look at softball, uh,
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Speaker 4: we talked to a lot of softball coaches. Just the
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Speaker 4: growth of the game in the state of Mississippi. Talk
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Speaker 4: a little bit about that what you've seen with it,
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Speaker 4: because it is I mean, you go to the state championships, uh,
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Speaker 4: you know in this in the spring, it's packed cole'ses.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you come here, it's packed. You go to Northwest,
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Speaker 4: frank and Brandon, wherever it is. People love girl softball,
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Speaker 4: they do.
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Speaker 7: It's grown a lot. Used to, you know, you just
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Speaker 7: had rec ball and then once you were finished with
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Speaker 7: sixth grade you started in junior high ball. But now
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Speaker 7: it's really grown because of travel ball. A lot of kids,
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Speaker 7: you know, instead of playing rec ball, they started out
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Speaker 7: in travel ball and six you and they've played from then,
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Speaker 7: you know, until they get to the high school level.
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Speaker 7: It's really helped elevate the game a lot. I think
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Speaker 7: it's made you know, all these baseball dads that thought
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Speaker 7: they wanted sons and to play baseball, and now they
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Speaker 7: have daughters that play softball and they love it. They
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Speaker 7: love it more than baseball. It's a quick game, you know,
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Speaker 7: it's a lot of strategy to it. But it's I mean,
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Speaker 7: it's grown a lot.
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Speaker 4: But the dads could be a problem too, right. We
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Speaker 4: always joke about that. Yeah, we joke about that we're
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Speaker 4: visiting with Georgia Wilson. She's the head basket I's gonna
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Speaker 4: be softball coach here at Pucket. Monday edition of your program,
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Speaker 4: thirty one and six. That's that's nothing to sneeze that.
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Speaker 4: Talk a little bit about this team. You said there's
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Speaker 4: gonna be a lot of pressure on y'all this year.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 7: I have the same team returning, you know, and so
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Speaker 7: that does put a lot of pressure on. There was
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Speaker 7: pressure last year because everybody thought we should be there playing,
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Speaker 7: you know, for it. But this year coming back, you know,
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Speaker 7: I've seen a lot of growth in them from the
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Speaker 7: fall last year until the last game we played, and
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Speaker 7: they're hungry for it and they want it so anything
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Speaker 7: that I asked them to do, they do it, whether
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Speaker 7: it's you know, today we maxed out in the weight
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Speaker 7: room and things like that. There was no complaining. They
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Speaker 7: got after it, you know, and got the job done.
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Speaker 7: Whatever I asked them to do on the field, they
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Speaker 7: do it a hundred percent. I think they want it
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Speaker 7: just as bad as I want it, and they know
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Speaker 7: that it's right there. We just have to do the
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Speaker 7: small things to get it done.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 4: Talk about the challenges or maybe not of coaching at
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Speaker 4: a place like Puckett. What I mean is like a
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Speaker 4: two way school. Obviously not as many kids as you
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Speaker 4: move up the road, the five and six a's, but
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Speaker 4: the passion here I mean I went through earlier was
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Speaker 4: looking at the history of this football program. It's a
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Speaker 4: proud program, I mean softball. Yeah, it's a people here.
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Speaker 4: I mean, this is a proud community. It's a proud school,
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Speaker 4: and there's been a lot of success here.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: It is one thing about coaching here, it is difficult
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Speaker 7: because it is such a small school. You have to
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Speaker 7: share all your athletes, and so I don't get all
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Speaker 7: of my softball girls all year round. You know, some
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Speaker 7: of them play volleyball, cheer, basketball, archery, all the things,
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Speaker 7: and so some of them I don't get until we
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Speaker 7: start we're already playing games. But one thing about it
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Speaker 7: is the community is very supportive. So whatever we need,
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Speaker 7: they're there. I mean, the sands are packed in every
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Speaker 7: game that you come to, football, basketball, softball, baseball, you know,
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Speaker 7: they're packed out. You have all the old grandparents that
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Speaker 7: had their great grandkids that have already graduated and they
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Speaker 7: still come back and play. So being at a small school.
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Speaker 7: Is something really special about it?
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Speaker 4: What's the if there is one. What's the hardest position
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Speaker 4: in softball to coach?
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna say picture. I was a pitcher, and so
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Speaker 7: I'm hard on them because I expect not perfection, but
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Speaker 7: pretty close. So I'm hard on them, And I'm hard
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Speaker 7: on my catcher because I expect her to make my
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Speaker 7: picture look really good.
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Speaker 4: I could see that. And you know when you talk
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Speaker 4: about catching, I mean, that's that's you know, one of
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Speaker 4: those hot boxes right third base. And then of course
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Speaker 4: your catcher's got to be able to do a lot.
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Speaker 4: And then of course, you know, we talk about this too,
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Speaker 4: because we do the state championships in baseball. Like you
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Speaker 4: take Trustmark Park where has a backstop that's you know,
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Speaker 4: twenty feet back there, and every field is different. The catcher,
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Speaker 4: you know, pitcher obviously sets the tone, but the catcher
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Speaker 4: really sets the tone.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
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Speaker 4: So before we get you out of here, talk a
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Speaker 4: little bit about the you know, where you see softball
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Speaker 4: going in the next few years. I mean you talked
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Speaker 4: about travel ball. Obviously it's big on the state level.
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Speaker 4: I mean, regardless, and that's another thing softball right. I
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Speaker 4: mean football, you're kind of covered by your roster size, right.
16:52
Speaker 4: I mean you know if you got thirty kids versus
16:54
Speaker 4: one hundred, well, obviously that's not going to pan out,
16:56
Speaker 4: right if you play it softball, And I say this
16:58
Speaker 4: with baseball, if you've out the right squad, it no
17:01
Speaker 4: matter what classification you're.
17:02
Speaker 7: In, right, No, one hundred percent. I mean I think
17:05
Speaker 7: it Saw Paul is only going to continue to grow.
17:07
Speaker 7: You know, now we have the Pro League, so after
17:09
Speaker 7: college the girls can keep playing if they want to
17:11
Speaker 7: and things like that. So that's something to you and
17:13
Speaker 7: exciting for us. But I think it's only going to
17:15
Speaker 7: get bigger. I think kids are really buying in at
17:17
Speaker 7: a young age and they love it. They love the game,
17:20
Speaker 7: they love the strategy behind it, and they're getting better
17:22
Speaker 7: as they're younger. I mean, I've got seventh grader starting
17:25
Speaker 7: because they've played and they know the game and understand it,
17:28
Speaker 7: and they're able to play with eighteen year olds.
17:30
Speaker 4: So in your estimation is the ability. And we talk
17:34
Speaker 4: about this with baseball too. I've always said this, if
17:36
Speaker 4: you look out there and you see an eighth grader
17:38
Speaker 4: in baseball, you know that kid can play They're not
17:40
Speaker 4: just putting that kid out there for no reason. Is
17:42
Speaker 4: that because of the advent of travel ball that those
17:45
Speaker 4: kids can play at such a young age.
17:46
Speaker 7: It could be that. It could be, you know a
17:49
Speaker 7: lot of different things. I'm not saying if you only
17:51
Speaker 7: play reckball that you can't start them in seventh grade,
17:53
Speaker 7: for sure, but it it just has It just changes
17:57
Speaker 7: a lot. It just elevates the game because you're playing
17:59
Speaker 7: competitively constantly. You're not playing in games that you know
18:02
Speaker 7: you're gonna go and run rolling fifteen to nothing. You're
18:05
Speaker 7: playing you know, you have to have strategy, and you
18:07
Speaker 7: have to be able to play multiple different positions. That
18:09
Speaker 7: just gives them, you know, a chance to overcome adversity
18:12
Speaker 7: and learn at a young age how to do that.
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Speaker 4: She is the head softball coach here at Puckett, Georgia Wilson.
18:17
Speaker 4: She has been here ten years. They're coming back with
18:19
Speaker 4: a big team this year. Nine starters, thirty one and
18:21
Speaker 4: six season coach Wilson, thank you so much, look best
18:24
Speaker 4: of luck this year.
18:24
Speaker 7: Thank you. I appreciate it.
18:26
Speaker 4: That is Georgia Wilson, head softball coach here at Pucket.
18:28
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18:39
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18:41
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18:43
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18:47
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Speaker 9: I'm doing better today simply because I have somebody else's
21:24
Speaker 9: words to write rests than my own, which is a
21:28
Speaker 9: fixture of July. As coach Spurry always called it, talking season.
21:33
Speaker 9: Well now Missippi State coaches, the assistant coaches were talking
21:36
Speaker 9: today and I just finished transcribing interview with Special Teams
21:40
Speaker 9: coach Cliff Odom, who, as you might know, is a
21:43
Speaker 9: pretty happy band. When you feature one of the nation's
21:46
Speaker 9: best punters and a placekicker is going to come away
21:49
Speaker 9: with all the career scoring records to start off with.
21:51
Speaker 9: But as we know, he's got a few things to
21:54
Speaker 9: take care of and coverage that let us down last
21:56
Speaker 9: season there, but he's a good shape. But more importantly,
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Speaker 9: I certainly urge fans out there that your subscriber please
22:04
Speaker 9: look up. If you're not a subscriber, it's worth your
22:06
Speaker 9: time to read the Q TOA with Zach Barnett today.
22:09
Speaker 9: And yes, he addresses the obvious questions of is there
22:13
Speaker 9: anything awkward about his situation now that he's coming back
22:16
Speaker 9: to where he was a former head coach? Tourt for
22:18
Speaker 9: the guy who replaced him. He just laughed and said
22:21
Speaker 9: he hopes not, but he certainly doesn't think so at
22:23
Speaker 9: this point and makes it pretty clear he just wants
22:26
Speaker 9: to coach defense well this year, that's what exactly what
22:30
Speaker 9: Arnette gets to do.
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Speaker 4: David, let's go back to special teams. You know, we
22:34
Speaker 4: don't talk a lot of special teams, and always say
22:36
Speaker 4: this Special teams has talked about typically when it's not good,
22:40
Speaker 4: you know, if the punter's punting the football well as
22:42
Speaker 4: the placekickers, you know, putting them through the uprights, fans
22:44
Speaker 4: just kind of go on about their way. But we
22:46
Speaker 4: know how important that's. Well, talk about three phases of
22:49
Speaker 4: a football game. That's not just cliche. I mean, if
22:52
Speaker 4: you can't punt the football, or if you've got a
22:54
Speaker 4: guy who's inconsistent that causes problems, to have a guy
22:56
Speaker 4: that you know that can really get the football, flip
22:59
Speaker 4: the field on, you know, the punting units, that's a
23:01
Speaker 4: plus to have and have a guy because State and
23:04
Speaker 4: not just State, we know this around the Southeastern Conference.
23:07
Speaker 4: You're going to be in a one possession ball game.
23:09
Speaker 4: You're gonna need three before the half to be able
23:12
Speaker 4: to kick it and to punt it well. To have
23:15
Speaker 4: a unit like that, I mean, that's something that's really big.
23:17
Speaker 4: I don't think people need to underestimate.
23:19
Speaker 9: That not a bit. One interesting comment by old Him
23:22
Speaker 9: today too is that Ethan Pulliam, who I'm rather disappointed
23:27
Speaker 9: of my SEC peers for not naming him first team
23:30
Speaker 9: SEC punter in preseason, But that's okay, give him the
23:32
Speaker 9: nature to the voting and not shocked, just a little disappointed.
23:35
Speaker 9: He has a chance to more than prove that the
23:37
Speaker 9: regular season. Himself mentioned that Odam mentioned that where here's
23:42
Speaker 9: a guy that the first time he was out punting,
23:44
Speaker 9: he was lucky to get a hangtime just over three
23:46
Speaker 9: and a half seconds, and now just a week or
23:49
Speaker 9: so ago, he's averaging five seconds on his hang time
23:52
Speaker 9: and he's got the distance already. But here's the interesting
23:54
Speaker 9: thing to me too. He wants Pulliam punting in placement
23:59
Speaker 9: situation where it takes all the pressure off the return team.
24:04
Speaker 9: I know it's a little bit of exaggeration, not like
24:06
Speaker 9: you can just not send anybody down there, but he
24:09
Speaker 9: wants to make the sideline the best friend. Of course,
24:12
Speaker 9: fans recall last year when one punt went a little
24:15
Speaker 9: too far down the sideline and changed an entire game
24:17
Speaker 9: with Texas in that regard, but that's one thing that
24:21
Speaker 9: when you have a guy like Pulliam, you can get
24:23
Speaker 9: done fairy. Of course, Kyle Ferry he will. He's good, reliable,
24:27
Speaker 9: He's shown he's got the leg fifty five or so
24:29
Speaker 9: if he really needs it there. He just wanted him
24:32
Speaker 9: to be somebody that you can say, okay, we've crossed
24:34
Speaker 9: the fifty yard line. Having Kyle Ferry makes our second
24:37
Speaker 9: and third down play call decisions a little bit easier
24:41
Speaker 9: having it in the back. To me, the other part
24:43
Speaker 9: is the return game, and as you well know, Jake
24:47
Speaker 9: College football has done just about everything you can to
24:49
Speaker 9: take returns out of the game as long as it's
24:52
Speaker 9: not a mishit or a mislocation. But he said that's
24:56
Speaker 9: the key to having guy like Edthie Evans return. He says, Yeah,
24:59
Speaker 9: most of the time, it's gonna be a hang time,
25:00
Speaker 9: it's going to be a catch, hit, fair catch it
25:02
Speaker 9: secure it, he said. But if you see it, if
25:05
Speaker 9: you think it's there, if you recognize it, makes something
25:08
Speaker 9: happen with it. So I expect specialties to make a
25:11
Speaker 9: pretty big improvement this year in that regard.
25:15
Speaker 4: Visiting with David Murray Jean's page two four seven sports
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Speaker 4: dot Com talking in Missisippi State is they get ready
25:19
Speaker 4: to open camp talking special teams. So we moved through
25:22
Speaker 4: a Monday. Yeah, I mean, David, the right guy has
25:25
Speaker 4: to be back in return. I've always said this. If
25:27
Speaker 4: you get and you see this at all levels, I
25:29
Speaker 4: mean you see it even sometimes in the National Football League.
25:31
Speaker 4: If a guy, for instance, is posted up on says
25:34
Speaker 4: on twenty and he's waiting for a you know, a
25:36
Speaker 4: punt return. If if the ball is kicked behind him,
25:39
Speaker 4: sometimes he lets it go when he shouldn't. The in
25:41
Speaker 4: the coverage team will down it inside the ten or
25:45
Speaker 4: if he could, you know, maybe make a hard fair
25:47
Speaker 4: catch that saves you ten yards. Having the right guy
25:51
Speaker 4: back there with the right mental fortitude to know what
25:53
Speaker 4: to do, I think is a premium in all levels
25:55
Speaker 4: of football.
25:57
Speaker 9: Here's that, and that's especially in the punting game because
25:59
Speaker 9: more can go wrong in the punting game and anything there.
26:02
Speaker 9: And by the way, Otum does a good job to
26:04
Speaker 9: explaining how a new rule about punt protection is going
26:07
Speaker 9: to make it much more difficult for protect teams to
26:10
Speaker 9: hide defenders or blockers things like that. He expects to
26:13
Speaker 9: see more rush packages this year from everybody, including his
26:17
Speaker 9: own teams there as well. And oh, by the way,
26:20
Speaker 9: I also mentioned too that among the possible return men,
26:24
Speaker 9: he's got the fastest kid in the country and Camden
26:26
Speaker 9: kpe Art the true freshman coming in. So that's something
26:29
Speaker 9: that I can't wait to see get him on the
26:31
Speaker 9: practice field there. What I really can't wait though, for
26:34
Speaker 9: the defensive side, is just to see how Zach and
26:36
Speaker 9: the team are working together. Zach had a great interview
26:39
Speaker 9: today and you can clearly understand he's happy about this bunch.
26:44
Speaker 4: Uh.
26:45
Speaker 9: By the way, he was asked if State intends to
26:47
Speaker 9: add anybody late now that you get that extra fifth
26:50
Speaker 9: year of eligibility. He would not address that directly. He said,
26:53
Speaker 9: that's up to Jeff Levy and Mark Vohler in the GM.
26:57
Speaker 9: As you know, there are two Bulldogs who have been
27:00
Speaker 9: chance to take advantage of fifty year what I'm being
27:03
Speaker 9: last year's leading tackle to Jeron Manning. We hope to
27:07
Speaker 9: know something about that with them next day or so,
27:10
Speaker 9: because if you get him back in that defensive secondary, well,
27:13
Speaker 9: I think Arnett's job just got even better and easier.
27:17
Speaker 9: Plugging here in alongside Isaac Smith. Of course, with now
27:20
Speaker 9: Jet Jefferson Kelly Jones at corners, I'm expecting the secondary
27:25
Speaker 9: to go for the unit that in recent years had
27:27
Speaker 9: just struggled to defend the SEC passers to be a
27:30
Speaker 9: really positive streak for the entire defense.
27:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, David, you're talking about the ruling over the weekend,
27:36
Speaker 4: and let's kind of clarify that for those that maybe
27:38
Speaker 4: didn't see it. You know, obviously a judge correct me
27:41
Speaker 4: if I'm wrong. I believe it was in Colorado. You know,
27:43
Speaker 4: role that how you could come back if you were
27:45
Speaker 4: a fifth year to twenty twenty two and a lot
27:47
Speaker 4: of people freaked out and thought, oh gosh, this is
27:49
Speaker 4: going to open up another Pandora's box on transfers. But
27:52
Speaker 4: I think if I'm correct on this, you can only
27:54
Speaker 4: play for the school that you were previously playing for,
27:57
Speaker 4: which is what you were referencing Mississippi Sate players.
27:59
Speaker 9: Is that, well, there's some of that, But what if
28:02
Speaker 9: you were signed off season as well, Like you know
28:05
Speaker 9: the lineman Brandon Snae that State signed and turned out
28:08
Speaker 9: he was ineligible anyway because he was ruled to have
28:12
Speaker 9: used up a year. I don't think at this point
28:15
Speaker 9: State will try to get him back in because he'd
28:17
Speaker 9: simply be a depth beast at tackle, not a contributor,
28:20
Speaker 9: drawing banning definitely, but without being the old guy ranting
28:24
Speaker 9: at clouds on this. I'm ready for this to get
28:27
Speaker 9: over with. I mean, how simple can it be to
28:31
Speaker 9: say you got five years to play four That worked
28:34
Speaker 9: mighty fine before they started opening the floodgates to every
28:37
Speaker 9: conceivable imaginary transfer situation for quote unquote hardships or injuries
28:43
Speaker 9: as such, No, four years, there's plenty time to play football.
28:47
Speaker 9: Five years do it in And something that Denver gets
28:50
Speaker 9: discussed in my my friend Sheen Power for a Bobok
28:52
Speaker 9: basketball player out and lives out in Arizona. Now he's
28:56
Speaker 9: looking into this as well. We were kind of talking
28:58
Speaker 9: on social media. Does anybody ever consider what this does
29:01
Speaker 9: to the high school players when they're starting to not
29:04
Speaker 9: have as many spots left on college programs because now
29:07
Speaker 9: a bunch of guys have an extra fifth year. There
29:10
Speaker 9: are some people going to get left in the lurch
29:11
Speaker 9: here now, So let's just get this fixed. And by
29:14
Speaker 9: the way, I'm not even sure if this ruling is
29:16
Speaker 9: going to be practical and stand up once another court
29:19
Speaker 9: gets a hold of it. So it's why I would
29:22
Speaker 9: just prefer to let the whole thing go and just
29:24
Speaker 9: watch the one hundred and five guys you already got
29:26
Speaker 9: on roster practice football.
29:28
Speaker 4: Please, David, I'm right there with you. I'm right there
29:31
Speaker 4: with you and Shane Power on that. Let's let's get
29:33
Speaker 4: five to play four. Let's simplify this thing. Make sure
29:36
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Speaker 4: we are in football month that is here, David, thank
29:45
Speaker 4: you so much, and we do appreciate you that we'll
29:47
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Speaker 9: Shake them. Next time I talk to you, I should
29:51
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Speaker 8: I'm doing great.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate you jumping in here with us. All right, So
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Speaker 4: fourteen years you said, hey, look I took some time off.
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Speaker 4: Of course you were you and your family up at
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32:42
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Speaker 8: Yeah, So I graduated from Ackerman High School way back
32:50
Speaker 8: in two thousand and three. So I played basketball in
32:53
Speaker 8: college for Blue Mountain, So that North Mississippi area is
32:57
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Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting that North Mississippi area, especially when
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33:10
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33:14
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33:18
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33:24
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33:26
Speaker 4: goes on up there? I mean, it's amazing when you
33:29
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33:33
Speaker 4: see because you get to the Big House and they
33:35
Speaker 4: just pour in and that place is packed regardless of
33:38
Speaker 4: who it is.
33:38
Speaker 8: Yeah, they start playing basketball there when they walk. I mean,
33:41
Speaker 8: you know, they come out of the womb with basketball,
33:44
Speaker 8: I believe, uh. And they just know the game. They
33:46
Speaker 8: have a very high iq of the game. So it
33:50
Speaker 8: allows them to do a lot on offense that you know,
33:53
Speaker 8: other schools just don't do because we don't start basketball
33:57
Speaker 8: at such an early age. I think that's difference.
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Speaker 4: And of course it's it's almost, you know, kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 4: if you're here, you're gonna do a couple of things,
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Speaker 4: and one of them is gonna be basketball.
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Speaker 8: Everybody plays basketball, they have homecoming around basketball. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 8: that makes a big difference.
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Speaker 4: So take us through. You said you took some time off, said, hey,
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Speaker 4: look I had to you know, kind of get out
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Speaker 4: of the game. That had kind of reset here. What
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Speaker 4: made Pucket right for you to come here now and
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Speaker 4: leave North Mississippi.
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Speaker 8: Well, Pucket has a lot of qualities of some North
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Speaker 8: Mississippi schools.
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Speaker 7: It's a small community.
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Speaker 8: They love sports, and they highlight girls sports. That's important
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Speaker 8: to me as as a female coach. And then I
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Speaker 8: also have a daughter that's going into eighth grade and
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Speaker 8: I would love the opportunity to coach her. I wasn't
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Speaker 8: sure that I was going to be able to coach her,
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Speaker 8: but as she's gotten older, I think that that won't
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Speaker 8: be an issue. And she's she's into athletics and sports,
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Speaker 8: she's a multi sport athlete. So it made sense for
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Speaker 8: both of us to make this move here to Pucket.
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Speaker 4: Looking at last year, of course, you weren't here sixteen
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Speaker 4: to ten overall kind of took it on the chin
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Speaker 4: in the district. But you know, looks like there's some
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Speaker 4: pieces to work with. Just when you look at this team,
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Speaker 4: kind of take us through your philosophy of basketball, bringing
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Speaker 4: some of those roots from North Mississippi, bringing them down
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Speaker 4: here to rankin county.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, So just playing fundamental, smart basketball is what our
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Speaker 8: goal is going to be this year. We're going to
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Speaker 8: be young. I think they had some seniors last year
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Speaker 8: to help them a little bit, but I will have
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Speaker 8: I will have no seniors this year, only two juniors
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Speaker 8: and a load of eighth graders. So while that may be,
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Speaker 8: you know, a rebuilding year is going to be vital
35:35
Speaker 8: for the next few years to get us where we
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Speaker 8: need to be. I think I came in at a
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Speaker 8: good time with a lot of young athletes to get
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Speaker 8: us back on the court and get us competing at
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Speaker 8: a higher level.
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Speaker 4: We're visiting with a coach, Mandy Jewels. She's the new
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Speaker 4: head basketball coach on the girls here at Pucket Monday
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Speaker 4: edition of your program. You know, when you start talking fundamentals,
35:54
Speaker 4: we throw out buzzwords right in sports a lot. You know,
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Speaker 4: we throw out mentals, we throw out culture and all
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Speaker 4: this stuff, but a lot of that actually matters. It
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Speaker 4: really does fundamentals in basketball. We sometimes see that kind
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Speaker 4: of gone to the wayside.
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Speaker 8: Don't we Absolutely. I told my girls today, you know,
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Speaker 8: the most important thing on the court is the basketball.
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Speaker 8: Start there. Ball handling is going to be extremely important.
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Speaker 8: If we can't handle the ball, we're gonna have a
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Speaker 8: hard time. And that's about as fundamental as you can get.
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Speaker 4: No, it is, And and how do you teach? And
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Speaker 4: some some coaches get it. I mean you go to
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Speaker 4: you know, you get up around Philadelphia and you see
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Speaker 4: the way some of those girls play off the reservation. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: North Mississippi, Chalktaw County very very tough, discipline defensive teams.
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Speaker 4: But then you see a lot of teams that you know,
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Speaker 4: they kind of throw caution to the win on defense.
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Speaker 4: They want to play offense and they want to run
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Speaker 4: the court. How do you teach defense in a in
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Speaker 4: an era where, let's be honest, a lot of kids
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Speaker 4: are soft? I mean right, I mean I got three
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Speaker 4: and I can tell you two of the three are soft.
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Speaker 4: So how do you teach it in today's today's climate?
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Speaker 8: So today we just started practicing. I just broke it down.
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Speaker 8: I told them, I said, look, we're gonna break this
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Speaker 8: into bite sized pieces. If you can do this part right,
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Speaker 8: when we put it all together, it's gonna come together.
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Speaker 8: You're gonna look like a basketball team. You're gonna look
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Speaker 8: like you know what you're doing. But just breaking it
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Speaker 8: down in those small pieces, learning how to block out.
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Speaker 8: If you can block out and block out, drill and
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Speaker 8: we do it every day, they're gonna do it in
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Speaker 8: a game. Just teaching them how to be tough, little
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Speaker 8: by little is a big part of how we're gonna
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Speaker 8: play defense.
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Speaker 4: And then having somebody that understands, like the value of
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Speaker 4: just what you said, blocking out, getting rebounds, playing quality defense.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think if you find teams that can
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Speaker 4: do that, yeah, the shooting comes and goes, but defense
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Speaker 4: and rebounding will keep you I would think in most games.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, And you know defense creates offense. So we're
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Speaker 8: working on defense, defense, defense, ball handling, and learning how
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Speaker 8: to run a fast break. If we can create turnovers.
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Speaker 8: You know, I don't want to spend a lot of
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Speaker 8: time set the ball up if I don't have to.
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Speaker 8: Let's learn how to push the ball down the court
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Speaker 8: and score quick, especially with these young players. You know,
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Speaker 8: if you get them in a half court setting at
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Speaker 8: a very young age, you got a lot of room
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Speaker 8: for air.
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Speaker 4: We got about a minute left here. Take us through
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Speaker 4: kind of what your schedules like. I know it's summertime
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Speaker 4: and as we were talking some other coaches, I know,
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Speaker 4: smaller populated school, which means you're gonna have girls that
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Speaker 4: are doing multiple sports. But take us through what the
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Speaker 4: next few months looks like before you guys hit practice.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so we're just doing a little in school practice
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Speaker 8: when I have them, Like I said, I'm breaking everything
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Speaker 8: down into very small bites, so small bites, and then
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Speaker 8: when I get them, we can put it all together
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Speaker 8: and hopefully look like a basketball team.
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Speaker 4: She's Mandy Jewel, Newhead's basketball coach here on the girls
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Speaker 4: side here at Pucket. This is year number fourteen for her.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us. Bestaluct this year.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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