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The Elwood Panthers Report (Guests: Ryan VanSkyock, Cam Gallegos & Ethan Casas, 2.145.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, Elwood Panther fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for this week's edition of the Elwood Panther Report, this week with Ryan Vanskyak as always, and we were also joined by seniors Ethan Cases and Cam Galajos.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: were Elwood Panthers.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: For a good chunk of my life, Elwood Panther basketball was my number one sports love.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This year's Elwood Panthers seemed to be bringing back some of that love.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: In fact, I was in Indiana School for the Deaf on Tuesday night and sat close to a child who actually reminded me of me when I was a child into every single play.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All I wanted out of life was for the Elwood Panthers to win the next basketball game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And when I was his age, that didn't happen very often.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Then when I got a little older coaches like John Hobbes and John Hamilton turned the program into a winner most of the time, at least competitive with the best teams in town that started with Steve Himbry and Jamie Wetstone, then the great 1987 class of Trent Hicks, Matt John,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And Troy Hicks was also on that team, of course.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Trent and Troy, the sons of the great Rod Hicks.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Before the recorder started on this upcoming interview, I was talking with Ethan and Cam about the last time Elwood won a sectional championship, which of course was 1960.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And Cam mentioned the great Rod Hicks.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Elwood basketball has a lot of great history.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: produced three players at Purdue in a five-year span.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So much great Elwood basketball history that we will get to on the Elwood Panther Report throughout the year.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But for now let's talk about the history that this year's team is making.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The Panthers are above five hundred at six and five for the first time since the 2013
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  [SPEAKER_03]: after beating Sheridan on January 22nd, 2014.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This year's team is looking to go above 500 for the first time since that team and it looked like they are quite capable of doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I would have went one and one since we lasted a, and I would pan the report.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And truthfully, it was not a great week, but,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The Panthers did leave Indiana School for the death with a 45 to 40 win on Tuesday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The Panthers host six and six Alexander on Friday, a game that Cam says he wants to win more than any during the regular season.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The Panthers 36 to 34 win over Alexandria two years ago was the biggest in the short tenure
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  [SPEAKER_03]: and he sure would like to repeat that on Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's the only game coming up in the next week for the Panthers.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They are at Mrs. Sinowaw on January 23rd and at Franklin on January 30th.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're at Hamilton on February 3rd.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Friday's game against Alexander is Elwood's last until February 5th when Tri Central comes to town.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to Cam and Ethan and Coach Vanskyak, want to tell you what's coming up at the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, we will have a full recap of Elwood's game against Alexandria on Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But Elwood Panthers coverage is not all we have.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We also are covering Frank Dins, Boys Basketball Team and trying to get these podcasts going all around Central Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We also have weekly reports on the Pacer's Colts Fever IU Purdue and Indicar.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We also have the College Football Report, the College Football Report, and the IU Report will have National Championship Preview podcast coming up in the next couple of days.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: A little later Thursday, we will release our Colts Report for the week.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Basically, Monday is the Pacer's Report.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Tuesday is the IU Report Wednesday, the Purdue Report.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thursday is the Culture Report.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And as we get closer to the seasons, we will have weekly fever reports with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin and IndyCar reports with Elijah Poe.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a great lineup.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna love it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Please come join us, subscribe, like, and do all of that stuff for us.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Please, if you'd like to see us continue to do these podcasts.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for Ryan Vanskyok, Cam Galajos, and Ethan Cases.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Back here on the Central Indiana Sports Report for the Elwood Panthers Report with Head Coach Ryan Vanskyok here with a couple of his seniors, Cam Galajos, and Ethan Cases here to talk about the Elwood Panthers 6 and 5 now coach.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm proud of the kids.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We look back and there's a few games that we'd like to have back, but our goal and main objective is to have a winning season, which has been 10-11-12 years since that's happened.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the main goal is to go compete in one of the sectionals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We look back the births game we blew it, but if it helped us make us better and Made us appreciate how little details that we need to focus on and be good at to have a chance to win a sectional And if all that helps us improve towards that main goal then it's all worth it So we're happy we're at we're not satisfied where we're at And we're going to strive to continue keep getting better and our main job is to go win a sectional and go be Alex injury on Friday
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We want to beat Miss and all.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We want to be frank and we want to win three C.O.C.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: games in a row here.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Probably your biggest win since you've been here was against Alexander.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This is probably a little better Alexandria team, but how big would it be to be able to get a big rivalry victory on your home?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We look back two years ago.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That game was unbelievable.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was basically a soldout crowd for that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The kids did a tremendous job of just dictating the tempo, playing slower,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to do the same thing, this team's really athletic, really quick.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We got to take care of the basketball, we know they're going to pressure us for 32 minutes, they're going to pressure us for 90 feet, and we feel like if we can handle the pressure and slow down the game a little bit and dictate that tempo, we won't have a chance.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So the Madison Grant was a great win for us, hadn't happened since like 2012, 13.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: These kids are doing a lot of things special.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is just four year four of the rebuild People I don't know before I came in they want three games and four years or five years I mean, that's just crazy when you think about so it's part of your remarkable what these kids have done To get us back on the map and we're gonna continue to keep getting better and better and continue to keep building our program
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, first before we meet Cam and Ethan, tell me about your senior class in general and basically what's it's what's special about this class?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, first off, I love all these kids of death like my own kids.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're outstanding kids.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Now we'll tell you, I've lost a lot of hair of coaching in the last four years.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I do have a little trouble listening like my own kids, but at the end of the day, their kids that love basketball and one thing I could say is I never had to worry about
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They show up in the summer, they show up in spring, they show up in the fall.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You just always see them in the basketball, always wanting to play.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And for a coach, man, that just meant a lot that these kids love basketball so much.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a really hard nose coach.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I get after them a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's times that they're probably not happy with me, but then to the day, I think they know that I have the best interests and heart with them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And what I like about them is they just come in and compete.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They play as hard as it can.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I've had a few people say that the Madison Grand Game was the hardest I've seen Elwood team play for a long time, so we have our ups and downs, just like any family does, it's been a roller coaster, but I'm really happy to see those kids have a little success.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's all I've wanted in my life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Since I've been here is to have those kids have some success.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was sick of other area schools, other other schools, so you know what's sucked.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was not good in sports anymore, so I felt like we're not where we want to be, but we're trying to change that trajectory of how people feel about us and these kids have done a lot of that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, tell me a particular about Ethan and what he brings to your program.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Ethan's outstanding kid.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He has a motor that his continues to keep going.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's like the Energizer Bunder to me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You never have to worry about that kid coming in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to give you 110% effort every single play possession.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He has a great basketball mentality.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He likes to get after.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's one of our best defenders.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I give the kid a lot of credit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He was on a roller coaster last
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  [SPEAKER_02]: felt like he won where he needed to be, then maybe disagreed on some things and ended up not playing his last couple weeks of the season last year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And this is a lot about a kid.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a lot of kids that quit are like, I'm done with this sport and never come back.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And he had the different mentality.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He could work hard in the offseason.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I just shows a lot about his character.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's one of those
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  [SPEAKER_03]: uh... what kind of kiddie is i'm glad to be as coach and you describe your right or is it completely full of it hundred percent describe me uh... and tell me a little just a little about cam and then i'll talk to them for just a few minutes
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Cam, you will not find a greater kid.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's been through a lot in his life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been a emotional roller coaster, some parts of his life, but I would do anything in the world for that kid.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You talk about a kid that loads of basketballs came to lay host.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You never had to worry about that kid.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He'd been here four or five hours every night shooting, same thing with ease and always being here with him.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, I cannot be more happy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I just see him out here playing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's times I worried about fantasy going to make it all four years and every night I'm like worried the death because I want that kid to be so successful in his life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And there's times I feel like he gets down on himself and he don't understand how great of a kid he is.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and how special you are.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So to see him, what he's been through, what it continues to do every day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I have no doubt in his mind that he's going to be very successful in his life.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So again, I'm proud to coach these guys and be around these kids every day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They made me a better
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  [SPEAKER_02]: uh... they made me a better father with my own two kids so uh... again i appreciate everything that these seniors uh... have meant to me in my life alright first i'm gonna start with cam and i'm gonna apologize for mispronouncing your last name for two years of no people at the same last name who pronounce the differently
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I like to say on the podcast that I'm 95% of pronouncing last names, but I still mess them up.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So, Kim, tell me about your coach and what it's like to play for Coach Vanskag.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I love my coach, I want to have any other coach.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He, I think something that Coach Vita is really well as he really pushes us to our limit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He knows the potential this team has and he really holds a high expectations of this team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And another thing I really like about Coach Vita is that he treats us like his own kids and we're all family here and we have our ups and downs but we're all family and we get through it
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  [SPEAKER_03]: even tell me a little bit about the senior class and what makes it personality.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all get in our heads a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all have our, you know, what we think is right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we all just need to come together, you know, be on the same page instead of being off to the side or what you think.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We just all need to come together really.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Does it help as a team having a big senior class?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it really like, you feel comfortable out there because you've been out there with them for a while since we've all grown up together.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all push each other to our limits.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the one thing special for me with us in your classes, when you look at, I have only been here for four years, but you look at that, what is half the kids that these kids played with on middle school, don't finish out their high school career and they quit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you look at Jayden Mullins, senior year last year, he's only basketball player.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody else played,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: football program.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You have maybe three seniors because 12 of them quit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So to me, it's pretty special that these kids have stuck around.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The most seniors in sport is pretty remarkable to me when you look at where we're at, uh, playing with.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Last question for you, Ethan, and you could relax a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Tell me about Cam and what he brings to the team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Cam, he brings, um,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Say, getting everybody in the gym, pushing each other, like, pastor on it, he's like coach V, he gets everything out of you, and ever by now, and team, he brings energy for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm saying.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Cam, how do you feel about the six and five stars?
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I feel great about it.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think those losses, I think we really needed those losses because to me, they're not losses.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The reality checks, we live, we learn from them, and we move forward.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here, like I could care less about losing to Munty Burris.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: These are the games of matters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: CIC games, county games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those are the games that count, and that's what's gonna help us when a sectional championship.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'm going to ask a question, I'm going to like coach for this guy.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I could mix it if he wants, but which of your rivals do you want to beat the most?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I like.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I like Alexander.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And you don't care that you're playing him tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You want him to know that?
• 15:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: I want him to know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, I like all of it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Alexander they're pretty good team though, right?
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes, sir.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think um, the biggest thing is that we just kind of set the tempo like we did a couple years ago our biggest thing is that we had to set the tempo We can't let them get in our heads speed us up and a big the biggest thing is we can't get in our own heads We got to stake in troll when stuff goes and when hits the fan I should say we should have to stay calm and Keep moving forward turn over get the ball back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's mentality
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  [SPEAKER_03]: guys what kind of things would you like to accomplish for the rest of your senior year?
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I definitely want to beat more than one CIC team.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I definitely want to have a winning record.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: A man and I would really want that sexual championship.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have him once.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's 1960 and it'd be really nice to put a new year up on the wall.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Give this community some to really thrive off of and just show what great kids we have at L1.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Cam Ethan.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much for your time.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Look forward to covering you for the rest of the year and it's really nice to meet you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, sir.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for having us all.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks coach was really nice meeting your players and catching up with you again final word.
• 16:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: not just appreciate these kids have been through so much here at all with and just for somebody to come in there and recognize how great a kids they are.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the last four or five six years have not been where people think we should be like winning sexual championships and stuff but I tell you what we have great kids here.
• 16:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: We have kids that work extremely hard
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and he's the the proof is in the pudding for me when you go that many years without hardly winning and they come in and we I am very demanding this kids really work hard they're in here all the time and proof it in the pudding is those kids are hardworking kids they want to see this place be good
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think they've helped start building that foundation.
• 17:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been built for four years.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some people don't like to hear it, but to change a culture where Elwood is at is probably seven, eight years to really flip it, because it was so bad.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're in year four.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're starting to be some conferences.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're starting to be some rivals.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're starting to win games and sports.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Kudos to our kids, our kids are extremely hardworking kids and that battle every day.
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people have been through the losing from any other areas to go on.
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll think what stay around and Kudos to these kids to keep fighting and scrapping.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: The hard work is starting to fail.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much to Ryan, Cam, and Ethan for joining in the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 18:03
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• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: They are all great, you'll like them, trust me.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I guess it's possible that you won't like the other podcast after you did like this one, but really think that you probably will, we got lots of cool ones.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Bacers, coals, I, you, Purdue, IndyCar, NBA, NFL, college football, college basketball, we do all that stuff.
• 18:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Anything central Indian sports fans are talking about, and that's what we're talking about.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry about my rant, just waiting for the music game.
• 18:55
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