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Coach Lance Mancuso talks Jeff Davis County Football · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, Bill you it okay.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve twenty three Back at the Refuge, Jay Quimberly glad
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  Speaker 2: to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: In the afternoon drive. We are powered by a ceasepire.
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  Speaker 2: We continue on the coaching caravan here Coach Lancemancuso, Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: Davis County coach. I appreciate you literally when I say,
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  Speaker 2: you jumped right in here with me. I just walked
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  Speaker 2: up and said it, coach, you want to do an
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  Speaker 2: interview and you looked at me like, yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I do so. Thank you, coach.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you doing no. I appreciate you extending the
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  Speaker 2: offer really great. And meantime we can talk about jeff
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  Speaker 2: Davis County. We really want to do that. Well, talk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about you know here, you know, talking
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  Speaker 2: to coaches. And I was telling some other coaches earlier
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  Speaker 2: I love this event because you see coaches in a
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  Speaker 2: way that you don't see them on Fridays, meaning Friday's.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are dolled in here.
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  Speaker 2: You see coaches laughing, You see coaches kind of cutting
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit, having a good time. The event
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  Speaker 2: here is equivalent I've said it all week long to
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  Speaker 2: a high school version of SEC Media Day is the
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  Speaker 2: word to park tons of people everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great event, Johnny and the m A. S does.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's it's awesome and I think all of
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  Speaker 2: us look forward to it every year. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: the it's the final time that we can kind of uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, relax and and and just kind of uh
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  Speaker 2: uh chew the fat with the rest of the coaches.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's a great opportunity for US coaches
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  Speaker 2: in the South to get an opportunity to talk with
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  Speaker 2: the coaches in the North because you know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: we don't see those guys, you know, very much, and
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  Speaker 2: when we do, it's generally in a in a competitive
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  Speaker 2: setting and things like that. So you know, to be
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  Speaker 2: able to come here and just kind of talk and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, talk about the things that are going on
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  Speaker 2: in North Mississippi compared to things that going on in
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  Speaker 2: South Mississippi, and you know, just kind of compare compare things,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, it's really an awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Event and uh, you know, first class. Uh. Every year
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  Speaker 1: when you look.
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  Speaker 2: At Jefferson Davis County and you'll have to refresh my
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  Speaker 2: memory here. Bassfeld to JDC how many years I've been
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  Speaker 2: now we consolidated in twenty and seventeen, seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're going on close seven eight years now, and.
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  Speaker 2: Of course thirty two years coaching nine state championships. I
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  Speaker 2: would I would ask you, does it ever get old?
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  Speaker 2: I'll assume if it got old and you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: doing this today, would you. No, it never gets old,
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  Speaker 2: you know it just you know, it's me and me
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  Speaker 2: and coach Dolan was just sitting there talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the back when we were young coaches and coming up
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  Speaker 2: here and all the things, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a part of life, you know, you know, it just
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  Speaker 2: it's in our blood and it's what we love to do.
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  Speaker 2: And you know we get just as excited now as
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  Speaker 2: it did thirty two years ago going out there for
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  Speaker 2: the first time. Talk a little bit about your football
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  Speaker 2: team this year and a little bit about you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jefferson Davis County. Now, you know, coming off a year
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  Speaker 2: where you guys went seven and five, I know you
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  Speaker 2: return a lot of guys this year, correct me if
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  Speaker 2: I'm wrong. After the reclass still Region six three eight, correct?
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  Speaker 1: Correct? Correct? You know this year's a new region year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, new.
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  Speaker 2: Classification and so forth, and so uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: got a really tough region in there with Riley and
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  Speaker 2: Seminary McGhee and McLaurin and and ourselves and so uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: Really gonna be tough for us.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know our our football team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so far, we've had a great summer, had great turnout.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the guys have really responded well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of years, you know, hasn't quite been
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  Speaker 2: up to the standard that that we like. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this group seems to be extremely hungry and focused.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, you know, try to recapture that that
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  Speaker 2: momentum that we had, you know for for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of years there moving into uh, this upcoming season.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about this team.
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  Speaker 2: Just maybe you know a player or two, uh that
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  Speaker 2: we may want to look out for as we know that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean talking to Ryan Ernest earlier, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: that I'll call it all the Pine Belt down there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: football down there is as good as it gets into
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in the state. And it got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: heck of a heck of a great ton of talent
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  Speaker 2: down there. It does you know, and and and we've
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  Speaker 2: got a few guys. You know, Julius Harper, who's committed
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  Speaker 2: the Louisiana Lafayette for US, is going to be an
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  Speaker 2: outstanding player for US.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: He can continue to grow and and get better for
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  Speaker 2: US on Uh you know, he'll play corner, he'll be
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's projected as a as a dB at
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana Lafayette and uh, but he'll also play on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball for US, you know. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our quarterback Elijah Fairley, you know, is returning.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's an awesome young man and uh he does
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  Speaker 2: a great job running our offense, and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: expect him to to really make strides this year and
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  Speaker 2: and and moving our offense up and down the field hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, upfront, we return all five of our
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen up front, so uh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We feel we feel really good.
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  Speaker 2: About those guys and and uh we feel like they
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  Speaker 2: gonna you know, hopefully be the be the uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: the nucleus and the strength of our football team.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we just uh we just hope that
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  Speaker 1: they can stay healthy as well.
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  Speaker 2: Having a conversation with lanceman Kusso had football coach Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: Davis County. When's Wensday edition of the program? Coach one
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  Speaker 2: more question, I'll get you on your way here. Thirty
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  Speaker 2: two years, Like we talked about nine championships, I know
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  Speaker 2: you want to add another one to that. Over that time,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen the state of Mississippi, you know, grow immensely,
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  Speaker 2: not just in population wise, but football wise.
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  Speaker 1: I whan you go back to what you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys were doing at bis Field, Uh, we'll going on
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  Speaker 2: at Panola, what's been going on at West Point, Forever Lewis? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there were pockets, but now it seems like the level
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  Speaker 2: of football regardles if it's one A to seven A,
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  Speaker 2: is as good as it's ever been in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, there's no doubt. And and you know, I attribute
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that to UH coaching.
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  Speaker 2: I attribute a lot of that to you know, just
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  Speaker 2: the resources that have been implemented into the state to
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  Speaker 2: to allow our kids to get better training, better exposure,
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  Speaker 2: all of those type of things. You know, We've always
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  Speaker 2: had great talent here, it's it's just been you know,
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  Speaker 2: with with the different things that have come into the
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  Speaker 2: state to be able to market our kids and get
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  Speaker 2: them out. And and you know, sky's the limit uh
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  Speaker 2: in Mississippi because you know, even though we're a small
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  Speaker 2: population state, uh, you know, pound for pound, we're as good.
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  Speaker 1: As the Florida's, the Georgia's, the Texas uh, player for player,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and another thing you know is is football still
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  Speaker 2: still king in Missipis. You know, it's so important. It's
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  Speaker 2: so important to our our communities, our towns, our our
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  Speaker 2: our young men, the older the guys that played and before.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I just think that Mississippi is just
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  Speaker 2: a special price when it comes to to breeding football. Well, coach,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for taking time today, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: jumping here with us.
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  Speaker 1: Best of luck this year, and.
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  Speaker 2: Look we'll visit again, soir, all right, thank you Lanceman
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  Speaker 2: Cuso on your radio, We got to take a time out.
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  Speaker 1: Back in a bit.