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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 175 - Britt Lentz Zoom Interview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Greetings and welcome into the What Come Preps Podcast. This is episode one seventy
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  five, a special zoom interview. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always
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  Tyler Anderson of Oh What Come Preps. Tyler, how are we doing?
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  Doing great? Spending a long time since we've done this, A lot of
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  things have happened, and of course these are always fun because we have a
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  special guest with this. Yeah, so long that I think the last time
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  I even spoke to this special guest was back on the field of Civic Stadium.
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  That's like the last time that we even were together, Tyler. I
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  mean, it's been a long time here. Yeah, we do have a
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  special guest, Tyler, and we've got a little bit of an intro here.
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  He is what Come Counties first ever two time All State running back and
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  probably the best baseball player to ever go to state as a javelin thrower.
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  Brit Lance. Hey, guys, how we doing today? I'm doing good?
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  I know. Tyler's all jacked up. He was all fired up getting
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  to getting to talk just anything right now, Like he's just happy to talk
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  anything. But we've got a lot of questions. We got a little bit
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  of a game that we're gonna play here in a minute. Tyler set us
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  up with some real good material here, because well, Tyler's got this new
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  thing going on called the Legacy Supporter that we'll get to here in a little
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  bit, but let's just say the first one that's coming out here. Yeah,
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  there's a lot of scrolling that is going to happen if people want to
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  read everything they can about the guy that we're talking to right now. So
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  let's get right into it. Britt, you played at Eastern Washington. If
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  it wasn't for Eastern do you have somewhere else? Like, where would you
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  have gone? What would you have done if you hadn't gone to play football
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  over there? I guess I I was gonna say at the Inferno, But
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  it wasn't even red turf at the time. No, it was grass at
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  the time. Yeah, you know there's a big story behind that. I
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  was going back to those days. I wasn't I was gonna be a U
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  dub Husky, you know, playing in Simple Night. My grandfather played there.
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  A lot of legacy there. I was going there right up to the
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  day before they could offer I got the call, uh, and they actually
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  pushed it back and said we're sorry because they're on sanctions at the time.
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  So due to sanctions, they dropped me the day before the offering could happen.
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  And you know back then how it was, it was they didn't offer
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  early. I mean, they waited till the last minute. Made it happen
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  in a whole bit. And it was the craziest thing because the UDUB actually
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  did me a favor though by by offering a preferred walk on, and then
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  they told everyone else in the state basically, look, we're offering him to
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  prefer lock. On the next day of basketball practice, Eastern showed up offered
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  me a four ride in its history since then, So I love. My
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  experience at Eastern was unbelievable. Yeah, I've been I've been out there a
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  lot. I think Eastern is one of those places that it's kind of special.
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  It's a lot of fun out there. Man. It's it's it's close
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  enough spook Can that you're kind of at the big city. But also it's
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  it's it's its own place, you know what I mean, It's its own
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  place and it's a lot of fun. Now, the current head coach over
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  there is a guy that you know, Coach Aaron Best. You were a
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  teammate of his. Are there any good Aaron Best stories that could maybe make
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  the guy blush? You don't, Having having watched him run around the field
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  on Friday night lights out there at camp in June, I don't know that
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  there's much that would make that guy blush. But got anything that you can
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  give us about Aaron Best? Well, you know, okay, I got
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  a couple of bestie stories. So one that shows up first day camp and
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  he used to drive a big truck, country truck, that kind of truck,
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  eachet about Baker High School and his license plate read I am Best.
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  That was his attitude from the game though. But against Meta Island, he
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  traded that truck in for a little scooter and he wrote, this little scooter
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  all around campus and here you have three hundred l ab right, a little
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  time little scooter. And he had like a helmet that looked like he was
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  a motorcycle game time helmet that had a hog on it. It was it
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  was I sweared two or three times between TJ and some of our other offensive
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  lineman they would steal that moped and hide it from him because they didn't they
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  didn't want him making the program look bad. And I mean really quickly too.
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  Before Tyler gets into this question, I have a I have a good
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  friend that said that he was like a senior maybe when you were a freshman.
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  His name's Dion Alexander, oh, linebacker, And I asked him,
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  I said, hey, we're going to be interviewing Brent Lenz here in a
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  little bit. You got anything I can use? It would make him uncomfortable,
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  he says. He says, uh, oh, he was a little
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  too young for me to really remember much. All I know is he thought
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  he was a pretty boy. Yeah, he was the starting SAM linebacker All
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  American. He was I mean talking about a class act, talking about a
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  heck of a football player, you know, to show us young guys the
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  right way to do it. And he was an amazing football player. Yeah.
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  Now he's actually a heck of a coach down at Mountain Home of High
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  School down in Tacoma, and they're doing some good. He and the head
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  coach, Keith Terry, they've been together for a little bit and he's it's
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  a tough situation at that school, but man, those guys are dedicated and
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  they work really hard for their kids and it's it's cool to see you know
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  what I mean, guys that were let's see. Maybe the best way to
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  say it is like guys that were a badass in college that are like kind
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  of softies now later on in life. You know what I mean. He's
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  a heck of a coach. Oh, that's for sure, Tyler. What
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  do you got? Well? Of course I like to talk about the nook
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  Sacks days and Brett we you and I have talked about this a little bit,
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  but you know, I think the world needs to hear it. Are
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  our little world of eight listeners or who however many we have? But double
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  digits Tyler? Oh, double digits. That's right. I'm sorry. Your
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  sophomore year, first game of the year, you're playing against me, RADI
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  who's loaded first play of the game from scrimmage because because ty Harrison probably kicked
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  it out of the end zone, so you got the ball at the twenty,
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  they hand the ball to you. What happened, Yeah, I tell
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  you, I ran for my life is what happened. Because that brilliant team
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  was good. I mean, Josh Lehman, they had some dudes on that
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  team and guys that I got to know really well later in life. But
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  yeah, luckily broke, I had a pretty darn good offensive line. Obviously
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  TJ was in there, and we had some other big hosses Mike Brevick and
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  a lot of those other guys, and you know, cut it back to
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  the right side, and pretty soon, thank god, my receivers could block
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  down field, because I think Ti Harrison ran me down not once but twice
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  in the same play. Business, I had good blocking because yeah, tis
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  a great guy too. That Bridiant team was one of the all time reading
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  greats, you know, so it was a ton of fun. Yeah,
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  it was that that team is and that was a year. You know,
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  I was a ball boy on the sideline, so I really got to finally
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  see it up close. And getting to see the film of that play was
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  really really cool years later after reading about it in the Herald um. And
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  then of course, and a Tim Tebow stole the kneel down from you because
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  you did that in the end zone way way before. He was like he
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  was like and elementary school and that happened. But uh, and then as
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  as you kept playing in high school, at what point did you realize you
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  probably knew you were going to play at the next level. But at what
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  point did you realize it's probably not going to be running back, It's going
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  to be a lineback. You know what's funny because going back to we talked
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  about earlier, the huski Is recruited me as a running back. They wanted
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  me as a fullback, and so I my plan was to play offense,
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  and then the minute Eastern came in, They're like, sorry, son,
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  you're a linebacker. And I said, hey, you know what, I'm
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  not great at catching the ball anyway, so I'll go playing on the defensive
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  side of the ball. And I absolutely loved it. Yeah, I mean
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  the set up, the scenario, the coaching staff they had there was unbelievable.
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  So it's kind of fun. You said fullback. I mean I don't
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  even know do they even use those anymore? I mean, yeah, right,
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  the position is that? Yeah, I mean I thought it was a
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  great position. I mean, as a as a lifelong Nebraska guy. You
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  can see it up there, I mean Macavicaser, I mean there were some
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  there's some some fullbacks that I loved. But um, when do you think
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  back to your time there at Knosack Valley, what was your favorite maybe,
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  like what is the place that when you saw it on the schedule and maybe
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  we're on the bus headed to a place, what was the favorite non Nooksack
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  Valley place to play a football game. That's funny, that goes really deep.
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  You know, we had a pretty good relationship, even though at the
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  time, you know, I got to know Bobby Luck and some of the
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  guys there, and they were a powerhouse and Bobby still holds records all over
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  the place in the state of Washington. And we got to go play at
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  Eatonville and they came here, got to play in the All State game together.
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  But even previously that I got to know him a little bit and I
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  loved it there. It was they treated us really really well for someone who,
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  let's be honest, they were for four years of the road, Tis
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  that right? They at least came close to playing in the state title game,
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  and for us, the way they treated us, it was. It
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  was a great place to play and a lot of good guys. That is
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  a really cool place, like the h I'm pretty sure it's the same exact
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  stadium and everything, because it looks like it's about one hundred and eighty years
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  old, but they it's it's one of the strangest stadiums. And maybe what
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  I'll do is, um, if I can find the picture I have of
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  it, I will I'll insert it here into the video. But and if
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  you're listening to the podcast, you can head over to I'm sure Tyler's got
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  it somewhere on walcom preps dot com. You can find the video. It's
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  on YouTube. But the actual stands are like offset, so the press box
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  and like the end of the stands is at like the twenty five yard line.
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  It's the weirdest setup I've ever seen for a home stands, Like,
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  I have no idea why it is so far offset. It's it's yeah,
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  it's one of the strangest things. Um, let's see here. Tyler sent
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  me a picture. Okay, he sent me a picture here, And if
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  I can remember how to do it really quickly, I'm gonna so what I'm
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  gonna do here, I'm gonna put the picture up. I'm gonna share it
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  with everybody right now and you'll see it here. And when you see it,
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  we just kind of want to get your what are your thoughts, what's
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  your ta on this pictures as it pops up here? Uh, let's see
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  it should be right now going up. Oh wow, yeah, I tell
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  you that was going into the senior year or the district ham book. We
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  we lost out that year. It was a harsh loss. We had some
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  things happening on our team with some mutual friends of ours Beween Tyler remind a
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  Baker transfer that ended up not playing in the district tournament. That really hurt
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  us, But we uh a ton of fun. The fact that we used
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  to all get to go to Mount Vernon and playing Mount Vernon like that back
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  in the day. That's one thing I really wish we got to do nowadays
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  because that was that was an amazing scenario. You know, get to if
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  you were the late game, the early game, the mid game, you
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  gotta watch everybody. And we just don't have that type of situation anymore.
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  Yeah, that old old gym is super cool too, Like yeah, yeah,
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  it's such a great I mean, Britain nailed it on the head.
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  That was especially like on that Saturday because it seemed like it was every night
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  it was it was the boys and the girls, and the boys and the
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  girls, and that Saturday would be a ton of games. And the way
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  they did it and it seemed like it was always kind of the same teams,
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  you know, the Walking County, the strength of the Walking County teams,
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  and then you'd see Kings and Belvie Christian and you know teams like that
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  and Cedarcrest. It was just every year. It's just I love that tournament.
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  It's such a great tournament. Well, so, Tyler, part of
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  the reason we're talking with Brent Lanz here today is because you've started a new
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  thing called the Legacy Supporter and this is I think a really cool kind of
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  like project, but also a way for people to support watcom preps and everything
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  that you do. Going back to twenty fourteen, Tire, you did the
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  Top five hundred countdown, which is still just mind blowing to me. I
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  mean, you and I every year we talk about the top one hundred and
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  that just is in insane amount of information and everything, and yet somehow you
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  did five hundred. Granted you didn't talk about it on a podcast, so
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  maybe it was a little bit different, but you told me Brent Lance was
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  number fifty nine in that one, but you also said he's number one in
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  your heart. Um, when it comes to supporter, Tyler, give everybody
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  a little bit of maybe the background of things, and and you know kind
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  of how you set this up, because what you told me is the once
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  he came up with the idea, the first person you talked to was was
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  brit Lens. Yeah. I just I was just you know, lyaying in
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  bed trying to think of I'm always trying to think of ways to grow walking
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  preps and just kind of do something new. You know, doing the podcast
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  is a great thing, and doing the top one hundred countdowns a great thing,
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  and there's always trying to think of something new. And I thought of
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  this. I was like, man, I have so much information about so
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  many of these athletes. This could be the stupidest idea in the world,
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  or this could be the greatest idea in the world. And I thought,
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  well, I'll get ahold of Brita and see what he thinks, just bounce
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  it off him. And it's just an idea that if you want to give
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  back to walk and preps, and basically it's you know, it's only five
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  bucks a month and you can set it up to do auto pay and just
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  forget about it, you know, a cup of coffee a month, and
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  and you know, when I talked to Burt about it. He was on
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  board. And the cool thing about it too, is that you can you
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  can get other people involved. If you want to pledge more money, give
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  me, give me a handful of athletes. And so, you know,
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  I called Burt about it and he sound like he was on board. Yeah.
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  I think it's a fabulous idea. I love it because there's a there's
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  a rich history here and some people know it. But going back in Walcom
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  County, you talk about the history going back from the old earlierly days of
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  the Iron Five and the history of the Sea Home. I mean, you've
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  got some history here in this in this county. It's unbelievable. And not
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  only that, but the athletes that have gone through it and what you have
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  done here with your knowledge, you know what I mean, and you're knowing
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  of of of that history is fabulous. And I love it because I've been
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  looking for a way and there's a lot of guys like me that they've been
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  looking ways to give back, you know, And like we kind of talked
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  about there, we do this exact same thing at Eastern. You know,
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  there's a group of us that have found a way and it's exactly the same
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  situation on a monthly basis. You know, it's it's not a giant amount
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  to everybody, but it all adds up when everyone jumps on board. And
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  the other piece to me that that I see this is that teams outside of
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  this country that are friends of ours, you know, the end of cortis
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  they wish that walcome breaths covered them, you know, these other schools that
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  are outside because like, we don't have that, you know, to the
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  level you know, I mean to the love they have it. They don't
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  have it to that level. And teams on the east side that I talk
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  to the same type of thing. And what you do gives back to this
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  community. And for me, it's a no brainer. I think for a
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  lot of people it's a no brainer. You have grandparents you know that now
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  of watching their grandkids, you know, and and to give I look at
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  it as a way as a lot of people will give this as a gift,
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  you know, as a gift of a way to to represent um,
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  you know, different different individuals throughout the time of of the Waking County League.
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  I'm super excited about it. I'm super excited about it. Yeah,
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  it's gonna it's gonna be really cool because it's gonna basically show like a Wikipedia
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  page of their career, like how like a Welcompedia page if you will.
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  But it's a lot Compedia that's Tyler. Yeah yeah, so uh, you
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  know, And it's just a lot of fun. And I love doing the
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  research, you know. Britt and I talked about like, but it's a
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  lot of work, you know, and I said, and I love it.
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  I grind, I can dig, I can find things, and and
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  once it's out there, it's out there, and it's just a really cool
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  deal. So I'm pretty excited about it. Tyler as somebody who for the
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  last thirteen years I covered the entire state. Yeah, obviously I'm not doing
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  it anymore, but I covered the entire state. And the thing that always
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  drew me to Walcom County is the amount of support that there was for you
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  and what you were doing. It was crazy, like I didn't even know
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  who you were. At first, I'm like, who is this Tyler Anderson
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  guy trying to add me on Facebook? And then I think it was christ
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  was like, oh, you would love this guy, trust me. He's
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  a nutcase just like you. And I'm like Okay, little did I know
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  you're even beyond me, Like you are just absolutely nuts about this stuff.
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  But I love I love people with passion and people that want to do high
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  school sports in general, because I just love high school sports so much.
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  My knowledge is one hundred percent football. As we start talking about things,
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  Tiler, and you're talking about, oh, basketball here, Like, is
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  basketball you know? Do you know every little thing about it? No?
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  But you know so much about football. And then when you add in the
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  basketball and the baseball and you're giving me track and field stuff at time and
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  softball and all these other sports, and I'm like, dude, how do
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  you do this? Well, part of the reason you're able to do it
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  is because you spend the time to do it. And that's where I think
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  something like this is so great because now this will allow you to put more
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  time and effort into things you know. And you and I'll talk more about
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  this as we get closer to the season on a couple of different podcasts,
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  but I think this is something that's gonna be really cool. I mean,
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  I'm excited for it. When you sent me BRIT's page, I was just
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  like, bro, first off, you're nuts, like you are nuts for
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  even having all of this information. Second off, this page is nuts because
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  it's like when you when you think about a Wikipedia page, this would be
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  like I don't know, uh one for like the White House that literally just
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  like scrolls and scrolls and scrolls and scrolls. As I kept going, I
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  was like, dude, is this guy still in high school? Like there's
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  there's recent stuff on here? What's going on here? I mean it's pretty
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  crazy. But uh, as we start talking about more of this stuff,
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  though, Tyler, we will. I mean, we're gonna have all kinds
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  of different ways people can get involved, even if you aren't a former player.
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  We'll have stuff and and and ways of getting involved if you would just
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  like to give back anything. We have some really cool things that we're going
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  to introduce later on down the line that I think people will really like.
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  So, uh, you know, keep an eye out for that, and
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  um, yeah, I think it's gonna be really fun. I honestly,
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  I'm probably gonna read every stink in one that you end up posting because of
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  just the passion and everything that you put behind it, Tyler, Like,
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  I love stuff like that. But uh, Brent, let's do a little
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  game here. Called five names. Um, I know you've watched some of
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  these in the past, so you know, the general idea is just,
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  hey, I'm going to give you a name. You kind of throw me
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  what it is you're thinking about, Um, what it is you're thinking about
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  when I say that name, and give me a few seconds, a few
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  thoughts, whatever it is on that person. All right, yep, the
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  first name John Stremmler. Wow. So John Stremmler is a fabulous athlete,
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  not only amazing football player, but he's been dating my daughter for two years.
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  So the reality there's a lot of relationships there, but an amazing overall
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  kid from an amazing family. That's what it comes down too. So if
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  I said to you, is he the type of guy you've let date your
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  daughter? The answer would be yes. I mean that's yeah. I don't
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  know that we've ever had that opportunity here on the Hey, that's a reason
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  we choose these names. There. Yeah, there's that research again. Yeah,
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  yeah, the sucking out of five here. Mitch Thompson, Oh,
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  Mitchie Thompson probably hands down the best middle linebacker that I've ever had the privilege
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  to coach. An absolute monster on the defensive linebacking side of the ball that
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  it set fear and other players. The only time, I'll quick story,
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  only time ever in the history I had a player come into our locker two
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  locker room from a team that we just played and said, I need to
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  speak to number fifty two, he said, And I was kind of go,
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  what happened here? And he walks up and said, son, that's
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  a finest game of football I've ever seen played. And I was like,
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  wow, okay, you know, and that was a young I forget exactly
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  the team that was. That was either that was a Cascade Christian, a
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  young Casscade Christian team, I think, But yeah, unbelievable, Wow,
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  unbelievable a flete. I could be wrong here, Tyler. Are the next
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  three all former members of the podcast? Here? Yeah? The oh yeah
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  they are? That's true, all right. Number three out of five Robert
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  Meyer Robbie Meyers is absolutely the most upstanding citizen, class act of an individual
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  I've ever met in my life. I love him like a brother. But
• 19:53
  an amazing athlete, amazing student of the game, amazing uh father, teacher
• 19:59
  figure all these kids that have played for him in the past. Number four
• 20:03
  Mike Perez mikey Perez an amazing athlete. I love Mike to death. I
• 20:10
  had some great times with him over the years. Uh, hands down,
• 20:12
  most underrated receiver, probably to play in Walcom County League, the last and
• 20:18
  certainly not the least. Toronto Argonauts legend to t j Ackerman gj Ackerman,
• 20:22
  my brother uh and literally family member. Now the reality has married my cousin.
• 20:27
  UH finally added some speed to his you know, side of the family,
• 20:30
  which is fabulous. But I love the guy. Amazing football player and
• 20:33
  in a class act had some speed to I can say that because everyone knows
• 20:41
  that Tommy ran the fastest forty time in the NFL combine is in alignment,
• 20:45
  so obviously, yeah, there's some tongue in cheek there. But yeah,
• 20:48
  it's good. That is that is really really good? Uh? That is
• 20:52
  really good. Um Hey, I want to go all the way back to
• 20:56
  your freshman year. We're talking baseball. Now, no hitter, Lyndon Christian.
• 21:02
  Now, you've told us the story beforehand, and it is interesting,
• 21:06
  it's wild, and it's actually pretty funny. What do the people need to
• 21:10
  know about? I mean, first off, a no hitter in high school
• 21:12
  baseball is hard to do anyway. No hitter in general is hard to do,
• 21:15
  but to do in a high school baseball really hard. But there's a
• 21:18
  little bit more to this story. What do the people need to know about
• 21:22
  it? Yeah, so the reality is is going into the sixth inning,
• 21:26
  right, I'm closing out a no hitter, looking at the top of the
• 21:29
  seventh in and getting super excited. And the reality as everyone on the team
• 21:33
  knows it's a no hitter, except for the head coach. He has no
• 21:36
  clue to a no hitter on the line, because again, it's baseball.
• 21:38
  You don't talk about it, right, It's a it's an unsaid you know,
• 21:41
  thing that just occurs. And so when he all of a sudden makes
• 21:45
  the pitching change, everyone kind of looks at me, and I'm a little
• 21:47
  freshman. I'm kind of like, you know, okay, you know,
• 21:49
  I think I went up and played first base, threat to the game,
• 21:52
  and Troyce Laton came in and closed it out, and I guess Gus as
• 21:55
  we know him, thank god he did, because odds are out of giving
• 21:59
  up a hit. He was. LC was a big game, but it
• 22:00
  was a ton of fun, that's for sure. That's crazy, and you
• 22:06
  know, shifting gears to Troy Slayton for a second. I'm doing a lot
• 22:10
  of research recently on baseball, high school baseball in Walcom County. He has
• 22:15
  got to be one of the best high school baseball players Walcom County he's ever
• 22:18
  seen. Oh, unbelievable, a powerhouse. I mean, and the guy
• 22:21
  could play anywhere. Was a crazy piece. He could play anywhere from from
• 22:23
  shortstop the center field. You could catch if he wanted to, we could
• 22:26
  pitch, and he could hit the living daylights out of the baseball. That's
• 22:30
  a whole. That's a one other time we could talk about the Brandon Newell
• 22:33
  I mean the air round baseball that a career in Nooksack during that time period
• 22:37
  was unbelievable. Yeah, I think I think Troy had I could be wrong,
• 22:41
  but I don't think I am. I think he had fifteen home runs
• 22:44
  in his high school career, which that's a lot. That's a lot when
• 22:48
  you're only playing twenty games a year, you know. I mean, remember,
• 22:51
  he hit a home run out of what is the big big fuel of
• 22:56
  the Civic field, Not Civic, but what's the base partin home run out
• 23:00
  of Joe Martin is an eighth grader. It made the Sports hill Stream.
• 23:03
  There's an article still as an eighth grader he ripped one out of Yeah,
• 23:08
  Joe Martin's unbelievable. I mean he was a hidden machine. That would have
• 23:12
  been really, that would have been like and he was in eighth grade.
• 23:15
  That could have been like the same year Griffy was there playing for Bellingham.
• 23:18
  Yes, eighty eighty nine. Yes, you're right, that would have been
• 23:21
  eighty nine. Yeah, I've been right. They both went out in the
• 23:26
  same field the same the same year. Right. Who we ever want to
• 23:30
  talk about her career? Yeah, you would ever talk about a home run
• 23:33
  getting hit? Though, I'm not gonna cam Cleveland ripped one off me on
• 23:36
  that field. But I still have pain in my neck over because he came
• 23:40
  back from playing for the Huskies in football to play legion against US. Oh,
• 23:45
  I'll tell you what I about a guy that could hit the baseball.
• 23:48
  Yeah, I think his son is headed to U Now, yeah, I
• 23:52
  think you're right. I think you're right. Yeah, great position. Yeah.
• 23:59
  Oh, so, Britt, tell me about your junior year. Earlier
• 24:04
  in the year. I want to say it was like week three or something
• 24:08
  like that. You're getting ready for the Blaine game. Yeah, now that
• 24:12
  game was a big deal, but you ended up running for two hundred and
• 24:18
  ninety six yards in that game. Still today, thirty years later, we're
• 24:22
  getting close to the thirty year anniversary of that. I don't want to say
• 24:25
  that we're old, but you know that's still Nuksack Valley record for rushing yards
• 24:32
  in a game. Tell us about that game. So it's a funny story
• 24:34
  because the year before my sophomore year, I had a hair fline fracture my
• 24:40
  wrist, so I didn't get to play against Blaine. And of course Adrnwell,
• 24:42
  who was my best friend of the whole world, played for Blaine and
• 24:45
  he was hurt the same game, so we sat on the sidelines together and
• 24:48
  I came and didn't. We watched it right together because he was a not
• 24:52
  sat guy before he went to Blaine. So then going into that game,
• 24:55
  I had a lot to prove just because of the frustrations from previous year and
• 25:00
  from that experience, and it was a ton of fun. It was one
• 25:03
  of those where you know, you don't get many of those games because you
• 25:06
  don't get into opportunity to carry the ball that many times in a game.
• 25:10
  Like that because normally it becomes a I hate to say this, so a
• 25:11
  blowout, and that game wasn't. It was a tight game, a tough
• 25:15
  game, and we were I was able to get enough carries to get to
• 25:18
  those kind of numbers because the game stayed close enough because they were a good
• 25:21
  football team. You know, they had some some athletic talent on that team.
• 25:23
  For Lever had gone there from Nooksack of course. Um and you know
• 25:26
  Court Lamberts was a stud And yeah, it was. It was a ton
• 25:30
  of fun. I absolutely loved it. I Blaine that we had a lot
• 25:33
  of good friends there. So the rivalry was there was no letting out against
• 25:37
  those Yeah, that's true. And there was a There was a player on
• 25:41
  your team that ended up being assistant coach at Blaine in the last few years.
• 25:45
  Uh, Tommy Hines. Tommy Hines. Yeah, yeah, Tommy was
• 25:49
  Tommy got robbed. He should have been first team All State his senior year.
• 25:52
  He was a state championship wrestler, played center. He had hands that
• 25:57
  were the size of a tank. And the thing is people will realize he
• 26:00
  would wake up every morning and milk goats. His family would so his hands
• 26:04
  were the strong. He could hold you and there's nothing you could do,
• 26:07
  you know, Yeah, good walk basically because he's taking you down. He
• 26:11
  was a guy. I know you know exactly what I'm talking about. But
• 26:12
  a couple different times that he stripped the ball from the running back just what
• 26:15
  took it from him and took off front of the other direction, because though
• 26:18
  the bands were still big and strong. It was impressive and an amazing athlete.
• 26:23
  Yeah, fun, you got to play with. Imagine him as a
• 26:26
  rugby player, yeah, seriously. Right, all right, so I got
• 26:30
  a little game for you, Brett, and you're gonna have to put your
• 26:33
  thinking cap on. I know you got your Nooksack cap on, but turn
• 26:37
  it into your thinking cap because we're gonna talk Knooksack Valley history. All right,
• 26:41
  there we go. We're gonna talk. Let's see if you can name
• 26:45
  and you can. You can throw as many guests as you want, but
• 26:48
  we're gonna try to nail down the top ten career so career all time rushing
• 26:53
  leaders in Nooksack Valley history. You don't have to tell me how many yards
• 26:56
  or anything. You start spouting up names, we'll see. I'm even we
• 27:00
  can get here. So I don't have to get him an order. No,
• 27:03
  no, no, Dave Lanorian is right there, you know, Dave.
• 27:07
  Obviously I'll be there. Tim Williamson will be there. Ye uh.
• 27:15
  Let's see, we've got to have uh maybe a Nick de Gross Yes,
• 27:19
  um dung Fang was his real name, but his but his Nick Harvey.
• 27:26
  Dung Fang was his real name, but that but Nick Harvey, nick Harvey.
• 27:33
  Yet he had one great year. Yeah wait wait wait, wait,
• 27:36
  wait really quickly his real name was what dong Fang? That was his real
• 27:41
  name. Yeah, great kid, great athlete. Yeah, so we always
• 27:44
  called him by his real name, but everyone knew him by his by Nick
• 27:47
  Harvey. Yeah yeah, wow. So yeah, how many of the Tyler?
• 27:52
  Oh, he's in the top fifteen, so he's close. He just
• 27:56
  had his senior year was amazing, but he had had a ton of up
• 27:59
  until that. Wow. Yeah cool. Yeah, yeah, let's see if
• 28:03
  I'm going more recent years all time? Oh, man, Colt's got to
• 28:07
  be in there somewhere, because of course he's he's pushing limits. Yeah,
• 28:11
  you're half you're halfway there. You got five of them? You got five?
• 28:15
  All right, let's see here. If I gotta go, I'll give
• 28:19
  you a hint here, Brett. Everybody else on the list played after you.
• 28:26
  Okay, Oh, Mike Stacey, he's got to probably from there.
• 28:30
  Yep. Um, let's see. I bet there's a well Inn Andrew Larson,
• 28:37
  Yes, another one? Yeah, you got three left? Yeah,
• 28:44
  yeah, there's these. Yeah. I'm not gonna I can give you more
• 28:48
  hints, but this is fun to watch. I'm guessing it's our wing tea
• 28:52
  days. It would be my guess. I don't think you know Dan Winter.
• 28:56
  I don't think Dane probably played there. You have one fabulous season,
• 28:59
  but I don't be there. Yeah, he's just much like Harvey. Yeah,
• 29:02
  yep, one year tend of guy. Let's see career guys would be
• 29:07
  Oh, I don't know if Trevor Arniston probably wouldn't be on there. He
• 29:11
  played for two or three years there probably. Okay, hold on here.
• 29:15
  They didn't have to be a running back. I took that as they had
• 29:18
  to be a running back. Right there you go? All right, so
• 29:19
  let's go back. Now, let's say tanner Meyer, yes, it's probably
• 29:23
  on there. Wade Ruddicker maybe nope, Okay, Darren verd weirdis nope.
• 29:34
  Oh all right, we're getting slims now. So when you're ready, I
• 29:41
  got a pretty good hint for both guys. Hold on, I got it
• 29:45
  cool, Okay, named top ten all time leading rushers. For next second,
• 29:48
  don't pull it up, you cheater. He's pulling it out. He
• 29:53
  heard me talking. Yeah, all right, what was your hint? Okay,
• 29:57
  one of them is he played running back and quarterback in two different years.
• 30:03
  And the other hit the other guy is the guy that's actually on your
• 30:07
  on the coaching staff with you. Yeah, listen to on the coaching he
• 30:12
  said, Oh, joeld was Blair. There you go. Okay, yeah,
• 30:15
  that's a good wine. And the one that played quarterback and played running
• 30:18
  back. Don't tell me um played running back and he played quarterback. Holy
• 30:26
  cow, I'm trying to think he played some receiver too. Oh Austin O'Brien,
• 30:32
  of course, of course, yes, I should have known him,
• 30:36
  Yes, yes, yeah, there you go. That's quite a list.
• 30:40
  Yeah I should have cheated, but I didn't. Well, you did better
• 30:45
  than Jake Locker, so that's a good thing. Some fun names on that
• 30:51
  list, I'd tell you. That's that's that's memory lane right there, talking
• 30:53
  going back. Let's see, this is my twenty fourth year of coaching,
• 30:56
  so that goes. Uh. I think I coached all those kids, but
• 31:00
  Longoria and Stacy. I think there's the only two on that list I didn't
• 31:03
  coach, so that and and correct me if I'm wrong. But I listened
• 31:08
  to the game on the radio. Your final game I was a Tuesday night
• 31:12
  against Stillikum to get into the state playoffs at Civic. Yeah, and they
• 31:17
  brought up a freshman to play fullback in front of you. That was Joe
• 31:19
  Duist Blair. I believe Blair, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
• 31:25
  It's been fun having him back out on the staff. He uh he he
• 31:27
  brings a lot of energy, which is good. You know, he's still
• 31:30
  even though we're the same age, he's still knew to coaching, so he's
• 31:33
  all excited and yeah on the football. So that's good. Well, you
• 31:37
  mentioned coaching, and we'd be uh, we'd be stupid not to talk a
• 31:41
  little bit about the current Nooksack Valley team. Um, you guys went through
• 31:45
  spring ball. I'm pretty sure you guys went to Eastern correct. Absolutely,
• 31:51
  absolutely, it's the greatest camp, the greatest camp in the state, hands
• 31:53
  down. That the teams that are there is off the Hook. You're talking
• 31:56
  Lake Stephen, you're talking to Hanford, you're talking Linden, you're talking uh,
• 32:00
  Tom King, And I mean a ton of them, just a ton
• 32:04
  of top level teams. I think one point last year, like six or
• 32:07
  seven of the top ten three A schools in the state were there that summer
• 32:12
  before. So it's it's a ton of fun. Yeah, that's that's a
• 32:15
  camp that Uh. I think this is like the first year. I didn't
• 32:19
  go to it in like twelve years, so, uh it was. But
• 32:22
  one guy did get to go this year. That was Tyler. Tyler,
• 32:27
  when he told me that he was getting getta go out there, I was
• 32:30
  like, oh, man, you're in for a treat like it is.
• 32:31
  It is so much fun. But uh, Nooksack Valley, how'd you guys
• 32:35
  do out there? How was the spring? Yeah? A ton of fun?
• 32:38
  You know. Tj Ackerman put it best, he said, uh,
• 32:42
  to be able to be in spring but feel like you're in week three of
• 32:45
  game week. You know, sorry, week three of games because of the
• 32:49
  level of the kids. We're just returning so many kids would experience, you
• 32:52
  know, and you two know what that means. I mean, when you're
• 32:54
  replacing one on offense and one on defense, and all the rest of the
• 32:59
  kids are that have been through the wars before, and not only through the
• 33:02
  wars but deep into the playoffs. It's it's a luxury that Nooksack has never
• 33:07
  had before, you know, which is kind of nice. So um,
• 33:09
  but Camper really well, we we had a ton of fun. Um.
• 33:14
  You know. Obviously, Coach Craig does an amazing job. I mean as
• 33:16
  as a coach, as a leader, A lot of the things he does
• 33:19
  to bring leadership up within within our student athletes, and not only that,
• 33:22
  but the freedom he gives us as coaches is amazing. And I would say,
• 33:27
  if I said one thing about how the team was this year, it's
• 33:30
  physicality to straight physicality, and I think Tyler would back that up, but
• 33:35
  yeah, hey man, you're type of ball Ryland run that rock baby,
• 33:38
  oh buddy. And offense and defense they were physical. I mean there was
• 33:44
  multiple times we'd come off the field and teams were like, you guys are
• 33:47
  one a school and we're like, yeah, you know, we were one
• 33:52
  a school. So Linda knew it that Linda knew what to expect. I
• 33:54
  mean, the obviously they're good friends of ours and our kids are all really
• 33:57
  good buddies with the Linden team, so it's uh, yeah, it was.
• 34:00
  It was a fun summer. I can't believe for a month out from
• 34:04
  the start of football that is unbelievable. Actually, as we record this,
• 34:07
  it's what a day or two days? I guess under a month is what
• 34:13
  it is. Sixteen yeah, I think, so, yeah, that's crazy.
• 34:17
  As far as numbers go, you guys have so let me put it
• 34:21
  to you this way. Semifinal game, Tyler and I are standing out there
• 34:23
  on the field night. I looked at Coach Bartell. I said, man,
• 34:25
  you guys got a lot of dudes out here, and he goes,
• 34:29
  wait till you see what we have coming in He's like, He's like,
• 34:30
  I might have to buy more jerseys, helmets, good numbers in the spring.
• 34:35
  As far as overall for the program, unbelievable. I think we took
• 34:38
  sixty five, almost seventy kids to camp, which has never happened before.
• 34:43
  We had three full teams. We had a freshman team at camp, We
• 34:45
  had a JV team and a varsity team, and neither team was short of
• 34:49
  kids, which is unheard of for not only US, but a single at
• 34:52
  school that just that doesn't happen. I bet we'll push eighty eighty plus kids
• 34:57
  next year when we finally get everyone out the season. So and again the
• 35:00
  class coming in is even bigger. I think. I think they're twenty five
• 35:04
  almost thirty kids in the incoming eighth grade for next year's freshmen going into twenty
• 35:07
  twenty five, So in twenty fourth season, I guess. But yeah,
• 35:10
  so it's exciting, it's a it's a great time at the Pioneers. You
• 35:14
  know, part of it goes is, you know, TJ and I made
• 35:16
  a commitment back ten years ago when our boys were there and and we tied
• 35:22
  into some of the amazing coaches that we have in the youth program and supported
• 35:25
  them and got behind them and helped them. And I'm not saying it's us,
• 35:29
  it was them because these youth coaches. But people don't realize those youth
• 35:32
  coaches are what make this kind of stuff happen. And we're very lucky here
• 35:36
  in the nooks At School District to have some amazing fathers, amazing men,
• 35:40
  and I do mean men because some of them don't have kids on the team,
• 35:43
  they still step up every year to coach teams and that's what makes for
• 35:46
  a top quality program. Absolutely what you just said right there, that is
• 35:52
  every top program in the state is that way. I mean, whether it's
• 35:54
  it's Royal, and one A it's Campus and four A Lake Stevens you mentioned
• 35:59
  earlier, every single one of those, the commitment from the first year of
• 36:02
  football through high school is it's there, and it's it's everybody. And that's
• 36:08
  that's really cool to see because as you mentioned, you know, Nooksack Valley
• 36:13
  has maybe never been in this position before. And and sure you know there's
• 36:16
  been some really good Nooksack Valley teams. I mean heck, just last year
• 36:20
  was obviously a good team. Um, but where you guys are at right
• 36:23
  now, you just seeing the progress from when I first started really following Watcom
• 36:30
  County with Tyler to where it is now is I mean, it's clear,
• 36:35
  the commitment is clear, and it's it's really cool to see. There's one
• 36:39
  thing that we always do here, and I want to get two answers from
• 36:43
  you. Okay, So we do a thing where we always say, hey,
• 36:47
  if you could go back and change one game, what would it be.
• 36:52
  And the reason I want two answers is I want a coach answer and
• 36:58
  I want to play or answer. So if you let's start off with player.
• 37:00
  So we're gonna go back to the nineties, teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles
• 37:05
  and Bayside High School. All right, yeah, well back to the nineties.
• 37:09
  First, if you could go back to high school and there was one
• 37:12
  game that you have on your mind, and you go, if I could
• 37:15
  do something differently, if we could do something differently, what would it be.
• 37:20
  Yeah, I would absolutely be the LC game my junior year. LC
• 37:23
  game my junior year. Right before halftime, I broke loose, broken in
• 37:28
  the backfield and Deepis hits me from behind and Mandric hits me from the front,
• 37:35
  and I got absolutely concussed. I was knocked out. I got up.
• 37:37
  I went to their huddle and Don Mercy of all people, walks over
• 37:42
  to me and it looks at me, and of course TJ gets me quick
• 37:44
  and grabs me and walks me back to our huddle. He's like, oh
• 37:45
  no, Don, he's good. He's good, he's good. I didn't
• 37:49
  remember angel the third quarter of that game. It was actually late in the
• 37:52
  first quarters, most of the second quarter. If there's any way I can
• 37:53
  to say it healthy, maybe his fourteen to seven title will verify that if
• 37:58
  that's right or not. But we and I got stopped us from going to
• 38:00
  state and they won the state title that year, is that right? Or
• 38:02
  they played for it? They played for the state championship. They were undefeated
• 38:06
  going into the King Bowl. They lost a light in that game and and
• 38:10
  if you would have got them, there would have been a three way tie
• 38:14
  with you guys, Baker and LC and and uh yeah that yeah, I
• 38:20
  have the game film of that. I do I go to the wrong level
• 38:24
  of him walking to the wrong huddle. Well, I don't know if that's
• 38:27
  captured because they cut between kay. I would like to see him walk to
• 38:30
  the wrong huddle. We could put that in here if we had it.
• 38:34
  Well and Matthias wise, Matthias no Bran and then and Deepie. Those guys
• 38:40
  were animals. I mean they really were. That's old school lockerroom county football.
• 38:45
  Yeah. They were state defensive guys. Yeah. Yeah. That was
• 38:49
  the only game in your junior year where you didn't get a hundred yards.
• 38:52
  Yeah, and I was I woke up mentally woke up, and TJ's like
• 38:55
  you all right, because he know TJ's always been there for me, and
• 38:58
  he's where in the locker rooms like you're good, and I'm like, well,
• 39:00
  hey, what happened? And he walked you through what happened different day
• 39:04
  and age back then you know, obviously that would as to be out for
• 39:07
  a couple of weeks. But but uh, yeah I went on the second
• 39:09
  quarter and we just couldn't pull it on a second or second half, couldn't
• 39:12
  pull it off. But if I could have got that back, and yeah,
• 39:15
  that would have been a fun one. I would have been one.
• 39:16
  All right, what about coach if if coach coach Lentz putting on his coaching
• 39:22
  cap here, by the way, that hat, I love that hat.
• 39:23
  We need to get Tyler one of those hats. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely,
• 39:28
  this is this is the baseball team always gets all the pretty hats.
• 39:30
  Solare hooked us up with a nice hats coach. Coach, though you go
• 39:37
  back, you can change one game, won anything. Um, I will
• 39:40
  see this and I think I mentioned it maybe on the podcast that we did
• 39:44
  at whatever last year, the semi final against Mount Baker. Yeah. I've
• 39:49
  been to a ton of football games. I mean literally, I was at
• 39:52
  like close to six hundred and twelve years or something like that. That is
• 39:55
  one of the greatest atmospheres I've ever been in. I mean from start to
• 40:00
  finish. Like I got there like an hour and a half before the game
• 40:02
  and there were people tailgating. I mean, it was the craziest thing I've
• 40:06
  ever seen. I only bring that up because I hope you're not picking that
• 40:10
  one because it's so so recent that I would prefer something. But coach one
• 40:17
  game, you can go back and change. What do you do differently.
• 40:21
  I'll touch on that one first and then I'll go back to another one,
• 40:23
  but not one. Part of it is because we're two teams that are seven
• 40:27
  miles apart, and not only do the kids really really respect each other and
• 40:30
  enjoy each other, but the parents do too. So even though like you
• 40:35
  talked about the tailgating, they were cross tailgating. You know, we had
• 40:37
  Looksack parents with Baker parents, and it's always meant that way, even going
• 40:40
  back from when I was a you know, obviously a player and everything else.
• 40:44
  If I had to go back previous, it would probably go back to
• 40:47
  an Oh, Tyler, You'll know this. What year was it? We
• 40:51
  lost the Cascade No Seattle Christian We lost I think it was oh three,
• 40:59
  maybe you'll three or one right in that era, and we had a pump
• 41:02
  block on and it was the end of the game and we went for pump
• 41:06
  blocking, and I hate to say this, but we got called for a
• 41:08
  roughing and and we hit the ball. And if we could have just worked
• 41:13
  on that a little bit more that week, because we got to it,
• 41:15
  we got to it, we got a piece of the ball, A referee
• 41:17
  still called roughing, gives them the ball back. Games over, we get
• 41:21
  the ball back right there. We got a chance to win that game.
• 41:23
  I think we lost by by a touchdown right in there. And that was
• 41:27
  that was Mitch Thompson. That was a Mitchie Thompson. Let's spend oh one.
• 41:29
  But that was one of those one of those games. It was like,
• 41:31
  if we would have just worked on that a little bit more, because
• 41:35
  we knew we could have gotten there, and we got there. We missed
• 41:37
  it by just the tiniest of margins because again we got a hand on it,
• 41:42
  but not enough to where it was obvious because they we got the roughing
• 41:45
  call, but also be we could have blocked that and that ball is going
• 41:47
  in the other direction. We got a real shot in the game. That
• 41:52
  was a really special team, man, because just think about the year before
• 41:55
  your first year as an assistant coach, how young that team was. You
• 42:00
  really had you had one stud senior who goes down in Week four. Yeah,
• 42:06
  and it's like, okay, let's just play out the rest of the
• 42:09
  season. You you I think you won a couple of games, maybe eight
• 42:13
  to six against Granite Falls, and you know what I mean. And so
• 42:15
  to go from that team that in two thousands is the two thousand and one
• 42:17
  team and now you guys that was you know, you you yourself and Meyer
• 42:22
  and Acrement, it all kind of okay, now we know what to do
• 42:24
  and you have you know, Mitch and Darren a quarterback and Ty was a
• 42:29
  sophomore. That that team really kind of elevated to where you were for a
• 42:34
  little while. But that was it was a big deal. Yeah, that
• 42:37
  team was a solid team. And talking about classy kids, you know,
• 42:39
  I mean some of those kids are still to this day's hard working members of
• 42:43
  this community, which is which is a big deal. But you're exactly right.
• 42:45
  That was kind of at first where we're like, okay, what we're
• 42:47
  doing is is working. And part of that is is giving. I give
• 42:52
  TJ credit, but given TJ a year with those kids, because that first
• 42:54
  year we came in, you know, TA had probably three four months at
• 43:00
  was working with those kids. Right, you got an whole year of working
• 43:02
  with the offensive line, and it showed that old line was they were tough.
• 43:07
  You know, they were tough. But yeah, that would be the
• 43:09
  game, hands downs. What do you remember about I'm going to shift gears
• 43:15
  off just a second here because this is kind of fun for baseball. Okay,
• 43:20
  your junior year you had, you had a pretty big year. You
• 43:23
  guys go to the district tournament. You finished fourth in the league. So
• 43:27
  you they and they bring four teams in and so you have to face Cedarcrest,
• 43:32
  who's the one seed from their thing? And um, top of the
• 43:37
  seventh inning, you know, bases are loaded and what did what did coach
• 43:43
  say to you right right before you went up to the bat. Yeah,
• 43:45
  the craziest thing and this I stand by this to this today. We it
• 43:49
  was I got a two two count I think it was a two two two
• 43:52
  counts two two maybe a two counts. I knew he didn't want to go
• 43:53
  full, so we had to come to me. And so none. A
• 43:55
  maker looks out in the field, he looks at me, looks on the
• 43:59
  field, and he goes, hit one out of here. Plenty of hit
• 44:01
  one out of here, you know. And that's what he said, he
• 44:04
  said, seriously, hit one out of here. And sure enough he had
• 44:06
  to come across the plate and he did and it went three eighty five over
• 44:09
  center and it was Yeah, it was the Sherman Anderson. Is that right?
• 44:13
  That yeah? Still to this day, I've told my son this before.
• 44:17
  I think two of my greatest highlights we're definitely in baseball, you know,
• 44:22
  and that was one of them. And then the no hitter was one
• 44:23
  of the other ones. And and it was a ton of fun because we
• 44:27
  were down. It was the top of seven. I think we were down
• 44:30
  four to three, I think, you know what I mean, And so
• 44:34
  that ball goes out and then pretty sma, that's the game. Yeah,
• 44:37
  that is. I mean, there might have been two outs. I don't
• 44:39
  know for sure, but I mean there're down and you're down your last strike.
• 44:45
  Yeah, yeah, I guess one of the top teams in the state
• 44:47
  too, you know. Yeah, it was a it was a huge deal.
• 44:52
  It's a ton of fun. You bring me back to those memories and
• 44:54
  those thoughts, and it was one of those that you almost wake up in
• 44:58
  a dream, you know, you come home when you hit the play and
• 45:00
  you're kind of like, did this really just happened? You know? And
• 45:02
  again Nannie was so classic because just the sign. I remember his like that
• 45:06
  hit one out of here, you know, and I was like, really,
• 45:07
  that's that's the that's what we're going with. Okay, let's do this.
• 45:12
  It's not a not a let's make contact. No, it's like,
• 45:15
  hey, send it to the orbit or else you're walking home exactly exactly.
• 45:22
  Yeah, a ton of fun, ton of fun. Well on game nights,
• 45:24
  uh, with nooksack value, what is it? What's your what's your
• 45:28
  role? What do you do on game nights? Um? So you know
• 45:30
  I helped Jesse and everywhere I can't And Jesse's a decordinator. I'm a I
• 45:35
  am his I am his hands on the field. You know, he's up
• 45:37
  in the booth now. Uh. It's a great rich situation because almost every
• 45:40
  one of our coaches his next nooksack players. I coached Jesse. Um when
• 45:45
  Jesse got done playing, He's another one of those going back. Jesse's freshman
• 45:49
  year was our first year of coaching, so Jesse was with it in the
• 45:51
  beginning, but as a player, not as a coach, and then shortly
• 45:54
  came back as a coach. And and I love it because you know,
• 45:57
  obviously Jesse's the head guy. What he said as goes, but it's like
• 46:00
  it's like he's sharing the same brain because part of his I've coached him so
• 46:04
  long, I got to have him. He was my assistant for a long
• 46:07
  time while I was a decordinator, and so half the time neither one of
• 46:10
  us has to even talk and we know what the answer is. So it's
• 46:13
  beautiful. So I'm I am his on the field guy. You know,
• 46:16
  he gives Joel I instructions. I handled the usually the front line, the
• 46:20
  line of linebackers, Joel hanns the dbs, and then Jesse's up in the
• 46:22
  booth kind of throwing down the instructions. But I love it. I wouldn't
• 46:27
  trade it for anything. So it's probably this as a coach, As a
• 46:30
  dad of I'll just say it, one of the most important players on the
• 46:35
  team. Is there ever a time in which Colton does something and you just
• 46:38
  kind of go wow, I'm not sure. I would have done that in
• 46:42
  high school. I'm not sure I could have done that in high school.
• 46:45
  But dad also goes, I can't let him know that though, No,
• 46:51
  he'll never know that there's a chance. And I'll say a chance, he's
• 46:54
  a chance he's better than me, because here's the thing, and it happens
• 47:00
  a couple of times. One of them was that run against Mountain View and
• 47:05
  it kind of happened, and Joel Joeldis player kind of looked at me,
• 47:07
  and I was kind of like, you know, I might you got lucky.
• 47:12
  You got lucky. We'll see if he can do it again next week,
• 47:14
  you know, kind of one of those mentalities. But but I will
• 47:15
  say this, if you bring up being a coach and a dad, It's
• 47:19
  been one of the hardest things I've ever done, you know, it really
• 47:22
  is. It's been. It's been difficult because it puts our relationship and in
• 47:27
  tough spots sometimes and sometimes I have to say, hey, uncle TJ,
• 47:30
  I need you to step in here, you know, and you got to
• 47:32
  be that coach today because you know, for whatever reasons, it's uh,
• 47:37
  you know, it's strained or it's stressed, and and and my thing is
• 47:39
  always dad first, you know, and it will always be that way.
• 47:43
  I tell him all the time that I don't care who you are, son,
• 47:45
  at some point in your life, you are going to play your last
• 47:47
  game. I don't care if you're Michael Jordan or if I don't care if
• 47:50
  you're some high school kid that that never even got to play varsity. You
• 47:53
  will play your last game, and so prepare for the rest of your life.
• 47:55
  Yeah, prepare for it, and but enjoy the daylights out while you're
• 47:59
  here. You have it, you know. But yeah, there is Raylan.
• 48:02
  It happens. I still don't admit he's not better than that was yet.
• 48:07
  Not tell me this if you're a and I don't want to, how
• 48:10
  do I say this. I don't want to make it seem like you're you're
• 48:13
  trying to promote him. But if you're, because I think he's when I
• 48:15
  watch him play, I think he's equally talented on both sides of the ball
• 48:21
  as a guy who maybe was going to be a running back and then ended
• 48:23
  up playing linebacker. If you're putting your your scouting cap on and you're a
• 48:29
  college which side do you think maybe he projects best at at the next level.
• 48:34
  Yeah, that's a great question. I project him as a linebacker.
• 48:37
  I I look at his size, I look at his strength, I look
• 48:39
  at his physicality. I look at what he's going to mature into. You.
• 48:43
  It's almost two ten right now, my senior year, two twenty five,
• 48:46
  you know. And then the other part of it is is is his
• 48:49
  intelligence. You know, it's that old adage, the son of a coach,
• 48:53
  right, you know what I mean, He's been I have film,
• 48:55
  but I can send it to you til it's pretty funny because Cooper Cooper class
• 48:59
  and came back and was coaching with us this year. And I have film
• 49:02
  of Colton as a sixth grader, maybe in a fifth grader, standing behind
• 49:06
  Cooper as Cooper's doing as linebacker, reads and drills, and Colts down there
• 49:09
  doing it with them, you know what I mean. So it being the
• 49:12
  son of a coach, he's gotten an advantage of being around it a lot.
• 49:15
  So yeah, the education, the high the high the high intelligence,
• 49:20
  football intelligence, I Q is is probably the biggest thing that he has.
• 49:23
  You know. But but I'd say linebacker. But again, you know what
• 49:27
  he's flat told me, and I've asked him. He said, I'll play
• 49:29
  anywhere they want me to. So I'm like, all right, buddy,
• 49:31
  you know, that's the best attitude to have. You have to you have
• 49:36
  to have that attitude because you might not even play both sides of the ball,
• 49:40
  you know. And there's there's a coach out there that goes, hey,
• 49:43
  that's great that kids are running back. I could put him at safety
• 49:45
  and make him an All American, you know. Like sometimes it happens that
• 49:50
  way, you know. I'll have coaches, college coaches say to me,
• 49:52
  they go, hey, do you think that kid could play a linebacker?
• 49:54
  And I'm like, I've never seen him play defense, Like I've never like,
• 49:59
  I don't think he's even taking a snap on defense. And they go,
• 50:00
  yeah, but do you think you could play there? And I'm like,
• 50:04
  sure, what the heck do I know? Man? I mean,
• 50:07
  yeah, all right, yeah, what I'm out there? Who happens?
• 50:09
  I don't know? You know, right? Oh? Man? Yeah,
• 50:14
  It's it's crazy because there, you know, I remember his when he was
• 50:19
  a ball boy. Um, he must have been probably I don't know,
• 50:22
  sixth seventh grade something like that. It wasn't too long ago. And I'm
• 50:25
  standing on the sideline and I kind of saw him and looked away and I
• 50:29
  was like, man, he's bigger than I am. Right now. It's
• 50:30
  like it's like, oh, he's this is gonna be fun because it's it's
• 50:36
  fun for me because you see this group coming up and you see all these
• 50:42
  last names, and you see the Lets's and Ackermans and Coppingers and and Hughes
• 50:46
  and and it's like, man, like these kids, like their families were
• 50:50
  legends and now it's starting to come back and it's you know, Ryland and
• 50:53
  I joked about it last week when we talked on the phone about how you
• 50:58
  know, man, this is like all pen coming together and who knows if
• 51:00
  it's going to shift back down to come back up again, and you just
• 51:02
  never know. And it's it's cool that to stay in the community and build
• 51:07
  something, like you said earlier, from the youth program all the way up
• 51:09
  and and you know, it's just been a lot of fun because when you
• 51:14
  look at the history of of Nooksack Valley, yeah, there hasn't been a
• 51:16
  state championship appearance in football, but there's been so many great athletes that have
• 51:22
  come through, and it's it's you know, you go back to the you
• 51:25
  know, Jim Stark Days, and and and Lance Massey and all the longorias.
• 51:30
  I mean it's you know, of course Tom Ackerman and and TJ and
• 51:35
  yourself and all these guys. I mean you you know, Mitch Thompson,
• 51:37
  like you said, is probably the best middle linebacker you've seen, you know,
• 51:42
  at the high school level, or coach. I mean, there's been
• 51:44
  some unbelievable players and going to Casey Bumming and just so many good athletes that
• 51:50
  it's it's cool to see it kind of starting to really come together team wise.
• 51:53
  And you know, Ryan and I talked about it last year in the
• 51:55
  preseason about how they I look as Knoksak has the talent, they just need
• 52:01
  to believe they can do it because at the high school level so much of
• 52:04
  his mental and if they can believe that they can do it. And last
• 52:08
  year, you guys believed and you guys showed what you could do. So
• 52:12
  I think having that kind of under your bell already, like you guys talked
• 52:15
  about earlier, is going to really help you for this season. You know,
• 52:19
  it's gonna be a ton of fun. I was just at a wedding
• 52:21
  the other night of actually one of our other former players, Michael O'Brien,
• 52:24
  you know, he just got married I think Saturday. And it was a
• 52:28
  ton of fun because all the old players that were there. Because I looked
• 52:30
  on the every groom there's eight groomsmen. I coached every one of them.
• 52:34
  They're all players, you know. And and of course to see their excitement,
• 52:37
  they're so excited about this, you know, and they're like, we're
• 52:39
  gonna come back, and can we come back to practice? And it's kind
• 52:43
  of a Knoksack tradition that on Thursday nights, the old guys are always welcome.
• 52:46
  On a Thursday night, they come in and they you know, they
• 52:49
  talk to the guys, they come to practice, and so the excitement around
• 52:52
  it is pretty fun. It's pretty fun, you know. Yeah, it's
• 52:58
  a good time. Schedule all this year is it just a reverse of last
• 53:01
  year's schedule. As far as the regular season goes, it is it is.
• 53:06
  The only change will be a week eight. We kept a bye and
• 53:08
  last year we ended up with a bye. We had rainier on our schedule.
• 53:12
  Last year B School they pulled out and I understandably why they were having
• 53:16
  a little bit of a rough season, and obviously we weren't. And so
• 53:19
  they and we decided to keep that as a bye week just because we tried
• 53:22
  to schedule games, tried to schedule games, we wanted to get to the
• 53:24
  East Side, and it finally came down to the fact that I hate to
• 53:29
  say this, but it's Noozak Valley and that's hunting season. So if we
• 53:31
  take a bye week and the Voice can get out the deer campellll early,
• 53:35
  you know we've got I mean four of our four or five of our key
• 53:38
  players like want to go, you know, Strimbler and the Hikies and Colton.
• 53:43
  Then you know they all want to end to deer Camp. So the
• 53:45
  reality is that being a bye week is huge and the fact that this week
• 53:49
  we're gonna have to play a week ten playing game. We would go straight
• 53:53
  through, you know, as deep as we go without a break. And
• 53:55
  so a nice week eate break will we'll be good for us. But other
• 53:59
  than that, it's verse. Yet. We drove down mountain View Week one
• 54:02
  at mountain View, all Friday night games, no Saturday games, and then
• 54:07
  we got Connell obviously he's coming here. That's another Friday game kings there.
• 54:10
  And then we get Monty not Monty o quim here and that's a Friday game
• 54:15
  too. And then also obviously from there we're into season, so it should
• 54:19
  be a ton of fun. Yeah, I mean that's a that's a tough
• 54:22
  Week one. I mean, that's a three, a team that's traditionally very
• 54:25
  good. They got a new head coach. Um, yeah, that's I
• 54:29
  mean, that's it's always good to challenge yourself early on, especially when you
• 54:32
  know in theory the game doesn't matter. It doesn't it's not going to determine
• 54:36
  whether or not you make the state tournament being a non league game. So
• 54:39
  u and that was actually a heck of a game last year too, So
• 54:43
  um yeah, I mean that should be a good one. They should be
• 54:45
  good again. They returned some some definite talents. So uh, Tyler,
• 54:47
  do you got anything else? What do you got over there? Your brain's
• 54:50
  always cooking? Oh man. Yeah, I mean I could talk to Brent
• 54:52
  forever about all of high school stuff. But you know, you brought up
• 54:55
  the Week one game at Mountain View, and it kind of made me think
• 55:00
  of, like, you know, when you guys played at Eatonville, you
• 55:02
  know, was Week one and they were defending state champs, I believe,
• 55:07
  and and it's kind of like it's kind of a long bus ride, and
• 55:13
  you start thinking about, like when I the biggest thing I witnessed at camp
• 55:17
  was how close this team is. These kids genuinely care about each other and
• 55:23
  are friends with each other and are doing things together. And just how important
• 55:29
  are those long bus rides sometimes because it could really be a beneficial thing,
• 55:34
  absolutely, And it's one thing that we actually really planned for starting last year's
• 55:37
  season. That's why going to Connell last year, you know, that was
• 55:40
  a big one for us, and then going to Mountaine this year. We
• 55:44
  like to get to the east Side because there's, as you guys know,
• 55:46
  there's nothing like it trying to travel all the way to the East Side and
• 55:50
  go play a game there. Last year, that Connell game was in like
• 55:53
  ninety five degree weather with smoke that they probably wouldn't let us play on on
• 55:57
  the West side. That we still played, big game. It was miserable,
• 56:00
  but what an experience for the kids to have to knuckle down and get
• 56:05
  it done after a trip like that, and like you said, getting used
• 56:07
  to the travel, I mean, being on a bus together is rough,
• 56:09
  you know, and getting to play and having to play and this one here
• 56:13
  normally on some of these trips, we would go and stay the night before
• 56:15
  and play a Saturday game. But but we're not. We're purposely doing it.
• 56:19
  So these kids have to handle that bus ride and then go play the
• 56:22
  football game. The Mountain Views and one is fun. We'll do the same
• 56:24
  thing as a total site into the game. But another fun story. But
• 56:28
  we get to go down to JBLM every year. Last year we did it
• 56:30
  on our hoquium. This year we'll do it on the way to Mountain View.
• 56:34
  One of the camp commanders there is an x nooks at guy and so
• 56:37
  we get to go down there. We gotta get the tour and eat lunch
• 56:40
  there. And that's what the growth, Like you said, that's the growing
• 56:45
  of a team that occurs that those kind of things are unbeatable and then that
• 56:47
  that stuff pays off comes the fourth quarter when when the chips are down and
• 56:52
  things aren't easy, they're tough. You guys are actually gonna eat at JBLM.
• 56:55
  Yeah, we did last year too. It's fun. You know,
• 56:58
  our kids are all and you know, it's a great situation because our kids
• 57:01
  are all let's just say they're country kids, you know what I mean,
• 57:04
  They're country kids. They love that to them, they love to see it.
• 57:07
  They live to meet the guys. They they get to talk to them,
• 57:10
  they get to go see the tanks. They'll go see the fighter jets.
• 57:14
  You know, it's uh, it's it's a pretty cool deal. It's
• 57:15
  a pretty cool deal. I mean if now, personally, I would send
• 57:20
  the kids to the mess hall or whatever it's called there, let them do
• 57:22
  that. You know, They've got a Texas Roadhouse on at JBLM. Now
• 57:25
  I'd be going there and get some steaks and potatoes, is what I'd be
• 57:29
  doing. That's one of my favorite restaurants. We travel a lot business wise.
• 57:32
  That's one of my favorite restaurants in the whole world. Yeah, oh
• 57:37
  my goodness, Yeah, absolutely yeah. I know Tyler enjoys a good steak
• 57:42
  anytime he makes them. He sends me a picture. I had my first
• 57:46
  rib cat uh a few months ago, and it was like, holy Connoli.
• 57:52
  I didn't know there was such a thing, but it was so good,
• 57:55
  and I wouldn't I before you go, I have to I have to
• 58:00
  ask. You have to give me one story about Duke Duke called Ai.
• 58:07
  Yeah. Oh, I can give me a lot of stories about Duke um
• 58:10
  so so, Duke's an amazing kid, dud Duke. I tell you what
• 58:14
  I want this kid. This kid's gonna probably play in college. This kids
• 58:17
  has a heart that's unbelievable. His his calling, in my opinion, in
• 58:22
  life as a counselor, because he can talk to anybody. This kid,
• 58:25
  Um, I won't get too many personal stories, but he has that ability
• 58:29
  to to to draw people in and feel welcome and love by him. That
• 58:35
  that I that is unexplainable. Um. And it doesn't matter who it is
• 58:38
  and the other thing is to him, he doesn't care. He doesn't care
• 58:43
  what your standing is in the local preppy year jock or whatever it is.
• 58:47
  He doesn't care. He is the most down to earth individual who just has
• 58:52
  the biggest heart in the world. He's He's an amazing kid, an amazing
• 58:55
  kid. I keep telling college coaches this and now a couple of them are
• 58:59
  pretty interesting. I think he's gonna definitely play at the next level. But
• 59:01
  uh, an amazing kid. And what you see is what you get for
• 59:05
  real with him. That smile is real, It's who he is. Yeah,
• 59:09
  I've had a few interactions with him. It was so funny because you
• 59:14
  know, you know. His freshman year was the COVID year, so I
• 59:15
  didn't come out to practice. Then the next year I came out, but
• 59:21
  I think he had COVID so he wasn't at practice. And I'm thinking,
• 59:23
  man, this is another kid that I'm never gonna be seen face to face
• 59:27
  when I come out to practice and get head shots and stuff. Last year
• 59:30
  I came out, he was there and You're absolutely right. And I couldn't
• 59:35
  put my finger on it, but you just did. It was like we
• 59:37
  were long lost friends I never met before. And he put his arm around
• 59:43
  me and he's just like he's just like, hey, Tyler, how you
• 59:46
  doing, buddy, And I'm like, this is duke Kylie APPIAPI. He's
• 59:50
  not supposed to know. And we talked and we laughed and I'm talking like
• 59:55
  pregame like after the Star Spangled banner. He'll put his around me and it'll
• 1:00:00
  be like, hey man, this is so cool that you're here. Thank
• 1:00:02
  you so much for what you do. Let me tell you how good Jackson
• 1:00:06
  Bennett is. He has never at the radar, you know what I mean.
• 1:00:08
  And it's like that what he gives out is just so positive. And
• 1:00:15
  he walks up We're at the Northwest Showcase camp. This is down the one
• 1:00:21
  down an organ and he walks up with John Strombler. I they I forget
• 1:00:23
  what they're talking one of the Pact twelve coaches. And he walks up and
• 1:00:27
  he says, Hey, I just want to tell you this kid right here
• 1:00:30
  and he's playing John. He says he has the biggest heart in the world.
• 1:00:31
  He plays every play all the way that he said. I'm not every
• 1:00:35
  play. I try my best, but he does a way better job.
• 1:00:37
  And the coach looks at me, says, son, if you don't have
• 1:00:39
  a future in football, you have a future in marketing. Keep at it.
• 1:00:45
  He could be an agent. He's selling John. You know, he's
• 1:00:46
  selling John the fat girl coach. It was great, Oh, it was
• 1:00:50
  great having walked it. M he was the one that did an intro for
• 1:00:54
  us last year. But was it It was like he didn't or you didn't
• 1:01:00
  even ask him or something. I can't remember what the story was by I
• 1:01:02
  just asked him to do an intro and he sent it back and he included
• 1:01:07
  like ten kids in it, you know. Yeah, yeah, he was
• 1:01:09
  like hood and holler and making all kinds of noise and like yeah, yeah,
• 1:01:14
  I remember you sent it to me and I listened to him. I
• 1:01:15
  was just like, this guy is a nut Like this guy a nut case.
• 1:01:20
  Yeah, it's the best way possible. Yeah yeah. And there isn't
• 1:01:22
  anybody he doesn't know, Like like we go play Linden and Linden guys love
• 1:01:27
  him and they're all, you know, come talking and we go play Baker
• 1:01:30
  and it's the Baker guys. You know, we go play Marioding. I
• 1:01:31
  mean, he knows everybody. The kid is just that happy, can talk
• 1:01:36
  to anybody, you know. Yeah, an amazing individual, he really is.
• 1:01:39
  When I did those interviews, those quick video interviews last year and I'm
• 1:01:44
  asking just kind of rapid fire questions and one of them was where do you
• 1:01:47
  think you'll land on the top one hundred list? And he said, I
• 1:01:52
  don't know, but probably ahead of Dane Gadderman and Landing Hatches and two of
• 1:01:59
  his money exactly. And it's like he understand he was right in between him,
• 1:02:02
  but him saying that is just hilarious, you know what I mean,
• 1:02:07
  And you know, just yeah, he's just And when he even wrote his
• 1:02:12
  name on the piece of paper, it said Duke Jali Jali jali ali al
• 1:02:15
  ya. He just ran out of room. And just I mean, it's
• 1:02:16
  just he could be a stand up comedian, he could be, like you
• 1:02:20
  said, a counselor a teacher. I mean, he's just, oh man,
• 1:02:23
  he's a joy. And it seems like Ryan and I've been talking about
• 1:02:27
  him forever and because we have been, the first time we talked about him,
• 1:02:31
  you had his name on the spreadsheet and I go, Bro, how
• 1:02:35
  do you say this guy's last name? And you go, you go,
• 1:02:37
  I don't know. I go, well, we got to figure that one
• 1:02:39
  out before we start recording, and he goes, he goes, I mean,
• 1:02:43
  I guess I could call coach Meyer. I think it wasn't And I
• 1:02:45
  go, yeah, call him. And then and you had it. I
• 1:02:47
  remember it was loud enough that I could hear it. And he like he
• 1:02:52
  was like, uh, just pronounced all of the vowels, is what he
• 1:02:54
  said? Yeah? Yeah, And that's you know, and ever since then,
• 1:02:59
  I mean, you know, he's been a favorite of ours. And
• 1:03:02
  yeah, and I remember saying to you Ryland, because I was standing in
• 1:03:07
  the by the goal post nook sex on defense on their own five and I'm
• 1:03:13
  taking picture and I'm watching and what stood out to me was just his It
• 1:03:19
  looked like when when the Seahawks brought in Cortes Kennedy and they still but they
• 1:03:22
  they went from a three four to a four to three. They still had
• 1:03:25
  your boy over there, Joe Nash, and they still had Jeff Bryant Jacob
• 1:03:29
  Green on the outside. You could stand behind and you know exactly which one
• 1:03:32
  Cortesse Kennedys. That's what it was like with Duke. He's just he and
• 1:03:37
  his get off and his speed and oh man, it was just so fun
• 1:03:42
  to watch. It's such a great center of gravity, you know, like
• 1:03:45
  he's he's one of those guys that doesn't have he doesn't have a problem gaining
• 1:03:49
  the leverage of shoulder of pad level, you know what I mean, It's
• 1:03:52
  fair and he never gives it up. And then he's got such a good
• 1:03:57
  first step. And I don't know what his lifting them are. I don't
• 1:04:00
  know if he's a beast in the weight room where if he's a guy that
• 1:04:01
  shows up once, but the way that he has the ability to just move
• 1:04:05
  guys almost with like one hand at times, it's just the strength that's behind
• 1:04:10
  him. I remember I had had a buddy in high school. That was
• 1:04:13
  you know, he's probably three twenty. We never saw him the entire offseason,
• 1:04:16
  and then he would come in and throw up like three fifty on bench
• 1:04:19
  and you're just like, bro, like what how do you do this?
• 1:04:23
  And you don't even work out, But that's the duke. It's it's one
• 1:04:26
  of those It's almost like it looks like he just has natural strength behind him
• 1:04:30
  that you can just you know, and then his thighs and his legs are
• 1:04:32
  just so strong and compact that he can just Man, it's it's fun to
• 1:04:36
  watch. I mean, as a guy who takes a lot of pride in
• 1:04:41
  I mean, I'll say it this way, everything between the guards and you
• 1:04:45
  know, like between the ends on defense or I guess between the tackles and
• 1:04:47
  the ends. That's a guy that I don't know if I would want him
• 1:04:50
  on offense or defense, because I think he could be a heck of a
• 1:04:53
  center at the next level. But I look at him as like almost like
• 1:04:58
  a three tech maybe, you know, just a guy that just creates like
• 1:05:00
  you know who he is, Tyler. He's a little bit like, uh,
• 1:05:03
  who's the shorter guy that the Seahawks have had the last couple of years,
• 1:05:05
  a d tackle with a really long arms. Um, yeah, I
• 1:05:10
  know who you're talking. He just left this season, Puna Ford. Yeah,
• 1:05:13
  here might be a lot of like Puna Ford, where like, you
• 1:05:15
  know, he's not six foot four, he's not the tallest guy on the
• 1:05:18
  field, but you watch him and it's like, man, he plays a
• 1:05:20
  lot bigger than he even is, and he's a big dude as it is,
• 1:05:24
  you know. Yeah. Yeah, And the part that the part that
• 1:05:27
  people don't realize is that he decided last year he played basketball, so he
• 1:05:30
  played the full season of basketball, and then after that he decided he's in
• 1:05:33
  turn out for track. He's a three sport athlete. Last year and it
• 1:05:36
  was actually really good for him because I kept him in great shape. Now
• 1:05:40
  here's the cool thing is, though, Duke in great shape is still six
• 1:05:43
  foot three day nine, so he's a monster in great shape, you know,
• 1:05:47
  But it was it was a fun year for Duke. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:05:50
  we actually have a kid. It's it's funny that you mentioned three on
• 1:05:53
  nine because I wouldn't have thought he was three on nine. I mean,
• 1:05:56
  just watching his film in the way that he plays like he plays bigger than
• 1:06:00
  three o nine, but he looks smaller than three on nine, you know
• 1:06:02
  what I mean? There's actually a kid that we do we do uh,
• 1:06:06
  I don't know weekly wayans or whatever. At Bato, we had a kid
• 1:06:10
  that weighed in um well over three fifty And if you would have asked me
• 1:06:15
  how for thirteen that's thirteen years I've been looking at kids, kind of projecting
• 1:06:17
  weights and heights and stuff so that when they say something to me, I
• 1:06:20
  know whether or not they're lying. And if you would ask me, I
• 1:06:23
  would have said, this kid is probably more like three thirty three thirty five.
• 1:06:26
  And then when I heard the weight, I went, okay for a
• 1:06:28
  guy that, like how do how does some of these guys move like that?
• 1:06:30
  Like my goodness, Like what what world are we? Could you imagine?
• 1:06:34
  Could you imagine what a guy like the size of Duke and the way
• 1:06:38
  that he plays and stuff would have done in the eighties and nineties, like
• 1:06:41
  he's he's gotta he would have been just fine back then. Whereas I hate
• 1:06:45
  to say it, but a lot of kids nowadays they don't understand what it
• 1:06:47
  would have been like to play in the in the eighties and nineties, you
• 1:06:50
  know, like a lot of these kids nowadays, I don't know that they
• 1:06:53
  would have survived. You know, some of these linemen with how just mean
• 1:06:56
  and nasty and physical, and man, it's it's fun to watch him.
• 1:06:59
  And I mean Strammell. I love Stremler too. I really like John Stremmler
• 1:07:02
  a lot, you know. And you guys got some other guys insight too
• 1:07:05
  that are that are big, strong boys, And I mean, it's it's
• 1:07:09
  it's really cool to see because you've got speed and you've got talent at the
• 1:07:13
  skill positions that maybe aren't like country boys, you know what I mean,
• 1:07:18
  Like when you look at the way that they play on offense, but then
• 1:07:21
  you look at the line and you're like, yeah, those are some guys
• 1:07:25
  that can move some some bills and hey, if you know what I mean,
• 1:07:28
  or if we get the tractors stuck in the mud, well if these
• 1:07:30
  guys pull it out, you know what I mean. So it's it's really
• 1:07:32
  cool to see. I mean, I'm I'm really excited to see what you
• 1:07:35
  guys do this year. And um, I mean, it's a it's a
• 1:07:39
  team. Tyler has always said that, uh, and Tyler, I'm I'm
• 1:07:42
  throwing you out here. But Tyler's always said that, you know, when
• 1:07:45
  he goes to Nooksack Valley, he always it's always the place where he feels
• 1:07:48
  most welcome at times, you know what I mean. And it's like people
• 1:07:53
  that he doesn't know are high five in him and saying thanks for coming out.
• 1:07:56
  And you know, everywhere he goes, you know, if he wants
• 1:07:59
  to go open the booth, he can do it. If he wants to
• 1:08:00
  go, you know, take a leak on the fifty yard line right in
• 1:08:02
  the middle of the play, he could pull it off and probably nobody would
• 1:08:05
  say anything. I mean, yeah, I tell you everyone here loves and
• 1:08:10
  there that there's a lot of truth to that, because again, it's what
• 1:08:14
  both you guys do. Though, I mean, you guys don't get near
• 1:08:15
  enough credit. You guys don't understand how much you touch these young kids,
• 1:08:19
  you know what I mean. And I mean that in a good way,
• 1:08:21
  not in the way that might have came out has nothing to do with this.
• 1:08:28
  But but these kids, these kids, they they they cannot wait for
• 1:08:30
  your articles to come out, They cannot wait for the podcast to come out.
• 1:08:33
  They can't wait because I tell you to them, to them, you
• 1:08:38
  guys have become these you know, I mean this this shelf up here that
• 1:08:42
  is these local celebrities. To hear you guys talk about them as power,
• 1:08:45
  you know what, it pushes them, It makes them work harder. I
• 1:08:48
  mean, there's so much power. And then for you guys do on the
• 1:08:50
  backset that nobody has even any clue what you guys are doing as far as
• 1:08:54
  pushing these kids on the outside right, trying to get them opportunities. I
• 1:08:59
  am be grateful to you guys, and I know that all these kids are
• 1:09:01
  too, and again they love it. And that's why again going back to
• 1:09:05
  what you're doing, Tyler, the legacy stuff is huge, you know.
• 1:09:09
  I mean people need to understand the support of that allows all of this,
• 1:09:13
  I hate to say this, but to happen. And that is a huge
• 1:09:15
  push because people need to understand and realize what you guys do. And then
• 1:09:21
  they do they enjoy the daylight side of it. And they only know fifty
• 1:09:24
  percent of what you do. They don't know the other half. You know.
• 1:09:27
  Yeah, thank you again for what you guys do. It's unbelievable,
• 1:09:30
  Tylred, you got anything else? Well, the only question I have left
• 1:09:33
  is what do you think you could run a forty in tomorrow. Hey,
• 1:09:42
  hey, it'd be calendar time, he says. I would disagreeing, But
• 1:09:46
  I take out the sun dial. We time it with a sun dial or
• 1:09:51
  a watch? Which one? I let's just say that if I ran a
• 1:09:56
  forty, nobody would be there to time It's I wasn't do it for anybody.
• 1:10:00
  Let me let let me let me change it to if you at at
• 1:10:04
  you know, forty one or whatever you are now, and you in week
• 1:10:09
  one at Mountain View, you put on this paths, how many carries could
• 1:10:12
  you give? No, sac Valley one? Good one? Hey, if
• 1:10:18
  it's anything like the one you had against Meridian on the first one. Now
• 1:10:21
  you know what I will say this. So as we prepared for this,
• 1:10:26
  Tyler wanted me to ask you about, you know, first play eighty yards
• 1:10:30
  blah blah blah blah blah. And then he threw a little bit of a
• 1:10:32
  barb out there and he goes, you know, and I think he even
• 1:10:36
  had less than ninety yards in that game. And I was like, really,
• 1:10:40
  I went and looked it up. Seven carries eighty six yards is what
• 1:10:43
  you had eight on the first play. So when he about how good that
• 1:10:46
  Meridian team was and you talked about you mentioned was it ty Harrison chasing down
• 1:10:50
  twice play? I mean that that shows people how remarkable that's not one play
• 1:10:56
  for eight yard it was. It was some great block. And let me
• 1:11:00
  tell you why I think it was. What did I say, Tyler?
• 1:11:03
  It was? It was it was one play for eighty yards and then it
• 1:11:06
  was six plays for six yards, but it turned into instead of being eighty
• 1:11:13
  yards average per carry, it turned into like twelve point three. Yeah.
• 1:11:17
  I mean that that's pretty tough to do, and in a bad way.
• 1:11:23
  I mean that's right, right, you know what, that's seven carries and
• 1:11:29
  eighty six yards more than me or Tyler ever had. So you got that
• 1:11:32
  right. You're doing something right. Although I don't know that that really is
• 1:11:35
  doing something right because he's a washed kicker. I'm a washed up, fat
• 1:11:39
  guy. I am a fat guy. Uh, Tyler, anything else before
• 1:11:44
  we get I think I think we're good. I just I just uh.
• 1:11:46
  I just want to say thanks, Britt, because it's such a cool,
• 1:11:49
  full circle thing because watching you in high school, reading about you, but
• 1:11:55
  we were only two grades apart, it was it was inspiring to see what
• 1:11:59
  you do on the field, and then and then probably six or seven years
• 1:12:02
  later, I'm sitting in a dugout next to you in Jerry Fields and it's
• 1:12:08
  like, holy cow, like we're playing softball together, um, and you
• 1:12:12
  putting your arm around me and making me feel comfortable right away what you were
• 1:12:15
  saying about Duke, You're the exact same way. And it's just been a
• 1:12:18
  really cool thing all these years to get to know you and your family and
• 1:12:23
  to be able to do what I do. It's, uh, you know,
• 1:12:26
  I'm the luckiest guy in the world. You know, it's really cool.
• 1:12:28
  So thank you very much, No, thank you, brother. And
• 1:12:30
  it's been thirty years. That makes us both pretty old. Yea. Hey,
• 1:12:34
  there's a lot of gray in this podcast right now, a lot of
• 1:12:40
  great to go around, Tyler. We need to start interviewing some some much
• 1:12:43
  older guys, you know what I mean? Yeah, we need to get
• 1:12:45
  Aimes on here so we feel a little bit young. How about that?
• 1:12:50
  We will. We will let Brett Britt tell any Bob Aimes stories that always
• 1:12:54
  got uh, Tyler. We have a couple more of these um video Zoom
• 1:13:00
  podcast that we're gonna do. Who are the other I can't remember? Off
• 1:13:01
  the top of my head. We got two more to do, specifically who
• 1:13:04
  was it. Yeah, we're gonna introduce new head coach ce Home, Brian
• 1:13:08
  Young and also the new head coach at Blaine, Andy Olson. We'll get
• 1:13:11
  those before Andy Olsen finally gets on the podcast, even though we've mentioned his
• 1:13:16
  names his name quite a few times over the last two years on the podcast,
• 1:13:20
  so those will be fun. So be sure to look for those as
• 1:13:24
  we go forward. H Tyler, by the time this goes up, will
• 1:13:29
  you have already kind of put the legacy supporter stuff up? I don't know,
• 1:13:31
  I think so I'm gonna try to correspond it together and yeah, and
• 1:13:35
  it's gonna be we're gonna gonna launch the launch it at the same time.
• 1:13:39
  This is how professional we are. I have not what his plan is with
• 1:13:42
  any of this. Um, all I know is it's really cool. So
• 1:13:45
  and and then Tyler, if they want to reach out to you about any
• 1:13:47
  of that, what's the easiest way to do that? Well, you know,
• 1:13:50
  through through Facebook is probably the easiest way. You can find me on
• 1:13:55
  there or just or go to anywhere Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, look for
• 1:14:00
  walcom preps. That's just the easiest mu there or something and yeah, yeah,
• 1:14:04
  the new hat you got there, Tylert. Yeah, And we're gonna
• 1:14:09
  have all the same stuff going for We're gonna have team previews coming up at
• 1:14:12
  the end of August. We've got all kinds of crazy stuff gonna go on.
• 1:14:15
  Um, we're gonna have another We're gonna be adding a third person to
• 1:14:20
  the fantasy this year. We got all kinds of crazy stuff that we're working
• 1:14:25
  on cooking up over here, so be sure to check out everything walcom preps
• 1:14:29
  dot com. He's Tyler Anderson britt Lentz. Thank you for your time.
• 1:14:33
  Thank you, brother,