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Head Coach Marcus Rogers discusses his Jaguars Football team for 2025 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I got That was Ryan Ernest. This is Marcus Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: Holmes County Central. We're at twelve ten. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to twelve twenty.
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  Speaker 2: All right, ready, coach, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 4: Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you hear me. Here we go. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go live at three to one, taking you through a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: the Mississippi Association of Coaches Convention twenty twenty five. Here
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  Speaker 1: at the Refuge in Flowood, it is the Multi Sports Clinic.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Rodgers, head football coach, Holmes County Central, Jaguars coach.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, man, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great? Jake, how you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Coach? I'm good. I'm never asked you this. Do y'all say? Jaguars?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you do though? Bobby Hall? Jaguars?
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  Speaker 3: We go?
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars, Jaguars coach?
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  Speaker 1: What a year you know on the you know, just athletically, man,
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  Speaker 1: you guys had a good football season last year.
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  Speaker 2: You guys basketball team. I saw you down the big house.
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  Speaker 1: Man, what a moment that was for you guys to
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  Speaker 1: beat just that atmosphere there against Canton.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was Canton.
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  Speaker 1: So talk about, you know, just the academic year in
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  Speaker 1: an athletic year that you guys had before we jump
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  Speaker 1: into this year.
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, Jake, it was a great season last year.
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  Speaker 4: We football wise, we made it to the second round.
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  Speaker 4: We lost to West Point there in the second round
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  Speaker 4: at West Point thirty one to twenty eight, a game
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  Speaker 4: that we would love to have back, and we knew
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  Speaker 4: the win up from that game and win the state championship.
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  Speaker 3: And they went on and won a state championship.
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, basketball wise, our basketball team won fourteen
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  Speaker 4: after the last fifteen games there in February and March
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  Speaker 4: and made it to the Big House and they just
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  Speaker 4: ran against a tough Can team that ended up going
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  Speaker 4: back to back winning the state championship. But one thing
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  Speaker 4: about our basketball team, Jake and I talk about all
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  Speaker 4: our sports.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an athletic director. The whole team is back. We
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  Speaker 3: lost no one, every matter what, juniors.
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  Speaker 2: And sophomore, y'all gonna be preseason one.
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  Speaker 4: And Cannons in sixth eighth, so we don't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about Can this year. I think it's Columbus and
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  Speaker 4: maybe Lanier. Uh that I've been doing a little research
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  Speaker 4: on with. Other than that, Jacob, we had we had
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  Speaker 4: a good athletic season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, me and You've talked and we've been friends
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  Speaker 1: for a long time now, and we talked about the
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  Speaker 1: challenges but also the the you know, the reward at
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  Speaker 1: coaching at a place in athletic director at a place like
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  Speaker 1: Comes County Central because you told me, you said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: look our kids aren't like city kids. I mean, these
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  Speaker 1: are these are guys that are out on tractors. They're
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  Speaker 1: they're you know, maybe doing pup wod, they're cutting down trees.
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  Speaker 1: What you have been able to do and go up
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  Speaker 1: there and send guys on to play junior college Division one.
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  Speaker 2: The culture you have really cultivated it there.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, it's tough when you like, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: it's a different brand of kids. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They bring the lunch box to school every day. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: They work hard, like you said, the punk wood, the
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  Speaker 4: truck drive, lining fences down the highway. And I seen
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  Speaker 4: a couple of my kids out of practice the other day.
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  Speaker 4: They were, uh covering potholes on the street, working with
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  Speaker 4: the county supervisors. So I was like man, we we
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  Speaker 4: just had a three hour workout, uh, along with the
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  Speaker 4: football one on one where we do school with the
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  Speaker 4: kids as well. And uh they they right back out
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  Speaker 4: there in the heating and they putting the grind in.
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  Speaker 4: They putting the work in. And Uh, I wouldn't trade
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  Speaker 4: it for anything, Jake. I've had a lot of offers,
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  Speaker 4: and uh it still leads me back to Lexton, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 4: every every morning.
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  Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about this week.
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  Speaker 1: You're here obviously, Uh, you know it's it's a different
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  Speaker 1: year every year. You're always learning something different than aren't
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  Speaker 1: you At the at the NAC.
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  Speaker 4: You always can Uh. I like to you, I call
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  Speaker 4: it the sponge effect. I always try to soak up
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  Speaker 4: something from these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You got the older guys, the Ryan Ernest is of
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  Speaker 4: the you know, the veteran guys. Uh, coach schooler from
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  Speaker 4: Pearl you know the dose. And I just saw Kenny
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  Speaker 4: Burton bump into coach hadn't hadn't seen him in a while,
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  Speaker 4: and and just listening to the coach silver Field a
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  Speaker 4: minute ago. He did a great job representing the University
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  Speaker 4: of Memphis, and we appreciate him coming out talking to
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  Speaker 4: us so it's always something you can learn.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Once you once you get so stubborn where you can't
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  Speaker 4: learn and things, time for you to let it go.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Rogers on you're a radio head football coach athletics
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  Speaker 1: director Holmes County Central Wednesday edition of the program.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're either going forwards or backwards, right. And
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  Speaker 1: I know that's what you know most coaches, and you
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  Speaker 1: talked to coaches. You know, when you're a young coach,
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  Speaker 1: it's about the winning, and it's on the winning when
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  Speaker 1: you're an older coach. And that's what coaches tell me.
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  Speaker 1: And I could feel it kind of you know, raising
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  Speaker 1: my children.
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  Speaker 2: I'm forty nine.
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  Speaker 1: You still care about the winning, but you're more like
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  Speaker 1: I gotta make sure that guy is continuing to grow
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  Speaker 1: when he leaves here, right and and plays his last
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  Speaker 1: doubt of football.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's true, Jake.
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  Speaker 4: I've had a chance to watch these the young men
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  Speaker 4: as well as the adults grow. I've got three or
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  Speaker 4: four assistant coaches that I had the head coaches now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so I reaped the benefits and rewards off
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  Speaker 4: that we hadn't had a chance to win a state championship.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully this is the year.
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  Speaker 4: I hadn't told any about it, but since we're on
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  Speaker 4: air now, this is my last year coaching. Don't come on, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this will be my let this is twenty four coaching.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna tell me like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna tell you like that. Jay, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a good time.
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  Speaker 4: Me and Chris just talked about it, and I had
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  Speaker 4: my assistant head coach who's gonna come in for me,
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  Speaker 4: Alan Washington.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be the next head coach. I've been grooming
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  Speaker 3: them for three years.
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  Speaker 4: I've just moved into other roles now we've been at
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  Speaker 4: ADEA of the district is kind of it's a hard piece.
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  Speaker 4: They've had a sister principal. Now I'm over operations and
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  Speaker 4: maintenance and all of that. So it's that time, you know,
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  Speaker 4: twenty four years of coaching and being away from my
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  Speaker 4: family a lot, being around a lot of other people's families.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's time for me. I got a twelve
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  Speaker 4: year old, I got a twenty one year old and
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  Speaker 4: a nineteen year old, both of them in college, but
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  Speaker 4: the twelve year old lot, I need to put.
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  Speaker 3: More in them.
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  Speaker 4: Jay, But like you, were saying, it is great to
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  Speaker 4: watch the maturation process of these kids as well as
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  Speaker 4: the adults.
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  Speaker 1: Now, well, congratulations on that. I mean, obviously that's not
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  Speaker 1: the end. That's the next chapter in your life. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I respect definitely that decision. You hear
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  Speaker 1: coaches a lot of times do that to say, look,
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  Speaker 1: I've done what they needed to do. It's time to
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  Speaker 1: do something different. But hey, you're not done. You still
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  Speaker 1: got one year left. Tell me about this football team
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  Speaker 1: this season. It's gonna be an epic one.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: We've been good every season. Like I tell the guys,
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  Speaker 4: we gotta go. We gotta go to great. Good is
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  Speaker 4: not enough. If you can achieve more, If you can
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  Speaker 4: be great, be great. And uh, Jay, we got about
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  Speaker 4: nine kids right now with Division one offers nine. Uh
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  Speaker 4: so this is gonna be a nice class. It's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a nice class. We should sign thirteen kids this year,
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  Speaker 4: which is gonna be my biggest class. Uh and it
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  Speaker 4: ranks right up there with the Oak Groves and the Brandon's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, of the world.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, hopefully we reap the.
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  Speaker 4: Benefits and go to Startville in December December to fourth
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  Speaker 4: at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: That's the goal, Marcus Roders on your radio and it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be the goal Wednesday edition of the program.
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  Speaker 1: Just to you know, you talk about the guys that's got.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have have put a ton of guys,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, in junior college football Division one football.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and as you reference this year, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have some big, big names uh on the on
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  Speaker 1: the recruiting trail.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, Yes, sir, we got old Gavin Howard. He's an
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  Speaker 4: athlete that it possesses a lot of offers. Donnelle Robinson
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  Speaker 4: is a kid that committed the Baylor I think two
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago. Got a dB Terrell Johnson that just committed
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  Speaker 4: to Mississippi State to play corner. We got Jaden Tucker.
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  Speaker 4: He's a kid that has eight to ten Division one offers.
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  Speaker 4: The list goes on. I'm like in this part of
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  Speaker 4: it to Jake, I get forgiftful. So I had to
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  Speaker 4: look at my notes and do that type of deal
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  Speaker 4: with Sure, it's nine kids. Legitimately with my running back
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  Speaker 4: Rashard Campbell, So the names coming back to me now
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  Speaker 4: Rashard Campbell.
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  Speaker 3: And Jerry Reese is a defensive end. Uh. It's just
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  Speaker 3: took This year should be a pretty good season.
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  Speaker 1: Jake, to ask you about recruiting, I've got you for
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  Speaker 1: a few more minutes, share, and I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 2: You referenced Baylor coming in here, and.
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  Speaker 1: You look down the list of the top guys, and
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  Speaker 1: you've been around us again at lost, You've had you know,
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  Speaker 1: your son's moved, played college football.
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  Speaker 2: You've been part of all this process.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like today we've got more and more interests.
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  Speaker 1: And I just to say to Mississippi where you know
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  Speaker 1: it used to it. You can go to state on
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  Speaker 1: mess Southern Jackson State, and then if you were really good,
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  Speaker 1: Bama may pull you out of here, Georgia may pull
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  Speaker 1: you out here.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that. Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Now you look down the list of the top twenty
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  Speaker 1: five players, over half of them are going out of state.
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  Speaker 1: Is there what is the reason for that? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it just because I mean, kids don't have that. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have that. I guess attachment like we used to
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  Speaker 1: the to the state universities.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Jay, we don't have either head
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  Speaker 4: coach here talking to the convention they used to never happen,
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  Speaker 4: So I must probably say some stuff that people need
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  Speaker 4: to hear. Sure, the relationships, I guess Keiffen's a rockstar.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about coach Levy. I got a relationship
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  Speaker 4: with them. But you have to form relationship with these
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  Speaker 4: high school coaches in this state, like the former coaches.
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  Speaker 4: Damn Mullen had great relationship with everybody in this state,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And it shows in the NFL with all
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  Speaker 4: those guys sure that are from Mississippi that plays in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And I looked at the same list that you're.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about, and a lot of kids have left the state.
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  Speaker 4: Well those guys, I say, like my guys committed to Baylor.
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  Speaker 4: Well he used to be the old line coach for
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  Speaker 4: Mike Leach, you know. So it's relationships, you know, And
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  Speaker 4: that makes sense. Jamar Chainey is at Baylor who played
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  Speaker 4: at State for Mullin and he coached with leechs. So
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  Speaker 4: it comes full circle. Those guys have better relationships out
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  Speaker 4: of state than not in state.
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  Speaker 3: Guys. It just is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, And you make a great point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean in that either coach is not here again
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  Speaker 1: this year, so either Marcus Rodgers on your radio, coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for some time. Look best of
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  Speaker 1: luck today and of course bestal luck this year, and
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  Speaker 1: congratulations on the next step of your life.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we'll visit again. Very Sackon, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jake, thanks for having us in.
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  Speaker 1: Go Jaguars, absolutely Jagguarsar time out on the floor, back
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  Speaker 1: with more just to beat.