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East St. Louis and Principia State Champs, State Basketball Final 4 Preview, Football Coaching Carousel, Cardinal Ritter Football Schedule · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Gateway Sports The NEU
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  Speaker 1: Show's been a few months for this podcast format.
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  Speaker 2: Here John Huff joined by Roman Bishop.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be here talking to you guys again about
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  Speaker 1: high school sports. And today it's layoff basketball. With the
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  Speaker 1: Illinois season coming to an end just yesterday and we
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  Speaker 1: have the final four set for classes four, five, and
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  Speaker 1: six in Missouri. We're gonna talk about the teams who've
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  Speaker 1: gotten to this point in preview these these games for
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  Speaker 1: the next week. So Roman, like you your self confessor,
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  Speaker 1: not that much into basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't been able to. Haven't been been pretty
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  Speaker 3: busy these past.
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  Speaker 2: Few months with work and other things.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't been able to keep up with high school
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  Speaker 4: basketball unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Right so I'm gonna be doing I think, most of
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  Speaker 1: the heavy lifting. But Roman, you can chime in with
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts that you have. If you see some interesting
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  Speaker 1: stats or whatever, you can feel free to.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: So the first thing we got to talk about is
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  Speaker 1: East Saint Louis winning there second ever state championship, defeating
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  Speaker 1: Deerfield fifty two to forty six in a pretty close game.
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  Speaker 1: It was a one point game in the final minute
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  Speaker 1: of the game. And came down to a great play
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  Speaker 1: by Jamison White, Penn State commit, who made his first
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  Speaker 1: free throw and then missed the second one. But he
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  Speaker 1: got the miss, he got his own rebound and put
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  Speaker 1: it up an end for two more points, so it
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  Speaker 1: was a three point trip.
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  Speaker 2: Gave him a four point lead.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty five seconds with the play, and then Flyers
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  Speaker 1: got another stop and hit two more free throws to
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  Speaker 1: win the game in the final seconds right there. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's Mark Chambers' second time he's been at East
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis, I believe since twenty seventeen, the seventeen to
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  Speaker 1: eighteen season, and he's now won two state championships as
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  Speaker 1: the Flyers head coach.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, and he did.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did a really great job of throughout
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  Speaker 1: the whole season and then even you know, just.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to cover three games of East St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis during their playoff run, and he made he was
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  Speaker 1: really good at making adjustments mid game, especially at halftime
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  Speaker 1: against Centralli when I think it was a eas St.
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  Speaker 2: Louis was winning by four points and.
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  Speaker 1: Then they just completely blew out Centrally in this in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter there. And then against Chicago Leo, where
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  Speaker 1: again it was pretty close at halftime, they made some
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  Speaker 1: adjustments and you know, kind of started to speed him
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit and really really try to like
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  Speaker 1: enforce their length. And Phil Jones, their point guard, was
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  Speaker 1: really one of the best point guards in the entire area.
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  Speaker 1: Like he was able to kind of take over the
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  Speaker 1: game in the second second half there. It finished with
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  Speaker 1: fifteen points against LEO, And in both games against LEO
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  Speaker 1: and Deerfield, East St. Louis dominated the boards and they
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  Speaker 1: had a lot more shot attempts, and they were just
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  Speaker 1: pretty dominating, Like if you were looking at stats and analytics,
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  Speaker 1: like they they were totally deserved winners and dominated those
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  Speaker 1: those analytics in those games right there.
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  Speaker 2: So Congress of the Flyers.
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  Speaker 1: Jamison White had one of the best performances I've seen
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  Speaker 1: all season in the championship game against Deerfield.
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  Speaker 2: He had nineteen points and seventeen rebounds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a six to eight. He can play as
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  Speaker 1: a guard. He loves to play as a guard. But
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  Speaker 1: he also he's pretty much their center on defense because
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  Speaker 1: he's six', eight he is incredibly. Athletic he alters a
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  Speaker 1: lot of, shots and so he's obviously a really good.
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  Speaker 1: Rebounder he Had he had fifteen rebounds Against, leo which
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  Speaker 1: is actually the exact.
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  Speaker 2: Amount leo had as a. Team so, YEAH i DON'T
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  Speaker 2: i don't Think i've.
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  Speaker 3: Only had fifteen rebound rebounds all game as a.
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  Speaker 2: Team, yeah it was Pretty Leo leo was.
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  Speaker 1: There they were pretty small and THEY i don't think
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  Speaker 1: HAD i think they only had.
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  Speaker 2: Like one senior in their. Rotation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah so The Chicago leo is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: really good team In class. Three by the, way people
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  Speaker 1: wonder watching In. Illinois but, yeah He's Saint LOUIS a
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  Speaker 1: and probably the not the obviously the probably the most
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  Speaker 1: memorable game of their run was Against Decater MacArthur.
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  Speaker 2: In The elite, eight.
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  Speaker 1: Which is The Super, sectionals where they won fifty one
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  Speaker 1: to forty, nine and they had they hit a shot
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  Speaker 1: with about fifteen seconds to play to go, back go
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  Speaker 1: up by, two which would prove to be the game,
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  Speaker 1: winner and they had a they had a nine point
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  Speaker 1: lead in the fourth, quarter But MacArthur storm back tied
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: With about a mint and a half to.
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  Speaker 1: Go and that was in a hostile environment because like,
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  Speaker 1: that Because MacArthur is about like thirty minutes away From
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  Speaker 1: springfield And East.
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  Speaker 2: St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis they just they they don't they don't have like
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  Speaker 1: a ton of, Fans like they're just not going to
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  Speaker 1: pack a gym like they usually have like their typical,
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  Speaker 1: supporters which is, great but, yeah that place was like
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent full Of MacArthur. Fans and, also whenever you're
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  Speaker 1: Playing East Saint, louis it always seems to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get everybody out and wanting to see what happens in those.
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  Speaker 2: Games it just goes for both football and.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball and so, Yeah East Saint louis and really a
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  Speaker 1: road environment for, them was able to come out with
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  Speaker 1: a really memorable victory Over, MacArthur and that was and
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  Speaker 1: that was huge for them BECAUSE i Believe MacArthur was
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  Speaker 1: ranked i think third or second or like they were
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  Speaker 1: top four.
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  Speaker 2: In the, state and so Was East Saint.
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  Speaker 1: Louis so that was like a top five matchup right,
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  Speaker 1: there and so they get by them was a, huge
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  Speaker 1: huge testament for The flyers right, there and they were
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  Speaker 1: able to to you, know kind OF i wouldn't say
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  Speaker 1: win convincingly because they only won by, six but they
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  Speaker 1: were able to just have a really a real complete.
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  Speaker 1: Season they only had two local losses all, year which
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  Speaker 1: was Against principia when they didn't Have Jamison wide And Devin,
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  Speaker 1: houston who ended Up Like houston didn't.
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  Speaker 2: End, up he wasn't on the team for the.
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  Speaker 1: PLAYOFFS i don't know when his last game, was but
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  Speaker 1: so basically it was they were kind of without him
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  Speaker 1: for you, know a third of the season, basically and
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  Speaker 1: then they had a really weird loss To Bevo west
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven to fifty six in overtime on the road.
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  Speaker 1: There but maybe that was kind of a blessing in
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  Speaker 1: The skies because they didn't lose another game after, that
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  Speaker 1: and maybe they maybe they kind of needed a loss
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  Speaker 1: like that kind of maybe humble them a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and get them.
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  Speaker 2: Back on his, course so to.
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  Speaker 1: Speak and it was actually two games before the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: started so you, know they were able to just kind
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  Speaker 1: of that game happened and they were able to really get,
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  Speaker 1: focused and, YEAH i didn't really have a close game
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  Speaker 1: until The MacArthur, game and Then deerfield gave, him give,
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  Speaker 1: them gave him a big. Scare deerfield was a team that,
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  Speaker 1: had like eleve finished with twelve losses on the season
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  Speaker 1: and kind of a little bit of A cinderella team right,
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  Speaker 1: there because they just they've never really been good at,
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  Speaker 1: basketball and they just they kind of had a somewhat
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  Speaker 1: of an easy road from What i've been, told but
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  Speaker 1: they have a they had a six to ninth, Center
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  Speaker 1: Jake paublock who's committed To, dartmouth and they played really
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  Speaker 1: well as a, team and they also were able to
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  Speaker 1: kind of Match East. St louis with their. Size East.
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  Speaker 1: St louis did a really good job all season take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of their size with their.
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  Speaker 2: Guards everybody's about over six foot on.
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  Speaker 1: The court whatever they, have and they're also extremely athletic
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  Speaker 1: and they play really good. Defense But deerfield was kind
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  Speaker 1: of able to manage that for the most, part and
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  Speaker 1: it just came down to really in that fourth. Quarter
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  Speaker 1: East Saint louis was able to just kind of keep
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  Speaker 1: him at arm's length just. About it was like they
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  Speaker 1: would have like two and four point leads and they
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  Speaker 1: just wouldn't Let deerfield tie the, game and they were
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  Speaker 1: able to keep that like a slim, lead like pretty
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  Speaker 1: much like the whole the whole game right. There so
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  Speaker 1: a job well done for the Eas Saint Louis, flyers
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  Speaker 1: and they were under a lot of pressure before the
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  Speaker 1: season because they got a lot of, TRANSFERS i Mean
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  Speaker 1: Jamison white transfer From, Shamanad Phil jones transfer FROM U,
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  Speaker 1: City Alex johnson transfer FROM altaf and and then also you,
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  Speaker 1: Know Devin houston came FROM.
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  Speaker 2: Cbc he didn't finish the season with, them and then.
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  Speaker 1: They were supposed to Have Johati white but he was
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  Speaker 1: just never able To he was never able to play
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  Speaker 1: for whatever. Reason so, yeah so they had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of infusion from other from other, schools but they lived
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  Speaker 1: up to the expectations and that's really hard to.
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  Speaker 5: Do you.
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  Speaker 1: Know their football team has a pretty much kind of
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  Speaker 1: go through a similar thing every, year where every every
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  Speaker 1: year they're tiped to Win CLASS sics in football In,
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  Speaker 1: illinois AND i mean they're just about always ranked like
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  Speaker 1: number one in our area throughout the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Season.
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  Speaker 1: Eastt louis kind of for basketball this year is kind
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  Speaker 1: of the same, thing although because they lost To Bellville
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  Speaker 1: west And shamanad was on an absolute, heater we Eas.
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  Speaker 1: St louis did end the regular season the second in
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  Speaker 1: our large school rankings Behind shamanad, there but.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah they were able To East. Louis they were
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  Speaker 2: able to just get the job.
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  Speaker 1: Done it was all business like for them throughout the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and they just took care of.
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  Speaker 2: Business great to see.
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  Speaker 3: It Congratulations. Flyers.
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  Speaker 4: NOW i KNOW i haven't been following high school basketball too,
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  Speaker 4: much but there's one team that's really called my eye
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  Speaker 4: that just finished a completely insane run through The class three.
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  Speaker 4: Playoffs this might be the Greatest Saint lessaria hasgall basketball
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  Speaker 4: team you've ever.
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  Speaker 3: Seen.
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  Speaker 4: Principia they win The Class racing eight championship OVER. Milliek
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  Speaker 4: career final scores ninety eight to thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Four, yes you heard that.
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  Speaker 4: Correctly they finished the SEASON i think at twenty nine
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  Speaker 4: to two was her final, record correct and the only
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  Speaker 4: two losses were to a school From florida and a
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  Speaker 4: school From. Virginia they looks like on their SCHEDULE i.
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  Speaker 4: CAN i want to see one really close game against
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  Speaker 4: The Saint louis area's school AND i was against R.
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  Speaker 2: CDs i was.
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  Speaker 3: At january is an eight point. Win it wasn't that.
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  Speaker 1: CLOSE i mean it wasn't like it was AT MI
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  Speaker 1: CDs And principia had a double legit lead for a
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  Speaker 1: lot for a big portion of the, game AND i
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  Speaker 1: Think MI CDs kind of got it as close to six.
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  Speaker 1: Points but and Then principia they were able to get
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  Speaker 1: the win right, there just pull that. Out and, yeah they.
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  Speaker 1: Were they were just fantastic all season. Long they were
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  Speaker 1: you know THEY i, think you, know they lived up
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of expectations AND i think surpassed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people's expectations, too because you, know finished the
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  Speaker 1: season as a top TEN rand team in the country
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  Speaker 1: and then you, know beating you, Know, Englewood. California you,
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  Speaker 1: Know Jason crows coming To missou and that's his.
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  Speaker 2: Team they beat them by. Sixteen uh In. St louis
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  Speaker 2: by thirty four Without Jamison.
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  Speaker 1: White but, YEAH i still think they would have Beaten
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  Speaker 1: PRINCIPIA i talked About i've talked about on the.
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  Speaker 3: Raid excuse, me they would have BEA Da Saint.
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  Speaker 2: LOUIS i still THINK princippi would have Beaten East.
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  Speaker 1: St louis if everybody was fully healthy in that, game
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  Speaker 1: all available for that. One but, yeah that was That
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  Speaker 1: that score is definitely not indicative OF i think how
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  Speaker 1: good of a team Eat Saint louis was with how
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  Speaker 1: good they would have been fully.
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  Speaker 2: Healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah but then you Know, principia they beat a really
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  Speaker 1: Good kickaboo team by fifteen At Missouri State.
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  Speaker 3: Kika who's still. PLAYING i believe they know they.
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  Speaker 2: Lost they lost in the class five that was class.
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  Speaker 1: Six so they beat they beat a top, ten you,
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  Speaker 1: know class sixteen by. Fifteen, uh in spring At Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: State so it wasn't At Kickaboo High, school but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's In, springfield which is Where kickbo is right next
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  Speaker 1: the high. School, yeah in a, way it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a way atmosphere. There, yeah and beat a really
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  Speaker 1: Good bartlet team by.
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  Speaker 4: Seven and you, know up actually Played partland twice and
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  Speaker 4: they beat him both.
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  Speaker 2: Times, yeah that's really.
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  Speaker 1: Impressive so they they beat a lot of really Good
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  Speaker 1: missouri teams and then a lot of really good out
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  Speaker 1: of state. Teams some of them were nationally, ranked a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a good portion of them were nationally, ranked
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  Speaker 1: and they were able to win those games.
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  Speaker 3: Too so And Quentin colan's been probably the player of
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  Speaker 3: the year in the.
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  Speaker 2: Area Right he's the player of the year in the. State,
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  Speaker 2: yeah no, Question like there's no debate right.
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  Speaker 4: Now two four Seven sports has him as the highest
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  Speaker 4: ranked Non Link academy player coming out of state Of.
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  Speaker 1: Missouri, yeah and he's probably better than a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those other guys On Link. Academy and he's currently he
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  Speaker 1: recently decommitted From Wake forest AND.
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  Speaker 2: I KNOW i have SOME i can't really discuss all the, information.
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  Speaker 1: But Like sleugh's trying to get, out he's getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of interest is From slough In illinois among local teams.
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  Speaker 1: There so it's uh it's gonna be really interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see where he ultimately.
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  Speaker 2: Goes And i'm really looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 4: Decision i'm sure if he goes To salut then a
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  Speaker 4: lot of The bills Local bills fans will be pretty
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  Speaker 4: fired up by. That that would be very cool to see
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  Speaker 4: another high level local local guys stay.
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  Speaker 2: At home and it is that would be. Coreol we.
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  Speaker 3: SEE i mean nothing doesn't send the stone, yet so we'll.
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  Speaker 1: See but if If illinois is in there and they
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  Speaker 1: really are making him a top, PRIORITY i think they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna financially win That Ni la N i l battle
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  Speaker 1: over slew though and And Quentin. Coleman he he does
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  Speaker 1: live in foul In, illinois so that would be that
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  Speaker 1: is his home, state and uh so maybe all.
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  Speaker 3: Over To principia every. Day that's quite a.
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  Speaker 2: Drive, yeah, well but it is what it. Is it's
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  Speaker 2: in the, rules so you can do.
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  Speaker 4: THAT i know there's a lot of controversy Around principia's
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  Speaker 4: roster and that they have a lot of guys from
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  Speaker 4: out of the area that came into.
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  Speaker 3: Play, yeah at Least. Coleman coleman's, local local, guys.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of a lot of the MOST i think
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  Speaker 2: a decent amount of their guys are local.
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  Speaker 4: Too there's still a lot of fans that are kind
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  Speaker 4: of getting fired up if they were even In class
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  Speaker 4: three to begin. WITH i think what was going into
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  Speaker 4: this season that even though they're enrollment was low and
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  Speaker 4: they didn't really have much of a success, factor that
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  Speaker 4: people gonna knew it was.
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  Speaker 2: Coming and because there are A.
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  Speaker 1: Class two school with their enrollment and so next year
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be In class. Four, yeah but so
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  Speaker 1: that could be really interesting if because you, like eventually
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  Speaker 1: they were going to play with The shawn next, year
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  Speaker 1: if they can maintain this level of dominance both teams
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  Speaker 1: as that goes and, yeah that's, uh but, Yeah, principia
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  Speaker 1: they're the best team in the best team in the.
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  Speaker 1: State they should be in class, six but it's what
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  Speaker 1: the rules how they currently, are they can't. Be they
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  Speaker 1: can only go as high as class. FOUR i think
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  Speaker 1: they should make like take off the cap or they
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  Speaker 1: should take off the cast for any sport and make it.
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  Speaker 2: Unlimited if you keep winning just for private.
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  Speaker 1: Schools the sean then that that's the other thing because
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  Speaker 1: they're they are at public, school so they're just they're
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  Speaker 1: just stuck in class. FOUR i don't you would have
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  Speaker 1: to change the entire rules to make them go up
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  Speaker 1: to class six because that means that would cause a
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  Speaker 1: lot of care because that would mean like Like webster
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  Speaker 1: grows to be in class, Six ladu would be in
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  Speaker 1: class six with the current rules they have because du
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  Speaker 1: they went to they went to the final, four they
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  Speaker 1: would in a few years, ago say they would have
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  Speaker 1: three points and that would put them in class.
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  Speaker 2: Six right, There so the class six would have a
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  Speaker 2: ton of.
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  Speaker 1: Would be really overpowered. There so that's a whole conversation
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  Speaker 1: for another. Day but but, yeah the point IS princippi
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  Speaker 1: is the best team in the.
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  Speaker 2: State mm.
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  Speaker 4: HM i think Max PEPs has them as the fourth
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  Speaker 4: ranked non prep school.
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  Speaker 3: In the country right, now, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Only BEHIND i think a couple of schools they lost.
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  Speaker 4: TO i think it's Like Saint paul the. SIX i
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  Speaker 4: think they have as the best team in the, country
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  Speaker 4: non prep school. Team So princippia found a way to
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  Speaker 4: go out and put the best teams in the country
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  Speaker 4: and it definitely paid off because they just ran through
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  Speaker 4: The missouri schedule with no.
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  Speaker 2: Problem.
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  Speaker 1: YEAH i, mean they have the players and they have
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  Speaker 1: A hall Of fame coach And Jay, blossom so that's
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a deadly combination.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: There.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah so congrats to The panthers on a, great great.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Season it's the best team.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: They've had, obviously it's the best team they've had school.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: History they're back to back state. Champions and THEN i mean, that,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: man that here's another, debate like best team In Saint louis.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: History, UH.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: I think the other huge debate right, there because you
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: you Had shamana in twenty sixteen With Jason tatum and
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: all those.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Guys, man That's shamana.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Had a worse record Than principiate did this year BECAUSE
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: i think they had five.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Losses during the season right. There AND i know there's
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: The shawn team in two thousand and.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Two this talked about a lot because they Had jamie
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: mckenneyho was the current head coach At, bashawn and Then Nick,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Kern Dwayne, POLK i, know Like Dwayne polk was a
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: starting point going.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: FOR slew for like three years or.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: So so they like they're almost their entire lineup was
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: like d one guys on that team and they only
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Lost the only team they lost to that year Was
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Lebron james's, team and, wow that's. Crazy, Yeah well year
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: was this two thousand you said two thousand and, one
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: two and, two and they beat and they absolutely clobbered
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: To smet the state Champions so they went twenty.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Nine this is, yeah so this is sean two thousand
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: and one and. Two they went twenty nine and one
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: of the. Season they defeated To smet eighty two to
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: twenty seven the state championship. Game and their one loss
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: was too, Yep Saint vincent in the third.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Game of the year about eight. Points, wow that's.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Crazy, yeah they lost to The Lebron james by eight.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Points that's pretty.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Crazy, Yeah so those are the teams THAT i can
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: that kind of for me roll off the tongue is
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: like like some of the best all time In Saint
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: louis history. THERE i KNOW cbc had like a lot
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: of people talk about the team That Justin tatum And
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Larry hughes AND i think that was like ninety eight.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: They won. State BUT i don't know how all time
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: good they.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Were BECAUSE i don't, LIKE i don't, COMPARE i don't
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: know who they beat and all. That but uh, yeah
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: that's a great conversation for a for another day right.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: There but uh, yeah this is this is this is
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: one of the all.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Time Great Saint louis teams this season that you, know
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: how many how many times have we had teams who
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: are nationally ranked and then you, know not only win,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: state but you, know do so in quite a convincing
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: fashion as. Well the only thing that kind of sucks
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: that kind of would further that would have further validated
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: principia is like they would have like winning In class
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: five or or even Just class, four because like if
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: they would have won In class, four that would have
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: meant they would have had the beat Like vishon And Logan,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: rogersville like two really really good.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Teams we'll speaking of might as well transition over to
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: The class four bracket because The illinois all of the
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: classes are finished ye and Then missouri classes, one, two
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: and three are finished and class so classes, four, five
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: and six have the final four for each class to
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: be played and they'll be played this. Weekend and in
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: class four we got Two Saint louis teams.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Left we Got clayton Playing benton in the first semi, Final.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Clayton for the first time in the final four since
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Five that's.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Awesome Congratulations. Creyhounds hope that they can Keep rough on the.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Momentum But, BENTON i, know is having a really good.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: YEAR i believe they've only lost one game all season
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and they've Been they've been really good these last at
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: least going back to last, year they were one of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the best teams in the state as.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: WELL i think they actually played in the state title.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Game so there beent is twenty nine and one so
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: far this, year the one loss being the three point
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: loss To Blue Valley, northwest which is A kansas Team
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Kansas City.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Area, Yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to look at the area teams they played
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: From Saint. Louis looks like they haven't.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: They haven't really played Any Saint Louis area. Teams it
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: looks LIKE i don't know what they have a. LOT
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: i like How mishia has the schedule out BECAUSE i
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: can tell each team's. Record they beat twenty two and
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Six rala seventy three sixty five back That's.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: January that's a really good win for like for A
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: class four team Because ralla they got upset By, lafayette
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: but they were the one seed In class six district,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: too and they, had Like ethan Brown is their best
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: players IN i wan oi, Commit so they beat a
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: team and they don't WAN toi commit on.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Me so it's pretty good, obviously having a really good.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Season And, clayton they're twenty three and, seven they're having
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: a fantastic. Year they Beat Saint james And dexter to
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: get here to the semi.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Finals and they Beat priory And borgia and their.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Disreturnament so not the toughest road For clayton because THEY
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: i mean they've they haven't played anybody who's ranked so
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: far in the, playoffs but you know they've and they
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: had the they lost in the quarterfinals last.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Year this time that they got it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: DONE i, mean they were able to Play dexter at
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a neutral side At Union High school and it was a.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Close it was close at, halftime and then this is
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: What clayton's kind of been doing a lot this. Season
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: they can it's kind of close and then then they'll
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: just kind of explode in the second half and run.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Away Sebastian bolden had thirty. Points he's he is probably
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: going in his career As clayton's best ever.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Player. Wow, YEAH i.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Don't know their history so much like going back like
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: outside of the twenty first, century but he's easily the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: best player they've had Since Christian thomas when like he
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: was playing he was WHEN i was in high. School
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: that was like fifteen years. Ago so he's he scored
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and twelve.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Points he averages twenty six points a.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Game.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Wow and then he's a.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Junior and Then clayton's other best players is also a,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: junior is The Mayreon. Vergess he's got four hundred ninety eight,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: points averages eighteen a, game and he averages nine rebounds
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a game as.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Well so it's.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Those two guys they've Carried. Clayton and then they got
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a nice point guard In Matthew. Hurst who's actually their
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: only starter as a. Senior so they returned four juniors
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: in there.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Soon as their final four team and they got one senior.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Starting that's pretty.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Impressive, yeah, yeah, Yeah so they've got a lot of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they've got a pretty good two year run set up,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: here potentially really like a three year.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Run.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Honest this is like because last year they were pretty good,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: too and then next year they got a lot of
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: promise with a lot of their production coming back and Like,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Bolden i'm sure he's gotta like absolutely smash like their
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: all time point scoring record of the way he's. Going so,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: yeah it's been a great year For. Clayton and then
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it's a they also Beat, LaDou which is the first
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: time they've done that in like four years and like
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: second time and like fifteen years or, so so that
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: was A i just that was a big win for,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: them just to kind of it's same thing goes For
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: leado because it's like you can have a really good
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: year and also it helps if you Beat, clayton and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: so it's the same way back and forth with both
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: schools right. There so it's definitely a check off the.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Box and they had they had some really close. LOSSES
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: i mean they lost To, vianni had heartbreaker Against vianni
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: where they lost by.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Two then they had a really good win Over.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Eureka they beat him by, sixteen and they BEAT i,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: mean they've Beat edwardsville by five early in the, season
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And edwardsville won their regional championship and they beat Hazel
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: At east by, eighteen and so they got some they
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: got some nice wins on their. Resume and but this
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: is probably the uh might be the maybe not the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: toughest team they played because they've had to PLAY MI
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I CDs twice and M I.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: CDs they're in the final four as well In class.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Five we'll get to.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Them, yeah but this is definitely one of the toughest
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: games they'll have teams they'll have seen all season Against,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: bent who's from who's out Of Saint Joseph.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Well staying In class, four the usual suspects For. Sean
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: they're also in the semi. Finals they have had a fantastic,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: year per usual For wolverine. Basketball they will Play Logan
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: rogersville in the other semi final In class, four but
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Shaun ston at twenty four and three if three losses
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: were only to out of area teams and in area
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: teams they have done exceptionally. WELL i, mean they defeated
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: a really good To SeMet team by seventeen back.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: A game where they shot absolutely incredibly from from the.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Field that, game they.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Beat a pretty Good marquette team by twenty one Back.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: February fifth beat they Beat Sean odd by, four and.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They had a really good Mcluar north was a really
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: tough team to beat at McClure north And sean beat
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: them by. Seven so that's a pretty good win right.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: There and then Eat Webster grows by thirteen just about
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: any like any elite.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Team in the, area they'd beaten.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Them And Orchard, farm who's having one of their best
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: years at twenty five and FIVE A shawn just beat them.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: The quarterfinals to get.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Here, yeah BUT i think a pretty good game By
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Orchard farm because that was that Was it wasn't a. Blow,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: okay they lost by, fifteen but that was a competitive
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: game for pretty much the entire.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Way SO i think.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: If You're Orchard, FARM i mean that's a you cannot
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: ask for much. More and, yeah it's funny how that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: game was played At Warrington High school and like it's it's.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: West of both.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Teams that doesn't make any.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Sense yeah, yeah, so but didn't really matter where that
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that game was.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Played The seawan was gonna win that, game like you,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: know nine times out of.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Ten, well speaking of M studs and earlier in The class,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: fives in my, finals they're the Remaining singles area team.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Left they will play A hillcrest and they're semi final
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: matchup AND CDs having a fantastic year twenty five and
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: four in the. Season Brandon CLEMENS i, BELIEVE.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I think was their leading scorer this. Year he was
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: leading scorer on it last. YEAR i know that he's been.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: There he's been their best player offensively for the last three. Years.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he's averaging fifteen a. Game and they're but
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: they're arguably they're They're their most valuable player Is Tyler.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Ray he's averaging thirteen points a, game but he has
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety two, rebounds averaging ten a.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Game.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah he has been he's been exceptional this. Season
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: he also averages two assists and he leads the team and. Steals,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: yeah so he. Is he also has eleven blocks on
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the season as, well and so, yeah he's a he's
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a very good basketball.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Player i'll just say. That not not the greatest, description but,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: yeah you know What i'm.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Saying, Yeah Jason, Stokes Gabe, weaver And Keishawn. MEMS i
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: mean they've been three year starters for in MY CDs as.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: WELL i, mean this this is this is the year
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: for them where they've been waiting for, It like they Like, Clemens, Stokes,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: weaver And mems have been starters since they were.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Sophomoores and then you, Know ray was a starter last year.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: As a as a Soft, yeah HE i think he
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: eventually became a starter h as the season went on
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: last year and then he's really he had a really big.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Summer he's taken off and, so LIKE i, said, yeah
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: he's arguably their best. Player and so they have a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: really really good starting, five extremely, athletic.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Good hid.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: THERE i, MEAN i think their smallest player in there
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: is like six to two and That's, Clemens so they
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: go like. Six their height goes from like six two
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to six seven up To, weaver and they got a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: few few decent players off the, bench but it's it's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: pretty much like a five man rotation for them for
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the most. Part and, yeah so they had a double
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: overtime win Over holt and second time they Beaten holt this,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: season both really close. Games and, yeah, LIKE i, MEAN
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: i guess one feather in the feather in MCS's cap is.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That like they they lost To princibbia by, eight which
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier in the, season and their.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Last loss was The Cardinal ritter fifty five to forty.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Nine they had a really a little bit of a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: rough patch to end the. SEASON i say rough. Patch
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: they they won like four out of these five, games
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: but they were all pretty close and a few of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: them were a few of those games are against teams THAT
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: i thought they really should have been beating by more.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Points so but, well here they are and they are
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: on looks like a ten game winning streak as of right.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Now so, yeah this has Been this is arguably micds's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: best team they've ever. Had the only time they'd won
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a state championship was in two thousand and. Two But
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: i'm gonna go out and a lemon and say THIS
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: MCDs team in twenty twenty six it's better than that
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: two thousand and two, team just with the amount of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: talent and athleticism they have And i'll say right, NOW
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: i think they're gonna Win.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: STATE i think they're the best team. Remaining so they Play.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Hillcrest hillcrest Defeated hallias in the. Quarterfinals Hill crest is
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: twenty one to nine right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Now, Yeah hillcrest has been a team has been pretty
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: much ranked all, season but not like never a top
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: five team that they've been a solid top ten. Team
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: But mics has been a solid like top three team all.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Season SO i think if here's the thing, though They
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: ms they do have a, weakness and that is their
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: three point. Shooting they Don't clemons is really they're only
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: good long range, shooter and he is a really good,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: shooter but they don't have a whole. Lot they don't
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: have much else besides him other than. That it's just
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Some it's just a handful of guys who are kind
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of good for a three pointer one or two like a.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Game and uh so they they really need him to step,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: up uh in at least be just okay from. Three
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and what they what they're what they're gonna. Do they're
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: gonna get to the. Basket they're going to try to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: get to the, basket crash the, boards good offensive, rebounds
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: put it up and in and then get steals on. Defense
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and Coach.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Wallace has got a pretty good thing going over the
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: past few years AT Mr.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: City, yes, yeah, yeah he's been there now since twenty
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty and they've Been they've been good every.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: YEAR i think they've got like twenty or more wins
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: every single year except last.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Year but they won districts last. Year so even when
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: they don't get to a super high wind, store it
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: was still being there's not having.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: A great, year, Right and they were young last year, Too,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: yeah so THEY i mean they were they kind of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: been young for like the last two.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Seasons but this year they're pretty senior. Heavy.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well on the other side of their, bracket the,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: semifinals It's psychs Versus Raytown, South so The winter of
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: M I C S hillcrest game will play the winner
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Game.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sikeston they're twenty eight and, two lost two lost. Team,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: yeah they lost a holt and then they also lost
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: To Saint.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Dominic they lost a house, okay, yeah back and that
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: was back at The Saint Dominic christmas. Tournaments, yeah and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So sikeston with THE i wouldn't say it's an upset,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: victory but they they Beat leannie sixty two to. Sixty
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that was a GAME i really Thought janni was gonna,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: win especially after how they Beat Webster grows by twenty.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Points and you, Know i'm not saying that it's really, Hard,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: OKAY i will say, This it's really hard to beat
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a really really good, team arguably the like best in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the in the class In class five and then come
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: back and then just kind of have to have the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: same expectations for the next. Opponent SO i don't know
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: if it was something like, that a mental block or,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: whatever but, yeah but, uh and Also sikeston they've kind
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of been due for this as, well because this is
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the fourth straight year they've been to the to the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: quarterfinals and they lost the last three they've been to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: so they were kind of due for. This like they
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: lost To Cardinal ritter in twenty twenty, three and then
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: they WERE i guess kind of upset By vannie Because
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: likeston they were the number one ranked team and they
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: lost to, them and then they last year they lost
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a heartbreaker To Webster groves at, home and so this, year,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: yeah that that senior class has been through a. Lot,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: yeah and so, yeah they finally, won and ALL i
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: know About Raytown south is, there They're KANSAS classi five
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: has been really weird this, season like there's not been
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of dominating, Teams like there's really been
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: maybe four really good team like teams that have. Dominated
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and then, Yeah Raytown south is one of those, teams
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: especially From Kansas, city where they're they're, talent they're, good they're,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: talented but you you don't really know what you're gonna
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: get every time when you see them.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Play so That's sikest In Raytown south. GAME i think
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: it could go either.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Way you would Expect sikeston to win, THAT i, think
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but uh it's the. Playoffs anything can, happen so SO
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: i really don't know who's gonna win that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Game but, UH i just expected MY CDs at this.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Point, UH i think they're the best remaining team left
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and they should go and win.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: It, well that'd be, great and then The class six
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: To Saint louis teams left and hopefully they played t
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Other we've Got.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Cardinal ritter Versus Blue Springs south in the first semi.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Final cordon Rit are coming off a close winging Its
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: marquette and the quarterfinals and then the other semi final
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: we got De smet Versus. Rockhurst this meant coming off
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: of a twenty three point winning gainst to really sellid
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Holl central team to get the semi. Finals yeah, yeah you,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: know ideally we see Both Saint louis area teams. Winning
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: both those teams This met And corda have been having
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: really good. Years this meant right now in twenty five and,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: five some really nice wins Over Saint, Mary's, Pattonville shamanad
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: both in the, playoffs beating How central one of How
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: central's best teams ever and they beat them over.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Twenties that's very.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Impressive and Then Cardinal ritter there are twenty one and
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: nine also having a very good year, obviously and they.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Figured a lot out ever since Like, January.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah they went. On so they.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Were they started the year two and, six they played
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: in a lot of out area. Teams there's a couple
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Of utah. Teams but then they got really got back into.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Form by.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: They had a close win Against slew WHICH i think looking,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: back if they kind of if it would replayed that, game.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: They might have went by.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: More but also a good winning win against a solid
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: A Clord north, team a good win against a really
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Good battle Team battles all, right and Which, villa as you,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: said they beat them also earlier this season and then
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: also beat on MY CDs back In.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: February So cornerator also putting up a great. Year and
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: The class six should be.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Interesting, YEAH i think it's a really good field this,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: year and it's nice. That, yeah just like last, year
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: we have two different area teams in the in either semi,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: final which is nice and just like In class, Four,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: yeah it's shaping out to be pretty. Good Di smet's
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: on a really good run right now and ever since
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: they lost To shamanad by. Two they Beat vionni by twenty,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: one and then, yeah had a good nine point win Over.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Saint mary's and Beat pattonville by twenty.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Three who Was pattonville had one of their better seasons
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: this year, too and they had a really impressive win
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Over shamanad where they outscored them twenty five to twenty
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: four to five in the first quarter that game in
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the district, Championship so that really set the tone and,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: honestly they just kind of not.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Coasted that's not the right. Word but they were able
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: to just just play off of that for rest of the.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Game it. Was it was pretty even the rest of the.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Way Actually shamanad outscored them the rest of the way,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: technically but, yeah they just used that first quarter to you,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: know just have a kind of sail away from. There
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: and they struggled a little bit With Francis House central
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: where actually no they. DIDN'T i WAS i read a
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: typo from SOMEONE i think it was The Francis House central,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: account but because they had they said they Had Francis
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: House central up by ten at. Halftime BUT i think
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: they got The yeah they got they got the scores
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: flipped on that. One, yeah, yeah this Smet they Were
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: it seems like a really solid game over How. Central
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: like they led by seven after the first, quarter up
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: by ten at, halftime then at twenty one point lead
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and going into the fourth, quarter so, YEAH i mean they.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Got Like ian it. Was they were really balanced in that.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Game Will folk had, Fourteen Ian thomas at, Thirteen Brandon
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: butler at, thirteen And Jordan boyd at, thirteen so you
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: can't really ask for much more balance right.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: There and then, Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Ritter's been just really solid this, season not really any
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: not like big time players on their, team but, uh
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: very well, coached and they've been in this situation for
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: several like going back to like twenty. NINETEEN i think
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: they've just been, really really consistent to getting to the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: final four and usually winning state championships.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Too SO i don't think many people had him tip
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to to get to.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: This point at the beginning of the, Season but here they.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Are they are on a twelve game winning, streak and you,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Know Blue Springs South they've had a pretty good.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Season BUT i.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Think there's a really good chance we can see To
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: smet And. Ridder, However rockhurst is a very good. Team
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: they are number ranked number one In class, six they
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: only have one loss all, season AND i believe they're
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: undefeated against The missouri opponents this.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Year so that's gonna be a great semi final game
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: between them and The.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: SMETS i think probably some people would, say, like whoever
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: wins that game probably wins, state BUT i don't think
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you can say that with, like especially with how Good ritter's,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: been and Maybe Blue Springs South can is a very
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: good team.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Too and then the same thing goes For Logan rodgersville And.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Sean you, KNOW i think people, say we'll, say whoever
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: wins that game is probably favored to beat Either benton
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Or clayton in the state championship.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Game.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: There so, yeah we got a really good slate of
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: semi final games and potential state championship games In.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Missouri where it.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Starts this Coming, friday first game at ten am With
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: clayton taking On, benton and then the rest of the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: day is just Is class, Four class six and Then
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: class five ends the day right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: There, yeah and all the games In Missouri arena so
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: much closer to us Than Missouri. STATE i know that's
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: where the finals were at, previously at the past few years.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Before, yeah back in twenty twenty, THREE i, Believe, yeah, Yeah,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Okay so that'll do it for our basketball.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Discussions now we will transition.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: To, football which is what we inevitably do here every,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: time and we're gonna be it's gonna be our Annual
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Missouri scoops coaching carousel, update and we probably will have
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: more in the, future definitely. More, yeah so far all
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: those not all those jobs have been filled, yet, no,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: yeah so far there have been let's, see fifty four
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: openings throughout the, state and as always In Saint, louis
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have more than a handful of.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: THOSE i. Guess probably the most interesting.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Coaching search so far is just as far as the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: school has, gone IS I. CDs With Matt irvin leaving
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: after one, season it's kind of, unexpected.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: But they've replaced him with a guy with a really good.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Resume That's Jason, thomas who is from The East. Coast
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: he was last coaching At Middlebury college and is THAT
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: i Think? Vermont, yeah and he was the offensive coordinator,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: there so he's an offensive minded.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Guy i'm assuming he's going to be their head.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Coach last offensive, coordinator he won a couple of state
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: championships at a private school In, vermont and so he's
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: had a pretty successful overall resume for, him which is
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a USUALLY i MEAN, mcs they're gonna get guys like.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: That they're not going to just try to get.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Guys and like like field guys in who can be
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: like a teacher in the school and also happened to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: be a football. Coach, like, no they're going to Get
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: they're hiring this guy because of, it specifically for his
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: accolades as a football.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Coach and then they will find a position for. Him
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that's how it. Goes and so, NO i think.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: On paper it's a really good. Hire BUT i mean
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: that was what we said About Matt irvan last, year
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and then you, know he lasted one. Season from WHAT i,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: heard he was just kind of wanting to get out
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: and just try something.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Different we'll see what.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Happens for MY. CDs i, mean they didn't they did
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: not have a good season last. Year they went five and,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: five and they had a lot of talent with Multiple
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Division one players on their on their team and a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: handful of other college prospects as. Well, so uh, yeah
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be looking to bounce, back and uh it's
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be it's it's.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Gonna be an interesting season for, THEM i think.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Because there's uh they, lost they graduated a lot of
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of key, players.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: And you, KNOW i think they got about less than.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Ten returning starters this this coming. Season, uh they got,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: some they got A i think they got a good
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: balance of older and young talent coming, in but just
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: not a whole lot of proven commodities at this point in.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Time and, uh you, know they they already kind of
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: have a smallest.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Roster especially for a classified. School so what they've kind
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: of been really good at of.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Doing these last five years is being really good and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: competitive with a really good starting, lineup a really good
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: twenty two, guys and then just kind of hope.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: That they are able to stay relatively injury.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Free and so now this this is the biggest kind
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: of of rebuild they've had in quite some. Time so
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: this is why it's gonna. Be, uh it could. Be
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: it could be a difficult season for, them but they
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: got a pretty good head coach on, paper so we'll
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: see how it plays.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Out. Roman do you have any thoughts on? That?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Uh, YEAH i MEAN i think the first, departure the
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: departure of after one year from the Coach irving was,
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: UNEXPECTED i would say for most people in the M
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: s D s. Camp but it seems like they're trying
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: to kind of transition into a NEWER i, guess a
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: new era of the program where they can really establish
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: something where it's like because they don't they don't want
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: to make a new, identity you, know like they want.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: To keep the their big culture in his, Story, yeah and.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Then BUT i mean it should be exciting transition for,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: him AND i think they'll continue to be a good competitive.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: TEAM i think. SO i THINK i know some people
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: are already riding them. Off, no but.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Even they're gonna Be they're gonna find a way to be.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Competitive LIKE i don't think they're gonna be really, good
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: BUT i think they can have a similar, record if
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: not a better record than last. Year although their scheduled
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: doesn'tive him a whole lot of, favors uh with, that
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: BUT i think they'll be a little bit better than
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: what people might expect him to.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Be that's, UH i, mean it's gonna. Be it's gonna be.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: TOUGH i go out of the gate for, them because
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: they gotta you, know they they got to Play LaDou
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: And De, smet you, know like early on in the,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: season and those are gonna be tough. Games so they're
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: gonna be tested immediately. There so Coach thompson is gonna
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: have his hands full early. On i'm looking forward to
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: see what their offense is gonna be like, though Because
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: i've read And i've read a few articles about him
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and that like he was like in high, school that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: like the teams he was, coaching like they would have
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: a like a no huddle offense and that that could
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: be that could be a really good thing for. Them we'll,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: see we'll see what. Happens so if they if you,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: know it all depends on the type of personnel they
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: have as.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Well so all, Right.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Lutheran Saint, charles this is kind of because of the name,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: here it's gotten some.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Attention That's Pierre desire is their new head. Coach.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: YEAH i think this is a fantastic high For Luthern Saint.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: CHARLES i, mean this was a program at one state
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: as recently as what twenty, one, yeah four, years five years,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: ago and they've just not been the same, since not at.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: All they've.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Been they've had a rough stretch the past couple of.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Years BUT i think this higher Of Peter zier is.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Fantastic local guy From. St, charles went to high, school
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: went to Hal, central briefly went To, washbourne then transferred
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: To lindenwood where he did fantastic ended up getting drafted
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: to The. Browns AND i think he was in THE
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: nfl for was it nine?
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Years it was?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: EIGHT i think it was eight.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Years eight YEAR nfl career.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Longer a lot longer than the average.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Spance, yeah and just a fantastic guy as.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: WELL i know he's always been back in the area,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: training even when he was with even when he was
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: in THE, nfl he was always back.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Here come back to the, community and he.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Actually has been In this is actually his first high
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: school coaching. Gig he's been a coach OF US i
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: was seventeen for a, BIT i, believe so it's not
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: his first coaching, position.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: But this will be his, first you, know high school varsity.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Job AND.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I know they're very excited about it At, lutheran which
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: and they should. BE i, mean he's he's a great
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: dude WHO i know has a great vision for that.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Program and it's gonna be interesting to see his recruiting
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: strategy BECAUSE i know, THAT i, mean he knows the area.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Well he sees The Saint Charles county.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Guy and that's one of the things that you have
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: to have at a at.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: A small private. School it's good.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Recruiting and if you, don't then you, KNOW i kind
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: of see what happens when you. Don't that's how they've
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: been the past few. Years they just have they haven't
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: had much talent at.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: All, yeah and it's IT'S i would think it's harder
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: now because like you, Know Saint dominic's gotten pretty good
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: and they're technically, local uh for, Them BUT i guess
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: it helps, that like Do shen's been down in, football
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: so like they can get a lot of you, know
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: if they're just going to focus On Saint charles' area,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: kids you know, THAT i guess that'd be the first
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: place they kind of focus, on just bettering their.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Roster and, yeah they replaced.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Merse merce ROAs Roach Merce, roach who was there for
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: year and a.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Half and like he stepped down middle of the season and.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: So it was this it was clearly not a good
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: fit obviously because it's kind of rare to see a
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: head coach step down in the middle of the.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Season and then that was their program was a, mess
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: to say the least this past. Year, yeah and it
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: looks like they've got back on track so far again
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Off season's good to.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: SEE i, mean time will tell if the you, know
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: we say this every. Year time will tell if this
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: is a good higher and if it's going to be
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a successful ten. Year but on, paper this is a
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Hire.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: YEAH i think they've you, know there's a young guy
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: played in THE. Nfl and you know he's ALREADY i
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: know he's got a lot of, Contacts i'm sure with
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of players because of the you, know it's
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the five FIVE p program he helps he helps run and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: coach and coach at. So, yeah SO i think he's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: already got a, good uh you, know a good starting
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: point right. There and, uh you, know it's BEEN i
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: think it's been a few months now since he's gotten the.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Job So i'm sure he's hard at work right. Now and, uh,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: YEAH i think it's, uh it's a really good high
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: right now For.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: St.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Charles it'll be interesting to see how he recruits because
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: his former high school, teammates Coach Malk radagan is the
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: current head coach At Hali.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Central, yeah SO i don't, know AND i know they're still.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: CLOSE i wonder if uh Coach radigan will discourage the
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: poaching of players in the how Of Central.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Territory but, UH i don't. Know we'll see that should
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: be interesting. Interesting we'll bynamic.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: There, yeah, Potentially i'm just scrolling done the list.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Here it looks the next job that was.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Filled the new head coach of The Parkway South patriots
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Is Julian. Seilerno he was formerly an assistant coach At
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Parkway north under coach Carl ODIN.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Wld and it looks like.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: He's been he's been on a good, staff he's been
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: on a team who has been.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah i'm trying to scrape to find more information about.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: HIM i already know that there was just a few
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a few players have like messaged me and they already
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: really like.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Him that's.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Great, yeah and that's just Man Parkway. South it's just
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: been a long time since they've been good at. Football,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: yeah THEY'RE.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: KNOW i wouldn't say they're not in a talent desert
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: because they have.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: In The Parkway school.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: District, YEAH i mean they have other and their other
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: sports programs have plenty of examples of. SUCCESS i mean
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: ESPECIALLY i know their baseball team has had some solid
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: teams the past few.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Years oh, yeah they, well they got a really good baseball.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Program BUT i think it's just that has more to
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: do with like who's you, know, coaching and they obviously
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: have a really good. Culture and it's the thing if
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you're A parkway, school it's trying to mitigate as much
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: of players once they're in middle. School they will usually
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: like they lose a lot of their best players to private,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: schools and it's Just i'm sure there's great athletes every
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: year like in coming through the ranks and you, know
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Like Parkway South Middle school And South Southeast Middle school
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: or whatever it, is and a lot of them just
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: go to private.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Schools so it's.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Just can you get these can you get these kids
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to stay in the. District and right, now it's it's
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: a really hard ask because, hey we got to build
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: the thing from the ground, up, essentially it feels like
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and it'd be easier for all for everybody just to
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: send their kids to private schools where they're gonna Be and.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Well usually when you go forward with that philosophy and your,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: messages hey we got to build.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: From the ground up and.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Stay honest and maybe not get the accolades you want to,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: start but you, know leya good, layah good groundwork for
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: the future.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Classes.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Uh usually the kids that do stand in the families
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: that do stay a people that you really want to
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: hang around, with that are loyal and hardworking and that
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: are gonna really gonna help out your long term. Mission
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: so hopefully The patriots can get figured out.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: There, yeah BUT i, mean, well usually like there's good
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: FOR i mean it's pretty rare Where i've Like i've
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: heard from kids where there's that say like like after a,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: week it's like with a new, coach like, YEAH i
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: DON'T i don't like, this but so like they're people
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: are always like usually positive and it's usually kind of
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: automatic where someone has a different, idea especially in a
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: program that's just not been that. Good so it's, like,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: hey any any new idea feels good compared to like
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: what we were just, doing, Right so, yeah like hope
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: for the. Best and like we've never we've never covered
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: A Parkway south football. Team it's DOING gsv where they'd.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Been good at, football it just hasn't.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Happened so hopefully that can change because they are long.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Overdue schooling on the.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: List next area job to get.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Filled the New Hazwolod central football head coach Is Joseph.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Brown his last stop was At. Poplar he was A
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Popper bluff A d and THEN i think he was
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: The Hazwoo east defensive.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Coordinator yeah. Seasons, yeah so he was. On he was.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: On he was a defensive coordin on a pretty Good.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Hazewood Central Hazewoo east team a few years, ago two years,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: ago two seasons, ago and, yeah that was a really
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: brief trip To Popper. Bluff yeah, year it looks, like, right,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: UH i think less than. That, HONESTLY i think he
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: was already the athletic. Director his first year was this school,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: year and THEN i guess like a couple of months
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: in he just wanted to get the you, know the
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: head coaching job At Hazwood central came.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Up, SO i, MEAN i think.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: He's had some success as a defensive coordinator At Hazwood
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: east And central's it's crazy to, think like how the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: mighty have fallen Regarding Hazewood.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Central you, know they've used.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: To be one of the best programs in the entire,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: state you, know for a good period of time and
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: just and then even like five ten years, ago they're.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: A really respected.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Program it was always ranked and and then these last
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: few years they've fallen off a. Cliff so they really
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: need a good head coach to just kind of come
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: in and and, honestly.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Like you, know in a way like recruit as.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Well it's as far as like you, know keeping again
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: like keeping kids into the school in the school, district you,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: know trying to build build up from the ground.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Up and because right now it really is.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Kind of a similar position Where Parkway south is, in you,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: know kind of the same, methods they would be kind of. Saying,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: so you, Know Hazwood central is always gotta have, talent you,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: know in their in their school, district and they're just
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: gonna have TO i, mean they have tradition aspect as.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah but at.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: This point in, time like how many of these, kids
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Like i've ever known or Seen Hazelwood central being like
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: really good at football because all they know is just
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: kind of what they heard and growing up like JUST
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: i don't, know like five six years.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Ago so you, know it might be a little hard
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: to sell them that.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: We'll be called them The nebraska of Sing Leo's area highchoo.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: FOOTBALL i mean used to be running the yah a
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: dominant for a.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Way maybe not maybe not an exact example of, that
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: but like there's a lot of. Similarities, yeah so hopefully
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: he does a good. Job you, know it's it feels
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: weird not to have a really Good Hazewood School school district.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: TEAM i, MEAN i know we've Had Hazewood east but
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: they've kind of been like on the brink of being
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: like ranked number tenth or ninth in the large.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Schools but that's as close as they've.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Gotten but been a long time since there's been like
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a really dominating like team from The Hazewood school.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: District and it's it's always it's always usually Been Hazewood.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Central or Hazel, east and for a long time it
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: was both of.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Them so, yeah let's hope hopefully it works out.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Well speaking Of, hazelwood's the next job opening that got
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: filled in the area was His Wood west Coach Ross,
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: williams who was an assistant coach At. Kirkwood it's not
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: the head coach for The wildcats or his Wood. West
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: and you, know again with, them The wildcats just have
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: yet to have an above five hundred seasons since twenty.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Nineteen they've never had a good football. History it's never been, good.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: Which is crazy because it's a massive. School it's absolutely massive.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: School AND i JUST i guess, THAT i, MEAN i don't,
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: KNOW i Just i've never known why they just can.
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: NEVER i, mean they had a decent run from twenty
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: seventeen to twenty. Nineteen they finished each year above five,
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: hundred BUT i think the only one like three playoff
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: games combined those. Years, Yea so it wasn't anything, Insane
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: but it's just odd how you'd think the big.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: Schools would strike gold sooner or. Later it's. Hard it is.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Hard it's very.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Hard hard when we have a lot of private school
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: options in our, district in our, AREA i should, Say
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: and there's probably some kids who will also go to
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: other public schools who probably live In wood, Too.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: SO i mean There's i'm sure there's some of. THAT
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: i don't have any, examples But i'm sure that's going. On.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well hopefully Coach williams can kind of take some
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: of the success he's seen At kirkwood and and.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: A system that hopefully replicates.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: That the last, time the last time a suburban school
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: got a hired an assistant coach From, kirkwood it Was
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: lafayette and they went ten and.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: One, yeah so.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Well it's not the, same you, know we'll See Lafayette
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Hazewood west are two completely different, programs, yeah and complete polar.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Opposites so, yeah it's.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Gonna be like Coach williams has got to have his
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: work cut out a lot more than and What lafayette
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: had this past. Season but, again like hopefully this is
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: the start of a new thing for them where they
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: start to turn around slowly and, yeah, wishing wishing the. Best.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Uh there's Also. Melville THEY i saw.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Them but it looks like they have not hired a coach.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Yet, yeah they're still looking for.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Someone their previous coach Was Kent Heyman, HEINEMAN i, believe so,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: yeah just, Again melville used to be really good back
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: in the nineties and then the even the mid two,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: thousands they got to a couple of state.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: CHAMPIONSHIP i don't think they won any.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: NOW i think they do have A i think they
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: won one state championship and they've been to a couple other.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Ones but, yeah that's a long time.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Ago it was over twenty almost twenty years, ago since
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: two thousand and, seven since they've last really been good at.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: All and, uh, yeah just times have changed over there
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: and they're still looking for.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Someone, yeah that's ALL i got to. Say.
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: Uh and then it looks like the site Says normandy
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: has filled their, spot but it doesn't give a.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Name So i'm confused by.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: THAT i don't know if that's just a.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Typo i'm not sure what's going on, there but well
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: they were looking, well it's been a really rough go
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: of it for a.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Long time For. Normandy. Yeah, yeah and so their last
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: their previous head coach Was Pablo.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: CASTILLO i don't know how long he was there, for
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: but obviously wasn't very.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Successful so it's it's it's a hard job. Too And
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: normandy and.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Just sports in general has been down ever, since like
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: just for over a decade.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: NOW i just cannot recall any really good thing From.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: NORMANDY i know their basketball team like had a good
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: team like four years ago DURING covid and then that's
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: just the Last i've really ever heard of them as
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: far as they're big sports.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Goes but, yeah so THEY'VE i guess it was time.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: For a change and just hope for the. Best yeah
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: we keep saying, that but that's all you can say
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: at this. Point, yeah next, Up.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Shamanad they stay in house and they promote offensive Coordinator
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: Connor Cole. Schrieber Cole, SCHREIBER i Think i'm pronouncing it
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: right to their head coach, Position so you, KNOW i
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: guess after bit of a search, there they stay in,
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: house which is smart and they've had the.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Factor they've actually had a decent offense the past few.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Years they've been okay offensively well last so his, yeah
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: he was the offensive coordinator this. SEASON i kind of
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: have a feeling that he was always going to be
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: the head coach because he was there for he was
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator like for the first time this past
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: season and he got at the head coaching. Job but,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: anyway that's just my little. Theory does not that it's
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: a deep big deal or, anything just it is what it.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Is it happens a. Lot but, no he's a local.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Guy he's A CENTRAL i. Believe, no he came FROM.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Cbc well he went To Parkway. Central oh he did, yeah.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Oh okay in high.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: School but, yeah, yeah he really kind of got his
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: coaching stripes AT. Cbc was on staff there for a
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Really good, teams including multiple state.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Championships he's definitely a part of The Scott pingle coaching,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: tree which is a pretty uh it's pretty, exclusive really
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: good tree right.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: There SO i think it's a on, paper LIKE i,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: said it's a good.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Hire and, yeah Coach tory was THERE i think since
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: like twenty, fifteen or. Fourteen he was there a while
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: and he had some pretty good. Teams he was head
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: coach At Brady cook throughout his entire career At Shamanad and, uh,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: yeah these last really ever since twenty twenty one just
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: haven't been really good for. Them just maybe not really not,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: bad but just they they've not really got close to
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: winning a distric championship since then when they did in
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. One so and, yeah so Now Cole schreiper
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: is there and they're gonna be In class. Four so
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: actually that probably helps them at this, yeah really because
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: and they got talent they return ABOUT i can't say,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: who BUT i apparently they've a few of their returning
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: starters have, transferred so it means that they've lost a
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: few returning, starters but they do have ABOUT i think
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: around ten or eleven returning starters and some talented players coming,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: back Including Jamarian barnes as their. Quarterback he's a dual.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Threat and Then Isaac hudson was a pretty one of
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the better receivers in the area this. Season so they
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: got some built in key players for their, offense and really.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Defensively is where they've kind of. Struggled a lot these
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: last couple of.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Years they did get a little bit better last year,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: though overall because actually they produced. THEM i think like
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: they had An all state linebacker on their, team which
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: is the first time they've had that since for quite a.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: While, no BUT i think, yeah they're JUST i think looking.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: For a fresh, start kind of a new era For,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: shamanad and it helps that they get the start In class,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: four which is SIGNIFICANTLY i wouldn't say significantly easier than,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: classified but it's definitely for the level That shamanad plays
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: out like they're AN mcc. Team they play like A
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: class five slash six schedule every year and then they're
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go Into class four in the. Playoffs that that
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: gives them an advantage over some of the teams right.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: There SO i think it's a good fresh, start all. Right.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Uh scrolling through, here it looks like the.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: The last job that has gotten filled with the area
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: is a confluenced.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Prep.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Look that looks like they've hired Coach Reginald, foster who
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: was on the staff last year AND i believe he
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: was the head coach At jennings for a.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Bit, yeah the name sounds.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: Familiar, yeah so you, know the football environment in THE
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: phl is obviously kind of on life. Support so, hopefully
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: hopefully Coach foster can kind of get some good culture
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: going there and get some guys to stay in the
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: house and improve that.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: Program but it's gonna be.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Tough it's be very very tough given HOW phl really
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: has JUST i, mean Because roosevelt's program had to fold last,
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: year AND i KNOW i Vas sean had to co
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: opt With wasson In.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Confluence i'm not sure. Who i'm not sure Who sean
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: had to co.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: Opt, with but it was ANOTHER phl, Team but we'll.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: SEE i don't. Know it's just a very very tough.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Environment, yeah but it's about all we can.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Say, yeah there's just not a ton of positivity going into.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: THAT i, Mean confluence has never really been a winning,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: program BUT i don't, Know, hey hopefully this changes it right.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: There so that's that's really ALL i got to say.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: There it's a, yeah it's a tough landscape in THE,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: phl and Know confluence is part of.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: That so, well, okay that's all we got for.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: COACHES i did want to talk about like a few more, things,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: uh and we've talked about it.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Before But Cardinal rutters schedule.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Released, yes this.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Was it's about about almost a month ago, now and
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: so we'll just go there.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Were there were spec level at half Of Cardon ritter
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: just went.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Up yeah a.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Lot Lutheran north week, One week Two De Smet week,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Three Knoxville catholic From. Tennessee week, Four Millard, south which
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: is one of the best teams in The.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Midwest week, Five Saint James academy From.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Virginia number Six Naperville central in The chicago.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Area uh number. A week seven At lyft For life
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: At lyft For, life that's. Interesting they don't.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: Have maybe maybe they'll play At melville or.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: SOMETHING i don't.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Know, yeah well we lift For life week, Seven week
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: EIGHT cbc and week nine back At.
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: JACKSON i, mean this truly is one of the most
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: difficult schedules we we've ever seen for a non team
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: because eastt lewis always. FINES i mean just this past
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: season they Played Bishop gorman AND, img.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: So so for people Wondering Millard south they finished in
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the two thousand And Max preps and for the twenty
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: twenty five season they finished as a top one hundred
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: team and number four in as far as The midwest,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: states go, wow, yeah.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: AND i don't think they play any other of THE i.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Have the top twenty five list for like top twenty
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Five midwest. Teams uh, real they're not playing any of,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: those but that they're playing some Other East coast team
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Like tennessee is in the southeast and In.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: St.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: St virginia's technically in the southeast, too or.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Is Virginia East.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: Virginia it's kind OF i would say Mid.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: Atlantic that's how it Defined, virginia all, Right historically it's
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: kind of part of The, south but not really.
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: Anymore, yeah, yeah, well CULTURALLY i should SAY cbc CBC's
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: they lose a, lot but you you better believe they're
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: gonna be pretty good.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Still and Then jackson is going to be one of
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the best teams in the state and they are arguably
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: the best team that they're the best team the state
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: when they're playing in the pit or at least one
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Of and then this smet's gonna be a lot that
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: improved from last.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Year they were pretty.
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  Speaker 1: YOUNG i don't know much About Knoxville, catholic But i'm
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: assuming they're pretty. Good and Then Lutheran north is not
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: THAT i don't think They're they're not quite the same
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: team they've been in the last few, years SO i don't.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: THINK i don't think that Playing Luthor north In week
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: one has as much pizzazz as what.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: It has in the last few years as social to
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: be a very exciting way to start.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: The, year though it will, be it will.
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  Speaker 1: Be.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: Uh Naperville, CENTRAL i don't know much about.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: THEM i don't know if they've made a whole, lot
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: AND i THINK i would assume they're Like class seven
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: or like seven or eight In, Illinois but, UH i
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: don't know how good they. ARE i imagine they're pretty. Competitive,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: well they went To they went to and seven last,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: year SO i would imagine and That rider probably beats,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: them but they. Did i'm looking at their. Schedule they
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: did have a lot of close losses and and who,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: knows maybe they returned a lot of starters as, well
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: So i'm not so. Sure by the, way they had
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: a five to three loss To. Sandberg just Score gami right.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: There. Seriously, Yes, YEAH i don't.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: KNOW i would imagine That Knoxville catholic will be pretty
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: good just given that area Like knoxville's where the, University
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: university Of tennessee is, located and so Max preps has
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: them as the number fifteen team in All tennessee and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: they went six and five last, year.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: SO i would imagine that's gonna be a pretty tough.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Game and Then, ritter by the, way they they're Not
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be Without Kashmir manchuk because he was one
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: of their quarterbacks last year and he announced that he's
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: moving back To Logan.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Rogersville, wow, yep it was.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: That very often and then transferred.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: To completely like transfer from a completely different part of
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: the state to to it happens to Be Carter ritter
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: In Saint louis and then just transfer back within the next.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Year so that's pretty rare to see. That SO i
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: would imagine.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: There Roland moore is gonna be THE qb one for
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: them as a, sophomore and he played HE i think
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: he got the majority of the snaps for them, too
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: so he's not going to come in wide eyed by
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: any means.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Necessary but they do lose Manny, ellis who.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Is uh one of the best running back scenes We've
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: we've seen it in quite a.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: While, YEAH i, mean, WELL i think statistically, speaking if
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: those stats are all, correct by the way he did
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: have that was the uh he had the statistically like the.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Best year ever that A ritter running back.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Had he had thirty. TOUCHDOWNS i, THINK i think that's. Legit,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: yeah thirty, Touchdowns like that's insane and so and Man
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: chuck had seven rushing. Touchdowns so they lose thirty seven
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns from a year.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: Ago that's a lot of production.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: There but, yeah SO i would think to, you would
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: you like to have a, guess would you like to
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: do a floor and ceiling For?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Ritter? YEAH i would need to return those out of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: area teams more BECAUSE i don't want to just chalk
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: it up FOR.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: I don't want to just be lazy and say let's.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: Split it and go five, hundred BECAUSE i feel like
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: that would BE i don't, know not really fair of
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: me to judge them that. Way, SURE i think we
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: just need to wait a few months to do. That,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: HONESTLY i think it's it's It's march. Fifteenth that is
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: way too early to do A florent ceiling for the
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: football next. Ceiling so let's just let's just. Wait let's
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: wait a.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Bit see how.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: This let's see how the first summer camps go and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: then they can make somewhat of a. Judgment Saint James Performance, academy.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Which is the official.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Name they went eight and one last year and were
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: ranked sixth in the state Of.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Virginia oh, wow.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Geez, yeah and their only loss of the season was
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: The Saint Francis academy In.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Maryland.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wow perennial top ten team in the.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Country, Right, yeah and they crushed a lot of their.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Opponents they had some pretty lopsided. Scores, yeah so that's that's.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Good I'm i'm assuming that's gonna be pretty tough. Game
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and you just hope, that like playing this schedule is
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: definitely got to sharp and iron for the. Playoffs but
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: you just hope, that, like because you're playing so many
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: really good, teams LIKE i would, imagine like you don't
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: want to get too many guys hurt because it's gonna
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: be there's gonna be a lot of physical football games, there,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Right so it's like and then you have all these
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: teams Like Knoxville, Catholic Saint, James, Millard South Naperville central on,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: papers doesn't seem like the greatest, team but you know
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: it's certainly they play at a high level and that
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: they will becoming The carter ridder.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: Too so that'll be a home game for Ridder.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: Man That week four game they're Hosting Millard, south that's
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: gonna be.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be pretty.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Awesome, yeah and then you still got The SMETS cbc
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: And jackson. Locally SO i, MEAN i Think i'll say,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: this if they're able to go.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Five, hundred that's that's pretty. Good like not five, hundred
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: but like above five.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Hundred you can't go five, hundred, yeah in a odd
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: amount of.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Games so if they can go five and four of that,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: schedule that's gonna be pretty.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Good, Yeah AND i THINK i don't know how good
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be, too BECAUSE i mean they're gonna Be
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be pretty good, obviously but, like are they
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be as good as last?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Year because Many.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Elis was like when when when the going got, tough
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: like he always produced for, them and like if he
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: wasn't producing at a certain, clip then their offense kind of.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: Sputtered but he was always productive in every game for,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: them and so then not have a running back like,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: that it's a it's gonna be different BECAUSE i don't
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna have a running back as good as
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: Many eel's because he was he was just that special for,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Them so they should have a.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Really good receiving.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Corps H Ryan richmond, McDavis he's got he's really blown
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: up this, summer or well he will blow up the.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: Summer i'm sure this.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Offseason he's gotten a lot of, offers including From oregon among,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: others and some other big name schools.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: There and, yeah so THEY'RE i.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Mean they're always gonna have a lot of they're always
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: gonna have good receivers and really good depth of athlete
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: right there, too and so uh, yeah it's gonna be
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: a really exciting season to Follow Ritter and uh there's
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: there's other schedules and we'll say that for another, time
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: but like this one was just like so eye popping
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: that we had.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: To talk to bombshell the schedule re.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Lease, honestly, yeah it's definitely it just like compared to
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: even where they were like just a few years, ago
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: and they had really good teams like a few years,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: ago this just kind of blows it out of the,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: water like who they're who they're playing against this, year
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: because it's just a completely different.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: Level, YEAH i mean we respect the heck out of, it,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: honestly for you, know knowing you have a very talented
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: team and then testing that.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: Talent it's worth.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: It we've seen teams Like Easton lewis And he's.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: That kind of strategy where they have where they curbosely
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: make an extremely voluntaing regular season schedule when it typically
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: works out in the playoffs because they're used to just
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: playing great team after a great team after great.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Team, yeah it's definitely going to be a lot harder
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: than last year because they started the season out oh
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: and two where they had the they traveled To jackson
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: AND cbc lost both those, games but then they were
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: able to kind of get like some reprieve the next
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks where they like Played Francis Howell Saint
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Pius acts and then then they went To, masalon which
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: was was.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Just a bad, night just a bad night all, around you.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Know, yeah and then uh then Like roosevelt and then
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: they then be spent In Lutheran. North but, yeah their
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: schedule this year is just on another level compared to
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: like their schedule last. Year, yeah and so if it
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: could be interesting because like it they could be like a.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Three or a four seed in the. Playoffs, yeah but that's.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Gonna be a really it's gonna end up not mattering because, well.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: We'll, see but like depending Because class, FIVE i, mean
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: it could be pretty, tough especially like they're in Like
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: district three, again like that that could be a pretty
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: that could be a pretty tough. District so but they're
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: gonna be absolutely battle tested for.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: It so like it that there's a.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: Good chance like they'll probably be like a, two a,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: three or a four, seed just depending on their, record,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: honestly because their record could be like three and, six
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: six and three or five and, four four and.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: FIVE i think you, know it's probably gonna be somewhere in.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: There, well we'll make preditions later in the, year but
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: not right.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: NOW i have to give you guys.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: SOMETHING i, mean we can't just we can't just like
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: go over the schedule and just and and not like
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: give a little schedule, prediction, right all, Right so all.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: Right that's gonna that's gonna do it for.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: US i think we've covered a, lot uh not a
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: ton to cover with football at this top point in,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: time but, UH i get hopefully the next time we
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: record Like East Saint louis releases their, schedule because that's
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: always that's always a story when they do, that because it's,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: it's you, know probably going to be a harder schedule Than,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: ritter although they're probably not by a whole lot of.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Not by a whole lot in this, case since we're
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: really up their game this year with.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: That but, uh but, Okay, roman do you have any final?
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: Thoughts?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: UH i Know we've Got Spring sports our first track
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: meets for this.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Week that should be very.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: Fun of the baseball games are starting up.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: Soon and while the spring sports season doesn't you, know
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: draw as many eyes as some headline football and basketball,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: games The springs four season is definitely still a lot
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 4: of fun and looking forward to another very interesting track
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: and field and baseball and.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Lacrosse, yeah lacrosse will be, interesting and then, YEAH i
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: always looking forward to baseball, too and probably gonna take
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a break when as soon as
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: basketball season, ends because it's kind of it's.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: A well deserved.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: Break it's been a.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Grind these last geez like two weeks or, so but
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of filming and editing to really back
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: to back days really.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: Quickly but so, yeah it'll be it'll. BE i enjoy.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: It but it's also nice to have that all done
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: and also to hopefully enjoy an entertaining march madness where you,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Know Illinois mazoo and Slow i'll get in if it's
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: looking that. Way so, yeah that'll be pretty. Fun that'll
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: be pretty, exciting and let's just hope that we don't
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: have our our heart's broken like we did this this
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: this weekend with as far as, like, yeah, Everybody, Illinois
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: mazoo And slough all late.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Eggs, yeah it.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Was that was tough to, see, right all, Right, well
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: hopefully it was easy to listen for you guys here
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: and not hard to hear instead of.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Seeing so all, right we'll see you guys.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: Soon, peace