Latest / The Central Indiana Sports Report / Tipton-Frankton Preview with Aaron Tolle & Marty Wells (Sports & Beyond with Michelle Garmon, 1.2)

Transcript

Tipton-Frankton Preview with Aaron Tolle & Marty Wells (Sports & Beyond with Michelle Garmon, 1.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome sports fans to sports and more with Michelle Garmin here to preview the Friday's game Tipton against Franklin on Tuesday.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: I caught up with Aaron Toulwell, Michelle was taking in some tennis and some soccer and some volleyball.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: So my conversation with Coach Touls coming up and also after Michelle and I talked on Tuesday, I caught up with
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: up at the coach 12.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to that Michelle, your quick thoughts on Tipton Frinkton on Friday night.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I actually got to catch up with Coach Holbring half time in the boy soccer game.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, I thought so, I think that I'm excited for it.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like Marty, I like both coaches and Aaron and I talked about even though Tiff is playing out with this year in the US always a special rivalry for the total family.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: For obvious reasons, if you're new listeners, the obvious reasons are Mike told us an Elwood native.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because freshman football, they gave a fly for the head coaching job when it came up and they gave it to somebody else, like, told him to tip too much to the blue devil fans to light and the panthers fans, sugar in and so that has always been a big rival race since Mike got in the fact when Mike got there, I would had a really predominant lead on the series.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And now he, his years followed by Aaron's years, that's flipped and now Tipton's got a really
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I asked Aaron, I said, the nice thing is isn't it because Marty, you guys face each other across football fields and everything is assistance, it's head coaches.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because of course, Marty Wells has coached every team in Indiana except for Tipton.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a sister at Elwood and then he was the head coach at Elwood and then he was the head coach at Madison Grant I'm not I can't remember if Tipton played they used to play Madison Graham and then the conference Then they opened the season with them, but I don't think they did when during Marty's tenure at Madison Grant I think that ended and that's what Aaron he's excited because he said he and Marty had talked and like for two and a half hours old Friday night
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: they will be going at each other hard and be adversaries, but then the other 364 days of the year, they're really they're really good coaching for I mean they're really good friends and coaching friends.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of mutual respect between the two and that's always what makes it fun because they both are very
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: a respectful of the other in post game and even even on the field.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they just really you can tell they like each other as a lot of respect.
• 2:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to be fun.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I look forward to it because I think both teams have some really good and there's some youth on both teams that I'm looking forward to seeing, especially for Frank, and I want to see how big a step up they made because I saw them three times last year.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I saw them.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: We go on.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously then I saw them sometime during the middle of the season and then I saw them and that would be them there then in the season and
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You could see improvement in some of the areas.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: They just dealt with so many injuries last year.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some anxious to see how the summer went for Marty.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know Aaron loved his summer protests a patient.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's one reason I think I'm really high on the blue devil.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So for back to back years, they've had really good summer turnouts.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, you know, they were better than their record last year.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: They played a big schedule.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, they could easily end up finishing the radio season up five and four.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it will be a five and four probably better than
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of two eight teams over five or just because of who they're playing.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for Tipton Head Coach, Aaron Tol, in Frank and Head Coach Marty Wells.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well coach, we head into year number 22 and
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: One of the first years you've ever had not had a jamboree or a scrimmage to be able to kind of evaluate your team.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know there's been a few but not very many, so where's your team at this point and did that cost you anything in your estimation?
• 4:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: it does make it more difficult.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's first time in 22 years we haven't had a jamboree or a scrimmage and we're kind of going into game one blind to an extent.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will say I would hate it to have done this 15 years ago.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: What we're doing this summer now gives us a glimpse.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we were on the field with 15 or 16 different teams, somehow some way this summer,
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's just a glimpse.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not usually not tackling going to the ground.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're not playing special teams.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're you're not doing all of those things.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think we have a pretty good idea of
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: of who we want on the field and what we're capable of doing, but it is kind of scary when, again, you are going in blind and trying a good Franklin team that looks like to me as pretty senior laden has a lot of older kids, a lot of returning guys from last year and you just haven't seen, I mean, we're facing pretty much everything on.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: our game one of last year.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, what has happened in the last 12 months, both here and there?
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I think we've got to have, we've got to do what we want to do and have the ability to adapt or make changes, maybe more so than anything else.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: We might see things that we haven't seen or don't expect.
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Helps a little that Frank didn't have a scrimmage as well.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: And also helps a little that you're familiar with Marty Wells and what he likes to do.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but he's just a familiar with us as I am with him, though.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great relationship.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've always thought the world of Marty and we've had lots of battles.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Whether we were assistant coaches or we were head coaches.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we've we've we've we've gone at it on the Friday night numerous times.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: But, um, let's coach every time.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: but tipped and right and it is nice because I mean you go to war and then you know before and after the game you have great conversations and it's kind of kind of weight it ought to be honestly we're all in this profession for the same reason and he wants to be me and I want to beat him and then when it's over said and done with we're friends for the next 365 days.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a nice opponent geographically, it's now pretty similar size school and it's pretty amazing.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's only the eighth time the two schools have ever played.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: We went, it is.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we play, I think we play Franklin and I know we play him basketball.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of times we're in the same sectional and basketball.
• 6:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: We play him in baseball.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: We probably play him in just about every other sport, somehow, some way.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it does make sense.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a natural rivalry.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're within 30 minutes of each other.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're the same size of school.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: it just it totally makes sense and it's kind of nice not to have to travel an hour or an hour and a half to play football game which we tend to do sometimes in our conference, but no, it's great and it is amazing that we've only played a handful of times.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: more so recently than maybe than even before I think we've probably played four of the four of the eight in the last six years, something like that.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: So before the last half dozen years, it was pretty scarce.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a sectional game here or a sectional game there.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's a natural rivalry coaching staff both know each other.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the world will be each other and our kids obviously know each other because they play each other in every other's
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: by the way, check out our history of the Tipton Frankton series coming up, but actually it's already been released.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Go check that out, please.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: And there were a couple of down years here for Frankton, but it seems like this is the team that's on the way up for them.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the last half of their season last year, they found some things and started putting a lot better.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had a good Western team on the ropes and the sexual atmosphere.
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: And a bunch of young kids.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they have a lot of those kids back.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be a war Friday.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're happy where we are.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: We think we have a lot of kids back.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got four all conference kids back.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: 12 13 14 starters, however you want to look at it.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we have some experience back also.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're very senior late in that, and that's worrisome to me, seniors play different than anybody else.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to have to match their intensity early on when you need a great start, but I'd fully anticipate that being a much better game the last year for sure.
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, seniors are essentially adults now.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so it's it.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's a big year.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: They mean 17.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: They say the light is seen on the tunnel and then they tend to play at a different level than then sophomores and juniors do.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's probably the key to the game.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have to match their intensity, their senior intensity, and then it boils down to
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: can't turn the ball over, can't have a bunch of penalties, can't make a bunch of silly mistakes in the first game, which tend to happen.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: So silly things happen in the first game.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we've got to be wary of that and try to take care of what we can take care of.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, I think it's going to be a great ball game.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: and Michelle talked to you for our pre-season report on your team pre-season preview, so I don't want to go too much into your team, but you said you'd like where you are, what kind of team can this be as you look toward week one?
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: Are we talking about a championship level team?
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: It depends on what your top championship is.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sectional conference conferences conference is very, very tough.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, this is, I told my coaches, we're not allowed to say this because just about every Friday, we play schools that are bigger than us.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we are the loan to a school in our conference.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody else, minus LCC, which they don't count, because they are a private school for it.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, everybody else is a three or four eight.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we try to eliminate that,
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: We know that we are going to play excellent competition every single Friday and if we can stay healthy and playing three A's and four A's, primarily three A's but there's a four A in there every single Friday that should set us up for a two A tournament.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, you got to stay healthy during the process.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what the Hoosier Conference says.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: It prepares you for eternal run.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think our sectionals, very tough, very competitive.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Eastern's a good team.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, kills a good team.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Cast is a good team.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We feel like we're a good team, but we feel like with a good regular season.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can certainly be in the conversation and compete for that sectional title, which is our goal every year.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: In week one playing a game against a like team, a game you'd not sure you're going to win, a game you're not sure you're going to lose, it's a good way to start a season.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's your intensity up and the team that executes the best is going to win the game.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to have to, again, eliminate mistakes, no penalties, no turnovers, and hopefully things fall our way.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks coach, always good to see.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for Frank and Head Coach Marty Wells, and please check out our L Wood Sports and Tipton Sports History podcast that are now out and have episodes in coming soon, Frank and Sports History.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, here with Frank and Head Coach Marty Wells, second season here at Frankton.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Before we talk about Tipton Coach, how are you feeling about your team at this point?
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: We had a good summer.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: We scrimmaged two different times.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: We played five or six different schools, so we got some new kids playing that haven't been out in the past, so the summer was good for them.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: This past week wasn't good.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Monday was the only day last week.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: We practiced the whole time.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: There was two other days.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were out there for less than 45 minutes and here come the thunder and the lightning.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: We couldn't do anything, so we'd go inside,
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: can't keep us on one day we watch some film so we tried to two best we could with it and we were shot down for two days we couldn't do anything at all.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: That wasn't fun.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that wasn't way up for you to miss in the scrimmage doesn't help either.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, um, especially we had some pretty good battles going on for about four or five different sub-started spots.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, obviously we wanted to see some kids on film and didn't help it happen, but if there's a silver lining at that tip-and-losser scrimmage as well, so we're both going into it.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I told them to show earlier if I think this will
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: As long as I can remember, which sometimes is not very far long ago, but we're basically in this bite.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can never remember how to do that before.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're doing the Scrimmage and Jamberries for as long as I can remember.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I guess it's good that we're going to be playing a comfortable face and coach toll.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: I kind of know what he's about.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: He knows what I'm about.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think from that standpoint, it should be okay.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, it's just, it's really frustrated not be all.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I have a screwdriver to under your belt.
• 13:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: What do you think the strength of this team is going to be?
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we got a lot of kids who got some experience last year, quarterback being one of them who got thrown to the fire as a freshman, and he's put on 20 pounds and by the fourth of the fifth strongest killer team, I run it back, watch his back, he's put on about 20 pounds.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Friday night, we're going to start five senior offensive lineman.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Plus we got two of our best to two of our top receivers back from last year in Barker and Bennett, Bennett, six seven, two, twenty.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I hopefully the strength is going to be we've got some experience.
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got a lot of kids that played last nap, so that's going to carry over for us.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it starts week one against a really good team, a really good program and what looks like a really good offense.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: So what do you have defensively for them?
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we'll just do what we do.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully that's enough.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've got the coaches get a quarterback.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're going to be a three-year starter.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Number eight.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: The receiver is lightning fast and torched us last year for about 180 yards, I think.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: most of that or some of that I should say was on our end because we blew some coverage, but he's a track kid, so he's gonna be very quick.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've got a couple kids in a second area that are track kids as well, so hopefully he does it go off on his autosis like that.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: and they've always had a good offensive line, and you know that's going to continue.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: It got's pretty good sized from what Aaron sent us in his roster, so for us we've got two starters back on a defensive line plus we've moved in it to a defensive end, so now we're going to have a six foot seven kid coming off the edge.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Crest is back at middle line back here.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've moved vacuuming outside back here to an inside backer and we've got some new faces at safety.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we've got three kids via free safety spot and all three of them will be new people in that position.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: couple of really proud programs that expect to win that have gone through some years were not been great.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: It seems like the expectation for Michelle and myself and the communities is that both teams seem to be on the rise, is that how you feel about it going into this.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be better.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we're going to have to be because we weren't very good last year and then throw the injuries on top of that.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, I don't know if we're going to get more wins or not than what we did.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I know we're going to be a whole lot more competitive what we've got.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Tipped and obviously program you respect having been at Lwood Madison grant even before.
• 16:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they've had one name since eighty one or eighty two runs show so that's right.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a pretty good program So, um, what do you hope to accomplish other than getting away and obviously on Friday night?
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: What do you hope and to see from your team more than anything else?
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the biggest thing is we got to be able to compete defensively, we got to get better than what we were.
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got to create some turnovers off offensively, you know, we got to protect them all and see what happens.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think we're going to be offensively, we could be
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: We could be pretty good.
• 16:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: We could be pretty balanced.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: We showed that kind of last year at the end.
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Each week we got better and better each week, which is what you want from a coaching standpoint.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Defensively, hopefully we got a little more team speed, I think, so we could be able to run to the ball.
• 17:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And when you're playing some of the people we're going to play, you're going to have to run to the ball, because we're going to play some teams.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: and do you think last year's playoff run the kind of success that you had?
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Is that help anything that you give a little confidence going into the summer?
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that was a huge contributor to us one end of the summer.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the kids, they, we didn't, we gave them the winter off.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't really take advantage of the limited contact stuff you could do in the winter in the spring.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: We had some big kids and other sports, but we didn't really do a whole lot in the spring together, so we kind of waited for the summer, the kids were pretty excited and fired up about it.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think we're riding the co-tells of that first run, it was like 2016 or 2017's the last time we had to win a playoff game.
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then we, honestly, we gave one away against Western, we had an undefeated team on the ropes and let him hang around and then we couldn't, you know, we couldn't put the nail on the confident.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that, I think that burning desire a little bit kind of fed some of those kids in the offices and, you know, we're two days away from fighting a hell.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: How much burning desire are we got?
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Coach, thanks so much and good luck on Friday and we look forward to working with you the rest of the year.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much to Coach Tull and Coach Wells.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much to Michelle so much more coming up on sports and beyond with Michelle Garmin here on the Central Indian Sports Report.
• 19:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sports A and beyond with Michelle Garmin is a product of ITG media.
• 19:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I love Susie.