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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 25 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Bathel Football Coaches Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host Ryland Spencer along with me as always is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Bofel Cougar's Tom Painter coach.
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  Speaker 1: How are we doing doing great?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks? Rylan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a couple of months since we've talked,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got nothing crazy to talk about this week,
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  Speaker 1: but just kind of give an update of the program,
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  Speaker 1: where we're at, what's going on, and what the off
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  Speaker 1: season looks like going forward. So we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the off season lifting program. We've got a week
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  Speaker 1: one road trip coming up. I guess plane trip. There
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  Speaker 1: are no roads to where we're going, parent meetings, fundraisers,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff going on. Even going to take
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a look as to what the
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  Speaker 1: schedule might look like for twenty twenty six games as
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  Speaker 1: we I guess what, we got nine months eight months
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  Speaker 1: to go before the actual games get started. But kind
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of stuff to talk about, but not
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  Speaker 1: anything too massive in terms of a long podcast, So
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  Speaker 1: we'll fill it out here a little bit. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: you and I it's seven twenty eight a m. On Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We are just Wrapping up week two of the off
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  Speaker 1: season program, coach Darius Terry upstairs running the boys wild
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  Speaker 1: lifting weights, doing all kinds of crazy stuff up there,
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  Speaker 1: things that he does sometimes and I look at and
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  Speaker 1: I go, I don't even know what muscle he's working
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  Speaker 1: out there, but Darius knows what he's doing. So far
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  Speaker 1: two weeks in, what have you seen from the from
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  Speaker 1: the boys from Darius?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Darius is consistent. He runs a great program. Love.
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  Speaker 2: I love how passionate he is about the job he does.
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  Speaker 2: He's an expert in his field. And our kids are
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  Speaker 2: very lucky to have him, and I'm very lucky that
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  Speaker 2: he's on our staff. They work hard, they're demanded from
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  Speaker 2: We started at six six o'clock for our incoming eighth
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  Speaker 2: graders and six thirty am for everybody else. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: our high number so far has been one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: low numbers eighty two and and so that's that's been
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  Speaker 2: consistent with the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these kids get trained very well in in
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  Speaker 2: body movement, in UH speed and and and UH flexibility
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  Speaker 2: and quickness and and strength. Uh. And it starts with
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  Speaker 2: the form part of it. And and we we take
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  Speaker 2: simple steps once they've they've reached you know, each mark
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  Speaker 2: of of the ability to do the previous drill or skill.
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  Speaker 2: So I love the way it progresses. We're safe with
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  Speaker 2: our kids. It's team building. Uh, it's discipline, it's it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: He does a great job. I can't imagine there's anybody
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  Speaker 2: better out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the guy that you know you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: passion and kind of the way he just he loves
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  Speaker 1: what he does. And it's it's always funny when when
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  Speaker 1: you know his coaches, sometimes we show up and we're
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  Speaker 1: a little groggy. Maybe it's a Friday, and we're a
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  Speaker 1: little bit tired, and you walk in and it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, six fifteen in the morning. You look over
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  Speaker 1: and Darius is I mean, he's in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: his day. He's fired up, and he's ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's running around, he's doing his thing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, some people have that ability
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  Speaker 1: to just have the juice and have it ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I bet I bet he shows up
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  Speaker 1: tired too, you know, and and he finds a way
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  Speaker 1: to turn it on when he needs to because that's
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  Speaker 1: what he does. And that's what he's he's he's really
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  Speaker 1: really good at it. And you know, it's fun to
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  Speaker 1: see as he demands from the kids, elevate, Elevate what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing and who you are and how you attack
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  Speaker 1: the morning. And it's cool to see. It's cool to
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  Speaker 1: see the kids who you know, you see him kind
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  Speaker 1: of maybe a little drowsy looking around school and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and now here they are at six thirty in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and Darius has got him fired up, ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's uh. He he's specially at what he does,
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  Speaker 2: and the results, you know, show for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I think that's kind of fun
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  Speaker 1: about the off season program is a is you start
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  Speaker 1: to see some of these younger guys step up into
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  Speaker 1: leadership roles. You know, it's something you mentioned team building,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't really have team building if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have some guys that are maybe taking some of those
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  Speaker 1: leadership roles. Have you seen any of that in the
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  Speaker 1: first two weeks or is that something that kind of
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  Speaker 1: develops maybe over a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 2: It does take longer than the first two weeks, although
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's funny they kind of look around at
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  Speaker 2: each other to see who wants to step up, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we line them up in eleven lines. So
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  Speaker 2: I guess the first you know, hint of leadership is
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  Speaker 2: who's in the front of each line. And oftentimes it
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  Speaker 2: is the the players who will be seniors this coming season,
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  Speaker 2: and but there's some underclassmen as well, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it takes the course of about two or three months
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  Speaker 2: to finally begin to see who is assuming the position
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  Speaker 2: of I'm gonna speak at the end and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be the one that breaks us and you know, who
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  Speaker 2: leads in this stretches and things like that. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a work in progress and it so it's always fun
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  Speaker 2: to see the maturation of of how a player begins
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, when he fully assumes that role,
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  Speaker 2: you know what he's able to do.
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  Speaker 1: Then one of the things I've noticed over you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've only been here a couple of years now, but
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  Speaker 1: one of the things I've noticed is, you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the guys that speak up in the off season program
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  Speaker 1: and and kind of lead some of the things in
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  Speaker 1: the off season program don't even end up being captains
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  Speaker 1: in the summer. You're you know, as we get to
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  Speaker 1: the fall, and then you know it's almost vice versa two.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the guys that you know, uh, don't speak
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  Speaker 1: a lot, all of a sudden, they're a captain in
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  Speaker 1: the summer in the fall, and you know, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one example maybe is like an Olin Ladoue
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, maybe wasn't the loudest speaker
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  Speaker 1: in the off season, but then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: in the fall kind of almost became the captain of
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  Speaker 1: the captains in a way, you know, And it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's really fun to watch as those leave and graduate
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  Speaker 1: and move on the next group. Like you said, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they kind of look around at each other like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna who's gonna take this here? And a couple
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  Speaker 1: of guys step up, and you know, you just never
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  Speaker 1: know who's gonna be that guy. And sometimes you go
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  Speaker 1: into it going, you know, I think, maybe you know
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  Speaker 1: a couple of these guys, and actually, you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's other guys. And you see guys step up, and
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys go, hey, it's my senior years.
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  Speaker 1: It's now my time. I have to be that guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to be that guy that steps
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  Speaker 1: up and talks. So it's really cool. If we've had
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  Speaker 1: some parents parent meetings this week, as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: two of them, one on Tuesday that was a Zoom meeting. Yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: This will probably go. I'll probably post this on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: so yesterday being Thursday of last week, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, big trip coming up. Hawaii originally went to
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  Speaker 1: Colorado and then last year or excuse me, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three went to New York. I was a part of
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  Speaker 1: that one. I thought it was awesome Hawaii coach. First off,
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe why Hawaii? Why Colorado? Why New York?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Why Hawaii? What's what's the big deal down there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Great question. You know, you you try to give
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  Speaker 2: your your your players and experience of a lifetime, right. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when we go on these trips, the games
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  Speaker 2: are the least significant of what we do. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: the New York trip was fabulous. I I you know,
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  Speaker 2: if I chose, I think I would go to New
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  Speaker 2: York every time. It was an incredible trip. And what
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  Speaker 2: you can learn and see there and and and give
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  Speaker 2: to experience to your kids is is maybe unmatched. But
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  Speaker 2: I do like to travel to different places, and there
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  Speaker 2: are teams that have gone to Hawaii, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hear great things about their experience, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I just you know, I don't. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure how many kids have at this age have been
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  Speaker 2: to Hawaii and and been able to be on a beach,
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  Speaker 2: you know, looking over the Pacific Ocean and and just
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  Speaker 2: experiencing some of the culture over there, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: played football as well, and so you know, I I
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  Speaker 2: get input from kids as I get input from other coaches.
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  Speaker 2: We have a you know, a couple of coaches who
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  Speaker 2: have who've grew up in Hawaii and talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: and we've always talked about teaking our team over there.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that was the initial part of it.
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  Speaker 2: K s A, the the group that we go through
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  Speaker 2: there unbelievable. Anybody, if there's a coach out there listening
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  Speaker 2: and you you think you can't take your team because
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  Speaker 2: you can't afford it, you are grossly mistaken. Ks A
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  Speaker 2: does a wonderful job of helping us to you know,
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  Speaker 2: prepare for this trip through fundraising and and organization and
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  Speaker 2: and they're a wonderful company to work with, and you
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  Speaker 2: can you can reach out to me if you want
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  Speaker 2: to do that, but it's a it's a great experience
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  Speaker 2: for kids. We're looking forward to, uh, you know this
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  Speaker 2: this trip and I think our families and and players
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  Speaker 2: are excited for it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know all second, the KSA thing, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about them until we went to New York.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. Once we got there, it
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  Speaker 1: was like we didn't have to do anything. We just
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  Speaker 1: had to go where they had us set up ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. And I can't remember the gentleman's name that
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  Speaker 1: was there kind of leading us from KSA, but he
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  Speaker 1: was unbelievable. I mean, anything we needed it was, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: our kids are standing around a little bit, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be hungry. Boom, he's got pizza ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whatever it was, it was truly unbelievable the
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  Speaker 1: way that they did things. You mentioned that it's more
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  Speaker 1: than just a football game. As of right now, no
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  Speaker 1: team lined up. Not really too worried about that. But
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  Speaker 1: what else is maybe planned or what could be planned here?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: When we went to New York, we went to Army
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  Speaker 1: and we went to I say Army, the US Military Academy.
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  Speaker 1: We went to the nine to eleven You know, the museum,
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  Speaker 1: and we went up the new World Trade Center building.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the things you know that people
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  Speaker 1: can look forward to as far as Hawaii goes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the itinerary is not set one hundred percent and
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  Speaker 2: still and that's the fun part. We get to kind
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  Speaker 2: of pick and choose the things we want to do.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be there on from Wednesday to Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have the ability to take our kids
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  Speaker 2: to Pearl Harbor and and and witness the uh, the
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the events that happened there on at
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  Speaker 2: the USS Arizona. There's a movie that you get to see.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a submarine you tour and it's just
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  Speaker 2: incredible that the experience in in the history there. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to go spend the time on. It's I think
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  Speaker 2: it's called the Secret Island or Secret Beach, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of New k s A found this kind of
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  Speaker 2: stumbled upon it, and you know, we get to we
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  Speaker 2: get to spend a day at the beach. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily with thousands of people at Waikiki, we kind
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  Speaker 2: of get our own experience. We we've talked about a
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  Speaker 2: catamaran cruise. We're for sure. Doing a Luau Polynesian Cultural
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  Speaker 2: Center is always, you know, something that can be done.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to try to get some time at the
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  Speaker 2: University of Hawaii, whether it's through a walkthrough or maybe
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  Speaker 2: a campus tour. We always like to you know, expand
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  Speaker 2: the horizon a little bit for our kids who are
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  Speaker 2: going to be you know, traveling to the you know,
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  Speaker 2: out of high school and into college and you know,
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  Speaker 2: standing on campus. This helps to you know, enrich that experience.
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  Speaker 2: So there are lots to do, lots of fun things
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  Speaker 2: that we're excited about. You're right, we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: team yet. That's usually not the most important thing. We
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  Speaker 2: get that as as the month or two here comes along.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm just excited to start fundraising, to to
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  Speaker 2: begin to work hard to earn, you know, an experience
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  Speaker 2: that maybe some people don't get at this age.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I remember when we talked about New York initially,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things you were talking about was some
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  Speaker 1: of these kids have probably never even been on an
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  Speaker 1: airplane before, you know, so not only are they getting
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  Speaker 1: to go on an airplane, but they're getting to fly
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  Speaker 1: all the way, I guess, halfway across an ocean, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, which for me, I remember we
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  Speaker 1: flew from Houston to Orlando and just that small little
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  Speaker 1: stretch over the water, I thought like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird. Now we're talking about hours over the water,
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  Speaker 1: so a little bit different here. But I mean the
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  Speaker 1: kind of the buzz with some of the kids is
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool to see because I think there's quite a
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  Speaker 1: few of them that have never been on never been
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  Speaker 1: on a real big trip like this is going to
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  Speaker 1: end up being the one thing I think it's really
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  Speaker 1: cool is you say luau. We've all heard of a
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  Speaker 1: luau before. I don't know what the heck of luau
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  Speaker 1: actually is. I don't know what actually goes on there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I was even looking on YouTube the other
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  Speaker 1: day and I'm looking at it, going, well, this actually
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  Speaker 1: looks really really cool, so it's gonna be fun. I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited for it to make that happen. Though. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fundraising that's going to need to go on,
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  Speaker 1: and I think one of the things I would say
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  Speaker 1: is if you're somebody listening to this, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you have an athlete in the program, then then
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  Speaker 1: you're maybe a little more well versed on things at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. But if you're somebody listening to this and
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  Speaker 1: you want to help out, I think the first thing
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  Speaker 1: I would do is who do you know? Who are
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  Speaker 1: some athletes that you know? And if you know some
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe you got some former teammates or something
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  Speaker 1: that their kids are on the football team or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, reach out to them and let them know. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: when you start fundraising, let me know, because then they
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  Speaker 1: can reach out to you and they know that you're
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  Speaker 1: wanting to help. You know, if you want to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to the coaches here, go ahead and do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let them know, and you know, we can set you
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  Speaker 1: up with some things. There's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fundraising. One of the things that's already kind of
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  Speaker 1: happened is Custom Fundraising Solutions of Seattle. They I think
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  Speaker 1: they made us a collaborator is what it's called on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: For the Mattress fundraiser that happens. I can't remember the
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  Speaker 1: exact date, but it's in the middle of May. It's
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  Speaker 1: like seventeenth, eighteenth, somewhere right around there. The big one though,
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  Speaker 1: auction June sixth at Nardo Land. Tickets will go on
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  Speaker 1: sale on March first, is what I was told yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: So be on the lookout for that. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things. You know, we need items. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna need things that we can auction, but also
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  Speaker 1: we need butts and seats that want to spend some
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  Speaker 1: money because we're gonna we got a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to pay for. Obviously, outside of the Hawaii trip, we
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  Speaker 1: still got to fund everything that we normally fund, so
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of money to be to be raised.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, coach, this is the time of the year
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  Speaker 1: where you know, we're not usually like we know the
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  Speaker 1: dates of the fundraising, but we have yet to start fundraising.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're kind of in fundraising mode here in January.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll start with a we called the calendar fund raiser,
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  Speaker 2: and you know it's not selling calendars, but it's uh
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  Speaker 2: it's raising money on each day of the of the month.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got we've got other activities planned as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's a seven fundraisers we have planned
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  Speaker 2: and some of them can be done multiple months, and
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  Speaker 2: so there's there's no lack of opportunity to raise the
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  Speaker 2: funds that are needed to go on this trip. And
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  Speaker 2: and you know, every year we've done it, we've we've succeeded.
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  Speaker 2: So there's there's a there's no question we'll get we'll
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  Speaker 2: get the funds raised and the experience will be wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: So excited for that. You know, the off season is
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  Speaker 2: funny because there's really not much off for for you know,
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  Speaker 2: head coaches and and uh and kids too now you know,
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  Speaker 2: with with lifting and playing other sports, and it makes
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  Speaker 2: the the days go fast and the time fly by.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, I'm you know, I'm excited about the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the effort is that's been shown so far
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  Speaker 2: by our kids and the parents that have that have
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  Speaker 2: come to meetings, and uh, the energy is great. Looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so one of the things I would say
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  Speaker 1: is keep an eye on social media. Anytime there's fundraising
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on, we'll be posting it out there, you know, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have a TikTok. We don't use TikTok. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we should. I don't know. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we could even get some you know, if
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  Speaker 1: we post some videos and stuff, we could actually get
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  Speaker 1: some money from TikTok. So maybe I do need to
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  Speaker 1: do some of that stuff. I don't know, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so keep an eye on all of that. If you
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: go to Boffelfootball dot net, you'll be able to find
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: fundraising pages and different things that are going to show
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: people how they can help, what they can do. It'll
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: have dates for Mattress fundraiser auction. Like I said, tickets
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: don't go on sale until March first, but once I
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: go on sale, you know we need people there. So Coach,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: let's talk about maybe something that you know. It's funny.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: The season ends and within a few weeks I've already
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: got people going, hey, do you guys know who you're
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: going to play in next year? And I'm like, no,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: we don't know. We're starting to figure some things out, though.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: But I think the biggest question you and I talked
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: about it quite a few times over the last two years, Kinko.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: You know, it's the tears and kind of how and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the hole raising your
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: bar and doing all that stuff again, but that's kind
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: of where it's going. We now, though, know that Kinko
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: is kind of going back to what we've always had,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the two divisions. I mean, I don't know if you'd
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: call it a north and the south. I'm sure it'll
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: be Crown and Crest, but it's kind of a north
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: side and southeast, if you will. It's split up. Bellevue
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: is a part of it. They are not on our
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: side of Kinko though.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not to get into the politics here
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: of anything, but there's a frustration that I think coaches
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: feel because our voices are not heard. And so, you know,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I think after the last couple of years, we've just
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: accepted it and we see what we get. And you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: that's the case here. There are classification tiers. You can
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: opt up or op down. You had to go through
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: a hearing. I guess athletic directors and principals got together
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: and made decisions. I know that two four A teams
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: were allowed to go down to the three A tier
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and Bellevue was you know, accepted up to the four
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: A tier again. And and then you know, you could
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: go about it a number of different ways and kind
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: of you know, sit down and decide what we want
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to do and and how we want the two divisions
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: to look. But uh, you know again, they just said, hey,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: we're going to go north and the south and it's
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: true North and South. And so you know, the good
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: news is we're we're going to be playing North Creek
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: again and Woodenville and Bothel we're all on the same side.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And that's the way it should be, I think with
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: school districts. Of course, Inglemore's three A, so they're in
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the three A tier. We won't play them again. But
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you know, we we add wan Ita in Lake Washington
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to our side. And and so you got a you're
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: gonna have a Kinko championship game again. Uh with the
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: North and the South crossover Week nine. We've had some
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: luck with some non league games. Of course, we'll play
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a team from Hawaii. We'll play Glacier Peak this year
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Week three, and we've got UH. You know, they're a
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: great program, and they had a great run last year.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And of course Week six, which are tough games to get.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: We we were fortunate to be able to play tom Water.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Now there are two a football program. But their story
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: they they win state championships all the time. And and
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: coach Gerow and his his staff to do a wonderful
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: job with UH with their program, and that'll be a
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: wonderful challenge for us. And and uh. And then mister
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Clear athletic director and myself we both, uh, we both
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: found games for week two, and now we've got to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: figure out which one we're not going to play. But
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: uh uh exciting exciting times, as they always are when
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: you start a new two year schedule. And and so uh,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: we're just you know, we we were about to think
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: we can control, and what we control is how hard
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: we work from now until the time we have to play,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and and and all of the things we want to
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: do spring football, summer camp seven on seven's obviously the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: off season lifting program. So we'll do our part and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: when it's time to perform, you know, hopefully we put
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: our best product out on the field and and have
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: a fun time doing it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You mentioned tom Water. If anybody when we come around
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to going to that game, we'll talk about we'll talk
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: about it more, not only when you start talking about
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: things you can control. I've got some great food recommendations
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: down that way, coach. But that's a game I think
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: when you go on the road, that's a game that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: people are gonna want to go to because the atmosphere
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: at tom Water is different. Those people love football, they
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: care about football, They are awesome down there. There's houses,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: there's no visitors stands, there's houses over there, and there's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: people that have built up like porches along their fence
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: so they can watch the game from their back yard.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You can go underneath their stadium, and they've got pictures
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: everywhere of their all league players. They're all state guys.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It's really really cool. So I'm excited for that one,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Tom water Is. It's one of those great They've been
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to the state championship game three years in a row.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: You know, like that's that's a really that's a tough task.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: You know, like that's a tough thing to accomplish three
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: straight state championships for a public school. So so yeah,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll get more into the schedule as we
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: get closer to the season, but I kind of wanted
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about Kinko and the way
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: it sets up, and you know, I'm excited to the schedule.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Looks like it's gonna be fun. Obviously, it's great to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: get to play the Woodenville's in the in the North Greeks.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: You love playing the schools within your school district. And
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: then you know, for me, one Eta in like Washington
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I went to Wanda don't like a lot
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: about like Washington. We're not really allowed to over there,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but it'll it'll be fun. I'm excited for it. And yeah,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, we'll talk more as we
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: get closer to the season, but that's all I got, coach,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: anything before we head out.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: You know, just I guess I would just blanket to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: thank all of the people that help in the off
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: season stuff, you know, from the coaches to the parents,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: to the booster club to the athletic director. To know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: everybody who you know works year round like like we
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: do that that help contribute to the growth of our
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: student athletes. So so thank you to everybody, and I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: can't wait to get on the field again.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Work year round for at most fourteen games, right, absolutely?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: All right? Coach, Yeah, he's coach Tom Bainter. I'm Royland Spencer.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You've been listening to episode twenty five of The Football
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. We will talk to you, not next week,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: but we'll talk to you soon. And as always, Gokus