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Day on your radio courtesy Mississippi Sports Medicine Orthopedic Center.
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Right now, head football coach, Athletics director Devin Cooper kind
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of to give some time before they hit the hot
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box tonight.
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Coach Coop, how are you, man? I'm doing great, Jake Man.
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Always always glad to see you and have you come
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host the show here. Man, we look forward to it
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every year.
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Absolutely same here and we appreciate you as always. All right,
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So let's talk a little football. We know it's hot.
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We know, you know you got to watch that wet ball,
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but people are seeing that, you know through the state. Man,
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it just feels hotter now than it was last year,
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doesn't it.
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Yeah, I'm telling it is. Man.
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We've had to do a few more of the night
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practices for us. That's the way we've we've decided to
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go about beating the heat, and we've done a little
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more of that this year than we had to do
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last season.
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So it's, uh, you.
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Know, it's one of the things you just kind of
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know what's coming and you you adapt and you roll.
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Let me ask you this, uh, you know, as far
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as this year and this team kind of take us through.
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You know, last year was a successful year. You guys
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make the playoffs, but y'all hit that bus. Saw that
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everybody hit in golf Port. Yeah, man, they just kind
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of came out of nowhere.
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Yeah, I'm telling the Uh, you know, Pinnic and I
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are pretty close man, and we were talking about it
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leading up to it, and we're kind of one of
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those things thinking we're gonna get into a shootout. If
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you there was only one game we really had, we
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didn't put points out that that kind of outlier game
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with Brandon that happened here on our field.
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They got us three to zero.
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And other than that, you take o grove down to
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the wire, they kick a field goal with no time
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left to beat us about three. We knew we could
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throw some points up. We kind of just ran into
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some things going to that week. A couple of our
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key players, you know, we're not able to play their
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best for sick and that's you know, people say it's excuse,
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but it is the reality of it too. But on
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top of that, you're getting ready for golf court and
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we felt good about it. Says we had a good
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team last year.
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I mean we were.
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You had four losses in the regular season and all
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were we within a touchdowns difference, and that's Clinton Madison Central,
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and then you had Brandon o'grove.
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Two three point losses.
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Of those, we had a really good football team, a
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lot of seniors that played for us and did a
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great job.
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That was a good class of kids.
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Uh.
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But yeah, you get ready for golf, for it. And
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we were watching film earlier and like, man, we're gonna
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be fine.
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We just got a execute like we've been doing and
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we're gonna have a shot to win the game. And
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kind of got about to Wednesday Thursday, and I found
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a couple of live streams of them.
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I remember telling Pennick.
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I was like, man, when I got to watching those
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live streams, something was a little different vibe about it.
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And you can see the kind of.
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The chemistry of the team, and uh, you knew you
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were really you're fixing to be up for a big
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challenge for sure. And man, I was so impressed with
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how tough they were in the trenches. They beat us
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at the line of scrimmage and that really made the
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difference in the game. And I know they had the
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you got the running back everybody knew about, but I'm
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telling you, I don't know if enough credit went toward
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their uh their O line, their D line. Uh As
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teams were calling they were playing them next, whether they
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be Pedal brand, you know, all the ones that had
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to play them. I told everyone on them the same thing.
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Underestimate their trenches. Those guys are really good in the trenches.
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Last year, you know, it's amazing.
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And you've got some seniors we're gonna talk about here
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in just a bit, really really good players. But you know,
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I was looking at film on golf court last year
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as we head towards the playoffs and looking at Cooper Crossby,
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and I told Pinic this too. You watch him one
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film and you think, okay, he's a good back. He's
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but you know you used to tackle the guy, right,
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But then you watch him in person.
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It's like, yeah, he just leaves it. It's like I
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didn't know he could run like that. Man, he was.
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He's a special player and that's why he's in starting now.
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He's different, and I'm telling him when he was, he
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really is. He's got an extraverse that you got to
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have to be that kind of player.
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And he he.
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Revealed that to us very quickly and we got on
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the field with him. When you see him in personally, man,
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he is a good You knew he's a good an
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athlete would you get on the field with him, like man,
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he looked even better. And guys already can look good
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on film, but when you see him in person, they
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get bigger, like you know you're dealing with something and
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the kid is as a pretty neat story on him,
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how he grew and how he progressed for them a
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golf part and what he turned out to be. And
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I think Missipi State has gained one Heck football.
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Player with him visiting with Devin Cooper, Heck football coach
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athletics director at Northwest Ranking Tuesday edition to program.
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Right, so you've got some really good seniors. Talk talk
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to us little bit about the football team. Yeah, I'm
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excited about some key returns.
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We have for sure, some guys that's been on the fire.
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We got a couple of.
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Leaders on the front line with you met one of
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them earlier, Jadon Ransom.
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And then you have riland Williams.
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Two veteran guys that's been in this this seven a
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just gaunet that we go through.
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They know what they're getting into.
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And you got Gavin Phillipson coming back at quarterback, had
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a through for a lot of yards last year, had
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a great season. I feel like he's one of the
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more underrated quarterbacks probably going into the.
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Season this year. But that's fine. I mean, he knows it.
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He's a dual, dual athlete guy, big time baseball player,
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just a great kid man, very athletic.
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Then you got as well, Dashaun Dillon. Everybody knows about him.
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He's a great receiver, good good long arms, great catch radius.
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He's picked up a whole lot of attention. People are
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really keeping eyes on him. He's gonna actually I think
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he's gonna announce Saturdays where he's telling us somewhere he's
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gonna go. So we're excited for him to have that
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moment that he's earned with his family. You know, he's
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a basketball football guy. Uh, we expect a lot of
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big things out of him. And then on the other
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side of them, you got a kid named Marco Stapleton
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that has really really emerged. He's picking up some G
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five offers and I hope he can get him something
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a little bigger. And I think if he continues to
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trend in that direction, good things are gonna happen for him. Defensively,
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we probably have more inexperience on the defensive side. A
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couple of key guys that are coming back a corner
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for us that we're we're really excited about. And Patrick Harper,
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you know, and then you got some got some older
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guys that are gonna play. They just have not played
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a lot right now, so that's gonna be their time
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to go.
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So, you know, it is what we're all on the
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same boat.
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You've got to take your team, fit it together, fix
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your making your adjustments, and navigate this journey we're about
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to be on.
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And of course you know to play uh in all
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seven a's it seems like everybody does it now. You
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guys will play a pretty darn tough non region schedule,
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but that allows you the opportunity to believe what German
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towns you're up in the next week. Yeah, take us
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through that first few weeks and that's gonna give you
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a chance to develop those guys.
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Well, you know that. I think that's the thing.
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If you're going to compete in our district, you have
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to be ready.
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You don't want to learn your.
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Lessons in our district and that that'll cost you games.
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If you're gonna have a chance to compete with who
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we play, every team in our district can play ball
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all the very well coached and it comes down to
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very close finishes and very tight games. So to get
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yourself ready, you need to play Germantown and you need
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to play your Clintons. You need to play Madison's. You
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got brooke Haven on the schedule. You got Wayne County
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who is I'll tell you we got down there last
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year with them, and man, what a physical, physical group
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of young men we got for the jamboree coming up
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Friday night. You got Terry coming to your coach stick
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Pen and man, he's done. You and I are just
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talking about he's done a fabulous job and he's got
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a lot of good looking players. And you know, but
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that's the way it's all about. That builds excitement for
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your crowd, your community, and you know they want to
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see you play tough games, good games. And the key
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to it is get better, stay healthy, and get yourself
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and get a little better as you go and try
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to peak at the right time as the goal.
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Speaking of your fans, talk a little bit about this
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place here. We're at Cougar Stadium, Northwest.
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FRANKL. Cougars, I think you.
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Guys do as good as anybody on a game day atmosphere.
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I know you guys have it broken up now. I
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believe tailgates on both sides. You got two or a
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video board here used to be a video board that
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may still be. I don't know if that's a stack.
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Covered it up with a static sign, Yeah, covered it up.
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But man, the atmosphere is that of almost like a
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collegiate type atmosphere here.
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You know, And that's our goal. We put a lot into it. Man.
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It starts with a school district that puts a lot
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into your facilities and gives you the ability to have
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a place to come for your kids to have a
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great spot to play ball, and your administration having you,
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you know, supporting you from the building to here. And
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then you know, we have two assistant athletic directors that
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in Kelsey Pool and Coach Alders. You Coach Alders talked
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to you earlier, Kelsey Pool's head volleyball coach. And man,
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they do a fabulous job help prepare in the event.
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But man, and we got the best band that's out there.
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They sit in our bleachers and they play to support us,
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and they do their a phenomenal halftime show. It's something
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really special to see then you got cheerleading dance that rank.
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They rank in the top of the state every year,
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compete nationally, sometimes have won the national championships. But when
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you have that and you have that environment with your
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kids and your people, it fills the stadium and it
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creates It gives them something to see. So your tailgating
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does fill up, your bleachers do fill up, and these
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young men are so blessed. There's no Friday night, there's
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no other experience. I think you're gonna get aywhere else
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sem to better than our Friday nights.
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I really believe that he is.
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Devin Cooper, head football coach and athletics director here for
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the Northwest. Frank and Cougars coach, thanks for having us today.
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Best of luck this year. I appreciate it. Jake than
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thank you.
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Right now, head football coach, Athletics director Devin Cooper kind
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of to give some time before they hit the hot
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box tonight.
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Coach Coop, how are you, man? I'm doing great, Jake Man.
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Always always glad to see you and have you come
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host the show here. Man, we look forward to it
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every year.
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Absolutely same here and we appreciate you as always. All right,
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So let's talk a little football. We know it's hot.
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We know, you know you got to watch that wet ball,
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but people are seeing that, you know through the state. Man,
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it just feels hotter now than it was last year,
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doesn't it.
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Yeah, I'm telling it is. Man.
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practices for us. That's the way we've we've decided to
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go about beating the heat, and we've done a little
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more of that this year than we had to do
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last season.
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So it's, uh, you.
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know what's coming and you you adapt and you roll.
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Let me ask you this, uh, you know, as far
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as this year and this team kind of take us through.
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You know, last year was a successful year. You guys
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make the playoffs, but y'all hit that bus. Saw that
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everybody hit in golf Port. Yeah, man, they just kind
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of came out of nowhere.
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are pretty close man, and we were talking about it
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leading up to it, and we're kind of one of
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those things thinking we're gonna get into a shootout. If
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you there was only one game we really had, we
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didn't put points out that that kind of outlier game
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with Brandon that happened here on our field.
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the wire, they kick a field goal with no time
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left to beat us about three. We knew we could
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throw some points up. We kind of just ran into
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some things going to that week. A couple of our
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key players, you know, we're not able to play their
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best for sick and that's you know, people say it's excuse,
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but it is the reality of it too. But on
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top of that, you're getting ready for golf court and
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we felt good about it. Says we had a good
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team last year.
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I mean we were.
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You had four losses in the regular season and all
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were we within a touchdowns difference, and that's Clinton Madison Central,
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Of those, we had a really good football team, a
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lot of seniors that played for us and did a
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we're gonna have a shot to win the game. And
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kind of got about to Wednesday Thursday, and I found
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a couple of live streams of them.
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live streams, something was a little different vibe about it.
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were really you're fixing to be up for a big
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challenge for sure. And man, I was so impressed with
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how tough they were in the trenches. They beat us
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at the line of scrimmage and that really made the
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difference in the game. And I know they had the
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you got the running back everybody knew about, but I'm
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their uh their O line, their D line. Uh As
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teams were calling they were playing them next, whether they
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be Pedal brand, you know, all the ones that had
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to play them. I told everyone on them the same thing.
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Last year, you know, it's amazing.
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in just a bit, really really good players. But you know,
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I was looking at film on golf court last year
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as we head towards the playoffs and looking at Cooper Crossby,
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and I told Pinic this too. You watch him one
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film and you think, okay, he's a good back. He's
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but you know you used to tackle the guy, right,
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didn't know he could run like that. Man, he was.
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He's a special player and that's why he's in starting now.
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He's different, and I'm telling him when he was, he
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really is. He's got an extraverse that you got to
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have to be that kind of player.
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And he he.
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Revealed that to us very quickly and we got on
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the field with him. When you see him in personally, man,
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he is a good You knew he's a good an
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athlete would you get on the field with him, like man,
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he looked even better. And guys already can look good
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on film, but when you see him in person, they
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get bigger, like you know you're dealing with something and
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the kid is as a pretty neat story on him,
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how he grew and how he progressed for them a
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golf part and what he turned out to be. And
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I think Missipi State has gained one Heck football.
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Player with him visiting with Devin Cooper, Heck football coach
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athletics director at Northwest Ranking Tuesday edition to program.
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Right, so you've got some really good seniors. Talk talk
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to us little bit about the football team. Yeah, I'm
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excited about some key returns.
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We got a couple of.
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Leaders on the front line with you met one of
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them earlier, Jadon Ransom.
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Two veteran guys that's been in this this seven a
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just gaunet that we go through.
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They know what they're getting into.
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a through for a lot of yards last year, had
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a great season. I feel like he's one of the
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more underrated quarterbacks probably going into the.
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Season this year. But that's fine. I mean, he knows it.
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He's a dual, dual athlete guy, big time baseball player,
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just a great kid man, very athletic.
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Then you got as well, Dashaun Dillon. Everybody knows about him.
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He's a great receiver, good good long arms, great catch radius.
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He's picked up a whole lot of attention. People are
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really keeping eyes on him. He's gonna actually I think
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he's gonna announce Saturdays where he's telling us somewhere he's
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gonna go. So we're excited for him to have that
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moment that he's earned with his family. You know, he's
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a basketball football guy. Uh, we expect a lot of
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big things out of him. And then on the other
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side of them, you got a kid named Marco Stapleton
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that has really really emerged. He's picking up some G
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five offers and I hope he can get him something
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a little bigger. And I think if he continues to
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trend in that direction, good things are gonna happen for him. Defensively,
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we probably have more inexperience on the defensive side. A
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couple of key guys that are coming back a corner
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for us that we're we're really excited about. And Patrick Harper,
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you know, and then you got some got some older
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guys that are gonna play. They just have not played
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a lot right now, so that's gonna be their time
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to go.
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same boat.
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You've got to take your team, fit it together, fix
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your making your adjustments, and navigate this journey we're about
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to be on.
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seven a's it seems like everybody does it now. You
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guys will play a pretty darn tough non region schedule,
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but that allows you the opportunity to believe what German
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towns you're up in the next week. Yeah, take us
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through that first few weeks and that's gonna give you
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a chance to develop those guys.
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If you're going to compete in our district, you have
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You don't want to learn your.
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If you're gonna have a chance to compete with who
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we play, every team in our district can play ball
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all the very well coached and it comes down to
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very close finishes and very tight games. So to get
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yourself ready, you need to play Germantown and you need
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to play your Clintons. You need to play Madison's. You
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got brooke Haven on the schedule. You got Wayne County
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who is I'll tell you we got down there last
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year with them, and man, what a physical, physical group
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of young men we got for the jamboree coming up
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Friday night. You got Terry coming to your coach stick
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Pen and man, he's done. You and I are just
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talking about he's done a fabulous job and he's got
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a lot of good looking players. And you know, but
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that's the way it's all about. That builds excitement for
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your crowd, your community, and you know they want to
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see you play tough games, good games. And the key
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to it is get better, stay healthy, and get yourself
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and get a little better as you go and try
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to peak at the right time as the goal.
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Speaking of your fans, talk a little bit about this
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place here. We're at Cougar Stadium, Northwest.
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FRANKL. Cougars, I think you.
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Guys do as good as anybody on a game day atmosphere.
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I know you guys have it broken up now. I
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believe tailgates on both sides. You got two or a
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video board here used to be a video board that
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may still be. I don't know if that's a stack.
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Covered it up with a static sign, Yeah, covered it up.
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But man, the atmosphere is that of almost like a
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collegiate type atmosphere here.
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You know, And that's our goal. We put a lot into it. Man.
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It starts with a school district that puts a lot
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into your facilities and gives you the ability to have
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a place to come for your kids to have a
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great spot to play ball, and your administration having you,
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you know, supporting you from the building to here. And
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then you know, we have two assistant athletic directors that
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in Kelsey Pool and Coach Alders. You Coach Alders talked
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to you earlier, Kelsey Pool's head volleyball coach. And man,
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they do a fabulous job help prepare in the event.
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But man, and we got the best band that's out there.
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They sit in our bleachers and they play to support us,
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and they do their a phenomenal halftime show. It's something
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really special to see then you got cheerleading dance that rank.
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They rank in the top of the state every year,
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compete nationally, sometimes have won the national championships. But when
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you have that and you have that environment with your
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kids and your people, it fills the stadium and it
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creates It gives them something to see. So your tailgating
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does fill up, your bleachers do fill up, and these
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young men are so blessed. There's no Friday night, there's
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no other experience. I think you're gonna get aywhere else
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sem to better than our Friday nights.
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I really believe that he is.
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Devin Cooper, head football coach and athletics director here for
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the Northwest. Frank and Cougars coach, thanks for having us today.
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Best of luck this year. I appreciate it. Jake than
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thank you.
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We got to take a time out. We're brought to
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you by Maristar Casino. More on a Tuesday back in
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a moment
