Episode 68- Game Talk, Fundraiser & Guests/Players Ben Shryock, Colton Minnett, and Braxton Idlewine.

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Hello, everyone.
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Welcome to another Wildcat First Down. This is the host,
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Chris Wood, along with the head coach of the South
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American Wildcats, Coach Corey Miller. Coach, welcome to the show.
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What's going on, Chris? Glad to be back.
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Hey, good to be back after a fantastic win last week.
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Talk a little bit about that Fountain Central win.
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Yeah, it was a great win. You know, on the road,
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it was their homecoming, as we thought it was going
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to be. So it was great.
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You know, they had a lot to be excited about.
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You know, going into it, obviously, you know, you see
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the predictions.
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You see that you're the underdog.
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It was exciting to walk in there, get the upset,
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and honestly, we played pretty well. You know, and from
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a coaching standpoint, it was great. I feel like we
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leveled up in terms of making halftime adjustments and And.
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So it was great. I mean, it was a great win.
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It was a great team win.
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And, you know, obviously there's some times where still we've
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got to play better. Obviously we're still not where we
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want to be. And so, but looking at that with
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all that kind of set aside, it was a great win.
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It was a great Friday night.
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Any win is a good win, right?
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That's exactly right.
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Let's go over some of the scoring summaries. At the 6.54
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mark in the first quarter, Carter Zuka gets a seven-yard
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reception from The quarterback, Ben Shryock. That two-point conversion run
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by Shryock is good. Puts us up 8-0. In the
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second quarter, 8-29 on the clock. Ben Shryock with a
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two-yard rushing touchdown. A two-point conversion by Mason Larson from
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a pass from Zuka. Puts us up 16-8. In the
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second quarter, the end of the second quarter, with just
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46 seconds left on the clock, Shryock finds Minette for
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a 19-yard pass. The two-point conversion was not converted. However,
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we're still up 22-16. No score in the third quarter.
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In the fourth quarter, 934 left on the clock. Campbell,
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Sue Coleman, finds a 41-yard touchdown run. Shryock gets the
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two-point conversion, puts us up 30-16. There is a score
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by Fountain Central's Bachelor after that. The final score, 30-22.
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High scoring game.
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The one thing I will say about the game, we
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didn't run the ball as well as I thought, but
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what was great was we got to see our quarterback
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do a fantastic job throwing the ball.
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It was awesome. It was fun to watch.
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Of course, when you get into those types of games
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and You know, you struggle to run the ball, but
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then you get to throw it everywhere. It's a lot
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of high action, you know, and a lot of fast scoring.
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And I will say about the touchdown with Soup, I mean,
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the fact that he was able to– the fact that
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he was able to kind of scramble and kind of–
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it was kind of like a middle school little play there.
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He bounced it inside, didn't get tackled. The next thing
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you know, he bounces it back outside, just outruns everybody
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for the score, you know. And like I said, it
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was– for us, like I said, it was a great
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game to get back on track, get back on the
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winning side, recover from the week prior, and.
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It was great to finish the week off the way
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we did.
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Schrock ended up with 194 yards passing, two touchdowns, zero interceptions.
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We always like that. That stat is great. But on
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the rushing side, he also had 76 yards rushing with
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a touchdown, 13 carries, Coach, he had 5.8 yard average.
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Anytime you can get over three, that's good, right? That's accurate. 5.8. Soup,
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Coleman had five carries, 54 yards, 10.8 yard average with
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one touchdown. On the receiving end, let's see, Minette, seven
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catches for 86 yards and a touchdown. Zuka, 38 yards
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and a touchdown. Eidelwein had four catches, 32 yards.
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Coleman.
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Had two catches, 33 yards. Good night distributing the ball
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as well.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I will say these, you know, like
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I said, we do a fantastic job of trying to
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get everybody opportunities to.
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Touch the football.
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You know, and everybody has a role, right? And we
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understand that, right? And you understand that call and plays.
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You know you are 36th. you know, you know that
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that corner is playing 10 yards off.
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So what are you going to do?
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You're going to call yellow 19, throw the ball to Braxton.
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I want a five yard speed out.
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Right.
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And he's going to get you that first down. It's just,
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it's just, we, you know, who's going to do what.
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Yeah.
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And, and it's great because everybody fits the role and
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they fit it and they play it to the, you know,
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with the most excellence and they take pride in the
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things they do.
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And any given Friday, those, those numbers can jump around
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depending on the scenario you're in.
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Absolutely.
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On the defensive side, uh colton robertson had 11 solo
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tackles mason larson had six colton smith had nine both
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minette and clover had five um four sacks we were
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all over the place four sacks uh minette had one
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colton smith had one ferrari had one nick straw had
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one good defensive night.
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Coach yeah yeah they played well they flew around they
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made a lot of tackles um And, you know, that's
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one thing that we want to continue to get better at,
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and we want to tackle well, right, and get tackles
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in the backfield. So four sacks is huge for us
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because I think.
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Walking into this game, we may have had four on
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the year.
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And we've had a lot of opportunities.
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It's just getting to and finishing and putting the guy
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on the ground. And so, like I said, incredible night.
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Coach, we have a few players with us here tonight.
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Why don't you introduce them?
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Yeah, they're extremely excited to be here. First off, we've
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got our quarterback, Ben Shryocki.
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We have Colton Manette, our wide receiver DB, and then
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we have another wide receiver DB.
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We have Braxton Idle on.
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We've probably heard those names a few times either on
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this podcast or over the PA, right?
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Yeah.
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Hey, guys, welcome to the show.
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Thanks for having us.
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Ben, your overall impression of last Friday night's game?
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We did a great job of handling the football offensively.
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Run game wasn't there, obviously, but we got in the
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air and we did a great job of catching.
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The ball and moving the chains.
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Manette, your idea. How did Friday look for you?
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Well, I know I had a lot of fun.
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I'm sure the team had a lot of fun, like
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in the locker room after we were very hyped up.
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And I thought it was a great game.
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We played well in all sides of the ball, including
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special teams, which is always.
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Great to have. And we had a lot of fun.
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Braxton, your thoughts?
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Overall, good game.
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Scored a lot of points, but also gave up probably
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too many points there.
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All right.
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Fair enough.
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Fair enough.
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Oh, so you coach said there's always some things.
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To clearly rubbing off on Braxton because I also look
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on the negative side of things too often too as well,
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but it's true. Um, you know, obviously, you know, coach
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Carter talked about it. We wanted to pitch a shutout,
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but that was a good team. I mean, we got
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to get props to coach Earl and that found central team.
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And obviously the Fox were the kid, the young one
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as a freshman, you know, he's coming back. He came
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back from an injury. He sustained against Riverton and, and
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to come back and kind of wheeze his way back
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to playing quarterback, um, You know, and he made a
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lot of great plays.
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The little small running.
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Back they had, too, I mean, he was fast like lightning, dude,
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and he made a lot of good plays. So, I mean,
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that's a good-found center team, and they've got an exciting
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future ahead of them. So, you know, for us, right,
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we set high standards and high expectations and high objectives
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and goals, and that's kind of our goal is to
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get there, right, and to play at a high, high level. So,
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you know, regardless of all that, still won a game.
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Sure.
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Ben?
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You have quite a few weapons out there to catch
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the ball. That's got to be a nice feeling, knowing
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that if somebody's covered, you have two or three more choices.
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Talk a little bit about what you see out there
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from your perspective.
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My receivers, they do a great job of helping me out.
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When I say I'm under pressure, they're always going.
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To find a way to find a pocket or find
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space to help me out.
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Colton here on my left, he does a great job
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of seeing the field. He's one of my weapons. And
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Braxton over here, He does a great job, and he
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does his job.
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Colton Braxton, how cool is it that you not only
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have a reliable quarterback, but you also have, when you're
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facing a little bit of pressure, you know that there's
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still another way to get on board?
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Yeah.
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Who wants to take that?
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Well, for me, I go out there having all the confidence,
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not only in my own abilities, but I have confidence
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because of our quarterback. He's going to find me and
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make a great throw. If I'm open, if I'm covered,
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I know he'll pick the right spot to go with
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the ball. And it gives me and the rest of
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the team confidence going out there that we know that
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we have some reliable quarterback that knows where to get
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the ball to. And he gets the ball there on
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time and the perfect spot where only you can catch it.
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Braxton?
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That's it.
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That's it.
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That's it. That's all.
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You're saying what they don't sit there and talk about
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is the great offensive line play that we've had this
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year as well.
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And sometimes these guys kind of forget when you go
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to our skelly periods.
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We got Ben just delivering the football, but when you
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add those other nine guys or five offensive linemen and
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four down linemen, that changes the game drastically.
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Sure.
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Ben, you've had good protection so far this year. Talk
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about your guys up front.
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Those are my boys. Those are my big dogs. They
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did a great job so far. I'm hoping they keep
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it up.
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And I think as a quarterback it's important to have
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a good bond with your linemen, and I try to
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do that as best as possible with my boys.
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I think this is fun. I have five questions that
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I ask all of the student athletes. So let's get
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into the five questions. First up, Ben, do you have
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any superstitions on game day?
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I would say undershirt. Wear the same undershirt every game.
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Same understate every game. All right.
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I wear the same socks every game.
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Honestly, I wash them before and after every game, but
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I wear the same socks.
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All right.
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Same wristband on my right arm.
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Same wristband.
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All right.
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So I just did a volleyball podcast, and I mentioned
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some of these kind of things, you know, wearing the
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same socks and that kind of thing, and the girls
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were like, oh, my gosh, that's disgusting.
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Yeah.
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We eat Takis before every game. I'm like, oh, superstition, superstition,
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whatever works, right? Ben, so far, what's been your most
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fond memory playing football in high school?
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I mean, there's plenty. Anything, I mean, in a game
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of football, there's so many electric moments that happen. I
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can't really name one, but I know that every game's
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got its own moment and everything's, I just love football.
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It's everything I've grown up on.
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Manette?
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For me, I'd say the same thing. I don't have
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one specific memory. I've had a lot of fun this
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year playing. I think so far this has been probably
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my funnest season playing football.
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Right.
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But I remember freshman year with those seniors. I love
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hanging out with them, and I had a lot of fun. Yeah.
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Braxton?
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I would say probably our first win at West Vigo
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last year.
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Okay. All right. What was special about that game for you?
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First game I got to play.
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All right.
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That's good. Yeah. Now– This is an unfair question because
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we are pretty late in the season. Ben, what are
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you looking forward to most in the football season ahead?
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Is there another game that you have circled, postseason, anything
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in particular you're looking forward to? Or maybe goals you
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want to accomplish that you're not there yet.
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I would say probably just improving. I mean, there's nothing–
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really there besides us.
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I mean, that's the most important thing is our team
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developing and just go above 500 and just keep this
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train rolling.
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Yeah, there we go.
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I think for the team, our biggest goal is beating Cedar.
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So next week is having a great game, going out
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there and doing our thing, running the ball effectively, passing
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on time like we have been. And I think for
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me personally, I want to go all-conference this year.
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That's my personal goal.
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Perfect.
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Brexty?
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Just getting better every week.
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Yeah.
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Continuing to improve how we did on the last week.
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Good deal. What is your– we'll stay with Braxton. What's
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your favorite pregame meal that you've had so far this year?
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Chick-fil-A.
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Chick-fil-A.
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All right. Subway. I go turkey, American cheese, mustard, pickles.
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It's my favorite.
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All right.
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Lots of sour flavors in there, Coach.
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Chicken, bacon, ranch, sliders.
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All right.
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Good.
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Good.
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Finally, last question of the five questions. So, assumingly you
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wake up in the morning on game day, you're at home,
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you take a shower or whatever, get ready for school,
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walk out the door. Ben, walk me through your day
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from stepping out of the door to stepping onto the field.
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Okay. So, first, we've got to wear our Friday gear.
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Okay.
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We have our own gear we wear on game days.
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But go to school, got my cup of coffee.
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All right.
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How do you take your coffee?
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A little bit of milk.
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All right.
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A little bit.
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It's pretty manly.
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Obviously. Come on.
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So, all day, I keep watching film.
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And then.
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You mean in resting period.
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Yeah.
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Not during class. Of course.
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During class time.
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Of course.
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Of course. But once school's over, then we'll go. We'll
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eat right after school.
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All right.
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And then we'll say we'll rest for an hour. And
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then we go out to the field.
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And we'll do.
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We'll just walk the field.
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Yeah.
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We'll just feel it out. We'll feel out. Just to feel.
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And then we'll go special teams. We'll go punt. Everybody will,
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all these special teams players will go out there and
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do their thing. And then it's warm up. It's game time.
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All right.
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Love it.
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So after I get out of the shower, I go
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put my clothes on, put my Friday gear on. I
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go to my dining room and I eat me a
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big breakfast. It usually consists of eggs and toast and protein.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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Drive to school, get to school, get in the locker room,
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unpack my bag. Make sure I have everything sat out
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just in case I didn't forget anything.
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Make sure I didn't forget anything. Have everything sat out
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in my locker, ready for game day. And then I
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go through school, drink lots of water. I have my
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water bottle.
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Drink maybe three, three of them. So I fill it
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up in between class periods. Then after school... I'll sit
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in the locker room and hang out for a little bit.
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Make sure I'm relaxed. Nice and relaxed. Maybe listen to
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some music. Get my head in the right space.
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What's your music of choice?
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Country.
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All right.
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Everyone likes that rap, hip-hop stuff. Not into that.
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All right.
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All right.
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I like it.
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Nice, smooth, and relaxed.
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So then, after I'm done relaxing, we'll go eat our
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team meal. After the team meal, sit and walk for
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a little bit, and I'll stretch.
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Make sure I get my body loose, ready for the game.
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Then go outside and do our normal pregame stuff, walk
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the field, feel everything out.
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Then we do our normal warm-up.
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Then after that, go inside, get the gear fully on,
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and then while cats.
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Are immersed, we'll walk out wet.
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Fantastic. Braxton?
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I usually don't have a huge breakfast. Usually probably just oatmeal.
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But I do bring two Pedialytes every day. I drink
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one morning before lunch, one after lunch. Get it done,
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get it done with school, usually eat. chemo, play catch
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with Colton before every game, then I go put my
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gear on, I go roll out and stretch in the
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weight room, go down and walk the field, and then specialist,
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so I do my kickoff and PAT, warm up, come
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back in, and game time.
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Love it.
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Coach, sounds like they're prepared, right?
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Yeah, absolutely. They have more routines than I did.
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So, obviously I'm an old guy, okay? So let me
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tell you about my pregame meal. We obviously are a
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lot more advanced on health issues and that kind of
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thing and nutrition. There was this cola when I was
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young called Zolt Cola. And the catchphrase was all the
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sugar and twice the caffeine of Coca-Cola. So my worst
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game ever We had just heard in health class that
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honey is quick energy because your body doesn't have to
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absorb it. It absorbs it easier or whatever. So me
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and some buddies went to the local grocery store, and
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we each bought a pack of– a six-pack of joe
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cola and a honey bear, and we chugged a honey
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bear and drank a six-pack of joe cola. Can I
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tell you I puked before the game started? So– 1988
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was not good for nutrition, but hey. Coach, one of
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the luxuries I'd say you have, you have just here
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in this room three high-performing players, but they're all juniors.
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You still have them back next year. That's got to
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be a good feeling.
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Yeah, no, absolutely.
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These guys are my boys. Even back to our jv
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days right i've been coaching these guys since they've been
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they've been freshmen and and for ben i've coached him
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you know position group wise every year he's been in
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high school right so um you know these these are
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my guys and and you know i love them to
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death but you know it's the it is going to
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be nice to to ride the roller coaster one more
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time because it is.
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A But they're your squirrels.
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But they're my squirrels.
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That's right.
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And what they do on the football field is special.
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And they're bond with each other. They're a close team. So,
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you know, and they love each other. And they'll play
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for each other. And, you know, it's special.
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And not that you're going to miss– not that you're
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not going to miss those seniors. But I hate to
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start naming names, but Colton Robertson is a sophomore. You
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get him back. Zuka, a sophomore. Soup, a freshman.
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Oh, yeah, Luke Ferrari.
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Luke Ferrari.
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Drew, who's not here, he's a junior, comes back.
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I mean, you know, most of our guys, I mean,
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outside of five guys, our team's coming back.
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Yeah.
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And it's pretty incredible.
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Guys, what's going on in your mind when you know
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you still have one more ride after this year?
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It's going to be a special one. We've actually been
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talking about this for a while, our senior year. Everybody,
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I mean, age is a huge thing in high school football.
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I mean, maturity. And we're just super excited for one
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more year. It's going to be special.
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Yeah, I know.
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I'm very excited.
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I remember freshman year, us talking about, yeah, us being
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seniors in our senior season.
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I remember us comparing.
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Position by position with that senior class.
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You know, I think we're better. I think we're better.
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Just the competition.
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We think that we're going to be one of the
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best classes to come through sophomore.
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Year, which will we?
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I don't know.
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But we know we're very excited.
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We've been waiting our entire lives.
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For this and i know that we're going to work.
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Very hard on the off season because we have one
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last shot at this and we're not going to miss
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it yeah rexton i think i'm really excited but i
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think it's very important that we just we make sure
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we work and not just leave it to.
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Aging and returning instead of Yeah.
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And I almost hate to bring up next season because
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we still have, you know.
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Guaranteed three more.
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Well, let's shoot for six or seven.
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Absolutely.
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I mean, you know, I would be happy to clear
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my Thanksgiving and spin it in Indy. I mean, I'm
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okay with that.
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Yeah, no, absolutely.
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I mean, listen, I'll more than happily FaceTime my family
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from practice at Lucas Oil.
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But, yeah, I mean, it's, you know. that's one thing
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we always tried to tell them is to live in
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the moment and be what your feet are. But, you know,
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it is, it is difficult.
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Sometimes in moments when you're having conversations with your coaches and,
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you know, when you look ahead, cause obviously you still, right.
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I tell these guys to play checkers one play at
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a time, one move at a time, but it's my
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job to play chess.
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And so, you know, we do sometimes have to look
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down the road and.
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See, you know, where potentially will things land next year.
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And so, You know, there's been a lot of conversation
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about it, right? And I will say what these guys
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have done well is even last year when we were
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talking about this year, right?
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What are the things that we can do to improve.
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And not go 3-7 or 2-8, right?
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How can we get better as the years go?
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And what these guys have done phenomenally well is, number one, maturity,
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you know, mental maturity.
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And number two, they've worked their butts off. And to be...
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four and three in this moment, I think has got
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to be pretty incredible. Absolutely.
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We, uh, are running really tight on time. Um, thanks
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guys so much, but we can't, we can't get away
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without talking about, uh, this coming Friday conference game against Seager. Uh,
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it's a good team. They're five and two, um, home
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game seven o'clock here at coach Brent Anderson field, uh,
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The weather's supposed to be perfect, 72 and sunny. You
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can't ask for more than that. Coach, what's the keys
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to the game?
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Yeah, I mean, we just got to go out there
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and focus and do our job, play level-headed. You know,
505
00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:16.089
don't worry about the moment. We don't play to the scoreboard.
506
00:22:16.130 --> 00:22:19.809
We play to the standard and focus on our opportunities
507
00:22:19.849 --> 00:22:22.750
and our jobs and don't waste one, right? Because as
508
00:22:22.789 --> 00:22:26.450
we've just talked about, right, these guys only have one
509
00:22:26.490 --> 00:22:29.769
more year, but others only have, a few more games.
510
00:22:30.069 --> 00:22:30.210
Right.
511
00:22:30.450 --> 00:22:30.670
Right.
512
00:22:30.710 --> 00:22:32.410
For those seniors. And it is senior night.
513
00:22:32.890 --> 00:22:35.470
So, you know, you got to play for those guys
514
00:22:35.569 --> 00:22:37.170
and you got to play for the youth and you
515
00:22:37.190 --> 00:22:38.130
got to play for everybody.
516
00:22:38.170 --> 00:22:40.210
I mean, the community is surrounded and you got them
517
00:22:40.250 --> 00:22:40.730
on your back.
518
00:22:41.289 --> 00:22:43.410
So, but in the moment, we got to shut all
519
00:22:43.430 --> 00:22:45.690
the noise off and focus on our responsibilities.
520
00:22:45.910 --> 00:22:46.150
Sure.
521
00:22:46.309 --> 00:22:48.869
I think when it comes to Seager and South Vermillion,
522
00:22:48.910 --> 00:22:50.210
the matchup is great for us.
523
00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:53.309
Um, What they do well, we have a lot of
524
00:22:53.369 --> 00:22:55.309
athletes to take that away.
525
00:22:56.210 --> 00:22:58.309
They love to throw the ball. They play a fun
526
00:22:58.329 --> 00:23:02.210
style of offense. On defense, they play sound. They're going
527
00:23:02.230 --> 00:23:03.710
to have guys that are going to fly around. They're
528
00:23:03.730 --> 00:23:05.519
going to tackle well and they're going to try to
529
00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:09.440
force turnovers. It's going to be kind of similar to
530
00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:12.319
last week in terms of that greedy game and whoever
531
00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:14.920
has the ball last is going to win it. That's
532
00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:17.720
kind of what we're expecting. They're going to be super physical.
533
00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:19.640
They're going to be super excited to come here and
534
00:23:20.180 --> 00:23:22.990
You know, and Coach Cronk has done a phenomenal job
535
00:23:23.049 --> 00:23:25.789
up there. You know, I think after they graduated, their
536
00:23:25.789 --> 00:23:27.890
45 kids, their 45 seniors last year, I don't know,
537
00:23:27.990 --> 00:23:29.049
that senior night was forever.
538
00:23:29.089 --> 00:23:30.630
It did take forever. It took forever.
539
00:23:31.069 --> 00:23:34.990
But, you know, to come back and graduate the class
540
00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:39.339
they did and to have five games, to win five games,
541
00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:42.180
I think they're pretty fired up and they're going to
542
00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:43.839
be coached well and they're going to play on.
543
00:23:44.700 --> 00:23:47.700
Ben, what's your key to next week's victory?
544
00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:50.569
It's going to come down to the end. I think
545
00:23:50.930 --> 00:23:52.589
it's going to come down to who wants it more,
546
00:23:53.450 --> 00:23:56.950
who's put in more preparation, who goes out there and
547
00:23:57.190 --> 00:23:57.630
gives it all.
548
00:23:59.170 --> 00:24:01.109
I think the key to the game is playing together
549
00:24:01.170 --> 00:24:04.329
as a team, but also doing your individual job, not
550
00:24:04.369 --> 00:24:05.089
trying to make up.
551
00:24:05.029 --> 00:24:07.009
For someone else, trying to do their job.
552
00:24:07.309 --> 00:24:09.670
Do your own job, and when we have 11 players
553
00:24:09.710 --> 00:24:11.289
doing their own job, then we're going to get the
554
00:24:11.329 --> 00:24:12.329
job done, and it's.
555
00:24:12.130 --> 00:24:13.089
Going to be a great, fun night.
556
00:24:13.390 --> 00:24:14.099
Perfect. Brexton?
557
00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:16.839
I know everyone's excited, but I know the DB group
558
00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.099
is very excited to see your football really well and
559
00:24:19.259 --> 00:24:19.859
we're ready.
560
00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:20.200
For a test.
561
00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:25.319
You know, uh, I'm not much on, on giving advice.
562
00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:27.900
I let you do your own thing, obviously, but, uh,
563
00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:30.960
I would encourage you, especially for those seniors that are,
564
00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:34.660
their time is ticking down and, um, there may be
565
00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.440
some opportunities to go forward and keep playing for some
566
00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:39.140
of them. And for some of them, it's going to
567
00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:42.970
be their last game, but man, uh, Coach Miller, I
568
00:24:43.009 --> 00:24:47.220
think you would probably agree with me that there's nothing
569
00:24:47.299 --> 00:24:50.160
like being on the field on a Friday night. And unfortunately,
570
00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:53.900
unlike a lot of sports, eventually it is going to
571
00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:58.049
come to an end. And with golf, you can continue
572
00:24:58.069 --> 00:25:01.470
to play golf. You can continue to play tennis. You
573
00:25:01.950 --> 00:25:04.269
can pick up games for basketball for years and years
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00:25:04.309 --> 00:25:08.619
to come. But eventually– it does come to an end.
575
00:25:08.859 --> 00:25:12.180
And I would just say the advice I alluded to,
576
00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:14.940
when you come off the field at some point in
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00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.309
the night, just take a deep breath, grab some Gatorade,
578
00:25:18.490 --> 00:25:21.549
and look around and soak it all in. And maybe
579
00:25:21.589 --> 00:25:24.470
give your guys another hug or a slap on the
580
00:25:24.509 --> 00:25:28.230
back or punch them in the jaw. Whatever your love
581
00:25:28.269 --> 00:25:32.990
language is, because it's a special, special time. And as
582
00:25:33.170 --> 00:25:36.200
an old, fat dude, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
583
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:39.880
to give it Just one more run. You know, it's
584
00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:43.440
a special game, and other games are special too, but
585
00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:48.579
I think there's something that elevates football to a different level.
586
00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:51.079
Yeah, no, and you're absolutely correct.
587
00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:54.900
It is a special game, and it's not like any other, right?
588
00:25:55.809 --> 00:26:00.289
You know, and so to play this game, to be
589
00:26:00.390 --> 00:26:02.730
privileged to play the game, right, because we don't have to.
590
00:26:03.470 --> 00:26:06.220
We get to. And, you know, you don't have to
591
00:26:06.259 --> 00:26:08.140
show up to practice every day. And I get it.
592
00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:12.000
It's– in terms of, you know, where you're at and
593
00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:15.400
in terms of your love, it can be a long season.
594
00:26:15.579 --> 00:26:19.180
It's a long– there's not a sport that you do
595
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.380
that you go from April to July and you prepare
596
00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.490
that long to play 10 games.
597
00:26:25.690 --> 00:26:25.950
Right.
598
00:26:26.029 --> 00:26:26.849
There's just not.
599
00:26:27.710 --> 00:26:29.710
And in between that, right, then.
600
00:26:29.609 --> 00:26:32.650
You practice Monday through Thursday and then you practice Saturday
601
00:26:32.829 --> 00:26:33.849
or you review the film on.
602
00:26:33.769 --> 00:26:34.130
Saturday, right?
603
00:26:34.190 --> 00:26:34.349
Right.
604
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:39.319
There's not a game, but there's also not a single–
605
00:26:39.779 --> 00:26:42.109
I can't– there's not another sport that you get that
606
00:26:42.140 --> 00:26:43.150
feeling on a Friday night.
607
00:26:43.349 --> 00:26:45.029
Right. Where the whole community is there.
608
00:26:45.049 --> 00:26:48.230
You got 1,500 people in the stands rooting for you
609
00:26:48.329 --> 00:26:49.049
to go win.
610
00:26:49.069 --> 00:26:50.170
Yeah.
611
00:26:50.369 --> 00:26:53.809
You know, and the weather is perfect, right? It's why
612
00:26:53.849 --> 00:26:56.640
everybody loves the fall. It's why there's weddings in the fall.
613
00:26:56.660 --> 00:26:56.920
That's right.
614
00:26:56.940 --> 00:26:57.700
Which I just don't get.
615
00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:03.140
But it's just– it couldn't be any better. And I
616
00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:05.950
try to tell my players all the time. It's not
617
00:27:05.990 --> 00:27:09.049
the greatest time in your life, but it is pretty special.
618
00:27:09.269 --> 00:27:09.650
Absolutely.
619
00:27:09.690 --> 00:27:11.809
And to take advantage of it and to love it
620
00:27:12.190 --> 00:27:14.829
when you got it, because one day it will. Unfortunately,
621
00:27:14.869 --> 00:27:18.210
either you decide to step away or somebody's going to
622
00:27:18.250 --> 00:27:19.089
tell you to step away.
623
00:27:19.109 --> 00:27:19.410
Right.
624
00:27:19.430 --> 00:27:20.369
It's one of the two.
625
00:27:20.390 --> 00:27:23.809
Right, right. Well, guys, I wish you all the best
626
00:27:24.369 --> 00:27:27.130
this coming Friday night. We need the fans to show
627
00:27:27.210 --> 00:27:33.039
up in force, as they always do, 7 o'clock. That
628
00:27:33.670 --> 00:27:37.079
would be October 9th. Brent Anderson Field, pack the stands.
629
00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:42.730
It's fantastic that we have such support. We need everybody
630
00:27:42.750 --> 00:27:45.049
there doing your part. Everybody has a job to do.
631
00:27:45.109 --> 00:27:47.349
The players have their job to do. Coaches have to
632
00:27:47.390 --> 00:27:49.710
do their job. For the rest of us, it's our
633
00:27:49.750 --> 00:27:53.359
job to get in there and support these guys because,
634
00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:57.180
as Coach Miller said, they work awfully hard. It means
635
00:27:57.220 --> 00:28:00.579
a lot to them when they have people backing them
636
00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:05.259
and supporting Quite honestly, daggone it, they deserve it. So
637
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:09.099
best of luck this weekend, guys. As we wrap up,
638
00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:13.079
we had a really fun activity earlier in the evening.
639
00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:17.420
The Tackle Your Favorite Wildcat fundraiser for the PS We
640
00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:22.470
Love You Fund goes to a great cause to try
641
00:28:22.690 --> 00:28:27.049
to help do our job to eliminate childhood cancer. All
642
00:28:27.089 --> 00:28:32.220
that money raised goes to the Riley Children's Hospital. Through
643
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:36.059
the PS, we love you fund. Coach, we're going to
644
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.559
hear from you just a little bit out there as
645
00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:41.420
we get things ready. But we had, I don't know,
646
00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:46.200
I'm going to guess a dozen, 15, 18 moms and
647
00:28:46.339 --> 00:28:49.140
aunts and grandmas and little sisters and a couple little
648
00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:52.009
brothers that got to put on a helmet. They got
649
00:28:52.029 --> 00:28:54.549
to put on shoulder pads in New Jersey. Some of
650
00:28:54.569 --> 00:28:59.150
the little guys, you could tell it was special for them.
651
00:28:59.630 --> 00:29:01.230
And some of the grandmas, you could tell they were
652
00:29:01.250 --> 00:29:07.119
a little nervous. Never put on shoulder pads before. Guys,
653
00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:10.019
your initial thoughts before we wrap up. How was that event?
654
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.180
It's a great way to just show the community how
655
00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:18.220
much we care about everybody and we want to perform
656
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.390
for everybody. And obviously for the childhood cancer, it's an
657
00:29:22.450 --> 00:29:24.970
important way to just do as much as we can
658
00:29:24.990 --> 00:29:25.410
to help out.
659
00:29:25.750 --> 00:29:28.069
Yeah, I thought it was a lot of fun and
660
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.690
I want to give a quick shout-out to our community.
661
00:29:30.730 --> 00:29:33.890
Like you said, Chris, they're always there, always packing the stands.
662
00:29:34.190 --> 00:29:37.269
They back us so well. And the Touchdown club.
663
00:29:37.049 --> 00:29:38.910
For always putting on great fundraising for.
664
00:29:38.849 --> 00:29:43.069
Us, always giving us the money we need, the money
665
00:29:43.109 --> 00:29:46.619
we probably don't deserve, but it's nice to have. And
666
00:29:46.670 --> 00:29:48.859
always feeding us, always being there for us. And our
667
00:29:48.890 --> 00:29:51.960
community showing up at game day on a Friday night.
668
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:55.039
That looks like 10,000 people in the stands. It almost
669
00:29:55.059 --> 00:29:56.279
looks like a college stadium.
670
00:29:56.299 --> 00:29:59.160
And it's the best feeling ever for a player walking
671
00:29:59.299 --> 00:30:01.819
out And when you look up and you see not
672
00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:03.579
a single open seat, and you.
673
00:30:03.500 --> 00:30:05.660
Go, wow, they're all here to watch us. It's just
674
00:30:05.869 --> 00:30:06.589
an amazing feeling.
675
00:30:06.789 --> 00:30:07.049
Yeah.
676
00:30:07.109 --> 00:30:07.470
Braxton?
677
00:30:08.049 --> 00:30:08.829
It's a great event.
678
00:30:08.849 --> 00:30:10.589
I mean, it raises money for a great cause, and
679
00:30:10.609 --> 00:30:11.049
the moms.
680
00:30:10.910 --> 00:30:11.309
Love doing it.
681
00:30:11.990 --> 00:30:12.559
Fantastic.
682
00:30:13.099 --> 00:30:15.700
Well, from here we're going to go– you're going to
683
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:19.000
hear from me next, talking to Coach Miller next. But
684
00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:23.319
here we go into the Tackle Your Favorite Wildcat. Guys,
685
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:25.180
thanks for joining me. Thanks for spending time with me.
686
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:27.839
I know you have other things to do, but I
687
00:30:27.859 --> 00:30:29.400
appreciate you giving me a little time.
688
00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:30.079
Thank you very much.
689
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:31.920
Thank you.
690
00:30:32.339 --> 00:30:36.180
While Courtney is getting ready here, so talk a little
691
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.140
bit about this. It's a great day.
692
00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:41.440
This is a great day. It's a fantastic, beautiful weather.
693
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:44.420
Couldn't be any better. And it goes for a great cause, too.
694
00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:45.420
Yeah, absolutely.
695
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.440
The PS We Love You Fund started by Molly and,
696
00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:53.009
you know, Coach Barrett and for their son, Patrick. And
697
00:30:53.109 --> 00:30:56.009
it's a great cause going to Riley Hospital and to
698
00:30:56.049 --> 00:30:59.690
help those young kids that are fighting the good fight and,
699
00:31:00.910 --> 00:31:04.049
you know, and unfortunately going through some terrible things that
700
00:31:04.089 --> 00:31:04.990
we couldn't even imagine.
701
00:31:05.849 --> 00:31:09.740
And along the ride, we've seen some good hits today
702
00:31:09.779 --> 00:31:11.480
from moms and grandmas and aunts.
703
00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:15.240
Sisters yeah no i've had to you know i've i've
704
00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:17.579
you know tightened up a little bit because i don't
705
00:31:17.619 --> 00:31:19.599
want none of my guys getting hurt from these moms
706
00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:24.059
dealing out pent-up aggression for over the years so i
707
00:31:24.099 --> 00:31:26.359
know i saw misty wherever she's at she about hurt
708
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.240
drew i swear to god i saw him limping a
709
00:31:28.259 --> 00:31:30.940
little bit now uh next.
710
00:31:30.819 --> 00:31:33.490
Up is courtney coleman soup coleman's mom.
711
00:31:34.190 --> 00:31:37.470
Yeah, Courtney, please don't hurt Soup. Please don't hurt him.
712
00:31:37.990 --> 00:31:40.759
He's a young freshman. He's looked great for us. Don't
713
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:41.339
hurt Soup.
714
00:31:41.819 --> 00:31:43.630
What do you think about this hit? What do you expect? Oh,
715
00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:45.500
she's taking off her shoes and socks.
716
00:31:45.900 --> 00:31:48.200
I expect a perfect form tackle right in the thigh
717
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.880
boards and probably going to play him right in the
718
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:50.519
high jump mat.
719
00:31:51.779 --> 00:31:56.380
Okay, here we go. We're going to read the bio here. Soup,
720
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:00.420
we knew him from a very young age that he
721
00:32:00.460 --> 00:32:03.089
was born to run. There is nothing we love more
722
00:32:03.150 --> 00:32:05.910
than watching you hustle on the diamond, on the court,
723
00:32:05.950 --> 00:32:09.640
and on the field. But your speed can't help you today.
724
00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:13.619
You may be the baby and mama's favorite son, but
725
00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:19.359
this 1998 powder puff superstar and old school rugby roughneck
726
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:23.369
is going to fold you like fresh loaded laundry. Time
727
00:32:23.430 --> 00:32:28.230
to spill the soup. Here's Courtney Coleman. Give us a
728
00:32:28.230 --> 00:32:28.849
little play-by-play here.
729
00:32:29.049 --> 00:32:29.430
Oh, sure.
730
00:32:29.450 --> 00:32:31.569
She goes, that was a perfect form tackle right through
731
00:32:31.589 --> 00:32:34.150
the thigh boards, blending them right on the high jump mat.
732
00:32:34.210 --> 00:32:36.579
I mean, he might get up limping, and I may
733
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:38.599
have to find Arianne. I don't know where she's at.
734
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:43.440
Well, we're going to keep going here, but we'll catch
735
00:32:43.539 --> 00:32:44.539
up with you in a few minutes.
736
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:45.299
Yeah, absolutely.
737
00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:48.980
I am here with Courtney Coleman, the vice president of
738
00:32:49.019 --> 00:32:52.660
the South American Touchdown Club. Courtney, we're here for a
739
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.289
great cause, and it was a lot of fun today.
740
00:32:55.170 --> 00:32:55.849
Yeah, it was.
741
00:32:56.109 --> 00:33:00.589
What do we do here? The moms or some other
742
00:33:00.910 --> 00:33:03.789
important person in the boys' lives come and make a
743
00:33:03.809 --> 00:33:06.890
donation to the PS We Love You Fund and tackle
744
00:33:06.930 --> 00:33:07.960
their favorite wildcat.
745
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:11.640
That's so much fun. The kids love that they were smiling.
746
00:33:13.059 --> 00:33:16.200
Moms had a great time strapping on the helmet, putting
747
00:33:16.259 --> 00:33:19.890
on the shoulder pads and jersey. You had a great
748
00:33:19.930 --> 00:33:21.210
form tackle, right?
749
00:33:21.569 --> 00:33:21.690
Yeah.
750
00:33:21.710 --> 00:33:21.809
Yeah.
751
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.000
Course so you went up against of course your son
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soup uh your bio mentioned that you were a former
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powder puff uh champion.
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Yeah that's right so i was um my team in
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high school won both our junior and senior year and
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then i went on to i was a powder puff
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champion at indiana state nice um and then dallas and
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i actually played in a lot of aired out tournaments
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back in the day.
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That's super fun so uh it was a great cause
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goes to the ps we love you fun that's uh
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near and dear to our hearts here but uh when
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it was all said and done after an hour or
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so of fun what do we end.
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Up raising about 420 it looks like is the unofficial
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total so a lot of fun not a ton of
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work or time and raised a good chunk of money
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raise a good.
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Chunk of money for a great cause uh thank you
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so much we're going to uh So look forward to
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more like this this year. And this is, you had
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other fundraisers and all. So the $ 420 is going to
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go toward that total for the PSV Levy Fund.
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Yep, absolutely.
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So we'll add it to all the efforts that we've
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raised in September and then into October. And I want
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to thank you for always volunteering to announce for us.
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Well, thank you. It's a lot of fun. It's a
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lot of fun. Thank you for doing this and give
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us a go Wildcats.
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Go Wildcats!