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 Your exclusive inside track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC.

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 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9, the score.

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 And welcome into the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 Brett Beaird in for Harold Bugg.

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 Boomo Bugg is going to be joining us again tomorrow, but we are absolutely delighted to be hosting UNA Media Days for 2026.

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 And my partner in crime today is going to be the voice of the UNA Lions, Benjamin Ray.

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 B.R., welcome into the show today, buddy.

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 I mean, you guys have been coming out to Media Day for a long time.

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 It feels like the official start of fall having you all out here, right?

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 Fall and August, as we always say.

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 We've got three good-looking football players we're about to talk to.

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 But before we do, have you ever anticipated a UNA Athletic year more than this one?

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 But the excitement and buzz around what's happening on Pine Street with Bank Independent Stadium.

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 And every day, something new.

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 I mean, you go, well, you can't drive down Pine Street right now.

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 But you go up to the church parking lot, and you see the turf down.

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 And they're about to put the Lionhead down at midfield.

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 I had somebody stop me and say, how cool is it that you've got branding in the end zones?

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 Dr. Looney posted something on his social media this weekend where he's the AD.

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 He was out in the middle of the field, and he just did a little panoramic shot spinning around

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 and kind of gave me chills thinking about what that place is going to be like

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 It's going to be absolutely incredible.

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 Brent Dierman is going to join us in the next segment.

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 He is addressing the crowd in the utter room.

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 I'll go right to left.

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 We've got number 44 here, Jaheim Ingram, a senior from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

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 He's done this a time or two.

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 We've got quarterback Destin Wade back for his second season here at North Alabama.

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 QB won number five, right?

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 And then the last one we've got over here from Florence, Alabama, Leo Glover.

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 Muscle Shoals, Florence, local guys, what's it like to have a new stadium?

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 For me, you know, a new stadium is kind of special, especially growing up, going to old UNA games.

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 So I think it'll be, you know, more than an honor to be one of the first ones to run out of that tunnel in front of all those people there.

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 So just having that new stadium and starting over fresh and something that's brand new, that's a state-of-the-art, it's going to be absolutely awesome and a dream to play in.

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 Leo, Brent Dierman said, it hasn't been hot enough on the practice field.

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 Jaheim, one of the things we've heard said about this team is how much stronger you guys got in the line, offensive and defensive lines.

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 Just to mentor the young guys, too, but I've been stepping in that role, and I feel like I've just got to show out this season.

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 Leo, new defense.

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 Coach Bowen has come in.

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 Florence, talk about having a teammate and Colin Wright being on the Fieldsteel preseason magazine list.

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 It shows the work that we put in from middle school on and, you know, how serious we take sports over there.

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 Eleven players from Florence, Alabama.

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 If you had no lick of football knowledge at the end of the day, you knew how to be a man when you graduated high school.

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 Destin, offensively, man, what's the first week and a half, two weeks now of practice been like?

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 I believe in my squad.

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 I believe in each one of them.

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 I think we have a lot of depth.

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 Leo, what's it been like going up against Destin so far in practice there in the secondary?

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 Leo, let me ask you about the schedule.

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 It's amazing in September.

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 You begin at the renovated Joe David Stadium with Sanford.

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 For any one of you, we've been in this United Athletic Conference for a while now.

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 Guys, what message do you want to send UNA fans, UNA alumni?

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 You've got a new conference.

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 You've got a new stadium.

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 It's one of the most exciting years ever.

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 What message do you want to send to UNA Nation?

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 We're going to win some football games this year.

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 We're going to do something that hasn't been done right here in a long time.

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 Yeah, we're going to make history, win games, and we just need everyone's support.

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 Jaheim, you mentioned you've been thinking about running through that tunnel.

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 Are you coming out just how you normally do?

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 Have you felt that much about it?

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 God bless all of you.

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 Brett Beaird, co-host Benjamin Ray, the voice of the UNA Lions, joined by Brett Dierman, head football coach at UNA.

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 We want to talk ball with you, but the three guys that were just in front of us, they're the leaders of this team.

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 Tell us a little bit more about these guys on and off the field.

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 You know, two of the three are local guys.

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 You look at Jaheim Ingram.

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 Jaheim's been a three-year starter for us at defensive line, which is a tough task to ask a D lineman to come in and play as a freshman.

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 And he stepped up the plate and did it.

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 And just the face of this community.

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 I mean, he's always doing the right things, doing community service.

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 He's going to graduate here in the next few months.

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 But me and him are going to have a sit-down talk at the end of the year.

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 He's one that's going to get affected by this fifth-year rule where he can come back next year.

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 Wow.

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 So, exciting time for Jaheim when I thought he was going to be just a senior.

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 Leo Glover was a high school quarterback at Florence and had a pretty good career as a quarterback.

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 But we saw something in him that we thought he was a defensive player.

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 We thought he was something else.

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 He was an athlete.

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 And it's really, this offseason, it's really kicked in.

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 He's always been a great kid.

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 You know, he's the son of a firefighter here in town.

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 Great work ethic.

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 But you're seeing him, his labor is coming out on the field now.

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 The seeds of what all he's been putting in is starting to show.

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 And then Desto Wade, our starting quarterback.

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 I mean, this is the first time since I've been here that we've named a starting quarterback in the spring.

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 And there's not a battle in the fall camp.

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 That's because he's clearly won over his teammates.

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 He's won over the coaching staff.

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 And any time you go into media days where the starting quarterback is named, it's usually a good sign.

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 Yep.

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 You know, Coach, you've got, what, 50 newcomers, 50-plus newcomers on this team.

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 But that's typical in this transfer portal era.

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 But then you look.

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 I mean, these guys that we had here today, three-, four-year guys.

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 What does it mean that they have wanted to be invested in this program and stick around?

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 You know, two of the three.

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 You know, Leo, this is going to be his first year to really come on the scene here.

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 But the other two, I mean, Jaheim Inger could have went in the portal and could have been playing probably anywhere in the country.

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 The fact that he's been a three-year starter at defensive line, the experience he has, the girth he has, he could have went somewhere else and played.

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 And probably got paid a lot of money to do it.

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 Desto Wade has got starting experience, won games at our level with his legs, with his arm.

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 Same deal with him.

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 He could have went somewhere.

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 And both of them wanted to come back here.

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 It meant a lot to both of those two guys to finish what they started here.

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 And it means a lot to this team, this coaching staff.

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 It means a lot to UNA for those guys to be as committed as they are.

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 And in a tough transfer portal era that's in college football now, that guys don't make that decision very often.

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 And the two of them did.

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 You told us a story last week that at one point during the season, you were looking at your defensive line eye-to-eye.

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 The whole defense.

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 And you said, we need to change this.

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 The whole defense.

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 Talk about some transfers that have come in that have changed that.

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 I can tell you the exact time.

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 It was the third quarter against Abilene Christian last year.

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 And they were putting it on us pretty good.

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 And we called it defense timeout.

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 I went out in the defensive huddle, and the 11 guys that were on the field,

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 I was looking eye-to-eye with all 11.

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 And I said, this is our problem right here.

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 So we made a huge deal this offseason to get bigger in the box especially.

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 And, you know, the biggest one our fans are going to see in game one,

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 Josh White is a transfer defensive lineman.

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 He wears number zero, too, so it stands out already that he's in a single-digit number.

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 But he's 6'4", 320 pounds.

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 We haven't had a guy since I've been here that looked like him.

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 Mon Cole's another 300-pounder on the defensive line.

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 Donovan Nevels, Tavian Cox, both are about 280, 285.

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 Avery Howard is a guy that we've developed here that's been here for three years that's up to 255.

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 He played defensive end last year at 230.

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 He's gotten up to 255.

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 He looks like an NFL defensive end.

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 And then on the offensive side of the ball, we brought in, you know, Isaac Ruse, a Muscle Shoals guy.

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 Brought him back home from Middle Tennessee.

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 We've added Coach Johnson's son, Levy Johnson.

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 Both those two guys are about 6'5", tackles.

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 We've added a couple of junior college tackles and guards.

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 We just look like a Division I football team in the box now.

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 And then, Coach, strength coach Steve Herring has talked to me about the weight gains that the trenches have seen on the offensive and defensive lines.

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 I think you told me the linebackers have maybe the second or third highest gain after them.

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 I mean, seeing that much emphasis from players in the box in the weight room, have you seen that early on in camp?

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 No, I'm a little partial now.

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 You know, my second job is the running back coach.

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 And the greatest gain in the weight room this offseason was in the running back room.

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 But we just don't have as many.

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 But our running backs had, I think, a 9% increase in weight between bench, squat, and power clean.

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 But offensive line was right there with them.

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 I think we gained about 70 pounds per player on bench press, about 80 pounds per squat.

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 But to see the work that these guys came in in January and sold out to of getting bigger, faster, and stronger in the weight room,

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 buying into what we were doing in that weight room, it's just not what happens anymore.

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 Players think they're mercenaries now in college football, and they just come in just to play ball.

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 And you don't find as many guys that love the weight room that you used to.

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 And I think our team came in and bought in, and we're seeing the benefits of it now.

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 In fact, Ben was going through some of the local players.

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 I understand your situation.

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 You had to bring in a significant number of transfers.

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 But you have told us from day one, you're going to recruit the state of Alabama.

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 And he went down a list of Red Bay, West Morgan, Florence, Muscle Shoals.

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 Once again, talk about the importance of having in-state kids.

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 It's important to have in-state kids, number one, because we wear the state's name on our jersey.

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 I mean, that's a big deal to me.

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 We play with the state's tax dollars as well.

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 And a lot of people from this state are going to be the ones that buy season tickets that are going to fill that stadium.

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 But not only is it important that we fill the state with state players, we've got to fill the team with local players.

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 And I remind this to our high school coaches in this area all the time.

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 You know, high school recruiting is hard.

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 My brother's a high school coach.

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 My dad was a high school coach for 42 years.

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 Everybody loves their own players and tries to push them on us.

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 But we've got three Muscle Shoals players on our team.

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 We've got three Florence players on our team.

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 We've got three Mars Hill players on our team.

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 We've got four players from Brooks on our team.

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 We've got a West Morgan.

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 We've got an East Limestone.

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 I mean, I could go through.

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 We've got two from Central.

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 I mean, I could go through the list of local guys.

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 And I'm already up to about 20 already right there.

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 So Alabama's important.

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 But the north corner of the state is big because those are the people that are going to come out and support us the most.

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 From players to coaches, I have the unique perspective.

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 I get to watch you guys at practice.

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 And then I get to see you guys in the office as well.

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 And since last spring, I've noticed you've got a lot of new coaches.

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 And there's always players in their offices.

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 And one of the things I've heard your players say is how close everybody is right now.

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 What's it been like?

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 You've got new players.

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 You've got new coaches.

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 What's it been like seeing that buy-in and seeing guys get on the same page so quickly?

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 Well, I felt like January and February was almost like the dating game where you're trying to figure out who's on the other side of the window or other side of the wall.

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 Because we brought in 30 transfers in January.

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 And now I've got seven new coaches as well.

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 So we're all learning each other.

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00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:15,540
 But since day one, you know, I learned from a lot of good coaches in my life.

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 But Rick Stocksteel had a – his mission was love, serve, and care.

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 Our job is to love, serve, and care for our players.

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 Number one, my AD is second.

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 My wife is probably somewhere high on that list too.

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 My university, my president.

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 But the number one thing that we're here to do is love, serve, and care for our players.

463
00:24:34,580 --> 00:24:40,940
 And I think we've got coaches on our staff that have bought into that and say, you know what, I don't care what I'm doing.

464
00:24:41,060 --> 00:24:45,880
 If we've got a player in the building, we're going to put down what we've got going on and we're going to pour into these players.

465
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,200
 Because at the end of the day, that's our product.

466
00:24:47,420 --> 00:24:48,540
 That's what we're putting on the field.

467
00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:50,180
 We need to love on them.

468
00:24:50,980 --> 00:24:55,820
 And as bad – we in this business, we are quick to chew out, yell, scream at players.

469
00:24:56,260 --> 00:25:02,460
 I want to get excited just as much, if not more, for players doing it the right way than I am just yelling at kids for doing it wrong.

470
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,120
 Where are you in summer camp?

471
00:25:06,860 --> 00:25:08,220
 Scrimmages, pads.

472
00:25:09,580 --> 00:25:12,420
 Obviously, you're going to be playing in what I call week zero.

473
00:25:12,740 --> 00:25:16,980
 But where are you now as far as the schedule for summer camp?

474
00:25:17,020 --> 00:25:18,860
 That's a good question in fall camp.

475
00:25:18,860 --> 00:25:22,260
 I forget some days what day it is in fall camp.

476
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,140
 If I didn't know that we went to church –

477
00:25:24,140 --> 00:25:24,780
 That may be a good thing.

478
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,020
 If I didn't know we went to church yesterday as a team, then I wouldn't have known today was Monday.

479
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:29,680
 I can tell you that.

480
00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:35,440
 But we finished – and I know this because this was a challenge this morning to our team and our team meeting.

481
00:25:35,580 --> 00:25:37,640
 We just had a scrimmage on Saturday night.

482
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,480
 That was our first true scrimmage.

483
00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:45,340
 It was day nine of practice, first live bullets that were happening, a lot to coach up.

484
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,480
 And then we had an off day.

485
00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:48,580
 And then today on Monday was day 10.

486
00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:52,420
 Day 10, there's nothing exciting about day 10.

487
00:25:52,540 --> 00:25:53,740
 It's not the first day in helmets.

488
00:25:53,860 --> 00:25:55,300
 It's not the first day in shoulder pads.

489
00:25:55,380 --> 00:25:56,420
 It's not the first live day.

490
00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:57,640
 It's not the first scrimmage day.

491
00:25:58,220 --> 00:26:06,200
 So the challenge is on those just boring, mundane days, can you still show up, put your hard hat on, and go to work?

492
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:12,220
 Because every day at a normal job, you've got to show up and go to work.

493
00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:14,260
 So that's where we're at right now.

494
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:21,460
 We've got a big special team day tomorrow where we start putting in some special situations, how to punt out of the end zone,

495
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:27,420
 how do you punt after a 15-yard penalty on kickoff.

496
00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:29,440
 Like those are the type of things we'll hit tomorrow.

497
00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:35,780
 We've got another scrimmage next Saturday where we're actually going to go out to the sportsplex and do it on grass

498
00:26:35,780 --> 00:26:39,680
 because we don't ever get to play on grass, and we've got two grass games this year.

499
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:44,440
 And grass is a little bit easier on your body than that turf sometimes, a little bit cooler.

500
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,460
 So we've got that one more scrimmage Saturday, and then we'll start kind of fine-tuning some things

501
00:26:49,460 --> 00:26:51,600
 and start moving our attention to North Sanford.

502
00:26:52,460 --> 00:26:56,420
 Coach, gosh, we're three weeks away, I guess, from that ball game.

503
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,720
 Three games in, and then you get to open up Bank Independence Stadium.

504
00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:00,640
 We talked to Jaheim.

505
00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:02,800
 He said he's been dreaming about running through that tunnel.

506
00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:07,100
 Have you spent much time talking to the team about the significance of that game yet?

507
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,800
 Not so much that game as it is this season, probably.

508
00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:12,940
 You know, this is a historic season.

509
00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:17,660
 The fact that you're going to be the first team ever to step foot in that stadium,

510
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,760
 the first team ever that is going to run out of that tunnel.

511
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,140
 And there's so many more before us.

512
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:30,580
 You know, me and you talked about a cool dream I had one time of Bobby or Cody or Ronald

513
00:27:30,580 --> 00:27:34,180
 coming out of the stadium, leading us into that.

514
00:27:34,460 --> 00:27:37,380
 Man, I think I woke up one night with that dream in my head.

515
00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:40,560
 But there's so many greats that came before these guys.

516
00:27:41,260 --> 00:27:45,080
 We got to play in such a way we honor them, too, in this big moment.

517
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:50,140
 So that's why it's important to me, as long as I'm here, all of our jerseys will always have

518
00:27:50,140 --> 00:27:51,120
 North Alabama on the front.

519
00:27:51,540 --> 00:27:54,980
 Because everywhere we go, we wear the university on the front of our jersey.

520
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,160
 And we got to represent this school.

521
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,460
 We got to represent this community this year, especially walking into that new stadium.

522
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:05,640
 I was literally about to ask you if you had a message to give to UNA Nation.

523
00:28:06,180 --> 00:28:07,420
 I think you just gave it.

524
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:08,420
 I tried my best.

525
00:28:08,540 --> 00:28:11,360
 You know, we got to wear – I don't care if I'm in Walmart.

526
00:28:11,580 --> 00:28:12,460
 I don't care if you're at church.

527
00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:13,420
 I don't care what you do.

528
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,700
 Our job at UNA Football is to wear the logo and to make this community proud.

529
00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,640
 And then after we make the community and the school proud,

530
00:28:21,980 --> 00:28:24,840
 then it's my job to make the last name on the back of my jersey proud.

531
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,340
 The people that are going to come sit in those seats on Saturday.

532
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,700
 But our theme this year, our motto this year, is pound the stone.

533
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,000
 And it was a book that I read this off-season that just talked about

534
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,140
 just over and over and over taking that sledgehammer and pounding that stone.

535
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:39,480
 You never know when it's going to break.

536
00:28:39,660 --> 00:28:40,800
 But you got to keep pounding it.

537
00:28:41,180 --> 00:28:44,680
 The first hit and the hundredth hit all had the same impact on the stone.

538
00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:46,320
 The hundredth hit made it crack.

539
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,500
 But the first hit, sometimes you don't realize it.

540
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:51,260
 That actually is probably the biggest crack that may have caused it.

541
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,160
 So you just got to keep showing up every day.

542
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,320
 Do your job.

543
00:28:54,660 --> 00:28:55,380
 Be a professional.

544
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:56,720
 And good things are going to happen.

545
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:57,960
 Great message.

546
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,520
 Listen, we always enjoy talking with you.

547
00:29:00,580 --> 00:29:02,360
 You've got a lot of stuff to do.

548
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:02,920
 A little bit.

549
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,020
 Thank you again.

550
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,400
 God bless you and the team.

551
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:07,660
 Talk to you on Wednesday.

552
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:08,360
 Absolutely.

553
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:09,960
 Listen, have a great week.

554
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:10,480
 Absolutely.

555
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,480
 Thank you so much.

556
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:12,440
 God bless you.

557
00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:15,740
 Brent Dierman, head football coach at UNA,

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 giving a message for UNA football.

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 We're still talking some football.

662
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663
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 We've got some members of UNA's soccer team here.

664
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 We'll start with Lily Ford in her second season.

665
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 We've got Charlotte Sobotka in her second season.

666
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 And the veteran, Lily.

667
00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:49,160
 Lily, I'm sorry.

668
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 I'm looking at my sheet.

669
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 I'm looking at you as I'm talking.

670
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 Adeline Spate in the house.

671
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 This is her second time at Media Day.

672
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 She was here last year.

673
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 She's the veteran, so she gave them all tips on what to say.

674
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,160
 Yep, yep, yep.

675
00:35:01,420 --> 00:35:04,860
 Adeline, if that's the worst thing you get called this year,

676
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,580
 you're going to be in pretty good shape.

677
00:35:06,580 --> 00:35:07,140
 Oh, yeah.

678
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,800
 Talk about the season.

679
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,280
 Are you looking forward to it?

680
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:11,560
 Yeah, we're super excited.

681
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:12,660
 We have a great group of girls.

682
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,200
 We got here two weeks earlier, so we've been able to get really close on and off the field.

683
00:35:17,340 --> 00:35:21,640
 And so I think that's going to really help us get results and get that ring eventually.

684
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,460
 Lily, second season.

685
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,580
 What's the difference for you from year one to year two?

686
00:35:26,060 --> 00:35:30,140
 I think just coming into a leadership role this year compared to last year,

687
00:35:30,180 --> 00:35:32,720
 I just want to be there for my teammates and show them that I'm committed

688
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 and I'm ready to take it all the way this year.

689
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 Charlotte, what have you been working on in the preseason to get ready to have to get that ring

690
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 as she was talking about?

691
00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:44,360
 Yeah, kind of what Lily said, too.

692
00:35:44,420 --> 00:35:47,500
 This is my first time being captain this year and just a leadership role

693
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 and leading this team to a ring as well.

694
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:57,880
 And I'm just excited to be out there with everybody and just try 100% and give it it all.

695
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 Addie, you've been around for a while, four years.

696
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:01,500
 Hard to believe that.

697
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,260
 You've been playing a lot since you were a freshman as well.

698
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,060
 But this year's team, I'm looking up and down the roster, you've got a lot of names that we recognize.

699
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 You've got some fresh faces as well.

700
00:36:10,220 --> 00:36:13,720
 What's it been like for everybody mixing these last couple of weeks since you got here?

701
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,040
 It's been really good.

702
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:21,100
 We've been doing a lot of team bonding just at people's houses and been able to just know each other more,

703
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:24,300
 get to know each other, and off the field is super important.

704
00:36:24,460 --> 00:36:26,840
 I think that plays out, too, on the field.

705
00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:30,620
 So I think we've been able to really do some good bonds there,

706
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,520
 and I think that's just going to really help us take all the way.

707
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,960
 Let me ask all three of you this question.

708
00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:43,380
 The World Cup, indirectly, and again, we know directly or indirectly,

709
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:49,820
 how did the momentum of the World Cup indirectly help UNA soccer?

710
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,100
 Oh, I think that got us all excited.

711
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,600
 I mean, it was such a fun atmosphere, no matter where you are in the U.S., honestly.

712
00:36:58,260 --> 00:37:02,860
 But I think that just makes us all super excited because we all got a taste of, you know,

713
00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:04,620
 winning and rooting for somebody.

714
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,240
 So I think that helps also the fans get into it as well.

715
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:13,860
 Yeah, not to dig on actual American football, but we got actual soccer on the board a little bit this summer.

716
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,480
 And, yeah, we just love watching soccer as a team, too.

717
00:37:18,420 --> 00:37:19,380
 Yeah, it was fun.

718
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,500
 Right when the last couple games were happening is when we all came back here together in Florence.

719
00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:27,520
 So we were able to have some team gatherings and watch the last couple games, and it was just fun.

720
00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:33,840
 And I think it's just amazing how soccer can bring so many people together, especially with social media these days.

721
00:37:34,180 --> 00:37:39,820
 You go online, and you see how everyone's traveling to the U.S. just for this huge event, and it's just so important.

722
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,280
 And, yeah, just bringing more recognition to soccer in the U.S. is just amazing.

723
00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:46,120
 Now, I got to ask this.

724
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,980
 Have you guys done the conditioning test yet?

725
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:48,800
 Yeah, we have.

726
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,700
 All three of you, whoever wants to take it, take people through what that conditioning test is,

727
00:37:53,740 --> 00:37:56,020
 because I think they'd be blown away at what you have to do.

728
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:57,780
 So we have two.

729
00:37:58,100 --> 00:37:59,840
 One of them is called the beep test.

730
00:38:00,260 --> 00:38:04,440
 It's, like, called the Nike Spark beep test, and it's, like, a YouTube video of this guy's voice.

731
00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:07,300
 And he is kind of, like, telling you what to do.

732
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:10,220
 So it's, like, 22-ish yards apart.

733
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,680
 It's, like, 21.8-something.

734
00:38:12,380 --> 00:38:15,680
 And we have to go there and back within the beep of the sound of the test.

735
00:38:15,780 --> 00:38:18,140
 And with every level, it gets faster and faster.

736
00:38:18,780 --> 00:38:22,640
 And we're regulated to get about 32 other teams that can vary.

737
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,860
 But it is – it's brutal.

738
00:38:24,860 --> 00:38:30,140
 We got lucky this year because the morning we ran it, it was raining and it was cloudy.

739
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,280
 And so we lucked out, for sure.

740
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,160
 But it is brutal.

741
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,520
 It's very mentally challenging, I would say, more than physically.

742
00:38:37,780 --> 00:38:42,040
 You have to really push your mind and your teammates to keep going and to make it to that next level.

743
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:43,080
 For sure.

744
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,060
 32 beeps.

745
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,500
 It's a lot of running.

746
00:38:46,740 --> 00:38:47,480
 It's a lot of running.

747
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:48,320
 They're in back.

748
00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:49,040
 They're in back.

749
00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:51,100
 We did have one player get 51.

750
00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:51,940
 Oh, wow.

751
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:52,240
 Who?

752
00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:53,500
 Parker Martin.

753
00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:53,940
 Wow.

754
00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:55,420
 Yeah, she's a beast.

755
00:38:55,620 --> 00:38:56,240
 She's crazy.

756
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:56,580
 Yeah.

757
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:04,200
 What's your message to UNA fans as far as you need, you know, in particularly some good-looking guys?

758
00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:09,240
 But let's get some UNA fans out to watch you.

759
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:11,480
 What's your message this year on the season?

760
00:39:11,780 --> 00:39:13,060
 Yeah, this year is going to be different.

761
00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:14,080
 We're all super pumped.

762
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:14,700
 We're motivated.

763
00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:17,580
 And we need everybody else to come and help us.

764
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:19,920
 Support, scream, heckle.

765
00:39:19,980 --> 00:39:20,540
 We don't care.

766
00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:21,360
 Just be there.

767
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:22,520
 We need you.

768
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:23,940
 And we're getting that ring.

769
00:39:24,020 --> 00:39:26,020
 So we need all the support behind us.

770
00:39:26,860 --> 00:39:34,420
 Especially in the new stadium this year, we're excited to have more of the students on campus come to our games.

771
00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:36,460
 Yeah.

772
00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:39,580
 Yeah, I think the location will help a ton.

773
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:46,060
 Being at Cox Creek is great, and we're super grateful, but it's just a little bit off campus, so people don't think as much to head out to the games and stuff.

774
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:52,740
 So the fact that it's right outside the dorms, just right in the center of town is going to be great, and hopefully it's just more convenient and easy for people to stop by.

775
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:53,700
 Absolutely.

776
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:55,160
 Ladies, thank you so much.

777
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:55,340
 Thank you.

778
00:39:55,340 --> 00:39:57,940
 We're going to get you coaching here for just a few minutes.

779
00:39:58,480 --> 00:39:59,580
 God bless all of you.

780
00:39:59,660 --> 00:40:00,680
 Have a great season.

781
00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:01,260
 Thank you.

782
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:01,500
 Thank you.

783
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,340
 Chris Walker can be joining us.

784
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:10,080
 14th year, the dean of coaches at UNA.

785
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,560
 I thought it was either 12 or 14.

786
00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:20,040
 Chris Walker has been here for 14 years now?

787
00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:21,660
 Yes.

788
00:40:22,180 --> 00:40:23,300
 It's been a while.

789
00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:24,540
 I had to look it up.

790
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:25,220
 He did.

791
00:40:26,220 --> 00:40:34,440
 The only thing that helps me, I've got a 12-year-old, and this is all he knows is Florence, so it's been a great place, and we love it here.

792
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,920
 I think about, oh, he's been here 14 years.

793
00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:42,980
 Oh, well, I've been here 12 years now, so it puts it all in perspective, but your 14 years, you've seen so much change.

794
00:40:43,220 --> 00:40:55,900
 What about for soccer, going from where the little field was that you first started to not really having a home for a brief moment to the turf field over at Cox Creek to getting to play in probably one of the best soccer stadiums in our region?

795
00:40:56,060 --> 00:40:57,240
 Oh, it's unbelievable.

796
00:40:57,460 --> 00:41:11,920
 My first year here, my current office now was the weight room, and it's now soccer suite, and then obviously we went to the turf field outside, the practice field, then we've gone over to the sportsplex, and now to Cox Creek.

797
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:25,740
 Well, getting to Bank Independent Stadium is going to be unbelievable, just being back on campus, near the dorms, near the cafeteria, allowing all the students to be there, but then just allowing our girls to walk out the weight room, walk out the locker room, down the tunnel.

798
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:28,340
 Into the stadium is going to be fantastic.

799
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,420
 Yeah, isn't it amazing at what you have seen on this campus in 14 years?

800
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,420
 Oh, I mean, the growth has been unbelievable.

801
00:41:37,660 --> 00:41:44,980
 I mean, credit to President Kitts and Josh, I think their vision of where they want everything to go has really come to fruition.

802
00:41:45,140 --> 00:41:52,720
 I think when I got here on my interview 14 years ago, we talked about the Division I move, and is it the OVC, or what will it be?

803
00:41:52,720 --> 00:42:02,880
 And, you know, then it went on the back burner for a little bit, but now it's obviously picked up steam over the last few years, and the stadium, when Josh first mentioned it, I was like, yeah, we've been there, done that before.

804
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:10,680
 And he was like, no, this is happening, and, you know, and I was like, I'll believe it when the shovel goes in the ground, and it did, and it's unbelievable now.

805
00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:15,700
 People may not realize it, but just having a video board for soccer, how big is that?

806
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:36,720
 No, it's fantastic, especially in the days now with social media where they all love seeing everything on there, and just having the graphics, having replay, just the interaction with the fans on the game day experience is going to be so much better than what we've had before, and just even the lights flashing and everything else, all the video, the video replays is going to be great to have.

807
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,960
 How many places would you say you go that have a video board, especially in our conference?

808
00:42:40,960 --> 00:43:05,440
 To be honest, there's not many at all, maybe one or two, if you play some of the power fours, I think we played at Alabama, and they've got a big one there, but only because it came out of the football stadium, and it went to the soccer field, so it's very few places have got one, so it'll be a fantastic opportunity to get in Bank Independent Stadium, and have that as our home stadium, and really make it a tough place to play.

809
00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:10,100
 It's obvious this is a talented team, how good can they be?

810
00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:40,080
 No, I think it's fantastic, I think moving into the UAC is going to make it obviously interesting, just playing a couple of new teams, but then playing some familiar faces, we played EKU twice last year, and we tied them, they got the first place votes for this year, we're in second right behind them, so I think it's a league that anyone can beat anyone on any given day, which is great, we can go out there and win it, but we've just got to make sure we do the right things as well, because it could quickly go the other way as well, but the talent we've got on the group, as long as we don't find a way to get in the way of it,

811
00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:54,240
 you know, the senior led group between the three captains is fantastic, so between that we've got a couple of non-conference games that will get us ready for when we get into UAC play, and I think we'll be ready and raring to go by the time the middle of September rolls around.

812
00:43:54,440 --> 00:44:12,560
 Listen, every time I do this, and we've been doing it 10 years now, I look forward to talking to you, you're so easy to talk with, optimistic, I know you're looking forward to it, I know you've got to go, thank you so much, listen, God bless you, the team, the coaches, have a great year.

813
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:13,620
 I appreciate it, thank you.

814
00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:17,720
 Absolutely, and listen, now we've got volleyball coming up.

815
00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:18,480
 Volleyball next.

816
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863
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 We're now back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

864
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,460
 And welcome back to UNA Media Days at Lost Pizza.

865
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:52,040
 Brett Beaird in the voice of the UNA Lions.

866
00:47:52,340 --> 00:47:58,320
 And listen, this is just a cast of characters walking up and talking with us.

867
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:07,060
 We're going to talk to one of the best sponsors for 93.9 The Score, UNA, Florence, The Shoals.

868
00:48:07,460 --> 00:48:11,780
 And it will take me 20 minutes to introduce them, but we don't have enough time.

869
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,060
 But Ike Fowler is here.

870
00:48:14,420 --> 00:48:16,200
 And you don't need an introduction.

871
00:48:16,580 --> 00:48:16,960
 Hey, buddy.

872
00:48:17,020 --> 00:48:17,540
 How you doing?

873
00:48:18,060 --> 00:48:19,320
 Well, I appreciate it anyway.

874
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:20,840
 I'm doing great, Brett.

875
00:48:20,980 --> 00:48:23,380
 It's just awesome to be here.

876
00:48:23,980 --> 00:48:25,020
 A lot of excitement.

877
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:33,620
 I think that Chuck McCarty and Marcy and Lost Pizza just do a fabulous job of promoting everything.

878
00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:39,040
 The coaches show, I know you've promoted and be coming up soon.

879
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:40,680
 And I don't know.

880
00:48:40,820 --> 00:48:44,640
 You know, I've been to these things before where it was quiet.

881
00:48:45,180 --> 00:48:46,120
 But that's not what you want.

882
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:47,360
 You know, you want people.

883
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:48,580
 You want background noise.

884
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,860
 You want it to be what it is.

885
00:48:51,140 --> 00:48:56,180
 So awesome atmosphere and can't wait for North Alabama's season to get kicked off.

886
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,920
 Let me ask you, before we let you go, what does UNA mean to you?

887
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:07,520
 Well, I go back to 1974 as a player and student athlete there.

888
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:08,420
 I played baseball.

889
00:49:09,260 --> 00:49:12,020
 Came back later, coached football for four years.

890
00:49:12,220 --> 00:49:17,120
 Did the radio broadcast for 10 and just have a long history.

891
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,240
 Met my wife in the Galat Center.

892
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:21,740
 Is it still called the Galat Center?

893
00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:22,120
 Yeah.

894
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:23,020
 Met her right there.

895
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,200
 I could walk to the spot that we met 50 years ago.

896
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,160
 So, you know, I owe a lot to UNA.

897
00:49:31,340 --> 00:49:39,520
 And I don't think anything that we ever do, Lee and I, with our company or whatever, I don't think I could ever repay North Alabama.

898
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899
00:49:47,180 --> 00:49:49,340
 Thank you so much for coming by and saying hello.

900
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,680
 Thank you, and good luck to everybody.

901
00:49:51,820 --> 00:49:55,060
 Of course, Johnson, good luck to you guys and look forward to watching you.

902
00:49:55,060 --> 00:49:55,520
 Thank you.

903
00:49:55,620 --> 00:50:04,780
 Ike Fowler, who has quite a history with UNA, would you do us the honor and introduce this august body in front of us?

904
00:50:04,780 --> 00:50:10,300
 We've got our head volleyball coach, Tristan Johnson, in year number five.

905
00:50:10,620 --> 00:50:12,600
 Man, how crazy is that?

906
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:19,260
 We've got Reese Ricketts, former A-Sun freshman of the year, third team All-A-Sun last year, one of the top outside hitters in the league.

907
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:27,160
 And then Kinsley McGowan, All-Conference selection last year, busted out across the A-Sun, led the league in total assist.

908
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,540
 A lot of excitement for this UNA volleyball team heading into this season.

909
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:32,320
 Tristan, let me start with you.

910
00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:34,100
 That's exactly my question.

911
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:40,020
 So much momentum, so much excitement with the new stadium, et cetera.

912
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,020
 What does this year mean for you?

913
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,740
 Yeah, I mean, I think for me, it's, you know, I mentioned the press conference, but, you know,

914
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:52,340
 this is the, last year was the first year being here where all the players on the team were kids that we had recruited in here,

915
00:50:52,420 --> 00:50:55,620
 not girls that either were in the previous staff or any of those things.

916
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:58,780
 And so we were able to bring just about every one of those girls back this year.

917
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,340
 So we return almost every starter from our roster last year we have again this year.

918
00:51:03,380 --> 00:51:05,540
 And so we're really excited about that, a lot of experience.

919
00:51:05,540 --> 00:51:10,640
 Last year I felt like we were a little young in some key areas, including these two,

920
00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:12,880
 even though Reese had a lot of experience her freshman year.

921
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,560
 And so I thought we dropped a few matches last year that we shouldn't.

922
00:51:16,660 --> 00:51:19,280
 And I think that experience is going to pay off really well for this group.

923
00:51:19,380 --> 00:51:23,200
 So just, you know, really excited about this group and the investment they've made,

924
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,360
 not only on the court, but really in each other.

925
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,820
 I think that's been, you know, we've talked a lot about their relationships with one another

926
00:51:28,820 --> 00:51:30,820
 and how much that's going to pay off when things get hard.

927
00:51:30,860 --> 00:51:31,920
 And they've done a good job of that.

928
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:33,820
 Reese, let's start with you.

929
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,260
 You're third year now, right?

930
00:51:35,540 --> 00:51:36,920
 Freshman of the year, year one.

931
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:39,100
 Last year, third team all-A, son.

932
00:51:39,140 --> 00:51:40,740
 I thought they held you back a little bit.

933
00:51:40,780 --> 00:51:42,120
 I thought you should have been a little bit higher.

934
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,340
 But what's your mindset been like now that people really know who you are?

935
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,960
 Bouncing off of that, Tristan always says that they know who you are,

936
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,100
 they know how you're going to play, so they're going to come after you.

937
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,440
 And that just challenges me to score better and be better overall.

938
00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:00,860
 Kinsley, talk about what are you working on?

939
00:52:00,980 --> 00:52:02,960
 I know you're looking forward to the season.

940
00:52:03,620 --> 00:52:05,080
 What have you been working on?

941
00:52:05,220 --> 00:52:09,660
 And everybody here, I mean, you can just feel the room of excitement.

942
00:52:10,340 --> 00:52:15,980
 I think recently, personally, I've been working on being in really uncomfortable situations.

943
00:52:16,660 --> 00:52:17,860
 It helps, doesn't it?

944
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,600
 Yeah, putting myself in really uncomfortable situations and taking risks now

945
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,360
 because nothing happens from it.

946
00:52:24,420 --> 00:52:28,240
 So making sure I take those risks now so when it happens later on, I'm ready.

947
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:29,120
 I've been through it before.

948
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,360
 And then as a team, just competing every day,

949
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,460
 I think we've done a really good job of constantly competing in the gym.

950
00:52:35,540 --> 00:52:37,640
 So we're super excited to be able to compete with another team.

951
00:52:38,260 --> 00:52:40,340
 You know, I can't believe you've been here five years.

952
00:52:40,460 --> 00:52:41,780
 It does not feel that long.

953
00:52:41,780 --> 00:52:46,860
 But for you, seeing that this core wanted to come back together, I mean, how big was that?

954
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:47,800
 Yeah, it was huge.

955
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:53,000
 I mean, I think given the portal era that we live in, to be able to keep this group together,

956
00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:57,760
 I think said a lot about, you know, what we're doing here and the culture that we have

957
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:58,780
 and the culture that we've built.

958
00:52:58,860 --> 00:53:02,820
 And I think, quite frankly, our culture is in the best place that it's ever been in the five years

959
00:53:02,820 --> 00:53:06,200
 that I've been here, even with success and failures and wins and losses.

960
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:11,580
 I think from a leadership in the locker room perspective, from a relationship perspective

961
00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:16,600
 with the girls and myself, I think just all together, we made a huge investment in that over the spring.

962
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,260
 And I think that honestly is what excites me the most because the talent's been there.

963
00:53:21,380 --> 00:53:24,920
 We have talked about it with them a lot is we've had the talent to succeed at a high level

964
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,020
 and we've done some really good things, but, you know, we want more.

965
00:53:28,140 --> 00:53:31,740
 And so I think that that area was something we really needed to really push

966
00:53:31,740 --> 00:53:33,740
 and the girls have done a really good job of that.

967
00:53:33,740 --> 00:53:38,580
 So, yeah, five years flew by pretty quick, but I'm really excited about this year.

968
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,640
 I told the girls the other day I haven't been this excited about a group

969
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,880
 in maybe my whole career, but in a long time.

970
00:53:44,420 --> 00:53:47,980
 You know, I really love coming to the gym every day with them,

971
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:50,340
 and that makes coaching that much more fun.

972
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,380
 It makes a difference, doesn't it?

973
00:53:52,460 --> 00:53:52,840
 Big time.

974
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:53,520
 Absolutely.

975
00:53:53,740 --> 00:53:55,580
 Listen, guys, thank you so much.

976
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:56,900
 God bless you.

977
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:58,300
 Good luck this season.

978
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:02,120
 Let's get some good crowds out to see everybody.

979
00:54:02,260 --> 00:54:03,700
 Good luck on year five.

980
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,640
 Thank you so much for coming by and saying hello.

981
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:06,420
 Thanks for having us.

982
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:06,840
 Appreciate it.

983
00:54:06,860 --> 00:54:07,220
 Roll lines.

984
00:54:07,340 --> 00:54:07,720
 Thank you.

985
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:08,760
 Thank you, guys.

986
00:54:08,900 --> 00:54:11,860
 That's going to take care of a busy first hour.

987
00:54:12,060 --> 00:54:15,000
 When we come back, going to be talking to the boss, Josh Looney,

988
00:54:15,460 --> 00:54:19,780
 going to be talking also cross-country, a lot more U&A.

989
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:25,120
 When we return to U&A Media Days at Lost Pizza on 93.9, the score.

990
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:36,260
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00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:43,760
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00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,600
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997
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998
00:54:58,620 --> 00:55:02,700
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999
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:05,100
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1003
00:55:17,740 --> 00:55:20,540
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00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:22,360
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1007
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1008
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1009
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:40,720
 Alabama's largest Second Amendment organization is weighing in on the Congressional District 1 race.

1010
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,640
 Bama Carey is endorsing Austin Sidwell as he runs in that special primary election,

1011
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,160
 which will be held this coming Tuesday.

1012
00:55:48,500 --> 00:55:55,440
 Alabama Carey Vice President Taylor Rhodes said that Sidwell is a pro-gun candidate who will not back down to the pressures from the D.C. swamp.

1013
00:55:55,440 --> 00:56:01,880
 Sidwell celebrated this endorsement, saying there is no need for any government oversight on how someone chooses to protect their family.

1014
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:07,360
 Tonight's special primary election involves a winner-take-all election with no runoff race possible.

1015
00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:12,480
 Tomorrow's special primary election involves Congressional Districts 1, 2, 6, and 7,

1016
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:20,740
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1017
00:56:20,900 --> 00:56:23,380
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1018
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1019
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1020
00:56:32,020 --> 00:56:35,260
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1021
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:40,780
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1022
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1023
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1025
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:55,880
 A pedestrian died in Huntsville this morning after being hit by a vehicle on University Drive.

1026
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,760
 The pedestrian has been identified only as a male who died at the scene.

1027
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:08,260
 An Albertville police officer has now been terminated from his job after he was discovered to be using law enforcement databases to track his ex-wife's movement.

1028
00:57:08,580 --> 00:57:12,500
 Jeremy Hanna was arrested after the Marshall County District Attorney conducted an investigation.

1029
00:57:13,060 --> 00:57:18,400
 Hanna is accused of accessing multiple databases to look up the information on his ex-wife and her family members.

1030
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,240
 He's being charged with violating the Alabama Digital Crimes Act.

1031
00:57:21,540 --> 00:57:22,280
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1032
00:57:22,660 --> 00:57:27,320
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1033
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,400
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1034
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,200
 Previously on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network.

1035
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:37,740
 2-0 clubbed in the air.

1036
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:38,700
 Deep right field.

1037
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:39,760
 That's back to the wall.

1038
00:57:39,860 --> 00:57:40,440
 That's good!

1039
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,120
 He just hit a bullet over the right field wall.

1040
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:47,820
 And Matt Olsen puts the Braves on the board.

1041
00:57:48,420 --> 00:57:49,460
 Blackburn fires.

1042
00:57:50,260 --> 00:57:54,160
 And a ground ball to the right side and threw up in the middle into right center field.

1043
00:57:54,420 --> 00:57:55,280
 Kim's around third.

1044
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:56,080
 He's going to score.

1045
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,120
 And Michael Harris, the second, comes through.

1046
00:57:58,620 --> 00:57:59,800
 Big clutch RBI.

1047
00:58:00,100 --> 00:58:00,880
 Braves on top.

1048
00:58:00,980 --> 00:58:01,480
 2-1.

1049
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:02,980
 And the delivery.

1050
00:58:03,620 --> 00:58:04,540
 Swing and a miss.

1051
00:58:04,620 --> 00:58:05,260
 Struck him out.

1052
00:58:05,260 --> 00:58:06,220
 Ball game over.

1053
00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:09,580
 Tyler Kinley blew him away.

1054
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,140
 And earns his first save of the year.

1055
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:16,540
 And the Braves avoid the sweep and win in 10 innings, 2-1.

1056
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,120
 Join us tonight as the Braves welcome the New York Mets.

1057
00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:22,520
 Right here on 93.9 The Score.

1058
00:58:26,020 --> 00:58:31,480
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1059
00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:33,920
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1060
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,540
 Evan Canty and Michelle are on Sportsman Life.

1061
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:45,760
 I struggle to see a world where the Pittsburgh Steelers with this roster and with that quarterback can actually contend for a Super Bowl.

1062
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:50,320
 What exactly is the win for the 2026 season?

1063
00:58:50,580 --> 00:58:56,700
 Because it doesn't feel like they have a viable path to actually holding up the Lombardi Trophy at season's end.

1064
00:58:56,700 --> 00:58:57,800
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1065
00:58:58,160 --> 00:58:59,860
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1066
00:59:00,180 --> 00:59:02,540
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1067
00:59:04,780 --> 00:59:08,580
 This is Jerome from Birmingham, previously from Paul Feinbaum Show.

1068
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:18,220
 We're proud of our institution, but apparently you are not proud of anything to do west of the Mississippi River or anything north of the Mason State.

1069
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,900
 That makes it, what is it, may, may, may, may.

1070
00:59:20,900 --> 00:59:25,800
 John, do you have your medical alert button on in case something happens here?

1071
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,960
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1072
00:59:28,420 --> 00:59:34,260
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1073
00:59:34,780 --> 00:59:37,460
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1074
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:42,040
 Today, a 30% chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms with a high around 95.

1075
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:46,420
 Tonight, partly cloudy with a 20% chance of showers overnight and a low near 75.

1076
00:59:47,220 --> 00:59:52,000
 Tomorrow, mostly sunny with a 40% chance of showers, possibly a thunderstorm, high around 90.

1077
00:59:52,180 --> 00:59:54,880
 Tomorrow night, partly cloudy with a low near 75.

1078
00:59:55,500 --> 01:00:00,620
 And for your Wednesday, mostly sunny with a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms with a high around 90.

1079
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,560
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1080
01:00:04,780 --> 01:00:13,740
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1081
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,720
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1082
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,040
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1083
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:28,820
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1084
01:00:29,620 --> 01:00:35,040
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9, the score.

1085
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,420
 And welcome back to the Boomo Bugg Show.

1086
01:00:38,620 --> 01:00:42,900
 U.N.A. Media Days for 2026.

1087
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:49,440
 Brett Beaird with my co-host, the one and only voice of the U.N.A. Lions, Benjamin Ray.

1088
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,720
 And we're going to be talking cross-country now.

1089
01:00:53,380 --> 01:00:56,620
 You were telling me you run, what, five miles a day?

1090
01:00:56,660 --> 01:00:57,560
 Is that what it is?

1091
01:00:57,660 --> 01:01:02,360
 I try to get a minimum of five, maybe two miles a day.

1092
01:01:06,620 --> 01:01:08,860
 Man, we'll put the miles in.

1093
01:01:09,580 --> 01:01:13,260
 Do me the honor in introducing our next special guest.

1094
01:01:13,260 --> 01:01:19,000
 We've got head coach Connor Callahan, who just two years ago was being introduced here.

1095
01:01:19,180 --> 01:01:21,220
 A lot of us have had a few miles a day.

1096
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:31,680
 Female runners with them, Audrey Becker in the house, and then Mary Anna Trimble, the Lion legacy here as well.

1097
01:01:32,140 --> 01:01:37,580
 Tell me about the excitement, new stadium, new conference.

1098
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,060
 Isn't it amazing to be a part of this?

1099
01:01:42,220 --> 01:01:44,180
 What do you expect in 2026?

1100
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:49,840
 Yeah, it's one of those that I think the special thing for me is when I got hired, everything was still old.

1101
01:01:50,100 --> 01:01:52,880
 So I got to see literally, they all saw it for a long time.

1102
01:01:52,940 --> 01:01:54,960
 I got to see it for like days, and then it was gone.

1103
01:01:55,220 --> 01:01:57,620
 And now the stadium's here and everything like that.

1104
01:01:57,660 --> 01:01:59,500
 And then you add in the track on the other side.

1105
01:01:59,500 --> 01:02:05,820
 So those kind of things to bring students on campus and to show them how it is truly growing and not just saying it.

1106
01:02:06,220 --> 01:02:07,440
 And to tell them where the track is.

1107
01:02:07,540 --> 01:02:08,660
 Tell them we have a home course.

1108
01:02:08,860 --> 01:02:10,840
 It's a lot of excitement around here.

1109
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:13,320
 I'm sure we'll get some strides in on that football field.

1110
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:15,660
 It won't go to waste.

1111
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:20,840
 You know, we were joking about how little we all run, but for you two, everyone wants to go first.

1112
01:02:21,020 --> 01:02:22,160
 Give people perspective.

1113
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,740
 I mean, how many miles are you putting in a day and a week?

1114
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:28,560
 For me right now, it's about three to four miles a day.

1115
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:36,220
 But at my healthiest point, I was doing five to six a day, like 30 to 35 miles a week, just depending on what kind of mileage we're doing.

1116
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:41,380
 I'm currently doing about eight to nine a day, just depends on if it's a workout day, easy day.

1117
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,840
 But yeah, we're getting up there in mileage.

1118
01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:45,280
 Easy eight-mile day.

1119
01:02:46,180 --> 01:02:49,740
 Now, you mentioned, are you recovering from an injury?

1120
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:51,460
 Are you coming back from one?

1121
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:52,240
 I am.

1122
01:02:52,340 --> 01:02:54,220
 I had surgery in January.

1123
01:02:54,460 --> 01:02:55,540
 I tore my hip labrum.

1124
01:02:55,700 --> 01:02:56,100
 Oh, my goodness.

1125
01:02:56,100 --> 01:03:00,060
 And so I was out until early April is when I started back being able to run.

1126
01:03:00,220 --> 01:03:03,200
 And so ever since then, I've just been building my mileage back.

1127
01:03:03,860 --> 01:03:04,620
 So...

1128
01:03:04,620 --> 01:03:09,440
 I would imagine the rehab with that wasn't fun, was it?

1129
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,360
 Not too much fun, but it definitely helped me build back to where I am now.

1130
01:03:13,580 --> 01:03:17,760
 So definitely feeling a lot healthier than I was before the surgery, so...

1131
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:21,280
 Coach Callahan, we talk about all the changes at UNA, the excitement of the stadium.

1132
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:29,200
 But for your program, something as little as the track being installed last year, I believe it was, around the Cox Creek Parkway complex.

1133
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:31,580
 Just how beneficial was that for the program?

1134
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:32,600
 It's huge.

1135
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:38,740
 We would have practice at McFarland, for example, and I knew it was going to rain in the past.

1136
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:40,440
 If it rains, McFarland gets...

1137
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:46,340
 It's not the most fun, and we're having a workout the next morning, and I was able to make the call the night before.

1138
01:03:46,540 --> 01:03:49,140
 And I didn't have to call a high school athletic director.

1139
01:03:49,140 --> 01:03:51,580
 I didn't have to really worry about anything.

1140
01:03:51,700 --> 01:03:52,260
 I text Ryan.

1141
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:53,860
 I said, hey, we're going to the track at 6 a.m.

1142
01:03:53,860 --> 01:03:54,680
 He said, okay, you're good.

1143
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,620
 So to have that, I mean, we were there twice a week in the spring.

1144
01:03:58,860 --> 01:04:00,860
 We were there really once a week.

1145
01:04:01,580 --> 01:04:03,340
 Once my son was around, I was a little lazy.

1146
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:04,760
 I was like, well, just go to the track.

1147
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:07,180
 So we use it a ton.

1148
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:07,940
 It's one of those.

1149
01:04:08,020 --> 01:04:08,900
 It's beautiful.

1150
01:04:09,060 --> 01:04:09,520
 It's perfect.

1151
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:16,300
 Talk about the schedule, some of the teams that you're playing, and I know you've alluded to this.

1152
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:20,800
 How much has UNA Cross Country grown over the years?

1153
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:25,640
 Yeah, with our schedule, our couple home meets will be a little bit smaller.

1154
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:30,280
 The first one, just a 5K, but not as many teams as we've maybe seen in the past.

1155
01:04:30,660 --> 01:04:32,440
 Second one will be a little bit more competitive.

1156
01:04:32,620 --> 01:04:34,760
 I still think it will be a smaller meet, but more competitive.

1157
01:04:34,940 --> 01:04:40,420
 Some better teams, Jack State coming in, UT Southern, and some different schools coming in for that.

1158
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,040
 So that will be a good race for us.

1159
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:46,060
 But to go to the Southern Showcase over in Huntsville, you're going to get SEC.

1160
01:04:46,540 --> 01:04:48,660
 You're going to get anybody and everybody.

1161
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:50,280
 That's a huge one for us.

1162
01:04:51,020 --> 01:04:53,000
 And then just the growth of the program.

1163
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:59,760
 I think it's one of those that our guys are slowly developing and our girls are realizing, like, we belong here.

1164
01:05:00,100 --> 01:05:03,380
 It's not, you know, they never, and I never did either.

1165
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:04,840
 Like, we've been D1 since I've been here.

1166
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:08,460
 So it's one that you go back and get to see kind of the history of everything.

1167
01:05:08,620 --> 01:05:10,360
 I had a recruit on campus a couple weeks ago.

1168
01:05:10,420 --> 01:05:12,180
 His mom actually ran here with Sherry.

1169
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:17,560
 So it was kind of cool to hear just the differences that she's seen and where the program's going.

1170
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:24,720
 But to have 17 girls and 30 guys, that's a big thing for the university, but also for our team as well.

1171
01:05:25,100 --> 01:05:27,620
 Audrey, a freshman last year, ran in all six meets.

1172
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,420
 What's the jump like for you from year one to year two been like?

1173
01:05:32,060 --> 01:05:37,600
 So I've definitely, I feel like, tried to take on more of a leadership role on the team.

1174
01:05:37,820 --> 01:05:41,040
 I really want to be kind of an encourager for the freshmen coming in,

1175
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:44,080
 be able to kind of help guide them through their first year.

1176
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,500
 Because it can be a jump, it's really different than high school.

1177
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,780
 You know, you're traveling more, the load at the school is more.

1178
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:55,640
 So just making sure that they can help adjust to that as best that they can.

1179
01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:01,720
 Let me ask you what seems like a dumb question, which is nothing unusual coming from me.

1180
01:06:02,340 --> 01:06:06,060
 But when you think about it, though, how do you run cross-country?

1181
01:06:06,060 --> 01:06:12,020
 I mean, you've got athletes who run all the time, baseball, football, basketball.

1182
01:06:12,420 --> 01:06:18,820
 But there's a difference in running cross-country than it is running the other sports.

1183
01:06:18,980 --> 01:06:19,920
 Talk about that.

1184
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:25,800
 Yeah, so compared to other sports, I mean, running's honestly their punishment a lot of times.

1185
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:26,060
 Yes.

1186
01:06:26,060 --> 01:06:27,200
 For us, that's it.

1187
01:06:27,460 --> 01:06:29,320
 That's our lifestyle, basically.

1188
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:34,220
 I don't know life without cross-country, so I couldn't imagine not ever running, really.

1189
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,380
 But, I mean, it's definitely fun.

1190
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,840
 You never know, like some days you feel great on a run, some days you don't.

1191
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,820
 It's just, I mean, it's honestly more of like a lifestyle than a sport to me, honestly.

1192
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:46,400
 So it's so mental.

1193
01:06:46,660 --> 01:06:47,120
 It is.

1194
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:51,500
 And a lot of people don't realize that, but I feel like half the battle with running is mental.

1195
01:06:51,900 --> 01:06:58,460
 And, you know, having the confidence to step out there and realize, like, I do belong here and I do belong on the, like, starting line and stuff.

1196
01:06:58,460 --> 01:07:03,520
 I feel like that's a lot of what goes into running and, like, a lot of people may not realize that as well.

1197
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,060
 Hey, Mariana, with that, Lion Legacies, I called you earlier.

1198
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,900
 Your dad coached the program for a long time.

1199
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:11,280
 He ran here as well.

1200
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,000
 Your mom played basketball at UNA.

1201
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,640
 How cool is it following in their footsteps?

1202
01:07:14,940 --> 01:07:19,640
 It's really special to me getting to share that experience with them and getting to know we all three went here.

1203
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:23,760
 And making my decision to run in college, they, you know, ultimately left that up to me.

1204
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:32,500
 But when I decided to go here, I know they were very excited, and it's just special getting to share that with them and know that they also had the same experience playing a sport here.

1205
01:07:32,580 --> 01:07:34,840
 It's just, that's a very, like, special moment for me.

1206
01:07:35,540 --> 01:07:36,920
 Talk about your training.

1207
01:07:37,140 --> 01:07:44,460
 Obviously, again, duh, you run, but weights, stretching, plotties, I mean, what do you do?

1208
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,940
 Yeah, there is a lot more to running than just the actual runs.

1209
01:07:48,180 --> 01:07:50,800
 Especially, I mentioned I'm doing pretty high mileage,

1210
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:55,080
 so it's really been important to me this summer to do a lot of stretching and stuff on the side.

1211
01:07:55,540 --> 01:07:58,380
 I actually went to hot yoga a lot with my mom over the summer,

1212
01:07:58,380 --> 01:08:01,880
 and that, like, really felt like I would feel a lot better.

1213
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,620
 I'd go a lot after my long runs on Saturdays,

1214
01:08:04,620 --> 01:08:08,860
 so I'd, you know, do 12 miles in the morning and get to go do, like, a hot yoga,

1215
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:11,320
 and that would really help, and you'd feel a difference.

1216
01:08:11,780 --> 01:08:13,060
 It can be a lot on the muscles.

1217
01:08:13,620 --> 01:08:17,780
 Coach Callahan, obviously, over on the men's side, highlighted by Brian Bett.

1218
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:21,260
 Talk a little bit about that team and Brian and the expectations for him.

1219
01:08:21,460 --> 01:08:28,400
 Yeah, when you bring Brian, Vincent, Sammy, Aiden, Brent, Gruber, Owen, Cole, Jackson,

1220
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:32,800
 I'm sure I'm missing some, but we bring back every single guy.

1221
01:08:33,060 --> 01:08:38,640
 I don't know any guy that competed, Thomas Sheik, any guy that competed for us,

1222
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:39,940
 they're back with us this year.

1223
01:08:40,500 --> 01:08:45,040
 So they make my life a little harder and making decisions on travel and things like that,

1224
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,720
 but that's what I'm here to do, you know, make hard decisions,

1225
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,920
 and it's one that I want them to put me in that spot.

1226
01:08:51,140 --> 01:08:55,920
 I want to have a really solid team, and that group of guys, it's going to be fun.

1227
01:08:56,540 --> 01:08:58,880
 I think our upperclassmen, I'm really leaning on them.

1228
01:08:59,380 --> 01:09:02,100
 I've got, not that I don't have expectations for our freshmen,

1229
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:05,600
 but I'm really leaning on our upperclassmen to handle the load,

1230
01:09:06,020 --> 01:09:10,100
 and if we get a freshman that can break out, then that's just an added bonus this year.

1231
01:09:10,100 --> 01:09:14,480
 Well, yeah, it may be a challenge to see who's going on the beach,

1232
01:09:14,740 --> 01:09:19,440
 but they know your expectations, they know your standards,

1233
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:23,100
 they know what you want from them day in and day out.

1234
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:24,000
 Does that help?

1235
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:24,740
 A hundred percent.

1236
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:27,260
 If you don't set the standard, then what is the standard?

1237
01:09:27,700 --> 01:09:29,140
 You've got to be able to set the standard,

1238
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,220
 and I think that's going to change a little bit this year.

1239
01:09:31,380 --> 01:09:34,980
 We bring back so many guys that the standard continues to change,

1240
01:09:35,440 --> 01:09:37,160
 and it's only getting better.

1241
01:09:37,580 --> 01:09:40,040
 It's not, you know, the standard is set, and that's the standard.

1242
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:42,000
 You've got to either be in it or be out of it,

1243
01:09:42,380 --> 01:09:46,380
 and that's kind of the conversations we're going to have here on Friday and Saturday

1244
01:09:46,380 --> 01:09:48,260
 and into next week when the team moves back in.

1245
01:09:48,820 --> 01:09:53,120
 Fans are probably interested to know about track and field coming to North Alabama.

1246
01:09:53,260 --> 01:09:54,200
 Tell us what we need to know.

1247
01:09:54,660 --> 01:09:58,200
 I think the biggest thing that I'm seeing on the recruiting side is it's distance only.

1248
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,340
 It's 800 meters and up, so I get a lot of sprinters and things like that.

1249
01:10:01,620 --> 01:10:07,360
 I think that could come down the line, but right now with it is every guy and girl that's on the team.

1250
01:10:07,460 --> 01:10:12,800
 So all 30 guys and all 17 girls will run track, and we'll have indoor meets.

1251
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:18,080
 We'll probably go down to Birmingham a lot, and then our indoor conference is at Eastern Kentucky,

1252
01:10:18,340 --> 01:10:20,840
 and then outdoor will kind of vary it up.

1253
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:22,000
 We've been to Ole Miss in the past.

1254
01:10:22,100 --> 01:10:23,000
 We've been to Montevallo.

1255
01:10:24,020 --> 01:10:28,800
 We've been to Tuscaloosa, and then our conference meet is actually in Abilene Christian, out in Texas.

1256
01:10:29,060 --> 01:10:32,040
 So that will be one that we've got to go out there.

1257
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:32,840
 We've got to go in the heat.

1258
01:10:32,980 --> 01:10:35,300
 We were looking at schedules on a coach's call the other day.

1259
01:10:35,900 --> 01:10:38,600
 So for us, we're going to continue to grow.

1260
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:43,600
 Our women's team is going to continue to grow for sure, but we're going to have fun.

1261
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:47,480
 That four-lane track over on Cox Creek, it's ours.

1262
01:10:47,700 --> 01:10:52,660
 I think that's the special thing about it is it's ours, and we're going to have some success with it.

1263
01:10:53,100 --> 01:10:54,380
 But a chance to compete more.

1264
01:10:54,580 --> 01:10:57,500
 I think that's the biggest thing is we get a chance to compete more.

1265
01:10:57,580 --> 01:11:00,640
 We didn't know rules were coming out, and Audrey was like, do I register, do I not?

1266
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:01,720
 What do we kind of do?

1267
01:11:02,300 --> 01:11:06,440
 And runs 18.07 in track, and then I think you go back and look,

1268
01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:08,660
 and it's like she broke 19 one time in high school.

1269
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:13,440
 So to be able to do that this past year, it's going to make us better.

1270
01:11:13,540 --> 01:11:17,320
 I think the reason you see the summer she's had is because of the spring she had,

1271
01:11:17,580 --> 01:11:19,140
 and now we get that with everybody.

1272
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:20,980
 There's no ifs, ands, or buts.

1273
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:26,960
 You've got a whole entire year, and when you can stack a week, a month, and a year over year with minimal injuries.

1274
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:32,900
 I think she left out that she had mono at one time, and it's like, oh, gosh, is the outdoor season a wash now?

1275
01:11:33,020 --> 01:11:34,840
 Nope, we come back and have the best season we've had.

1276
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,860
 So it'll be fun to kind of see the progression we can make.

1277
01:11:37,860 --> 01:11:50,660
 How much do your facilities compare to John Hunt Park, Abilene, others across the south, across the nation, as far as comparison?

1278
01:11:51,060 --> 01:11:56,580
 Yeah, with our four-lane track, I jokingly tell people, like, I don't care to host a track meet.

1279
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,220
 It's a lot of work, so I'm cool with a four-lane.

1280
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:01,360
 You've got to have eight to nine lanes to host.

1281
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:03,560
 So that's kind of the big difference there.

1282
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:08,220
 Nobody really has an indoor facility, so we've got to go to Lexington for conference.

1283
01:12:08,780 --> 01:12:19,340
 And then Austin Peay's coming down to one of our meets at home, so it's one that we have that home course advantage, but we also have such a strong connection with Huntsville that we can go over to John Hunt.

1284
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:26,080
 So I think we can get to what we need, the facilities, the athletic trainers, the staff, the social media, all that kind of stuff.

1285
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:26,960
 We're right there.

1286
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:31,420
 I don't think many people, cross-country coaches, are talking to the media and things like that.

1287
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:31,960
 Yes.

1288
01:12:32,060 --> 01:12:33,400
 So I applaud you guys.

1289
01:12:33,540 --> 01:12:34,400
 I appreciate it.

1290
01:12:34,440 --> 01:12:36,000
 I know our athletes appreciate it as well.

1291
01:12:36,660 --> 01:12:39,660
 Well, Mary Ann, Audrey, expectations for this upcoming year?

1292
01:12:41,580 --> 01:12:42,280
 Who wants to go, Audrey?

1293
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:42,760
 I'll go.

1294
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:48,580
 I think we definitely really want to continue the close-knitness of our team.

1295
01:12:48,700 --> 01:12:54,260
 You know, we had a pretty small team in spring, but I think that did allow us to, you know, the girls who were healthy and running.

1296
01:12:54,380 --> 01:13:05,560
 We got really close, and I think we're really excited to continue that, bring that into cross-season, because even though it is, you know, some would say more individual sport, it is a team sport.

1297
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:13,440
 And, you know, the atmosphere that the girls have on the morning of meet, like that matters, our attitude matters, and that's going to affect all season.

1298
01:13:13,660 --> 01:13:20,880
 So I'm really excited to hopefully expand the friendships we have and just keep that going into fall.

1299
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:21,700
 Go ahead.

1300
01:13:21,980 --> 01:13:23,260
 Yeah, I would agree with Audrey, too.

1301
01:13:23,380 --> 01:13:25,860
 Definitely, you know, have our closest as a team.

1302
01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:30,700
 The returners have definitely grown, like, close over the past year due to us having a small team this past year.

1303
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:43,200
 So I'm excited to bring in the transfers and the freshmen and be able to grow our friendship with them and all become really close, because I feel like that is especially important with cross-country, is to have each other to lean on, especially when the workouts get hard and stuff like that.

1304
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:47,720
 So definitely having that close-knitness as a team is something that me and Audrey both really want.

1305
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,820
 No matter the sport, you've got to mesh.

1306
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:51,200
 Yes.

1307
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:52,260
 You've got to jail.

1308
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:53,500
 Talk about that.

1309
01:13:53,500 --> 01:13:59,200
 I know we talk about preparation, training, but you've got to get along with each other.

1310
01:13:59,400 --> 01:13:59,820
 You have to.

1311
01:13:59,920 --> 01:14:03,720
 And it's one of those that you're going to beat a teammate one day, and they're going to beat you the next.

1312
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:10,040
 And what is that kind of – are you guys making each other better, or are you looking at each other like, oh, my gosh, I can't stand you now.

1313
01:14:10,100 --> 01:14:11,060
 I've got to beat you the next week.

1314
01:14:11,140 --> 01:14:20,040
 So having that kind of mindset of we have to work together, and I tell everybody, in order for you to be at your best and the team to be at its best, you have to be there.

1315
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:21,020
 You've got to be ready to go.

1316
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:23,900
 So you've got to be at your best for the team to be at its best.

1317
01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:30,380
 And that's where cross-country really becomes a team sport of like, hey, somebody might not be having their best day, but somebody steps up.

1318
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:31,520
 I'll go back to Sammy.

1319
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:33,520
 Sammy Sang at our conference meet.

1320
01:14:33,580 --> 01:14:41,680
 He hadn't really done anything during the season, but he passed, I think it was like close to 20 people in the last mile to half mile, and that is why we finished fourth.

1321
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:46,200
 I'm a firm believer that if he had not made that jump, we would not have been fourth at the conference.

1322
01:14:46,420 --> 01:14:52,500
 So just seeing the guys rally around each other, seeing the girls rally around each other, like they said, we're much bigger this year.

1323
01:14:52,700 --> 01:14:58,040
 We're about double size, but we're going to be stronger as well, and it's going to be – the competition's going to be better.

1324
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:02,620
 I said earlier, like Sandra, I think, made Audrey a lot better in the spring.

1325
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:08,240
 She set the standard for her and helped her out, and Audrey was huffing and puffing, and Sandra was laughing.

1326
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:11,680
 So it's one of those making your teammates better, it's huge.

1327
01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:12,980
 It's one of the greatest things.

1328
01:15:12,980 --> 01:15:19,000
 When it all comes together, it makes it all worth the training and all the other stuff worth it.

1329
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,800
 Guys, thank you so much for coming by, saying hello.

1330
01:15:22,420 --> 01:15:23,320
 Speedy recovery.

1331
01:15:23,540 --> 01:15:25,260
 I know you're working on it.

1332
01:15:25,300 --> 01:15:26,520
 Great to talk with you.

1333
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:27,800
 God bless you all.

1334
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:28,620
 Have a great year.

1335
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:29,000
 Thank you.

1336
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:29,660
 We appreciate it.

1337
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:30,260
 We're Lions.

1338
01:15:30,460 --> 01:15:31,320
 Right, absolutely.

1339
01:15:32,020 --> 01:15:33,000
 A little cross country.

1340
01:15:33,140 --> 01:15:34,760
 When we come back, the boss.

1341
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:35,800
 The boss man.

1342
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:37,800
 Join us to talk about UNA.

1343
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:38,620
 Josh Looney.

1344
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:44,000
 We return to the Bumo Buck Show for UNA Media Days 2026.

1345
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:56,860
 It doesn't matter if you're running grills at the park, playing pickup on a Saturday, or sinking the final putt.

1346
01:15:56,940 --> 01:16:01,740
 When you compete with your friends with Michelob Ultra on the line, competition isn't that friendly.

1347
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:03,080
 The trash talk.

1348
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:04,500
 Next level.

1349
01:16:04,860 --> 01:16:05,500
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01:19:27,660 --> 01:19:32,440
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1415
01:19:32,980 --> 01:19:39,000
 And welcome back to the Boomo Bugg show, U-N-A Media Days 2026.

1416
01:19:39,140 --> 01:19:43,620
 Brett Beaird and the voice of the U-N-A Lions, Benjamin Bray.

1417
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:49,340
 We are now joined by the boss, Dr. Josh Looney, Athletic Director at U-N-A.

1418
01:19:50,140 --> 01:19:55,980
 I've been doing this now 10 years, and Ben and I were nearly joking about how time flies.

1419
01:19:55,980 --> 01:20:05,280
 I can't tell you how much I am impressed with the athletes, the coaches, they handle themselves well.

1420
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:09,340
 They're great representatives of U-N-A.

1421
01:20:09,500 --> 01:20:11,780
 I see it year in and year out.

1422
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:18,180
 Great leadership, and we just love our head coach's room and what they're doing with our athletes on and off the fields and courts.

1423
01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:23,920
 And they give us a lot to be proud of here locally, and glad you and everyone on the show gets a chance to experience this year.

1424
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:24,560
 I appreciate you.

1425
01:20:24,820 --> 01:20:26,200
 You're heading into what, year six?

1426
01:20:26,580 --> 01:20:27,460
 Year six, yeah.

1427
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,640
 It's almost been five actual years.

1428
01:20:30,020 --> 01:20:32,020
 That's the academic math there.

1429
01:20:32,180 --> 01:20:33,400
 I counted my sixth football season.

1430
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,200
 Yeah, it's going to be the sixth football season.

1431
01:20:35,700 --> 01:20:40,280
 It'll be five full years September 1st, so you do that math, right?

1432
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:46,740
 So this five-year run, six-year run, have you seen this place grow into what you envisioned it would be when you took the job?

1433
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,580
 It's been special to see, and I think it goes back.

1434
01:20:50,660 --> 01:20:52,420
 I mean, you mentioned 10 years, Brad.

1435
01:20:52,420 --> 01:21:03,800
 I think of the people that were here a decade ago, if you go to fall 2016, and that was about the time that North Alabama put the action behind the Division I piece,

1436
01:21:03,860 --> 01:21:08,080
 and obviously there was still a run-up to that 2018 season until the process started.

1437
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:19,640
 But if you just sit back and say, okay, what did UNA, just not even athletics, just the institution, the campus, athletics look like 10 years ago to what it looks like now?

1438
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:27,700
 I mean, really, it's unbelievable, the growth from enrollment, the growth in the academic recognition that the university receives,

1439
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,540
 and, of course, athletic facilities in Division I, that all goes through it.

1440
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:36,840
 But it's really neat to see, and, yeah, I've seen the latter five to six years of it, and that's incredible.

1441
01:21:36,980 --> 01:21:43,020
 But I can't imagine those that had the courage and the ambition to transform UNA to what it is a decade ago.

1442
01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:48,340
 It's really neat to see, and a story you don't see that often throughout the country in higher education.

1443
01:21:48,340 --> 01:21:55,100
 I think that is the thing, Dr. Looney, that I have seen and heard in the last couple of years.

1444
01:21:55,700 --> 01:22:00,600
 I can't tell you how many people I know who are UNA alumni.

1445
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:01,640
 They're fans.

1446
01:22:01,780 --> 01:22:07,980
 They've been coming to games for years, and they've been hearing, well, we're going to get a new stadium.

1447
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:11,980
 We've been hearing that 30 years, and we're going to go to Division I.

1448
01:22:12,060 --> 01:22:14,760
 We've been hearing that forever, and now it's here.

1449
01:22:15,940 --> 01:22:19,880
 It's here, and, you know, you look at the stadium, you say, we've been hearing that forever.

1450
01:22:19,980 --> 01:22:22,540
 Yeah, it was in the 1974 media guide, right?

1451
01:22:22,700 --> 01:22:23,960
 Yes, it was.

1452
01:22:24,340 --> 01:22:29,100
 And this is our 78th football season since we restarted, and it gets a little fuzzy from –

1453
01:22:29,100 --> 01:22:29,480
 I know.

1454
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:34,200
 But since we restarted in 49, and this will be the first year of a lot of things.

1455
01:22:34,300 --> 01:22:36,680
 We've never tailgated on campus at UA.

1456
01:22:36,820 --> 01:22:37,160
 Absolutely.

1457
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:37,800
 That'll happen for the first time.

1458
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:39,140
 Of course, we've never played in our own stadium.

1459
01:22:39,440 --> 01:22:40,760
 That'll happen for the first time.

1460
01:22:41,260 --> 01:22:43,040
 So it really is a special time to be here.

1461
01:22:43,180 --> 01:22:50,700
 You know, former athletic director at UNA and just retired at South Alabama, Joel Erdman, gave me a piece of advice about two years ago.

1462
01:22:50,740 --> 01:22:55,660
 We went down to look at Hancock-Whitney Stadium, and he was showing us different things, and we were taking notes for our design.

1463
01:22:55,660 --> 01:23:03,680
 And he said, you know, going from Ladd Peebles to Hancock-Whitney and knowing Brawley and going to your own, he said, just do yourself a favor.

1464
01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:07,520
 Building from the ground up, it doesn't happen.

1465
01:23:08,420 --> 01:23:10,560
 Renovations happen, but it just rarely happens.

1466
01:23:10,700 --> 01:23:11,540
 And so enjoy it.

1467
01:23:11,580 --> 01:23:12,300
 Don't take it for granted.

1468
01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:14,720
 And you don't really know what you have until you have it.

1469
01:23:15,140 --> 01:23:19,280
 And so each day for the last two years, I've gone to the office.

1470
01:23:19,380 --> 01:23:22,320
 I've gone to College View Church of Christ parking lot where you can oversee both of it.

1471
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:23,380
 I've had my coffee.

1472
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:24,300
 I start there.

1473
01:23:24,380 --> 01:23:25,020
 I take a sip.

1474
01:23:25,020 --> 01:23:26,040
 I take his words in.

1475
01:23:26,100 --> 01:23:26,900
 I appreciate it.

1476
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:32,640
 And now we're just so excited that here in about 45 days, we'll get to welcome everybody in to fully appreciate it.

1477
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:33,740
 It's a really special time.

1478
01:23:33,900 --> 01:23:36,660
 You kind of just mentioned this, but we've been talking about this a lot internally.

1479
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:42,820
 I mean, UNA football has accomplished everything from conference championships, All-Americans, national championships.

1480
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:49,760
 There's no box that this program has not checked except for playing a football game on campus.

1481
01:23:49,940 --> 01:23:53,040
 And it's incredible to think about how campus is going to come to life.

1482
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:58,700
 But just how thrilling is it to know that Saturdays in the fall are going to look a little different on the campus of the University of North Alabama?

1483
01:23:58,700 --> 01:24:03,780
 The pulse and vibrancy of a college campus is just different on a fall Saturday, right?

1484
01:24:03,780 --> 01:24:15,440
 And we've had that here, but not to what now it can be where you're tailgating on campus and walking through campus showing kids and friends, hey, this is where I had a class in this building.

1485
01:24:15,440 --> 01:24:20,120
 This is, you know, this is where Leo and UNA have been, all of those things.

1486
01:24:20,260 --> 01:24:21,240
 And now we get that.

1487
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:27,260
 And I think it brings also from just a non-athletic piece of it, just for the campus every day, it brings a sense of legitimacy.

1488
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:40,960
 When you go to a campus and let's say you're on a junior visit day and it's someone we're competing with academically and they start in that on-campus stadium and they get fired up and then they go to the biology department and the chemistry department.

1489
01:24:41,900 --> 01:24:47,240
 You know, we haven't been able to do that and that student may never go to a UNA football game or UNA soccer game.

1490
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:48,440
 We hope they do, but they may not.

1491
01:24:48,440 --> 01:24:59,120
 But if it gives them the sense of legitimacy of that chemistry program at UNA is just as good, if not better, than UAB and Troy and Jacksonville State, then we've won on that, right?

1492
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:05,820
 And then this facility, we can't wait to see what the imagination comes as it's built to be a 365-day-a-year facility.

1493
01:25:06,260 --> 01:25:11,620
 Of course, people talk concerts, we talk festivals, but I'm sure there'll be all sorts of events we're able to host at this stadium.

1494
01:25:11,900 --> 01:25:13,400
 That we haven't even thought of.

1495
01:25:13,740 --> 01:25:18,800
 But right now we're putting all of our work into figuring out how to host a football game because we've never done that before on campus either.

1496
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:21,760
 And we've had a lot of great work on our staff in getting to this day.

1497
01:25:21,900 --> 01:25:34,540
 I think that's the other great thing about this is you will be able to keep concessions, parking, premium seating, luxury boxes that a lot of people take for granted.

1498
01:25:34,540 --> 01:25:40,320
 You have either had to share or probably get none of it, depending upon where the venue is.

1499
01:25:40,780 --> 01:25:47,040
 But to be able to bring it on campus, as you mentioned, that's going to open so many more doors for you.

1500
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:52,720
 Yeah, we've really had nothing other than general ticket sales in our past time.

1501
01:25:52,980 --> 01:25:55,020
 And now we'll have parking, we'll have concessions.

1502
01:25:56,060 --> 01:26:04,840
 The city council expanded the downtown entertainment district to include the stadium, which will bring that vibrancy and help with business development downtown.

1503
01:26:05,260 --> 01:26:13,560
 And we have nine different areas of seating, multiple premium opportunities, and just things that have been normal for our peers.

1504
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:15,340
 We're getting for the first time.

1505
01:26:15,340 --> 01:26:25,700
 And now that's our big job is to, one, maximize experience that people want to come back and enjoy it and there's something for everyone on a football game day.

1506
01:26:25,820 --> 01:26:32,420
 And then, two, be as efficient as we can in maximizing our resources to continue to grow our programs because we haven't had those revenues.

1507
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:37,720
 And it will make a big difference between now and at the end of this year of what we've looked at in past years.

1508
01:26:38,100 --> 01:26:40,580
 But it's not good enough just to take what everybody else has.

1509
01:26:40,580 --> 01:26:42,520
 Now we need to take it to another step further.

1510
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:45,280
 So that's a big focus for us, for sure, this upcoming year.

1511
01:26:45,340 --> 01:26:55,380
 We're on radio, but I'm playing a video on my phone right now that you posted on your social media where you're standing at midfield and you're just kind of doing the panoramic shot of the stadium.

1512
01:26:55,380 --> 01:26:58,960
 And I got chills when I watched it for the first time after you posted it.

1513
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:00,220
 But it's a beautiful shot.

1514
01:27:00,300 --> 01:27:02,780
 Everybody should go to your social media and watch it.

1515
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:06,400
 But it really puts into perspective how this stadium is going to feel.

1516
01:27:06,460 --> 01:27:09,820
 But what is your favorite unique item about this stadium?

1517
01:27:09,820 --> 01:27:13,200
 Yeah, well, first off, that turf we're standing on, it's pretty neat.

1518
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:15,640
 It's a no-infill turf base.

1519
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:19,360
 We're the first FCS school to put it in and just the fourth in Division I.

1520
01:27:19,480 --> 01:27:20,900
 All that's happened within the past year.

1521
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,560
 We're behind Rice, Louisiana Tech, and Missouri State.

1522
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:24,560
 So it's a great company.

1523
01:27:25,300 --> 01:27:26,460
 This has none of the infill.

1524
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,140
 No rubber, no sand, no coconut.

1525
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:32,140
 It is supposed to play just like natural grass.

1526
01:27:32,220 --> 01:27:33,560
 It's much better on the athletes.

1527
01:27:34,480 --> 01:27:36,560
 And it's the only FIFA-approved turf overseas.

1528
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:41,080
 So we're excited about that and to have a next-generation product in the stadium.

1529
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:44,340
 You know, I think there's something for everybody at the stadium.

1530
01:27:44,440 --> 01:27:49,040
 Everything from the cheapest seat that we have is an upgraded experience.

1531
01:27:49,140 --> 01:27:50,560
 You can get a $100 season ticket.

1532
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:51,440
 We have six home games.

1533
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:54,440
 That's about 16 and some change for a chair-back seat.

1534
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:59,760
 Where it's cheaper than what we had probably with a standard bench seat, right?

1535
01:27:59,780 --> 01:28:00,620
 So we wanted to have that.

1536
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:02,900
 And then, of course, there's different premium spaces.

1537
01:28:03,100 --> 01:28:07,000
 My probably favorite part of the stadium, and I think everyone will be able to find their own,

1538
01:28:07,460 --> 01:28:09,600
 is the outdoor stadium club element.

1539
01:28:10,540 --> 01:28:16,480
 It's an element that you see really only at SEC-type schools and NFL stadiums

1540
01:28:16,480 --> 01:28:18,980
 that have been renovated in the last five or six years.

1541
01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:23,100
 And it's this open-air outdoor club that's off of the main stadium club

1542
01:28:23,100 --> 01:28:26,300
 where there will be TVs and fans, and you can hear the game.

1543
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:27,460
 People are socializing.

1544
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,460
 You can look down on Pine Street and talk to someone tailgating.

1545
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:34,220
 And, you know, we'll have to make sure they're not throwing things from Pine Street up to there.

1546
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:35,840
 It's just a really unique piece.

1547
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:40,280
 I see, you know, receptions, business events in that space,

1548
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:42,480
 and just an awesome spot for the community to enjoy.

1549
01:28:42,980 --> 01:28:47,480
 I've had a couple people ask me, and I know you're probably still working out the details,

1550
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:52,160
 pre-game, post-game, how will that change in the new stadium?

1551
01:28:52,780 --> 01:28:55,080
 It'll change from the vibrancy on campus, of course.

1552
01:28:55,080 --> 01:29:00,320
 I think what everybody's most excited about is bringing Spirit Hill to Pine Street.

1553
01:29:00,580 --> 01:29:04,280
 And then there was a fan vote, and it'll be known as the Pines,

1554
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:06,180
 which I think is pretty cool.

1555
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:09,460
 That takes, like, the Grove and the Quad type of feel.

1556
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:14,800
 And so what will happen on game day is we'll have reserve parking at the Kilby Lod and the GUC

1557
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:19,780
 and by the stadium, but you'll start to see the street shut down through traffic

1558
01:29:19,780 --> 01:29:22,000
 right around Irvine and Pine Street.

1559
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:26,940
 And then once you go down Pine, it will be fully shut off from about the College View Church of Christ

1560
01:29:26,940 --> 01:29:29,840
 to that main entry at Bank Independent Stadium.

1561
01:29:30,180 --> 01:29:34,240
 And there will be – we're already sold out of the tailgate spots, but it's come everybody, right?

1562
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,360
 If you don't have a tailgate spot there, it doesn't matter.

1563
01:29:36,460 --> 01:29:37,040
 There will be bands.

1564
01:29:37,160 --> 01:29:41,480
 There will be jump houses for the kids, but they'll line both sides of Pine Street.

1565
01:29:41,780 --> 01:29:47,120
 And then for our students, I think there's actually views from tailgating into the stadium.

1566
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:52,200
 And I think that some people say, well, you know, do you want to block those views?

1567
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:54,400
 What if they never come in?

1568
01:29:54,440 --> 01:29:56,200
 I said, that's phenomenal.

1569
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:57,220
 Let's have them spend a day.

1570
01:29:57,580 --> 01:29:59,100
 Plenty of people are going to come into the stadium.

1571
01:29:59,500 --> 01:30:03,040
 But if we see them lining up the street at Pine Street in the game, that's incredible too.

1572
01:30:03,380 --> 01:30:08,020
 And then under the scoreboard, I think there's a unique feature that – Ben, goes back to your last question that will be unique.

1573
01:30:08,020 --> 01:30:13,800
 We have a tiered berm that is general admission seating, and we're going to allow people to bring in their own lawn chairs.

1574
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:19,960
 So we'll have an end zone that has a grass-like baseball berm and atmosphere with people bringing in their own lawn chairs.

1575
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:21,580
 You don't see that at college football much.

1576
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:26,700
 I think that's going to be a fan favorite, especially those like my family who have little ones that like to run around.

1577
01:30:27,440 --> 01:30:29,640
 It's just going to be a great experience, and there's something for everybody.

1578
01:30:30,140 --> 01:30:31,660
 September 19th, first game.

1579
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:33,340
 We're going to learn a lot that first game.

1580
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:35,280
 It's going to be a great deal.

1581
01:30:35,380 --> 01:30:36,980
 I'll tell you, I get a little jealous sometimes.

1582
01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:37,560
 I think about it.

1583
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:42,100
 I'm going to be up in my broadcast booth, and I'm not going to get to experience all the bells and whistles.

1584
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:44,780
 But one of the coolest things, I think, is the concourse area.

1585
01:30:44,900 --> 01:30:47,500
 You go to concessions, you never lose sight of the field.

1586
01:30:47,980 --> 01:30:49,320
 Yeah, but we wanted to design that.

1587
01:30:49,400 --> 01:30:51,900
 I think that was a cool thing of building the stadium, boil down.

1588
01:30:51,900 --> 01:30:57,200
 So you come in at grade, and someone could have a ticket and never go to their seat and can go through the entire venue.

1589
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:00,900
 And the concourse will have three different primary concessions.

1590
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:04,880
 You'll have two of the traditional, we'll have a grab-and-go kind of mart in the end zone.

1591
01:31:05,300 --> 01:31:12,800
 And then we have vendors we'll announce here in the coming weeks that restaurants that people on the Shoals are familiar with that will have points of sale across the concourse.

1592
01:31:13,180 --> 01:31:15,620
 I think there's 26 different points of sale options.

1593
01:31:15,620 --> 01:31:22,420
 The concourse can get really wide in some areas to where you kind of have that beer garden patio feel in different elements of the stadium.

1594
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:30,160
 So we're excited, and I'm sure there's a lot of bars for people to lean up against without seating that are around that stadium bowl.

1595
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:37,620
 I fully expect there will be people that have a ticket to the stadium, never get to their seat, and enjoy, and socialize, and stand up and watch that game.

1596
01:31:37,660 --> 01:31:38,600
 Kind of like we saw at baseball.

1597
01:31:38,700 --> 01:31:38,880
 Yeah.

1598
01:31:38,940 --> 01:31:41,620
 With kind of the rails where it's easy seating, it's easy leaning.

1599
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:46,780
 You can have your hot dog, you can have your Coke, you can have your beer, whatever it is, and talk to people and just enjoy the atmosphere.

1600
01:31:47,180 --> 01:31:51,720
 You know, I think Josh Looney needs to get a little more excited about the upcoming season.

1601
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:53,740
 Listen, we've got to let you go.

1602
01:31:53,940 --> 01:31:56,060
 Thank you so much for taking a few minutes.

1603
01:31:58,060 --> 01:32:01,680
 Momentum, excitement, a buzz, whatever word you want to use, it's there.

1604
01:32:01,940 --> 01:32:03,360
 Yeah, it's a great time to raise the roar.

1605
01:32:03,460 --> 01:32:03,880
 We're excited.

1606
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:04,860
 So we'll see everybody.

1607
01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:11,060
 First, we'll see you in Huntsville for our opener on week zero, but then we'll see you a few weeks later as we do something for the first time.

1608
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1611
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 Listen, great to see you again.

1612
01:32:26,460 --> 01:32:27,340
 Thank you so much.

1613
01:32:27,500 --> 01:32:27,720
 Yes.

1614
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:29,160
 Glad to be a part of it.

1615
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1707
01:36:57,320 --> 01:37:03,180
 Brett Beaird and the voice of the UNA Lions, Benjamin Rudd.

1708
01:37:05,220 --> 01:37:13,920
 Welcome in to UNA Media Days.

1709
01:37:13,980 --> 01:37:14,700
 How are you doing today?

1710
01:37:14,900 --> 01:37:15,600
 Hey, we're doing great.

1711
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 How about you?

1712
01:37:16,200 --> 01:37:18,960
 Listen, tell us a little bit about the business to begin with.

1713
01:37:19,260 --> 01:37:23,280
 Yeah, so the Carriage Wine and Market has been around since 2014.

1714
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:25,820
 We're about to celebrate our 12th anniversary of business.

1715
01:37:25,820 --> 01:37:25,960
 Wow.

1716
01:37:26,100 --> 01:37:27,680
 Actually, this Friday, in fact.

1717
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 So come out and have a glass of wine.

1718
01:37:29,660 --> 01:37:33,520
 We started as a wine shop and have grown into something that is much more than that.

1719
01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:42,200
 We're proud to stock about 1,000 different selections of wine with the largest selection of champagne in the state of Alabama, right here on Mobile Plaza.

1720
01:37:42,560 --> 01:37:48,440
 And we also offer a variety of craft beer, artisan cheeses, specialty grocery items, and more.

1721
01:37:48,440 --> 01:37:57,600
 And then, in addition to that, we're also a full-service wine bar, well, wine, cocktails, and craft beer bar, right next door here to Lost Pizza.

1722
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:04,920
 So it's a great place to come with your friends, hang out, grab a cold glass of something that you like on the patio and enjoy.

1723
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:09,440
 Edward, isn't it amazing how much the Shoals has grown?

1724
01:38:09,820 --> 01:38:11,220
 UNA has been a leader.

1725
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 They've got a new stadium.

1726
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 They're building the excitement here.

1727
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,120
 Talk about your experience with the Shoals.

1728
01:38:19,180 --> 01:38:20,340
 It really is a neat place.

1729
01:38:20,580 --> 01:38:21,460
 I absolutely agree.

1730
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 I moved here about 14 years ago, so I'm not a native.

1731
01:38:25,820 --> 01:38:28,900
 And what I have seen in the last 14 years has really been impressive.

1732
01:38:29,900 --> 01:38:37,400
 The amount of people and excitement that has come with, let's say, UNA going D1 has brought its own excitement.

1733
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:42,660
 All the new construction happening on campus that's allowed for everything to grow.

1734
01:38:43,120 --> 01:38:45,140
 And then, of course, as you just mentioned, the new stadium.

1735
01:38:45,140 --> 01:38:50,380
 It's actually kind of in my backyard, so I can't wait to get this football season started.

1736
01:38:50,760 --> 01:38:53,460
 And what a beautiful stadium it has turned out to be.

1737
01:38:53,460 --> 01:39:00,180
 You know, the other thing, Caleb, about the Shoals, the businesses work together.

1738
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:08,320
 I know the Better Business Bureau, the Convention of Visitors Bureau, a lot of people just know each other.

1739
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:12,920
 Again, it's not so much a country town.

1740
01:39:13,060 --> 01:39:15,560
 Maybe they've outgrown that in some ways.

1741
01:39:15,560 --> 01:39:22,940
 But, you know, both of you work with businesses downtown in the Shoals and in North Alabama.

1742
01:39:23,460 --> 01:39:29,280
 I'll tell you one thing, Huntsville, and I moved here four years ago, and I see it every day now.

1743
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:31,800
 Talk about the growth you've seen in North Alabama.

1744
01:39:32,360 --> 01:39:32,600
 Sure.

1745
01:39:32,780 --> 01:39:35,900
 Well, I mean, going back to what you were saying about the businesses working together,

1746
01:39:36,020 --> 01:39:42,480
 it's so great to have a support network of good neighbors, just like our friends here at Lost Pizza.

1747
01:39:42,740 --> 01:39:45,700
 Chuck and Marcy couldn't be better folks or better neighbors.

1748
01:39:45,700 --> 01:39:52,380
 And it's so great to have a symbiotic relationship where we're both rooting for each other and wanting the whole area to grow.

1749
01:39:52,780 --> 01:39:56,900
 And that's something special that we've got compared to other neighboring towns.

1750
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 There is a sense of community spirit here where everybody's wanting the boats to rise with the tide.

1751
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:07,260
 UNA has been a huge driver of this, I'd say, through the last 10 years,

1752
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 specifically with their emphasis on growth and all the changes with D1.

1753
01:40:11,460 --> 01:40:23,220
 And it is interesting for me as a graduate of the University of North Alabama to see it today comp to what it was when I was there back in the 2008-2012 year range,

1754
01:40:23,320 --> 01:40:24,760
 where it was a great place to be.

1755
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:26,960
 It was exciting, and I loved my time as a Lion.

1756
01:40:27,640 --> 01:40:34,120
 But I think what the students today, and specifically as it relates to the athletic culture at UNA,

1757
01:40:34,260 --> 01:40:37,920
 what they are getting to experience now is a totally different league.

1758
01:40:38,020 --> 01:40:38,420
 Yes.

1759
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:39,440
 Intentionally.

1760
01:40:39,540 --> 01:40:43,580
 And I think that's exciting, and I can't wait to see what that does for us as a business,

1761
01:40:43,800 --> 01:40:50,480
 for Lost Pizza, for Rivertown and all of our friends around to continue to see that increased foot traffic in downtown and beyond.

1762
01:40:50,820 --> 01:40:51,400
 It's really exciting.

1763
01:40:51,700 --> 01:40:52,280
 Yeah, I agree.

1764
01:40:52,480 --> 01:40:59,440
 And to the credit of Downtown Florence Alliance has had a huge part to play in bringing us all together.

1765
01:41:00,100 --> 01:41:03,460
 Chris Stangle, who is the head of that, is an incredible guy to work with.

1766
01:41:03,780 --> 01:41:04,540
 He's always down.

1767
01:41:04,580 --> 01:41:05,400
 He's a yes man.

1768
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:09,360
 He wants to help out in any way that he can, in any way that Alliance can.

1769
01:41:09,740 --> 01:41:12,140
 And that's been huge for us, too, putting on events.

1770
01:41:12,140 --> 01:41:18,100
 I mean, Mobile Street, Mobile Plaza is closed almost every other weekend because there are events going on out here.

1771
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:23,480
 And how special that is that we all can benefit from that with our entertainment district,

1772
01:41:23,480 --> 01:41:28,660
 where we can, you know, sell a cold beverage and send people out onto the plaza to enjoy those events.

1773
01:41:29,460 --> 01:41:33,660
 And soon enough, we're tailgating, I think, all the way down on Pine Street to the Champions Plaza, right?

1774
01:41:33,820 --> 01:41:34,300
 That's right.

1775
01:41:34,460 --> 01:41:37,480
 So you'll be able to stop in at the carriage, load up for your tailgate,

1776
01:41:37,540 --> 01:41:39,920
 or just grab a to-go cup and walk on down to the stadium.

1777
01:41:40,120 --> 01:41:40,540
 It's exciting.

1778
01:41:40,540 --> 01:41:43,100
 That was my next question before I let you go.

1779
01:41:43,940 --> 01:41:52,060
 How do we, as far as getting online, looking at your inventory, what you sell, how do we get in touch with you guys?

1780
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:52,520
 Absolutely.

1781
01:41:52,760 --> 01:41:54,960
 So we are, everything we do is online.

1782
01:41:55,140 --> 01:41:57,340
 So you can visit carriagewine.com.

1783
01:41:57,420 --> 01:42:03,480
 That's C-A-R-R-I-A-G-E-W-I-N-E.com to visit, to check out everything that we're doing,

1784
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:06,300
 to see lifetime inventory of everything on our shelves.

1785
01:42:06,300 --> 01:42:12,420
 So you can go on there, click in advance, and we'll have it ready for you to pick up in 15 minutes, chilled and ready to go.

1786
01:42:12,820 --> 01:42:17,180
 We also do lots of free tasting events, weekly wine tastings every Monday.

1787
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:22,160
 You can sign up through our website there, or you can follow us on Instagram at the underscore carriage,

1788
01:42:22,420 --> 01:42:24,160
 and you'll see all the exciting things we're doing.

1789
01:42:24,380 --> 01:42:25,140
 Oh, that's incredible.

1790
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:28,400
 Tell us again at the online website.

1791
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:30,320
 carriagewine.com.

1792
01:42:30,860 --> 01:42:33,560
 By the way, you mentioned Chuck and Nancy McCarty.

1793
01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:34,660
 Aren't they incredible?

1794
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:36,120
 They're just the best.

1795
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:43,260
 All of the, all of the, what they do for UNA every day, but certainly for 93.9,

1796
01:42:43,380 --> 01:42:51,620
 but as far as helping the community, fundraisers, get-togethers, whatever the occasion is, they're incredible.

1797
01:42:52,020 --> 01:42:57,980
 Again, tell us where we can get, we got a moving audience, where can we get online and get all your good stuff?

1798
01:42:58,080 --> 01:43:01,940
 Yeah, carriagewine.com slash shop, and you can pick up anything you want.

1799
01:43:02,080 --> 01:43:06,000
 We got you covered there, and then I'll give you one other shameless plug before we have to go.

1800
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:13,220
 We are the founding sponsors of Florence Wine Fest, which is a huge community event that happens every February,

1801
01:43:13,220 --> 01:43:20,260
 And we are excited to be finalizing the plans for that right now, with tickets launching on November 15th to the public.

1802
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:21,220
 So stay tuned, so stay tuned.

1803
01:43:21,620 --> 01:43:25,320
 It's going to be an exciting time, and save the date for 2027.

1804
01:43:25,500 --> 01:43:30,660
 It's February 19th, 20th, and 21st, right here in the heart of downtown Florence.

1805
01:43:30,780 --> 01:43:32,100
 Very nice meeting both of you.

1806
01:43:32,100 --> 01:43:34,000
 Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you on there.

1807
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:36,720
 Look forward to working with you, and have a great weekend.

1808
01:43:37,060 --> 01:43:38,040
 Roar lions, right?

1809
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:39,060
 Roar lions, roar.

1810
01:43:39,500 --> 01:43:40,160
 Have a good one.

1811
01:43:40,300 --> 01:43:40,800
 Thank you so much.

1812
01:43:40,800 --> 01:43:41,560
 Thank you, guys.

1813
01:43:42,060 --> 01:43:46,680
 Edward Speaker, Caleb Banks, talking a little bit about the carriage winding market.

1814
01:43:47,260 --> 01:43:51,500
 When we come back, we'll be wrapping up UNA, talking about some special stuff,

1815
01:43:51,580 --> 01:43:55,800
 and get Benjamin Ray's thoughts, maybe even on the Atlanta Braves.

1816
01:43:55,900 --> 01:43:56,160
 Hey.

1817
01:43:56,380 --> 01:44:00,160
 Well, we return to the Boom O' Boat Show on 93.9, the score.

1818
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1819
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1820
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1821
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1822
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1823
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1825
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1831
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1832
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1833
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1834
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1835
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1836
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1837
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1838
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1839
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1840
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1841
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1844
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1845
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1846
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1847
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 Shohei Ohtani's interpreter was fired today.

1848
01:45:49,440 --> 01:45:54,380
 Ipe Mitsuhara ran up gambling debts to a Southern California bookmaking operation.

1849
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:59,140
 The inside story of the biggest scandal in modern baseball.

1850
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:02,060
 He was absolutely bananas the amount of bets he was making.

1851
01:46:02,240 --> 01:46:03,160
 I've never seen anything like it.

1852
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 From 30 for 30 Podcasts, this is The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani.

1853
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1854
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 Episodes 1 and 2 available now.

1855
01:46:13,300 --> 01:46:15,240
 Listen wherever you get podcasts.

1856
01:46:17,580 --> 01:46:21,500
 Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1857
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:27,180
 Boomo Bugg, Kirby Smart, the big dog in Georgia, at least when it comes to radio, is Bill Shanks.

1858
01:46:27,240 --> 01:46:28,720
 Who have you got on the show today?

1859
01:46:28,720 --> 01:46:33,080
 I know you're talking about trade, deadline, options, talking about Alabama,

1860
01:46:33,160 --> 01:46:35,160
 beating Georgia on October the 10th.

1861
01:46:35,180 --> 01:46:38,180
 Where can we get online and listen in this afternoon?

1862
01:46:38,740 --> 01:46:41,220
 Let me tell you, I have no guess whatsoever.

1863
01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:42,780
 I'm Rush Limbaugh.

1864
01:46:43,240 --> 01:46:44,820
 I'm open phone Friday.

1865
01:46:45,060 --> 01:46:49,840
 I have a rundown, and I might just have to recite and read the rundown over and over.

1866
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:50,840
 I have no clue.

1867
01:46:51,440 --> 01:46:52,840
 I've been working.

1868
01:46:53,180 --> 01:46:55,440
 I've had to do orders for a month's c***.

1869
01:46:55,580 --> 01:46:57,480
 I had to appear on this Penny Annie show.

1870
01:46:57,480 --> 01:46:59,640
 So I had all kinds of stuff to do.

1871
01:46:59,800 --> 01:47:02,640
 H***, I may be calling you two to go to the four block hours.

1872
01:47:02,860 --> 01:47:03,940
 It's all that come on my show.

1873
01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:07,120
 I mean, I have no freaking clue what I mean.

1874
01:47:07,140 --> 01:47:10,480
 I'm walking into a boardroom naked as a jaybird, not knowing what.

1875
01:47:10,640 --> 01:47:16,200
 So all you, all you, I'm going to take those five seconds from the Boomo Bugg show to call my show.

1876
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:16,880
 There you go.

1877
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:17,980
 The Boomo Bugg show.

1878
01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:20,900
 Weekdays, noon to two, on 93.9 The Score.

1879
01:47:21,780 --> 01:47:22,980
 The Score.

1880
01:47:23,420 --> 01:47:28,180
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1881
01:47:28,180 --> 01:47:33,980
 And welcome back into the Boomo Bugg show, the final segment for UNA Media Days.

1882
01:47:34,100 --> 01:47:35,220
 We have had a blast.

1883
01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:43,620
 Now, before we get to Mike Ezekiel and the voice of the UNA Lions, Katie McDonald is here representing Lost Pizza.

1884
01:47:44,340 --> 01:47:47,740
 There is not a better place in downtown Huntsville.

1885
01:47:47,920 --> 01:47:48,860
 Downtown Huntsville.

1886
01:47:48,940 --> 01:47:50,340
 Downtown Florence, Steve.

1887
01:47:50,420 --> 01:47:52,680
 You can tell I was raised in Huntsville.

1888
01:47:53,180 --> 01:47:59,660
 Talk about Lost Pizza and what you've got here and specials for UNA tailgating.

1889
01:48:00,180 --> 01:48:07,760
 Yeah, so we've been in Florence since February of 2022, and it just has not stopped growing ever since we've opened.

1890
01:48:07,940 --> 01:48:08,540
 It's been awesome.

1891
01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:11,280
 I've seen it all through the four and a half years that we've been here.

1892
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:12,520
 It's been so awesome.

1893
01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:17,380
 Lunch, dinner, Friday, first Fridays, second Saturdays, everything's always, always bumping around here.

1894
01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:20,920
 So for the fall, obviously, we've got the new stadium on Pine Street.

1895
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:29,440
 So we will be partnering even more with UNA, having some tailgating specials that we'll be able to deliver about every 30 minutes down to Pine Street.

1896
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:35,320
 We'll have kind of a mixture of wings and pizzas and other things that you'll be able to order, and we'll bring it straight over there to you.

1897
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:38,020
 Coach's show, tell us about it.

1898
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:43,060
 Right here at Lost Pizza, and I've got to tell you, I've been doing Coach's shows for 10-plus years.

1899
01:48:43,180 --> 01:48:45,820
 Lost Pizza does the best job of any Coach's shows.

1900
01:48:46,080 --> 01:48:48,500
 Mondays, 6 to 7, we can't wait to have everybody here.

1901
01:48:48,500 --> 01:48:51,660
 Coach's shows are always awesome, basketball, football, whatever's going on.

1902
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:55,380
 It always brings in a crowd, and it's super fun to have hosted here.

1903
01:48:55,620 --> 01:48:56,260
 So we love it.

1904
01:48:56,420 --> 01:49:06,340
 Now tell us, days open, hours, and I know a lot of people know this, but tell us again, as far as online, coming down here, location, et cetera.

1905
01:49:06,780 --> 01:49:11,880
 Yeah, so we are 201 North Seminary Street, right on the corner where the Shoals Theater is, across from the post office.

1906
01:49:11,880 --> 01:49:15,960
 We are open seven days a week, 11 to 9 every single day.

1907
01:49:17,300 --> 01:49:18,660
 Yeah, online is ordering.

1908
01:49:18,840 --> 01:49:20,540
 We've got online ordering straight through us.

1909
01:49:20,620 --> 01:49:21,360
 We use DoorDash.

1910
01:49:21,420 --> 01:49:22,260
 We use Uber Eats.

1911
01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:24,560
 I think Grubhub as well.

1912
01:49:24,700 --> 01:49:29,700
 So always plenty of options to come hang out, grab a pizza or two and some drinks and have fun.

1913
01:49:29,860 --> 01:49:31,840
 You just make it easy for us, don't you, Katie?

1914
01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:33,120
 It's always easy over here.

1915
01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:34,460
 Dear, thank you so much.

1916
01:49:34,580 --> 01:49:35,140
 Have a great week.

1917
01:49:35,220 --> 01:49:37,100
 Thank you for hosting us today, too.

1918
01:49:37,100 --> 01:49:38,200
 It's been so much fun as always.

1919
01:49:38,460 --> 01:49:38,860
 Absolutely.

1920
01:49:39,380 --> 01:49:41,300
 All right, you two, we're going to wrap it up.

1921
01:49:41,460 --> 01:49:42,820
 Mike on the mic.

1922
01:49:43,420 --> 01:49:45,300
 Where did you come up with that twiddle?

1923
01:49:46,200 --> 01:49:51,900
 This is Mike Ezekiel, the SID of UNA.

1924
01:49:52,220 --> 01:49:53,300
 Where did you come up with that?

1925
01:49:53,420 --> 01:49:54,680
 B.B., I have no idea.

1926
01:49:54,860 --> 01:49:56,840
 I mean, it happened probably 15 years ago.

1927
01:49:56,960 --> 01:50:02,980
 And I think somebody at UNA, maybe somebody I worked with or a student, was like, hey, there's Mike on the mic.

1928
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:04,260
 I was like, I don't like that.

1929
01:50:04,300 --> 01:50:05,140
 I'm going to steal that.

1930
01:50:05,200 --> 01:50:06,480
 I'm going to make that my Twitter handle.

1931
01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:08,380
 And MIC was taken.

1932
01:50:08,540 --> 01:50:11,280
 So I took Mike on the M-I-K, Mike on the mic.

1933
01:50:11,360 --> 01:50:15,500
 And then it's kind of become like a, hey, let's do a mic'd up with Mike Ezekiel segment.

1934
01:50:15,740 --> 01:50:16,680
 It's been a lot of fun.

1935
01:50:17,160 --> 01:50:18,280
 Summarize the day for us.

1936
01:50:18,440 --> 01:50:19,440
 Oh, it's been a lot of fun.

1937
01:50:19,480 --> 01:50:23,400
 This is one of my favorite events of the year, B.B., first of all, because you get to be here with 93.9 The Score.

1938
01:50:23,400 --> 01:50:27,540
 And you guys do a tremendous job of talking to our student athletes and coaches.

1939
01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:29,620
 But Lost Pizza, also a tremendous host.

1940
01:50:29,900 --> 01:50:36,280
 And we have a lot of local media come out from Huntsville, our TV stations, WAFF, and Fox 64, we're here today.

1941
01:50:36,460 --> 01:50:41,360
 And AL.com came out today, Thomas Ashworth, Matt St. Charles from Times Daily was here.

1942
01:50:41,540 --> 01:50:45,080
 And just our local media coming out, talking to our athletes and coaches.

1943
01:50:45,380 --> 01:50:50,780
 And, of course, we do a show with the Royal Lions Productions, which is something Ben has really taken on this year.

1944
01:50:50,780 --> 01:50:55,440
 And it's just a special day for our community and our media to interact with our teams.

1945
01:50:55,700 --> 01:51:00,320
 Let me ask you both, and we talked about this when we had you on the show a couple weeks ago,

1946
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:04,080
 varsity network for all the sports, YouTube.

1947
01:51:05,080 --> 01:51:10,800
 In a lot of ways, you're trendsetters as far as now the way the media is going.

1948
01:51:10,940 --> 01:51:18,760
 Talk about both of you, what you and Abe, when we get into the actual games, coaching show, et cetera, where can we find it?

1949
01:51:18,920 --> 01:51:21,620
 Yeah, you're going to be able to find everything on your phone.

1950
01:51:21,740 --> 01:51:23,040
 And that's what we wanted to accomplish.

1951
01:51:23,160 --> 01:51:24,400
 We wanted to be where people are.

1952
01:51:24,500 --> 01:51:27,680
 You spend so much time scrolling social media, Facebook, Instagram.

1953
01:51:28,180 --> 01:51:30,340
 So let's be where the people are, right?

1954
01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:35,460
 And then for traditional radio listeners, we're on the varsity network app as well, which is easy to download.

1955
01:51:35,460 --> 01:51:39,520
 It's the home of any college football game out there, any athletic event.

1956
01:51:39,620 --> 01:51:40,960
 You're going to be able to hear it right there.

1957
01:51:41,060 --> 01:51:49,400
 But our Royal Lions Productions, we launched it last year, had over 300,000 total views across all the platforms combined for everything we did.

1958
01:51:49,480 --> 01:51:50,880
 So we're very pleased with those numbers.

1959
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:53,000
 We feel like it's something that we're going to be able to grow.

1960
01:51:53,500 --> 01:52:00,340
 You see Mike and I on air a lot on that, but behind the scenes, Braden Rogers, Grant Wakefield, they do a lot of driving the ship.

1961
01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:02,000
 And they do a phenomenal job.

1962
01:52:02,360 --> 01:52:05,240
 Those young kids, they are so tech savvy.

1963
01:52:05,380 --> 01:52:07,620
 I just said, hey, guys, can we do this?

1964
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:08,460
 They said, yeah.

1965
01:52:08,540 --> 01:52:09,560
 And I said, cool.

1966
01:52:09,660 --> 01:52:10,600
 And then I got out of the way.

1967
01:52:10,600 --> 01:52:12,540
 Next thing I know, we're on Twitch.

1968
01:52:12,960 --> 01:52:14,280
 I don't know what Twitch is.

1969
01:52:14,580 --> 01:52:15,720
 I've had a Twitch.

1970
01:52:15,880 --> 01:52:16,720
 You tell me.

1971
01:52:16,760 --> 01:52:18,740
 You tell me, Mike.

1972
01:52:18,880 --> 01:52:19,960
 Mike, you tell me.

1973
01:52:20,000 --> 01:52:22,840
 But they tell me you can catch our games on Twitch now.

1974
01:52:22,900 --> 01:52:24,280
 And I always laugh at that.

1975
01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:33,340
 It is amazing at how UNA has grown in the athletic department, academically, everything else.

1976
01:52:33,820 --> 01:52:37,020
 I know you're incredibly excited about the upcoming seasons.

1977
01:52:37,340 --> 01:52:41,260
 Talk a little bit about the buzz, the momentum, the excitement.

1978
01:52:41,520 --> 01:52:47,540
 Well, in the press conference earlier, I think there were three things that I really hit on that I think are so important for this 2026-27 season.

1979
01:52:47,660 --> 01:52:49,560
 I'd say the first one is Bank of Independence Stadium.

1980
01:52:49,980 --> 01:52:50,940
 I know you've heard a lot about it.

1981
01:52:50,980 --> 01:52:52,940
 September 19th, the grand opening for football.

1982
01:52:53,380 --> 01:52:54,860
 October, soccer will be playing there.

1983
01:52:54,940 --> 01:52:59,100
 And I think it instantly becomes maybe the best soccer environment in the nation for Division I.

1984
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:01,880
 I mean, it's going to be tremendous playing in that stadium for them.

1985
01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:04,720
 Football, it's obviously going to be one of the top in FCS.

1986
01:53:06,140 --> 01:53:08,060
 Number two, I'd say adding new sports.

1987
01:53:08,180 --> 01:53:10,900
 I mean, that's going to be exciting with women's flag football coming online.

1988
01:53:10,900 --> 01:53:11,640
 Absolutely, yes.

1989
01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:14,540
 You've got men's and women's track expanding that cross-country program.

1990
01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:15,660
 I think that's so important.

1991
01:53:16,280 --> 01:53:18,000
 And number three, what was my third one, Ben?

1992
01:53:18,160 --> 01:53:19,500
 Oh, the move to the UAC.

1993
01:53:19,980 --> 01:53:20,960
 I think that's a big one.

1994
01:53:21,380 --> 01:53:24,840
 Just this conference and how special it's going to be, adding Little Rock.

1995
01:53:25,380 --> 01:53:31,500
 Even in football, renewing a rivalry with West Florida, Abilene Christian and Tarleton coming in for other sports.

1996
01:53:31,680 --> 01:53:34,080
 And those were D2 teams that we played back in the day, too.

1997
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:36,680
 So, very excited for the UAC as well.

1998
01:53:37,440 --> 01:53:46,080
 Again, if you want to donate, ticket information, game information, the whole nine yards, where do we go?

1999
01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:46,820
 Go online.

2000
01:53:47,020 --> 01:53:54,440
 I'd say roarlines.com, and you could just surf everywhere and find your inside athletics, go to tickets, get those season tickets for sure.

2001
01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:59,680
 And then, as far as donations, una.edu, and you could probably find it on there somewhere.

2002
01:53:59,940 --> 01:54:02,840
 But you've got a lot of momentum going on at UNA right now.

2003
01:54:02,900 --> 01:54:03,840
 Just so much excitement.

2004
01:54:03,840 --> 01:54:04,560
 We're growing.

2005
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:09,400
 BB, when I was in school about 10, 15 years ago, our enrollment was about 7,000.

2006
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:10,840
 Now we're at about 11, too.

2007
01:54:11,120 --> 01:54:11,520
 Incredible.

2008
01:54:11,660 --> 01:54:15,940
 I mean, it's grown every single year, and people love UNA, and this community supports it.

2009
01:54:16,580 --> 01:54:26,460
 This has been a vision that a lot of people saw back in the 70s and 80s that is now coming to fruition, and I know y'all enjoy being a part of it.

2010
01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:30,820
 Thank you for letting me come in here with you two characters.

2011
01:54:31,760 --> 01:54:32,960
 Have a great season.

2012
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:34,900
 We'll be talking from time to time.

2013
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:38,340
 Thank you for having co-host this with me today.

2014
01:54:38,460 --> 01:54:39,700
 Hey, it's always the highlight.

2015
01:54:39,820 --> 01:54:41,120
 I appreciate you having me, BB.

2016
01:54:41,120 --> 01:54:48,360
 And, hey, we appreciate you and Harold and what you do for this community with sports and how you guys embrace UNA and all of our coaches.

2017
01:54:48,580 --> 01:54:51,400
 I know Coach Dierman jokes, hey, I'll talk to you on Wednesday.

2018
01:54:51,740 --> 01:54:56,780
 But we love the coverage you guys give us, and at all the media here, we've got great media.

2019
01:54:56,920 --> 01:54:58,460
 We're very fortunate, UNA.

2020
01:54:58,660 --> 01:55:05,980
 A lot of our peer schools don't have this, and so we are super appreciative of the likes of you, Bo Carter, everybody that Mike rattled off.

2021
01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:09,320
 But you guys do great coverage of us, and we're very appreciative of that.

2022
01:55:09,360 --> 01:55:11,620
 Our pleasure for doing that.

2023
01:55:11,720 --> 01:55:12,660
 Been a great show.

2024
01:55:12,760 --> 01:55:13,800
 Been a lot of fun.

2025
01:55:14,400 --> 01:55:16,280
 Boomo Bugg will be back tomorrow.

2026
01:55:16,440 --> 01:55:24,580
 We've got Paul Feinbaum coming up, and I appreciate James Moody doing an absolute great job once again producing the show.

2027
01:55:25,020 --> 01:55:28,640
 That's going to do it for today for James, Greg, Harold, and Blair.

2028
01:55:29,300 --> 01:55:30,280
 Have a great day.

2029
01:55:30,380 --> 01:55:32,440
 Paul Feinbaum coming up next.