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 It's time for the 93.9 The Score High School Coaches Breakfast. The Coaches Breakfast on 93.9 The Score is brought to you by Lost Pizza, John C. Saylor Attorney at Law, The Courier Journal, Miller's Place, North Alabama Boney Joint Clinic, Southern Pride Pest Control and Bank Independent. Now live from the North Alabama Boney Joint Clinic, here's your host, Kevin Johnson.

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 Top of the morning to you here in the show's area. Another hot one to end up September as we get to the mid of September. Man, it's been hot to be such a month. It's the hottest month of September we've ever had.

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 But thankfully we've had good weather for Friday night football other than the heat and a lot of games have been able to be played as we have now hit for what I call the midway point this week and next week.

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 There's 11 weeks to play 10. Many teams already have five games under the belt. Some have four under the belt.

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 But we're basically at the halfway point starting this week through next week and then hit the backstretch starting up in October.

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 So a lot of great games played last night and we want to look at a lot of the scores, find out what happened and talk to a lot of the coaches.

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 A lot of them here today already as well.

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 But I want to say things that KJ saw last night in high school football.

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 First of all, before I forget, new stadium. New stadium. Congratulations.

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 I'm sorry, I am going to congratulate the University of North Alabama in a few minutes, but I'm not talking to you right now.

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 How about congratulations to a new stadium that was a high school stadium that was christened last night.

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 Down in Clay Chalkville, the Cougars, the number one team, I think, possibly in class 5A, the Cougars opened up a brand new stadium.

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 If you've ever been to their old stadium, Jerry Hood Field, the longtime coach there, good friend.

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 It's just it was a great stadium, but it was just really tight.

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 It was a tight fit into the school system around the school campus and the sidelines were tight.

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 The bleachers were tight. They needed a new stadium and they've got one and it is great.

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 And they opened it up last night. They get a big win over Oxford and they flexed their muscles and say,

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 if you're going to win class 5A, it's going to come through Clay Chalkville.

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 No doubt about that, as they beat a really good Oxford team going away.

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 And they made sure that first game at Clay Chalkville's new stadium was a victory.

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 So congratulations to the Cougars on their new stadium.

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 And they're still having a great season in the win last night.

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 Speaking of first wins, first wins last night.

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 That's the second thing.

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 How about those Sheffield Bulldogs that I hear you Bulldogs barking a little bit for me?

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 That's right.

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 Because you got your first win last night as you knock off Winston County.

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 Congratulations to the Bulldogs on the big win on the road as well.

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 And then also those Waterloo Cougars got the first win of the season.

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 Man, it's great that these kids get to taste victory.

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 First three or four games maybe didn't go their way, but last night was their night.

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 They're still celebrating in Waterloo and Sheffield.

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 Congratulations on the first wins of the season.

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 And may you have many more before the year is over.

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 All right.

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 The third thing KJ saw in high school football, I need to be a little personal for a moment.

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 I love the sports writers of Alabama.

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 Ben Thomas from South Alabama is one of the best in the business.

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 We have great ones up here in Times Daily, Decatur Daily.

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 Those guys are great.

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 But I need the rest of the sports writers from the state of Alabama.

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 Would you pull up a chair and come a little closer?

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 I need to have a conversation with you for a minute.

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 I don't know if you watched on SEC Network, Sports Writers of Alabama,

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 but there was a great show on this past week on True South.

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 And it was a focus on the Shoals.

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 True South came and did a 30-minute segment on the Shoals and what it meant.

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 It was a great segment here in northwest Alabama.

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 And the reason I want you to make sure that you watch that,

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 because I'm not sure that you remember that northwest Alabama is a part of Alabama.

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 Because I've looked at the state rankings,

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 and I don't see anybody from northwest Alabama in the top ten.

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 Nobody.

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 And I'm going to give you a couple of rundowns of some teams

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 that have perfect season so far, and they're not even ranked.

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 First of all, let's go to Lauderdale County in itself.

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 Four teams from the county of Lauderdale County still with perfect records.

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 Central Wildcats, not ranked.

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 Rogers Pirates, not ranked.

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 Lexington Golden Bears, 2A, not ranked.

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 Florence Falcons, class 5A, not even close to it.

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 And you go over, get this one.

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 One of the best teams maybe around right now is the Hatton Hornets.

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 They are stinging people, and they're not even sniffing the top ten.

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 I just want to tell the sports writers,

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 hey, the football may have been down at times in northwest Alabama,

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 but just because it was down in the past don't mean it's down in the present.

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 I encourage you, maybe take a little look at the northwest Alabama

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 and see if some of these teams don't deserve to possibly be ranked

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 in the top ten in the future.

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 So that was just a couple of things I saw from high school football last week,

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 and I hope it helps you out as well.

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 Let's look at some scores from last night's games

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 and even starting Thursday night when A-Rab and Columbia met over at Wig Stadium.

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 A-Rab comes away with a 34-12 win.

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 James Clemens was better than Grissom, 48-14,

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 and Briarwood flexed their muscles in private school AA,

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 knocking off Matt Academy as Madison Academy falls 49-14.

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 Class 6A last night, Bob Jones with a back-and-forth win.

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 They went back-and-forth with Buckhorn, win at 31-21.

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 Other scores of interest there, maybe also trying to find a couple here.

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 Prattville last night, 63 to Hewitt Trustville, 30.

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 Folks, the Prattville lines are back.

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 Now, everybody's talking about Thompson as the team to beat,

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 and nobody's going to touch them as they won 62-7 last night.

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 They might be a team that might give Thompson a little fit before the year's over.

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 Spartan beat Huntsville last night, 21-7.

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 Class 5A, Austin had a shootout with Athens last night.

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 They win at 46-39.

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 Boaz over Lee of Huntsville, 52-6.

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 Douglas over Albertville, 29-26.

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 And the game hurt on 93-9 to score.

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 Florence Falcons knock off Decatur, 34-16.

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 Big win for Kenny Marson.

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 The Falcons who go to 5-0 on the season.

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 Huffman slips by Cullman, 28-14.

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 Fort Payne falls to Mae Jemison, 26-14.

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 The quarterback at Mae Jemison had a tremendous game last night.

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 So, tremendous victory for Mae Jemison on the road at Fort Payne.

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 Other scores of interest from Class 5A.

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 By the way, Pell City knocked off St. Clair County, 36-35.

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 That was one of the best games of the night.

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 Pell City wins that one.

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 That's two really good teams.

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 That region down there is loaded, no doubt about it.

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 The Russellville Golden Tigers all over East Limestone, 49-14 last night.

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 Class 4A, catch a couple of scores from the local area as well in Class 4A if we can.

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 Deschler gets a big win last night, scoring 21 or 31 points in the second half.

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 They were up 20-7, they scored 31 in the second half and win it 51-7 over Priceful.

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 Brooks falls to Hamilton, 41-20 last night.

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 Other scores from Class 4A of interest, maybe a little bit.

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 Northside all over Jemison, 69-19.

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 West Morgan, big win last night over Lawrence County, 49-14.

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 Class 3A scores Venture Central all over Elkmont last night, put up a 60 spot, 60-13.

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 And a big homecoming win for the Wildcats.

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 East Lawrence, 35, Haleville, 13.

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 Fayette County knocked off Danville last night, 50-0.

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 Also, Lauderdale County, big win over West Limestone, 41-14.

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 Catch a few of these as we go down our list.

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 Carboard Heights falls to Rodgers, 48-24.

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 Wilson Warriors, sneaking around, playing good football.

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 I love their defense especially, but last night the offense got cranked up.

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 They win it 63-6 over Clements.

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 Class 2A, scores from the 2A division, faultful over Tanner, 8-7.

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 One of the better games played in North Alabama last night.

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 Faultful wins that.

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 Otter knocked off North Sand Mountain, 50-34.

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 Class 2A, Lexington shuts out J.B. Pennington, 49-0.

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 The Bobcats come out with a big win over the Indians, 34-26.

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 Winston County falls to Sheffield.

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 As I said, the Bulldogs' first win of the season, 20-10.

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 Knocking off Winston County.

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 Class 1A, catch these right here.

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 Looking at a few of these, we've got Addison knocking off Meek, 56-6.

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 Hackelberg over Belgrin, 56-13.

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 Brilliant fell to Lynn, 54-0.

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 Cherokee couldn't get to Red Bay.

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 It's Red Bay wins that one, 56-14.

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 And as I said, Waterloo last night with a big win over Phillips, 41-0.

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 By the way, Mars Hill with a big win last night in Class A as they knocked off Coosa Christian, 41-14.

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 We're going to have some coaches coming up talking about Friday night's games, getting ready and get set.

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 By the way, we do want to say, before we go to break, hey, what a day it is for the University of North Alabama.

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 Congratulations to them on opening up their new stadium, the first time to ever play on campus.

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 And best of luck to Brent Dierman and the Lions as they come out against Alcorn State today.

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 It is going to be festive, electric.

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 If you're in the area, I'd say avoid Pine Street.

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 I think it's already shut down about now, just about.

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 So they'll have all of Pine Street and Florence will be a tailgating area right in front of the stadium.

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 And also, just another note, if you're in North Alabama today, remember, it's the Trail of Tears Day.

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 So be careful traveling out there.

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 Turn your headlights on and watch out for that.

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 Coaches around the state are going to be talking to us, especially in the Northwest Alabama area.

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 Welcome back to the Coach's Breakfast here on 93.9 The Score.

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 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you as the host of one of the great traditions in the Shoals area on Saturday mornings in the fall, the Coach's Breakfast.

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 Let's hope you're getting ready for a great day and getting prepared for a lot of college football as well.

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 But let's talk about high school football from last night because it was a lot of great games played, including the Russell Golden Tigers going on the road last night, getting a big win over East Limestone 49-14.

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 We're joined by the head coach of the Golden Tigers, Coach Daryl Higgins.

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 And Coach, any time you go on the road in what region play and you come out with a big win, that always feels good.

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 We're trying to get into the playoff somehow, and as our second region win, we're very excited about it.

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 You know, that's a funny thing to say because we're midway season, but you do start to position and jockey and look and say, okay, we've got to take care of business.

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 It's a business-like approach every week.

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 We're trying to get better, just keep improving every week, playing good football, and last night we did a good job.

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 How did your team start off the game last night?

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 Did they get off to a pretty good start?

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 Started out fast, both sides of the ball, special teams.

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 We've been looking forward to getting out and playing after having a loss last week, wanted to get that taste out of our mouth and get back on the winning side.

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 Let's talk about that for a minute, and I mean this in the right way.

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 It's always, you find out a lot about your team coming off a loss as much as you do coming off a win.

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 What did you find out about your team this week?

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 They did a great job responding.

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 It's easy when you're winning and come back out, have a great week.

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 You've got all the momentum.

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 When you lose a game, you've got to dig deep and find out what you're made out of, and I was really proud of our guys this week.

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 Golden Tigers go to 4-1 on the season 2-1 in 5A Region 7 as they knock off the Indians last night.

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 I know a lot of different guys played well.

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 You've got one sneaking up on you here.

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 I want you to say hello to you there.

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 Your good friend Kenny Marson coming in here.

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 Last night, who played well for you early in the game?

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 And again, just to find out who had the big game maybe.

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 Our quarterback, Tripp Cleveland, come out on fire.

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 He threw a big first down, his third down.

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 He made a big throw in case with Darren Jones to get his first down.

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 They ended up hitting Jones on a deep post for a touchdown.

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 And he threw four touchdown passes on the night.

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 Darren Jones had a big night.

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 It was a good night for us.

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 Let's talk about this quarterback, Tripp Cleveland, for a minute.

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 Because he didn't play high school football until you arrived.

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 I want to know the story.

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 How did you find out about him?

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 And when did you encounter him?

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 And how did you talk him into coming out for football?

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 It was kind of like trying to get a date with a girl that you really like.

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 I had to game plan it.

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 Think about it.

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 He was in baseball when I got there.

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 Didn't really want to talk about it.

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 Said talk to me after the season's over.

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 Did you start going to baseball schemes?

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 Oh, yeah.

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 I was at the baseball.

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 I was following him around.

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 Kind of waving at him every time we'd go by.

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 Cheering for him.

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 I love it.

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 That's true, though.

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 You have to recruit with your own school and find the athletes and say,

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 hey, you can make a difference for us.

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 And obviously, what did you see in just the athleticism as a baseball player?

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 Well, he had played football when he was younger.

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 He just didn't play the year before.

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 And I'd heard a lot about him.

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 And he was a tremendous baseball player.

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 Just the kind of person we need to have a chance to win some games.

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 He made us a lot better.

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 All right.

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 So, you get a win last night.

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 Your defense played well last night as well.

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 Any defensive scores or anything like that?

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 Well, we actually did.

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 We had a scoop and score.

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 Zade Hester picked the ball up.

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 And he is very fast.

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 And when he got it, he kind of looked back behind him

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 and just left everybody out there.

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 It was a huge play for our defense.

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 And then another play for our defense is we turned the ball over,

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 fumbled in our own territory, and our defense went out there

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 instead of dropping their heads.

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 And they went out excited to get to go play defense

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 and Kiefer Hallmark came up with a big interception,

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 got the ball right back to us.

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 That is a big momentum change in any game.

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 But that pays dividends down the road, doesn't it?

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 That's big.

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 Even though it happened in a game that was more in control,

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 when you see your defense do it like that,

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 now you can come back to that game and say, guys, remember.

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 It's so much mental in how you think about things.

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 Instead of, oh, me, we fumbled the ball.

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 Now we've got to go out here.

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 Instead of going, we get to go play defense.

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 Let's go away out and make a play.

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 Speaking with Daryl Higgins of the Russell Golden Tigers,

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 whose team wins last night over East Limestone 49-14.

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 And with much respect and all to East Limestone,

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 they've had a tough time, maybe in the 5A starting off here,

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 so they're against a really tough region.

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 Is it tough to get your team prepared for a game like that

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 when you look at the family and realize, hey, we see their scores,

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 we see our record?

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 Is it tough to get your team ready for a game like that?

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 I don't think so.

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 I think if you're a competitor and you practice all week,

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 you want to go play the game.

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 And if you're not ready to play, something's wrong with you.

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 That's well said.

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 It's about the standard that you set, and that's what you're saying.

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 And I think that's why you're such a great coach

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 and do a great job there.

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 Let's talk about who you have coming up next week and where.

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 Coosa Christian at Coosa.

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 They're a private school.

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 A lot of those really good players left Coosa

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 when they made the announcement that they were going to be

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 in the small private school division, and they're having a really tough season.

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 But it's the next game on our schedule, and we've got to get ready to play.

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 You'd originally set that up, though, because of the test they were going to provide

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 playing against a school like that.

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 You know, that's the thing that people don't understand.

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 You may schedule somebody thinking, this is going to be exactly what we need,

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 but it may not play out that way always.

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 They were defending state champions, had four-star running back,

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 had a big-time quarterback, had a lot of other players.

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 And for whatever reason, they left, and now that team's just having a tough time.

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 But you go on the road.

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 That's in Gadsden, right?

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 Is that correct?

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 That's a long trip.

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 Do you adjust your schedule this week a little bit because of that?

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 We do.

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 We'll leave at 1 o'clock, and we'll go to Gadsden.

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 We'll eat us a good meal, go over to Westbrook Christian,

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 do a walkthrough with their school, and then go over to Coosa a little bit later.

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 Now, do you do the game-op stuff on getting to the restaurants and things like that,

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 or do you let somebody else help with that?

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 I set it up this week.

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 You did?

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 Okay.

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 All right.

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 Well, I've got to ask them, do you know where the meal is, what the restaurant is yet?

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 Yeah, it's going to be at Texas Roadhouse, I think.

319
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 Okay, Coach, listen, I need to ride with you next week.

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 Texas Roadhouse, I'll go for a free meal.

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 That's pretty good right there, man.

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 Yeah, absolutely.

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 Feed those kids.

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 That'll be good.

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 Well, I think your team deserve it the way they've played so far.

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 By the way, kudos to, again, the Golden Tiger crowd.

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 They have one of the best crowds I've seen so far this year.

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 I'm sure they traveled well last night as well.

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 They're amazing, and our band is like nothing I've ever heard.

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 They were right behind us at East Limestone, and, I mean, it makes a difference.

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 I love the band.

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 At Mars Hill, the time we had all our kids do everything, we didn't have a lot of numbers left for the band.

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 I've been at Dave Stewart all those years, and we had a great band.

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 I really miss that the band is such a part of the Friday night experience, and ours brings it like nothing I've ever heard.

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 Well, they call it the Marching 100 for a reason.

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 There's a lot of them in it, and there's a lot of kids up there.

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 So, a great band, great atmosphere, great high school football atmosphere.

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 And, again, next week, Russellville on the road.

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 You're playing 10 straight in the season, so you go on the road next week.

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 Non-region opponent, getting ready to take on Kusa Christian.

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 Should be a good matchup.

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 By the way, UAB play today?

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 They play today, and Hudson is supposed to be one of the deep guys on kickoff return, so I'm really excited.

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 He might get to catch a ball and run with it a little bit.

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 Well, we know what he can do with it.

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 Best of luck to him as well.

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 Daryl Higgins, good to have you tonight, okay?

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 Thank you.

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 The head coach of the Russellville Golden Tigers, whose team goes to 4-1 on the season, getting ready for Kusa Christian coming up next week.

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 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you today and getting ready for a great day of college football.

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 Don't forget Alabama, Crimson Tide football, Florida State coming to town.

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 You think the Crimson Tide remembers that one from last year?

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 Oh, payback's not going to be fun for the Seminoles as they come to Bryant-Denny.

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 11.30 a.m. pregame, 2.30 kickoff of the Crimson Tide and the Seminoles should be a great one today, that is for sure.

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 And you'll hear it right here on 93.9 The Score.

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 Joined now by the head coach of the Destro Tigers, Coach Patrick Malone,

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 whose team last night celebrated homecoming, region win, got it all wrapped up in one,

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 and did it in a big way, winning at 51.7 over Priceville.

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 And Coach, breathe a little bit.

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 Homecoming's behind you now, right?

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 It is.

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 It was a fun week, a lot of activities, and a homecoming week.

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 And, you know, all week we just stress, focus, focus, focus.

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 But it was a great, great, great night.

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 We have a Tuscumia Education Foundation that their purpose is to provide grants for our teachers

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 throughout the district, and they put on a big tailgate event, and it's unbelievable.

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 And, you know, I've got to give a lot of credit to our administration for the things that go on in homecoming.

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 I look at our band, Chad Kenton's our band director, Ms. Amberley Westmoreland's our drum major,

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 and I'm just telling you, they had a pep rally at 1130.

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 Then they're in a parade when it's 100 degrees, and then they're doing a pregame show,

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 and then they're there throughout the whole game.

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 What people see is just a small snippet of what they do, so very appreciative of them.

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 And then our cheer squad, they're doing the same thing.

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 They work tirelessly, and I got to know those girls in the spring pretty well.

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 They were starting to do some workouts, and gosh almighty, they're extremely athletic.

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 They work unbelievably hard at what they do.

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 They're probably the hardest working program that we have at Dexter.

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 I think they get two weeks off all year, but they're doing great.

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 Jordan Fleming's our cheer coach.

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 They've got three seniors this year that they're doing a great job.

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 Sway Baines, Justice Davis, and then Ella Hogan.

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 And Ella Hogan was our homecoming queen, so she's a great representative of Dexter.

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 Very proud to have gotten to know her, and it comes from a great family.

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 I know they're very proud of her.

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 So it was a busy week.

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 Flag football got first region win.

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 Volleyball had a big area win.

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 Just a great week for Dexter.

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 Head coach Patrick Malone, I'm going to tell you what,

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 that's about the best PR of Dexter High School I've served in a long time.

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 Man, you went down the list.

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 Cheerleaders, band, homecoming queen, flag football.

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 A lot of great things happened.

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 But, you know, it is important for the head coach, I feel like,

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 to be connected to more than just the football team.

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 Talk about the importance of that.

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 That's what you're saying.

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 All right, well, I think it starts at the top with your superintendent.

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 Your superintendent shares the vision, relays the vision.

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 We've got great coaches, top to bottom, in every single sport.

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 And they're all proud to wear the Dexter jersey.

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 They're all proud to represent Dexter in a positive way.

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 And they send that same message to the kids.

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 And that's what makes Dexter so special.

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 73% of our student body are involved in athletics.

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 And that number has been like that for the last 30, 40 years.

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 And so, you know, when you've got a homecoming event, you know, it all, it's just cyclical.

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 Great pep rally, you know, class coming back, 20-year reunion.

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 You know, and I'm starting to go, okay, I remember them.

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 I remember that name.

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 You know, things like that.

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 And it is great, but, you know, we've got four schools in our district,

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 and all four building principals do a great job of getting everybody fired up

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 for whatever event's going on at the time.

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 But it's all for Dexter and supporting our athletes.

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 The Tigers are 4-1 on the season, 3-0 in class 4A region 7

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 with the win over the Bulldogs last night of Priceville.

433
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 And, Coach, it was a 20-7 game, and in the second half,

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 you really took it up with the offense.

435
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 By the way, get these stats.

436
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 You had 579 yards offense last night.

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 Bryson Williams had, I believe, almost over 400 yards alone in offense last night.

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 Quite a game.

439
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 Very proud of our entire team.

440
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 Very proud.

441
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 You put 51 points up.

442
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 That's quite an achievement.

443
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 And Priceville's a good football team.

444
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 Yes.

445
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 I think they're going to be a playoff football team.

446
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 Very proud of our offense.

447
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:32,520
 I think our defense played probably their best football game.

448
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 Very proud of our defensive coaches, our defensive players,

449
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 for the game plan they put together.

450
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 We gave up a touchdown early on.

451
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 I guess fourth drive.

452
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 Maybe third drive, I'm sorry.

453
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 But we start off the game with two back-to-back three and outs.

454
00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:54,440
 And we label three back-to-back, or three and outs in a row as kills.

455
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,560
 And if you get a kill in a game for us, you're talking about the way our offense is playing.

456
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,240
 That's going to be seven or 14 or maybe even 21 points that are going to be unaccounted for.

457
00:25:04,740 --> 00:25:05,900
 So we stress that.

458
00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:14,240
 Our defense coaches do a phenomenal job of getting our guys situational aware of each play.

459
00:25:14,780 --> 00:25:18,600
 You know, people don't realize they see the score and go, oh, that offense from Desher's clicking.

460
00:25:18,740 --> 00:25:20,220
 And I'm glad you focused on the defense.

461
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,520
 Because when a defense does their job, it means time of possession is much more in favor of that offense.

462
00:25:25,780 --> 00:25:26,140
 Absolutely.

463
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:31,000
 You know, it's not a one-man show.

464
00:25:31,940 --> 00:25:35,320
 If offense is struggling, defense understands what it's got to do and vice versa.

465
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,920
 And so there's times where offensively we want to control the football.

466
00:25:39,060 --> 00:25:40,600
 Defense comes off after a long drive.

467
00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:42,980
 Or defensively, hey, our offense is clicking.

468
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:43,640
 Let's go out there.

469
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,200
 We may take a shot on a blitz to try to get them behind the sticks.

470
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:57,640
 And I think both Lake Spurgeon and Jeffrey Woods work just hand-in-hand at doing a really good job of kind of helping each other along the way.

471
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,280
 And our practices are like that.

472
00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:02,080
 You know, we get after each other in practice a good bit.

473
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,320
 And I think our players feed off that.

474
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,920
 And it's that whole we-not-me mindset that we have at Desher's.

475
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,680
 So very proud of all our guys last night.

476
00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:13,520
 Got a lot of guys in the game.

477
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:14,840
 Got some guys some touches.

478
00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:18,040
 Had a freshman get a touchdown last night in Tyron Bland.

479
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,760
 Excited to see him grow and develop.

480
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,160
 But, again, I just lean on that offensive line offensively.

481
00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:27,420
 You know, I think we struggled early on running the ball.

482
00:26:27,820 --> 00:26:31,600
 And then offensive line coach, Coach Spears, challenged him at half.

483
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,320
 And I think we opened up some things up.

484
00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:37,300
 But a very, very good game for us last night.

485
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,480
 Very good win as far as the region goes.

486
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,380
 It's homecoming.

487
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:41,360
 You're right.

488
00:26:41,420 --> 00:26:44,500
 We can breathe a little bit now that that's over.

489
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,660
 But, you know, yeah.

490
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:47,920
 Good win for us.

491
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:48,920
 I like the side there.

492
00:26:48,980 --> 00:26:49,700
 That was honest, Coach.

493
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:50,820
 You know, close enough.

494
00:26:50,860 --> 00:26:51,540
 We can talk about that.

495
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,280
 You know, one of the things, I speak with Desher coach Patrick Malone.

496
00:26:54,580 --> 00:27:01,180
 One of the things I also think about in this whole aspect of the game for Desher is you had close games a lot this season.

497
00:27:01,180 --> 00:27:02,820
 You had a close loss to Russell.

498
00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:04,440
 You had a great win against Hamilton.

499
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,920
 Last night was the first time maybe that team could have just let their hair down and play.

500
00:27:09,020 --> 00:27:10,620
 And I had to worry about, hey, this is tight.

501
00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:17,380
 The close games and the tight games early on, that helps you now in games like that last night where you grew up even a little more?

502
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:18,300
 Yeah, absolutely.

503
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:23,180
 You know, in the games that we either won close or lost close, the whole message was focus.

504
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,140
 You know, there's drive here, a play there that, you know, our focus wasn't where it needed to be.

505
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,400
 And it led to some poor execution.

506
00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:38,080
 So now we relay the same message and we go back to those instances that we may not have been ready to go.

507
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,020
 And our kids understand that they lived it, saw it firsthand.

508
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:48,640
 And I think as this season plays out and, you know, we're at the halfway point with the bye next week and a lot of football left to play.

509
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,920
 But we've got a chance to be a really, really good football team.

510
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,800
 And I think our kids are seeing that, but they also see what we're not getting done.

511
00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:05,800
 And if we want to play like we want to play and keep playing like Dexter's accustomed to playing, then we're going to have to crank this thing up a little bit more.

512
00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:13,580
 I said before I brought coaches on to the sports writers, hey, there's some good football being played in northwest Alabama and there's nobody getting any votes.

513
00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:15,920
 And I said, I know rankings don't matter necessarily, especially.

514
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,860
 I know some of you coaches may even call the sports writers and say, don't vote for us.

515
00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:20,600
 I get it.

516
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,540
 Some old school coaches.

517
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,180
 But the fact is, I think the high school football in this area is starting to rise up a little bit more this year, especially.

518
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,420
 It seems like a lot of undefeated teams, a lot of good teams with won losses.

519
00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:33,920
 Don't you sense that maybe the football is coming back a little bit?

520
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:34,760
 I think so.

521
00:28:34,820 --> 00:28:42,780
 And, you know, coming here on Saturday and being around those coaches in that room right there, there are some very talented football minds in there.

522
00:28:42,780 --> 00:28:50,020
 But even more than that, they're great people and great people that I trust my kid with to grow and develop.

523
00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:54,500
 And, you know, I think that just speaks volumes to the type of football here in north Alabama.

524
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,460
 And you look at everybody's crowd base.

525
00:28:59,060 --> 00:29:01,260
 They're going to come out and they're going to support football.

526
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,700
 Great football being played in this area.

527
00:29:03,980 --> 00:29:10,180
 Off week, do you go watch other teams play or do you sit at home and go out to eat and say, hey, let's just be an normal Friday night?

528
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:11,660
 No, we'll go somewhere.

529
00:29:12,260 --> 00:29:17,080
 But I think the message this week is going to be, hey, let's reset physically, mentally, get back.

530
00:29:17,140 --> 00:29:19,180
 We've got some execution things we've got to shore up.

531
00:29:19,220 --> 00:29:22,660
 And this is a great opportunity, great time in the season to do that.

532
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,060
 Destro Tigers, 4-1 on the season, perfect in region play.

533
00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:29,360
 Take the off week this week after the 51-7 homecoming victory.

534
00:29:29,820 --> 00:29:32,020
 Coach, congratulations, and enjoy the off week, okay?

535
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,320
 Yes, sir.

536
00:29:32,340 --> 00:29:32,600
 Thank you.

537
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,180
 The head coach of the Destro Tigers.

538
00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:36,800
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554
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:48,340
 Good morning.

555
00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:50,180
 Welcome to 99 degree heat already.

556
00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:52,220
 I'm sure outside is caught out here today.

557
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:53,260
 The hottest day of the year, maybe.

558
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,100
 So if you're going to ballgames today in college football, hydrate.

559
00:30:56,220 --> 00:30:58,160
 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you here on The Coach's Breakfast.

560
00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,860
 Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

561
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:04,460
 No matter what you're doing today, pour it in the water and stay safe in this great heat

562
00:31:04,460 --> 00:31:05,300
 that we're facing right now.

563
00:31:05,340 --> 00:31:08,920
 And hopefully, by the time we get to October, football weather will be here.

564
00:31:08,980 --> 00:31:12,500
 I know one guy that likes football weather more than anybody I know, and that's my good friend.

565
00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:16,060
 Brett Mask is the head coach here of the Lexington Golden Bears.

566
00:31:16,060 --> 00:31:20,600
 His team wins last night over J.B. Pennington 49-0.

567
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,580
 Coach, congratulations on the win.

568
00:31:22,620 --> 00:31:23,900
 Was that a homecoming game last night, by the way?

569
00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:25,060
 Yeah, it was a homecoming game.

570
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,620
 Everybody sort of got that homecoming.

571
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,920
 So I'm going to put you on the spot.

572
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,060
 You can say, KJ, I'm not sure.

573
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,720
 Do you know who the homecoming queen was by any chance?

574
00:31:31,740 --> 00:31:32,580
 Yes, Reagan Pate.

575
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:33,420
 All right.

576
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,580
 Two for two of my coaches know they're homecoming queens.

577
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:36,580
 Y'all have learned me over the years.

578
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:37,340
 That's good.

579
00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:38,800
 Congratulations to Reagan Pate.

580
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,560
 And congratulations to your team and the shutout victory.

581
00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:43,880
 But, Coach, I want to congratulate something that happened.

582
00:31:44,140 --> 00:31:48,920
 For the first time ever that I know of, the defensive coordinator at Lexington High School

583
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,440
 got his first shutout last night.

584
00:31:50,580 --> 00:31:51,900
 And his name is Brett Mass.

585
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,080
 Congratulations on your defense doing that last night.

586
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:54,720
 Appreciate it.

587
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:55,400
 They played well.

588
00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:57,700
 That is big, though, for your team to come out there.

589
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,340
 You look up there and see the good city.

590
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,540
 There's a lot of schools go seasons after seasons that don't have a shutout.

591
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:03,460
 That's big for your defense.

592
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,120
 Well, our kids are kind of, you know, right there at the end.

593
00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:07,880
 You know, we were subbing some guys.

594
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,100
 And we did.

595
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:09,980
 We subbed some guys.

596
00:32:10,140 --> 00:32:13,740
 But, like, we kept some starters on there just for, I mean, depth purposes and football.

597
00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,000
 I mean, you can't just wholesale them all, you know, at once.

598
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,020
 And that's one of the things they were kind of getting on the young kids about, like,

599
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,100
 hey, we're keeping this shutout.

600
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,120
 We're keeping this shutout.

601
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,680
 So, it worked out well.

602
00:32:24,140 --> 00:32:29,520
 I don't want to say a whole lot, but your quarterback, Zane Kilburn, sort of had an off night last night.

603
00:32:29,580 --> 00:32:32,020
 He only had five touchdowns, four passing and one rushing.

604
00:32:32,540 --> 00:32:35,100
 He's not the same as the past couple of weeks where he had seven and six.

605
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:41,180
 But he did have a finish with 223 yards passing and accounted for five touchdowns and did his job.

606
00:32:41,540 --> 00:32:45,420
 But also, Mr. Howard there, pretty big game, too, 93 yards and a touchdown.

607
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,180
 He was pretty explosive last night.

608
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,620
 He was kind of back to his old self.

609
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,540
 He's been kind of dealing with a little bit of shin splints.

610
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,760
 And so, yeah, he's been struggling through it.

611
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,060
 But he kind of played like a big boy last night.

612
00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:58,840
 Saw your Howard.

613
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,520
 You know, that's not an easy injury to go through as a football player.

614
00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:03,840
 You know players have done it.

615
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,780
 That is – you hear about all these wins.

616
00:33:05,860 --> 00:33:07,300
 Shin splints can really be painful.

617
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:08,180
 It's just annoying.

618
00:33:08,420 --> 00:33:09,220
 I mean, that's what he said.

619
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,060
 It's just annoying.

620
00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:12,060
 I mean, and it comes and goes.

621
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:13,900
 But I think he's – you know, he's worked through it.

622
00:33:13,940 --> 00:33:14,600
 He's iced it.

623
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:15,480
 He's done the stretches.

624
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,740
 He's – and he hadn't missed a snap.

625
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:20,080
 But, you know, you could just tell sometimes they bother him.

626
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,660
 But he's a tough kid.

627
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,580
 And he's such a competitor.

628
00:33:22,980 --> 00:33:24,980
 And to watch him play, he's fun to watch.

629
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:33,800
 Not 2012, not 2002, not 1992, 1982 the last time the Lexington Golden Bears

630
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:34,740
 started 5-0.

631
00:33:35,060 --> 00:33:39,360
 By the way, do you realize there is, I think, four, maybe four or five

632
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,960
 Lauderdale County schools that are undefeated right now?

633
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,540
 That's pretty impressive for the county.

634
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,260
 I know you're proud for your team to be at the halfway mark in 5-0.

635
00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:48,240
 We are.

636
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,640
 I mean, it's – we have a 1-0 mentality.

637
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,600
 I know that sounds cliched, but it really is the truth.

638
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,300
 And I think you have to approach it that way.

639
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,240
 You know, and we tell our kids, you know, you can't go 10-0 until you go 5-0.

640
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,780
 You can't go 10-0 until you go 6-0.

641
00:34:02,220 --> 00:34:05,680
 And – but we still have a 1-0 mindset every week because it doesn't matter

642
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:06,740
 what you did the week before.

643
00:34:07,380 --> 00:34:10,940
 And, you know, the same people, you know, patting you on the back

644
00:34:10,940 --> 00:34:13,580
 or be the same people, you know, what happened to y'all?

645
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:14,740
 So, you know –

646
00:34:14,740 --> 00:34:15,340
 You got that right.

647
00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:18,620
 And that's just – you just got to understand that's just – that's the nature.

648
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,600
 I mean, people did it to –

649
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,400
 And most of them were Baptists, but that's for me.

650
00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:23,280
 I guarantee you, okay?

651
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:24,160
 So I understand.

652
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:25,560
 So that'll happen there.

653
00:34:25,780 --> 00:34:26,920
 That's an inside joke, by the way.

654
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:27,580
 I have a lot of fun.

655
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,120
 My good friends that are Baptists, I am one.

656
00:34:29,340 --> 00:34:31,600
 But let's talk about – that's a great point.

657
00:34:31,700 --> 00:34:32,940
 You hear the noise.

658
00:34:33,460 --> 00:34:35,580
 How do you control the noise with your team?

659
00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:37,500
 Well, we just – we talk about a standard.

660
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,340
 And play into a standard and it doesn't – I tell our kids all the time,

661
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,560
 I wish I could give you all the schedule that just said game one, game two, game three.

662
00:34:44,700 --> 00:34:45,800
 And it doesn't matter to the opponent.

663
00:34:46,060 --> 00:34:49,120
 And it doesn't matter if we're playing, you know, the North Florence Blue Team

664
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,000
 or the Green Bay Packers.

665
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:54,760
 You know, we have a standard that we play at and a standard that we want to uphold.

666
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,540
 And if a team is better than us, then so be it.

667
00:34:57,660 --> 00:34:59,220
 You know, we'll shake their hand and say good luck.

668
00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:02,680
 But it's not going to be because we didn't play to our ability.

669
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,020
 Lexington Golden Bears, 5-0.

670
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,440
 More importantly, I think – is it 2-0 in Region 7?

671
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:08,700
 Is it a smaller region?

672
00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:09,100
 Is that right?

673
00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:10,320
 No, we're 18 in Region.

674
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:11,340
 Okay, so it's 3-0.

675
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,140
 You should be 3-0.

676
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,760
 I think they got it wrong in the times daily there.

677
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,040
 But 3-0 in Region play.

678
00:35:15,460 --> 00:35:17,340
 Coach, let's talk about last night.

679
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,920
 I haven't got to – I never get to talk to my witnesses before I bring you on the air,

680
00:35:21,980 --> 00:35:22,420
 as I say.

681
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,180
 Were there any quirky plays last night or unusual plays

682
00:35:26,180 --> 00:35:28,660
 or a defensive or special teams play that sort of stood out?

683
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:30,180
 Not really.

684
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,660
 You know, it was just kind of one of those kind of business game.

685
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,240
 You know, I think everything with homecoming and all the distractions,

686
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,340
 and I think our team – you know, I bragged on our team after the game

687
00:35:42,340 --> 00:35:46,040
 about all the distractions, and we had a list on the board all week

688
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,980
 of reasons not to win this game.

689
00:35:48,220 --> 00:35:50,940
 And we just listed, you know, homecoming, the distractions,

690
00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:54,560
 you're playing a wing-T team, got to be disciplined and, you know,

691
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:55,800
 overconfidence and all that.

692
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,020
 And we left it up there on the board all week and kind of pointed out,

693
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,020
 hey, these are the reasons you're not going to win this game

694
00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:01,200
 or not supposed to win this game.

695
00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:04,120
 Now it's our job to make sure we overcome these.

696
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,160
 And I think, you know, our kids did a great job handling it.

697
00:36:07,260 --> 00:36:08,400
 I mean, they were down in the field house.

698
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,160
 It was an old-school homecoming now at Lexington.

699
00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:12,540
 I mean, we had a pep rally at 8.30.

700
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:12,640
 Yeah.

701
00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:17,260
 And it lasted about an hour, and we did the whole festivities.

702
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,680
 And then for the rest of the day, you know, we had parade.

703
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,060
 They were down in the field house all day.

704
00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:23,060
 Was it indoor pep rally or outdoor pep rally?

705
00:36:23,060 --> 00:36:23,440
 Oh, indoor.

706
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,120
 Okay, well, that's better.

707
00:36:25,220 --> 00:36:26,280
 I'll give you credit on that one.

708
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:26,680
 That's for sure.

709
00:36:27,020 --> 00:36:31,740
 Well, let me ask you, did you major in buying a chance or minor in psychology?

710
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:32,300
 No.

711
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,620
 Because you went a little reverse psychology on your team with what not to do.

712
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,720
 Sometimes it's approaching the team, you start to learn the DNA of every team.

713
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:42,220
 This one's DNA you really seem like you've got honed in on.

714
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:42,960
 Yeah, they're different.

715
00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:47,300
 I mean, it took us a little bit to figure out this team, just the personalities of it.

716
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,720
 And, you know, you had a lot of returners coming back.

717
00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:52,660
 But, you know, it's like we tell our team, that's a 2025 team.

718
00:36:52,740 --> 00:36:55,040
 This is a totally different team from year to year.

719
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,080
 So it took a little bit to kind of figure out what makes them tick.

720
00:36:58,220 --> 00:37:01,100
 And they're just a business-type team.

721
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:06,380
 I mean, they're very even-keeled and very just – they don't really get too excited,

722
00:37:06,460 --> 00:37:08,360
 but they don't get too low at the same point in time.

723
00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:10,820
 And so we've just kind of tried to maximize that.

724
00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:13,840
 They're a pretty mature team, and they're a smart team.

725
00:37:14,060 --> 00:37:14,700
 Yeah, they're smart.

726
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,600
 You look at our GPAs on our team, they're up there.

727
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:23,400
 So they're the type of team that you just have to explain what your thought process is.

728
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,640
 Not that they are – they'll do anything that you ask them to,

729
00:37:27,740 --> 00:37:29,500
 but they want to know the process of it.

730
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,360
 Like, hey, you know, why am I dropping right here?

731
00:37:31,460 --> 00:37:32,740
 You know, why am I doing this?

732
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,560
 And not in like a questioning way, but they genuinely want to understand what we're doing,

733
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:41,320
 how we want to do it, and how do you want me to do it?

734
00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:43,560
 So, you know, I'll take a team like that.

735
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:44,400
 That's a little different.

736
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,040
 It's a lot different, yes.

737
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,240
 Because kids don't watch the games anymore on TV.

738
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:50,160
 They don't understand.

739
00:37:50,380 --> 00:37:51,300
 They don't grow up.

740
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,460
 They watch highlights.

741
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,060
 They don't see the games.

742
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:54,880
 They're YouTube kids.

743
00:37:54,980 --> 00:37:55,860
 They're YouTube kids.

744
00:37:56,020 --> 00:37:56,820
 That's a great point.

745
00:37:57,240 --> 00:37:59,300
 And so I think that's a big point that they want to know.

746
00:37:59,380 --> 00:37:59,920
 They want to learn.

747
00:37:59,980 --> 00:38:00,960
 That says their mind's growing.

748
00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:03,740
 As we speak with Brett Mask of the Lexington Golden Bears,

749
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,940
 whose team remains undefeated.

750
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,280
 Do you and your dad still talk after games on Friday night sometimes?

751
00:38:08,340 --> 00:38:08,840
 Oh, yeah.

752
00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:09,420
 Oh, yeah.

753
00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:11,980
 Does he give you pointers or just listen sometimes?

754
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:13,380
 A little bit of both.

755
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,380
 You know, I'll get the, hey, just a couple – hey, we'll talk tomorrow.

756
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:17,800
 We'll talk tomorrow.

757
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,940
 Oh, that sounds like Steve Mask right there if I've ever heard of him.

758
00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:25,060
 Oh, if it's a we'll talk tomorrow, there's a list of about three things that we need to do.

759
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,180
 So he's checked it off and see it and look at that.

760
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,460
 Oh, well, enjoy it or not.

761
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:29,100
 We'll talk tomorrow.

762
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,880
 By the way, if you don't know Coach Brett Mask, he is the master of invitations of people.

763
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,700
 And I promise you, he probably has KJ down too behind my back.

764
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:37,300
 I like that.

765
00:38:37,540 --> 00:38:38,620
 Let's talk about next week.

766
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:39,980
 Are you open next week or do you have a game?

767
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:40,220
 Yeah.

768
00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:40,980
 Open next week.

769
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,060
 Is it coming to a good time for you?

770
00:38:42,260 --> 00:38:42,800
 It does.

771
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,720
 We're just – not that we're beat up.

772
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:51,680
 We're just, you know, tired and sore and just, you know, like I said, we're pretty healthy.

773
00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:55,580
 But just a couple little nagging bumps and bruises that you get from five weeks of football.

774
00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,820
 Do you approach this week differently because of that practice-wise?

775
00:38:59,000 --> 00:38:59,340
 You do.

776
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:04,560
 I mean, I think, you know, a bye week is – it's a touchy thing, like how you handle it.

777
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,960
 And I think it just depends on how your year is going too, you know.

778
00:39:08,340 --> 00:39:10,900
 Is it one of those where, hey, we've got to go back and teach fundamentals

779
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:15,160
 or is it one of those that we need to get our guys kind of rested up

780
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,400
 but still get work in.

781
00:39:17,540 --> 00:39:21,320
 And I think that's kind of going to be the approach this week of just, you know,

782
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,860
 getting our guys healthy but at the same point in time getting our work in

783
00:39:23,860 --> 00:39:26,860
 and, you know, two weeks to prepare for a pretty big game.

784
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,780
 Don't want to lose the groove, that's for sure.

785
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:29,840
 Yeah, that's the big thing.

786
00:39:30,140 --> 00:39:31,260
 Who do you have in two weeks?

787
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,220
 Vancouver County.

788
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,620
 Oh, my goodness.

789
00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:36,360
 That's a familiar place for the Brent Mass.

790
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:36,820
 It is.

791
00:39:36,940 --> 00:39:38,080
 And for Kevin Johnson.

792
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:38,460
 That's right.

793
00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:41,940
 And so, you know, CT Manley Stadium and what a huge game that will be.

794
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,240
 The more you look at this region, the more you sort of shake your head and go, wow,

795
00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:47,880
 every Friday night it's a pretty good team that you can race.

796
00:39:48,380 --> 00:39:50,200
 We talked about it, you know, at the beginning of the year.

797
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:52,960
 Like, it's – there's no off games.

798
00:39:53,060 --> 00:39:54,160
 There's no throw-off games.

799
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,960
 You've got to come ready to play every week.

800
00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:59,320
 And you look at the scores in our region, anybody can be beat at any given time.

801
00:39:59,460 --> 00:39:59,560
 So.

802
00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:03,240
 Before I let you go, Coach Brett Mass with the Lexington Golden Bears,

803
00:40:03,340 --> 00:40:04,740
 I want to turn the page on one more thing.

804
00:40:04,820 --> 00:40:06,040
 You wear the purple and gold today.

805
00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:08,820
 You wore the purple and gold in college as well.

806
00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:11,000
 And today is a special day at the University of North Alabama.

807
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,980
 Did it give you the feels a little bit, them having to own campus stadium a little bit?

808
00:40:14,180 --> 00:40:15,520
 It's weird, but it's pretty cool.

809
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:15,760
 Yeah.

810
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,040
 I mean, it's pretty cool.

811
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:17,840
 Raleigh's still home.

812
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:18,540
 It is.

813
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:19,640
 I mean, it always will.

814
00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:25,320
 I mean, but for – just to see the growth of that university and of my school

815
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,320
 and just seeing the excitement of it, I mean, I think that's huge for Florence.

816
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,280
 That's huge for UNA.

817
00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:31,180
 I mean –

818
00:40:31,180 --> 00:40:31,460
 Huge.

819
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:32,080
 Yes.

820
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,020
 I mean, that's the best word you can describe it.

821
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:36,040
 It is.

822
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:36,980
 It's going to be a special day.

823
00:40:37,380 --> 00:40:41,180
 Well, I'm sure some of you and your former teammates will have fun chatting today

824
00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:45,720
 and talking and texting and reliving some of the past memories when you played as well.

825
00:40:46,580 --> 00:40:50,260
 Lexington Golden Bears go to 5-0 of the season and coming up with an off week,

826
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,500
 but in two weeks they are going to be taking on Carbett County.

827
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,480
 Coach, best of luck and enjoy the off week, okay?

828
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:55,060
 Appreciate you.

829
00:40:55,260 --> 00:40:57,140
 The head coach of the Lexington Golden Bears.

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 Welcome back to the coaches' breakfast here on 93.9 The Score.

847
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,620
 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you.

848
00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:15,720
 Getting your day off to a good start.

849
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,240
 Hoping you're enjoying that second cup of coffee here.

850
00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:19,740
 We've got a couple more coaches lined up.

851
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,460
 Don't forget, Crimson Tide football around the corner.

852
00:42:22,580 --> 00:42:28,220
 11.30 a.m., Chris Stewart and friends, all those guys getting ready for the big one with Florida State coming to Bryant-Denny.

853
00:42:29,060 --> 00:42:30,100
 2.30 kickoff.

854
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,740
 Keep it right here for Alabama Crimson Tide football.

855
00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:34,220
 You'll enjoy that today.

856
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,840
 The Carver County Indians last night on the road at Phil Campbell had a hard-fought game.

857
00:42:39,220 --> 00:42:44,720
 Come up just a little short to the Bobcats, 34-26 in region play in Class 2A region 7.

858
00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:48,280
 And joined now by the quarterback coach of Carver County Indians, Coach Lucas Craft.

859
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,460
 And, Coach, any time you go on the road, you know it's going to be a tough, tough matchup.

860
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,340
 And last night proved to be the same.

861
00:42:54,860 --> 00:42:57,240
 Yeah, you know, it's always hard playing at Phil Campbell.

862
00:42:57,380 --> 00:43:00,420
 Coach Hamilton over there, he does a really good job with his team.

863
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,000
 You know, they showed up ready to play.

864
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:03,060
 They executed.

865
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:04,880
 I mean, they hit us in the mouth early.

866
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,440
 And it took us a minute to respond.

867
00:43:09,140 --> 00:43:14,240
 Sometimes when you play in games like that, too, you're not used to the environment.

868
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,760
 It's probably the first time Carver County's played down there in a while, if I'm not mistaken.

869
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:18,240
 It's been a while.

870
00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:18,840
 It's been a while.

871
00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:22,380
 So, for the kids, it's a new stadium, new environment, new look.

872
00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:27,640
 It's just sometimes it takes young kids, no matter what, a little time to adjust to just the environment.

873
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:28,180
 Does it not?

874
00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:29,260
 Yeah, it does.

875
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,860
 Like you said, it had been a while since we had been there.

876
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,060
 And I'm not sure, man.

877
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,180
 It's just always hard to win on the road, no matter where you're going.

878
00:43:39,380 --> 00:43:39,840
 It is.

879
00:43:39,940 --> 00:43:41,580
 And I think it's part of Friday Night Lights.

880
00:43:41,820 --> 00:43:44,040
 You know, you go on the road, and it's just a different thing.

881
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,420
 As we used to say, if you get on the bus, you're down seven.

882
00:43:46,660 --> 00:43:46,820
 Yeah.

883
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:48,100
 And that's just part of it.

884
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:48,840
 And so that happens.

885
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,600
 And you go on the road, and you end up losing by eight.

886
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,000
 So it sort of played out that way.

887
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,080
 It was a tight-knit game.

888
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:56,980
 How did your team maybe respond to some of the, you know, got hit in the mouth?

889
00:43:57,060 --> 00:43:57,900
 You said, how did they respond?

890
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,140
 Because they came back a little bit there.

891
00:43:59,620 --> 00:44:03,020
 Yeah, you know, it was 20-20 at halftime.

892
00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:09,420
 They had went up, I believe, I believe they went up 14-0 at one point.

893
00:44:10,060 --> 00:44:13,620
 I don't, I mean, you might want to check me on that.

894
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:14,200
 I'm not sure.

895
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:14,800
 Right.

896
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,960
 But, I mean, I thought our kids responded well.

897
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,800
 We just had to get out of the first quarter.

898
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,860
 And after that, you know, they kind of settled in.

899
00:44:22,900 --> 00:44:26,460
 And it's like, all right, well, let's just get back to doing what we know to do,

900
00:44:26,460 --> 00:44:28,100
 back to doing what we're comfortable doing.

901
00:44:28,380 --> 00:44:30,740
 And, you know, we went down and scored a couple times.

902
00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:32,840
 And, like I said, it was 20-20 at halftime.

903
00:44:33,060 --> 00:44:37,140
 So, I mean, I think it just took them a while to settle in and, you know,

904
00:44:37,140 --> 00:44:37,800
 just play football.

905
00:44:38,180 --> 00:44:41,820
 As we speak with Lucas Craft, the quarterback coach at Carver County High School,

906
00:44:42,260 --> 00:44:44,680
 team falls to a field camera last night, 34-26.

907
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,100
 And, Coach, is this a teaching moment maybe to come up to your team this week

908
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:51,920
 and say, look, guys, I know it's a tough loss, but I want to remind you of something.

909
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:55,460
 You can lose a game in the first quarter as much as you can lose it in the fourth quarter.

910
00:44:55,460 --> 00:44:56,200
 Oh, absolutely.

911
00:44:56,660 --> 00:44:57,060
 Absolutely.

912
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,400
 I mean, it's definitely a teaching moment.

913
00:45:00,940 --> 00:45:04,740
 Just, I mean, really just the fundamentals of the game.

914
00:45:04,860 --> 00:45:07,100
 We've got to block better and we've got to tackle better.

915
00:45:07,260 --> 00:45:07,400
 Yeah.

916
00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:09,660
 That pretty much sums it up.

917
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,480
 Yeah, and sometimes that's what it comes down to.

918
00:45:11,540 --> 00:45:12,820
 You can do all the coaching talk.

919
00:45:13,140 --> 00:45:14,640
 It's like, guys, this is where it's at.

920
00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:17,100
 Do you have an off week this week, by the way?

921
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,240
 Yes, we are off this week.

922
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:18,860
 Off week this week.

923
00:45:19,140 --> 00:45:22,900
 I'm sure different teams approach it differently, but I'm sure that will be something you'll address

924
00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:23,720
 this week a little bit.

925
00:45:23,860 --> 00:45:24,040
 Yeah.

926
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:28,140
 Talking about just the basics and fundamentals as it go back to the routine, maybe change

927
00:45:28,140 --> 00:45:29,540
 the practice up a little bit this week.

928
00:45:29,820 --> 00:45:30,040
 Yeah.

929
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,060
 You know, it's definitely a much needed off week for us.

930
00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:37,600
 We've got a couple of kids banged up, bruised up, so couldn't have come at a better time.

931
00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:42,900
 But yeah, this week we'll definitely get back into the fundamentals of, I mean, I'm pretty

932
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:47,260
 sure we're going to be doing tackling circuits just about every day this week.

933
00:45:47,260 --> 00:45:50,900
 And we're going to have a lot of individual time, group time.

934
00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:52,220
 A lot of one-to-be-one type stuff, yeah.

935
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,880
 As we speak with Lucas Craft, quarterback coach at Carbert County High School, whose team

936
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:01,220
 falls to Phil Campbell last night, but coach, you're three and two on the season, two and

937
00:46:01,220 --> 00:46:06,280
 one in region play, in class 2A, region seven, and that region's topsy-turvy.

938
00:46:06,460 --> 00:46:06,860
 It is.

939
00:46:07,020 --> 00:46:10,180
 And it's not the end of the season by any means for your team.

940
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,120
 I'm sure you addressed that as well last night.

941
00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:12,920
 Yeah, absolutely.

942
00:46:13,100 --> 00:46:16,860
 I mean, everything that we want to accomplish is still all right there in front of us.

943
00:46:17,820 --> 00:46:24,300
 Now, we've made it a little harder on ourselves now, but I mean, we just, like I said, everything's

944
00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:25,100
 right there in front of us.

945
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:29,740
 We just can't continue to hurt ourselves, if that makes sense.

946
00:46:29,740 --> 00:46:34,800
 Like I said, we've made it a little harder, and we've still got some pretty good teams coming

947
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:40,020
 up on the schedule, so we've made it a little harder, but everything that we set out and made

948
00:46:40,020 --> 00:46:42,700
 goals for at the beginning of the season, it's all still right there.

949
00:46:43,020 --> 00:46:46,740
 Halfway through the season, though, step back, have to do a report card.

950
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:50,520
 You don't have to give a grade, necessarily, but what have you learned about this team

951
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:51,680
 halfway through the season there?

952
00:46:51,740 --> 00:46:56,160
 You said, okay, through the good times, through the bad, what do you see in the future, maybe?

953
00:46:57,260 --> 00:47:03,900
 We definitely have got some young kids coming up that'll be pretty good, but I mean, they're

954
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:05,360
 just young, eighth and ninth graders.

955
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:14,160
 I would say, I would say, just as a whole, I mean, we're, we said it, you know, as coaches

956
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,540
 before the season started, we can be as good as we want to be, and we'll be as good as the

957
00:47:18,540 --> 00:47:20,300
 senior class lets us be, so.

958
00:47:20,420 --> 00:47:20,520
 Wow.

959
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:21,760
 That's a good point.

960
00:47:21,980 --> 00:47:22,100
 Yeah.

961
00:47:22,140 --> 00:47:23,400
 And leadership's a big part of this.

962
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:23,720
 It is.

963
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:24,280
 It is a big part.

964
00:47:24,540 --> 00:47:26,540
 You know, there's a funny, you make a great statement.

965
00:47:26,660 --> 00:47:31,120
 Sometimes for teams, the ceiling can be high, but at the same time, the floor can be low.

966
00:47:31,340 --> 00:47:33,900
 And so it just depends on what they want to do.

967
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,920
 So, so it seems like you're right there and halfway through the season, you put it in your

968
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:39,840
 kids' hands and say, okay, it's up to you now.

969
00:47:40,020 --> 00:47:40,620
 Yeah, it is.

970
00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:44,940
 I mean, we tell them all the time, a coach-led team's not going to go very far.

971
00:47:45,420 --> 00:47:49,500
 Player-led teams are the ones that they, they're the special ones that go and get it done.

972
00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:50,920
 I think it's great.

973
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,400
 Next week, you're off, but the following week, Lexington, I believe.

974
00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:54,920
 Yes, sir.

975
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,420
 Comes to home for, comes to Carver County at CT Manly Stadium.

976
00:47:58,980 --> 00:48:00,360
 That's going to be a huge matchup.

977
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,300
 You got a chance to see one of the best quarterbacks in the state of Alabama, maybe in Zane Kilburn.

978
00:48:04,540 --> 00:48:06,520
 So a lot to work on that as well.

979
00:48:06,820 --> 00:48:08,660
 Have you faced many passing teams this year?

980
00:48:09,580 --> 00:48:10,960
 We, we faced Deschler.

981
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:15,300
 They threw it around a good bit and they didn't throw it around, you know, a whole, whole lot,

982
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,380
 but they were very efficient.

983
00:48:16,580 --> 00:48:18,220
 They were very good at what they've done.

984
00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:22,720
 You know, I think I said it after that week, coach Malone over there, he does a fantastic job

985
00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:23,340
 with Deschler.

986
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,300
 And I mean, as everybody can see, they're rolling.

987
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:28,780
 He's got them rolling right now.

988
00:48:28,780 --> 00:48:35,040
 But just as far as throwing it a lot, I think they're probably the team that we'll see that'll throw it the most.

989
00:48:35,260 --> 00:48:36,840
 Who played well for you on offense last night?

990
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,480
 Corey and Campbell played well last night for us.

991
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,740
 He's got a couple of nagging little things going on.

992
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,760
 So he wasn't a hundred percent, but Sean Blevins played well.

993
00:48:48,820 --> 00:48:52,380
 Our quarterback, Sir Miller played well in the first half.

994
00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:58,560
 He was dealing with a cramping type stuff in the second half.

995
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,320
 But Dayton Hood, another receiver we had number seven for us.

996
00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:03,040
 He played well.

997
00:49:03,620 --> 00:49:05,840
 I mean, we had guys play well.

998
00:49:06,660 --> 00:49:08,240
 We just couldn't get out of the first half.

999
00:49:08,460 --> 00:49:08,560
 Yeah.

1000
00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:11,400
 Sometimes you just can't get out of your own way, and that happens there.

1001
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,380
 That's Carver County Falls to Phil Campbell get ready in two weeks to take on the Lakers and Golden Bears.

1002
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,260
 Coach, let me ask you this before I let you go.

1003
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,360
 Quarterback coach, Lucas Craft, you enjoying being back at your alma mater and coaching there?

1004
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:22,160
 Oh, yeah.

1005
00:49:22,740 --> 00:49:23,620
 I've loved it, man.

1006
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:24,900
 I've loved every second of it.

1007
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:25,060
 Yeah.

1008
00:49:25,140 --> 00:49:27,020
 Now, you're teaching as well, obviously, there.

1009
00:49:27,380 --> 00:49:29,260
 What's your teaching responsibilities, that type thing, too?

1010
00:49:29,380 --> 00:49:29,900
 I'm in PE.

1011
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:30,920
 Wow.

1012
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,120
 So, you get to get out there and stay physical with them and get them in shape and all.

1013
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:40,460
 Do you talk to the kids about, no matter just athletes or not, about hydration, the importance of that, too, and say, hey, this is important?

1014
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:41,920
 Oh, yeah, absolutely.

1015
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:46,580
 I mean, me and Coach Bonds, we're the two PE teachers.

1016
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,380
 I mean, we tell them every day that health is wealth.

1017
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:50,380
 Yeah, that's good.

1018
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:51,380
 I like that health is wealth.

1019
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:55,700
 Well, listen, we'll see if the wealth will come for Carver County in a couple of weeks, and we wish you the best, okay?

1020
00:49:55,780 --> 00:49:56,180
 Yes, sir.

1021
00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:56,560
 Thank you.

1022
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,420
 The quarterback coach of Carver County High School, Coach Lucas Craft.

1023
00:49:59,580 --> 00:50:01,900
 More from the Coach's Breakfast after this timeout.

1024
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:04,260
 Let's go.

1025
00:50:04,380 --> 00:50:05,300
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1026
00:50:05,860 --> 00:50:14,420
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1027
00:50:14,820 --> 00:50:19,360
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1028
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,660
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1029
00:50:22,660 --> 00:50:33,040
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1030
00:50:33,380 --> 00:50:44,880
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1031
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:49,020
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1035
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:10,800
 Welcome back to the Coach's Breakfast here on 93.9 The Score.

1036
00:51:10,940 --> 00:51:12,280
 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you.

1037
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,120
 Hoping you're getting your day off to a good start again.

1038
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:21,320
 Congratulations to the University of North Alabama for their new stadium today, home opener at their new stadium.

1039
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:22,740
 What a day, what a festive day.

1040
00:51:23,140 --> 00:51:29,980
 It's going to be just special, and Coach Brent Dierman's done a good job there, so congratulations to him, and best of luck to the UNA Lions.

1041
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:37,900
 We're joined now by the head coach of the Rogers Pirates, Coach Daniel Garrett, whose team went up on the mountain and doubled up Carbert Heights last night, 48-24.

1042
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,740
 And Coach, big road win.

1043
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:40,240
 Congratulations.

1044
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:41,200
 Thank you.

1045
00:51:41,340 --> 00:51:45,360
 I know it's got to feel good any time you get a regional win when you're wearing the white jerseys.

1046
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:46,500
 That's a good thing, isn't it?

1047
00:51:46,720 --> 00:51:47,080
 Absolutely.

1048
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:55,240
 We, you know, feel like any time you can handle, you know, all the stuff that comes with going on the road and everything, you know, you have to be responsible.

1049
00:51:55,240 --> 00:52:01,220
 Make sure you carry what you need to carry, and any time you can do that and take care of business is a positive.

1050
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,900
 As a team, do y'all throw in a couple of extra pairs of cleats and extra jerseys just in case somebody forget something?

1051
00:52:06,900 --> 00:52:19,960
 We always have a little checklist of things we've got to have, you know, towels, you know, pants, you just never know what might get left behind, and, you know, he's got to be prepared for everything.

1052
00:52:20,140 --> 00:52:22,280
 Was this week a big week about talking to your team?

1053
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,600
 It's been hot all week, but you need to hydrate more than ever.

1054
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:25,580
 It's been the hottest week of the year.

1055
00:52:25,620 --> 00:52:26,560
 Did you talk about that a little bit?

1056
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,280
 Actually, we've been talking about that for a long time.

1057
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:38,740
 And so, like, what we do is, and Coach Lloyd at Randolph actually, you know, I talk to him a lot.

1058
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:43,520
 They do a really good job with their low numbers of staying healthy and getting a lot out of stuff.

1059
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,540
 And so what we do is, you know, every day during the week, I give them a supplement.

1060
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:48,540
 That's right.

1061
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:58,300
 And it's what we give them is called Waterboy, and it's got a bunch of electrolytes, no sugar, you know, vitamin B12, stuff like that.

1062
00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:03,920
 And then the obvious stuff like sodium and potassium to help with cramps and all that stuff.

1063
00:53:04,060 --> 00:53:06,520
 And knock on wood, we haven't had any issues to this point.

1064
00:53:07,020 --> 00:53:07,160
 Excellent.

1065
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,660
 So, because it starts during the week.

1066
00:53:09,820 --> 00:53:12,400
 It's not – if you wait until Friday, it's too late.

1067
00:53:12,540 --> 00:53:12,720
 Yes.

1068
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:15,400
 So, I feel like that's really helped us.

1069
00:53:15,700 --> 00:53:21,220
 Speaking with Coach Daniel Garrett of Carpet – excuse me, of Rodgers, who beat Carpet Heights last night, 48-24.

1070
00:53:21,420 --> 00:53:28,180
 And, Coach, your quarterback had a big game last night, C.J. Davis, 12 of 15, two touchdowns, ran for 194 yards.

1071
00:53:28,620 --> 00:53:29,280
 Three scores.

1072
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,680
 I mean, he really had one of his best games.

1073
00:53:31,860 --> 00:53:36,680
 Yeah, he was kind of mad when we took him out because he was one yard away from 400 all-purpose yards.

1074
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:37,000
 Oh.

1075
00:53:37,460 --> 00:53:40,020
 I think from what I've looked at.

1076
00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:42,460
 And so, I'm like, it ain't worth it, buddy.

1077
00:53:43,260 --> 00:53:46,120
 Maybe we can go back and film and find one more yard we didn't know about.

1078
00:53:46,260 --> 00:53:46,480
 We'll see.

1079
00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:49,980
 Yeah, sometimes when you do that, you end up finding their one or two off.

1080
00:53:50,580 --> 00:53:51,420
 That's a good point.

1081
00:53:51,860 --> 00:53:53,060
 But he had a great game.

1082
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:56,480
 And then your running backs as well, Reed and Broadfoot.

1083
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,960
 Boone Broadfoot, Braden Reed, both had a good game as well.

1084
00:54:00,020 --> 00:54:02,400
 So, overall, offense really clicked last night.

1085
00:54:02,580 --> 00:54:05,280
 Yeah, and like Boone, this was his second game back, Broadfoot.

1086
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:11,920
 So, he's just going to get more and more involved in what we do with him just because, you know, we're trying to move him around.

1087
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,580
 He's a pretty dynamic football player.

1088
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:14,980
 So, we try to line him up receiver.

1089
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,760
 You know, pretty much every play, he has the option to get the ball.

1090
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:19,240
 Right.

1091
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:22,080
 Yeah, CJ's kind of got the decision to make on that.

1092
00:54:22,300 --> 00:54:27,940
 And, you know, I felt like last night we really started to click on some of our downfield RPO throws.

1093
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,760
 Like that real long touchdown pass to Hunter Bacon was one of those.

1094
00:54:32,660 --> 00:54:39,360
 And, you know, I think the better we get with that type of stuff, it just makes our offense even more difficult to defend.

1095
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:43,660
 Go to 4-0 in the season, 3-0 in Class 3A Region 7.

1096
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:49,380
 And yet, I'm sure you say, hey, there's still a lot more to be left out there that you can do as a team.

1097
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,020
 I'm sure you've got things you want to work on.

1098
00:54:51,420 --> 00:54:54,440
 And that's a big part of it, continue to grow, isn't it?

1099
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:59,140
 Yeah, and it's like, you know, that Times Daily article they published last night, you know,

1100
00:54:59,140 --> 00:55:03,000
 the guy said something like I was kind of not happy or whatever after the game.

1101
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:09,380
 And, you know, I think, you know, as a coach, you're always looking at how can, like you said, how can we get better?

1102
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,940
 And, you know, you're a perfectionist.

1103
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,140
 And it's, you know, you always see things that we can work on and get better.

1104
00:55:16,660 --> 00:55:19,980
 And so, like, my thoughts always, all right, we've got to play cleaner.

1105
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,560
 There's a couple things here and there that we need to do a lot better at.

1106
00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:31,020
 And, you know, it's the end goal is to be the best version of yourself and then, you know, beat that every night or every day.

1107
00:55:31,340 --> 00:55:35,600
 And so, that's kind of the message to my team, you know, in that.

1108
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:40,160
 And I think one thing in that article, it said something we've got to continue to work and buy in.

1109
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:45,220
 And I just want to clear that up in terms of our kids are bought in to what we do.

1110
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,560
 But it's more of, like, you know, that kind of has to continue every day.

1111
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:55,900
 Because, like, if you slack off on your belief and you're focused for one second, it can derail everything.

1112
00:55:56,100 --> 00:55:56,440
 It's good.

1113
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:02,980
 And so, you know, it's an every day, every minute, every play process to do that.

1114
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,480
 It's not just a simple, hey, I believe in coach and what we're doing.

1115
00:56:06,540 --> 00:56:07,560
 It's not that simple.

1116
00:56:07,820 --> 00:56:14,040
 It's I've got to believe in what I do on this play, my assignment, so on and so forth.

1117
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:22,700
 And, you know, that's hard for anybody to do, myself included, because every second, you know, is an opportunity for ten distractions.

1118
00:56:23,060 --> 00:56:23,340
 Sure.

1119
00:56:23,740 --> 00:56:28,960
 You know, especially for the kids these days, they've got every distraction in the world more than I had, more than you had.

1120
00:56:29,420 --> 00:56:32,220
 And so, it's really hard for these kids to do that.

1121
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:40,740
 But I think that's what's so great about football is it gives them the opportunity to learn and focus on those things to where they can not only be a better player, but a better man when they leave here.

1122
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,380
 Great insight from Daniel Garrett, Rogers, Pirates.

1123
00:56:43,460 --> 00:56:47,640
 And, Coach, I often say if the ball's being run to the right, the left side's still important.

1124
00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:51,960
 You've got to do your job on the left side, too, because you never know when that ball carrier may cut back to the left.

1125
00:56:52,020 --> 00:56:54,120
 You never know when the play may be a broken play.

1126
00:56:54,480 --> 00:57:00,620
 It's important to know that just because it's not coming to your side or the ball's not coming to your hands, it still may be you that makes that play.

1127
00:57:00,820 --> 00:57:01,980
 Yeah, you've got to do your 111.

1128
00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:04,640
 That, so to speak, is one out of 11, which that's a fraction.

1129
00:57:04,820 --> 00:57:06,700
 You don't want to get too many of them fractions.

1130
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:09,100
 You know, some kids aren't good at math, but, you know.

1131
00:57:09,660 --> 00:57:13,420
 But, yeah, everyone's got a job to do, and if we all do our job, then things work out.

1132
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:16,600
 WT2C2, what does that mean?

1133
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,500
 Well, we can't control.

1134
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,220
 Okay, that's a big statement for y'all.

1135
00:57:20,420 --> 00:57:31,560
 Yeah, so, like, we've got shirts with it, and, you know, this is kind of the deal of, in a game, you're going to have all sorts of things that are out of your control, you know, from, you know, maybe it's a call that doesn't go your way.

1136
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:32,840
 Maybe you get a bad break.

1137
00:57:32,980 --> 00:57:36,440
 Maybe, you know, you're in position, but the other team makes a good play.

1138
00:57:36,580 --> 00:57:38,360
 Like, you can't worry about all that.

1139
00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:40,980
 You've got to worry about what my job is and execute my job.

1140
00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:42,180
 Control what you can control.

1141
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:45,300
 And if you do that, you can be successful.

1142
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:52,100
 And so, that's kind of been our focus because, you know, every year you reflect on things that you can do better.

1143
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:57,300
 And I feel like last year we got a lot, you know, really too worried about things that were out of our control.

1144
00:57:57,940 --> 00:58:04,880
 And instead of just focusing on what my job was and things like that, and so that's kind of been a big focal point for us this offseason.

1145
00:58:05,580 --> 00:58:09,520
 And so, once again, you know, that's something.

1146
00:58:09,660 --> 00:58:11,480
 If we do that, we're going to be successful.

1147
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,240
 And we have been successful.

1148
00:58:13,500 --> 00:58:13,840
 We have.

1149
00:58:14,020 --> 00:58:15,200
 Undefeated season so far.

1150
00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:16,820
 The next week, who do you have and where?

1151
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:18,240
 We got Wattsburg at home.

1152
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:26,020
 And, you know, that's a game, like, I told someone last night, I said, look, Coach Adcock is one of the best coaches around.

1153
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:27,540
 He's had a lot of success.

1154
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:29,360
 You know, Kevin Rose is the OC.

1155
00:58:29,540 --> 00:58:31,140
 He's had a lot of success as a head coach.

1156
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,140
 They got a great staff, and they got a really good football team.

1157
00:58:34,220 --> 00:58:35,420
 They're going to be very well coached.

1158
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,500
 It's going to be one of the best teams we've played, one of the best teams we'll play all year.

1159
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:43,320
 So, it's a great test for us to see kind of where we're really at.

1160
00:58:44,220 --> 00:58:48,440
 And, you know, I've had a lot of questions about, oh, this region stretch coming up.

1161
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:49,800
 And I'm like, guys, y'all don't understand.

1162
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:51,460
 Like, all that don't matter.

1163
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:52,660
 This team's really good.

1164
00:58:52,740 --> 00:58:52,840
 Yeah.

1165
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:59,380
 You know, and, like, if we can beat this team, then all right, now things look really good, right?

1166
00:58:59,420 --> 00:58:59,600
 Right.

1167
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:03,840
 So, but that's a tall task just because they're a good football team.

1168
00:59:03,980 --> 00:59:07,540
 But, once again, control what you can control and do your job.

1169
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:10,300
 And if we do that, then we're going to be just fine.

1170
00:59:10,660 --> 00:59:14,360
 Homecoming in Green Hill will be next week hosting a Whitesburg Christian.

1171
00:59:14,540 --> 00:59:21,500
 Should be a festive time for Rogers High School to be at home celebrating homecoming against a really good Whitesburg team.

1172
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:23,540
 But undefeated on the season so far.

1173
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,420
 And, Coach, congratulations on the great start.

1174
00:59:25,500 --> 00:59:26,720
 Best of luck at homecoming, okay?

1175
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:27,320
 Thank you.

1176
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:27,780
 Appreciate you.

1177
00:59:27,820 --> 00:59:30,440
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1191
01:00:49,540 --> 01:00:52,080
 Top of the hour, 9 o'clock here on the Coach's Breakfast.

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01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,440
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1193
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01:00:55,540 --> 01:00:58,300
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1197
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 Joined by the head coach of the Central Wildcats, Coach Heathwood, whose team last night takes on Elkmont for homecoming

1198
01:01:13,220 --> 01:01:17,780
 and comes out with a 60-13 victory to continue their season at 4-0.

1199
01:01:18,140 --> 01:01:20,580
 Coach, congratulations on the big homecoming win.

1200
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:22,200
 Breathe a little bit.

1201
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:23,560
 Homecoming is behind you now.

1202
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,680
 You can have a little fun and breathe a little bit.

1203
01:01:25,860 --> 01:01:26,720
 Yeah, yeah, definitely.

1204
01:01:27,340 --> 01:01:32,100
 Definitely a big win last night for our team and our community and the school.

1205
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:37,960
 Most of all, it was a region win, and, you know, we're trying to get ourselves back to the playoffs this season,

1206
01:01:38,100 --> 01:01:40,680
 and that's the biggest thing that happened last night, in my opinion.

1207
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:45,600
 Coach, you've got 9,000 things on your mind for football and homecoming and everything else,

1208
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,480
 but I got to ask, homecoming queen last night?

1209
01:01:47,900 --> 01:01:48,980
 Miss Bentley Cooper.

1210
01:01:49,340 --> 01:01:53,020
 Congratulations to Bentley Cooper, and well done by our head coach here, knowing that.

1211
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:53,440
 That's good.

1212
01:01:53,660 --> 01:01:55,000
 So that's a big deal there.

1213
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,900
 So congratulations to her on being named homecoming queen last night at Central High School,

1214
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,480
 and you win it over Elkmont, 60-13.

1215
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:03,700
 Let's go about coming up this week.

1216
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:05,200
 How did you handle the homecoming week?

1217
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,480
 Did your kids handle practice and all the festivities okay?

1218
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:09,740
 Yeah, I felt like we did for the most part.

1219
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:14,340
 You know, we're kind of up against that heat again this past week as far as practice goes.

1220
01:02:14,340 --> 01:02:19,560
 You know, it changes things quite a bit when you start talking about putting a practice schedule together

1221
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:24,120
 and including all that heat awareness and all that stuff, too.

1222
01:02:24,300 --> 01:02:28,080
 But, yeah, I felt like the players handled practice this week the way we should.

1223
01:02:28,660 --> 01:02:29,340
 That's big for us.

1224
01:02:29,380 --> 01:02:32,640
 We speak with Central Head Coach Heathwood, whose team is 4-0 in the season,

1225
01:02:33,140 --> 01:02:35,300
 knocked off Elkmont last night, 60-13.

1226
01:02:35,940 --> 01:02:41,100
 The old ball coaches used to say there's three faces to the game, defense, offense, and special teams.

1227
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,180
 And last night, your special teams was really good.

1228
01:02:43,180 --> 01:02:46,840
 Yes, did a great job, you know, come out there second half

1229
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:51,840
 and Logan Pettis there, run that kickoff back.

1230
01:02:52,100 --> 01:02:56,560
 And then, you know, a couple of possessions later there, we ended up running the punt back, too.

1231
01:02:57,140 --> 01:02:57,980
 Malik Ball did.

1232
01:02:58,300 --> 01:03:01,500
 But definitely, special teams definitely played well last night.

1233
01:03:01,740 --> 01:03:07,760
 95-yard kickoff return there by Pettis and a 75-yard return by Ball in the punt.

1234
01:03:08,180 --> 01:03:11,820
 And any time your special teams, is that a confidence builder for your special teams?

1235
01:03:11,820 --> 01:03:13,300
 Oh, yeah, that changes the game.

1236
01:03:13,380 --> 01:03:16,040
 Any time you can get a touchdown in that area, for sure.

1237
01:03:16,220 --> 01:03:18,300
 But those were big plays last night.

1238
01:03:18,340 --> 01:03:21,260
 And that second half kind of got things really going our way.

1239
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,880
 And, you know, able to play some younger kids after that.

1240
01:03:24,180 --> 01:03:27,920
 Well, let's talk about that, the ability to get younger kids in.

1241
01:03:28,060 --> 01:03:31,280
 That is so important for your program building up in the future, isn't it?

1242
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:32,200
 Yes, for sure.

1243
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,960
 You know, we got these B teams on the schedule and B team games.

1244
01:03:36,100 --> 01:03:40,900
 But, you know, not always able to play them because of injuries and different things like that.

1245
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,000
 You know, not only us, but other teams as well.

1246
01:03:43,140 --> 01:03:49,080
 But, yeah, any time we can get those guys in the game, it's definitely helping the program and helping those young men grow as players.

1247
01:03:49,580 --> 01:03:51,740
 Lots of players got to touch the football last night.

1248
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,280
 Sometimes that's not easy to spread that football around.

1249
01:03:54,580 --> 01:03:56,040
 But a lot of guys got to touch it.

1250
01:03:56,060 --> 01:03:57,480
 A lot of guys had some success.

1251
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:02,120
 Is that big for you moving forward to get guys to take all the practice is paying off now?

1252
01:04:02,340 --> 01:04:02,700
 Yeah, yeah.

1253
01:04:02,820 --> 01:04:06,280
 Coach Gene did a great job last night with that offense and spreading the ball around.

1254
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:13,180
 But I think anybody that touched the ball last night would go back and say it got done because it happened up front, you know, those linemen.

1255
01:04:13,340 --> 01:04:14,920
 So, definitely proud of those guys.

1256
01:04:15,100 --> 01:04:16,340
 Let's talk about that offensive line.

1257
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,300
 You've bragged on them a couple of times this year.

1258
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:22,360
 Are they a big offensive line or is it just an average-sized offensive line?

1259
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:23,660
 What makes them special maybe?

1260
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:28,180
 You know, I like to think that they go out there and try to do what they're supposed to do.

1261
01:04:28,260 --> 01:04:28,420
 Yeah.

1262
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:30,720
 And focus on the little things.

1263
01:04:30,820 --> 01:04:36,080
 We actually had a couple of guys out last night and had some dudes step up and kind of the next man up type thing.

1264
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:37,980
 And those guys played well last night.

1265
01:04:38,060 --> 01:04:42,120
 So, hopefully we're able to build some depth from last night's game in that area.

1266
01:04:42,260 --> 01:04:45,020
 Indeed, a depth-building game for Heathwood Central Wildcats.

1267
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:48,560
 Homecoming victory, 60-13 over Elkmont last night.

1268
01:04:49,020 --> 01:04:52,340
 Coach, I know as head coach you have your responsibilities as head coach,

1269
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,620
 but do you coach a specific group during the week as well?

1270
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,860
 Do you work with quarterbacks, offense, or anything like that?

1271
01:04:57,960 --> 01:04:58,560
 Yeah, yeah.

1272
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,380
 I didn't for a few years, several years back.

1273
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:02,580
 I was kind of floated around.

1274
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,800
 The practice got really long when I was floating around.

1275
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:06,760
 You didn't have nothing to do, did you?

1276
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:07,560
 Yeah, nothing to do.

1277
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,340
 And we got kind of short on coaches there, too.

1278
01:05:10,460 --> 01:05:14,060
 But, yeah, I've worked with the running backs and the secondaries.

1279
01:05:14,580 --> 01:05:17,400
 Is that fun for you to be able to do that and be hands-on with them?

1280
01:05:17,500 --> 01:05:21,080
 Yeah, I would much rather be coaching than walking back and forth.

1281
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:21,600
 Yeah.

1282
01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:24,880
 Well, that's pretty good as well, doing that.

1283
01:05:24,940 --> 01:05:28,280
 As you win the game last night, Coach, I'm sure it was a big celebration.

1284
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:29,660
 Everyone excited about that.

1285
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:31,120
 But who do you have coming up next?

1286
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:32,980
 We got Brooks next week.

1287
01:05:33,220 --> 01:05:33,920
 Next week.

1288
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,020
 So, next week, a non-region game.

1289
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:36,440
 Non-region.

1290
01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:38,720
 But a big county rival.

1291
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:39,340
 Oh, yeah, for sure.

1292
01:05:39,340 --> 01:05:41,260
 You played in those county rivals with Brooks.

1293
01:05:41,300 --> 01:05:41,960
 You know what it's like.

1294
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:43,600
 What makes that such a special game?

1295
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:45,780
 Yeah, you know, everybody knows everybody.

1296
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,280
 They grow up playing peewees and all that together.

1297
01:05:48,540 --> 01:05:49,800
 So, middle schools.

1298
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:50,900
 Go to church together.

1299
01:05:51,060 --> 01:05:51,420
 Exactly.

1300
01:05:51,740 --> 01:05:54,200
 So, you know, it'll be fun.

1301
01:05:54,300 --> 01:05:55,940
 You know, Brooks got a great team this year.

1302
01:05:56,020 --> 01:05:57,440
 And I know they'll be ready.

1303
01:05:57,540 --> 01:05:58,600
 And they always are.

1304
01:05:58,740 --> 01:06:00,520
 So, we'll have our hands full for sure.

1305
01:06:00,660 --> 01:06:01,800
 Where will that game be played at?

1306
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,400
 Is it home?

1307
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:02,860
 At home.

1308
01:06:02,940 --> 01:06:04,460
 So, home against Brooks next week.

1309
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:08,060
 What a matchup that'll be for coming up here in midway of the season.

1310
01:06:08,860 --> 01:06:11,080
 Coach, I don't know if you've noticed this night.

1311
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:12,700
 But it's pretty cool.

1312
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:16,440
 In Lauderdale County, you've got several schools undefeated.

1313
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:17,920
 Lexington undefeated.

1314
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:18,920
 Rogers undefeated.

1315
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:19,820
 You're undefeated.

1316
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:20,740
 Florence undefeated.

1317
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:23,240
 That hasn't happened in years past.

1318
01:06:23,580 --> 01:06:26,040
 You feel like the football is starting to rise up a little bit,

1319
01:06:26,100 --> 01:06:28,120
 maybe overall in the area a little bit?

1320
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,060
 Yeah, I didn't know all these other people were undefeated.

1321
01:06:31,180 --> 01:06:32,700
 I guess I'm just kind of worried about us.

1322
01:06:32,700 --> 01:06:33,160
 That's good.

1323
01:06:33,260 --> 01:06:33,720
 I like that.

1324
01:06:33,940 --> 01:06:35,400
 Congratulations to those guys, you know.

1325
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,160
 But, yeah.

1326
01:06:38,540 --> 01:06:41,520
 You see the football starting to grow, though, in the area a little more.

1327
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:42,020
 Yeah, for sure.

1328
01:06:42,380 --> 01:06:43,820
 And competition each week.

1329
01:06:44,100 --> 01:06:46,180
 Well, there'll be a big game against Brooks this week.

1330
01:06:46,420 --> 01:06:48,860
 You took a week off at the beginning of the season.

1331
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:49,140
 Yes.

1332
01:06:49,140 --> 01:06:50,300
 You'll play 10 straight.

1333
01:06:50,780 --> 01:06:52,300
 Is that something you've enjoyed?

1334
01:06:52,380 --> 01:06:54,560
 Is that the way it just fell, or is it just what you chose?

1335
01:06:54,700 --> 01:06:55,820
 It's just the way it fell.

1336
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:57,940
 You know, you start getting that schedule made.

1337
01:06:57,980 --> 01:06:59,200
 You're trying to get 10 games,

1338
01:06:59,260 --> 01:07:01,320
 and then you're trying to get five home ones and this and that.

1339
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,880
 But I do think for our team this year,

1340
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,380
 as young and inexperienced as we were at the beginning of the season,

1341
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:08,500
 we're gaining experience and, you know,

1342
01:07:08,500 --> 01:07:10,840
 trying to get better in that area every game.

1343
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,820
 But with our team we've got this year,

1344
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,020
 I think it benefited us playing a jamboree

1345
01:07:17,020 --> 01:07:18,920
 and then having a week off to fix a lot of things

1346
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:20,720
 and then going into that first week.

1347
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,700
 Well, it will be a fun week this week as well

1348
01:07:23,700 --> 01:07:26,500
 out at Central High School as Brooks comes to town.

1349
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,460
 Congratulations on the gate already.

1350
01:07:29,660 --> 01:07:31,940
 I know it's going to be a good one when these two get together.

1351
01:07:32,220 --> 01:07:33,060
 It should be fun.

1352
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,700
 And what a matchup that will be between the Wildcats and the Lions.

1353
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,320
 Coach, congratulations on the great start and best of luck, okay?

1354
01:07:38,420 --> 01:07:40,580
 Yeah, appreciate you guys having us on the covering Central.

1355
01:07:40,700 --> 01:07:42,060
 One of the good guys and coaching,

1356
01:07:42,180 --> 01:07:43,520
 Heathwood of the Central Wildcats.

1357
01:07:43,660 --> 01:07:45,740
 More from the coach's breakfast after this time out.

1358
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:48,520
 It's summertime in the shows,

1359
01:07:48,620 --> 01:07:50,300
 which means sunshine, hot weather,

1360
01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:51,520
 and a lot more bugs.

1361
01:07:52,060 --> 01:07:53,440
 Ants, mosquitoes, termites,

1362
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,120
 they love this time of year just as much as we do.

1363
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:58,480
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01:08:00,700 --> 01:08:03,220
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1366
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,640
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01:08:05,740 --> 01:08:07,400
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01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,640
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1369
01:08:11,300 --> 01:08:13,440
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1371
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1378
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1379
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1380
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1394
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1395
01:09:28,060 --> 01:09:30,840
 in Tuscaloosa today when Florida State comes to town.

1396
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:32,360
 What a matchup that'll be.

1397
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,240
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1398
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1399
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1400
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:40,240
 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you here on The Coach's Breakfast

1401
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,520
 from the North Alabama Bone and Joint Clinic.

1402
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:45,060
 Joined now by the head coach of the Marsh Hill Panthers,

1403
01:09:45,500 --> 01:09:47,520
 Coach Chris Hill, whose Panthers last night

1404
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:50,100
 went on the road all the way over to East Alabama,

1405
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:51,580
 took on Coosa Christian,

1406
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:53,240
 and they come back home with a victory.

1407
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:54,240
 41-14.

1408
01:09:54,980 --> 01:09:56,880
 Woo, long trip, but worth it, Coach, right?

1409
01:09:57,340 --> 01:09:57,920
 Yes, it was.

1410
01:09:57,980 --> 01:10:01,200
 It was, you know, about two and a half hour drive over there

1411
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:02,640
 or whatever, maybe even three,

1412
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:04,640
 but, you know, I was able to get a win.

1413
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:07,660
 That spot we played well and the spot we didn't.

1414
01:10:07,780 --> 01:10:09,580
 You know, it's things we got to work on,

1415
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,880
 but, you know, glad to get the win and get back home.

1416
01:10:12,300 --> 01:10:14,060
 There are road trips when you go on the road,

1417
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:15,100
 you put on the white jerseys,

1418
01:10:15,180 --> 01:10:17,060
 and then there are long road trips.

1419
01:10:17,440 --> 01:10:20,020
 And sometimes you have to get there a little earlier,

1420
01:10:20,100 --> 01:10:21,420
 maybe to stretch your guys out,

1421
01:10:21,420 --> 01:10:23,400
 or do you break up the trip a little bit

1422
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:24,840
 so maybe you get them a little rest?

1423
01:10:24,900 --> 01:10:26,200
 How did you handle that a little bit?

1424
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:26,880
 Yeah, we broke up.

1425
01:10:26,940 --> 01:10:27,880
 We broke the trip up.

1426
01:10:28,020 --> 01:10:30,880
 We stopped in Cullman and ate and, you know,

1427
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:32,420
 we stretched our legs a little bit there

1428
01:10:32,420 --> 01:10:35,580
 and actually stayed there about an hour,

1429
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:37,560
 just let the kids relax and visit.

1430
01:10:37,820 --> 01:10:40,260
 And then we got on the bus and drove another hour and a half

1431
01:10:40,260 --> 01:10:42,340
 to Gadsden to Coosa Christian.

1432
01:10:42,500 --> 01:10:45,480
 So, just kind of broke it up where it wouldn't be all,

1433
01:10:45,580 --> 01:10:47,060
 you know, all at one time.

1434
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:47,800
 I agree with that.

1435
01:10:47,900 --> 01:10:48,660
 That's well said there.

1436
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,160
 So, we speak with Chris Hill of Marshall High School

1437
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:53,440
 and Coach, you went at 41-14 last night.

1438
01:10:53,500 --> 01:10:53,760
 Let's talk.

1439
01:10:53,820 --> 01:10:54,740
 How did the game unfold?

1440
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:56,160
 Did you get off to a good start?

1441
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:57,880
 We did first drive.

1442
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,140
 First drive, we went down and had a good series.

1443
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,420
 I think defense had us got a three and outs.

1444
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:04,820
 We got the ball, went down and scored,

1445
01:11:04,980 --> 01:11:06,640
 and I think scored a second possession.

1446
01:11:07,440 --> 01:11:09,240
 And then, man, it was way too many penalties.

1447
01:11:09,500 --> 01:11:12,600
 We had probably 150 yards of penalties

1448
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,160
 that we got to get cleaned up.

1449
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:16,420
 And that's two drives right there.

1450
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,640
 Yeah, it's, you know, we had two touchdowns called back,

1451
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,340
 and we just got to, you know, we've got to do a better job

1452
01:11:23,340 --> 01:11:25,760
 of playing clean, you know, short football.

1453
01:11:25,980 --> 01:11:27,540
 I'm still getting to know you, Coach Hill,

1454
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,040
 in your first year at Marshall.

1455
01:11:29,140 --> 01:11:30,920
 Are you an offensive guy or defensive guy?

1456
01:11:30,980 --> 01:11:32,440
 What is your specialty a little bit?

1457
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,020
 Well, you know, the other day we played,

1458
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:36,480
 and we got beat, and I talked to my wife,

1459
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:38,500
 and she said, I said, you know, our defense played really good.

1460
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:39,420
 Defense played well.

1461
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:41,640
 And I said, the offense, I said, we're struggling.

1462
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:43,420
 She said, well, who's in charge of the offense?

1463
01:11:43,420 --> 01:11:44,080
 I said, I am.

1464
01:11:44,380 --> 01:11:45,960
 She said, well, you need to pick it up then.

1465
01:11:46,480 --> 01:11:49,600
 So, you know, I do the offensive side of the ball, though, yeah.

1466
01:11:49,900 --> 01:11:52,700
 So, in the offensive side of the ball, do you script a lot?

1467
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:54,880
 I know coaches in the past used to script plays

1468
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:56,360
 to start the game.

1469
01:11:56,440 --> 01:11:57,440
 Do you still script a little bit?

1470
01:11:57,720 --> 01:11:58,440
 I don't script.

1471
01:11:58,780 --> 01:12:00,960
 You know, I know what I want to run.

1472
01:12:01,180 --> 01:12:03,340
 What I do like to do is show some formations early,

1473
01:12:03,440 --> 01:12:04,860
 just see how they're going to adjust to formations,

1474
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,560
 you know, where doubles or trips are empty.

1475
01:12:07,100 --> 01:12:08,740
 You know, see how they're going to adjust to a tight end

1476
01:12:08,740 --> 01:12:09,800
 or tight end each back.

1477
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:11,860
 So, we don't really script,

1478
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:13,580
 but I do want to show a bunch of formations early

1479
01:12:13,580 --> 01:12:16,300
 to see what their defensive adjustment is.

1480
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:18,360
 The game today is more about leverage, isn't it?

1481
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:20,580
 It's about finding where you can find the defense,

1482
01:12:20,700 --> 01:12:22,780
 maybe get them off of numbers,

1483
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:24,580
 and you win the numbers game, and there you go.

1484
01:12:24,780 --> 01:12:26,300
 Yeah, you know, we're a big bubble screen,

1485
01:12:26,380 --> 01:12:27,120
 fast screen team.

1486
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:28,620
 And, you know, I'll tell them, you know, guys,

1487
01:12:28,740 --> 01:12:31,020
 if they're two, you know, we get two or three,

1488
01:12:31,060 --> 01:12:31,900
 we're going to throw the bubble.

1489
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,020
 If we get three over three, we're going to go somewhere else.

1490
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,260
 And, you know, if they're two can whip us,

1491
01:12:36,380 --> 01:12:38,520
 if they're two can whip our three, we deserve to get beat.

1492
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:38,820
 Right.

1493
01:12:38,860 --> 01:12:40,860
 You know, it's just the way it is.

1494
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,900
 It's all about numbers and leverage.

1495
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,860
 And, you know, every defense has a strength,

1496
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,060
 every defense has a weakness, and try to exploit that weakness.

1497
01:12:48,220 --> 01:12:49,880
 Speaking with Chris Hill of Mars Hill,

1498
01:12:50,020 --> 01:12:53,000
 and team wins 41-14 on the road at Coosa Christian,

1499
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:54,740
 the defending state champions from last year.

1500
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:58,620
 And, Coach, let's talk about one of the things is

1501
01:12:58,620 --> 01:13:01,160
 that you got to play a lot of players, I'm sure, last night.

1502
01:13:01,220 --> 01:13:01,780
 That's big, too.

1503
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:02,560
 It is.

1504
01:13:02,620 --> 01:13:05,720
 You know, we had a JV schedule, but do some injuries.

1505
01:13:05,860 --> 01:13:07,540
 We had to cancel our JV schedule.

1506
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:10,280
 So, you know, these guys don't get to play a whole lot.

1507
01:13:10,580 --> 01:13:12,520
 But, you know, any time, like last night,

1508
01:13:12,540 --> 01:13:14,840
 we can get them in the game and let them get some reps.

1509
01:13:15,420 --> 01:13:18,460
 You know, it's good to reward them for their practice and hard work.

1510
01:13:18,660 --> 01:13:20,840
 And it's also building, you know, building for the future.

1511
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:22,320
 41 points.

1512
01:13:22,620 --> 01:13:23,480
 Defense played well, too.

1513
01:13:23,540 --> 01:13:25,100
 But who played well for you there in the starters?

1514
01:13:25,700 --> 01:13:27,340
 You know, Christian O'Rear, you know, running back,

1515
01:13:27,340 --> 01:13:29,340
 he has really had a –

1516
01:13:29,340 --> 01:13:31,820
 I think he can play at the next level.

1517
01:13:31,900 --> 01:13:34,280
 It's not very big, but I think we can find a place for him to play.

1518
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:35,540
 But he's played really well.

1519
01:13:36,380 --> 01:13:39,060
 You know, he had one, I think, 60-yarder callback.

1520
01:13:39,140 --> 01:13:42,400
 He probably still finished close to, you know, 175 yards rushing.

1521
01:13:42,980 --> 01:13:44,100
 He's played real well.

1522
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:49,780
 Jesse Parker, Matthew McIntyre, you know, those guys have played –

1523
01:13:49,780 --> 01:13:52,280
 have been our leaders and played really well.

1524
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:54,520
 But, you know, those are the guys that kind of stand out.

1525
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,740
 Malin Moore, receiver, had a big – you know, he caught several balls last night

1526
01:13:58,740 --> 01:13:59,300
 from Titus.

1527
01:13:59,540 --> 01:14:02,840
 So, you know, those are the guys that just kind of jumped to the forefront.

1528
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:06,900
 Does your years of coaching in college maybe help you have an eye for the kids

1529
01:14:06,900 --> 01:14:08,320
 that might could play at the next level, do you think?

1530
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:09,580
 You know, I think so.

1531
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,560
 I think, you know, I know what we wanted, you know,

1532
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:14,660
 when I was at heart and what we wanted there in our players.

1533
01:14:14,660 --> 01:14:20,100
 And, you know, you look at our players and you just – you know,

1534
01:14:20,100 --> 01:14:22,680
 and you see some things, you know, not only on the field, but just, you know,

1535
01:14:22,700 --> 01:14:25,800
 especially character-wise and work ethic-wise, that's what you want on your team.

1536
01:14:25,980 --> 01:14:29,060
 You know, guys we have, they're great teammates.

1537
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:30,120
 They hold each other accountable.

1538
01:14:30,220 --> 01:14:30,980
 They push each other.

1539
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:33,160
 They encourage each other.

1540
01:14:33,740 --> 01:14:36,860
 And, you know, that's – well, if you get a team of guys that do that,

1541
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:38,200
 you've got a chance to be good.

1542
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:42,000
 Marcel, 3-2 on the season, 2-1 in region play.

1543
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:44,960
 Halfway through the season, your first season here at Morris Hill,

1544
01:14:45,740 --> 01:14:47,200
 feel like you can breathe a little bit.

1545
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:50,860
 Maybe you've got your footing in the whole school and everything

1546
01:14:50,860 --> 01:14:52,560
 and getting to know each other a little bit.

1547
01:14:53,180 --> 01:14:55,320
 A little bit, you know, still trying to learn how things are done.

1548
01:14:55,420 --> 01:14:58,600
 Every school does things different, you know, from purchasing to duties

1549
01:14:58,600 --> 01:14:59,920
 and all, everything like that.

1550
01:14:59,920 --> 01:15:03,880
 But, you know, we have a really good staff, put a good staff together,

1551
01:15:04,300 --> 01:15:05,720
 good guys to work with.

1552
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:09,960
 And, you know, but it is – it's getting a little more comfortable each week,

1553
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,880
 you know, and hopefully that trend will continue.

1554
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:14,060
 Who do you have next week?

1555
01:15:14,260 --> 01:15:15,720
 We play Baldwin out of Mississippi.

1556
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:17,000
 Out of state.

1557
01:15:17,140 --> 01:15:19,920
 Don't have that popping in Alabama as much as I have every once in a while,

1558
01:15:19,980 --> 01:15:21,000
 but playing out of state.

1559
01:15:21,300 --> 01:15:22,280
 Is that at home next week?

1560
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:23,220
 It's at home, yes.

1561
01:15:23,580 --> 01:15:26,600
 The way the schedule fell, we had an open date that week.

1562
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:29,860
 And Coach Mills got on the internet, you know, advertised.

1563
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,500
 And Baldwin is a really good football team.

1564
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,160
 We should have picked somebody else to play.

1565
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:39,760
 But they're a really good football team, and they'll come over here this next week.

1566
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:41,120
 It's not homecoming, is it, by any sense?

1567
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:43,840
 Okay, so Baldwin comes over from Mississippi to play.

1568
01:15:44,260 --> 01:15:46,600
 You know, that's sort of fun to play somebody different, though, isn't it?

1569
01:15:46,740 --> 01:15:47,180
 It is.

1570
01:15:47,220 --> 01:15:48,940
 You know, they're a really good football team.

1571
01:15:49,020 --> 01:15:51,060
 I think they played for a state championship a couple years ago,

1572
01:15:51,060 --> 01:15:54,460
 and, you know, they're about the same size we are.

1573
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:55,880
 But, you know, they're very athletic.

1574
01:15:56,120 --> 01:15:57,140
 They can really run.

1575
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,820
 And they're a really solid football team.

1576
01:16:00,060 --> 01:16:02,240
 What have you learned about your football team through five games?

1577
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:04,840
 You know, our kids, you know, they'll fight.

1578
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,580
 You know, they're, you know, we're not scared of contact.

1579
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:12,660
 We're not, you know, we don't make excuses for our mistakes.

1580
01:16:13,060 --> 01:16:14,940
 You know, they are accountable to each other.

1581
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:16,900
 Work ethic is outstanding.

1582
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:19,140
 I have no problem with their work ethic, you know.

1583
01:16:19,140 --> 01:16:22,880
 So, you know, I think we have some kids, you know,

1584
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:25,760
 and I think we've improved in spots last night, you know,

1585
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:28,680
 with the group that Coach Higgins had last year and lost all those guys.

1586
01:16:28,740 --> 01:16:30,780
 These guys coming in, you know, a lot of them,

1587
01:16:31,140 --> 01:16:33,780
 they're talented football players that just don't have a whole lot of experience.

1588
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:34,200
 Yeah.

1589
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,520
 And, you know, nothing takes the place of experience.

1590
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:39,400
 But, you know, we're improving on that every Friday night.

1591
01:16:39,740 --> 01:16:40,640
 Three and two on the season.

1592
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:41,920
 Two and one in region play.

1593
01:16:42,060 --> 01:16:44,240
 Mars Hill with a big win last night over Cusa Christian.

1594
01:16:44,660 --> 01:16:47,600
 Get ready to take on Baldwin, Mississippi this next Friday night

1595
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:48,200
 at Mars Hill.

1596
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:50,160
 Panther fans, I know you'll pack it out.

1597
01:16:50,220 --> 01:16:51,580
 It's going to be great no matter who plays.

1598
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:52,640
 You'll be there for that.

1599
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:54,940
 And Coach Hill, congratulations on the big road win

1600
01:16:54,940 --> 01:16:56,080
 and best of luck this week, okay?

1601
01:16:56,360 --> 01:16:56,680
 Thank you.

1602
01:16:56,780 --> 01:16:57,320
 Thank you very much.

1603
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,960
 The head coach of the Panthers, Chris Hill of the Mars Hill Panthers.

1604
01:16:59,960 --> 01:17:02,420
 More from the Coach's Breakfast after this timeout.

1605
01:17:03,100 --> 01:17:03,940
 Let's go.

1606
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:04,980
 It's Friday Night Football.

1607
01:17:05,540 --> 01:17:07,260
 I'm John Saylor, your local lawyer.

1608
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:11,020
 And I'm proud to sponsor this year's Scoreboard and Coach's Breakfast

1609
01:17:11,020 --> 01:17:13,980
 because there's nothing like high school football in North Alabama.

1610
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:19,040
 It's our schools, our teams, our bands, our cheerleaders, and everybody in the stands.

1611
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:22,340
 It's good times, and that's what Friday Night Football is all about.

1612
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:25,940
 Remember, neighbors, when you need a lawyer, call me, John Saylor,

1613
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:32,720
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1624
01:18:03,100 --> 01:18:09,220
 Welcome back to the Coach's Breakfast here on 93.9 The Score.

1625
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:11,040
 Glad to be with you with all the coaches.

1626
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:13,360
 Wrapping it up today with the head coach of the Florence Falcons,

1627
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:16,420
 Coach Kenny Marson, whose team won last night over Decatur

1628
01:18:16,420 --> 01:18:19,160
 in a game heard right here on 93.9 The Score, 34-16.

1629
01:18:19,700 --> 01:18:22,380
 Coach, before I even get in the game, before I get into anything,

1630
01:18:22,940 --> 01:18:24,300
 we were putting on the headsets here.

1631
01:18:24,300 --> 01:18:27,480
 Are you a left-side headset guy or right-set headset guy?

1632
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:28,700
 Have you ever thought about that?

1633
01:18:29,180 --> 01:18:32,460
 I'm usually the left-side like I've got it right now,

1634
01:18:32,660 --> 01:18:35,880
 but when things aren't going well during the game,

1635
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:37,320
 I'll switch it over to the right side

1636
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:38,940
 and see if I can find a different mojo.

1637
01:18:39,420 --> 01:18:40,600
 It has happened before, huh?

1638
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:41,280
 I do, yes.

1639
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:41,980
 I switch it around.

1640
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,580
 As a matter of fact, it happened at most shows.

1641
01:18:46,540 --> 01:18:49,220
 I had it on the left side most of the night,

1642
01:18:49,260 --> 01:18:51,280
 and I said, you know what, this just doesn't feel right.

1643
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:53,680
 And I said, I've got to switch it up.

1644
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,960
 I was talking to myself, and I put it on the right side,

1645
01:18:57,120 --> 01:19:00,720
 and about three plays later, K-Yon hit that touchdown run.

1646
01:19:00,980 --> 01:19:03,700
 I left it on the right side until the game was over.

1647
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:04,880
 People can't see me right now.

1648
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:05,700
 My mouth is wide open.

1649
01:19:05,780 --> 01:19:07,320
 I had no idea when I asked that question.

1650
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:08,100
 I had no idea.

1651
01:19:08,500 --> 01:19:11,240
 I just asked that randomly because Harold Wisdom,

1652
01:19:11,300 --> 01:19:13,160
 your defensive coordinator, he was a right-side guy.

1653
01:19:13,260 --> 01:19:14,800
 He said, yeah, defensive coordinators were a little different.

1654
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:18,820
 So I wondered which side the headset goes there.

1655
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:21,380
 But the headsets were working last night for the Florence Falcons.

1656
01:19:21,480 --> 01:19:24,920
 You get the win 34-16 over a tough Decatur team.

1657
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,780
 Coach, not pretty, not the way you wanted it, but it was a win.

1658
01:19:28,780 --> 01:19:31,380
 It was ugly, absolutely ugly.

1659
01:19:31,660 --> 01:19:33,760
 But, hey, we came out with a W.

1660
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:37,140
 Really glad that our guys fought through it.

1661
01:19:37,780 --> 01:19:39,520
 We needed that last night.

1662
01:19:39,620 --> 01:19:43,060
 It was going to be a good wake-up call for us.

1663
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:48,780
 Everything that we've said to them about how they've not practiced well

1664
01:19:48,780 --> 01:19:54,680
 and homecoming week, all that stuff that the old man here has been involved in

1665
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:58,580
 for 30-something years, it came true last night.

1666
01:19:58,820 --> 01:20:01,060
 And so the kids got to say, you know what?

1667
01:20:01,980 --> 01:20:03,280
 He is right sometimes.

1668
01:20:03,660 --> 01:20:04,620
 Yes, he is.

1669
01:20:04,820 --> 01:20:06,140
 He's right a lot of times.

1670
01:20:06,180 --> 01:20:07,040
 And I said that on the air.

1671
01:20:07,100 --> 01:20:07,860
 We talked about it.

1672
01:20:08,380 --> 01:20:11,860
 Mike Albertson, our color analyst, was talking about it.

1673
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:17,360
 And he was so just right on spot on talking about you set the standard yourself.

1674
01:20:17,620 --> 01:20:20,140
 The coaches don't say that you said it, and the coaches do say it,

1675
01:20:20,220 --> 01:20:22,480
 but you said it whether you were going to be good or great.

1676
01:20:23,180 --> 01:20:25,120
 And it starts not in the game.

1677
01:20:25,180 --> 01:20:26,560
 It starts during the week in practice.

1678
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:28,020
 It starts in the classroom.

1679
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:29,020
 It starts in the home.

1680
01:20:29,300 --> 01:20:31,780
 It starts all the time because you've got to think, if I'm going to be great,

1681
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:32,620
 it's got to be in everything.

1682
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:33,760
 Exactly.

1683
01:20:34,100 --> 01:20:39,380
 And to be honest with this, Decatur, when it started Friday night in the locker room

1684
01:20:39,380 --> 01:20:44,740
 at Russellville, and I started on them about the junior-senior war thing that goes on

1685
01:20:44,740 --> 01:20:50,380
 during homecoming for some reason at Florence, it's insane to me, the stuff that goes on.

1686
01:20:50,380 --> 01:20:57,080
 But I started in, told them, great win at Russellville, but we can't start this stuff.

1687
01:20:57,220 --> 01:21:03,560
 And we started it, it went on pretty much most of the week, and we didn't practice well.

1688
01:21:03,740 --> 01:21:07,560
 We came in Sunday, we said we need to get locked in on what we're doing,

1689
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:10,420
 and we didn't get locked in on what we were doing.

1690
01:21:10,420 --> 01:21:18,140
 And, you know, I was pretty harsh on the interview, I think, last night in postgame.

1691
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:21,260
 I was pretty animated about that.

1692
01:21:21,460 --> 01:21:23,940
 I'm not going to throw our guys under the bus.

1693
01:21:24,940 --> 01:21:34,240
 It comes back to me, and, you know, I tolerated more than what I've usually tolerated,

1694
01:21:34,440 --> 01:21:36,120
 you know, homecoming week.

1695
01:21:36,540 --> 01:21:40,700
 I'm going to admit I underestimated Decatur on film.

1696
01:21:41,460 --> 01:21:44,220
 We didn't think that was the team we were seeing on film.

1697
01:21:46,420 --> 01:21:52,400
 Our young coaches, I didn't set a good example for them in how we should prepare.

1698
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:59,320
 I let them talk too much about how Decatur's not very good when they were really good last night.

1699
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:02,280
 And, you know, it comes back to me.

1700
01:22:02,580 --> 01:22:04,360
 Our coaches have got to set a standard.

1701
01:22:04,580 --> 01:22:07,940
 I've got to set a standard for those young coaches to understand how we do things.

1702
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:10,460
 I'll be better this week from it.

1703
01:22:10,780 --> 01:22:12,200
 Our coaches will be better.

1704
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:15,340
 We will be better as a staff.

1705
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:19,660
 We didn't handle some situations in the game very well.

1706
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:27,700
 So, we'll have a come to Jesus in the coach's office before we have that with our players.

1707
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:29,080
 But it's an open week.

1708
01:22:29,220 --> 01:22:29,860
 We need it.

1709
01:22:30,480 --> 01:22:31,500
 Good time to regroup.

1710
01:22:32,060 --> 01:22:34,780
 First half of this game, you were leading 17-7.

1711
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:37,220
 Stats would have said Decatur was leading 17-7.

1712
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:43,860
 The stats were not pretty, but you get a big play on defense, a scoop and score that gives you the lead.

1713
01:22:44,180 --> 01:22:47,040
 Even this week, you and I talked off the record.

1714
01:22:47,180 --> 01:22:51,560
 You're like, you know, KJ, you said this game could easily be 14-7 at halftime.

1715
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:53,080
 He said, I just know my team right now.

1716
01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:54,960
 And you were right on target about that.

1717
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,960
 But they did listen to you in this end halftime.

1718
01:22:58,220 --> 01:23:00,060
 I don't want to know what was said at halftime.

1719
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:04,040
 I just know that there's times where you have to let your team know it's time to us to play.

1720
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:05,480
 And they came out and did what they were supposed to do.

1721
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:06,280
 They did.

1722
01:23:06,500 --> 01:23:08,080
 And you're right.

1723
01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:09,660
 I did tell you that.

1724
01:23:09,740 --> 01:23:12,640
 I told the players that it's going to be 14-7.

1725
01:23:12,780 --> 01:23:14,720
 You guys were not practicing very well.

1726
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,260
 We're not getting our mind on our business.

1727
01:23:16,660 --> 01:23:18,720
 And I saw this one coming.

1728
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:24,120
 And I told them, I said, we're going to get the medicine we don't want sometimes.

1729
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:25,640
 And I said, it's coming.

1730
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:28,000
 And I told them after the game, I said, hey, you got it.

1731
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:29,900
 And luckily, we got a W out of it.

1732
01:23:30,020 --> 01:23:36,340
 But, yeah, the halftime, I think probably Austin last year at halftime,

1733
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:41,360
 when we felt like we probably, the whole program turned in the right direction.

1734
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:43,120
 They got one of those.

1735
01:23:43,260 --> 01:23:45,260
 You know, somebody asked me last week about Russell.

1736
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:47,140
 I said, boy, you must have gave one at Russell.

1737
01:23:47,260 --> 01:23:47,480
 No.

1738
01:23:47,940 --> 01:23:50,620
 Let's just go tackle them and keep playing.

1739
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,240
 You know, with no panic button there.

1740
01:23:54,380 --> 01:23:56,280
 I lit them up pretty good at halftime.

1741
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:59,620
 I was going in the locker room at halftime.

1742
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:06,420
 And we've got a guy, a kid that does some stuff for us, flicks by wheel and does a really good job.

1743
01:24:06,500 --> 01:24:09,280
 And Coach Miles has hired him to put some content out.

1744
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:11,600
 And I saw him walking towards the locker room.

1745
01:24:11,620 --> 01:24:12,920
 And I said, stay outside.

1746
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:16,000
 Cut the camera off and go in there.

1747
01:24:16,180 --> 01:24:19,800
 So, they got a good talking to you.

1748
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:20,400
 That's good.

1749
01:24:20,460 --> 01:24:21,240
 Well, it was worth it.

1750
01:24:21,460 --> 01:24:25,880
 The Falcons come away with the victory last night as you knock off Decatur 34-16.

1751
01:24:26,100 --> 01:24:29,460
 And, Coach, one of the things you had was a banged-up team going in.

1752
01:24:29,540 --> 01:24:30,340
 Had a lot of injuries.

1753
01:24:30,740 --> 01:24:31,580
 There was – it looked like that.

1754
01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:34,740
 And I said, there's as many kids not dressed out as are dressed out, it seemed like.

1755
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,900
 So, you had to go to your bullpen.

1756
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:39,220
 And you had three running backs.

1757
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:41,360
 But you go to your bullpen even late in the game.

1758
01:24:41,440 --> 01:24:42,260
 Ja'Kylan Williams.

1759
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:44,160
 He comes from defense to offense.

1760
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:45,020
 Changes numbers.

1761
01:24:45,180 --> 01:24:45,660
 What does he do?

1762
01:24:46,060 --> 01:24:48,500
 He gets his first touchdown and goes over 60 yards and rushing.

1763
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:50,880
 He had a nice drive there.

1764
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,880
 And I was telling Coach McGuire, keep feeding that guy.

1765
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:57,600
 He was our ninth-grade tailback last year.

1766
01:24:57,940 --> 01:25:01,620
 And we moved him to defense because we had so many tailbacks at the time.

1767
01:25:01,700 --> 01:25:03,820
 We had three guys back there.

1768
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:08,980
 And we felt like he would have an opportunity to get on the field faster as a tenth grader

1769
01:25:08,980 --> 01:25:11,140
 and get some experience over there at outside linebacker.

1770
01:25:11,140 --> 01:25:13,060
 Because he played both ways as a ninth grader.

1771
01:25:13,740 --> 01:25:17,020
 But when the running backs started going down one at a time,

1772
01:25:18,220 --> 01:25:19,880
 we said, we've got to bring this guy over.

1773
01:25:20,260 --> 01:25:23,600
 And we put him in at Muscle Shoals and JV game just to give him a dose.

1774
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:25,120
 And, boy, he ran hard.

1775
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:25,660
 He did.

1776
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,720
 And we said, this guy's part of the stable now.

1777
01:25:28,860 --> 01:25:30,500
 I mean, he's solid.

1778
01:25:31,060 --> 01:25:32,280
 And he ran well last night.

1779
01:25:32,340 --> 01:25:32,720
 Really did.

1780
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:33,040
 Loved the kid.

1781
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:34,100
 Great attitude.

1782
01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:36,940
 Do anything you can for the team.

1783
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:40,020
 And, you know, you go from a scout team back to all of a sudden

1784
01:25:40,020 --> 01:25:42,380
 to be the number two back at the time.

1785
01:25:42,740 --> 01:25:44,660
 And he's a good one.

1786
01:25:44,660 --> 01:25:47,960
 It's just been a while since I've seen Florence with so many toys in the toy chest.

1787
01:25:48,060 --> 01:25:49,160
 There's a lot of them there.

1788
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,120
 It's a good problem to have.

1789
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:51,360
 It's a good thing.

1790
01:25:51,440 --> 01:25:51,880
 That's for sure.

1791
01:25:51,980 --> 01:25:52,340
 I have no doubt.

1792
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:55,500
 You had last night without Kayon Williams was out.

1793
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:57,180
 Elijah Hines is being out.

1794
01:25:57,220 --> 01:25:58,180
 But he played last night.

1795
01:25:58,620 --> 01:26:00,740
 And maybe the play of the game was number three.

1796
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:02,260
 He didn't really carry the ball much.

1797
01:26:02,260 --> 01:26:05,300
 But he's in on a two-back set, 35 yards out.

1798
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:08,400
 The Carson Johnson goes sweep left, bounced it a little bit.

1799
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,860
 And he picked up a block, not from a tackle, not from a guard.

1800
01:26:12,420 --> 01:26:16,640
 From little Elijah Hines, who absolutely threw his body against the linebacker

1801
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:17,600
 and freed Johnson up.

1802
01:26:17,700 --> 01:26:19,920
 He went in, I mean, untouched, 35 yards.

1803
01:26:20,620 --> 01:26:22,780
 We really didn't want to play Elijah.

1804
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:25,460
 And it ended up that we needed him.

1805
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:26,900
 And he wanted to try to play.

1806
01:26:27,620 --> 01:26:33,580
 He had a little injury that's just one of those nagging ones that just got a hold to him right now.

1807
01:26:33,700 --> 01:26:36,620
 And he said, I want to try to do it.

1808
01:26:36,620 --> 01:26:44,980
 And he went in that two-back set, and we motioned him out.

1809
01:26:45,500 --> 01:26:47,580
 And it was a run-pass option.

1810
01:26:47,860 --> 01:26:50,620
 And so the pass wasn't there, and we handed it off to Carson.

1811
01:26:50,700 --> 01:26:53,500
 And he bounced right out there to him where we were going to throw it.

1812
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:57,460
 And Hines just turned, looked for the first guy, and blew that guy up.

1813
01:26:57,540 --> 01:26:58,260
 And it was a touchdown.

1814
01:26:58,740 --> 01:27:00,100
 It was a great block.

1815
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:01,580
 And that's what they do.

1816
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:04,260
 Those backs are so unselfish for each other.

1817
01:27:04,900 --> 01:27:09,120
 When Kayon was healthy, and he'll be back with us, that two-back set,

1818
01:27:09,180 --> 01:27:12,460
 he's leading up in there on linebackers blocking for the other guys.

1819
01:27:12,580 --> 01:27:17,780
 And then they're blocking backside edge players for him running.

1820
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:20,280
 They're just so unselfish in that running back room.

1821
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:22,820
 Just love those guys to death.

1822
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:25,920
 Yeah, the Carson Goose Johnson, as I call him, wears number zero.

1823
01:27:26,260 --> 01:27:29,360
 He's got the new nickname for me, and the Goose was loose again last night.

1824
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:33,440
 But I think it was big for your team last night, too, when you see a block like that.

1825
01:27:33,440 --> 01:27:35,340
 It was one of those where the crowd went, ooh.

1826
01:27:35,540 --> 01:27:36,760
 It was one of those ooh blocks.

1827
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:37,880
 And you could see it.

1828
01:27:37,940 --> 01:27:39,740
 And, boy, it just was electric for your team.

1829
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:42,920
 You saw some flashes of some kids that can make some big plays.

1830
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:44,940
 Tripp Mars, a big kickoff return.

1831
01:27:45,020 --> 01:27:45,920
 That was good for you.

1832
01:27:46,460 --> 01:27:50,360
 You saw, what about Jackson Mays, his first touchdown catch of the year.

1833
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:52,300
 Those two receivers making some big plays for you.

1834
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:53,940
 Yeah, Jackson came off the field.

1835
01:27:54,020 --> 01:27:54,700
 He looked at us.

1836
01:27:54,740 --> 01:27:56,560
 He said, I told y'all I was going to score tonight.

1837
01:27:56,920 --> 01:27:58,880
 Yeah, we said, absolutely.

1838
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,740
 But, yeah, he's been a very unselfish senior.

1839
01:28:03,420 --> 01:28:08,860
 You know, he's a guy that was the backup last year, going to step into a starting role.

1840
01:28:09,340 --> 01:28:13,940
 And he's, you know, we've got such a deep receiving room as well.

1841
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:18,740
 And he's just, when he gets his opportunities, he tries to take advantage of them.

1842
01:28:18,780 --> 01:28:19,680
 And he did last night.

1843
01:28:19,700 --> 01:28:21,560
 It was a big catch and a touchdown for us.

1844
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:28,560
 But, again, the unselfishness of this team is what's got us to 5-0 right now.

1845
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:30,140
 And let me say something else from watching.

1846
01:28:30,300 --> 01:28:32,320
 He's the broadcaster that does all the Florence games.

1847
01:28:32,820 --> 01:28:34,180
 I've seen something last night.

1848
01:28:34,260 --> 01:28:35,620
 I've seen it in games past, too.

1849
01:28:35,700 --> 01:28:37,140
 It's nothing against Decatur.

1850
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:42,000
 But your kids have not had an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

1851
01:28:42,420 --> 01:28:45,560
 And last night, there was a couple opportunities where there was frustration from Decatur.

1852
01:28:45,660 --> 01:28:46,800
 They'd had a tough season.

1853
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:48,500
 And kids walked away.

1854
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:49,720
 Kids backed away.

1855
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:53,560
 That says a lot about the culture change maybe happening right now at Florence.

1856
01:28:54,260 --> 01:28:56,520
 And this culture change has been coming.

1857
01:28:56,840 --> 01:28:57,980
 I mean, we've seen this.

1858
01:28:58,480 --> 01:29:02,820
 We haven't had – we didn't have an unsportsmanlike penalty last year.

1859
01:29:03,340 --> 01:29:04,860
 We've not had one this year.

1860
01:29:05,100 --> 01:29:06,200
 We were talking about it.

1861
01:29:06,220 --> 01:29:08,660
 We think it's been about two and a half years since we've had one.

1862
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:10,260
 And that's big.

1863
01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:13,000
 You know, nothing against that first team.

1864
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:16,320
 You know, the first team that we had were – we were new to them.

1865
01:29:16,460 --> 01:29:17,220
 They were new to us.

1866
01:29:17,220 --> 01:29:22,320
 They had been through three head coaches in so many years.

1867
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:24,680
 And there had been so much turnover at Florence.

1868
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,860
 And they just didn't know.

1869
01:29:27,660 --> 01:29:32,520
 And, God, the number of penalties and personal fouls and unsportsmanlike.

1870
01:29:33,220 --> 01:29:34,520
 But I will say this.

1871
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:41,340
 That's the one thing that I really am proud of what we've done here because it's been noticed by the community.

1872
01:29:41,340 --> 01:29:51,820
 It's been noticed by the people in the admin and the central office folks and just the people – the doctors coming to me the first few years there.

1873
01:29:51,900 --> 01:29:53,780
 Wow, what a change on the sideline, Coach.

1874
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:55,380
 Just thank you for what you're doing.

1875
01:29:55,380 --> 01:30:03,440
 And that means more to me than any win we can win that we're making a difference with these kids and showing them how to do things the right way.

1876
01:30:03,660 --> 01:30:10,140
 And the fact that we're 5-0 and we keep telling those guys, you don't have to do that to win.

1877
01:30:10,740 --> 01:30:11,360
 You're playing.

1878
01:30:11,540 --> 01:30:14,900
 It doesn't make you play any harder to run your mouth to the other team.

1879
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:20,300
 And I told them coming in, Decatur was one of the most penalized teams that I'd seen.

1880
01:30:20,440 --> 01:30:24,540
 They had 15 unsportsmanlike penalties in four games and got two more last night.

1881
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:27,840
 That's 17 in five games.

1882
01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:33,220
 And for us not to have one in two and a half years is phenomenal for our program.

1883
01:30:33,220 --> 01:30:37,720
 And, you know, we came out with a W again and did it the right way.

1884
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:39,560
 Next week, open week.

1885
01:30:40,060 --> 01:30:40,920
 Comes in a great time.

1886
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:42,520
 Yeah, I didn't have to go any further.

1887
01:30:42,820 --> 01:30:44,380
 I mean, it was a mass unit.

1888
01:30:44,860 --> 01:30:46,560
 You know, your trainer has been working hard.

1889
01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:48,080
 Everybody has.

1890
01:30:48,180 --> 01:30:49,780
 But it's come at the perfect time.

1891
01:30:50,020 --> 01:30:53,160
 But it's also a perfect time to teach off this game, I'm sure, as well.

1892
01:30:53,740 --> 01:30:57,560
 I don't – I think I do know who pays Wes' check.

1893
01:30:58,420 --> 01:31:02,920
 I'm pretty sure he wants a raise right now because he has earned his pay this time.

1894
01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:07,900
 It's – to see him lined up at his – in the hallway there to get taped.

1895
01:31:07,900 --> 01:31:14,000
 And it's one guy taping all – we could use three more trainers right now.

1896
01:31:14,460 --> 01:31:19,000
 I know he's wore out after he tapes all our guys just to get them to practice.

1897
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:20,920
 But we're a mass unit right now.

1898
01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:22,880
 And we've got to get healed up.

1899
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:25,100
 And, again, bone and joint, hats off to them.

1900
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,360
 And getting our guys back on the field.

1901
01:31:27,460 --> 01:31:29,160
 We've got one in rehab over here.

1902
01:31:29,260 --> 01:31:30,720
 A couple more in right now.

1903
01:31:31,460 --> 01:31:35,460
 And, again, hats off to Wes for keeping our guys out there.

1904
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:37,380
 Heck, they're even working on the coach.

1905
01:31:37,540 --> 01:31:37,800
 I know.

1906
01:31:38,020 --> 01:31:40,460
 I've already been in this morning and had a shot on my knee.

1907
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,840
 Well, listen, I might have to work on the broadcast before it's over with.

1908
01:31:43,860 --> 01:31:46,340
 I understand, it's just been a mass unit for Florence High School.

1909
01:31:46,620 --> 01:31:50,820
 I'm not going to give Coach – I'm not going to give Dr. Hovater too much props

1910
01:31:50,820 --> 01:31:51,840
 because, boy, that shot hurt.

1911
01:31:52,900 --> 01:31:53,920
 Well, that's part of it.

1912
01:31:54,220 --> 01:31:56,580
 Well, I guarantee, Coach, you're going to have to be tough like your team

1913
01:31:56,580 --> 01:31:58,860
 and just tough it out, get through the open week.

1914
01:31:58,860 --> 01:31:59,340
 I'm a wimp.

1915
01:31:59,540 --> 01:32:02,120
 And get ready because in a couple of weeks you're going to have the Athens

1916
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:03,340
 Golden Eagles come to town.

1917
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:05,820
 Cody Gross back to Brawley Stadium.

1918
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:08,320
 He doesn't lose at Brawley Stadium as a player much.

1919
01:32:08,340 --> 01:32:08,940
 Yes, he does this year.

1920
01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:10,520
 But hopefully he does this year.

1921
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:10,980
 Yes, he does this year.

1922
01:32:11,100 --> 01:32:11,920
 That's the whole key.

1923
01:32:12,260 --> 01:32:14,420
 Bring him in there and say, all right, good friend.

1924
01:32:14,540 --> 01:32:15,600
 We respect him a lot.

1925
01:32:15,940 --> 01:32:17,480
 But that's a good team coming to town.

1926
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:20,220
 Yes, they are solid.

1927
01:32:20,900 --> 01:32:22,440
 We've already had them on film.

1928
01:32:24,180 --> 01:32:26,920
 And we started looking at them last night.

1929
01:32:27,060 --> 01:32:29,640
 And they bring a lot to the table.

1930
01:32:30,100 --> 01:32:31,540
 We know they're going to be well, Coach.

1931
01:32:31,620 --> 01:32:32,720
 Cody does a great job.

1932
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:34,580
 His staff there does a great job.

1933
01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:41,420
 He's got a guy that played for us, that was a coach with us for a while at Decatur,

1934
01:32:41,660 --> 01:32:43,600
 a phenomenal young man, Daniel Terry.

1935
01:32:44,440 --> 01:32:46,840
 Those guys, they do a good job.

1936
01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:48,520
 And they get the most out of their kids.

1937
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:49,380
 They always have.

1938
01:32:49,620 --> 01:32:50,720
 And it'll be a battle.

1939
01:32:51,060 --> 01:32:51,400
 Oh, yeah.

1940
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:52,500
 It'll be a battle.

1941
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:55,360
 Coach, five-game senior, 5-0.

1942
01:32:55,660 --> 01:32:58,000
 But a lot left on the table for you.

1943
01:32:58,060 --> 01:33:00,040
 I know you're going to have a lot to do the next week or two.

1944
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:01,460
 Best of luck.

1945
01:33:01,780 --> 01:33:02,820
 Enjoy the off week.

1946
01:33:03,220 --> 01:33:06,700
 And, Coach, more than anything, just get that knee better, okay?

1947
01:33:06,780 --> 01:33:07,460
 Yeah, no doubt.

1948
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,300
 Well, I do want to say this before we hang up.

1949
01:33:10,340 --> 01:33:11,380
 And this is not about me.

1950
01:33:11,480 --> 01:33:16,360
 But this is the first Florence team to ever go 5-0 in the history of the school.

1951
01:33:16,500 --> 01:33:16,660
 Yeah.

1952
01:33:16,660 --> 01:33:20,300
 And, you know, I'm proud for these kids and this coaching staff

1953
01:33:20,300 --> 01:33:22,960
 and what they've accomplished, not what I've accomplished.

1954
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:26,380
 But it's big for Florence High School in Florence.

1955
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:27,560
 1996.

1956
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:31,320
 By the way, the best Florence team in 2007 went 4-0.

1957
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:33,040
 This is the first team to go 5-0.

1958
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:38,180
 1996, Bradshaw went, I think, 7-0 before they had a loss,

1959
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:39,600
 or maybe 6-0 before they had a loss.

1960
01:33:40,420 --> 01:33:45,200
 1975, Coffey team went 9-0 before they got beaten game 10 against Harsall.

1961
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:48,840
 Okay, you're in territory that you haven't been in before,

1962
01:33:49,020 --> 01:33:50,480
 but it's a history-making team.

1963
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:52,540
 Let's get 6.

1964
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:54,240
 Let's get 6, and that should be fun.

1965
01:33:54,340 --> 01:33:56,880
 And that was my history lesson for the day on the Florence City Schools there.

1966
01:33:57,020 --> 01:33:57,260
 I love it.

1967
01:33:57,800 --> 01:33:59,960
 Head coach of the Florence Falcons, Coach Kenny Morrison.

1968
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,640
 When we come back, we'll wrap it up after this 30-second timeout.

1969
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:07,660
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1970
01:34:07,660 --> 01:34:10,220
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1971
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:12,440
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1972
01:34:12,800 --> 01:34:14,160
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1973
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:17,040
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1974
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1975
01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:22,880
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1976
01:34:23,260 --> 01:34:26,440
 Whether it's dine-in or carry-out, come see us at Milla's Place,

1977
01:34:26,780 --> 01:34:28,840
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1978
01:34:29,140 --> 01:34:31,380
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1979
01:34:37,380 --> 01:34:39,960
 Back here on the Coach's Breakfast, 93-9 to score.

1980
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:40,780
 What a good day.

1981
01:34:41,060 --> 01:34:42,040
 Good with all the coaches.

1982
01:34:42,540 --> 01:34:44,940
 Kevin Johnson here on the call with all them and interviewing them,

1983
01:34:45,020 --> 01:34:46,120
 and enjoyed Kenny Morrison.

1984
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:49,080
 What a great insight, and he just did a great job.

1985
01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:50,500
 Marce Hill coached Chris Hill as well.

1986
01:34:50,620 --> 01:34:51,340
 Great job there.

1987
01:34:51,420 --> 01:34:52,200
 Heathwood Central.

1988
01:34:52,620 --> 01:34:53,440
 I could go on and on.

1989
01:34:53,460 --> 01:34:55,580
 Those guys are just fantastic coaches,

1990
01:34:55,980 --> 01:34:58,600
 and appreciate them so very much in all that they do.

1991
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:03,060
 But I really enjoyed Coach Morrison here in just his insight, his honesty,

1992
01:35:03,500 --> 01:35:06,540
 and veteran coach that's got Florence going the right direction.

1993
01:35:06,640 --> 01:35:09,680
 As he said, 5-0 starts never done in school history.

1994
01:35:10,060 --> 01:35:12,440
 And our next broadcast, a week from Friday against Athens,

1995
01:35:12,500 --> 01:35:16,100
 to try to continue to make history as they take on the Athens Golden Eagles.

1996
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:17,760
 A big day of college football.

1997
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:20,340
 Congratulations again to Brent Dierman, the UNA Lions,

1998
01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:22,620
 christening that new bank-independent stadium.

1999
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:23,780
 Best of luck to them tonight.

2000
01:35:24,240 --> 01:35:26,880
 I think there's a big one being played down on the plains tonight.

2001
01:35:27,020 --> 01:35:27,940
 Auburn and Florida.

2002
01:35:28,720 --> 01:35:29,760
 What a game that will be.

2003
01:35:30,140 --> 01:35:32,360
 I think two teams that are trying to get into the top.

2004
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:33,720
 We'll see which one can.

2005
01:35:33,860 --> 01:35:36,240
 Can the mystique of Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium happen?

2006
01:35:36,620 --> 01:35:37,500
 Some say no.

2007
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:38,200
 Some say yes.

2008
01:35:38,260 --> 01:35:39,780
 But I think it's a coin flip.

2009
01:35:40,140 --> 01:35:42,180
 I think Florida has more players.

2010
01:35:42,580 --> 01:35:44,340
 But I think Auburn does have a chance at home.

2011
01:35:44,340 --> 01:35:46,020
 So we'll see how that plays out tonight.

2012
01:35:46,440 --> 01:35:47,580
 Ole Miss and LSU.

2013
01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:50,500
 I'm sure nobody's really caring about that one a whole lot.

2014
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:51,820
 But it's going to be played this afternoon.

2015
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:53,020
 What a matchup that will be.

2016
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:54,700
 Get your popcorn ready.

2017
01:35:54,780 --> 01:35:56,020
 I think somebody said that one time.

2018
01:35:56,100 --> 01:35:57,880
 Well, we'll get our popcorn ready and then some.

2019
01:35:58,220 --> 01:35:59,880
 I think LSU, though, wins the game.

2020
01:35:59,940 --> 01:36:01,840
 I think they've just got two Benny Jimmys and Joes.

2021
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:04,400
 And, you know, some other games to keep eyes on today.

2022
01:36:05,100 --> 01:36:06,000
 Should be a good one.

2023
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:09,100
 SMU and Louisville will be a tremendous game.

2024
01:36:09,420 --> 01:36:11,280
 That may be the underdog game nobody knows about.

2025
01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:12,840
 I'm telling you, those are two great teams.

2026
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:14,720
 And I like Rhett Lashley and SMU.

2027
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:16,120
 I think they're a really outstanding team.

2028
01:36:16,340 --> 01:36:17,960
 I think Rhett Lashley is one of the best coaches.

2029
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:20,560
 So enjoy your day of college football.

2030
01:36:20,880 --> 01:36:21,820
 Should be a lot of fun.

2031
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:25,700
 And we'll be back Saturday morning with the coaches' breakfast.

2032
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:28,660
 Getting ready to talk to coaches about Friday night's game.

2033
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2040
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2041
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 Enjoy the day of college football.

2042
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2043
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