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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, welcome in to Go Fight Win, the show
with all the high school football stories you love. My
name is Wes blanken Chip, and on this week's episode,
we'll hop around to three high school football headlines that
I loved and or found myself immediately interested in, including
a coach that gave up his kidney to a rival
(00:23):
coach in nil fiasco up in the state of Delaware,
and a team that should inspire any high school football
team that's down in the dumps. Historically, when it comes
to the playoffs, it's playoff time, it's postseason time, it's
go Fight win time. Let's kick it off. Well, get
(00:48):
the bottle to Donnie Cousin. Let that puzzle. If you
are new here at Go Fight Win, then let me
introduce you to another somewhat newcomer on the block, Coach
Dooley'slist dot Com. Coach Dooley was one of my high
(01:11):
school football coaches, and in the time between now and then,
it's been a couple decades now, coach has coached a
lot of other teams football, baseball, softball, and along that
journey he's picked up a great impressive network of coaches
and vendors who have helped him out along the way.
(01:32):
Coach is not coaching teams actively anymore. He's launched his
own initiative, and it is Coach Doulee'slist dot Com where
he's using that network and the coaches he trusts and
the vendors he trusts to help out other high school coaches,
team moms, team dads, athletics departments to help them get
(01:53):
the equipment and gear that they need. If you've heard
of Angie's List, this is the high school sports equivalent.
You know how difficult it can be to get all
the stuff you need to help your season be successful,
whether it's peanut oil for the concession stand, football cleats, mouthpieces, advisors,
all that stuff. There's a lot of equipment, a lot
(02:16):
of gear, and Coach Julie's List will point you in
the right direction for whatever you need. You know, even
those signs for seniors, you probably already have those up
if you're affiliated with high school football, but high school
basketball seasons coming up. If you need those big signs
that showcase the seniors that have done a lot for
(02:37):
your program, then head on over to coach Juliuslist dot com.
Check it out. You know, you're getting the best, highest
recommended stuff over at coach juliuslist dot com, a proud
partner of Go Fight Win, and we are happy over
here on this end to share it on this platform.
All right, today, gonna hop around pretty quick. Some postseason
(03:00):
worays of interest, some mid season and some big picture
stories including nil that is coming into high school sports.
But first I want to tell you about this story
out of Texas. NBC News actually National covered this story.
You don't get many of those here on Go Fight Win,
but this one is remarkable. Mason Williams was only born
(03:23):
with one kidney, and you know, we only need one
of those to function to operate and get around. But
if that one kidney isn't working properly, that's going to
be an issue. So when Mason's kidney started to fail,
the football coach at Cleborne High School this is out
of Texas, started dialysis. He shared his health update with
(03:45):
Mike Trevino, who coaches at rival Highland Park High School
really stout historically great high school athletics program. Matthew Stafford
Clayton Kershaw came out of there. If you didn't know,
those two guys actually played on the same high school
football and baseball teams at Highland Park. A lot of
(04:06):
people don't know that, but Trevino previously coached with Williams
at Fort Worth Polytechnic and he wanted to help. So
Trevino sneaky guy. He secretly got tested to see if
he could donate his kidney to Williams. And guess what,
he found out he was a match. I can't imagine
(04:27):
what that moment's like to find out that, Hey, guess
what this guy you want to help, you can help him,
and you're going to be losing one of your kidneys
to do it. I can't I can't imagine that. Man,
that must be surreal. But he went in knowing that
was a possibility and it worked out. So he surprised
(04:51):
coach Williams with the good news last year. In last December,
Williams got a Christmas present he'll never yet, a life
saving kidney transplant from Trevino. The surgery was a success,
and what do you know, these two guys are thickest thieves. Now, hey, Bud,
(05:14):
you got a part of me, and you now you
got one of my organs that God gave me. It's
yours now, it's helping you out. Reminds me of a Seinfeld.
You got a pine of Cramer in your pal well,
Coach Williams has I don't know how much as a
kidney hold a pint. I don't know. That might be
(05:35):
a record breaking kidney. But they now have a bond
that won't leave until they leave the earth. They had
a reunion on the field last week when Kleeburn played
Highland Park. Williams and Trevino were honorary captains and the
fans cheered. They celebrated him not just a coaches, but
(06:01):
it's human beings. Trevino says, the choice to donate is
kidney was simple. I don't know that I've ever been
more confident about a decision other than maybe marrying my wife,
he says. And Williams could not be more grateful for
the second chance it is giving him great job coaches.
(06:25):
This is what I continue to say about high school coaches.
They are selfless. You know, there's some knuckleheads out there,
there's some losers out there. Trying not to give them
too much of a spotlight on this show because it's
the high school football stories that we love, and this
may be my favorite one I've heard this season. It
(06:46):
really embodies how selfless these suckers are, not just giving
up their time for their players, taking time away from
their families. These aren't high paid college coaches, you know, Texas.
They might make a little bit more than the average
high school football coach, but still this is not the
scale that you see these massive contracts the college coaches get.
(07:10):
These guys are outside of their modest salaries, doing this
for the love of the game, to give back and
help their players learn some lessons. And think about every
player on each one of those rosters, every person in
the stands that saw that and knows the story. They
will never forget that. Man, that's going to be a
(07:31):
story that they talk about for the rest of their
lives and probably encouraging some organ donors some more selfless
acts along the way. And that's all you can hope
for when you do something like this, is that someone
else will learn from it. Great job coach Kleeborn. Did lose.
The game wasn't really close, but who cares about that.
(07:54):
I don't. I care more about these two coaches here.
Good job guys. All right, interesting story here in IL.
You've probably heard about it in college athletics. Well, there's
now going to be a movement and a surge of
people who want this to happen for high school athletes
(08:16):
as well. And whether you agree with that or not,
legally you can't keep people from profiting off of their name,
image and likeness if they've earned the opportunity to do it.
But this story coming out of Delaware really kicked me
in the teeth because it shows me how messy some
(08:38):
of this stuff is going to get. It's already kind
of messy in college, not as many regulations, a little
bit more of the wild West in high school. So
Delaware joined the growing list of states This is from
Why Why Why Why did this team do this? Delaware
(09:03):
joined the growing list of states that permit high school
athletes to earn money from their name, image, and likeness
without jeopardizing their eligibility to play. Scholastic athletes in America
are piggybacking on what their collegiate counterparts have been able
to do since twenty twenty one, but in Delaware, appearing
in commercials filmed at the school, in displaying its logo
(09:25):
or wearing your team uniform has been explicitly banned. At
least since two thousand and five by the Delaware Interscholastic
Athletic Association otherwise known as DIAA. You probably haven't heard
about that unless you're from Delaware. It governs high school sports,
but that rule still remains in effect even with the
(09:48):
new NIL rules, so you can't do it. So what happened?
Indian River High schools administrators and coaches allowed more than
twenty football players to peer in a thirty second TV
spot for Hershey Exteriors. That's out of Sussex County. They
remodel and roof contractors. The players wore their full uniforms
(10:13):
and pads, green tops, yellow pants in this advertisement advertisement.
I think that's how they say it up there in Delaware.
And they were seated inside the school stadium. Three players
stood and spoke and two coaches also had speaking lines.
(10:34):
Indian River school and district officials won't say what led
them to shoot the ad money We can answer that one.
It was in clear violation of long standing state policies.
The DIAA immediately began investigating and formally reprimanded Indian River
for failure to comply with those regulations. Out of the
(10:55):
DIAA concerning student athlete eligibility and amateur status. Don't make
money for the contractors. You can't do that. While no
direct compensation or benefits were provided to the students or
school personnel, the participation in the commercial jeopardized the amateur
status of the student athletes. Look, they're going through a
(11:21):
legal process. This is a bunch of bull. This is
just ridiculous. The coaches participated in the commercial under the
supervision of the school athletic department, and the violations of
these regulations risk compromising the integrity of Delaware's high school
sports programs. Give me a break, man. These are some
blue collar contractors who are loving on their high school
(11:44):
athletes in the community. They didn't benefit. This is going
to be such a huge pile of litigation and unnecessary
investigations here. This is just absurd to me. Tyler Hershey
said his sales rep recommended making the ad and told
(12:06):
him that Indian River administrators gave it the green light.
They had to remove the commercial from further broadcasts and
Indian River you know the issue here. Will they be
banned from competition? No, The DIA decided not to penalize
(12:29):
the students. That's the right move. Indian River is still
eligible to play games. It's seven to one and it's
on track for a berth in the Division one A playoffs.
So good they get to play. But this shouldn't even
be a story. So when I was playing high school football,
and if you played ball or coached, your experience is
probably similar. You had a program each year for your
(12:49):
team and it would get passed out at games. Cheerleaders
would sell it, probably five dollars a pop. And after
we took our team photos in the summer before the
season started, you know, the traditional taking knee hold the football,
get your picture and name in the program, we'd go
around the rest of the afternoon to a bunch of businesses,
(13:10):
car dealerships, plumbers, contractors, whatever, and we would be wearing
our jerseys and it was an advertisement that those businesses
decided to put in the program. We didn't get paid
for it. The school did, the Touchdown club did, whoever,
the athletics department. But I don't see a difference here.
(13:32):
This is a TV advertisement, all right, It's not in
an ad, but the players are still being tied in.
This is a community play. It's an advertisement that leans
into the community celebrates these guys that mean a lot
to the community and have a chance to go to
the playoffs. You know, this is just the unfortunate thing
that happens now with this Nil because nobody really knows
(13:54):
what's going on. But before anyone knew what NIL meant,
these happened all the time. Stuff like this happened all
the time. But now somebody feels the need to make
a big deal about it, make it a story, and
potentially get these guys into some bad publicity situations when
(14:15):
it's not necessary. This didn't need to be a story
at all. This is a simple Hey, guys, let's handle
this behind closed doors. Don't do this. It could get
you in trouble, but we're not going to open a
can of worms here. Absolutely ridiculous. Anyone involved with this,
have a heart, be a human, and recognize that no
(14:36):
one deserves to get in trouble for this. If you
want to pull the advertisement, fine, but this does not
need to be a huge story that I'm finding with
a simple search on Google for high school football stories,
it's one of the first ones I found. Absolutely ridiculous.
You'all do better, Indian River. Hope you win it all
(14:57):
and I hope you all have very prop ffittable nil
careers ahead. Don't let this bureaucratic red tape over reaction
situation deter you from going out and getting what you
deserve in the future. Because you deserve to be celebrated.
(15:17):
You deserve to be in this advertisement, and I hope
you all get free contractor deals from Hershey Exteriors, not
for the rest of your life. Maybe because I'm also
pulling for Hershey Exteriors, I'm a big fan of Hershey
Exteriors for recognizing that high school football athletes deserve to
be celebrated. Come on, Delaware, do better, all right? Also
(15:42):
up in that neck of the woods, A good story here.
This is out of the Pittsburgh Union Press. Carlington High
School ends a twenty three year postseason drought. I love
stories like this because at the beginning of any season,
these teams that have been on droughts, teams who's older
brothers and dads in some situations didn't taste the playoffs,
(16:06):
they still enter every single season with a t spoon
full of hope that they will be the team to
break it. And Carlington in the twenty twenty four season
did it. The last time Carlington qualified for the WPIAL playoffs,
the Steelers were coached by Bill Cower and they were
in their first season playing at Hines Field. Twenty three
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years later, Heinz Field is now Akroscher Stadium and it
will play host to the WPIL Class to a championship
in a few weeks, and for the first time in
more than two decades, Carlington is in that bracket and
has a chance to play there. Carlington learned that the
wpil's longest playoff drought came to an end when the
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playoff pairings came out last Saturday, and the Cougars, who
were in the postseason for the first time since one,
earned one of the four wild card berths. Mark Jamison
is the team's leading receiver, one of seventeen seniors on
the team. He says, it's just a great feeling because
our team has come a long way since the start
of the season. We've all been playing together for a
(17:13):
long time, and it feels like our hard work is
starting to pay off. The WPIL man, it's hard to say.
The WPIAL Football Committee picked wild card teams for the
first time ever, and the sixteen teams earning bids were
announced on Saturday, and those teams joined the forty nine
that had already qualified. Carlington was not sweating it out.
(17:35):
It was six and four after dropping its first three
conference games. They even dropped a three and four after
an overtime loss at Waynesburg on October fourth, But the
Cougars then responded, closing the regular season on a three
game win streak and beat Charlot Roy fifty four to
twenty seven. Second year coach John Tortorea said, I was
(17:59):
very confident that we would be in with six wins,
and knowing there were a couple of five win teams
in there, I was pretty confident that six would do it.
Carlington will be the number twelve seed and the other
thing it's trying to do now it's gotten in the playoffs.
It's looking for its first playoff win since nineteen ninety seven.
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It'll play at Western Beaver, who's seven to two, for
a first round game. I love stories like this. These
kids weren't even alive the last time their high school
made the playoffs, let alone won a playoff game. But
now they are part of history and they'll get the
chance to continue move forward and make some history of
(18:42):
their own. I love these stories because if you are
a team out there, or you coach a team out
there that is in a similar situation, it's encouragement every
single year not to give up. You too can break
down that wall. Now, a big X factor here is
seventeen seniors on this team. No matter what sport you play,
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no matter what level, you have that much seniority, a
lot of things can go right for you. And these
guys evidently believe that and they're embracing it, and I'm
pulling for him. Go get them. Let's go Carlington, break
another drought. Make it back to hines Field or Act
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for sure. But that's awesome to play a high school
state championship in there. That's a really cool stadium. I've
been in it and it won't be full of terrible towels,
but who cares, It'll be full heart whoever makes it there.
Y'all hit like and subscribe on this show. If you're
a high school football coach, please share it with the
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coaches that you know that you want to celebrate. Share
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West Underscore d Ship. I'm having a great time doing
this show every week personally, my schedule's gotten a lot busier.
It is definitely a it's a labor of love here.
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It's a passion project to get this thing out, but
I believe in it and I do want to continue
to see it to grow. This episode today just a
little bit thinner. I got a lot of other things
on my plate professionally in my career that I'm trying
to accomplish for some other people, and I got to
provide for my family, and that's where a lot of
(20:32):
my attention's going. But I didn't want to leave these
stories out to dry. So hopefully by the next time
we come back next week, I'll have some other great
stories to share, some other great things to talk about,
and maybe be talking about it for a little bit
longer than I did today. You'll have a great weekend.
Go get yourself some playoff wins, and if you didn't
make the playoffs, your prep for next season's playoff run
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begins yesterday. See y
Hey, y'all, welcome in to Go Fight Win, the show
with all the high school football stories you love. My
name is Wes blanken Chip, and on this week's episode,
we'll hop around to three high school football headlines that
I loved and or found myself immediately interested in, including
a coach that gave up his kidney to a rival
(00:23):
coach in nil fiasco up in the state of Delaware,
and a team that should inspire any high school football
team that's down in the dumps. Historically, when it comes
to the playoffs, it's playoff time, it's postseason time, it's
go Fight win time. Let's kick it off. Well, get
(00:48):
the bottle to Donnie Cousin. Let that puzzle. If you
are new here at Go Fight Win, then let me
introduce you to another somewhat newcomer on the block, Coach
Dooley'slist dot Com. Coach Dooley was one of my high
(01:11):
school football coaches, and in the time between now and then,
it's been a couple decades now, coach has coached a
lot of other teams football, baseball, softball, and along that
journey he's picked up a great impressive network of coaches
and vendors who have helped him out along the way.
(01:32):
Coach is not coaching teams actively anymore. He's launched his
own initiative, and it is Coach Doulee'slist dot Com where
he's using that network and the coaches he trusts and
the vendors he trusts to help out other high school coaches,
team moms, team dads, athletics departments to help them get
(01:53):
the equipment and gear that they need. If you've heard
of Angie's List, this is the high school sports equivalent.
You know how difficult it can be to get all
the stuff you need to help your season be successful,
whether it's peanut oil for the concession stand, football cleats, mouthpieces, advisors,
all that stuff. There's a lot of equipment, a lot
(02:16):
of gear, and Coach Julie's List will point you in
the right direction for whatever you need. You know, even
those signs for seniors, you probably already have those up
if you're affiliated with high school football, but high school
basketball seasons coming up. If you need those big signs
that showcase the seniors that have done a lot for
(02:37):
your program, then head on over to coach Juliuslist dot com.
Check it out. You know, you're getting the best, highest
recommended stuff over at coach juliuslist dot com, a proud
partner of Go Fight Win, and we are happy over
here on this end to share it on this platform.
All right, today, gonna hop around pretty quick. Some postseason
(03:00):
worays of interest, some mid season and some big picture
stories including nil that is coming into high school sports.
But first I want to tell you about this story
out of Texas. NBC News actually National covered this story.
You don't get many of those here on Go Fight Win,
but this one is remarkable. Mason Williams was only born
(03:23):
with one kidney, and you know, we only need one
of those to function to operate and get around. But
if that one kidney isn't working properly, that's going to
be an issue. So when Mason's kidney started to fail,
the football coach at Cleborne High School this is out
of Texas, started dialysis. He shared his health update with
(03:45):
Mike Trevino, who coaches at rival Highland Park High School
really stout historically great high school athletics program. Matthew Stafford
Clayton Kershaw came out of there. If you didn't know,
those two guys actually played on the same high school
football and baseball teams at Highland Park. A lot of
(04:06):
people don't know that, but Trevino previously coached with Williams
at Fort Worth Polytechnic and he wanted to help. So
Trevino sneaky guy. He secretly got tested to see if
he could donate his kidney to Williams. And guess what,
he found out he was a match. I can't imagine
(04:27):
what that moment's like to find out that, Hey, guess
what this guy you want to help, you can help him,
and you're going to be losing one of your kidneys
to do it. I can't I can't imagine that. Man,
that must be surreal. But he went in knowing that
was a possibility and it worked out. So he surprised
(04:51):
coach Williams with the good news last year. In last December,
Williams got a Christmas present he'll never yet, a life
saving kidney transplant from Trevino. The surgery was a success,
and what do you know, these two guys are thickest thieves. Now, hey, Bud,
(05:14):
you got a part of me, and you now you
got one of my organs that God gave me. It's
yours now, it's helping you out. Reminds me of a Seinfeld.
You got a pine of Cramer in your pal well,
Coach Williams has I don't know how much as a
kidney hold a pint. I don't know. That might be
(05:35):
a record breaking kidney. But they now have a bond
that won't leave until they leave the earth. They had
a reunion on the field last week when Kleeburn played
Highland Park. Williams and Trevino were honorary captains and the
fans cheered. They celebrated him not just a coaches, but
(06:01):
it's human beings. Trevino says, the choice to donate is
kidney was simple. I don't know that I've ever been
more confident about a decision other than maybe marrying my wife,
he says. And Williams could not be more grateful for
the second chance it is giving him great job coaches.
(06:25):
This is what I continue to say about high school coaches.
They are selfless. You know, there's some knuckleheads out there,
there's some losers out there. Trying not to give them
too much of a spotlight on this show because it's
the high school football stories that we love, and this
may be my favorite one I've heard this season. It
(06:46):
really embodies how selfless these suckers are, not just giving
up their time for their players, taking time away from
their families. These aren't high paid college coaches, you know, Texas.
They might make a little bit more than the average
high school football coach, but still this is not the
scale that you see these massive contracts the college coaches get.
(07:10):
These guys are outside of their modest salaries, doing this
for the love of the game, to give back and
help their players learn some lessons. And think about every
player on each one of those rosters, every person in
the stands that saw that and knows the story. They
will never forget that. Man, that's going to be a
(07:31):
story that they talk about for the rest of their
lives and probably encouraging some organ donors some more selfless
acts along the way. And that's all you can hope
for when you do something like this, is that someone
else will learn from it. Great job coach Kleeborn. Did lose.
The game wasn't really close, but who cares about that.
(07:54):
I don't. I care more about these two coaches here.
Good job guys. All right, interesting story here in IL.
You've probably heard about it in college athletics. Well, there's
now going to be a movement and a surge of
people who want this to happen for high school athletes
(08:16):
as well. And whether you agree with that or not,
legally you can't keep people from profiting off of their name,
image and likeness if they've earned the opportunity to do it.
But this story coming out of Delaware really kicked me
in the teeth because it shows me how messy some
(08:38):
of this stuff is going to get. It's already kind
of messy in college, not as many regulations, a little
bit more of the wild West in high school. So
Delaware joined the growing list of states This is from
Why Why Why Why did this team do this? Delaware
(09:03):
joined the growing list of states that permit high school
athletes to earn money from their name, image, and likeness
without jeopardizing their eligibility to play. Scholastic athletes in America
are piggybacking on what their collegiate counterparts have been able
to do since twenty twenty one, but in Delaware, appearing
in commercials filmed at the school, in displaying its logo
(09:25):
or wearing your team uniform has been explicitly banned. At
least since two thousand and five by the Delaware Interscholastic
Athletic Association otherwise known as DIAA. You probably haven't heard
about that unless you're from Delaware. It governs high school sports,
but that rule still remains in effect even with the
(09:48):
new NIL rules, so you can't do it. So what happened?
Indian River High schools administrators and coaches allowed more than
twenty football players to peer in a thirty second TV
spot for Hershey Exteriors. That's out of Sussex County. They
remodel and roof contractors. The players wore their full uniforms
(10:13):
and pads, green tops, yellow pants in this advertisement advertisement.
I think that's how they say it up there in Delaware.
And they were seated inside the school stadium. Three players
stood and spoke and two coaches also had speaking lines.
(10:34):
Indian River school and district officials won't say what led
them to shoot the ad money We can answer that one.
It was in clear violation of long standing state policies.
The DIAA immediately began investigating and formally reprimanded Indian River
for failure to comply with those regulations. Out of the
(10:55):
DIAA concerning student athlete eligibility and amateur status. Don't make
money for the contractors. You can't do that. While no
direct compensation or benefits were provided to the students or
school personnel, the participation in the commercial jeopardized the amateur
status of the student athletes. Look, they're going through a
(11:21):
legal process. This is a bunch of bull. This is
just ridiculous. The coaches participated in the commercial under the
supervision of the school athletic department, and the violations of
these regulations risk compromising the integrity of Delaware's high school
sports programs. Give me a break, man. These are some
blue collar contractors who are loving on their high school
(11:44):
athletes in the community. They didn't benefit. This is going
to be such a huge pile of litigation and unnecessary
investigations here. This is just absurd to me. Tyler Hershey
said his sales rep recommended making the ad and told
(12:06):
him that Indian River administrators gave it the green light.
They had to remove the commercial from further broadcasts and
Indian River you know the issue here. Will they be
banned from competition? No, The DIA decided not to penalize
(12:29):
the students. That's the right move. Indian River is still
eligible to play games. It's seven to one and it's
on track for a berth in the Division one A playoffs.
So good they get to play. But this shouldn't even
be a story. So when I was playing high school football,
and if you played ball or coached, your experience is
probably similar. You had a program each year for your
(12:49):
team and it would get passed out at games. Cheerleaders
would sell it, probably five dollars a pop. And after
we took our team photos in the summer before the
season started, you know, the traditional taking knee hold the football,
get your picture and name in the program, we'd go
around the rest of the afternoon to a bunch of businesses,
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car dealerships, plumbers, contractors, whatever, and we would be wearing
our jerseys and it was an advertisement that those businesses
decided to put in the program. We didn't get paid
for it. The school did, the Touchdown club did, whoever,
the athletics department. But I don't see a difference here.
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This is a TV advertisement, all right, It's not in
an ad, but the players are still being tied in.
This is a community play. It's an advertisement that leans
into the community celebrates these guys that mean a lot
to the community and have a chance to go to
the playoffs. You know, this is just the unfortunate thing
that happens now with this Nil because nobody really knows
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what's going on. But before anyone knew what NIL meant,
these happened all the time. Stuff like this happened all
the time. But now somebody feels the need to make
a big deal about it, make it a story, and
potentially get these guys into some bad publicity situations when
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it's not necessary. This didn't need to be a story
at all. This is a simple Hey, guys, let's handle
this behind closed doors. Don't do this. It could get
you in trouble, but we're not going to open a
can of worms here. Absolutely ridiculous. Anyone involved with this,
have a heart, be a human, and recognize that no
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one deserves to get in trouble for this. If you
want to pull the advertisement, fine, but this does not
need to be a huge story that I'm finding with
a simple search on Google for high school football stories,
it's one of the first ones I found. Absolutely ridiculous.
You'all do better, Indian River. Hope you win it all
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and I hope you all have very prop ffittable nil
careers ahead. Don't let this bureaucratic red tape over reaction
situation deter you from going out and getting what you
deserve in the future. Because you deserve to be celebrated.
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You deserve to be in this advertisement, and I hope
you all get free contractor deals from Hershey Exteriors, not
for the rest of your life. Maybe because I'm also
pulling for Hershey Exteriors, I'm a big fan of Hershey
Exteriors for recognizing that high school football athletes deserve to
be celebrated. Come on, Delaware, do better, all right? Also
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up in that neck of the woods, A good story here.
This is out of the Pittsburgh Union Press. Carlington High
School ends a twenty three year postseason drought. I love
stories like this because at the beginning of any season,
these teams that have been on droughts, teams who's older
brothers and dads in some situations didn't taste the playoffs,
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they still enter every single season with a t spoon
full of hope that they will be the team to
break it. And Carlington in the twenty twenty four season
did it. The last time Carlington qualified for the WPIAL playoffs,
the Steelers were coached by Bill Cower and they were
in their first season playing at Hines Field. Twenty three
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years later, Heinz Field is now Akroscher Stadium and it
will play host to the WPIL Class to a championship
in a few weeks, and for the first time in
more than two decades, Carlington is in that bracket and
has a chance to play there. Carlington learned that the
wpil's longest playoff drought came to an end when the
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playoff pairings came out last Saturday, and the Cougars, who
were in the postseason for the first time since one,
earned one of the four wild card berths. Mark Jamison
is the team's leading receiver, one of seventeen seniors on
the team. He says, it's just a great feeling because
our team has come a long way since the start
of the season. We've all been playing together for a
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long time, and it feels like our hard work is
starting to pay off. The WPIL man, it's hard to say.
The WPIAL Football Committee picked wild card teams for the
first time ever, and the sixteen teams earning bids were
announced on Saturday, and those teams joined the forty nine
that had already qualified. Carlington was not sweating it out.
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It was six and four after dropping its first three
conference games. They even dropped a three and four after
an overtime loss at Waynesburg on October fourth, But the
Cougars then responded, closing the regular season on a three
game win streak and beat Charlot Roy fifty four to
twenty seven. Second year coach John Tortorea said, I was
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very confident that we would be in with six wins,
and knowing there were a couple of five win teams
in there, I was pretty confident that six would do it.
Carlington will be the number twelve seed and the other
thing it's trying to do now it's gotten in the playoffs.
It's looking for its first playoff win since nineteen ninety seven.
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It'll play at Western Beaver, who's seven to two, for
a first round game. I love stories like this. These
kids weren't even alive the last time their high school
made the playoffs, let alone won a playoff game. But
now they are part of history and they'll get the
chance to continue move forward and make some history of
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their own. I love these stories because if you are
a team out there, or you coach a team out
there that is in a similar situation, it's encouragement every
single year not to give up. You too can break
down that wall. Now, a big X factor here is
seventeen seniors on this team. No matter what sport you play,
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no matter what level, you have that much seniority, a
lot of things can go right for you. And these
guys evidently believe that and they're embracing it, and I'm
pulling for him. Go get them. Let's go Carlington, break
another drought. Make it back to hines Field or Act
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for sure. But that's awesome to play a high school
state championship in there. That's a really cool stadium. I've
been in it and it won't be full of terrible towels,
but who cares, It'll be full heart whoever makes it there.
Y'all hit like and subscribe on this show. If you're
a high school football coach, please share it with the
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coaches that you know that you want to celebrate. Share
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West Underscore d Ship. I'm having a great time doing
this show every week personally, my schedule's gotten a lot busier.
It is definitely a it's a labor of love here.
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It's a passion project to get this thing out, but
I believe in it and I do want to continue
to see it to grow. This episode today just a
little bit thinner. I got a lot of other things
on my plate professionally in my career that I'm trying
to accomplish for some other people, and I got to
provide for my family, and that's where a lot of
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my attention's going. But I didn't want to leave these
stories out to dry. So hopefully by the next time
we come back next week, I'll have some other great
stories to share, some other great things to talk about,
and maybe be talking about it for a little bit
longer than I did today. You'll have a great weekend.
Go get yourself some playoff wins, and if you didn't
make the playoffs, your prep for next season's playoff run
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begins yesterday. See y
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