October 10, 2024 • 20 mins
Death of the National Letter of Intent.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, welcome into Go Fight Win, the show with
all the high school football stories you love. My name's
Wes Blanken Chip In this week, just as I do
every week, I'll take a look at the high school
football headlines from around the country that are too good,
too weird, too uplifting not to talk about. Starting with
the death of the NLI, the National Letter of Intent.
What does it mean for high school players announcing where
(00:23):
they will go to college. I don't think anybody really
knows at this point, but I have some thoughts and
we will dive right in. Plus a TikTok challenge involving
belts and rear ends in the state of Texas that
has a team in hot Water and a player in
Ohio with literal wheels that fills my heart with joy.
Plus Coffeetown high school football is back on your airwaves
(00:47):
in this episode, as the Copperheads take on Acorn Hill
and a nest full of angry buzzards. That's right, it's
all coming up right now. On Go Fight Win, run
through the whistle.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, if you get the ball to Donnie Cougin, let
that pudgy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Go here on, Go Fight Win. We've partnered up with
a website called Coachdooley'slist dot com. If you are involved
with high school athletics in any way, shape or form,
you know that you need other people to help you out.
(01:29):
Whether it's vendors, whether it's equipment, whether it is trophies
or banners for your team's stadium or postseason celebration. Well,
that's what Coach Dooley's List is all about. It hooks
you up with a wide network of those kinds of people.
If you need more shoelaces for your team, if you
(01:50):
need to fix some face masks, well, Coach Dooley's List
has compiled the best list of vendors and associates in
the of high school athletics to help you out. It
was started by one of my former high school football coaches,
Coach Billy Dooley, who has decades of experience in coaching
high school athletics, not just football, but also softball and baseball.
(02:14):
And he knows people, He knows the right people, and
he's gonna steer you toward him no matter what you
need in your high school team's season. There's a link
to Coach Dooley's List in this show's description. Go check
it out. It has what you want, all right. So
our first story today is about the death of the NLI,
the National letter of Intent. If you're familiar with high
(02:36):
school athletics college sports, you know how important National Signing
Day has always been. It's important in a lot of
different sports, but in college football and high school football specifically,
it has its own aura about it. It's a cultural thing,
it's a right of passage. I went to the University
of Georgia, so primarily following the Dogs. My mind when
(02:59):
I think about signing Day goes to a couple different places.
It goes to Isaiah Crowell pulling out a bulldog puppy
to announce he was going to sign with the Georgia Bulldogs.
I think about Rokwan Smith who flashed UCLA gloves only
to get cold feet, have a change of heart, learn
(03:20):
some new information about his coaches at UCLA, and then
decide to stick with the hometown Georgia Bulldogs. That was
a multi day storyline in college sports and in signing
day news. It's important for the players that earn the
right to go play at a college level, earn a scholarship.
(03:42):
It's important for fans of colleges as they watched their
schools recruiting class roll in and they learn who the
next crop of their team's players may happen to be. Well,
now that the NCAA has eliminated the national letter of
Intent program, this is a story that has had its
(04:02):
wheels in motion for a while. It's not really a surprise,
but now we have the opportunity to take a look
at what it means. The House versus NCAA settlement received
preliminary approval earlier this week as I'm recording this on
October ninth, twenty twenty four, and the two point eight
billion dollar antitrust settlement Yes with a bee, opens up
(04:26):
the floodgates for schools to begin revenue sharing with their
players as soon as the twenty twenty five twenty six
school year. Now there still has to be a full
approval to this, but it is the final formality in
the end of an era of what college sports once
was and what it will be. You know, the INLI
(04:49):
is basically worthless these days, with the transfer portal being
as open as it is with NIL not to be
confused with l NIL influencing a lot of these decisions,
There are a lot of moving parts here, but it
does have ramifications for National Signing Day. Will there still
(05:10):
be a signing day where multiple players at one high
school have a ceremony and announce where they're going to school?
I don't know. I mean I used to work in
the media and local news and covered so many signing
days that involved me driving from school to school, got
out of a couple speeding tickets from sheriff's deputies who
(05:31):
knew who I was and knew where I was going
and how important the day was. If that doesn't tell
you how important signing day is, there were sheriff's deputies
who let me out of speeding tickets. I won't name
them or their jurisdiction, but they knew how important my
job was that day and how important it was for
the community and the players that were signing. My theory
(05:54):
on what signing days will look like now as you
no longer have fax machines getting used two days a
year for signing day, and instead athletes will sign more
of a scholarship agreement, a financial aid agreement that looks
more like a professional sports contract. Whatever you think about
(06:14):
it doesn't really matter, because that's what's happening, and that's
where it's going to go. So I still think there
will be some high jinks. There will be some theatrics
and some drama as players announce, and look, they still
enjoy the spotlight of their moment of deciding where they're
going to go to school. Think about free agency and
(06:35):
pro sports, those are still very dramatic decisions, and it
will be a free agent agreement of sorts. Will that
player stay there for more than one year, maybe not,
depends on how their NIL deals look and their prospects
look down the road and their playing time looks. We
already have players opting out of their teams rosters due
(06:59):
to NIA in the middle of seasons right now, So
I think anything is on the table. But if you're
thinking that the death of the NLI means the death
of drama and excitement on signing day, I want to
encourage you or maybe warn you, that I don't think
that drama is going anywhere. If anything, I think it's
(07:20):
going to get crazier. Imagine players that are earning NIL
deals having their stream of their announcement sponsored. They don't
have to wait for ESPN or the local news truck
to show up. And cover their decision. Instead, they can
have a live stream that's sponsored by insert your brand here,
(07:43):
and they can still pull out bulldog puppies or change
their minds at the last second if they so choose.
But we're all along for the ride, and like it
or not, high school athletes at the five star level
down to the Division two level are going to be
(08:04):
controlling what happens in college athletics, and I believe this
will be a very profitable opportunity for a lot of sponsors.
So the amateurism is gone, it's left. The station in
li is gone, but those agreements still have to start somewhere,
(08:26):
and there will still be plenty of hats on tables.
There will still be plenty of moms who don't approve
of where their sons go to school. If you're a
college coach, nine times out of ten, if you win
mama over, you're going to get the player that you want.
But these days you're going to have agents that players
are trying to win over as well. So I know
(08:47):
this is mainly a college football college athletics story at
face value, but as someone who covered plenty of high
school signing days in years past, I think in a
lot of ways, it'll get crazier, and I think in
a lot of ways for the guys that aren't five
star athletes, for the guys that aren't commanding national broadcasts,
(09:07):
I think it'll still look the same. They're just signing
different pieces of paper and they probably don't have to
use a fax machine anymore to get it done. So
rest in peace, National letters of Intent, and rest in
piece fax machines. I think this was your last stand,
was signing day, and we don't need you anymore. You've
(09:30):
served us well. Right off into the sunset, all right.
The next story comes out of Texas. This comes out
of Scooby Axon wrote this for USA Today. I didn't
make that name up, but maybe he's an AI writer.
I don't know. Players from a Houston, Texas area high
school football team were shown in a video hitting their
(09:52):
opponents with belts and the handshake line after a victory
last Friday. After a seventy seven to nothing victory over
Cleveland in high school, several Willis High School football players
are seen in a video, some with belts in their hands,
slightly hitting their opponents on their backside as they make
their way through the line. Usually used to promote sportsmanship
(10:15):
between players and coaches. This is a TikTok challenge. According
to ABC thirteen, it's called the BTA challenge, which stands
for belt to rear end, where players use belts to
spank their opponents. If you're just doing this as a
(10:35):
gesture and not a physical corporal punishment, beating nothing surprises
me anymore. And I've seen much worse TikTok challenges than this.
I've seen dietary TikTok challenges that encourage people to drink
olive oil and only olive oil for their nutritional needs. So,
(10:55):
in the grand scheme of things, ranking the danger of
olive oil to the BTA challenge, I think the Atlantic
Ocean separates those two things. Is it humiliating yes? Is
it sportsman like?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Do we need to lighten up a little bit? Though
maybe these players will do bear crawls, I guarantee it.
I don't know what else you're gonna do to punish them,
though they didn't assault anybody. As far as I know,
it's just a TikTok challenge where you are exerting your
dominance over the other team. But I know that high
(11:37):
school football coaches hate this. Let the scoreboard do the talking.
You don't need to hit your opponents with belts. That
is really dumb, but it's also kind of funny. The
BTA challenge, we probably have not heard the last of it,
and I don't know where it will go from here.
(11:59):
Football is really one of the only sports with belts.
Everyone wears a belt. I don't think they're carrying leather
belts from their jeans or their khaki pants onto the field,
So I think this will probably be contained of football.
But with as many butt weapons as there are in
high school football each and every week, I don't think
(12:23):
the BTA challenge is going anywhere. But I'll warn you
if you're a player, if you get caught doing the
BTA challenge, I would just go ahead and prepare yourself
because you're going to be doing the bear crawl challenge
at practice on Monday after the fact. So hope it's
worth it. I hope it's worth it to continue to
(12:43):
humiliate your opponent after winning seventy seven to nothing. But hey,
kids will be kids, right, and we've seen much worse.
All Right, final story here, this one is uplifting. It's
not a BTA challenge. It's not a national letter of
intent logistics. This is Davidson High School senior Jack Maynard.
(13:06):
He is in a wheelchair. He has the Shane Muscular
dystrophy and he's been a part of Davidson's football program
since the seventh grade. And during a rivalry game against Bradley,
Bradley High and Davidson teamed up to let Jackson score
a touchdown in his wheelchair. Kelly Ann Stitz tweeted this,
(13:30):
and I will put a link to it so you
can watch it because my words don't even come close
to do an injustice. But Davidson up big. They let
Jack Maynard take that ball. He goes around right end
and he wheels right on into the end zone. And
the best part about it is his mama is standing
in the end zone to watch it happen. I love
(13:51):
stories like this. The game was without a doubt going
to be won by Davidson, so good move from Bradley
to let this happen. And I gotta tell you, man,
Jack cuts it a little close. He almost goes out
of bounds around the one. You know, if you're a ref,
you still got to do your job. If he wheels out,
(14:12):
you gotta let him line it up again, but he
goes right inside the pylon. Mommy gives a cheerleader a hug,
and all of our hearts are that much fuller for it.
Way to go Davidson, Way to go Bradley High, and
way to go Jack Maynard. Good good stuff. Fella, keep
(14:32):
it coming. If y'all see stories like this, let me know.
Tag at go Coffeetown on X, tag me at West
Underscore in Ship, and I'll make sure I get these
stories read. And if you're a coach listening to this
or a player listening to this, and you've got your
own story that hasn't made national headlines but you think
it could make go fight win headlines, then hit me
(14:54):
up as well, because I want to keep sharing stories
like this, all the high school football stories that we love.
They're worth it. And no matter what happens to the
national letter of intent, as athletics continues to change in
this modern era, there will always be phenomenal stories worth telling.
The next story I'm gonna tell is the story of
(15:15):
the Coffeetown High School football team as the Copperheads take
on Acorn Hill at.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Homes Coffee Town. Wilson Acorn Hill copper Heads are four
and two. The Golden Nuts for five and zero. But
they ain't playing nobody yet, and we got a buzzer problem.
Got a couple of them perched up on one of
our uprights in the field goal. They just set up
shop up top and Coach Hall, our defensive coordinators been
(15:45):
working with all the strings of the defense scout team,
the starters for fifteen minutes after each practice. Got them
shouting up at the birds to teach them a lesson
about defending their home turf. But all the birds do
is crap and drop sticks on them. The team don't
have a permit to remove him by force, so we've
held back on more aggressive tactics. Our cornerback, Major Ellis
(16:08):
held up a piece of raw chicken and tried to
catch one. It just came down and scratched him up
pretty good. He's still gonna give it a gold tonight.
Just keep that hydrogen prox out on their son. It
could be a nasty infection. Now, I will say there's
no legal way for us to remove the birds, but
if a field goal kick just so happened to knock
(16:28):
down a nest, d n R said, there's nothing they
can do about it, so we'll kick it off and
keep our heads in the game. Chip Show Kaminski sends
it away a corner, Hill takes it near the goal line,
and the Buzzers are getting territorial down there, protecting their
baby birds. One of them swooped down and got some
cloth of the Golden Nuts return man. So it's third
(16:49):
down and seven for the Nuts on our fifteen and
they throw it right out Major L's but he breaks
it up. You know he can't get handsy down there.
He is to rely on his front of meals with
them gashed up hands no PI clean incomplete pass. And
that breakup is brought to you by Dusty Drywall. You
(17:09):
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let you take a few swings yourself. So now the
Nuts are gonna kick a field goal. It's up there
(17:31):
good one minute to go before the half. When we
got the ball on a corn Hills thirty down, three zip,
third down and twelve. Now we run a draw, A
daggum draw, you kidding.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Me, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
So we send Chip Show Kaminski out there for a
field goal of our own. It's a long one, but
he gets a pound of butter into it. He kicked
up ball like a bad habit, and we go a
halftime break Tae three piece. Time for the halftime show,
brought to you by Big Tyre, our academic athlete, his
cornerback Major Ellis Major. I hear you are really locked
(18:09):
in this week with him hand injuries, not even texting
your girlfriends. Sometimes a buzzard attack can be a blessing
in the skies, as I've always said. Now I heard
you actually caught one of the birds before Tory up there.
How do you think that will help you prepare for
that vaunted golden nuts passing attack, especially considering you lead
(18:29):
the district in passing a farence penalties. Can I get
you an inn i biotic ointment or something, son, I
ain't a doctor, but I see some oozing coming out
of those bandages. They are really starting to have an
odor about them. That gum. I'll add you to our
prayer requests list, go get in this week's son. Okay,
we're all tied up here. Late in the fourth quarter,
(18:50):
a cornhill and the gun throw down. They throw it
in the direction of Elis again and it is incomplete.
The receiver just fell down. He's on all fours and
looks like he's getting sick on the field. They're gonna
need a mop for that. I guess he just caught
a whiff of Major's infected hands down there and it
stopped him in his tracks. I don't know what kind
(19:10):
of long term effects that injury will have on the
young man, but by god, it is paying dividends today.
So Acornhill gonna punt it away in the shadows of
their own gold post, saying was it blocked? The ball
comes down around there twenty It let the kicker's foot
and all I saw was a plume of feathers, just
an explosion of black feathers. It must have hit one
(19:33):
of the birds. So we'll have time now for one
final kick. Chip shot for the wind and he hits
the upright and it bounces through the Buzzard's got all
shook up. The net is down there and they're circling
the golden nuts sideline. Time to go home, boys, pack
it up. He just kicked the nuts and beat him
(19:53):
at the buzzard. We had a twelve man up there today.
The most valuable Copperhead, brought to you by Copper County
Financial Planners, is the Bird on the upright, credited with
every major Elis past breakup. They went zero for seven
throwing at Ellis Island today, got an assisted tackle and
a punk block on special teams, and it appears their
(20:16):
job here is done. Godspeed you nasty old boys. We'll
see you down the road. Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
What an unlikely win for Coffeetown. But sometimes you gotta
have a buzzard on the upright looking out for you. Y'all,
hit like and subscribe on Go Fight Win the show
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(20:41):
Have a great weekend, and don't do the BTA challenge
unless you want to do some bear crawl.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
See you
Hey there, welcome into Go Fight Win, the show with
all the high school football stories you love. My name's
Wes Blanken Chip In this week, just as I do
every week, I'll take a look at the high school
football headlines from around the country that are too good,
too weird, too uplifting not to talk about. Starting with
the death of the NLI, the National Letter of Intent.
What does it mean for high school players announcing where
(00:23):
they will go to college. I don't think anybody really
knows at this point, but I have some thoughts and
we will dive right in. Plus a TikTok challenge involving
belts and rear ends in the state of Texas that
has a team in hot Water and a player in
Ohio with literal wheels that fills my heart with joy.
Plus Coffeetown high school football is back on your airwaves
(00:47):
in this episode, as the Copperheads take on Acorn Hill
and a nest full of angry buzzards. That's right, it's
all coming up right now. On Go Fight Win, run
through the whistle.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, if you get the ball to Donnie Cougin, let
that pudgy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Go here on, Go Fight Win. We've partnered up with
a website called Coachdooley'slist dot com. If you are involved
with high school athletics in any way, shape or form,
you know that you need other people to help you out.
(01:29):
Whether it's vendors, whether it's equipment, whether it is trophies
or banners for your team's stadium or postseason celebration. Well,
that's what Coach Dooley's List is all about. It hooks
you up with a wide network of those kinds of people.
If you need more shoelaces for your team, if you
(01:50):
need to fix some face masks, well, Coach Dooley's List
has compiled the best list of vendors and associates in
the of high school athletics to help you out. It
was started by one of my former high school football coaches,
Coach Billy Dooley, who has decades of experience in coaching
high school athletics, not just football, but also softball and baseball.
(02:14):
And he knows people, He knows the right people, and
he's gonna steer you toward him no matter what you
need in your high school team's season. There's a link
to Coach Dooley's List in this show's description. Go check
it out. It has what you want, all right. So
our first story today is about the death of the NLI,
the National letter of Intent. If you're familiar with high
(02:36):
school athletics college sports, you know how important National Signing
Day has always been. It's important in a lot of
different sports, but in college football and high school football specifically,
it has its own aura about it. It's a cultural thing,
it's a right of passage. I went to the University
of Georgia, so primarily following the Dogs. My mind when
(02:59):
I think about signing Day goes to a couple different places.
It goes to Isaiah Crowell pulling out a bulldog puppy
to announce he was going to sign with the Georgia Bulldogs.
I think about Rokwan Smith who flashed UCLA gloves only
to get cold feet, have a change of heart, learn
(03:20):
some new information about his coaches at UCLA, and then
decide to stick with the hometown Georgia Bulldogs. That was
a multi day storyline in college sports and in signing
day news. It's important for the players that earn the
right to go play at a college level, earn a scholarship.
(03:42):
It's important for fans of colleges as they watched their
schools recruiting class roll in and they learn who the
next crop of their team's players may happen to be. Well,
now that the NCAA has eliminated the national letter of
Intent program, this is a story that has had its
(04:02):
wheels in motion for a while. It's not really a surprise,
but now we have the opportunity to take a look
at what it means. The House versus NCAA settlement received
preliminary approval earlier this week as I'm recording this on
October ninth, twenty twenty four, and the two point eight
billion dollar antitrust settlement Yes with a bee, opens up
(04:26):
the floodgates for schools to begin revenue sharing with their
players as soon as the twenty twenty five twenty six
school year. Now there still has to be a full
approval to this, but it is the final formality in
the end of an era of what college sports once
was and what it will be. You know, the INLI
(04:49):
is basically worthless these days, with the transfer portal being
as open as it is with NIL not to be
confused with l NIL influencing a lot of these decisions,
There are a lot of moving parts here, but it
does have ramifications for National Signing Day. Will there still
(05:10):
be a signing day where multiple players at one high
school have a ceremony and announce where they're going to school?
I don't know. I mean I used to work in
the media and local news and covered so many signing
days that involved me driving from school to school, got
out of a couple speeding tickets from sheriff's deputies who
(05:31):
knew who I was and knew where I was going
and how important the day was. If that doesn't tell
you how important signing day is, there were sheriff's deputies
who let me out of speeding tickets. I won't name
them or their jurisdiction, but they knew how important my
job was that day and how important it was for
the community and the players that were signing. My theory
(05:54):
on what signing days will look like now as you
no longer have fax machines getting used two days a
year for signing day, and instead athletes will sign more
of a scholarship agreement, a financial aid agreement that looks
more like a professional sports contract. Whatever you think about
(06:14):
it doesn't really matter, because that's what's happening, and that's
where it's going to go. So I still think there
will be some high jinks. There will be some theatrics
and some drama as players announce, and look, they still
enjoy the spotlight of their moment of deciding where they're
going to go to school. Think about free agency and
(06:35):
pro sports, those are still very dramatic decisions, and it
will be a free agent agreement of sorts. Will that
player stay there for more than one year, maybe not,
depends on how their NIL deals look and their prospects
look down the road and their playing time looks. We
already have players opting out of their teams rosters due
(06:59):
to NIA in the middle of seasons right now, So
I think anything is on the table. But if you're
thinking that the death of the NLI means the death
of drama and excitement on signing day, I want to
encourage you or maybe warn you, that I don't think
that drama is going anywhere. If anything, I think it's
(07:20):
going to get crazier. Imagine players that are earning NIL
deals having their stream of their announcement sponsored. They don't
have to wait for ESPN or the local news truck
to show up. And cover their decision. Instead, they can
have a live stream that's sponsored by insert your brand here,
(07:43):
and they can still pull out bulldog puppies or change
their minds at the last second if they so choose.
But we're all along for the ride, and like it
or not, high school athletes at the five star level
down to the Division two level are going to be
(08:04):
controlling what happens in college athletics, and I believe this
will be a very profitable opportunity for a lot of sponsors.
So the amateurism is gone, it's left. The station in
li is gone, but those agreements still have to start somewhere,
(08:26):
and there will still be plenty of hats on tables.
There will still be plenty of moms who don't approve
of where their sons go to school. If you're a
college coach, nine times out of ten, if you win
mama over, you're going to get the player that you want.
But these days you're going to have agents that players
are trying to win over as well. So I know
(08:47):
this is mainly a college football college athletics story at
face value, but as someone who covered plenty of high
school signing days in years past, I think in a
lot of ways, it'll get crazier, and I think in
a lot of ways for the guys that aren't five
star athletes, for the guys that aren't commanding national broadcasts,
(09:07):
I think it'll still look the same. They're just signing
different pieces of paper and they probably don't have to
use a fax machine anymore to get it done. So
rest in peace, National letters of Intent, and rest in
piece fax machines. I think this was your last stand,
was signing day, and we don't need you anymore. You've
(09:30):
served us well. Right off into the sunset, all right.
The next story comes out of Texas. This comes out
of Scooby Axon wrote this for USA Today. I didn't
make that name up, but maybe he's an AI writer.
I don't know. Players from a Houston, Texas area high
school football team were shown in a video hitting their
(09:52):
opponents with belts and the handshake line after a victory
last Friday. After a seventy seven to nothing victory over
Cleveland in high school, several Willis High School football players
are seen in a video, some with belts in their hands,
slightly hitting their opponents on their backside as they make
their way through the line. Usually used to promote sportsmanship
(10:15):
between players and coaches. This is a TikTok challenge. According
to ABC thirteen, it's called the BTA challenge, which stands
for belt to rear end, where players use belts to
spank their opponents. If you're just doing this as a
(10:35):
gesture and not a physical corporal punishment, beating nothing surprises
me anymore. And I've seen much worse TikTok challenges than this.
I've seen dietary TikTok challenges that encourage people to drink
olive oil and only olive oil for their nutritional needs. So,
(10:55):
in the grand scheme of things, ranking the danger of
olive oil to the BTA challenge, I think the Atlantic
Ocean separates those two things. Is it humiliating yes? Is
it sportsman like?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Do we need to lighten up a little bit? Though
maybe these players will do bear crawls, I guarantee it.
I don't know what else you're gonna do to punish them,
though they didn't assault anybody. As far as I know,
it's just a TikTok challenge where you are exerting your
dominance over the other team. But I know that high
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school football coaches hate this. Let the scoreboard do the talking.
You don't need to hit your opponents with belts. That
is really dumb, but it's also kind of funny. The
BTA challenge, we probably have not heard the last of it,
and I don't know where it will go from here.
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Football is really one of the only sports with belts.
Everyone wears a belt. I don't think they're carrying leather
belts from their jeans or their khaki pants onto the field,
So I think this will probably be contained of football.
But with as many butt weapons as there are in
high school football each and every week, I don't think
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the BTA challenge is going anywhere. But I'll warn you
if you're a player, if you get caught doing the
BTA challenge, I would just go ahead and prepare yourself
because you're going to be doing the bear crawl challenge
at practice on Monday after the fact. So hope it's
worth it. I hope it's worth it to continue to
(12:43):
humiliate your opponent after winning seventy seven to nothing. But hey,
kids will be kids, right, and we've seen much worse.
All Right, final story here, this one is uplifting. It's
not a BTA challenge. It's not a national letter of
intent logistics. This is Davidson High School senior Jack Maynard.
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He is in a wheelchair. He has the Shane Muscular
dystrophy and he's been a part of Davidson's football program
since the seventh grade. And during a rivalry game against Bradley,
Bradley High and Davidson teamed up to let Jackson score
a touchdown in his wheelchair. Kelly Ann Stitz tweeted this,
(13:30):
and I will put a link to it so you
can watch it because my words don't even come close
to do an injustice. But Davidson up big. They let
Jack Maynard take that ball. He goes around right end
and he wheels right on into the end zone. And
the best part about it is his mama is standing
in the end zone to watch it happen. I love
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stories like this. The game was without a doubt going
to be won by Davidson, so good move from Bradley
to let this happen. And I gotta tell you, man,
Jack cuts it a little close. He almost goes out
of bounds around the one. You know, if you're a ref,
you still got to do your job. If he wheels out,
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you gotta let him line it up again, but he
goes right inside the pylon. Mommy gives a cheerleader a hug,
and all of our hearts are that much fuller for it.
Way to go Davidson, Way to go Bradley High, and
way to go Jack Maynard. Good good stuff. Fella, keep
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it coming. If y'all see stories like this, let me know.
Tag at go Coffeetown on X, tag me at West
Underscore in Ship, and I'll make sure I get these
stories read. And if you're a coach listening to this
or a player listening to this, and you've got your
own story that hasn't made national headlines but you think
it could make go fight win headlines, then hit me
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up as well, because I want to keep sharing stories
like this, all the high school football stories that we love.
They're worth it. And no matter what happens to the
national letter of intent, as athletics continues to change in
this modern era, there will always be phenomenal stories worth telling.
The next story I'm gonna tell is the story of
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the Coffeetown High School football team as the Copperheads take
on Acorn Hill at.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Homes Coffee Town. Wilson Acorn Hill copper Heads are four
and two. The Golden Nuts for five and zero. But
they ain't playing nobody yet, and we got a buzzer problem.
Got a couple of them perched up on one of
our uprights in the field goal. They just set up
shop up top and Coach Hall, our defensive coordinators been
(15:45):
working with all the strings of the defense scout team,
the starters for fifteen minutes after each practice. Got them
shouting up at the birds to teach them a lesson
about defending their home turf. But all the birds do
is crap and drop sticks on them. The team don't
have a permit to remove him by force, so we've
held back on more aggressive tactics. Our cornerback, Major Ellis
(16:08):
held up a piece of raw chicken and tried to
catch one. It just came down and scratched him up
pretty good. He's still gonna give it a gold tonight.
Just keep that hydrogen prox out on their son. It
could be a nasty infection. Now, I will say there's
no legal way for us to remove the birds, but
if a field goal kick just so happened to knock
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down a nest, d n R said, there's nothing they
can do about it, so we'll kick it off and
keep our heads in the game. Chip Show Kaminski sends
it away a corner, Hill takes it near the goal line,
and the Buzzers are getting territorial down there, protecting their
baby birds. One of them swooped down and got some
cloth of the Golden Nuts return man. So it's third
(16:49):
down and seven for the Nuts on our fifteen and
they throw it right out Major L's but he breaks
it up. You know he can't get handsy down there.
He is to rely on his front of meals with
them gashed up hands no PI clean incomplete pass. And
that breakup is brought to you by Dusty Drywall. You
(17:09):
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let you take a few swings yourself. So now the
Nuts are gonna kick a field goal. It's up there
(17:31):
good one minute to go before the half. When we
got the ball on a corn Hills thirty down, three zip,
third down and twelve. Now we run a draw, A
daggum draw, you kidding.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Me, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
So we send Chip Show Kaminski out there for a
field goal of our own. It's a long one, but
he gets a pound of butter into it. He kicked
up ball like a bad habit, and we go a
halftime break Tae three piece. Time for the halftime show,
brought to you by Big Tyre, our academic athlete, his
cornerback Major Ellis Major. I hear you are really locked
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in this week with him hand injuries, not even texting
your girlfriends. Sometimes a buzzard attack can be a blessing
in the skies, as I've always said. Now I heard
you actually caught one of the birds before Tory up there.
How do you think that will help you prepare for
that vaunted golden nuts passing attack, especially considering you lead
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the district in passing a farence penalties. Can I get
you an inn i biotic ointment or something, son, I
ain't a doctor, but I see some oozing coming out
of those bandages. They are really starting to have an
odor about them. That gum. I'll add you to our
prayer requests list, go get in this week's son. Okay,
we're all tied up here. Late in the fourth quarter,
(18:50):
a cornhill and the gun throw down. They throw it
in the direction of Elis again and it is incomplete.
The receiver just fell down. He's on all fours and
looks like he's getting sick on the field. They're gonna
need a mop for that. I guess he just caught
a whiff of Major's infected hands down there and it
stopped him in his tracks. I don't know what kind
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of long term effects that injury will have on the
young man, but by god, it is paying dividends today.
So Acornhill gonna punt it away in the shadows of
their own gold post, saying was it blocked? The ball
comes down around there twenty It let the kicker's foot
and all I saw was a plume of feathers, just
an explosion of black feathers. It must have hit one
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of the birds. So we'll have time now for one
final kick. Chip shot for the wind and he hits
the upright and it bounces through the Buzzard's got all
shook up. The net is down there and they're circling
the golden nuts sideline. Time to go home, boys, pack
it up. He just kicked the nuts and beat him
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at the buzzard. We had a twelve man up there today.
The most valuable Copperhead, brought to you by Copper County
Financial Planners, is the Bird on the upright, credited with
every major Elis past breakup. They went zero for seven
throwing at Ellis Island today, got an assisted tackle and
a punk block on special teams, and it appears their
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job here is done. Godspeed you nasty old boys. We'll
see you down the road. Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
What an unlikely win for Coffeetown. But sometimes you gotta
have a buzzard on the upright looking out for you. Y'all,
hit like and subscribe on Go Fight Win the show
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(20:41):
Have a great weekend, and don't do the BTA challenge
unless you want to do some bear crawl.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
See you
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