Football - October 30, 2024

Guests: Nick Minicucci, Marje Mulumba

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
In New Arc.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
And welcome into the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show from
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ud Football ninety four to seven w DSD presented by
First State Orthopedics. I'm Scott Klatskin, and the Blue Hens
are coming off of a win twenty eight to fourteen
on homecoming for the Hens and are.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Headed into a bye week.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
We'll take a look back plus joining us tonight the
starting quarterback who led the Hens to victory on Saturday,
Nick Minacucci, is here, everybody, and a linebacker that led
the team with one and a half sacks and two
and a half tackles for loss versus the Great Danes Merge.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Malamba is here as well.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We'll get to know them, but first please welcome in
Delaware Football's head coach Ryan Cardi. Everybody, coach, thank you
so much for being here as always appreciated. Happy homecoming.
It was our homecoming as well. I know you don't
get to celebrate in the parking line.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Let's unless you do. But a great win. Congratulations.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
The team is seven to one on the season, and
we talked a little bit about getting the ball to
twenty one more and that certainly happened. It didn't take
long for him to get involved. On very first play.
I'm like introducing the listeners to our starting quarterback and
kind of giving him the background as I'm announcing starters,
and then he's already like at the midfield.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
So he did not take long.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
When you see a play like that and Marcus Yarns
getting the game started like that, what does it do
for the team? And then what's going through your mind
when a big play like that is happening?

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, I think the first thing is obviously any flags,
any flags, asking the people up in the booth. You know,
those big ones, obviously are are the ones that sometimes
you know, how did he get there?

Speaker 6 (01:58):
So? Well? Was?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
It usually isn't just pure design and so you know
the uh, but the the boost that it brings to
a team, you know, in particular, you know in a
bounce back type of game, like we needed and and
you know, needed to have a fast art. I think
I should say needed. We wanted to have a fast art,
you know, and like we always do, but in particular
just to get some some juice back, some confidence back, obviously,

(02:20):
get the crowd going, just a huge boost to the
morale the team, to the confidence in the team, and
h and just sets the tone for the rest of
the day too.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm in three seasons in a row that now he
has both a catch and a reception of over sixty
five yards in a game. He's done that in each
of the last three seasons. He's such a dynamic player.
Did he almost do too well? Because you know, there
was somebody in the stands that was, like I told him,
all you had to do was get the ball to Markus,
you know what I mean. There was probably somebody that says,

(02:52):
as if each game isn't very intricate and different, but
they are.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
There's there's certainly some you know, some games that are
the flow is dictated a little differently. But I mean
they wouldn't be saying anything I don't say to myself,
you know, get the ball to Marcus yarns is usually
a good, good concept in order to win. I think
there's obviously certain teams that do a great job at
taking certain things away, and there's also certain flows of
games that happen sometimes based on you know, you know,

(03:17):
time and the clock and how many possessions you're gonna
have left, and they sometimes dictate to do it differently.
But you know, that's a pretty good idea for most
offensive coordinators. Would we get the ball to your best players?
It's kind of what our offense is built on.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well, you have done that well.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
And another player that had a great game and another
victory as a starting quarterback, he's here today.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
We'll talk to him a little bit.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
But Nick Minacouchi, the third different starting quarterback that you've
had this season, started the game four of nine in
the first quarter, finished fourteen of eighteen, seventy percent of
his passes after that start, did you what did you see?
Absolutely give Nick a round of applause. What did you
see in terms of him settling in and your thoughts
just on the first full game that he has played

(03:59):
this year.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, well, you know, I mean it's tough to you know,
be in the on this you know, in the backup
role for a while, you know, early in the season,
you know, taking some two reps, splitting some two reps,
you know, and then all of a sudden going in
and getting a chance to start getting hurt. Now you're
working through a recovery as well, and you know, trying

(04:20):
to feel out. And I think that's probably what made
Nick have to settle in the most. Not rustiness from playing,
probably more like confidence in being able to get hit
and you know, what's it going to feel like in
the pocket, you know, And then there's even that subconscious
thing from you know, people recovering from injury of your
body doesn't let you do certain things just because it
knows something might hurt. And so I think there's sometimes

(04:41):
where you have to make sure that you just kind
of get that first one under your belt. And you
could see that once once we started to settle in,
and once obviously that I think that also helped Nick.
I'm sure that you know, giving us that seven point
you know, spread early in the game with Marcus's run,
I'm sure that helps a young quarterback in his first
start of the season really kind of feel some juice
and make sure that you know this isn't going to

(05:02):
be about whether or not I can win this game.
It's going to be about, you know, can we do
the right things and get the ball to the people
that are going to help us win this game and
then you know, make the plays when we need to.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
I think it is overlooked this season at because you're
seven and one, because there's been success, and typically when
you have to rotate quarterbacks, a team might be you know,
four and five or you're fighting to get to five hundred.
Because you've been able to do it so seamlessly, maybe
it hasn't been talked about as much, but you know,
to have potentially and again in game nine, who knows,

(05:35):
but potentially three quarterbacks play three different games as starters
through nine games is unique. How would you describe just
kind of the process and the uniqueness of this season
while still winning ball games.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah, in our quarterback meetings, we just have a wrestling
match every Monday.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
It's about le royale.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Whoever comes out on top, they get a chance to
start that week. And you know, it's been three different
guys on how well you did it. I think, you know,
there's certainly some challenges and I think the thing that
you know, makes it pretty rewarding, is you know, I
get a chance to you know, Coach Golvers does such

(06:13):
a great job with those guys, and I get a
chance to to you know, be in those quarterback meetings
as well, and you know, it's very rewarding to know that,
you know, the the guys that the system that's been
set in that room, the culture that's been set in
that room and passed down from the guys who have
done it really well. You know, a culture of preparation
is really the thing that makes me most proud of

(06:33):
it because obviously you're not going to be able to
get reps with the first team, and you've still got
to be ready to go like a first team quarterback.
And you know, it's something maybe it's it's the fact
that I was a career backup that kind of has
always had I've always had that ability to talk to
quarterbacks in this way like, look, man, we got to
be ready to go, and we had these reps have

(06:54):
got to be important. Whenever rep you get in practice,
it's got to be the most important rep of that
day for you. They're not throwaway as ever, because you
never know when your number is gonna get called. And
you know, I've said it to somebody the other day.
I think the only time I've ever coached as an
offensive coordinator and had one quarterback play the whole season,
we won a national championship, and that was that. Other

(07:15):
than that, I've always had multiple quarterbacks played based on
injuries and just the way it has gone for us.
And you know, and some of those things are preventable
and most of them aren't. It's just a little bit
lucky to draw sometimes. And so we're always working to
prepare the next guy. And you know, the expectation here
is similar to the expectation most places, and it's certainly

(07:37):
the expectation we put on ourselves. There's never gonna be
a game that we're just gonna say, well, we're not
gonna win this one because this guy's not playing for us.
That's not how it works. We're gonna win as long
as we can. And so you know, we're certainly going
to prepare like that, and we have to have that
kind of mindset and mentality that you know, we've talked
about it here. The next man up is going to matter.
If the next man up's prepared.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
And they have been all season long. I did look up,
but just to make sure you've done two quarterbacks many times.
Goldrich was in the mix with valas Ones at UNA's
night and Reese and the Schmitt and Brock are some combinations,
but never three in a season.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Let's talk defense. We're eight minutes in.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Let's get that defense talked about because they played well
also all but.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
He scored only twenty percent of their drives.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
We talk about dynamic plays x plays, four sacks, eight
tackles for loss, eight pass breakups, and you won the
turn a late victory in the turnover battle, Katie say
got one late but an interception as well. Your thoughts
on a defense, and I'm sure was anxious to get
back out there as well.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's the way it works, right. I
mean we had to obviously, we took a lump and
we had to get back to making sure that we
understood what our jobs were out there on offense, defense,
special teams and as coaches. You know, this is the
intensity needed to pick up. And I thought we played
with a really good edge the other day. It was
something that we really implored the student athletes to do,

(08:55):
was to play with their head on fire and make
sure that you know that everybody in the state knew
who wanted to win the game more that it was
going to be us and the team in blue. And
I thought we did that. It was our number one.
You know, Statistically it was the most havoc we created. Uh,
it was thirty one percent havoc rate. Wow, if you
if you want the number, and uh, you know, those
are the things that are going to create those big

(09:17):
plays on defense and put people behind the sticks. And
Kat say, with the interceptions that I mentioned, became the
first Blue hen since Nicer Adderly. That's a name that
I'm sure many of you know in twenty eighteen to
get four interceptions in a season.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
So it's been a while since someone had that much
success in the takeaway spot.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
And then talking about special teams, I want to recognize
a record was set in that game, Nate Reid the
most touchbacks of any kicker in a season in the.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
History of Delaware of football. You know, I was thinking,
there's probably kickers that have been capable of doing it.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
A lot of score.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Did you get the score? You got score to kick
the ball off? And uh, and so a lot of
scoring going on and he's been able to do that,
but I congratulations to him.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
And then also just worth worth noting once again of
maybe also overlooked a little bit is how much a
weapon that is to have a guy that can take
away a return game like that.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, if you ask the defensive coordinators, you know what
they love the most about the special teams is going
to be that one. Right, I mean there's no doubt
starting the starting at the twenty five or thirds at
thirty now, yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Twenty five, twenty five.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
It used to be twenty, it used to be twenty. Okay, yeah,
they give us five more, all right? Uh yeah, starting
at the twenty five obviously is something huge. Yeah, and
so is a.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Fair catcher thirty is there is thirty involved at all?
And there fair catches the third catch? Is that true?

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Twenty five?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Now, I feel like this is something we could have
done at commercial breaking.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
You're good, We're good.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
We're almost there. We are almost there.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Week eight, but bye week you know it's when you
figure the rules out by you know, Yeah, the week
eight by is.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
When going into week nine, we got to make sure
we got you.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Kind of dive into the roll book a little bit.
What I was getting at Nate Reid Special season. Absolutely
really proud of me for a whole lot of points.
I'm talk to you more about that game and the
rule book in your next segment, but we will take
that time out and figure it all out.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
When we come back. We're gonna talk with Nick Minnicucci.
He knows the rules.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
We're gonna talk to Nick another side of this time out.
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winning quarterback of Saturday's ballgame, Nick Minnicoci is here. Everybody
get up for Nick. A lot of cheers for you
and thank you so much for being here, and congratulations

(14:30):
on the win. Must have felt good to go out
there in front of the home crowd and get a
victory on homecoming.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, it was awesome. I'm grateful to be here. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well, we want to talk about that game a little bit.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
You know.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Coach kind of talked about everybody just battling some injuries
this year and.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Making sure all the reps count and getting ready for
the game. But how did it feel to get back
out there?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Three touchdown passes, no interception, sixty seven percent completion rate
and a victory the best st at of all? What
it feeled to get back out there and be able
to complete a game.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
So awesome.

Speaker 13 (15:00):
Uh, it just it really stunk going out their sacred
heart first play, getting banged up, and now I'm being
out for a couple of weeks. So kind of getting
my coming back and all being kind of getting my
rhythm was awesome. Especially having the opportunity to throw a
couple of a couple of touchdown passes was was awesome.
So I'm grateful for coach having trust in me and

(15:21):
uh and to go out there and have a have
a blast of my teammates.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, there was a lot to trust because you did
a heck of a job. I want to talk about
that fourth and three throw you had to Jacari Kelly.
You need three yards to continue to drive. Looked like
you had room to get it if you were to
run the football, but you decided to keep it stay
behind the line, and you threw a just a dark
to Jafari Kelly. Great catch by Jakari his first touchdown.
But walk us through that progression in that play.

Speaker 13 (15:46):
Yes, it was a it was a full progression. Read
So I started on the left side of the field
and everything was taken away. The speed out was covered
and the safety took, uh took our leverage on the corner.
So I kind of just reset back through and I
just saw I saw space, and so I kind of
just ripped that to Kelly. Uh sure then, Uh it
was it was awesome catch by him. I knew I

(16:07):
could fit behind that linebacker.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
I just that's why. And you were you were right.
So you trusted your instincts and you should have a
great catch, a great score, and then you drop on
perfectly for for Marcus later on in the game.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Beautiful pass there. Uh, let's go back to that Sacred
Heart game that you mentioned. You're starting in the game. Uh,
Ryan O'Connor goes down and you're up and first play
of the game, but you get your your shoulder injury.
I think you start to line up and then you
maybe even realize that, like this is not gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Take us through what's going through your mind when when
that occurs.

Speaker 13 (16:38):
Uh you talking about on the injury. Yeah, I knew
my I knew my shoulder was out. I told I
ended up telling Joe. I said, Yo, like my shoulder's
completely out, and I was like, I don't want to
go out, So I'm gonna try to like clap my
hands together, and I couldn't raise my arm up, so
I'm basically hitting my two fingers on my wrist. And
then after that, I was like, I can't, I can't. Yeah,

(17:00):
I can't go back in, like it was painful, and
they put it back in and I was trying to
let Annie let me go back in, and she.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Was like, no, Well, you worked hard to get back
and that's a quick turnaround for such an injury to happen,
to be able to come back within the season and
play the way you did last week. We're excited to
have you back and playing well. Let's go even further back, though,
because this is not the first time you've gotten a
victory at Delaware Stadium, a playoff game FCS playoff game.

(17:27):
You are the first true freshman to start at Delaware
since two thousand and one. That's pretty impressive stuff for
Nick Minicucci here. And it was a game that when
it was tweeted out, the headline was Minicucci magic because
Lafayette goes up twenty eight was a victorious thirty to
thirty four. How are we able to kind of keep

(17:48):
your composure with such a deficit and such a big stage.

Speaker 13 (17:52):
I didn't really look at it like that. I kind
of knew we were going to find our groove. And
it was really that two minute drive that settled me
down and kind of settled everyone down. I remember going
out and I was telling the O line. I'm like,
we gotta we're gonna score on this drive up. Mark
my words, was scoring on this drive and we went down.
We ended up throwing a deep shot to Josh young

(18:12):
Blood which he made a heck of a catch with
one arm, literally caught the ball with his bicep uh,
and that was that was really what turn the game
around for me and for everyone. I think we score
there and everyone's like, Okay, we have some hope we're
gonna win this game.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Well, to have that amount of poise though your first
year in college is really impressive stuff.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
It was a start for you that game.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Because O'Connor and Marker did get hurt in that Villanova game,
and similar to this season where guys are getting hurt.
Talk to us about the quarterback room, and Coach Carty
kind of talked about what goes on there and the
conferdence that you give one another, but just you know
how how it's been like rotating starters each week and
just kind of everybody battling and trying to get there

(18:52):
do their best.

Speaker 13 (18:53):
Honestly, it's awesome. Our quarterback room was extremely close, so
all of us are like I honestly considered all of
them like friends, probably my best friends. I talk to
them about everything, Like, no one's out to get each other.
You're trying to make each other better every day on
the field or in the meeting, Like if someone messes up,
someone's there to pick you up, teach you this, teach
you that. I mean, it's never like, oh, like I'm

(19:15):
gonna tell you the wrong thing so that I want
to play this week.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
It's not like that.

Speaker 13 (19:17):
Yeah, everyone is on each other side, and it's like
it's really like a brotherhood.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Boy, it seems that way. Everybody seems to be rooting
for one another. Or when you're out there in a
unique season talk with Nick Minnicochi Dollar or three and
zero with Nick as is starting a quarterback? Now stay
with me. Now you've been you are now being coached
by a coach that was coached by the coach, which
is coach Goldridge. Yeah, what's coached by coach Carty. What
is that like kind of knowing that your quarterbacks coach

(19:44):
has sat in your seat before. I'm sure that is
helpful knowing that he's had some of these experiences.

Speaker 13 (19:48):
Yeah, well we talk about that a lot on how
like about coach Carty's mind and like what he thinks
on this play. So I meet with Coach Goldie a lot,
and he kind of just helps me out, like mentally
on what I'm to be looking at on each reed
and it kind of like explains it like slower for
me so I can kind of get it. That helped
me a lot last year. I think this year I'm
kind of better, but last year he definitely helped me

(20:10):
out more when I didn't understand as much well.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Well, Coach Carty last year even had mentioned that you
were one of the fastest learning freshmen.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
That that he's coached.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
So you you should get some give yourself some credit
because I think the last season you did a great
job as well and certainly helped us advance in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
And you know, I talk about.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
A big stage at Delaware Stadium and the playoffs, and
you guys are down You've played in quite the the
atmospheres in high school prior to getting to Delaware. Remember
Tommy DeVito last year, the Giants quarterback. I'm sure you
have a poster of him in your room.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
He actually do know. He was not okay. He was
talked about.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
They asked him about going into a hostile environment last
year when when he played for the Giants, he said
that the most hostile environment that he ever played at
was the Don Bosco Burg and Catholic rivalry game. It's
the number one rivalry in New Jersey. What's your experience
like with that rapper.

Speaker 13 (21:03):
I'd probably say it's most in the country.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
It's it's insane.

Speaker 13 (21:08):
You got alumni from fifty years, you got to companies games.
It's packed out crowd. I mean, I'm telling you, it's
ten thousand people at a high school game. Wow, screaming
their heads off, screaming stuff at you from the student section.
I mean everyone's yelling at you. I mean it's a
loud environment. And you throw one pass at when you're
playing away, throw one deep shots caught getting her a

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pin drop.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
In that place. I love I love hearing that.

Speaker 13 (21:31):
That was my favorite part of playing a Yeah, throwing
a fade, having a big receiver going down and catch
the ball and just hearing everyone.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Nothing, quietly, quiet the crowd. That's a good experience. So
you're ready for anything if you play in games like that.
Talk with Nick Manicouci to catch to the final five.
Before I think, before even your high school career started.
You trained with former Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Is that correct?

Speaker 6 (21:55):
What?

Speaker 4 (21:55):
What was that experience?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Like?

Speaker 6 (21:56):
Oh, fill is the man? I love Phil.

Speaker 13 (21:58):
I filled training with Phil and train with Matt Simps. Wow,
so Matt's like I've trained with Matt Moore, but Phil
is always in my corner. He'd always helped me out
a lot, and especially just just sitting down talking to
him is insane. Hearing about like this MVP, playing with
Lawrence Taylor, playing with all these amazing players.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
It's like, damn, this guy was. He was the man.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
That's gotta be pretty neat now.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Minnicucci is an Italian surname. We're here at Lacaso Pasta.

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Halloween is tomorrow, So we'll ask some Halloween themed questions.
What's a memorable Halloween costume that you have?

Speaker 6 (22:39):
Remember what Halloween costume.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
I got?

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Two? I was I think in fifth grade I dressed
up as Trump. I don't know why. I just did.

Speaker 13 (22:49):
I think because he's running for president. And then, uh,
when I was a kid, I was Jack Sparrow. So
if anyone's seen parts of the Caribbean, I was Jack Sparrow.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Two good ones and how old am I?

Speaker 6 (22:59):
Though?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
So if you're in fifth grade and Trump was running
for private, I don't even want to do that math.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
If it's not a road. I want to go down.
Your favorite Halloween candy, I'd say kick cat, k cat,
that's a good hollow.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's a standard Halloween can. That's a good Halloween cand
All right, here's a question. Go back to your trick
or treating days. You get to a house, there's a
bowl of candy out front. They're not home, but there's
a note that says, take one. That is not the
type of guy we wanted the program. Don't kid Nick
that it is a fantastic talking with you. Best of

(23:36):
luck in the final stretch of the season, and just
keep up the great work we all enjoy watching it play.

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(27:19):
with your quarterback Nick Minacucci, who got the victory on
Saturday and the team did it was his final snap
though that I was intrigued a little bit about though,
as we continue to talk about the game at all,
beting for a little bit.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
There was a timeout taken.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
I don't know if I've ever seen a timeout taken
to prep for a victory formation, but tell us a
little bit about what was going on there for a
team that goes out of shotgun all the time.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
The the people.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
In this room won't be surprised that we don't go
under center much because I hear about it every third
down that we're not under center, So we don't do
it at all, Like we literally don't practice under center,
and so to me, I know, it seems like the
easy part. That's very dangerous from an old, an ex
quarterback who knows how difficult it is if you're not

(28:08):
used to it based on who the center is, who
the quarterback is, and so just trying to leave no
stone on turning. We certainly can't take our timeouts with us.
We wanted to make sure we got a few extra
under center snaps between brock and Nick right before that,
just in case, just to have avert disaster.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, because we were watching it then all of a sudden,
we see Brockett and Nick do an under center exchange.
Oh okay, that's what that's what's going on here, to
make sure that the victory formation went positively, and it did.
There was another play, a pair of plays during the
game where Dominic Brogna was kind of baiting their center
and got back to back false start calls against Albany.

(28:45):
As we're talking about centers. But you're you're you're kind
of deep into planning the offense when the defense is
out there. So if I were to bring I don't
know if that would you even have a recollection of
that exchange.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
I don't have a recollection of the two penalties because
I can. I picked my head up when those things happen,
you know, But but I was time I have my iPad.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
But to give some insight though, typically you know, as
as O see and head coach, so you're digging into
studying and give us a little bit about kind of
what goes on though on the sideliness MI indsight.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yeah, well, this is the first season that we're allowed
to have digital technology on the sidelines, and so what
essentially happens is there's a you know, a group of
iPads that download each play as they're happening, and so
post drive we have people assigned to you know, handle that,
and so somebody gives me an iPad and I watched
the last drive basically, and so as opposed to having

(29:38):
to go through play by play with you know, coach
Goldrich is the one that's up there talking to me
most of the time and saying, hey, what did they
run on this play? What did they running this play?
What did they run in this play? As far as
what defenses were run against us, what techniques were run
against us? What blitzer we're run against us? I can
just watch it, and it's so much quicker, and it's
really just a confirmation, like I know what I think
I saw, but you'd be surprised. Even with the amount

(30:00):
of football that I've watched in my life, it is
so hard to see from down there exactly the nuances
of what you know, whether it be leverages, techniques on
the front, you know, those things that are that are
small differences. To see from that angle at the ground
level is tough, and so you get a really good
feel for the game down there and how how it's
going and how your people are and personnel really.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Hard to get a feel for, you know, the.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
The nuances of the secondary movement and rotations, and so
so much better now being able to see it firsthand
right away, and that way it'll just affect my play
calls next, you know, the next drive, whether it's okay,
every second down I've noticed this pattern as opposed to
having to put that together at halftime. You know, now
I can do it, you know throughout the game as
the game's going.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah, that's very interesting.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
That's it that's new and allowed this year, saying is
the first year that that's impressive stuff. There was a
tweet they got some traction this week that that Christie
Raywalk had some fun with even and I don't know
if you're if you saw it or not, but it
was the idea that someone tweeted out of playing in
the He called it the ineligible, right, and it's a
game between Delaware and Missouri State in a bowl game,

(31:09):
between two teams that cannot make the FCS playoffs. Of
course that is not something that can happen this year.
But what's your reaction to the idea? Hearing about it,
perhaps for the first time now.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
I think based on my other tweets, you would know
that I was a really big fan of the pun. Like,
I thought that was outstanding. I mean the play on
words there with ineligible, I mean that's perfect. We uh, yeah,
I'm in anywhere anyplace.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Let's do it. Parking lots.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
We got guys parking lot of the shop right over here,
and let's roll us versus Missouri State.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
What are we think of?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Would you guys attend if we did that. All right,
that's right, I'm gonna start the movement. Now, we're gonna
we're gonna make that happen. Hey, I'm asking the other
guys about some Halloween memories because tomorrow is Halloween. Do
you remember any specific Halloween costume as they chid?

Speaker 5 (31:52):
You know, I don't. I feel like we were a
very basic family. I feel like football player was like
every year. I can only imagine, you know. I I
do remember loving trick or treating.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
I really enjoyed that day.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
We did not have candy in the Cardi household, and
so thanks, I mean, uh, Halloween was a big time.
Now all of a sudden we got some came house.
So yeah, not that was not how it worked in
the Cardi household. You were, I guess it was just
you know, coach Coach Cardi was not having it my father,
so we had no cereal over three grams of sugar.
It was, you know, very regimented in there, no sodas.

(32:27):
So when we got a chance to fill our u caild,
it was it was chaos.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
It was chaos.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
And the in the Cardi household, well, uh, this seems
planned because your your beautiful wife is in attendance tonight
and Katie is here, and it almost I almost felt
like I didn't want to do this, but you know
that I write my questions down and I have things scripted,
and because we're talking candy and and food, I was
thought this would be a perfect night to talk about

(32:54):
because I've seen photos of these uh Food Network Baking
Show championship level cupcakes that that she bakes, and she
is just an incredible baker, and I wanted to ask
you just about I don't think many people know this,
but kind of the ritual that that happens each week
in the quarterback room.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Oh yeah, so the coaches in the quarterbacks essentially, and
then whoever else is around when we're giving them out
every Thursday post staff meeting get cupcakes. And Katie's been
doing it for shoot, maybe twelve years now, maybe ten
years or so, every every week, no matter what, and

(33:32):
they've gotten more and more extravagant each each each week
she refuses to do the same ones over and over again.
And it's app that you had talked about it this week.
This week is actually the goat of cupcakes. The Pumpkin
Oreo cheesecake is coming tomorrow and.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
So very very important day of the Year's got a
fist pump from Nick Nick.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
It's a very important day in the year.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
And we're we're very privileged in the in the Delaware
field House. On the days that the cupcakes come, they're
they're extravagant, they.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Look they look amazing.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
And also I should say I think her I'm sure,
but if anyone that is married to a head coach
of a football program is a saint because all the
film work that you do, all the playbooks that you
put together, your analytic one thousand page of book that
we put every single week.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
So uh, she deserves a medal. I'm sure. Let's uh
give a round of applause, and I promise you I
print this out early. It was it was planned tonight.
It's not just because you walked in the door, but
but fantastic, that's I know, a ritual that everyone enjoys
and that you've been doing, uh for quite some time.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
And now I know you're a you're a very healthy eater.
I don't want to paint the picture that that you're
that you're not, but I believe you're like a candy officionado.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Now is that is that cred?

Speaker 3 (34:49):
This was what Nick Nick tells me that you always
have something in the in the office. So what what's
your favorite Halloween candy?

Speaker 5 (34:55):
I love candy.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
I love chocolate. Do you think that goes the thing?
That's because there wasn't any.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, probably I went crazy when all of a sudden
I went to a friend's birthday party or something. There
was cake and soda getting drunk all night. The Yeah,
I'd love anything. Chocolate, to be honest, is probably my favorite.
But I've I've become in the last like three years,
a big fan of any sort of gummy bears, gummy worms,
life savers, doesn't matter. I love fruit snacks.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
I am a chewy fruit candy up Conni.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Candy doesn't really do it for me. But I'm a
big Kitcat fan as well. Coach, I'm with you on
that one.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Well, this is this is the most information. This is
this is made the most fun.

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us a little insight as well. We are going to
take another time out and we will talk about the
bye week, what you're doing, where you're going, and what
all happens to get you guys ready ultimately for the

(35:56):
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Thank you're listening to the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show
featuring Ryan Cardy on ninety four seven, WDSD and iHeartRadio
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Speaker 3 (39:16):
And welcome back into Lacasa Pasta for the Blue Hens
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basketball head coaches Martin Inglesby and Sarah Jenkins will be there.
Basketball season starts on Monday, believe or not. The MVPs
this week Brock Gingrich on offense, Eric Straanco who had
a huge hit on special teams, and our net Pee

(39:39):
on defense after eight tackles, one and a half sacks
and two and a half tackles for loss. Please welcome,
Merge Malumba, everybody, Merge, Welcome and thank you so much
for being here. Congratulations on the win on Saturday. What
was it like to get out there and get a
w as a team, get bounced back and have a
big win in front.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Of a big crowd.

Speaker 7 (40:00):
Yeah, I mean it was. It was a great time,
you know, in the tub in front of our home crowd.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
You know.

Speaker 7 (40:06):
Last the week before the game before it didn't go
so well. For us. So you know, we came out
there against Albany, I wanted to prove something.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
So yeah, yeah, well you came back and undefeated, still
at home this year seven and one on the season.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
What was working well?

Speaker 3 (40:19):
We talked about some of your stats in that ball game,
but what was working well for you individually and then
as a team as well defensively really just.

Speaker 7 (40:27):
You know, communicating with my teammates and guys beside me,
you know, trusting them. You know, CARTI tells us to
you know, trust and play for the guys beside you,
and that that's really what we were doing all game long,
you know, just talking about what's going on, and you know,
when the balls snaps, you know, just being physical and
just running to the ball and just you know, playing
for each other.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
So yeah, was the team a little anxious or if
that's not the right word, motivated to anytime you come
up with a lost you got to it's a longer
week to get back out there. So what was a
mindset having it to go through that? And I'm sure
excited to get back out there and do a good job.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Wi you guys did.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
Yeah, I mean, like I said earlier, like we just
wanted to prove ourselves. And you know, coach Carty, like
he says that winning is hard, so you know, in
order to win, you have to do the hard things.

Speaker 10 (41:10):
And so.

Speaker 7 (41:12):
We like the Richmond game didn't go so well for us,
but we want to prove that, you know, we are
winners no matter what happens. So we came out there,
you know, with a chip on our shoulder and just
wanted to show everyone that you know, we're's still delaware,
like we're not going to let this last like you know,
like hold us back for the rest of the season
or demoralize us, like we just you know, wanted to

(41:33):
just win.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah. I love the mindset.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
I like Coach Carty last week said, you know, winning
takes what it takes, and you're choosing to win when
you're when you're working hard, you're choosing to win. And
that's the data that you guys took out there. Now
this is your your transfer through this to this team.
You came a last season and you're playing more and
more snaps and you're doing a great job this year.
Do you fee yourself kind of growing as a player

(41:55):
or how have you grown since you got to campus
last season?

Speaker 7 (41:58):
Yeah, most definitely. I mean last year, you know, I
had a little bit of an injury bug. You know
that was kind of holding me back for you know,
some certain situations and stuff. But you know, coming into
this year, you know, I understood my role in every game.
You know, I've stayed ready and you know, as I
was able to, you know, granted and blessed to play
more snaps, you know, I was just I was just
ready because that's the type of player I am, and

(42:20):
that's what the coaches expected me, is just to always
be ready and when your number is called, just be
ready and just play.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Theme tonight with the guests here staying ready and the
next man up of being ready. And you know, Dylan
Trainer went down, one of the captains of the team.
The defense didn't miss a beat. And so you've been
doing a fantastic job. Mentioned you were a transfer, so
you started your career at a Division two team. It
was Division two at that time, right, Yeah. You were

(42:48):
all conference rookie teams, so you had accolades there. Then
you bump up to FC same school, but they bump up.
That's the trajectory, right yeah, and you're all conference in
that school at all conference NEC at stone Hill and
then you'll be able to finish your career at FBS.
So so you're gonna go to all of the levels
as you continue to rise and rise. But was that

(43:08):
part of obviously the FBS the thing was an announce yep,
But was that part of the reason they get chose
Delaware to to maybe play in a larger conference and
challenge yourself in that way?

Speaker 7 (43:16):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean the type of family
I come from, you always want to, you know, do
our best in what we're doing. And that's kind of
always been my mindset. When I was at stone Hill,
and you know, I had two pretty good seasons, so
I was like, why not take a shot with myself
and go somewhere pretty cool And that cool place happened
to be Delaware. You know, I'm just grateful, you know,
Coach Cardi was able to give me, offer me a scholarship,

(43:38):
you know, after seeing my film, and all the other
coaches were happy to have me on board. And yeah,
it's just I just I just love this place.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Well, we're glad that you love but we're glad that
you are here and talking to emerged Malumba seventeen tackles
over the last three games. You're playing at outstanding football.
Talking about your time at stone Hill in twenty twenty
to the season opener, you guys went seventy six to
nothing in the ball game a couple of years back.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
Is that ring a bell?

Speaker 6 (44:08):
Now?

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Let me know if this rings the bell. On the
second play of the game, you took an interception back
to the one yard line. You almost got there. What's
going to take me back to that play if you
can remember it?

Speaker 7 (44:17):
Yeah, I mean I just seen the ball and then
all of a sudden it hit my chest and I
was like, oh, I gotta go. You know, haven't been
on the offensive side of things, you know, in a
while at that point. And then you know, I just
kind of just ran, just kept running, and then I
got hit and then I thought I scored and I
started celebrating, and then everyone was like, oh, Merge, like

(44:37):
why didn't you get in? I was like, what do
you mean get in? And it was disappointed.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Coach Cardi praised kat Say earlier in the season when
he got down to the one yard line and still
protected the ball. Were you reaching out there or are
you protecting the ball?

Speaker 7 (44:51):
I was protecting the ball. I knew how to do
hard before.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
And now it just is integrated into into the program. Now.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
You talked about you hadn't been on offense for a
while when you got the ball in your hands in Stonehill,
but you used to play offense. In fact, you once
rushed for three hundred and fifteen yards in a game
in high school. You scored five touchdowns in a game.
So with a game like that, you know, when Marcus
is coming off the field on Saturday, You're like, yeah, yeah,
that's fine, but it's not three hundred and fifteen yards

(45:21):
like me in high school. Tell us about your your
position in high school and how you're able to play
running back.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Do you miss it? You miss those days?

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (45:29):
I miss it? But then I remember, especially like you know,
you talked about that game. I ran so much. I
started cramping like crazy during the halftime, And I'm like,
how does Mark like not cramp like he's running. He's
getting all these joys, and you know I got all
those joys. You know, Like, I don't know, my buddy,
I just I don't know. I just don't like get hit.
I'd rather do the hitting too.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Well, Well, you do that you do that very well.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
And to the tune of again, seventeen tackles over the
last three games, eight of them on Saturday, one and
a half sacks, two and a half tackles for loss.
So just to take me into a kind of linebacker
room and the defense and the camaraderie of that, and
what's been like just playing off one each other and
making each other better?

Speaker 7 (46:08):
Yeah, I mean we just preach hard work, you know,
run to the ball, do your job, know you want eleventh,
you know, trust each other, play, you know, fiercely physically,
and you know, just wreak havoc, you know, and just
cause chaos because you know, defense is fun, Like we're
just we just get to fly around and just hit. Like,
who doesn't.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
It sounds like fun?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
And you were causing havoc thirty one percent I think
that was right. Thirty one percent havoc plays is pretty
high on Saturday.

Speaker 22 (46:36):
Right.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Let's get you the final five questions of your segment.
You were from Beverly, Massachusetts. Does that make you a
Boston sports fan?

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (46:44):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Follow up question, did we just become best friends? I
am a Celtics Red Sox all that? Oh yeah? Oh yeah,
We're amazing. All right, all right, we're gonna chat the
rest of the same. No, that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Now, not only are you from Beverly, Massachusetts, but we
talked a little bit about Halloween coming up. You are
three miles from Salem, which is where the Salem witch
trials were located. Are you a haunted house sky or
or would you be scared? Or you somebody that can
handle on it?

Speaker 22 (47:13):
No?

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Really, they've been around me my whole life. I've gone
to see all that stuff before I actually knew it
was supposed to scare you.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
So my wife wants to go up there. Is it
worth it?

Speaker 7 (47:22):
Is it worth? I think it's worth.

Speaker 11 (47:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:24):
So many people from across the world come there.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
So there you go, and you you had it right
in your backyard. Your most memorable Halloween constume?

Speaker 7 (47:32):
One year, I think I was seven. I was a
Ninja turtle don Tello.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
I was just yeah, I was, this is going really
well for us. I got I gotta say for your
favorite Halloween candy. I really like.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
Dots, and I think dots are pretty underrated, but I
really I really did.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Yeah, you lost me there though. I think they're I
think they're raided. I think they're they're correctly rated. All right,
it's a mischief night tonight for those that if that's
still a thing. When I was growing up, on the
night before Halloween, people would go around and maybe do
some pranks. Who's the most likely on your team to
have participated in mischief Night?

Speaker 4 (48:09):
Who's a prank?

Speaker 7 (48:10):
Tyler Das?

Speaker 4 (48:13):
All right, well, Merge, we'll take a break. We'll talk
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Speaker 1 (51:35):
The Blue Hens Football Coaches Show with Delaware head coach
Ryan Carty is presented by First Did or the BTX.
You are listening to ninety four to seven WDSD and
iHeartRadio live from La Casa Pasta Restaurant in Newark.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
And welcome back into Lacasa Pasta Restaurant in a new Ark.
It's a Blue Hens Football Coaches Show as we get
set for a bye week coming up in Delaware.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Getting healthy and getting for the final quarter of the season.
Three games left.

Speaker 6 (52:03):
It is.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
It is interesting.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I haven't thought about it as much until we do
kind of turn the page in November that like, yeah,
this season is going to end on November twenty third,
and there is a.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
Finite time of this season.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
But let's let's talk about how you were going to
get ready for those final three games that you've discussed
throughout the season, because a couple of times we've been
playing against teams that were coming off of buyes. But
how advantageous it can be for a team to play
coming off of a bye week. How do you and
your staff plan on making this a useful time for Delaware?

Speaker 5 (52:34):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing when it's this late
in the season is recovery. And this is, you know,
physically the least taxing bye week that I've ever given
in my three years so far as the head coach.
You know, I think we needed it. We were starting
to get worn out and banged up. You know, We're
still obviously doing the things that we need to do,

(52:57):
you know, according to our sports science department, to stay
in shape and make sure that we're crisp and smooth.
When we come back and at full speed. But I
want to finish this season, you know, extremely like the
way we came into it, with the same kind of energy,
same kind of vigor, making sure that we can be
you know, the fastest team you know on the field,

(53:18):
and the back end of the season as well. And
you know, mentor of mine used to call November championship month,
and you know, it's something I still think about. It
is it is when you know, it's the same thing.
You know, we talk about our third core value being
finished all the time, and this is when you know
it's really hard to do. This is what you this
is what we train for, you know, from start from

(53:40):
you know, however long they've you know, our student athletes
have been here, they've been training for these last three games,
you know, and so we're gonna take them one game
at a time. But we want to make sure that
we're physically and mentally prepared to go in and do this.
And I think even emotionally, sometimes you need a break.
And you know, as long as we're treating it, you know,
with the respect that at thes and making sure that

(54:01):
we're doing the right things with our downtime, then we
have to make sure that, you know, we get back
and we're fresh and we're ready to roll and practice
really hard, because, like we talked about, winning takes what
it takes.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
And uh, there there are uh you know, advantages obviously
of being able to prep for a little bit more
for you for your opponent. I will say, like, you're
already hard enough to scout, right, you already have so
much different formations and your defense is multiple and different
quarterbacks that have played all all season long. I mean,
everything changes so much from game to game. Uh do

(54:33):
you do even more in this is like take me
through like prepping so that Rhode Island has absolutely no
idea what's going I feel like they're gonna have to
have so much film work to get ready, you know,
take us through through kind of that the process.

Speaker 5 (54:46):
Yeah, I think that in my younger days, I probably
did too much coming out of a bye week. And
in particular, I just watched football this Saturday coming up,
and then every cool play I saw, I'd want to
put it in already, and I you know, then I
just put it in on top of the game plan
we already had in for the next week. And so
then I probably did too much. You know, I've gotten
better at that in my old age. It's really more about,

(55:07):
you know, I think bye weeks are a little bit better.
Not as much for what you can do to the
other team. It's you know, they're going to have to
prepare in that seven days, and we have the opportunity
to probably get a little bit of an upper hand
on the uh, you know, the scheme side, on the
coaching side, and saying okay, well, you know, the more
I watch, if I'm going to watch somebody for fourteen
days instead of seven, I'm probably gonna be able to

(55:29):
see a few more tendencies and a few more things
that I might not have been able to pick up
on because we're just trying to get to the basics
and make sure that we have the right you know,
game plan set. And now it's a little bit more
about the nuances. Maybe it's a little bit more about
you know, when somebody calls something as opposed to just
what they're calling, and those are I think the things
that you can kind of pick up on maybe so
few more tendencies over the course of time, and you

(55:50):
also have the ability to self scout, and so this
is that week of time where you're going to, you know,
really take a deep, hard look into what you've been
doing and what your tendencies are so that you can
go into the last three games of the season and
maybe maybe buck some of those trends and and then
just have those in the back of your head while
you're play calling as well, knowing that I will if

(56:11):
we've been eighty percent run and this down and distance
out of this personnel group, well, you know, maybe this
is the time to pass. And and so those are
the things that you know, you get a chance to
do during a bye week that that can help you
and kind of give you an upper hand.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Kind of take a deeper dive even during the bye week.
And typically, or at least I've asked, I think in
the past in terms of with the bye week, maybe
some extra time to be in touch with guys or
recruiting or send guys to watch different players. Will your
staff be beyond the road at all this week?

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Absolutely, some have been on the road, you know, we've been.
We kind of you know, it's based on who we
need to see a little bit more than the old days.
It was like it was everybody just left and they
go out for three days and then come back and
recruiting has just changed.

Speaker 7 (56:52):
A little bit.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
It's a little bit more specific and personal. And so
we've had certain people go out to see the people
that needed to get seen specifically, and then we will
have a bunch of guys, almost all the staff will
be out on the on Friday night seeing football games,
especially in the local area and just kind of showing
support for either our committee kids or guys that we're
trying to get to commit, or guys that we need

(57:14):
to evaluate still and and so those guys will be
on the road doing that, and you know, it's a
it's a big time really for us.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
To evaluate as well.

Speaker 5 (57:23):
So this is the time where you know, they kind
of been stockpiling a list of guys that need to
get seen to get offered.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Yeah, so it's not it's not just necessarily I got
to go visit John because we've made contexts also like
I need to see John play in person when we're
time before I feel comfortable exactly.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
The evaluation side is still it's still you know, obviously,
it's that's what recruiting is. It's kind of all the
things at once, right, there's evaluation going on and certain
student athletes while recruiting is going on for other student athletes,
while holding on to commitments or you know, going on
for other student athletes. And then you know, obviously the
finish lines coming up, you know whatever it is December second, third,

(58:00):
I think it's signing day this year or so. And uh.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
And then a lastly, coach, before let you go for
this week as we get ready, I'm gonna talk some
of your coaches on the staff. We always have a
meet the coaches after a bye week, which is great.
So I always look forward to a to a meeting
some some more of your staff each year. But before
I talk to you again on this setting, you'll have
Rhode Island and then of course Campbell and the big
game against the Villanova to end this season. As we

(58:23):
get into the championship month, what do you want to
see from your team? And you kind of alluded to
it a little bit of just how to finish this
year strong and what would what would besides three wins
obviously for November, what do you want to see how
to get those three wins out of your team?

Speaker 7 (58:39):
I just want to see us play really hard.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Yeah, you know, I mean the same thing that I
talked about prior to this game, and I really want
there to be no doubt that, you know, that was
the team that played harder, you know, and sometimes it
doesn't go your way. There's gonna be games you lose.
It's sports, right, it does happen. You have bad days.
You know, things can go wrong, but you have to
be able to look at your teammates and look at
your co coaches and look at each other and say,

(59:01):
you know, we gave it everything we had. And I
really think that's you know, the belief has shown through.
You know, the student athletes in our room, they really
believe in what we're doing, and you know, they believe
in each other. And so that's really what we need
to see, you know, kind of personified out there on
the field, you know, for for this week and then
hopefully two more after that.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Well, we look forward to seeing it. It's been a
pleasure watching this team all season long. Seven and one.
You're doing fantastic work, and let's finish strong in November.
Coaching joyed, bye.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
We appreciate Scott all right. I always appreciate Coach Carti
and everyone for coming out.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Thanks so much. We do have a show and next week.
We'll be at Klondike Kates after the bye week, so
we do have a show. We hope you'll join us there.
We had a great crowd tonight as always in last
week at Kate's as well. We appreciate the support. You
can follow Blue Hen's Radio on iHeartRadio app where we
ever to get your podcast to download this episode and
interviews as well. Thanks again to Ryan Cardi, Nick Minacucci

(59:57):
and Merge Malumba.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Everyone that came out big Thank you to you as well.
We'll talk to you next Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Enjoy your Saturdays without football and we'll be back to
finish this season strong.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
For our producer, Jay hollahand Bank in the studio, I'm Scott.
That's insane. Good night, Thanks for listening and as always,
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