October 7, 2025 • 13 mins
UND Assistant Hockey Coach Dillon Simpson made his first appearance on the show following the team’s 7–0 win over Manitoba. He noted that while the game started off a bit messy, the team settled in and found their rhythm. Simpson emphasized the importance of practicing with game-like intensity and learning from mistakes. He also spoke about the team’s ongoing growth and focus on playing together as a unit. Looking ahead, UND prepares to face No. 19 St. Thomas in their next matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M HM, and we welcome you back here to Hot
Top downtown Grand Forks as a show continues as we
shift gears now from the field to the ice, as
North Dakota Hockey is beginning the regular season this weekend,
starting at Ralph Englestead Arena, as we bring in North
Dakota assistant coach Dylan Simpson to the program for the
(00:23):
first time here tonight. Yeah, we got you three out.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Of five on the power plays Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, it's a good start. I mean, you know, it
doesn't matter much until the real thing begins, but I
liked what I saw. The guys worked hard, got pucks
back and put a couple on the net, which I
was missing.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You're not doing the drop, and I mean I said
it even on there. I said, we're used tolling McLaughlin
dropping it back to him and going through, but of
course he's not.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Here'll be a little different, a little bit of everything,
you know, depending on personnels. Things worked better than others
with some guys, and we're gonna mix it up and
hopefully make it a little harder to defend.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What'd you think, Dylan? I thought, you know you had geez,
you played what six lot? Five lines for sure. I mean,
you got everybody in the game and nobody looked like
they were not afraid to play.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, it was exciting to see, Like you said, all
five lines. I thought did a really good job. We
did a I thought we did a good job of
kind of mixing it up, making sure there was four
lines of period so guys could get their reps and
not be sitting out too long. But yeah, from top
to bottom, I thought, you know, everyone did a good
job of playing the right way. I think it was
a little jittery and sloppy early and got better as
(01:38):
it went on, and once you know, the comfort set in,
guys just played their game and it was great to see.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. See, I never thought sloppy. I really didn't. I
thought you guys were on target most of the time
through most of the game, which is unusual at this
time of the year. Right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I think, you know, we're putting a huge emphasis
on practice and practicing like you play. If you can
make practic is hard and less time in space, the
game feels easy, and that's what you want at the
end of the day. And it was a good start
to kind of see our guys, you know, with time
and space being able to make some places.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well. The thing I the point I made with coach
Jackson this morning was and probably a tribute we talked about.
You played five lines and six defensemen.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
We were eight for a while and then we went
down to six and a half.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think nobody looked like they were afraid to play,
which I spy, and I've spotted every year. Just see,
Oh wait a minute, he's not ready yet.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, obviously, you know, for young guys playing in the
real for the first time, you know, pressures in the air.
But we want guys who are gamers that you know,
are afraid of the big lights. And I think it
showed in Game one. I know, again it's exhibition, but
we got guys who are are gamer types that have
that mentality of not being afraid to play and trying
to take the bowl by the horns.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, you make a mistake, and hey, just keep going.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, on to the next one. You put park that one,
learn from it, and get back to work.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So here's a question from a listener that listens to
the program from time to time and said, would you
ask one of the coaches, how do at this juncture
of the season, how do you how much shuffling over
the last month of defensive pairs to see who plays
with who lines? Does it change day to day, does
(03:23):
it change week to week? I mean, because there's a
lot of chemistry tests going on right now. Correct. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Absolutely. You always go into the year with kind of
an idea of who you think might work well together,
but especially in that first month trying to juggle pairs
and lines around just to see what works. And also,
you know, whether it be young guys or new guys,
trying to give them an opportunity to elevate too and
mix them in. So I think we put a lot
of emphasis early on on trying to see different combos,
and you know, as it went on, can find guys
(03:51):
with chemistry that work together and who plug in well
together and came up with those lines.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Have you seen a seventeen year old kid.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Honestly, yeah, he's pretty special, you know, special, more so
even than you know obviously he's super talented, great hockey player.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But there's no Jake Sanders.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Might be yeah, get there, yeah no, but for us,
you know, the big thing, it's always it's always a
discussion about bringing in an underage guy. But you'd be
around him, the presence he has, the maturity, has the
type of kid he is, uh, you know, he'll handle
everything the right way and just keep working through it.
So it's been it's been great to start working with him.
We're super excited to have him, and you know he's
(04:37):
he's a young guy, but he's gonna keep growing, keep
learning and be a great player of house.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
How old are a lot of those players that you
played on Saturday Night for Manitoba? Are they kind of
twenty three twenty four year olds? Maybe a fraction older
at times?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I'd say probably twenty two to twenty four range, right,
probably be what their average.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So there's quite a a range there from your youngest
players on your roster to you know, are growing men,
maybe somewhat married with kids basically at times. I mean,
it's it's a difference in life.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Experience, absolutely any any jump you make from junior to
go to the ncuble A. And it feels like the
NCAA has been getting older, especially with the fifth year
rule in the last couple of years and stuff like that,
where you know, you got stronger bodies on you, closing
on you quick. It is being able to play with
that kind of pressure and the strength out there. It's
good test, you know, take some guys a little bit
(05:25):
getting used to, but it was good to see for
game one.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is that the big test for most of those guys
that are eighteen maybe nineteen playing against twenty four to
twenty five guys.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, I think that's that's probably the biggest jump. You know,
you're used to playing well now with the Cochl even
they got you know, a lot of sixteen seventeen, eighteen
year olds, I mean the USHL same thing. It's just
you know, you're going up against men every shift and
you're just getting used to that. Yeah, tough.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You know, you look at just the situation of a
veterans like web Swanson taking his step, and it's all
all about, yeah, you want to see the young guys
take a step, but you want to also get the
guys that have been here, been through the battles, understand
the game, take a step. And so many people have
come up to me that we're able to attend on
Saturday and said, boy, Max Wantson looks a little different
(06:15):
than he did, you know, a season ago. He certainly
showed glimpses of what's available there, but there's apparently another
gear in there that they were already seeing in game one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Absolutely, Max got such a you know, humble, want to
get better approach to everything he does, you know, hard worker,
and you know he's so coachable and just wants to
do everything he can to make be better. And throughout
the summer you saw him put in the work. You know,
to see him take a step, it seems stronger, streams, faster,
shooting the puck, harder. That just goes to the work
(06:47):
he's put in and it would be great for him
even as a sophomore. He's got to be a leader
up front for that group. And so far, so good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, it's interesting because he was almost like the roller coaster.
Everybody was going, okay, leading score in usall, you know whatever,
all these acclemdes that he had, accolades that he had,
and then it wasn't like you said, the world on fire.
He played well And now Saturday night anywhere, if that's
any indication of where he's at.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Wow, Yeah, it goes back like making the jump to
college hockey, especially the NCCHC. It's a tough thing, you know,
as an undersized forward in our league. It's it's never easy.
I think he did a great job of growing as
the game went on, or as the year went on.
Last year he was really good down the stretch and
he just took that into the summer and he's continued
to work and you know, I think the sky's the
limit for him with his mindset.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Oh yeah, he can distribute a little bit. But that's
what I loved about that one goal he scored because
I said on the air, so you had no choice.
You had to shoot that. As we kept saying last year,
shoot it, shoot it, Well, you had no choice there.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Was You're never going to take the pass first DNA
out of a great passer. But sometimes it just to
stairs he in the face. You gotta you gotta take
the shot. Good for him. You know, you turn and
turn your attention to the regular season. I mean you
blink of an eye that it's not like you have
another month to prepare. And these are such meaningful games
out of the gates that you know, because everyone knows
(08:15):
non conference now and the waight that are in those games.
Saint Thomas is a program that is expect They're expecting
a lot this year the league that they play in expects.
I think them to be incredibly formidable and I think
themselves consider themselves to be a program on the rise
as well. So right out of the gates Friday night,
it's a it's a huge challenge with the Tommys.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, credit to Saint Thomas. They've done a great job
of building their program. They got a great group coming
in And for us, you know, it's all about the
process of playing the right way. Yes we're going to
pre scout the opponents. Yes we're gonna do everything we
can to prepare for that. But if we can take
care of what what we can control, that's kind of
our mind our day to day mindset. And I think,
you know, we've had a great start to the year.
(08:58):
You know, preseason and camp went really well, and now
real life games, Like the fun thing about college hockey
is games in October mean just as much as games
in March. And you gotta yeah, exactly, and you gotta
you gotta approach every game like a playoff game and
bring it all building.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We've talked about it before. Your guys are going to
experience this weekend. You've got that target on your back.
And Sat Thomas is looking at that target on your back.
I mean they just have to understand that's the way
it is at und right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, on the wall in the locker room. Pressure is
a privilege. It comes with, you know, everything from we
got the greatest fan base in college hockey, but the
expectations are high and with that, there's always a target
on your back. Teams want to come in here and
prove a point and you got to be ready for
it no matter who you're playing.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
There's no uh, somebody asked me to do Is there
a goalie battle there? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, Gibbie's done a great job. I think he'll be
be our rock. You know. Spooner's come in and put
a ton of work in. I think he's a guy
who's when he gets touches, he's going to do a
great job as well. He played, he was in debuke
last year, he was in the w HL before that.
So with the rule change it worked out perfectly. But
you know, he's had success everywhere he's gone. He's he's
putting in the work every day and he's going to
(10:11):
be a great goalie as well.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You're using the new one. I hear, Hey, look at you.
I mean, see, I'm still saying Czech Republic. I'm still
stuck way back in the time. So you're with the Yeah,
you got that now, you know when you when when
you talk about your you know, there was such a
great write up in the Herald Dylan about the branch
Lastman did a great you know right up about the recruiting. Uh.
(10:36):
You know that you were on the advance, the adventure
that you and the coaching staff were on. And I
guess my question is, you know, you obviously are almost
the foot shoulder and coach Dane Jackson at times. You
mean you're driving, criss crossing Canada, fist bumping through windows, uh,
at intersections and things of that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Sure, you know, is it a daily sit down with
Brinn in his role and discussing kind of is that
take up a you know, a thirty minute block in
the day to kind of plan out a week or
a month or a couple of weeks. I mean, that's
a new type of role that brings in. He's certainly
positioned for it, that's what he's done. But how does
that interface with you guys?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, I think it depends obviously on time of year,
off season and you know, heavy scouting dates. January first
a big date for us. August first a big date
for us. Those are when it really wraps up on
kind of the weekly. You know, once a week we
have a big meeting about recruiting. Whether it's guys we've
been watching on video, guys we've seen in person, mapping
out you know, for us, it's the next four years.
(11:35):
We usually go and try to map out what players
might fit and from there, if anything pops up, yeah,
we'll have some more meetings. But for right now, you know,
Brin's done a great job of kind of organizing and
having a good net cast for us. But I'd say
once a week there's a big meeting with a lot
of little discussions going on along the way.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It used to be that one of the assistants would
see a guy and go, you've got you guys, come
and get this guy's got to come and see this.
Does that happen anymore?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
All of us coaches still want to get out. We
want to make sure, you know, whether it's you know,
building relationships with players, but also seeing players in person.
I think Brent, you know, the great thing about him,
he'll be able to cast that net for us narrow
down some names, and you know so much now with technology,
we're watching guys every day anyways, as far as on video,
but you know, for him to get real life viewing
(12:26):
and then come back to us with what he's what
he sees, and then hey, if this is the guy
we're gonna target, let's all make an effort to get
out so.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
He can tell you I like this guy's talent.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, okay, Well it's a it's a whole new world
over there at times in the offices and uh and
certainly with some roles being different within his staff now
and how everybody kind of works and in their world
and interacts with one another. I think that's fascinating and
I appreciate the question to pass along to you, and
I appreciate the answer as well. Dylan, thanks for dropping
(12:58):
by here tonight, and yeahppreciate it's great to see. He
was my scramble teammate here just a couple of weeks ago.
He plays a great game of golf and yeah, I
mean he swings it well, so.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Give me too much credit first time on hopefully not
the last. Thanks guys, Thanks Thanks Dylan. Assistant coach Dylan
Simpson north to cuta hockey. Everybody appreciate him dropping in.
We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Come back. Talk to Jesse Tupac as he'll join us
and talk to you and d volleyball as they get
set for some key matches at the Betty Ingles Tad
Sue Center. He'll join us next inside Hawk Talk and
inside the five oh six Pub, all across the Fighting
Hawks radio network
M HM, and we welcome you back here to Hot
Top downtown Grand Forks as a show continues as we
shift gears now from the field to the ice, as
North Dakota Hockey is beginning the regular season this weekend,
starting at Ralph Englestead Arena, as we bring in North
Dakota assistant coach Dylan Simpson to the program for the
(00:23):
first time here tonight. Yeah, we got you three out.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Of five on the power plays Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, it's a good start. I mean, you know, it
doesn't matter much until the real thing begins, but I
liked what I saw. The guys worked hard, got pucks
back and put a couple on the net, which I
was missing.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You're not doing the drop, and I mean I said
it even on there. I said, we're used tolling McLaughlin
dropping it back to him and going through, but of
course he's not.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Here'll be a little different, a little bit of everything,
you know, depending on personnels. Things worked better than others
with some guys, and we're gonna mix it up and
hopefully make it a little harder to defend.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What'd you think, Dylan? I thought, you know you had geez,
you played what six lot? Five lines for sure. I mean,
you got everybody in the game and nobody looked like
they were not afraid to play.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, it was exciting to see, Like you said, all
five lines. I thought did a really good job. We
did a I thought we did a good job of
kind of mixing it up, making sure there was four
lines of period so guys could get their reps and
not be sitting out too long. But yeah, from top
to bottom, I thought, you know, everyone did a good
job of playing the right way. I think it was
a little jittery and sloppy early and got better as
(01:38):
it went on, and once you know, the comfort set in,
guys just played their game and it was great to see.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. See, I never thought sloppy. I really didn't. I
thought you guys were on target most of the time
through most of the game, which is unusual at this
time of the year. Right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I think, you know, we're putting a huge emphasis
on practice and practicing like you play. If you can
make practic is hard and less time in space, the
game feels easy, and that's what you want at the
end of the day. And it was a good start
to kind of see our guys, you know, with time
and space being able to make some places.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well. The thing I the point I made with coach
Jackson this morning was and probably a tribute we talked about.
You played five lines and six defensemen.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
We were eight for a while and then we went
down to six and a half.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think nobody looked like they were afraid to play,
which I spy, and I've spotted every year. Just see,
Oh wait a minute, he's not ready yet.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, obviously, you know, for young guys playing in the
real for the first time, you know, pressures in the air.
But we want guys who are gamers that you know,
are afraid of the big lights. And I think it
showed in Game one. I know, again it's exhibition, but
we got guys who are are gamer types that have
that mentality of not being afraid to play and trying
to take the bowl by the horns.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, you make a mistake, and hey, just keep going.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, on to the next one. You put park that one,
learn from it, and get back to work.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So here's a question from a listener that listens to
the program from time to time and said, would you
ask one of the coaches, how do at this juncture
of the season, how do you how much shuffling over
the last month of defensive pairs to see who plays
with who lines? Does it change day to day, does
(03:23):
it change week to week? I mean, because there's a
lot of chemistry tests going on right now. Correct. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Absolutely. You always go into the year with kind of
an idea of who you think might work well together,
but especially in that first month trying to juggle pairs
and lines around just to see what works. And also,
you know, whether it be young guys or new guys,
trying to give them an opportunity to elevate too and
mix them in. So I think we put a lot
of emphasis early on on trying to see different combos,
and you know, as it went on, can find guys
(03:51):
with chemistry that work together and who plug in well
together and came up with those lines.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Have you seen a seventeen year old kid.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Honestly, yeah, he's pretty special, you know, special, more so
even than you know obviously he's super talented, great hockey player.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But there's no Jake Sanders.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Might be yeah, get there, yeah no, but for us,
you know, the big thing, it's always it's always a
discussion about bringing in an underage guy. But you'd be
around him, the presence he has, the maturity, has the
type of kid he is, uh, you know, he'll handle
everything the right way and just keep working through it.
So it's been it's been great to start working with him.
We're super excited to have him, and you know he's
(04:37):
he's a young guy, but he's gonna keep growing, keep
learning and be a great player of house.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
How old are a lot of those players that you
played on Saturday Night for Manitoba? Are they kind of
twenty three twenty four year olds? Maybe a fraction older
at times?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I'd say probably twenty two to twenty four range, right,
probably be what their average.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So there's quite a a range there from your youngest
players on your roster to you know, are growing men,
maybe somewhat married with kids basically at times. I mean,
it's it's a difference in life.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Experience, absolutely any any jump you make from junior to
go to the ncuble A. And it feels like the
NCAA has been getting older, especially with the fifth year
rule in the last couple of years and stuff like that,
where you know, you got stronger bodies on you, closing
on you quick. It is being able to play with
that kind of pressure and the strength out there. It's
good test, you know, take some guys a little bit
(05:25):
getting used to, but it was good to see for
game one.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is that the big test for most of those guys
that are eighteen maybe nineteen playing against twenty four to
twenty five guys.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, I think that's that's probably the biggest jump. You know,
you're used to playing well now with the Cochl even
they got you know, a lot of sixteen seventeen, eighteen
year olds, I mean the USHL same thing. It's just
you know, you're going up against men every shift and
you're just getting used to that. Yeah, tough.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You know, you look at just the situation of a
veterans like web Swanson taking his step, and it's all
all about, yeah, you want to see the young guys
take a step, but you want to also get the
guys that have been here, been through the battles, understand
the game, take a step. And so many people have
come up to me that we're able to attend on
Saturday and said, boy, Max Wantson looks a little different
(06:15):
than he did, you know, a season ago. He certainly
showed glimpses of what's available there, but there's apparently another
gear in there that they were already seeing in game one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Absolutely, Max got such a you know, humble, want to
get better approach to everything he does, you know, hard worker,
and you know he's so coachable and just wants to
do everything he can to make be better. And throughout
the summer you saw him put in the work. You know,
to see him take a step, it seems stronger, streams, faster,
shooting the puck, harder. That just goes to the work
(06:47):
he's put in and it would be great for him
even as a sophomore. He's got to be a leader
up front for that group. And so far, so good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, it's interesting because he was almost like the roller coaster.
Everybody was going, okay, leading score in usall, you know whatever,
all these acclemdes that he had, accolades that he had,
and then it wasn't like you said, the world on fire.
He played well And now Saturday night anywhere, if that's
any indication of where he's at.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Wow, Yeah, it goes back like making the jump to
college hockey, especially the NCCHC. It's a tough thing, you know,
as an undersized forward in our league. It's it's never easy.
I think he did a great job of growing as
the game went on, or as the year went on.
Last year he was really good down the stretch and
he just took that into the summer and he's continued
to work and you know, I think the sky's the
limit for him with his mindset.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Oh yeah, he can distribute a little bit. But that's
what I loved about that one goal he scored because
I said on the air, so you had no choice.
You had to shoot that. As we kept saying last year,
shoot it, shoot it, Well, you had no choice there.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Was You're never going to take the pass first DNA
out of a great passer. But sometimes it just to
stairs he in the face. You gotta you gotta take
the shot. Good for him. You know, you turn and
turn your attention to the regular season. I mean you
blink of an eye that it's not like you have
another month to prepare. And these are such meaningful games
out of the gates that you know, because everyone knows
(08:15):
non conference now and the waight that are in those games.
Saint Thomas is a program that is expect They're expecting
a lot this year the league that they play in expects.
I think them to be incredibly formidable and I think
themselves consider themselves to be a program on the rise
as well. So right out of the gates Friday night,
it's a it's a huge challenge with the Tommys.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, credit to Saint Thomas. They've done a great job
of building their program. They got a great group coming
in And for us, you know, it's all about the
process of playing the right way. Yes we're going to
pre scout the opponents. Yes we're gonna do everything we
can to prepare for that. But if we can take
care of what what we can control, that's kind of
our mind our day to day mindset. And I think,
you know, we've had a great start to the year.
(08:58):
You know, preseason and camp went really well, and now
real life games, Like the fun thing about college hockey
is games in October mean just as much as games
in March. And you gotta yeah, exactly, and you gotta
you gotta approach every game like a playoff game and
bring it all building.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We've talked about it before. Your guys are going to
experience this weekend. You've got that target on your back.
And Sat Thomas is looking at that target on your back.
I mean they just have to understand that's the way
it is at und right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, on the wall in the locker room. Pressure is
a privilege. It comes with, you know, everything from we
got the greatest fan base in college hockey, but the
expectations are high and with that, there's always a target
on your back. Teams want to come in here and
prove a point and you got to be ready for
it no matter who you're playing.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
There's no uh, somebody asked me to do Is there
a goalie battle there? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, Gibbie's done a great job. I think he'll be
be our rock. You know. Spooner's come in and put
a ton of work in. I think he's a guy
who's when he gets touches, he's going to do a
great job as well. He played, he was in debuke
last year, he was in the w HL before that.
So with the rule change it worked out perfectly. But
you know, he's had success everywhere he's gone. He's he's
putting in the work every day and he's going to
(10:11):
be a great goalie as well.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You're using the new one. I hear, Hey, look at you.
I mean, see, I'm still saying Czech Republic. I'm still
stuck way back in the time. So you're with the Yeah,
you got that now, you know when you when when
you talk about your you know, there was such a
great write up in the Herald Dylan about the branch
Lastman did a great you know right up about the recruiting. Uh.
(10:36):
You know that you were on the advance, the adventure
that you and the coaching staff were on. And I
guess my question is, you know, you obviously are almost
the foot shoulder and coach Dane Jackson at times. You
mean you're driving, criss crossing Canada, fist bumping through windows, uh,
at intersections and things of that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Sure, you know, is it a daily sit down with
Brinn in his role and discussing kind of is that
take up a you know, a thirty minute block in
the day to kind of plan out a week or
a month or a couple of weeks. I mean, that's
a new type of role that brings in. He's certainly
positioned for it, that's what he's done. But how does
that interface with you guys?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, I think it depends obviously on time of year,
off season and you know, heavy scouting dates. January first
a big date for us. August first a big date
for us. Those are when it really wraps up on
kind of the weekly. You know, once a week we
have a big meeting about recruiting. Whether it's guys we've
been watching on video, guys we've seen in person, mapping
out you know, for us, it's the next four years.
(11:35):
We usually go and try to map out what players
might fit and from there, if anything pops up, yeah,
we'll have some more meetings. But for right now, you know,
Brin's done a great job of kind of organizing and
having a good net cast for us. But I'd say
once a week there's a big meeting with a lot
of little discussions going on along the way.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It used to be that one of the assistants would
see a guy and go, you've got you guys, come
and get this guy's got to come and see this.
Does that happen anymore?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
All of us coaches still want to get out. We
want to make sure, you know, whether it's you know,
building relationships with players, but also seeing players in person.
I think Brent, you know, the great thing about him,
he'll be able to cast that net for us narrow
down some names, and you know so much now with technology,
we're watching guys every day anyways, as far as on video,
but you know, for him to get real life viewing
(12:26):
and then come back to us with what he's what
he sees, and then hey, if this is the guy
we're gonna target, let's all make an effort to get
out so.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
He can tell you I like this guy's talent.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, okay, Well it's a it's a whole new world
over there at times in the offices and uh and
certainly with some roles being different within his staff now
and how everybody kind of works and in their world
and interacts with one another. I think that's fascinating and
I appreciate the question to pass along to you, and
I appreciate the answer as well. Dylan, thanks for dropping
(12:58):
by here tonight, and yeahppreciate it's great to see. He
was my scramble teammate here just a couple of weeks ago.
He plays a great game of golf and yeah, I
mean he swings it well, so.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Give me too much credit first time on hopefully not
the last. Thanks guys, Thanks Thanks Dylan. Assistant coach Dylan
Simpson north to cuta hockey. Everybody appreciate him dropping in.
We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Come back. Talk to Jesse Tupac as he'll join us
and talk to you and d volleyball as they get
set for some key matches at the Betty Ingles Tad
Sue Center. He'll join us next inside Hawk Talk and
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