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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Football ladies and gentlemen, time to go to the Hamilton's hotline.
(00:02):
Hamilton's as a location on Magnoian Downtown Auburn and Ogle
Tree and Auburn Too. Fine places for you to dine
under one name, two restaurants, two locations to serve you.
We're going to open like a high street, to bring
open like a high school to bring in the second
year head coach of the Bulldogs, Brian Moore, who is
live and ben live at the school for a couple
of hours.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Coach Moore, Good morning, how are y'all? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Summertime coach, are supposed to be chilling out at the lake, chilling,
riding the boat, jet ski and sleeping late.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah we didn't get that memo here.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh my bad.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah you got a job right, yeah, no doubt. Now
summers summer has always been huge, uh for obviously for everybody,
but really we're able to spend a lot of time
with them and really take our days and kind of
cut them down to the mornings. You know, when you
remove school from the equation, you know, uh, it's it's
good sometimes to get away from you know, cause black
(01:00):
and you say girlfriends and backpacks, you know sometimes to
just be us, you know, and just be down here
focusing on football. And but it's been good. It's been
a good start. So it's only day five today, but
really pleased first with attendance, guys being right, being on time,
and then ready to compete the end of this week
at Auburn.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, all right, so take us through a day of
a football player at OPLA, like a high school coach.
What time I got to get there? Give me a
routine of what I got to do for you this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, you know most of our staffs here. Well now
a lot of the guys are working out and kind
of getting them sales ready, you know, I think that's
really important for our coaches first, and you know, getting
prepared for practice. I mean, all the practice plans for
the whole summer are ready, but just as far as
the tweaks for the day and sort of what our
point spences are, like, today's a big third down day
for us. So anyway, kids arrive at seven, Well they're
(01:50):
dressed at seven, so they're all here typically any minute
you'll have you know, corridors opening and closing outside and
guys getting here. We practiced at seven as a team.
We have a team meeting at seven twenty. We're on
the turf nine through twelve. At seven forty, we have
a fifteen minute warm up which incorporate some speed work.
The way we do it in the summer is or
(02:12):
what I call our rotational guys, which is an older
group mostly varsity players only. They'll lift first. Our freshman
and JV group will be on the turf. They'll practice.
They'll have a forty five minute like fundamental period, circuits,
skill development period, and then we'll rotate, so the rotational
guys will come outside, the young guys that go inside
and lift, and then we'll we'll have another fundamental practice
(02:36):
another forty five minutes and then we all meet on
the field to finish. And so we're done on the
turf around ten thirty five ten forty and then we
dress and go and eat lunch together. Once we eat
lunch at eleven, we go to meetings. We have meetings
from eleven fifteen to eleven forty five, and so it's
a full day. I mean it's for you know, four
(02:58):
and a half almost five hours, but we're done, and
we're right now. We're only three days a week unless
we compete, which we're doing on Thursday, so it's a
full day. My goal is to start and finish the
day and then put a boat a bowl on it
at the end of that day with films so that
when we come in like this morning, we've already reviewed
made corrections from yesterday and then today you know, we
(03:20):
start fresh. So that's kind of the goal of the summer.
And I love it. I mean, I think we make
up a ton of ground and get so many reps.
And not to mention, the structure allows our varsity coaches
and our night great coaches to work together and so
we're all speaking the same language, and like we have,
you know, a lot more hand to help with our
young guys as well. So it's been it's been a
(03:41):
good summer so far, and I really like the structure.
It's been my favorite out of all the years I've
coached so far. How about that Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Moore was so black a football coach going through a
little day in the life of a football player. Coach,
what time you finish up? Is that noon or is
it one?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Or yeah, around noon? You know they'll have some like
today we've got to kick off meeting at the end
which will end around twelve to ten. But again, because
I feed them breakfast at lunch, I can keep them
a while, you know, and basically you know, if the
coaches need them extra, they will. But but typically kids
go home around I would say around eleven forty five,
(04:14):
unless they have an extra meeting. And so a lot
of our guys work after lunch. You know, they'll go
eat teenage boys, you know, they'll go eat again and
then go you know, cut grass or whatever their job
might be in the summer for the rest of the day.
So again it's it's a long morning. But we also
take you know, Fridays off, and so, like I said,
if we don't have a competition, we only go Monday
(04:35):
through Wednesday. But because we go to Auburn University this Thursday,
we've got a four day week. So again, excited about it,
and really like the structure.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I like that coach. This is exactly what cayleb Ross
wanted to do when he got here. Feed him twice,
get them in there three days a week, let them
have Friday off. I don't know about the competition part
of it, but yeah, I think that's good coach.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You get them, you give them some time off.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You're given them what Thursday through Sunday off, right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, if we don't compete, you know, like last week
we were flady through Wednesday, so that was so they
felt good again on Monday, you know, and so that's
huge too that they get their rest and recovery time
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Give me, tell me about competing. What do we do
is seven on seven? I call it touch football? Is
that what we're doing?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Coach? That's all right? Yeah? Yeah, So in the month
of June, you know, really the only thing you can
do is go to colleges, you know, until it's your time,
like right now baseball and basketball, you know, have I
forgot about that? Yeah, that's right. But the state allows
us to go to college seven on seven, So like
we're going Thursday to Auvern. Next Tuesday we go to
(05:36):
do a b uh and then that's the only two
we do outside of the three week allotted played eight
or competition time you know, set forth by the state.
So you know, we'll do that this week. There's a
ton of teams at Auburn. It's a good one, a
lot of really good teams out of Georgia, Like one
of our matchups is North Quinette. You know, Carrollton's there.
(05:57):
There's a lot of good teams there, a lot of
our in state teams, you know. I'm sure Thompson will
be there, Auburn's there. I don't know if any cities
there hasn't seen it, but again it's it's a great
opportunity for us to compete. And then, like I tell
our kids, it's a great opportunity for them to compete
in front of Auburn's coaching staff. You know, no better
place to earn a scholarship or spot than to do
it in front of those guys. So you know, that's
(06:19):
huge for our kids as well, and that's why we
take them to different places and allow them to compete
in front of those guys.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, Coach Brian Moore with a so black a
Bulldog football coach. We're talking summer workouts, Jeff James Cooper,
y'all want to chime in on anything, Man, I'm listening
to the school.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You got any questions?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I know he's telling it like it is. I know,
all right, So the off days, coach, what do you
require of them on their off days? Do they need
to do anything on their own well.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
They need to rest. I mean, I think one of
the things that you know, one of the things that
like I always get is, well, I'm trying to get
extra work, you know, I'm trying to get some agility
or speed work, or I'm going out on my own,
and that's okay. But I'm really you know, I'm we're
conscientious of of those that rest kind because what you
see is, you know, the more guys, you know, some
(07:04):
guys like us seven days a week for men, it's
what I do and like we have, but your injury,
you know, the possibility of injuries higher. You know, when
you're straining your body the way you are, You've never
you're tearing your body down constantly. You're never letting them
build back up. And so for us, it's been educating
those guys on you know, recovery, nutrition, understanding what to eat.
You know, that's not always easy. You know, sometimes it's
(07:25):
easier to go in if they grub mord across the street,
grab a honey bun, but that may not be you know,
that may not be the best thing to do all
the time. You know, let's get some protein and some
good stuff in our lives, and let's hydrate, you know,
the right way, because if we want our body to perform,
you know, it's like it's like, you know, taking a
plane up in there but not having any fuel in it.
That's a that's a real bad decision, which eventually somebody's
(07:46):
gonna get hurt. And that's what happens with our bodies too,
And so you know, we talk a lot about that.
Coach McGee, our strength coach, does a great job of
what he calls twenty three, which is basically, what do
you do? This would be in school, but what do
you do the twenty three hours of the day that
you're not with us? You know, we have you for
one hour to lift, So like, right now, what do
you do with the other twenty hours that you're not
(08:07):
with us? In the summer? You know, are you sleeping?
Are you staying up talking to your girlfriend all night?
You know, what are you doing? And then you expect
to come in here and perform? You know, that's not realistic,
And so we talk a ton about that because again,
like in college, they control so much of what the
guys do every day. You know, what they eat every day,
you know, they sort of even I went to Clemson,
(08:27):
a few years ago, they had those little mattress things
that could tell how long they slept every day. So like,
you know, I need them to understand that, yes, it
is important to come in here and lift, but that's
just a piece of the puzzle. The rest is what
you do on your own time. And so we talk
a lot about that stuff and not overdoing it in
the summer and being able to rest and recover because
(08:49):
we're fortunate last especially the last two days, but it's
been cooler. You know, we had a little rain yesterday
morning and it cooled down, but normally it's ninety five
degrees on this turf. Four hours five hours of I mean,
that's all your body can stand. After that, you got
to rest and recover. And so that's been a lot
of the focus so far this summer as well.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
All right, coach Brown wore with us thirty two minutes
past the hour. We're talking bulldog football. What is expected
of a bulldog player? How many you got out there
right now?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Coach dude, with nine through twelve, there's almost two hundred
RUSS about one ninety a day. And so it's been
it's been good like it looks like two full practices
you know, when we put our JV guys in our
ninth grade guys together, there's ninety five or so of them,
and then we put our what I call our rotational guys,
(09:36):
our older guys together, there's ninety four to ninety five
of them, so we're running around one ninety and it's
it's been really good, just the attention to detail, you know,
being able again to speak the same language. Because there's
something also d mart and I talked about this before.
There's something to be said about your ninth grade staff
working with your varsity staff again, so that the language
(09:57):
is the same, their teaching is the same, the way
that you call plays is the same. There's just a
lot of continuity right now with coach k Hills group
in mine, and it allows us to use our staff better.
You know, there's six or seven guys that will be
in the weight room to help coach McGee. That includes
that I'm in there too, That's how important it is
to me. Uh. And then our our position coaching and
(10:18):
coordinators are outside, you know, working or working on field work,
you know again individual grills, and so I just think
it's been really good. I've never done that. We took
a trip in the spring to Thomas County, Georgia that
really gets close to Tallahassee, Florida, out in that Valdosta area,
and I met with their coach. I took four or
five of my guys and we met with him. We
(10:39):
talked about structure, and that was one thing that he said.
He said, look, how are you using your ninth grade
staff and your worster staff together? And I said, well,
we you know, we spent a lot of time together.
He said, but are you coaching together? And he was right,
like it was. It was incredible the difference it's made
for both both coaches and for those players. So it's
just been good. I really really like the structure, and honestly,
(11:01):
I'll never go back to the old way where you know,
the ninth grade is over on their veils. I love
it our varsity tier at Bulldog Stadium. Everybody's training here
and that'll be the same way through the fall as
well with the way that we structure our schedule in
the school day. Also, I'm pumped about it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I think it's awesome coach, because you know why, you
may let use some of those ninth graders. Have we
seen eighth graders, Winns State championships at quarterback, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, and you get to see them every day,
up close and personal. And not only do you get
to see them, they get to see you too.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Coach exactly well, and we do character ed with them.
So like on Wednesday morning for our team meeting, it's
our character ed, so we go. I had a regular
team meeting to talk about the week yesterday. Today from
seven twenty to seven forty, those guys will have position
meetings and install and then tomorrow from seven twenty to
seven forty, we'll have character ed with nine through twelve.
(11:51):
So I got like almost two hundred kids in this room,
and they're hearing the same messaging you know, all the
way from the time they're fourteen until time they're eighteen.
That makes a huge difference. I'm excited about that too.
And like you said, getting to know me and me
getting to know them, it's really important.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, all right. You got to have a lot
of coordination from parents and that lunch room staff. Kudos
to all.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Those folks, right lenn Lee and Miss Lane Smith and
everybody involved and Miss Fisher for allowing us to do it.
It's been it's been really good. And and hey, you
know it's free to all kids. You know, we have
a summer feeding program. Any any uh you know student
got come up in the summer. That's a that's a
really good deal for because we'll see some daycares and
different kids in there, which is also good for our
(12:34):
players to interact with little guys too. So that that's
been good. And and yes, the food, the nutritionitys well.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I know you got to go. Anything else you want
to add, coach, I appreciate this fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Anything else, No, I just you know, I so well.
We do have two events coming up. We got back
to the Doghouse. Yeah, Saturday, Will Herring and those guys
and Sugjason and all them that put that on. I
believe our rotary clubs involved in that are Lions Club. Remember,
I know everybody kind of pitches in. But I think
it is coach Saturday Morning. I think you're right, and
(13:07):
I think Registrason maybe it's online right now to go
and regiter. It's free, free camp and it's a great
event that Will and it's a way for them to
give back, and our coaching staff's involved as well, and
then on Monday, June sixteenth, we have our women's clinic.
So last year we had like forty five moms, grandmoms
teachers that came and you know, we just go through
(13:29):
football and you can restaur on Life for that as well.
So a lot of good things coming up. But yeah,
I'm just excited about the summer and appreciate you having me
on d mar Well.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Always a pleasure, coach, Thank you for your time. Keep
up the good work. Family doing okay, everybody's great, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Just enjoying some summer you know, vacation, Bible school and
baseball camp and all that good stuff. So yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And we got a new superintendent. You were there at
the meeting with me when we introduced him, so that
was good to see him there, Doctor Daves that met
him yet you know him. Glad to have a new
souping in the town's great person.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Uh he's going to bring, you know, a lot to
the table. Muscle Shoals is a lot like Opelika. I
was able to see them. He's the principal there was
coming on as our superintendent and he'll do a great job.
And you know, we just need to get behind him
and support him, and I'm behind him one hundred percent
excited for him to start here.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
All right, coach, you enjoy your day. Thank you very
much for your time.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, thank you guys. You guy to go dogs.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Brian Moore, The
Football ladies and gentlemen, time to go to the Hamilton's hotline.
(00:02):
Hamilton's as a location on Magnoian Downtown Auburn and Ogle
Tree and Auburn Too. Fine places for you to dine
under one name, two restaurants, two locations to serve you.
We're going to open like a high street, to bring
open like a high school to bring in the second
year head coach of the Bulldogs, Brian Moore, who is
live and ben live at the school for a couple
of hours.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Coach Moore, Good morning, how are y'all? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Summertime coach, are supposed to be chilling out at the lake, chilling,
riding the boat, jet ski and sleeping late.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah we didn't get that memo here.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh my bad.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah you got a job right, yeah, no doubt. Now
summers summer has always been huge, uh for obviously for everybody,
but really we're able to spend a lot of time
with them and really take our days and kind of
cut them down to the mornings. You know, when you
remove school from the equation, you know, uh, it's it's
good sometimes to get away from you know, cause black
(01:00):
and you say girlfriends and backpacks, you know sometimes to
just be us, you know, and just be down here
focusing on football. And but it's been good. It's been
a good start. So it's only day five today, but
really pleased first with attendance, guys being right, being on time,
and then ready to compete the end of this week
at Auburn.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, all right, so take us through a day of
a football player at OPLA, like a high school coach.
What time I got to get there? Give me a
routine of what I got to do for you this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, you know most of our staffs here. Well now
a lot of the guys are working out and kind
of getting them sales ready, you know, I think that's
really important for our coaches first, and you know, getting
prepared for practice. I mean, all the practice plans for
the whole summer are ready, but just as far as
the tweaks for the day and sort of what our
point spences are, like, today's a big third down day
for us. So anyway, kids arrive at seven, Well they're
(01:50):
dressed at seven, so they're all here typically any minute
you'll have you know, corridors opening and closing outside and
guys getting here. We practiced at seven as a team.
We have a team meeting at seven twenty. We're on
the turf nine through twelve. At seven forty, we have
a fifteen minute warm up which incorporate some speed work.
The way we do it in the summer is or
(02:12):
what I call our rotational guys, which is an older
group mostly varsity players only. They'll lift first. Our freshman
and JV group will be on the turf. They'll practice.
They'll have a forty five minute like fundamental period, circuits,
skill development period, and then we'll rotate, so the rotational
guys will come outside, the young guys that go inside
and lift, and then we'll we'll have another fundamental practice
(02:36):
another forty five minutes and then we all meet on
the field to finish. And so we're done on the
turf around ten thirty five ten forty and then we
dress and go and eat lunch together. Once we eat
lunch at eleven, we go to meetings. We have meetings
from eleven fifteen to eleven forty five, and so it's
a full day. I mean it's for you know, four
(02:58):
and a half almost five hours, but we're done, and
we're right now. We're only three days a week unless
we compete, which we're doing on Thursday, so it's a
full day. My goal is to start and finish the
day and then put a boat a bowl on it
at the end of that day with films so that
when we come in like this morning, we've already reviewed
made corrections from yesterday and then today you know, we
(03:20):
start fresh. So that's kind of the goal of the summer.
And I love it. I mean, I think we make
up a ton of ground and get so many reps.
And not to mention, the structure allows our varsity coaches
and our night great coaches to work together and so
we're all speaking the same language, and like we have,
you know, a lot more hand to help with our
young guys as well. So it's been it's been a
(03:41):
good summer so far, and I really like the structure.
It's been my favorite out of all the years I've
coached so far. How about that Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Moore was so black a football coach going through a
little day in the life of a football player. Coach,
what time you finish up? Is that noon or is
it one?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Or yeah, around noon? You know they'll have some like
today we've got to kick off meeting at the end
which will end around twelve to ten. But again, because
I feed them breakfast at lunch, I can keep them
a while, you know, and basically you know, if the
coaches need them extra, they will. But but typically kids
go home around I would say around eleven forty five,
(04:14):
unless they have an extra meeting. And so a lot
of our guys work after lunch. You know, they'll go
eat teenage boys, you know, they'll go eat again and
then go you know, cut grass or whatever their job
might be in the summer for the rest of the day.
So again it's it's a long morning. But we also
take you know, Fridays off, and so, like I said,
if we don't have a competition, we only go Monday
(04:35):
through Wednesday. But because we go to Auburn University this Thursday,
we've got a four day week. So again, excited about it,
and really like the structure.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I like that coach. This is exactly what cayleb Ross
wanted to do when he got here. Feed him twice,
get them in there three days a week, let them
have Friday off. I don't know about the competition part
of it, but yeah, I think that's good coach.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You get them, you give them some time off.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You're given them what Thursday through Sunday off, right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, if we don't compete, you know, like last week
we were flady through Wednesday, so that was so they
felt good again on Monday, you know, and so that's
huge too that they get their rest and recovery time
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Give me, tell me about competing. What do we do
is seven on seven? I call it touch football? Is
that what we're doing?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Coach? That's all right? Yeah? Yeah, So in the month
of June, you know, really the only thing you can
do is go to colleges, you know, until it's your time,
like right now baseball and basketball, you know, have I
forgot about that? Yeah, that's right. But the state allows
us to go to college seven on seven, So like
we're going Thursday to Auvern. Next Tuesday we go to
(05:36):
do a b uh and then that's the only two
we do outside of the three week allotted played eight
or competition time you know, set forth by the state.
So you know, we'll do that this week. There's a
ton of teams at Auburn. It's a good one, a
lot of really good teams out of Georgia, Like one
of our matchups is North Quinette. You know, Carrollton's there.
(05:57):
There's a lot of good teams there, a lot of
our in state teams, you know. I'm sure Thompson will
be there, Auburn's there. I don't know if any cities
there hasn't seen it, but again it's it's a great
opportunity for us to compete. And then, like I tell
our kids, it's a great opportunity for them to compete
in front of Auburn's coaching staff. You know, no better
place to earn a scholarship or spot than to do
it in front of those guys. So you know, that's
(06:19):
huge for our kids as well, and that's why we
take them to different places and allow them to compete
in front of those guys.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, Coach Brian Moore with a so black a
Bulldog football coach. We're talking summer workouts, Jeff James Cooper,
y'all want to chime in on anything, Man, I'm listening
to the school.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You got any questions?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I know he's telling it like it is. I know,
all right, So the off days, coach, what do you
require of them on their off days? Do they need
to do anything on their own well.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
They need to rest. I mean, I think one of
the things that you know, one of the things that
like I always get is, well, I'm trying to get
extra work, you know, I'm trying to get some agility
or speed work, or I'm going out on my own,
and that's okay. But I'm really you know, I'm we're
conscientious of of those that rest kind because what you
see is, you know, the more guys, you know, some
(07:04):
guys like us seven days a week for men, it's
what I do and like we have, but your injury,
you know, the possibility of injuries higher. You know, when
you're straining your body the way you are, You've never
you're tearing your body down constantly. You're never letting them
build back up. And so for us, it's been educating
those guys on you know, recovery, nutrition, understanding what to eat.
You know, that's not always easy. You know, sometimes it's
(07:25):
easier to go in if they grub mord across the street,
grab a honey bun, but that may not be you know,
that may not be the best thing to do all
the time. You know, let's get some protein and some
good stuff in our lives, and let's hydrate, you know,
the right way, because if we want our body to perform,
you know, it's like it's like, you know, taking a
plane up in there but not having any fuel in it.
That's a that's a real bad decision, which eventually somebody's
(07:46):
gonna get hurt. And that's what happens with our bodies too,
And so you know, we talk a lot about that.
Coach McGee, our strength coach, does a great job of
what he calls twenty three, which is basically, what do
you do? This would be in school, but what do
you do the twenty three hours of the day that
you're not with us? You know, we have you for
one hour to lift, So like, right now, what do
you do with the other twenty hours that you're not
(08:07):
with us? In the summer? You know, are you sleeping?
Are you staying up talking to your girlfriend all night?
You know, what are you doing? And then you expect
to come in here and perform? You know, that's not realistic,
And so we talk a ton about that because again,
like in college, they control so much of what the
guys do every day. You know, what they eat every day,
you know, they sort of even I went to Clemson,
(08:27):
a few years ago, they had those little mattress things
that could tell how long they slept every day. So like,
you know, I need them to understand that, yes, it
is important to come in here and lift, but that's
just a piece of the puzzle. The rest is what
you do on your own time. And so we talk
a lot about that stuff and not overdoing it in
the summer and being able to rest and recover because
(08:49):
we're fortunate last especially the last two days, but it's
been cooler. You know, we had a little rain yesterday
morning and it cooled down, but normally it's ninety five
degrees on this turf. Four hours five hours of I mean,
that's all your body can stand. After that, you got
to rest and recover. And so that's been a lot
of the focus so far this summer as well.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
All right, coach Brown wore with us thirty two minutes
past the hour. We're talking bulldog football. What is expected
of a bulldog player? How many you got out there
right now?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Coach dude, with nine through twelve, there's almost two hundred
RUSS about one ninety a day. And so it's been
it's been good like it looks like two full practices
you know, when we put our JV guys in our
ninth grade guys together, there's ninety five or so of them,
and then we put our what I call our rotational guys,
(09:36):
our older guys together, there's ninety four to ninety five
of them, so we're running around one ninety and it's
it's been really good, just the attention to detail, you know,
being able again to speak the same language. Because there's
something also d mart and I talked about this before.
There's something to be said about your ninth grade staff
working with your varsity staff again, so that the language
(09:57):
is the same, their teaching is the same, the way
that you call plays is the same. There's just a
lot of continuity right now with coach k Hills group
in mine, and it allows us to use our staff better.
You know, there's six or seven guys that will be
in the weight room to help coach McGee. That includes
that I'm in there too, That's how important it is
to me. Uh. And then our our position coaching and
(10:18):
coordinators are outside, you know, working or working on field work,
you know again individual grills, and so I just think
it's been really good. I've never done that. We took
a trip in the spring to Thomas County, Georgia that
really gets close to Tallahassee, Florida, out in that Valdosta area,
and I met with their coach. I took four or
five of my guys and we met with him. We
(10:39):
talked about structure, and that was one thing that he said.
He said, look, how are you using your ninth grade
staff and your worster staff together? And I said, well,
we you know, we spent a lot of time together.
He said, but are you coaching together? And he was right,
like it was. It was incredible the difference it's made
for both both coaches and for those players. So it's
just been good. I really really like the structure, and honestly,
(11:01):
I'll never go back to the old way where you know,
the ninth grade is over on their veils. I love
it our varsity tier at Bulldog Stadium. Everybody's training here
and that'll be the same way through the fall as
well with the way that we structure our schedule in
the school day. Also, I'm pumped about it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I think it's awesome coach, because you know why, you
may let use some of those ninth graders. Have we
seen eighth graders, Winns State championships at quarterback, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, and you get to see them every day,
up close and personal. And not only do you get
to see them, they get to see you too.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Coach exactly well, and we do character ed with them.
So like on Wednesday morning for our team meeting, it's
our character ed, so we go. I had a regular
team meeting to talk about the week yesterday. Today from
seven twenty to seven forty, those guys will have position
meetings and install and then tomorrow from seven twenty to
seven forty, we'll have character ed with nine through twelve.
(11:51):
So I got like almost two hundred kids in this room,
and they're hearing the same messaging you know, all the
way from the time they're fourteen until time they're eighteen.
That makes a huge difference. I'm excited about that too.
And like you said, getting to know me and me
getting to know them, it's really important.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, all right. You got to have a lot
of coordination from parents and that lunch room staff. Kudos
to all.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Those folks, right lenn Lee and Miss Lane Smith and
everybody involved and Miss Fisher for allowing us to do it.
It's been it's been really good. And and hey, you
know it's free to all kids. You know, we have
a summer feeding program. Any any uh you know student
got come up in the summer. That's a that's a
really good deal for because we'll see some daycares and
different kids in there, which is also good for our
(12:34):
players to interact with little guys too. So that that's
been good. And and yes, the food, the nutritionitys well.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I know you got to go. Anything else you want
to add, coach, I appreciate this fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Anything else, No, I just you know, I so well.
We do have two events coming up. We got back
to the Doghouse. Yeah, Saturday, Will Herring and those guys
and Sugjason and all them that put that on. I
believe our rotary clubs involved in that are Lions Club. Remember,
I know everybody kind of pitches in. But I think
it is coach Saturday Morning. I think you're right, and
(13:07):
I think Registrason maybe it's online right now to go
and regiter. It's free, free camp and it's a great
event that Will and it's a way for them to
give back, and our coaching staff's involved as well, and
then on Monday, June sixteenth, we have our women's clinic.
So last year we had like forty five moms, grandmoms
teachers that came and you know, we just go through
(13:29):
football and you can restaur on Life for that as well.
So a lot of good things coming up. But yeah,
I'm just excited about the summer and appreciate you having me
on d mar Well.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Always a pleasure, coach, Thank you for your time. Keep
up the good work. Family doing okay, everybody's great, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Just enjoying some summer you know, vacation, Bible school and
baseball camp and all that good stuff. So yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And we got a new superintendent. You were there at
the meeting with me when we introduced him, so that
was good to see him there, Doctor Daves that met
him yet you know him. Glad to have a new
souping in the town's great person.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Uh he's going to bring, you know, a lot to
the table. Muscle Shoals is a lot like Opelika. I
was able to see them. He's the principal there was
coming on as our superintendent and he'll do a great job.
And you know, we just need to get behind him
and support him, and I'm behind him one hundred percent
excited for him to start here.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
All right, coach, you enjoy your day. Thank you very
much for your time.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, thank you guys. You guy to go dogs.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
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