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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is to dying.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We're going close to Alexander City. He is the head
football coach of the Benjam Russell Wildcat Kirk Johnson. He
is in his first season. Coach Johnson had four years
at Montgomery Catholic. He won fifty five games, lost two,
had him a couple of state championship and he's live.
Good morning, Coach Johnson, How are you, buddy?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning? How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We're doing a good coach, We're doing good. First, thank
you so much for coming on this morning. That means
a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, sir, yes, sir. We'll get We'll get d Mark
to send them better heads up next time, Lady Mark.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That night before.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
It would be better, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You go? All right?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How are things going in bench Alexander City at Benja
Russell High School?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
For you tell me.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
About him or real well, Glora excited a lot of
a lot of new kids that you're adjusting to being
in a new community and and whatnot. You know, I
was at a place for twelve years and so got
to got to make it a new adapt adapt to
a new kind of surrounding and city. So it's been good.
It's been good. I'm just thankful that, you know, uh,
(01:03):
the opportunity here at Ben Russell allowed me to bring
my coaches, you know, a lot of my guys that
have been with me for several years and so makes
things easier on me. So I'm you know, I've been
very thankful.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
For that, you know what, coach. That's an understatement to
a lot of people that may not understand it. I'm
not I'm not a coach, but I'm around a lot
of programs. When the head coach takes over, it's important
that he has staff members that that he knows and trust.
Sometimes there may be in place, but it sure does
help to bring some in. And you're right, I know
that was a blessing to you.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You just know how they're going to.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Act one hundred percent and they're going to speak the
same language you speak, you know, when it comes to discipline,
when it comes to excell and o's when it comes
off the field stuff. So it's just everything and you
know you can't you can't, But I ain't saying I
don't think I can change the program or or be
involved in the program where you're where you're trying to
do it by yourself. I mean, you gotta have you
(01:53):
gotta have a team, so no doubt. And that's from
the that's from the superintendent to the principal, to the coaches,
the hect to the teachers. So you got to all
be able to work together.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Amen, Kurk Johnson with his head coach of the bench
of Russell Wildcats. They come into open like a Friday night,
the tomorrow night, take on the dogs.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Coach, tell me a little bit about your team.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We know about the wide receiver, you quarterback, you got
some talented guys.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Give me a little summary of your team.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Our listeners, we ain't we ain't got nothing. We're terrible. Uh,
we're coming in Friday night. We're just trying to, you know,
make sure we keep the score reasonable. And we're playing
over like the Bulldogs. So we just want to make
sure that we that we show that we can come
out and perform on turns like you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now, coach, we don't broadcast now this is we did
go to school.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But now let me tell you this ain't our first rodeo.
I've been on this radio.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Along and we appreciate the angle you take it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
However, we're we're gonna be okay. We got some good
players and uh we got to find ways to get
them the ball, and you know, uh, just it's a
new culture. So that's the you know, that's really the
biggest issue, Uh, when you're trying to implement a culture
(03:12):
in I guess I've been there six months, seven months,
spend six months, uh trying to you know, understand that
we don't do that or this is something we focus on,
or that's the biggest issue. You know, everybody wants to
talk about players, and of course you know they are
day morning, and then that's all great, clap your hands.
But but what the real issue is the type of
men you turn these boys into through football. And so
(03:34):
I think that we've done a really good job and
our last six months of buckling down on things so
that we can so that when tough times do happen
in games, we can respond. And so yes we have
athletes and yes we're gonna have some playmakers, but none
of that matters if they hate each other, and then
you know they don't want they don't want to play
for the Wildcats. They want to play for you know, themselves.
(03:56):
So I think just implement our culture. It's a huge
deal for us. Uh and and trying and that was
going back to that whole getting getting all my coaches things,
because yeah, to me, that's what's gonna make you. You know,
colture beats talent. A lot of times man start start
complaining and they want to shut down, and it's a
(04:16):
me ball and and but when you got culture and
is bigger than you and you ended up you end
up doing things out of your out of your out
of your talent level where you can go make a
player or two that you normally wouldn't because you care
that much.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, that's a coach.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I've seen coaches have that me mentality and assistant coaches
and that not work, you know what I mean. And
you mentioned it while ago. You got to have a
full throttle one way. You can't have one coming the
other way.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Oh well, we we have an assistant coach with a
with a me mentality. I love to have a face
to face conversation with him.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Well no, yeah, I know you don't. But but you
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I've seen That's what I'm saying. We're gonna get, We're
gonna get, We're gonna get him about of.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Here there there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get and removed as fast
as possible.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
There you go, all right, I get it. I get it,
all right. So changing over, coach, how is it?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know you're going from Montgomery coming over to benjam Russell.
This is a program in six A, got a you know,
high expectations. How how have you how's the transition? You
mentioned kind of everything's been good? But how have you
handled everything?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Coach? Not very well? Honestly. I took the job on
the second. Uh, and I had a baby on the eighth.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, yeah, I had a baby on the eighteenth. And
I drive an hour every day. I still live in Montgomery,
so uh, me and me and some of the coaches
we commute up every day. And so that part has
been tough. It's been different, I say tough, different, just different. Yeah. Yeah,
I spent twelve years living six minutes from the school,
so you know, so that dad has been different. It's
(05:49):
not been easy. But but when you signed your name
on it, you knew it wasn't gonna be easy. And
so and you you mentioned the six A part. I
don't I don't feel a difference. But I also hadn't
played it game yet, so I couldn't get out here
in these games and go, oh my gosh, send me
back down, send me, send me down to two A.
So I think that I think the kids are kids,
(06:09):
and every kid wants to do right by you. They
want they want to know their love and they want
to be coach hard, but they want to be coach
hard knowing you love them. So you gotta build those
relationships with those kids. And we're gonna we're gonna put
a game, we put a game playing together, and we're
gonna go compete. I don't ever I don't ever go
out on Friday night thinking I'm about to lose. So,
(06:33):
you know, whether it be a historical program like Hopell
I go, whether it be the next week you roll
around and play Clayton Central and Danny Horn, or the
next week you play Calera, I mean like it's it's
a it's a tough schedule. So that's what that's what
you're prepared for. That's what you know. I'm gonna use
a kid phrase here, we're not ducking those smoke and
(06:53):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, that's good for you. That's the way it is
you all right?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Coach?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
You nailed it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You you got to have them going in the same direction.
You're right about football in classes. And let me tell
you something. You didn't play to a football I don't
care what you played with the big boys. And here's
another thing, coach, you coming in with to take titles
and two losses in five years. Your players they know
they got a football coach has proven. I think that
helps to coach, that they have confidence you off the bat.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Don't you That does? That does And it also is
the guy that helps me too. You know when I
when I first took over, I mean there was days
I'm to go home like, man, do I know what
the heck I'm doing? You know, And because you would
have such a bad day from a practice or or whatever,
and you felt like you were hitting the wall. But
you know, you got to stay the course. You know,
(07:36):
you know what you're doing is right. You know it
Eventually it's gonna pay off, whether it be week one
or week nine or a year later. You know, you
got to just keep staying the course and make sure
you're doing things. And I'm gonna keep using his word
as we talk, but but you got to keep building
those relationships because you're coaching a different kid in twenty
twenty five. It's not like you know, d Mark when
(07:58):
he played in the forties. It's not it's not like
that where you know, back then the coaches say something
and you didn't care what you're gonna You're gonna go
do it. Coach told me to run around on fire
and when I when I when I'm out of fire,
ump jump jump off the cliffs and make the tackle.
(08:20):
You been like, okay, SOA said to do. Now you
know they won't. They want to know why. They want
to know you care about them, you know, so so
you got to keep It's a it's an everyday battle
to make sure they know that you that you're doing
things with them other than football. And so that's a
big emphasis for us, you know, whether it be just
(08:40):
a cookout, whether it be playing the game with whatever,
You're just trying to find ways to let them know
I'm not your friend, we're not friends. But but but
I understand the type of things you're going through because
I don't know if you guys know we were all
teenagers at one point.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, coach, go ahead, I was cutting you off.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I was you finished. I'm just saying you're relating to kids.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's part of it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Coach. You don't have to be friend. You just you
don't have friends and go hang out with them to
relate to them.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I think that's important and it sounds to me
like you have figured them out.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You were right.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
The kids today way different you that that why you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I've heard that so many times, and sometimes it's okay
to explain why even though you're the authority, because they're
their minds think too, and they get a lot of
technology and they're thinking ahead of us sometimes.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So I can only imagine you also got to understand
that they go home their parents now that that different.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh but we lost you there, coach. You there, different
set of parents is what he's talking about. You talking
about different set of parents nowadays too, right, I think
we lost him.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Jiff, Yeah, we'd lost you a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But you're basically talking about parents and home coaching too,
I imagine, right, Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sir, just different type of parents and like and in
the sense of you know back then, I mean your
parents probably visited the school one time.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh my god, I didn't I see it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Don't Yeah, don't come to the school.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And my mama came to the school. I was leaving
the school that's in trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, you know you understand, you know, run the kids
well the time I have been.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
About it eleven so I ain't want no games. The
kids have to win the I mean, you gotta put them,
you gotta put them in place. And that fifty five
and studios to a lot of kids. Jerem mar Com,
Kyle McCurry, t J. Dey. Now those kids I can name,
they won those fifty five games. I was just a
guy trying to make sure we kept them on the
right path, were doing the right things, They were saying
(10:45):
the right things. You know. Uh because because if I
got if you expected me to go tackle outside zone,
it's gonna be pretty right now, it ain't gonna look
it ain't gonna it ain't gonna look good.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Look good real quick, because I mean losing a little bit.
Tell me what you think about opal like a coach,
what you've.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Seen ople like, that's good. They're they're a good football team.
Coach by a really good man. He's doing a really
good job. I think he was perfect for the job.
I love the things he's doing with his social media
and getting everybody kind of backed together in open li
like that that makes sense. Rom with the coach and
and all those different things. Man, that that's been really
(11:20):
really good to see. Uh. I mean, everybody knows who
Opal like is one of the most historical programs in
the state Alabama. You know, they're a physical, big, big,
big physical team. You know, I don't know how the
heck you can have so many big linemen that look
like that on a football thing. Uh, and then to
mix in there the running backs that look like d lyman,
(11:42):
I mean, Jesus at Mercy. So so you know, uh,
we you know you're dealing with You're dealing with the
physical guys, and you know you got some speed on
the outside too, So uh, you know, we're excited about
the challenge. Man. We're just a small town out here
in Allex City trying to trying to come up to
the big city open like been.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
To Melicy Have you ever been through that? Okay, new
town for me, coach.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Coach, this is a sixty sixth time. Yeah, the Opak
and Ben.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Russell's played y'all ain't y'all ain't man?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
We joking with you, acting.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Like you coach, I played the camp line. You probably
don't know where all right?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We were there with Savareche, was there, no, man, I
was joking with you when you said a little Elex City.
I'm like, man, we've been through Elix City all the time.
We got friends everywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So we went through there last year to watch you
play in the church.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'm sure it did.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I know that, but look, thank you for this call.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I appreciate it. Coach.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You're a fine man, got a lot of class. I
look forward to see you tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
At Bulldog Stadium. Okay, God bless you. Thanks coach.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's Kurt Johnson, the head coach of the Benjamin Russell wildcast.
Very candid conversation, and you know what, Yeff, I love
the way he spoke about dealing with kids.
This is to dying.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We're going close to Alexander City. He is the head
football coach of the Benjam Russell Wildcat Kirk Johnson. He
is in his first season. Coach Johnson had four years
at Montgomery Catholic. He won fifty five games, lost two,
had him a couple of state championship and he's live.
Good morning, Coach Johnson, How are you, buddy?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning? How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We're doing a good coach, We're doing good. First, thank
you so much for coming on this morning. That means
a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, sir, yes, sir. We'll get We'll get d Mark
to send them better heads up next time, Lady Mark.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That night before.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
It would be better, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You go? All right?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How are things going in bench Alexander City at Benja
Russell High School?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
For you tell me.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
About him or real well, Glora excited a lot of
a lot of new kids that you're adjusting to being
in a new community and and whatnot. You know, I
was at a place for twelve years and so got
to got to make it a new adapt adapt to
a new kind of surrounding and city. So it's been good.
It's been good. I'm just thankful that, you know, uh,
(01:03):
the opportunity here at Ben Russell allowed me to bring
my coaches, you know, a lot of my guys that
have been with me for several years and so makes
things easier on me. So I'm you know, I've been
very thankful.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
For that, you know what, coach. That's an understatement to
a lot of people that may not understand it. I'm
not I'm not a coach, but I'm around a lot
of programs. When the head coach takes over, it's important
that he has staff members that that he knows and trust.
Sometimes there may be in place, but it sure does
help to bring some in. And you're right, I know
that was a blessing to you.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You just know how they're going to.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Act one hundred percent and they're going to speak the
same language you speak, you know, when it comes to discipline,
when it comes to excell and o's when it comes
off the field stuff. So it's just everything and you
know you can't you can't, But I ain't saying I
don't think I can change the program or or be
involved in the program where you're where you're trying to
do it by yourself. I mean, you gotta have you
(01:53):
gotta have a team, so no doubt. And that's from
the that's from the superintendent to the principal, to the coaches,
the hect to the teachers. So you got to all
be able to work together.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Amen, Kurk Johnson with his head coach of the bench
of Russell Wildcats. They come into open like a Friday night,
the tomorrow night, take on the dogs.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Coach, tell me a little bit about your team.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We know about the wide receiver, you quarterback, you got
some talented guys.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Give me a little summary of your team.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Our listeners, we ain't we ain't got nothing. We're terrible. Uh,
we're coming in Friday night. We're just trying to, you know,
make sure we keep the score reasonable. And we're playing
over like the Bulldogs. So we just want to make
sure that we that we show that we can come
out and perform on turns like you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now, coach, we don't broadcast now this is we did
go to school.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But now let me tell you this ain't our first rodeo.
I've been on this radio.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Along and we appreciate the angle you take it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
However, we're we're gonna be okay. We got some good
players and uh we got to find ways to get
them the ball, and you know, uh, just it's a
new culture. So that's the you know, that's really the
biggest issue, Uh, when you're trying to implement a culture
(03:12):
in I guess I've been there six months, seven months,
spend six months, uh trying to you know, understand that
we don't do that or this is something we focus on,
or that's the biggest issue. You know, everybody wants to
talk about players, and of course you know they are
day morning, and then that's all great, clap your hands.
But but what the real issue is the type of
men you turn these boys into through football. And so
(03:34):
I think that we've done a really good job and
our last six months of buckling down on things so
that we can so that when tough times do happen
in games, we can respond. And so yes we have
athletes and yes we're gonna have some playmakers, but none
of that matters if they hate each other, and then
you know they don't want they don't want to play
for the Wildcats. They want to play for you know, themselves.
(03:56):
So I think just implement our culture. It's a huge
deal for us. Uh and and trying and that was
going back to that whole getting getting all my coaches things,
because yeah, to me, that's what's gonna make you. You know,
colture beats talent. A lot of times man start start
complaining and they want to shut down, and it's a
(04:16):
me ball and and but when you got culture and
is bigger than you and you ended up you end
up doing things out of your out of your out
of your talent level where you can go make a
player or two that you normally wouldn't because you care
that much.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, that's a coach.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I've seen coaches have that me mentality and assistant coaches
and that not work, you know what I mean. And
you mentioned it while ago. You got to have a
full throttle one way. You can't have one coming the
other way.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Oh well, we we have an assistant coach with a
with a me mentality. I love to have a face
to face conversation with him.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Well no, yeah, I know you don't. But but you
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I've seen That's what I'm saying. We're gonna get, We're
gonna get, We're gonna get him about of.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Here there there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get and removed as fast
as possible.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
There you go, all right, I get it. I get it,
all right. So changing over, coach, how is it?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know you're going from Montgomery coming over to benjam Russell.
This is a program in six A, got a you know,
high expectations. How how have you how's the transition? You
mentioned kind of everything's been good? But how have you
handled everything?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Coach? Not very well? Honestly. I took the job on
the second. Uh, and I had a baby on the eighth.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, yeah, I had a baby on the eighteenth. And
I drive an hour every day. I still live in Montgomery,
so uh, me and me and some of the coaches
we commute up every day. And so that part has
been tough. It's been different, I say tough, different, just different. Yeah. Yeah,
I spent twelve years living six minutes from the school,
so you know, so that dad has been different. It's
(05:49):
not been easy. But but when you signed your name
on it, you knew it wasn't gonna be easy. And
so and you you mentioned the six A part. I
don't I don't feel a difference. But I also hadn't
played it game yet, so I couldn't get out here
in these games and go, oh my gosh, send me
back down, send me, send me down to two A.
So I think that I think the kids are kids,
(06:09):
and every kid wants to do right by you. They
want they want to know their love and they want
to be coach hard, but they want to be coach
hard knowing you love them. So you gotta build those
relationships with those kids. And we're gonna we're gonna put
a game, we put a game playing together, and we're
gonna go compete. I don't ever I don't ever go
out on Friday night thinking I'm about to lose. So,
(06:33):
you know, whether it be a historical program like Hopell
I go, whether it be the next week you roll
around and play Clayton Central and Danny Horn, or the
next week you play Calera, I mean like it's it's
a it's a tough schedule. So that's what that's what
you're prepared for. That's what you know. I'm gonna use
a kid phrase here, we're not ducking those smoke and
(06:53):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, that's good for you. That's the way it is
you all right?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Coach?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
You nailed it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You you got to have them going in the same direction.
You're right about football in classes. And let me tell
you something. You didn't play to a football I don't
care what you played with the big boys. And here's
another thing, coach, you coming in with to take titles
and two losses in five years. Your players they know
they got a football coach has proven. I think that
helps to coach, that they have confidence you off the bat.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Don't you That does? That does And it also is
the guy that helps me too. You know when I
when I first took over, I mean there was days
I'm to go home like, man, do I know what
the heck I'm doing? You know, And because you would
have such a bad day from a practice or or whatever,
and you felt like you were hitting the wall. But
you know, you got to stay the course. You know,
(07:36):
you know what you're doing is right. You know it
Eventually it's gonna pay off, whether it be week one
or week nine or a year later. You know, you
got to just keep staying the course and make sure
you're doing things. And I'm gonna keep using his word
as we talk, but but you got to keep building
those relationships because you're coaching a different kid in twenty
twenty five. It's not like you know, d Mark when
(07:58):
he played in the forties. It's not it's not like
that where you know, back then the coaches say something
and you didn't care what you're gonna You're gonna go
do it. Coach told me to run around on fire
and when I when I when I'm out of fire,
ump jump jump off the cliffs and make the tackle.
(08:20):
You been like, okay, SOA said to do. Now you
know they won't. They want to know why. They want
to know you care about them, you know, so so
you got to keep It's a it's an everyday battle
to make sure they know that you that you're doing
things with them other than football. And so that's a
big emphasis for us, you know, whether it be just
(08:40):
a cookout, whether it be playing the game with whatever,
You're just trying to find ways to let them know
I'm not your friend, we're not friends. But but but
I understand the type of things you're going through because
I don't know if you guys know we were all
teenagers at one point.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, coach, go ahead, I was cutting you off.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I was you finished. I'm just saying you're relating to kids.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's part of it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Coach. You don't have to be friend. You just you
don't have friends and go hang out with them to
relate to them.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I think that's important and it sounds to me
like you have figured them out.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You were right.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
The kids today way different you that that why you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I've heard that so many times, and sometimes it's okay
to explain why even though you're the authority, because they're
their minds think too, and they get a lot of
technology and they're thinking ahead of us sometimes.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So I can only imagine you also got to understand
that they go home their parents now that that different.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh but we lost you there, coach. You there, different
set of parents is what he's talking about. You talking
about different set of parents nowadays too, right, I think
we lost him.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Jiff, Yeah, we'd lost you a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But you're basically talking about parents and home coaching too,
I imagine, right, Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sir, just different type of parents and like and in
the sense of you know back then, I mean your
parents probably visited the school one time.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh my god, I didn't I see it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Don't Yeah, don't come to the school.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And my mama came to the school. I was leaving
the school that's in trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, you know you understand, you know, run the kids
well the time I have been.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
About it eleven so I ain't want no games. The
kids have to win the I mean, you gotta put them,
you gotta put them in place. And that fifty five
and studios to a lot of kids. Jerem mar Com,
Kyle McCurry, t J. Dey. Now those kids I can name,
they won those fifty five games. I was just a
guy trying to make sure we kept them on the
right path, were doing the right things, They were saying
(10:45):
the right things. You know. Uh because because if I
got if you expected me to go tackle outside zone,
it's gonna be pretty right now, it ain't gonna look
it ain't gonna it ain't gonna look good.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Look good real quick, because I mean losing a little bit.
Tell me what you think about opal like a coach,
what you've.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Seen ople like, that's good. They're they're a good football team.
Coach by a really good man. He's doing a really
good job. I think he was perfect for the job.
I love the things he's doing with his social media
and getting everybody kind of backed together in open li
like that that makes sense. Rom with the coach and
and all those different things. Man, that that's been really
(11:20):
really good to see. Uh. I mean, everybody knows who
Opal like is one of the most historical programs in
the state Alabama. You know, they're a physical, big, big,
big physical team. You know, I don't know how the
heck you can have so many big linemen that look
like that on a football thing. Uh, and then to
mix in there the running backs that look like d lyman,
(11:42):
I mean, Jesus at Mercy. So so you know, uh,
we you know you're dealing with You're dealing with the
physical guys, and you know you got some speed on
the outside too, So uh, you know, we're excited about
the challenge. Man. We're just a small town out here
in Allex City trying to trying to come up to
the big city open like been.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
To Melicy Have you ever been through that? Okay, new
town for me, coach.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Coach, this is a sixty sixth time. Yeah, the Opak
and Ben.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Russell's played y'all ain't y'all ain't man?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
We joking with you, acting.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Like you coach, I played the camp line. You probably
don't know where all right?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We were there with Savareche, was there, no, man, I
was joking with you when you said a little Elex City.
I'm like, man, we've been through Elix City all the time.
We got friends everywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So we went through there last year to watch you
play in the church.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'm sure it did.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I know that, but look, thank you for this call.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I appreciate it. Coach.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You're a fine man, got a lot of class. I
look forward to see you tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
At Bulldog Stadium. Okay, God bless you. Thanks coach.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's Kurt Johnson, the head coach of the Benjamin Russell wildcast.
Very candid conversation, and you know what, Yeff, I love
the way he spoke about dealing with kids.
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