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November 20, 2024 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Be between Chambers Academy and Bessemer Academy and the big boys,
as I say, in the large three A classification. The
head coach of Chambers is Jason Allen. And we're going
to the Hamilton's hotline where Hamilton's has two locations, Jeff,
and where are.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
They Hamilton Road? Okay, uh or Ogle Tree and uh
at the corner of the Magnolian Game.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
There you go, two great places of din Jason Allen
is live the head coach of the Rebels.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good morning, coach.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning, dear Mark, Good morning, Jail, Good morning coach.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
How you doing.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well. We had a lot
of rain yesterday, a little cloud of this morning. But
I understand old sons gonna teep out draws up.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, it does look that way. I agree with you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
We were just discussing U utilizing that top floor of
the of the suite at the Crampton Bowl. That's where
our privileges can That's where we get our privileges, coach,
and only we like to sit or be on the sideline.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
But it might be a little chilly at the bowl thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Night, so that depends on how things are.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Going, oh yeah, for men that has to wear short pants,
you're around that gets cold.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
All right, coach, let's talk about your rebels.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Congratulations on winning last week and making yet another championship
game at Changes Academy.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
So congratulations on that, coach.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, we don't take that light either. For granted, Bark,
we're glad to still be playing. We're glad to be
playing for a championship. You know, those are always special
and they're always hard, and so you know, our guys
are ready, and uh, I've been to a bunch of these,
but they I told them there say, you know I

(01:48):
don't get tired of it.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, you shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Heck, I mean when winning is contagious, that's what you
wanted to be. Jason Allen, head coach at Chambers Academy
with us, Now, I was gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I had this pulled up. But before you know you're
playing in the championship. You made up.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
You gave us a stat I can't it's been probably
what three or four weeks ago, coach, about the last
ten years, may it may have been longer than ten.
How much money you've made in plaque? Can you remember
that statue? If you remember that you remember it was
an over one hundred grand and do you remember what
I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Can you can you? Can you repeat?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
You know? And they I say, if you if you're
the one seed, then you you're guaranteed home field advantage.
And we've been able to do that consecutively consecutively since
twenty sixteen, and we've made uh well, I stay well
in excess of one hundred thousand dollars in home field
advantage throughout playoffs over those eight years that we've been

(02:49):
able to do that, which has been huge for the program.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, that's that's that's a lot of money for any program,
certainly for a program like yours with a size coach.
That's play off money's as I say, that's that's gravy money.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Coach, right, Absolutely, we've been able to do things for
our kids and our program and facilities. It's really enhanced it.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
YEP. Twenty three years as the head coach.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Coach Allen is one ninety eighty five and one, the
last twelve years at Chambers one, twenty two, twenty seven
and one, twenty one and eight in the playoffs, state
championship in eighteen ten iman, excuse me, eighteen twenty.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'm my eyes are bad.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Coach twenty three and hopefully and we predict twenty four.
Prior to that, three years at Glenwood where he was
twenty one and fifteen. Prior to that, back where he started,
eight years at Chambers forty seven wins and made the
playoffs all but two seasons. So coach here, we are
very good team. You've got eleven and one.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You lost your first game to a team in Mississippi.
Over in Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
As they say in the horse racing business, We're gonna
draw a line through that race, coach, OK.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Gonna draw a line through that game. All right.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Now, since that game or that race, h every school
in Alabama you have played and you have given them
a good old spanking. You have won every game or
every game including Bessemer Academy thirty eight six, and you
were about to play Bessemer Academy for the championship.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now you gave me a I.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Asked you this the other night when we were having
our personal conversation. You said that beat you one time
where you had beat a team and they came back
and beat you in the playoffs for the championship. So
this is the same scenario. You pretty you will bestment
pretty good thirty eight six. But as Jeff says, your
guys can read, they played in that game. You got
to play them again. But they play without the quarterback.
So give me, give me the Rundown coach.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah. And he's the best player den Mark. He's the
he's a transfer from ball h this first I've heard Birmingham,
one of Birmingham public schools. He can run, he can throw,
he's a physical player, and I mean he may solve
the difference in the world and their team. So you
know that, I'm sure that they have a new since

(05:00):
the confidence. Uh and they're excited about playing us again
with their studs behind the behind the center. And I
would be too. So our kids understand that, you know,
we understand that it's gonna be a different team, and
we got we got to play much better and we've
got to be ready to play for fourth quarters to
try to win another state.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
We're talking with Jason Allen, head coach the Chambers Academy Rebels.
The Rebels playing for the A s A State championship
tomorrow night at Crampton Both seven o'clock kick right coach, Yes, sir,
all right, seven o'clock kick, bestmar Is your opponent. Now
they were forced to win against the Scambia Academy. They
beat Edgewood on October the eighteenth, and they beat Morgan

(05:43):
and Fort Delle. Now, coach, they've lost the Southern Talk
Talk Patrician.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
They lost to you guys, Monroe and Bang.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
How mean of those games did he play in or
did he was he available those?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. And we played
early and you know, they get they got off to
a rough start, but I think they've improved as the
years going on. They've especially improved since we played them
that first time. And you know they're gonna be fully helpy,

(06:14):
so you know, I just know. You know, twenty nineteen,
we went over and been a good Southern Academy team,
my three touchdowns, and we ended up playing that team again.
They upset somebody in the Semis, just like Best Maris done,
and we ended up losing that game fourteen to six.
That was my son's junior year, and that was one

(06:36):
of the hardest losses of my career. I'll never forget it.
I'll never forget it. And they just outplayed us out
coasts and sometimes that happens, but you better learn from it,
you know, you better learn from it. Well, and hopefully
we have. And we're going down there to We're going
down there like we're playing that gum Chicago Bears.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know what h after that? You know what, coach,
I do remember that. I do remember that game?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
All right?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Your kids played them the first time. They want how
do you how do you handle them? How do you say?
Now do you go back to that game, coach and
kind of say, hey, look at this right here?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, you talk about what could have,
should have, could have happened, and uh, you know, I
think our preacher told us a couple of weeks ago, Well,
we had a great devotion and he said, the key
to complacency in life, you know, because we all get
placencies normal from human beings. And I think there's a
lesson to be learned in football and in life here

(07:37):
is that the first thing is you've got to stay humble.
You've got to stay humble in life when you're successful.
And the second thing is you got to stay hungry
for success. And uh, you know, I think we got
some great kids that understand that, and uh, we're trying
to teach life lessons as well as football lessons. But uh,

(07:59):
we'll stay home and we'll stay hungry. And I think
the way you notice that is how they care themselves
at practice. And this has been a great practice team
for us all year. Our seniors have led by example,
and so we'll keep that mentality. I think we're gonna
be just fine.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, Coach, tell us about your seniors going into
this game, if you want to give us a little
rundown on them.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, Well, we got one kid named Luke Tarborough. I
think he's the best player in ais now.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
He just started playing football right.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, when he was about seven.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
He is the best player in as they go ahead, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
He's grown up at Chambers Gap and he played tee
wee for me, played junior round for me, and now
he's playing varsity. I think he's got up fifteen and
eighty yards, about twenty two touchdowns on the gear and
he has not played after halftime and probably seventy percent
of those games. But just a phenomenal player, phenomenal kid,
great duds of player. We got two more running backs

(08:57):
that could start for a lot of teams. I think
Jacob Norgard and he was out of over one thousand yards
last year. And TJ. Daniel who came to us from
Hanley High School as a junior and he's really, uh
really a good back, about two hundred pound kid. And
then we got aid In England who was a senior

(09:17):
defensive back that uh it's got four interceptions for some
of the years, really been our ball hawk in the secondary.
And then Jonathan Caulfield is a kid that grew up
in our program and never started till this year and
he's been our starting center. Had done a great job.
And then Tyler Popwell and Jesse Barton around out that cruise.

(09:38):
So we only got seven seniors, seven good ones.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
That is a that's bright. That's bright both ways, you
know what I mean. It's good. Good for you to
have seven, Gonna be good next year.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You didn't have but seven exactly. Yeah, Now I got
a pillow or we got a pilo juniors and some
really good juniors. So so but we you've got a
you know, a a lot of experience entertaining a lot
of older kids that led our football team.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Tell us what you're at tener Ary for today and
the more coach as you get ready to go play
a championship game again.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, yesterday I say, we got to go up to
Handley High School coach Larry Strain and our good friends,
and uh, let's get up there on our turf because
it's you know, it's the wet yesterday you couldn't get
on couldn't get on grass, and so we're grateful for that.
Plus we've got to say the ball bounce around on
the turf a little bit. It I was a little
higher and a little different, you know. Uh, But today

(10:33):
we'll uh, we'll do our regular Wednesday and do our
regular devotion and then get to the house. You know,
I learned a long time ago. You try to do
too much on these five weeks, your way yourself out
before you get to the race.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
No, I understand your if your kids will other than
preparing for the opponent, if they don't have it, now, coach,
it's over.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
That's right. You ain't gonna change that, you know. Just
stay with your routine and make sure your kids feel
comfortable doing what you're doing, and don't try to do
too much. You know, we're gonna give you our office,
We're gonna give you the same present. We just like
to put a little different wrapping paper over it every time.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
There you go, I saw, yeah, well I actually thought
you guys were at Bulldog stadiumster.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
I saw somebody yesterday.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Afternoon over there that was real town.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I just looked at Jeff and I wondered if it
was real town and had I saw that blue, Sir.
That's why I thank you, because I said it had
to be won.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
It was a quick look and I was like, well
that that's awesome because I like when everybody does that.
You know, when I say that, like when high schools allow,
you know, share things like that.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, you know, most coaches it's a fraternity. We're all
we got, yes, sir, coach, because you know, these fans
can be rootless, you think, and they can. They can
be really kind. It just depends on how the outcome
coming and if they're.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Playing their son or if you playing the Sunday Night
or significant you loved one.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, we got to be there for each other as coaches.
It's the fraternity. And I appreciate the coaches in this area.
They're always very kind and generous to us, and Coach
Train has always been very helpful to us. And I
appreciated that. But tomorrow we'll we'll go on into school
and then we will do what we call rebel walker.

(12:25):
Get the walk to the hallways an entire school, a
lot up on each side, and uh, it's really a
neat deal. And they cheer for them, and we got
music and cheering and everything going on and send them
out the door and we'll get on the bus and
we'll go down to Crampton and we like to get
there a little early and watch a little of the
football games before and then then when it sits a

(12:46):
certain time, we're just in our regular Friday game day mode.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
There you go. If they don't broke, it ain't broke,
don't fix it.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Right, that's what they say.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's what they say.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
All right, big man, thank you for your time this morning.
I hope you have a great day to day and
tomorrow and good Lord Willing and Jeff and I'll be
down there.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
To pull your guys on the victory. That's right, all right.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I want to thank you all for all you do. Man,
y'all show is great. There's a lot of coaches friends
I have across the state, they don't have anything like this,
any kind of outlet for their coaches to speak on
behalf of their teams and their kids, and for the
community to hear them, and just really special in me
living in this area my whole life. I appreciate it

(13:25):
and thank y'all guys for what you do.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
You welcome, coach, Well, we appreciate you taking time to
be with us.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
We love doing. Have a great day. We'll see tomorrow, Okay,
all right, yep.
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