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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gorrie's Furniture Express, the Orthopedic Clinic live from Mose Barbecue.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We'll have sixteen seventeen head coaches there.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It'll be eating some good food and talking for two
hours on the radio about their program. And we're going
to the Hamilton's Hotline right now to talk a little football.
Hamilton's has two locations to serve you. Hamilton's on Ogle
Tree and Hamilton's on mag No you. We're going to Alabaster.
The head coach of Thompson High School is Mark Freeman
(00:26):
and he is live on the Mark Good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Morning, Coach.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What did Mark turn that volume up for? Coach?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Now?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hold on Gale, Hey, good talk you man.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Well you want to you know, a couple of games
after that. I watched one on TV and that was
a pretty while exciting game and let you lost for
the team in Georgia. But anyhow, you came back and
you're doing a good job.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thanks coach. I appreciate you saying that. It means a lot.
I hope everything's good for you and your family. I
love seeing your son. I love him well.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Then, John, it's going going up to Thompson.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I got coach Wilson in here too.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Coach another one of these great coaches of the of
our time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So we know Cad. So I'm telling you turn them
biting up for coach Wilson. They'd had a little trouble
hearing it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We're ready. How's everything in Alabasta?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Man, it's great, blessed morning, and just trying to get
better every day. See Mark comes. That's what this day presents.
When we get out of there is a choice get
better or or just waller around, and we choose to
get better. So we're gonna get better today.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There you go. All right, let's talk a little bit
about your football team.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Coach.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yeah you you you you always played like you say,
you got to play some tough schedules that you're not
chasing wins, you're chasing results at the end in that right,
and that's that month. Yes, they're trying to trying to Yeah,
talk about talk about your schedule and where you are
after these.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Games that you played.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think we're getting better, said I go back to
Grayson game. Man, I'm looking at their schedule. I played
played this. I'm not sure how good we might have
played that night. You know, it didn't feel like we
did offensively. It was hard, getting thing going. We had
a lot of guys that had never started a game,
and what a group to start your career against. These
guys that Grayson were really good and went out of town,
(02:27):
played lists to them. They were really good and got
a little better than got back in town last week
and played tusclse So County, who I think my ols
was doing a good job there they were. I think
they were actually I think better than they were last year.
We had a few things on them and got ahead.
But now it's it's on to the next week, so
it's trying to get better.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
D Martin.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
There you go, Mark fram with his head coach at
Thompson two and one, lost in overtime one one point away,
went for two. Play Oak Mountain this week, coach, go
to vest Tavia the following week, played at Trust at home,
go to Hill Christ Hoover and Prattle at home. You've
got two more road games, pretty home, pretty good home
schedule for you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well it is, And like I said, it's it's just
the situation. You can't look at it in this region
and that nobody can. But in this region, you don't
have the next week to get people healthy and play
the young kids, and you've got you've got to be
prepared every week to play like I think Region two
seeing that now from top to bottom, those teams are
(03:29):
really good and you know you gotta you gotta play
every week. But we do. We got good scheduling, and
I said, I think I think our kids are getting
better every week.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What by the way, Mark Freman with this head coach
at Thompson, you're on the Mark hour number two. We're
in the Orthopedy Clinton Studio. Coach, what do you go ahead, Coach?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I got a question, Coach Freeman.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm gonna let him have it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Back in the sixties, I was a football coach at
Tusclus County High.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Do they do?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
They do?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They have enough folks to match up with y'all and
folks like that. You know, coaching, I think when programs
go through several coaches, uh, in a relatives a short time.
I've been here ten years and I think they've had
three or four coaches and because they got they got
(04:20):
good looking players. I'm confident Miles Hoping as a young
guy coming up that has done a good job everywhere
he's been. Yeah, they've got good players, coaching and good
I'm you know, I think that they're gonna I think
he'll get them better. I just in this day time,
it's hard the general public. It's really hard to please.
(04:43):
And it's like I heard Trendifferent this more talking about
you know, it's hard to when you try to explain
why you're not winning the people that don't understand what
you put into trying to win. And you know, I
think they're working hard to get back and and and
all that. But I think the beautiful school, the stadium's nice,
(05:04):
and you know, coach, I think they'll get it. I
think they'll get it going there one day, Okay, hopefully
that Yeah, I was just looking coach Freeman since one
two three four, one two, three four.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Or five six coaches since fifteen.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So yeah, there the bunch day Mark and man, that's
hard on kids. And you know, until doctor Victors comes
in there and tells me, you know, Mark once starts
hitting some games that we can win, you know, we're
going to continue to to try to play these better teams.
And we've been over too before after those games, and
I think that's the thing that you know, I saw Rob,
(05:40):
I saw what coach did at this stay. You played
two really good teams to play Carver in Auburn, and
and I think down the road that's gonna benefit of
this stadium. And I don't know who all other teams play,
you know, coaching numbers in our region, so absosly we
know what's going on in our region. And they wouldn't
played two really good games. And you see people in
(06:01):
the region use different paths. And I'm not saying one's
righting one wrong, but I think that I think you've
got to go compete that if you can and watch
the plus the games that don't go your way, flush
them down, get the experience from them, take something from them,
and move on. But I just think that I think
that it's hard on kids to have different guys come
(06:23):
in and every new guys come in and throwing their
package and how they're going to turn this around. I
did it here. I tell the kids, I got none
to tell you. Just give me five weeks, you know,
see if you believe what we're telling you, and that
I don't know, I bless how you can do is
go six weeks at the time till the kids trust
me because they've had I mean, how many guys down
there going and everybody tells their product and that product
(06:49):
might not work, and kids get down, their parents get down,
and it's just hard in today's football demark. And so
it's hard to get these places going because one game
can watch way six years of memory.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, very good point. Mark Freeman with us here on
the mark, he's on our handlets highlight. Coach, you had
a quarterback and Seaborne, Trent Seaborne then had an NL
offered to leave your school. It was it was a
bunch of money to go to another state, and he didn't.
That stuff's getting real, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, it's real, Demark. And we've had three or four
not offered that kind of money, but six figures to leave.
Thank god they stayed, you know, and they was a
big picture and all that stuff. Again, you know, it's
a blessing. When Trus's dad told me, he said, hey,
you hear about this. This is what it was because
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the year before we got off about half of that
to leave. And so it's just a blessing that parent
like that and that players that are you know, committed
to what we're trying to do and they see the
big picture of Trent's gonna get his money, you know,
and that day will come and you know their markets.
Don't even get me started. I feel like we're in
(08:00):
quick stand right now, and you know, it makes you
want to do something. I don't know. If I think
we don't watch out, we're gonna those good young coaches
to the stays and somebody's gonna take some of these things
and they're gonna go, and I don't know they might.
I just hope we're not in quicksand coaches.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Want to weigh in.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh, that's just a terrible situation. I think you have.
I didn't have to deal with it, but uh, I
guess you just whatever you gotta do, you got to
deal with it, and uh, the whole things will change
for the better.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I mean, I think the I think, and Coach Freeman,
you you chime in, Jeff, coach dealing with it is
what Alabama must do, right Coach Freeman, whatever, we can't
continue to not.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Deal with it. In my opinion, No, am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Or for years I've told them, you know, they sort
of asked me questions. So I think three years ago,
you know, what about this? What about that? And you know,
dan Mark got to go back to this. You never
thought five years ago, you're gonna get lost in your
house and they tell you can't go.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh heck no, Yep, it's nothing. You got to wear
a mask.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, fall back and quit saying it ain't gonna happen,
and start preparing. It's like I tell people, we are
prepared more every week for forcing tow on offense to
go win the game, or forcing tow on the defense
to stop the other team. And I got you know
(09:37):
the mark me and you talked about this. You saw
the ruling last week. Okay, let's wake up. Let's get
our head out of sand. Let's get some people that's
around this state that's got a lot of really good information.
Let's let's get out of Let's get out of thinking
(10:00):
that one small group of people know everything going on
in this state because they do not. They do not
have a clue. But yet the rules and all are
coming out of small sessions of people that don't have
any clue. What the stave in Hoover And it's going
to get to Auburn. Yeah, it's everywhere, coach, you are right, Yeah,
(10:22):
and you know it's it's almost And I caught these
other coaches. It's almost like are they not gonna protect us?
Are they not gonna help us? Are we? You know?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But you know? And then I don't know. I really,
I really think that thing last week was it was
it was shot. It was a shot out there, and
I'm not I'm not sure some more of not coming
to Denmark down the road.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, what would you think would be best to do?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Coach? I don't know. I mean, I had that time
to think about dem Martin, but go ahead. I'm just
saying that. It just seems like, shouldn't somebody be addressing
this and then don't come back in two months and
tell everybody, well, we've been working on it. Tell us now, yeah,
(11:10):
I agree, tell us now, we're working on this. This
is what we've got. This is our livelihood, de Mark,
this is what we do. And I don't care. I
really don't understand. I don't have to have none of
these people like me. I really don't. Thank God. As
long as Jesus happening with me, I'm gonna be all right.
But somebody has to do somebody and I and there's
(11:32):
two coaches up here that I've been with friends with
for thirty years and I talked about once a week
and we've all had good careers. We've had a lot
of years and different But what's going to happen is
these these younger thirty to four year old head coaches
are super successful in the state. They're not gonna be
there long if they really are looking to climb the
ladder and get their stuff. In a great situation because
(11:55):
these other states are, they're paying good money, You're able
to compete and get you. I kill not. I'm not
saying I agree with it. I didn't agree with having
said in my house and I do a rest. I know,
there you go, but it is the world we live in.
He said. He the thought five years ago SC was
gonna have go Oklahoma, Texas. You know what they did,
(12:16):
They met, they changed, and they move on. Yeah, and
you know, there's nothing worse if somebody's not all of
a sudden, I said, well, we've been talking about this
for three months. How about letting everybody know it?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, because I ain't heard nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Demartin, No, I don't think anybody has a coach. I
think he's making a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Guys. I mean, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
To be for it, but to know it's coming, it's
kind I don't want to compare this for the lottery,
but every stud around us has a lottery.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I mean, you got to kind of you know, this
is totally different. But I'm like, let's wake up here,
because we know this is coming. We've already lost athletes.
We've already lost good athletes to other states. We don't
need to lose kids. I know it's not about that,
but it is about that. We've lost basketball for we
could have lost your quarterback in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Well, and let me say this in return, de mar
we get calls some kids from and family come out
of state about hate. We let's come over there. You
know is this Do y'all have this over there? And
we tell them no. I mean, we also get called
some kids.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I didn't think about that. I want to move to
Alabama play football.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah? Absolutely, And you know, and it's just a situation
that you don't have. It's not about agreeing on it.
It's about preparing our programs, our schools, our coaches in
the future. We care about y'all. We know you're dealing
with this, but you cannot understand it if you if
(13:50):
you have the same people making the same decisions you're
never going to understand what's really going on in the state.
And and it's really and I will welcome into them,
call me me men, I'll bring about ten coaches on
me and and I'm gonna tell you, Demark, there's things
going on in this state. Everybody knows they're going on.
Nothing's been done about none of it. So you try
(14:12):
to you know, you look at a lot of things.
You try to do things by the rule. Okay, follow
the rules. Okay, Well you know, de Mark. The truth
is that there's there's you know, I think the room
last week, I'm not and I'm not gonna get far
off in that. And I'm gonna tell you something. I
(14:33):
think there's a lot of I think there's a lot
of kick in that decision.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
There's a lot of what now kick, there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Of kising it. I think there's a lot of kick.
I think there's a lot of things going on, Denmark,
not necessarily out of our states headquarters, but there's a
lot of there's a lot of things going on in
our state about the state of our high stool football.
I really think there is. And I think that you know,
in a couple of years, we're going to be in
(15:02):
a different world one way or another, you know. So
I don't know. I just think that, you know, there's
a lot this the last couple of years, people say, well, this, this, this,
this and all this. Well I would rather somebody fix
on this stuff than every week here somebody speculated about
somebody doing something wrong. They may or may not be
(15:23):
doing something wrong. And it's been going on for two
freaking years. And we sit here right now with kids
getting offer a lot of money go out, I say,
And we sit here and we're in quick standing. I ain't.
I'm not the only one. We ain't heard a word.
How about what are we going to get?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
No communications?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
No, and this don't need to be something. Hey, we're
gonna meet next spring about this. How about meet today?
How about zoom and get somebody together, a group of
people that deal with this collectively, that know what's going on,
that's not sitting in certain parts in little groups. And
let's let's stay reality and get some people that know
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what's going on talk about it. I mean, you have
to wait in the next spring. How about zoom take
thirty minutes to zoom with each other. Whoever's gonna make
these decisions for us. Who is that?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Who is a good question? I don't know, it's a
good question. He's bringing good questions up, guys.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Well it ain't.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I mean you've got a good close heart to heart
well your players and your own people and uh, but
then needs to be some leadership from where you go
from the HULD.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Be great? Thank you. What's how the SEC has handled
all these changes? You know they attack the changes. They
met corporately with people with these. Yeah, you're right, and
they had a plan, they met with them. Uh, everybody
knew address these. Coach has been coming here for two years.
When what's going to happen? There's nobody in the real date.
(16:53):
I don't know. Maybe they don't just tell me, I'm
not coach.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You do you go to your district meeting and talk
about this at the district?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Might he goes all those Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Does Vincent talk Coach Pitt's talk about these? I know
he does.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He's vocal to me he's on the committee.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah I knew he was. I didn't know if we
want Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know, and I'm not basching nobody.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I know you're not. I know you're not.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I'm just saying there's reality in the world, and you
either deal with it, yeah, cub your head up and
bury yourself, or you attack it and stay the three ways.
You ignore it, you bury your head, or you go
tack it and you find out, how are we gonna
deal with this? And this crable out of it ain't
coming the Lord have mercy?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Would you three agree? That's how you do businesses the
way he's saying it. Agree, Coach, Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You know, you just got to keep coaching and do
the best try and win games and uh uh and
deal will at at the same time.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And you're doing but he does that, but you also
know the future and it's right in front of him
because he's got a quarterback's been offered to me dollars
to leave, so uh it hits him really really good. Anyway, Coach,
anything else you want to bring up.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Buddy, No, do more. I call it enough controversy.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, now, man, you keep it real. That's why we
like talking to you. Well, we coach, he's got Old Mountain.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Right, Coach, we got Old Mountain, and they're a lot better.
They've got a really good quarterback, yeah, good running back.
They've done a really good job over there, getting there.
Still they're gonna win, they're gonna win games, and they're
they've done a great job over there, and we've we've
got to preparing to play a really good game to
have pas stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, it's always good. Family doing good, coach man, We're
blessed more. How about it. Everybody's good. Everybody's really good.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Saw my daughter and my young oldest grandson this weekend,
my youngest daughter, so it was all good. Flew in
from Houston to seem so enjoyed that, enjoyed that. So hey,
thank you for your time. Love you buddy, have a
great week.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Love
Gorrie's Furniture Express, the Orthopedic Clinic live from Mose Barbecue.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We'll have sixteen seventeen head coaches there.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It'll be eating some good food and talking for two
hours on the radio about their program. And we're going
to the Hamilton's Hotline right now to talk a little football.
Hamilton's has two locations to serve you. Hamilton's on Ogle
Tree and Hamilton's on mag No you. We're going to Alabaster.
The head coach of Thompson High School is Mark Freeman
(00:26):
and he is live on the Mark Good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Morning, Coach.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What did Mark turn that volume up for? Coach?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Now?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hold on Gale, Hey, good talk you man.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Well you want to you know, a couple of games
after that. I watched one on TV and that was
a pretty while exciting game and let you lost for
the team in Georgia. But anyhow, you came back and
you're doing a good job.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thanks coach. I appreciate you saying that. It means a lot.
I hope everything's good for you and your family. I
love seeing your son. I love him well.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Then, John, it's going going up to Thompson.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I got coach Wilson in here too.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Coach another one of these great coaches of the of
our time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So we know Cad. So I'm telling you turn them
biting up for coach Wilson. They'd had a little trouble
hearing it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We're ready. How's everything in Alabasta?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Man, it's great, blessed morning, and just trying to get
better every day. See Mark comes. That's what this day presents.
When we get out of there is a choice get
better or or just waller around, and we choose to
get better. So we're gonna get better today.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There you go. All right, let's talk a little bit
about your football team.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Coach.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yeah you you you you always played like you say,
you got to play some tough schedules that you're not
chasing wins, you're chasing results at the end in that right,
and that's that month. Yes, they're trying to trying to Yeah,
talk about talk about your schedule and where you are
after these.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Games that you played.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think we're getting better, said I go back to
Grayson game. Man, I'm looking at their schedule. I played
played this. I'm not sure how good we might have
played that night. You know, it didn't feel like we
did offensively. It was hard, getting thing going. We had
a lot of guys that had never started a game,
and what a group to start your career against. These
guys that Grayson were really good and went out of town,
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played lists to them. They were really good and got
a little better than got back in town last week
and played tusclse So County, who I think my ols
was doing a good job there they were. I think
they were actually I think better than they were last year.
We had a few things on them and got ahead.
But now it's it's on to the next week, so
it's trying to get better.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
D Martin.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
There you go, Mark fram with his head coach at
Thompson two and one, lost in overtime one one point away,
went for two. Play Oak Mountain this week, coach, go
to vest Tavia the following week, played at Trust at home,
go to Hill Christ Hoover and Prattle at home. You've
got two more road games, pretty home, pretty good home
schedule for you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well it is, And like I said, it's it's just
the situation. You can't look at it in this region
and that nobody can. But in this region, you don't
have the next week to get people healthy and play
the young kids, and you've got you've got to be
prepared every week to play like I think Region two
seeing that now from top to bottom, those teams are
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really good and you know you gotta you gotta play
every week. But we do. We got good scheduling, and
I said, I think I think our kids are getting
better every week.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What by the way, Mark Freman with this head coach
at Thompson, you're on the Mark hour number two. We're
in the Orthopedy Clinton Studio. Coach, what do you go ahead, Coach?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I got a question, Coach Freeman.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm gonna let him have it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Back in the sixties, I was a football coach at
Tusclus County High.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Do they do?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
They do?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They have enough folks to match up with y'all and
folks like that. You know, coaching, I think when programs
go through several coaches, uh, in a relatives a short time.
I've been here ten years and I think they've had
three or four coaches and because they got they got
(04:20):
good looking players. I'm confident Miles Hoping as a young
guy coming up that has done a good job everywhere
he's been. Yeah, they've got good players, coaching and good
I'm you know, I think that they're gonna I think
he'll get them better. I just in this day time,
it's hard the general public. It's really hard to please.
(04:43):
And it's like I heard Trendifferent this more talking about
you know, it's hard to when you try to explain
why you're not winning the people that don't understand what
you put into trying to win. And you know, I
think they're working hard to get back and and and
all that. But I think the beautiful school, the stadium's nice,
(05:04):
and you know, coach, I think they'll get it. I
think they'll get it going there one day, Okay, hopefully
that Yeah, I was just looking coach Freeman since one
two three four, one two, three four.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Or five six coaches since fifteen.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So yeah, there the bunch day Mark and man, that's
hard on kids. And you know, until doctor Victors comes
in there and tells me, you know, Mark once starts
hitting some games that we can win, you know, we're
going to continue to to try to play these better teams.
And we've been over too before after those games, and
I think that's the thing that you know, I saw Rob,
(05:40):
I saw what coach did at this stay. You played
two really good teams to play Carver in Auburn, and
and I think down the road that's gonna benefit of
this stadium. And I don't know who all other teams play,
you know, coaching numbers in our region, so absosly we
know what's going on in our region. And they wouldn't
played two really good games. And you see people in
(06:01):
the region use different paths. And I'm not saying one's
righting one wrong, but I think that I think you've
got to go compete that if you can and watch
the plus the games that don't go your way, flush
them down, get the experience from them, take something from them,
and move on. But I just think that I think
that it's hard on kids to have different guys come
(06:23):
in and every new guys come in and throwing their
package and how they're going to turn this around. I
did it here. I tell the kids, I got none
to tell you. Just give me five weeks, you know,
see if you believe what we're telling you, and that
I don't know, I bless how you can do is
go six weeks at the time till the kids trust
me because they've had I mean, how many guys down
there going and everybody tells their product and that product
(06:49):
might not work, and kids get down, their parents get down,
and it's just hard in today's football demark. And so
it's hard to get these places going because one game
can watch way six years of memory.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, very good point. Mark Freeman with us here on
the mark, he's on our handlets highlight. Coach, you had
a quarterback and Seaborne, Trent Seaborne then had an NL
offered to leave your school. It was it was a
bunch of money to go to another state, and he didn't.
That stuff's getting real, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, it's real, Demark. And we've had three or four
not offered that kind of money, but six figures to leave.
Thank god they stayed, you know, and they was a
big picture and all that stuff. Again, you know, it's
a blessing. When Trus's dad told me, he said, hey,
you hear about this. This is what it was because
(07:39):
the year before we got off about half of that
to leave. And so it's just a blessing that parent
like that and that players that are you know, committed
to what we're trying to do and they see the
big picture of Trent's gonna get his money, you know,
and that day will come and you know their markets.
Don't even get me started. I feel like we're in
(08:00):
quick stand right now, and you know, it makes you
want to do something. I don't know. If I think
we don't watch out, we're gonna those good young coaches
to the stays and somebody's gonna take some of these things
and they're gonna go, and I don't know they might.
I just hope we're not in quicksand coaches.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Want to weigh in.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh, that's just a terrible situation. I think you have.
I didn't have to deal with it, but uh, I
guess you just whatever you gotta do, you got to
deal with it, and uh, the whole things will change
for the better.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I mean, I think the I think, and Coach Freeman,
you you chime in, Jeff, coach dealing with it is
what Alabama must do, right Coach Freeman, whatever, we can't
continue to not.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Deal with it. In my opinion, No, am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Or for years I've told them, you know, they sort
of asked me questions. So I think three years ago,
you know, what about this? What about that? And you know,
dan Mark got to go back to this. You never
thought five years ago, you're gonna get lost in your
house and they tell you can't go.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh heck no, Yep, it's nothing. You got to wear
a mask.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, fall back and quit saying it ain't gonna happen,
and start preparing. It's like I tell people, we are
prepared more every week for forcing tow on offense to
go win the game, or forcing tow on the defense
to stop the other team. And I got you know
(09:37):
the mark me and you talked about this. You saw
the ruling last week. Okay, let's wake up. Let's get
our head out of sand. Let's get some people that's
around this state that's got a lot of really good information.
Let's let's get out of Let's get out of thinking
(10:00):
that one small group of people know everything going on
in this state because they do not. They do not
have a clue. But yet the rules and all are
coming out of small sessions of people that don't have
any clue. What the stave in Hoover And it's going
to get to Auburn. Yeah, it's everywhere, coach, you are right, Yeah,
(10:22):
and you know it's it's almost And I caught these
other coaches. It's almost like are they not gonna protect us?
Are they not gonna help us? Are we? You know?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But you know? And then I don't know. I really,
I really think that thing last week was it was
it was shot. It was a shot out there, and
I'm not I'm not sure some more of not coming
to Denmark down the road.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, what would you think would be best to do?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Coach? I don't know. I mean, I had that time
to think about dem Martin, but go ahead. I'm just
saying that. It just seems like, shouldn't somebody be addressing
this and then don't come back in two months and
tell everybody, well, we've been working on it. Tell us now, yeah,
(11:10):
I agree, tell us now, we're working on this. This
is what we've got. This is our livelihood, de Mark,
this is what we do. And I don't care. I
really don't understand. I don't have to have none of
these people like me. I really don't. Thank God. As
long as Jesus happening with me, I'm gonna be all right.
But somebody has to do somebody and I and there's
(11:32):
two coaches up here that I've been with friends with
for thirty years and I talked about once a week
and we've all had good careers. We've had a lot
of years and different But what's going to happen is
these these younger thirty to four year old head coaches
are super successful in the state. They're not gonna be
there long if they really are looking to climb the
ladder and get their stuff. In a great situation because
(11:55):
these other states are, they're paying good money, You're able
to compete and get you. I kill not. I'm not
saying I agree with it. I didn't agree with having
said in my house and I do a rest. I know,
there you go, but it is the world we live in.
He said. He the thought five years ago SC was
gonna have go Oklahoma, Texas. You know what they did,
(12:16):
They met, they changed, and they move on. Yeah, and
you know, there's nothing worse if somebody's not all of
a sudden, I said, well, we've been talking about this
for three months. How about letting everybody know it?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, because I ain't heard nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Demartin, No, I don't think anybody has a coach. I
think he's making a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Guys. I mean, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
To be for it, but to know it's coming, it's
kind I don't want to compare this for the lottery,
but every stud around us has a lottery.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I mean, you got to kind of you know, this
is totally different. But I'm like, let's wake up here,
because we know this is coming. We've already lost athletes.
We've already lost good athletes to other states. We don't
need to lose kids. I know it's not about that,
but it is about that. We've lost basketball for we
could have lost your quarterback in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Well, and let me say this in return, de mar
we get calls some kids from and family come out
of state about hate. We let's come over there. You
know is this Do y'all have this over there? And
we tell them no. I mean, we also get called
some kids.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I didn't think about that. I want to move to
Alabama play football.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah? Absolutely, And you know, and it's just a situation
that you don't have. It's not about agreeing on it.
It's about preparing our programs, our schools, our coaches in
the future. We care about y'all. We know you're dealing
with this, but you cannot understand it if you if
(13:50):
you have the same people making the same decisions you're
never going to understand what's really going on in the state.
And and it's really and I will welcome into them,
call me me men, I'll bring about ten coaches on
me and and I'm gonna tell you, Demark, there's things
going on in this state. Everybody knows they're going on.
Nothing's been done about none of it. So you try
(14:12):
to you know, you look at a lot of things.
You try to do things by the rule. Okay, follow
the rules. Okay, Well you know, de Mark. The truth
is that there's there's you know, I think the room
last week, I'm not and I'm not gonna get far
off in that. And I'm gonna tell you something. I
(14:33):
think there's a lot of I think there's a lot
of kick in that decision.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
There's a lot of what now kick, there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Of kising it. I think there's a lot of kick.
I think there's a lot of things going on, Denmark,
not necessarily out of our states headquarters, but there's a
lot of there's a lot of things going on in
our state about the state of our high stool football.
I really think there is. And I think that you know,
in a couple of years, we're going to be in
(15:02):
a different world one way or another, you know. So
I don't know. I just think that, you know, there's
a lot this the last couple of years, people say, well, this, this, this,
this and all this. Well I would rather somebody fix
on this stuff than every week here somebody speculated about
somebody doing something wrong. They may or may not be
(15:23):
doing something wrong. And it's been going on for two
freaking years. And we sit here right now with kids
getting offer a lot of money go out, I say,
And we sit here and we're in quick standing. I ain't.
I'm not the only one. We ain't heard a word.
How about what are we going to get?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
No communications?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
No, and this don't need to be something. Hey, we're
gonna meet next spring about this. How about meet today?
How about zoom and get somebody together, a group of
people that deal with this collectively, that know what's going on,
that's not sitting in certain parts in little groups. And
let's let's stay reality and get some people that know
(16:01):
what's going on talk about it. I mean, you have
to wait in the next spring. How about zoom take
thirty minutes to zoom with each other. Whoever's gonna make
these decisions for us. Who is that?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Who is a good question? I don't know, it's a
good question. He's bringing good questions up, guys.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Well it ain't.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I mean you've got a good close heart to heart
well your players and your own people and uh, but
then needs to be some leadership from where you go
from the HULD.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Be great? Thank you. What's how the SEC has handled
all these changes? You know they attack the changes. They
met corporately with people with these. Yeah, you're right, and
they had a plan, they met with them. Uh, everybody
knew address these. Coach has been coming here for two years.
When what's going to happen? There's nobody in the real date.
(16:53):
I don't know. Maybe they don't just tell me, I'm
not coach.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You do you go to your district meeting and talk
about this at the district?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Might he goes all those Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Does Vincent talk Coach Pitt's talk about these? I know
he does.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He's vocal to me he's on the committee.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah I knew he was. I didn't know if we
want Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know, and I'm not basching nobody.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I know you're not. I know you're not.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I'm just saying there's reality in the world, and you
either deal with it, yeah, cub your head up and
bury yourself, or you attack it and stay the three ways.
You ignore it, you bury your head, or you go
tack it and you find out, how are we gonna
deal with this? And this crable out of it ain't
coming the Lord have mercy?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Would you three agree? That's how you do businesses the
way he's saying it. Agree, Coach, Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You know, you just got to keep coaching and do
the best try and win games and uh uh and
deal will at at the same time.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And you're doing but he does that, but you also
know the future and it's right in front of him
because he's got a quarterback's been offered to me dollars
to leave, so uh it hits him really really good. Anyway, Coach,
anything else you want to bring up.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Buddy, No, do more. I call it enough controversy.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, now, man, you keep it real. That's why we
like talking to you. Well, we coach, he's got Old Mountain.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Right, Coach, we got Old Mountain, and they're a lot better.
They've got a really good quarterback, yeah, good running back.
They've done a really good job over there, getting there.
Still they're gonna win, they're gonna win games, and they're
they've done a great job over there, and we've we've
got to preparing to play a really good game to
have pas stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, it's always good. Family doing good, coach man, We're
blessed more. How about it. Everybody's good. Everybody's really good.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Saw my daughter and my young oldest grandson this weekend,
my youngest daughter, so it was all good. Flew in
from Houston to seem so enjoyed that, enjoyed that. So hey,
thank you for your time. Love you buddy, have a
great week.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
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