December 17, 2024 • 13 mins
Drew Sanders, coach of the Vandegrift Vipers, joins the show to discuss their win over Summer Creek and State Championship game against Southlake Carroll with Craig Way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I'll tell you what that is so aproposed because
the Vandergridt Vipers have led on throughout these playoffs and
now they're ready to make their second UIL sixth A
Division two state championship game appearance in the past three years,
and we're thrilled to have our good friend, the head
coach of the Vipers, Drew Sanders, join us on the hotline.
I would ask you how you doing, but I know
you're doing pretty well, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yes, Yes, doing very well, very excited about getting to
play at and T.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And we'll get into some breakdown and talking about south
Lake Carroll and all that stuff in a minute here.
But I'm curious to get from you because you always
put this in its proper context, the path that your
team has taken, not just through the playoffs, but through
the regular season, going all the way back to the
early season games, and what this particular group has done
(00:51):
to exemplify what you and your coaching staff and talking
about Viper tradition and everything to reach this point, going
all the way back to early in the season.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, I mean it's a I think it's a tremendous journey.
We had such a young group to start the to
start the season, it was eight starters replaced on offense,
seven on defense, And so you just think about how
much work that is and and how we had to
come from, you know, just just a whole new group.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We had lost a Cedar Park.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Which was tough to take, and but it was just
all of our growing pains that we had to kind
of figure out. And of course new quarterback, and he's
played and played tremendous but got better and better, and
we made some changes on defense and and after the
Stony Point game, we kind of, you know, shout everybody
down from from from then on, made.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A couple of changes there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So it's been fun to see a group go from
you know, zero experience to here we are playing for
a state.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Championship, do you see?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And the reason why I say this is because I've
I've had a ton of conference calls with coaches whose
teams are in the state championships since I'm doing six
of the twelve games, and and there was a one
common threat I hear is that if there was an
early season issue that the players, and of course I
always hear coaches say the best teams are player player led,
(02:18):
I guess, and they talked about that. For example, I'm
doing this two a game tomorrow night between Munster and Shiner.
Munster started two and two and Shiner started zero to three.
Now they played tough teams and and and Cedar Park
was a quality opponent going into the playoffs. But but
when you get a setback, I guess, is when it
(02:38):
kind of reveals some things about your group. But and
what did you learn about your guys as it went forward,
even after the loss to Cedar Park.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, it was fun to see us trying to figure
out who we were, even though you never want to lose.
I mean, you know, it's it's great having undefeated seasons
every year, right, but you know, you've got to be
able to go through some struggle. And I thought that
the guys number one listened better to us. You know,
(03:07):
anytime that kind of stuff happens, they start looking back
towards their coaches, you know, And.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So that was that was exactly what they did.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Instead of fighting or getting upset, they just you know,
kind of was like, well, what do we need to do?
And then they also led within themselves and kind of
figured out, you know, who they were, so I thought
that it was good to see our growth. And the
next week after that, you know, we had to battle
to beat Stony Point, which you know may surprise a
lot of people if you go back and look at
(03:35):
that score, but that's just kind of where we were
and figuring out who we were and could we be
good and could we handle adversity, and our guys leadership
through that was was really good.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Too, did you You and the coaching staff, like say,
even after the Stony game, got with one another and
and and we don't know exactly where this group is
going to go, but we're gonna we're gonna have to
trust that they'll they'll figure out what we want them
to do. I mean, what what was the what was
the self avow because I've heard you talk about that
(04:07):
before with your coaches before. What was that like for
you during those early weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, I mean, you know, every good staff is just
going to just take what they have each week and
and and not be afraid to make changes or whatever else.
And I've got a tremendous staff and most of a
lot of them have been with me, especially the defensive side, been.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
With me for a while. And I think you know that.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But coach Mauser got his first said coaching job last offseason.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So the offensive.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guys were we're all new, and but they were open
to also critiquing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Themselves and what we needed to do better.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And and so I think every good staff is is
open to that. And and we're no different, you know.
And so but sometimes when you lose, it gives you
the I guess the guts are the action you need
to go. All right, we've got to make this change here,
this change here, change here. And that's kind of what
we did on some of that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
The reason why I asked this is because of the
changes that you made, and the attitude of the guys
clearly pays off down the road. When in a state
semifinal game, you're down ten points to a team that
was a state finals a year ago, a team that
the computer thing said should win by ten, and you're
down ten, and that's where I guess guys have to
(05:26):
dig deep a little bit. What did you see from
your guys when you're down twenty four to fourteen the
Summer Creek last Saturday night?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, you know, we started out fourteen nothing before that,
you know?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
True? Yeah, And so it was.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I said to the TVs TV cameras after it was like,
you know, this is kind of where we figure out
that do we have that true viper spirit where we're
not going to quit. And there's been so many times
in the last sixteen years i've been head coach here
that we've been down, or we've we've had we've had
a setback, and our guys just keep playing hard. That's
one of our hallmarks is to fall mark. And so
(06:04):
we just tell them, hey, no matter what, you're just
gonna play as hard as you can. You're gonna play
through it, and you're gona play through all that momentum
switch and try to figure if we can get it
switched back right.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And that's what happened with in a couple of.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Those times where we were able to get We got
down fourteen nothing and then we return a kick and
then we get a fumble the next possession, and then
all of a sudden, we're like, okay, it's fourteen fourteen,
and and so and and they and they knew heading
into this it is a state semifinal. So we're not
playing some you know, flappy team, you know, and so
you know we're gonna have to battle. We're gonna have
(06:36):
to we're gonna have to work for this. And at
some point, it's probably during that twenty four to fourteen section,
you know, the defense was huddled up. I think they
maybe as a quarter break or something or time out,
and I said, guys, if you want to make a
state championship game, we've got to figure out how we're
gonna fix this, this and this. And they were, you know,
(06:57):
like all year and they're so ready to do whatever
we ask. And so that's that's that's kind of fun,
you know, in fact, that's really fun when you can
see guys improving even through the game and trying to
make changes.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Visiting with Drew Sanders, head coach of the Vander Griff
Viper's here on the Craigway Show. All right, you mentioned
your quarterback. Tell us about the growth of Miles today.
He since you had a brand new starter and a
junior at that stepping into the role.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, it's been a bit since we had a junior
since Braiden Buchannan, since we had a junior start for
us at quarterback, and we know how that turned out
with Brayden and he you know, led us our first
state championship game and now playing at Baylor and by
the way, doing really well at Baylor on the baseball team.
But you know, for for us, we had faith in Miles.
(07:43):
We saw what he did. He led our JV on
a sophomore to a tenano season, but it wasn't like
a regular even though that's great. It was a teno
season where it was just like absolute domination, and so
that was you know, we felt like he could take
over the reins.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Was a good leader.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And then we started with dripping Springs where he played
really well out of the box, and and then he's
just continued to get better and better. And of course,
like any new player, he's got to improve it. Some
things he had to he had to do better in
certain areas, but he so coachable and just kept getting better.
And then this last week was probably his best performance
(08:22):
of the entire year. I think he threw it for
over three hundred a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I don't know if you you know.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You're pretty up on every team in Texas, but I
mean their front yeah, they're therefore d linemen were I'm
not exaggerating when I say they were they were big dudes, man,
they were they were some dogs. And you know, for
him to stand in there and be able to make
throws all day, I mean, it was an impressive performance.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And then of course, if we've seen anything out of
the past of success on the football field, uh for
the Vipers, it's been also through the run game. And
how about the you sine your running back Brendanfornia and
what he's given you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean, Brendan has just been he you know,
we we had a rough time earlier in the year
where we we were down about three or four running backs.
We all had ankle's brains. It was the wildest thing ever.
But it's been so good to have him back and
and he man, he just is playing so good right
now and doing doing what what he needs to do.
(09:27):
I mean, he's a senior, he's a captain, and so
we expect him to, you know, to kind of carry
us at times, and he's doing that. He's running tough,
he's running low, he's he's running through tackles and and
and his performance, his performance and all the games have
been good. But against Harlan, it was really really impressive.
Against steel Man, he played really well against Steel also,
(09:52):
and so we're we're really proud of him and proud
of his growth and expecting great things in the state game.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I'm interested in your thoughts in your exis amination of
South Lake, Carrol, because there are those who would say,
and I don't know how vastly different is, but there
are those who say they're operating differently now because they
lost two running backs. Clearly, good ones need one running backs,
and yet they continue to find a way and doing
it as Riley Dodge likes to do and has done
(10:18):
in the past a lot through the air.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But what's your bridge?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You notice mark differences in what you see from Carol
since they've lost the two running backs with their offense
to what they're doing now.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No, you know they're probably running a quarterback more.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But other than that, no, not not much. I mean,
they like to run the zone, they like to throw it,
like you said, and they have three to four amazing receivers.
But if anybody's watched them, they would see how big
strong their O line is, and so you know, I mean,
it definitely helps to jump start the run game when
you have an O line that looks like theirs.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, I get the feeling you're feeling that that one
of the keys to this thing, one of the things
that turn it is that trench play between your D
line and their O line.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, you know, this game
is about blocking and tackling, and so we we've got
to be able to not get knocked back and uh,
and that's that's a tall order. I mean, they're they're very,
very good, and we think we think.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
We're strong up front too.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But it's that is going to be one of the
big matchups on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Visiting here for a few more minutes here with Drew Sanders,
head coach of the Vandergrid Vipers. Was there much to
be learned from the experience two years ago of going
into at.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And T Stadium.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I mean it was it was quite a ball game
into the fourth quarter and then De Sota pulled away.
But but outside of that, the whole deal, the the
the awe factor. This that the walking in to get
used to u a routine and clock and all of
those things in the run up to the game itself
were those things that now two years later, are are
(11:58):
proving valuable to you and the staff. You as you
lay this out, for for the for this plan, for
this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh my goodness, for sure, every every single thing is
better this year than the last time. You know, from
understanding where we are going a hotel, simple like that,
what are we doing Friday night? Now we're saying, hey,
remember when we did We're doing that again. The only starter,
you know, really was in with our nose tackle, who's
(12:25):
just had a tremendous senior year. But other than that,
all those guys were either backups or they were on
the playoff team, and so they all have been an
AT and D. They've stood on the sideline, you know,
they've done all They've.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Done all that.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So I do think it takes a little bit of
the wow factor out, even though it's still going to
be a beautiful facility and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But I think all of that.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Factors into your comfortability as you come into something that
you know people are trying and it is a big thing.
But sometimes people will follow in the traps of like
making it a huge thing, like you know, oh my gosh,
you've got to do this, you got to That's where
people miss up. I think, I think you've just got
to go treat it like a regular game, and so
(13:13):
that I think that helps, routine helps that you know
for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He's Drew Sanders, head coach of the Vandergrit Vipers. They
play Saturday afternoon at three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If you're sending home to watch the Texan, you can
flip back and forth. You can do that, or you
can just watch with the Vandergrid telecas and just listen
to our radio broadcast. However that works, you know, something
like that, Drew, we wish you the best. I wish
you could be there to call it, and I wish
you all the best and uh and uh, well we'll
look forward to uh hopefully a big effort and in
a great outcome against Southly Caro.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I appreciate you taking the time today.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks Greg.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You bet that's Drew Sanders, head coach of the Vandergrid Vipers.
We have more coming up when we continue on Sports
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Well, I'll tell you what that is so aproposed because
the Vandergridt Vipers have led on throughout these playoffs and
now they're ready to make their second UIL sixth A
Division two state championship game appearance in the past three years,
and we're thrilled to have our good friend, the head
coach of the Vipers, Drew Sanders, join us on the hotline.
I would ask you how you doing, but I know
you're doing pretty well, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yes, Yes, doing very well, very excited about getting to
play at and T.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And we'll get into some breakdown and talking about south
Lake Carroll and all that stuff in a minute here.
But I'm curious to get from you because you always
put this in its proper context, the path that your
team has taken, not just through the playoffs, but through
the regular season, going all the way back to the
early season games, and what this particular group has done
(00:51):
to exemplify what you and your coaching staff and talking
about Viper tradition and everything to reach this point, going
all the way back to early in the season.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, I mean it's a I think it's a tremendous journey.
We had such a young group to start the to
start the season, it was eight starters replaced on offense,
seven on defense, And so you just think about how
much work that is and and how we had to
come from, you know, just just a whole new group.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
We had lost a Cedar Park.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Which was tough to take, and but it was just
all of our growing pains that we had to kind
of figure out. And of course new quarterback, and he's
played and played tremendous but got better and better, and
we made some changes on defense and and after the
Stony Point game, we kind of, you know, shout everybody
down from from from then on, made.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A couple of changes there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So it's been fun to see a group go from
you know, zero experience to here we are playing for
a state.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Championship, do you see?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And the reason why I say this is because I've
I've had a ton of conference calls with coaches whose
teams are in the state championships since I'm doing six
of the twelve games, and and there was a one
common threat I hear is that if there was an
early season issue that the players, and of course I
always hear coaches say the best teams are player player led,
(02:18):
I guess, and they talked about that. For example, I'm
doing this two a game tomorrow night between Munster and Shiner.
Munster started two and two and Shiner started zero to three.
Now they played tough teams and and and Cedar Park
was a quality opponent going into the playoffs. But but
when you get a setback, I guess, is when it
(02:38):
kind of reveals some things about your group. But and
what did you learn about your guys as it went forward,
even after the loss to Cedar Park.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, it was fun to see us trying to figure
out who we were, even though you never want to lose.
I mean, you know, it's it's great having undefeated seasons
every year, right, but you know, you've got to be
able to go through some struggle. And I thought that
the guys number one listened better to us. You know,
(03:07):
anytime that kind of stuff happens, they start looking back
towards their coaches, you know, And.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So that was that was exactly what they did.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Instead of fighting or getting upset, they just you know,
kind of was like, well, what do we need to do?
And then they also led within themselves and kind of
figured out, you know, who they were, so I thought
that it was good to see our growth. And the
next week after that, you know, we had to battle
to beat Stony Point, which you know may surprise a
lot of people if you go back and look at
(03:35):
that score, but that's just kind of where we were
and figuring out who we were and could we be
good and could we handle adversity, and our guys leadership
through that was was really good.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Too, did you You and the coaching staff, like say,
even after the Stony game, got with one another and
and and we don't know exactly where this group is
going to go, but we're gonna we're gonna have to
trust that they'll they'll figure out what we want them
to do. I mean, what what was the what was
the self avow because I've heard you talk about that
(04:07):
before with your coaches before. What was that like for
you during those early weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, I mean, you know, every good staff is just
going to just take what they have each week and
and and not be afraid to make changes or whatever else.
And I've got a tremendous staff and most of a
lot of them have been with me, especially the defensive side, been.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
With me for a while. And I think you know that.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But coach Mauser got his first said coaching job last offseason.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So the offensive.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guys were we're all new, and but they were open
to also critiquing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Themselves and what we needed to do better.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And and so I think every good staff is is
open to that. And and we're no different, you know.
And so but sometimes when you lose, it gives you
the I guess the guts are the action you need
to go. All right, we've got to make this change here,
this change here, change here. And that's kind of what
we did on some of that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
The reason why I asked this is because of the
changes that you made, and the attitude of the guys
clearly pays off down the road. When in a state
semifinal game, you're down ten points to a team that
was a state finals a year ago, a team that
the computer thing said should win by ten, and you're
down ten, and that's where I guess guys have to
(05:26):
dig deep a little bit. What did you see from
your guys when you're down twenty four to fourteen the
Summer Creek last Saturday night?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, you know, we started out fourteen nothing before that,
you know?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
True? Yeah, And so it was.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I said to the TVs TV cameras after it was like,
you know, this is kind of where we figure out
that do we have that true viper spirit where we're
not going to quit. And there's been so many times
in the last sixteen years i've been head coach here
that we've been down, or we've we've had we've had
a setback, and our guys just keep playing hard. That's
one of our hallmarks is to fall mark. And so
(06:04):
we just tell them, hey, no matter what, you're just
gonna play as hard as you can. You're gonna play
through it, and you're gona play through all that momentum
switch and try to figure if we can get it
switched back right.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And that's what happened with in a couple of.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Those times where we were able to get We got
down fourteen nothing and then we return a kick and
then we get a fumble the next possession, and then
all of a sudden, we're like, okay, it's fourteen fourteen,
and and so and and they and they knew heading
into this it is a state semifinal. So we're not
playing some you know, flappy team, you know, and so
you know we're gonna have to battle. We're gonna have
(06:36):
to we're gonna have to work for this. And at
some point, it's probably during that twenty four to fourteen section,
you know, the defense was huddled up. I think they
maybe as a quarter break or something or time out,
and I said, guys, if you want to make a
state championship game, we've got to figure out how we're
gonna fix this, this and this. And they were, you know,
(06:57):
like all year and they're so ready to do whatever
we ask. And so that's that's that's kind of fun,
you know, in fact, that's really fun when you can
see guys improving even through the game and trying to
make changes.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Visiting with Drew Sanders, head coach of the Vander Griff
Viper's here on the Craigway Show. All right, you mentioned
your quarterback. Tell us about the growth of Miles today.
He since you had a brand new starter and a
junior at that stepping into the role.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, it's been a bit since we had a junior
since Braiden Buchannan, since we had a junior start for
us at quarterback, and we know how that turned out
with Brayden and he you know, led us our first
state championship game and now playing at Baylor and by
the way, doing really well at Baylor on the baseball team.
But you know, for for us, we had faith in Miles.
(07:43):
We saw what he did. He led our JV on
a sophomore to a tenano season, but it wasn't like
a regular even though that's great. It was a teno
season where it was just like absolute domination, and so
that was you know, we felt like he could take
over the reins.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Was a good leader.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And then we started with dripping Springs where he played
really well out of the box, and and then he's
just continued to get better and better. And of course,
like any new player, he's got to improve it. Some
things he had to he had to do better in
certain areas, but he so coachable and just kept getting better.
And then this last week was probably his best performance
(08:22):
of the entire year. I think he threw it for
over three hundred a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I don't know if you you know.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You're pretty up on every team in Texas, but I
mean their front yeah, they're therefore d linemen were I'm
not exaggerating when I say they were they were big dudes, man,
they were they were some dogs. And you know, for
him to stand in there and be able to make
throws all day, I mean, it was an impressive performance.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And then of course, if we've seen anything out of
the past of success on the football field, uh for
the Vipers, it's been also through the run game. And
how about the you sine your running back Brendanfornia and
what he's given you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean, Brendan has just been he you know,
we we had a rough time earlier in the year
where we we were down about three or four running backs.
We all had ankle's brains. It was the wildest thing ever.
But it's been so good to have him back and
and he man, he just is playing so good right
now and doing doing what what he needs to do.
(09:27):
I mean, he's a senior, he's a captain, and so
we expect him to, you know, to kind of carry
us at times, and he's doing that. He's running tough,
he's running low, he's he's running through tackles and and
and his performance, his performance and all the games have
been good. But against Harlan, it was really really impressive.
Against steel Man, he played really well against Steel also,
(09:52):
and so we're we're really proud of him and proud
of his growth and expecting great things in the state game.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I'm interested in your thoughts in your exis amination of
South Lake, Carrol, because there are those who would say,
and I don't know how vastly different is, but there
are those who say they're operating differently now because they
lost two running backs. Clearly, good ones need one running backs,
and yet they continue to find a way and doing
it as Riley Dodge likes to do and has done
(10:18):
in the past a lot through the air.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But what's your bridge?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You notice mark differences in what you see from Carol
since they've lost the two running backs with their offense
to what they're doing now.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No, you know they're probably running a quarterback more.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But other than that, no, not not much. I mean,
they like to run the zone, they like to throw it,
like you said, and they have three to four amazing receivers.
But if anybody's watched them, they would see how big
strong their O line is, and so you know, I mean,
it definitely helps to jump start the run game when
you have an O line that looks like theirs.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, I get the feeling you're feeling that that one
of the keys to this thing, one of the things
that turn it is that trench play between your D
line and their O line.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, you know, this game
is about blocking and tackling, and so we we've got
to be able to not get knocked back and uh,
and that's that's a tall order. I mean, they're they're very,
very good, and we think we think.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
We're strong up front too.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But it's that is going to be one of the
big matchups on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Visiting here for a few more minutes here with Drew Sanders,
head coach of the Vandergrid Vipers. Was there much to
be learned from the experience two years ago of going
into at.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And T Stadium.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I mean it was it was quite a ball game
into the fourth quarter and then De Sota pulled away.
But but outside of that, the whole deal, the the
the awe factor. This that the walking in to get
used to u a routine and clock and all of
those things in the run up to the game itself
were those things that now two years later, are are
(11:58):
proving valuable to you and the staff. You as you
lay this out, for for the for this plan, for
this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh my goodness, for sure, every every single thing is
better this year than the last time. You know, from
understanding where we are going a hotel, simple like that,
what are we doing Friday night? Now we're saying, hey,
remember when we did We're doing that again. The only starter,
you know, really was in with our nose tackle, who's
(12:25):
just had a tremendous senior year. But other than that,
all those guys were either backups or they were on
the playoff team, and so they all have been an
AT and D. They've stood on the sideline, you know,
they've done all They've.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Done all that.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So I do think it takes a little bit of
the wow factor out, even though it's still going to
be a beautiful facility and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But I think all of that.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Factors into your comfortability as you come into something that
you know people are trying and it is a big thing.
But sometimes people will follow in the traps of like
making it a huge thing, like you know, oh my gosh,
you've got to do this, you got to That's where
people miss up. I think, I think you've just got
to go treat it like a regular game, and so
(13:13):
that I think that helps, routine helps that you know
for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He's Drew Sanders, head coach of the Vandergrit Vipers. They
play Saturday afternoon at three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If you're sending home to watch the Texan, you can
flip back and forth. You can do that, or you
can just watch with the Vandergrid telecas and just listen
to our radio broadcast. However that works, you know, something
like that, Drew, we wish you the best. I wish
you could be there to call it, and I wish
you all the best and uh and uh, well we'll
look forward to uh hopefully a big effort and in
a great outcome against Southly Caro.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I appreciate you taking the time today.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks Greg.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You bet that's Drew Sanders, head coach of the Vandergrid Vipers.
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