Full Show - 11/9/2024

Full show from the Donovan & Jorgenson Heating & Cooling Studio: Saturday, November 9th, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:43):
I'm Mike McGivern alongside my co host. He is the
former head football coach at Oconomwalk appletic director at Muskego.
You know, I guess, I guess the King's not dead yet.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Everybody was like, hey man, everybody's calling me going, I
guess that run for Mighty Musquigo is done. And I'm like, well,
they lost a couple of row and La La.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
La, and les Lee Corso says, not so fast.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Not so fast. It was a good win last night.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
It was great when a beautiful facility Wild.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Didn't need to do a really really good job with
their new school. And then this setup was amazing. There's
a lot of energy in the stands, in the atmosphere
and it was a great ball game, it really. I
mean it's twenty one seven, but it was fourteen to
seven for the longest time, and it was it was tight.
Two good ball teams with good players on both sides
of the ball.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Hey, the second segment today, for sure, we're going to
talk to Matt berg And from Catholic Memorial, and I've
I've reached out to a couple of the guys. I've
reached out to the head football coach at Wisconsin, Luthoran.
I haven't heard back from him yet, but hopefully we'll
we'll have him on and then at at nine we're
going to have on Matt Hensler nine to fifty Bill Jacquelin.

(01:53):
But this first segment, first twenty minutes, I look. I
reached out to Joe par and he said why and
I goes, just come on in, man, he's retiring as
the head football coach from O Creek and Ryan. I
can tell you that every time I talk to Joel
Park and I say, coach, your team's doing great, he
would go, yeah, yeah, my staff is doing really well.

(02:16):
These players are put in all the time. You know,
Scott is great, athletic director of the community is great,
and he just deflects away from himself non stop, over
and over and over. He can't do it now right here,
and so I just wanted to say thank you to
Joel Park for all the time that he's He's always
been very kind to me and this show that I

(02:38):
do and return calls very quickly and gotten me what
I needed. And I've talked to players that have gone
through his program, and not very few of them talk
about the football x's and o's. They talk about what
he has done for them as far as how to be,
you know, a good man, and how to how to
be a good husband and all of the stuff that

(03:00):
that that he would do. And he just deflexed away
from him and I knew to get him on the phone,
he wouldn't allow me. But now I got him in person,
and coach, I just want to say congratulations and a
great career, and I want to say thank you for
the the football community, for all the work that you've
put in.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Well, wow, that's amazing to hear. That really makes me
feel pretty good. The last couple of days have been unbelievable.
I put something on Facebook to say thanks, and man,
the amount of likes and all the comments, I'm blown away.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Today there was an article on the Recene paper, there
was something in the Milwaukee Journal, and then I'm on
the radio.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
I feel like Howard Stern, the King of All Media
or something. But you know, to act, I'm not that good.
It ain't gonna either.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
But you know, man, just to hear you guys say
those things, it very means a lot to me because
it all goes back to the guys I learned from
from Coach Cook, you know, Coach Turpster, who's up at
Steven's Point. There's so many guys in my life that
have just directed and Coach Bartholomew.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
I've stolen from them.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
I don't have an original bone in my body, and
I'm good because I've been around great people. And maybe
I'm not that good, but anything I got was because
I was around great people.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You see, he's still doing and I love that about him.
That and we talk a lot about that servant leadership part.
Right at ten o'clock, we're going to introduce you to
a young lady from Greendale, Martin Luther, who's our Colonel
Electric superhero of the week who just gives back like
crazy to our community and he has that servant leadership heart. Ryan.

(04:30):
And look, we've talked about Creek football over the years,
and you always talk about this program and what a
great job coach par does to get these guys prepare it,
and he right away goes to everybody else and I
appreciate that, but man, he's got to understand the love
that people have that understand how to run a football
program for him is really high.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, And everything that you said at the start of
the segment here about him being a great leader of men,
he totally is. Like I've sat and observed him and
w watched him give post game speeches after wins and losses.
He didn't know I was standing there, but just you
could hear them because he was. He was preaching and
pushing these kids to be better men, to be better
community members, to work harder, to always believe in yourself

(05:13):
to never quit. And you know, all he always talks
about his staff and the kids and everyone else around him,
but at the end of the day this all eyes
are back to him because they're all looking for him
to provide the guidance.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
All right, now we're on the ship.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Let's sail and it's it's Oak Creek's going to miss him,
but I know he's not going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
He's going to be a community guy.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
He's still going to be around and he'll do anything
you can to help anybody anytime, because that's just who
he is.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
And and the ideal Scott over at at at Oak
Creek is going to get inundated with with applications for
this one.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
I'm telling you it is. I believe it's his advantageous.
It's a position that somebody's going to really really enjoy
and take off with the community set to explode this position.
You know that we have We just got a referendum
pass to put in a new swimming pool.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
But along with that they're going to fill the swimming.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Pool and build us a new weight room, which is
probably the last niche on what we need. We have
great facilities. Scott Holler is as supportive and as important
a man in my life as an ad. This job
is a good one, and I hope there's lines of
people coming there to get it.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
And I'll support the heck out of him. When they win,
I will be happy.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Are you going to be any part of the decision process,
the interview process, any of that or have they talked
to you about that part? Or would you if they asked?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Scott has mentioned it, They're not at that point. Scott's
been real respectful of the school still in the playoffs,
so he's tried to listen to people, but he's trying
to not get too far too fast. He wants to
let everybody have an opportunity to be in the position.
I'll help, But this ain't about me, you know. This
is about a great program that's going to go further.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
So when that guy's done, I'll show them we're all.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
I'll do all the little things that I've done all
those years, and I'll get that guy or girl what
the heck?

Speaker 6 (07:04):
You know, it's it's twenty twenty four. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
You know.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
I'll support whoever it is as far as I can,
and my goal is that we continue to win. I
want to go forward.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know where the laundry is.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
I do it.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
I'm still doing it right now.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Don't do my own at home, but I've been doing
jerseys and uniforms for the last week.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey, I did get a text from Ken Crowsey. He's
coming on at nine to twenty, so we'll talk to
him nine to twenty. Ken Crowsey from Uskigo, Matt Bergen
from from Catholic Memorial, Matt Hensler, and Bill Jacklin the
second part of this hour, but this first segment is
talking to Joel Parr and just saying thank you. You know,

(07:43):
I look as coaches, don't we don't get those words
a whole lot, right, There's not a lot of people
saying thank you. My favorite. By the way, and if
you do this to me. I had a coach on
years ago and we did it. We did a full
hour retirement with him, and during the first break he goes, Hey,
by the way, I'm not really retiring now. I'm gonna

(08:05):
head over to this school. I'm going to just be
an assistant coach, and I go Phil, Phil that guy,
I go Phil. Did you you know people are up
there crying on the phone. Coach. We're gonna miss you.
And you're not Yeah, I'm not really retiring, but thanks
for doing this for me. It's like being at my
own fruit funeral.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Now, I know how everybody like I didn't know you'd
like to be so much Forgivverern, I'm like, what ever,
coach that kid? It was awesome.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
So I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
And a lot of it comes down to coaches don't
know what else to do, you know, so all of
a sudden they get a moment of what am I
doing next? But I'm really interested in finding some other
things to do. You play golf or I don't golf much.
I did buy a half a hoof of a horse,
so I kind of in a horse racing. I really
enjoy that and kind of excited to kind of maybe
maybe in August go catch some Saratoga races or something

(08:52):
like that. Different than anything I've ever done, and I
haven't had an August off since nineteen ninety two when
I first started this gig with what was your first gear?
I was at baseball coach at Old Creek. From the
beginning of it all, I've always been at Old Creek.
That's the one thing for thirty two years of teaching.
My first gig was coaching third grade girls basketball at
Oak Creek High School. So all right, okay, great Creek District.

(09:13):
I've never been anywhere else. I haven't wanted to go
anywhere else. I've been blessed being here. I did go
do some baseball done ever seening Prairie, I should say that.
So I did do some baseball with Mallow. Yeah, coach
Mallachs and yeah, she and I were the ones who
combined into a co op with with Prairie and Lutheran.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, I was at Prairie. What a man. That is
one of the best human beings, great kind.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Francis Jordan grade he passed away, and he was if
I had him on the show, if I said, how
you doing, I could walk out to my car, I
could make a phone call, I could go get a
cup of coffee and come back, and then I'd be
able to get in and get in a word or two.
He was as entertaining a coach and a man as

(09:53):
a police officer. Again that servant leadership part. And he
gave back and he loved sports.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
You talked, you talk to and you have to talk
about the old school. When he went to school but
I've never been around a guy who cared more about kids.
I mean, he was all about kids beyond beyond even
a normal level. It was a great human being. I
love the heck out here. Yeah me too. Hey, what
part of coaching?

Speaker 1 (10:19):
And I think I know the answer to this, but
I'm gonna ask it anyway. What part of coaching at
ELK Creeker are you getting miss the most?

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Okay, the kids are number one, you know. I mean
I've watched these guys grow up. You know, I was
just thinking on the way here, though. You know, I'm
gonna miss It's just the time. The football is different
than any other sport. I've coached baseball, I've coached wrestling,
I've coached basketball. But when you get together with a
staff and you get them all together and your staff
is there, and you build that plan and you go

(10:48):
forward and you put that plan together in a week,
it's just an amazing thing.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
And I'm gonna miss my just time with my staff.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
A guy like Steve Lutnik, who just works so hard
and gives all that time to this moves on coach habo.

Speaker 8 (11:01):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
And we talked about guys I've had past, like a
guy like a coach Eric Kitsky, who I played, and
I've had really young coming through. I'm gonna miss my guys.
And and uh, the games are great. You know, we
should have won a few more than we did. I
thought we were pretty good. I end up forty seven
and twenty three.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
We weren't.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
We weren't bad, you know.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
And and and I always I believe I could have
done a little better at certain spots, but I do
believe that my assistance always gave everything they always had.
And uh, the friendships I made with those guys, and uh,
like I said, a lot of them my former players
have come and coach, that makes you pretty dang proud.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Were you go to games next year? You think, yeah, yes,
Oak Creek games or other games or a combination.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
Yeah, it's good question. You know, I don't know, you know, baby,
maybe I'm being watching my horse. Really, I mean, yeah, this.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Is real and and this is maybe And I don't
know if you want to answer this. Did you know
going into this year that this would be your last?

Speaker 5 (11:59):
No, But here's one thing. It's really hard to say
I'm done. And obviously that's that's that's pretty basic. But
you know what's hard is this? So last year I
had a great group of kids coming through and I
was thinking maybe I should maybe I should have been
done last year. And then you kind of you kind
of go forward. Then you got a couple of kids
that are working so hard. I watched this Kevin woo

(12:20):
Jahowski do so many things in the classroom to give
himself an opportunity. And I watched the guys like Noah
Hopkins change.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Who they were.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
I watched these boys grow up in front of me.
And next thing, I know, it's too late. I couldn't
step down. I'm already into this thing. It's hard to
give up because for a football coach, everybody goes, what
are you gonna.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Do with your time?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Well, if you aren't in and going by January, which
January's too late, January is too late, you're gone and
you're you're in it. So as soon as I got there,
I'm in the January, I'm in right. So you know,
I did not know I was gonna give it done,
but I knew that if I was gonna do it,
I gotta do it quick.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know, It's interesting when when Ryan took the job
at Muskigo and and uh, he was the head football
coach at Economwalk and I said, man, are you going
to miss it? He goes, yeah, I'm gonn miss it.
But now I have my focus on a lot of
programs and in this community. You know this is different
for you, right. He's look, the sports programs at Muschigo

(13:17):
are flying pretty high, right, And he's done a great
job over there with his new facility, the indoor facility.
So he's been and pleus. He likes to fish and
hunt and Bill Dolfin and he's got daughters playing hockey
at sports and so he had all that from when
I retired from coaching basketball, I made it known that
that was my last year and we want to stay championship.

(13:39):
So it was perfect right cutting that down, See you later, audios.
There was a couple of players on that team, and
one in particular name Joey Imichis, who was a junior
and he led the state and three point shooting. He
mad a great kid, smart, good basketball player, great, great student, right,
all of that, and he and in the locker room

(14:01):
when we won state, I had tears come down. He
had tears coming down. He said, don't leave me, And
I said, Joey I'm not going anywhere. I'm still going
to be here. I'll be around. He's now, I believe
a senior at MS. So week, I haven't talked to
him in a bit, but I came to a couple
of games. But it was different, right, I wasn't with
these guys every day. My wife did say, I thought

(14:24):
you'd be home a little bit more. I said, well,
I'm still doing stuff and I get asked to come out.
You're gonna be You're gonna get asked to come out
to different practices to help us with this. And your
wife is going to think you're gonna be home a lot,
so you might want to give her a heads up.
But maybe I'm not gonna be home as much. Hey, Ryan,
and when you if you're in Scott Holler's shoes, right,

(14:47):
and one day it'll happen. One day it's going to
happen at a place like Musquigo that you're going to
have to start feeling calls on people. There's going to
be some big named play high school coaches that are
going to apply for his job at ol Creek.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
They should I if I was in the game, I would, Yeah,
it's a They have.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Done a great job.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
And the cool part about this whole process is is
if you're an aspiring coach that wants to take over
a high school program, there's no better place than Old Creek, Okay,
because the foundation that's there because of the hard work
of this gentleman in a studio with us and his
staff and all the community connections and and you know

(15:29):
he was talking about you were talking about the process
with Scott and what to do. I think the biggest
piece I would do is I would lean on coach
here to cross check anybody that's coming in, use all
of your connections, because he's got a ton of them,
and build that Oak Creek family to figure out who
are these candidates really about, who are they as people?
Will they fit our culture, will they fit our community,

(15:51):
and will they be able to build upon this program
Versus watching another school in my past where a coach
may have laughed they hired the wrong person, came in
and ripped the whole thing down and burned everything that
had anything to do with the exiting coach. That's not
what you want to do here, and you want to
build up from the foundation that has been laid.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Look at you and you're smiling, and you understand that
that the next coach is going to do things differently
than you did. But the culture, like Ryan talked about,
I wouldn't touch that. When I go to Oak Creek
football games, man, it is it's an event, right, it
is that everybody comes out, that the student sections filled.

(16:32):
The people that I talked to, parents whose kids played
in the program six years ago. They don't have a
dog in the fight anymore, but they do because it's
oh Creek football. And I think that that that's really
good knowledge. You would agree with the idea of not
trying to tear this thing down.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
I've been a part of a program that was rolling
really well. I mean because I have been.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
I've been on a football coaching staff since ninety seven, right,
and things were going pretty good. And then we had
another coach come in after Coach Cook, and one of
the first things that coach made a statement was, uh,
was kind of derogatory to the staff before. And I
don't think he realized that most of those kids sitting
there loved the coach before. And you got to really
watch that. You gotta you know, I'm not saying this

(17:13):
new coach needs to respect me. You know, but just
know the kids, get to know the kids, and don't
don't burn something down that might help you get to
where you need to be.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, that's go ahead and building off what he just
said is if they The only thing that Scott Holler
could mess up here, in my opinion, is not doing
a process. I think you got to do it because
even if you've got guys in house that are on
his staff that are great human beings and have done
everything right, they will shine through as you work through

(17:42):
the process and will give you peace of mind at
the end of the end of the day. And you're
going to bring in guys from the college college game.
Guys are gonna come back and apply for this. They're gonna,
you know, do this song and dance if you will.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
And you'll and Joel, there's no chance that Scott Holler
is not going to go through this process. He he
you know what, he's really good and he's gonna good.
He understands that this hire is a very important hire.
There's you know, you guys are moving conferences.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Right well, right now, the entire Oak Creek is moving
in every sport, but football football is still in this
Southeastern Conference and that's me said. We can talk about later.
But there are multiple drawings of new realignment coming through
football that.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
Will probably lead towards moving. So it's very probable possible
to problem.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
So the guys who are calling me saying that he's
leaving because he's afraid of the Classic eight, that's not Yeah,
yeah football, Now.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Nobody I played the Classic Gate twice? Is y're to
kind of kick that?

Speaker 5 (18:41):
But well, well I can't say enough about the Classic Gate,
and we can talk about that as it goes on.
But what they're doing, the way they do things, and
just having just having great programs together and all the
things going on. One thing I wanted to touch on about,
just in real quick is one of the hardest things
is is when you make a decision like this, all
the other people affected, all myssistant coaches now got it.
They're they're all thrown up for grabs, And that was

(19:03):
so hard. I looked those guys in the eyes and
the tell them that made it difficult because they're special.
But you don't think, you know, people don't think about
everybody else's in this wagon.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Now that you just.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, he's not lying, that's very real.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
Yeah, it was kind of hard to look at him.
You know, jeez.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
You know there's some special dudes there and if somebody
comes when somebody comes in, they're going to want to
take a look at every one of those guys. But
I think that coach needs to have the ability to
put his people in his place. That has to be
their opportunity. Well, how much I love those guys, that's
got to be a part of the deal.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, I as soon as your Facebook post went out,
Joe Cook called Hubba and said, Hey, I got an
apartment in Paradise, Texas, come on.

Speaker 8 (19:43):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now would be that now would be the time? Good
he is? I talked to it. Well, you know what
Joe called him last time he was on the air
with this couple weeks ago, and he said he is
a football savant. That's who Hubbe is. He knew more
about football when I coached him as a freshman at
Dominican than I did. He used to yell at me
like cra yelling, what do you run the ball? Coach?
Run the ball? And I'm like, I got you, how

(20:05):
about I got you? Okay, now throw the coach Keith there?

Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:10):
And Cook And then Cook had we never nobody at
Dominican got many wins except coach Cook. But hey, let's
get to a break, guys, and and Joel I, I
I wanted you to know that the reason we brought
you in today was to one say congratulations and just
thank you for the job that you've done in the
Oa Creek community and with this football program and the

(20:32):
legacy that you and your staff have left, it's going
to be there for a long time. We're going to
get to a break. Ken Crousey is going to join us,
and then Matt Bergen, both of them and in the
next segment, and we'll talk some level four coming up,
level four football. And it came quick, came did you
go to a game last night?

Speaker 7 (20:50):
No?

Speaker 5 (20:50):
I watched, I got you watched on TV Skiga game
and then I flipped back the sat Cat's game too,
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Game, that's right. I forget you're a Saint Cat bread
Mighty Mighty Angels, best best away Jim ever to coach it. Yes,
I love the pit. Yeah, oh, I loved I love it.
Made me feel like I don't know what Indiana high
school basketball is, but that's what I always felt. Let's
get to a break. We will talk to Ken Crousey

(21:16):
coming up along with Matt Bergen, and then we will uh,
we'll talk to some some coaches that are gonna play
against each other too, you know, Hensler's joining us, and
we'll talk some Slinger football as well. This is the
Varsity Blitz High School Sports Show presented by your local
Pick and Safe Stores on Fox Sports nine twenty and
your iHeart Radio App. Welcome back to the Varsity Blitz

(21:37):
High School Sports Show, presented by your local Pick and
Save Stores on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeart
Radio App. Coming from the Divan to Jordansen he did
at Cooling Studios. I'm Mike Becgivern alongside Ryan McMillan and
Joel Park. Joel is the retired man I gotta say
that now, the retired former head football coach at O Creek.

(21:58):
We're now joined by Kenroy Man. Mustigo gets another win
last night, coach, Congratulations, good win.

Speaker 9 (22:07):
Oh, thanks for having the show on. It's awesome, Coach.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I gotta tell you, Matt, you know, a few weeks ago,
I was getting text messages, Uh, the king is dead.
Matt mostigosaid, this is not their year. And now everybody's
looking at for shiny new objects. So look at Condon, luck,
look at Nina, and look at all these and here
here's mistigo.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
You guys are are playing level four, get a chance
to play against mcgonago and and coach, I gotta I
gotta ask you the turnaround from mid season to to now. Defensively,
you guys have obviously been playing really well all season. Offense,
you had some injuries. Has that been what? What? What

(22:50):
the change has been?

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Yeah, I'm gonna be really honest. You know we were
three and all. We beat Nina, Oh Creek obviously, Joel,
you guys have a great team.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
That was a big win.

Speaker 9 (22:59):
We two Pewaukee's really good. They got a couple of
D one kids, and we just had this. In my
thirty years, we've never had it this. With run of injuries,
we ended up in the airwead game five brand new starters,
not one, not two, not three, five brand news starters.
On offense, we lost both our guards, we lost Lavish,
our tight end, and one of our tackles, and then

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the fine week we got one started back and then
we lost another tackle. So we had just a two
game stretch where it was brutal from an injury standpoint,
But what was great is the kids stayed positive, the
coaches stayed positive, We were improving. This score might not
reflected it, but you know, the guys that were playing
and the kids had got opportunities, got better. And then
we got a couple of guys back and we'd beat

(23:43):
Calveruran really nice. And then o Kind obviously had a
really nice team this year, and then we got Jack back,
and then we've just been on this run and we've
only got one starter still out, but we've got a
sophomore and start the last five six games in this spot.
And now he's growing, he's getting better, and you know,
so it's been a fantastic and you know, we've set
the bar so high that sometimes everybody gets kind of crazy.

(24:04):
We lose a couple of games, and I know it's tough,
but it's life. You know, sometimes they don't go your
way and sometimes you can't control things, but you just
control your attitude and your positivity. And I think it's
players and coaches we did that and it's really showing.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
It is And I can tell you that you guys
going up to Nina and beating them twenty one seven,
and I know it was a fourteen to seven game
for a long time. That's a really good football program.
And for them to beat Kimberly and then you know
to see look number four, Miski, you got a four
seed and we're getting another home game. We're getting They

(24:41):
had to be feeling pretty good about that, and then
you guys come in and beat them twenty one seven.
I think it's just it shows the strength of your
staff and your team and your program and certainly this
conference that you know, we talk about the conference a lot.
And last week Ryan, you said, you know the tough
heart is now we started eating our own right, We

(25:01):
started knocking each other out. And here's another matchup. If
if people that are high school football fans, if you
ask them, give me one game that you want to
get to. The Musquigo mcguanaco game is always near the
top of the list. And now you get a chance
to play. Do you guys know where you're playing, by.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
The way, Yeah, we'll be at West Alis.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
And that's an old that's an old home game for
coach crowsey.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Is and coach Lokay.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, crowds, you get to go home. You know where
the locker rooms.

Speaker 9 (25:32):
Are you know all that right, Yeah, it's pretty pretty special.
I know, the last couple of years, coach O'Casey and
he it's we we've kind of known that maybe there's
a chance the final four would be at West Dallas,
and so it was one of our goals to do
that just from a sentimental point. And you know, we
had such a great experience in Westallis. I was head
coach of eleven years, grew up there. Coach Ocasey grew

(25:53):
up there. I coached Coast Okazy at West Ellis Central,
So you know, we we It's a lot of people
don't know that, but he was one of my former players,
and you know, we hung together throughout his college times
and I was able to get him to come out
here to Mestigo and he's just done an incredible job
as you you can. As you mentioned, our defense has
been just outstanding since he's taken over, and so it's
pretty pretty neat for us. You know, West Ellis is,

(26:15):
like Moschigo, is a very close knit town and there's
a lot of people that still live there. There's a
lot of former players and parents and families who are
always excited to see Mimskigo do well. I think West
Ellas people feel like Moschigos. They're successfult bit of West Elis.
So we're happy to be kind of back at home.
He could sort of say, so, it's it's pretty gonna
be very special, and I think the same chain crew

(26:37):
is still working there and some people reach out to me.
I think it's going to be hopefully a big crowd
and really exciting.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
This should be a huge crowd, and you know, coach
Keanevak'll he'll be ready, he will have his boys ready
and they'll be foaming at the amouth to come on
that first kickoff, and it's going to be a really
good game. I appreciate your time, coach, and thank you
so much much. Good luck Friday night at West Dallas
against Mgwanago for a chance to get up to state.

(27:06):
Thank you again, and and uh we may be reaching
out next Saturday, coach.

Speaker 9 (27:11):
I would love that. Uh, you know, we really appreciate
you giving us on a show and getting us recognition
here in Mestigo. I hope, I hope I'm talking to
you and Ryan next week. That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
You got it. That's Ken Crowsey that had football coach
at Muskego love that it's gonna be a heck of
a game.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
He coach good luck is Joe part from Oak Creek
and the oh.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I think we lost him? Well that's okay, sorry about that.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Well, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
This is one guy who's not surprised that they're making
a run. We played them twice and their defensive front
is as strong as there is. He talked about coach Lukas.
Their entire coaching staff brings such energy. You watch them
on the sidelines, they fly up and down, they're all
they're all reflective of coach Crowsey.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
Uh, the way he does things.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
When you play Meschigo, you walk away and press with
so much more than just a football team. But man,
you know, we played them week two after they had
played Nina and they were fully loaded and you could
tell that team was special and just watching the losses
they had physically to those injuries, it's tough for anybody
to come back from. But when we hit them again
in the playoffs, they were they were back to full

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load and they're they're good football.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah they are. Hey. We are now joined by an
assistant coach at Catholic Memorial also the athletic director at
Catholic Memorial, and I reached out to him earlier today
because I had to have him on. I was watching
that game last night and uh, you know, with they look,
I didn't. I missed the turnover and Spencer showed me,

(28:37):
uh that the the video on it. But I was
watching live when when they're quarterback with no timeouts ran
in and I was yelling no, no, no, and I
was thinking, you better get in the in the end
zone because if not, the game is over. Matt Bergen, Man,
how'd you sleep last night? By the way, Coach, Well.

Speaker 10 (28:57):
Wet pretty good, you know. Coach Young, I think he
went over to his daughter's house and uh, you know,
had had one or two beers, went to bed, and
he was back at school this morning. I had a
voicemail at five twelve am. He was already off the
rounding around for Wisconsin Lutheran tape. So he just he's
just pumped up to be able to practice for another week.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Coach has two weeks in a row with endings like this,
and you know, I I guess the moral of the story.
If you have Kathleen Memorial down, you bet you better.
You better finish him, because if you don't finish them,
they've got a chance. That that play where you guys
got to turnover. Coach, the quarterback from mon horrible Barneville

(29:40):
is going to remember that play in a bad way
for the rest of his life. I mean, I guess
he thought that there was an offside or you know
there was a whistle, because he just stood and your
guys were smart enough to hit him and take the
ball and then get to get in the end zone. Coach,
I don't know with two minutes ago, if you thought
that that was going to happen, if you guys had
any sho at that point. But man, in typical this

(30:02):
team fashion, there is no quit in those boys.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
No, there's no quit.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
You know, lots of prayers on the sideline, great players,
great coaches.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
You know m J.

Speaker 10 (30:15):
Mitchell, the guy who really makes us pick the kid
was phenomenal again last night, really at times just putting
the team on his back. A lot of people are
looking at that fumble, and you know that's what they're
going to talk about. But you know, that quarterback who
had only thrown two picks all year through three picks
in the first quarter and we we we that was

(30:37):
the best team we faced all year, no question about it.
That's their dream team. And you know, we were a
lot of people said there was no reasons to you
make sure they have been a one seed this year.
And you know, coach Young and his staff, they do
such a good job of preparing these guys every week,
and they've gotten better every week. They're getting healthy. MJ's

(30:58):
knee is almost back to one hundred percent, and so
just really fortunate. They have a really great group of
coaches and a really great group of players.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Hey, coach, that last play, Look, I'm thinking, if I'm
coaching him, I'm saying, look, we've got time for two
maybe three plays. Don't don't uh, don't get caught, don't
get sacked, you know, throw the ball away. And when
he took off run, and I'm sitting in my office
at my house yelling no, no, no, no, all right, yeah,

(31:29):
good job, well done, Young Pat. Were you feeling the
same way, Well I was.

Speaker 10 (31:35):
I was just I was standing behind the players. I
was saying my prayers, and you know, the prayers are
answered two weeks in a row. Coach Rice, our offensive coordinator,
who Ryan knows he he's done a really good job.
He had called Coach Young said, you got to have
two plays called. So they had two plays called in
the huddle with whatever was left sixteen seconds or whatever.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
And so if them wouldn't have.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Got in, we had no timeouts.

Speaker 10 (32:02):
They were they were going to line up and run
another play. And you know, the biggest thing is we've
lost a lot of heartbreaking games in the past. Yes,
and one thing that we really won't allow happen is
we got to make sure the ball is in our
best players hands when it matters the most. And so
you know, give it up to the offense and MJ
and all those guys just a terrific job. And now

(32:24):
they're totally laser focused on an old rivalry for us
in Wisconsin Lutheran. We'll be played, We'll be playing at
the great facilities at Muskego High School.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
You know, if Muskigo was running a little bit better
from the athletic director standpoint, then I'd be excited about that.
But I don't know. I'm sure Ryan is gonna make
sure that you guys have everything you need. I saw
Wisconsin Lutheran earlier. You're up close and personal play grafting
and boy I'll tell you what did That's a scary group.

(32:57):
They have got some athletes on that team, and I
know that Joel Radu is going to have them completely
ready to go. It's gonna be a good game.

Speaker 10 (33:06):
Yeah, they got a bunch of monsters. They're huge, they
look like they're about twenty Some of these guys look
like they're about twenty four years old. But they are
going to present a lot of problems with that split
back veer. But you know, our coaches have seen it before.
It's a matter of our defense, you know, being Alrigi's
read blocks, stay flat, Simon sound football is what's gonna
what's gonna win on Friday.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
You got a couple of guys that are there on
a large size too that that.

Speaker 10 (33:34):
Yeah, we're a small school and we're just trying to
do the best.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Okay, small regional, small regional high school that you know,
just hopes to get.

Speaker 10 (33:42):
We're a region, we're a small regional Catholic high school
and we're just very fortunate to be where we're at.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, and thank goodness, that kid from Notre David, he's
got those sides to him. I met him. That kid
is the size of a mountain, so you'll be okay
on that side. Hey boy, Matthew, thank you man. I
appreciate all the time that you give to me in
this show. And and if people want to go out
and see that one at Musquigo High School, you know

(34:09):
they'll be completely prepared, ready to make it an easy
parking and and everything's gonna be perfect, and the food
will be hot and good and and you guys.

Speaker 10 (34:19):
There, maybe they'll even it might even be fireworks at halftime.
McMillan said, So he's laughing, he's were fired up.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
He's taken notes so early.

Speaker 10 (34:28):
On on just a game, get your tickets on just
a game.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
There it is he is, Matt Berger. Thank you so much. Coach.
Tell Bill Young, I say, hello.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
All right, guys.

Speaker 8 (34:38):
Later you got it.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
We're gonna get to a break. The other side of
the break, we'll continue. We're going to talk with Matt
Hensler and uh we'll talk to Bill Jacquelin. A couple
of guys are going to face off next week. This
is the Varsity Plitz High School Sports Show, presented by
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twenty and your iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to the Varsity
Plitz High School Sport show presented by your local Picking

(35:02):
Safe Stores on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeartRadio
app coming live from the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and
Cooling Studios. I'm Mike mcgiver alongside Ryan McMillan, the athletic
director at Muskigo and Joe Park recently retired. Had football
coach recently like forty eight hours or something from Oak Creek.

(35:22):
You know, it's kind of tradition this time of year
to keep reaching out to coach Hensler and Badger. And
I don't know if he thinks it's good luck, char
but he keeps coming on, so I love it. We
are now joined by the head football coach defending state
champion Late Geneva Badger. They're playing against Slinger on Friday.
Coach Hensler, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
I'm doing pretty good this morning. How are you, guys?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Good? Nice win against Milton last night forty twenty two. Hey,
do you know yet the location for that game against Slinger?

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (35:54):
We're at Walkshall West on Friday.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, Walkshall West on Friday night against Slinger, an opponent
that that you know pretty well. You guys played them
earlier in the year.

Speaker 7 (36:05):
Yeah, it's uh. I coached there twenty some years ago,
twenty five or twenty six years ago, and so I
still know a lot of the guys there.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
And the game Week two, you.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
Know, our first game against those guys. It was great
going back and as I left, we were just kind
of talking to some of their coaches and their team
doctor and just said, hey, UH want to be would
to be neat if we met up in around three
or four and and here we are ten weeks later
and kind of getting our wish well.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
And when you look at at uh at your schedule, coach,
you guys started zero one and and you've run eleven
in a row. There, they're they're undefeated. And I know
that we're going to talk to Bill Jacquelin in a
few minutes. I know he's he's uh. He loves this
group of kids, and and this quarterback can spend it
a little bit. And defensively, I thought they looked really

(36:57):
good last night against against Homestead. You got a lot
of respect for Bill and in that program and and
this team.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah, they.

Speaker 7 (37:07):
We there's a reason why we wanted to play them,
because they're they're a heck of a program, and and
this version of their program this year, they are a
heck of a team. And and Bill and his staff
they do a great job. And it's one of those
games where you know it's going to be a battle,
and you know it's going to be hard fought, but
you still want to play it just because you have

(37:29):
so much respect for their staff and their kids. And
the first game was great. I bet the second game
is going to be great, But yeah, it's we have
a lot of respect for those guys. So games like
this are a lot of fun when you want to
beat somebody, but it's more like, you know, you want
to beat your brother, that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Hey, any surprise, I know. Look, as coaches, we don't
we don't we don't look ahead, but we work ahead.
So you're looking at the other side of the bracket,
Rice like beat New Richman, West of Peer beat Caacanas.
So the two against the three and on your side
it's one v one one verse one. Uh did you
do you even look at that other side at all?

(38:12):
Or are you just completely focused on Slinger at this point?

Speaker 7 (38:16):
Well, I think it's throughout the course of the year,
you kind of look at it, but it can't really
affect you too much. Yeah, we we have so much
work to do to get prepped for slingers, so we
can't really spend too much of our time. It's more
of a novel interest in the other side of the bracket.
And it's hard because high school sport's a little different

(38:37):
than you know, say college or national stuff, where so
many people are traveling and playing so many other teams.
It's hard to get a read on what's going on
up north. You just don't know. You don't know, you know,
are there teams just absolutely stacked this year.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Or are they is it down? Are we down?

Speaker 7 (38:54):
You know, kind of on the southern part of the state,
So you don't know. It's just I kind of thought
done stats that that west of Pier. I thought they'd
be pretty good, and we kind of had one eye
on them getting out of that side of the bracket.
But Rice lakes a heck of a program Kakana on Richmond.

(39:15):
Those guys have been in that situation a lot. So yeah,
you look at it, but you can't really spend too
much time on it.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Hey, Joel, These two teams played the second week of
the year. It was thirty five thirty three was the final.
I had the over in that one, so that worked
out well for me. But so early in the season.
Both teams are different now than they were back then.
But there's a lot I think you can gain, especially
when you're playing against an offense like Lake Geneva Badger,

(39:44):
there are some certainties. So Slinger, I think can can
look at what they did against them, what worked, what
didn't work. Slinger might be totally different, and they're not
gonna be totally different, but there's gonna be different pieces
than they were, you know nine weeks ago.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
Well, hey, coach Joe Parr here, good to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Thank congratulations on a great career.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Thanks, it's really awesome. You know, to talk about Badger,
Badger historically gets better as they go. You know, you
watch them two years ago, two or three years ago,
we caught them in the playoffs in the first round,
and you watch their film from the beginning year to
the end of the year. Yeah, they're running, they're running
Badger's offense, but they get better and better and better.
So yeah, Slinger might do some things, but coach gets

(40:26):
these guys going as well as they can.

Speaker 6 (40:28):
Hey, coaches right lakes still running the wishbone up there.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah, we could have a.

Speaker 6 (40:33):
Wishbone state champions.

Speaker 7 (40:34):
Oh man, man, don't you'll miss it.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, there'll be three passes. Will start calling him air
Hensler or something. I love that. When you look at
the Slinger team now compared to what they were nine
ten weeks ago, Uh, they're very similar, but they have
some different pieces, right.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
Yeah, they're you know, they've evolved like great teams do.
And like I said before, their coaching staff is fantastic
and their kids are into it. So yeah, they they've evolved.
We'll we'll take a deep dive dive into the film
here in a little bit, but uh, they've evolved. I
guess the like the word that just comes in my
mind is crisp. They've just gotten better, you know what

(41:17):
I mean. And things are smoother and they're timing and
all those kinds of things. So they're they're just it's
the same version, it's just better.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Hey, I've got we've got Bill Jacquelin on hold. Is
there anything you want me to find out? You want
me to get his game plan when we get him
on the air or anything. Like that.

Speaker 7 (41:35):
Well, I think you should mention that I mentioned that
we're gonna throw the ball buck.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah. You know what first thing I'll tell Coach Jacqueline
is you, uh, you've been stashing a sophomore quarterback who's
six three and got a big arm.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna sling it. There's gonna be
balls everywhere. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Wait, I will let him know, Hey, coach, thank you
so much for a couple of minutes. And you know,
the drill might be giving you a text on uh
next week and and uh, well done man. This this
is awesome to see late Geneva Badger still playing. And
you know, after you guys win to stay championship, everybody's
that's the big game for them, that's super Bowl to

(42:15):
get a chance at Badger. And you guys have done
awfully well this year.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
Yeah, I appreciate it. We knew the target would be
on our back, but that's okay. It comes with the territory,
no doubt.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Have a good weekend and and get after it. I'm
sure you guys will be watching a lot of film
and I'll let coach Jacqueline know how many times you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Throw that ball perfect. Thanks you guys, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
You got it. Thanks Coach Man. I didn't and I
knew that he had coached out at Swinger, but av
it's to see saying that some of the same people
and to have it at Walkshaw West, that that that's
about where we were talking during the breakout. Maybe Kettle Morainer,
o'conom walk, but yeah, yeah, Wakshaw West would be great.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Walks So West good spot for him. I mean, solid facility.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
I mean, I just think there are those two units
are gonna bring more people than Walk to West can hold.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
I think so too.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
That's why I thought maybe it'd get moved O'Connor Macker
or Arrowhead or something like that, because that those two
communities will travel. I mean, sure, two good people and
coach Jacqueline and coach Endler though too, like real people.
You got real answers out of him, and you'll get
real answers out of the next guy.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Well let's let's let's find out we're now joined by
Bill Jacklin head coach had Slinger. Hey, coach, I don't
know if you heard that, but Henzeler told us to
tell you that he stashed a sophomore quarterback. They're gonna
sling the ball all over the field next week.

Speaker 11 (43:33):
I don't way better than that.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Hey, coach, Oh you did that's awesome? Hey, hey not.
I'm watching your game last night online, going back and
forth to get seventeen to seven. Think middle of the
fourth quarter. I think, okay, I can it looks like
Slingers got this one. I'm gonna move away. And I
get a text for my son in law who's at

(43:57):
the game, said, slinger just blocked out a goal and
beat Homestead. So I missed the last five six minutes?
Did they How much time was left when they lined
up to field goal to tie the game?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (44:12):
Like single digits? Maybe four seconds?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
And how far was the field goal from.

Speaker 11 (44:18):
Thirty yarder?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
H how I bet. I bet your heart was pound
a little bit at that point.

Speaker 11 (44:24):
Coach, Well, the funny part is on Thursday we were like, hey,
you know what, we probably should put some tall kids in. Well,
if we have to block a field goal to end
the game, this is Thursday. So I took our sophomore
basketball player and another kid. I have a foreign change student,
but he is then he had to go to some
kind of convention, so he wasn't there. He's like a
high jumper. So I put two really tall kids in

(44:47):
the middle, the middle linebacker and said, hey, this jump
as high as you can. We practiced that on Thursday,
and I know that we're gonna use it on Friday.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
That's a real answer right there. I told you were
getting real answers.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Was it the Ford Exchange student? Did you throw him
in there as well?

Speaker 11 (45:06):
I was going to he's gone here. He's six five too.
He's a great kid. He's really fast. He can't catch
the ball real well, but he's loving this. But he
had he wasn't there, he would have been been on that.
But we had another kid of sophomore basketball player that
plays football, and he made a big play. I always
tell these kids, you never know when, like the season

(45:27):
so long and there's so many plays, and this kid
gets in on one play and he makes a giant
play that just you know, makes your season. It's such
a little snippet of what the whole season's about. But
you never know when your time is called. And uh,
he did a great job.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Does he not play like he's not a starter on
an offensive defense?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
No?

Speaker 11 (45:50):
He Uh he was injured to start the year. He
got injured from basketball the summer league or with a
knee injury, so he didn't play the first like four
or five weeks of the season. So he's not JV.
We have a lot of depth. He's a great kid,
very mature kid, and uh, it just what we have
of going on right now. You know, he's just not

(46:12):
quite there, but I expect big things from next year.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Coach.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
You just got to tell Coach Levine to dial back
that basketball as you're getting closer to the football season.

Speaker 11 (46:21):
YEA, yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, he's not doing that. There's no chance he's doing that. Hey,
we had talked about playing at Wakshaw West and one
of the concerns that Ryan brought up, and I agree
with him, is the entire community. Slinger is going to
be there, the entire community of Lake Geneva, Badger's going
to be there. I'm hoping that there's enough space out
there for everybody.

Speaker 11 (46:42):
Yeah, you know, like those those those things I look
at and out of my control, but that'd be nice
if you know, you get a lot of people that come
to our game. I'm sure there will be support. Is
like unlike any place I I coach at a special place,
I'll say that. And it's just I can't say enough
our community and how they supported me in the last year,

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just my family and all things going on, and and
just our whole football team is just amazing. Like I
think Chase Leverance, that Journal Sentinel Player of the Year whatever,
it's just a voting thing, but he had almost ninety
thousand votes, So I'm like, that just tells you what
the community is about.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
How many how many times did you vote?

Speaker 11 (47:23):
I did probably a couple of dozen.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (47:26):
Good.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Good.

Speaker 11 (47:28):
I think I had my fourth graders one time voting.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna take this class period. We're
gonna teach you how to vote. You see, that's how
you can look at look at you. Yes, I absolutely
love that. Hey, coach, we we had talked a little
bit about what late Geneva Badger is gonna do. They're
gonna run what they run. You know, they'll put in

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a couple of different wrinkles, but you kind of know
what you're gonna get into when it comes to trying
to defend them. Defensively, I think they played really well
most of the year. They've given up some points. But defensively,
I think they've really kind of hit their stride. It's
a different team than it was nine ten weeks ago.
But offensively you kind of know what you're getting.

Speaker 11 (48:14):
Well you know the scheme, but you don't know, but
the little nuances are different. That's that's you know, things
change here. We've changed quite a bit, you know. You
just you keep adding and I you know, same with them.
And they're a tough offensive to defend. And you know,
the biggest thing is cant one negative play in a

(48:34):
series that helps you and then that you can kind
of survive and maybe get them off the field, you know.
And it's just, uh, I don't know, it's gonna be
a tough battle. It's gonna be very physical.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
Coach, just don't defend them and just outscore them. That's right.
I don't even practice defense.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Don't just practice and I don't know jicks field goals.
But get those tall guys in there again and figure
out yeah hundred per set.

Speaker 11 (49:01):
Thank them all first last time and we almost lost
the whole first quarter. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
There it is. He is Bill Jacquelin, head football coach
at Slinger. They play against Uh, they play against Lake
Geneva Badger at Walkshaw West Friday night at seven o'clock.
And if you want to go out, and there's a
number of really good games in this area and that's
one of them, but get your tickets a little bit early. Hey, coach,
thanks a lot for a couple of minutes your time.
Good luck next week.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I appreciate.

Speaker 11 (49:28):
I love you guys. Do great job.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Thank you, Bill, good look coach. Hey Joe, thanks a
lot for coming in. Brother. You know the respect that
I have for you and coach Coach McMillan has for
you and everybody in the football community. Hopefully you really
get into a horse race. You're not going to try
to be a jockey or good jockey. There you go.

(49:52):
Good luck with with all of it. If there's anything
you need for me, you know I'm a phone call away. Brother.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
Thank you. This was pretty special.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
I I'm overwhelmed and probably not deserve it, but I
will tell you this. Uh, I couldn't have asked for
a better place to be, couldn't have asked for better
people to be around.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
And Uh, if you'd have.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
Told me when I went to college that I got
to be the head coach at Olk Creek High School
a football team. I'd have said, I'd have taken in
a second. And uh, my kids all played for me.
My wife taught there and retired from there as well.
I'm as blessed as there is. So thank you so
of that.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
It's good to see your coach, Ryan, thank you, good luck,
got it. Put hey, put on a good show for
those boys out you know on Friday. I know that
your your staff. You guys have to do this every year, right,
Is it mandatory?

Speaker 4 (50:39):
No, they're they uh full of discolos or a lot
of other area schools got asked to do it and
whatever reason they didn't do it, and they called me
and I said.

Speaker 6 (50:49):
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Well we're there.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
You'll be at the football I will.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
I will start the Catholic Memorial game at our place
and then Jet and well, we're probably gonna the game
time probably will slide up just slightly for the Whisco
game just because of our administration, and people will be
caught in the middle there a little bit. But I
think that's a fair reason, you know, just like yeah,

(51:14):
I would guess six thirty. We're not gonna go too
much before that, and then just be able to make
sure that we treat our our guests appropriately and get
everything started and everything's rolling and good, and then get
over to the glorious West Alice Complex house that Ken built.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Man, good luck finding a place to park by the
time you get there, brother, I'll just drive.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Right to the front. They got spotful.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Oh Man, that your nickname should be big Time.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
I'll have someone drive me and just drop me.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
That's what you were asking me. I didn't understand you
want me to be your driver. I'll do that for you.
I will do that for you, Ryan, Thank you so much,
coach again, congratulations on a great career at oh Creek.

Speaker 6 (51:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
You got it. We're gonna get to a break other
side of the break second hour today. We're gonna introduce
you to our kernel electric superhero the weekend then you
I love this. I've got the three eighth grade aa
YFL champion coaches coming in. I've got an assistant coach
for Franklin coming, head coach from Toastal Blazers, head coach
from Berlin West. All games played at ol Creek, by
the way, wonderful man and big crowds to four people. Unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (52:19):
That game yeah, really really important.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Well, I thank the aa YFL for for sponsoring what
we do on this show and they've been a really
good partner for us. And we'll talk to those coaches
at around ten twenty. This is the Varsity Blitz High
School Sports Show presented by your local Pick and Safe
Stores on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeartRadio App.
Welcome back to the Varsity Blitz High School Sports Show
presented by your local Pick and Saved Stores on Fox

(52:44):
Sports nine twenty and your iHeartRadio app. Coming live from
the Donovan and Jorgansen Heating and Cooling Studios. So I
love doing the current Electric Superhero of the Week segment.
I just do and and it doesn't always have to
be involved in sports. But for new listeners to this show,
we talked to principals and administrators at different high schools

(53:05):
throughout our area and I ask them these questions, I
need somebody who does great work in the classroom, and
they go, yeah, we got a lot of those. Somebody
who's very active in the school. We have a few
of those. And somebody that has that servant leadership hard
and gives back to our community. And what's happened over
the last couple of years. In the beginning, I'd have
to make all the calls, and now I'm starting to

(53:26):
get calls from people nominating people to be our current
Electric Superhero of the week. And that's what happened today.
And I can tell you that Reese Tail from Greendale
Martin Luther has done a really great job at Martin Luther.
And there's a special place in my heart for that
school because at my last coaching four years was at

(53:48):
Greendale Martin Luther with Coach Wallersheim. And any chance that
I get to highlight, promote and celebrate somebody from that school,
I will do. And then I got her bio and
I went, oh yeah, and now I get it. Now
I see why recent It's so nice to meet you.

Speaker 12 (54:02):
How are you today, I'm really good.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah. So you're in a walking boot? What happened?

Speaker 12 (54:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (54:10):
I just it was postseason and I just rolled my
ankle from practice.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
So you're a tennis player. Yeah? Are you a multi
sport athlete or tennis tennis as you were when you
were younger? Did you play other sports?

Speaker 12 (54:23):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (54:24):
I dabbled in a lot like ballet, I did soccer,
and I did volleyball a lot.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
So ballet teaches you a lot, doesn't it right?

Speaker 7 (54:33):
Right?

Speaker 12 (54:33):
It really isn't.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
It's difficult, Yes, And it's funny because during between between
baseball and football on this show, we talked to people
at different sports, and when I get to get a
chance to talk to people in dance, I don't know
if people that don't know much about it understand what
great athletes they are and how much work and sweat

(54:55):
equity that they put in.

Speaker 12 (54:56):
Right, Yes, I do think so do Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Had you miss ballet at all?

Speaker 11 (55:00):
No?

Speaker 12 (55:01):
I don't. So I'm gonna thank you for your right.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Right. Man is smiling over here, and we're gonna get
to him, and in a minute, let's talk. Tennis is
very important to you, but there's so much more to
to who you are. Three point eight grade point which
accounts to multiple AP classes, dual credit classes. You've you've
spent a lot of time in the classroom and worked

(55:27):
really hard at it, and then the servant leadership hard
part of it. You've been involved in a lot of
things that we're not going to get to all of them.
We can't, we don't have enough time. If people are interested,
go to the kernel electric Facebook page. Look at this
wonderful picture, your beautiful young lady, and you just do
a lot of really cool things, I think, and to

(55:49):
give back into our community. Let's talk a little bit
about that servant leadership Hart, And I'd like to ask
this question. It is a learned behavior, it's not something
you're born with and your motive and where did you
learn to have that servant leadership art?

Speaker 13 (56:05):
I'd say obviously from my parents and my family a lot.
They've contributed to my philosophy and what I believe in
in learning, Like my knowledge from them is what really
inspires me.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
So let's thank you for that. And your dad is smiling,
And I can tell you that that question is a
standard for this because there are It takes a community, right,
it does. It takes a village to be able to
put in and and have kids understand the importance of
giving back. And you certainly know that secretary member of

(56:40):
the National Honor Society, correct, President of the student Council?
What made you run for that? Did you have politics
in the future?

Speaker 11 (56:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (56:49):
No, so my my friends they did it as a
dare and I was like, Okay, I might as well
do it, right, And I actually got voted on.

Speaker 12 (56:58):
So yeah, I love it. Yeah, I do good for you.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
It takes some time, but there's a number of things
that you have to do obviously with that. What is
you you've helped and you've been involved in Christmas giveaway
box at Ebenezer's Stone Ministry. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 13 (57:15):
Oh so we usually give away boxes and like toys
to little kids for parents that don't have that don't have,
like they don't have the money or facilities too.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
So again, sir, everything she talks about is this this
leadership and this this servant heart that that she has.
You have to be so proud.

Speaker 6 (57:40):
Oh yes, I'm definitely proud. Her mom and I are
very proud.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
And when she said, look it came from my parents,
I looked at you and that that means a lot
to us, right as Look, I'm a grandfather of six
and I've got two kids and and my wife I
taught my son how to go left on the basketball floor,
and my wife kind of handle a lot of the
other stuff. So if they were in here and we
asked them, I think they would say, you know, from

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my mom, and because she is taught at our church
forever and she will pick up and help anybody that
needs help. And I think that if she was sitting
where she was sitting, she would have had the same
look of pride, a little bit of teary. I to say, look,
here's my daughter saying it's because of me, And I
think you got to be so proud of her.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
You hit it right on, yeah with the mom right. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (58:27):
You know, we we tend to get out there and
we are part of the Hey, I'm going to go
out there when she performs, I'm going to be there
with her.

Speaker 8 (58:34):
Right. But the moms are the ones who does all.

Speaker 6 (58:36):
The harder work.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Yeah. I agree with that, and we take all the credit.
How I go.

Speaker 14 (58:41):
And I know you hit it right on the community piece, right.
It takes so many coaches that helped her out, yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
And teachers and administrators. You're also part of diversity and
mental health advocate as a co president of the World
Cultures Club. This is a first for me. I don't
know what that is, and so please help me with
what World Cultures is.

Speaker 13 (58:59):
Okay, So for our Culture's Club, we like to educate
a lot of students in our school because we have
a lot of diversity. As you can tell in Martin Luther.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's a melting pot. I loved coaching
there by the way, Okay, yeah, sorry, oh I didn't
mean to briden. It jumped on, But I just I
agree with you on that. And so the the the
idea the World Cultures Club, and look, you help coordinate
multicultural heritage months like Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month,
Southeast Asian Month, and and I like that. In summer

(59:31):
summer of twenty twenty four, you were the first Martin
Luther High School person to ever win the EFT Scholarship
to compete to complete a mission trip to Thailand. Have
you been there?

Speaker 12 (59:44):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (59:45):
I had?

Speaker 1 (59:45):
When was that?

Speaker 13 (59:46):
That was this summer? It was It was like a
really cool learning experience.

Speaker 12 (59:51):
Honestly.

Speaker 13 (59:52):
I got to help out a lot of villagers and
a lot of kids from places in poverty in like
the mountains. So they have a stipend of about sixty bought,
which is equivalent I think it's like equivalent to like
four dollars, and to like sustain their whole entire community,
their entire school, and that's just I think that's crazy.

(01:00:14):
So they have gardens that they help out with and
we helped with the gardens and make those huts and
things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
So Rech and I ask our current electric superheroes of
the week this question a lot. When you started, A
lot of kids have to do volunteer work with National
Honor Society, and that's their first kind of put in
their toe in the water into that world of giving back.
And they'll say to me, mister for Giffren, I didn't

(01:00:40):
realize that I'm getting so much more out of it
than the people that I help. Is that something that
you have found as well?

Speaker 12 (01:00:47):
Yeah, I really do think.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
So what's going on in the future with you? Do
you know where you're going?

Speaker 13 (01:00:52):
Yeah, we're looking at a lot of schools. To be honest,
there's there's a lot. But I know that I do
want to do tennis.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Okay, Jay, do you want to stay close to home?
Would you like to be someplace war where? What's your
thought right now? You can change your mind before you
leave this. But you're seven, are you seventeen?

Speaker 12 (01:01:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
I'm sorry seventeen. You could change your mind three times
before you leave the studio today. But if you had
to pick the college of your dreams when you're going
to bed and you close your eyes. If you could
pick one college and we could put you on the
tennis team, where would you go.

Speaker 12 (01:01:26):
That'd be a hard decision. I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:01:29):
I honestly, I'd want to probably stay close enough, but
like enough for I have distance to be on it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
So my kids both went to Marinatha Baptist Bible College
in Watertown. It's fifteen minutes away, far enough that they
know I'm not just going to show up, but close
enough to come home and get their wash done, you know, yeah,
kind of how that was. My son played ball basketball
there and I got to go to all those games
because it was close. And I think that your dad's

(01:01:58):
smiling because you said that, Look, I don't want to
go too far, but I want to be close, but
I want to be that close. I love that. How
did the tennis year go for you? Did you have
a good year?

Speaker 12 (01:02:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:02:11):
Out of all the years that I've played, which is
four years, I have honestly seen a lot of growth
this season, especially with being a team captain now a
co captain actually, And although I didn't make it far
this year, I really appreciated like all the effort and
support throughout the season.

Speaker 12 (01:02:30):
So yeah, you know it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
You're not going to remember. I mean that you didn't
go real far. But the first thing you talked about
wasn't that. It was okay, I'm a co captain and
in the growth that we had as a team, you
guys won the conference. Is that correct? Congratulations on on that.
What about the game of tennis? Year? Do you play
singles or doubles?

Speaker 12 (01:02:52):
Singles?

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
What about the game of tennis for you? Do you
think has has grabbed your heart? And and the fact
that it's a team sport and it's it's you out
there by yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Right?

Speaker 12 (01:03:02):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
What about tennis do you think has has really cut
your your your love?

Speaker 12 (01:03:08):
Maybe?

Speaker 13 (01:03:09):
Actually I think just the the passion that goes into it,
you know, like I I do play with a lot
of aggression and a lot of passion. If Walsham hasn't
talked to you about that, but yes, I yes, she's.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
So fun to watch. Who do you hear, by the way,
more to your mom or dad or my dad? Really
he gets after a little bit. Yeah, can he play
a little tennis?

Speaker 13 (01:03:30):
Yeah he's He's played the exact same amount of years
as me. So it was like, yeah, four years.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
So have you have you beat him?

Speaker 12 (01:03:39):
It depends on the day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Yeah, not today. Right, it's the only time I could
beat you in a quick race. I think when you
watch her play tennis, you got to be so you're
so proud. Did she played tennis the way that you
had hoped? Because she plays with a lot of passion
and and I like that with with a student athlete.

Speaker 14 (01:03:58):
Yes, it is, it is that, And and the the
main thing is she started late. Right, we didn't We
didn't know anything about tennis until freshman year.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Wow, yeah, we took it upon.

Speaker 6 (01:04:08):
I think YouTube might have rescued us.

Speaker 10 (01:04:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
I love that.

Speaker 8 (01:04:13):
Yeah, that so she does, she does.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
You're hoping that she stays home close to home as well. Yes,
do you have more? Do you have more kids?

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:04:20):
She's got a younger sister who's a freshman who's also
playing tennis for Martin Luther.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
And you could beat her though, right, Yeah, there you go,
yeah with it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:28):
And then a younger brother.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
So okay, is he a tennis player as well?

Speaker 12 (01:04:32):
Yes, he's also a tennis player and a basketball player.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
So okay, what great is he?

Speaker 12 (01:04:36):
He's a fifth grader?

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
I think, yeah, all right, what do you think you
want to go into when you when you get to college,
you have you made any decisions on what you want
to go to school for.

Speaker 12 (01:04:47):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 13 (01:04:48):
I was thinking about the psychology route and then doing
specific like implications with the brain and like neuroscience so.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
To help people. Yeah, there it is. You know when
it comes to full circle. Listen to what she does now, right,
She's given back all over the place, and when you
read the bio, we could not we could spend twenty
more minutes doing talking about things that she has done
and she is doing with elementary kids. With all of this,

(01:05:18):
how do you find time to do your homework? By
the way, Martin Luther just gives those grades away. Yeah,
oh they do not ghost Waller times like mcgivery quit
saying that. I love the fact that that's what you
want to do. Last question before we cut you loose.
In your bio, you talk about your faith and I
like the fact that you're okay putting that in writing

(01:05:40):
for people to see on the kerrentl Electric Facebook page.
You don't run from that part of your life.

Speaker 12 (01:05:45):
Yeah, I honestly don't.

Speaker 13 (01:05:47):
I'm really proud of like saying it out to other people,
un to like actually speak the word of God. You know,
I do believe that like God really helps you in
like your lowest times, especially like whether it's in the
tennis court or like in the basketball court, it really
does like spark something.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
So well, thank you for that. I agree with you.
I think I think he will meet you right where
you're at. I do another show called Faith in the
Zone and we talk to men and women that are
involved in sports. Will come on and some guys the
worst thing they ever did with steel a candy bar.
And then you've got guys like me who he met
me in a really dark place a long time ago, not

(01:06:25):
that long ago, not your age, just so you know.
And I envy people that figure this out a lot
earlier than I did. I congratulate you, guys. Coach Waller
Scheim thinks the world of you, and he said, Mac,
You're gonna you're gonna love this girl. She gives so
much back to our school, in our community, and the
legacy she's leaving at Greendale Martin Luther is going to

(01:06:48):
be very difficult to fill that void. And I see,
congratulations to you.

Speaker 12 (01:06:53):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Yeah, it's so nice to meet you, guys, Surrey. You
did good. Yeah, your wife did great. She did great. Guys,
go to the Kernel Electric Facebook page. At the end
of this year, everybody that has won this award, I
put in front of the Colonel Electric Foundation and they
will pick one winner for a five thousand dollars college
scholarship and you'll be in the running for that. So, Reese,

(01:07:15):
it's so nice to meet you. Sorry, I text you
at three thirty in the morning the other day, but
you're making me nervous. We're making me nervous. Rees, We're
gonna get to a break. The other side of the break.
We're gonna talk to three coaches from aa YFL, three
guys that won the eighth grade championships, one from New
Berland West, one from Tosa, one from Franklin on the

(01:07:36):
other side of the break. This is the Varsity Flitz
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Man it's been a fun show. It's been a quick show,
been a really quick show. I want to I want
to thank Reese and her dad that came in our
current Electric Superhero of the Week. I want to think
all the coaches want to congratulate Joe Parr from o'conamwalk
on a great career. He's a really good man, by
the way, and Ryan McMillan as well, coming in from

(01:08:44):
Muskigo and talking about high school football. He's just one
of the best co hosts I've ever had, so I
appreciate that guys. This year, for the first time, the
aa YFL and Greg Clark and that team reached out
to me and said, hey, how do we get how
do we tire wagon?

Speaker 8 (01:08:59):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
How we get involved in some of the things you do.
And we sat down and figured it out. And it's
been a really fun year for me. I've been able
to name a team of the week and then go
out and meet these players, meet the staff, and give
them a plaque. And we did ransom commercials to get
people to come out and watch these young kids play football.
And I think Greg Clark and everybody from the aa

(01:09:21):
YFL well, last week was last Saturday, in fact, at
Oak Creek they had their championship games for their eighth
grade teams and in Division one, Franklin beat Lake Country
Ate nothing that. We were joined by one of the
coaches from Franklin. He is Jason Kofchinsky. Jason, how you
doing good? How are you good? First of all, get

(01:09:42):
into that game, man. I got a chance to come
out and meet that quarterback, meet the whole group. But
sailor to the quarterback, big kid, big arm threw the
ball about fifty yards in the air and kind of
like the Washington Commanders did to the Chicago Bears. You guys,
a kid went up it and I asked him, when
you caught it? And turned, he goes, there's nobody there,

(01:10:05):
he goes. I was a little surprised and just took
off and tried to get in the end zone. And
then you beat a team, an Arrowhead team that I
had met the week before, and that was a confident group.
Defensively shut him out and scored and went for two
and got it, and man, that what a great win
for Franklin. It was.

Speaker 15 (01:10:23):
Yeah, and it's kind of a testament to our season,
just the kids working hard, fighting through adversity and maybe
being underestimated at that time. So we know we're tough,
and we just go in battle every week and hope
come in.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
In typical Franklin style. Yep, right, typical Franklin style. You're
going to go in and battle every week. And I
can tell you that I was surprised at Etty and
who was in the final and who won it because
I was told I was given some direction from people
in that that it's going to be might be Arrowhead
in Germantown and Arrowhead might win the thing, and and

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Franklin goes up and ate nothing. Were surprised that you
guys were able to shut them out. We were.

Speaker 15 (01:11:05):
We knew if you look at the whole season. Both
teams put up a lot of points, but we also
saw on film that both teams have very good defenses,
so we knew it'd be a battle. I didn't think
it eight to nothing, but yeah it was. We knew
it wasn't going to be thirty to thirty two or
anything like that. So it was a good battle, very
good defensive battle. Teams taking opportunities and really defenses shutting

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teams down.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
In Division two New Berlin West, they get a win
against Waukesha South and we were joined in studio by
Troy Bowchamp. Troy, did you know if you can grab
the microphone, did you know coming in this year that
you guys had a chance to be as good as
you were? Certainly our goal this year.

Speaker 16 (01:11:45):
Actually, we had thrown out a vision and a goal
for our team back in March the champions play as won,
and there was a lot of a lot of folks
that thought that was kind of a bold goal to
set on a team preseason, but we had a very
very talented group. We had a lot of hardworking coaches,
and we had some success coming into the eighth grade season,

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so that was certainly our goal this year.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
In that state the league championship, you guys won twenty
to twenty. Was it as close as the score indicates?

Speaker 6 (01:12:16):
Absolutely?

Speaker 16 (01:12:17):
Yeah, Waksha South is a very talented group. It really
turned out to be a special teams effort that I
think carried us over. I mean we had a kick
kick return for a touchdown. We had a couple of
black pats and we made a couple, So I mean
that was the difference maker in the game. I mean,
Waukeshaw has a very very talented group, size, speed, very defensive.

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It was a defensive battle.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Had you played them throughout the year at all, or.

Speaker 16 (01:12:44):
Throughout the year they were on the opposite side of
our division. But they actually beat us back two years
ago in sixth grade, and we knew that there were
going to be a powerhouse.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Man. You put that up in the locker room, right,
they beat us. Hey we got yeah. You know it's
you your whole for that opportunity, always looking for an
advantage someplace for sure. Well, congratulations, it's great to meet you.
If you can move the mic over ken Alsberger from
is that Correctsburg got it from the Tosa Blazers. You guys,

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Division three you guys beat the Journey House seventh eighth
grade combo team twenty You guys, all the other games
are so close, twenty five to fourteen. You guys rolled them.

Speaker 8 (01:13:26):
Yeah, well I wouldn't say we rolled them. One correction
to you, though. We are no longer the Toasta Blazers.
We are the Wall of Tosa West Junior Children.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
Thank you for telling me that.

Speaker 8 (01:13:34):
I figure we want to know that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
Yeah, we got to fix the website, Greg, We don't
have to fix the time. Yes, look at me. Hey,
you guys aren't going to be back as a sponsor
if I keep ripping coct Greg Clark, So yeah, he
really is so Tosa West. You guys beat the Journey
House twenty five to fourteen. And I'm being sarcastic when
I said you guys rolled them. You didn't know it
was a good game, right.

Speaker 8 (01:13:56):
And they have a good program. They have a really
good program. They built up They've built up a league
quality program over the years, and it was it was
we knew they were going to be tough. We played
them earlier on the year, and you know, it's a
good game. It was twenty five to fourteen at a half time.
If you would have told me that no points were
going to be scored in the second half. I would
have told you, and you're crazy, that's not the same.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
Yeah, I had the over. It was forty, right, So
I at halftime, I was feeling really good about taking
the over. Can you imagine what it did general I'd be,
you know, betting on youth football games. Ken, did you
know coming in And the same question that that that
I gave to Troy, did you know coming into this
season with the AYFL that you guys had a chance

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to be pretty good.

Speaker 8 (01:14:36):
We knew we had a core group of kids coming
back that we could build their own. We didn't know
when you're when you're building your program back like we do,
like we're not sure year by year who's gonna actually
come off for the team.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:14:46):
So after last year we had a fairly decent year
and some of the kids that were seventh graders going
to be eighth graders and had recess. They put together
ah like a seven on seven passing league and they
basically just played seven on seven football the entire year,
really a year round, like in the snow and rain,
they just played and they just threw and through and
through and that's kind of the offense that we run.
You know, we're gonna run the high school offense. We're

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gonna whip the ball around. And a lot of those
kids had a good time and they came out and
they played, and I knew after about the first couple
weeks of practice that we could be special. Right, It's
turned out that, you know, we put it together.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
So how long have you coached over at toast?

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
This is my this is my third year. Okay, so
I haven't been doing for very long. My kid was
gonna play in sixth grade and they didn't really have
many coaches, and I couldn't look them in the eye
and tell them, you know, you can't play because you
don't have a coach. So I'll step up and start
doing good for you. Well, it's it's been one of
the more rewarding things I've ever done.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Be careful, it gets in your blood.

Speaker 8 (01:15:40):
It's us.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Yeah. I started coaching when I was like eighteen, and
I thought I'll do this for a couple of years.
Thirty six years later.

Speaker 8 (01:15:46):
Yeah, yeah, that would not shock me if the kids
were asking me. Last night. My kids in eighth grader
and I got a fifth grader coming up, and they're like,
you're gonna coach seven eight again next year. I'm like, yeah,
I think I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
So good for you. I love that. Hey, Jason said,
how long have you coached over at Franklin Two years?

Speaker 15 (01:16:03):
Started in seventh grade, didn't coach sixth grade, but yeah,
the last.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Two years you have a son on the team.

Speaker 15 (01:16:09):
So yeah, I expect this to be my last year.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
But you never know. You never know. Your wife thinks
it's going to be your last year, right, Yeah, she
doesn't know that. You know, there's there's talk about having
you do the fifth grade, but I'm sure there is,
and I don't know there for a fact that I'm kidding.
What made you get involved.

Speaker 8 (01:16:28):
I love football.

Speaker 15 (01:16:29):
I've coached my kids, I have a daughter as well
through their sports, baseball, basketball, all sorts of things, and
so I really wanted to coach football. So I tried
a little late to get into sixth grade, but then
I was asked in seventh grade to get on. And
so yeah, as you said, it's just been a ride.
It's been a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
That was fun for me to come over to give
that trophy to you guys, and one of the assistant
coaches I coached in football over right Tonnican. And what
was funny to me is as I was leaving, it's
a five minute deal, right coming in the beginning, I
addressed the team the take CUK pictures that I get
out of there with some of the coaches were walking out.
I said, don't you have practice? They said, yeah, but

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it's Halloween, so we're putting our uniform or our costume on.
And I thought, that's what this is all about. I
got in the car of the Big Smile and I thought,
that's what this is about. This is a team that's
getting ready to play for a a league championship and
their assistant coaches are going to put their Halloween costumes
on to have fun with these kids because it's still

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a game and it's still supposed to be fun, right
it is.

Speaker 15 (01:17:28):
And yeah, we had put the work in all season long,
so we knew we were prepared. If you remember that,
they we had like forty mile an hour wins, so
we knew we weren't going to get much practiced on anyway.
But yeah, we want to show the kids that we
can be fun too, We can relate with them, we
can make them laugh, and yet we can be stern
when we need to and make sure they're doing what
they need to do. So it's showing both sides.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Troy Bolchamp from New Berlin West, how long you been coaching?

Speaker 8 (01:17:53):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:17:54):
This was my seventh season?

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Seventh seasons? You have kids in the program.

Speaker 16 (01:17:57):
I had two sons that went through the program once
a soft more on the New Berlin West team right
now and that My youngest son was an eighth grader
this year.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
How is he doing?

Speaker 16 (01:18:06):
Loss last night, But he's doing well. He's doing well.
We got a really good community, good program. The youth
tied very closely to the high school program, so he's
having a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
Yeah, I love coach Chassick. Yeah, he does a really
good job. Will you continue to coach in the youth
program or were you? I'll continue to be involved.

Speaker 16 (01:18:24):
I run the club president for the last five years
for the New Berlin West Youth Club, but there's a
transition taking place this year. But I'll stick around because,
like you said, it kind of gets into your it
gets into your blood and it's hard to walk away
because it's a it's a really, really terrific experience.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
If if coach. Chassick said, hey, come play, come coach
at the high school level. Would you do that? It's
a good question.

Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
I would love to.

Speaker 16 (01:18:47):
I think it's a little tricky with work and you know,
practice times and some.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Of those things. What do you do for a living?

Speaker 16 (01:18:52):
I run on the CEO of a company in New Berlin.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Okay, business is good, business is very good. Do you
know the ceo is the you could get out of
work early, get to practice. I don't know if you know.
I want to know did you get put up to this?

Speaker 16 (01:19:05):
Did somebody in town ask you to say this to
me on the radio?

Speaker 7 (01:19:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
What are you talking about? How dare you? How dare
you say that to me? Guys, we're going to get
to a break, and other side of the break, we're
going to talk a little bit about some of the
players on this team, and we're going to talk about
the importance of youth football programs and how important. Look,
I'll tell you this. Years and years ago, I kept

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being asked why don't you do a youth sports show?
And I'd be like, man kind of busy, and they said, well,
come on, why don't you do it? Well, as I
started thinking about it. I would get phone calls from
people saying, hey, listen, I've run this youth football program
over here. Can I ask you how does Franklin do it?
And I go, what? They go? They seem to have

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more players, they have new uniforms, they seem to have
all the money that they need. How do they do it?
And I go, why are you calling me? Call them? Oh,
we can't that. Why well, because they're Franklin and we're
this school. And I go, trust me, the people running
the youth program they want everybody to be as strong
financially and with numbers as they are. No, we can't

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do it. So the first youth program I had I did.
I brought in the Franklin Youth football and I said, guys,
they people think you're you never hit a wave here
this luxury ship. And they all started laughing. And I
said to the woman that I've never forget this. What
keeps you up at night? And she said, running this
part of the Franklin youth football program is a lot

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like being in church, where twenty percent of the people
do ninety percent of the work. I need forty percent
of the people to jump in. And I've never forgot that,
and she said, look, we have a buyout, so you
don't have to volunteer your time. And I go, double it.
You're not making the pain level nearly enough and she said,

(01:20:54):
well we get by. I go, okay, you get by whatever, Franklin.
We will continue to talk to these guys. I love
the fact that they're in studio with me. A week
ago they won a eighth grade championship in the AAIFL
and Division one, two and three. And if you could
see the smiles on their faces and when they talk
about these kids is what's the most important to them.

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And will continue with them on that. On the other
side of the break, this is the Varsity Pltits High
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(01:21:38):
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iHeartRadio App. Coming from the Donovan and Jordansen Heating and
Cooling Studios. We're talking AA YFL and we're talking to
three coaches that won a championship. Eighth grade is a
big year for these kids. And for these kids to
to walk away winning a championship, I think is awesome.

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I'm gonna come back to you if I can. Troy
Bochamp from New Berlin West when you when you start,
everybody here talked about Look, we run this, and we
talked about Ben, and it's important for youth programs to
be part of the varsity and the high school program.

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There are other programs that aren't right, other programs that go, no,
we're separate. You know, we we do our deal, they
do their deal. It doesn't surprise me that I know
Franklin Lewis Brown is fully invested, right. I know the
coach at Tosa West is fully it should be yeah,
fully invested right. And he look, he's been around a bit.

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He understands the importance of youth football and SODA's Ben Chassick.
It doesn't surprise me. And as the head of that
program at New Berlin West, it's got to be you
guys have to be as one, correct, We very much are.

Speaker 16 (01:22:54):
We should have an as one philosophy in New Berlin
West with with coach Shasick, and his staff. We start
with a spring clinic with the coaches sharing philosophy, sharing
what's coming for the year that we want to make
sure we can prepare the kids on. We do some
combined practices early in the season, get the kids together
both at the high school and the youth level, so
there's a lot of interaction between the high school.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
And the youth.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Hey, Jason's same question for you. I think that Lewis
and everybody over there knows the importance of youth programs,
but they get that staff is pretty invested in your
youth program as well.

Speaker 6 (01:23:29):
Correct.

Speaker 15 (01:23:29):
Yeah, it's the same sort of philosophy. We have coaches
meetings prior to the year to have the high school
coaches kind of go over their program and things that
we should install with our kids so they know the
terminology and things when they get up there. Another cool
thing we did this year was our youth teams go
to the high school games, but we had them line
up at the where the varsity team comes in so

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they can shake hands they as the varsity team enters
the field. So that was a pretty cool adjustment we
made this year to kind of bring the teams together well.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
And Ken, you know it Ken is with Tosa Tosa West. Yeah.
You know when these kids go out to those varsity games,
they go home, they put their jersey on it and
they sleep in it, and their thought is, look, I
can't wait to be able to play under the lights
with the cheerleaders in the home crowd. And these varsity
players are like big celebrities to these kids. I love

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that part of it at Tosa West. Do they understand
the importance of being as one?

Speaker 8 (01:24:24):
Yeah, I mean one of the things that coach Battali
drives home is his family. Right. So we have both
the high school and both our middle school teams. We
have family on our helmets, right, So we break down
every after and of every practice with Tosa Family. Yeah,
I mean it's a close knit group. We run their offense,
you know, we run their defense. I remember opening up

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that was telling these guys before I opened up their
huddle and Coach Metelli let me into their huddles like,
We're gonna run your offense, run our plays and okay,
And I look at a play and I'm like, what
Seahawks U h jet sprint left chief why hide? I'm like,
what is that? I'm like, I came from a twenty
five dive two back through the right right, so right,
So now we're running all these complex plays and you know,
by the end of the year, the kids had it down.

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And I realized in about the middle of the year
that our quarterback knew the offense better than I did,
so I pretty much just led and run with it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
Perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 8 (01:25:13):
It was good. It was good. But if without that
relationship with the high school staff and coaches, you know,
that doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Hey, did the breakup on the Plasier thing? Was the
Plaser toasts and Toast to West combined?

Speaker 8 (01:25:22):
Yeah it was. So that's what what happened was Tosti
East started the program up again.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Swi came back, Swittle.

Speaker 8 (01:25:27):
Came back, and he wanted the youth program again to
be a feeder to his program. And it's great, and
it forced us to, you know, say, okay, we're just
gonna be west Side kids now, so we really need
to build our program. We got to reach out. We
got to find enough west Side kids to feel the team.
And he's kind of had the same same thing. They
had to find enough kids to go out and actually
have a seventh and eighth grade and sixth grade team.
So and we're happy that they did it. We're talking,

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we're gonna meet with the East youth coaches in a
couple of weeks here to talk about the programs, and
you know, we're gonna let the kids be rivals, but
as youth coaches, we're going to make sure that we
work together to grow football and also back.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Again, Hey, Troy, if you can grab that very similar
that they're very well said, by the way, and I
love the fact that that, Look, let the kids be rivals,
but as coaches, let's get both programs strong. You guys
have a youth program New Berlin that everybody is combined, correct,
the younger ones.

Speaker 16 (01:26:19):
Eisenhower has their own Feaer program. Yeah, they were the Generals.
Now they converted this year they're the junior Lions.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
Okay, And and do you agree that that let the
kids from New Berlin ice. Look, when we do Friday
night rivals, Tosi East Toast West coming up, by the way,
that's got to be And we've done New Berlin, Eisenhower,
New Berlin West, and you that that OA cliches just
throw out the records, Oh Creek Franklin, same thing. Right,

(01:26:46):
But I and I don't think you guys are meeting
with the Old Creek youth guys. No, you're not. See
but will you meet with the Eisenhower guys? You talk
to them at all?

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:26:53):
Certainly we get together at the AIFL meetings and collaborate
and I've certainly offered to help any way that I
can make their help their program succeed. But once it
comes time to game time, there is no metal rivalry
to play against that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
How'd you guys do against them this year? We did?
We did well, We did very well. You look at
that smile. You won't even give me the score, will Yeah,
you guys did, Okay, you did find Have you had
your way with them throughout with this class throughout the years.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
With this team.

Speaker 16 (01:27:20):
Yes, we've been successful against Eisenhower each year that we've
played them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
So you know, Jason, when Joe Cook was my co
host on My Stuff and he was coaching Oh Creek,
he would say to me, listen, if I just one
day disappear, go to the Franklin Police Department, they have
me in the basement. And I used to laugh and
you go, no, I'm serious, Like he was, like, really,
they really disliked me. I won't get a I won't

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get an ice cream coat in Franklin. They don't like
me at all. And if I disappear, especially the week
of our game with them, they have me in the
basement of the Franklin Police Department. You understand, though, the
strength of all these youth programs, including know Cree that
that's what that's best for all of us. Correct.

Speaker 15 (01:28:04):
Yeah, it's as many kids as we can get playing,
the better and the better the competition is just going
to drive the programs to do more, to get better
and to keep putting the work in. So I think, yeah,
the more kids we can get playing, the better for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
The Franklin youth numbers are strong.

Speaker 15 (01:28:19):
Yes, our kids are great recruits. We've added kids each
year that have been meaningful impacts. And it's just the
kids talking at school about football and how fun it
is and and what they get out of it. So yeah,
we've been able to make gains every year.

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
Troy, how are the numbers by you?

Speaker 16 (01:28:35):
It's a little bit of a mix grade to grade.
To be honest with you, I'd say we've been We've
been very steady over the years. But for this year,
we had one grade level at sixth grade that we
struggled a little bit, so they were combined with our
seventh grade this year.

Speaker 8 (01:28:47):
So it's it's year to year.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
Hey's the goal for for for your And I'm going
to ask all of you guys. I was a youth
basketball coach for for a while and I wanted to
win as many games as I could. Right that was
like I thought I was Bobby Knight and I was
going to win everything. And then as I got a
little bit older, I realized my job as a youth
coach was to get kids, not only keep kids involved

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in basketball because you never know when they're going to develop,
but have them want to play at the next level.
And I loved it when I'd have eight or nine
kids trying out for a freshman team. Similar to it
to what you got. Your mindset is to let's have
these kids have a good time and have them get
ready to play at the high school level.

Speaker 16 (01:29:30):
Certainly, I mean there's certain dynamics within youth football where
I'm sure you're aware of the grade level weight limits, yes,
and so every year it's kind of a blank canvas
where these kids are going to weigh in at and
what positions they can experience and play, and it might
be completely different when they get to high school.

Speaker 8 (01:29:44):
So giving them.

Speaker 16 (01:29:45):
Opportunities to experience different parts both offense, defense, special teams
is a big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Hey, Ken, if you grab the mic for you over
at Intosa with coach Fatally over there, you know, he's
been there a couple of years now and he's trying
to build that program to where you know, Catholic Memorial
is Nominie Falls was at one point, and I'm sure
that that he's telling you, look, it's okay, go win

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some games. Let's make sure that we get these kids
to understand that offensive play that you just talked about.

Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
You agree with that, Yeah, I would say we probably
had a little bit more focus on the winning aspects
of it this past couple of years because we're trying
to rebuild the program basically, and the kids when we're
oh to seven and o eight kids don't want to
play it for teams like that, right, It's just reality.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
I agree with that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:32):
So let's let's do whatever we can to try to
put a winning product on the field so that we
can get more kids into the program, so that we
can be in a position to be more of a
feeder and develop these kids and not just be concerned
about winning.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
Right. So yeah, and you know we we started doing
this w FCA show with Swiddle years ago because he
came over to the other radio station. He said, look,
I believe that playing football has never been safer. It's
a violent sport, it's a it's a contact sport, but
it's never been safer. And the way we practice not
compared to wag we used to practice. Right.

Speaker 8 (01:31:03):
I try to joke about this all the time, Like
I used to.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
Take salt pills. They they wouldn't give us water. It's
an age thing, boys, But go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:31:10):
Well, I was just gonna say, we joke about this constantly.
I tell my players this is a direct quote from
one of my defensive coordinators growing up. So put your
head into his chest. We gave you a neck roll
for a reason.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
Right, No, right, but I heard that line.

Speaker 8 (01:31:23):
Late eighties and nineties, and that's what it was. Right now,
it's tackle with your head behind the player, right, safety first,
protect your head. I try to reach out and tell
parents that it is not the same game that he
used to It's not.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
But you guys aren't doing Bully in the ring and
Nutcracker and all that stuff. Guys. Congratulations. I thank the
aay Fell and the guys over there for sponsoring this
show and getting involved in the stuff that I do,
and I wanted to get have the opportunity to say
congratulations to the new Berlin West team, to the TOSAL
West team and of Franklin as they won championships in

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this league. Guys, thank you very much for coming in. Spencer,
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