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College Football Whip Around. PMS F1 Report. Palos Verdes Football coach Guy Gardner on playing for a D3 CIF Southern Section Championship

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Wait a second, Softy hasn't gotten over the loss of
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Is hopeful that maybe Washington, who probably would have a
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the new rivalry of the Northwest Washington versus Oregon.

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Saturday for the Washington game?

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Oh? Maybe he was.

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Does the pre half and post, but he doesn't travel
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Yeah, you're right, even though I'm pretty self involved, you
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Year, he did text me and ask me for a
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Might have been he was considering coming down to the
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it is time for the college football whipper around.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Black.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
A week from Saturday, we will know the twelve team
playoff bracket.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Here in southern California.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
We won't have any local interest other than a few
scattered players like Bosco's Mateo Uyongalle and Oregon or modern
days Domanti Jackson at Alabama. And while I'm on board
with the twelve team format, I still want the playoff
committee to be disbanded and that we adopt a computer

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format to choose the at large teams and the bracket order.
But here's hoping for an exciting eleven playoff game set
in December and January. Last week's picks were a positive
four and three pulled me out of my tail spin.

(04:10):
My overall record is now barely above water at forty
one and forty. But you're treading. You're treading above water
for the season. I need a seven to zero or
a six and one week. I picked both USC Oregon
and UCLA and Washington all correctly last week, and all
four of those teams will be discussed here in the

(04:33):
following So without further ado, let's get to this week's
picks and the college football with Pat Friday number seven
Ole Miss ten and one at Mississippi State five and six,
nine am on ABC. The Rebels are favored by seven

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and a half. The egg Bowl has been hijacked by
Lane Kiffin's coaching future decision.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
How much do they dedicate the TV broadcast to Leyton
Kiffen and the waiting game that we all have to play.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's an ABC spend game, so I'd say a pretty
good amount.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
I mean how soon before we get a box up
on the screen with all his choices, well Miss LSU,
Florida and all the pros and cons about where he
can go or stay.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Lane is the hottest commodity in coaching and has really
dragged out this process. Florida, LSU and a handful of
other schools want to hire him, and we can all agree.
If Lane was staying in Old Miss, wouldn't he have
made the announcement by now? So when the deadline set
for Friday, what you think he would?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I think he stays. Okay, I think he stays.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
I think they win the game on Friday, and then
he makes it the decision that he is staying in
Oxford and they're gonna throw a bunch of money at them.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, the deadline is set for Friday.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
After the game, Lane would be telling his Old Miss players,
We've made the playoff, but I'm leaving. How could he
ever do that? You can't, right, So one possibility is
laying in Old Miss could beat Mississippi State and then
he could tell his team I'm taking the New York
Giants job after our season's over.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's gonna win the National Champions Wild Cards. You know
so wow.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
I saw somebody on X last night say we're tracking
a plane from Oxford to Oakland. He could be coming
to cal It's like, you gotta be kidding, meth No, Kenny.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
But I promise you give me old Miss Hotty Toddy's
seven and a half minus the seven and.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
A half.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Number four Georgia ten and one at number twenty three
Georgia Tech nine and two twelve thirty on ABC.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
The Dogs are favored by thirteen and a half.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
It's a good game, though. Georgia Tech. Don't sleep on them.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
No.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
I like Georgia Tech. They host the rivalry game every
odd number year. Tech is still officially hosting this Friday's game,
but it won't be played on campus in downtown Atlanta
and Bobby Dog Stadium. Tech sold this game to the
nearby Mercedes Benz Dome for a reported ten million dollars.
Good for them, so instead of playing in front of

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fifty one thousand people who are mostly yellowjacket fans, it'll
be played in front of seventy five thousand people, and
I guarantee the extra twenty four thousand will be dressed
in red and black like Mary Catherine Ham.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
How often is Georgia Tech good? Once every ten years
just happens to.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Be their year.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
They're really good this year, right, So I get it,
Sell your soul for ten million dollars.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
If Georgia loses this game, it's still in the playoff.
Georgia will advance to the SEC Championship game of Texas
A and m or Alabama lose this week. Georgia Tech
needs to win the ACC Championship game to make the playoffs,
and right now they are one of six teams hoping
to qualify for next week's game in Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's a real mess in the ACC.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, it's very wacky to explain without a graphic. Tim,
You're right, besides Tech, you got Miami, Pitt, Virginia, SMU,
and Duke involved. The one result that Tech needs in
every scenario is for Cal to beat SMU this weekend.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
They just fired justin Wilcox.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
And remember, Georgia Tech would have already qualified if it
had just won its home game against Pitt last Saturday
last season in Athens. It took eight overtimes for Georgia
to win this game. Both teams had several chances to
win as the ot battle of two point plays added
over an hour to the game. Call me a contrarian,

(08:34):
but I think Tech is embarrassed after being blasted by Pitt.
I'm taking the rambling wreck plus thirteen and a half
points flat.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
By the way, that's the Matt Smith Chicken Wings game.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, well in Atlanta. Yeah, he went to Magic City.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
I was just watching the TV the entire time.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, that's what he said.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
It was like four overtime, five overtime. Can you guys
believe everybody gather around six overtimes.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Here at the here at the Strip Club. But I
thought it was a separate restaurant. I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Fuck number twenty five Arizona eight and three and number
twenty Arizona State. The duel in the Desert they both
eight and three, six o'clock on Fox. Wildcats favored by
one and a half back in the fall. Who could
imagine that the Wildcats would be favored in this year's

(09:27):
duel in the Desert. Congratulations, much to Brian Blackmore's chagrin.
To second year head coach Brent Brennan, whose Cats were
just four and eight last season, his Zona zones have
been a scrappy group of fighters led by quarterback Noah Fafita,
and out of nowhere they are showing promise.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
In the Big Twelve.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
ASU will be without their star quarterback Sam Levitt, who
was shut down for the season after seven games with
a leg injury that required surgery. The Devils are three
and oh without Levit has well traveled six years. Senior
Jeff Simms has navigated the softest portion of the ASU
Big twelve schedule. Give me the Angry Cats minus one

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and a half to win the Territorial Cup.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Better out Wow.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Saturday, number one, Ohio State eleven and zero at number fifteen,
Michigan nine and two, nine AM on Fox, and.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I believe we have it here.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
We knew?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
What time does it start on the radio? Same time?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Eight thirty am pre game nine am kick.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Simply known as the game the School up North versus
the School down South, Michigan and Ohio State, last two
national champions the four. Michigan won the last four games
in this rivalry. The Buckeyes had won the previous nine.
History is always paramount on the rivalry. The series began
in eighteen ninety seven. After fourteen games, Ohio State shut

(10:58):
it down. They were zero to twelve with two ties,
but the series resumed in nineteen eighteen and it's been
played every year since. Two World Wars and two pandemics
couldn't keep the Wolverines and Buckeyes from butting heads yesterday.
With Don McLain riding Shotgun. We heard from the legendary
coaches Woody Hayes and Bo schem Beckler, who both respected

(11:19):
the rivalry. In ten years they faced each other. In
the game, Bow's team had a five, four and one edge.
In the modern twelve team playoff format, the Buckeyes are
already guaranteed a spot, but the Wolverines playoff hopes are
not so clear cut. They're at large hopes for Murky.
But if Michigan wins Saturday and either Indiana loses to

(11:42):
Purdue or Oregon loses to you Dub, that would vault
the Big Blue into the Big Ten Championship game, and
then they would control their own destiny to the playoff,
maybe even as an at large. But I don't think
any of that will apply. The Buckeyes blew last year's game.
Columbus and black Beard Ryan Day will make sure that

(12:03):
won't happen again. Give me the school down south minus
the nine and a half.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Wow, I've control the out.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Number six Oregon ten and one at Washington seven and
three twelve thirty on CBS, the Ducks favored by six
and a half.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
From a national perspective, the U.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Doub Orgon rivalry has always been kind of undercover, tucked
up there on the Pacific Northwest. But all of us
on the West coast know that the matchup has always
been spirited and very bitter. The rivalry began in nineteen
hundred has been played regularly since twenty two. The Huskies
lead the series sixty three, forty nine and five. Do

(12:40):
you have a dog in this fight too?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't. I like Oregon, I like Washington. Let's go Washington.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Both schools have experienced dominance in despair and the rivalry.
From seventy four to eighty six, the Huskies won twelve
to thirteen. From o four to twenty fifteen, the Ducks
won twelfth street Over the last ten years, the record
is fin and five to me. The Ducks are in
the playoff even with a loss, but some playoff positioning
is on the line. Washington is aware that the Dogs

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victory would knock the Ducks down from hosting a first
round playoff game or going on a road for a
first rounder, and Oregon will know before kickoff if a
win will advance them to the Big Ten Championship game,
where a victory would earn them a first round playoff
by last year's Ducks earned a playoff buy and then
they got blasted in the Rose Buwl by Ohio State.

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So I'm not sure they want the buy part of
any winning formula, and this one, Kate's would include sophomore
quarterback Demon Williams using his legs early and often. I'm
bravely picking the Huskies plus six and a half on
mont lakewat.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Can I change my pick? I think Oregon wins big.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
I think they win big because Dan Lanning's pregame speeches
are epic. I think he's gonna give a game, just
a real gamer out there and say, you know, Marcus
Sopo Steve Edman are walking through that door right now
for the lasts.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Might number nine Notre Dame at Stanford nine and two,
four and seven, seven thirty on espen Irish favored by
thirty two and a half.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Imagine being in the Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Athletic Drinker's office when the sid walked in to tell
his boss about the ten thirty pm kickoff.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
I'm on this game, by the way, studio host Compass,
and I heard Matt's calling in. Yeah, he even him
and Steve Berlin.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Oh. The massive Notre Dame fan base is livid that
the Golden Domers are playing at ten thirty Eastern. Irish
fans have a thirty minutes better than the Michigan State
fans did in September when they played an eleven pm
Eastern game at usc Stanford got an important rivalry win
in the big game versus Cal and now they're ad

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whe their director of football or whatever Andrew Lucks got
to hire a coach. I can't imagine Notre Dame laying
an egg in this game because a loss would knock
them out of play. I'm taking the fighter fighting Irish
minus thirty two.

Speaker 6 (15:04):
Who I think Stanford gives him a game. I think
Notre Dame wins it in the end. Big, but the
first two quarters Stanford Elijah Brown the quarterback out of
the Montess.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
It's enough to make your halftime relevant. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Their defense, Stanford defense is playing elite right now. Petros.
I think they hold them in check the Irish for
the first two quarters, and then it turns into a
boat race.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
I'm taking the dan UCLA three and eight at number
seventeen SC eight and three four point thirty on NBC US.
He's favored by twenty one and a half. It's not
easy getting excited for this ninety sixth edition of the
Crosstown Showdown. Expectations for twenty twenty five were load to
begin with, and then the early losses to Mountain West

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Schools UNLV in New Mexico got Deshaun Foster fired in September.
I'm still proud of how they shocked Penn State had
had a three game win streak under Tim Skipper. The
whole Foster coaching chapter will be remembered as an embarrassing
low point for Martin Jaran. Lincoln Riley's Trojans are looking
to reach the nine win plateau for just a second

(16:04):
time in four seasons.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Good year, not a great year.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Good year, that's what he said. Really good.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Really, that's the basic issue. Each offseason has been filled
with tales of transfer, portal excellence and incredible weight room improvement,
but USC wins seven and five and twenty twenty three
and six and six and twenty twenty four, all while
the head coach gets prickly and thin skinned over any criticism. So,
echoing with Scott Wolf brought up on the show yesterday,

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is a nine and three record good enough for USC
a nine and three season without being in the playoff?
Conversation twenty twenty five, there's no longer honor in making
bowl games for college football. Blue bloods got to make
the playoff. What a school like Indiana, which had been
a doormat for decades can flip the script in year

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one with a new coach and transfer portal success and
make the playoff twice in a row. My opinion is
modern college football is passing USC by while the assistant
ad does signs on the logo in Oregon.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
That was cool? Saw the video you retweeted?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Now, Gavin Morris nice? The Trojan's better get this figured out.
There's no more learning curve or ramp up or wiggle room.
If you want to heat check on how Lincoln Riley's doing.
We'll see how hungry the USC faithful are to fill
up the coliseum on Saturday in support of this team.
I'm taking the Trojans minus twenty one and a half,

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so we'll reset the picks. My favorites this week are
Old Miss Arizona, Ohio, State, Notre Dame, and USC minus
the points. The underdog picks are Georgia, Tech and Washington
plus the points. That's fruit in Los Wegos. Everybody enjoy
the game, and we'll return with the F one report,
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Speaker 3 (19:24):
All right, it is time Kates for the F one report.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Max for stopping got the break he needed Saturday night
in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
In fact, he got two breaks.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
The first came at the beginning of the Las Vegas
Grand Prix, starting from P two with points leader the
Sprite like Lando Norris on pole. The Dutchman forced Norris
to defend his position early.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Going into turn one.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
An aggressive move by the sprite like one to cut
in front of Max pushed him deep into the corner
where he ran wild and missed the corner entirely, allowing
Max to take the lead right away and never look back.
It was the eighth time in sixteen pole position starts
this season where Lando has lost the lead in the

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first last shut up, Hey just state in the fact.
Norris was also passed by the curiously odd looking George
Russell after the turn one mistake. He had to work
hard to repass the Mercedes driver in the latter stages
of the race, but.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Was unable to mount a challenge on for stopping.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Lando limped his McLaren home for P two, nearly twenty
one seconds adrift of the Dutchman after nursing a late
technical problem.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's okay at least he got on the podium, though,
well yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
But dude, we're getting down to it.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
The mechanical issue was only the beginning of the lost
night in Sin City for the Papaya crew. Following the race,
during the post races, the scrutiny by the FIA was
determined that both McLaren's of Norris and Oscar Piastre, who

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finished in P four, had been disqualified due to being
below the minimum thickness required on the skid plate on
the underside of the car. Oh no, we'll simply put
tim When the skid where on the respective cars was checked,
a minimum thickness of nine millimeters is required at the

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end of the race per regulations. Both Norris and Pastre's
cars were under that measurement. Both were immediately disqualified. Oh yes, disqualified.
The stewards remeasured the skid plates in the presence of

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three McLaren representatives, probably the portly short CEO of claaren Racing,
Zach Brown from taft Eye, and once again they were
found not to be in compliance.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
With the regulations.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
McLaren argued mitigating circumstances contributed to the infractions, namely limited
opportunity to test due to the rain on day one
had led to shortened practice sessions, but the FIA did
not go for that. No, they maintained that although the
breach of regulations was unintentional, it was still an infraction

(22:32):
that must be penalized.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Lincoln Riley commented as well that they were close.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Good season, not a great season, good season.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
This was not the first time a failed skid plate
measurement has led to a disqualification. Both Niko Holkenberg and
Sir Lewis Alright, Hamilton were disqualified for similar infractions in
Bahrain and in China. You were good this time, Lewis.
So what does this all mean for the Driver's Championship.

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I know that's what you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
To what I'm thinking.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
That Max's remarkable run since the summer break continues as
he secured his fourth Grand Prix win in the last
seven races as he chases his fifth consecutive drivers championship.
The Dutchman's eighth podium in a row put him forty
two points adrift of Norris before the disqualification, and that

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was slashed it as twenty four points.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Hours after the race.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Here comes Max.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
He's coming and Max is now level on points with
Piastre and within striking distance of Norris with two Grand
Prix and one Sprint race remaining beautiful. Beul McLaren and
Norris are still in the driver's seat for the Championship
of the Shadow of Max, and his Madness looms larger

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now and more than ever. Coming off the chaos in Vegas,
the F one Circus has a quick turnaround from the
desert in Nevada to the desert of Qatar this weekend.
The Loose Sail International Circuit is fast and flowing, with

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long corners that dominate the layout. Tirewear and tire management
will be of the utmost importance this weekend, so much
so that the F one Qatar tire rules will be
in place. Even though this race will be run in
the evening when the day is done, the surface still
carries a high tire degradation factor. The Qatar tire rules

(24:45):
require the teams to limit their stints to twenty five
laps on any tire compound.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
All right, it's a little strategy here with the tires.
I like this.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, no driver is allowed to run a tire for
longer distance. Attempt to complete a longer stint will result
in a penalty. This will force teams to strategize The
fifty seven lap race length into safe segments and the
drivers will be required to manage tire life aggressively. This

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will bode well for some teams who manage their strategy well,
but for others not so much.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
And folks know focks books, No folks stay out to
stand out.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
It guarantees a two stop, if not three stop strategy
for some teams, and the undercut tim we are your home.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
For the undercut I mean it's not even.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Close will become a huge threat as drivers push harder
with shorter stints. Track position will matter most as well
to help avoid spending time behind slower cars on the
same strategy. Now, McLaren should be the team to beat here.

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The high speed layouts played perfectly into how their cars
are designed. But don't count out the mad Dutchman. He's
more than capable of adapting to any circuit with the
ability to draw the maximum out of his car more than.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Month sake, why did this garsolp roof.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Get out of Max's way?

Speaker 4 (26:23):
The five lights go out for the sprint at six
am Saturday morning.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
On the deuce at eight am Sunday.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Morning for the Grand Prix, McLaren tears will flow shortly
thereafter shut up you shut up, Lando can cut up.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
You shut up, you shut And that's your F one
report Southern California.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
So it's getting tight.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Now this qualifications got Max right back in this thing
with McLaren.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
It's a very exciting end of the season. I mean,
it wasn't the football season. I would have gone to
Vegas and paid fifty thousand dollars for a ticket.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
My niece went to Vegas last weekend for the race.
Loved it, had a way better time than the first
time she went to Vegas for the F one race
couple years ago. And now the girls are really excited
about going to Vegas next year.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
We'll see if that happens.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
All right, turn up that Zeppel.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
We'll be right back with Guy Gardner, the coach at
Palas Vernie's High, a true public school powerhouse right here
on the hill and Palas Vernie's Estate.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
You going back up on the hill.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
I think they take cares from RPV and Rolling Hills,
Estates and rolling hills as well.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Are they gonna have like cars with their headlights on
to life the fields? Out of this is played tomorrow
or Friday?

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Oh no, they get some boogie, fake lights in the light.
It up pretty good.

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Speaker 3 (28:22):
Why not Everybody? What's cracking? And welcome back.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
It's the one and only Petro sand Money Show on
AM five seventy LA Sports. And it is the night
before Thanksgiving, which a lot of young people like to
gather and remember yesteryear. But some of the stuff that
they're trying to remember is happening, and it's happening in
Palas Verdi's on Friday night, yet another CIF championship game

(28:52):
for the Palas Verdi Sea Kings, coached by the venerable
Guy Gardner in his seventeenth year on the hill on
Cloydon Road, taking on a very very tough PACIFICA team
coming down from the Nard, staying on the coast and

(29:15):
headed to Pallas Verdes and taking on the Sea Kings
Friday Night, It's Division three and Guy Gardner joins us
on your Southern California Toyota Dealer celebrity hotline. A long
time great coach and leader of young men.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
On the Hill. Thank you, coach. How are you welcome
to the show?

Speaker 5 (29:35):
I'm I'm doing great. Thanks a lot for having me
put I really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Now I know that the playoffs are structured differently. Throughout
your seventeen years of coaching, you've seen a lot of
changes in the world of high school football. But specifically,
what's it like knowing you have a championship team. Do
you know you have a championship caliber team early in
a season or is it something that builds as the

(30:01):
season goes on.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
That's a great question. I think it's a it's a
building process, you know. I think we I think we
see pieces of it, right, I think we we kind
of look at it and go, Okay, well this could be,
but you just you just never know you know how
it's going to come along, and uh, and so it's
it's more of a journey and and and build and

(30:22):
if you can survive, you know, those tough times, then
then you see it really come come together even closer,
you know. But yeah, it's it's a it's a journey.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Overall in Palas Verdi's I've played college football with a
lot of guys and seen a lot of guys play
college football who were quarterbacks in the Palas Verdes area,
but none of them were playing quarterback in college football.
We've never had, uh, somebody from Palas Verdes be such

(30:51):
a special quarterback as as Ryan Rakowski is. What's it
like you've been coaching him, it's been your starter since
he was a freshman. What's it been like as he
has grown? As he's probably going to be the first
guy ever who was a Palas Verdes Peninsula or seeking
quarterback to start FBS college football games. That's pretty remarkable.

(31:12):
What what's it been like? And how much has it
changed the way you normally coach high school football team.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
It's been a blast. I mean ever since he was
a freshman. You know, he wasn't he was the usual freshman.
He knows so much about football, he's so he's so competitive,
he's so present. That's one thing I always like to
talk about. Ever since he was a freshman, when he
went out for his first play and our first series
and comes to the sideline and it's just not you know,

(31:39):
the moment's not too big for him. He's just in it,
you know, and he's in it to do the best
he can. It's been awesome.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
You know.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
We obviously have tried to do more things that that
did his his skill set, and then his skill set
just kind of takes over, you know. So there's you know, honestly,
there's a lot of things he's doing that I'm not coaching.
He's just he's just doing it. So it's been great.
It's been great.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Coach. You mentioned the journey this season.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
It's didn't start off probably the way you guys had hoped,
and a week one loss to Sarah, then a one
point loss to Edison, a loss to losing her. At
what point did your guys maybe flip the switch, was
at a rallying cry at some point? What point did
this thing turn around for you guys after the early start?

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Another good question. Uh, I can't predict when that's going
to happen. We just keep we just keep coming back
and we really do just go one practice, fun play
at a time. But I think it probably it probably
was our game with Englewood that that kind of that
kind of set it where we were starting to to
really come together and be a little different than we

(32:43):
had Ben And uh so it's probably was probably of
that game.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Yeah, a lot of talk about your offense and what
your quarterback has done this year, but I want to
talk about your defense, coach, and how they've turned it
around really the last five or six games.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah, they've been awesome. Coach Neil, Coach Davis running the
defense and the defensive staff and the players. They've really
come together. And we had some kids that were probably
coming off of injuries from last year, still trying to
try to get better and confident, and I think, you know,
as the season went on, they have and so it's
it's really come along, no doubt. You're exactly right, the one.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
And only guy Gardner who has built a legitimate public
school powerhouse and Palace Verdi's. Yes, the Palas Verdi Sea
Kings playing for the CIF title again. Pacifica coming all
the way down from Oxnard to take them on at
PV High. They'll have the portable lights in. Everybody in

(33:40):
the neighborhood is going to be up in arms and
they're going to play the night game, because correct me
if I'm wrong, coach, you have to play at night
in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
That's a requirement. You can't. You can't get them in
the afternoon like you really want them.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yeah, I think I think you could, but no one
would agree to it. So yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
And I understand that. I mean, we used to have
to if we were playing in the playoffs. And I'm
sure you guys have done it too, gone and played
at a different place, even though it's your home game.
But that being said, do you not see playing in
the afternoon for a good part of the year at
your home games there in Palace Verdese because there are
no permanent lights there, And it's the same at my

(34:21):
alma mater, Peninsula High. I always saw it as a
superpower that these teams show up at three o'clock with
their eyes rolling in their head, and you run a
few a few powers at him and eat some clock
protect the cornerbacks, and we're in good shape.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yeah. I think you used to say three o'clock and
here comes trapped right in your face. Yeah, yeah, we
you know, we get used to it once the game starts.
I selfishly don't mind it. Because it's done at six
o'clock and you got the rest of the evening with
you know, in my case, with my wives and kids.
So and you know, you get to actually see the
area in the daytime. You know, it's a nice place

(34:58):
to see. So there are lot of positives for it.
But you know, the other side is I think high
school football is really meant to play at night, you know,
but there are certainly some advantages.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Coach, I'm curious you want a Division five. Last year,
you guys get bumped up to Division three. This year
with success, you continue to move up because that's part
of the formula of putting together the computer rankings. No
doubt here in twenty twenty five, what have you seen
in difference or maybe there is no difference in moving
up in divisions the last couple of years, with all
the success you guys have had, Oh.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
What have we seen? We've kind of experienced a little
bit of everything. Right In twenty twenty three, we have
a senior laden team that was a really good squad
that we went ten and zero and we earned the
right to play in Division two and a sixty mile
road trip to Mission Dieho in the first round, which
that ended our season right there. So we've seen that
side of it, and then we've seen us where we

(35:52):
dropped down division like last year and now we're in three.
So I you know, it's just the way it is,
and you really have zero control of it, and coaches,
if you do it long enough and you're fortunate, you're
going to get both sides of that. You know, you're
gonna get thrown into one that you know some some
people would say, wow, that's you know, why'd you get
thrown into there? And you get thrown into another one

(36:13):
and you know, and there's a lot of good teams
out there that didn't get thrown into anything. And so
it's a I don't think there's a perfect format. I
know there's not a perfect format. So you just kind of,
you know, you can't really worry about it, just just
do the best you can with it.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yeah, they have done great things your team in Division
three this year, and we really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Now.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
I know it's year seventeen at PV, but you were
many years with Don Morrow, the legendary coach at Marra Coast,
and you've had success, you know, in the area for
a long time.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
What keeps you doing it? What keeps you coming back
and doing this with the young men every single year?

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Yeah, I owe a lot to coach Morell for sure.
He's my mentor and anybody else that I've coached with.
And I'm super blessed to have the staff that I
that I've had, right, That's it's definitely a team effort.
I think just watching the kids improve, you know, the
challenge of trying to and my staff is great at
doing this, of getting kids to maybe you know, work

(37:16):
harder than they even thought they could, you know, pushing
to certain places and make them want to do it right,
get them excited to play harder than maybe they even
thought they could. And I think that's the challenge that
that keeps us coming back, you know, and see if
we can get the best out of them. And like
you guys are saying, sometimes, you know, when you're getting
beating the first couple of games, it's it's tough to

(37:36):
keep at it. But that's that's what we do. So
super blessed, you know, and have a lot of good
people around me.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Well, it's been a great success no matter what era.
The great guy Gardner we're talking about Palace Verde's High
versus PACIFICA a powerhouse coming down from op Stard and
it's going to pop off right on Cloydon Road Palace
Verdi's High School Hill. Yes, the red tide will be swelling.

(38:01):
And Coach Gardner's done a great, great, great thing for
a lot of young people for a lot of years.
What a tremendous legacy, and he's still going doing it
at the highest level. Congratulations Coaching. Good luck on Friday.
Good luck, go see Kings.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Really appreciate it, Petros, and Happy Thanksgiving to all of
you and all the listeners.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Same to you. God. It hurts to say, go Sea Kings,
but I have to do it. I have to thank you, Coach.
God bless you too.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
You like that palas Verdi's flavor, I do you get
a little you have a little taste for it.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Palas Verdi's states.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
I love public high school football talk. You know that, Petros, Yeah,
my gives to a private school.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
Palas Verdi's and CDM kind of similar. One more hour
of Petrols and Money on this Thanksgiving Wednesday night extravaganza.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Stay with it.
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