FOX Motors Pigskin Party GR Sacred Heart 2025

The Grand Rapids Sacred Heart Falcons joined Rick Berkey at FOX GMC for this week's FOX Motors Pigskin Party.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ed, Welcome to the Fox Motors Pigskin Party, coming to
you live from Fox GMC Alpine and seven Mile Road.
We'll be talking high school football tonight till seven o'clock.
Excited to have the Grand Rapid Sacred Heart Falcons join us.
Our special caest coach Joe Hylands brought five of his players.
We'll get to them a little bit later in the show.
Right now, they're wolfing down some pizza that the good

(00:21):
folks at Fox GMC were good enough to provide. And
speaking of them, our host tonight Fox GMC at Alpine,
John Morehead, is the sales manager here at Fox GMC,
and John, great having you here, and thanks so much
for hosting the show and hosting the Falcons here. I
know that community means an awful light to the folks
a lot to the folks at Fox.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, absolutely glad to have you here.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
All right, let's talk a little bit about what's going
on here at Fox GMC. First of all, you got
a nice deal on interest wise on the gmccerra. Tell
us about it.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, and any of the halftime GMC Sierra pickup trucks
from twenty twenty five, which we do still have a
few of those left. We've got zero percent financing up
to thirty six months on those, so you know, with
rates being a little bit higher nowadays, that's a fantastic
deal and something to take advantage of this month.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
John, something you mentioned to me that I thought's kind
of unique that I had not heard of before. If
you're a Costco member, you can get a fantastic rebate
on all EV's here tell us about that.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, correct, So if you're a Costco member, I mean
you have a membership with the Costco wholesales store chain,
you get an additional thousand dollars rebate this month on
any EV, which includes the Sierra EV and the Hummer
EV as well. So just a little extra incentive to
go EV. And if you're a Costco member, the end

(01:47):
of this month, the EV tax credit, the federal tax
credit actually expires, so it's only good until September thirtieth
of this month.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, and now's the time to dive into that, right
And John, what are you hearing from your customers about
buying EV, because that's that's a big transition, especially if
somebody older in my age category or shifting over to
an EV. What are they what kind of questions do
they ask when they're considering going to EV or not.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, I mean the probably the biggest question is range,
also maintenance stuff like that. The EV's, especially the Sierra
EV you can get an extended range package, meaning you
can go much further on a single charge. So they
also have questions about the uh, the charging at home,
charging stuff like that. So it's it's it's actually a

(02:38):
very you know, easy to do. I mean, the nice
thing with evs is that you're able to charge during
off peak hours, so you don't pay nearly as much
for the electricity as you do during on peak or
you know, during peak times of the day.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
So, John, whether you're interested in EV or not or
traditional I know that folks bring in their like to
bring in their vehicle. You're the pre owned sales manager, correct,
it doesn't have to be a GMC in order for
you to take the vehicle, right, No, No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So we take every you know, model and makeup. Vehicle
doesn't even have to be anything within the last ten years.
I mean earlier this year we took in a model
a Ford Model A that was really cool. So yeah,
it was nicely redone by a local gentleman. But yeah,
so we taken you know, all sorts of vehicles in

(03:34):
on trade and we give you top dollar for.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Them, and you've got some twenty twenty six is in
I understand.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
We do so.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Actually, there are quite a few models in the GMC
lineup where we've got twenty six is actually on the
lot right now. So we've got Terrains, Kadias, the Sierra
fifteen hundred pickup trucks, the Canyon which is the mid
size pickup, as well as the full sized Suv Ukon.
So the only thing that we don't have yet are
the heavy duties, but those will be trickling in here

(04:03):
probably within the next few weeks or so.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
John, tell us about your hours, both in the sales
room and in the service area.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Sure, so on Monday and Wednesday in the showroom here
we're open from nine till seven, a little bit extended
hours for people that get out of work a little
bit later. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday we're open from nine
till six, and Saturday from nine till two. So our
service department's open every day Monday through Friday seven thirty

(04:31):
to six pm and then eight to two pm.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
On Saturday. Well, where we are at Fox Motors. We
were at Fox Chevrolet in Caledonia last week and two
weeks ago at Fox Chrysler Jodge Geep ram over on
Plainfield next week. What will be over Fox Subaru? I
hear about the Fox difference for their employees and what
it is. Tell us about the Fox difference and what
that means to you, John, as a member, Well.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean here at Fox have you know, we we
like to take care of our customers. We go above
and beyond, so we do a little bit extra in
pretty much everything that we do. We take pride in
serving the community. And you know, whether it's you know,
on the pre owned side, it's some extra reconditioning that
we do to our vehicles in order to get them

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up to standards to present those to the public, or
you know, whether we're helping people with new car deliveries.
We've got a delivery an inside delivery base that we
can bring folks in to take delivery of their new
vehicle and show them all the new features without being
exposed to the elements here in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, Well, John Morehead, thanks so much for stopping
buy and thanks for hosting the Falcons tonight. They appreciate that,
We appreciate it and I love being a part of
the Fox Motors difference here at Fox GMC on Alpine
at seven Mile Road. Thank you all right, We're going
to you've heard us talk on Friday nights Bret Meikita
and with his Game of the Week and in the
studio with all the shows about the Touchdowns for Kids

(06:03):
promotion which benefits Kids Food Basket across West Michigan. We're
gonna take come back and just a little bit and
tell you a little bit more about that. Have a
special guest from Kids Food Baskets to stay with us.
The Fox Motors Pigskin Party Live from Fox GMC. Rules
on here on ninety six won the game. We continue

(06:24):
with the Fox Motors Pigskin Party Live from Fox GMC.
I'm Rick Burkey. Thanks you for joining us here. We're
talking to high school football. The Grand Rappids, Sacred Heart
Falcons are here. They're wolfing down some pizza. We're gonna
get to them a little bit. Coach Joe Hyland and
tell us about his team. And we're putting a little
spotlight this this Friday night and this week on the
eight man game. If you're not familiar, we'll get a

(06:44):
chance to learn a little bit more about it. It's
for schools that have smaller enrollment and smaller roster sizes
and allows them to continue the program with eight men football,
which has a little bit different rules than eleven man
but most basically it's the same a lot of blocking
and tackling as it is. You I mentioned though, you've
heard us talk about Touchdown for Kids, a very successful
promotion we've had with Kids Food Basket in the area,

(07:05):
and it raises money for the Kids Food Basket that
through ninety six won the game and one O seven
mus High School Game of the Week, and for each
touchdown scored during our two Games of the Week, which
happens every Friday night, Lake Michigan Credit Union, our fine partner,
donates fifty dollars to Kids Food Basket. Last year's campaign

(07:26):
raised over six four hundred dollars towards increasing access to
the healthy food all kids need to thrive, and that
totals over eighteen thousand dollars we've raised in the three
year history of this program. We're off to a good
start already. We've got over twelve hundred this year into
two weeks, and so we're a head of pace right now.
Austin Rolloffs as a vice president of programming for Kids

(07:47):
Food Basket and a long time friend of mine personally,
since I'm very familiar with the program, Austin joined us
right now to talk a little bit about touchdowns for kids,
and Austin, I know that a lot of different programs,
a lot of different fund raisors go through with Kids
Food Basket. This is kind of unique here with one
with high school football tied in oh Man.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
So incredible, and Rick that this has been a dreammind
for sixteen years to be on the radio with you,
So I'm really excited to be here. Yeah, what an
incredible opportunity. First of all, twelve hundred and fifty dollars
through the first two weeks. Let's keep scoring those touchdowns
right We are on pace right now to break last
year's record. But you know, for the fourth year, just
want to again thank LMCU ninety six one the game
and one of seven m us just really incredible bill

(08:27):
of spotlight this right. We know right now that kids
and families are struggling more than ever. Food is continuing
to rise at the grocery store costs a continued to
rise and we're getting more requests than ever, right, So
it's so important to be able to spotlight this.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
And some programs are being eliminated in different counties and cities.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, there's a lot of uncertainty right now
right across the country. One thing that we know what
Kids Food Basket is that consistent access to nutritious food,
you know, allows students to really be able to thrive.
And we know that teachers can't teach and kids can't
learn without access to healthy food.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm very familiar with the programmers, I said. My wife's
longtime employee there, and we started out volunteering originally when
they were doing one hundred and twenty five one hundred
and twenty five a day and now through three locations
Grand Rapids, Ottawa County, and Muskegan County, they are doing
over eleven thousand meals a day. Talk about the growth

(09:20):
of that austin.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Per day, Yeah, absolutely, And really that starts with a
couple different things, right, that's the need. So we continue
to see the need rise as I talked about, and
we continue to see our community step up and be
able to fill some of the gaps in our community right,
So we would not be able to do this without supporters,
without thousands of donors and volunteers and advocates in our community.
So we've been able to really grow because of the demand,

(09:42):
because of the need, but also because our community says, yes,
we want to invest in our community's kids, and so
we've been able to utilize two hundred and fifty volunteers
on a daily basis alongside again thousands of individual donors, businesses, faith,
community schools who really rally around and say we want
to make sure that kids in our community have the
food they need to thrive. So it really has been

(10:04):
I think a testament to the compassion in our community.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
You mentioned the volunteers in a little bit. I know
some folks are listening. Maybe you've heard of Kids Food Basket,
maybe you're hearing about it for the first time. You say,
I might like to get involved as a volunteer. A
little bit awestin we'll give you tell you how you can,
so maybe grab a pen or something to get ready
for that. But I mentioned grown from just one working
in a volunteering in the bottom of a church basement
where we started out to now three different locations, I mean,

(10:31):
and exciting news on the a Skeige in front of
brand new facility opening up.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Absolutely. We've been in the Maskigan community for over a decade,
actually over twelve years. Started there in a church basement,
moved out of the basement into another rented space, and
now after more than twelve years, have been able to
close on a building that works for kids food Basket.
I'm able to right now to serve about two thousand
meals a day. We'll be able to increase that to
twenty three hundred meals a day in the next couple

(10:57):
of days. We'll be serving more students immediately. But it
really gives us an opportunity to continue to grow. We
know there's need a Miskegan can continue to serve that need.
We'll have education spaces, spaces for volunteers to come and
make sandwiches, pack sack suppers, deliver all the meals to
the different schools. And so we're really, you know, really
thankful to our community that they said yes again and

(11:19):
have allowed us to continue to expand the Miskegan.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
All Right, We're going to get to that volunteer part,
because again, I know there are people listenings who wanted
to get involved with it or maybe just thinking about
it for the first time, and the neat thing about
it because they do a volunteer hub. I know that
allows you to work. You know, you say, I don't
know if I have you know certain times that they
need You can find it what times they need people,
and whether you're going to come in and help make sandwiches,

(11:41):
whether you're going to come in and deliver to schools
and other areas. Tell us about how that portal works
and how that fits into people's personal schedules.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, we try to make it as easy as possible
to volunteer at Kids Food baskt as I mentioned two
hundred and fifty volunteers a day who are packing meals,
making sandwiches, repacking individual bags of great apes, delivering the meals,
working on our farms, right, so make it really easy.
Only have to be five years old to come on
site to volunteer, so really five to age ninety five.

(12:09):
We had a volunteer last year here was in our
mid nineties, still volunteering, right, so really anyone can get involved.
You go to Kids Food Basket dot org and you
click the volunteer tab. Really easy to create an account
about ninety seconds and like you said, no major commitment.
If you have a couple hours, you can look for
a time that works for you, go ahead and sign up.
You can try it out one time, or you can

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sign up, you know, once a month, once a week,
whatever works in your schedule. We have times throughout the day,
we have evening opportunities, Saturday mornings, so really all different
opportunities throughout the week for you to get involved.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's Kids Food Basket dot org and click on the volunteer.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Tab right absolutely.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Austin Rolos, vice president of Programming for Kids Food Basket,
thanks so much for stopping by. We're really excited to
continue on with the Touchdowns for Kids promotion and hope
to do that for a long time. And let's get
some more touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Let's get some more touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Raise some money for kids, all right, Thanks Austin for
joining us.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thank you Rich.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
We'll take a break when to come back and talk
to some high school football with the Grand Rappids, Sacred
Heart Falcon. Stay with us here on ninety six won
the game and the Fox Motors Pigskin Party live from
Fox GMC on Alpine in seven Mile Road. The Fox
Motors Peake Skin party rolls on at Fox GMC. We
had a call during the break. Lady wanted to ask
about what was that about the Costco rebate on EV's

(13:25):
That's true if you a Costco member, you can get
a thousand dollars cost go rebate if you buy an
EV here from Fox GMC. They've got the Sierra EV
and the Hummer EV. Check it out and take advantage
of that and that tax a break by the way,
on EV says John told us a little earlier in
the show is going away in a couple months. You
want to get a here and take advantage of that.
Right now, big week of high school football coming up.

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We've got our play by play coming up on ninety
six one. In the game, we've got West Cathay against
South Christian, always a great rivalry game there on one
oh seven m Usrhyes buffer at Spring Lake out on
the lake shore. Jason Hutton and Tom Kendrill call the
action of that Redmakeiton Gina. We'll call that. And of
course we got our game reporters. We sended different games
across West Michigan doing pregame halftime and scoreboard show updates

(14:08):
throughout the night. On ninety six won the game and
one oh seven m us and he listened to the
game lineups we got for our game reporters this week,
Unity Christian at Forestills Eastern battle of two two oh
teams East campwin Jennison. Also a pair of two oh teams.
Speaking of pair of two ohs Northewood Sparta. We've got
somebody there at Caledonia Hudsonville again another pair of two
oh teams Heart at Shelby for our Lake Shore spotlight game.

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Scott the camp had enough to Shelby for that one.
In Rockford at Grand Haven, a couple of one on
one team squaring off in that one. We'll also hear
reports on Forestills Northern and Forest Hills Central. That's always
a great regional rivalry there in Forest Hills. But we're
talking right now. We've said we're gonna put a little
spotlight on the eight man game again created here in Michigan,

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and I'm not sure how long ago, but they decided
that for smaller schools that have smaller roster size that
couldn't field enough guys to having an eleven man game,
they created the eight man game and it's a little
bit different. Coach Joe Hyland is the coach of Growing
Rap's Sacred Heart Academy in their third year of the program.
You started the program with eight man coach, tell us

(15:12):
about because you came from an eleven man background. Tell
us about the eight man game and what it was
like starting the program and what the major differences are
from eleven man to somebody who's never seen a game,
which I think it means most of the people in
the area.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, well, you need to come out and see us.
The eight man game is a great game football, fast tempo,
a lot of fun, a lot of wide open football.
The fact that there is eight man in Michigan, it's
a growing In fact, a few years ago, I think
that mark you have had an MHSA said that it
was the fastest growing sport in the state of Michigan.
I believe it to be true. But teams come down

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from eleven to eight, go back up from A to eleven.
But that's not something that we'll do. A couple of
years ago, we started up from scratch and because there
was the interest of from some of the young men
in the building and some of those are guys are
here tonight with that interest. We try to lean into
that a little bit and work hard to schedule games
and find donors and so forth. And that was a

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whole process in and of itself. So the behind the
scenes stuff was a lot of work, but some of
that work was was what would I say it was?
It was fruitful in the sense that it brought other
kids back out or out I should say, to play
the game. Would We started a strength program and so
those kids, again some of them are here tonight who
entered into that program. Also, I think by the way

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that they were living their lives, the way that they
worked as hard as they did, and the joy that
they had and being together, I think invited some or
encouraged some of the other students to come out and
compete as well. In terms of the differences between eight
and eleven as serious as football is, you know, in
in eleven man it is an eight man, but there's
there's been there's not what would I say, people don't

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live and die with eight man football like I see
in eleven man. Sometimes it's a fun game. Kids work hard,
we compete, it's enjoyable and then you know, we turn
the page and go on to the next game. In
terms of on the field stuff, there's a lot of
the fields a.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Little about thirteen more narrow, right it's the traditional field.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, the field's more narrow, the length still a hundred yard,
and scoring and so forth the same. An eight man
there's five guys on the line of scrimmage as posed
to seven in the traditional football game. So that creates
a lot of wide open football, a lot of one
to one matchups. We're in eleven man, it's you can
more easily, I would say, or more readily. It's more

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common to try to trap the football play a lot
of his own defense, and in eight man you see
some of that, but not a ton of that. And
then the other thing, I would say, there are some
weird defensive formations that I'm still getting used to, I
should say. But it's a fun game. It really is
a fun, high tempo game with a lot of Really,

(17:55):
I haven't met a coach that haven't liked. Every man
I've been involved with has been and is really good
to me in supportive of our program.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
I'm grateful for that, Joe. I think the real beauty
of the eight man game is that with some school
smaller schools and declining enrollments in some areas, some of
the outlying areas, especially when before eight man football came along,
they just had to go dormant. If they didn't have
enough guys, they just had to shut the program down
until they got the numbers up.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
That's right, and I think that that's the fact that
eight man is growing, that there's over one hundred, one
hundred and five plus teams, two levels of championship football
and eight man in the state of Michigan. I think
a lot of that has to do with the way
that those who've kept the game going have they I
think they've realized what the impact that eight man has
in their own life and the lives of their community.

(18:41):
It's good and it's good for young boys to have
that opportunity if you fall, to get out and compete
in this way. And I think it's worked quite a bit,
especially as you look at the numbers of eight men
right now.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Speaking with Joe Hyland, head coach granted Sacred Heart Academy
Falcons on the West Side right over by John Balls
doing little education shoe on the school itself, because I
mean a lot of folks myself included till a couple
of years ago when you started playing football, was not
familiar at all with your school.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, Sacred Heart, Yeah, that's not I'm finding it's not
in common. My family moved up here from South Carolina
about ten years ago. For the actual parish and for
the school. We were homeschooling in South Carolina and there
was an opportunity. One of the things we do in
the academy is the traditional Monday through Friday school, but
we also have another curriculum, a classical education curriculum that families,

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homeschool families use in their family to educate, and they
dropped their kids off with us on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
So in those particular days are enrollment doubles to over
four hundred students.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
So it's kind of a hybrid between homeschool and in school.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
It is, and it's really creative in terms of how
that happens and really interesting how that started out. But
what's done is it's given life and vibrancy to the school,
to the parish where a broader community which continues to grow.
My understanding is had a couple of years ago, cigarette
Academy was the fastest growing Catholic classical academy in the country.

(20:08):
And we can attest to that in the sense that
we moved up from South Carolina to be a part
of that type of education. We homeschool, as I said,
and this was something where we can kind of meet
in the middle, and then also obviously to be a
part of the parish. But what I've come to find
is that the Sacred Heart has been for years and
years was a feeder school to one of the two
other Catholic schools in our area, Catholic Central and West Catholic.

(20:29):
And so we had a lot of kids going from
a lot of people that I've met since as adults
go from first to eighth grade, and then because cigarette
did not have a high school, go to a different,
you know, local Catholic high school. But now with the academy,
they've added a high school to the to the you know,
under the building, under the roof, and it's gone really well.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Tell us a little bit about starting a program, whether
it's eight or eleven man, to start from scratch, it
had to be some real challenges and some trying times,
I would think, to that point where you cannect to
put a team out on the field.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, that's a good point that this is the second
program I've started. When I was in South Carolina, as
they said, we moved down there to start an eleb
man football program at Saint Joseph's Catholic School in Greenville,
South Carolina, and it was it wasn't until our third
year until we made the playoffs and then you know,
but by the time I had left, we were a
top five program the last four years as high rantan

(21:22):
high number two in the state, and they've continued a
great tradition there. Moved up here and and now in
starting this program, there's not room for eleven We don't
have any aspirations to go to eleven man football. We're
happy with where we're at and with what we're doing.
But it has required a lot of time and effort.
But you know, we talk to the kids and amongst

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us as coaches that none of this happens without you know,
our administration, our pastor and clergy, and then and obviously
the donors who've helped to make this possible for the
kids in our in our school. And I think that
the parents, the faculty, the donors, the community, I think
that they can be proud of the product that they're
putting in the field. But you know, we started two

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years ago as a JV program. We won six of
our eight games, and last year we were at one
point number one of the state at nine and zero
before we lost in the playoffs. And we're off to
a good start this year. And I think a lot
of that has to do is indicative of the way
that the kids trust. The coaches put forth a ton
of effort, and I think over time had really come

(22:24):
to enjoy each other's presence and that's a beautiful thing
to watch.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Joe, tell me about coach Andriano from Illinois that was
a big influence in your life.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yeah, he's the greatest. He He was my high school
football coach. I had the opportunity to work with him
for a couple of years on his staff as well,
and he comes out just about every summer to help
me run camps for our programs. He did while I
was in South Carolina. He does it up here well,
you know, for Sacred Heart, and he's a guy who
was his coach for over thirty years. He's not retired

(22:53):
Hall of Famer in Illinois. Really, he made that football program,
and I would say even the school what it is today,
highly reputable, like top flight program in the state of Illinois.
But he won I think it was seven state championships.
Has been a few more. But I think with all
that I could say about him, you know, the accolades

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and so forth, the trophies, really I can say, honestly,
he changed my life for the better, you know. And
he used the game of football, I think, the right way,
and he taught life through that game. He recognized how
important it was to work hard, to compete to win,
but he also understood that there's values in both winning
and losing, and most importantly, the opportunity to be with

(23:35):
young men on a competitive atmosphere and teach them about life.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Finally, Joe talked a little bit about this team. Last
year's team outstanding nine or zero, undefeated regular season, got
to the playoffs before you fell to that other saying,
good hard team and maul pleasant it. More people are
probably familiar with than your program. But you're offto a
good start beating North Point Christian fifteen to eight, and
your opener in forty seven to fourteen last Friday night
over Lee High School. Tell us about this team strengths

(24:01):
and would you still got to work on down the road.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's interesting because we lost to say Heart Academy in
Mount Pleasant last year and they are a team who
this year is now an eleven man football team. Last
week or two weeks ago, we played Northmoont Christian over
their place, a great atmosphere and environment. They're going to
eleven man next year too. So so as I said
that there's a lot of back and forth in the
eleven minutes.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Here, the last minute went from eleven man to eight
man this year.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
That's right, that's right, And so we see a lot
of both of those kind of upward and now we're
movements so to speak. This year, I would say that
that we're it's kind of in our wheelhouse with these
kids now, with our junior and senior class. They were
with us from the first day and they know, you know,
what we're looking for. I think we have a kind
of a I'm going to say a culture of how

(24:44):
we work and how we get around and do things,
and we I think are all clear about what we
expect of each other as coaches and as kids and
on the football field, and you know, kind of the
high standard that we have for ourselves as a Catholic
football program. So I think that the strengths would be
the that these kids are competitive, they like to get
out and compete, They work hard, have a ton of fun,

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They're super culchable. And for me, one of the great
things is that I'm watching a group of kids from
freshmen to senior year, all under you know, in one program,
that seemed to really like each other and be around
one another. So for me, that's a really good thing
to watch.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, let's meet some of these young guys. Okay, coach,
thanks for bringing in the Falcons. And I don't know
if they left Geny Pizza or not, Coach, but if
they did, you you're welcome to dive in over there
what's left. Thank you, We'll take it. Breat come back
with some players from granted Sacred Heart Academy. Here on
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Fox GMC Alpine and seven I Road. Thanks so much
to John Mohart and David Doyle and the gang great
hosting the Sacred Heart Academy Falcons here tonight and we're
gonna meet some of the players right now. Our first
guest is Oliver Worm. He's a senior running back and
nose guard. And uh, let's ask question, well, I ask
probably a couple of other people. Oliver. You probably grew

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up as a youth playing football eleven man football as
a kid before you started playing in high school.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Right, Nope, I just started my uh sophomore year playing football.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh was it? You didn't play football at all until then?
Tell us what caught your interest and and you know,
was it some of your friends talking into it or
what got exposed to you they said, I want to
try this great game.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Well I just heard Segar was having it, and so
I just went to the school mainly for for football,
you know, and for friendships because I'm homeschool. So yeah,
that's the main reason.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Coach was talking about the homeschool where you're you're you're
home sometime and sometimes you're in the school. Tell us
about your schedule how that works out?

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yes, so I go Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
And to the school itself. Yes, okay, and you.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
Know then on the off days, you know, do the
homework that they give me, and then you know the
subjects that my parents also give me.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Medieval literature your favorite class? Where'd that interest come from?
Tell us about that?

Speaker 6 (27:15):
I don't really know. That's an interesting choice, it's kind
of Yeah, it's just very fascinating.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
And you eat. You like eighties rock music? Where did
that come from? Your parents supposed to have thrown that
down your throat?

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yeah, definitely my parents. I just yeah, it's got a
lot of talent in the in the music itself. I
really like it.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Oliver's got kind of a unique. We asked the players
what they like to have the night before a game.
Oliver's kind of unique. No't one's ever put this down
for their favorite night before the game meal. He puts
ice cream. You're my kind of guy. Tell us what
kind of ice What are your favorite ice creams?

Speaker 6 (27:54):
I like caramel, cariboo and birthday cake.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Speaking of eighties and old school, Holgan's Heroes Your favorite show?
Where did again? Where did that come from?

Speaker 6 (28:03):
My parents too?

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Did they You got a favorite character in there?

Speaker 6 (28:07):
Not really?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Nope. You could think thinking uh about going into the
trades business after high school? What would you think would
like to do.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
With that probably, uh, Electrician. I like welding as well,
and basically, you know, I'm really interested in everything, so
I'm not really sure quite yet what i'd be focusing
on in the trades.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Tell us about this team right now, and how you
think you've played so far and what would you guys
have to get better at.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
Yeah, you know, it's been a great season so far.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
A couple of wins to start at least.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Ye, you know, it's great to see people step up. Uh,
the younger, younger players step up and the older players
choose them ways of the game. And yeah, so far
it's been a great season.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
All right, thank you for joining us. Oliver Wormless past
the microphone over to next guest, William Highland. He's a
junior quarterback, so the coach right now also plays basketball. William,
let's talk a little bit about it now. You did
play football at younger ages, right.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
Yeah, fit through eleven so far, So let's.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Talk about what you first thought of when when you
heard of this eight man game, and what your first
concept was it and then what it was like when
you first saw it played and how different it is
for you now.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
Well, coming out of eighth grade, I still wanted to
play high school in high school football, so in Sacred
Art didn't have a team, so I was debating on
whether I would go to Sacred Heart or not. But
my dad, being the coach, he ended up putting together
a team with a lot of my friends, and so

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I decided to be a part of that. And I
didn't know really the difference of eight man and eleven man.
I had never really heard of eight man before, but
after playing it for the the last three years, I've
enjoyed it a lot, and I think that it's a
very fun sport, not too different from a leven man,
but it definitely has a few differences.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I know that you know because you live with coach,
But tell us some of the things he has to
do outside of drawing up plays and running practice on it,
because I mean, running a program at a small school, especially,
he has to do a lot of other things that
maybe some of the coaches don't have to do. What
are some of those things he has to do behind
the scenes.

Speaker 7 (30:29):
Well, for the first few years he actually also helped
the coaches along teaching the ways of the game of football.
I know that after games he stays late at work
working on film, and I want to thank him for that.
I see that in him. He puts in a lot
of time and effort to make us better and to

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make the other coaches better so that they helped the
team overall. Yeah, so he works very hard, a lot
of late nights. He puts a ton of film together
and make sure we're prepared for the next game.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Your older brother who played with the team last year, right, Yeah,
he did tell us about he's a big influencer. I
tell us about Joseph and what why he's so special
to you now?

Speaker 7 (31:15):
Still, Well, since he's my older brother, I've always been
more on the competitive side, wanting to be better than
he was when he was my age. Yeah, he's just
a little older than me, so he's been there to
compete with me also and show me the ropes. He

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has had some elbow and shoulder issues, so he didn't
he stopped playing football in middle school and then came
back in high school and so I got the chance
to play with him again and that was a very
special time for me. And now he's assistant coaching, so
I look up to him a lot in that way.
He helps me a lot in life. And in football,

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so on and off the field, which is very.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
I gotta have you pass the microphone back to Oliver
for a real quick second here, because we ask every
player who appears on the show to think back through
their entire education high school, middle school, elementary school and
think of their all time favorite teacher. Oliver, who was
your teacher favorite teacher?

Speaker 6 (32:14):
And why mister good and the reason why? What does
he teach literature? Yes?

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (32:20):
And he just he has such a He's so good
at explaining everything and bringing out all the good points
in the books and everything. And I think that's really
special and really great talent.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Great, let's go back to William. I'm gonna ask you
the same question, your all time favorite teacher who and why?

Speaker 6 (32:42):
That would be me?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Or Mitchell? Is is it the school now?

Speaker 7 (32:47):
He just left this last year? Okay, all time though
he is definitely my favorite teacher.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I think.

Speaker 7 (32:54):
The reason would be he puts a lot of passion
into his work. He really cares about what he teaches
and tries to show the students who tend to since
it's high school, not care at least a ton about it.
But he puts a lot of work in and He
shows the importance of schooling and his passion is very

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great about all the subjects he teaches, which is awesome.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Psychology your favorite class? Why is that, Williams?

Speaker 7 (33:22):
Well, I've always thought that was interesting. I think that
the human mind is a very interesting topic. It would
be very useful later for later events in life. Just
I know more about how humans think and how your
senses can inform your intellect and all that. My dad

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also teaches that, which is nice because really, if I
have any questions, I can go home and just talk
to him privately about that.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Is it harder being a coach's son, do you think
or not?

Speaker 7 (33:56):
He definitely knows my potential more than any other, which
I would say, so it's definitely different. He pushes me
really hard. He knows. Yeah, I know it's my potential,
So it's really I can't really slack off at all
or anything.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
I've always got to work my hardest.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Your favorite TV show is The Office? Who's your favorite character? Dwight?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
For sure?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
That seems to be consistent. That is a favorite one
as well. All right, you're not sure about your future.
You're thinking about going to trades or maybe going to
school to college, you were thinking about.

Speaker 7 (34:33):
I was thinking of Maria University in Florida mainly. That
would be mainly for football, but I would enjoy doing
the trades. And right now I'm doing going to a
trade center to work on the auto collision trade. So
I think that going into trades you can make a
lot of money. And I would enjoy working with cars.

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I think that'd be a cool hobby.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Wouldn't you miss these cold winters here if you were
down Florida College? So yes, I you would. Yeah, I know,
all right, Well, great visiting with you. Williams's pass the
microphone over to Jack Hugolini Junior, a wide receiver defensive
back on this team right now. He also plays basketball
and baseball. You go year round, Jack, with three different sports.

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Do you ever wish you had some time off in
between or do you like going from one sport to
the other.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Uh, It's always nice to have some breaks.

Speaker 9 (35:26):
But I've always had a love for all sports and
just getting to stay after school with my friends and
practicing and being with them and growing our friendships.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
You got a great combination as wide receiver defensive back.
So when you're a wide receiver, you're going against the
defensive back. When defensive back going against wide receiver, that
makes it a good way to learn to your trade
one way or the other. Right. Yeah, tell us about
this year's team, Jack, what do you think you guys
have done well in? Which one area that you have
to get better at.

Speaker 9 (35:53):
I think that we've been doing really well at stepping
stepping up from last year and stepping up our physicality
and our blocking schemes and all that. And I think
we could we could overall improve on just playing for
each other more and playing.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
For the love for each other. Jack, your grandpa was
a big part of your life. Tell us about him.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
He's always just had a love for sports and that's
gone through my dad down to me, and they've both
my dad and my grandpa had just been really big
on the sports aspect of life and just great role
models for me.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh, you like spaghetti the night before a game? I
can see a giant bull spaghetti meatballs. What he got
on it?

Speaker 9 (36:37):
Not meatballs and parmesan cheese.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Just piled high. What about after the game? What do
you do? Does coach feed you or do you go?
You go on your own? What do you do after
the games?

Speaker 9 (36:46):
I usually go home and may or eat whatever my
mom made me, and then I'll shower and go to bed.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right, So after the game, I mean, let's change
gears here. Let's let's look about the summer. Since you
play a three sports, what was your summer like? Did
you focus on one sport in particular during the summer
or did you kind of spread it around summer?

Speaker 9 (37:12):
I was mainly focusing on football because that's when the
fall camp and practices started taking place. But then I
would also go on the baseball field for some hitting
to just not let that slip away.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
All right. You're not sure where you're gonna go, but
as far as college yet, but you you like take
psychology and pre med. Yeah, what do you want to
do with that? Do you think what would you like
to do?

Speaker 9 (37:35):
I'm thinking about going into like being a doctor and
a surgeon. That's what my dad does, and through the
things that he showed me and taught me, it just
sounds really interesting and like I could help a lot
of people.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Jack Ugolini's all time favorite teacher is who and why
mister playing? What does he teach?

Speaker 9 (37:54):
He teaches all the science at our school and then
some religion.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Being in a smaller school, Jack, because you know there's
some advantages and disadvantages.

Speaker 9 (38:04):
I would think I do like it, and that you
can get closer with everyone and you're just around like
you can be around everyone and know everyone as a person.
But sometimes when it comes to like fans of the
game and noise that they bring, I wish we were

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a little bigger you.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Like Jack Johnson the singer. Oh my gosh, coach, I
could go in your locker room and listen to what
these guys listen to. I can't believe it. That's fantastic,
all right, Jack. Individually, where do you have to get
better as a football player?

Speaker 9 (38:39):
I think I need to get better in being more
physical and just just yeah, that's that's the main one,
just being more physical as a player.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
All Right. I'm sorry, did I already ask you your
favorite teacher? Yeah? I'm sorry about that. You know I'm
spacing out here. So any case, we appreciate visiting with
Jack Uglini, William High and Oliver Worm. We got a
couple more Sacred Heart Falcons to get to stay with us.
The Fox Motors, CMC fig Skin party rolls on Alpine
and Seven Mile Roads stay with us. We continue with

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the Fox Motors pig skin party. We were at Fox
gmc alpine and seven Mile Road. Next week will be
at Fox Super Rude. Thanks to the good folks here
David Doyle GM and John Morehead, who's our special host tonight.
I appreciate rolling off the red carpet here for our
friends the Grand Rapids, Sacred Heart Academy Falcons over on
the west side, and our next guest is Rob Blau,
a senior linebacker and tight end on this team. And

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Rob Lett's talk a little bit about your evaluation of
how this team played in the first two games. You
got a couple wins, but coaches always find things that
you need to do better. What are they telling you
about you need to work on?

Speaker 8 (39:46):
Yeah, So I think as a senior and a leader
of the team, one thing I can always get better
at is actually leading, especially on defense. I play the
middle linebacker, so helping guys with play calls and what
they need to do their alignment, their assignment.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
But then also.

Speaker 8 (40:04):
As a mainly defensive player, just always increasing physicality and
as a linebacker reading the line to more quickly diagnose
the play.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
We hear a lot about leadership and on the football
field with their football leaders. And what does that involve
other than making playing hard on the field. What other
kind of things can you show your younger teammates, especially
what they need to do to represent your school and
your team.

Speaker 8 (40:30):
Yeah, so one thing we focus on as a program
is really like standing up for each other on the
field and showing each other that we love each other
as brothers and really setting an example like that can
be a good example to the younger the younger guys,
but then also in practice if they're struggling with something,

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just going up and helping them tell them what they
need to do. Just always encouraging and being there to support.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
I think I know the answer this one, but I'm
gonna ask it anyway. You linebacker and tight end on offense,
coach comes to you this week and says you can
only play on one side of the ball. Which one
you're gonna choose?

Speaker 8 (41:09):
And why I'll have to choose defense?

Speaker 1 (41:13):
I guess that linebacker's gonna say, I can't give up
the hitting, right, Yeah, you'd rather be the hammer than
the nail, right, Yes, sir? All right, Rob, your all
time favorite teacher.

Speaker 8 (41:22):
And why mister Airs, he's a great teacher, but he's
also he's like a friend. He's always there to talk to,
he has the best stories, and he's just a great guy,
a great example to the students.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Rob, you don't know where you're going to school yet
for college next year, but tell us about a couple
schools you're thinking about what you might like to take
once you get there.

Speaker 8 (41:46):
Yeah, so a few schools I'm looking at are GVSU,
Grand Valley State University and Benedictine College. Benedictin is down
in Kansas. My older brother went there, and what I'm
mostly looking at for studying are maybe mechanical engineering or
exercise science.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I have to think Rob that when you're in your life,
wherever you're out and about, especially if you're outside the region,
talking with other people that aren't familiar with eight man football,
you know what questions do they ask you about the
difference that you hear from regularly from people that aren't
familiar with the eight man game?

Speaker 8 (42:25):
Yeah? Most oftenly the question I get is is it
flag football? Which is it's obviously not no. But then
also just like general questions like how does the offensive
line work, how many receivers do you have?

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Other such questions like that your grandfather influencing your life.
Tell us about him.

Speaker 8 (42:51):
Yeah, so ever since I was young, starting to play
t ball and basketball, he's been. He's always been at
the games. He's always been supporting me in school, working
on my car if it ever needs something to be
worked on. He's just always there for me.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
And do you have a personal mechanic in the family.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
Yeah, kind of.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
That's not a bad thing to have history class? Your
favorite classes? American, US World? What is it you like?

Speaker 8 (43:20):
I like ancient Roman history, Just it's just really interesting
to me. The different.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Like country music. Huh. Yeah, favors would be.

Speaker 8 (43:31):
Who Riley Green He's.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
He's the outfielder for the Tigers. Yeah, I didn't know
he played music too. No, it's a different Okay, okay,
all right, any case, all right, Uh, all time favorite
teacher and why.

Speaker 8 (43:48):
Uh, mister Ers, He's just always there for us, a
great friend, a great mentor great stories.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
All right. Uh? Tell us about out this team and
what what what keeps you together as brothers? You mentioned
that a couple of times.

Speaker 8 (44:05):
Yeah. I think the biggest thing is just that we
all understand that we're there fighting for each other. And
I think this year, especially the younger guys, the lower
classmen have really stepped up into their roles and helped
the older guys during practice and also stepped up during

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the games and done with what they've needed to do.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Great thanks rob Let's pass it over to Andrew here
as senior running back. I plays a little bit of
quarterback with Andrew Chapin senior on the team. Also plays
basketball and baseball. And again, this is kind of a
hypothetical situation. Andrew. Let's say going into this senior year,
you could only play one of those three sports, and
I know Coachiland's just sitting down a couple of seats

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from you. Which one of those three sports would you choose?
And why if coach Island's not here, He's not here.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Okay, I'd have to go football because I didn't get
to play until we started here Sacred Heart. And as
a kid, everybody wants to play football. Everyone wants to
be the uh that star you know, catch in the
game winning touchdown, like you go through it in your head.
But I never got to uh and so when we

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came here, finally got that opportunity, so I wouldn't miss
out on that.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
What do you think is your best sport, though right now.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
I'd just say I like to play whatever's in seasons.
So whenever anyone asks, like which one I like best
or which one I like practice more, it's whatever whatever's
going on at the current moment.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You're considering. Benedictine College also, so tell us about where
that interest.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Came from, a lot of the kids from our school
go there, and it's I wouldn't say it's a funnel
school for there, but that's one of the main schools
graduates go to.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
But you want to take architecture though wherever you go
right where where that interests come from?

Speaker 5 (45:53):
I love I love Legos as a kid and Lincoln Logs,
and I like having an idea of a secifically building,
but having an idea of something that I can just
put into reality, like make my own idea come true.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Coach, I love these hid Jimmy Buffett and yacht rock
his favorite music. Can't believe these kids a great music
taste with that as well, you're like burger and salad
the night before or what else is it do you
have on the night before for the meal?

Speaker 6 (46:20):
Shawarma?

Speaker 1 (46:21):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (46:22):
It's an Indian chicken recipe. You have a peta bread
tahini and then you just put chicken, peppers and all
that together.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
One final thing. Coach Hiland a big influence in your
life as a player and as a person.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
Tell us about him, well, when I first came to school,
I was right around the age when we get confirmed
in the Catholic Church, and I chose him as my
mentor because I mean I didn't have a lot to
have a lot of choices because then asked me their
choice first. But it's just been like another father to
me almost and just an incredible example, especially as a

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coach of the teachers, who I should be as a man.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
All right, Well, well said, great group of guys here,
Coach Joe Hyland and Andrew Chapin, Rob Blau, Oliver Worm,
William Hiland and Jack Yugolini. Great job for them and
we appreciate them joining us. And thanks again to Fox
GMC for being a great host tonight here at Alpine
seven my road. Next week we will be at Fox
Subaru on twenty eighth Street with four Stills Northern and
our special guests. That'll wrap it up tonight. Thanks again

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Rick Brooky saying so long.

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