Seth Hundeby, Saskatchewan Huskies Linebacker | Good Sports EP11

Welcome to Good Sports! Sit down with Ryan Flaherty as he discusses this week in Saskatoon's exciting sports scene! Our feature interview for episode eleven is Seth Hundeby, a current Saskatchewan Huskies Linebacker, and 2025 CFL draft pick by the Saskatchewan Roughriders!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Whatever makes you happy, what gets you out of bed,
whatever kicks the cop webs, you'll join it instead of
victorious day dream, that's a.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Glory of fame.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
God's by we all on the same team.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
That BA is the name of the game there. It
is as always courtesy as Sean Carpinka. We really appreciate
his efforts on that theme song, and I really appreciate
you being here for episode eleven of Good Sports. Welcome,
how are you doing? My name is Ryan Flerty and
uh if you're new to this little operation, this is

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your one stop shop for everything Saskatoon sports and an
area we'd like to go beyond the boundaries of the
city from time to time. But we've got a great
guest for you this week. He plays football for the
Saskatchewan Huskies and soon we'll be playing football for the
Saskatchewan rough Riders as well. He was drafted by the
Riders earlier this year. But he's got a degree to

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finish and maybe a little unfinished business on the field
as well with the Huskies. So Seth Hundeby gonna join
us right here in the studio. It's all about the
CFL draft process and playing for the Huskies and a
whole bunch of other things as well. So very excited
to have him in the guest chair here this week.
That's coming up in just a few minutes, But of
course before we get to that, we want to tell

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the business. Now let's move on to what's going on, damn.

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And we start off what's going on as we often do,
or at least as we have been doing for the
last few weeks, with a check in on the Saskatoon
Berries and uh more of the same. And if you're
a Barries fan, that is a very good news indeed,
because yes, the wins just keep on stacking up. As
of recording this episode, Berries riding an eight game winning streak.

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That's not even their longest win streak this season, but
it's pushed the record to four two and seven on
the year. As they're getting into the final week of
the regular season, but yes, riding an eight game win streak,
they have now officially, as we touched on last week,
they were getting close. They have now officially clinched first
place in the East Division, likely going to see the

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moose Jah Miller Express in the first round of the playoffs.
That's the team that eliminated them in the East Division
final last year. So that matchup is not official just yet,
but just based on the standings as they are as
we record this episode. Moose Jaw in fourth place in
the East with a healthy lead over the fifth place

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team and three games back of the Regina Red Sox
who are in third, so it's a lot of ground
to make up in a short amount of time, so
likely going to be the matchup, although there is still
an outside chance that the Barris could face Regina in
that first round of the playoffs. Either way, though, they're
going to be the favorite going in. They're the number

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one team in the entire Western Baseball League, with that
forty two and seven record being led by a number
of players, including last week's guest right here on this
very show Ethan Minard, who continues to lead the league
in batting average and home runs. He's got twelve homers
as of recording and a four to eleven average to
lead the charge for the Barris who have plenty of

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great talent on their roster, but he is the headliner
right now, and you have to think is going to
be getting some consideration for our Most Valuable Player honors
at the end of the year. But it has been
a total team effort. Why the Berries are forty two
and seven. As mentioned, they're heading into their final week
of the regular season. They're playing three straight against the

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Regina Red Sox, first two in the Queen City this
Thursday and Friday night, and then they host those same
Red Sox on Saturday, August second, and then just two
more games after that, a pair at home against the
number two team in the East Division, the Medicine at Mavericks.
Those games on Sunday the third, and Monday Holiday Monday,

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of course, August Long Weekend coming up against the Mavericks,
and that wraps up the regular season. So we'll see
where the record sits when we show when we reconvene
here for next week's episode, and we'll see where that
stacks up historically against some of the best seasons in
WCBL slash WNBL history. I have to figure this Barrs

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campaign ranks right up near the top just in terms
of the win lost record alone. But there have been
some very good teams in this league in the past,
and we'll see how they stack up. We'll see if
I can dig up some numbers for you on that
front for next week. That's what's going on with the
Saskatoon Berries. Let's stay on the ball diamond and move
down a couple of years in the age department for

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a team that likely may have a couple or few
players playing for the Berries and other WCBL teams before
too long. It's the Saskatoon Cubs who are now the
twenty twenty five SaaS Premier Baseball League champions That is,
the eighteen U TRIPAA Baseball League, the highest sort of
level of minor baseball in this province. The Cubs taking

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the SPBL title with a twelve to two victory over
the Regina White Sox in the championship game. That was
right here in Saskatoon at Karen's Field, So the Cubs
take the title there. They will now head off to
Fort McMurray, Alberta, where they will represent Saskatchewan at the
eighteen U Nationals, which are running from August fourteenth to seventeenth,

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So we'll keep tabs on the Cubs and keep you
updated on their progress once that tournament hits. But heading
in on a pretty good role after claiming the provincial championship.
So congratulations to the Saskatoon Cubs. And that's what's going
on in baseball. Let's move to basketball and check in

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with the Saskatchewan Rattlers. What's going on with them? Will
a rare win this season for the Rattlers, albeit they
played just one game, but they won that game over
the Ottawa Blackjacks in a nail bier ninety seven to
ninety six. The Rattlers have had a lot of those
this year. Unfortunately for them, they've been on the wrong

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side of far too many of them. They were able
to come out on the right side of this one,
and sweeping the season series against Ottawa in the process.
In fact, the win snapped a three game losing skid
that dated back to the last time they played Ottawa.
They had lost three games since that victory at home,
and now they go two for two against Ottawa. They

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also have a winning record against the Calgary Surge this season.
They're four to one against those two teams. Unfortunately for
the Rattlers, they're one and thirteen against the rest of
the league this year, so that's why they are not
going to be playing any playoff hoops this season. They
do still have five games left on the schedule they
will be playing them, however, without their star point guard

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Nate Pierre Louis, as the Rattlers anounced to actually earlier
today prior to recording this episode, that Pierre Louis has
left the team to get an early start on his
next basketball opportunity. A lot of these players play in
the Canadian League Basketball League. Of course, they play in
various leagues during the traditional basketball season the fall, winter,

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spring months, and so there's no word officially unwhere that
next contract is going to be for Nate Pierre Louis,
whether that's in the NBA G League or perhaps somewhere else.
He has played in the G League before, but with
his family also in the mix, his wife and his
young son Neo, who both were here with him in Saskatoon,
they wanted to get situated for that next contract. That

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next season. You get a little advanced start on that,
and with the fact that the Rattlers are missing the playoffs,
there was no real reason for him to stick around
other than just to play more games. And of course,
he already set the single season assist record in the CEBL,
so he had already taken care of that bit of
business as well, so he is moving on. Officially, one

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hundred and forty three assists is where that record now
sits after he broke it a couple of games ago.
He came up with eleven assists to pad that number
in his final game in that win over the Ottawa Blackjacks.
But you know who stole the spotlight in that win
over Ottawa was jad and Bettiaco. The big man not

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only set a new Rattlers franchise record for rebounds in
a game, but he tied the CEBL record as well
with twenty boards in that win over the Ottawa Blackjacks.
He also had twenty three points, so a twenty twenty
game for Jade and Bettiaco. The Ratlers have had some
real nice individual efforts throughout the season, they just haven't

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collectively been able to put those together enough consistently enough
to have a better record. But worth celebrating those small
victories along the way too, As of course, all these
players are working towards their next opportunity, just like Nate
Pierre Luis. So regardless of in fact they're out of
the playoff mix, there's still important things that they can
put on tape for other teams and other coaches in

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other leagues and potentially their return to the CDBL next year.
So a nice effort by Jayden Bidaco in that win
over Ottawa. I mentioned the Ratlers have five games left.
They're playing those final five games in a span of
just ten days. That begins August first at the Winnipeg
Sea Bears, so that is a Friday night game in Winnipeg.

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They will then continue the stretch and wrap up the
stretch of four straight road games in Edmonton against the
Stingers on Sunday, and then they are back home next
Wednesday night against those very same Edmonton Stingers. So that's
what's going on with the Rattlers as their season starts
to wind down as well. All right, let's switch over

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to lacrosse and what's going on with the senior men's
lacrosse teams of Saskatchewan. Of course, the junior season wrapped
up a couple of weeks ago with the Junior A
Swatt being knocked out of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse playoffs.
Well the Prairie Gold Lacrosse League crowning some champions over
the last week or so, including at the senior men's level,

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where the Saskatoon Brewers came up just a bit short
in their title defense. They were actually swept in a
best of three series by the Standing Buffalo Fighting Sue,
who are based out of Fort Capell, just to three
hour or so hours to the south of US southeast
of US. The Fighting Sue were the losers in the
final last year against the Brewers when they played up

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here in Saskatoon, and they had some NLL players on
that Fighting Sue team, but they couldn't come up with
the provincial championship. While they reloaded with some fresh NLL
talent this year for some summer ball, and this time
they got the job done, they again winning those two
games to sweep the best of three series. The scores
were sixteen thirteen and seventeen eleven. But I mentioned the

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NLL talent on the Standing Buffalo roster, of course, Jeff Shattle,
former Rush player and former longtime NLL start now retired
from professional lacrosse. He's still been playing senior while running
the lacrosse schools and camps out of Standing Buffalo, and
he got some of his NLL buddies into the fold
last year. He did it again this year, and the

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crew he assembled this year got the job done. In
addition to Shatler, here's the other NLL talent on that
fighting suit team. Rush fans will be very familiar with
these names. How about Jake Boudreau, Austin Shanks and Mike Messenger.
Not a bad trio of players to have on your
senior men's team. They combined to score. But with those

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three guys and Shatler combined to score twenty eight of
the thirty three goals that Standing Buffalo has scored in
the two games sweep of the Brewers. Boudro eight goals,
eight assists in those two games, Shatler seven goals, five assists,
Shanks nine goals, five assists, and even Mike Messenger, who's
a d transition guy, chipped in four goals and three assists.

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As the NLL talent proved to be too much for
the Brewers to overcome. But still a solid showing for
last year's champions. But this year it is the Fighting
Sue who claimed the PGLLL Senior Men's championship. Not the
only PGL title handed out though, as the Prince Albert
Predators claimed the junior title in the Prairie Gold Lacrosse

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League that is essentially a Junior B league, and the
Predators completing a three peat this year of PGLL titles
as they swept their best of three finals series. This
one was against the Moose John Mustangs and that capped
an undefeated season for the Prebs, who went eleven to
zero to one during the regular season before going on

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to claim the PGL junior title. So the Predators will
now go to Abbotsford, BC for the McDonald Cup, which
is the Western Canadian Junior B championship, and then the
winner from there would go on to I believe it's
the founder scuppers at the President's Cup. There are so
many different lacrosse national championships I get them mixed up

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from time to time, but the winner from the Western
Canadians will get a chance to go play for a
national title as well. So congrats to the Prince Albert Predators,
your PGLL junior champions in the standing Buffalo Fighting Sue,
your PGLL Senior champions for twenty twenty five. And that's
what's going on in lacrosse. That's what's going on for
this week's fun all right. Excited to bring our next

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guest into the fold, and you know it's about time.
While we have had one football guest that was from
the Saskatoon Valkyries, but you know, we haven't talked to
anyone from the Huskies football program, or for that matter,
of the Hilltops. We'll get to them. They're seasons coming
up pretty soon. But Husky football is returning in just
a few weeks time, and our next guest is getting

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ramped up for his final year with the Dogs, as
he also looks ahead to his future in the Canadian
Football League as well. But he's got a few boxes
at check before he heads on over the CFL. It's
seth hunda Be said, thanks for doing this, man, I
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, thanks for having me. This is really cool.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Well, I appreciate that. I hope you feel that way
by the end of the interview as well. Listen, I
just mentioned the CFO off the top, so We're gonna
hit a whole bunch of different things here, but let's
just briefly start there. Give the background of course, four
years with the Huskies, and as as what happens once
you finish your fourth year. If you are a good
enough player, you get a chance to get drafted into

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the canadi Football League. So you were drafted earlier this
year by the Saskatchewan raf Riders, went to training camp,
but you're not going until next year. Maybe explain to
people who don't know why that is.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, so like going into university, like, engineering was always
something that really interested me, and I had the opportunity
to get a scholarship, so I'm like, well, definitely, Well
I'm in university you I'm gonna put my time to
good use. So I've been working away at that. There's
a little bit of rigamar role at the start of
it that added a little bit of a delay, so
I saw have a bit of my degree left.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
So basically after a.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Thought about it for a long time, and you know,
whatever way the CFL goes, if you have a longer
career or shorter career relatively, unless you're really financially smart,
you're going to have to work after that. So I
was like, you know, I'm really enjoying engineering, and I
kind of want to just put that in my back
pocket so that after football, whenever it says it's done
with me or I'm done with it, I have something

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that I'm passionate about and really enjoy. So deliberated on
that and basically went into the combine and let all
the coaches know that, Hey, so like this is my
draft year, and like it doesn't really move back or forth,
but I just like want to let you know that
I'm going to go back to school. I have a
year of eligibility and I have just over a year
left of my engineering. So then getting that like year
done is going to really open it up. So in

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fourth year it becomes a lot easier for classes to
be in like the winter fall term. So in that way,
I can do like a spring summer fall of the
CFL and then finish up some winter classes in the fall.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I just find it really interesting that you kind of
put that right on front Street, because I think there
are some players in your position that might be feeling
the same way about to go back, but maybe hedge
it a little bit, maybe play it a little closer
to the vest. Were you worried at all that being
so forthcoming about that would hurt your your draft stock
or maybe knock you down in the draft at all.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, that's definitely something I thought about.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
I was really fortunate an agent reached out to me
and he basically said like, hey, so, like you doing
this would affect that at the end of the day, Okay,
it was important enough to me that like basically that
was that was worth it, and that was fine, and
if it ended up that I didn't end up going
to the CFL, then hey, that's that's the path that
I decided to go down. And I initially like there

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was the thought of like, well, like like what if
I don't tell them? And then basically just because like
it's my decision at the end of the day. But
then I feel like, you kind of since you're very
like hand in hand with that team that drafts you,
that might be not the best way to start off
with your professional relationship because it's they're like, oh, yeah,
like we drafted you like wherever, like and like we're
super excited for you to play, and be like so

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about that, I actually I'm not going to be playing for
you guys. So yeah, I I didn't really want to
do that, And all the coaches were really appreciative of
being upfront and whatnot, and they understand that everyone's situation
is a little bit different and.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, and I like, I mean, I think too, like
the fact is like, okay, so maybe it hurts your
draft suck, maybe you don't even get drafted, but there's
always free agency, there's other avenues to going to the CFL.
And if you're confident in what you've put on tape,
what you've put out in the combine, which I know
you had a good combine as well, I think that
probably gives you some confidence as well that you can

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go into those interviews and say, like, you know, the
Boddy work is clearly there. Yeah, and you've got this
one more year or two that you can add to
that now as well. Yeah, definitely, So the degree obviously
was the driving the driving force behind that decision how
much as well as maybe some unfinished business with the Huskies,
like how much do you want to is five years
mean to you to play five years as a Husky?

Speaker 4 (19:52):
That was definitely another factor of like if it was
a team where you know, like all my friends were gone,
and like I didn't see ey'd eye with the coaching staff.
They be like, yeah, maybe it's time to move on.
But the fact that, like the coaching staff, like I
really enjoy them. There's lots of guys who because I
came into that COVID year when there was no season,
then the rookies who came in at that following season

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in twenty twenty one, there's a really core group of
us that I'm really good friends with that like we're
all kind of in that last year and it's like, man,
like one last year with the dogs just sounds pretty good.
And then get the engineering done. So it's definitely not
for me, like a bad situation to go back to school.
So that definitely had some impacts to it as well.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
And I mean i'd imagine too, like your first two years, right,
you guys get to the van yet I know it
didn't finish the way you wanted, but you get your
utech bulls. And then these last couple of years it's
been a little bit tougher. Lily, I've been able to
get out of can West here, So how much has
that been burning you too? Going in? I was like,
got one more year.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, that competitive nature in me. I definitely
want to go with a bang this year and really
like see how far we can take it. But at
the end of the day, I just love playing football
and just keep wanting to play one more game.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Going back, because I mean, we're we've kind of dived
right into the draft stuff and let's all I want
to stay there. But I'm really interested because you know,
you know, talk with you. I know last year we
talked a bit at a couple of practices for the Huskies.
But I also know in reading some of your other
interviews and listening to some of those that you've talked
about the fact that you weren't necessarily the biggest like

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football watcher growing up in football. You know, it wasn't
like the be all end all. You kind of ended
up in it. You love a lot of different sports,
But just like, at what point did it kind of
crystallize for you that there was an opportunity potentially to
play at the pro ranks? Like, was it before you
got to the Huskies? Was it at some point during

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your time with USask when when did that kind of
light bulb kind of go off?

Speaker 4 (21:43):
It's actually been basically through my entire football career, like
going up to like that next level, I was like, okay, well,
like you know, I'm like probably going to be like
from like pee wee and bantam. Going into high school, well,
like I'm a younger guy, I'm probably gonna be like
a defensive back. Like there's no way I could be
like anything then and then like coach are like, no.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
You're You're gonna be a linebacker. You're a big kid.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm like, oh okay, yeah, and then kind of same
thing where like my high school coach he was like,
so what do you want to do after like high
school football? I was like I didn't think there was anything.
It's like, oh, yeah, there will be something for you.
So then it wasn't really until Canada Cup in twenty
nineteen when I was actually fortunate enough to get a
defensive MVP of the tournament, and then I was like, oh, hey,

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I'm actually pretty good at this thing. And then yeah,
I went to Huskies and I was like yeah, no,
I'm feeling like pretty confident in myself. And then its
stayed healthy and like felt like I really showed like
what I could do and whatnot. And then yeah, went
to the combine and that went well, and then yeah,
I got got drafted. So I kind of just been
going with whatever opportunities get put in front of me
and just taking for what it's worth and giving it

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one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, because you're like just kind of like it's almost
like you're like, oh, I didn't even know my own strength,
Like you're like every step of the way, you're kind
of surprising yourself a little bit too. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
I just I really enjoy Like, for me football, it
was like it wasn't like all right, CFL, like that's
gonna be the goal, like like one year down and
like five more to go.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
It was like, man, I just love this game.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
I'm with my buddies, like all eleven of us plus
me are working at the same goal. I get to
run around like hit people and like that's celebrated and
like the end of the day, like I'm just walking
home just happy, in a great mood, and I'm like, man,
I'm just gonna keep doing this as long as I can.
And then more opportunities have just kind of unfolded themselves
and I'm like this is pretty good.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
And I love all this From a guy who thought
he was going to be a running back for about
five minutes. I know we've told the story before, but
I just love to hear it again just because I'm
trying to picture you as a running back and I'm
obviously struggling to do that. The genesis to becoming a
linebacker was what the matter of one bad defensive possession

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for your team and your first year a high school?

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah? Yeah, actually it was. It was a grade nine
so technically but before high school.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
And so yeah, running back, Oh man, that will like
get to hold the ball and then go with And
I'm a big guy and pretty fast. I think this
is gonna be awesome. You know, I've been practicing there.
And then we get to PA and then they scored
on us, and then the coach was like, okay, that's
not great. Who's big, fast and athletic that we could
put in a linebacker? Hunabeat, Sorry, you're going in. I
was like, but my running back, I haven't. And then

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I'm like, well, all right, like what do I do?
And They're like, get the ball? So I was like okay, uh.
And I was actually really fortunate my uncle Kurt, he
played on the Huskies and actually got drafted to the Alouettes.
He was there and he lives in PA and so
he was he was giving me lots accuses. Okay, watch
the hat level of the whole line. Then you know,
like your first step is really important, Like I have

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no idea what so I And in those days I
really ended up just going and getting the ball. But
then that kind of kicked off my My linebacking career
with that turned out to be semi successful so far.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
So yeah, yeah, it's a good switch. It is good.
He's I guess you could think, well, you know whatever
whatever Siev gave up that touchdown back in grade nine,
that was that Holy Cross? Was that or was going into.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
So yeah, those with the band Sanitators.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah yeah, okay, so the Kinsman League there or whatever? Right, yeah,
good times. I just love that. The alternate history, the
potential alternate history seth Hunt be the running back. We'll
see how long before that career, perhaps perhaps to progress,
there's been a lot of good running backs at the
hockeys deal. Maybe you might not even be able to
crack a U Sports roster at that position based on
some of the guys that you've played with at that position.
But It's funny because you all you almost ended up

(25:20):
sort of in the almost the equivalent position on the
other side of the ball, right in the middle of
the y the linebacking corps sor right across from the quarterback,
right across from potentially the running back is trying to
block you, maybe if you trying to pick you up
on a blitz or something like that. So you mentioned it,
obviously you already touched on it. You love to get
a run around and hit people, but like, is that
really it? Like is that what it is about the

(25:42):
position that you like so much? Or is there.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Relatively and definitely along with I like linebacker, you know,
like a play a little bit of D line, and
that's a little bit more of like, all right, I
know what I'm doing this play and it's going forward
and I'm being physical versus linebacker.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
You're dissecting a little bit more.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Not to say that D line you're not, but it's
you got to see a lot more of like the
bigger picture and like there's a lot more that you
got to like take in, digest and basically read and
react off that. So the mental part of it I've
really enjoyed and I feel like there's a lot more
avenues for me to make plays. And then at the
end of the day, once you make you read yeah,
you fly down and you just hit someone. And there's
not too many places in the world where that's accepted

(26:17):
and encouraged.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
So it's it's a it's a good time.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, we don't have we don't have a good like
Ozzie Rules football culture here for some reason, maybe because
it's Aussie Rules, but man, they want a good physical support. Yeah,
there's not a lot of them out there that just like,
lets you just kind of take the take it, take
the bull by the horns in that way. Uh. I
have one another question about sort of the draft process,
because i think this is something that we hear a
lot about when people talk about the NFL draft, and

(26:41):
I'm curious if if there's any sort of similarities in
the CFL side, and it's the interview process, because we
often hear about some wacky questions the guys going in
the NFL draft. Obviously, the NFL Draft is a huge
event that gets massive media coverage. CFL draft clearly isn't
at the same level, although it has received a lot
more coverage in recent years. But are there like weird,

(27:02):
like did what was that? Because you said down with
all the teams? Yeah, right, what was that process?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Like?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Was were there questions that just came out of left
field that you were not expecting or like what was that?
What was that specific element to the draft process?

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Like it was definitely interesting, especially because like you sit
down like you're you're by yourself, representing yourself, and then
like there's times when there's like thirteen coaching staff in
there and they're just kind of like you're sitting in
the corner, you know, just Hi, Yeah, that kind of
been nice and nice to meet you guys. And then yeah,
so some questions, you know, like they went down the
route of like all right, if it's like like second
and seven and like you're on like the fifty yard line,

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like what are you calling like as a as a
pass coverage type thing, and they'll be like, oh, like
cover four and they're like how come.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
And they just want to see like maybe the intellectual side.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
But then there was a good chunk of it being
like character questions because like that has a big impact
on your team and whatnot. So they definitely want to
kind of like divulge and be like, man, are you
going to be like a good guy like in the
locker room? And like the one interesting one was there,
like all right, so like your equipment manager, like Andrea,
Like if we were to call her up, would she
have good things to say about you? And I was like, yeah,

(28:04):
like call her up right now, Like I I've tried
to be as good as I can. That's a great question, yeah,
because like especially like yeah, like how you treat like
others on the team with like yeah, especially because she
does so much for us. I try to help out
wherever I can. So yeah, and that was that wasn't
one of the interesting ones. And then yeah, obviously a
couple questions of like so we heard that you don't
watch a ton of CFL games and I was like, yeah, honestly, yeah,

(28:25):
I won't lie to you guys, and yeah. So so
navigating that, I was like, oh, I'm just gonna be
myself answered and everything honestly, and at the end of
the day, I should have the answers to the questions
because they're relatively about me.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
So yeah, hopefully you know your yourself. I guess that
would be a real red flag if there's a per
direct personal question that you have to think about and
pause and because I just find it interesting because you
you know, obviously you physically prepare for the combine and
you work on different different things that are gonna serve
you well when you go into those drills. But like,

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did you do any interview prep did you have someone siting?
Like did you sit down with someone and say, like,
you know, grill me or like whatever, You're just kind
of going cold there.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
There's a couple of questions whereas like these are like
standard lists like that that will come up, like have
you ever been arrested?

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Or like what's your relationship with your family?

Speaker 4 (29:10):
And I was like, honestly, yeah, like I'll probably just
like answer them myself, like I'll be myself and if
like they're really not like if they don't connect with that,
then obviously I probably wouldn't be the best fit for
the team. And I'm fine with that because at the
end of the day, I'm going to be myself in
the interview and then I'm gonna be myself and the team.
Like I don't want to fake being someone else and
then have to fake being myself on a team as well.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, it goes back to that whole thing about being
upfront with your intentions right story to that whole sincerity piece,
the combine environment, that whole like crucible that weekend or
week or whatever it is, Like is it competitive? Are
you watching other guys or are you like for you
where you're just about focusing on your own performance or
were you were you kind of grading yourself against other guys.

(29:52):
I mean, there's some guys a lot of whom you're
probably familiar with, especially from Ken West. There's guys from
all over the country. But you played, you know, on
Team Canada as well. But were you watching other guys
in kind of great in yourself or were you completely
just like focused on what you were there to do.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
I'd say that there definitely is that element of like comparing,
like kind of like how you feel you're gonna do
comp to other people because like the end of the day,
it is kind of a dog eat dog world when
it comes to like getting drafted and whatnot, so and
you definitely want to perform your best. However, it is
a little different than like lining up against like someone
like on say special teams or whatnot, where that's like
all right now, it's like me versus you right here,

(30:27):
right now. So like I felt like there was actually
a good chunk of like celebrating each other's successes and
like being like, man, yeah, like I'm gonna be honest,
I'm gonna try to beat that, like I'm gonna give
it my all. But like, man, like great run, Like
that was a really impressive time. So it was a
little bit different, but I would say it was it
was still competitive, and like I don't I don't think
there's too many guys to get to the CFL combine
with it who don't have a little competitive loane in

(30:48):
their body.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
You can't really roll in there and be all nonchalant
about it is, no matter how good you might be. Uh,
was there one particular drill that you were more anxious
about or that you prepped more for going in?

Speaker 4 (31:01):
I would say my forty so I went to I
was fortunate to go to the East West Bowl, and
in hindsight, we probably should have prepped for a combine.
So they have a combine there, and we did one
day where we kind of went through all the drills
and they're like, all right, get on the plane and go.
And so my forty time was not great. I think

(31:21):
it was like five seconds flat at least like for me.
I was like, that's not ideal. And I had never
run like a forty stance before, so like, I'm pretty
sure I picked up my hand then started to go
in its laser time, so it was running and so
overall I was like, hey, I really want to do
better than that. So like then, leading up to this combine,
I spent lots of time prepping on like all of
the different events, and like in the back of my mind,

(31:42):
it's like I just want to have a good forty
that I know that I've worked for and represents me well.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
And then another thing was I came in.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Relatively heavier than what I was expecting, but I was
okay with because like I talked to like a dietitian
who's with our team, and I wanted to come in
around two and forty five pounds for like speed and agility.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
It is I feel like that's a good way for me.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
And like I was like eating healthy and whatnot, like
kind of like following like what like I was putting
in and how much I was working, And I was like, man,
I'm still like gaining weight, Like Matt Long, like like
what am I doing?

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Is like, what are you feeling slow? I'm like not overlean.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
I was like, well, oh yeah, like your body's gonna
naturally find the place that's gonna work well. And if
you say you're eating healthy and you're doing what you can,
then sure. So then yeah, I ended up running a
four seven to one and a four seven flat forty,
which I was I was quite happy with. When when
I crossed the line and they read that over the loudspeakers,
I was quite relieved.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
And they're not They're not gonna be playing that tape
years from now and and going on like the old
the Tom Brady forty tape ray You.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Ever see that?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, I was like a four nine six I
want to say something like that, or maybe just over
five when he ran that. I just like, it's really
interesting kind of process that that you go through. I mean,
I got to watch the COVID during the COVID year,
they didn't have a combine like where everyone went to
the same place. So the Husky guys that they did

(33:00):
theirs on their own, essentially with evaluators here in town
at the indoor training center over at Guardy House. So
I was still a reporter at Global then, so I
went and I watched Josh Haggerty and I'm trying to
remember who else close back I ran it, but he
was just kind of doing it in solidarity with a
couple other guys that had run it that year. Nelson Locombo,
i think, was doing it that year as well. So

(33:21):
it was just really interesting because like, yeah, you mentioned
the laser time and like all that, there's a real
form to the to the running the four. I didn't
watch all the drills, but I was watching the forty
in particular, and there's a real.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
There's it's it's a science and like there's like it's
like if you can improve your star, you're gonna like
knock like two tenths off of it and whatnot, and
like wow, like it's not just like all right, yeah,
stand there and run. It's there's a lot that goes
into it. So I was really fortunate that I had
some guys who knew what they were doing and being
like all right, let's get you, let's get you in
the right form here.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
So being that you, as we've established, didn't necessarily eat
a lot of CFL tapes so to speak, growing up,
what was the significance for you of being drafted by
the Riders. Did it mean more to you to your family?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Like?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
What was that like? Because obviously, you know, no matter
how much you're watching, I'm sure you grow up in
this province. Yeah, there's a little green blood in there,
and there's gotta be So so what was that like
to get not to get not only drafted, but to
get drafted by the Riders And then what was the
family's reaction to that? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
So I definitely, like I would like sometimes it can
be portrayed like, oh so you're not a big CFL fan,
It's like, oh no, Like I still love football, Like yeah,
Like I love the Riders like crazy amounts and like
like going to like lots of family events, like you know,
TV's on the Rider games on, like we're cheering and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
I just like I didn't really have those channels growing up.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, so I just never really had like that die
hard every weekend or way to if there was an
opportunity to like, oh, like hey, we're going down to
Vagina to watch the Rider game, Like like do you
want to come in?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Maeah? Yeah, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Uh So then so definitely like had like that love
of the Riders there. So it was actually quite nerve
racking on game day because it's like, man, I have
no idea what my future is going to be because
like no amount of predicting is gonna be like who
my phone, So it could be I'm packing my bags
and going to Montreal or bc ORM staying here. So
I was really really excited when I saw Corey Mace

(35:09):
uh call my number and it was it was actually
like an overwhelming amount of emotions because like, holy crap,
like looking back, like this.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Is really happening.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah, and like it's Corey Mace like like yeah, like
this is no joke.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
So then, yeah, my my parents work static, and especially
just because like the culture that he has with that team.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Uh, they especially like wanting the best for me there.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
They didn't want me to go to a team not
saying that there is anything like maybe have like a
different type of culture.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
So then like they're they're.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Over the moon and especially being able to keep wearing
green and white and you know, like staying Sas where
it'll be a little closer to home.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
So yeah, they're they're pretty happy.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah we know you already, we already know, you look
good in the in that color, so that's good. And
you get to go and again one of your teammates
also gets drafted by the Riders and Daniel Weep and
then one of your linebacker running mates goes to the
al the arched nemesis when a Blue Bombers, I Ley
Novak and he's playing this year with the Bombers. That's

(36:06):
gonna be gonna be gonna be interesting. I'm sure next
year when uh and you're hopefully lining up, you know,
on a cross room because you guys are both defensive players.
But but that's right, those are the paths that you
take when you move on from university to the pros.
So what have you had a chance to get any
intel from from Layiner about the CFL experience so far?

Speaker 4 (36:25):
So I've got to you, I've kept in touch with
him quite a bit, you know, like asking him how
it is, and he's really been enjoying it with just
like it's like we're so used to doing school and
football that he's like, man, there's no school, I got
free time do more things and I'm getting paid.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
It is awesome. So he's he's been really enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
And yeah, it is a little bit tersweet that, like,
you know, like he went to the Blue Bombers and
that he he won't be here for like the fifth year.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Just like he's a good buddy, great player.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
So but at the end of the day, it's like, man,
you're getting paid to play football, Like I can't not
be happy for you, and especially like he put in
a ton of work and he's such a phenomenal football player.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I'm just I'm happy for the guy.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
And yeah, if he if he lines up across me
on special teams or whatnot.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Sorry, probably running the wrong jersey today, and yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Just business. Uh before we get to I want to
talk a little more husky stuff, but I did want
a lot of less sort of thing I wanted to
ask about because you did get to play a preseason.
You did play one or both of the preseason playing
the one. Yeah, so just what was that like, Like
did it feel like, I mean, it's preseason and all that,
but like did it feel like, oh, this is a

(37:29):
step up? Like what was that? What was that like
just to get into your first CFL game?

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah, it definitely. I was pleasantly surprised. I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
I had this kind of mental image. I feel like
this is how I always go into the next level.
I felt like I was going to walk out through
like Okay, everyone will hears mass and I was like,
oh no, okay, like the tim Bits guys micd up,
You're just like give it the literally so uh and
so I was like, okay, no, Like I'm of a
size and you know, like the first couple of plays,
like like they move fast and like some of my
blocks were not to like my standard of CALEVI holy call,

(37:58):
Like these guys are they're getting off, they knew what
they're doing, and like for the most part though, I'm
like I was able to run with guys, but definitely
I'm like if I take a misstep, I'm not catching up,
like I'm kind of more familiar with. But overall, I
was as happy with how I played, and like I
got a couple of defensive reps and like some old
lineman came up to me and I did my normal
like stick my gap. I'm like, oh, stoll my two

(38:19):
feet Yep, no, I can do this, And then kind
of some confidence grew and then the guys were really awesome.
I was fortunate I got a couple tackles and then
came to the sideline and the linebackers who have been
obviously going through training camp with.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
They were just over the moon.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
There's you know, like showing me lots of love and
it was just it was such a cool environment. I'll
be like, yeah, I could probably do this for six
months next year, that'd be that'd be pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
So yeah, it was. It was super duper fun.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
And I bet going into next year that'll give you
a lot more comfort having not only had been to camp,
but I got into a game as well. Yeah, when
you feel that some of those rookie jitters that won't
all be gone. Yeah, but I thought likely helped me
going into next.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Year definitely less foreign than what it was going through camp.
It'll be nice knowing the process and whatnot and what
to expect.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
So yeah, and you got to go go through training
camp and in your home stadium, Like there's not a
much easier way to sort of transition from U Sports
into the CFL and to go to training camp right
in the in the stadium at the stadium, in the
locker rooms and the places that you've you've spent the
last four or five years right, So was that do

(39:25):
you feel like you had to play host at all,
you know when in that situation.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Not a ton, honestly, like being a rookie was more like, yeah,
I do like keep my head down, I don't want
to make too many waves. I'm just going to do
my best and just yeah, I just hope everything goes
all right. And yeah, I definitely wasn't walking up to
anyone being like, actually, guys.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
This is my locker where I said, I was like, no,
I will sit over here. This is my locker. I'm
happy to have them if you if you.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Take a look over here, you'll see where I sacked
this guy right around this. But yeah, that's great. You've
been remarkably consistent in your Husky's career, especially these last
three years. The numbers have been very similar from year
to year. Is that something you take pride in as
is consistency?

Speaker 4 (40:04):
Yeah, relatively, I'd say so, Like at the end of
the day, it is interesting of like it comes down
to somewhat like there's only so many plays you can make,
and I actually that is the one thing I enjoy
about defense is everyone has a system and like you
do your job in that system and if the running
back runs to your gap, it runs your gap. But
then once that system kind of dissolves, as football does,
then that's where defense is really fun because it's like

(40:25):
how bad do you want to go get the guy?

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Like, just keep running, keep going after him until he
gets got.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
So then there's lots of opportunities to make other plays
versus I feel like as an offensive player, you know, like, okay, coach,
call my number, Like yeah, like call my number, yeah,
Like I'm.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Gonna be open.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Like so I feel like there's lots of avenues where
it's like, if you want it, just go get it.
So I haven't quite happy with like how my performance
has been and I feel like it is a representation
of my skill. So hopefully that'll that'll continue on.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Are you do you have any indication And maybe you
don't yet because you know you're really waiting until next
year to really dive into this fully, but do you
have an idea of whether the Ride or like the
Riders' plans for you essentially, like do you think you'll
be able to play in the CFL as a linebacker
or are you looking at you know a lot of
guys you know, go to some special teams and maybe

(41:12):
look for the opportunity. You know, it's it's a game
of injuries too, right, sometimes you wait for that to happen,
or maybe it's just roster turnover, that sort of thing.
So do you have any sort of idea where you
figure into the plans on the depth chart or not
even the depth chart, but just sort of the plans,
the overall plan for the defense and that sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
I feel like I personally could play like linebacker in
the CFL. However, like the guys who are there, they
have a lot of experience and whatnot. They know what
they're doing. I feel like I would likely come in
as a special teams player and like that would be
my role obviously still knowing the defense and whatnot. So
if they're ever, like you said, like those injuries, because
like that is a crazy thing in football, Like just
like that, you could be like, oh, I'm on like

(41:49):
fourth stream, I probably won't see the field and boom
you're in and you got to know when the bullets
are live. So I feel like, as most Canadian CFL
players do, is like go through like the special team's
route and just like give it your all for those plays.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
And honestly, it was funny.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
That was a question that came up in the CFL
kind of interview questions, and it was like, so, would
you be okay just playing special teams for a football game.
I was like, yeah, Like that'd be awesome. Like I
gotta go one hundred and ten percent for this play.
Just beat the guy across from me and then I
get a break after.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
That would be awesome. That would be so much fun.
And you're still gonna.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Pay me, Yeah, sure, Like yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
And then like and then like yeah, work up to
like potentially like getting some defensive snaps or whatever works out.
Like I'm I'm just grateful for any opportunity that comes
my way, So yeah, I'll take what I can get.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Uh. I think that's I was I had to ask,
but I could tell basically, you know, from from what
you've been saying on so far, that was probably what
you were gonna say there. You mentioned obviously we talked
about Lane's gone, but you guys have still got a
very good team coming into this year with the Huskies.
You're about, well, I don't know, three two, three weeks
away maybe if that. From the start of camp.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
It's getting very relsively.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, two weeks. Yeah, so you know, how are how
are things looking? You guys obviously had spring camp, so
you've you've had an early look at some of the
new recruits and that sort of thing. Just how are
things shaping up for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
I think will be pretty competitive this year. I think
that we'll have some veteran guys coming back, and I
think we're gonna have a good amount of like guys
who've seen in whatnot, and I think a lot of
a good core group of leadership guys who will, like
if the boat starts to rock a little bit, we'll
try to keep it steady. And it'll be interesting to
see because like Canwest, well, like if you look at

(43:33):
it last year, it is the most competitive environment ever.
So it'll be really curious to see, like what the
other teams are looking like, because I know that they're
gonna be competitive and every game is gonna be.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
A dog fight.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
So yeah, I'm just just hoping for the best, and
I'm excited with the crew that we've got and yeah,
looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
And I mean you've got obviously a lot of experience.
You've got, you know, a starting quarterback going into his
third year in that role in anton Am and Rude,
And that's always a nice thing to have, is a
starting quarterback with experience because no matter what, it's obviously
a team game. But that's that's a big factor in
success a lot of times, especially in U sports ball.
But you're right, Canada West is such a competitive conference.

(44:14):
So you just have to look at even just your
two playoff games last year, and I was like, talk
about a roller coaster of emotions, like the way you
guys came back against UBC and then you get into
a tough, kind of frustrating, Hardy Cup game at home
against a team that I don't think had ever beaten
you guys in at least the Saskatoon in the playoffs.

(44:35):
And yeah, it's just the way that the Canada West
goes sometimes.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Righteah, definitely, And anyone can beat anyone in any given
day like in the can West. So yeah, it's gonna
be super interesting. You really can't count anyone out. Like
you know, like Ragina went on a Cinderella run and
they were a good team, Like yeah, like they they
had to like win some games, but yeah, like at
no point, like someone's got to be like not winning
the games in Canada West. Like, if you look at
those two bottom teams that ended up last year, are

(45:00):
still two super competitive teams. So yeah, it'll be very
interesting to see how things shape up.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Yeah, very rarely are there any is there an easy
out on the schedule. There's you know, the odd year
where one team just has has having a tough year,
but they're still they're gonna show up and play. Another
notable change though for you guys for use, especially as
you've got a new defensive coordinator. Yeah, not new to
the team, but new to the role Cody Halseth.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
I know it's early again, but like you know, obviously
Warren Musica, his resume was pretty impressive, the things that
he was he had done with that defense and obviously
in his playing career as well. What are you anticipating
Do you anticipate much of a change in philosophy or
like what do you what are you what's your sense
of sort of how the d is going to operate
with with Cody Halseth at the top of that.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
He's he's a very cerebral coach and like, I definitely
feel like he's going to fit that role quite well.
I'm curious to see a little bit more of like
that personality, you know, like second and long, are we
dropping back or we send it a little bit of
heat like those kind of things, and especially when it
gets down to crunch time, how how that goes?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Overall, I'm quite excited.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Like I've been fortunate enough use our defensive back coach there,
so I've sat in that like meeting rooms a couple
of times, and those dbs knew what they were doing,
and he knew what he was talking about. So I'm like,
I feel like the defense is in good hands. And yeah,
I'm pretty excited. It's not too too different from what
I'm what I'm used to, so I'm not having to
completely reinvent the wheel mentally, but yeah, I'm looking forward
to it.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
I think he'll, uh, he'll really do a good job.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
And you know you mentioned he's a dv's coach, Baby,
he can help you get that one, the one thing
that yeah, I don't think you have you had an
interception yet as also yeah, yeah, not that that's what's
primarily asked of you. I know you're much more of
a get after the quarterback kind of guy from that
linebacking corp. But you know, linemackers can cover passes too,
once they get the is that's sitting there.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
You want as if I'm a running back, my dreams
can finally come true and I can run with the football.
So yeah, I know, I'm definitely definitely looking forward to
any opportunities to touch the ball.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
So is are you lobby and there saying like hey
we got you know, you guys put a whole lot
extra whole lineman in as a running back occasionally, why
not throw a linebacker?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
I definitely have been polis.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
I mean like, if you guys need a yard, I
feel like I could try get a yard.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
I don't know, that would be something to be hold.
I would pay to see that for sure. Any other
sports that you played, I mean your basketball guy too, right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Wow yeah high school?

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Yeah, so you know, how are you? How are you
on the court?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (47:26):
I actually I played w reck basketball like in some
of the winters, and like that first game back, it's
a little rough and I'd be like, holy call, like
these used to go into the hoop like this is
not it used to be and and then you kind
of like pick it up and whatnot, and it's it's
good fun. I really enjoy it, especially because it's it's
a game that's relatively easy to pick up. You know,
you throw in your basketball shoes and you have a

(47:47):
ball versus football takes a little bit more coordination and
whatnot with the equipment and the pad. So that's nice
that I I have that outlet. But then, yeah, basketball,
you get a couple of guys going out and games
usually get a little competitive, and there's still actually was
fun in that rec league.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Is my first in game dunk.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Ever, Oh yeah, one more than me.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
But uh yeah, I know that that's fine.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Wait where the hoops regulation? I got that?

Speaker 3 (48:09):
They were Yeah, I'd be very sad if that was
stripped away from me.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I was laughing. I saw something today that someone had
I don't know how this, but they were they were
losing their minds because somewhere some report was that Luka
Doncic had a forty two inch vertical and I was like, uh,
have you watched Luka doncicch It's like I could barely
slip a piece of paper under his feet when he's
but he's really good at all the other things. He
doesn't need to jump. You've got a pretty good vertical.

(48:34):
I saw this on Yeah, thirty five thirty five inches
there according to the court of the combine. Anyways, I
have the numbers right in front of him here. Holy
Cross was your high school. Yeah, do you get used
to being kind of like, uh, the black hat, you know,
the hated the Juggernaut. It was something that I would
I was a Bedford kid way way before you were

(48:55):
at a crowd. Wait, before you were probably before you
were born. But they were all holy Cross has always
that school like they're just they're good at all, the
sports went everything. Did you did you feel it or
were you like.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Yo, yeah, no there there definitely was like a little
bit of that, especially coming on to like essentially early
years of the Huskies from like all different sorts of
high schools. You know, like you play against guys and
then you're like well like Saint Joe's Centennial or like whatnot,
and then you you're playing on the same team. Uh,
and there was yeah like like oh is this a
nice Is this as nice of a facility as a
Holy Cross or whatnot?

Speaker 3 (49:25):
It's like, Okay, you hate us because you ain't us,
but uh.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Yeah, it's it's good fun. Actually it's it's quick how
those fences fall so super super fast, and it's like, wait,
those guys in the other colored.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Jersey, we don't we don't like them. Yeah, I like you,
they're wearing the wrong colored jersey. Yeah, and then you
don't care about that anymore.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
So Yeah, it's pretty pretty quick to become friends with
some of those guys.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about uh, it's about baseball fandom,
but basically says, you're just cheering for laundry. That's what happens.
It's like like you know, like you know a player
that was on the your rival team that you just despised,
and then you're the trade for him and suddenly he's
on your team and you love the guy. Right, Yeah,
it's just laundry. You're just cheering for the shirts there

(50:08):
where it's basically I'm butchering the bit because he's a
he's a genius comedian and I am not. But yeah,
I think it holds quite true. Who was the big
rival for Was it Saint Joe? Like who were when
you were at Cross Who was your big football rival?

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Definitely? Uh, Saint Jose and Centennial Centennial.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
We played them in the city championship twice and lost twice,
and then in Grade twelve we played Saint Joe's and
then eventually got our win. So yeah, definitely a couple
of teams there, but good teams. Yeah, I had a
lot of good players, a lot of players that I'm
playing with now on Huskies.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Is that like you lose a couple of city finals
in a row, Like, is that then, and that that
that's following year like the biggest game of your life?
For like, how how much are you mentally occupied with
this we gotta beat Centennial? Like yeah, because I think
we we we Magnet. In high school, everything just feels
like it's the biggest thing, right, So what was that?

(51:01):
How are those like you know, that series of city
championship games.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Definitely at the time, it's stung, like like going to
school the next day and she be like oh and
just like it like kind of lingers on, especially like yeah,
like losing two Vanyes, It's like it just stings and
it just burns for a little bit and then it
kind of goes away, like even talking like yeah, I
lost two van Yes, but I got to play like
the most amount of games then pretty much ninety eight

(51:25):
percent of the other teams, and at the end of
the day, I really enjoyed playing football.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
I got the opportunity to go.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
There, so it wasn't a complete loss. Obviously I would
have preferred to win. But and similarly like those situations,
I got the most amount of that season that I
relatively could still obviously would have preferred to win. But
it doesn't eat me up or keep me up at
at night too much.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
You mentioned the Vanis. Do either one of those? Did
either one of those sting more than the other?

Speaker 4 (51:52):
I feel like the twenty twenty one Vane when we
played in Laval against Western, the field conditions we're really
just not pristine at all. There was like just freezing
rain and it was a huge debacle because you couldn't
wear cleats, like the tough cleats just wouldn't like go
down into anything, so you actually had a disadvantage. Like
we had coaches giving like players some like normal running

(52:14):
shoes because that was better off, and then we ended
up getting some like wet turf shoes that had a
lot more of softer, like plentiful like spikes on the
end of them that seemed to do better, and we
like panic rushed those on with like the parents charter
to get them out for us basically like two days
before the game. And then the tough thing with that

(52:34):
was it just like we both were very good teams
and I felt like that twenty twenty one Husky team
was one of the best teams that like have come
kind of together in a while, and it just was
tough that we didn't have the right representation of like
a proper field. We're like, yeah, like maybe Western like
we play on a clean field. Maybe they still beat us,
maybe they don't, but it just would have been nice

(52:55):
to be like, at least we know that that wasn't
the cause.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Other other than that, you know, like lots of great
memories spent seeing the guys, spending time in Montreal and
Quebec City like that that uh Utech Bowl leading to
that venue was one of the craziest games I ever played.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yeah, bananas, you don't talk about crazy playing conditions.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
I mean that was yeah, that was that.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Was a cool cool like it was just a win
that just cut like it didn't matter how many layers
you had on, it just cut straight through.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
And like playing in Montreal, they have a very good.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Football fan base, especially for like the Carabban and like
their stadium is designed to be loud like basically, so
with like our distance from talking right now, it would
have been and it was like I have no idea
what's going on right now, and like you're going out
for kickoff and it's like it's like like we're going
like like we're going left right, It's like we're going

(53:45):
left and it's just like holy cown, like just like
car alarms like that. They're just playing over the speakers
and like, uh, their their stands like are just like
right like basically over top of you. So you get
like the odd snowball thrown at you and like super
duper fun environment to play in and especially to win
in the last five seconds.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Man, it was it was super duper cool. If I
ever get the chance to play there again, I'd be
pretty excited.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
So yeah, we had a few episodes ago. We did
Me and My Felt, my guest that I had on
We built a Saskatoon sort of sports quarter century, like
we made our picks for like best of the millennium
so far, and when one of the categories we did
was best play or highlighter Moment and My pick was

(54:27):
that Mackhart touchdown run for even though I was laughing
to I telling the story, I won't tell it again,
but just basically have a Mason Yas, who I was
chatting with just earlier the spring, being sort of jokingly
bitter that everyone no one remembers all the passes he
completed leading up to that run. It was because it
was a great drive to win the game. And I
imagine too as a defensive guy, that was such a

(54:48):
defensive battle that it must have been just like you
couldn't take a single playoff, right because there was like
no margin for err and that no.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Yeah, And that's what it boils down to in those
big games is it's just like how crisp of a
game can you play? Like like one mistake is just
like like that's that might be like the thing that
carries on throughout the game. You could play perfect defense
all throughout, but it's just like you give up like
one big play and then they have that touchdown, just
lingers and and whatnot. So it definitely was a bit

(55:17):
more pressure, but I've I've definitely gone through and be like,
you know what, just another snap of football, just other
another twelve dudes on the other side of the field. Yeah,
like they're they're also like they're they're here for a reason,
but like so are we. So try to keep that
so the nerves don't go through the roof or anything
like that. But yeah, at the end of the day,
it's it's still pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
And I mean, like, yeah, that that drive in that
play gets all the attention, but you guys aren't in
a position to score and win the game there if
not for the defensive effort for the previous fifty six
minutes or whatever it was keeping Montreal out of the
end zone for I think that well they had one
Did they have one touchdown of that game? I think?
Or was it No, I don't think they even had one.

(55:55):
Yright it may have just been all yeah, the field
goals and because it was low scoring. But those are
the trench battles, you know. So because it's very interesting
the two very different vany A Cup games that you
played in but both decided by six points ultimately, but
very other other than that, really almost no similarities whatsoever.
But are those the when you're getting you know, off

(56:17):
season and you're when you're working and you're preparing, whether
it's for the combine and for the draft or for
this final season with the Huskies. How much did those
games provide any sort of fuel or motivation. Are you
a guy that that uses that type of stuff.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
Yeah, you could definitely like like call back on it,
like if you really wanted to, and like you're like
feeling alone in the gym, you're like, ah, man, you know,
like just going through the.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Motions and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
And then it's like if you want it to be
like man, like we lost that game, it would it
like and like, how how did I feel at the
end of that Like how many sets of like bench
press or like how many sprints did I want to do?
If I could have like basically changed the outcome of
that game and be like, man, I would have I
would have given it a lot.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
So then that kind of like you know, like access
fuel and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
And and definitely, like you like the enjoyment of like
working on getting better like is always there, but like
it definitely can serve as fuel of being like man,
I don't I don't want that to happen again, Like
I'm gonna put in some work now so that that
doesn't happen again, or at least to some of the
best of my ability.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
I think the nice thing, I mean, the luxury that
you have and hopefully you appreciate this or have sort
of taken stock or had this thought, is that you
get another opportunity. You get more opportunities to to rewrite
that or to write a different ending to the there's
a it's not even close, because I had never had
a sniff of ever playing soccer professionally or even in university.

(57:35):
But there's a goal I just about didn't just about score,
but didn't score in a play my last game in
grade twelve and in a playoff game where we ended
up I ended up scoring later in the game, but
we lost I think in a in a in overtime
or something like that. And it's just like, if not,
you know, if I got that one, we would never
go to overtime. Like yeah, there's those things. They haunt you.

(57:56):
And I never got another, you know, that was it.
That was my last games. I was like, oh, I
guess that, and no one ever is going to think
about that except for me. And unfortunately have a videotape
of that game so I can relive missing over the
crossbar over and over and over again. But anyways, so
it's just it's nice that you get the get the
opportunity to kind of another chance, and you know, who
knows how that story ends, but at least you get
another shot at it here. Who do like you talked

(58:20):
about the Canabis being very competitive, is there any team
going into this year that you've guid and got your
eye on that.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
You it'll be interesting?

Speaker 4 (58:27):
You know, Like I think Manitoba had a really good
year last year. I think that they're gonna still have
some guys that are gonna be quite competitive. I mean similarly,
like with all the teams being competitive last year, I
feel like it will be that same kind of competitive
because every team's gonna lose guys, every team's gonna gain
some guys, and some young guys are gonna step up
and and kind.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Of fill some of those roles.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
So it actually I've talked about it with like some
of my my friends and it's just like I don't know,
like it's really like interesting to basically until you play
them to see like kind of what what turns out
and like yeah, because there could be guys who just
have breakout years where it's like, oh yeah, you can't
of like like this team's looking so so or whatnot.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
But then like they just have a guy that you
just like, where did he come from? Like he's been
on their team the whole time.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
And yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how things
unfold and it'll be exciting when they do.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
And I mean like like you were touched on earlier,
Like you can even get halfway through the season and
you still don't have a handle on it. Just look
at Regina last year. They were last, they were they
were out of the playoff picture until they weren't, and
then they went on. They got hot that the found
found that secret sauce. They proceeded to to to win
the Hardy Cups. So uh, they had two wins I
think through the first six games of the season. So

(59:35):
it happens fast. It could happen fast, it could switch fast. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
My favorite thing, well relatively speaking, from last year was
in week one, the matchups basically like, uh, the teams
that won. It was the same matchups in week six
the opposite teams won. No, So that just like speaks
to like the competitiveness that like, yeah, like it wasn't
like oh yeah no.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Throughout the year like each one like their game back.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
It was like all three of these teams won Week six,
the complete other teams won. I was just like, Wow, okay,
Ken West. It does not matter. It's just who wants
it more on than any given day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
And I think what that does too, is in terms
of your preparation as a team, Right, you're not necessarily
like scheming up things to beat specific opponents, whereas sometimes
you'll hear about that or you'll see that in various
sports because there's just one team that's just always there
that you're trying to match or whatever. But you kind
of can't really afford to do that here because you've
got to be ready for everyone. Yeah, no matter whoever

(01:00:30):
that week's opponent is going to be. What's it like
having a Scott Flory as a head coach? I mean,
a guy who's a Canadian Football Hall of Famer, a
Great Cup champion. You know obviously he's a he's a
former Husky as well, But what what is that like
from from from inside the room? Like to have a
guy with that kind of resume in charge of the

(01:00:52):
whole show.

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
It's it's pretty it's pretty reassuring, especially because like he's
someone who's gone through a lot of different situations and
experience in football. So when our team's going through some
of those situations is an experience. It's not brand new
or it's like he has something that he can relate
it to and kind of like stick with uh, and
like overall, like he's very like calculated guy and I

(01:01:14):
like him. He's a pretty straight shooter. Like I'll be like, hey, coach,
like what do you think of this? And he's like,
I really like that You're like coming to me with ideas,
But I just I don't know if that was gonna fly.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Awesome, cool.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
Yeah, I appreciate it, honestly, it was kind of like
out of left field, but I thought.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
I'd run by you. Thanks for least, Yeah, no, thanks
for taking my call.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Yeah no.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
I really enjoy him as as a coach and we
joke around and have a good relationship. So overall, yeah,
I'm super happy that he's he's on our team, like
very successful coach, and I think he runs the program
well and looks after the guys.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Did he recruit you directly or yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
Yeah, it was it was funny he Uh. I think
like a year ago he talked about like some of
the other guys who were from out of town, like
he went down to their cities and took him out
for or either that he brought them to Saskatoon story
and took him out for supper. And I remember very
vividly he lives like two minutes away from us, and
like he walked over and my mom made him a
cake and he sat in our.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Living room and then we just we just chatted and uh.
And I was like, Oh, what are you gonna take
me out for supper?

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
And he's like, I guess, yeah, we never I never
took you over supper, and so yeah, so still waiting
on that on that supper.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Man, Well, well, now that you're in the CFL, you
might be buying. You might be buying the when you
did you guys know for that you might have to
pick up the check. There you guys you're as a
linebacking core. Last year, you guys all did the green hair.
You got any any follicular plans for uh this season
or anything you can reveal, got any anything on the
go or.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Clean not that turned out to be rather expensive. I'm
happy that we did.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
How many times did you did? You have to do
it more?

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
Than once just just woka, but I have quite a
bit of hair, yes, so and I'm in like yeah,
so like some people were like, why didn't you do
the whole thing, and like I don't, Like I'm a
I'm a university studient, Like I can't have that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
So uh it was saying n cuba A, I don't
have nil money coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
And no kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
Yeah, Like I'll talk to coach Floyd, but I don't
think he's gonna go for that into the budget for
that yeah, or as of right now, I don't don't
think anything anything too crazy kind of plants.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
But I like that. I mean that's an example of
just another way that you guys kind of form those bonds.
Just what is that that brotherhood? Like not just within
the line back, but just in the room. Like I know,
it's probably pretty hard to really describe, and it's one
of those you kind of almost have to be there things,

(01:03:24):
But can you put a figure on what what makes
that tick? And what's the difference between a good locker
room and maybe one that isn't so good? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
It h I really like our locker room and like
the guys, we all get along and it's just like
I've said it like to some my my family, and
it's as if we all share the same brain cell,
but we have to pass it around. So that's why
I like sometimes some of the things that go onto
the locker room aren't always the brightest.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
But like do we enjoy doing it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
Yeah, because we all got that same kind of enjoyment.
And I think for like a team, like if you
want to see if like they have like a good
locker room, it's like if if someone like gets a
cheap shot taken on them, how many guys are getting
into the face and like basically defending them and basically
being like, oh, that's not gonna fly, like not here,
Like that is my guy. Like I'm protecting them like
tooth and nail to the end.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
And I feel like there's a lot of guys like
on our team that like I know I would I
for sure would like similarly for me, So like it's
just like that camaraderie and like even like like you
touched on like with like the dyeing the hair that
was with Lane Novak and Jayden Angle, like so two
of the other linebackers who are in my linebacker rookie
class so obviously spent a lot of time with them,
and there's some of my like really good buddies.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Uh. And then I think.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
It was it was Lane who was like, hey, Jay,
like we should uh we should dye our hair green.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
And then Jay was like, yeah, let's do it seriously.
And then so they were they were.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
Gonna do it, and I was a little bit like,
I don't know, like like I got these lucious curls.
But then so when they were actually doing I was like, Okay, well,
like I'm not gonna knock do it, guys, like come on,
like uh so then so yeah, we we all did it.
But yeah, like I don't know, it's just you spend
so much time together, especially throughout the FOOTBA season. It's
just like every day, you know, like at practice, before practice,
you know, like you have a break at school, you

(01:05:04):
go to the clubhouse and like whoever's upstairs, like you
just hang out with.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
And it's like I was supposed to do school, but
we ended up just joking around for an hour and
a half.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
But I think a lot of people can relate to that,
whether they play football or not. Yeah, when you get
around a group of people that you just enjoy being
with Like maybe sometimes certain the responsibilities get forgotten about
for a time or two, but you're also there to
hold each other accountable as well. Right, we're getting close
to wrapping up here, but I did just kind of
want to you know, you mentioned the mechanical engineering, that's

(01:05:34):
the degree you're working on. I noted somewhere was it
your grandfather, your great grandfather, like holds a bunch of patents.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
Yeah, my grandpa.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Yeah, yeah, so and he was an engineer or as
an engineer as well. And I think I read somewhere
too you kind of fancy yourself and maybe like that
you would like have you invented anything? Have you come
up with any brilliant breakthroughs or I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
About brilliant breakthroughs, but that is something like I've always
been interested in, like designing stuff, and like even at
at a young age, I was like, Dad, I figured
out infinite energy. And then he's like, oh, okay, and
he's also a mechanical engineer, so he understands how the
laws of thermodynamics and how that's not actually a real possibility.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
See I was bind it. I don't I know, I
was too.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
I was like but we're gonna be rich. We're gonna
be so rich.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
But then yeah, you point out kind of like a
little flaw and like, okay, I go back to the
drawing board. And so that's really and especially like growing up,
like we always had like lego one hand, and that's
kind of sparked my creativity and design. So uh and
then yeah, like like my grandpa, you know, he he farms,
and he's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Just like, there's got to be a better way to.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Do this, and so he would mak it up and
he would design it and he for certain things would
fabricate it. And I was just like that's super cool.
So I actually I have a book of ideas that
I like it and some of them are good ideas.
Some of them might not be as good ideas, but
I write them down nonetheless. And it's actually, if you're
ever like if you have a good idea and you're like, man,
I should I should remember this one, you won't always remember.

(01:06:56):
I recommend writing it down because I would read through
him like, oh I don't remember any of this is
actually like not a half bad idea, So uh yeah,
definitely is a bit of a passion of mine. I've
actually built a couple a couple of the things, and
it's kind of fun seeing them come to life. And
there's definitely some things where I'm like, oh, I did
not think that o fully, But as a prototyping.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
That's what the testing Yeah, that's what the testing base
is for. And obviously I'm not gonna ask you to
reveal those because you know, Pat, you know you might
want to Patt in some of those one of these days,
and I don't want you to spill the beans on here.
I mean, everyone's just thirstily watching, waiting to steal all
your great ideas. Is there anything that would extend into
the football space you have? You have you encountered these
scenarios in football, whether it's in practice in the weight room,
on the game where you just thought, well, like there's

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got to be a better way to do this, or
there's gotta be a better way device, or someone's got
to come up with a better Yeah, is there anything
like that?

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
Relatively Like and Riker Frank He's he's a running back,
he's also mechanical engineering.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
He's kind of like my my whole poker.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
I'll always bounce ideas off him and and then yeah,
usually some couple of holes get poked, be like, okay,
I'll leave that one in the book. And actually I
recently had one this summer. It was is nothing crazy,
but uh I thought up and like kind of bounced
it off, and he's like, oh yeah, it's not a
bad idea. Like we got one, we got a lot
of one, and so like we went up building it
this this summer. But then like, yeah, for for example,
as like like hypothetically, if you had like some type

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of like spring action in your shoes that you basically
you could coil up on the sidelines and you could
get like a jump ads like fifteen inches to your vertical,
that'd be pretty cool, right, And like if you like
designed it as a brace, then maybe you could get
get away with this. And he's like, okay, so if
you have that much force it's actually helping you go up,
what's going to bring your toes back up?

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
And he was like, you've designed the ankle breaker three
thousand and I was like, oh yeah, so let's uh
let's leave that one on the shelf.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, nothing really crazy that's like going to
impact the game of football.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
But it's just stuff at practice, you know, like.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
I'll talk to coach and be like hey, like like
for efficiency, like what do you think about this? So,
or like for these drills, like talking directly with a
linebacker coach being like hey, you know like looking down
the pipe and like we're playing out bird and they
love running this, Like could we do some of this
and just like some of the like little little ideas
like it doesn't necessarily need to be like design or
machine like just kind of that like problem solving type stuff.

(01:09:08):
I really enjoy, and I really enjoy the staff. The
coaching staff just kind of bounce it off. And sometimes
it's yes. Sometimes it's to know and just feel heard
and try my best.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Sometimes it does all turn around and all the other direction.
That's I'll take that as I know as well. So
the wheels are always turning. I uh, I mean, I'm
looking forward to watching your gears turn on the field
one more time here with the Huskies this season. Best
of luck not only this fall, but also obviously getting
that degree finished and uh then heading on to the CFL.

(01:09:38):
Can't wait to see you in those rider colors and
we'll have to get you back in here sure next season, yeah,
or maybe in a bye week or something and get
you and get get you to tell us all about
the CFL experience as well.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Yeah, that'd be awesome. Thank you so much for having me.
This is such a cool opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
A man. There you go see still on board at
the end of the interview. Love that Seth Hund. You
can catch him on the field. Saskatchewan Huskies football season.
It's less than it's about a month away season opener
and August, so get your tickets, get at Griffith Stadium.
Pack the I was gonna say the building, it to
the edifice, if you will, and cheer on those Huskies

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as they look for another Already Cup title this season
and maybe even more than that. Thanks against Seth.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Good another tremendous guest, seth Undebi man, I could just
chop it up with him for hours. What an engaging
personality to just love talking to him about not just
football but life in general. Very thoughtful, cerebral guy. Just
another one of those types of people that just really

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blows up the old jock stereotype right like mechanical engineering
and football. Yes, you can have it all, that's for sure.
So thanks again to Seth for being here and good
luck to him and the Huskies this season. Of course,
we'll keep you posted on all their progress throughout the
year right here on good Sports. Before we go, it's

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time to salute our good sport of the week, and
for that we head to the track. In fact, we
head overseas to Rhine Ruher, Germany, which was the host
for this year's or for the twenty twenty five FEASHU
World University Summer Games. A number of Husky athletes competing

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over there, but one in particular we want to salute
this week because she's coming home with a medal. It's
Paige Williams, who with her teammates, won a bronze medal
in the women's four by four hundred meter relay, clocking
a time of three minutes thirty four point one six

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seconds again to win the bronze medal in that From
what I understand, it is the first international meet for
all four members of that relay team, which not only
included Willams, but also Tyra Boog and Favor o'polli from
Western and Georgia, land of the Calgary Dinos. Because again
this is these are all university athletes coming together to

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represent Canada at the World University Games. So these are
athletes who have competed against each other at the Canada
West and the U Sports level, or in the case
of the Western athletes in the OUA, and now they're teammates.
So that was really cool dynamic that's part of these
World University Games and they claim a bronze medal, one
of eleven that Canada one at the FIJU Games this year.

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Paige Willams just adding to a very impressive resume that
already includes five All Canadian selections, six time Canada West
All Star. She's the Huskies record holder in the three
hundred meters and she's part of the Huskies record setting
four by two hundred and four by four hundred meter teams,
the latter of which actually won a national championship in

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twenty twenty three twenty four. So she's had success in
the four x four hundred before at the U Sports level,
and now Paige Williams is also a FEESU bronze medalist
in the four x four hundred meters. Entering her fifth
year with Husky's track and field this coming year, so
that will set set her up potentially for a big

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