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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
on ninety nine to five.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Fan.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
And Away we Go on a Friday edition of the show.
It is a Friday, November seventh episode of the Region
one Sports Report.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm Brian Yorke.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You can get in touch with me on our text
line at two seven oh five three four forty three
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
And we are.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ready, We are set. We are excited for the playoffs
in football. Yeah, we are. I really am. I've gotta
go to Bowling Green today. I've got a road trip today.
But it's fine, it's good. It's uh, you know, it
is what it is. It's it's part of the territory
to go on the road and uh call a game
of your beloved team getting an upset in the first
round of the playoffs. You heard me. That's what we're
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in for today. In a really good mood today, in
a really good mood today. I do want to say
out of the gate, and if you're a loyal listener,
a longtime listener, new to the show, whatever it may be,
I do want to say, right out of the gate,
you're not gonna want to miss Monday's show. We've got
some changes in the air and some things that are
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changing with me that will affect the show. Not bad,
it's not going anywhere. But we'll announce that and talk
about that more on Monday. So if you're listening today,
making a point to listen on Monday, because we're gonna
the future of Region one Sports, the future of our coverage,
the future of everything I do here is going to
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be talked about on Monday. Exciting things for me at least,
and we'll talk about it on Monday. But that out
of the way. That's part of why I'm in a
good mood. I can I can finally share that, and
that'll be on Monday. So that's part of why I'm
in a good mood. But I'm in a good mood
because it is Friday. Because I've got a nice, nice
coffee from the five Star, put my creamer and my
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sugar in it, got it all perfect. It's a great day.
It's gonna be a little rainy, that's okay, It's all right.
You know, some of these guys, some of these football players,
they like playing in the slop like that. They're they're mutters, right,
Their fathers were mutters, their mother mothers were mutters, and uh,
and so we're fine with that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We'll make that work.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Just you know, put on your poncho, open on your
rain jacket, grab your umbrella, and go enjoy some football tonight. Now,
I don't know, because I've been looking at like what
the central part of the state, like Bowling Green, in
the area we are in. It looks like if you're
getting a home playoff game tonight and you're staying here,
you should be fine. You should be fine. You should
not run into much much rain, much wetness tonight. But
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if you're going like our Grapes County Eagles to Bowling Green,
you probably not gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It is probably going rain. Now.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It looks like it's gonna kind of clear off right
about kickoff, but it is gonna get wet. It is
gonna rain, it's gonna be a little windy, and it's uh,
it's gonna be that kind of evening, which I think
does favor And we'll talk about this more when we
we preview that game specifically, but I do think that
favor my Eagles. Right when you're playing an athletic team,
a team that relies on speed and a team that
relies on getting to the edge and quick hits and
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quick hits that go for big gains. That field gets
a little wet, it can even.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Some things up. So that's what we're in for.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So if you're traveling for the playoffs tonight, if you're
heading up at least past LBL, you're probably going to
run into some weather tonight. If you're staying home, should
be good to go. But that's what we're in for
tonight on this football Friday. I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I'll tell you what else I'm excited for and why
I'm kind of in a good mood. We started talking
basketball on Wednesday, and of course I started getting grief.
You know, we were thinking out loud. We weren't making
anything official. We didn't put out an official preseason Power
five or top ten players list or teams to watch.
We were just thinking out loud, and man, I started
getting grief. Don't sleep on so and so, Oh, you're
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messing up. I can't believe you didn't include this team.
And that is why I love doing what I do,
and that's why I love basketball season, because a you
the listener, you the fan, you the coach, you the player,
you the parent. Tend to be more passionate during basketball season,
and that's the time of the year you tend to
listen to either see if I'm gonna apologize, eat crow
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or stick to my guns, which is always more fun.
So we had a little bit of a discussion on Wednesday,
kind of getting into it, kind of thinking out loud,
some of the top teams in the region, who, you know,
the things we're looking forward to, new coaches or at
least new tenures starting.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You got new coaches at Murray and Tillman.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
On the boy's side, you've got a new tenure, a
new coach, but he's been there a long time in
coach Kimberler at Graves. Like, we were talking about those things,
and I know I just probably left three people out.
Don't yell at me, just thinking out loud. On the
girls side, we were talking about, you know, Calloway is
gonna be the team that everybody's gonna be gunning for
early in the season, but Graves and Marshall, your perennials
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will be right there as the season goes on, and
Mayfield's gonna be good this year.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Gotta slide in McCracken because they've got one of the
best players in the region.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Like that's the discussion we had on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's what I'm looking forward to when we can get
into next week and we can start giving you our
official Power Five, our official top players to watch, our
official sleeper teams, preseason Coaches of the Year, preseason Teams
of the Year, those kind of things. It gets my
blood going. It's my time of the year. It's our
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time of the year. And I've said this before. If
you break down our coverage of the school school year,
you know, we start in the fall, we've got basketball,
we end with baseball and softball, and then we take
our break in the summertime. But if you break down
our audience, it typically is our largest audience by far
as basketball season. You know, it makes sense, you've got
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more teams, boys and girls teams. You've got just more
going on that time of the year, more general interest,
it seems that time of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So it is our largest audience.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Usually by about double Now we do a pretty good
audience in football, it's our second largest audience.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I'll tell you another thing.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
The last two years, our spring sports audience has not
been that far behind our football audience. Our spring sports
audience has been within within single digit percentage points of
our fall audience. So they're making a run in the springtime.
It's really shot up. The listenership and the downloads and
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the subscriptions have really shot up for spring sports. So
we double our audience in basketball, but we already start
in football and fall with a pretty good number of
listeners and then we don't really drop off that much.
It used to be a pretty good drop off. I'm
just being honest. We used to get through basketball season
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with this big audience, this big, consistent week after week,
you know, episode after episode, consistent audience, and we get
to spring and we'd see a pretty good dip.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We don't see that anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
We see used to see in football pretty good numbers
and then a real, real big rise for basketball and
then a real big drop. Now we see a pretty
steady rise as we get into basketball and not that
much of a drop, which is exciting for me, which
tells me a it takes time to build an audience,
right we're in our eighth year of doing this. It
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takes time. And b that there has been more interest,
you know, the travel ball world and the world that
these athletes are coming up in. Now when you talk
those spring sports, there's more general interest than there used
to be. So this is our time of the year,
That's what I'm saying. Long story short, We're getting into
the meat and potatoes of Region one Sports. We're getting
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into the to the main course when it comes to
coverage on Region one. So I'm excited, really excited for that.
So I'll tell you what. I got to take a second,
get get a little more coffee going. My throat's been
hurting the last couple of days, so gotta southe it
out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Gonna take a quick early break. But when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We go football heavy, we go football playoff heavy, and
we get into it. Break them down right here in
just a moment. This is Region one Sports, Region one Sports.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Nope, it's not Ashton Coucher. It's Brian Yorke.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Equally handsome, equally smart.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
On ninety nine to five, the fan and all of
girly say, I'm pretty fly for a white guys. Reagion
one Sports.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And move it along here on your playoff Friday edition
of the show, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Let's break it down.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We're gonna start with the game I'm gonna be at
because this has intrigued for a lot of reasons. Now
you're gonna get blowouts tonight, no doubt about it. We're
excited for the playoffs. But let's be honest, some of
these games, if not most, all of these games, are
gonna be blowouts, are gonna be lopsided, are gonna be,
you know, not fun games to be at.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If if you're on the losing in this could be
one of them. It could be.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
This could be a night that Bowling Green comes out
and just absolutely punches and Graves never responds. But on paper,
and keep that in mind, on paper, it looks like
it might be the closest, best, whatever you want to
call it, matchup of the night, at least for the
teams we cover. You've got four and six Graves County,
You've got four and six Bowling Green. This is by
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far the worst Bowling Green team they've had in a
long time. But they're still Bowling Green. Like there's a
caveat to that. They may not be as good as
they were the last few years. They won the state
last season in five a football They were probably the
best team in the state regardless of class last season.
Not probably, they were, and they lost a lot of
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guys off that team. They've got a freshman quarterback. His
numbers look good, but a lot of what they do
with him is to keep him from making decisions. They
you know, it's quick slants, quick hits, out routes, receive screens,
it's things where it's just like, here's where the football goes.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Get it there. They run the ball.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Okay, not great, but again, like I said, the numbers
aren't quite as impressive as they've been in the past.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'll get into that a moment.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But defensively, what they do defensively and they're gonna hit
you harder than you've been hit all year. They're gonna
get after you. They're gonna be aggressive. They're going to
put pressure on you on first and second down. Then
they're gonna drop back and make you throw underneath on
third down and just take away anything that would give
you a first down. I mean, they're very disciplined, very good,
very athletic, very hard hitting on the defensive side of
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the football. Well, where has graves struggles been on the
offensive side of the football. So as a Graves County fan,
as the Graves County god, that concerns me a little bit.
I have faith that our defense, the Graves County defense,
which has been stellar all season, I have faith that
it can do its job and at least keep the
Eagles in the game. You worry if this is where
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the offense takes a step back because of the defensive
Bowling Green by far the best defense they've seen in
a long time, and they have been rolling.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But they have been rolling in part.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Because they've been facing the right teams at the right
time to get that thing rolling. If that makes sense.
Probably not. It's early and I'm still drinking coffee. But
looking at the Eagles, let's look at this for a moment,
and again, this is the worst. This is also one
of the worst as far as records going into the
playoffs that Graves has had in a while. But I
will say this, and you can call me a Graves
County apologist to all you want, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It is true.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
They are essentially two minutes in the Madisonville game and
maybe one drive in the Apollo game from being the
second seed in the playoffs and avoiding this game. They're
essentially two minutes and one drive away from being what
six and four going into this game and the second
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seed in their district. They had Madisonville beat at Madisonville,
they had Apollo beat they didn't finish. That's part of it, right,
that's you know, there are no moral victories. But they
were the better team in those games for the majority
of those games. So this is not what you think
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when you see a four and sixteen, just like Bowling
Green is not what you think when you see a
four and sixteen. And that's the point I'm trying to make. Now,
this may revert, and it may be like two years
ago in a running claw and then just oh man,
we came up here and we thought we had a
chance and we didn't like it. Could also be like
twenty fourteen when Graves had no chance. Nobody gave them
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a chance and they didn't even move the football. Their
offense didn't look good. Then their offense didn't do anything
against Bowling Green. Then their defense did and they got
a seven to nothing win, and two weeks later they
were playing for a state title.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Now I'm not saying this is going to propel them
to a state title. If they win.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But what I'm saying is, of course it could be
a shocker, or of course they could go up there
and get punched hard early and then realize, man, this
game is gonna be over with quick.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's what happened two years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Could also be more like eleven years ago. And they
go up and they get into a defensive battle, and
they get a little belief, and they get a little
doubt planning in Bowling Green's mind, and they get one
thing break their way.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And they win the football game. It can happen absolutely.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
In fact, if you're talking keys to the game, if
you're talking what needs to happen for Grapes to win
this game, that's what's probably gonna have to happen. I
don't think they're gonna move the football and sustain drives.
I think they can move the football some. I think
they'll have some success and maybe hit some plays here
and there that do some things. But as far as
starting at the twenty and driving eighty yards down the field,
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that's probably not gonna happen tonight. So what do you
need if your Graves County? You need your defense to
step up like it has all year. You need your
defense to do its thing, get stops, get their offense
off the field. But you're probably gonna need a turnover
along the way, like you're gonna need You're gonna need
somebody who hasn't really been a big playmaker all year
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to make one big play, right like that? Everybody plays
their game right, coleman Amis's of the world play their
game well.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The tai Caviots play their game well.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Uh and just speaking more defensively, the max Ivy's, the
Wilson Thomases, those guys kind of do what they've done
all year, hundred tod oh. They kind of bring to
the table what they've brought all season in each and
every game. But then you have that one player that
even even the radio guy has to go, wait, who
is that? You have that one player that's been been solid,
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been good, maybe a backup, maybe a sub that came
in to give somebody a breather, and they make that
big play. They pick off that pass, they recover that fumble,
they cause the fumble, get a big sack on a
on a big, big offensive possession, Right like, you need
somebody you haven't seen make a big play, maybe step
of the make a big play. The football has to
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bounce your way, as they usually say, and if it
does and their defense does what it does, yeah they've
got a shot to go in and pull off this upset.
Looking at the numbers on the season, at Jace Houston
has gotten better every game. Played his best game of
the year last week. I know he threw an interception,
but he was as efficient, he was athletic, he used
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all the tools at his disposal, and right now going
into this game, he's got his season average up to
one hundred and eight yards passing per game, nine touchdowns,
nine interceptions. Running the football, the Eagles are at ninety
eight yards per game. That's also gone up with fifteen
rushing touchdowns. Part of the passing game going up. Ty
Cavot now at fifty four yards per game and three
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receiving touchdowns on the season. Now you look at Bowling Green,
the four and six Purples. Still don't understand that, but
the four and six Purples one hundred and fifty eight
yards passing per game, sixteen touchdowns, two picks for their
freshman quarterback. Again though not that's not vertical, that's to
the sidelines. That's quick slints on the over the tackle.
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That's that's not deep shots, still good numbers, and that
tells you what they can do, you know, with their yak,
with their yards after the catch, running the football one
hundred and five yards per game with the fifteen rushing touchdowns.
Their top runner is four hundred yards in the season
or forty yards per game. If your graves, they're gonna
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want to run the football because they're gonna want to
just sustain drives and eat clock and get the win.
But if your graves, of course, you got to stop
the run because if they can run it successfully, they're
gonna win. If they can run successfully with low running
numbers all season, they're gonna win. But if you take
away the run and you're able to keep them from
getting yards after the catching and keep everything in front
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of you, man, you got a shot.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I do think.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Of course, I'm gonna pick my Eagles to go on
the road in at the win tonight. Doesn't mean they're
the favorite, but think about this, what a storybook this
would be. Let's just speak it into existence. They go
get a win tonight, they would face Apollo next week.
They're better than Apollo. They're better than Apollo, and they've
gotten better since the Apollo game. Now maybe Apollo has
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gotten better too, But you go win tonight, you go
back to Apollo next week. You could be in the
third round of the playoffs after a four win regular season.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Not a bad way to close out the year. Talk.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You hear this all the time. Your coaches preached, get
better as the season goes on. We gotta be better
at the end of the season, in the beginning of
the season, and even if this ain't our year to
make a run, we gotta be better so we can
roll that in the next season. That's been Graves County
the last five six weeks. They have gotten better. They
are better, and they're gonna be able to no matter
what happens tonight, roll this in the next season. But
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you'd like to see them get a couple more wins
and really roll something in the next season, because next
year they're gonna have twenty two seniors, all veterans, all
started at multi year starters. Like next year's team is
lining up to be dangerous. But it starts now. It
starts now. Let's go Eagles. They're gonna go get a
win tonight. I'm telling you this is just go get
a win. I got a feeling they're gonna be purple
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people eaters tonight. Go get it done, all right? Moving on, now,
we start to get into some games that probably probably
aren't gonna be probably aren't gonna be, you know, be
close or super competitive. One would be McCracken County hosting
Central Hardin. I said this on Wednesday. Love coach Gregory.
He went there. He knows it's a full rebuild. He
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knows he was taking over a bad football program in
a bad spot, and he's committed to seeing this thing through.
He knows it's gonna take patience and tom. But they
did get a win last week. They were a terrible team.
They were barely moving the football, giving up a ton
of points. They had been shut out in one, two,
three four games this season. They go win thirty four
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to sixteen over North Bullet, who was a better football
team than the North Bullet's, better than Central Hardin. And
they won that game convincingly. Now does that mean they've
got a shot against McCracken. No, And that's my point.
The Bruins one and nine on the season. They throw
the football at just forty seven yards per game, two touchdowns,
nine interceptions. They run the football at one hundred nine
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yards per game with nine rushing touchdowns. Now, listen, McCracken,
County's gonna have trouble when they play good offense because
their defense has not been great at stopping good offenses.
It's just not that's reality, that's truth. They give up
a lot of points. But this is a team that'll
ail that defense tonight. This is a team that just
like and I meant this when Graves played McCracken, I said,
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this is a defense that Graves offense will feel good against.
And they did and they won the game. Well, this
is an offense that McCracken's defense is going to feel
pretty good against. And they will and they'll win the game.
And also because they're gonna score a ton of points tonight,
they are. They're gonna put up points tonight just like
they had the previous few weeks. Two hundred and thirty
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two yard passing per game for McCracken, thirty three touchdowns,
nine picks, one's seventy one on the ground, with twenty
four rushing touchdowns. McCracken wins they win big tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That one. It just is what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
If they win, they go on, they play Henderson County
next week and they're gonna win that game. And then,
of course, as people pointed out, yes, I know that
the RPI resets things in the third week of the playoffs.
Wasn't on my brain on Wednesday, wasn't even a thought
in my head. I knew the RPI reset maybe who
the home team was at home field advantage. I just
wasn't thinking about reset the entire bracket, which is just oh, whatever,
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it is, what it is.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
But yeah, m kracken's got a shot.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Here for week three, maybe even week four of the
football playoffs, and they'll they'll win big tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
All right, tell you what, gotta take another break up
against it. We'll come back. We've got the rest.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We got it right here on Region one, Kentucky's first
region for a reason, Region one Sports Free.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Darn's our final segment here on your Friday edition of
the show.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I do have to confess I was all excited.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I had a week this week where I was gonna
make the gym multiple times, like I was gonna be
able to get some good workouts in this week first
time in a long time.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I was like, all right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And then yesterday was supposed to be my gym day
after a rest day on Wednesday, and I ended up
I had to go check my deer stand, which you know,
you gotta go check the deer stand, right gun season
coming up, Hunting seasons upon us, and I'm running out
of time and I hadn't checked it in a while,
just wanted to make sure everything was still good. Straps
were still good, everything was you know, the seats weren't
dry rotted, you know. So I go and before I go,
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I had to go to academy to pick some things up.
And I'm an academy and there's like it's ten thirty
in the morning, and I walk in and there's like
seven dudes and we're all trying to kind of fight
over the same space to get some stuff for hunting season.
Then I looked at one of the guys and I went,
you stinking late last minute hunters, you know, blocking up
everybody's path. I wit, no, if you'll excuse me, I
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need some last minute camo. Like we're all in the
same boat. It sneaks up on you, and so I
go check the deer stand. Don't make the Then I
realize I've got to rotate my tires, like tread is
wearing uneven on one side up, like it's like I've
got to and today's the last day, Like I have
no time the next few days. So then I go
change my tires instead of going the gym. And then
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so today I'm supposed to go to the gym. I'm
supposed to make up for missing yesterday. And you know what,
I got a pretty good workout in rotating those those tires,
So I'm good.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's how my day's going.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You know, I only got a couple of days in
at the gym, but I got that workout yesterday in
the shop rotating tires. I mean, that's a lot of work, man,
it's a lot of work. It's thirty minutes, but it's
it's intense. It's intense, all right. So that's where I'm
at on this Friday. So instead I'm probably gonna go
home and take a nap and then that road to
Bowling Green. So here we go. We were talking. We
talked to Eagles in Purples. We've talked McCracken County, Central Harden,
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you know, other games, and there's lots of them that'll
fall into the blowout Territory. You've got another one with
Puduca Tilman. Tonight they take on Taylor County. This again,
is a home game Taylor County. Now listen, Taylor County
is good. They've won some games. They are what seven
and three going into this game, but they did lose
their final three games of the year. They lost to
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John Harden, Marion County, and LaRue County. Take that for
what it's worth. Don't really know if they've got a
great win on the season. They don't score a lot
of points. They've got a pretty good defense. Even in
their losses. The most points they've given up in a
single game has been thirty. They'll give that up and
probably more tonight. Though they do throw the football at
eighty two.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yards a game.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They run the football two sixteen per game, sixteen rushing touchdowns,
seven passing touchdowns, nine interceptions, so they are no real
threat to throw the football. They do have one receiver
that looks like he might sneak out and get a
couple of catch if you let him. But as far
as their offensive attack, they're gonna run the football. Now again,
if they can go to Tilman, if they can run
the football, keep Tillman's offense on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Hey, you got a shot.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Crazy things have happened, But Tillman's just gonna be too
much for Taylor County.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I didn't even intend for that to flow that way.
That was great.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Tillman's too much for Taylor County. That'll be your headline.
There's your headline, newspaper. Tilman too much for Taylor County.
I'm telling you it's great.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It sure is Friday, right man, it's Friday. Well looking
at badooka Tilman two hundred and fifty six yards passing
per game, thirty two touchdowns, twelve picks. They run the
football one thirty nine per game with twenty two rushing touchdowns. Again,
too much Tilman for Taylor County tonight, that'll be the story.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That'll be a blowout. That is a home game for
the Blue Tornado.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Moving along, so, okay, we've got Mayfield is on a
bye week this week. They won't play till next week.
So we got that. Like I said, we've talked McCraken, Graves, Tillman,
who else we got whoa? We've got Murray High and
again in the category of gonna be a blowout, the
Murray Tigers, unbeaten on the season. They take on and
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host eight Air County tonight. Eight Air County a three
and seven football team. They give up points. They don't
do a lot of move in the football themselves. The
only games they've won are against bad teams, and they
scored thirty one, thirty five and fifty five. So who
knows where that goes but the Indians, the Indians of
eight Air County. They come into Murray tonight with a
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ninety three yards per game passing, six touchdowns, thirteen interceptions,
running the football won sixty nine per game with twenty
two touchdowns on the ground. You're Murray Hot Tigers again, unbeaten.
They score a ton of points. They have a really
good offense. They've got to It starts with you know,
you want to win to the playoffs, you gotta have
a good quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
They've got a great quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Two hundred and fifty one yards passing per game for
White Robbins, twenty eight touchdowns, two picks. That's twenty five
hundred and fifteen yards total in the season for him.
And then running the football one ninety four per game,
thirty six touchdowns and then of course. His top targets
are Isaiah Martin, who is ninety three yards per game
catching fifteen touchdowns, and then Joshua Bridges Junior, he is
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at seventy two yards per game with nine touchdowns. Murray wins,
they win big. This is a home game, probably gonna
be a running clock game tonight. Just my guess, just
my guestimate, they're gonna run away with it. So that's
Murray High. What else we got we got to I'm
skipping with Calloway County. Let's get to Calloway County. They're
in the playoffs for the first time in a long time,
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six years in their playoff drought. They've got Etown. This
one's tough. So of all the games we've got tonight,
you've got Graves on the road to Bowl and Green
long trip. You got Callaway on a long trip to Etown.
And then we'll talk Fulton County's road trip here in
a moment. But Calloway County will take on the Panthers
of Elizabethtown. The Panthers of Elizabethtown come in at a
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seven and three record. They throw the football one sixty
five a game. They run the football onint eighty nine
a game, twelve touchdowns, twelve picks, twenty five rushing touchdowns.
For them, your Calloway County Lakers coach Lewis in his
first year. He's got a six and four squad Matthew
Broadwell at one seventy eight per game, twenty one touchdowns,
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eleven interceptions. They run the football one to eighty nine
per game with twenty seven touchdowns, one hundred and fifty
four yards per game, and twenty rushing touchdowns For Logan Smith,
Calloway County's gonna want to do. They're gonna want to
shorten the game right. Maintain the possession of the football
as much as you can you can because you've got
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Logan Smith. Feed the beast, let him run, let him
run wild. Run the football, run the football, hit the
passes when you got to, when you got to keep
on balance. But run that football. Shorten the game, keep
the etown on the sidelines of their offense, and you'll
have a chance to win. That's really the best shot
anybody's got when they go on the road is to
shorten the game, be able to the football sustained drives,
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and you do that by running the football.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I don't know if it's a it's probably.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Gonna be a wet weather game there, because if Bowling
Green's gonna be wet, I'd say Eatown will be. Let
me look that up real quick. Well, nothing like live
radio where you're looking up weather reports. So Elizabethtown typing
that in here we go, Uh yeah, it looks like
it's gonna be wet. Now, it looks like it's gonna
break off and stop raining sometime around kickoff. But they're
expecting some pretty good rain before that. Run the football,
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dig those heels in, get it going. But Calway's in
for a tough one to night. This one's got intrigued.
If Graves Bowling Green is sort of your like keep
an eye on that one main event kind of game,
This one's right there with it with Etown and Callaway.
Etown's better. They're the favorite Caloways on the road. But again,
if you're looking for an upset alert, keep this one
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in mind. I do think Eatown wins. But let's go Lakers. Man,
you've been you've been the story of the season. When
we recap football and we look back on the football season,
Murray and Ben, that's great and I'm gonna get to
that morn a minute.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I just thought of something.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
But Murray and beating is great, but Callaway Counties turn around.
You know, I was literally having this conversation with somebody about,
you know, football teams that haven't had success in a while,
and you probably know there's a few in the region
that that falls into and I said, it can be done,
and Callaway is proof. You got to find the right opponents,
get the wins, get the momentum, get to feeling good.
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But this was a team that flipped the script. I
don't care they're playing bad teams. I've said it all
season long. I don't care you're playing teams you should beat.
These are teams that beat your brains in last season,
and then you've returned the favor of this season one
year later to get to a winning record. That's the
story of the season for me. It didn't take them
four years. It didn't take them multiple coaches and they
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can't figure it out and what's going on and why
can't we win? It took them one season to inject
life in the program and flip it around. That's the
story of the year for me.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
In football.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Just spoiler alert, I do think it ends tonight. But man,
I'm rooting for it to continue. Calloway on the road
at Etown and then last but not least, Fulton County.
They go on the road tonight. They're in the playoffs,
they get Bethlehem, So they go to Bethlehem tonight. Bethlehem
a what three four win team on the year. Again,
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this is just gonna be an uphill climb for Fulton County.
And I'm concerned with them because I mean, I was
riding high with them before that game against Russellville last week,
and not that they lost, it's how they lost. It
concerns me for them tonight. But I'm rooting for them
because they have had a good season by their standards.
Looking at their opponent tonight, four and six Bethlehem one
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hundred and forty five yards passing per game, fifteen touchdowns,
five picks, ninety nine rushing yards per game, with fifteen
total rushing touchdowns. You look at Fulton County. The pilots
come in at two and seven on the season, throwing
the football at one ninety four a game, running it
at one forty three a game, nineteen touchdowns in the air,
thirteen picks, fourteen touchdowns on the ground. Zaden Kenny's the
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dude man, ninety five yards receiving with eleven receiving touchdowns.
They have guys on paper that you think, Man, if
you're gonna pull an upset, you've got good numbers, You've
got you got some dudes that can help you move
the football. But that Russellville game, it's either gonna do
one of two things. Either that exposed them a little
bit for maybe what they are gonna struggle with and
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why they are gonna have a tough time tonight, or
it reignited them, maybe pumps a little life into them.
Maybe you know, maybe they were riding a little high
after beating Kaverna and Ballard Memorial had a game they
probably should have been more competitive in and they weren't.
Maybe that wakes them up and it flips the script
tonight again. I'm picking Bethlehem because they're the home team
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and they're the better team. But I'm I'm rooting for
the Pilots. I'm let's let's go, Pilots all in, let's go,
and that's your games, and that's our picks for tonight.
I'm always gonna take my Eagles. I think they can
pull the upset tonight. I think Callaway does lose tonight,
but I'm rooting for him like crazy. I think Fulton
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does lose tonight, but I'm rooting for him like crazy.
Tilman's gonna have an easy time. They're gonna roll, Murray's
gonna have an easy time. They're gonna roll. Mukraken's gonna
have an easy time.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
They're gonna roll.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
That's kind of how the Knight's gonna go. All right,
One more thing. I was talking about Murray and I
said they were unbeaten. Somebody brought this up on the
text line, which is why you got to text us
two seven oh five three four forty three oh eight.
Again two seven oh five three four forty three oh eight.
They mentioned this on the text machine. On the text line,
they said talking about Murray, and they said, when's the
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last time a school had two sports go unbeaten in
the same school year. Murray had football and boys soccer
go unbeaten during the regular season. And to answer that question,
I've got it for you. I don't know, because you know,
you would have to start with teams. Because the easiest
sport and I'm not gonna say easy, but the most
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likely sport that you're gonna go unbeaten in as football.
So then you look at the teams that have either
done that or are most capable of doing that, and
it really starts and stops with Mayfield and Tillman, and
they've never really had good soccer teams as far as
go unbeaten and be regional contenders, So you kind of
eliminate soccer. You're not gonna go unbeaten in basketball, You're
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not gonna go unbeaten in baseball or softball. So the
to answer the question, I don't know, but it's if
it's ever happened before.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's been a long long time, but that's where you
would start.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You'd have to start with, Okay, there's fewer games in
football to go on, so ten games, who's done that?
Because you're not gonna go unbeaten in soccer and basketball
or soccer and baseball, So the combo would logically probably
have to be football and then another sport. And it's
even harder to go unbeaten in some of those other sports.
So they may have done something well, they definitely did
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something historic. They may have done something that either's not
been done in a long time or hadn't been done
to anybody's knowledge, So I mean, you'd have to really
go back and dig. But for me, you'd start with
Tillman and Mayfield, and once you kind of eliminate them
from the fold, I don't know where you'd go after that.
Marshall's never had an unbeaten season like that. They've been
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good at so like you know, Graves like it's it'd
be hard to think of another one that even even
would be in a spot to pull that off. So
there's a little nugget for you. Thinks to our text
line again. Two seven oh five three four forty three
eight two seven oh five three four forty three oh eight.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Thanks for that one. All right, that's it for us.
I'll be on the road.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
If you're going on the road to not be safe,
be careful with the rain of the wet, wet roads
and conditions. But go out watch some football. I enjoy
it tonight. We'll talk about it on Monday, and also
our announcement. There's some changes that are going to be
in place. There's some changes that will affect how this
show is done. We'll talk about that on Monday. Until then,
I hope you've enjoyed this been Region won sports
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
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The Fan.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
And Away we Go on a Friday edition of the show.
It is a Friday, November seventh episode of the Region
one Sports Report.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm Brian Yorke.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You can get in touch with me on our text
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And we are.
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Ready, We are set. We are excited for the playoffs
in football. Yeah, we are. I really am. I've gotta
go to Bowling Green today. I've got a road trip today.
But it's fine, it's good. It's uh, you know, it
is what it is. It's it's part of the territory
to go on the road and uh call a game
of your beloved team getting an upset in the first
round of the playoffs. You heard me. That's what we're
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in for today. In a really good mood today, in
a really good mood today. I do want to say
out of the gate, and if you're a loyal listener,
a longtime listener, new to the show, whatever it may be,
I do want to say, right out of the gate,
you're not gonna want to miss Monday's show. We've got
some changes in the air and some things that are
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changing with me that will affect the show. Not bad,
it's not going anywhere. But we'll announce that and talk
about that more on Monday. So if you're listening today,
making a point to listen on Monday, because we're gonna
the future of Region one Sports, the future of our coverage,
the future of everything I do here is going to
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be talked about on Monday. Exciting things for me at least,
and we'll talk about it on Monday. But that out
of the way. That's part of why I'm in a
good mood. I can I can finally share that, and
that'll be on Monday. So that's part of why I'm
in a good mood. But I'm in a good mood
because it is Friday. Because I've got a nice, nice
coffee from the five Star, put my creamer and my
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sugar in it, got it all perfect. It's a great day.
It's gonna be a little rainy, that's okay, It's all right.
You know, some of these guys, some of these football players,
they like playing in the slop like that. They're they're mutters, right,
Their fathers were mutters, their mother mothers were mutters, and uh,
and so we're fine with that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We'll make that work.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Just you know, put on your poncho, open on your
rain jacket, grab your umbrella, and go enjoy some football tonight. Now,
I don't know, because I've been looking at like what
the central part of the state, like Bowling Green, in
the area we are in. It looks like if you're
getting a home playoff game tonight and you're staying here,
you should be fine. You should be fine. You should
not run into much much rain, much wetness tonight. But
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if you're going like our Grapes County Eagles to Bowling Green,
you probably not gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It is probably going rain. Now.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It looks like it's gonna kind of clear off right
about kickoff, but it is gonna get wet. It is
gonna rain, it's gonna be a little windy, and it's uh,
it's gonna be that kind of evening, which I think
does favor And we'll talk about this more when we
we preview that game specifically, but I do think that
favor my Eagles. Right when you're playing an athletic team,
a team that relies on speed and a team that
relies on getting to the edge and quick hits and
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quick hits that go for big gains. That field gets
a little wet, it can even.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Some things up. So that's what we're in for.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So if you're traveling for the playoffs tonight, if you're
heading up at least past LBL, you're probably going to
run into some weather tonight. If you're staying home, should
be good to go. But that's what we're in for
tonight on this football Friday. I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I'll tell you what else I'm excited for and why
I'm kind of in a good mood. We started talking
basketball on Wednesday, and of course I started getting grief.
You know, we were thinking out loud. We weren't making
anything official. We didn't put out an official preseason Power
five or top ten players list or teams to watch.
We were just thinking out loud, and man, I started
getting grief. Don't sleep on so and so, Oh, you're
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messing up. I can't believe you didn't include this team.
And that is why I love doing what I do,
and that's why I love basketball season, because a you
the listener, you the fan, you the coach, you the player,
you the parent. Tend to be more passionate during basketball season,
and that's the time of the year you tend to
listen to either see if I'm gonna apologize, eat crow
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or stick to my guns, which is always more fun.
So we had a little bit of a discussion on Wednesday,
kind of getting into it, kind of thinking out loud,
some of the top teams in the region, who, you know,
the things we're looking forward to, new coaches or at
least new tenures starting.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You got new coaches at Murray and Tillman.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
On the boy's side, you've got a new tenure, a
new coach, but he's been there a long time in
coach Kimberler at Graves. Like, we were talking about those things,
and I know I just probably left three people out.
Don't yell at me, just thinking out loud. On the
girls side, we were talking about, you know, Calloway is
gonna be the team that everybody's gonna be gunning for
early in the season, but Graves and Marshall, your perennials
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will be right there as the season goes on, and
Mayfield's gonna be good this year.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Gotta slide in McCracken because they've got one of the
best players in the region.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Like that's the discussion we had on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's what I'm looking forward to when we can get
into next week and we can start giving you our
official Power Five, our official top players to watch, our
official sleeper teams, preseason Coaches of the Year, preseason Teams
of the Year, those kind of things. It gets my
blood going. It's my time of the year. It's our
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time of the year. And I've said this before. If
you break down our coverage of the school school year,
you know, we start in the fall, we've got basketball,
we end with baseball and softball, and then we take
our break in the summertime. But if you break down
our audience, it typically is our largest audience by far
as basketball season. You know, it makes sense, you've got
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more teams, boys and girls teams. You've got just more
going on that time of the year, more general interest,
it seems that time of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So it is our largest audience.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Usually by about double Now we do a pretty good
audience in football, it's our second largest audience.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I'll tell you another thing.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
The last two years, our spring sports audience has not
been that far behind our football audience. Our spring sports
audience has been within within single digit percentage points of
our fall audience. So they're making a run in the springtime.
It's really shot up. The listenership and the downloads and
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the subscriptions have really shot up for spring sports. So
we double our audience in basketball, but we already start
in football and fall with a pretty good number of
listeners and then we don't really drop off that much.
It used to be a pretty good drop off. I'm
just being honest. We used to get through basketball season
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with this big audience, this big, consistent week after week,
you know, episode after episode, consistent audience, and we get
to spring and we'd see a pretty good dip.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We don't see that anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
We see used to see in football pretty good numbers
and then a real, real big rise for basketball and
then a real big drop. Now we see a pretty
steady rise as we get into basketball and not that
much of a drop, which is exciting for me, which
tells me a it takes time to build an audience,
right we're in our eighth year of doing this. It
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takes time. And b that there has been more interest,
you know, the travel ball world and the world that
these athletes are coming up in. Now when you talk
those spring sports, there's more general interest than there used
to be. So this is our time of the year,
That's what I'm saying. Long story short, We're getting into
the meat and potatoes of Region one Sports. We're getting
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into the to the main course when it comes to
coverage on Region one. So I'm excited, really excited for that.
So I'll tell you what. I got to take a second,
get get a little more coffee going. My throat's been
hurting the last couple of days, so gotta southe it
out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Gonna take a quick early break. But when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We go football heavy, we go football playoff heavy, and
we get into it. Break them down right here in
just a moment. This is Region one Sports, Region one Sports.
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Nope, it's not Ashton Coucher. It's Brian Yorke.
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Equally handsome, equally smart.
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And move it along here on your playoff Friday edition
of the show, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Let's break it down.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We're gonna start with the game I'm gonna be at
because this has intrigued for a lot of reasons. Now
you're gonna get blowouts tonight, no doubt about it. We're
excited for the playoffs. But let's be honest, some of
these games, if not most, all of these games, are
gonna be blowouts, are gonna be lopsided, are gonna be,
you know, not fun games to be at.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If if you're on the losing in this could be
one of them. It could be.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
This could be a night that Bowling Green comes out
and just absolutely punches and Graves never responds. But on paper,
and keep that in mind, on paper, it looks like
it might be the closest, best, whatever you want to
call it, matchup of the night, at least for the
teams we cover. You've got four and six Graves County,
You've got four and six Bowling Green. This is by
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far the worst Bowling Green team they've had in a
long time. But they're still Bowling Green. Like there's a
caveat to that. They may not be as good as
they were the last few years. They won the state
last season in five a football They were probably the
best team in the state regardless of class last season.
Not probably, they were, and they lost a lot of
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guys off that team. They've got a freshman quarterback. His
numbers look good, but a lot of what they do
with him is to keep him from making decisions. They
you know, it's quick slants, quick hits, out routes, receive screens,
it's things where it's just like, here's where the football goes.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Get it there. They run the ball.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Okay, not great, but again, like I said, the numbers
aren't quite as impressive as they've been in the past.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'll get into that a moment.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But defensively, what they do defensively and they're gonna hit
you harder than you've been hit all year. They're gonna
get after you. They're gonna be aggressive. They're going to
put pressure on you on first and second down. Then
they're gonna drop back and make you throw underneath on
third down and just take away anything that would give
you a first down. I mean, they're very disciplined, very good,
very athletic, very hard hitting on the defensive side of
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the football. Well, where has graves struggles been on the
offensive side of the football. So as a Graves County fan,
as the Graves County god, that concerns me a little bit.
I have faith that our defense, the Graves County defense,
which has been stellar all season, I have faith that
it can do its job and at least keep the
Eagles in the game. You worry if this is where
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the offense takes a step back because of the defensive
Bowling Green by far the best defense they've seen in
a long time, and they have been rolling.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But they have been rolling in part.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Because they've been facing the right teams at the right
time to get that thing rolling. If that makes sense.
Probably not. It's early and I'm still drinking coffee. But
looking at the Eagles, let's look at this for a moment,
and again, this is the worst. This is also one
of the worst as far as records going into the
playoffs that Graves has had in a while. But I
will say this, and you can call me a Graves
County apologist to all you want, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It is true.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
They are essentially two minutes in the Madisonville game and
maybe one drive in the Apollo game from being the
second seed in the playoffs and avoiding this game. They're
essentially two minutes and one drive away from being what
six and four going into this game and the second
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seed in their district. They had Madisonville beat at Madisonville,
they had Apollo beat they didn't finish. That's part of it, right,
that's you know, there are no moral victories. But they
were the better team in those games for the majority
of those games. So this is not what you think
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when you see a four and sixteen, just like Bowling
Green is not what you think when you see a
four and sixteen. And that's the point I'm trying to make. Now,
this may revert, and it may be like two years
ago in a running claw and then just oh man,
we came up here and we thought we had a
chance and we didn't like it. Could also be like
twenty fourteen when Graves had no chance. Nobody gave them
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a chance and they didn't even move the football. Their
offense didn't look good. Then their offense didn't do anything
against Bowling Green. Then their defense did and they got
a seven to nothing win, and two weeks later they
were playing for a state title.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Now I'm not saying this is going to propel them
to a state title. If they win.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But what I'm saying is, of course it could be
a shocker, or of course they could go up there
and get punched hard early and then realize, man, this
game is gonna be over with quick.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's what happened two years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Could also be more like eleven years ago. And they
go up and they get into a defensive battle, and
they get a little belief, and they get a little
doubt planning in Bowling Green's mind, and they get one
thing break their way.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And they win the football game. It can happen absolutely.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
In fact, if you're talking keys to the game, if
you're talking what needs to happen for Grapes to win
this game, that's what's probably gonna have to happen. I
don't think they're gonna move the football and sustain drives.
I think they can move the football some. I think
they'll have some success and maybe hit some plays here
and there that do some things. But as far as
starting at the twenty and driving eighty yards down the field,
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that's probably not gonna happen tonight. So what do you
need if your Graves County? You need your defense to
step up like it has all year. You need your
defense to do its thing, get stops, get their offense
off the field. But you're probably gonna need a turnover
along the way, like you're gonna need You're gonna need
somebody who hasn't really been a big playmaker all year
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to make one big play, right like that? Everybody plays
their game right, coleman Amis's of the world play their
game well.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The tai Caviots play their game well.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Uh and just speaking more defensively, the max Ivy's, the
Wilson Thomases, those guys kind of do what they've done
all year, hundred tod oh. They kind of bring to
the table what they've brought all season in each and
every game. But then you have that one player that
even even the radio guy has to go, wait, who
is that? You have that one player that's been been solid,
(14:40):
been good, maybe a backup, maybe a sub that came
in to give somebody a breather, and they make that
big play. They pick off that pass, they recover that fumble,
they cause the fumble, get a big sack on a
on a big, big offensive possession, Right like, you need
somebody you haven't seen make a big play, maybe step
of the make a big play. The football has to
(15:02):
bounce your way, as they usually say, and if it
does and their defense does what it does, yeah they've
got a shot to go in and pull off this upset.
Looking at the numbers on the season, at Jace Houston
has gotten better every game. Played his best game of
the year last week. I know he threw an interception,
but he was as efficient, he was athletic, he used
(15:24):
all the tools at his disposal, and right now going
into this game, he's got his season average up to
one hundred and eight yards passing per game, nine touchdowns,
nine interceptions. Running the football, the Eagles are at ninety
eight yards per game. That's also gone up with fifteen
rushing touchdowns. Part of the passing game going up. Ty
Cavot now at fifty four yards per game and three
(15:47):
receiving touchdowns on the season. Now you look at Bowling Green,
the four and six Purples. Still don't understand that, but
the four and six Purples one hundred and fifty eight
yards passing per game, sixteen touchdowns, two picks for their
freshman quarterback. Again though not that's not vertical, that's to
the sidelines. That's quick slints on the over the tackle.
(16:10):
That's that's not deep shots, still good numbers, and that
tells you what they can do, you know, with their yak,
with their yards after the catch, running the football one
hundred and five yards per game with the fifteen rushing touchdowns.
Their top runner is four hundred yards in the season
or forty yards per game. If your graves, they're gonna
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want to run the football because they're gonna want to
just sustain drives and eat clock and get the win.
But if your graves, of course, you got to stop
the run because if they can run it successfully, they're
gonna win. If they can run successfully with low running
numbers all season, they're gonna win. But if you take
away the run and you're able to keep them from
getting yards after the catching and keep everything in front
(16:53):
of you, man, you got a shot.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I do think.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Of course, I'm gonna pick my Eagles to go on
the road in at the win tonight. Doesn't mean they're
the favorite, but think about this, what a storybook this
would be. Let's just speak it into existence. They go
get a win tonight, they would face Apollo next week.
They're better than Apollo. They're better than Apollo, and they've
gotten better since the Apollo game. Now maybe Apollo has
(17:19):
gotten better too, But you go win tonight, you go
back to Apollo next week. You could be in the
third round of the playoffs after a four win regular season.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Not a bad way to close out the year. Talk.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You hear this all the time. Your coaches preached, get
better as the season goes on. We gotta be better
at the end of the season, in the beginning of
the season, and even if this ain't our year to
make a run, we gotta be better so we can
roll that in the next season. That's been Graves County
the last five six weeks. They have gotten better. They
are better, and they're gonna be able to no matter
what happens tonight, roll this in the next season. But
(17:53):
you'd like to see them get a couple more wins
and really roll something in the next season, because next
year they're gonna have twenty two seniors, all veterans, all
started at multi year starters. Like next year's team is
lining up to be dangerous. But it starts now. It
starts now. Let's go Eagles. They're gonna go get a
win tonight. I'm telling you this is just go get
a win. I got a feeling they're gonna be purple
(18:15):
people eaters tonight. Go get it done, all right? Moving on, now,
we start to get into some games that probably probably
aren't gonna be probably aren't gonna be, you know, be
close or super competitive. One would be McCracken County hosting
Central Hardin. I said this on Wednesday. Love coach Gregory.
He went there. He knows it's a full rebuild. He
(18:36):
knows he was taking over a bad football program in
a bad spot, and he's committed to seeing this thing through.
He knows it's gonna take patience and tom. But they
did get a win last week. They were a terrible team.
They were barely moving the football, giving up a ton
of points. They had been shut out in one, two,
three four games this season. They go win thirty four
(18:56):
to sixteen over North Bullet, who was a better football
team than the North Bullet's, better than Central Hardin. And
they won that game convincingly. Now does that mean they've
got a shot against McCracken. No, And that's my point.
The Bruins one and nine on the season. They throw
the football at just forty seven yards per game, two touchdowns,
nine interceptions. They run the football at one hundred nine
(19:18):
yards per game with nine rushing touchdowns. Now, listen, McCracken,
County's gonna have trouble when they play good offense because
their defense has not been great at stopping good offenses.
It's just not that's reality, that's truth. They give up
a lot of points. But this is a team that'll
ail that defense tonight. This is a team that just
like and I meant this when Graves played McCracken, I said,
(19:38):
this is a defense that Graves offense will feel good against.
And they did and they won the game. Well, this
is an offense that McCracken's defense is going to feel
pretty good against. And they will and they'll win the game.
And also because they're gonna score a ton of points tonight,
they are. They're gonna put up points tonight just like
they had the previous few weeks. Two hundred and thirty
(19:59):
two yard passing per game for McCracken, thirty three touchdowns,
nine picks, one's seventy one on the ground, with twenty
four rushing touchdowns. McCracken wins they win big tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That one. It just is what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
If they win, they go on, they play Henderson County
next week and they're gonna win that game. And then,
of course, as people pointed out, yes, I know that
the RPI resets things in the third week of the playoffs.
Wasn't on my brain on Wednesday, wasn't even a thought
in my head. I knew the RPI reset maybe who
the home team was at home field advantage. I just
wasn't thinking about reset the entire bracket, which is just oh, whatever,
(20:35):
it is, what it is.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
But yeah, m kracken's got a shot.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Here for week three, maybe even week four of the
football playoffs, and they'll they'll win big tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
All right, tell you what, gotta take another break up
against it. We'll come back. We've got the rest.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We got it right here on Region one, Kentucky's first
region for a reason, Region one Sports Free.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Darn's our final segment here on your Friday edition of
the show.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I do have to confess I was all excited.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I had a week this week where I was gonna
make the gym multiple times, like I was gonna be
able to get some good workouts in this week first
time in a long time.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I was like, all right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And then yesterday was supposed to be my gym day
after a rest day on Wednesday, and I ended up
I had to go check my deer stand, which you know,
you gotta go check the deer stand, right gun season
coming up, Hunting seasons upon us, and I'm running out
of time and I hadn't checked it in a while,
just wanted to make sure everything was still good. Straps
were still good, everything was you know, the seats weren't
dry rotted, you know. So I go and before I go,
(21:50):
I had to go to academy to pick some things up.
And I'm an academy and there's like it's ten thirty
in the morning, and I walk in and there's like
seven dudes and we're all trying to kind of fight
over the same space to get some stuff for hunting season.
Then I looked at one of the guys and I went,
you stinking late last minute hunters, you know, blocking up
everybody's path. I wit, no, if you'll excuse me, I
(22:11):
need some last minute camo. Like we're all in the
same boat. It sneaks up on you, and so I
go check the deer stand. Don't make the Then I
realize I've got to rotate my tires, like tread is
wearing uneven on one side up, like it's like I've
got to and today's the last day, Like I have
no time the next few days. So then I go
change my tires instead of going the gym. And then
(22:32):
so today I'm supposed to go to the gym. I'm
supposed to make up for missing yesterday. And you know what,
I got a pretty good workout in rotating those those tires,
So I'm good.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's how my day's going.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You know, I only got a couple of days in
at the gym, but I got that workout yesterday in
the shop rotating tires. I mean, that's a lot of work, man,
it's a lot of work. It's thirty minutes, but it's
it's intense. It's intense, all right. So that's where I'm
at on this Friday. So instead I'm probably gonna go
home and take a nap and then that road to
Bowling Green. So here we go. We were talking. We
talked to Eagles in Purples. We've talked McCracken County, Central Harden,
(23:07):
you know, other games, and there's lots of them that'll
fall into the blowout Territory. You've got another one with
Puduca Tilman. Tonight they take on Taylor County. This again,
is a home game Taylor County. Now listen, Taylor County
is good. They've won some games. They are what seven
and three going into this game, but they did lose
their final three games of the year. They lost to
(23:27):
John Harden, Marion County, and LaRue County. Take that for
what it's worth. Don't really know if they've got a
great win on the season. They don't score a lot
of points. They've got a pretty good defense. Even in
their losses. The most points they've given up in a
single game has been thirty. They'll give that up and
probably more tonight. Though they do throw the football at
eighty two.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yards a game.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They run the football two sixteen per game, sixteen rushing touchdowns,
seven passing touchdowns, nine interceptions, so they are no real
threat to throw the football. They do have one receiver
that looks like he might sneak out and get a
couple of catch if you let him. But as far
as their offensive attack, they're gonna run the football. Now again,
if they can go to Tilman, if they can run
the football, keep Tillman's offense on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Hey, you got a shot.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Crazy things have happened, But Tillman's just gonna be too
much for Taylor County.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I didn't even intend for that to flow that way.
That was great.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Tillman's too much for Taylor County. That'll be your headline.
There's your headline, newspaper. Tilman too much for Taylor County.
I'm telling you it's great.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It sure is Friday, right man, it's Friday. Well looking
at badooka Tilman two hundred and fifty six yards passing
per game, thirty two touchdowns, twelve picks. They run the
football one thirty nine per game with twenty two rushing touchdowns. Again,
too much Tilman for Taylor County tonight, that'll be the story.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That'll be a blowout. That is a home game for
the Blue Tornado.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Moving along, so, okay, we've got Mayfield is on a
bye week this week. They won't play till next week.
So we got that. Like I said, we've talked McCraken, Graves, Tillman,
who else we got whoa? We've got Murray High and
again in the category of gonna be a blowout, the
Murray Tigers, unbeaten on the season. They take on and
(25:08):
host eight Air County tonight. Eight Air County a three
and seven football team. They give up points. They don't
do a lot of move in the football themselves. The
only games they've won are against bad teams, and they
scored thirty one, thirty five and fifty five. So who
knows where that goes but the Indians, the Indians of
eight Air County. They come into Murray tonight with a
(25:29):
ninety three yards per game passing, six touchdowns, thirteen interceptions,
running the football won sixty nine per game with twenty
two touchdowns on the ground. You're Murray Hot Tigers again, unbeaten.
They score a ton of points. They have a really
good offense. They've got to It starts with you know,
you want to win to the playoffs, you gotta have
a good quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
They've got a great quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Two hundred and fifty one yards passing per game for
White Robbins, twenty eight touchdowns, two picks. That's twenty five
hundred and fifteen yards total in the season for him.
And then running the football one ninety four per game,
thirty six touchdowns and then of course. His top targets
are Isaiah Martin, who is ninety three yards per game
catching fifteen touchdowns, and then Joshua Bridges Junior, he is
(26:13):
at seventy two yards per game with nine touchdowns. Murray wins,
they win big. This is a home game, probably gonna
be a running clock game tonight. Just my guess, just
my guestimate, they're gonna run away with it. So that's
Murray High. What else we got we got to I'm
skipping with Calloway County. Let's get to Calloway County. They're
in the playoffs for the first time in a long time,
(26:35):
six years in their playoff drought. They've got Etown. This
one's tough. So of all the games we've got tonight,
you've got Graves on the road to Bowl and Green
long trip. You got Callaway on a long trip to Etown.
And then we'll talk Fulton County's road trip here in
a moment. But Calloway County will take on the Panthers
of Elizabethtown. The Panthers of Elizabethtown come in at a
(26:57):
seven and three record. They throw the football one sixty
five a game. They run the football onint eighty nine
a game, twelve touchdowns, twelve picks, twenty five rushing touchdowns.
For them, your Calloway County Lakers coach Lewis in his
first year. He's got a six and four squad Matthew
Broadwell at one seventy eight per game, twenty one touchdowns,
(27:19):
eleven interceptions. They run the football one to eighty nine
per game with twenty seven touchdowns, one hundred and fifty
four yards per game, and twenty rushing touchdowns For Logan Smith,
Calloway County's gonna want to do. They're gonna want to
shorten the game right. Maintain the possession of the football
as much as you can you can because you've got
(27:40):
Logan Smith. Feed the beast, let him run, let him
run wild. Run the football, run the football, hit the
passes when you got to, when you got to keep
on balance. But run that football. Shorten the game, keep
the etown on the sidelines of their offense, and you'll
have a chance to win. That's really the best shot
anybody's got when they go on the road is to
shorten the game, be able to the football sustained drives,
(28:01):
and you do that by running the football.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I don't know if it's a it's probably.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Gonna be a wet weather game there, because if Bowling
Green's gonna be wet, I'd say Eatown will be. Let
me look that up real quick. Well, nothing like live
radio where you're looking up weather reports. So Elizabethtown typing
that in here we go, Uh yeah, it looks like
it's gonna be wet. Now, it looks like it's gonna
break off and stop raining sometime around kickoff. But they're
expecting some pretty good rain before that. Run the football,
(28:29):
dig those heels in, get it going. But Calway's in
for a tough one to night. This one's got intrigued.
If Graves Bowling Green is sort of your like keep
an eye on that one main event kind of game,
This one's right there with it with Etown and Callaway.
Etown's better. They're the favorite Caloways on the road. But again,
if you're looking for an upset alert, keep this one
(28:50):
in mind. I do think Eatown wins. But let's go Lakers. Man,
you've been you've been the story of the season. When
we recap football and we look back on the football season,
Murray and Ben, that's great and I'm gonna get to
that morn a minute.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I just thought of something.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
But Murray and beating is great, but Callaway Counties turn around.
You know, I was literally having this conversation with somebody about,
you know, football teams that haven't had success in a while,
and you probably know there's a few in the region
that that falls into and I said, it can be done,
and Callaway is proof. You got to find the right opponents,
get the wins, get the momentum, get to feeling good.
(29:26):
But this was a team that flipped the script. I
don't care they're playing bad teams. I've said it all
season long. I don't care you're playing teams you should beat.
These are teams that beat your brains in last season,
and then you've returned the favor of this season one
year later to get to a winning record. That's the
story of the season for me. It didn't take them
four years. It didn't take them multiple coaches and they
(29:48):
can't figure it out and what's going on and why
can't we win? It took them one season to inject
life in the program and flip it around. That's the
story of the year for me.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
In football.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Just spoiler alert, I do think it ends tonight. But man,
I'm rooting for it to continue. Calloway on the road
at Etown and then last but not least, Fulton County.
They go on the road tonight. They're in the playoffs,
they get Bethlehem, So they go to Bethlehem tonight. Bethlehem
a what three four win team on the year. Again,
(30:22):
this is just gonna be an uphill climb for Fulton County.
And I'm concerned with them because I mean, I was
riding high with them before that game against Russellville last week,
and not that they lost, it's how they lost. It
concerns me for them tonight. But I'm rooting for them
because they have had a good season by their standards.
Looking at their opponent tonight, four and six Bethlehem one
(30:43):
hundred and forty five yards passing per game, fifteen touchdowns,
five picks, ninety nine rushing yards per game, with fifteen
total rushing touchdowns. You look at Fulton County. The pilots
come in at two and seven on the season, throwing
the football at one ninety four a game, running it
at one forty three a game, nineteen touchdowns in the air,
thirteen picks, fourteen touchdowns on the ground. Zaden Kenny's the
(31:05):
dude man, ninety five yards receiving with eleven receiving touchdowns.
They have guys on paper that you think, Man, if
you're gonna pull an upset, you've got good numbers, You've
got you got some dudes that can help you move
the football. But that Russellville game, it's either gonna do
one of two things. Either that exposed them a little
bit for maybe what they are gonna struggle with and
(31:26):
why they are gonna have a tough time tonight, or
it reignited them, maybe pumps a little life into them.
Maybe you know, maybe they were riding a little high
after beating Kaverna and Ballard Memorial had a game they
probably should have been more competitive in and they weren't.
Maybe that wakes them up and it flips the script
tonight again. I'm picking Bethlehem because they're the home team
(31:47):
and they're the better team. But I'm I'm rooting for
the Pilots. I'm let's let's go, Pilots all in, let's go,
and that's your games, and that's our picks for tonight.
I'm always gonna take my Eagles. I think they can
pull the upset tonight. I think Callaway does lose tonight,
but I'm rooting for him like crazy. I think Fulton
(32:07):
does lose tonight, but I'm rooting for him like crazy.
Tilman's gonna have an easy time. They're gonna roll, Murray's
gonna have an easy time. They're gonna roll. Mukraken's gonna
have an easy time.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
They're gonna roll.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
That's kind of how the Knight's gonna go. All right,
One more thing. I was talking about Murray and I
said they were unbeaten. Somebody brought this up on the
text line, which is why you got to text us
two seven oh five three four forty three oh eight.
Again two seven oh five three four forty three oh eight.
They mentioned this on the text machine. On the text line,
they said talking about Murray, and they said, when's the
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last time a school had two sports go unbeaten in
the same school year. Murray had football and boys soccer
go unbeaten during the regular season. And to answer that question,
I've got it for you. I don't know, because you know,
you would have to start with teams. Because the easiest
sport and I'm not gonna say easy, but the most
(33:00):
likely sport that you're gonna go unbeaten in as football.
So then you look at the teams that have either
done that or are most capable of doing that, and
it really starts and stops with Mayfield and Tillman, and
they've never really had good soccer teams as far as
go unbeaten and be regional contenders, So you kind of
eliminate soccer. You're not gonna go unbeaten in basketball, You're
(33:22):
not gonna go unbeaten in baseball or softball. So the
to answer the question, I don't know, but it's if
it's ever happened before.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's been a long long time, but that's where you
would start.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You'd have to start with, Okay, there's fewer games in
football to go on, so ten games, who's done that?
Because you're not gonna go unbeaten in soccer and basketball
or soccer and baseball, So the combo would logically probably
have to be football and then another sport. And it's
even harder to go unbeaten in some of those other sports.
So they may have done something well, they definitely did
(33:58):
something historic. They may have done something that either's not
been done in a long time or hadn't been done
to anybody's knowledge, So I mean, you'd have to really
go back and dig. But for me, you'd start with
Tillman and Mayfield, and once you kind of eliminate them
from the fold, I don't know where you'd go after that.
Marshall's never had an unbeaten season like that. They've been
(34:19):
good at so like you know, Graves like it's it'd
be hard to think of another one that even even
would be in a spot to pull that off. So
there's a little nugget for you. Thinks to our text
line again. Two seven oh five three four forty three
eight two seven oh five three four forty three oh eight.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Thanks for that one. All right, that's it for us.
I'll be on the road.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
If you're going on the road to not be safe,
be careful with the rain of the wet, wet roads
and conditions. But go out watch some football. I enjoy
it tonight. We'll talk about it on Monday, and also
our announcement. There's some changes that are going to be
in place. There's some changes that will affect how this
show is done. We'll talk about that on Monday. Until then,
I hope you've enjoyed this been Region won sports
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