TFTS E37 : Winton Woods Head Football Coach Chad Murphy

In this episode of "Tales from the Script", Martin, Pat, and Bret talk to Winton Woods Head Coach Chad Murphy

Chad talks about his history, his philosophy, and previews the 2025 season. Check out this episode of Tales from the Script.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy rainy July evening, fellas, it's good to be back
on here. Yeah, they have a nice We got a
nice guest lined up here here coming up in a
few minutes. But before, I wanted to ask you guys,
I'm a big connoisseur of the like behind the scenes
kind of hard knocks type shows, documentaries, and the one

(00:24):
that was at least a couple of yeah, full swing
things like that. But the one I wanted to ask
you guys about and get your thoughts on is the
I think it's the third season now of Quarterback on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I imagine I imagine a lot of theati. Yeah, yeah, it's
it's really good.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Imagined a lot of people in Cincinnati, if they haven't
watched it yet, they're probably drawn to it because one
of the three stars is the one and only Joe Burrow,
who's on there along with Kirk Cousins of the Atlanta
Falcons and Jared Goff of the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
So what do you guys think? What your thoughts? I
love it? Is this the second time Kirk Cousins been
on Yes? Yes, yeah, yeah, he's such a nerd. Now
I tell you what didn't I mean? I mean, I
don't want to I don't want to throw a spoiler
out there, but he gets benched at the end of
the season.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
For those of you listening, what do you mean, how
are you spoiling anything?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Is just a.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Summer of last year's season spoilerer.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Cousins gets benched. But I'm going to tell you if
you have a dry eye. When he's sitting there reaching
out to panic saying you're the starter, and his wife
can't even get it out, saying to the man I'm married,
I'm like, I haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Seen that far yet.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
I'm about halfway through the third episode, so I haven't
gotten to that point yet.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
But you know, in my mind, as I went back
and kind of reviewed last year, I thought he had
a worse season than what he did.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I thought it went south a lot early.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
It kind of seemed like to me, but it didn't
take until much maybe three games left to go in
a year.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
And then injuries. Yeah, he's got the body fail, Yeah
he's got.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Weren't they like six and four or something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
In a row or six and three when he got hurt, Like, yeah,
he got hurt in the game where they lost their
fourth So I mean, yeah, he was having a well
he is such.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
A nerd though.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I love just the dad vibe, the singing Celine Dion
in the car with his brother, like.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh not just singing.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Every Yeah, that was I love that whole episode when
his brother and his two high school teammates classmates, they
come to a game every year and they have a
different theme that they dress up as.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
When they go to the game and they've been doing it.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
For thirteen years every year in the league.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
About not stealing anyone's girlfriend, Joe Burrow could steal anyone's girlfriend,
that dude.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Talk about just a.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
A smooth operator factor.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yes, yeah, and what is not cool about that dude?
And I'm not saying Bengs fan. He could play for
any team in the league, and I would say that
he is.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
How number one? How good is he?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Like when you see it, like and they focus in
on some of the plays that he makes under the
duress of the terrible offensive line he plays behind, like.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
That, he's he's so good and you can't.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
But if he had that kind of swagger and he
couldn't back it up, then it would get then it
would be no good, right, But you can have that
kind of swagger when you can do the things that
he can.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Do, and and and I don't want to take away
from the quarterbacks. It's the fucking name of the show.
But I will tell you this, the one who steals
the fucking show. It's Kristen Golf. Oh my god, did
you know I would drink her bath? Did you notice

(04:10):
the camera shot.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
When they when they were interviewing him, and they zoomed
past him in his office and it had her sports illustrated,
like like cover shot or whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
They weren't even yes. I tried not to be the
old creep man that says but then finally I had to.
I had to check it out, like on social media.
I had to go look her up. I was like,
all right, what does she look like in like the
bathing suit? I went total creep mode. I'm like, but
g Man Netley and that she is a smoke, absolute smoke.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Two things I'm going to do after watching this, and
I'm already.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
On my phone scrolling is I'm going to buy one
of those sinsy hats and I'm going to buy one
of the Detroit hats.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
It just says grit on it.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I love.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Going to be my two lids for the rest of
the How.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Much do you like just I know it's about golf,
and golf seems like like a little bit less of
a killer than than Joe Burrow, but still only steally
steely freaking resolved. And how much do you love Dan Campbell?
Oh yeah, yeah, my favorite scene, My favorite scene now
spoil alert. They go for it. Uh but the fourth

(05:24):
and one when they wanted to run the ball and
they wanted to hold the ball till the end of
the clock and he comes over because we're probably gonna
kick this one, and Golf was just like, damn it,
all right, I mean, it's guy, I wanted to run
the ball. I want to hold the ball till the
end of the game. And he's just like, and Dan
Campbell sitting there. It was a TV time out, and
he goes get it. He just got ended up in
the game right now.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
I love the reasoning though, because he thought it through
and they were really banged up on defense. He said
they had picked up a couple of guys in a
practice squad that we're.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Gonna be on the off the street basically.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
And he's like, I'm gonna put the game in their hands.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
It's not fair of them, right, you know, we got
all these stars on offense.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let them go for do it.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
That's what That's what we're paying Jack Off fifty five
million dollars a year for.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
And the thing about him is that he he he
had that conviction before the game and he said, this
is going to be You're you're going to play a
game that's been played unlike any other game in your career,
in a game you'll never forget.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
We're going to go for it. A million times.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
He says, we're just going to keep going forward unless
it's like fourth and seventeen.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
We're just going to keep going forward. We're going to
keep the.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Ball in our hands, and you'll you'll never forget this game.
And it came down to he had to make that
decision with a minute forty one to go in the game.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
It might look like a meadi head, but he has
no dummy.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
He knew his defense. I think I think.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Offensive just scored fifty something points the week before.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
He's like, why punt where?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know, like keep it, don't give it back to him.
I love that guy. I love that guy.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Is he kind of like is he a modern day
like Bill kuer so to speak.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I mean then he kind of just say Bill Cower
esk absolutely Steel Chin.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, Chin and Mike Rabel. He and Mike Rabel were
like cut from the same cloth.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I see, I see more coward than Rabel. Rabel is
a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely uh love
love Quarterback. I think it's it's one of the best shows.
All those all those documentaries are the best shows. But yeah,
I mean just to see behind the scenes and doing
all those different things and and how gonna I'm.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Gonna get a go pro from my hat. This is
fall when I'm coaching freshmen and.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Make it you can be like Kirk YouTube documentary. Yeah,
you wear your eyes during practice.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Hey, here's my question, though, are you going to wear
a helmet and haven't mounted on your helmet during about that?

Speaker 7 (07:58):
Welcome to Tails from This a bad app Cincinnati high
school sports podcast that features local coaches and athletes. You're
your hosts, Brett Schneeber, Pat O'Connor, and Martin Eisley.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, fellas, I'm excited to bring in our guests tonight.
When I really started, I've been trying to line him
up for a while and things have just kind of
gotten in the way. But when I started thinking about
it and my experiences with him, my relationship with him,
I realized that it goes back a lot lot further
than what I actually thought. And because you know, the

(08:46):
years kind of creep on by, but uh, thirty years, Yeah,
I'm approaching. Yeah, this is this will be thirty years
coming up here. I believe, so and and and that's
a little bit of part of the story. But anyway,
local high school head football coach.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
He's been.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
I think now he's at his I believe his third
third post as a head coach. Started his head coaching
career in twenty ten. Before that, he was an offensive
coordinator Mount Healthy and then from there he took the
Northwest job.

Speaker 8 (09:20):
Coach.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
At Northwest and then he got the spent about six
years I believe at the Hamilton Big Blue and took
a couple of years as as an assistant coach, and
now he is the head coach of the Winton Woods Warriors.
Let me introduce you, coach, Chad Murphy. Coach, how were
we doing tonight?

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Hey? Doing great? Doing great. Appreciate you guys having me.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
On absolutely, But I think it's by my math, you've
been a head coach now thirteen of the last fifteen years.
Does it seem like you've been a head coach that
long as it seems like it's been.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Thirty five of the last forty years.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Oh yeah, I think I think the latter there, I
think the latter.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
You know, I really didn't start to notice here until
the last few years, and since I hit forty, it
just it just went faster and faster. I mean, every
school year, every season, every summer is just that much
faster than the one before.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Really Yeah, yeah, well both.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, in the intro there, I mentioned that our
history goes way back. I had forgotten that the one
year I spent as an assistant at Wilmington College was
nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
You were actually on the squad.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Then, and I'm trying to remember, Well, yeah, it was
crazy you were running.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Were you a running back for the Quakers.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Or well, I can't, I can't.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
I went to college as a quarterback and dB quarterback
was supposed to you know, was supposed to play some dB,
and then moved the quarterback springing my sophomore year and
ended up breaking the wrist and sat out a year,
transferred schools, came in as a dB. Wilmington moved a
running back, So played a little played a little bit
of a little bit of everything.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, whole player.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
I guess high school. I graduated from Franklin High School.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Okay, cool, shoot from Lillington. That's not far at all, No,
not at all.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
As yes, aren't they pass?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
You got to put the fighting in front of the Quators.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
You got Quakers are pasifists.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I've never understood that.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, Martin, when I got there, the head coach at
the time, Mike Wallace, wonderful man. He took a chance
on me, and but we got he He had just
redone the uniforms, and the uniforms at the time were
like the helmet logo was basically a carbon copy of

(11:51):
the New England Patriots, so instead of having like the
Patriots thing on it, it was in the green and
and silver and black and everything and had a little
w on the hat of the Quakers. So I don't
know if they ever got a season assistant letter on that,
I don't know, but I'm sure coach Wallace he just
stole that straight from the straight from the Patriots.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Awesome that's design.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
But yeah, I remember those teams.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean, you know, I the year I was there
coaching quarterbacks, it was Scottie Killing and Adam Ryan and
you know, teammates of yours there. And I remember Jonathan
Kane playing receiver and and uh coach marsh was was
running the offense. And I was only there in ninety eight.
But then the rest of your career, man, you guys,

(12:37):
like you guys put it together and you go back
and look at I mean the one year I think
you guys were nine and one and you were playing
in the old the old HCAC. But what are your
what are your you know, thoughts and memories of that time.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, it was, you know, it was really good.

Speaker 9 (12:52):
I went to I went to Kentucky Westling College at
B two right out of high school.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
I thought I wanted to get away.

Speaker 9 (12:57):
It came down to like the University of Bayton and Kentucky,
and I think I just wanted to get away.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
So we ended up down there.

Speaker 9 (13:02):
But you know, Willmington was great, and we had a
bunch of guys that had moved transferred in that year
that I that had went away somewhere else, and then
local guys that ended up you know, falling out of
falling off D one, D two, whatever it was.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
So we ended up getting some really good football players
in that class ninety nine. We were nine and one
that year.

Speaker 9 (13:21):
That was our last year the HCAC, and I really
think it's been about the last bit of winning that's
occurred there, just because of the move to the OAC
and things like that. So but man got you know,
some really good football players, some really good friends to
this day, you know.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
And it was a couple of years at Wilmington.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, And you know, I wish I could have coached
longer with coach marsh and he God rest his soul.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I mean he was he was the head wrestling coach
and he was also the offensive coordinator. But I thought
he did some really good things that were especially in
the run game. I thought he was ahead of his
time a little bit and some of the stuff he
was doing.

Speaker 9 (13:56):
Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean he was a blessing, great,
great human number one. And and and you know, I
think I think Adam threw for you know, three four
thousand yards a couple of years in a row. I
mean he was a great player to Adam Ryan five
seven all five seven eight elder. You know, he was
a runner up from Ohio his senior year. I think,

(14:17):
you know, just just a really really good football player.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, that game we went, we played out of Franklin
that year. It ended up like fifty five to forty
eight or something. I think both teams threw for close
to four hundred and fifty yards and the game took
like four and a half five hours. It seemed like
it was a hot day. And oh yeah, it was
a fun game. It was the track meet back and forth.
It really was.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
So coach, I've admired you from afar been a part
of the Cincinnati sports team for a long time at
a coach in the Sinceinn area. So just admired what
you've done with WENTWS program for sure. But before you
were coach, obviously, you were just a little dude with
some high aspring dreams of being an athlete and all
those things. So walk us back to being like, you know,
coach Murphy, you're thirteen years old, Like what what sports

(15:01):
were you doing? Like what were you what did you
want to be when you grew up? All those different things?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, I was, I mean I was a.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
You know, probably like everybody, and most guys back in
the day played everything.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
You know.

Speaker 9 (15:10):
I was a football, basketball, baseball guy, wrestled a little
bit in middle school, you know, pitt around with a
little bit of track this and that, you know.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
But but really thought I was going to be.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
A college football player, and that's what I wanted to do,
not necessarily, you know, coaching wasn't the you know, I didn't.
I wasn't that guy that said, you know, I'm gonna
be a coach when I'm in high school.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
You know, I don't know what I was.

Speaker 9 (15:30):
I don't know what I thought i'd do, but I
knew football, probably be involved in it somehow, some way,
you know. Went to college and ended up being a
sports management major, and and and did a little intern
with the Buffalo Bills and in the front all scouting department,
and thought I was going to be heading that direction.
But you know, I had a couple of kids by
the time I graduated high school and was trying to

(15:52):
you know, it was a little little uh more, was
supposed to be a little bit more settled down than
than my my counterparts, and and uh just just couldn't
couldn't go back and intern for a second year, you
know what I mean. So then I was here in
the Cincinnati area with the college degree and and uh,
you know, just just for you know, fortunately got on
at UH at Monroe High School, little Monroe High School,

(16:15):
and started out just suthern and and like, man, you know,
I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing,
you know, coaching high school football and teaching and things
like that. And ended up getting my my uh special
ed license at the master of graduate level and just
spent six years at Monroe to you know, right out.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
The gate and just really been been a hunter, been
a whirlwind since.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
So being at the Buffalo Bills. Love being at your
first stop. I mean, that's an impressive first stop. What
are some of the things that you kind of learned
from that that you're still carrying through to today.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it was it was an internship,
so I wouldn't do anything fancy, you know, I was.
I was getting some guys coffee here and there, and
running some copies and answering the phone and walking Doug
Flutie to some autographs and things like that, you know,
But but I just knew, I just knew that that
that football you know, I knew, I you know, I
love I loved it, loved it as it started in

(17:10):
second grade, playing in second grade, you know, and I
just you know, absolutely felt fallen in love with it
ever since. And you know, I don't know if it
was any one thing, but I just knew that I
had to be doing something involved in this game, just
you know, so you know, it was it was a
kind of the coaching thing just just kind of fell
in my lap. And looking back now, I just I

(17:31):
just couldn't imagine doing anything else, you know what I mean.
It's just crazy, but but I really just couldn't imagine
doing anything else. But yeah, I worked for Wade Phillips
and and uh man, it was you know, just just
seeing those guys and seeing how they handle themselves on
and off the field a little bit, you know, and
I think I think just all those things.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
You know.

Speaker 9 (17:48):
That's the one thing I've learned is no matter the
level that you know, the problems and and and and
you know the things that you need to master and
things like that, it doesn't change a whole lot on
the level of the level. There's just fancier things involved
the higher you get, you know. But football's football. And
you know that was a great start, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
One thing, that one thing that amazes me. And I
think you just you know, alluded to it there a
little bit. As as high school coaches, we have the
same problems that they have. You know, a guy lines
up af sides on defense, I mean a guy, a
guy flinches on a on an extra point, like they
make the same mistakes that high school kids make, and
you know everybody sees them because they're you know, they're

(18:28):
broadcast every Sunday afternoon. But the same thing that kills
the drive at the NFL kills a drive at the
high schools, you know, holding on a run, play things
like that. So yeah, I mean it's like you said,
football's football, and it's uh that I don't think that's
ever going to change, no matter what level it is.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
So coach, there were you there for the Music City Miracle?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
No, no, no, no, you said.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Wade Phillips, that's the thing like his face.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Two thousand a year two thousand.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
It was just training camp, a little bit longer maybe
than training camp. So wasn't anything too long. It was
at same John Fisher, Rochester, New York.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Right, you were saying that the things that are similar
between the NFL team and say high school, and that's
all true, right, The other similarities are, you know, you've
got a group of men, and in your case young
men something.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
They come in as kids, they come out young men, right.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
But you got a group of fifty something sixty something
people working towards the same goal.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Right, and everybody relying on each other.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
And from your perspective as a head coach, you know,
you're you're using the sport to teach them the life
lessons that hopefully they take with them into their jobs
or careers, to the next level whatever. So there's that
mentorship part that I think is also a similar. Talk
a little bit about your mentorship and how you affect
these kids on off the field.

Speaker 9 (19:45):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, you know, the older I get,
I you know, I look back and I'm like, man,
I was you know number one, I had a I
was blessed to have a great dad.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
You know, I had a great dad and uh you
know I and I and I have five daughters. You know,
so I was a football guy.

Speaker 9 (20:03):
You know, my dad was one of my first you know,
uh showed me what you know, how to do things,
you know, being blue collar and getting your butt up
and going to work and you know all those you know,
really really important things.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
And and then you know, not having a son.

Speaker 9 (20:19):
I feel like, you know, I get to kind of
do that, you know, I kind of have you know, subconsciously. Uh,
you know.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
There's some there's some treat treat these guys like they're
they're my kid. You know, how would I how would
I want my kid treated type stuff? You know what
I mean?

Speaker 9 (20:34):
And I think that's always been a piece of me,
especially you know, because of some of the some of
the places I've been and things like that, where uh,
you know, uh, my role is way more than had
football coach, you.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Know what I mean. And I think that's it's not
by accident. You know, it's not by accident.

Speaker 9 (20:52):
So it's something I take, I take near and dear
to my heart. But yeah, this is it's about so
much more than you know, you know.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
The old quote about it's just a game. Yeah, it's
just a game.

Speaker 9 (21:05):
But man, I mean, you know we're talking about you know,
coach Schnieber here, you know, twenty years twenty five years
ago at you know, nineteen ninety nine, nineteen ninety eight
at Wilmington College, you know, and then here we are,
you know, highing many years later. You know, just you know,
it is just a game, you know when it comes
down to the wins and the losses.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
But then when you when you when you when.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
You think about the the opportunities that you have to to, uh,
you know, help the future, make this, make this world
a better place, all them cheesy quote unquote cheesy thing.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
It's what it's all about, man.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
And the more I do this, the longer I do this,
you know, it's just it brings it back home every
you know, every year, it's nothing changes as far as asks, Well,
we want great kids, man, you know, we we know
kids are gonna make mistakes. I know, I know forty
eight year old grown men that made mistakes. You know,
but you know, loving these guys, I think everything we do,
everything that we do really.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Well, starts with love.

Speaker 9 (21:59):
And uh, you know, I think that's where we start,
you know, development of young people. You know, we want
them to develop them as dvs and quarterbacks and all
those great things, but you know, we want to develop
these guys to be man, just just to be great people.
And you know, we're on this we're we're on this
earth to do way more than play football and win
football games, you know what I mean. So the constant

(22:20):
reminder of those things to our guys, you know, I
hope they you know, that's what they take away from
my way too long talks at the end of weights and.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Things like that.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Love, that's big picture stuff right there.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah, the thing I was going to get out of
the clouds and talk about your current team. You got
some dogs, right, so talk a little bit about your seniors,
your leaders, and then we'll get into your schedule. But
you know, talk about your guys and you know, let's
highlight them for a minute.

Speaker 9 (22:49):
Yeah, we we you know, it's we've been this place
has been really really good for a long time. You know,
nineteen ninety one. Have had one losing season since nineteen
ninety one, and you know, I did not know that
that's an yeah, yeah, so I think nineteen ninety one
was the first season they played football, you know, uh,
Forest Park in Green Hills combined, and one losing season
since nineteen ninety one, and just you know, I'm only

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the fourth I'm only the fourth head coach since nineteen
ninety one. You know, that's a blessing in itself when
you look.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
At so it was Troy Everhart and obviously Andre and
then you who was the other one?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Did I miss?

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (23:22):
That was that was that was the that was the
goat here?

Speaker 5 (23:27):
Yeah, coach car yeah, head.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
He was the first.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
I can't remember how many years it was when when
he took over one of the king Force or went Woods,
I can't remember, but but Troy was about ten or eleven,
Dre was about ten or eleven. Uh So do the
math there, you know, I'm going on year five. So
but yeah, you know, just just only the fourth guy,
you know, and you look at you look at whether

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it be other high school programs or Power four programs
or NFL programs with the changing of the guard all
the time, you.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Know, And in my career, I've been I've been less
to be.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
Oh and ten is a a coordinator, ten and O
is a coordinator.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Oh and ten as a head coach? Ten and O
as a head coach. You know what I mean. So
I've seen it.

Speaker 9 (24:12):
I've seen good seasons and I've seen bad seasons as
an assistant and as a head coach, you know, and.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
It's all important, every bit of you know, every bit
of it, you know.

Speaker 9 (24:25):
So you know, I just think, you know, all all
all that, all those experiences as long as you're learning,
you know, and that you know, I've tried to be
a constant, a continuous what they call that that, you know,
just always reading and learning and talking to people and
becoming way more of a listener than I am a talker.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
You know these days. And so it's it's been, it's
been a blast.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
You know.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
I'm forty eight years old and time flies, you know,
and and I'll tell you, man, I really can't imagine
doing anything else.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I think it's safe to say that went Woods is
the the Pittsburgh Steelers of yeah, of high school football.
I mean, yeah, we looked about it. I mean, taking
or Chuck Mooll, Bill Kawer, and Mike Tomlin. I mean
that was That's that's our lifetime. Yeah, all four of
us sitting here talking, that's our lifetime. They've had three

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head coaches.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean, so I forgot to get into the
main question there, so you know, to start with, you know,
I think this place has reloaded about as well as
anybody in southwest Ohio or you could even argue in
the state of Ohio, you know, with you know, only
having one obviously, some of the classes that this place
has lost over the years, Like I think about I
think about our twenty five class that we just lost.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
You know, we lost twenty eight seniors.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
We lost seventeen kids that are going to go play
college football, and we lost six Division ie kids, you know,
four graduated early and we're on campus in January from
this last class. But then I look at the guys
we got coming back, you know, and it's it's just amazing.
It's it's truly amazing.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
We we we've got.

Speaker 9 (25:57):
About twenty seniors coming back this year. Some of some
of the returners would be bry Seawan Brown quarterback. Bry
Sean Brown committed Northern Illinois with Nate Dawson committed to Miami,
Ohio defensive back that you know, was a hoop guy
only really just was about to just sell himself out
on who but but stuck with it, you know, and

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and and ended up being.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
A He's a P four guy.

Speaker 9 (26:19):
You know, Miami's done a great job and I'm so
glad Miami got him. And then we've got ry El Kelly,
another senior that's committed most recently here to Alabama. So
those three are kind of like the headliners. But you know,
Julian Eichord at center, you know, we you know that
that senior class is John Eyre Travis you know, receiver

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at h type guy. It got some really really good players,
you know in that twenty sixth class, some really good
kids that you know, like Juju we called, we call
our quarterback Juju, bry Seawan Brown.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
I can remember, you know, in twenty one.

Speaker 9 (26:57):
Riding the bus up up to the state championship game
and Bryce Awan was like a seventh grader at the time,
and he was on that charter bus with us riding
up to the state championship and now here he is
our senior quarterback, you know what I mean? And you know,
those kind of relationships and being blessed enough to be
able to be at a place five years where you
can see guys throughout their whole high school career, let
alone know them as junior high kids, and now here

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they are as seniors in your program. You know, I
think that that's when it becomes really really cool and
coaching little brothers of guys that you've had previously. But
that twenty six class is pretty good, and I really
think the twenty seventh class behind them might be as
good as a twenty five class that we just graduated.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
So we've got a couple of pretty.

Speaker 9 (27:36):
Good classes back to back to back, and then you know,
we're just trying to keep this thing rolling, no doubt
about it.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Now, Coach, talk to me a little bit about the
other coaches on the staff that you've got. Yeah, well,
got some bangers there. Talk to me a little bit
about those guys.

Speaker 9 (27:53):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we just like, just like coaching,
you know, you got to have players.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
You've got to have good players, you know what I mean,
Like anybody that that that that that's.

Speaker 9 (28:02):
Winning this and winning that, you know, you've got to
have good layers obviously, and and and and that's as
much that goes with staff too. You know, I'm I'm
when I took this job over, I I did not
come in here trying to, you know, change this and
change that. And just because of the respect for this
place and the coaches and the people that did it
before me, and you know, we were blessed to to

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to get Carlton Gray in here. Carlton Gray is absolutely
there's not a there's not a better human being walking
this planet to run our defense and and and lead
our defense than than Carlton Gray. You know, one of
the best to ever play here, all American here, all
American at u c l A eight years in the NFL.
When our kids, you know, we've had eight Division Ie

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defensive backs in the last five years.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I know, well, you know, you don't remind me, I know, but.

Speaker 5 (28:57):
But you know, you know we've got good players, no doubt.

Speaker 9 (29:00):
But the development of those players, not only physically you know,
whether it be the weight room, but but but you know,
the mentality and and and feeling like when our kids
come out of here, Uh, they're ahead of the curve,
you know what I mean. They're not just gonna sit
in zone. They're not just gonna sit in man, They're
gonna mix and match things. And you know, they're gonna
they're gonna have some standards put upon them and and
and Coach Gray is just absolutely phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
You talked about all the all the dvs and the
skill guys, and you obviously climate too. Yeah, but if
you're a defensive coach, you could do one or two
things you can just say we're gonna that's my dog working.
You could dumb it down and just play man coverage
and just blitz every freaking back.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Right.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
How complex do you guys get because you are trying
to get them to the next level and teach them
all the things they are going to learn, and they
get there. But it's gotta be tempting when you're playing
some of these guys, you're like, look, we just we
just lock them.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Up and freaking blits two lifebackers to R.

Speaker 9 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, but but you know
when we talk about that's like, you know, that's that's
just not not who we are. You know, we want
to develop these guys. We want we want to put
you know, we want to put things on them. We
want them to learn, you know, we want them to learn,
We want them to develop. And you know we feel
like that. You know, it's and what we last year,
I think we were we gave up less than eight

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points a game.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
You know, we haven't given up over thirteen.

Speaker 9 (30:18):
I think since we've been here in the last four years,
we haven't given up over thirteen points a game.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
I think last year it was eight or a little
less than eight. A game.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
You know, defensively, it's it's just been unbelievable around here.
You know, this place has played really good defense for
a long long time. But I think in the last
forty years.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Statistically, we've had some dudes give some of the best.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
You've definitely had some dudes.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, a doubt. Aside from Coach Gray. Is there anybody
else that you want to talk about?

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Yeah, I've got Great Forests. You know, Great Forest. I've
known Great Forest for twenty twenty years.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
You know.

Speaker 9 (30:51):
He was with Brian Kelly at Grand Valley in Central
Michigan and Cincinnati and uh, you know, with a brief
stint at Buffalo and then just kind of you know,
as the years went on.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
He's just kind of you know, you know, sixty two
years old right.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
Now, and thank god he was just hanging out here
in Cincinnati, so it was able to you know, pick
him up. You know, he coach has done a great job.
He was with us in twenty one when we wanted
all he left to take a college job and then
came back and he's been here the last two years.
So very fortunate for with coach Forrest Everett, Hebbert Everett Hebbert.

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It's been in a lot of places here in southwest Ohio,
Saint Axe, Fairfield. He does a lot with our special teams.
Just hired a guy named Jordan hotgood star at Princeton.
Been coaching college here about about the last eight years.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
Former player of mine.

Speaker 9 (31:44):
Rashen Jones has done a phenomenal job with our d
line here the last four years. Landon Herman an old
old Ross, young Ross guy that had kind of had
the game taken away from him. It's going to be
a he's way above him, way above his years. Calvin
Johnson is an old head coach from the area, and
and and then you know from here.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
He brought him on last year. He's done a great job.

Speaker 9 (32:10):
But yeah, Quinn Smith, you know, h hiring Donnie Brooks
and and you know, just we've got some really really
good guys, Uhlan L.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Williams and and justin Cornwall receiver Gary Crowley. I mean
there's another one.

Speaker 9 (32:25):
I mean, you know, Gary Crowley fortunately been a head coach,
and and then I've been in the GMC and played
Division one football and an unbelievable human being. You know,
we just got we we just got some really really
good and men that that that are that are leading
our young men, and and and very.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Fortunate to be on the same team as these guys.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
You know, coach, I think it's one of those things
where you know, success breed success, and people want to
be part of your program. And you know, like you said,
haven't had a losing season since ninety one, and you
know the.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Thing only won only one losing season.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
But my point is with with your guys coaching staff.
The thing I've always noticed from from coaching against Winton
Woods as many years as we did, you know, in
the last eight nine years of La sou It's always
seems like somebody's seasons want to end. You know, it's
going to be Glasala and went in Woods. I've noticed
that the staff you have a really good mix of

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of the the fire them up coaches who are really
getting after the kids and and and breeding energy.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
On the sideline.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
And then you got the other coaches who are who
are really the analytical type and and they're the ones
that are they're really.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Focusing on technique and those kind of things.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
And I noticed that in warm ups because I always
try to watch how the other team warms up and everything,
and I think you just have a really good mix
in your coaching staff with younger guys and older guys.
And I think that's a tribute to you too. A
little bit of guys want to be part of your staff.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Appreciate Okay, I got I got an observation. I see
I think you're in the coach's office. I see the
logo behind you.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
The blue and the green came from Forest Park and
Green Hills, right, those were their colors when you guys merged.
Gonna be honest, I really had a hard time with
the uniforms at first. I'm like, you can't make this
colors look good. Your uniforms are freaking really, really freaking cool.
You gotta admit they've They've wrote on me over the years.

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I'm a huge every time. I'm like, yeah, we're winning
the uniform battle tonight, we're playing freaking you know somebody, somebody.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Your uniforms are on point. I like them a lot.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
I appreciate that. Yeah, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Yeah, are you guys. Let's talk about the division hops too.
What's going on with this year? Have any teams from
Division two or one moved up or down or three
to two or two to three or one to because
I noticed you guys have gone from two to one
or you guys still want or you guys to here.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah still one, yeah, still one.

Speaker 9 (34:51):
And I think we were one of the smallest last year,
and I think we're one of the we're one of
the very smallest this year as well.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
So you know, it is what it is. You know.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
I part of me, a little a very little piece
of me, you know, wishes, you know, maybe we would
have stayed.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Down in D two.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
But you know, I just can't imagine being a head
football coach and complaining that you got to play quote
unquote maybe some tougher competition, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
I just I know true.

Speaker 9 (35:20):
So you know it's I do like the I do
like the twelve though. I do like the twelve versus
sixteen that that they went to, So.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
You know, everybody like that. Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
So they wanted to see a sixteen to one matchup
in high school. That was kind of like, right, don't
want to watch that.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
No, But I thought they could keep it just for
the gate and the money.

Speaker 9 (35:40):
Right, really, yeah, I mean from a business standpoint, I
get it.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
I mean I get it. I mean, you know, I
get it totally right.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
So we're talking a little bit about the the state
championship game in the state championship team and what you
remember for back in twenty twenty one, what I remember
is playing against you guys in the in the in
the rain out at Lakota East, and the level of
speed you guys had was just unmatched, Like like we're

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still trying to chase you guys down, running outside zone
and everything else. Like it just it was such a
game changer. Yeah, it was, uh, you know, that was
that was a very interesting year. You know we started
out one and two.

Speaker 9 (36:24):
Uh we were you know, we were four and three
once upon a time that season four and three, and
in week ten we went into overtime with love Them
and then just absolutely went on a roll, you know.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
And and that game you're talking about, that one.

Speaker 9 (36:39):
Of Lakota East, that's that's the night our guy, our
at h Casey Spears just went crazy hit.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
I think he had five touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Absolutely did that.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Was that was that was Yeah, that was a fun ride.
You know.

Speaker 9 (36:52):
The one thing everybody you know said along the ride
was you know, you got to you gotta remember to
enjoy it. You gotta remember to enjoy it, you know.
And that's the one thing I didn't do enough of,
you know, And it's just just being you know, being
we were in the moment, I guess, but remembering to
enjoy it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
And because that it didn't come along the whole time,
you know, I you know.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
Would it could have, should have we maybe went back
to back twenty one and twenty two if it wasn't.
You know, Kings just had an unbelievable year in twenty two,
you know, I think that was their story, you know,
and you know, they knocked us out and I think
it was a regional semi final, but man, that was
that was an unbelievable year.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
You know.

Speaker 9 (37:29):
We played in all the elements, you know, ice and
a little bit of some rain and cold and you know,
all those Ohio High School elements that we always talk
about in practice and try to motivate guys with, and
you know, things like that.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
You know, we played it all.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
You know.

Speaker 9 (37:43):
The big one of the biggest things that I tell
our guys every year from that year was at that
time the time of the state championship game, we had
one we had one Division one offer playing it playing
Hobin in the D two state championship, and that was
jan Ron Gibson, who ended up getting Defensive Player of
the Year that year, is a defensive lineman. But he
had Robert Morris, he had We had a one D

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lineman with the Robert Morris offer and that was it.
You know, we didn't have the Ohio State no, you know,
we didn't have any of that at the time. Now,
after the state championship game, that's when our corner Jermaine
Matthews at Ohio State kind of went crazy and then
Cam Calhoun the other bat and the other corner went
crazy and you know ended up at Michigan and now Alabama.
But you know, we didn't have we didn't have all

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all the all the you know, attention as far as
the recruiting was concerned right then and there.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
So, you know a lot of them guys were underclassmen.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
And just coming off of COVID and that senior class
was was limited because of you know, just not having
the access to camps and things like that.

Speaker 8 (38:41):
But just just a great group of guys that I
think just just just kind of you know, just just
formed a you know, came up and said that, you know,
we're going to get this thing done one way or another,
when you know things could have went awry obviously one, two,
and four and three, and you know.

Speaker 9 (38:58):
I had to play the LaSalle twice that year, and
you know things like that. You know, you know that
season could have went anyway, you know, any which way
other than what it did. But just just very fortunate
and enjoy enough of it and remember enough of it
to make.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Us want to do it again for sure.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Looking at your schedule right now, you're.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Going to talk about a good job.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, do you open up against Springfield? What do we
know about Springfield? Are the Tigers Wildcats?

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Wildcats?

Speaker 5 (39:28):
Well?

Speaker 9 (39:32):
Yeah, so, uh they you know, they played they played
in the Division one state championship game three out of
the last four years, last year being the first year in.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
The last four that they had.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
They you know, they they played in it and got beat
by Saints three years in a row. So last year
we beat them up there. Pretty good football game. But
but I think they're a little bit better this year
for sure. Not not to say they weren't good last year.
They were good last year, you know, but didn't have
the season that they won just like we didn't.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
But but but yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
They'll be better for sure, and coach Douglas obviously does
a great job up there. So so yeah, looking forward
to hosting them. I think thirty nine days from from today.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
That's that's gonna be a big challenge.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
And then right out of the gate, you go right
into the league play with two games on the road
against Kings and Milford.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, you know that that's.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
That's that's three that's three games that you got I
think are going to be pretty tough ones on your
schedule right there.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
I think that those are going to be challenging.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
Yeah, none of doubt, you know.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
And I've been in the GMC, I've been in the
g c L and and now the ECC and you know,
just like we talked about earlier, football is football.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
And you know, I'm not sure.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
This conference gets enough credit. You know, it's a very
good conference. Anderson has you know, it's been really really
good the last couple of years. And Kings is always
you know, Kings has always been a really good football team,
you know, for for thirty years. Obviously, Milford had the
best best season in school history two years ago, and
I think they were number one in the region starting

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the playoffs. And two years ago, you know, I think,
uh it might have been Anderson or or US. Two
years ago they were them, we were the number might
have been US. We were the number one in the
region D two. Milford was number one in the region
D one. You know, both the E C C schools.
So I think, I think it's really good football. I
think I think I think kids are there, are coached up.

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So yeah, it's it's not a it's not a cake wall.
But we're gonna go up to We're gonna go up
to uh uh Toledo Whipmer our first scrimmage. It's a
hall for almost three hours, but Wolf Scrimmage, Toledo Whipmer
one of the most successful D one programs in Northwest
Ohio first scrimmage, and then we we've had Lakota West
that second scrimmage and then and then obviously open up

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Week one with Springfield and so pretty exciting.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
It's comments right around the corner and that shoot.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Not a doubt. So with the at the games that
you guys got coming up, walk us through like your preparation,
like where you're at now, like how you're getting ready
to Yeah, practices.

Speaker 9 (42:10):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we we we've been doing
a lot of seven on sevens, just like everybody else.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
You know, we don't we don't sell our soul to them.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
I you know, even even you know, two thousand and five,
when I was at Monroe, we were thrown for like
three thousand yards and that was a lot of yards
in two thousand and five. And I didn't like seven
on sevens then, you know, and I still don't like it,
you know. But but the but the one thing, the
one positive is you know, we we get filmed, you know,
we get filmed from them, and.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
We can coach these guys up.

Speaker 9 (42:37):
So we you know, whether it be practice or whether
it be seven on seven, you know, we're getting these
things filmed, and you know we're watching them and coaching,
you know, coaching guys from from them.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
So you know, as far as you know, walking walking.

Speaker 9 (42:48):
You through, you know, it's in my eyes, it's went
from being all it's early, it's early, it's early, and
now we're here, we are two weeks.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
Away from two days, you know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (42:56):
So there comes a point where you know it's our
early and you can kind of use an excuse that
this problem, this problem, this problem.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
It's early, it's early, it's early. But all of a sudden,
you know, there's a fine line when all of a
sudden it's it's it's not so early anymore, you.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
Know, And we've got to we've got to keep taking
steps forward and minimizing that the steps back.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, at top to bottom.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
How many kids are in the program, like in terms
of freshmen through senior like well, general number, like where
are you guys are numbers?

Speaker 9 (43:28):
We're usually right around eighty ten through twelve, and then
we'll have another thirty thirty five freshmen. So we keep
the freshman with us. I would like to believe that,
and I really well at Northwest we kind of kept
everybody together because it was a little bit smaller by program,
so we kind of had the freshman with us.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
The majority of the time.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
But even when I went to Hamilton, you know, it
wasn't a great time you know in Hamilton history. You
know that went from you know place to Jakobe and
you know, just kind of a little revolving door when
I took there. So I wanted to keep the freshmen
with us a little bit more there to to kind
of expedite the learning process offensively, defensively, who I am,
you know, those kind of things.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
And and we've really done the same thing here.

Speaker 9 (44:10):
We keep our freshmen with us a lot, maybe too much,
you know, there's such a thing.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
But you know, it just minimizes reps. That's the only negative.
You're minimizing reps.

Speaker 9 (44:19):
We're trying to find creative ways to to to have
them with us still, uh but but but not minimize
the reps that with our Friday night type guys, so
that you know, there's a fine line there. But but
I love I think it's also I think it's important,
you know, it's important. I always tell these guys, you know,
there's there's there's there's uh coaches around that don't know,

(44:39):
don't know freshman's name. You know, they're they're off somewhere
else and dah dah, dah dah. But I've always been
the kind of guy that that want them with us
a little bit, you know, as much as possible, not
a little bit as much as possible. So you know,
we're coming down to them, getting down to it where
you know, obviously the older guys or the quote unquote
priority if if you can that's if that's okay to say.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Well, coach, I know you.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Uh, you got a little bit of a different practice
schedule today tonight this week with uh you had to
adapt with band camp a little bit. So we're gonna
try to get you out of here you can get
ready for practice.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
But before we.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Do, Pat O'Connor here has some of the toughest questions
you're gonna face probably all year from.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Any Marriot type. That includes the investigative reporter Mike Dyer.
So he's going to put you on the hot seat.
We call it.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
We call it nine nine for ninety nine questions, try
to do it in ninety seconds and always usually takes
about five minutes.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
So oh my gosh, all right.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Don't Yeah, So whatever comes to your mind, hereat. Yeah,
we're gonna be able to figure out who you are truly, coach,
And with some of these questions, there's gonna be like
a spot diagram that's going to be created because of
these questions.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
And we'll figure out who you really are from these things.
So first question, you ready for this one? Brother, So
let's just say that you're alone. You're just kind of
getting some alone time. Coach Murphy is he listened podcast
or music.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Price music?

Speaker 2 (46:05):
All right? What are we listening to?

Speaker 5 (46:08):
Uh? I'm a big K love guy. I'm a big
K love guy.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Now.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
I love I love my country. I like some rap.
I like some prob zombie. But what I'm home and
home and back and forth. It's K love all right?
What is Caleb?

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Am I missing something?

Speaker 5 (46:23):
A little Christian little Christian channel?

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (46:26):
Okay, cool, there you go. See you're turning on something
I'm checking out.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Yeah, yeah, I was. I'm that I like Jesus Jesus cool.
I thought I thought it was like Radio Delilah or something.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
I'm dedication was a rap artist I ever heard of?

Speaker 5 (46:45):
The honest answer, probably be Probably be on X. I
probably be on X.

Speaker 9 (46:49):
Reading.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
I do a lot.

Speaker 9 (46:49):
I do a lot of reading and and and that's
I'm a grandpa these days. I don't have kids in
the house. If I'm gonna read, I do a lot
of my reading and things like that with with old
with old X and Twitter X.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
That's gonna be. And I'll take away this next question.
I'll take away Twitter and anything sports related. What would
be your next favorite app?

Speaker 5 (47:11):
My next favorite app other than X?

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Yes for Twitter?

Speaker 5 (47:16):
Oll that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
What do you die well?

Speaker 5 (47:19):
I mean, I do you. I do use some Facebook,
no doubt about it. Facebook sound old or whatever.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
I don't do Instagram and all that though. Them two
is it? I can't handle anymore.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
I tell you what. You start surfing those reels, bro,
it's all my god.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
It is it Ways or Google Maps?

Speaker 5 (47:36):
What do you get well?

Speaker 2 (47:37):
I do Ways? I do Ways.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
I use Google Maps. But every time I ask myself,
why am I not using Ways? Why am I not
using But I'm a Google Map. I'm a Google Map guy.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yeah, I use both. I use Ways for directions, but
I use Google Maps. That's almost like my search engine
for me. So I'll put in, like I don't know,
put in a name of a golf course or something,
and then it gives you all the information right there.
It gives you the phone number, it gives you the website,
it gives you the hours of the group.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
And like that's the way you do that.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
All right, we hijack your nine for ninety.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Back ahead, Okay, you're good, you're good. Everybody in here
is from Red's country. Here's a question for you, Coach
Vado or Perez at first base. It's the all time
best first baseman.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
Vato or Perez. Well, I probably gotta good. I probably
gotta show my age.

Speaker 9 (48:27):
And not that I remember watching Tony Perez all the time, obviously,
you know I did.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
I did, you know early early.

Speaker 9 (48:36):
I'd probably just have to go with Perez just because
it was Pete Andham's day and that kind of thing,
you know what I mean, Like, I probably have to
go with that, even though I tried to really see
Vodo as that type too.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Yeah. One of my favorite comments with Pete Rose and
Verse sive and he's had a lot of bangers. Uh.
He said, he's been his teammate for three different teams,
he's been his best friend for twenty some odd years.
Because I've never understood a damn thing that guy's ever said. So, uh,
that is pretty good. So you're gonna go to have

(49:09):
you Have you heard the backstory of that? Yeah? Well, no,
no joke. But there was a bet. You know what
a picture I'm talking about. It's a famous picture of
Rose and present next to it. There was a bet
whoever was going to rock the deuce first in the
river and Riverfront Colise and Riverfront Stadium. So they both
sat there and they were both excited, and they both

(49:30):
susan doors opened, they ran in there and they both
sat down, and reporters came in there. They took a
picture of them, and that was it. So that was
a bet. Non surprisingly, that was a bet. All right, coach, actress,
brush your nineteen year old, coach, Murph, you're hanging out.
If you had an actress that you would sit there
and say, all right, man, that I would. I would

(49:53):
leave the world for this girl, this last actress.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
My wife might be listening to this, but this is
this is this is hypothetical.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Hypothetical for real. Let's just yes, hell.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
Yeah, I'd probably say Jennifer Aniston.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Oh god, yes, okay, you're not gonna go wrong with that. Yes,
that's my fast exactly.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
He's available, coach, She's available.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
Yeah, too much drama?

Speaker 2 (50:15):
What movie? What movie was she the best in?

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Oh boy, I'm gonna just go with it. I'm terrible
with movie names. I'm terrible with the movie movie.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Have you seen the one with Adam Sandler And then
he was trying to get over Brooklyn Decker and letting
her over and it ends up falling in.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Love with the Millers meet the Oh there you go.
That's a great one. That's a classic.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, I think that. Yeah, we're the Miller We took.

Speaker 9 (50:41):
We took my wife and I took way too young
and children thinking we were going to a family movie
to meet the Millers.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
We should have been in trouble. We should have been
in trouble, all right.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Uh, coach dead or alive? That you would that would
you would love to sit down and talk with.

Speaker 9 (50:58):
Well, Mili check or saving mill check or saving I
don't you know, people argue this and argue that, and
you know, I just just anybody that's done what they've done,
at the levels they've done, it is just unbelievable. Has
to be Belichick or saving.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yeah. Uh, favorite favorite vacation spot.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Uh, I'll tell you, I don't know.

Speaker 9 (51:28):
I like I like destining the destined area, I guess. Uh,
we've been down there a few times. I probably have
to say that we like Norris, we like you know,
we just actually just went up to Torch Lake in
Michigan a few weeks back.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Heard that's the place. I heard that first time you've
ever been there was that was a really really good time.

Speaker 9 (51:47):
You know, I almost feel guilty for traveling to Michigan,
but it's a vacation. But yeah, we had a great
time up there. You know, anytime I can, you know,
get a couple of days to get away, it's been
with family. It's it's hard to get everybody together. Older,
we get, you know, older, everybody gets and things like that.
So you know, I probably have to say.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Destin love it time machine. You can go any back,
go back to watch any game live. Where where would
you be any game lives anything like Damn, I would
have loved to have been there.

Speaker 9 (52:18):
Well, it'd probably have to be something with maybe like
the Chicago Bears, the eighty five Bears or something like that.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
Well, you know, just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
How about that fall game? You remember that fall game
against them? Yeah? Oh yeah, that was that was amazing?
That was it a game to be oh man?

Speaker 5 (52:37):
Yeah? Soldier Field, Chicago.

Speaker 9 (52:38):
We've been to Chicago several times taking kids in Northwestern
you know, Evanston and all that, and been by Soldier Field,
but never been to a game there. And I'm believe
it or not, I hate to tell you this, kid,
but I'm a Browns fan. But uh, Chicago, it's tiresome.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
It's tiresome. It's tiresome.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Uh. What about talk to me about like superheroes, any
favorite superheroes?

Speaker 5 (53:06):
No, my superheroes growing up.

Speaker 9 (53:08):
I mean, obviously I played with g I, Joe and
stuff like that, but my superheroes were like Sylvester Stallone,
Bruce Willis, uh, you know, Chuck Norris.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Those were my superheroes growing up, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
So yeah, but yeah, so Saturday Morning Cartoons was was
my thing. Like I love Saturday Morning cartoons.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
I love the Hall of Justice.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yeah, Tom and Jerry was it to tell the whole
of justice all those different things that was. That was
kind of one of my favorite places to be and
then the last one to get you off the hot
seat here, Uh, walk me through any TV show or
streaming shows that you that you love.

Speaker 9 (53:47):
Uh. My wife and I had been big big Netflix people,
probably since COVID. You know, I think anything on anything
on Netflix. We're watching one now, shoot about four C
and then I forget.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
The Animal Kingdom. It's really good, like the fourth season.
H Yeah, I love Yellowstone. Oh yeah, yeah, but yeah,
we we watched the a lot of the series and
not as many movies these days. More of the series.
I guess you know older series.

Speaker 9 (54:20):
But but yeah, QB one I love I love them,
and qbing one's and all those they've been doing on Netflix.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Those those are those are great. I wish every one
of our kids could see some of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Yeah, so have you watched the Quarterback one for this year? Oh? Yeah,
it was good.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
I knocked that out. I knocked that out in a
couple of days. I thought, I thought that was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Yeah, spoiler spoiler, Kristin Goff is in there. Kristen GoF
is Uh, she might be my celebrity crush, so Jared
Goff's wife. She's no chance I'm gonna get rid of
these grades. Just get it on, brou But coach, you
were officially off the hot seat.

Speaker 5 (54:59):
Man, appreciate at that.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
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Speaker 5 (55:13):
Well does it come with where does it come with?
Where the locations are?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
That's up to you. You got to find them. You
gotta find them. That's great.

Speaker 9 (55:21):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Well, Murphy yeah, exactly. Thanks, thanks for being on with this.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Good luck this year and I know you got to
get out to practice here and hopefully you're not dodging
rain drops and lightning bolts tonight, but uh, good good
luck this year, and uh, you know, keep the kids
playing hard because that's that to me, that's what Wentwood
is all about, the amount of effort that they play
with and how they execute, and they're always it's a
it's a challenge to coach against you, guys.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
I know that.

Speaker 5 (55:47):
Well, appreciate that. Blessed to be here, not a doubt
you got healthy coach, good luck. Yeah, thank you guys. Yeah,
appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Yeah, yes, sir.

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