The Coach Bert Bathiany Show - Season 2 Episode 02

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Of success in life. Come what is it you want?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Give you a best effort, Show me what you got.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
If you want to be a success, you gotta have.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's the Burt Pathyany Coach You Shoe presented by Kobe
and Shepherd Reelders And here's your host, Jeff seed Or
head football coach Burt Pathy.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And W Mooe and the Molar Broadcasting Network present the
Bert Bathyani Show, which features the head coach of the
Molar Football Crusaders. Bert Bathyanni Show is sponsored by Koby
and Shepherd Realtors. I'm Jeff Schneedle with the Moller class
of nineteen eighty four and it's always great to touch

(00:40):
base and meet with coach Bert Bathyani. Coach, how we
doing As we are inching closer to the beginning of
the season.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
It seeting closer, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I Mean, we got a scrimmers tomorrow, and then we
had one over the weekend, and then before you know,
it's gonna be August twenty third.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
There you go, so uh, and it's just a lot
more activity going on in school. It seems like the
fresh men are here and kind of get their feet wet,
and but it just seems like the school personnel are.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
All kinds get back.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
My wife had her first day to day and my
kids had their first day, so I took them to school,
and so we're we're getting back in rhythm, but there's
always that little like transitional blue where you try to
figure out that rhythm.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Some summer's good, you know, you have you have your
things you like to do, and now all of a sudden,
it's it's get back into that pattern. So don't throw
off the pattern, right, absolutely stay on it. So all right, well, coach, uh,
you know, it seems like everything you know on schedule
as far as the team and and really it seems
like we haven't any had any truly bizarre weather, be

(01:40):
it storms or at least one hundred degree days here
here recently. I mean, we've had kind of a warm summer, but.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
It feels like you're throwing a jinx on us now
and like it's gonna happen in the fall and we're
gonna have like a monsoon or crazy weather.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, So we.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Went okay, so I'm gonna put you on spot the
week from Friday, we played Princeton. If it snows eight inches,
I mean is who's that? Who's that gonna better?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I want to blame you. I want to blame you,
just want to No one wants that. Look right up
at the booth, no one wants that. Weather.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
This summer it's been, it's been really really good. And
even when the weather kind of took a turn for
the worst, we made good decisions of like moving and
changing our schedule and ended up working out right. So
thank god that we have a staff that's adaptable and
a strength coach that's adaptable, so we're able to move
things around and then it just worked out for us.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
So that was good.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
But you're always freaking out for the start of the season,
like those rainy days where you can't really get what
you want done. But it's not a big deal unless
you make it a big deal, and we just make
the most of.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It, coach.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know, in a way, maybe we're kind of blessed,
maybe we're kind of cursed because you know, we can
get weather out like on our phones, like like ten days,
so technically, you know what, it's not up yet for
next Friday, next Thursday, high of eighty eight, but you know,
you know it's not like okay, you wait for game day.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
What's it gonna do later today?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
How are we gonna you know, It's like, hey, we
already know a week plus in advance on what we
might be looking at. It's never right, So that's right, yeah,
the jinks right exactly. So hey, it's gonna be sunny
in perfect weather and here comes that store. That's all right,
that's all right, Well we.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Play through it.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
So you know, we we've had in clement weather days,
Like one year we had a bomb thread I think
that I got pushed for. Yeah, and it had to
go to Sunday or something. Yeah, so that was Uh,
someone called me. I was on the way and I'm like,
you've got to be kidding. That's not yep. Expected Okay,

(03:37):
there's the jinks. So let's not have something crazy. We
got to stay on course. So all right, coach, Uh, well,
we'll take our first little break.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Here and then we'll come back. We'll talk about that.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Scrimmage and some of the things going on with the
football team. As you're listening to the Bert Bathyni Show
featuring the head coach of the Crusaders, Bert Bathyni. The
show is sponsored by con Me and Shepherd Reeltors and
heard here on w MOE and the Molar Broadcasting Network.
Thank you for listening to the Bert pathy Andy Show,

(04:08):
brought to you and sponsored by Comy and Shepherd Reeltors.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Go Big mo.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
You are tuned into the Bird Bathy Andy Show heard
here on w MOE and the Molar Broadcasting Network, and
it features the head coach of the Crusaders, Bert Bathyanni.
Show is sponsored by Comy and Shepherd Reeltors. I'm Jeff
Schneedle with the class of nineteen eighty four and here
with Coach Bathy Annie and coach you know, we got

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that kind of that first scrimmage underway, and you know
what I mean. We had a nice, nice, clear sunny day.
It was kind of nice in some of those cumulus
clouds knocked out the sun for a little bit. It
could have been totally unbearable, but weatherwise cooperated and it
was fun, fun to see things against some different competition.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, we got to that point in camp where we
were ready to play someone else, you know what I mean.
And you just got that point where you're you're tired
of hitting the same people over and over and over again,
playing against the same formation, same defense, same fronts, so
it's good to get someone else to play against and
have a different competition, which is always good, right, And
Milford does a really good job to coach. Grippa is

(05:23):
a Cincinnati legend and is always gonna have his team
ready to play.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
And they were tenant.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh last year they were number one in the region,
so it was a formidable opponent, so a really good
measuring stick. They kind of see where you were at.
We went ten plays each for a little bit, and
then some special teams and then moved the ball. So overall,
was a good day. Unfortunately, at any day, like one
of their good players got injured on the last play,
which stunk, and you know, you feel horrible about it,

(05:49):
but our guy made a football play. Is just one
of those things, right. It stinks, So our hearts go
out to them and we're sending prayers to them, and
hopefully that young man makes the full recovery because he
is a really really good football.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Player, right yeah, And that's you know, and that's the
scary thing as far well, I mean, it's a it's.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
A it's part of it, part of it, but especially.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Even before you really get into a true game, I mean,
you just hate to see that happen.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yes, you know, yeah, our hearts go out to them.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I mean it's you know, I guess a priority has
come out of it healthy and then go from there.
But I'm sure you probably saw some things maybe to
work on and and to try to figure out and
things to tweak and good to see against someone who
doesn't know what's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, and even I mean it's early in the year, right, like,
and it's a long season, and when you play the
season that we play, right, the the goal is to
get better each and every week and be playing your
best ball. And you're you're you're on that upward trajectory
near the end of the fall, and that's the goal, right,
So we're not going to be a finished product whatsoever.

(06:50):
Our goal is whatever team you see versus Milford, we're
gonna be way better by game ten and way better
after that. Like that's that's our mindset. Is always better
than you have, say, not as good as tomorrow. So
a lot of good things, a lot of things we
have to build on offense, defense, special forces, sideline management, coaching,
you name it. Where we're always trying to find ways

(07:10):
to get better and push this program forward coach.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
That is one of the cool things with football is
how the team looks before the season or like you said,
like game one. Sometimes they can look like a totally
different animal.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah that was us last year, right, that was us
last year. Like I went back and watched the Milford
scrimmage the year before and that was my first time
with the team, right, and I thought we stunk. I
thought we stunk, like I'm going back and then I
think like, oh my gosh, this is the team.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Near the end of the year.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
We got better each and every week. And that's what
it should be like. Hopefully every year as a coach,
you go back and think, man, we're so much better
than what we were. And I even go back and
look at the practice schedules, the game plans, the stuff
that have happened five, ten years ago, and you look
at how much you've grown and developed as a as
a coach and a player and all that stuff. That's

(08:00):
hopefully that's our mentality all the time, is when we
look back on the past, we're better than what we were, right, So,
but we still got a lot of work on and
you know we'll do that tomorrow as well.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Coach is a fan. Is is that pretty much planned
to change from the beginning to the end or does
it just like evolve? I mean, obviously, if you're doing
you're not going to change things you're doing well until
someone can make you stop doing that. But I mean,
is that kind of the plan to just know you're
going to evolve into somewhat of not a different team.

(08:33):
Obviously every team should kind of get better. Unfortunately that
doesn't happen all the time. Yeah, but I mean is
that just I mean, is there like a plan to say, hey,
we got things we're going to be doing as we
go to or does it just you kind of see, hey,
this is where we need to make a change.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
To a point.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I mean developmentally, absolutely, like there's a plan in place, right.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
We will always put.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
An emphasis on the weight room that will never ever, ever,
ever change. So if you do a good job there
in August, you should be as strong or stronger by November,
and that's our mindset. You can still get stronger over
the course of the season, and even our freshmen, like
we will lift the day before a game and I
don't really care if you're sore going into that game.

(09:15):
We're gonna lift because it's about development to get you
ready to play varsity the next year. Like your your
legs are a little sore, you're not as fast as
you normally, that's okay, we're trying to train you for
the next season.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
So we love that game exactly. It doesn't. We want
to win.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
We're gonna be competitive like crazy, but it's about development.
So from a developmental standpoint, yeah, there's a plan in action,
and we're gonna do a certain amount of run plays
every single week, and those plays add up over the
course of time. Where one young man gets two live
reps against a really good defense or a really good offense,
well over the course of ten, twelve, fourteen to sixteen weeks,

(09:53):
that young man will get better, right, So that that's
the mindset from that standpoint. From a philosophical standpoint, yeah,
that's not necessarily the plan is. You might come out
and think, hey, we're good at this on offense, we're
good at this on defense, and then you realize, man,
we're not as good as maybe I thought, and we're
better at something else, and then you evolve that way.
But everything team is different, the players are all different,

(10:16):
and especially on our offense, right, like in our D
line or assume our O line, our D line. The
development that can be made from those guys from junior
to senior year is astounding, right, So like that's gonna
happen as well. So offensively defensively, you might think you're
really good at one thing and then those guys develop
and you might be better at something else. So it's

(10:36):
all process. So we're always aware of that and trying
to find ways get better.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Coach.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
You know, from a coaching standpoint, if you come out
game one and maybe you play a weaker opponent or
everything clicks and you're like, man, we're like, I mean,
it's hard to think. Man, we're we're pretty good. And
if it happens a second game, you start I mean,
is that that's really like a false sense of security
for the length of this how long the season end is,

(11:01):
and what you have going on.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's just like Joe Patterna says, it's never as good
as you think it is. It's never as bad as
you think it is, right, So that happens in practice
all the time. Where we come off the practice field,
it's like, man, that was good practice. But then you're
pessimistic when you're watching the fis like, man, we're not
as good as I thought. Or you come off the
field and think, man, we stunk in practice today and
then you watch the film and it wasn't as bad
as I thought. I feel like that kind of happens

(11:24):
quite a bit. I think that the key is not
having those highs and lows where you're changing on time,
but you're steady, right, and we're constantly getting better, And
that's got to be the mindset. We're not focused on
the result, We're focused on the process. Every single day,
we're gonna get better and like it's gonna look like
a jagged line. It's not gonna be like a smooth
sailing thing. But as long as it's going upward, that's

(11:46):
what we want to have.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
And I got to ask this question, but do you
think like last year starting one in three kind of
gave an advantage as far as because we just had
an edge that we knew that wasn't really us as
opposed to the previous scenario. I said, like, you know,
you start out four and oh and hey we're you know,
you go into GC, Hey we're we're pretty good, and

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all of a sudden, Man, you can find out real
quick maybe you aren't that good. But I know, even
like game won last year, I mean, that just seemed
to turn I just I go back and think of that.
Right at the end, we're trying to punch the ball
in and you know, make it twenty eight to twenty one,
and all of a sudden, it just just seemed I
mean just I mean a fourteen point swing.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, that's who I mean.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, like like that was a huge momentum swing in
that game. I mean, I don't think anyone wants to
start off the season that way, but I think everyone
would agree. I'd rather start off slow and get better
near the end than start off hot and then digress.
Like the goal is to get better. But I don't
think anyone would want to start off that way. But

(12:50):
I think last year's team it was good for us
to get punched the mouth and then figure it out right.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, and again that was you know, it's one thing
to get down like that and kind you blame yourself,
but the other thing is that's pretty good team we
were playing, which made it hard to like mount the
serious comeback. I mean, because it wasn't like it was
a fluke. I mean, they were they were a good team.
And you know, I'm still sore about that Center Grove game.
But but again, you know, I think in a weird way,

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it's just like, hey, whatever we feel happened. You know
again that wasn't really us and went and took the
GCL and kind of kept things rolling from there.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
So, yeah, the confidence is everything.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
And we knew we had a good team, right, like
we had good players, we had good coaches, and everyone
still thought that we were good. Just the results didn't
show that, right, But there was a process in place,
a plan in place, and give our players a lot
of credit for trusting in that and sticking with it
and having faith, which is huge in our program.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
And you know, they got better good.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And again we went through I mean a change, I
mean your first time kind of coming here and figuring
it out, and man, it sure got fun at the
end of the year. But you know, getting back to
scrimmage a really good program like Milford, yep. And then
obviously today's Wednesday, we got the second scrimmage with Maslin.
You know, I mean they're coming off there D two

(14:09):
first official playoff state championship and and you know, again
that's a very proud and very good program. I mean,
I like that we're you know, scrimm you know, we're
not scrimmaging. You know someone that's not real good. I
mean these are these are good, They got good players,
and it's gonna really see how we measure up.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I mean, I can't remember what Maslin started out as,
but if you look at the two teams were scrimmaging,
they were either twenty to zero or nineteen and one
in the regular season. I mean, I think that's what
it was. But I mean, Maslin's gonna be a physical
football team. They're coming off a state championship. And give
that coach a lot of credit, Nate Moore. He wants

(14:50):
to play good teams too, right, So we really value
this scrimmage. And they came down to us last year.
They're coming down to us again this year, and that's
because we had issues with scheduling and you know, teacher
services and stuff like that. But the reason I say
give him a lot of credit is he's he's making
the trip down again because he values that scrimmage. And
we had to move things around on our end quite

(15:11):
a bit to make that work as well. And we're
sending our freshmen up to them on Saturday to go
scrimmage them. So we're investing in our program to play
good teams, to help our guys get better and really
measure where we're at that point in time.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well and coach, to be honest, we talked, We've talked
about the schedule. I mean, there's there's no lamps on
our schedule either. But at the same time, you got
everybody plotting and planning to take away your best things
just as you we will to them. But over the
course of the year, that's where you get better.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
And you know, so you know, I know a lot
of people would like to have our schedule maybe a
little bit easier, but you know.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
What we're going just not the reality. Nop, Nope, it
is what it is.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
And you know what, at the end of the year,
I mean it doesn't your schedule so much doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
And our kids does to play good teams and have
that experience and have that environment, and it just plays
into our mindset of where we're focused on the process
not the result. Right When you play a good schedule
and you play against really good teams, right, like you
have to bring your a game.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Every single every single day. And you can't relax.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
So I think our kids deserve that. I think they
buy into that, and you know, that's just that's the reality.
So it's not a big deal unless you make it
a big deal. So we just go and try to
be the best version of ourselves every single day and
let the scoreboard handle itself when it hits zero.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
So we scrimmage a mass on three o'clock at Mount
Saint Joe on Thursday, and that is I mean, we're doing.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Total warm up. I mean, it's as close to game
day as possible. Game day. It's as close to game
day as possible.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
So the only thing that's not game days we're not
wearing our uniforms right like, we're wearning our practice gear.
And you know we're going out like that. But we
owe we'll do our our pregame chapel like we always do.
We'll do our Special Forces check, We'll do our pregame meal.
We'll pray at Mary, we'll get on the bus, we'll
travel over to Mount Saint Joe. We'll get there two
hours before kick. We'll pray at midfield, we'll go in

(17:03):
the locker room, they'll have their time and and it'll
be exactly what it will be on game day so
they can prepare for that. Now, last year we went
and practice at Mount Saint Joe on purpose, so that
wasn't the first time going there. This year we decided
not to do that because we're playing a different stadium
ten games in a row. So I wanted to have
that feeling of like, oh, we haven't been here before,

(17:24):
this is this is a little bit new. So we
have to figure it out because things are gonna go
wrong in planning. At some point in time, something's gonna happen.
A bus is gonna break down, a bus is late,
they're traffic. So, like I said, I feel like a
broken record, it's not a big deal unless you make
it a big deal. We're gonna go out, We're gonna
go play ball.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Are you gonna do Like in Hoosiers every field we
go to and like measure.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's measured out.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, I can't do that because in high school and
college the hashes are different, so I think that metaphor
might might fall fall by the wayside a little bit.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
From that standpoint, So basically game day and then get
that done and then fine tuning and uh, you know,
obviously set the sights on on the vikings coming up.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Which absolutely so we'll we'll come back on Friday review
the film, get a lift, and then over the weekend,
well it'll be like as much like gamed as possible.
They have Saturdays off, but we do have the like
the Youth Football League coming up to do their their
youth preview on Saturday and Sunday, so we have guys
volunteering for that.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
As well, which will be huge because a lot of.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Our guys played on that field and played in that event,
right and now they get to see those Molar players,
help ref help do the downs, markers, all that stuff,
So that'll be huge as well.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Football season underweight here, there's no slowing down here. We
go all right, coach that we'll put a rap on
that first segment, and then we're gonna come back and
just talk about you know, your coaches and support staff,
because you know, it does take a village to get
this takes a village you get get this thing taken
care of. So we'll take a short break as you're
listening to the Bert bathy Any Show featuring the head

(18:55):
coach of the Molar Football Crusaders Bert bathy Annie Show,
what's sponsored by Comyan Shepherd Reeltors and heard here on
w MOE and the Molar Broadcasting Network, We'll be right back.
The Bert Bathyani Show is sponsored by Comyan Shepherd Reeltors.
For all your real estate needs, purchasing, selling, or even holding,

(19:17):
contact me Jeff Schneedl Moler class in nineteen eighty four
and the voice of the Crusaders. Reach me directly. Five
one three four eight four zero six sixty six five
one three four eight four zero six sixty six.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Go big mo.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
If you're listening to w MOE and the Molar Broadcasting
Network where specifically you're listening to the Bert bathy Andy
Show heard here every week, which features the head coach
of the Football Crusaders, that's Bert Bathyanny. The show is
sponsored by Comyan Shepherd Realtors. Of course, that's what I
do dealing with real estate every day. I'm Jeff Schneidl
class of nineteen eighty four and coach. You know, we

(20:07):
really just like I do the broadcast, I try to
get as many mentions because there's there's so many people
that I mean, even from like the motown and things
like that. I mean, just recognizing what's going on. Obviously
you have everything going on with the team. You know,
you got the players, you got your coaches, but you

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also have support staff that you know is really important
for the day to day I'll say, on and off
the field, and you know when practice is over or
before practice, there's just so much that.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Needs to happen.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
And you got a great team of guys that I
know are dedicated and get Moller Football kind of the
behind the scenes stuff done.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, well, it's always the people that are willing to
work for T shirts that really make the thing go right.
Like you're not getting a ton of money by doing this,
You're filling your bucket up in some other way, shape
or form.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
And it really comes down to love the Moler.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Like that brotherhood that we talk about, the stuff that
makes this place so special. That's what brings people back
to help and give their time and energy and everything.
And I mean we have a we have a staff
of over about forty five people when it's really all
said and done. If people who are directly connected to
our football program and do all kinds of stuff so

(21:23):
that starts with our coach.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I know this is dangerous because it kind of puts
you on the spot because you don't want to miss anybody. No,
I don't, and I know that's hard, and but at
the same time, just want to, you know, do what
we can to recognize. So if there's anybody we miss,
by all means.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
I'm gonna do my best bit to name off everybody
that has a hand and makes this thing go. But
start off with our op staff and our DFO Don
mi Covone, the Hall of Famer, who does so much.
I mean he picks up a stipend front then gives
it right back to the school right away. He just
does everything. And you saw those cool cars that we
use for our liftothon, Like two of those are his, right,

(21:59):
two of those are his, and he's willing to do that.
He does all our equipment. I just can't say enough
good things about him. He had a son on the team,
two sons on the team, and one was a quarterback,
one on state championship three. Jeezus, I just dropped that
one then, But I think his son Spencer was it.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
That was it.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's a quarterback and.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
They want to state championship.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
And you know he's been here with with coach Elder,
myself and you know, just can't do it without him
and then his staff, so Ron Stump, Moler Alum as well,
Tim Vanada, Moller Alum as well, Eric Hammer who has
a son on the team, and Michael Barnes, Shane Newman,
all those guys that are part of our ops staff.
They do such a great job and they're the ones

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that set up the film on the sidelines. And in
high school you're allowed to have film on the sideline,
you're allowed to have replays with iPads and stuff. Then
it's funny is in the NFL they have those iPads,
but that's not film. It's not film, it's screenshots. So
they're seeing screensho before each play and before like pre snap,

(23:04):
post snap all that.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
So they don't even have film.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Didn't any cafel didn't they have like that the wire
with the clip where they were sending things down like
fifteen years ago.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Maybe I don't know, like the something and they would.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I have no idea, because that's why a lot of
the guys cover their mouths on TV, so you can't
they think it's for reading lips. But the other thing
is like if it's a longer play call, it might
be a pass or a blitz. If it's a shorter
play call, it's probably a run or it's probably a
base call. So that's why they have it up so much.
Just but believe that watch side that stuff is there

(23:42):
any way to get an advance, right. But those guys
do an awesome job. I think I got everyone on there.
And we have an army of managers that help us
out as well, who are students and and they they
do the drones, they film a practice, they lit up
the bus us is for away games. They clean them
up on away games, and every one of our games

(24:04):
is an away games, so they're doing that every single
week and after and it does not go unnoticed by
our staff. Our our other support staff for the health
and safety of our players are athletic training staffs, So
Craig Lindsay, John Michael Lepper we call him JM that
there are full time athletic trainers, and then we have
you know, team docs with doctor Kremchek that are always there.

(24:27):
And then you know, we have a ton of people
from Beacon, and then we have fellows that change every
single year as well that are on our sideline. So
our guys are taken care of at a really high level.
And and you know, Craig's been here for a number
of years and he's a Hall of Famer without question here.
But but Jam came in and added in like the
GPS tracking system to our guys.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
So our guys wear that out.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
We have five to six guys that where every single day,
so our receivers like Matt Fogeler, Javon Row, they get
they run five miles a day. Mmmm, five miles a
day and they rotate. That's not taking every single rep
they're rotating. So using that information has allowed us to
practice smarter where when we go out it's like, hey,

(25:13):
this guy got this much cutting. This guy rant was
sprinting this much, he ran, he logged this many miles,
And now we can be smarter when it comes to
conditioning as well.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Are you talking about like trying to maybe cut that
back so they're not like worn out exactly? You know,
if this guy's doing six miles a day, yep.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
But does Matt Fogler really need to condition that much?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
No?

Speaker 3 (25:33):
I mean he's conditioned. Does Mike or Rice need to
condition No? Like these guys like we run like our
DB's are are.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
They do something else they really do.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Our guys do a ton of extra stuff, so having
that really helps out quite a bit. Our strength and
conditioning coach Chris Gray has been a game changer. He
got hired in March and has just added so much
value you too, not just our football team, not just
athletics in general, but the school. And you know, he's
a rock star and he's just taking us to new heights.

(26:08):
So we just have an army of support staff that
help out. A new athletic administration with Jonathan Hayes. Frank
Russo does a lot with our traveling and stuff like that.
And then George Smith helps me with all kinds of stuff,
like anytime I text George ask him for a favor,
he's on board just helping me out with that stuff.
And then are our parents. We have so many volunteer

(26:31):
parents that make this thing go. Sarah Coe first and foremost,
she she goes above and beyond. Doesn't even have a
senior on the team right now. I mean she had
one of her sons is playing at Youngstown and he
was a captain on this team. And then Tanner Coe
was my first year. Last year, he was a senior.
Now he's at Ohio State and then Caleb would be
a junior this year. So Sarah and her husband David

(26:54):
have just gone above and beyond to help us out
with everything, and it's just been incredible. And then Summer Love,
Javon's mom is kind of helped take on that role
as well. Stephanie Gurky Thomas Kirky's mother and Stephanie Atkins.
Michelle Gearhart hosted the seniors at their house on Sunday

(27:15):
and their parents and coaches, and you know, we just
can't get it done without all those people. And there's
other parents that I'm not I'm sure I'm forgetting right now,
but just those are the ones that have really kind
of like helped the most with everything. But it takes
an army, It absolutely takes an army. And there's so
many other parents behind the scenes doing stuff that I

(27:36):
probably don't even see as well. And someone else I
forgot was Mike Mason and Deacon Nathan here who's a
part of our faith formation and that goes through Michael
Blum as well.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
And we actually have.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
A curriculum for our faith for our football team where
coach Mason will will send out a message at five
fifty nine fifty nine seconds in the morning every single Monday.
That's a Bible verse to introduce what we're gonna talk.
And then we have a Bible study that's ten to
fifteen minutes on Monday before we have meetings, we pray

(28:06):
together as a team. We pray together after practice, and
then on Thursdays we have our benediction service before game day.
On Friday, we have chapel right after school before game day.
So like that part that faith, that's a game changer.
I think for our football team, where our guys can
get away from football, then get away from school, then
get away from all that stress. And they have a

(28:28):
confidant that really I say coach Mason, but you know,
and he has a football background, but he's not actually
a coach. In the exod, I was out on the field.
He goes out and helps quite a bit during the season.
But they have someone that can listen to them and
help them. And there's just so many counselors and people
in this entire school that make this thing go. I
just I'm trying to give as many names as possible

(28:52):
that help out. It's just so hard to name them all.
So I hope I didn't miss anyone.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
We'll coach, you know with our history. You know one
things you know well well is just like this, you know,
really good athletics and you know it's all about football
and stuff. They just don't realize. I mean the things
that you just mentioned are like life lesson things. And
if you get the kids, I don't want to say
buy into it, but just if they get an understanding

(29:16):
and start you know, thinking and bringing that along in
their whole cachet of what their life's about. I mean,
that's what it's about. It's developing the men.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
If our kids graduate here and all they can remember
are the wins and losses, then I failed as a
coach because that's not what it's about. Like we want
to win every single game without question, but it's about
developing remarkable minimal that are gonna go off and do
great things in the community with their family. They're gonna
be great husbands, great fathers, they're gonna be great Catholics,
and they're gonna be great ambassadors for the school and

(29:48):
this region and everything that goes into it. And I
try to tell our guys all the time, twenty thirty
years from now, when you guys come back. You're not
gonna remember who was a state. You're not gonna remember
the stats. You're not gonna remember I.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Can remember Center broadcast.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
You will, you're reminder, but they won't remember any of
that stuff. They're gonna come back and they're gonna remember
the locker room, and they're gonna remember the prayers. They're
gonna remember, you know that the time we did this
many updowns for not cleaning up the locker room. They're
gonna remember just those things, those moments where they go through,

(30:24):
you know, so many trials and tribulations together and they
come out on the other side a better person, and
they're connected. And that's that brother that you talk about
at Boler. That's what they're gonna remember.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
And you mentioned the lifelong friendships that it can kind
of be a constant remind not about the wins and losses,
but just about what it was like at Moler. And
you know, you have a friend thirty years down the road,
forty years down the road, and and you know that's what.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's about exactly.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
And you are you're a great attestament to that, right
like you're an a lump here and you're still giving
back and giving your time here and all that stuff.
And you're good friends with a lot of guys that
have sons on the team. Your kids played on the team, right,
Like Barrett's kid plays on the team. I know he
didn't go to Molar, but like he's a part of
the family, right, like it like this is, it's just
so much bigger than football and wins and losses. And
you know, if we can get that across, I hope

(31:13):
that's what our guys take away when they graduate here.
More than anything is that piece of it and that's
the ultimate goal. So hopefully we're doing a good job
of that.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Coach, we had a pretty big Moller family and a
lot of people involved, and I know you're you're kind
of the ringleader, but it takes everybody. And and yes,
we want to win, like you said, we want to
win every game, but it's, uh, it's like more than that.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yep, this really is.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
There's one person I forgot to mention this support steff.
I got to talk about my wife because she is
the one that like lets me able to do this,
and she she does more than that I can even say.
I mean, there's a lot of times that she is
a single mom, and she cooks dinner by herself quite
a bit. She feeds the kids by herself, she puts
them down by herself. And I try to help out

(32:01):
every way I can. But she was she was in
charge of victory day like, so all that credit goes
to her for organizing all that stuff. She's my confidant.
And and she loves this team. She loves the player,
she loves the parents, she loves this play so much.
But it's just so special. But that was ultimate support
staff person. I don't want to forget her.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
You gotta end it with the ultimate the high note
right there, and there you go.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
The CFO controller Family Operations.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
So so the missus is really controlling more football.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, anyway, has a problem with playing time. Talk to her, coach,
be careful.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Because there might be someone who hears that and makes
the call. You never know, all right, coach, great, uh
great second show here as we are barreling down on
the beginning of the year, and uh, you know, this
is where all the all the work and effort and
everything going in is going to uh you know, culminate,

(32:56):
and uh, you know, it's just gonna be great getting
that first game underway and then just getting into the
routine and we hope it, we hope it goes into December,
but as.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
It comes, let's start with this tomorrow first.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, let's get let's get through the scrimmage tomorrow at
three o'clock the Crusaders and the Tigers of Massillon as
the Crusaders will be at Mount Saint Joe for their
final scrimmage.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
And I just want to thank coach Bert Bathyani.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
And his whole cast of characters with Molar Football, as
we talked about as you're listening to the Bert Bathyani
Show heard here on w MOE and the Molar Broadcasting
Network sponsored by Kmey and Shepherd Realtors, Coach, thanks for
your time and get them Amen,