The Coach Bert Bathiany Show - Season 2 Episode 10 - Cleveland St. Ignatius

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Of success in life company? What is it you want?
Give your best effort, show me what you got. If
you want to be a success, you gotta have.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's the Burt Pathyany Coaches Shoe presented by Komy and
Shepherd Reelders and First Community Mortgage, a competitive combo championship
results and here's your host. Jeff Seed and Mulder head
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Andy W.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Moe and the Moler Broadcasting Network present the Burt Bathiani Show,
featuring the head coach of the Moeller Football Cruise, Saders
and GCL champion, Bert Bathiani.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Show is sponsored by Comy and Shepherd Reeltors. I'm Jeff
Schneidle class of nineteen eighty four and with Komy and
Shepherd Reeltors, always great to be able to sit down
and talk with coach Bert Bathyani. Coach, congratulations on your
second GCL championship.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Thank you obviously, that feels really good. That's something we
set out to do at the beginning of the year.
But we we celebrate that night and then we quickly
refocus to the next game and we're already on to it.
So not the downplay it at all, but that's the
thing in the past, and then our ultimate goal is
way down the line. So all our guys know that
and they have their minds in the right set to

(01:19):
keep taking it week by week.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
It's kind of like the first, uh, you know, first trophy,
first jewel of the season, so to speak. And really
the alumni really enjoy knowing that we're the kings of
the GCL.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, without question. I mean, that's great for our fans,
that's great for alumni our school, and I mean give
our seniors a lot of credit. I mean, that's three
in a row for them. Yeah, I mean that's awesome.
That's a huge accomplishment. So that's something and we talk
about that. That's something you should be proud of. And
you know, when you come back here twenty years and
you get to see, you know, the teams that you
were on and you get to tell your children who

(01:53):
were part of those teams, you should brag about that, right,
like that should happen, But not yet, right, not yet,
Like that's twenty years down the line when you get
to do that. Right now, stay in the moment, and
that moment is staying ignacious, and that's what we're focused on.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Coach six and one obviously GCL.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean, you know, we are one losses in overtime,
but it just seems like our team is playing very
very well together as a unit.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I think that's what I'm most proud of is going
into the Lassau game, the challenge was the most complete
Moller team that we can put out on the field,
right like offense, defense, special forces. And I think they
answered the bell really well that night, and then and
then a million reasons not to with all the distractions
that we're going on with the weather and all that stuff.
But and then the next challenge was like, hey, can

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we be even better than we were the week before
against our next opponent, right, which was Elder And I
thought our guys did a really good job as well.
Now we're never gonna be a finished product. We're always
gonna try to be better than yesterday, and we're not
as good as what we can be. But I'm really
pleased at how we're playing complimentary football in a lot

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of ways.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Coaching. We just had spectacular weather. What a beautiful night
that was ye with everything going on, and you know,
we're very blessed with the great weather run we have
going on. Of course, our hearts are with the people
down in the South that you know, I mean, there's
not going to be football happening and things down there,
So we got to count our blessings.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, really fortunate and do whatever we can for those folks.
And how about the night in general. Just give our
our our advancement staff, our athletic department, this school and
everything that all the people who are involved in making
that night so special. I know Barrett had a lot
of input in like the entrance coming out right and

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the fireworks and the yellow smoke coming up from the stadium.
I mean, what a cool event. We're in Cincinnati, and
I know it was a home game for Moler, but
in a game like that it could be fifty to fifty,
but it felt like a like a true home game.
And that was all due to all the people in
this school that helped make that possible and give that

(03:58):
experience experience to players. Are our students, our alumni, all
the fans. So what what a cool night? Like you
just walked out as one of those games where you
have to pause and just take a moment to soak
it all in and think like this is pretty cool.
This is high school football. This is what you know
what I mean like, this is this is this is
what high school football is in the GCL in Cincinnati

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in October. That's what it's like. And not a lot
of people get to experience that. And what I'm most
proud of is our players are recognizing, like, hey, my
experience in high school football is pretty high level compared
to a lot of people in the country. But that's
what makes this so special too. Just a great night
all around.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, there was a lot of people that had a
lot of hands into getting that going. And do you
ever worry that the team might be like too wound
up because of I mean, cool entrance, all that, all
the excitement, and you just like you're just like.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, I know, to be honest, I'm never worried about it.
We don't talk about it at practice, like we don't
we don't have those discussions. It's all done outside and
we just make it seem normal. But the one thing
I I do love about not having a home stadium
is our players are used to the chaos. They're used
to it, right, Like we're playing ten I know we've

(05:09):
said it a million times, like ten regular season games,
ten different stadiums, but something always goes wrong in the
logistics and the travel and you can't control it. So
it's not a big deal unless you make it a
big deal. Our players don't make it a big deal
or our coaches don't and they just go perform. So honestly, God,
the higher the stakes, I think our team plays better.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Coach, I've said it before, I hope we get to
have to play in sixteen different stadiums, but they'd be cool.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
But actually, if we have.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Two home games for plays, we don't know, the logistics
there might make us have to move around here.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
You never know. So yeah, but like I say to
our players, like we'll glimpse into the future, we'll learn
in the past, but we're gonna be where our feet
are and right now that we're gonna be playing at
Buyers Field in Cleveland on Friday night.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
So we're excited about that opportunity and rate a roll.
And we'll talk about that in our second segment. But
let's take a break here and we'll come back to
recap the game as the Crusaders took down the Panthers.
But you're listening to the Bert Bathyani Show, featuring the
head coach of the Molar Crusaders Bert Bathyany, sponsored by
Comy and Shepherd Reeltors and heard here on w MOE
and the Molar Broadcasting Network.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
It's time for another great season on Molar football and
it's always a good time to buy and sell real estate.
Contact me, Jeff Schneiedl, the voice of the Crusaders but
also Molar Class of nineteen eighty four. I can be
reached at five one, three four eight four zero six
sixty six.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Go big Mo. Tuned in to w.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
MOE and the Molar Broadcasting Network which brings you Moler
Fighting Crusader football. And now it's the Bert Bathyani Show,
which features the head coach of the Crusaders, Bert Bathyany.
The show is sponsored by Comy and Shepherd Realtors. I'm
Jeff Schneiedl with the Class of nineteen eighty four and coach.
We talked about a spectacular i'll say entrance, a beautiful night,

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just absolutely perfect for football. And I guess the only
thing I guess we didn't do is we didn't win
the coin toss. But that was okay, ye come right
out of the gate and and it just seemed like
from first of all, the kickoff return, like Ko.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
And how great is he playing right now? I mean
his he is so explosive, so quick, And what I
love most about Ko is his confidence and his aggressiveness
and in returning kicks these last two weeks have really improved.
And give a lot of credit to the guys blocking
for him too. Right Like on our punt return unit,

(07:41):
you have our corners Cooper Gearhart and Ricky Thomas that
have been doing a great job blocking down field to
allow him to then get some space to return it.
And then on kickoff return, like that's more of an
offensive play, but you have Carson back there, you had
Chris Bradley back there, and then you got Foegler Roman
in Javaon in that back line as well, leading the way.

(08:04):
And I think, like that that unit's done a really
good job. And we had had a big return there,
big return on the first punt that we had. I
know it got called back from a penalty, but I'm
really pleased with the effort and the execution those two
units right now.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Coach, So a thirty yard return takes us out to
the thirty seven, and honestly, the first play from scrimmage
a thirteen yard run by Tyler Josson kind of like
set the stage. I mean, you know, like as an
offensive lineman, we gotta give them a lot of credit
because we'll talk about some of Matt's stats, but the
offensive line made that happen. And but you know, to
get like a thirteen yard run right out of the box,

(08:40):
that's got to be.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Like we're ready to roll. Yep, yeah, I mean, yeah,
that's exactly what you want, right, like that first first down.
There's like a weight lifted off your shoulder in every
single game, but our aligne did a phenomenal job. At
the end of the game when we named our players
of the game, it was the ligne right like to
our team in our locker room, we're celebrating, and we
have six senior offensive linemen who are all bought in.

(09:02):
They all do a great job, and we rotate them
like crazy and get them in and out, and they
got a lot of reps under their belt. But I'm
really proud of just their resiliency and how they sacrifice
for the good of the team, like every great offensive
line does. But they've really done a really good job
keeping the quarterback clean and then creating running lanes for

(09:23):
our backs to make big plays.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
So Jocelyn ran for thirteen yards on the first play.
The second play was an incomplete pass yep, and maybe
Matt's not going to be on tonight. And then all
of a sudden, as the game progress he went nineteen
to twenty on his next twenty throws.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
That is like unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Coach, Yeah, and he's he doesn't get enough credit for
his mind and making good decisions and just getting it.
He has complete control of the offense. He knows exactly
what we're trying to accomplish, and then our receivers do
as well, right, so we give them the opportunities to
make plays every single play, and Matt has all the
confidence in the world and all those guys, So between

(10:04):
Javon Foegler, Roman Ko Lannon Adams and then Yeah, and
our tight ends as well, usually they're they're getting dirty
at the line of scrimmage. But his ability to know
exactly how we want to attack the defense and when
to attack the defense, that's been the biggest improvement Matt's
had from last year to this year is understanding what

(10:27):
we're trying to accomplish and then executing that really well.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
So it's not just it's not just the physical part
of the game. That mental part of the game makes
a big, huge deal right there.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's what sets him apart. And I
mean his he's got a great arm, great like I
could go on and on, but the being on the
same page with the wide outs and the quarterback. That's
the X factor right there, right The relationship that those
guys have and even in meetings, you know, we we

(10:57):
have them talk to each other about things, and I
think that's really helped us grow as a unit from
that standpoint of like how we can run things better.
Getting them on the same page as the quarterback. I
think that's been really good for us and coach.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
I know we've talked about spreading the ball around, but
one of the really cool things with it is it
doesn't seem like he has like the one favorite guy.
It just other guys just emerge at different times and
and they're there and and that's why all the catches
are spread around and and you know, we don't have
one guy with a thousand, but we got all these guys.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
No, that's that's really cool, is I mean, we're I'm
aware of where guys are at I don't want to
this is gonna come off silly, but we honestly, when
I call plays, I don't really determine who's out there,
right like, because we have these these three outside guys
who are all phenomenal. We have two slots who are
both phenomenal. We have two tight ends that we trust
like crazy, and we have a running back room that

(11:48):
is really competitive. So we call the play and we
just expect whoever's out there to just execute. And that's it,
right Like, we're aware of who's out there, but to
give our guys credit, we have an expectation of the position,
not the player, and we call the play. Whoever's out there,
we expect them to execute and go do their job,
and they do. And so that's what's developed, that trust

(12:09):
with Matt and and all those guys out there, where
he knows if Cooper's in the game, he trusts him.
Sam's in the game, I trust him, Grayl's in the game.
I trust him, Johnson's in the game. I trust him.
It doesn't matter who it is. They got a really
good report right now.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
On a side note, Matt Fogler, when he was a sophomore,
I remember down at Norwood they called they called the
play and one of the receivers had to come out
because and I think they just said, well, you know,
that's the play, and he just went in central down.
It was like, where's this guy from now, you know?
And all of a sudden there is so but I

(12:47):
just always remember that. But that that drive, eleven plays,
sixty three yards, took up five minutes and eleven seconds.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Tyler jossly On punches it in.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Fourth down conversions too, all right, guys.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
And just kind of a statement drive, Hey, this is
what we're going to do, so take up half a quarter.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
And that was pretty cool, yep, I was really yeah.
I mean, so we got the ball first, right, and
being able to punch it in that first drive just
put so much confidence in your defense. And our defense
has been playing really, really well. So for them to
go out with a lead, right, Like, that's exactly how
you like to script it up. When you go into

(13:26):
a game and you receive the ball first, defense steps
on the field, first time in the game, we have
a lead.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
And then the Panthers come out and it's three and out.
I mean, not that they had to feel the pressure,
but they're like, oh my goodness, already down seven and
this isn't going to be fun. And then they punt
the ball to us and right out of the gate,
forty six yard completion to Fogler and then Tyler jos
On runs it in and you know whatever, I think
it was just a two play drive. Actually you know

(13:51):
it's fourteen to offense.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, and give our wide receiver coach a lot of
credit on that one. Coach Cole like, when we get
to the sideline, we get on the iPad right away
and immediately he's like, hey, this one play we ran,
it's gonna be open. And we went right back to
that the first play and through it the Matt and
I thought he was gonna score. He got caught at
the two yard line. And then we have Tyler Johnson
the punching in though.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
There you go, and then we get another another hole.
They punt the ball back to us, we score again.
We're early in the second quarter. It's twenty one to nothing.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
And yeah, and when you can get those methodical drives
and then you can be explosive at the same time
and then your defense is getting three and outs, I mean,
that's a that's really hard mentally to overcome. Now it's
still a GCL team. You're playing the elder Panthers, you're
playing against you know, a Hall of Fame coach. They
ain't gonna roll over and die. And you saw exactly

(14:41):
what happened in sane X, right, Like, we have a
big lead, they come back and they cut it down,
and you know, that's exactly how I would expect us
to respond. But you just know in the back of
your head that this team is not gonna quit. You
got to keep playing for forty eight minutes. So it
definitely got interesting in the second half. Well, they scored
before halftime.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
And were twenty eight to nothing.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yep, and they scored and coach I remember thinking, we
get the ball back with fifty nine seconds, let's sit
back and watch the show.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
And we didn't.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
But the logic there is, you make one mistake, something happens,
they get the ball back. Well, we were actually in
the ball to start the second half.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
We were gonna go, We were gonna go, and we
had a good return, but then we had the penalty,
right and it took us back. And from that same point,
like mentally, you just you go from having momentum and
then the penalty brings you back and it goes down
and you're INSIDERUD twenty and we had one time out.
They had three left, right, so they could hold it
from that same point. If we had three timeouts, we

(15:41):
would have gone right. But just situation right there with
the timeouts, because I had to burn too early, and
that was on me, that was on anyone else. We
had to burn too early in the in the first
in each of the yeah and then and those are
on me. You just not like what you saw or
things just weren't driving. Yeah, we used one on the
first one and then one on the the second drive.
And those plays in the red zon are just so valuable.

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So if there's one thing you didn't like, or if
we called something wrong, and you just don't want to
have a negative play, so we take the time out
and then it end up equally in seven points, So
we want.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
To have the negative play.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
I think we're down the one and the kind of
fumble and not just jump out yeah, And it's kind
of like, you know, now, it's a whole different complex
when you're at the four yard line versus.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah one, you're one hundred percent right, it was completely
different thought process there. But you know, we run it
twice and get it in.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Coach again, I think, you know, I know you always
want to be aggressive, but you know, I was thinking
we were going to be aggressive there at the end
of the half. But then logic just has to come
in at some point, and you know, with that and
you have a twenty eight to seven lead, let's not
let's not do something and they get.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
The ball back, they get the ball back in half.
So from that same point, you just think you don't
want to be a pessimist and think about, you know,
the negative things that could happen. But given our field position,
given the clock, given the timeouts that we had and
they had, it was just like, let's just go in
a half time enroll NFL comfort or defense. In the
first half, I mean, I thought they had one play, right,

(17:05):
you know, I thought they had one play like the
deep play down that that got them in the the
ten yard line to be able to score. So in
my mind, the messages you go in at half times like, hey,
they got one play in this guys, let's go out,
let's do our thing, and let's let's pour it on them.
But at that moment, it was like, let's just get in.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
The halftime, coach.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
It's good seeing the running game kind of getting in
gear a little bit, and uh, I know, probably more
of that to come. You know, we're gonna get those
bad weather, colder weather or whatever it is. But but
throwing the ball, I mean, you always think it's like
a disadvantage for a throwing team, but it can be
an advantage because you know where you're gonna go and
the defense doesn't. If the weather's bad or wet, is

(17:45):
that is there some substance to that.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Or yeah, I think you any good offense, you don't
want to be predictable, and you don't want to be
one sided, right like, you just don't because then they're
going to load up on one or the other. So
being balanced is really, really really the key. And that
doesn't mean being like fifty to fifty, you know, running past,
but being bounced where you're getting the ball to, your
athletes are distributing it and you don't really know where

(18:08):
that ball could go. So creating that that uncertainty is
really really important. But you know, when it gets a playoffs,
you got to be able to run the football. You
have to and you have to be able to stop
the run. And because you're gonna get those games and
the cold doesn't really bother as much as like when
you get those wins, you get the rain. Right, like
when mother nature decides to step in, you want to

(18:29):
have something to hang your hat on, and being able
to do both obviously helps.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
All right, mother nature has been pretty busy for our country.
So let's have about seven or eight weeks of is calmness.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Let's do that.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
So yeah, all right, So the Crusaders take the GCL
crown and that puts a rap on the GCL season
as we get to go to the extended GCL. If
we want to say that, that'll be coming up here
in part two. As you're listening to the Bert Pathy
Andy Show featuring the head coach of the Moler Crusaders,
Bert Pathy and sponsored by Combyan Shepherd Reeltors and heard

(19:01):
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We get to take a two hundred and twenty seven

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mile trip north up to Parma. I guess to be
exact Cleveland, however you want to call it buyers Field
and take on the Saint Ignacious Wildcats who you look
at and you say, well, they're one and six, Wow,
you know what?

Speaker 5 (20:22):
But if you look at their schedule.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
And they've had some tough ones and you know we've
we've gone through that over the years and.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Dangerous trap game.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
If we're not on Q Yeah, like the rat poison
is reel, you can't pay attention to their record. This
is a really good football team, and you took the
words out of my mouth when you talked about their schedule.
If you include us in the eight games are gonna play,
they're forty three and twelve I think the teams that
they've played, so they've played three seven teams between menor

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between Welsh Jesuit and I'm blinking on the other one hoping, hoping,
but they just lost to watch jeduate right that I'm
not sure, so they just but so from that standpoint,
it's been they've played some tough, tough teams. They also
played St. Ed's right, They also played Teleda Central Catholic
or they two teams have won the state championship. So

(21:18):
they've played good football and it just hasn't gone their way.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
And a look said Mentors being regarded as one of
the top teams in the state and they lost by
six to them, Yep, exactly. You know, just gotta be careful.
And you know, I mean, they got a they got
a really solid coaching staff. So you know, you just
hate to have one of these games where all of a
sudden they get it together. But you know they're not
going to come in lay Down. It's their home, it's
their home.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Game.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now you're still going on the road, and they still
got you know, really good players every on that side.
They got a running back that's committed to Minnesota. They
have an offensive lineman with offense offers from everywhere, and
a dB who's committed to O High State. So they
got good players all over the place. And it's at ignacious.
I mean they they've won eleven state idols in their
school history, I think, right, I think that's the number.

(22:02):
I hope I don't misquote it. But back in the
late eighties, early nineties, I think they won seven out
of eight. And they've produced high level talent decade after
decade after decade. So this isn't a team you overlook whatsoever.
But our mindset is always it doesn't matter who we're playing.
We just focus on us and let the scoreboard take

(22:24):
care of itself from that standpoint, So you know, we've
focused on ourselves more than anything this week, like we
do every week, and you know, if we play to
our level of what I expect this to write, we
just let the scoreboard take care of itself.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
Coach on a side note, I look at their coaching
staff and I see Elvis.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Gerbach, I saw that to you.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, yeah, and it's like, you know, it's like you know,
for me growing up, it's like, man, I remember watching
those guys, yeah players.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, their head coach played at Ohio State and he's
I mean, they got some they got a phenomenal coaching staff,
they got a really good roster. They's played tough.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Schedule, it just hasn't gone their way that Jude, you
do you just work extreme, just focus on our team
and just we just we gotta go do what we
gotta do best.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah. Absolutely, just that That's been the recipe for us,
is getting better each and every week and trying to
find ways to improve and every week. You know, when
you win, it's not as good as you think, and
when you lose, it's not as bad as you think. Right,
So our mindset has always been about the process and
trying to get better each and every day. And I've
been really happy with our practices this week, Like I

(23:30):
think Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I think we've had some really good,
energetic practices. Been really pleased to them. So you're hitting
into that that middle of the season all right now,
right where you know it's getting a little colder out
like like your body's starting to get banged up. So
personal care and your health is huge. So our guys
are taking care of their bodies and they're acting like

(23:52):
pro So I'm really pleased with where our guys are at.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Just gotta come out of the gates strong, coach. I
know I mentioned it uh years ago when Ignacious was
number one in the state and we were on our
fifth quarterback and I think they walked in and I
think we played up at Otterbaine. I think that halfway
and you know, I don't know if they took us lightly,
but you know, our boys are ready to go. So
we just we don't want to have a reenactment of
that reversed.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
We've one brought that up to our team this past
week as a reminder, especially after what happened this last
weekend in college football. Right Like, you cannot fall into
that trap of rat poison and start thinking this, that
or the other. Right Like, you just have to stay
in the task at hand and.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Do your job and coach for the seniors.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I mean hopefully with there not near not halfway yet,
but you start thinking, man, we used don't get too
many opportunities to go out and play football.

Speaker 5 (24:43):
Yeah, and for some that may not move on and
play at the next level.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
It's like, you know, you can't get twenty two guys
together in a couple of years and say let's go,
let's go play football. I mean, it's I mean, you've
got limited times and opportunities and and to go through
the whole practice week and the game day and stif.
That's you know, I think that's what's kind of cool
for the seniors to realize.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I think our guys definitely realize that. And you know,
that's what makes football so great. It is a finite sport.
There's no YMCA league for football, so that makes it
pretty pretty special when you can just take each moment
as they come and kind of just live within it
and be thankful that you get to play high school
football and you get to play at this level, right

(25:25):
like with the go on the road to the bus
and get to spend time with my my best friends
for three four hours and then get to play football
and then drive back. Right, So this is the time
of their life and I hope they realize that it.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Is that a good thing.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
It's on Friday night versus a Saturday, I mean, I
mean there's kids, maybe a day kind of break, a
little bit of coming back.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
I'm sure they're happy on Friday, they get out of
school earlier.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah right, yeah, well, let's uh, let's just make sure
we come out of the shoot ready to go.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Right.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
All right?

Speaker 4 (25:53):
That is Coach Burt Bathiani with the GCL Champion Moler
Fighting Crusaders as you're listening to the Bird Band the
Annie Show. Coach, always appreciate your time and candidness, and
let's just let's keep this going here.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
It's certainly fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Amen, right, Gobi.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Well that's Coach Bert Bathy Andie.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
As you're listening to the Coach Berth Bathy and Show
sponsored by Koby and Shepperiel Tursers. I'm Jeff Schneidle, class
of nineteen eighty four. I know many folks are going
to be tuning in on Friday night. That's seven o'clock
from Buyers Field in Palm Ohio as the Crusaders travel
north to take on the Saint Ignacious Wildcats.

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