Coaches Office with guest Coach Blake Powers of Meade County

In this episode the coaches welcome new Meade County head coach Blake Powers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Coach David Buchanan coach Chuck Smith, two legendary high school
football coaches. This is the Coach's Office, a behind the

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scenes look at Kentucky high school football.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Welcome to the Coach's Office, Behind the scenes with Chuck
Smith and David Buchanan. This is Season four, Episode two.
I'm Chuck Smith. I'm joined by co host David Buchanan
and our podcast editor storyteller Mikey Oakham. Our YouTube version
of this podcast is at tacop T dot C, dot O,

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dot P and if you hit like and subscribe that
it really helps us out if he was to watch
it on YouTube. Tonight's guest coach is Blake Powers.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
He's the new head football coach of Mead County High
School coach Piers. He brings a college playing and a
college coaching experience, you know, back to his hometown, you know,
in an attempt to get mea county football to that
next level. Uh So, I know the people in the

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community of Meat County is really excited about that. We're
going to have you on the show tonight, Just Hank
tight He'll be on a just a second, our tough
topic for tonight that we're going to discuss is should
the Kentucky Athletic Association allow June seven on seven and
therefore they would be allowing July basketball team competition?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Actually is bringing it back.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's the way it used to be, then it changed,
and then I think changed around two thousand and nine,
and now there's some talk about wanting it to come back.
We'll have all those It's not an easy discussion, not
going to please everybody, but David and I will discuss
that with our tough topic tonight, hey, and then our

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games of the week this week, Man, we've got two
really good ones. We're going to focus in on the
Rebel Bow and the Rebel Bow has got two great
games Plasti County versus Brian Station and then we got
LCA playing Boyle County. So we're going to be a
good rebel bow for good teams. Let's talk a little

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bit about coach Pirates before we bring you on. As
I said, he is the head football coach of Mead
County High School. He's actually there six head football coach
in the history of Meat County, so you know, I
haven't had lots, so you know he's following some good
shoes if they've been able to stay around that long.
He he coached at Army West Point for the for

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the last three seasons. He coached running backs, tight ends,
and fullbacks. Last year actually twenty twenty four, they were
they were twelve and two, so they had a great team.
He was a part of that coaching staff. He's a
former Me County football player. Okay, I actually remember him
when he played. He was a you know, one of
the stars in the state. And you know, he had

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a pretty popular name as in terms of you know,
quarterbacks across the.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
State of Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
He played college football at Indiana University. He was a
four year letterman there at quarterback and some tight end.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
This is the most impressive part of his resume, besides
all his coaching stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Served in the Army on active duty for twelve years.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
He retired as a major. All right.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
He deployed to Afghanistan for two different two times. I mean,
I bet he doesn't have any problems with parents or
players talking.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Back to him or any I mean, I would be intimidated.
I mean, that is pretty impressive. And then he has
a bronze star medal an.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Army Commendation Medal, an Army Achievement Medal, Combat Combat Infrey Badge.
He has a Ranger tab a, Pathfinder, Airport, Airborne Ariossault badges,
and receive the Officer Leadership Board. I mean, dang, coach, David,
you want to bring Blake one?

Speaker 6 (04:41):
That was a very impressive resume, and I've only got
one thing in common with Blake Powers.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
We both played quarterback for Larry Frinch.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Now, Blake, I know you're in the conversation as potentially
the best quarterback he ever coached.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
I get that. In my situation, it's not a conversation.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
I'm absolutely the slowest quarterback that Larry French ever coached.
So I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I've
got you on that. There's no conversation. I have sole
ownership of that title. But we are really excited to
have you on our show. And it's really cool. I'm
always bumping into my son in law played for Larry

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French and for Chuck Smith, so it's like one big family,
the Larry French family. We had him on last week
and hey, thanks for making time for us. We're very appreciative.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, well, Blake, I'll shoot off with the first question here,
what do you learn from the college football world that
would help you guide your players and get them where
you want them to be.

Speaker 9 (05:56):
So I was very fortunate to coach under coach Jeff Munkin, who,
in my opinion, is one of the best in the nation,
and I think among the best college coaches they all feel.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
That way too.

Speaker 9 (06:10):
And you know, being in the Army, I served under
a lot of good leaders good you learn from the
good and the bad with how much you're always changing
different organizations and units. But within my first forty eight
hours of being with the Army football team in twenty eighteen,
I quickly realized why they were winning games like they were,

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and it was all due to his leadership and attention
to detail and his work ethic. I always tell people
if coach Monkin would have joined the Army, he'd have
been a four star general. He's just unbelievable. I learned
so much from him in terms of holding standards to
a high level and how the small details of everything

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you do. He used to always say, there's no detail
too small, and a successful organization and you would catch
Coach Monkin when no one was looking, no cameras, no nothing,
fixing pictures on the wall, cleaning up trash, doing all
the small things. And it didn't matter if you were

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the best player or the worst player. He demanded those
standards out of you, and if you weren't living up
to him, he let a lot of our talented guys go.
And I grew to respect that so much, and I
learned a lot from him about the standards it takes
to be a good football team, and I think a

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lot of the fundamental coaching points, like you think you
know football until you're coaching at that level.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
And you realize you got a lot to learn.

Speaker 9 (07:50):
And I was very fortunate to work under coach MOKN
Coach Brent Davis who hired me, was an unbelievable offensive coordinator,
Mike Vedy who his offensive line last year won the
Joe Moore Award as the best offensive line in college football.
Learned incredible amount from Mike BVD who's also a brother
in arms with me, who served in the Army deployed Afghanistan,

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and then last year our new offensive coordinator who was
our quarterback coach when I took the coaching job. Cody
Worley is an unbelievable football mind, and I learned so
much from Coach Munking about standards and how you maintain
those and drive that culture within your program. And then

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I learned so much from Coach Davis, Coach VD and
Coach Worthley in terms of ex'es and o's, and I
really tried to take as much as I came from
them and help our kids give them everything they can
to be successful.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, that's a great group of people to be connected
to and have you know as mentors.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Hey, Blake, how is your players at Need County?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
How are they accepting I'm sure you're using that attention
to detail in your program. Are they accepting that type
of coaching in detail?

Speaker 4 (09:08):
They kept that pretty good.

Speaker 9 (09:10):
I knew coming into this job that I was going
to get the right type of kids at me County.
And I'm very fortunate from coach Mofield, who was our
offensive coordinator when Coach French was our head coach when
I played. Coach Mofield was the offenseive coordinator and he
raised all these kids the right way.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
They can take hard coaching.

Speaker 9 (09:29):
They're discipline they're tough, they play extremely hard. I'm very
fortunate to inherit the players that I have in the
work ethic and mentality and discipline from coach Mofield. So
it's been an easy transition for me. We have great kids.
They give everything they have. You know, when I was

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out recruiting on the road, even at successful programs, you
would hear a lot of coaches talk about today's generation
not being able to take hard coaching and the entitlement.
And I haven't had any of that at the county.
I've been very blessed and that's due to Coach Mofield.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah, Coach Mofield one of my favorite people. I like
him a lot.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Good Yuay.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
And you know, Chuck, Chuck brought up earlier, you're only
the six head coach at Mead County High School. I
mean you all as a community and a school, y'all
have done a really good job of, you know, building
a culture and a continuity that's that's lasted for a
long time, and it sounds like what you're doing is
going to build and make that even better. So hey,

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my first question for you. First of all, again I
want to say thank you for serving our country in Afghanistan,
I would ask you this, what did you take from
that experience? That is part of how you coach and
lead a football team.

Speaker 9 (10:53):
I think in the Army, most of your soldiers are
eighteen to twenty two years old and still got a
lot to learn. And as an officer, your number one
job is to look out for the well being of
them and their families. And I learned a lot through

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the Army about taking care of people. If you want
people to follow you, they have to know that you
care about them and that it's genuine. And you develop
such a close relationship with your soldiers. They're like family
and they're like your kids. And it's no different when

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I am coaching here with our players. You know, they're
walking in the shoes that I used to walk in,
and I just love our players so much and it's
easy for me to, you know, be relate to them
and be on meet them at their ground level, and

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then when we're talking business to demand a lot of
coach and hard and so I think the Army just
taught me to take care of people, meet them where
they're at before you are demanding things. And then it
also taught me that whatever you're asking them to do.
They need to know that you're willing to do the

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hard work and that no job is too small for
you to set that example. And so the Army really
a lot of the lessons I learned from Coach Brinch
and coach Mofield. I realized I was built for the
Army from them. And really the Army to me was
just a lot like playing football. Be a part of
a team, and then when you become an officer, you're

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more like a coach and more like a coordinator so
to speak. And so it's really been an easy transition
for me. In the Army it was like football, and
now I'm back and coaching, it's like being in the Army.
There's a lot of so many parallels between the two.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, it really is. I mean we we both coach
with Larry. Of course they haven't played for Larry French.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
We know that it's pretty rugged and enough to get
through it and some don't make it. But hey, Blake,
next for for me is you know, an army your
offense thrived on an you know, on option and a
you know, a powerful ring game.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
You know what's your vision at me? For me, County
football is you know you're going to follow in the
same footsteps, so you're going to spread out and throw it.
I mean, you know what, what's what's your vision?

Speaker 9 (13:41):
Well, I want to I think the best coaches can
always adapt to their personnel, and I want to do
whatever gives us the best chance to win. And with
me taking the job right before springball, we really didn't
have any of our coordinators in place, and so it

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was kind of trying to figure out what we wanted
to do, who I was going to be able to hire,
and as y'all know, uh, it's tough to find coaches
nowadays sometimes and it took it took us.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
A while to kind of get it rolling.

Speaker 9 (14:20):
And then to your point earlier about the restrictions in June,
which are insane to me, you're really not getting after
it when you're hired later in the process until post
dead period. And so I would love to implement some
of those under center flex bone type concepts and also

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out of the gun. But as y'all know, if you're
going to do that under center, it takes a lot,
a lot of investment and you have to live in
that world or the ball is going to end up
on the ground a lot, and so I would love
to get to that.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
We haven't really had the time invested yet.

Speaker 9 (14:59):
And I was very fortunate to hire coach Jody Ashby,
who's head coach Ohio County turned them around. He's been
at Trinity a couple of times, and Jody's done a
lot of things in his career and more of a
pro style type offense. But he knows what fits our
personnel and what Me County's always been is physical and

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run the ball well to be successful.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
And so we've we've come a long way since post
dead period.

Speaker 9 (15:29):
We haven't been able to install some of that Army
type stuff. But you know, if you know football and
you watched us last year at Army, everyone thanks.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
We were running triple options. We play.

Speaker 9 (15:40):
We were far more conventional than people realize. There's a
lot of games where we ran very few option plays.
I think against East Carolina we ran two option plays
and they were really zone read, which is not triple
double option. And obviously we didn't run a triple option
play that whole game. But we ran a lot of power,
We ran a lot his own, We ran a lot

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of GT counter and we dressed things up to have
them worried about the option, because there's other games where
we ran option, you know, fifteen to twenty times, and
so we were far more conventional than people realize. And
a lot of those conventional concepts in the run game

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we're starting to implement here at me County. And I've
taken some of the stuff that we've done, the techniques
and things, and kind of geled that with Jodie's scheme
and philosophy, and very fortunate to have coach Ashby and
it's a growing process.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know.

Speaker 9 (16:39):
We really struggled against south Oldo was a very good
defense and.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
We got a long way to go, but we had
a good practice today.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
There you going sounds meet county football.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
It sounds exciting for the future. Meet county football. Sounds
like they're gonna have some things to rally around.

Speaker 9 (17:01):
Oh yeah, yes, sir. If we can get our quarterback eligible,
will be in good shape. We got a young quarterback
who played Friday night, first start ever, and it was
a twelve to nothing game in the fourth quarter against
who I believe south Oldham is a very good, well
coached football team and there they're bigger, physical, and stronger

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than I expected when we got down on the field
with them, because in their scrimmage, their scrimmage and Frederick Douglas,
who's also massive, and I didn't realize how big and
strong some of those guys were.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
They've done an unbelievable job.

Speaker 9 (17:38):
There at South, all of them, and I was very
fortunate to start my coaching career. They're actually under coach
Reid before I joined the Army, and he got that
program roll and coach SAMs has done a great job.
And it was a close game, and then our young,
our young quarterback made some mistakes and we had a
pick six and a fumble six that kind of put

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the game up the breach and he's going to learn
from it. He's a good kid, he's a competitor, he's
got some ability. He'll be better as he gets older,
and I'm confident he's going to learn a lot and
perform better this week. But we've got to transfer a
quarterback in that the state denied eligibility too that we're

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trying to get eligible, So hoping we can get him,
and he's a great kid and hopefully change that dynamic
at that position, which will give us a lot more
flexibility in the offense.

Speaker 7 (18:34):
Hey, at the South Oldham team.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
That's my first district game, and they are really really good.
They have been, and I agree their coach Stams and
coach Reed before him have really done a good job.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
My next question for you, I saw you're.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
An instructor at the Manning Passion Academy and when my
son played for me, we actually went down there one summer.
I went with Chris mcnamin and his son when we
had a great experience in Thibodeau. And so I just
want to ask you what are the critical components of
successful play from the quarterback position.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
Well, I think number one thing is you got to
be the leader when things go wrong that everyone looks
to and guide the ship when things aren't right. And
I think that's first and foremost is you got to
be a leader. You got to be mentally tough, you
got to be able to deal with adversity and mistakes.

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And my opinion like I'll take a kid who's a winner,
who plays hard and does things the right way over
talent any day of the week.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
But if you got talent to go with that, you
can be special.

Speaker 9 (19:49):
And I think the number one thing at the position
is learning how to make good decisions and take care
of the football. And then the next thing I think
is is you got to understand what defenses are doing
to you understand game situations when it's more critical with
ball security, decision making, et cetera. Where you're at in

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the game. Just be the be that leader and that
game manager. I think is the most important things at
the position.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
Yeah, that's good stuff. I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
I do.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
Uh, I don't care what.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
I had some good old times down in Thibodeau.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
That's a good place, isn't it. We had a blast
down there. Uh. I hate too much of that shrimpet
above us. Uh. I hate to tell you. I gained
six pounds in like three days.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
So it was bad. But uh but we did. We
had a good time. And Frost rad a blast. He'd
be going somewhere. The next thing you know is he's
standing next to you know, Archie Manning or there. They
come by on the golf cart and it was it
was a really cool experience, very cool.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, I don't care what left you.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
You got.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
The quarterback is the most important position on the field.
He just starts everything and he can't get anything done.
With if you don't have you know, a you know,
a decent quarterback, you.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
Know it makes the difference, So play coach. I appreciate it.
I know, I know you got your hands full right
now getting started. Year one is a brutal year, but
we knew you'd be a wonderful guest. And hey, thanks
for making time for us. We're very appreciative, appreciate that much.

Speaker 9 (21:24):
Thank you for what y'all have done for young men,
and and I hope I can have careers and influence
people like you guys have. And thank you so much
for having me on. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Well, we were glad to have you.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Luck to you this year.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Good luck, yes, good luck.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Thank y'all appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Our next segment is the tough topic at your favorite
part of the whole show. And everybody'd likes to hear
your opinion and as as and I'm one of those
people that like to hear you, and this is gonna
be a tough topic for.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Sure, it is. It is a tough one. I like
to hear what you think. So I've only been talking
you about two or three times a week since nineteen
ninety two, so I like to hear what you think.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, the question is should the Kentucky in High School
Athletic Association allow June seven on seven passing? And which
would in fact make you know, the trade off would
have to be in July basketball its team competition again.
And as I said earlier, it's the way it used
to be. You know, it's basically you're bringing it back

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it existed. I believe two thousand and nine is when
it changed. I might be wrong on that date, but
it was somewhere around two thousand and nine, I would
I At that time I was at the University of Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
But go ahead, David, see what you got.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
Yeah, well, I don't think they should. I think what
they put in place, I think we should keep it.
You know, at Mason County when I went there, you
know which Mason County was a big basketball school. We
agreed from the very beginning Junia's basketball and then July
football would be the primary sports.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
So it wasn't an issue for us.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
But I supported the proposal at that time because at
least the coaches that were talking to me, the July
basketball was killing them. You know, they had kids that
were missing all July, missing up till August because they
were playing team basketball camps, so it wasn't affected me
at Mason County. But at that time I supported that

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change because so many coaches wanted it. Their kids missing
in July was a problem, and I supported it, and
you know, I thought that was what we wanted, what
was best. I think that in the big picture, I
think it's good for Kentucky is school football that we

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don't have basketball in July.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
I think that's really important.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
And I know for the programs at the top July
basketball is not a big issue. But I think for
the vast majority of Kentucky high schools, if you open
up that teams can start playing each other in July. Again,
I think it's gonna hurt football, I really do. And
we do get to have seven on seven in July.

(24:21):
I mean, I think what we can get, I just
I think it's plenty. You know, June is the time
also for our kids.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
To go to camps.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, even if they said we could do June
seven on seven, you know, that's the time when you know,
our kids that are getting recruited, that's that's when they
want to go to camps and they want to do
those things, and I.

Speaker 7 (24:43):
Want them to be able to do that.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
I mean, even even if Mason, you know, we had
Chris Lofton and Grootsa and all those guys, you know,
I wouldn't have had Dustin for June seven on seven.
Dustin would have been going to camps everywhere getting recruited.
I wouldn't even had him. So I'm not for it.
I don't think that there's a lot to be gained
from it. I will say this, and you know, Coach

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Powers touched on it. I do think that we should
be able to do more in June at home. I
do think that that would be okay. And I think
I do like the spirit of you know, your administration's
got to sign off on it, because you know, I
think it ought to be during the time that you know,
basketball gets their time that we get July. But I

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do think that, you know, I know, when I took
over at Mercer and Anderson, I'm just I'm gonna be
open about it. We did a mini camp my first
June at Mercer. Never heard a word about it. We
did a mini camp at my first June in Anderson,
and I mean, I I was you know, it was

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brought to my attention that we had crossed the line
because we were wearing helmets, so.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
You know, I you know, shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
And so forth and so on. I mean, I just
I'm not gonna play games. I mean, I want to
own it. But where I'm going with this though, is
like I think.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
Coach Powers had a good point.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
I think when you take over a program, and I
know you can't just limit it to a first year coaches,
but I do think and we had a mini camp
in June my first year at Mason County, which there
wasn't a rule back then, so it was really easy.
But I think that first season a mini camp is
really beneficial.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
And I think if there could be a two or.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
Three day period that guys could do that, especially when
you're coming in, like Coach Powers, you want to put
some things in. I don't think it'd be a bad thing.
Although I will say this and I won't say who
it was. I've had some really good coaches tell me, say, David,
do what you want to do in June, just don't
put on a helmet.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
And I think there's merit to that frame of mind.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
And I think if you approach it that way, then
you can do a lot of the install and you
can do a lot without wearing helmets.

Speaker 7 (26:59):
You really And.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
I think things like that and June, I think are okay.
But I do not want to open up a can
of worms of basketball teams traveling in July played each other.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
I don't want to go down that road.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
And if you want to open that many camp thing up,
then when a new basketball coach is hired, then he
can have himself a mini camp in July.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
So you have to give up some of your football
players for that mini camp in July. So I don't
know if that's a good idea or not.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Here's my opinion, And I agree with a lot of
things that you said. As I said earlier, I think
when this change was made in two thousand and nine,
I was at the University of Kentucky and I did
not have a voter or say. If I did have
a vote or say, at that time, I probably would
have voted. No, I didn't want to change, just leave

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it like it is. But it's important to understand, you
know the reason for that. I think that's important. You know,
I had the same deal that you had with my
basketball coach.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
When I was at Well County, I had the same deal.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I mean, he took priority in June and I took
priority in July. So if there was a con in June,
any football slash basketball player would go to basketball, and
then the same thing with a baseball player, he would
go to baseball. But then when it came July, then
our deal was it was hands off. You know, their

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priority was football, and they went to football first. That
was always our unwritten rule or unwritten agreement. And I
assumed that everybody in the state, you know, could have
that agreement with their basketball coach. But evidently not, because
that thing passed. It had more votes to change than

(28:55):
it than it did to have to stay. So if
I'd had a vote at the time, I would not
have I would have voted it. I wouldn't have been
supportive of making the change. But now, uh, and and
and and and and because I didn't one of the
reasons I didn't do anything in June other than we
did conditioning, and we did weightlifting, and we did uh,

(29:18):
you know, some of those kinds of things. But I
didn't believe that it was necessary to do all that.
Seven on seven in June uh, to win a state championship.
And I still don't believe you have to do that
to win a state championship. I did it several times
actually without doing anything in June.

Speaker 7 (29:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
I mean when I say anything, I'm talking about we
did lift.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Weights, we did condition, we did do agilities, we did
those kinds of things I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
We didn't do it on sevens.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
And I don't believe it has anything to do with
college exposure. I mean, you're going to go to the
one day camps to get your college exposure. Very few
are gonna, uh, you know, check you out. And seven
on seven's it's mostly a money ma for colleges to
get you on campus, and the college coaches get a
little bit of extra money, bonus checks, things like that

(30:09):
from the seven on sevens.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
At least that's how it was at Kentucky when I
was there.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Well, and I'm glad you said that because I look
at it as sort of somewhat driven by money. This
whole we need to have it in June, I didn't
want to say it. I appreciate you saying it, and
I do want to agree with you. I think a
lot of this is driven by money. For college football programs.
That's me, But I just want to support what you're saying. There,

(30:36):
go ahead, my bad.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
That's okay.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Now, if I had a vote now, if I had
a vote now, and I won't have a vote now,
but if I had a vote now, I would probably.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Vote to leave it like it is. Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
So I flipped after experiencing this, And I flipped because
the reason I think I flipped is because I think
it's probably best for all of the football programs loss
the state.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
Yes, I would have survived.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Will we had that agreement with our basketball coach? Uh,
there wasn't you know, it wasn't It wasn't hurting me
that bad.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
With with the multi sport players, uh, I think it's
It probably helps with multi sport players to keep it
like it is. It takes a lot of pressure off
of them having to make a choice. You know, coaches
are putting pressure on them if you don't come uh
to football in June and even though they got basketball
coming up, you know, then.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Then by golly, you're not gonna start.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Or you're not you're gonna to be And the basketball players,
the basketball coaches are doing the same thing.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
So I think it really at the time, took a
lot of pressure.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Off of the multi sport athletes and said, hey, we
know what we got, we know what our plans are
in July.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
June, We're going to.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Basketball and baseball, going to football. So I think it
some of that pressure off of them. I think getting
the basketball and the baseball on the basketball athletes out
for football, and I think this probably helped in some
degree participate to participate in high school football has really

(32:12):
helped the overall quality of Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
I think it has.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
And I'm not sure if you keep that basket, if
you open that door up, and they're still going to compete.
And trust me, you know, if you put the seven
on seven in in June, you better believe that's going
to be played games of basketball in July.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
So now you're going to have to fight that.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Like I said, I would have survived that.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Boyle, But I don't think all of the programs across
the state of Kentucky evidently feel like they would survive,
or they wouldn't have supported it in the first place.
So for that reason, you know, I just wouldn't mess
with it. Don't take that chance. Pick your battles. I'm
not sure that's a battle you really want to fight
because in my opinion, I don't think you is going

(33:03):
to win or lose you a state championship.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
I think the key, you.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Know, to this whole thing is what's best for the
overall for the players. And I mean, shoot right now,
I mean baseball is the one who has absolutely no rules.
You're around, I mean literally year around, and uh yeah,
baseball is tougher than basketball for football coaches, I think

(33:29):
at this point.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
You know, it's interesting at Anderson, and yeah, I agree
with what you said there. And you know, I really
treat you love wearing me out about being on the fence.
But I appreciate you admitting you've changed your mind. And
to me when you when you get after me for
being on the fence, I always say, a sign of
intelligence is that you take in new information and you
can change your mind. But I want to say this,

(33:54):
at Anderson, I've actually got more baseball kids than I've
got where baseball kids playing football, then I do basketball,
and that's been an adjustment. But I tell you what, Uh,
we sit down, we look at the schedule for July.
We make it work, and I mean it's been fine.
And you know, I will say, you know, even when

(34:16):
the June July thing with like Chris loft and Trayvon Faulkner,
Darius Miller and now my baseball kids at Anderson County,
I do think this, if you're gonna be a multi
sport athlete, I think it's going to take a high
character guy to really show up and follow through and
do everything for both teams that he's supposed to do.
And uh, fortunately right now those are the baseball guys

(34:39):
at Anderson and I'm glad it's worked out.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
So uh, I appreciate Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Let me tell you some David.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
If I was a basketball player at Anderson County, I
would be beaten your door down to come play football.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
You have coached to mister basketball for No.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
Three three basketball there Tris Miller, Chris Lofton and Treva. Hey,
I don't think is there a basketball coach that's coached three.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
You may you maybe, but still that.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Character and that discipline and uh and competitive spirit into
him that took them to the ultimate level.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
In basketball down If I was a basketball player.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
Well, hey, I appreciate you saying that. What I think
at more of is this, Hey, this cat can play.
We're going to find a way to make it work.
I love telling this story about Chris lofton spring of
his freshman year. He's got these big old, ugly reebots
that we got from Morehead that he's wearing for practice.
He bless his heart, he says, coach, he said, these,

(35:49):
cleach are five And he said, you think I could
have some knights? Not even Nike, he told them knikes.
He said, coach, you think I had some knights? I said, Chris,
you got whatever you want. You just tell me what
it is and you got it.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
You know, But I'm really proud of that.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
He was a great, uh just example of what a
truth I mean he was by I mean, I watched
him play in the state championship game and I went,
I walked away and.

Speaker 7 (36:15):
Went, why that specially?

Speaker 4 (36:18):
But by Gollay, he wouldn't miss nothing for you.

Speaker 7 (36:21):
Wouldn't he He would not be a do a.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Practice then going to gylemal shoot basketball.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
Yes, And you know, I'm really proud of this. Darius Miller, Cravon, Faulkner,
Chris Lofton. You don't know how many unexcused actionses those
kids had when they played for football zero zero. They
were super young men. And and I do say this,
the multi sport athlete has got to be a high

(36:48):
character guy to do it right, because it is so
hard to get all those to check those botches, but
they do it. A Cravon is playing professionally now overseas.
He's killed on it. I'm gonna tell a little quick
story on him. I hope he doesn't whip me over this.
But we were in the car, we're driving somewhere one time,
and you know, Notre Danes showed up to recruit Trayvon.

(37:11):
They liked him. They liked him at safety and I
said to Trayvon, I said, Trayvon, I said, look, it's
your life. I said, I'm just glad you're playing football
at Mercer County. But I said, Trayvon, I said, I
really think you can play on Sundays if you want
to play on Sundays. And bless his heart, I love
what he said. He said, coach, he said, I love football.
But he said football practice is so hard. I said,

(37:35):
he don't sweat it. I'm just glad you're playing for us,
But I better stop. I can talk about those guys
all night.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, let's go to the next segment, David, and that
is the game of the week.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
The games of the week. Okay, we got two from the.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Pulaski and Bryan Station and LCA and Boyle County.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
You want me to go first on the I got by Stay.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
Yeah, you go Brian Station. Then I'll go Pulaski and
l c A, and then you finish up with Boyle Okay, and.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Uh, Brian's Brian Station. Uh in this game?

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
They well last week they lost thirty five to fifty
six to South Warren.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Their head football coach is J. T. Haskins.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
It's his first season as the head coach, and he's
been there for a while as an assistant coach, but
this is his first year as as the head coach.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
He's playing.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
He played a very tough non district schedule. They should
be ready by the end of the year. Uh the
heck they got Corbin next week. Uh, and they got uh,
they got Pulaski this week, so they got a tough scheduling.
Uh So, but I think that he that'll that'll pan
out for him as the year progresses. I think he'll
rebound very nicely from uh the game with South Warren

(38:52):
last week.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Because I think they're well coached. I really do. I
think they did a great job of coaching. I was
I was a.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Part of that game. Uh. His key players, no doubt.
You know, Jordan Haskins as the head coach's son. He's
a superstar. He's really a nice player. He looks the part,
he plays the part. I mean just really just a

(39:21):
outstanding football player. And I think they're going to figure
out some ways to get him the ball. And he's
very tough on defense. He's got a right future ahead
of him for sure. Running backs, that got a couple
of good running backs. Number twenty four, Number twenty three,
twenty four is Corwin Montgomery.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
He ran the ball really hard. He was very physical.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Their quarterback number seventeen was Colston Carpenter and he was
a nice quarterback. He threw a nice ball. Maybe he
can run the ball with he can use his feet
the beach as well. And then the offensive line of
the left tackle really impressed me. Jeremiah More he's their
left offensive tackle. I thought he really stood out. He

(40:04):
was a really good player. I think they got a
I think they got a really nice team, and as
I said, I think they'll continue to get better. As
to your progresses, I would agree with you. And you
know that's something even when Phillip was their head coach.
I thought Brian Station in November was a very different
team from compared to August. In this big one, I've

(40:25):
got Lashki County and they're pop players.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
Brady Hull on the offensive line.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
Uh, just some of his offers Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Wisconsin,
Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, South Carolina and that's just a
few of them, but highly recruited young man and really
sort of the leader of the team. They've also got
a really strong quarterback in Zach Anderson. At running back,
Winston Ford and Cason Brock have done a nice job.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
Blake Taylor is also a good player on the old line.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Their defensive front is let by Colton Kine and Connor Blevins,
and at linebacker Brian Ford and Cohen Finley have have
done a good job of leading that defense. And in
the back end of it, Will Adams at safety is
a good player. You know, Travis Burns is in his
second season there. He worked for you had a really

(41:18):
good run at Boyle County High School, excellent young football coach.
I mean, if we're if I'm gonna pick a winner
right now, again, I think I think both teams are
very good. I think though Brian's Station, I still think
Brian Station is gonna be more of a November team
than what they are now. And uh, I think right
now Pulaski's ahead of them.

Speaker 7 (41:38):
I really do. And I think Pulaski will win the game.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
But you know, again, I would say that I think
Brian Station will be vastly improved when you get to November.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
I would pick Plaski too. That's who I would pick
in the game. Yeah, Okay, our next team LCA and
Boyle County.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Yes, well, they've also got a first year coach, Oakley Watkins.
He's been there OC now he's the head coach. Oakley's
a center guy from Center College, so glad to see
him doing well.

Speaker 7 (42:07):
Brilliant offensive mind, they're led.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Also, I want to say this, the LCA staff, they
are big listeners of our podcast and we've gotten some
feedback from them, and we really we liked that. We
love to hear from staffs and know that they're listening.
So Hey, I appreciate the LCA staff and their support,
but their quarterback, Nash Walen is their leader. He was

(42:33):
the offensive player of the game in their bowl game.
After the starting went down, he had to move to quarterback.
I tell you somebody that's sort of I've got some
connections to Mac Darling. Max's uncle, Kelly, played at Mercer County.
We graduated together.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
Kelly.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Kelly was on the offensive line and when I was
playing quarterback. Another Larry French guy. There are Larry French
guys all over the place. If we ever land on
the there's gonna be a There's gonna be a guy
on the moon that says I played high school football
for Larry French.

Speaker 7 (43:05):
It's gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
Uh. But Mac is leading tackler. He's six' two and
he's two hundred and twenty five. POUNDS a three year.
Starter Sam pearson starts as a wide RECEIVER. dB he
was defensive player of the game in their bowl. Game
one of the best receivers of twenty twenty. Seven thomas
Size moore is only a. Sophomore he's one of the
leading tacklers on the. Team he's already got offers From

(43:29):
kentucky And marshall and then their captain Is Tyler, king
wide RECEIVER dB three year starter and very good route.
Runners so they're they're gonna they're gonna bring a lot
of good bullets into this game With Boyle county and
they're gonna need them, because, Man Boyle county's gonna have
them another nice ball.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Club yeah they.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Are and we played we as In South warren played
in THE Lca bowl which they call the E campus
you Know, bowl and it.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Was very very well.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Run they did a great, JOB i, mean, facilities, accommodations
they did a really nice job with that bowl AT
lca last. Week appreciate those. Guys They Boyle, COUNTY i
know a little bit About Boyle county one last week
with an impressive fifty to seven men over the Bullet eese.

(44:23):
PROGRAM i mean that's Bullet ees won the state championship
a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Ago that's a very, impressive you know win for.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Them it's just a strong. Program they just reload year after.
Year the decision you, know was made a long time
ago to Make Boyle county a program not just a you,
know coach the best team you can that. Year this you,

(44:51):
know things were put into, place you, know weightlifting in,
school you know building in, established you know a program
with a youth youth, program.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Uh little coaches in the.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Building you, know all those things were, done And Justin
haddocks has done a, wonderful a fantastic job of just
keeping that.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
Going.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Uh it's it's a it's just a dynamite of a.
PROGRAM a couple of, names uh THAT i looked at
WHEN i looked at the, Roster, uh that stuck out to.
ME i don't know all the players, anymore BUT i
know Coach kelly because he Was Wilson kelly WHO i
coached the, brother AND i heard he's doing a really

(45:36):
good job for. Him, he's you, know starting offensive, Lineman
seneca driver who has gotten a lot of. OFFERS i
coached his Brother easy uh As arias was his, name
but we called him easy.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Uh and Then brock uh.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Uh and Then Mary roller is their, mother and Then
mary was you KNOW i told her in, school but
she you could have argued that she was the best
athlete in the entire school boy or girl her senior.
Year so he's got a good, bloodline is What i'm getting.
At and he's certainly doing pretty good on the field
with his. Talent bubby, McPherson He's dion McPherson's, son And

(46:17):
dion was one of my coaches.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
At Boyle County Peyton.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Leftew he's one of my coach's, Son travis lef. Youw
so there's lots of guys THAT i recognized the name
WHEN i went in their names WHEN i went down
the roster as being little brothers to players or coaches
that had association With Hey. David their quarterback last, week
WHICH i don't know Is Baylor.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Murphy he.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Threw he went fifteen for twenty, one three touchdowns and
three hundred and seven yards. Passing SO lca had better
be ready to defend that pass and put a little
pressure on. Him i'd have to go With Boyle, county
you KNOW i.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Would BUT i have to go With Boyle.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
COUNTY i just think they're just a strong, program touch,
knocks top top notch, Program they're well, coached and they're
gonna be tough to.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Be, YEAH i agree with. YOU i think.

Speaker 6 (47:17):
UH i think right Now Boyle county would have the
edge in this matchup A baylor when he was a
little he would he would come to my camps when
he was a little.

Speaker 7 (47:26):
Guy he's a good.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
Player i'm glad to see him doing. Well but, YEAH
i would Pick Boyle county as. Well ALTHOUGH i think
the guys at l C A are doing a great.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
JOB i really they are done a good.

Speaker 10 (47:37):
Job AND i watched some of the highlights of that.
Game we didn't stay and, watch BUT i watched some
of the, highlights and they have some really nice, players
you know they. Do it's not going to be a
blowout by no.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Means but, Anyway, Uh, david here's a let me let
me finish you up with this right. Here no, discussion,
uh just kind of rapid. Fire these are some of
the big games across the.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
State big.

Speaker 7 (47:59):
Game, Nice i'm.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Just gonna throw it.

Speaker 7 (48:02):
Out you tell me who you, Like, okay, yes, sir
let's go.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Like baron Versus.

Speaker 7 (48:07):
GLASGOW i tell You i'm gonna to part with. History
i'm on With Barry.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
County, Really i'm gonna go With glasgow on that. One
central Versus.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Belfrey that's an old, rivalry usually a state championship rivalry in.

Speaker 7 (48:21):
The Mass, yes, uh where are they? Playing don't?

Speaker 6 (48:28):
Know all?

Speaker 7 (48:30):
Right, hey CAN i pick the home. Team, Now, Hey
i'm gonna pick. Up i'll Pick.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Central i'll Pick belfrey on that, One Goth Frederick bruglass And, Trinity.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
Trinity Zane, Johnson Jordan Johnson's.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Son i'll Take, Trinity Madison central And Johnson.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
CENTRAL i tell you WHAT i Saw Madison central two fridays. Ago,
GOSH i think they're. GOOD i don't know how, Good johnson.
SAID i Know Johnson central's. GOOD i get. THAT i
Think Madison central is really really good this. Year that's
Who i'm, Yeah Madison, Central.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Uh Madisonville North hopkins And.

Speaker 7 (49:09):
Hopkinsville Madisonville North. Hopkins i'm going With.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
HOPTOWN i Got. Hoptown Uh mayo And Ballard, Mayo, Mayo
i'll go With, Mayo owensboro And Davies County.

Speaker 7 (49:23):
Owensborough i'm going.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
With Davies county all. Right, Uh Russell county And.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
LaRue Russell.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
County i'll go With Russell. County, Uh Scott county And Great.

Speaker 7 (49:36):
Crossing i'm going With Scott. County i'll go With Scott.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
County South South warren And.

Speaker 7 (49:43):
Manuel i'm not gonna bet against, you big. Man i'm
going South.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
WARD i Think manuel is really really. Good i'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
What that.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Year THAT i Helped Kevin, WALLACE i THINK i Thought
manuel was the most talented football team In. KENTUCKY i
Think manuel is a great. JOB i think that is
a great place they have. Got they've got some dog,
on really really good football. Players and that was SOMETHING

(50:19):
i learned with that time With. KEVIN i didn't realize
how Good manuel. Was manuel has some crazy good football,
players crazy.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Good they're doing the well, Coach BUT i DO i
pass on that. Prediction but conflict of interestsment very very.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
Good, hey don't hit me with those if you're not gonna,
pick Because i'm never gonna pick Against Brandon smith with
you on the.

Speaker 7 (50:44):
Show come on, now.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
All, Right Spencer county And College, man you got me.
Scrimmage Spencer collins is in my. DISTRICT i think they're
both really. Good i'm gonna give the edge To kyle
UH i JUST i think, WELL i Just i'm gonna
give edge To.

Speaker 7 (51:05):
Collins both both well, coached good coach is supposed.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
To be rapid.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Fire you're discussing every one of. Them, Hey i'm going
with going With.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
Spencer county because they've got A smith Uh on on the.
ROSTER i got you And, Bowling Green williamsburg And, Paris.
PARIS i knew you Picked. Paris that's Who i'm. Picking,
hey that was pretty. Cool we'll see how that turns.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Out all, Right, David that that's that's kind of wraps
up our.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Show you got?

Speaker 6 (51:39):
Anything, Yes, well our guest who who brought up is
going to Be Travis. Burns i'm looking forward to that
guy that's worked with you doing a.

Speaker 7 (51:49):
Really good job Of Pulaski. County And, hey here's the.

Speaker 6 (51:52):
Thing right, now we don't have a tough, topic we
don't have a listener, question we don't have any games
of the. Week BUT i tell you what we. Did
we put it out On Bluegrass. Preps we're looking for those.
Things people can get a hold of us Through, Twitter,
instagram you On. Facebook they can email. Me but, man
we want. Again you, know we've said, it this is

(52:13):
a show for our. Listeners we want to entertain. Them
he send, us send us your tough, topics tend it's
their listener. EQUATIONS i tell you what WHAT i would really,
Enjoy And i'm okay if you want to blast.

Speaker 7 (52:24):
ME i, mean that's that's sort of my.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Life i'd love to get some comments and feedback on
what we said On june seven on.

Speaker 7 (52:32):
Seven BECAUSE i know that is a.

Speaker 6 (52:34):
Hot topic button For kentucky high school football. COACHES a
lot of people really get worked up and angry over.

Speaker 7 (52:41):
IT i still, SAY i THINK i.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
Think an install with no helmets, ON i think it's
still doable AND i think that's something that we can
still do and we can make it.

Speaker 7 (52:52):
Go but, UH i would love to have some.

Speaker 6 (52:54):
Feedback and even if you want to, Say, david you're
all wrong and this is, why let me have, it
let you have. It but we loved that type of
feedback and.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Interaction, yeah we like feedback about our podcast, too not
just a tough.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
Topic so, anytime, yeah that is, correct that is. Correct
we appreciate.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
That, hey, guys don't forget to listen To mac with
his historical segment that comes on as soon as we
finish talking. Here it's really. Good appreciate y'all, listening and
we'll see you next.

Speaker 11 (53:25):
Time welcome to this edition Of Forgotten. Heroes i'm your,
Host Mack. Yoakum most sports fans are very aware That
Jackie robinson broke the color barrier In Major League baseball
and many know the role That Kentuckians Happy chandler And
Pee Wee reese played In robinson integrating the major, leagues

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but very very few sports fans know Of Bob, bowman
Another African american, player and his role in the integration of.
Baseball Bob bowman grew up In, Middlesborough. Kentucky as a,
Boy bob was forever skipping stones across the, water and
that helped him develop a devastating sidearm throwing. Motion When

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bob took up, baseball he also developed his own unique fastball.
Grip his unique grip and his sidearm motion Made bob
a local baseball, star playing for the semi Pro middlesborough
Blu sox around The kentucky coal. Towns The Blue socks
were an all black team that played against local amateur

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white teams from the mining. Companies bob eventually became the
Blu sox. Manager he was then picked up by The Ethiopian,
clowns who were a barnstorming black. Team liked The Harlem
globetrotters in, Basketball bob didn't like all of the, traveling
and by nineteen forty one he had returned to THE.
Bluesx bob then joined The Negro Southern, league playing for

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The Ashville. Blues THE nsl was a minor league for
The Negro national And American. Leagues, Middlesbrough bob's, hometown by this,
time had joined The CLASS D Mountain States, league one
Of Major League baseball's many minor. Leagues Besides, Middlesborough Harlan

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hazard And jenkins were Other kentucky towns in The Mountain States.
League Despite Jackie robinson integrating the minor leagues in nineteen forty,
six others had not followed, suit and The Mountain State
league was lily. White but The Middlesborough athletics wanted to change,

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that and they Knew Bob bowman was the guy to do.
It On may, eighth nineteen fifty, one at the age
of forty, Five Bob bowman signed a contract with The Middlesborough,
athletics and he took the mound that, night and with,
That Bob bowman became the First African american to play

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in a pro baseball league south of The Mason Dixon.
Line Bob bowman quietly and under the, radar had Integrated.
Dixie Bob bowman Took middlesbrough to the top of the
standings and attendance. Skyrocketed in his final game in the

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first round of the, playoffs he struck out eleven in
twelve shutout. Innings his forty five year old arm gave
out in the thirteenth, inning and he walked in the winning.
Run many called it the greatest game ever seen In.
Appalachia he retired shortly. Thereafter Bob bowman coached the local

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kids Around middlesbrough until his death in nineteen seventy. Five Bob,
bowman the man who integrated baseball in The. SOUTH a
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