December 12, 2024 • 38 mins
Sports reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune, Jon Manley joins the show to wrap up the 2024 WIAA State Football Championships, we also touch on WIAA amendment proposals. We read back messages from listeners, and we close the show w/ Ian Furness as he shares what he has planned on his show.
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Belichick courses to Washington defensive coordinator on Motlake and Husky's
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September twenty seventh, Ohio State is the Big Ten opener
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bye week to start November, then at Wisconsin, home to
Purdue at UCLA and the regular season ends next Thanksgiving
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weekend November twenty ninth at home against Oregon, Washington, Oregon
Husky Stadium, November twenty ninth, Next year, this year, as
in right now, John Manley is on the line. I
begin plumbing hotline. He's joined us like four or five
weeks in a row now, thanks for the high school
state football championships. I saw him in the press box
last week. We joked at the entire News Tribune sports
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staffers in the press box covering the high school state
football championships, all three of us. John, good morning, thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Hey, great, good morning, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You're welcome. The nominee for Washington State Sports Right of
the Year for twenty twenty four is in your years
right now, John, Of all the games you covered last weekend,
all six of them, what was the most I think
we know the answer to this, But what was the
most intriguing and what's the coolest thing you saw of
the sixth six finals games at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, the best game was by far was the four
A game.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean it was just number two Sumner twenty seven
to twenty four win over over top seeded Camas and
Austin friends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Their kicker makes the mikes the game winning field goal.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
As time expires, and it was just a classic, awesome
high school football game. Back and forth. I think you
look at the box score and it was Sumner score,
Camus score, Sumner score, Camas score in the second half.
So really back and forth and just everything you could
could want in a game. Late late in the fourth quarter,
fake punt, Sumner has the stones to run from the
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from their own thirty seventy yard line, and it was funny.
I talked with We talked with Keith Ross after the game,
their longtime coach, who by the way, won his state
title and in his twenty third year, that won his
first state title in his twenty third year, and he
said he tried to call the fake punt off, but
nobody can hear him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was so loud on the field, and so you know, he's.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Even trying to call it off, and then he realizes
that that no one's gonna hear.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Him, and the play is going to go.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And he said he thought to himself, well, I'm either
going to be the hero or I'm gonna be the goat.
So let's see what happens. And they convert that that
big punt run it right up the gut, and then
a few plays later game winning field goal, and that
was just it was an awesome game. That was a
great high school football game. And you know, I by
far the biggest crowd two of the weekend, and I
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think the entire town of Sumner was there. And I
think Keith had set after the game. Someone told him
if there was a fire and Sumner that night, and
then you know they were, You're gonna be out of luck.
The building is gonna burn down. But it was an
awesome high school football game.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Good good for Keith Ross too. You've mentioned what a
great guy he is and as long as he's been
there in the first state championship since nineteen seventy seven
were Sumner football, that must have been a wild celebration
scene after.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
John another matchup that I was excited about but didn't
have a lot of answers to, just because Tumwater at
this point had been running through every one that they'd face.
But and a cordis topping Tumwater after an incredible season.
What happened in that game? Because I personally thought Tumwater
was gonna pull it off. Especially considering they lost to
him in the previous season.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, and I thought tom Water was gonna win this
time around, and mostly because I thought their defense was
really good this year, and I thought it was improved
from last year. They gave up sixty points last year
to Anacordas and I didn't see that happening again. And honestly,
their defense played well enough to win the game. They
held in Accordas to two hundred and seven yards of
offense and actually outgained them. Tomwater had two hundred and
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sixty yards of offense. So I thought tom Water's defense
played well enough to win the game. It was just
their offense. And credit to Anacordas all the credit in
the world. They had the brothers who are going to Montana,
Brady and Brock Beener. They had eighteen and fifteen tackles.
They had four players with at least ten cackles. They
they really flew around on defense, and they kind of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Bent a little bit, but they never broke right.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I mean, Tomwater gets the red zone four times, they
only come away with ten points. So, uh, the defense
played well enough. But Anna Cordison's offense, you know, they
hit some explosive plays. Their their receiver Ryland Lang, he's
going to the Eastern and he had one hundred and
seven yards a couple of touchdowns and they did just
enough to be able to win this game.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And their their defense was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The whole weekend. John, what was the coolest thing you
saw of the State finals at Eski Stadium?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just I just go back to the four A game.
It's that was such a scene.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And if you just looked up at the crowd and
there's so much purple and goal, which you know in
the fitting for Husky Stadium, but this the Sunner crowd
was just awesome and there were so many people there
rooting them on. And just Keith Keith Ross to be
able to get his first title. I mean, if you've
been around him, I mean that guy run. He's got
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the long hair. He kind of looks like an ex
pro WWE wrestler or something, and uh, but he just
lives and breeze football, and he he cares so much
about his players and just runs on coffee and adrenaline
and football. And he's an old school former linebacker and
he likes his defenses to kind of fly around and
hit people and so be him winning his first one
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in a fantastic game. I thought was probably the coolest
thing that I saw.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It is. Forgive me for not knowing, but the w
i a's agreement for Husky Stadium is for how long?
And how much longer are we for sure going to
have games there? The state final games?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, I'm not sure the current contract situation actually, Greg,
But I talked with someone who works with the w
i A and just on the sideline briefly, and it sounds.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Like the new Because I was kind of curious.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
There's been a lot of turnover and change at the
University of Washington obviously recently with the new athletic director
and new coaching three of.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Them in about three of them in eight months.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, hopefully this one sticks around for longer than four
months or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
But but I.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Was just kind of curious, and and now they're in
the Big Ten and new conference and all this change.
If if the w i A and or if if
the University of Washington kind of wanted to keep this going,
and it sounds like they're they're receptive to keeping it going. Uh,
the athletic department likes having it there. They've they've kind
of given the w I a kind of a sweetheart
deal and they're just they're they're not charging them a ton.
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It's just enough to cover their costs to keep the
facility open.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And it sounds like the jud Fish and his coaches
stop love having it there and and they're open to
have And why wouldn't you, I mean, it's such a
great recruiting tool. I mean it's you're getting kids onto
your campus and uh.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
These players are being able to play.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
A game at Husky Stadium and and you know, sit
in the locker room and run out the tunnel and uh.
And then just there's a lot of people that maybe
wouldn't have the opportunity or financially can't can't swing it
to go to a Husky game, and now they get
to go, and families get to go.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So I I think for.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
For the U DUB, I think it's a no brainer
to continue hosting in And it sounds like they're they're
receptive to keeping that relationship going.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A lot of the credit goes to Jen Cohen for this.
She broke her the deal. She didn't want to get
a lot of money out of WIA, knowing they couldn't
afford it, and they just wanted to either break even
or have enough to turn the lights on. And Jen
con is the one who got this done before she
left for USC. It's her one of her legacies of many,
but yeah, Ta Cooma's own Jen Cohen a lot of
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credit to that. Shifting gears at WIA yesterday published their
proposed amendments that the membership will vote on in twenty
twenty five. Some of them are administrative and pretty routine
and not even worth mentioning, but some of them are
really controversial. One of them is well, for instance, there's
some that are baseball. I've coached high school baseball. You
can now throw for two weeks before the first practice.
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That makes sense. We always wish they could do that.
We spend the first two weeks with tired arms for
kids who just come out throwing, and now they're allowed
to have throwing instructions and workouts two weeks prior to
the first practice date. But then there's things like the
transfer period and the transfer access and transfer rules in
the state. Currently you can't transfer except by family exception,
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hardship or some reason, or you actually physically pick up
and move Mick Hoffman was on our show last month
and he said that the proposal is going to be
a one time transfer, no questions asked, and they're trying
to preamptly try to avoid the legislative push that was
an Olympia last year to have basically a transfer portal
in high school sports. What's your view on this and
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talking to coaches and where do you think this is going? John?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, and I think that And like Mix said to
you a month ago, that's that's what they've come up with.
They formed a committee last year to kind of look
at this and try to come up with some kind
of proposal that would that would make sense. And the
WIA right now is they're spending a lot of time
and money with eligibility disputes and they kind of want
to lower that cost and not have to do that
so much.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And then there was there was pressure from at least
one I wrote written about this last spring.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
There was pressure from at least one Washington lawmaker to
kind of change the rules and open things up. And
a school choice is a big thing, and there's there's
kind of this feeling that, you know, why shouldn't kids
and families be able to transfer to a different school
if they think that fits their academic needs without having
their their athletic eligibility affected. But uh so, so what
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they've come up with is this one time kind of
penalty free transfer.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We'll see if it passes. It's going to be interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's going to need sixty percent of the vote from
the from the rep Assembly to pass in the spring,
which is always a difficult threshold to get to.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But it's interesting. I mean, I think that's the best
they could come up with for now.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But it's you have some concerns as well, Greg, I mean,
the and what coaches are kind of sounding the alarm
about last year when I talked to coaches and administrators,
just like competitive, competitive equity concerns, and they're gonna inevitably
this is gonna lead to more kids transferring. You're gonna
have the potential for super teams and and teams kind
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of the you know, kind of this effect of oh
this kid's gonna transfer. Okay, we're gonna transfer to and
you're gonna have a maybe you know, ten fifteen players
transfer into to one program on any given year, and
just kind of the rich are gonna get even richer.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You're moving away from.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
From what high school sports are, and uh, you know,
kind of having these community it's it's kind of a
last kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Pure thing, right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I mean, you've seen kind of college football has been
totally affected by money now and it's kind of with
high school it's kind of the last pure things.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You're moving, You're you have the potential for super teams,
the rich, the rich getting richer, and then you have
what what I what I think kind of thinks for
for kids who maybe grow up I don't know. Theoretically
a kid lives in pew Allup, right, he's born and
raised in pew All up and maybe he's a starter
or just a contributor on the football team. And and
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now you have all these kids transferring and this kid.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Gets kind of squeezed out of a roster spot and
starting spot.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know that kid lives in pew alip or wherever
it is. I'm not singling out pew Ali by any means.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But happened in Nathan Hall. It happened in Nathan Had
with that super team. All those kids had been in
a Nathan Hill program for years and years and years.
Just put on a burner for a yearn see you later. Oh,
let's go in a national championship. And then they all left.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Fortunate for those kids that you know, born and raised
in that community and they thought, you know, this is
my time and my chance and and potentially they're gonna
get squeezed out for a roster spot. So and then
I think just the long term concerns once you go
forward with this thing, these things, as you know, Greg,
there's no really going back, right. I mean, it's once
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you once you decide, okay, we're gonna open it up
for a one time transfer. You don't, you don't go
to zero transfers. Five years from now, it's probably okay.
Now it's two time transfer, and maybe it's it's ten
years from now it's okay. You can transfer every off
season or between every year, and and eventually you get
what looks like a college football transfer portal. And I
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think a lot of people have a lot of concerns
about that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
As they should. Yeah, we don't need kids from Gig
Harbor playing in the Metro League, and that's what's going
to happen. That is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Another amendment that caught my eye was put a smile
on my face was the thirteenth one, which involves flag
football growth like football specifically, But I understand one of
the issues is what season could they do it. Has
there any any talks about perhaps it being in the summer,
because I think that would work out, but I know
it's summer. Who wants to be playing a sport during
their vacation per se.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Or spring because girls basketball coaches were mad that it
was going to be in the winter and that was
costing them.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, there's not in the summer, Chris, because the school's
not in sessions, so that doesn't really work out. And
then the spring, there's just too many sports in the
spring and there's not enough field time, and then you're
potentially pulling girls away from from playing softball or running
track or whatever it is or different sports kindness or whatever.
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So right now they're playing it in the winter, and
it's mostly right now on the west side of the state.
And I think they tried to run this last year,
and the sport is growing like crazy, and there's a
ton of schools that are participating. And I talked with
Curtis's athletic director a couple of weeks ago, and they've
got a ton of girls signed up this year in
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the South Peuchett Sound League.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I think every school in that in that league has
a team.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And it's really taken off, which is cool because I
think everyone you know who doesn't want to play football,
right but it's just right now. It's just on the
west side of the state, and I think that's kind
of one of the reasons it didn't pass. You have
a few programs that are playing it on the east side,
but I don't think there's there's quite enough yet. And
and then obviously it's colder on the east side as
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well during the winter. So I went to went to
college in Spokane, and I would have no interest in
being out there at seven pm and in the middle
of January personally.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
So I think.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It works a little bit better on the the west
side of the state because you kind of have more
kind of mild temperatures.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But we'll see.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, that's a it's an interesting one. I think there's
a there's a major push to make that an official
WI A sport, and I think they would probably.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Just end up doing it in the winter.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Would would make the most sense as far as field
time and not pulling girls away from other.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Sports, and it just missed last year, so there's some
there's some momentum already. Toy. Now the two critical or
the two controversial, The most controversial ones participate is number seven.
Participate in girls sports will be limited to students assigned
female at birth. In number eight, athletic programs would be
offered separately for boys, girls, and transgender students, three different
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classifications depending on your sexual orientation or choice. John, I
know you probably don't want to get too deep into
the controversy of it, but what are the two sides
of this, and what do you think the likelihood is
those two passing well?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And that that second amendment to create a different division
for transgender athletes is probably one of the dumbest proposals
I've ever heard. I mean, you know, how we're talking
about such a small population within within high school sports
athletes to have a separate division wouldn't even be feasible.
So I think that proposal is probably dead on arrival.
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But this kind of came up, This kind of sparked again,
and this has been a national debate obviously, but locally
in the state, it kind of sparked.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Last last spring again when a transgender.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Athlete won a girls state track title and there was
kind of a lot of uproar over that, and so
that's why you're kind of seeing these proposals.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I think the.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
One that the first proposal would would require to identify
as transgender to compete in the boys division, to kind of,
in their mind, protect girls sports. I think if if
either of them were to pass, that would probably be
the more likely one to pass. Like I said, I
don't think the second proposal makes any sense, but I
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don't think there's really an appetite for this from the WIA.
To be honest, You're going to face a lot of
legal challenges if you go forward with things like this,
and then you just have privacy concerns. I mean, how
do you prove some of this stuff? You know, there's
some serious medical privacy and just ethical concerns if you
were to pass something like this. So I would, personally,
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I would be surprised if this passes. And honestly, Greg,
I think it's a lot of time and energy spent
on something that's such a non issue ninety nine percent
of the time, So I would, you know, but it
grabs headlines and people get, you know, fired up about it,
but I would be surprised if we really see any
changes to the WA's current policy to this.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Thank you, John, all the best to you and your
young family over the holidays. And that's the luck on
the voting for state sportscast year that's going on for
the National Sports Media Association this month. John Manley joining
us in the Beacon Plumbing hotline. Take care of John.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Thank you, Thanks Greg, think me, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You're welcome. John Manley of the News Tribune, the best
newspaper business in our state of high school sports, joining
us as he has each of the last five weeks
now from the high school state footballchampionships and on the
amendments that are at play for twenty twenty five the
membership will vote on in the Wiaas he mentioned, sixty
percent membership vote has to is required to pass any
of this, any of these proposals. I wonder if they
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can get boys flight football in there as well, then
you'd be taking out a whole another sex.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I know, I know, but man, the interest would be there,
which would suck because I know there's kids that probably
want to just play tackle football, but you give them
the fly.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
My gosh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I think it would just it's a growing sport. I
know kids would do it. It's safer, and I get.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
The concerns of putting it in the winner and then
taking girls from girls' basketball teams and.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Having it's it's could I just really don't Could they
not do two at once?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I mean, I don't think to time demands. No, I
don't not to do it right anyway, And as a coach,
as a coach, you don't want to have to try
and share. Yeah, it's tough. It is tough. That's why
some of you can't do it in the fall. Well,
some of there's a wa you know, you can't compete
with it from the end of graduation to the beginning
of what's the earliest that could start, though, I wonder, like,
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could it be like August, Well, football practice begins two
weeks before the first school day. You will lose a
lot of football players in theory if they want to
go play flag, But it would only be a certain
amount because if it's seven on seven, like wide receivers,
no lineups. But politically, they're going to have to pass
the girls before they pass the boards. Oh that's fair.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Absolutely, It starts there, so this will be we'll see
what happened for the next ten years, right true four.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Nine four to tell them what text on your reaction
to that. There's some high school coaches that are chiming
in on the text line and thank you for that
and your concerns. I get it. I get both sides
of this. We'll read those back. Coming up next and
eleven forty five and Fornas will join me. I think
he's coming in studio today and I'll see him leading
into his show from twelve until three again. This afternoon,
Dick Faine and Dave Softy Maler will have joint Mike
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Holmgren and Chris collins Worth talking Seahawks, packers and all
things NFL at four to twenty. All that coming up
on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back Greg Berost
Show with Christopher Kidd. You know what time it is.
The music means we're reading text pack on the tucklemore
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new text line four nine four five one. Where do
we start, Greg? We have so many texts to get to.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We can start with Mariah Carey versus Taylor Swift. We
got the flag football situation we have as you mentioned
a couple of coaches giving their insight them with what's
happening Tombwater versus down Quarters.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
There's just so much Greg, Where do we start?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Man?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
We want Maria Carey. All right.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
We got a lot of text in about Mariah Carey
versus Taylor Swift, and as you can see, we'll start
off with Taylor Swift all Day from the two oh six.
Greg said to be split and be very close, and
for the most part, I agree, Greg.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It's pretty close.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, it's I would I would say you are right,
it's pretty split. You have a lot of people that
are saying Taylor Swift. You have a lot of people
saying Mariah Carrey. Then you got some people they're just
saying I don't care neither, and that's fine too. This
is from the two five to three give me Mariah
Carey all flipping day. This is from Marcus thirty seven
(24:17):
black Dude, and I'm split. Mariah has the voice, but
Taylor has everything else. As Greg said, I'm sixty three
from the three six so and I like them both
from the four to two. Yes, from the four two
five Mariah Carey all day long. Based on multiple attributes. Interesting,
I know what you did there two five three, Chris,
I'm with Greg Love, Whitney and Rihanna Mark out of
(24:39):
the two five three from the two five three and
Mariah on Christmas Day Taylor Swift the other three sixty four.
That's a good from Tom out of the two o six.
The diaper thing was real, Tom, I need I need some.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Proof, man, And that's that's You're crazy. You just saying it.
Don't help send me a link, man, you sit. Earlier,
Chris brought up the point that there are on the
internet anyways stories of women who wear diapers to Taylor
Swift concerts because they can't bear to go to the
bathroom and miss anything. Well great a concert.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I think it kind of alluded to your point about
how amazing a performer she is.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
She does ABC and so if you're to just stop
the natural processes of life, if you're if you're paying
a grand to see her, you know I'm not leaving.
I'm getting my money's worth. No pe, no pool gonna stop.
Be sure you're you're paying a lot of money to
watch her play. That's true.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
This is from Jason O the two o six's KJR
staff doing the Twelve Day of the Christmas song this year.
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't know. I haven't. That's new to me.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
So every year we would do each person exactly. You've
heard it, I'm sure. So I don't know if we're
doing it this year. I'm not opposed to doing it.
So if we do do it, I'll be the jolly
old kid doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
There you go. Let's see. Let's get into some football.
Flag football that is.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
This is from Dustin out of the two five three
as ahead girls basketball coach at the four A high school.
Flag football is literally killing girls basketball for our entire league.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, that's the problem. Is where do you put it?
If you can't they don't want to put it in
this fall because of girls' soccer.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Well, I just some a sport's gonna have to have
to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
What's the I would say, so many girls play soccer
in Washington. It's a decision, right, the girls get to
make it, that's true, But they're trying to maximize the
best chance of participation for the new sport.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well, I think it's a trial and error. You put
it at each spot, then you put it at fall.
If i'd winter and you try basketball, coach, they'll try
it and fall them. The soccer coaches will complain.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well, someone's gonna be upset. Track coaches would complain in
the spring. Some club soccer teams would complain in the spring.
The good news is not a collegiate sport yet, it's
not booming like that. We're kids against scholarships.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Now, when that becomes a problem, that's going to open
up a whole another can of warrants, because yes, code's
gonna be more upset because your star soccer player now
is even better at flag football and they're handing out
scholarship's left and right. But for right now, I say,
you just try an error, see what works best. Let's
see from the three six oh tom Water has been
poaching kids from the South Sound area since the eighties.
(27:07):
I think all schools do that, right though, all schools
are looking to get the best talent. I don't know
if it's poaching as more as just.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well they're not supposed to. We know that happens, but
it happened other schools.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I'm not trying to call out some Waters and make
it seem like that's the only reason why they're good.
But I think all schools do it to a certain degree.
It's just I guess how you go about it, if
that makes any sense. From the three six oh and
a Quarters, Seahawks two times state champions. Congratulations to y'all
Tumwater both times. I'm the only team to beat Tumwater
even close to beating them. Well, yeah, that's why I
(27:39):
was so stunned that the quarters actually one, just because
some water have been dominating.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Let's see where is it at? Oh? This is from
the four two five, looking forward to hearing you tomorrow
from our nation's most hollow ground. Yeah, man, that's I'm
honored to be there at the times I've been to
Arlington National Cemetery has been very moving, and I'll be broadcasting,
i believe, from very close to the tomb of the
unknown soldier in the Guard who parades back and forth,
(28:04):
not even parades, marches back and forth every day, raynershem,
cold wind snow doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
From the two o six, our guy Marcus, I actually
think Bill Belichick will do well in the landscape of
college football. Look at coach Prime and Bill's probably overall
better coach. But what kid parent wouldn't want to be
in that program? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean North Carolina just gained a huge recruiting advantage,
and they also are upping their ANIL money to Oregon
and Ohio state levels. Twenty million dollars reportedly is what
Bill Belichick asks for an annual nil budgeting. So he's
going to hire a general manager. That's new, the new
thing in college football. Now as you hire a general manager,
he's going to hire a cap expert, because there's going
(28:43):
to be a cap starting next year on twenty point
five million dollars they estimate of department athletic department revenues
that are going to go to athletic departments, and Belichick
wants his own cap guy to be in charge of
flirting that money out of the athletic department in the
tar Hill Football in addition to the twenty million dollars
collective that they're gonna be raising in Targetland. You what,
(29:04):
North Carolin'll be a top ten team here in the
year or two. I missed the baby, Bill Walsh. Bill Walsh,
that's the touh snary tale at Stanford.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I missed this one from the Fible nine regarding Mariah
Carey versus Taylor Swift. Mariah performing halftime on Christmas Day
question mark, Chiefs game, question mark necklace question mark. Oh no,
my sister will not be able to pause or record
it and only watch it live. One time question mark
to Mariah lovers fans, they'll watch and they're gonna want
to watch it again, Pause, we wind, et cetera. Laughing
(29:33):
out loud, that's accurate. I don't think it'll be a
one time thing. They're gonna want to watch it over
and over and over again. Hell, I might do the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Three six, so says Dean Martin has a way better
Christmas vide than Maria carry I'm reading that because Dean
Martin is from my hometown of stupid Balio fan favorites.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There you go, Greg, you asked a question about paying
Kay or letting them or trading him. Well, we got
a few responses from that from the four to two five. No,
trade them for a couple of first round picks. To
Greg's point, I don't know if he's worth a couple
of first wrong picks.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He nobody give him that. He might be might get one. No,
he won't even get one. Devon Adams went for a fifth. Well,
Devon Adams is old, Okay, Third who is the guy
that went to the Diggs to Houston. Diggs would he get, well, yeah,
a third round pick, fourth round pick. He's also older,
Stefan Diggs a third or fourth round pick. Second, I
(30:21):
think Diggs is thirty, they would Seahawks wouldn't get more
than us high third maybe for DK.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Stefan dig is thirty one, So I four years old
and dkma that's a lot in the NFL, and you
know it.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I know it is, but I'm not. My saying is
he's not going to be commanding a first round pick.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
No way.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I don't think Tyger Hill would command a first round
pick right now. I don't think justin Jefferson, you'd have
to Teams don't give up first round picks unless it's
for quarterbacks. By exception. By exception, Seahawks could not expect
the first round pick.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I think you just named two of the exceptions though
with Hill and Jefferson. Feel about Hill, those guys are exception.
But two five to three golf, Greg, I'm a golf
Navy veteran. Thank you, and being a brotherhood, of being
a part of military family is so real. I still
have many brothers from multiple duty stations that I'm contact
with today. When it comes to marching, sailors are terrible
at it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Go Navy beat our Yeah, unfortunately, we do it twenty
nine hours a week, which is why we're so good
at it. As one of the least favorite things I
did of many West Point was the damn marching. They
even pulled out floodlights, so we marched into dark in
the winter. Oh oh, man, that doesn't sound good. It's awful,
just awful. So I'm dude with a bullhorn standing at
(31:35):
the top of the empty bleachers, going fourth cadet in
the sixth row from the left. Your your rifle is canted,
straighten it out? Do it again? Have you seen the
things I could tell? Man, I've never even unleashed any
of these stories. Man, It's almost like lat and fits
in the back of my head somewhere. Oh so recite
(31:58):
the core, sir, the core, the core, the core, the core,
the corporate headed saluted, what is it thinking of? God? Wait,
the core treading where they had the corp trod. If
you didn't get one word right, you had to start
over and then just had the hell out of you
and go Army beating navy. The mayor and Maple Valley
joins us next on ninety three point three kJ R
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f M.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Welcome back to the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kid
two six what.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Mayor Maple Valley?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
He flag football for dudes for man, come on stop it.
I would stop it. You know what they already have
that is called seven on seven leagues. Every guy that's
a receiver and quarterback worth his weight in high school
football these days play seven on seven year round dude.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
In ten years, I think high school football will be
introducing flag more and I would love to get in
on it because it's fun.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's very competitive, don't.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I don't doubt that. The hard thing. It's like with
the girls. Like when you guys are talking to John Manley,
it's like with the girls flight football, When do you
do it? It just sucks because every other coach is
going to fight against it. They don't want to athletely
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I think it just gives opportunities for those that might
not be as good as the tackle. It just gives
more opportunities for kids that want to play football. We
don't have to do the tackling or as.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Physical you know when I think they honestly because I
thought John stuffed Greg and Chris was really good about
about the girls. This was what came up last year
because we did a whole thing with this with Mick
and some and I think we had Mario on with
the Seahawks cause they were pushing it hard to and
the hard thing is the field availability. I get that,
But the time to do it, honestly, would be the spring.
(33:39):
For this reason, the reason they don't want to do
the fall right is because the football fields are taken
up for girls and girls soccer. In the spring it's
just boy soccer. So you have one lesson, So just
be the same as the fall. You just add girls
fight football, correct, right, And I mean I think that's
how you do it. That's how you make it work.
Because so you may lose what track and field athlete,
(34:01):
but club soccer you know better than anybody because you're
coaching baseball right now. And maybe it's a little different
from a smaller school, but I know, like at our school,
hell Tahoma, big school for a school, your school probably
at oday.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Your school too, mayor I know my school too.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
The kids now are playing baseball, boys soccer and basketball.
That's all they do. That's all the single sport. That's
a single sport.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Things you've got all club and all travel teams specialization.
Huh when's tennis?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Well, I think they just fall in spring, to be
honest with you, because I see our because we have
tenes scorches right by my house, the first high school.
They're always out there. But but like that's all they do.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Like especially, and that's another thing problem wrong with you.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Sport, and that's not going to change.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It should not. There's too much profit, yeah, and many
people making too much money.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
But you get to spring and there's a lot of dudes,
like for Chris's point of the guys that want to
do it, there's a lot of guys in spring that
are football guys, and but they get Spring that maybe
they don't want to do track, you know, and they're
not playing baseball because if they're like honestly, like, if
you're playing baseball, you're hitting in a cage year round.
It's just baseball. Don't get me started on baseball. But
and girls fast pitch, but that's what they do. Right,
(35:13):
you get to spring, these guys are probably playing seven
on seven leagues anyway. You know, Tracy Ford's got his
guys a guy, Nicholem's got his guys. All these guys
have their things going around, but it shouldn't be. But
just do it. Do it in high school. Just do
it high school. Then I'm off and have the girls
do it too, like I think, and I think girls.
If girls flag football doesn't pass in a year in
which they're doing this other stuff with you know, as
John said, like you know, such a small small minority
(35:35):
of folks that are you know, want things, come on, man,
get girls flight football going. Let's do it. Let's make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I think it will pass. It barely missed last time.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
The surprising it didn't. It didn't pass last time. And
the thing about well, not every school has it. Not
every school has swimming, yeah, exactly, every school has diving.
It's not every school has bowling, right yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, give it to those that want to do it.
It'll work out.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
More kids playing sports better, or we just say hey,
there's no room for you and you go find something
else to do, right, what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And and I wish kids played multiple sports. That's so invaluable.
No pro coaches will tell you they actually look for
guys who played multiple sports. Yeah, they talked about it
all the time.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
They're gonna be looking harder. They're gonna be looking harder
these days.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Seven on seven's just so you can play college football.
You have to do it.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
It's crazy, stupid. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I sit on the free throw line with one second
left of the tie game. There's a whole different kind
of learning experience there, good and bad. Yeah, what do
you got today?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
I'm we got a lot going on today. We got
super Mandel's going Joys twelve twenty. He does not like
the Bill Belichick higher just absolutely torpedoed it in the
athletic and for some really good reasons. Do you read that. Yeah,
but this guy doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
Like college football ten years ago is hard enough. When
(36:57):
Bill Walsh did it, it's a different years ago, thirty
years ago. This is a whole different world now. So
we'll talk to him. Also, college football playoff, Well, he
thinks he can do pull off the NFL. Hire a
cap guy, hire a GM let's go. That's what he thinks.
And those guys are gonna look at him and they
don't give a rats. You know what about his Super
Bowl rings. You know what they care about? What would
you say, Chris the bag?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
How much time I making?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
How I sound saying that?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You sounded fine? If Carolina puts twenty million in its
NIL program on top of the twenty million that the
department has to give. Now you're talking Oregon money.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Who's who might say something about that? Hubert Davis. That's
basketball school boys and girls.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Money for both. Now that you think so, God bills
in fine? All right, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I'm gonna revisit this in a year, So Mandel, all
things college football, Corben Smith one o'clock and then the
unofficial start of the weekend playoff weekend and fantasy football.
Text your questions to Funcedan. It cannot come before noon
four nine four five one, So you got four minutes
from now, Mark Boom your text for Funstont. Fantasy football
(38:02):
playoffs begin this weekend, and I expect some panic in
the streets with our phone calls and our texts coming
up with fundtion to two safe travels. My friend, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I cannot wait to be there.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I can't wait for you to next hour tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
You'll next hear my voice from the Arlington National Cemetery
tomorrow at ten a m. With Jessman McIntyre and I
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(38:34):
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The peninsula is full of Navy retired and current active
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to join us talking about high school fotball championships last
weekend and what's next and changes in WIA next. After
(02:21):
headlines doctored by Frost Food course, I choose chill. Bill
Belichick is actually coming back to coach college football. That
is correct, seventy two years old North Carolina having a
press conference as we speak back in chapel. Bill, North Carolina,
which is what they're calling it now, the eight times
Super Bowl winner, is going to coach the North Carolina TarHeels.
(02:42):
He becomes on the second coach ever to have won
a Super Bowl and then after it go lead a
college team Bill Walsh from the forty nine ers at
Stanford in the early nineteen nineties with the other three
years and it did not go well for Bill Walsh
and he was only a sixty cent. The agreement between
UNC and Belichick reportedly includes the headman's the man that
Suns be the tar Hills next coach and waiting Steve
(03:02):
Belichick courses to Washington defensive coordinator on Motlake and Husky's
coach Jedfish said Sunday, basically We'll cross that bridge when
we come to it. Well, they've come to it. It
looks like the Husky is going to need a new
defensive coordinator. Ret Rodriguez is back at West Virginia's coach
after seventeen years away from WBU. He coached Jacksonville State
this past season. The Mountaineers announced his hiring this morning.
(03:24):
The Kraken host the Boston Bruins. Tonight's six thirty pre
game shows seven pm. Puck drop from Climate Pledgerina right
here on your home of the Crack at ninety three
point three KJERFM. The Huskies football schedule for twenty twenty
five is finalized. They open on August thirtieth at Montlake
against Colorida State. Then it's UC Davis, then the Apple
Cup is after a bye week an early bye week.
(03:46):
The Apple Cup is September twentieth next year in Pullman
September twenty seventh, Ohio State is the Big Ten opener
at Husky Stadium. October begins at Maryland, then they go
against Rutgers at home at Michigan, home to Illinois, a
bye week to start November, then at Wisconsin, home to
Purdue at UCLA and the regular season ends next Thanksgiving
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weekend November twenty ninth at home against Oregon, Washington, Oregon
Husky Stadium, November twenty ninth, Next year, this year, as
in right now, John Manley is on the line. I
begin plumbing hotline. He's joined us like four or five
weeks in a row now, thanks for the high school
state football championships. I saw him in the press box
last week. We joked at the entire News Tribune sports
(04:32):
staffers in the press box covering the high school state
football championships, all three of us. John, good morning, thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Hey, great, good morning, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You're welcome. The nominee for Washington State Sports Right of
the Year for twenty twenty four is in your years
right now, John, Of all the games you covered last weekend,
all six of them, what was the most I think
we know the answer to this, But what was the
most intriguing and what's the coolest thing you saw of
the sixth six finals games at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, the best game was by far was the four
A game.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean it was just number two Sumner twenty seven
to twenty four win over over top seeded Camas and
Austin friends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Their kicker makes the mikes the game winning field goal.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
As time expires, and it was just a classic, awesome
high school football game. Back and forth. I think you
look at the box score and it was Sumner score,
Camus score, Sumner score, Camas score in the second half.
So really back and forth and just everything you could
could want in a game. Late late in the fourth quarter,
fake punt, Sumner has the stones to run from the
(05:39):
from their own thirty seventy yard line, and it was funny.
I talked with We talked with Keith Ross after the game,
their longtime coach, who by the way, won his state
title and in his twenty third year, that won his
first state title in his twenty third year, and he
said he tried to call the fake punt off, but
nobody can hear him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was so loud on the field, and so you know, he's.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Even trying to call it off, and then he realizes
that that no one's gonna hear.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Him, and the play is going to go.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And he said he thought to himself, well, I'm either
going to be the hero or I'm gonna be the goat.
So let's see what happens. And they convert that that
big punt run it right up the gut, and then
a few plays later game winning field goal, and that
was just it was an awesome game. That was a
great high school football game. And you know, I by
far the biggest crowd two of the weekend, and I
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think the entire town of Sumner was there. And I
think Keith had set after the game. Someone told him
if there was a fire and Sumner that night, and
then you know they were, You're gonna be out of luck.
The building is gonna burn down. But it was an
awesome high school football game.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Good good for Keith Ross too. You've mentioned what a
great guy he is and as long as he's been
there in the first state championship since nineteen seventy seven
were Sumner football, that must have been a wild celebration
scene after.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
John another matchup that I was excited about but didn't
have a lot of answers to, just because Tumwater at
this point had been running through every one that they'd face.
But and a cordis topping Tumwater after an incredible season.
What happened in that game? Because I personally thought Tumwater
was gonna pull it off. Especially considering they lost to
him in the previous season.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, and I thought tom Water was gonna win this
time around, and mostly because I thought their defense was
really good this year, and I thought it was improved
from last year. They gave up sixty points last year
to Anacordas and I didn't see that happening again. And honestly,
their defense played well enough to win the game. They
held in Accordas to two hundred and seven yards of
offense and actually outgained them. Tomwater had two hundred and
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sixty yards of offense. So I thought tom Water's defense
played well enough to win the game. It was just
their offense. And credit to Anacordas all the credit in
the world. They had the brothers who are going to Montana,
Brady and Brock Beener. They had eighteen and fifteen tackles.
They had four players with at least ten cackles. They
they really flew around on defense, and they kind of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Bent a little bit, but they never broke right.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I mean, Tomwater gets the red zone four times, they
only come away with ten points. So, uh, the defense
played well enough. But Anna Cordison's offense, you know, they
hit some explosive plays. Their their receiver Ryland Lang, he's
going to the Eastern and he had one hundred and
seven yards a couple of touchdowns and they did just
enough to be able to win this game.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And their their defense was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The whole weekend. John, what was the coolest thing you
saw of the State finals at Eski Stadium?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just I just go back to the four A game.
It's that was such a scene.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And if you just looked up at the crowd and
there's so much purple and goal, which you know in
the fitting for Husky Stadium, but this the Sunner crowd
was just awesome and there were so many people there
rooting them on. And just Keith Keith Ross to be
able to get his first title. I mean, if you've
been around him, I mean that guy run. He's got
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the long hair. He kind of looks like an ex
pro WWE wrestler or something, and uh, but he just
lives and breeze football, and he he cares so much
about his players and just runs on coffee and adrenaline
and football. And he's an old school former linebacker and
he likes his defenses to kind of fly around and
hit people and so be him winning his first one
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in a fantastic game. I thought was probably the coolest
thing that I saw.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It is. Forgive me for not knowing, but the w
i a's agreement for Husky Stadium is for how long?
And how much longer are we for sure going to
have games there? The state final games?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, I'm not sure the current contract situation actually, Greg,
But I talked with someone who works with the w
i A and just on the sideline briefly, and it sounds.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Like the new Because I was kind of curious.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
There's been a lot of turnover and change at the
University of Washington obviously recently with the new athletic director
and new coaching three of.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Them in about three of them in eight months.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, hopefully this one sticks around for longer than four
months or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
But but I.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Was just kind of curious, and and now they're in
the Big Ten and new conference and all this change.
If if the w i A and or if if
the University of Washington kind of wanted to keep this going,
and it sounds like they're they're receptive to keeping it going. Uh,
the athletic department likes having it there. They've they've kind
of given the w I a kind of a sweetheart
deal and they're just they're they're not charging them a ton.
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It's just enough to cover their costs to keep the
facility open.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And it sounds like the jud Fish and his coaches
stop love having it there and and they're open to
have And why wouldn't you, I mean, it's such a
great recruiting tool. I mean it's you're getting kids onto
your campus and uh.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
These players are being able to play.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
A game at Husky Stadium and and you know, sit
in the locker room and run out the tunnel and uh.
And then just there's a lot of people that maybe
wouldn't have the opportunity or financially can't can't swing it
to go to a Husky game, and now they get
to go, and families get to go.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So I I think for.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
For the U DUB, I think it's a no brainer
to continue hosting in And it sounds like they're they're
receptive to keeping that relationship going.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A lot of the credit goes to Jen Cohen for this.
She broke her the deal. She didn't want to get
a lot of money out of WIA, knowing they couldn't
afford it, and they just wanted to either break even
or have enough to turn the lights on. And Jen
con is the one who got this done before she
left for USC. It's her one of her legacies of many,
but yeah, Ta Cooma's own Jen Cohen a lot of
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credit to that. Shifting gears at WIA yesterday published their
proposed amendments that the membership will vote on in twenty
twenty five. Some of them are administrative and pretty routine
and not even worth mentioning, but some of them are
really controversial. One of them is well, for instance, there's
some that are baseball. I've coached high school baseball. You
can now throw for two weeks before the first practice.
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That makes sense. We always wish they could do that.
We spend the first two weeks with tired arms for
kids who just come out throwing, and now they're allowed
to have throwing instructions and workouts two weeks prior to
the first practice date. But then there's things like the
transfer period and the transfer access and transfer rules in
the state. Currently you can't transfer except by family exception,
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hardship or some reason, or you actually physically pick up
and move Mick Hoffman was on our show last month
and he said that the proposal is going to be
a one time transfer, no questions asked, and they're trying
to preamptly try to avoid the legislative push that was
an Olympia last year to have basically a transfer portal
in high school sports. What's your view on this and
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talking to coaches and where do you think this is going? John?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, and I think that And like Mix said to
you a month ago, that's that's what they've come up with.
They formed a committee last year to kind of look
at this and try to come up with some kind
of proposal that would that would make sense. And the
WIA right now is they're spending a lot of time
and money with eligibility disputes and they kind of want
to lower that cost and not have to do that
so much.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And then there was there was pressure from at least
one I wrote written about this last spring.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
There was pressure from at least one Washington lawmaker to
kind of change the rules and open things up. And
a school choice is a big thing, and there's there's
kind of this feeling that, you know, why shouldn't kids
and families be able to transfer to a different school
if they think that fits their academic needs without having
their their athletic eligibility affected. But uh so, so what
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they've come up with is this one time kind of
penalty free transfer.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We'll see if it passes. It's going to be interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's going to need sixty percent of the vote from
the from the rep Assembly to pass in the spring,
which is always a difficult threshold to get to.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But it's interesting. I mean, I think that's the best
they could come up with for now.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But it's you have some concerns as well, Greg, I mean,
the and what coaches are kind of sounding the alarm
about last year when I talked to coaches and administrators,
just like competitive, competitive equity concerns, and they're gonna inevitably
this is gonna lead to more kids transferring. You're gonna
have the potential for super teams and and teams kind
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of the you know, kind of this effect of oh
this kid's gonna transfer. Okay, we're gonna transfer to and
you're gonna have a maybe you know, ten fifteen players
transfer into to one program on any given year, and
just kind of the rich are gonna get even richer.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You're moving away from.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
From what high school sports are, and uh, you know,
kind of having these community it's it's kind of a
last kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Pure thing, right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I mean, you've seen kind of college football has been
totally affected by money now and it's kind of with
high school it's kind of the last pure things.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You're moving, You're you have the potential for super teams,
the rich, the rich getting richer, and then you have
what what I what I think kind of thinks for
for kids who maybe grow up I don't know. Theoretically
a kid lives in pew Allup, right, he's born and
raised in pew All up and maybe he's a starter
or just a contributor on the football team. And and
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now you have all these kids transferring and this kid.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Gets kind of squeezed out of a roster spot and
starting spot.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know that kid lives in pew alip or wherever
it is. I'm not singling out pew Ali by any means.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But happened in Nathan Hall. It happened in Nathan Had
with that super team. All those kids had been in
a Nathan Hill program for years and years and years.
Just put on a burner for a yearn see you later. Oh,
let's go in a national championship. And then they all left.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Fortunate for those kids that you know, born and raised
in that community and they thought, you know, this is
my time and my chance and and potentially they're gonna
get squeezed out for a roster spot. So and then
I think just the long term concerns once you go
forward with this thing, these things, as you know, Greg,
there's no really going back, right. I mean, it's once
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you once you decide, okay, we're gonna open it up
for a one time transfer. You don't, you don't go
to zero transfers. Five years from now, it's probably okay.
Now it's two time transfer, and maybe it's it's ten
years from now it's okay. You can transfer every off
season or between every year, and and eventually you get
what looks like a college football transfer portal. And I
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think a lot of people have a lot of concerns
about that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
As they should. Yeah, we don't need kids from Gig
Harbor playing in the Metro League, and that's what's going
to happen. That is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Another amendment that caught my eye was put a smile
on my face was the thirteenth one, which involves flag
football growth like football specifically, But I understand one of
the issues is what season could they do it. Has
there any any talks about perhaps it being in the summer,
because I think that would work out, but I know
it's summer. Who wants to be playing a sport during
their vacation per se.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Or spring because girls basketball coaches were mad that it
was going to be in the winter and that was
costing them.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, there's not in the summer, Chris, because the school's
not in sessions, so that doesn't really work out. And
then the spring, there's just too many sports in the
spring and there's not enough field time, and then you're
potentially pulling girls away from from playing softball or running
track or whatever it is or different sports kindness or whatever.
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So right now they're playing it in the winter, and
it's mostly right now on the west side of the state.
And I think they tried to run this last year,
and the sport is growing like crazy, and there's a
ton of schools that are participating. And I talked with
Curtis's athletic director a couple of weeks ago, and they've
got a ton of girls signed up this year in
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the South Peuchett Sound League.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I think every school in that in that league has
a team.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And it's really taken off, which is cool because I
think everyone you know who doesn't want to play football,
right but it's just right now. It's just on the
west side of the state, and I think that's kind
of one of the reasons it didn't pass. You have
a few programs that are playing it on the east side,
but I don't think there's there's quite enough yet. And
and then obviously it's colder on the east side as
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well during the winter. So I went to went to
college in Spokane, and I would have no interest in
being out there at seven pm and in the middle
of January personally.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
So I think.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It works a little bit better on the the west
side of the state because you kind of have more
kind of mild temperatures.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But we'll see.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, that's a it's an interesting one. I think there's
a there's a major push to make that an official
WI A sport, and I think they would probably.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Just end up doing it in the winter.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Would would make the most sense as far as field
time and not pulling girls away from other.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Sports, and it just missed last year, so there's some
there's some momentum already. Toy. Now the two critical or
the two controversial, The most controversial ones participate is number seven.
Participate in girls sports will be limited to students assigned
female at birth. In number eight, athletic programs would be
offered separately for boys, girls, and transgender students, three different
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classifications depending on your sexual orientation or choice. John, I
know you probably don't want to get too deep into
the controversy of it, but what are the two sides
of this, and what do you think the likelihood is
those two passing well?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And that that second amendment to create a different division
for transgender athletes is probably one of the dumbest proposals
I've ever heard. I mean, you know, how we're talking
about such a small population within within high school sports
athletes to have a separate division wouldn't even be feasible.
So I think that proposal is probably dead on arrival.
(19:15):
But this kind of came up, This kind of sparked again,
and this has been a national debate obviously, but locally
in the state, it kind of sparked.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Last last spring again when a transgender.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Athlete won a girls state track title and there was
kind of a lot of uproar over that, and so
that's why you're kind of seeing these proposals.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I think the.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
One that the first proposal would would require to identify
as transgender to compete in the boys division, to kind of,
in their mind, protect girls sports. I think if if
either of them were to pass, that would probably be
the more likely one to pass. Like I said, I
don't think the second proposal makes any sense, but I
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don't think there's really an appetite for this from the WIA.
To be honest, You're going to face a lot of
legal challenges if you go forward with things like this,
and then you just have privacy concerns. I mean, how
do you prove some of this stuff? You know, there's
some serious medical privacy and just ethical concerns if you
were to pass something like this. So I would, personally,
(20:22):
I would be surprised if this passes. And honestly, Greg,
I think it's a lot of time and energy spent
on something that's such a non issue ninety nine percent
of the time, So I would, you know, but it
grabs headlines and people get, you know, fired up about it,
but I would be surprised if we really see any
changes to the WA's current policy to this.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Thank you, John, all the best to you and your
young family over the holidays. And that's the luck on
the voting for state sportscast year that's going on for
the National Sports Media Association this month. John Manley joining
us in the Beacon Plumbing hotline. Take care of John.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Thank you, Thanks Greg, think me, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You're welcome. John Manley of the News Tribune, the best
newspaper business in our state of high school sports, joining
us as he has each of the last five weeks
now from the high school state footballchampionships and on the
amendments that are at play for twenty twenty five the
membership will vote on in the Wiaas he mentioned, sixty
percent membership vote has to is required to pass any
of this, any of these proposals. I wonder if they
(21:24):
can get boys flight football in there as well, then
you'd be taking out a whole another sex.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I know, I know, but man, the interest would be there,
which would suck because I know there's kids that probably
want to just play tackle football, but you give them
the fly.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
My gosh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I think it would just it's a growing sport. I
know kids would do it. It's safer, and I get.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
The concerns of putting it in the winner and then
taking girls from girls' basketball teams and.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Having it's it's could I just really don't Could they
not do two at once?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I mean, I don't think to time demands. No, I
don't not to do it right anyway, And as a coach,
as a coach, you don't want to have to try
and share. Yeah, it's tough. It is tough. That's why
some of you can't do it in the fall. Well,
some of there's a wa you know, you can't compete
with it from the end of graduation to the beginning
of what's the earliest that could start, though, I wonder, like,
(22:10):
could it be like August, Well, football practice begins two
weeks before the first school day. You will lose a
lot of football players in theory if they want to
go play flag, But it would only be a certain
amount because if it's seven on seven, like wide receivers,
no lineups. But politically, they're going to have to pass
the girls before they pass the boards. Oh that's fair.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Absolutely, It starts there, so this will be we'll see
what happened for the next ten years, right true four.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Nine four to tell them what text on your reaction
to that. There's some high school coaches that are chiming
in on the text line and thank you for that
and your concerns. I get it. I get both sides
of this. We'll read those back. Coming up next and
eleven forty five and Fornas will join me. I think
he's coming in studio today and I'll see him leading
into his show from twelve until three again. This afternoon,
Dick Faine and Dave Softy Maler will have joint Mike
(22:58):
Holmgren and Chris collins Worth talking Seahawks, packers and all
things NFL at four to twenty. All that coming up
on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back Greg Berost
Show with Christopher Kidd. You know what time it is.
The music means we're reading text pack on the tucklemore
(23:19):
new text line four nine four five one. Where do
we start, Greg? We have so many texts to get to.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We can start with Mariah Carey versus Taylor Swift. We
got the flag football situation we have as you mentioned
a couple of coaches giving their insight them with what's
happening Tombwater versus down Quarters.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
There's just so much Greg, Where do we start?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Man?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
We want Maria Carey. All right.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
We got a lot of text in about Mariah Carey
versus Taylor Swift, and as you can see, we'll start
off with Taylor Swift all Day from the two oh six.
Greg said to be split and be very close, and
for the most part, I agree, Greg.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It's pretty close.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, it's I would I would say you are right,
it's pretty split. You have a lot of people that
are saying Taylor Swift. You have a lot of people
saying Mariah Carrey. Then you got some people they're just
saying I don't care neither, and that's fine too. This
is from the two five to three give me Mariah
Carey all flipping day. This is from Marcus thirty seven
(24:17):
black Dude, and I'm split. Mariah has the voice, but
Taylor has everything else. As Greg said, I'm sixty three
from the three six so and I like them both
from the four to two. Yes, from the four two
five Mariah Carey all day long. Based on multiple attributes. Interesting,
I know what you did there two five three, Chris,
I'm with Greg Love, Whitney and Rihanna Mark out of
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the two five three from the two five three and
Mariah on Christmas Day Taylor Swift the other three sixty four.
That's a good from Tom out of the two o six.
The diaper thing was real, Tom, I need I need some.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Proof, man, And that's that's You're crazy. You just saying it.
Don't help send me a link, man, you sit. Earlier,
Chris brought up the point that there are on the
internet anyways stories of women who wear diapers to Taylor
Swift concerts because they can't bear to go to the
bathroom and miss anything. Well great a concert.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I think it kind of alluded to your point about
how amazing a performer she is.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
She does ABC and so if you're to just stop
the natural processes of life, if you're if you're paying
a grand to see her, you know I'm not leaving.
I'm getting my money's worth. No pe, no pool gonna stop.
Be sure you're you're paying a lot of money to
watch her play. That's true.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
This is from Jason O the two o six's KJR
staff doing the Twelve Day of the Christmas song this year.
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't know. I haven't. That's new to me.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
So every year we would do each person exactly. You've
heard it, I'm sure. So I don't know if we're
doing it this year. I'm not opposed to doing it.
So if we do do it, I'll be the jolly
old kid doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
There you go. Let's see. Let's get into some football.
Flag football that is.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
This is from Dustin out of the two five three
as ahead girls basketball coach at the four A high school.
Flag football is literally killing girls basketball for our entire league.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, that's the problem. Is where do you put it?
If you can't they don't want to put it in
this fall because of girls' soccer.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Well, I just some a sport's gonna have to have
to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
What's the I would say, so many girls play soccer
in Washington. It's a decision, right, the girls get to
make it, that's true, But they're trying to maximize the
best chance of participation for the new sport.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well, I think it's a trial and error. You put
it at each spot, then you put it at fall.
If i'd winter and you try basketball, coach, they'll try
it and fall them. The soccer coaches will complain.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well, someone's gonna be upset. Track coaches would complain in
the spring. Some club soccer teams would complain in the spring.
The good news is not a collegiate sport yet, it's
not booming like that. We're kids against scholarships.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Now, when that becomes a problem, that's going to open
up a whole another can of warrants, because yes, code's
gonna be more upset because your star soccer player now
is even better at flag football and they're handing out
scholarship's left and right. But for right now, I say,
you just try an error, see what works best. Let's
see from the three six oh tom Water has been
poaching kids from the South Sound area since the eighties.
(27:07):
I think all schools do that, right though, all schools
are looking to get the best talent. I don't know
if it's poaching as more as just.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well they're not supposed to. We know that happens, but
it happened other schools.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I'm not trying to call out some Waters and make
it seem like that's the only reason why they're good.
But I think all schools do it to a certain degree.
It's just I guess how you go about it, if
that makes any sense. From the three six oh and
a Quarters, Seahawks two times state champions. Congratulations to y'all
Tumwater both times. I'm the only team to beat Tumwater
even close to beating them. Well, yeah, that's why I
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was so stunned that the quarters actually one, just because
some water have been dominating.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Let's see where is it at? Oh? This is from
the four two five, looking forward to hearing you tomorrow
from our nation's most hollow ground. Yeah, man, that's I'm
honored to be there at the times I've been to
Arlington National Cemetery has been very moving, and I'll be broadcasting,
i believe, from very close to the tomb of the
unknown soldier in the Guard who parades back and forth,
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not even parades, marches back and forth every day, raynershem,
cold wind snow doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
From the two o six, our guy Marcus, I actually
think Bill Belichick will do well in the landscape of
college football. Look at coach Prime and Bill's probably overall
better coach. But what kid parent wouldn't want to be
in that program? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean North Carolina just gained a huge recruiting advantage,
and they also are upping their ANIL money to Oregon
and Ohio state levels. Twenty million dollars reportedly is what
Bill Belichick asks for an annual nil budgeting. So he's
going to hire a general manager. That's new, the new
thing in college football. Now as you hire a general manager,
he's going to hire a cap expert, because there's going
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to be a cap starting next year on twenty point
five million dollars they estimate of department athletic department revenues
that are going to go to athletic departments, and Belichick
wants his own cap guy to be in charge of
flirting that money out of the athletic department in the
tar Hill Football in addition to the twenty million dollars
collective that they're gonna be raising in Targetland. You what,
(29:04):
North Carolin'll be a top ten team here in the
year or two. I missed the baby, Bill Walsh. Bill Walsh,
that's the touh snary tale at Stanford.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I missed this one from the Fible nine regarding Mariah
Carey versus Taylor Swift. Mariah performing halftime on Christmas Day
question mark, Chiefs game, question mark necklace question mark. Oh no,
my sister will not be able to pause or record
it and only watch it live. One time question mark
to Mariah lovers fans, they'll watch and they're gonna want
to watch it again, Pause, we wind, et cetera. Laughing
(29:33):
out loud, that's accurate. I don't think it'll be a
one time thing. They're gonna want to watch it over
and over and over again. Hell, I might do the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Three six, so says Dean Martin has a way better
Christmas vide than Maria carry I'm reading that because Dean
Martin is from my hometown of stupid Balio fan favorites.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There you go, Greg, you asked a question about paying
Kay or letting them or trading him. Well, we got
a few responses from that from the four to two five. No,
trade them for a couple of first round picks. To
Greg's point, I don't know if he's worth a couple
of first wrong picks.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He nobody give him that. He might be might get one. No,
he won't even get one. Devon Adams went for a fifth. Well,
Devon Adams is old, Okay, Third who is the guy
that went to the Diggs to Houston. Diggs would he get, well, yeah,
a third round pick, fourth round pick. He's also older,
Stefan Diggs a third or fourth round pick. Second, I
(30:21):
think Diggs is thirty, they would Seahawks wouldn't get more
than us high third maybe for DK.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Stefan dig is thirty one, So I four years old
and dkma that's a lot in the NFL, and you
know it.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I know it is, but I'm not. My saying is
he's not going to be commanding a first round pick.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
No way.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I don't think Tyger Hill would command a first round
pick right now. I don't think justin Jefferson, you'd have
to Teams don't give up first round picks unless it's
for quarterbacks. By exception. By exception, Seahawks could not expect
the first round pick.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I think you just named two of the exceptions though
with Hill and Jefferson. Feel about Hill, those guys are exception.
But two five to three golf, Greg, I'm a golf
Navy veteran. Thank you, and being a brotherhood, of being
a part of military family is so real. I still
have many brothers from multiple duty stations that I'm contact
with today. When it comes to marching, sailors are terrible
at it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Go Navy beat our Yeah, unfortunately, we do it twenty
nine hours a week, which is why we're so good
at it. As one of the least favorite things I
did of many West Point was the damn marching. They
even pulled out floodlights, so we marched into dark in
the winter. Oh oh, man, that doesn't sound good. It's awful,
just awful. So I'm dude with a bullhorn standing at
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the top of the empty bleachers, going fourth cadet in
the sixth row from the left. Your your rifle is canted,
straighten it out? Do it again? Have you seen the
things I could tell? Man, I've never even unleashed any
of these stories. Man, It's almost like lat and fits
in the back of my head somewhere. Oh so recite
(31:58):
the core, sir, the core, the core, the core, the core,
the corporate headed saluted, what is it thinking of? God? Wait,
the core treading where they had the corp trod. If
you didn't get one word right, you had to start
over and then just had the hell out of you
and go Army beating navy. The mayor and Maple Valley
joins us next on ninety three point three kJ R
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Speaker 5 (32:31):
Welcome back to the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kid
two six what.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Mayor Maple Valley?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
He flag football for dudes for man, come on stop it.
I would stop it. You know what they already have
that is called seven on seven leagues. Every guy that's
a receiver and quarterback worth his weight in high school
football these days play seven on seven year round dude.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
In ten years, I think high school football will be
introducing flag more and I would love to get in
on it because it's fun.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's very competitive, don't.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I don't doubt that. The hard thing. It's like with
the girls. Like when you guys are talking to John Manley,
it's like with the girls flight football, When do you
do it? It just sucks because every other coach is
going to fight against it. They don't want to athletely
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I think it just gives opportunities for those that might
not be as good as the tackle. It just gives
more opportunities for kids that want to play football. We
don't have to do the tackling or as.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Physical you know when I think they honestly because I
thought John stuffed Greg and Chris was really good about
about the girls. This was what came up last year
because we did a whole thing with this with Mick
and some and I think we had Mario on with
the Seahawks cause they were pushing it hard to and
the hard thing is the field availability. I get that,
But the time to do it, honestly, would be the spring.
(33:39):
For this reason, the reason they don't want to do
the fall right is because the football fields are taken
up for girls and girls soccer. In the spring it's
just boy soccer. So you have one lesson, So just
be the same as the fall. You just add girls
fight football, correct, right, And I mean I think that's
how you do it. That's how you make it work.
Because so you may lose what track and field athlete,
(34:01):
but club soccer you know better than anybody because you're
coaching baseball right now. And maybe it's a little different
from a smaller school, but I know, like at our school,
hell Tahoma, big school for a school, your school probably
at oday.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Your school too, mayor I know my school too.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
The kids now are playing baseball, boys soccer and basketball.
That's all they do. That's all the single sport. That's
a single sport.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Things you've got all club and all travel teams specialization.
Huh when's tennis?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Well, I think they just fall in spring, to be
honest with you, because I see our because we have
tenes scorches right by my house, the first high school.
They're always out there. But but like that's all they do.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Like especially, and that's another thing problem wrong with you.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Sport, and that's not going to change.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It should not. There's too much profit, yeah, and many
people making too much money.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
But you get to spring and there's a lot of dudes,
like for Chris's point of the guys that want to
do it, there's a lot of guys in spring that
are football guys, and but they get Spring that maybe
they don't want to do track, you know, and they're
not playing baseball because if they're like honestly, like, if
you're playing baseball, you're hitting in a cage year round.
It's just baseball. Don't get me started on baseball. But
and girls fast pitch, but that's what they do. Right,
(35:13):
you get to spring, these guys are probably playing seven
on seven leagues anyway. You know, Tracy Ford's got his
guys a guy, Nicholem's got his guys. All these guys
have their things going around, but it shouldn't be. But
just do it. Do it in high school. Just do
it high school. Then I'm off and have the girls
do it too, like I think, and I think girls.
If girls flag football doesn't pass in a year in
which they're doing this other stuff with you know, as
John said, like you know, such a small small minority
(35:35):
of folks that are you know, want things, come on, man,
get girls flight football going. Let's do it. Let's make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I think it will pass. It barely missed last time.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
The surprising it didn't. It didn't pass last time. And
the thing about well, not every school has it. Not
every school has swimming, yeah, exactly, every school has diving.
It's not every school has bowling, right yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, give it to those that want to do it.
It'll work out.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
More kids playing sports better, or we just say hey,
there's no room for you and you go find something
else to do, right, what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And and I wish kids played multiple sports. That's so invaluable.
No pro coaches will tell you they actually look for
guys who played multiple sports. Yeah, they talked about it
all the time.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
They're gonna be looking harder. They're gonna be looking harder
these days.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Seven on seven's just so you can play college football.
You have to do it.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
It's crazy, stupid. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I sit on the free throw line with one second
left of the tie game. There's a whole different kind
of learning experience there, good and bad. Yeah, what do
you got today?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
I'm we got a lot going on today. We got
super Mandel's going Joys twelve twenty. He does not like
the Bill Belichick higher just absolutely torpedoed it in the
athletic and for some really good reasons. Do you read that. Yeah,
but this guy doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
Like college football ten years ago is hard enough. When
(36:57):
Bill Walsh did it, it's a different years ago, thirty
years ago. This is a whole different world now. So
we'll talk to him. Also, college football playoff, Well, he
thinks he can do pull off the NFL. Hire a
cap guy, hire a GM let's go. That's what he thinks.
And those guys are gonna look at him and they
don't give a rats. You know what about his Super
Bowl rings. You know what they care about? What would
you say, Chris the bag?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
How much time I making?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
How I sound saying that?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You sounded fine? If Carolina puts twenty million in its
NIL program on top of the twenty million that the
department has to give. Now you're talking Oregon money.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Who's who might say something about that? Hubert Davis. That's
basketball school boys and girls.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Money for both. Now that you think so, God bills
in fine? All right, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I'm gonna revisit this in a year, So Mandel, all
things college football, Corben Smith one o'clock and then the
unofficial start of the weekend playoff weekend and fantasy football.
Text your questions to Funcedan. It cannot come before noon
four nine four five one, So you got four minutes
from now, Mark Boom your text for Funstont. Fantasy football
(38:02):
playoffs begin this weekend, and I expect some panic in
the streets with our phone calls and our texts coming
up with fundtion to two safe travels. My friend, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I cannot wait to be there.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I can't wait for you to next hour tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
You'll next hear my voice from the Arlington National Cemetery
tomorrow at ten a m. With Jessman McIntyre and I
am honored to be there for the one hundred and
twenty fifth Army Navy Game, brought to you by USAA Warrior,
Injury Law here locally or Injury Law dot com. Christopher
Kid and I thank you for listening. We do appreciate it.
I'll talk to you tomorrow from DC up next and
(38:34):
for nass Anderson Hurst because Justsmin's already on a plane
of DC. They're next on ninety three point three KJRFM,
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