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November 20, 2025 β€’ 45 mins
Today Coach and I look a little bit into the future πŸ‘€πŸˆ as we explore the potential championship matchup between Jackson State and Prairie View A&M University β€” not that we're looking past this weekend, but we're talking what-ifs if everything plays out the way it should.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And welcome to another epishod of After further review, I
am joined with none other than Coach Rash Northern Coach.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
How you doing today, sir.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Man, I'm doing pretty good. Look, I got my pops
in town and he had him a good weekend. Look
you're gonna have some some burritos coming your way soon.
So oh yeah, he put a couple, he put a
couple of mother wire things on the ground and look,
look we should have some steak or some fa hitters.
And I got attacked by a cow out there after

(00:36):
we finished our hunt, trying to get that joke on
the trailer, and I jumped the fence. It jumped the
fence and lo and behold, it landed his front hoof
landed on me, and it actually tried to kick me.
So it was just one of them. You know, we
had some good we had some bads, but.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Man, what did you do to aggravatus?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Man? It's just a crazy cow. You know. When I
got there, it was trying to get out of the fence,
and then we were trying to get it on the trailer.
And most of the time you had that flag or
you know, they'll stay away from you. But and this
was a helper. You know, it wasn't a boy. I say, Man,
that ain't that actually, you know strange. You know it's
sliding at the mouth, almost talling at the ground like

(01:16):
you don't usually see that.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, that sounded like, man, cow disease coach man.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
But look they had the guy who's probably we hunt
on paid three hundred dollars to get it wrangled back
in the day before, and they got loose the next day.
And I don't know what he's gonna do, but I said,
I told him, I say one thing, I would take
that suck in and uh and getting him out in
front of the rest of him and cook me some
steaks right there in front of them so they'll look.

(01:44):
It's what happened when you ask frog.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I know that's right, I know that's right. Wow man, Okay, well,
I'm glad you all right.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Men, Look on Country one, you used to all that
tusking and reublant with the wild anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Never seen me move that fast than my whole life. Yeah,
in his whole life, you say, man, I never seen
you move that fast. Look, I jumped over the fence
and I don't know if I touched it or just
jumped over like I was a high jumper.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I know that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Hey, a drellaline can make you do some powerful things, right, coach. Yeah,
And I felt good until I woke up. Son. I
was like, man, it's feel different over here. But look,
i'll tell you what. A couple of games made me
feel decent watching some games, and uh, you know, just
having my dad and Adam being able to hunt together,
that made me feel a little better as well.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right right, Well, look, I know you came up on
the short end of the stick. How do you feel
about this last home game performance?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Shut of suckn Jags?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Man? You know what, you know? Them jokers keep on fighting.
That's that's one thing I can say about it. Now,
they gonna they might fight their way out of a
play sometime, but they played hard. A couple of turnovers here,
three turnovers, Actually, what a difference in the bag. And
they say they they lost by with five and three
turnovers can easily turn into you. You think every turnover

(03:01):
is depending on who you're playing against, it's gonna be
two and a half to four and a half points.
So if you get three of them, that's pretty much
seven points right there. So they had the chances of
from what I understand, they played us, you know, just
stayed in there until the absolute last seconds of the
ball game and just couldn't figure out a way to
pull it out. But you know, like I say, man,

(03:22):
you know I love them jokers. Either way it goes,
I'm still gonna mess with my sister and say they
gonna win anybody. You classics, And that's that's what I'm
rolling with.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, you know it's ironic right now because and I
know that you don't want to indulge too much, because
we know that you got a finger on the pulse
of what's going down in jag Nation. What are you
thinking about this name floating around, mister Marshall faulk Man
possibly coming to the bluff.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hey, man, it don't bother me. Look, I'm like this, man,
I'm a support whoever the head coach is that's over there.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna reduce or change my
donation to the program. I'm I'm a stay steady. I
will try to help if if my help is wanted.
If my help is not wanted, I feel I understand it.

(04:08):
I understand how some people are, but would It surprised me,
know knowing who's uh some of the decision makers, you know,
everybody want to try to get that former NFL guy.
And then the good thing about him. You know, he's
from New Orleans and he has coach college football, being
on the staff at Colorado, I want to say for
the last year. So you know, I definitely understand that.

(04:31):
But you know, I think trying to recreate the look.
You know, God they may go one of them, so
you know, man, definitely not gonna make another one, right
right right?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, you know, I don't like to see us, and
I'm saying us collectively as swacked programs trying to do
what other folks are doing.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
We don't have the deep enough pockets for that.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
We and every good resource we get ends up getting,
whether it's a coach or a chier one, players being
drawn away with nil money.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
How do we put an end to this madness? Coach?
Or is there an end to this madness?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Man? You know what I thought a little bit about
because I hear fans talking about we don't want to
recycle swack coach, and I think sometimes as a guy
is only coaching the swack except for pretty much one
year when I was coaching college football. I think sometimes
that's quote unquote swack coaches. We try to do so

(05:36):
much with so little. We figured like we can do
anything with nothing. That's what Marinocasle used to say. I
think sometimes you have to get some outside ideas in.
But does that outside idea have to be a celibery
like say I, and I use coach Jackson as an example.
Coach Jackson, to me is a swack guy because he
played at tex something and has coach in the company.

(05:58):
But by the same time, he's been outside the conference
and saw some things where I think sometimes there's guys
that have only coached in the comfort. You feel like,
I'm gonna make it work despite some of the in
house handicaps that I may have. I'm gonna try to
do this, this and that. And then sometimes when you
don't see what hey, we might can use a couple

(06:19):
more grad assistants, a couple more analysts, a couple more
guys in the weight room when you bring that to
the table. But you can also look at look at
the form of SEC, the Big Ten, whatever conference USA
guys that have come to the conference and fail. So
it's a it's a two way street. But most of

(06:41):
the guys that have won championships or born and bred
swat guys. In my opinion, if you you know, you
take away with the exception of coach Simmons, everybody else
you know had some swack in them. So you know,
I saw the cringe when I hear people say that.
And I use this example. If my wife, who works

(07:04):
for Microsoft, she is not going to go to McDonald's
and look for somebody to come, do you you sort
of you stay in that same circle of people. If
you look at the SEC coaching staff, a lot of
those guys may go from Florida to LSU to Mississippi State,
and it's the same way because you go against guys,

(07:27):
you compete again and you get to know them. Maybe
not there a person, but somebody can say, hey man,
this dude here is a good coach. That's just like
Doug Williams. Is the reason why I get to pray
of you because he can call Henry Fraser and say,
hey man, he's nod. He a different cat now, but
he a good football coach. He you know, he ain't

(07:48):
gonna do this, this and that. But when it comes
to football, he gonna do, he gonna be everything you need.
So it's just that's the way it goes with knowing
people who can speak up for you and who put
their name on the pay right.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's just like we're kissing that old miss right now.
L as you run them out of town. Now they're
trying to lure them back.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Hey man, It's it's you know, it's crazy the way
that you know that this thing goes. But like I said,
there's no permanent enemies or no permanent friends in politics
and football, coach, because it's some guys that you may
think really don't like you, but if they think you're
a good coach and you can help them, they'll be like,

(08:27):
hey man, they'll put all this stuff to the side
if you can help you get another paycheck.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
So it's yes, sir, Yes, sir, it goes yes, sir. Well,
you know we got a weekend coming up, coach that
appears to be a slam dump. And I say that
very very loosely, that Jackson State could host this game
for the championship between Prairie View and Jackson State if

(08:52):
everything holds where it is right now. But and I
say but very loosely, if Jackson State loses.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Somehow Prairie View wins.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Then they could end up hosting They've been Prairie you
could end up hosting this championship game.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Whereas he said, my understanding column, correct me if I'm wrong.
If Jackson loses and Alabama State wins, then Prairieview still
has to go to Jackson because they lost to them head.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
To head right now, I mean.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
To Montgomery to Montgomery, right but but but but the
the chances are, chances are that uh, mathematically, even though
Alabama State deep Prairie View and Prairie View, I mean
and and uh, Alabama State lost to Jackson, that would
nip to hit the head competition in most part, but

(09:57):
for keeping hope alive, if we went mathematically, went mathematically,
the mutual opponents are going to be summarized this weekend,
with Jackson taking on All Coin and Perview taken on
Mississippi Valley. For if you beat Mississippi Valley by one point,
and technically speaking, if you were going by numbers, then

(10:19):
they would have to beat Mississippi Valley by at least
twenty three points depending If Jackson State wins and they
beat All Corn by thirteen points, so I mean you
still got a dark chance. But like you say that,
that number one stickler is Alabama State loss. So it

(10:42):
all boils down to Perview has made it to the West.
How they got there, it doesn't matter. It just would
have been ideal logistically, financially if the game was at home,
but more than likely it's not going to be. But
it's still worth mentioning of the would it could have
shut us With all that being said, With all that

(11:02):
being said, and I know it's funny, coach, I know
it's funny. But with all that being said, not looking
past all Corn nor looking past Mississippi Valley, how do
you coach Northern see the strengths and the weakness of

(11:23):
Jackson versus Prairie View and vice versus Praiview versus Jackson.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
What I see is I'm gonna I'm gonna start off
both team defenses. I see Previews defense they can stop
the run and confuse probably anybody's quarterback in the country
unless they do a lot of rollouts and stuff like
that and cut the feeling hands. I see Jackson's defense

(11:52):
as being a pressure based defense that can stop the run.
May be as good on pass defense because of the
coverages that they play. Now on the offensive end, Praiview
can I think, run the ball as good as anybody

(12:13):
and throw the ball. They may be able to throw
the ball better because of the way Jackson State plays
defense and Preview's offensive line. Jackson may be able to
run the ball as good as anybody in the conference.
I don't think they're going to be able to pass
the ball now. I think they have some outstanding receivers,

(12:36):
but because of the way Preiview pressures and disguis's coverage
with their young quarterback, unless he's just throwing it up
and those guys go up and make plays for him,
I don't see Jackson being able to pass the ball
on a consistent basis if they're in second and third
and law the theme that I think jack The biggest

(12:58):
advantage that I think jack Some has is their kick
return and punt return is as good as those guys
at tax Southern and those guys that take Southern gave
Praiview to Blues and Previews kickoff team has not been
very good. And I think to a man or to
a coach, they would say that because I remember at

(13:20):
one time people complaining about the sky kid, and then
they start kicking it deep and now they have Jego
back there who can put the ball out of the
end zone. But if he doesn't put it out of
the end zone, it is a scary situation being and
I've been on the side of not having a very
good kickoff team and is one of those things you

(13:42):
can't practice really full speed because you can't go against
good guys. But that guy Jackson is.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Pretty special, yes sir, Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
And when you look at all of this in the
moving parts, Okay, let's circle back to this weekend. All
Corn in my opinion, not all Corn, but Jackson. They
got a little bit more on the table because of,
you know, all Corn being the rival, this, that and

(14:12):
the other. And although Prairie View has fallen short too
out of the last three seasons against Mississippi Valley. If
you're coach Jackson, I know we play to win the game.
I know that, mister hern Edwards, I know we.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Played to win the game.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
But do you, as coach Jackson, start fine tuning and
plugging in some players just because of the short week
turnaround with if you do win.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
The swack Championship. You got to turn right back around
for the Celebration Bowl.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Do you do anything different as far as personnel, not
play calling, but as far as personnel with this game
this week, knowing that everything is wrapped up on the West.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Now, I'll tell you some things that we did, and
I'm go back to when I was at Grammlin. If
we had it wrapped up, and I think most of
the time we may have had a one week break.
I think one time we had a two week break
in between the Bayou Classic and the tampionship game. The
thing that we would do is and times have changed

(15:16):
so much because you know, you pretty much knew who
you had coming back. Nowadays you may not know who
you have coming back. But we did, and we did
it at Prairierview during preseason. But we had a period
we called Tiger period where your scout team guys and
your number twos. They may it may not be quite
a scrimmage, but it is as high tempo and as

(15:38):
intent as you can get. And when you're getting guys
reps at running your offense instead of running the scout
team cars. Now we would also have some people might
call it a toilet bowl or a scout bowl where
you you may take your starting quarterback and your starting
middle linebacker and they may say, coach, we we like

(16:01):
X offense. And then those guys may run the plays,
and they may have caughted plays, and they go against
each other with other teams plays, and we would let
them go against each other with the plays that we call,
like we would call our regular running plays at Grammar
or when I was at Prairiview when we had our

(16:22):
panther period, we would call whatever Coach Orlando called some
of our plays, you know, Liz rip twenty four counter
and let it roll. And then on the defense we
might go base zebra and then just let the guys
play football to see who is making plays, who can
make checks. So if we do get into a game

(16:46):
like a Mississippi Valley at the end of the year,
a game the championship game, and I was talking about
this on the show the other day, we played the
championship game, starting middle linebacker didn't finish the game because
we went with a bigger guy that normally played sam linebacker.

(17:06):
We put him at mike or something like that. So
it's because of the way we practice. We say, hey, man,
this kid can handle a lot of information. He gives
us a little bit more size. Let's put him here,
and I think we end up putting Max and maybe
the will linebacker Spider or something like that. So you
can find out a lot about guys and a competition
level late in the season. Some of it you may

(17:28):
just have to do it out of here. Hey man,
guys getting beat up. So you know, you may go
into the game knowing that your starter may not be
available for a couple of plays or a couple of quarters,
or after halftime when he cools off and have to
come back out, that may be it for him. So
it's a couple of different things that you can do
to get ready for postseason playing. And I count the

(17:52):
TWAG championship game as a postseason.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Game right right now, you may mention that the struggles
with purview on special teams, what if anything can they
do between now and the championship game to get you.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, you may have to decide what starters are you
gonna have to put on there, or you may have
to decide what wide receiver that may have played DBS
can I put on the kickoff team? And I go
back to so My first job was a special teams
coordinator at more House and at Grammar. And one thing

(18:31):
I asked Coach Williams was who's off limit? And he
would say pretty much nobody was off limit except when
we had Scotty Anderson and when we had our quarterbacks.
He say, anybody else if you feel like they can
help you on special teams, they are special teams players
first and then they play offensive defense. So we had

(18:53):
a deal where if a kid was tired from running
down on kickoff of punt, then you say that I
was the first play on offense, not substitute them out
on special teams, because that's special teams. We call it
one shot, one kill. You don't get three bullets in
the gun. You got that one bullet and it might
be a twenty two and you better be fishing with it.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
So boy, so you better be dead. Actually twenty two, buddy. Yeah,
but look, and this is god un is true. One
year I gave I gave everybody to play special teams
t shirts and I gave him a twenty two bullet. Well,
lo and behold, the police show up at my house.
And I lived only a mile from Grant.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
I lived like basically from Grammland Stadium is like going
to your house. Probably even closes. Okay, police, the police
showed up at my house like, hey, coach, these kids said,
you gave them a bullet. I'm like, yeah, it's a
special team. So and that was all like one shot,
one kill, and it was on our shirts as well.
But it's that mentality that you only have that one

(19:57):
player to get it right and you have to start
on it. So I tell people this the way I
would coach Richardson did with me. I was just starting safety,
so I would start on defense. I started on punt team,
kickoff team, and punt returns. So as the game went
on the first quarter, I did every special team. The

(20:21):
second quarter, I would only have to do kickoffs. No,
I would only do punt returns. Third quarter, punt return
fourth quarter, I had to go back on kickoffs, punt
and punt returns. And that was just the way he
did it with certain guys that was starters on defense.
So that was sort of where I got my philosophy from.

(20:45):
As well, as we gonna play these guys, we're gonna
have some starters on there. And then I think what
really changed when Oklahoma started having some of their starters
on their special teams as well. Then you think about it,
A Hamilton was on our punt team at pre he
was on our kickoff team, and we did some very

(21:05):
similar thing. Certain times you're gonna be on there. Certain
times you could take a break.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I take thinking about Quentin Bell, how he started as
a receiver and could outrun everybody, but he just had
one problem. Coach, he couldn't catch the ball, you know,
So they said, hey, you know what, man, you got
all this wee let's put him at defensive end. Yeah,
at that time they were I think they were the
Oakland Raiders steel when Rooting said hey man, we're gonna

(21:34):
make you a Raider, and you know, and the rest
is history.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
So you know.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
And I was just talking to a guy the other day.
People put so much extens on the sides of a
ball player, and yeah, side doesn't matter. But if he's
a ballplayer, it doesn't matter if he's six three or
five three. If he's a ball player, he's gonna get
out there and make some things happen. And the thing
is with the NFL, they will They'll make a fast

(22:00):
guy from a fcs D two school.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Whatever, because number one, they feel like you hadn't been coached,
no matter how well you were coached. If you fast,
they feel like they can bring you up to speed,
to learning plays and texts and all that type of stuff.
You get an extra look if you can run fast.
So look like I always tell people the reason why
I'm coaching and didn't play in the NFL was because

(22:28):
I wasn't fast. So that's a fact I could.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
What was your forty time, coach?

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Uh? A good four six? Look?

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Man?

Speaker 3 (22:38):
True story when I so, I worked out my junior
year and I ran a very poor for the time
to coach Richardson said, I had moved from strong safety
to the free safety. Said, man, you can't play safety
for me if you with that speed. So I, you know,
started proving wrong, worked out for the scouts, didn't get drafted,
get didn't sign the free Agencys were looking for a

(23:01):
training camp safety and the guy told me like, hey, man,
if you can run four or five, even if it's
four or five, mine, I can get you in training camp.
And man, I ran so many forties, look I might
get four six one. And he was like, man, I
can't put on this paper that you ran four five nine.

(23:21):
So I ran so many fortys and did so many drills.
The guy took me to If you ever been on
Southern campus, you go over the humph at the liquor
store as soon as you crossed the hunt. This joker
took me to the liquor store. It brought me two
bottles of Gator raise I had worked out. Man, I
couldn't get that four five nine to save my life.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, join the club, coach, because the best I ever
got was four six myself. And now that was good
in the trenches as a linebacker, but it was quite
what they was looking for. But you know you live
on to fight another day, right, But that's why it's
important to have a high football a Q. But you
would think being back, especially as a French shape, to

(24:04):
friend shape, you don't have to be that fanst coach, Well,
I mean back I was.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm gonna think all the time that it is important
because of how strong you don't realize how strong the
quarterback arms are at the six level and how the
windows close so fast right at right next level. So
if you can't get there in an X amount of time,

(24:32):
then you're no good to those guys. That's why you
see some guys that may be fast, but don't like
to tackle or play right right. Then they figured if
you're not fast enough, you're not gonna even get to
the point to make the tackle. Right.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I had a remedy, coach, I wasn't fast. I
was quick though, yeah, yeah, but quick don't get you
to the league. You know, fast, does you know? Because
they say we can't teach speed. Bed is a natural
asset that goes on. But you know when when when
you when you look at all these these breakups, the
body types, the schemes, the IQ and all that. When

(25:12):
you go personnel mono imano, you look at these matchups
coming up between Prairie View and Jackson and another matchup
that is somewhat under the radar. But who's going to
be representing the meact? You got a huge game this
weekend Delaware State and uh South Carolina State. Now, what

(25:37):
the Sihon Jackson has been able to do at Delaware
State is short of a miracle. We talked about coach
Jackson talking about turning water to wine.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
The sahn Jackson is definitely turning.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Water to wine at Delaware State and the powers that
be are not real excited about the potential of a
Delaware State and a Prairieview plan in celebration bawl because
it's not going to be drawing the big crowd. They
could tolerate Jackson in Delaware state, but a Purview in

(26:09):
Delaware State that would be a logistics nightmare for them.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
But I hope it is a nightmare that comes to fruition.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Look, that's their problems. You just want your school to
be there. But I tell you what I and it
goes to and I can't say it in enough. What
have they done behind the scenes, not just because the
son Jackson is the coach, what have they almost either
allowed him to do from a personal standpoint coaches standpoint,

(26:40):
a coach's salary, analysts, grad assistance, who can get in
school and play there. That's an important thing that you
have to think about. So it's all those things that
go into it. Then you know, just sometimes players, especially
if they didn't have a very high turnover rate, because
some of those guys that probably were there to say,

(27:01):
well I want to play for this guy, they may say,
you know what it's like if you were at Prairieview
and you have a coaching change, you may say, man,
we had enough to get it done, but we didn't
do it the right way. Let's give coach Jackson a
chance and see what. And then when things started going

(27:21):
your way and you don't beat yourself, you started thinking like, man,
we can do that. This was the same thing with
Pete Richson. Well, we we had a coach who was
very disciplined and we didn't live up to the expectation.
Then coach Richidson comes in and we got a lot
of the same guys that have more experience, and we

(27:42):
just said, man, if we don't beat ourselves, we can
win a lot of games. And I said it early
in the season. The Prairiew team this year was almost
just like the Southern team the ninety three team, because
we won a lot of close games. Special means might
be the catalyst to get us there. Our defense playstrong.

(28:06):
Offense may have struggled and was very opportunistic. Defense may
have gave them a short, giving them a short feel
best team might run a kickback or punt back. So
it's a lot of those same things, and then you're
not beating yourself with the penanties may have gone down
from nine to five were so when you see all
those things happening, and like I said, I said earlier, man,

(28:28):
this is I don't want to say destiny, but you
can see if you do the small things where anthem
mosquitoes don't kill me.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
So right right, Well, see, people thought I was being
a bit harsh at my earliest statement, and I even
had a couple of listens say, well, man, you sound
like you don't want PV to win. I said, no,
that's not the case. When I said, coach Jackson has
had more than enough in the Staws if you would

(28:58):
than any coach that I could remember at Prairie View.
So to whom much is given, much is required. And
my thing was if Duley and Bubba was able to
get to the SWAT Championship game with working with way
less resources as far as coaching staff and whatever access

(29:20):
he had, then my expectations was, yeah, okay, I'm okay
if we make it to the SWAT Championship, but we
need to win the SWAT Championship because of what's been invested. Now,
if you lose it the Celebration Bowl, I could tolerate that.
I wouldn't want that, but at least you got passed
what you had prior to with less than what you had,

(29:44):
and I'll take that to the great. That's not anti PV.
That's just setting the bar, because Tony, the bar was
already set.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yes, sir, but I tell you this was to well,
I'm not gonna count your coins. But I know you
do the stuff behind the scenes for PREIVIY athletics, which
is more than probably what some of those same people
will complain about, but it is you know, you can
see it headed in the right direction. Like Ryan, when

(30:13):
I went to when I went to practice, I didn't
I just looked at the defense and I said, with
that defense because it's the same defense that Gramlin won
on a chance that gave people the blues. I just
think I just thought that that defense gonna give people
problem and they would just started scratching the surface of
what they were gonna do now once they got into

(30:35):
it to where they understood the movements. How we can
set people up, how we can confuse people. Man, is
the light to see and I like, you know right,
I tell you this, when I go to the game,
if I go down on the field after the game
and if I see a young man that I really
like the way I say, hey, man, I know you
don't know where I am, but I coach here awhile,
but I really thank you for what you're doing for

(30:57):
this universe. I like the way you play football.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
And I'll live there.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
I do like the way those guys play, and just
the way they play with some toenasty that don't see
and like I say, you know, they got a couple
of guys that will remind you of the Zach East
and the Anthony Becks and the Chris of Binga Pools
who some some real good football. And then they got

(31:24):
some guys the Dalvin Nettles, who nobody knows who they are,
but when you look at the statu seat, they probably
gonna they might not even show up in a stat seat,
but they're grade out at ninety two. They're grade out
at like the low eighty five might be their lowest
grade for the season, but they made a lot of
plays that made a lot of people better. I keep

(31:45):
going back to Elijah on Big number ninety nine. He
may not make a lot of tackles, but he may tackles.
He get the hockey assist for other guys.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yes, sir, you know who Another guy that came to
my mind, coach was Garlin Harris. You remember Garlin Harris. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, safety,
defensive back whatever he was, but he did a lot
of his damage on the special teams that you talked
about earlier, running down there making it and and one
of my favorites he was, you know, he was O lineman.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
James Decle. Dude was just nasty.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Man.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Hey, man, look nasty.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
So I so I thought Trey Glove was well, I
recruited to all of a sudden, that's one of my
favorite football players. But I missed the championship parade. I
was in Marshall, Texas recruiting Trey Glove and he ended
up making all swat two times. Well, I thought he
made it all for you, But James Decle actually made
all comforts and he came to us as a defensive lineman. Man.

(32:43):
Dudes hated practiced with James, but he played with excitement,
you know. Him and Big James Blanton started that. You know,
they called himself the Wilfle House because they were you know,
wild wildfle House, but pad cake and they did. That's
why I get to serve him up from when a
guy gets pancake there they were born third on them.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
But uh, you know, yes he was man, yes he was.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
And so when you when you look at all these
these guys, and we talk about it all the time,
styles make fights, right in my opinion, coach, In my opinion,
Jackson State mirrors the physicality and the style of any
MEAC team that has been the Achilles heel of the

(33:29):
swack champion. But with the exception of what Fam and
Jackson have been able to do. And some people will
still say Fam with slight you know, the meact, you know,
in transition or whatever.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
But Prairie View matches up.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
If Review can hold off and compete well, and I
know we're talking about like Valley don't exist, but it does.
But we win and lose a draw, they still gonna
have to face off against Jackson in my opinion. But
with with with that being said, with with with Jackson
being as physical, because I don't care what you.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Say, coach, even in the down years, them jokers, sign.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Them Lumberjacks on that offense and defensive line, and that
is where I think Prairie Views defense, with the rotation
and the aggressiveness and the speed, is gonna have to
really bullish neck.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yes, and I think they gonna get that. Like I said,
I you know, I don't. I don't want to get
too far ahead, but I really think this game is
gonna set the tone for like y'all y'all think we're playing,
y'all think we we worried about Jack's Like, No, we're
gonna hang some foot this weekend. Then we're gonna get
ready for whoever we have because they'll have an off

(34:44):
week while Southern and Grammars are playing, so they can
use that time, uh, you know, work out pretty good,
have some good practices before they maybe take a day
or two off of Thanksgiving, and then I think this
is where a good thing out. Having coach Jackson and
his staff sort of getting ready for that playoff run

(35:05):
is very similar to this because you have a time
in between maybe a game or two the off week.
How you go about praying your off week, how you
go about implementing the game plan, how do you go
about doing your study. So I think that's gonna be
that's the advantage that coach Jackson and his staff, especially
the guys on the defense side that came with him,

(35:26):
how they put things together as opposed to you know,
some of the other schools that may be in a
very similar situation so our cause, like say, I think
they gonna send send a statement this weekend and be
ready in two weeks for the ride to wherever they
may have to go. And look, if they keep their

(35:47):
fingers crossed, who does Alabama State have this week?

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Alabama State has Tuskegee this week? And then they had
a Turkey Bowl? No no, no, no, or is it
the Turkey Bowl?

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Because I'm thinking that they still had one sway, they
got one game left, they got one swat game left,
and I want.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
To say.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
They played the Magic City Classic already. Oh man, you're
gonna have me and I should know this answer, Coach
is somebody from the east? Is it Pine Bluff?

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yes it is.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Yeah. But the but the thing I'm saying that if
I'm a prayer of you fan, I'm putting something extra
in the collection play and hope that both of those
schools lose.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
So I can host right.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Right, right, right right, And so when when when you
when you look at it from that vantash point, uh,
it's gonna sound old school to the core.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Coach. I don't even think I would let my guys
go home for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Now they can't. I would you can't?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I would can't. I would cater me on.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
You know, you know, even if it had to be
a old trajection for somebody, we're gonna we're gonna have
Thanksgiving on the yard.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
We gonna. Yeah, but see and asking somebody asked me
that question, like how do you do it if you
have to go? And at one time, you know, when
coaching at Gromlin, you always had to deal with that
Thanksgiving Day. So the crazy as it was, we would
have meals for the guys, but our compliance offs said

(37:30):
we couldn't do anything very special just for the team.
So we had to advertise that anybody that wants to
come can come. So you may they may say, man,
just put the signs out Wednesday, even if you just
put them in the locker room to say, hey, anybody
that want to come meet can come have Thanksgiving. This
So we would practiced early on Thanksgiving morning, have a lunch.

(37:55):
But a lot of guys, you know, we had the
guys from the Monros and johns Boroughs and they would
take you know, five or ten guys jump in the
car and you know, two or three families of guys
on the team would follow, you know, the Amerson brothers
today house or Coach White might cook her. You know,
we had these different things. My mind might cook for
most of the coaches or something like that. So it

(38:17):
was just different things. But you know, you have a
plan in place. But hey man, we're gonna eat here.
Once we eat here, then you guys are welcome to
go off. But we might We had a curfew because
we left on Friday morning going to New Orleans, so
you may have to do some things like that. Look,
i'm gonna give you we're gonna eat thursdays. Then we

(38:38):
might do a run, a team run on Friday morning
just to get some of the gravy and all that out,
or we might not practice. We might do a run
in a lift and then Saturday we may say, okay,
we're gonna do a Saturday morning practice and it may
just focus on special teams and past get it might
not be very physical, but it's gonna be like we

(38:59):
were called, we're gonna have a full speed walkthrough.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yes, sir, sir, now coach, and we know this is
the last official weekend for conference play. A couple of
special games coming up behind that twenty ninth that buy
your Classic being one. What I want you to do, Man,
for for our next episode, I want you to get
together some of your greatest memories of being and that

(39:26):
BUYO classic, and I want you to come up with
a top ten.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Can you do that for me?

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Man? I might can't give your ten, but I give
you some good.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Ones well game, the game in general, but more likely
the ones that you were you were involved in. You know,
as a player, as a coach, you know, you've been
on both sides of the fence, you know, and even
as just as a fan.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
And I can definitely give you some good And I'm
gonna touch on this. The last one that I went
to came down to the very very last player of
the game. And I'm on, I'm on the sideline and
your favorite freshman is down there with me in Southern

(40:15):
Southern breaks up a pass on the last player of
the game to win nobody your class And look, I
gotta look for this joke in the you know, he's
he's had some field storm in moments with Southern football.
But that's that's the last one. That uh that And Man,
I got some good ones though, you know, just from
being a young board god.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
You know, look, and we want you to get you
want you, and I want you to go ten, nine,
eight and one be your last one.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
We're gonna represent one last. Can I count on you
for that, coach?

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah, I come up with something for yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
All right, Well, look, coach, I want you to give
me some closing thoughts and comments. We're going to wrap
this week's segment up and we're about to see what
the Panthers can do this weekend.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Man, look, man, like I said, I don't I don't
get too far him, but I really think basically if
you know anything about I'll talk about just the mentality
of those guys that I've seen. Like I said, I've
been lucky enough to go to practice a couple of times.
I really think they're gonna try to make a statement
because they they playing their best ball at the right time.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yes they are.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
The schedule has, for lack of better terms, gotten a
little bit easier. So it's like now they not compete
against the other teams, Like, let's see how good we
can be because even though they score fifty six points,
I guarantee, uh, Coach Bucken are probably still fussing at
those guys, but having a slow or lackluster or third quarter,

(41:41):
just different things like that that you can see that
they want to compete to a different stand. So I
think I think they're gonna show up in a player
excellent game. You know, a couple of times they had
value where they more or less didn't need to win
or I'm not gonna say didn't play the win, but
you know, they may assat them guys reason, but it's
just I think this year is gonna be a different

(42:03):
ball game. And I don't think that those guys are
gonna be looking forward to Jackson until it's time to
look to Jackson. Oh, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
I don't think they're gonna look past and either I
don't think they're gonna look pasting. I'm just being you know,
I guess who I am. I know this game has
to be done, but there's one that's waiting on all
of us, and that's that Squat Championship. And with that
being said, whether it's at Jackson, Mississippi, or on the Hill,

(42:32):
or even if they have to go to Montgomery, the
Open Mic Broadcast Network coach Northern Brother Little brother Prince
will be there again to play by playing coach.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I can't say thank you enough.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
It's been a blast, but we still got some games
to call, and I'm like, coach, now we need to
be in the atl when the dust are settled. But
we'll get there when we get there. You can check
out the kickoff start at two o'clock. Listen, like to
have you there, coach.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
You got a number over under number you're looking for
this weekend in terms of what how many people going
to pay? Yeah? Yeah, man, if they don't have a
day like a high school day, I'm gonna say, oh man,
I want to say, hopefully it's more than four thousand.
We' senior Day. So look Southern fans showed up for

(43:24):
a one to nine team on Senior Day. And I
would almost throw a challenge out the preview the first
place team in the sweat where to try to at
least they may not get close to them, but have
a better look than what you know, have a halfway
full house and early and be actively involved in the game.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Okay, Okay, well you heard the challenge.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Okay, but the kickoff will be at two pm for
those who are in Alaska for those who can't be
within a four hour five hour drive, you can listen
live to the game on the open Mic Broadcast Network
YouTube channel as well as the website at obnradio dot com.

(44:10):
All you have to do is hit the listen live
link and you will hear Coach breaking down the exits
and the o's right here for us at the open
Mic Broadcast Network. The time has come where we must
exit stage left. But I do need to remind you
you can have a chance to win one thousand, seven
hundred and fifty or two hundred and fifty dollars in

(44:31):
gift cards. And all you have to do is help
support Panthers Athletics by purchasing a riffle ticket through the
peri of the Athletic Club four dollars. You can win
one thousand, seven hundred and fifty or two hundred and
fifty dollars. If you can't make it to the game,
you can call make a donation or buy a ticket online.

(44:53):
Call the text three four six seven nine six seven
six nine zero. With that we got an exit stage left.
I am the radio guy, Doctor Mike Prince. He is
the Guru Coach Highest Northern and until the next time.
You guys, be blessed and we'll see you on the

(45:15):
other side.
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