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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back everybody to what matters. We were updating everybody
in the first two hours of RAW about that accident
on two seventy and one sixty one. Avoid that area.
All lanes are shut down. It's near the Eastern area.
A tanker trunk overturn caught fire, eighty five hundred gallons
of gas sh up in like that, a smoke pile,
(00:22):
plumes of smoke. But the driver of that tanker truck
was taken the hospital in stable condition. So just telling
you to avoid that area. So I'm joined today in
the studio by Randy Cordocrack's my husband. We know, we
talk about him a lot on the air, and Mikayla
talks about her husband, Marcus. We just share so many
things that happen in our own personal, individual lives because.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of you, guys. We consider a lot of you, most
of you, if not all of you. Family.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You followed so much of our career through local TV
news and different things that we've done with our kids
and with each other, and with Randy's basketball coaching for
so many years. Well, guess what, Randy is going to
be a head coach for a high school basketball team
once again. Now you don't think this is a big deal.
(01:09):
I think it's a pretty big deal. He spent almost
twenty five years at Bishop Partley High School, became the
schools winning as basketball coach, and I saw him and
all the work that he divulged to this program, to
the players, all the scouting, all the notebooks that he
keep tracked. He kept track of all individual stats in
case they would play these teams down the future in
(01:29):
state tournament or whatever. And it was an incredible amount
of effort and energy, passion and love. Well, you weren't
a head coach the last couple of seasons because you
really wanted to watch came he play softball.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Absolutely, the best thing that happened was leaving Hartley to
not coach, although I did take a system varsity job
with Kevin Martin over at was the Little Central And
then I really enjoyed my time at Saint Charles with
Mike Ryan. They do a great job dom and boys.
Cameron's number one, and I just felt like I didn't
want I missed the first half of the season when
(02:05):
I was coach, and being the head coach can't miss
and I felt like I got cheated out of the whole.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Year, her freshman year, Yeah, her freshman year.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And so I didn't want to be that dad that
missed all the great moments. And so the last three years,
I don't think we've missed maybe two three games.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No exactly. And Cammy has appreciated that as well. How
many times do we talk about in life, be present,
be in the moment, Because when everything's said and done
and you look back at your life and you look
back at different things that happened along the way, do
you regret it or you wish you would have done more?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You wish you would have changed things up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I don't ever remember anyone saying, you know what,
I wish I would have spent more time at the office.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You never hear that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's always I wish I would have been there more
for my kids, or been present in the family and
in life in what matters. So you are going to
be a head coach once again. And you did a
great job.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I know how much you enjoyed being an assistant.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We're at Saint Charles, those those players, those coaches, an
entire program outstanding. The gym in itself, the gym at
Saint Charles is like a little college.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Gym, don't you think absolutely great environment with the DJ
and the gym and game night was always really good.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But it is different when you are an assistant coach
to a head coach. It's really different when you've been
a head coach for years, for decades. And I compared
to my sister Mollie when she sold her flowershop and
then she went to that same shop, flowershop that she's
had for all these years and tried to work for them.
But it's different when someone else is calling the shots.
(03:37):
It is different becoming an assistant after you've been years
and years and years as.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
A head coach.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It is because you get to set everything up around
you know, my schedule. But there was good and bad.
The good part was if we lost on the way home,
I didn't feel quite as bad, you know, I didn't
feel like driving off the road. But there's a lot
of advantages of each. Some people like assistant coach because
(04:02):
you don't have to deal with parents. You just show up.
You get the practice schedule. You know. I did a
lot of what the defense from rebounding, and I love
those two areas of the game. And it's nice just
to coach the paperwork and all the other stuff drives
me nuts, but it's part of the job.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So the funny thing is Randy and I were talking
about after Cammi's season was over. You know, we're gonna
have a lot of time on our hands, a lot
of time on our hands, and who are going to
cheer for?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Who are going to make noise at? You know, because
it's different.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
To being a coach's wife when your husband is a
head coach compared to an assistant coach. So you thought
about maybe putting your name back out there, maybe looking
for a head coaching job once Cammy was done playing.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Ball, right, I was looking for the right job because,
let's face it, in order to be successful nowadays, first,
administration is huge. Whoever you is in the administration, if
they're not going to back you, you can't be successful. And
I have a lot of coaches at coach for me
that want to be a head coach. And I talked
to him that's probably number one. And number two is
(05:06):
getting in a place where you can win. You know,
some programs are really challenged to win, you know, And
so administration's number one. And I so I was looking
around and then this presented itself, and I talked to
you about it, and I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
He wasn't sure because what he just said was he
really wanted to be at a program that he thought
could win. So this is what's different about where he
is going. And if you are a good human, if
you enjoy a great story, and if you always cheer
for the underdog, you're going to love this and we're
going to need you to cheer for this team.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Because Randy has.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Been working the last year at a school in the diocese.
It's in the Columbus diocese. You don't hear a lot
about it, but it is an unbelievable school for the
opportunities that it presents itself. It's called Christo Ray. But
it is not like a Bishop Watterson. It's not like
Bishop Prity or at Sales. It's a different school for
Saint Charles for that matter. Chrystal Ray is what Randy.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's a work school where you know, the students go
out in community and all the really all the big
businesses in town here and they work one day a week,
one Friday a week and get experienced that way. It's
also a college prep school, which is great, and it's
for the lower income, so not everybody can qualify to
go there.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, you have to make at least a certain amount
of money on the lower scale, so they don't have
a lot of money these families. In fact, I think
the neatest thing about Christa Ray when these students go
to these different businesses that are partners with the School
of Chrystal Ray. They work at these different businesses and
then they get paid, but that money goes to their tuition.
(06:48):
They're not really into athletics. They're really really more focused
on academics. They had a basketball team last year. The
basketball team started out with twenty players, ten on VARSA,
ten on JV. By the end of the year last year,
there were only five players left in the entire program.
So the head of the school knows Randy, and he's
(07:09):
watched Randy's career of high school coaching because he was
actually a parent at Waterson, right, So he saw you
and he's like, oh my gosh, I wonder if we
could get him to coach here.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And at first, Randy, you were.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Like, what, uh no, thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
In fact, you told your dad that you might take
this job, and your dad is the winningest coach in
the history of high school basketball, eight hundred ninety wins.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
What'd your dad tell.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You you're crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You're crazy?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But then he thought about it and I even told him,
And if you know me, I am a competitor. I
want my family members, no matter what they're playing, to win, win, win,
at all costs. But you know what, I looked at
the situation and I said, you know what, Randy, at
some point, it isn't just about wins and losses. It's
about having an impact on these young men. Only five
(07:57):
out of twenty stayed with the basketball team last year.
They only won one game last year, and that didn't
even count with the Ohio High School Athletic Association because
they won against a team that was homeschooled. So is
this going to be a challenge, Yes, But what's the
main reason why you're doing this? For Krista Ray and
for these young men?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
After talking with you and you threatened me to take
the job.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, but no, I just thought it would be a
good chance to give back to some kids that you
know they they are there obviously for academics in their faith, right,
it's a it's a Catholic school, but some of them
wanted to play basketball and be part of, you know,
a good program, or at least a program that is
run like every other program in Central how you know,
(08:45):
where you coach hard and you're there to menor them.
And so the menoring part really intrigued me because I've
always felt like, you know, in college and pro you're
there to win, hands down, that's how that's how it's
set up. But in high school, you know, you want
to win, but you're also there to teach life lessons
and make sure that the kids are doing things that
are going to help them down the road. And if
(09:06):
they're not, you know, sometimes you might have to sit
them and do things that parents and fans don't like.
So I thought this would be a good chance to
mentor some kids that really had a passion for basketball,
knowing it's not their focus, but to try to give
them an experience that maybe they haven't had as far
as you know, some of the things that other programs have.
(09:30):
Number one is I said, do you have reversibles, which
is a common thing in any program, and they're like no.
I was like, ah, start with.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Getting basketballs and getting reversibles, but can you imagine guys
if this team wins, it'd be like a great Disney movie.
It'd be like, you know, everyone's going to root for
this team. I mean, you've seen these You've had a
couple of different open gyms, you've had scrimmages.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
What's your what's your takeaway?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, there's there's a lot of work to be done. Uh.
You know, I always did it like this, and you know,
thank goodness that we always had a good relationship with
coach Tressel when he was at a house state and
more you than I kind of you know, snunk in
there so I can talk with him. But I've always
spent like this, you know. And I told all our
teams I don't really talk about wins and losses. Is
always I want to be the best team at the
(10:20):
end of the year. All right, we can be and
so that's success to me. Where you start and where
you're finished, you should be at better as a team.
And so when I talk to him, I didn't say, hey,
we got to win these many games to be successful.
I talked to him about a you know, your faith
parts number one and family. Number two is always academics,
and then three to me is basketball. And that's the
(10:43):
part where I want to keep them going. I want
to menor them on you know, being respectful to their family, faith,
and then also you know, make sure they get their grades.
You know, one hundred percent of the seniors this year
are going to college, so that's.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Pretty impressives outstanding. Talk more about this, but I want
you to know I'm proud of you and I'm glad
that you're doing this and you can talk all that,
but I'm minute to win it. And with the moment
that you help Kristo Ray get their first win next season,
we're gonna have a bill Old party. So that was
the news. I think it's big news because I know
your heart and I know it's always in the right place.
(11:19):
You're always putting everyone else first. So we're gonna get
all of our listeners in all of Central Ohio behind
Krystal Ray's basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What's your mascot Cougar? The Cougars Go Cougars.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, We're gonna take a break when we come back, though,
we have tickets to Kosai that we're giving away with
Doctor b Randy. I love you and I'm proud of you,
and I'm glad you're co hosting for the rest of
the time, if you want to call in and have
a comment to Randy or about Randy, you can always
do that at six' one four eight two one nine
Welcome back everybody to what matters. We were updating everybody
in the first two hours of RAW about that accident
on two seventy and one sixty one. Avoid that area.
All lanes are shut down. It's near the Eastern area.
A tanker trunk overturn caught fire, eighty five hundred gallons
of gas sh up in like that, a smoke pile,
(00:22):
plumes of smoke. But the driver of that tanker truck
was taken the hospital in stable condition. So just telling
you to avoid that area. So I'm joined today in
the studio by Randy Cordocrack's my husband. We know, we
talk about him a lot on the air, and Mikayla
talks about her husband, Marcus. We just share so many
things that happen in our own personal, individual lives because.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of you, guys. We consider a lot of you, most
of you, if not all of you. Family.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You followed so much of our career through local TV
news and different things that we've done with our kids
and with each other, and with Randy's basketball coaching for
so many years. Well, guess what, Randy is going to
be a head coach for a high school basketball team
once again. Now you don't think this is a big deal.
(01:09):
I think it's a pretty big deal. He spent almost
twenty five years at Bishop Partley High School, became the
schools winning as basketball coach, and I saw him and
all the work that he divulged to this program, to
the players, all the scouting, all the notebooks that he
keep tracked. He kept track of all individual stats in
case they would play these teams down the future in
(01:29):
state tournament or whatever. And it was an incredible amount
of effort and energy, passion and love. Well, you weren't
a head coach the last couple of seasons because you
really wanted to watch came he play softball.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Absolutely, the best thing that happened was leaving Hartley to
not coach, although I did take a system varsity job
with Kevin Martin over at was the Little Central And
then I really enjoyed my time at Saint Charles with
Mike Ryan. They do a great job dom and boys.
Cameron's number one, and I just felt like I didn't
want I missed the first half of the season when
(02:05):
I was coach, and being the head coach can't miss
and I felt like I got cheated out of the whole.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Year, her freshman year, Yeah, her freshman year.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And so I didn't want to be that dad that
missed all the great moments. And so the last three years,
I don't think we've missed maybe two three games.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No exactly. And Cammy has appreciated that as well. How
many times do we talk about in life, be present,
be in the moment, Because when everything's said and done
and you look back at your life and you look
back at different things that happened along the way, do
you regret it or you wish you would have done more?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You wish you would have changed things up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I don't ever remember anyone saying, you know what,
I wish I would have spent more time at the office.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You never hear that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's always I wish I would have been there more
for my kids, or been present in the family and
in life in what matters. So you are going to
be a head coach once again. And you did a
great job.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I know how much you enjoyed being an assistant.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We're at Saint Charles, those those players, those coaches, an
entire program outstanding. The gym in itself, the gym at
Saint Charles is like a little college.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Gym, don't you think absolutely great environment with the DJ
and the gym and game night was always really good.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But it is different when you are an assistant coach
to a head coach. It's really different when you've been
a head coach for years, for decades. And I compared
to my sister Mollie when she sold her flowershop and
then she went to that same shop, flowershop that she's
had for all these years and tried to work for them.
But it's different when someone else is calling the shots.
(03:37):
It is different becoming an assistant after you've been years
and years and years as.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
A head coach.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It is because you get to set everything up around
you know, my schedule. But there was good and bad.
The good part was if we lost on the way home,
I didn't feel quite as bad, you know, I didn't
feel like driving off the road. But there's a lot
of advantages of each. Some people like assistant coach because
(04:02):
you don't have to deal with parents. You just show up.
You get the practice schedule. You know. I did a
lot of what the defense from rebounding, and I love
those two areas of the game. And it's nice just
to coach the paperwork and all the other stuff drives
me nuts, but it's part of the job.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So the funny thing is Randy and I were talking
about after Cammi's season was over. You know, we're gonna
have a lot of time on our hands, a lot
of time on our hands, and who are going to
cheer for?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Who are going to make noise at? You know, because
it's different.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
To being a coach's wife when your husband is a
head coach compared to an assistant coach. So you thought
about maybe putting your name back out there, maybe looking
for a head coaching job once Cammy was done playing.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Ball, right, I was looking for the right job because,
let's face it, in order to be successful nowadays, first,
administration is huge. Whoever you is in the administration, if
they're not going to back you, you can't be successful. And
I have a lot of coaches at coach for me
that want to be a head coach. And I talked
to him that's probably number one. And number two is
(05:06):
getting in a place where you can win. You know,
some programs are really challenged to win, you know, And
so administration's number one. And I so I was looking
around and then this presented itself, and I talked to
you about it, and I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
He wasn't sure because what he just said was he
really wanted to be at a program that he thought
could win. So this is what's different about where he
is going. And if you are a good human, if
you enjoy a great story, and if you always cheer
for the underdog, you're going to love this and we're
going to need you to cheer for this team.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Because Randy has.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Been working the last year at a school in the diocese.
It's in the Columbus diocese. You don't hear a lot
about it, but it is an unbelievable school for the
opportunities that it presents itself. It's called Christo Ray. But
it is not like a Bishop Watterson. It's not like
Bishop Prity or at Sales. It's a different school for
Saint Charles for that matter. Chrystal Ray is what Randy.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's a work school where you know, the students go
out in community and all the really all the big
businesses in town here and they work one day a week,
one Friday a week and get experienced that way. It's
also a college prep school, which is great, and it's
for the lower income, so not everybody can qualify to
go there.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, you have to make at least a certain amount
of money on the lower scale, so they don't have
a lot of money these families. In fact, I think
the neatest thing about Christa Ray when these students go
to these different businesses that are partners with the School
of Chrystal Ray. They work at these different businesses and
then they get paid, but that money goes to their tuition.
(06:48):
They're not really into athletics. They're really really more focused
on academics. They had a basketball team last year. The
basketball team started out with twenty players, ten on VARSA,
ten on JV. By the end of the year last year,
there were only five players left in the entire program.
So the head of the school knows Randy, and he's
(07:09):
watched Randy's career of high school coaching because he was
actually a parent at Waterson, right, So he saw you
and he's like, oh my gosh, I wonder if we
could get him to coach here.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And at first, Randy, you were.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Like, what, uh no, thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
In fact, you told your dad that you might take
this job, and your dad is the winningest coach in
the history of high school basketball, eight hundred ninety wins.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
What'd your dad tell.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You you're crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You're crazy?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But then he thought about it and I even told him,
And if you know me, I am a competitor. I
want my family members, no matter what they're playing, to win, win, win,
at all costs. But you know what, I looked at
the situation and I said, you know what, Randy, at
some point, it isn't just about wins and losses. It's
about having an impact on these young men. Only five
(07:57):
out of twenty stayed with the basketball team last year.
They only won one game last year, and that didn't
even count with the Ohio High School Athletic Association because
they won against a team that was homeschooled. So is
this going to be a challenge, Yes, But what's the
main reason why you're doing this? For Krista Ray and
for these young men?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
After talking with you and you threatened me to take
the job.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, but no, I just thought it would be a
good chance to give back to some kids that you
know they they are there obviously for academics in their faith, right,
it's a it's a Catholic school, but some of them
wanted to play basketball and be part of, you know,
a good program, or at least a program that is
run like every other program in Central how you know,
(08:45):
where you coach hard and you're there to menor them.
And so the menoring part really intrigued me because I've
always felt like, you know, in college and pro you're
there to win, hands down, that's how that's how it's
set up. But in high school, you know, you want
to win, but you're also there to teach life lessons
and make sure that the kids are doing things that
are going to help them down the road. And if
(09:06):
they're not, you know, sometimes you might have to sit
them and do things that parents and fans don't like.
So I thought this would be a good chance to
mentor some kids that really had a passion for basketball,
knowing it's not their focus, but to try to give
them an experience that maybe they haven't had as far
as you know, some of the things that other programs have.
(09:30):
Number one is I said, do you have reversibles, which
is a common thing in any program, and they're like no.
I was like, ah, start with.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Getting basketballs and getting reversibles, but can you imagine guys
if this team wins, it'd be like a great Disney movie.
It'd be like, you know, everyone's going to root for
this team. I mean, you've seen these You've had a
couple of different open gyms, you've had scrimmages.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
What's your what's your takeaway?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, there's there's a lot of work to be done. Uh.
You know, I always did it like this, and you know,
thank goodness that we always had a good relationship with
coach Tressel when he was at a house state and
more you than I kind of you know, snunk in
there so I can talk with him. But I've always
spent like this, you know. And I told all our
teams I don't really talk about wins and losses. Is
always I want to be the best team at the
(10:20):
end of the year. All right, we can be and
so that's success to me. Where you start and where
you're finished, you should be at better as a team.
And so when I talk to him, I didn't say, hey,
we got to win these many games to be successful.
I talked to him about a you know, your faith
parts number one and family. Number two is always academics,
and then three to me is basketball. And that's the
(10:43):
part where I want to keep them going. I want
to menor them on you know, being respectful to their family, faith,
and then also you know, make sure they get their grades.
You know, one hundred percent of the seniors this year
are going to college, so that's.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Pretty impressives outstanding. Talk more about this, but I want
you to know I'm proud of you and I'm glad
that you're doing this and you can talk all that,
but I'm minute to win it. And with the moment
that you help Kristo Ray get their first win next season,
we're gonna have a bill Old party. So that was
the news. I think it's big news because I know
your heart and I know it's always in the right place.
(11:19):
You're always putting everyone else first. So we're gonna get
all of our listeners in all of Central Ohio behind
Krystal Ray's basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What's your mascot Cougar? The Cougars Go Cougars.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, We're gonna take a break when we come back, though,
we have tickets to Kosai that we're giving away with
Doctor b Randy. I love you and I'm proud of you,
and I'm glad you're co hosting for the rest of
the time, if you want to call in and have
a comment to Randy or about Randy, you can always
do that at six' one four eight two one nine
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