June 25, 2025 • 53 mins
Very special Big Moe Podcast, this week Big Moe Barrett and special guest host Mary Fischer talk about all the summer goings on at campus.
Then..... it's almost football season. Barrett talks to head coach Bert Bathiany
Then..... it's almost football season. Barrett talks to head coach Bert Bathiany
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
WMO and the MOLA Broadcasting Network probably was that The
Big Mo Podcast. The Big Mo Podcast is brought to
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And now your host's Andi Nagel and Big Mo Barrett.
It's the Big Mo Podcast. And this one is special,
(00:22):
very special, because my wing I don't want to say
wing man, my wing lady is in the studio with me,
Mary Fisher, co hosting the beginning of the Big Mo Podcast. Mary,
Welcome to the Big Show.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Thanks Barrett. It's fun being here. I was thinking about this.
You know, you and I we see each other almost
every day, and I think a lot of people don't
realize in the summer. I think they think that things
are quiet at Molar and nothing's going on, And look
(00:58):
at what's going on around here.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is a little bit of what we call Craig
Cray on campus. Now, if you if you've pulled up
for any number of camps the last few weeks, you
may not have noticed it, noticed it other than seeing
a million kids running around campus. This week's a little
bit different though, because from a campus facility upgrade standpoint,
depending on the time of day you come on campus.
(01:20):
You might use that exit, but not that entrance, or
that entrance, not that exit. You can park in the
back but not talk about anything going on.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's crazy, but good crazy, right, So we are completely
redoing the whole parking lot. And I don't really say we,
not you, well, not me. I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm watching Crystal Clear on that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I've been so impressed at the whole process. Very fast.
But they they've torn up the old asphalt, they you know,
even to everything out. They've patched the holes. You know,
with all the construction that we've had over the years,
it has taken a beating. So it is looking phenomenal.
(02:01):
And Mike Wagner, you know, our facility director here, he
said it would just be kind of the icing on
the cake of the improvement of the campus. And it
really looks great.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I got to teach that dude how to wear shorts.
It's about one hundred and ten degrees out. He's out
there in jeans and he mayn't be in a long
sleeve shirt. He's not all he's not right upstairs, can you.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And can you imagine? And so I've been probably watching
a little too much the process, but those guys have
been working. They get here at seven, they stay emmertime.
They know that we have all these camps going on.
They're like under pressure to get this project done. I thought, perhaps, Barrett,
we would and be able to leave Molar yesterday. Yes,
(02:42):
I know, but it's looking great.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And can you think of a I'm not a blacktop guy.
I'm not a parking lot asphalt guy. But if I was,
I probably wanted to pick this week. If I had
fifty two weeks to pick out of weather wise, this
would not be the week I would have beick. But
they had no other options.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They had no other options, and I think we sort
of dictated that because next week we're light due to
the holiday on camps, but then the week after we
are in.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Full four, locked and loaded.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So I don't know, Barret. I'm sure you have because
you hosted a very very successful camp. You had the
broadcasting camp.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We talked about it last week.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It was awesome, But we will have I think it's
close to two thousand young people here on campus this
summer for camps.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Think about that, two thousand future men of MUEL are
walking this campus. And can you remember, Hey, you're a female, obviously,
so it might be a little bit different. But can
you imagine being a young boy with dreams of someday
you know, you see the Miles mcbrides, and of course
in Matt Ponitowski's now or the Jackson Hayes who had
(03:53):
his camp here this week as well, or Jordan marsh
or Carson Hobbs or you know, from an athletic standpoint,
talking about it, right, and and then to know that
those guys went here, Sam Hubbard and now as a
fourth or fifth grader, you're walking in the same hall
as you're you're playing basketball in the same court that
these dudes played, or you're on the football field like
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and then they come to camp here and spent like
that's like a dream come true. And I've heard so
many parents say that their favorite part of their childs
their son's summer, not helpinghead, not cest the key. It
was the Moller camp. And it started with coach Jelotti
and and and of course the goat Jerry Faust talking
(04:36):
and you know the story when they were on I
seventy four doing concrete work one day and they're like,
why don't we hold a camp? Well, now every school
has camps, but it's started by coach by Jigs and
coach Foust started it all and it's award winning almost gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And you know, anybody who goes to camp here goes
and somehow has communication with Kate George, who runs all
of the camps. But looking at and.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I try to talk about organized chaos and she executes
it at such a high.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Level and with a joyful spirit. That's that's what's important.
But you know, I try to stop in at all
the camps and whether it's you know, we had chemistry camp.
That's that first week I thought, oh my gosh, the
kids who are getting up or let me go learn
more about chemistry, But there were kids there that's that's
their thing. I think that's what's impressed me is there
(05:29):
is something for everyone, no doubt. Lego Camp. We had robotics,
you're broadcasting. We had English study skills. I know, we've
got the little guys coming in two weeks the fundamentals.
That'll be fun. And then you can't help it go
into you know, Carl Kramer, Tim Held's or Coach Bert's
(05:52):
camps and there I'm so impressed with our students because
they they are the coaches so to speak. Of the
smaller teams. And I don't even think our guys get
it how those little kids look up to.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Them, For sure they don't. And I think another thing
that I've really just been in awe of is the
use of the new spaces that we have here. I
saw last week, right, I think it was a robotics
class in the atrium on the ground they had they
had painters tape all taped out, and they're creating these robots.
And these kids are literally with our menimolar currently at school,
(06:30):
on their knees creating these robots and using the beautiful
space that is the atrium of the Burns Innovation of
and and how these new spaces are being acclimated and
used intentionally is unbelievable. It's beautiful it is.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I think I forget what camp that was, but
they were flying objects off that top staircase to see
how far they could could get.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What little boy doesn't love to do that, right.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I know specifically the robotics camp instructor he was,
as Kate said, practically you know, skipping through the atrim
because he says he never gets to do this camp
in that kind of environment. And I think I mean,
we have already that innovation hub was just dedicated in February,
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But I mean it is, it is.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We have gotten our money's worth out of the exactly.
And now as if it's just you know, everybody says,
is this a slow time of year for you? That's
kind of a kind of for me personally, it's my
reset time, and I think for all of us, but
it's really not either because we have a major golf
(07:44):
outing coming up on Friday, one hundred and fifty some alumni, benefactors,
supporters of Moler playing golf at Shaker Run. That's always
one of your favorite events of the year, it is.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And we're always hot, aren't we. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Matter fifty degrees out, We're hot.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No bear. We love. We love to get in that
cart and go visit everybody I know, Andy Nagel and
the team, the whole team, Betsy Morgan and Louise Holker
have all worked really hard on this golf outing and
what I love too is and I'm so proud of
our team. It's about the experience for like you said,
(08:21):
our lums, our friends of Moeller, our supporters, and they
have worked really hard to make sure that this Friday.
It will be a little steamy, but we've done some
things to mitigate that a little.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You and I are going to have a cooler of ice. Yes,
thanks to Joe Rupert from Rupert Heegan Air, we have
cooling towels and you and I will be going to
refresh the cooling towels throughout the day. So it's going
to be fun. It'll be fun, but it is intentional
of making sure the experience for our guys is a plus,
absolutely a plus experience, first class. Mary, we got some
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stuff to talk about. We're going to be talking Sgo.
You've seen it, you've heard it, but maybe you are
still scratching your head, going, what in the world is this? Sgo?
If I can understand it, anybody I can understand anybody
can understand it. Correct It's simple. It's just basically redirecting
your money to Molar High School. You have to pay
(09:16):
pay anyways. It's a way to help Molar High School
out cost you virtually nothing. So we'll talk about that
when we come back from a break. We're going to
take a dip in the pool up on the roof
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Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's in their name, noting a big Mo podcast Big
Mo beired along with Mary Fisher. Mary, when's the last
time we went on a trip together?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't know, but we need to Well, we've got.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I think it was Cesa Key or not Sara Soa.
You and I went on one right. I did not
go to Columbus right, and you were not on Denver correct.
So we need to make it happening. And what are
some of those plans coming up?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We'd bring it up so.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I know, you know, we had our planning session and
for those who don't know, our advancement team gets together
usually May early June and we sort of plot out
the upcoming year. And I know we want to do
a couple of different things, and I think, I don't
know why. I can't remember what these were.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's that time of year, Mary Fisher. But we have
a bunch of different events. You know, we're thinking about Texas, yes,
Chicago next year as well, and I think I haven't
I've heard rumors that Jason might just be handling a
couple of one offs in Florida. I haven't heard exactly
how that's going to play out, but we will definitely
be getting out and establishing some new chapters as well
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this year. But it's always a fun opportunity for us.
And we've said it almost a nauseum on this broadcast
of taking Mollar out to the people because not everybody
can come to Molar. Then we've had some great wins
that you know, my favorite one out in Denver and
what Jeff Dornof's done out.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
There, and they're amazing, they're they're.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Incredible, and that the community, they keep the communication going,
you know what I mean, And that's what makes it special.
But it's a lot of work, it's a lot of sacrifice.
We're always looking for supporters in these regions, in these
areas to help offset the cost that Mollar takes from
it because it is expensive to put these things on.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But they are now and around the football season we'll
be up in Cleveland and Nashville. And Nashville so those
two cities you know, will be there for the game.
But we're gonna at least try to get together with
our alums in those areas. And and you forgot Ironton
and Ironton, we have a.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Big Mollar alumni base and Ironton we do now Mollar family.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They're not going to say they didn't go to part
of the Molar family.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
If you haven't taking a trip to Ironton. I think
it's week two or three. I can't remember exactly which
one on the top of my head. We played Mount
Carmel out of Chicago. By all accounts, that may be
the most talented football team that Moller will play this
season and maybe the last couple of season. They got
some dudes. But what a great opportunity to really engage
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that Mollar experience. It's a beautiful drive that time of
year down to southeast Ohio to Ironton, the River City.
The people down there roll out the blue and gold carpet.
They line the streets with Molar flags because we're not
playing them right, so the first year was a little
bit different, but it's a great experience. Have you been
down there yet?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I have not, so that is on my your bucket list,
it is.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's awesome. But yeah, it's a great time. So we're
gonna get out and about if you can contact myself,
Mary Fisher and dian Angelo if you'd like to, if
you're in any one of these cities and want to
support Molar and our opportunity to bring the flag out
to you. We would love to chat Mary Fisher, Are
you ready to talk a little? Sgo? I answer a
(14:04):
good question right out of the gate, is what in
the world does SGEO stand for?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I know, and it's a question we get all the time,
Barrett Sgo. I mean, it stands for Scholarship Granting Organization.
But you know what does that mean? And what it
means is basically as simple as it gets. You can
defer the money that you would pay to the state
of Ohio, so for us, it's only in the state
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of Ohio. And take that money that you would pay
in taxes and give it to Molar High.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I basically redirect it. You're restating the state. It comes
back to Molar.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
High School, right And I think for me at the beginning,
and I think a lot of people felt this way.
Either it was either a little too good to be
true or I must be missing something. Is it that easy?
Or even in total layman, you know, what is the
difference between like a tax credit and a tax deduction?
(15:04):
So you know, in my head, I know that when
you make a donation to any nonprofit, you get a
tax deduction, and you know you're either you're a tax
person does that for you, or when you file your taxes,
I would have to say, Bill and I's taxes are
fairly simple, so we do that on our own. But
(15:26):
a tax credit is totally different, and I don't think
we might and might say wait, it's Bill, and I
had ever experienced a tax credit before, where virtually it's
saying this amount of money that you would pay to
Ohio in taxes, you don't have to pay that, and
in this case, you redirect it to Mole or high school.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So it's money. For people out there listening, it's money
you would you would have to separate with one way
or the other. But by doing this sgu and we'll
talk about how you do it. It's money. It's got
to go to the state or it's got to go
to Molar. So it's not like it's not saying, well,
I'd like to keep it, You're not going to keep it.
(16:08):
It's going somewhere. You're just redirecting it to Molar high school.
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It is, right, it is, and you know interesting where
I think we're going into year four.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Or five already already it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I know. And the first year it started late in
that tax year, so we got it out a little bit,
but I will tell you every year we have doubled
the amount of money that's coming to Molar. So I
have really been thinking, Barrett. I'm like, Wow, if every
one of our supporters, whether it's a lum or a
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past parent, could be family members, whatever that's associated with
Molar and who supports Molar and believes in our mission, right,
if every one of those people who live in Ohio
and pay Ohio taxes would take advantage of this program,
we would raise millions of dollars easy money.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And people now are going to ask, well, they don't
need money. They just got that brand new innovation. Huh,
they got all this other stuff, which is the biggest
misnomer there is. Right, So walk through why the why
somebody would want to do this? Why somebody Maybe there's
people that firmly believe in every a lot of people
who firmly believe in the mission of Molar High School.
(17:29):
They're all in. They're doing this, no questions asked. Let's
do it. What about that guy that's sitting in the
weeds that goes, why should I do this? I see
all the stuff they're doing there articulate why that guy
really should we prayerfully can ask and consider doing this
for Molar High School? Why what's the why?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And I think, Barrett, because you and I see it
every day, it is so crystal clear to us, right,
Molar is an extraordinary school. And so in order to
us to attract extraordinary teachers in order for us to
attract the families and the students that we do, we
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need to do our best, and we excel in every
all the pillars. Right, we talk about athletics, but we
talk about academics. We talk obviously we're a faith school
and that's that's our number one mission there. But the
cost of education, you know, continues to go up. That
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that's not going to change, that's not going to draw
to to get any cheaper. That's going to continue to raise.
As we want to attract the very best teachers here
in coaches. So because of that, our tuition continues to raise.
And I will tell you, Barrett, every you know we
usually start.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And we're not the only institution.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I mean, this is across the country education. That's the
cost of educating and what an investment that is. But
because of that, we want to make sure the bottom
line is that any young man that can come to
Molar High School can come here and we can work together.
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And you and I both say this to families like
trust the process. If that young man wants to be here,
we're going to work really hard. So although I mean
not although I mean our donors have been incredibly generous,
generous with the annual fund, generous with our capital campaign,
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but our families still need that tuition assistance. About over
I would say seventy I think last year's figures close
to seventy seven percent of our students, So that's over
two thirds of our students receive some form of tuition assistance.
And that means the family that has four students, they're
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they're trying to get or Catholic education. They believe in
Catholic education. They've got kids at different parishes all the
way from you know, a young man at Corville Catholic
who wants to be here because his you know, the
Little Buddies program, He's been mentored by a mole or
student and he wants to be here. To to everybody
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across the board who wants this kind of education. And
then we see it bart right, we see what the
teachers do in the classrooms. We see what the coaches
do on the fields, and the young men that we
are helping, partnering with their parents and and everybody else
to raise these guys, to develop their skills, to give
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them the advantage to to go on to college, to
be leaders in the community, to make good decisions, to
to be those people who you know. Quite frankly, I
look at it as an investment because I hope they
take care of me. Right. They're going to be the leaders.
They're going to be the leaders of the country, you know,
and our young men here are so talented.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
The big question that people are probably asking, what do
I have to do? How easy is it? Because it's
like in anything, you go to a website and then
it takes you to another link, and it takes you
to another link, and you're like, you know what, this
is ridiculous, But it's not the case. This is really easy.
Talk about it.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is very easy. So basically you can make this donation.
It's not too early now too late, I mean too well,
it's not too early now to think about sure the
next tax season, so the sgo. You can go to
our website right www dot Mouller dot org. You can
call me, you can talk to your tax consultant if
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that's the way you go as well. They are fully
aware of this program. And basically you can give by check,
you can do it by credit cards. But you will
go ahead and in there are limits, so you can
give up to seven hundred and fifty dollars. You can
give for our younger alums right who I don't know
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what their tax liability is to Ohio. You could give
one hundred dollars. You could give three hundred. The max
is seven hundred and fifty. If you file singly, if
you file joint with someone, it's fifteen hundred dollars, and
you give that amount, you go on. You get a receipt.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I got the receipt, So where should they go? Right?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And then it says sgo right on either ways to
give on the support page or it's right at the
top of our website.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Click that link and you'll be off running, and.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You'll be off and running. You get a receipt. And
I think this is my biggest question I've had. You
get a receipt, You hold on to that receipt when
you file your taxes. There is a line item for
that SGO. Your tax consultant will know what to do
and it will come right off what you owe to
the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It is so think about I want to dream big
this year, Barrett, last year, and we're ending it right
our fiscal year so to speak. We raise, thanks to
the generosity, about two hundred almost two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars just from the SGO.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
What if? What if going? What if we could hit
a million dollars next year? I mean that, that's that's
what I'm sure. It's game changer game.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So your game changer type numbers. Yep, very cool. Mary.
It's easy. Just go to www dot Bowler dot org,
click the hyperlink at the top of the page. You
will be off and running. Of course, you can get
a hold of Mary Fisher twenty four to seven by
utilizing her email and Fisher fis c h e are
at Moeller dot org. Mary, do you have any other
(24:04):
questions for me?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't, but I love working with you, Barrett, and
we have kind of an exciting year coming up. We've
got so much fun. Can't wait for the stag the
football season all the sports It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's a good little teas there. The Sports Stag coming
up on September twenty fifth. You can also get secure
your tickets for that, I think at Moore dot org,
which is a hyperlink for the SGO and the Sports
Stag I believe, so you can hit both of those
as well. Do you have anything else you want to add?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I just want everybody to have a fun and great summer.
It's going to come visit us.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's a nice segue. The next two podcasts or what
we do every year, the Best of. Joe strekkerd does
a great job putting together the best of the Big
mo podcast. So this will be your last updated b
MP before we kind of hit the pause button for
two weeks, do the best of, and then we'll come
back locked in low. But it's time for us to
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take a little Andy Nagel and I take a little
c yes, so we can get ready for a long,
deep fall season here at Moller High School. It's going
to be a lot of fun. Mary, thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Absolutely we got pleasure.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We got more in depth team coverage. When we come
back from a break, I want to thank Mary Fisher
for joining us talking a little sgo Little Cameo on
the Big Mill Podcast. This will be our largest listened
podcast ever.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I don't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Can you sing a little James Taylor? You went to
the James Taylor concert the other night? Can you maybe
play a little James Taylor as we go to a break? Mary?
Do you have that in your bailliwick?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I don't. There's a reason he's in concerts and on
him not.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You had pretty good seats though, we.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Had excellent seats and he was awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well, because you can't, I'll go to a break with
a little James Taylor, Carolina. In my mind, it's the
Big Mo Podcast, Mary Fisher, Big Mo Barent will be
back after this short break on the best coverage of
Molar High School. It's a Big bow podcast on w
MOOE and the Bowler Broadcasting Network.
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Speaker 1 (27:47):
I can tell you there's more than your wife and mom.
In fact, the basketball all three shows, Tim's and Cks
and yours are very very well listened to. I promise
you that they really are. And you win, you get
more listeners. So last year you had a lot of listeners.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I found out Nick Sharp listens to it, or DC
listens to it every day on the way to the
game to fire him up. So I guess, I don't know.
I guess I like I kick them off somehow.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, that you know that you can kind of like
talk to him.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I found that out. Uh, we do all these player
info sheets during the summer just to get to know
each other. But our coaches do it and it's a
lot of energy. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So cool.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
The players get to just yell out questions and get
to know them. Man. I found out that if he
listens to that on the way to games that I
fire him up.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I guess that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's pretty good. So our defense has been really we
have three in my mind, that's all he listens, that's all, that's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
All that matters. You have an ice bag on your
left shoulder, so part of me thinks he's got a
serious injury. Part of me thinks he's showing off a
little bit because he's coming in. You got you got
short sleeve shirt on, you just got done putting in
a lift in. You got JM who hooked you up
with a bag of IY what you do to your shoulder?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I'm thirty eight and I still think I'm twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Thank you. I can. At some point I said to
you the other day, do you ever do There's no
such thing as leg day. When you turn fifty, you
don't do arms or legs. Yeah, so that's how it works.
So you're on the way there. I'm telling you. It
doesn't get easier, all right, Coach b Big summer obviously
has been going on already. I want to ask you
out of the game before we kind of talk about
(29:27):
some things you have coming up. I've that and I'm
not going to go back to the loss, but I
do want to start by asking you. You got a
taste in Canton of what that big time game feels like.
And I think from my front row seat watching this
football team in the off season, starting in the winter
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when I was driving my own son in here, when
it was twenty below zero. That did something that lit
a match that I've never seen a football team put
the work in as much as you guys have put
the work in this offseason. Now, how that plays out,
we'll find out. But I have never seen a football
team as locked in as you guys have been in
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the offseason. Talk to me about the psychological component to
that that game and that match that was lit.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's it's funny you say that, because I feel the
same thing. But it's interesting we don't talk about it,
you know what I mean, Like we touch on it
here and there, but because that was last year's team
and this will be a new team, but it's in
the back of our minds at all times. Like if
you said I don't go a day without thinking about that,
be live, Like I think about that day every single
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day I wake up and every single time I go
to bed. And I think our players are the same way, right,
Like they got a taste and it wasn't a good
taste at the end of the day, And you know,
I think they're motivated and they're putting in the work
to get back there and hopefully rewrite the outcome.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You have new dudes, you know, the old it's not
the x's and e's, it's the Jimmy's and the jos.
And you have new Jimmies and Joe's that are stepping in.
But the warrant has been served to the guys, the
underclassmen what the expectation of Molar football is. And you're
seeing that play out now and the offseason. New guys
are stepping up, you know, kind of filling into those roles.
(31:18):
It's been impressive to watch.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Well. I think there's two things when you said that
that popped into my mind. That it is all about
Jimmies and Jones. It's all about players, hands down like that.
That's that's the magic sauce. It's having good players and
you have a good football team. But the one thing
is it's still Moler. So no matter what, whenever you
go into a stadium and you're wearing that M shield,
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you're gonna get that team's best. And we've always thought that,
We've always knew that, but I think after last year
it hit you in the face even more. Whatever you
see on film, that's not the team you're playing. They're
gonna up their level of play, They're gonna up their
level of executution no matter what, because of you have
(32:03):
a target on your back, right, so you're gonna get
everyone's best shot. Everyone's gonna raise their level of ability
whatever you want to call it, for that game, and
that kind of what's interesting is that I heard coach
Saban talking about that when they were he was talking
about the national championship in college football with the same
thing is, no matter what whatever level you're playing at,
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when you start getting to the end of the season,
you got to assume that that team are gonna plays
the best team you've ever played in your entire life.
And you have to assume that when whatever opponent you have,
whatever the matchup is, that person is going to be
the best competition you've ever faced to that point in
your life at And that's kind of been our message
to our players is we have to prepare like we're
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playing against someone's best every single week. So to be
able to raise that level of ability, we got to
just focus on ourselves and keep it and if we
keep maximizing what we're able to do, we'll be more
prepared for that moment. I don't know if that makes sense,
but you know what I mean, Like, whenever you step
on the field, that's what you're gonna get. So take
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all the preconceived notions, whatever you hear from social media,
the news, your aunt, your uncle, your mom or dad,
whatever you see on film, like flush that down the toilet,
and whenever you play a game, you're gonna get someone's best.
And that's going to happen this next year. I thought
we had a really tough schedule last year. It's even
harder this year. I mean, we're playing five teams. We're
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playing teams from five different states. We added three state champions,
so the state champ from Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You guys don't shine away from that, no.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Okay, it's like it. They like it, and I think
it prepares you for the playoffs. It prepares you for
gCO football. I mean, you come out the game and
you play Princeton, right, and no matter what, that game
is going to be full of energy and full of excitement.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I ask a question because I really want to know.
It's not that I'm dinging anything. Do you have a concern, though,
by playing that physical type football at a high level
that you might get dinged up, you might be not
as fresh as you enter that the throes of that
gCO South schedule. Is that play into your mindset when
you're creating a schedule or is it no, we want
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we want to play the best teams to get us
ready for the postseason period.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah. I think it's you worry about injury. Yeah, you
worry about getting danged without question, right, Like there can
be a like a mental fatigue, I would, but you
can get you anytime, right, Like we can get hurt.
You know, I go on a golf trip and swaylf Like,
you can just get hurt at any point in time.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So I just never talk about Tom Gregory.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yeah. So I never like let that factor in because
at the end of the day, I want to get
ten games for our team, and that's the most important thing.
I do think it does prepare us for the playoffs
and and our guys by end of the fact that
they play a tough schedule, they're playing against the best
and it helps with their recruitment as well. So you know,
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that's the biggest thing. And that's what I sell to
our guys is like, hey, you're gonna go play say
next and you're you're gonna put film on your highlight
tape and if it shows you making these plays against
Saint x Elder Lasal like the Ohio States, the Michigan's
and Notre Dame, they know you're playing against real people,
like good players, like players that they're recruiting, and that's
a big deal. And even when I was in college football,
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we would say the same thing, right, we would watch
a kid from you know, School A, and they're playing
School B, and you question the competition and you question
how good they are, you question the level of coaching
that they're get that they're getting. But when when they
play our schedule and they put those those clips on
their highlight tape, that helps in their recruitment process because
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they're going against real guys who are really talented, they're
on good football teams. It's a heightened environment, and they're
going against a team that's been really well coached too,
so they're more prepared for that that next level, in
my opinion.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
So it fun seeing the young guys, the freshmen that
are now sophomores, because we all talked about I have
a son who's a freshman in that class, and I
knew how talented they were coming in, but now to
see but I've seen a lot of talented freshman teams
that don't translate because they don't buy in. They don't
believe that this group. This freshman now sophomores. You maybe
(36:20):
didn't see him as much because they were on a
freshman team. But now those there's some dudes there, dudes.
I can't remember the number of sophomore number one. I
didn't think sophomores could get offers for the longest time,
but now you're seeing sophomores get offer rising sophomores. To
see those guys mature and and this is a young
team in some spots, those guys are going to get
opportunities on it. Is that rewarding as a coach to
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see those guys at a young age step into a
big light.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, that's my favorite part about this level of coaching
is the developmental aspect because I put a big premium
on our weight room. That's the most important thing that
we do.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
At True That's true Love.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yeah, Yeah, that's it. And that's why we've put such
an emphasis in hiring a great strength coach and coach
Gray who is a big part of that. And our
coaches are a big part of that too, Like they're
considered strength coaches as well. So during the summer when
our guys are lifting, the rest of our staff isn't
in the in the staff from watching film. They're in
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the weight room lifting with them. Like our linebacker coaches
lifting with his linebackers. Our dB coaches lifting with the
dbs like they're good. They do. They love that that
the competent. I mean, hell, our president came down and
deadlift with Christian at Harris right like, So that's the
environment that way I have.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I like to remind Jason, and he got destroyed by
a rising senior. He doesn't admit that though that was fun.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
I know they loved it. I know they loved it,
and and I know Christian loved it as well, and
our players, but you gods, I know it's it's leaking
all over your your your carpet out like that. It's
all good, but that I think that environment is huge.
But you get to see the growth and development of
this freshmen to be sophomores now, and there are going
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to be a lot of players in that class that
and and in the class ahead of them too. So
I don't want to just like outlaw them, but I
think We've been able to build consecutive classes back to
back where they compliment each other really well. And the
coolest thing is that they're buying into everything. So on
Thursdays when we do our Crusader Olympics such as like
our team building at your Safe to make and this
(38:28):
and and it's just competition. That's one of our core
values is to compete, and we bring in all our
core values together on that day. Coaches are in charge
of a team. Coach Gray and I come up with
these competitions that the guys get to do, and.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Some of them football.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
No, it's team building and it's competition, but it just
executes our core values. But you know, Chris takes pictures
of all the guys and you see the joy and
the excitements and yeah, the raw emotion. And you know,
you look back and reflect as a staff and look
at those pictures that man like they're becoming a team
right now, and you get to see it before her
very eyes especially, and then we I think it was
(39:09):
last Thursday. I just was searching through all my Mike
sending them to some of the guys and they're having
a blast. And that's at the end of the week,
and it's a hard week. But to stack those days
and build those days and then end the week on
the up swing, I think is huge instead of tapering down.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
So you know what I mean, Yeah, for sure there
and I'll say this and then we'll get to talk
about some of the things coming up. I talked to
a junior rising junior who admittedly, I think people think
that I know every single person in this school. I
didn't know this young man was. I would just say, hey,
it was a Friday, or no Thursday, afternoon Thursday. Guys
don't practice on Friday. I said it was hot, steamy,
(39:51):
And I looked at him and I said, man, I
bet you're excited to kind of check in for the
week and enjoy a weekend at the pool. And he
looked at me with a serious face and said, big moo, Barrett,
I can't wait for Monday. I want to get back here.
He had. It kind of took me back a little
bit because if it's me, I'm like looking to go
to the pool. Like now, he wanted more of it.
He wanted to get and that spoke a lot to me,
(40:13):
Like to see, now, he's one guy, but he desired
more so you're you got the Mojoe roll in the
right direction. It feels like, was there anything that happened
at the end of that game in Canton that bothered
you to the point that you really you don't have
to talk directly to it, but there's things in life
(40:35):
that that are catalysts and it can be turned into
something very positive and and it really hits your wagon too,
it because we're all motivated by something, right, winning. Of course,
we're motivated by winning, getting better every day one percent
better than the day yesterday. But I kind of love
what has happened? Are you okay talking a little bit
about that.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I can touch on it, but I'm not going to
go in the great detail. At the right time, I
will and we can bring it back up. But there
is kind of like a battle cry that we have
and a symbolic, symbolic type deal that we're focused on,
and that kind of captures I think the raw emotion
of how that season ended, and I think that's how
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we we go back and we remember the past and
kind of like not dwell on it, but it's a
in the back of your head. It's a reminder. I
love it, you know what I mean? So that's that's
kind of where we're at right now. So whenever we
talk about that one word, everyone knows what we're talking about.
Everyone knows the moment, they know the story, they know
(41:38):
the situation, yeah, and they know the feeling. And then
I think it helps capture. I think it helps capture
to the freshmen who weren't there who are now sophomores,
and the players who aren't there who are now and
they get it. So it kind of connects everyone together.
And so it's a it's a it's a battle cry.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Wait, hopefully when we're hoisting the state championship trophy, maybe
if the Big Mo podcast following the state championship, you
could maybe share that story. But I can tell fans
it's very cool, and it's that type of stuff that
that coach b and certainly Chris Gray and the guys
in the weight room have really kind of just rolled
up into one ball and the train is moving fast
(42:22):
and it feels like it's a long way away. But
in another sense, we're only what weeks before kickoff. Certainly
the start after we get back from July fourth, that's
when it really gets on. It's almost go time.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Well, I said, it last year. I had more fun
coaching in my entire career. Last year, I never wanted
the season to end. It was a blast. And this
last spring was the fastest spring I've ever been a
part of. And this last June was the fastest June
I've ever been a part of it. It was just the
blink of an eye. It just came and went. So
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I hope that's the sign of us having fun. I
hope it's a signed like we're enjoying the times, so
they simplies when you're having funds. I hope that's the deal.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
So it's been cool for me. I've never had a
kid in the football program, so I've had a front
row seat now to see how it all started in
the winter when it was twenty below and then you
get a few weeks of beautiful weather. Now it's hot,
it's steamy. I remember last year we played at Princeton
Ope and the season up and it was like one
hundred and fifty degrees that game. And then at the
end of the year, I'm in the media room because
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I can't stand being out in that state championship because
it's it's fifteen degrees. So just the evolution of an
entire football season, the psychology that goes into it. It's
what makes high school football so special with this.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
And I think we're we're on break quote unquote right
now to give the guys some time off and give
families like that time to go on vacation, let our
coaches get away and stuff like that. But no, I'll
be honest. I mentioned to get back already and be
around the guys and get rolling. And usually July is
when you kind of hunker down and start working towards
(43:59):
the season because that's when all the recruiting camps are done.
It's dead period for college coaches. The baseball basketball stuff
starts to die down a little bit. Baseball never really
dies off, but like the all those tournaments, this prospect
camps start to die off from June and into July
and lock in, you got it, You get the lock in,
you get your team together, right. So it's been a
(44:19):
hodgepodge of guys in June. And I say hodgepodge, which
is funny because we've always had over one hundred guys
in our varsity roster at every single workout, and we've
had over one hundred freshmen pretty much at every single
workout in June. So that's what's been really really exciting
is the amount of numbers that we have and the
guys that keep coming back day in and day out,
(44:42):
even in the heat. So that's been really really good,
and I expect those numbers to grow and in July
when we get home and back, so it'll be around
like the one twenty one to thirty mark for varsity
and then about one ten fifteen for freshmen when we're
July and.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
August, going to be a lot of fun. Two big
events coming up which have become kind of pillars of
certainly of your time here at more the Lift of
Thon and then we'll talk about the victory day hit
Lift a Thon first, tell everybody about lifting.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
So Lift Thethon is our big fundraiser for our team,
and it's designed to celebrate all the hard work that
they've put in to the way arms starting that first
Monday in January. They've been putting in a ton of effort,
a ton of hours in there to develop and train
themselves and so then we test them. We get to
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see the reward of all our labors throughout the winter
and the spring and now the summer. So Monday, July
twenty eighth, we'll host our Lift of Thon. Guys will
test in the hand clean, the trap bar, and the
bench press to get a one rep max. And what's
cool is how we've tied this in is we have
an online database where kind of like the pledge that
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you can do for like a marathon, where you can
pledge a certain amount of money per mole. You just
do it per pounds, or you can donate a lump sum.
But our players are sending out request right now for
donations to sponsor them and their lift, and then we
do it up on that day and have a gold
do it up.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Do it up is an understand I mean you got.
I mean Scott Sweeney had talked to my boys, Scott
Sweeney yesterday. He's locked and loaded. He's excited about it.
The gold carpet. You're gonna have some post vehicles. He
might be getting a hummer involved with Mark Sweeney Buick GMC.
And it's just it is a great event and can.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Fans come and be a part of it. I would
love for that to be the case. I bet maybe
new weight room probably happens just in that weight room
right now it gets so hot, so that ends up
being like a safety issue from that standpoint. But like
our offense goes first or I can't remember what, but
who did it last time? But one group is kind
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of like the gallery the media. And then we have
souped up cars taking our guys and dropping them off
like they're getting dropped off of the red carpet gold car.
But so we had it was really sweet. So we
got Big Moo Barrett on the microphone interviewing our guys
and they come in. We got Scott Sweeney donating some
of his cars, so we'll probably have a souped up GMC.
We'll probably have a hummer. We got Coach Kappy with
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his old cars. We got Coach Ike with his We
got John Gerbis at Wings and Rings. He's going to
provide the winners with a meal for whoever raises the
most money and whoever lifts the most weights. We got
them in teams. And then we got my guy Kai
who's done our our hype videos for these that the
(47:35):
last two years and even at my time at lex
Caath so he's doing that again for a lyfton and
then well you know what the cool thing is You've
done such a good job developing this department. We have
students within Moler who are there taking pictures and doing
videos as well. So yeah, so I don't know, I know,
I talked to a few of them already about them
(47:57):
being there. So just trying to incorporate right as many
people to be a part of it. So it's that
we not me mentality and they feel connected that big event.
So we raised ninety thousand last year. That goals one
hundred thousand this year. I haven't really said that out
loud too much, but got to put it out there.
So it's out there now, so we gotta get after
it and guys do a good job.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
But my favorite event yep. Now that's a really cool event.
And I'm not just saying that because I'm on the area.
It's a really cool event. But Victory Days my favorite. Yeah,
talk about that and when that is and how people
kind of spread the word as well.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Yeah, so Victory Day will be on You just caught
me off cause I think it's all Saturday August second, right,
Like I just had it in my mind, but I
always second guess myself. So Saturday August second, it will
be in the evening. So Victory Day is something my
wife and I we stole from our time at Tiffan,
Ohio when I was the DC there and it was
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a really cool event we did every single year there.
Took it to lex Cat and brought it them all there.
So that is when we invite families with children with
special needs that come be a Molar crusader for a day.
I believe we're already up to about like eight, eight
to ten sign ups already, We're ready. Yeah, that's way
better than we've ever been.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
So yeah, it's a third annual Victory Day Saturday, August second,
from five to seven pm. Check ins at four thirty.
You can go to any Molar connected social media page.
Is a QR code there. You can see a video
and there's also an email you can email Molar Victory
Day at gmail dot com. That's Molar Victory Day at
gmail dot com. Victory Day gives children with special needs
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ages five to eighteen a chance to take the field
and be a man of Molar for the day. It's
pretty special and it's not I would think girls can
probably be involved too. Yeah's not just a little bit
we've had.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
We've had we've had girls come and be cheerleaders, so
again it's another event where we're trying to incorporate everyone.
So my favorite part our Molar cheerleaders are there.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
As special as it is for the guest on campus
to see the reaction of your players and how they
engage these kids. Carson Hobbs told me that it was
one of the even it's his favorite e ven he's
ever done. It's really cool and it really speaks to
that experience, that that experience that these young men get
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here at Moler. So kudos to you for putting that on.
And let's be honest, your wife really kind of runs
the show.
Speaker 4 (50:23):
Oh yeah, that's yeah, she's the mastermind behind it. And
then I really just get to go out and try
to organize it and get our guys going, and then
you're emceeing it. And so they'll start off, they'll be
paired with a buddy, they'll get a jersey to put on,
they'll do some drills, the cheerleaders will line up and
they'll create a tunnel for them to get announces as
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they take the fio just like they're an NFL star.
And then they all get the score a touchdown and
usually we have enough time for everyone to score one,
two or three touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Might have been four touchdown, it might have been four
last year, and what if.
Speaker 4 (50:59):
It whatever, It takes, whatever it takes to get everyone
happy and get thee a touchdown. So the coolest thing
for me is to see the joy on the parents'
faces because we get to just alleviate them for a
couple hours. Because they're not a parent until they're kids eighteen,
they're a parent for life, and you know, their biggest
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concern is, you know, who's going to take care of
my baby when you know whenever I might not be
able to be there, So that we talk to our
guys about that, and I think our guys understand like
how they can impact their community just by being kind
and sharing in that experience. So it's really cool. Our
guys do an awesome job. I mean, anytime we do
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these events, you can see why they're called the menimolar
just because they just they just exceed expectations in every
way possible and they serve their community, they serve others,
and they just do a great job. So incredibly proud
of the event. Hopefully we can keep it growing. Hopefully
people copy it and they do it their places. This
isn't something that we just wanted to be strictly to Molar.
(52:03):
That's the opposite of what we want. I hope every
high school in America copies this thing and it just spreads.
There's no credit. This is like I stole it from
someone else, Tiff and stole it from someone else. Like
keep stealing and hopefully use it.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
That's change lives, change lives. It's it's unbelievable. Third Annual
Victory Day, Saturday, August second, five to seven pm. Again,
check in at four thirty. Again. You can get us
on social media checking the QR code, or email Molar
Victory Day at gmail dot com. He is the head
football coach of the GCL South champion Molar Crusaders. Also
(52:42):
as humble as he probably is, he is also the
g CL South defending Coach of the Year. Burt fat
Any coach. But you get that shoulder looked at. Yeah,
we need we need you one hundred percent that clip
when the guys get back, I.
Speaker 4 (52:57):
Can't have the excuse my shoulder hurts.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Guy, So want you want to see who this bird?
Bathy and he had football coach, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Good we'll be back with more in Dev Team coverage.
It's Molar High School, w m o E and the
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WMO and the MOLA Broadcasting Network probably was that The
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And now your host's Andi Nagel and Big Mo Barrett.
It's the Big Mo Podcast. And this one is special,
(00:22):
very special, because my wing I don't want to say
wing man, my wing lady is in the studio with me,
Mary Fisher, co hosting the beginning of the Big Mo Podcast. Mary,
Welcome to the Big Show.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Thanks Barrett. It's fun being here. I was thinking about this.
You know, you and I we see each other almost
every day, and I think a lot of people don't
realize in the summer. I think they think that things
are quiet at Molar and nothing's going on, And look
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at what's going on around here.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is a little bit of what we call Craig
Cray on campus. Now, if you if you've pulled up
for any number of camps the last few weeks, you
may not have noticed it, noticed it other than seeing
a million kids running around campus. This week's a little
bit different though, because from a campus facility upgrade standpoint,
depending on the time of day you come on campus.
(01:20):
You might use that exit, but not that entrance, or
that entrance, not that exit. You can park in the
back but not talk about anything going on.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's crazy, but good crazy, right, So we are completely
redoing the whole parking lot. And I don't really say we,
not you, well, not me. I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm watching Crystal Clear on that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I've been so impressed at the whole process. Very fast.
But they they've torn up the old asphalt, they you know,
even to everything out. They've patched the holes. You know,
with all the construction that we've had over the years,
it has taken a beating. So it is looking phenomenal.
(02:01):
And Mike Wagner, you know, our facility director here, he
said it would just be kind of the icing on
the cake of the improvement of the campus. And it
really looks great.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I got to teach that dude how to wear shorts.
It's about one hundred and ten degrees out. He's out
there in jeans and he mayn't be in a long
sleeve shirt. He's not all he's not right upstairs, can you.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And can you imagine? And so I've been probably watching
a little too much the process, but those guys have
been working. They get here at seven, they stay emmertime.
They know that we have all these camps going on.
They're like under pressure to get this project done. I thought, perhaps, Barrett,
we would and be able to leave Molar yesterday. Yes,
(02:42):
I know, but it's looking great.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And can you think of a I'm not a blacktop guy.
I'm not a parking lot asphalt guy. But if I was,
I probably wanted to pick this week. If I had
fifty two weeks to pick out of weather wise, this
would not be the week I would have beick. But
they had no other options.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They had no other options, and I think we sort
of dictated that because next week we're light due to
the holiday on camps, but then the week after we
are in.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Full four, locked and loaded.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So I don't know, Barret. I'm sure you have because
you hosted a very very successful camp. You had the
broadcasting camp.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We talked about it last week.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It was awesome, But we will have I think it's
close to two thousand young people here on campus this
summer for camps.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Think about that, two thousand future men of MUEL are
walking this campus. And can you remember, Hey, you're a female, obviously,
so it might be a little bit different. But can
you imagine being a young boy with dreams of someday
you know, you see the Miles mcbrides, and of course
in Matt Ponitowski's now or the Jackson Hayes who had
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his camp here this week as well, or Jordan marsh
or Carson Hobbs or you know, from an athletic standpoint,
talking about it, right, and and then to know that
those guys went here, Sam Hubbard and now as a
fourth or fifth grader, you're walking in the same hall
as you're you're playing basketball in the same court that
these dudes played, or you're on the football field like
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and then they come to camp here and spent like
that's like a dream come true. And I've heard so
many parents say that their favorite part of their childs
their son's summer, not helpinghead, not cest the key. It
was the Moller camp. And it started with coach Jelotti
and and and of course the goat Jerry Faust talking
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and you know the story when they were on I
seventy four doing concrete work one day and they're like,
why don't we hold a camp? Well, now every school
has camps, but it's started by coach by Jigs and
coach Foust started it all and it's award winning almost gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And you know, anybody who goes to camp here goes
and somehow has communication with Kate George, who runs all
of the camps. But looking at and.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I try to talk about organized chaos and she executes
it at such a high.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Level and with a joyful spirit. That's that's what's important.
But you know, I try to stop in at all
the camps and whether it's you know, we had chemistry camp.
That's that first week I thought, oh my gosh, the
kids who are getting up or let me go learn
more about chemistry, But there were kids there that's that's
their thing. I think that's what's impressed me is there
(05:29):
is something for everyone, no doubt. Lego Camp. We had robotics,
you're broadcasting. We had English study skills. I know, we've
got the little guys coming in two weeks the fundamentals.
That'll be fun. And then you can't help it go
into you know, Carl Kramer, Tim Held's or Coach Bert's
(05:52):
camps and there I'm so impressed with our students because
they they are the coaches so to speak. Of the
smaller teams. And I don't even think our guys get
it how those little kids look up to.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Them, For sure they don't. And I think another thing
that I've really just been in awe of is the
use of the new spaces that we have here. I
saw last week, right, I think it was a robotics
class in the atrium on the ground they had they
had painters tape all taped out, and they're creating these robots.
And these kids are literally with our menimolar currently at school,
(06:30):
on their knees creating these robots and using the beautiful
space that is the atrium of the Burns Innovation of
and and how these new spaces are being acclimated and
used intentionally is unbelievable. It's beautiful it is.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I think I forget what camp that was, but
they were flying objects off that top staircase to see
how far they could could get.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What little boy doesn't love to do that, right.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I know specifically the robotics camp instructor he was,
as Kate said, practically you know, skipping through the atrim
because he says he never gets to do this camp
in that kind of environment. And I think I mean,
we have already that innovation hub was just dedicated in February,
(07:21):
But I mean it is, it is.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We have gotten our money's worth out of the exactly.
And now as if it's just you know, everybody says,
is this a slow time of year for you? That's
kind of a kind of for me personally, it's my
reset time, and I think for all of us, but
it's really not either because we have a major golf
(07:44):
outing coming up on Friday, one hundred and fifty some alumni, benefactors,
supporters of Moler playing golf at Shaker Run. That's always
one of your favorite events of the year, it is.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And we're always hot, aren't we. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Matter fifty degrees out, We're hot.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No bear. We love. We love to get in that
cart and go visit everybody I know, Andy Nagel and
the team, the whole team, Betsy Morgan and Louise Holker
have all worked really hard on this golf outing and
what I love too is and I'm so proud of
our team. It's about the experience for like you said,
(08:21):
our lums, our friends of Moeller, our supporters, and they
have worked really hard to make sure that this Friday.
It will be a little steamy, but we've done some
things to mitigate that a little.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You and I are going to have a cooler of ice. Yes,
thanks to Joe Rupert from Rupert Heegan Air, we have
cooling towels and you and I will be going to
refresh the cooling towels throughout the day. So it's going
to be fun. It'll be fun, but it is intentional
of making sure the experience for our guys is a plus,
absolutely a plus experience, first class. Mary, we got some
(08:54):
stuff to talk about. We're going to be talking Sgo.
You've seen it, you've heard it, but maybe you are
still scratching your head, going, what in the world is this? Sgo?
If I can understand it, anybody I can understand anybody
can understand it. Correct It's simple. It's just basically redirecting
your money to Molar High School. You have to pay
(09:16):
pay anyways. It's a way to help Molar High School
out cost you virtually nothing. So we'll talk about that
when we come back from a break. We're going to
take a dip in the pool up on the roof
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Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's in their name, noting a big Mo podcast Big
Mo beired along with Mary Fisher. Mary, when's the last
time we went on a trip together?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't know, but we need to Well, we've got.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I think it was Cesa Key or not Sara Soa.
You and I went on one right. I did not
go to Columbus right, and you were not on Denver correct.
So we need to make it happening. And what are
some of those plans coming up?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We'd bring it up so.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I know, you know, we had our planning session and
for those who don't know, our advancement team gets together
usually May early June and we sort of plot out
the upcoming year. And I know we want to do
a couple of different things, and I think, I don't
know why. I can't remember what these were.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's that time of year, Mary Fisher. But we have
a bunch of different events. You know, we're thinking about Texas, yes,
Chicago next year as well, and I think I haven't
I've heard rumors that Jason might just be handling a
couple of one offs in Florida. I haven't heard exactly
how that's going to play out, but we will definitely
be getting out and establishing some new chapters as well
(11:55):
this year. But it's always a fun opportunity for us.
And we've said it almost a nauseum on this broadcast
of taking Mollar out to the people because not everybody
can come to Molar. Then we've had some great wins
that you know, my favorite one out in Denver and
what Jeff Dornof's done out.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
There, and they're amazing, they're they're.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Incredible, and that the community, they keep the communication going,
you know what I mean, And that's what makes it special.
But it's a lot of work, it's a lot of sacrifice.
We're always looking for supporters in these regions, in these
areas to help offset the cost that Mollar takes from
it because it is expensive to put these things on.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But they are now and around the football season we'll
be up in Cleveland and Nashville. And Nashville so those
two cities you know, will be there for the game.
But we're gonna at least try to get together with
our alums in those areas. And and you forgot Ironton
and Ironton, we have a.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Big Mollar alumni base and Ironton we do now Mollar family.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They're not going to say they didn't go to part
of the Molar family.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
If you haven't taking a trip to Ironton. I think
it's week two or three. I can't remember exactly which
one on the top of my head. We played Mount
Carmel out of Chicago. By all accounts, that may be
the most talented football team that Moller will play this
season and maybe the last couple of season. They got
some dudes. But what a great opportunity to really engage
(13:20):
that Mollar experience. It's a beautiful drive that time of
year down to southeast Ohio to Ironton, the River City.
The people down there roll out the blue and gold carpet.
They line the streets with Molar flags because we're not
playing them right, so the first year was a little
bit different, but it's a great experience. Have you been
down there yet?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I have not, so that is on my your bucket list,
it is.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's awesome. But yeah, it's a great time. So we're
gonna get out and about if you can contact myself,
Mary Fisher and dian Angelo if you'd like to, if
you're in any one of these cities and want to
support Molar and our opportunity to bring the flag out
to you. We would love to chat Mary Fisher, Are
you ready to talk a little? Sgo? I answer a
(14:04):
good question right out of the gate, is what in
the world does SGEO stand for?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I know, and it's a question we get all the time,
Barrett Sgo. I mean, it stands for Scholarship Granting Organization.
But you know what does that mean? And what it
means is basically as simple as it gets. You can
defer the money that you would pay to the state
of Ohio, so for us, it's only in the state
(14:30):
of Ohio. And take that money that you would pay
in taxes and give it to Molar High.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I basically redirect it. You're restating the state. It comes
back to Molar.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
High School, right And I think for me at the beginning,
and I think a lot of people felt this way.
Either it was either a little too good to be
true or I must be missing something. Is it that easy?
Or even in total layman, you know, what is the
difference between like a tax credit and a tax deduction?
(15:04):
So you know, in my head, I know that when
you make a donation to any nonprofit, you get a
tax deduction, and you know you're either you're a tax
person does that for you, or when you file your taxes,
I would have to say, Bill and I's taxes are
fairly simple, so we do that on our own. But
(15:26):
a tax credit is totally different, and I don't think
we might and might say wait, it's Bill, and I
had ever experienced a tax credit before, where virtually it's
saying this amount of money that you would pay to
Ohio in taxes, you don't have to pay that, and
in this case, you redirect it to Mole or high school.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So it's money. For people out there listening, it's money
you would you would have to separate with one way
or the other. But by doing this sgu and we'll
talk about how you do it. It's money. It's got
to go to the state or it's got to go
to Molar. So it's not like it's not saying, well,
I'd like to keep it, You're not going to keep it.
(16:08):
It's going somewhere. You're just redirecting it to Molar high school.
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It is, right, it is, and you know interesting where
I think we're going into year four.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Or five already already it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I know. And the first year it started late in
that tax year, so we got it out a little bit,
but I will tell you every year we have doubled
the amount of money that's coming to Molar. So I
have really been thinking, Barrett. I'm like, Wow, if every
one of our supporters, whether it's a lum or a
(16:45):
past parent, could be family members, whatever that's associated with
Molar and who supports Molar and believes in our mission, right,
if every one of those people who live in Ohio
and pay Ohio taxes would take advantage of this program,
we would raise millions of dollars easy money.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And people now are going to ask, well, they don't
need money. They just got that brand new innovation. Huh,
they got all this other stuff, which is the biggest
misnomer there is. Right, So walk through why the why
somebody would want to do this? Why somebody Maybe there's
people that firmly believe in every a lot of people
who firmly believe in the mission of Molar High School.
(17:29):
They're all in. They're doing this, no questions asked. Let's
do it. What about that guy that's sitting in the
weeds that goes, why should I do this? I see
all the stuff they're doing there articulate why that guy
really should we prayerfully can ask and consider doing this
for Molar High School? Why what's the why?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And I think, Barrett, because you and I see it
every day, it is so crystal clear to us, right,
Molar is an extraordinary school. And so in order to
us to attract extraordinary teachers in order for us to
attract the families and the students that we do, we
(18:12):
need to do our best, and we excel in every
all the pillars. Right, we talk about athletics, but we
talk about academics. We talk obviously we're a faith school
and that's that's our number one mission there. But the
cost of education, you know, continues to go up. That
(18:32):
that's not going to change, that's not going to draw
to to get any cheaper. That's going to continue to raise.
As we want to attract the very best teachers here
in coaches. So because of that, our tuition continues to raise.
And I will tell you, Barrett, every you know we
usually start.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And we're not the only institution.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I mean, this is across the country education. That's the
cost of educating and what an investment that is. But
because of that, we want to make sure the bottom
line is that any young man that can come to
Molar High School can come here and we can work together.
(19:14):
And you and I both say this to families like
trust the process. If that young man wants to be here,
we're going to work really hard. So although I mean
not although I mean our donors have been incredibly generous,
generous with the annual fund, generous with our capital campaign,
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but our families still need that tuition assistance. About over
I would say seventy I think last year's figures close
to seventy seven percent of our students, So that's over
two thirds of our students receive some form of tuition assistance.
And that means the family that has four students, they're
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they're trying to get or Catholic education. They believe in
Catholic education. They've got kids at different parishes all the
way from you know, a young man at Corville Catholic
who wants to be here because his you know, the
Little Buddies program, He's been mentored by a mole or
student and he wants to be here. To to everybody
(20:22):
across the board who wants this kind of education. And
then we see it bart right, we see what the
teachers do in the classrooms. We see what the coaches
do on the fields, and the young men that we
are helping, partnering with their parents and and everybody else
to raise these guys, to develop their skills, to give
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them the advantage to to go on to college, to
be leaders in the community, to make good decisions, to
to be those people who you know. Quite frankly, I
look at it as an investment because I hope they
take care of me. Right. They're going to be the leaders.
They're going to be the leaders of the country, you know,
and our young men here are so talented.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
The big question that people are probably asking, what do
I have to do? How easy is it? Because it's
like in anything, you go to a website and then
it takes you to another link, and it takes you
to another link, and you're like, you know what, this
is ridiculous, But it's not the case. This is really easy.
Talk about it.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is very easy. So basically you can make this donation.
It's not too early now too late, I mean too well,
it's not too early now to think about sure the
next tax season, so the sgo. You can go to
our website right www dot Mouller dot org. You can
call me, you can talk to your tax consultant if
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that's the way you go as well. They are fully
aware of this program. And basically you can give by check,
you can do it by credit cards. But you will
go ahead and in there are limits, so you can
give up to seven hundred and fifty dollars. You can
give for our younger alums right who I don't know
(22:12):
what their tax liability is to Ohio. You could give
one hundred dollars. You could give three hundred. The max
is seven hundred and fifty. If you file singly, if
you file joint with someone, it's fifteen hundred dollars, and
you give that amount, you go on. You get a receipt.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I got the receipt, So where should they go? Right?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And then it says sgo right on either ways to
give on the support page or it's right at the
top of our website.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Click that link and you'll be off running, and.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You'll be off and running. You get a receipt. And
I think this is my biggest question I've had. You
get a receipt, You hold on to that receipt when
you file your taxes. There is a line item for
that SGO. Your tax consultant will know what to do
and it will come right off what you owe to
the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It is so think about I want to dream big
this year, Barrett, last year, and we're ending it right
our fiscal year so to speak. We raise, thanks to
the generosity, about two hundred almost two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars just from the SGO.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
What if? What if going? What if we could hit
a million dollars next year? I mean that, that's that's
what I'm sure. It's game changer game.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So your game changer type numbers. Yep, very cool. Mary.
It's easy. Just go to www dot Bowler dot org,
click the hyperlink at the top of the page. You
will be off and running. Of course, you can get
a hold of Mary Fisher twenty four to seven by
utilizing her email and Fisher fis c h e are
at Moeller dot org. Mary, do you have any other
(24:04):
questions for me?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't, but I love working with you, Barrett, and
we have kind of an exciting year coming up. We've
got so much fun. Can't wait for the stag the
football season all the sports It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's a good little teas there. The Sports Stag coming
up on September twenty fifth. You can also get secure
your tickets for that, I think at Moore dot org,
which is a hyperlink for the SGO and the Sports
Stag I believe, so you can hit both of those
as well. Do you have anything else you want to add?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I just want everybody to have a fun and great summer.
It's going to come visit us.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's a nice segue. The next two podcasts or what
we do every year, the Best of. Joe strekkerd does
a great job putting together the best of the Big
mo podcast. So this will be your last updated b
MP before we kind of hit the pause button for
two weeks, do the best of, and then we'll come
back locked in low. But it's time for us to
(25:01):
take a little Andy Nagel and I take a little
c yes, so we can get ready for a long,
deep fall season here at Moller High School. It's going
to be a lot of fun. Mary, thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Absolutely we got pleasure.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We got more in depth team coverage. When we come
back from a break, I want to thank Mary Fisher
for joining us talking a little sgo Little Cameo on
the Big Mill Podcast. This will be our largest listened
podcast ever.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I don't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Can you sing a little James Taylor? You went to
the James Taylor concert the other night? Can you maybe
play a little James Taylor as we go to a break? Mary?
Do you have that in your bailliwick?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I don't. There's a reason he's in concerts and on
him not.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You had pretty good seats though, we.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Had excellent seats and he was awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well, because you can't, I'll go to a break with
a little James Taylor, Carolina. In my mind, it's the
Big Mo Podcast, Mary Fisher, Big Mo Barent will be
back after this short break on the best coverage of
Molar High School. It's a Big bow podcast on w
MOOE and the Bowler Broadcasting Network.
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move Mary Fisher out, and we moved the head football coach,
Bert Bathy Andy Bird. I told you before we on
the air, I don't ever get to interview because you
have your you have your your big time. I mean,
you have your own radio show. You're bigger than the
Big Mo Podcast. So this is the first time, probably
a year, that I've interviewed you.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Is it considered a big time when only your mom
and your wife listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I can tell you there's more than your wife and mom.
In fact, the basketball all three shows, Tim's and Cks
and yours are very very well listened to. I promise
you that they really are. And you win, you get
more listeners. So last year you had a lot of listeners.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I found out Nick Sharp listens to it, or DC
listens to it every day on the way to the
game to fire him up. So I guess, I don't know.
I guess I like I kick them off somehow.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, that you know that you can kind of like
talk to him.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I found that out. Uh, we do all these player
info sheets during the summer just to get to know
each other. But our coaches do it and it's a
lot of energy. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So cool.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
The players get to just yell out questions and get
to know them. Man. I found out that if he
listens to that on the way to games that I
fire him up.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I guess that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's pretty good. So our defense has been really we
have three in my mind, that's all he listens, that's all, that's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
All that matters. You have an ice bag on your
left shoulder, so part of me thinks he's got a
serious injury. Part of me thinks he's showing off a
little bit because he's coming in. You got you got
short sleeve shirt on, you just got done putting in
a lift in. You got JM who hooked you up
with a bag of IY what you do to your shoulder?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I'm thirty eight and I still think I'm twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Thank you. I can. At some point I said to
you the other day, do you ever do There's no
such thing as leg day. When you turn fifty, you
don't do arms or legs. Yeah, so that's how it works.
So you're on the way there. I'm telling you. It
doesn't get easier, all right, Coach b Big summer obviously
has been going on already. I want to ask you
out of the game before we kind of talk about
(29:27):
some things you have coming up. I've that and I'm
not going to go back to the loss, but I
do want to start by asking you. You got a
taste in Canton of what that big time game feels like.
And I think from my front row seat watching this
football team in the off season, starting in the winter
(29:49):
when I was driving my own son in here, when
it was twenty below zero. That did something that lit
a match that I've never seen a football team put
the work in as much as you guys have put
the work in this offseason. Now, how that plays out,
we'll find out. But I have never seen a football
team as locked in as you guys have been in
(30:11):
the offseason. Talk to me about the psychological component to
that that game and that match that was lit.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's it's funny you say that, because I feel the
same thing. But it's interesting we don't talk about it,
you know what I mean, Like we touch on it
here and there, but because that was last year's team
and this will be a new team, but it's in
the back of our minds at all times. Like if
you said I don't go a day without thinking about that,
be live, Like I think about that day every single
(30:39):
day I wake up and every single time I go
to bed. And I think our players are the same way, right,
Like they got a taste and it wasn't a good
taste at the end of the day, And you know,
I think they're motivated and they're putting in the work
to get back there and hopefully rewrite the outcome.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You have new dudes, you know, the old it's not
the x's and e's, it's the Jimmy's and the jos.
And you have new Jimmies and Joe's that are stepping in.
But the warrant has been served to the guys, the
underclassmen what the expectation of Molar football is. And you're
seeing that play out now and the offseason. New guys
are stepping up, you know, kind of filling into those roles.
(31:18):
It's been impressive to watch.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Well. I think there's two things when you said that
that popped into my mind. That it is all about
Jimmies and Jones. It's all about players, hands down like that.
That's that's the magic sauce. It's having good players and
you have a good football team. But the one thing
is it's still Moler. So no matter what, whenever you
go into a stadium and you're wearing that M shield,
(31:41):
you're gonna get that team's best. And we've always thought that,
We've always knew that, but I think after last year
it hit you in the face even more. Whatever you
see on film, that's not the team you're playing. They're
gonna up their level of play, They're gonna up their
level of executution no matter what, because of you have
(32:03):
a target on your back, right, so you're gonna get
everyone's best shot. Everyone's gonna raise their level of ability
whatever you want to call it, for that game, and
that kind of what's interesting is that I heard coach
Saban talking about that when they were he was talking
about the national championship in college football with the same
thing is, no matter what whatever level you're playing at,
(32:28):
when you start getting to the end of the season,
you got to assume that that team are gonna plays
the best team you've ever played in your entire life.
And you have to assume that when whatever opponent you have,
whatever the matchup is, that person is going to be
the best competition you've ever faced to that point in
your life at And that's kind of been our message
to our players is we have to prepare like we're
(32:50):
playing against someone's best every single week. So to be
able to raise that level of ability, we got to
just focus on ourselves and keep it and if we
keep maximizing what we're able to do, we'll be more
prepared for that moment. I don't know if that makes sense,
but you know what I mean, Like, whenever you step
on the field, that's what you're gonna get. So take
(33:11):
all the preconceived notions, whatever you hear from social media,
the news, your aunt, your uncle, your mom or dad,
whatever you see on film, like flush that down the toilet,
and whenever you play a game, you're gonna get someone's best.
And that's going to happen this next year. I thought
we had a really tough schedule last year. It's even
harder this year. I mean, we're playing five teams. We're
(33:32):
playing teams from five different states. We added three state champions,
so the state champ from Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You guys don't shine away from that, no.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Okay, it's like it. They like it, and I think
it prepares you for the playoffs. It prepares you for
gCO football. I mean, you come out the game and
you play Princeton, right, and no matter what, that game
is going to be full of energy and full of excitement.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I ask a question because I really want to know.
It's not that I'm dinging anything. Do you have a concern, though,
by playing that physical type football at a high level
that you might get dinged up, you might be not
as fresh as you enter that the throes of that
gCO South schedule. Is that play into your mindset when
you're creating a schedule or is it no, we want
(34:18):
we want to play the best teams to get us
ready for the postseason period.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah. I think it's you worry about injury. Yeah, you
worry about getting danged without question, right, Like there can
be a like a mental fatigue, I would, but you
can get you anytime, right, Like we can get hurt.
You know, I go on a golf trip and swaylf Like,
you can just get hurt at any point in time.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So I just never talk about Tom Gregory.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yeah. So I never like let that factor in because
at the end of the day, I want to get
ten games for our team, and that's the most important thing.
I do think it does prepare us for the playoffs
and and our guys by end of the fact that
they play a tough schedule, they're playing against the best
and it helps with their recruitment as well. So you know,
(35:03):
that's the biggest thing. And that's what I sell to
our guys is like, hey, you're gonna go play say
next and you're you're gonna put film on your highlight
tape and if it shows you making these plays against
Saint x Elder Lasal like the Ohio States, the Michigan's
and Notre Dame, they know you're playing against real people,
like good players, like players that they're recruiting, and that's
a big deal. And even when I was in college football,
(35:25):
we would say the same thing, right, we would watch
a kid from you know, School A, and they're playing
School B, and you question the competition and you question
how good they are, you question the level of coaching
that they're get that they're getting. But when when they
play our schedule and they put those those clips on
their highlight tape, that helps in their recruitment process because
(35:47):
they're going against real guys who are really talented, they're
on good football teams. It's a heightened environment, and they're
going against a team that's been really well coached too,
so they're more prepared for that that next level, in
my opinion.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
So it fun seeing the young guys, the freshmen that
are now sophomores, because we all talked about I have
a son who's a freshman in that class, and I
knew how talented they were coming in, but now to
see but I've seen a lot of talented freshman teams
that don't translate because they don't buy in. They don't
believe that this group. This freshman now sophomores. You maybe
(36:20):
didn't see him as much because they were on a
freshman team. But now those there's some dudes there, dudes.
I can't remember the number of sophomore number one. I
didn't think sophomores could get offers for the longest time,
but now you're seeing sophomores get offer rising sophomores. To
see those guys mature and and this is a young
team in some spots, those guys are going to get
opportunities on it. Is that rewarding as a coach to
(36:42):
see those guys at a young age step into a
big light.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, that's my favorite part about this level of coaching
is the developmental aspect because I put a big premium
on our weight room. That's the most important thing that
we do.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
At True That's true Love.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yeah, Yeah, that's it. And that's why we've put such
an emphasis in hiring a great strength coach and coach
Gray who is a big part of that. And our
coaches are a big part of that too, Like they're
considered strength coaches as well. So during the summer when
our guys are lifting, the rest of our staff isn't
in the in the staff from watching film. They're in
(37:17):
the weight room lifting with them. Like our linebacker coaches
lifting with his linebackers. Our dB coaches lifting with the
dbs like they're good. They do. They love that that
the competent. I mean, hell, our president came down and
deadlift with Christian at Harris right like, So that's the
environment that way I have.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I like to remind Jason, and he got destroyed by
a rising senior. He doesn't admit that though that was fun.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
I know they loved it. I know they loved it,
and and I know Christian loved it as well, and
our players, but you gods, I know it's it's leaking
all over your your your carpet out like that. It's
all good, but that I think that environment is huge.
But you get to see the growth and development of
this freshmen to be sophomores now, and there are going
(38:04):
to be a lot of players in that class that
and and in the class ahead of them too. So
I don't want to just like outlaw them, but I
think We've been able to build consecutive classes back to
back where they compliment each other really well. And the
coolest thing is that they're buying into everything. So on
Thursdays when we do our Crusader Olympics such as like
our team building at your Safe to make and this
(38:28):
and and it's just competition. That's one of our core
values is to compete, and we bring in all our
core values together on that day. Coaches are in charge
of a team. Coach Gray and I come up with
these competitions that the guys get to do, and.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Some of them football.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
No, it's team building and it's competition, but it just
executes our core values. But you know, Chris takes pictures
of all the guys and you see the joy and
the excitements and yeah, the raw emotion. And you know,
you look back and reflect as a staff and look
at those pictures that man like they're becoming a team
right now, and you get to see it before her
very eyes especially, and then we I think it was
(39:09):
last Thursday. I just was searching through all my Mike
sending them to some of the guys and they're having
a blast. And that's at the end of the week,
and it's a hard week. But to stack those days
and build those days and then end the week on
the up swing, I think is huge instead of tapering down.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
So you know what I mean, Yeah, for sure there
and I'll say this and then we'll get to talk
about some of the things coming up. I talked to
a junior rising junior who admittedly, I think people think
that I know every single person in this school. I
didn't know this young man was. I would just say, hey,
it was a Friday, or no Thursday, afternoon Thursday. Guys
don't practice on Friday. I said it was hot, steamy,
(39:51):
And I looked at him and I said, man, I
bet you're excited to kind of check in for the
week and enjoy a weekend at the pool. And he
looked at me with a serious face and said, big moo, Barrett,
I can't wait for Monday. I want to get back here.
He had. It kind of took me back a little
bit because if it's me, I'm like looking to go
to the pool. Like now, he wanted more of it.
He wanted to get and that spoke a lot to me,
(40:13):
Like to see, now, he's one guy, but he desired
more so you're you got the Mojoe roll in the
right direction. It feels like, was there anything that happened
at the end of that game in Canton that bothered
you to the point that you really you don't have
to talk directly to it, but there's things in life
(40:35):
that that are catalysts and it can be turned into
something very positive and and it really hits your wagon too,
it because we're all motivated by something, right, winning. Of course,
we're motivated by winning, getting better every day one percent
better than the day yesterday. But I kind of love
what has happened? Are you okay talking a little bit
about that.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I can touch on it, but I'm not going to
go in the great detail. At the right time, I
will and we can bring it back up. But there
is kind of like a battle cry that we have
and a symbolic, symbolic type deal that we're focused on,
and that kind of captures I think the raw emotion
of how that season ended, and I think that's how
(41:18):
we we go back and we remember the past and
kind of like not dwell on it, but it's a
in the back of your head. It's a reminder. I
love it, you know what I mean? So that's that's
kind of where we're at right now. So whenever we
talk about that one word, everyone knows what we're talking about.
Everyone knows the moment, they know the story, they know
(41:38):
the situation, yeah, and they know the feeling. And then
I think it helps capture. I think it helps capture
to the freshmen who weren't there who are now sophomores,
and the players who aren't there who are now and
they get it. So it kind of connects everyone together.
And so it's a it's a it's a battle cry.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Wait, hopefully when we're hoisting the state championship trophy, maybe
if the Big Mo podcast following the state championship, you
could maybe share that story. But I can tell fans
it's very cool, and it's that type of stuff that
that coach b and certainly Chris Gray and the guys
in the weight room have really kind of just rolled
up into one ball and the train is moving fast
(42:22):
and it feels like it's a long way away. But
in another sense, we're only what weeks before kickoff. Certainly
the start after we get back from July fourth, that's
when it really gets on. It's almost go time.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Well, I said, it last year. I had more fun
coaching in my entire career. Last year, I never wanted
the season to end. It was a blast. And this
last spring was the fastest spring I've ever been a
part of. And this last June was the fastest June
I've ever been a part of it. It was just the
blink of an eye. It just came and went. So
(42:56):
I hope that's the sign of us having fun. I
hope it's a signed like we're enjoying the times, so
they simplies when you're having funds. I hope that's the deal.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
So it's been cool for me. I've never had a
kid in the football program, so I've had a front
row seat now to see how it all started in
the winter when it was twenty below and then you
get a few weeks of beautiful weather. Now it's hot,
it's steamy. I remember last year we played at Princeton
Ope and the season up and it was like one
hundred and fifty degrees that game. And then at the
end of the year, I'm in the media room because
(43:27):
I can't stand being out in that state championship because
it's it's fifteen degrees. So just the evolution of an
entire football season, the psychology that goes into it. It's
what makes high school football so special with this.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
And I think we're we're on break quote unquote right
now to give the guys some time off and give
families like that time to go on vacation, let our
coaches get away and stuff like that. But no, I'll
be honest. I mentioned to get back already and be
around the guys and get rolling. And usually July is
when you kind of hunker down and start working towards
(43:59):
the season because that's when all the recruiting camps are done.
It's dead period for college coaches. The baseball basketball stuff
starts to die down a little bit. Baseball never really
dies off, but like the all those tournaments, this prospect
camps start to die off from June and into July
and lock in, you got it, You get the lock in,
you get your team together, right. So it's been a
(44:19):
hodgepodge of guys in June. And I say hodgepodge, which
is funny because we've always had over one hundred guys
in our varsity roster at every single workout, and we've
had over one hundred freshmen pretty much at every single
workout in June. So that's what's been really really exciting
is the amount of numbers that we have and the
guys that keep coming back day in and day out,
(44:42):
even in the heat. So that's been really really good,
and I expect those numbers to grow and in July
when we get home and back, so it'll be around
like the one twenty one to thirty mark for varsity
and then about one ten fifteen for freshmen when we're
July and.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
August, going to be a lot of fun. Two big
events coming up which have become kind of pillars of
certainly of your time here at more the Lift of
Thon and then we'll talk about the victory day hit
Lift a Thon first, tell everybody about lifting.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
So Lift Thethon is our big fundraiser for our team,
and it's designed to celebrate all the hard work that
they've put in to the way arms starting that first
Monday in January. They've been putting in a ton of effort,
a ton of hours in there to develop and train
themselves and so then we test them. We get to
(45:32):
see the reward of all our labors throughout the winter
and the spring and now the summer. So Monday, July
twenty eighth, we'll host our Lift of Thon. Guys will
test in the hand clean, the trap bar, and the
bench press to get a one rep max. And what's
cool is how we've tied this in is we have
an online database where kind of like the pledge that
(45:55):
you can do for like a marathon, where you can
pledge a certain amount of money per mole. You just
do it per pounds, or you can donate a lump sum.
But our players are sending out request right now for
donations to sponsor them and their lift, and then we
do it up on that day and have a gold
do it up.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Do it up is an understand I mean you got.
I mean Scott Sweeney had talked to my boys, Scott
Sweeney yesterday. He's locked and loaded. He's excited about it.
The gold carpet. You're gonna have some post vehicles. He
might be getting a hummer involved with Mark Sweeney Buick GMC.
And it's just it is a great event and can.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Fans come and be a part of it. I would
love for that to be the case. I bet maybe
new weight room probably happens just in that weight room
right now it gets so hot, so that ends up
being like a safety issue from that standpoint. But like
our offense goes first or I can't remember what, but
who did it last time? But one group is kind
(46:51):
of like the gallery the media. And then we have
souped up cars taking our guys and dropping them off
like they're getting dropped off of the red carpet gold car.
But so we had it was really sweet. So we
got Big Moo Barrett on the microphone interviewing our guys
and they come in. We got Scott Sweeney donating some
of his cars, so we'll probably have a souped up GMC.
We'll probably have a hummer. We got Coach Kappy with
(47:14):
his old cars. We got Coach Ike with his We
got John Gerbis at Wings and Rings. He's going to
provide the winners with a meal for whoever raises the
most money and whoever lifts the most weights. We got
them in teams. And then we got my guy Kai
who's done our our hype videos for these that the
(47:35):
last two years and even at my time at lex
Caath so he's doing that again for a lyfton and
then well you know what the cool thing is You've
done such a good job developing this department. We have
students within Moler who are there taking pictures and doing
videos as well. So yeah, so I don't know, I know,
I talked to a few of them already about them
(47:57):
being there. So just trying to incorporate right as many
people to be a part of it. So it's that
we not me mentality and they feel connected that big event.
So we raised ninety thousand last year. That goals one
hundred thousand this year. I haven't really said that out
loud too much, but got to put it out there.
So it's out there now, so we gotta get after
it and guys do a good job.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
But my favorite event yep. Now that's a really cool event.
And I'm not just saying that because I'm on the area.
It's a really cool event. But Victory Days my favorite. Yeah,
talk about that and when that is and how people
kind of spread the word as well.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Yeah, so Victory Day will be on You just caught
me off cause I think it's all Saturday August second, right,
Like I just had it in my mind, but I
always second guess myself. So Saturday August second, it will
be in the evening. So Victory Day is something my
wife and I we stole from our time at Tiffan,
Ohio when I was the DC there and it was
(48:52):
a really cool event we did every single year there.
Took it to lex Cat and brought it them all there.
So that is when we invite families with children with
special needs that come be a Molar crusader for a day.
I believe we're already up to about like eight, eight
to ten sign ups already, We're ready. Yeah, that's way
better than we've ever been.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
So yeah, it's a third annual Victory Day Saturday, August second,
from five to seven pm. Check ins at four thirty.
You can go to any Molar connected social media page.
Is a QR code there. You can see a video
and there's also an email you can email Molar Victory
Day at gmail dot com. That's Molar Victory Day at
gmail dot com. Victory Day gives children with special needs
(49:35):
ages five to eighteen a chance to take the field
and be a man of Molar for the day. It's
pretty special and it's not I would think girls can
probably be involved too. Yeah's not just a little bit
we've had.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
We've had we've had girls come and be cheerleaders, so
again it's another event where we're trying to incorporate everyone.
So my favorite part our Molar cheerleaders are there.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
As special as it is for the guest on campus
to see the reaction of your players and how they
engage these kids. Carson Hobbs told me that it was
one of the even it's his favorite e ven he's
ever done. It's really cool and it really speaks to
that experience, that that experience that these young men get
(50:18):
here at Moler. So kudos to you for putting that on.
And let's be honest, your wife really kind of runs
the show.
Speaker 4 (50:23):
Oh yeah, that's yeah, she's the mastermind behind it. And
then I really just get to go out and try
to organize it and get our guys going, and then
you're emceeing it. And so they'll start off, they'll be
paired with a buddy, they'll get a jersey to put on,
they'll do some drills, the cheerleaders will line up and
they'll create a tunnel for them to get announces as
(50:45):
they take the fio just like they're an NFL star.
And then they all get the score a touchdown and
usually we have enough time for everyone to score one,
two or three touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Might have been four touchdown, it might have been four
last year, and what if.
Speaker 4 (50:59):
It whatever, It takes, whatever it takes to get everyone
happy and get thee a touchdown. So the coolest thing
for me is to see the joy on the parents'
faces because we get to just alleviate them for a
couple hours. Because they're not a parent until they're kids eighteen,
they're a parent for life, and you know, their biggest
(51:20):
concern is, you know, who's going to take care of
my baby when you know whenever I might not be
able to be there, So that we talk to our
guys about that, and I think our guys understand like
how they can impact their community just by being kind
and sharing in that experience. So it's really cool. Our
guys do an awesome job. I mean, anytime we do
(51:41):
these events, you can see why they're called the menimolar
just because they just they just exceed expectations in every
way possible and they serve their community, they serve others,
and they just do a great job. So incredibly proud
of the event. Hopefully we can keep it growing. Hopefully
people copy it and they do it their places. This
isn't something that we just wanted to be strictly to Molar.
(52:03):
That's the opposite of what we want. I hope every
high school in America copies this thing and it just spreads.
There's no credit. This is like I stole it from
someone else, Tiff and stole it from someone else. Like
keep stealing and hopefully use it.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
That's change lives, change lives. It's it's unbelievable. Third Annual
Victory Day, Saturday, August second, five to seven pm. Again,
check in at four thirty. Again. You can get us
on social media checking the QR code, or email Molar
Victory Day at gmail dot com. He is the head
football coach of the GCL South champion Molar Crusaders. Also
(52:42):
as humble as he probably is, he is also the
g CL South defending Coach of the Year. Burt fat
Any coach. But you get that shoulder looked at. Yeah,
we need we need you one hundred percent that clip
when the guys get back, I.
Speaker 4 (52:57):
Can't have the excuse my shoulder hurts.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
Guy, So want you want to see who this bird?
Bathy and he had football coach, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Good we'll be back with more in Dev Team coverage.
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