October 1, 2025 • 45 mins
With Andy Nagel on assignment, Big Moe Barrett is joined by Coach Frank Russo. Did you see the chalk murals on campus? You need to check them out. We talk to Luke Sobolewski '27 about the murals. Art, community, and Moeller spirit in action! The House Chalk Mural Competition showcased not only artistic talent but also the creativity and collaboration that define our students
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wmoe and the MOLA Broadcasting nowhere. Probably was that the
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hosts Andy Nagle and Big Mo Barrett. It's the Big
Mo Podcast. Here we go, rocket and rolling again and
Andy Nagle is on assignment, so, uh, we brought in
(00:23):
another hitter. We got Frank Russo, the associate athletic director
here at Mueller and Luke or I was gonna say, Frank,
you got big shoes to fill with Andy Nagle.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Absolutely, Naggs is one of one, one of one, just
to ask him, right, Oh, absolutely, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But you were gracious enough last second I called you.
I said, uh, Naggs is a late call off with
good reasons, so can you fill in for Naggs? And
you were like next man in.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's all part of being part of the
team itself and excited to be in this role today.
New experience for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, because you're not being interviewed always. And I said
before we went on the air, there's a difference between
being a host and being a guest. As a host,
you're like talking back and forth it's a little bit different.
But Frank, I will ask you to talk a little
bit about just this is the fall sports season and
we are, at least from a football perspective, halfway through
the fall sports season. Do you guys ever get a
(01:24):
chance down in athletics just to hit the pause button
and go, let's catch our breath. I guess the answer is.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No, no, because what we're also doing is that we're
focused not only on the present and the current athletics,
but also you know, the winter sports are coming up here,
they're getting ready to start to condition. You know, we're
focused on ensuring that all of our coaches are compliant.
(01:53):
So those coaches sometimes that are out of season, you know,
I mean, they kind of wait until they're near or
at you know, their their coaching assignments.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, just not just from that perspective to either, Frank,
I mean Joe Stricker, our executive producer for w mo OE,
is emailing me, texting me almost daily saying I need
the schedules for this team. This team he's promoted. He's
creating and curating all of the marketing material for the
radio broadcast for all of these teams as well. So
to your point. You do have to get ahead of it,
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don't you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah. I mean, like a case in point right now,
I've already gotten transportation request for our lacrosse program for
the spring, the spring, which is pushed you know. I
pushed that stuff out to our local partner, Peterman Bus,
as well as executive charters for out of out of state.
(02:46):
So also have that for baseball as well. So so yeah,
we're always working, uh, not only to serve the current
programs and sports that are, but but also preparing for
the upcoming seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well and then a kudos do you guys what you
guys have done this year? And I love it as
you're getting ahead from a communications standpoint, case in point,
this Elder game, you guys are communicating details about Elder
at least internally initially and then externally tickets, how to
get tickets, where to park. You guys are doing that
a week in advance, which is great for our fans
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to be able to start, you know, figuring out game plans,
where they're going to park and all that thing. How
do they get tickets? Because when you can, like you
guys have been doing, when you can answer the questions
before they're asked that releases all the anxiety, and you
guys have done a great job with that this season.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah. Well, again, our goal is to communicate effectively with
our community, which is you know, our student body as
well as their families and our alumni as well. But
also you know media, local media likes to be involve
in terms of our asking questions is to you know
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the logistics and you know where we're going to be,
when we're going to be there, and you know they
need access as well or request access to the game.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And there was a time when I first started back
in twenty nineteen when Mohler was struggling athletically one with
several different Soccer was doing really well, basketball was doing well,
but you know, there were a lot of the sports
that weren't having the success they're having today. Therefore, the
desire and all these things weren't always there, but now
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they are.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And our goal, to be honest with is again to
compete at the highest level and succeed at the highest
level in every sport. And so providing our student athletes,
you know, the resources that they need to improve and
progress and get better and have confidence not only on
the field but in the classroom. We want to provide
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that that they have a remarkable experience and that again
you know, this particular journey they have, which is four years,
is at the highest quality. So we're very mindful of
that and continue to try to push the envelope in
terms of what we can do to help our student
athletes and again keep our entire community involved in the
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growth of Molar Athletics.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And it's an evolving thing as well.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Correct, correct, Right, So there's always something new coming down
the pike, whether it's technology or new policies coming up,
and we've got to be able to adapt and grow
and move in those directions again to maximize our potential
here at Molar.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Frank you, obviously with the track and field success that
you've had, we'll talk about that more a little bit
after our in our third block, but the success you've
had in track and field has been something that i
know a lot of people around the city are looking at,
going what's going on there and what has been the
magic to get more kids involved in the program.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, again, I'm I'm a true believer in providing opportunities
to compete and also you know, for our student athletes
to be accountable and so practices paramount in terms of
what we expect out of our student athletes. But what
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they find out is that with hard work, that life
lesson of hard work and persistence, that results are going
to happen personally on their level. And so so TRACK
and FILLE provides that it's not subjective. They earn their
spot and those are things that they can take with
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them once they leave MOLAR that the work ethic counts,
that UH, discipline counts, that you know, navigating through highs
and lows UH to ultimately get to achieve your goals
can happen. And you know that only happens through experience,
that only happens through competition. And so we've expanded our
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schedules UH to again provide opportunities for all of our
student athletes. It doesn't matter if they are again a
well experienced, successful student athlete or if they're coming out
for the first time. Our goal is to provide if
they're gonna if they're going to be a practice each
and every day. We want them to have the opportunity
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to compete on meet day and we're very mindful of
that and I think we've done a good job in
terms of our scheduling and again creating those opportunities for
every one of our athletes to uh to have that
experience week in and week out. And so that's I
(08:04):
think attributes to our growth. And then also we try
to create a really exciting schedule, so indoors, you know,
we we have a schedule that that compares to a
lot of colleges. I mean, we go start off at
University of Michigan, we go to Ohio State, we go
to University of Louisville, So they're they're competing at world
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class facilities a lot of these particular colleges have, and
so that provides an exciting and unique experience. So all
of those things I think contribute to the overall journey
that the student athlete has and experience they have during
that season. And again, you know, experiences that the students
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have well word of mouth, will talk to their friends
and let them know how enjoyable, how fun that the
sport can be. And again I believe in the social
aspect too of you know, student athletes coming together. Track
and field brings athletes from you know, all the different
sports throughout the fall and winter into spring.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We'll talk more about the current cross country team and
what Dave Prager and you yourself and the boys are
doing here. In the third block of the show, we're
gonna take a break come back. We have Luke Sibaluski,
sophomore here. Well, we're talking about the art chalk Murals. Greig,
We're gonna we're gonna coach you up. See how much
you know about chalk murals and the Molar house system
when we come back.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
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And it is a beautiful week here in Cincinnati. No rain,
Frank Crews, So how cool is that not to have
any any rain to deal with on Friday nights With
the football team, we've had knock on wood and I
think it's going to be the same this Friday. Picture
perfect weather.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So far this fall, we've had an amazing fall in
terms of the weather for Friday night games, Saturday night games,
Saturday afternoon games. Couldn't fast for a better fall.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I am looking at the long range forecast. Are you
ready for this long range? It's going to be in
the upper seventies a kickoff Friday. The following Friday, the
rock drops. It'll be high temperatures, I'm told, in the
sixties the following week. So this might be our last
warm weather. This will be the last time we see
you in those those golden tan legs that you've got shorts.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well, let's look at this week all right, real quick.
The GCL Championship is on the line. We got perfect
weather and we're at the pit.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Preach, Frank preach.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So not a more exciting time to be a Molar
fan and again witness championship football Friday night.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Actually, lie to you, it's gonna it's going to be
eighty one for a high on Friday, the following Friday,
seventy six for a high. Then the bottom falls out
the following Friday. At least what it looks like here,
temperatures in the sixties. I'm kind of looking forward to it.
That's Friday night football. You got to have the temperatures
drop when the pumpkins hit the shelves at Kroger's. I
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expect the temperatures in the sixties, all.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Right, and that people like that crisp weather.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, a fit and I know what you like. Let
everybody know the millions of fans out there now, which
you get every morning at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Peppermint mocha Christmas and a cup.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
How we look at extra hot, extra all year long,
all as a matter. If it's one hundred and five
degrees outside, you're going to the Christmas in a cup? Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Nothing like it right now, though, you gotta they recommend it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
In the studio here you got a little something out.
What is that you got there?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Bubbler? And again we had those hurdles here, well, they
were delivered here in several cases.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I might have to stop down after the show. Picked one.
Is it cool or you just get a room temperature?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, no, it was cold, so it was actually.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Is that a whoo?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And it's bubbly. It's it's all good, bubbly, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All right. We had Luke in studio here. Luke's had
enough of the beverage talk. Luke, Welcome to the Big Show,
the Big MO Podcast. A sophomore here at Moeller, Welcome
to the Big Mo Podcast. You're not on, you gotta
turn your mic on there you go. You're still not on.
Try it again, you you're still not on. See what
happens when you don't have Joe Strecker, your executive producer
in studio. It says you're on. You got the wrong
(14:07):
one end. You gotta put the right mic in, Luke,
that's on us. See what happens when when Joe Strecker
is not in studio things fall apart. He's busy producer.
He just got back from a vacation, Frank, Joe gets
one vacation a year. He was down in Florida. I'm
surprised he came back. Luke, give me a shout out.
Now works a lot better when your MIC's turned on. Luke,
(14:31):
talk about your sophomore here at Moeler. I want to
talk a little bit about what you're doing on the
side for Mohler and the photography part. But we'll get
to that in a minute. But today I was up
there with you guys the chalk mural, the house competition.
Explained to everybody what it is.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, so every year we do a chalkmur competition. The
winner is winning house points. We won it last year
it was Saylor.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Zaylor never heard of him. For the Marrynus code co
Zaylor you a Jaylor Bear?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Absolutely, Team sailor mute his Mike Jostrecker go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, so the winner gets six points for the marrying.
This cup is judged by outside people, so they come in.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Who's the outside people? Is it Frank?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We never know, it'll tell us, they'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It could be me. We don't know, Frank, that could
be you, Frank, chalk murals never.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I mean, I'm not. I would love to be an
artistic guy, my son.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Actually, is that surprised me because you're a renaissance man.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, I, like I said, I but I enjoy art,
I really do. Yeah. So you know the wall murals,
those types of things, I think, uh really enhance you know,
city scapes, those types of things. So yeah, I think
it's it's very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I think you and I should go get me a
bubbly after this and we'll take a field trip up
to the Jerry and see what these guys are doing.
It's really remarkable, Luke. You guys have done. But it
starts with a concept, right, talk about that.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, So the theme every year is different. So this
year our theme is hall so everybody bases their design
on Halloween and things like that. So some houses a pumpkin,
some houses have scarecrows. We have a bunch of different things.
Ours house with Saragoza is a graveyard, so we have
that and it's called the Ghost of the GCL. So
as Molar reigned supreme always, we have three two stones
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of the other three GCL house schools and we're coming together.
It's a group of six of us and we're trying
to make our best chalk meal to win some mouse points.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So what goes into the preparations for this, Because somebody's
gonna take a lead, right.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, So from my house, I took lead, and there's
a group of us and we just thought of some
ideas and we made some design mock ups.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, how do guys get in? How are guys like picked?
To God? Because there's some guys up there. I would
never even think would be into Matt Ponitowski's up there.
He'd be the last person I think would be an
artistic have artistic value. I shouldn't say that, but he's
up there hammering away. How do you pick the guys
that are involved in this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So our house reaches out sees who wants to volunteer,
you'll miss you'll have to miss class and you'll have
to figure out your work. But if you want to
volunteer and try to make a work of art, you
can go ahead and do that.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All right, it's a Halloween theme. Do you have a
front runner early on?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I mean, I think we're doing pretty good. But Zaylor
looks great, Pillar looks good.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
They all. Do you have a favorite? Is they're a favorite?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I think the Zaylor they look pretty good.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Of course you're going to say zylor So when you
now you go with the competition, you said it goes
to House points, right, yep, And so this talk a
little bit about the House Cup and then the points,
and it's competitions all year long. People probably don't understand that.
The magic of the House system is obviously the mentorship
and things like that, but ultimately you guys are all
going for the main prize, which is the cup at
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the end of the competition at the end of the year.
Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
So throughout the year, as Bert said, there is competitions,
so there are things like the chalk muralle. Then also
going on concurrently is alse soccer, so there's teams of
sixteen kids playing during met a group in en Bloc,
there's eight kids on a team or eight kids playing
during a time, So they're all out there playing and
whoever wins that gets six points to the Marynus Cup,
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and second place is five and so on and so forth.
But it's all towards this final goal of winning the
Marynus Cup, and it all builds brotherhood throughout.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's awesome, Frank. The magic of the house system here,
you and I have both been at other places. It
is unbelievable the magic the mojo that this house system
creates for these guys.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, there's a lot of pride involved in brotherhood, involved
in you know that they the whole concept of the
house and and I think that that's really again another
dynamic that Molar provides that most schools, you know, uh
don't venture down that bro Yeah, but it is something
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that the overall experience and helping you know, a student
that comes into Molar grow into a remarkable man once
they leave. And these particular experiences then lead to lifelong
relationships which are I think really really unique, you know,
for our particular students.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And I like how it's not just athletic events that
you compete against. I mean, obviously today you're using more
of an art artistic lens through the chalk burrows. You
may have mentioned it earlier, Luke, but what are some
of the other competitions for folks out there might be listening.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So each season for sports, we have an event.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Or house spirit event.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, so during the fall we have soccer, during the
winner we have basketball, and in the spring its volleyball.
So there's always these opportunities athletically. But throughout the year
there is senior pup putt, so that's a competition, then
their senior bowling, so there's always these competitions and at
the very end of the year that's a main a
final event is the Crusader Game, so that's where everybody's involved.
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We're doing things like ping pong or tug of war
or dodgeball, these things all combined it a one in.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Discipline is part of it as well. I'm not going
to mention any house names, but discipline could play in
a role. Number of detentions and things like that, attendance,
all these things play into it, which is is pretty cool, Luke.
Aside from the chalk merrow and I'm going to push
out a story today on the Chalkmrrow that you were
gracious enough to host for me up at the Jerry.
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You're also one of This is the thing I'm most
excited about, is one of I think six photographers. Back
in the day we used to have and frankle tay this,
we used to have to pay freelance photographers to come
into Mueller to tape take what I would call professional
high level photographers. Frank, we now have six dudes, at
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least six, maybe more who now come to our sporting events,
not just football, not just baseball and basketball. But you
have one, you have one in track and field and
cross country. The guys that come out and take incredible
images and then share them on Instagram that they don't
make people pay for him. It's unbelievable. How did you
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get involved in that? And how powerful is that having
classmates that you kind of collab with and work with
throughout the year. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So last year a senior brought me on and he
gave me his camera.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Who was it?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Will Shift?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Will Shift? Will was unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
So he brought me on and kind of got me started.
But since then it's been just blowing up based on
how many people want to do it and how people
are so good at it. So it's a blessing to
be able to have people that I am around taking
pictures and taking a video with. Being able to collab
and get better with is someone that challenges me is awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I talk about some of the other guys that are
involved as well.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Yeah, so we have two seniors.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Writer Hicks and Will Schiff for two outgoing seniors, were
who really kind of kickstarted this when they were younger,
of course, but who are some of the other guys currently?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
So currently we have three seniors and Digan Lyons, Hunter Burke,
and Jacob gaff they're all three front runners for our
program and photography.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So they're all and organically happened like it wasn't something
where we said, Frank, from an athletic perspective, we need
these guys to do this. It just kind of organically bloom.
Now the problem is it's hard to get them all
sideline passes to the Big Games. But what an incredible
talent you guys have to give back to the Molar family,
to your classmates. Frank, you've seen him, I mean they're amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Ben Meter need one who is instrumental and he yeah,
he's outstanding. And again the athletic Department really appreciates, you know,
your guys time and effort because social media is so
powerful today and bringing people when to you know, these
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big time events and so your creativeness and talent again
really projects out. And it's a very powerful statement, really is.
And so yeah, it is appreciate.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
The challenge you, Luke is now to find that freshman
or that incoming twenty I guess it'd be thirty class
at twenty twenty ninth, the twenty thirty class, who are
those next guys? So when you and Banner seniors, who
are those next crop of guys coming in? So we
can continue to build this thing. And I've been challenging
these guys to get it, you know, digital art and
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some of these an animated graphics and things like that. Luke.
I think I've pushed you on that too. Is you
know you leave here for Moler. There's a lot of
guys out there that can take photographs and take real
good photographs. What do you what are you doing? Luke?
That just sets yourself even higher. You know, animation, things
like that is another challenge for you. Uh, Frank, we're
gonna go to a break here, Luke, thank you so much.
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I'm gonna ask Luke in a second, if you could
be Halloween's coming up, Frank, if you could be a
go out and be a little socially inappropriate, but if
you could dress up for Halloween? Frank Russo, what would
you be dressing up as this Halloween?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh, that's a good one. Next, Saban, Now, how would
you do that?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
First off, I pulled all the Bama gear. You know that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, that's a that's a.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And uh, you know he would be he would maybe
definitely one.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Uh, I think you could enjoy I think you could.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I think I could pull it off.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, Luke, you're kind of in that. And there's some
high school guys that go trick or treating, so you're
still within that relatively acceptable tricker treating age. You're coming
close to the end, though, Who would you go out
as Halloween?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I think I would go out as a Reds player?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
What a red player? A Reds player? Which one? How
about you're a lefty? So how about nicol Adolo? You're
not tall enough though? No, who would you? Brent?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Suitor would be nice.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah. How would you do that though? Just put a
red uniform on, yeah, with suitor on the back.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yeah, bring my glove, all right, Frank.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Last question, your favorite Halloween song. It can't be Monster Mash.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
There will we give you some options, yes, monster Mash.
How about this one? You can't go run with this one?
Little Rock. Well, somebody's watching.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I thought for sure. I thought for sure the number
one Halloween song I thought would be this one. Luke.
You know this is oh yeah, thriller, thriller Michael Jack. Yeah, absolutely,
it's the big mo podcast. Luke, thank you so much
for joining us again and keep doing what you're doing.
(25:22):
It's awesome what you and I wish I could get
all you guys in the area, but just so happens,
scheduling wise, it work would get you up here today.
I want to thank you for everything you're doing and
keep doing it. Keep pushing that envelope. What's that next
thing we can be doing to put Moeller on the biggest.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Map and from the Athletic Department, Thanks Luke, to you
and and all the students for for your time and
commitment to help enhance our department in school.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's awesome. That's Luke Sobuluski. We just call him Sobo.
It's a lot easier. Luke Soboluski, the sophomore man of
Moeller on the Big Mo Podcast Frank Ruso jumping Frank,
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This team is locked in. Once you're locked in, everybody's
locked in. Everybody's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Really locked in and very focused.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
See locked in you can Crusader football this Friday against
the Panthers, locked in. Everybody was all locked in the
best Crusader covers before every game, Butgomery in count down
the kickoff.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Focused and locked in on that locked in now first
played it last on w m O, and the Moler
Broadcasting Network wondered.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
What did you hear? What the New York Mets did
City Bank as the City Bank field when the Reds
got made it into the wild Card. No, I'm sorry
it was it was the Miami Marlins. The Marlins beat
the Mets to give the Reds the wild Card birth
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and they play this song down in Miami in front
of the Mets players.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
That is Uh, that's pro level trolling right now. Yes,
that was pretty cool and they were not happy. Then
the Marlins get a photo, a team photo like they
won the World Series because they knocked the Mets out,
and they were all upset about that. Good stuff. Uh, Frank,
that's cool man. Those those kids and Luke's out of
the studio now, what they're doing is fabulous. It is
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so cool.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
They're so talented too. I mean they are and the
high end equipment that they are using is I mean,
it's professional grade, you know, so you can say that
they're investing some.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Of the kids. Actually, Frank, I don't know if you
know this, some of them and their parents go out
and rent cameras because they don't their cameras aren't sufficient
for what they want to produce. They go out and
they rent from Dodds or whatever. They rent these high
end cameras just so these kids can have this experience.
It's it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, but well and again this is you know, high
schools just four straight years, and you know, to be
able to get these opportunities at this particular age, which
again could project them to be doing some things professionally
or on the collegiate level later on in life, is amazing.
And it all starts here.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Very cool, Frank, we talked briefly about the cross country
track program that from a holistic view, fifty thousand foot overview,
how you goten the kids involved. Let's let's drill down
a little bit more on this cross country program. Dave
Pranger's done a great job, as he always does. I
feel like every year the cross country program gets just
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a little bit better. And there used to be from
one of the way I think it was described to
me as there was another school in the conference that
was always number one and there was a big gap
to number two and then three four. That gap from
one to two has shrunk dramatically within the cross country program.
Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah? Accurate? And again, our our program continues to grow
and the success continues to again from our end, we
continue to raise the bar our continue our athletes continue
to again meet those expectations. And we've got the GCL
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Championships that are coming up next week. So the Ross Invitational,
which is the last invitational of the season, is this Saturday,
and you know that kind of sets the tone to
the championship part of the season. The uniqueness which has
taken place in our sport UH this fall and in
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the spring and track and field is that HSAA has
expanded their divisions and as a result of that, the
Division one now is no longer going to have a
district championship, but is going to UH incorporate UH super
regional UH type of or MATT, which is going to
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mean that instead of having four regions, there's now going
to be three. There's going to be twenty seven teams
I believe in our particular region that will step up
on the line uh the last week of October, and
seven of those teams in Boys Division one would advance
to the state championship. I've never this is the first
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year in my forty two years in the sport that
they've brought so many advanced, so many teams to the
state championship, which again provides athletes an opportunity to compete
at the highest level. And that's what everyone, all the
coaches aspire to, the athletes aspire to to getting to
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that level experiencing you know that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So and I'm looking down at your roster now for
your for the cross country program, you're' you've got a
lot of seniors on here. Two of the ones that
I off the top of my head that you Max
Herzog obviously Brock goober presson at Wesley, three of your
bell Cows. I think on that cross country program, oh,
in speed and know in speed, I've got it in speed.
But you got some dudes and great leaders. And what
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I love about that group of cross country runners, they're tight,
like they're extremely close, and it's fun being around them.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And the sport will do that. We'll bring athletes together,
but also MOLAR, the culture of MOLAR again enhances those
experiences and those relationships and fosters those types of relationships.
And so when athletes, and I've seen this in other sports,
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when they get to by the time they get to
their senior year, you see a very connected and group
that from a chemistry standpoint, it all kind of pulls together.
And our leadership has been great this year. We've got
some really really talented and experience in this particular class
I came in with from that particular standpoint. So, you know, Preston,
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Wesley Brock Gruber, Owen Speed, We're three that were highly
accomplished middle school distance runners. And you know, right off
the bat, you know Brocks, you know, ascends to first
team All GCL as a freshman and that's really really
rare just because of the talent that's in our league
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and to be able to do that as a freshman
is again quite unique. And so he's been a great leader.
Preston has been a great leader. Owen is one of
the most passionate athletes I've ever been around and and
loves it once compete at the next level, and you
got Duncan Shirley who we got from.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
He is the funniest guy on the cross country team
and maybe the school dry humor. He is holy. Have
you ever got chances to hang with him? He's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So Duncan brings a different, like I said, kind of attitude.
He's he's great from a state point of his willingness
to be coachable and the work that he puts in.
He's really a middle distance runner that is competing, you know,
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and as a result of that has really been an
asset to the cross country team. He his first two
years he played soccer, uh and transitioned into to running
cross country his junior year, so this is really his
second year of, you know, of the sport itself. And
it's not easy to transition from running the four hundred
and eight hundred, which when he came in as a
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freshman in track, to run in a five thousand meter
race on grass.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
But that's another example of a guy who maybe came
to Mulwer to play this sport and it didn't work
out for whatever reason, and and then he found your
program and there we could fill a library with a
number of guys just since you've been here in four
and a half years. Of guys that have done that
who maybe didn't make the baseball team and ended up
running in they became pretty pretty elite runners.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Right and major contributors. And that is the beauty of
the journey in high school, as you know, for student
athletes to find or to realize they had a talent
or god given talent that they didn't know they had
and then become major contributors. And those experiences then set
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the tone for the rest of their life in terms
of the life lessons that they may experience while competing
in track and field and cross country.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
And as a coach, I don't want to be far
reaching here, but to see those guys excel and contribute,
like you just said, that's got to rival a state
championship wins. Just to see a kid come I had
no idea how to run or wasn't conditioned to run
and then become a you know, competitor inside our conference.
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That has to be rewarding for a coach like you.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Oh yeah, well, it's great to see, you know, athletes
come in like I said, at the ground level and
see that progress that that those day to day incremental
improvements ultimately end up shining. Uh, where the athlete is
exuding confidence in a competitive spirit because of the effort
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that he put in and the dedication that he put in,
and you know, and an almost you know, an attitude
of you know, I want to prove something to everyone,
and that that kind of edge that they would bring.
Let's say they came in to do one sport and
then ended up, like I said, in in you know,
track and field or cross country and and and found,
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like I said, really a particular talent. They had no
idea that they had.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
GCL South Championships this weekend, and then beyond that, what
are we looking at?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
GCL championships are no next week next weekend? So this
weekend is our final invitational at ross this weekend. And
so yeah, really excited. We've got, like, as we mentioned,
some really talented seniors. It's very dedicated seniors. If I
could bring in Zach Laser has also been one who's
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really he's gone through some highs and lows throughout his career,
but it has been one that we could always count on.
And his particular attitude staying with it, working hard. It's
really you know what we're all about what our programs
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about is again persistence and resiliency.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Frank a big one this Friday. I feel like Moeller,
they've been number one all year and I feel like
whatever team they're playing that week is ranked number two.
I think you can go to Princeton, you go to
say Next it's just whatever teams or they're defending state champion.
No different this week. Number one Molar five and one
two in the conference, two and oh or excuse me,
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number two Elder six and oh two and no inside
the conference. This is for all the marbles, the g
CL South Championship. I just feel like every Friday, whoever
Molar is playing is number two and it's a big
game and this is no different this week.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
It's must see. I mean to attend the game to
our fan base, to be a part of that energy
and to be that twelfth man, you know, to really
help the team. And that's going to be an important week.
I mean to be at the pit that they're going
to be. You know, if you haven't been there, there
out yet. They never sell out, That's what I'm told people.
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Thousand seat yep, and they will, they will pack them
in and so uh but that's what makes you know,
the pit unique.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
And the fire department's not listening there you go, it's right, right,
But all those firefighters are there at Station twenty four,
all elder Grass, so they're not going to say anything.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right and so but it makes it unique for you know,
the people and the fans that are in attendance, and
more importantly the players and the coaches that are down
on the field that it'll be you know, this weekend
they will remember the rest of their life. And so yeah,
looking forward to like we do each and every week,
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to be on the sideline, have that opportunity to see
you know, our team, you know, take the field and
you know, dominate games like they have throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Mueller's won twelve consecutive hard to really fathom twelve consecutive
GCL South games, Danny back to September of twenty twenty one,
when you got to go back years to find their
last loss. That's impressive. They're looking to capture their fourth
straight league title. Big Mos Handed Princeton Louisville Trinity, two
very elite teams on their own, They're only losses of
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the season. Frank Muller's averaging thirty eight points a game now,
Elder chumping Frank Russo six to zero for the first
time since two thousand and one. Their next three teams
that the Panthers will face are currently five and one each.
The Elder defense is allowing just sixty seven yards a game.
We played a team recently that also wasn't allowing many yards,
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and we saw what happen. They're uh, that's sixty seven
yards a game, rushing twelve points per contest. The Elder
Panthers offense is only turned over the ball once or
excuse me twice. Moeller's only turned it over once. Burt
Athy Andy twenty nine and eight overall at Moeler, Doug
Ramsey two twenty nine and one oh seven at Elder.
Mowler with forty appearances in the playoffs sixty seven and
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thirty one. Elder twenty six appearances, forty five and twenty four.
This is it, Frank, this is what you come and
I've heard Mark Elder say it many times in Burt
Banthy Andy and Doug Rossfeld. This is why you come
to Moller High School for elite opportunities like this.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
One percent and how exciting it is and to have
two powerhouse tradition, rich communities coming together and settling it out,
you know, between the lines Friday night at a historic
venue like the pit So High School. You know, football
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at its pinnacle.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
And of course you got Matt Ponatowski defending mister Ohio,
and everybody's like, wow, you know all his what he's done.
But how about a guy named Juice Glover. Juice Glover
comes on the scene last week and all he did
was lug it for one hundred and twenty nine yards
and two rushing touchdowns. You throw in Reggie Watson, the
Louisville Commit, only five foot six, one hundred and fifty
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pounds of them. He has thirty eight receptions on the
year for three hundred and eighty six yards five touchdowns.
This Molar football team can beat you on the ground,
they can beat you in the air. Defensively, they're starting
to get locked in. That od line is starting to
get a lot of experience. This is a dangerous Molar
crusader football team that Elder has to prepare for.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
And the talent in the way in which these guys
attack their game is so different. Reggie's very very quick, elusive,
sure handed Juice the first time. I mean, he just
jumped out. He just punishes, you know, whoever is in
front of him. I mean he he goes in with
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an attitude that he is going to be the one
who's going to inflict you know, the contact. And that's
real exciting to see that. And then you know, Cooper
McCutcheon's been phenomenal that that catch was amazing last last
week and I was so excited for him and also
Matt as well. And again the offensive line providing the
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protection from that has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
And what was most cool for me and I said
this to Sam Hamilton. Everybody thinks those two compete for
balls and that the most excited guy on that field
when Cooper contat was Sam Hamilton. And to see that brotherhood,
that camaraderie between the two is pretty special.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Is right. Yeah, that's great. And both of them are
going to go to outstanding universities. You got Cooper going
to University of North Carolina and you got Sam going
to West Virginia, and it speaks to their talent and
again and their production and what they've been able to
accomplish in their work ethic and so couldn't be happier
for both of those guys.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
And the leaker weapon for the smaller football team might
be junior kicker Jack Malibar is connected on thirty one
extra point attempts, Frankie six for seven field goal tries,
and has scored at least six points in every contest
so far for Moller's. That's a weapon when you get
into close games like that. I think Jack could be
the difference in some of those close games.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh he's money. I mean when you watch him and
there's a confidence that you see in him when he
goes out there to kick that you feel like, hey,
this is going through the upright spar Could you.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Kick a field goal if we went outside right now?
Where are you good? From? Inside? What?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Inside?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I know my strength, the weakness is one would not
be kicking that ball through the uprights.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
It's unbelievable. It's a big game on Friday night, it's
Molar and Elder. It'll be packed. I'm guessing probably what.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Oh ten thousand, Yeah, and that'll be really cool. I mean,
just like I said, the atmosphere there at the history
behind that stadium and that and with the GCL on
the line, can't get any better than that. So real
excited about the upcoming Friday night Friday Night Lights. So
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real exciting, so go Pig Mo.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Kickoff is at seven o'clock. You can get the Montgomery
and countdown to kickoff beginning at six thirty with Joe
Strecker jumping Joe Strecker, Rob Foltz the play by play
At seven o'clock. It's Molar number one in the city
and the state, versus Cincinnati's number two team, the Elder Panthers.
We thank you for joining this rendition of The Big
Mo Podcast's Frank Russo, Associate athletic Director. I'm Big Moo Barrett.
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We'll see you next week.
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Andy Nagle is on assignment, so, uh, we brought in
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another hitter. We got Frank Russo, the associate athletic director
here at Mueller and Luke or I was gonna say, Frank,
you got big shoes to fill with Andy Nagle.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Absolutely, Naggs is one of one, one of one, just
to ask him, right, Oh, absolutely, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But you were gracious enough last second I called you.
I said, uh, Naggs is a late call off with
good reasons, so can you fill in for Naggs? And
you were like next man in.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's all part of being part of the
team itself and excited to be in this role today.
New experience for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, because you're not being interviewed always. And I said
before we went on the air, there's a difference between
being a host and being a guest. As a host,
you're like talking back and forth it's a little bit different.
But Frank, I will ask you to talk a little
bit about just this is the fall sports season and
we are, at least from a football perspective, halfway through
the fall sports season. Do you guys ever get a
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chance down in athletics just to hit the pause button
and go, let's catch our breath. I guess the answer is.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No, no, because what we're also doing is that we're
focused not only on the present and the current athletics,
but also you know, the winter sports are coming up here,
they're getting ready to start to condition. You know, we're
focused on ensuring that all of our coaches are compliant.
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So those coaches sometimes that are out of season, you know,
I mean, they kind of wait until they're near or
at you know, their their coaching assignments.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, just not just from that perspective to either, Frank,
I mean Joe Stricker, our executive producer for w mo OE,
is emailing me, texting me almost daily saying I need
the schedules for this team. This team he's promoted. He's
creating and curating all of the marketing material for the
radio broadcast for all of these teams as well. So
to your point. You do have to get ahead of it,
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don't you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah. I mean, like a case in point right now,
I've already gotten transportation request for our lacrosse program for
the spring, the spring, which is pushed you know. I
pushed that stuff out to our local partner, Peterman Bus,
as well as executive charters for out of out of state.
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So also have that for baseball as well. So so yeah,
we're always working, uh, not only to serve the current
programs and sports that are, but but also preparing for
the upcoming seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well and then a kudos do you guys what you
guys have done this year? And I love it as
you're getting ahead from a communications standpoint, case in point,
this Elder game, you guys are communicating details about Elder
at least internally initially and then externally tickets, how to
get tickets, where to park. You guys are doing that
a week in advance, which is great for our fans
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to be able to start, you know, figuring out game plans,
where they're going to park and all that thing. How
do they get tickets? Because when you can, like you
guys have been doing, when you can answer the questions
before they're asked that releases all the anxiety, and you
guys have done a great job with that this season.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah. Well, again, our goal is to communicate effectively with
our community, which is you know, our student body as
well as their families and our alumni as well. But
also you know media, local media likes to be involve
in terms of our asking questions is to you know
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the logistics and you know where we're going to be,
when we're going to be there, and you know they
need access as well or request access to the game.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And there was a time when I first started back
in twenty nineteen when Mohler was struggling athletically one with
several different Soccer was doing really well, basketball was doing well,
but you know, there were a lot of the sports
that weren't having the success they're having today. Therefore, the
desire and all these things weren't always there, but now
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they are.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And our goal, to be honest with is again to
compete at the highest level and succeed at the highest
level in every sport. And so providing our student athletes,
you know, the resources that they need to improve and
progress and get better and have confidence not only on
the field but in the classroom. We want to provide
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that that they have a remarkable experience and that again
you know, this particular journey they have, which is four years,
is at the highest quality. So we're very mindful of
that and continue to try to push the envelope in
terms of what we can do to help our student
athletes and again keep our entire community involved in the
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growth of Molar Athletics.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And it's an evolving thing as well.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Correct, correct, Right, So there's always something new coming down
the pike, whether it's technology or new policies coming up,
and we've got to be able to adapt and grow
and move in those directions again to maximize our potential
here at Molar.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Frank you, obviously with the track and field success that
you've had, we'll talk about that more a little bit
after our in our third block, but the success you've
had in track and field has been something that i
know a lot of people around the city are looking at,
going what's going on there and what has been the
magic to get more kids involved in the program.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, again, I'm I'm a true believer in providing opportunities
to compete and also you know, for our student athletes
to be accountable and so practices paramount in terms of
what we expect out of our student athletes. But what
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they find out is that with hard work, that life
lesson of hard work and persistence, that results are going
to happen personally on their level. And so so TRACK
and FILLE provides that it's not subjective. They earn their
spot and those are things that they can take with
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them once they leave MOLAR that the work ethic counts,
that UH, discipline counts, that you know, navigating through highs
and lows UH to ultimately get to achieve your goals
can happen. And you know that only happens through experience,
that only happens through competition. And so we've expanded our
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schedules UH to again provide opportunities for all of our
student athletes. It doesn't matter if they are again a
well experienced, successful student athlete or if they're coming out
for the first time. Our goal is to provide if
they're gonna if they're going to be a practice each
and every day. We want them to have the opportunity
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to compete on meet day and we're very mindful of
that and I think we've done a good job in
terms of our scheduling and again creating those opportunities for
every one of our athletes to uh to have that
experience week in and week out. And so that's I
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think attributes to our growth. And then also we try
to create a really exciting schedule, so indoors, you know,
we we have a schedule that that compares to a
lot of colleges. I mean, we go start off at
University of Michigan, we go to Ohio State, we go
to University of Louisville, So they're they're competing at world
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class facilities a lot of these particular colleges have, and
so that provides an exciting and unique experience. So all
of those things I think contribute to the overall journey
that the student athlete has and experience they have during
that season. And again, you know, experiences that the students
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have well word of mouth, will talk to their friends
and let them know how enjoyable, how fun that the
sport can be. And again I believe in the social
aspect too of you know, student athletes coming together. Track
and field brings athletes from you know, all the different
sports throughout the fall and winter into spring.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We'll talk more about the current cross country team and
what Dave Prager and you yourself and the boys are
doing here. In the third block of the show, we're
gonna take a break come back. We have Luke Sibaluski,
sophomore here. Well, we're talking about the art chalk Murals. Greig,
We're gonna we're gonna coach you up. See how much
you know about chalk murals and the Molar house system
when we come back.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
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And it is a beautiful week here in Cincinnati. No rain,
Frank Crews, So how cool is that not to have
any any rain to deal with on Friday nights With
the football team, we've had knock on wood and I
think it's going to be the same this Friday. Picture
perfect weather.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So far this fall, we've had an amazing fall in
terms of the weather for Friday night games, Saturday night games,
Saturday afternoon games. Couldn't fast for a better fall.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I am looking at the long range forecast. Are you
ready for this long range? It's going to be in
the upper seventies a kickoff Friday. The following Friday, the
rock drops. It'll be high temperatures, I'm told, in the
sixties the following week. So this might be our last
warm weather. This will be the last time we see
you in those those golden tan legs that you've got shorts.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well, let's look at this week all right, real quick.
The GCL Championship is on the line. We got perfect
weather and we're at the pit.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Preach, Frank preach.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So not a more exciting time to be a Molar
fan and again witness championship football Friday night.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Actually, lie to you, it's gonna it's going to be
eighty one for a high on Friday, the following Friday,
seventy six for a high. Then the bottom falls out
the following Friday. At least what it looks like here,
temperatures in the sixties. I'm kind of looking forward to it.
That's Friday night football. You got to have the temperatures
drop when the pumpkins hit the shelves at Kroger's. I
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expect the temperatures in the sixties, all.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Right, and that people like that crisp weather.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, a fit and I know what you like. Let
everybody know the millions of fans out there now, which
you get every morning at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Peppermint mocha Christmas and a cup.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
How we look at extra hot, extra all year long,
all as a matter. If it's one hundred and five
degrees outside, you're going to the Christmas in a cup? Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Nothing like it right now, though, you gotta they recommend it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
In the studio here you got a little something out.
What is that you got there?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Bubbler? And again we had those hurdles here, well, they
were delivered here in several cases.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I might have to stop down after the show. Picked one.
Is it cool or you just get a room temperature?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, no, it was cold, so it was actually.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Is that a whoo?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And it's bubbly. It's it's all good, bubbly, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All right. We had Luke in studio here. Luke's had
enough of the beverage talk. Luke, Welcome to the Big Show,
the Big MO Podcast. A sophomore here at Moeller, Welcome
to the Big Mo Podcast. You're not on, you gotta
turn your mic on there you go. You're still not on.
Try it again, you you're still not on. See what
happens when you don't have Joe Strecker, your executive producer
in studio. It says you're on. You got the wrong
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one end. You gotta put the right mic in, Luke,
that's on us. See what happens when when Joe Strecker
is not in studio things fall apart. He's busy producer.
He just got back from a vacation, Frank, Joe gets
one vacation a year. He was down in Florida. I'm
surprised he came back. Luke, give me a shout out.
Now works a lot better when your MIC's turned on. Luke,
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talk about your sophomore here at Moeler. I want to
talk a little bit about what you're doing on the
side for Mohler and the photography part. But we'll get
to that in a minute. But today I was up
there with you guys the chalk mural, the house competition.
Explained to everybody what it is.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, so every year we do a chalkmur competition. The
winner is winning house points. We won it last year
it was Saylor.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Zaylor never heard of him. For the Marrynus code co
Zaylor you a Jaylor Bear?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Absolutely, Team sailor mute his Mike Jostrecker go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, so the winner gets six points for the marrying.
This cup is judged by outside people, so they come in.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Who's the outside people? Is it Frank?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We never know, it'll tell us, they'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It could be me. We don't know, Frank, that could
be you, Frank, chalk murals never.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I mean, I'm not. I would love to be an
artistic guy, my son.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Actually, is that surprised me because you're a renaissance man.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, I, like I said, I but I enjoy art,
I really do. Yeah. So you know the wall murals,
those types of things, I think, uh really enhance you know,
city scapes, those types of things. So yeah, I think
it's it's very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I think you and I should go get me a
bubbly after this and we'll take a field trip up
to the Jerry and see what these guys are doing.
It's really remarkable, Luke. You guys have done. But it
starts with a concept, right, talk about that.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, So the theme every year is different. So this
year our theme is hall so everybody bases their design
on Halloween and things like that. So some houses a pumpkin,
some houses have scarecrows. We have a bunch of different things.
Ours house with Saragoza is a graveyard, so we have
that and it's called the Ghost of the GCL. So
as Molar reigned supreme always, we have three two stones
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of the other three GCL house schools and we're coming together.
It's a group of six of us and we're trying
to make our best chalk meal to win some mouse points.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So what goes into the preparations for this, Because somebody's
gonna take a lead, right.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, So from my house, I took lead, and there's
a group of us and we just thought of some
ideas and we made some design mock ups.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, how do guys get in? How are guys like picked?
To God? Because there's some guys up there. I would
never even think would be into Matt Ponitowski's up there.
He'd be the last person I think would be an
artistic have artistic value. I shouldn't say that, but he's
up there hammering away. How do you pick the guys
that are involved in this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So our house reaches out sees who wants to volunteer,
you'll miss you'll have to miss class and you'll have
to figure out your work. But if you want to
volunteer and try to make a work of art, you
can go ahead and do that.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All right, it's a Halloween theme. Do you have a
front runner early on?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I mean, I think we're doing pretty good. But Zaylor
looks great, Pillar looks good.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
They all. Do you have a favorite? Is they're a favorite?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I think the Zaylor they look pretty good.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Of course you're going to say zylor So when you
now you go with the competition, you said it goes
to House points, right, yep, And so this talk a
little bit about the House Cup and then the points,
and it's competitions all year long. People probably don't understand that.
The magic of the House system is obviously the mentorship
and things like that, but ultimately you guys are all
going for the main prize, which is the cup at
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the end of the competition at the end of the year.
Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
So throughout the year, as Bert said, there is competitions,
so there are things like the chalk muralle. Then also
going on concurrently is alse soccer, so there's teams of
sixteen kids playing during met a group in en Bloc,
there's eight kids on a team or eight kids playing
during a time, So they're all out there playing and
whoever wins that gets six points to the Marynus Cup,
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and second place is five and so on and so forth.
But it's all towards this final goal of winning the
Marynus Cup, and it all builds brotherhood throughout.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's awesome, Frank. The magic of the house system here,
you and I have both been at other places. It
is unbelievable the magic the mojo that this house system
creates for these guys.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, there's a lot of pride involved in brotherhood, involved
in you know that they the whole concept of the
house and and I think that that's really again another
dynamic that Molar provides that most schools, you know, uh
don't venture down that bro Yeah, but it is something
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that the overall experience and helping you know, a student
that comes into Molar grow into a remarkable man once
they leave. And these particular experiences then lead to lifelong
relationships which are I think really really unique, you know,
for our particular students.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And I like how it's not just athletic events that
you compete against. I mean, obviously today you're using more
of an art artistic lens through the chalk burrows. You
may have mentioned it earlier, Luke, but what are some
of the other competitions for folks out there might be listening.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So each season for sports, we have an event.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Or house spirit event.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, so during the fall we have soccer, during the
winner we have basketball, and in the spring its volleyball.
So there's always these opportunities athletically. But throughout the year
there is senior pup putt, so that's a competition, then
their senior bowling, so there's always these competitions and at
the very end of the year that's a main a
final event is the Crusader Game, so that's where everybody's involved.
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We're doing things like ping pong or tug of war
or dodgeball, these things all combined it a one in.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Discipline is part of it as well. I'm not going
to mention any house names, but discipline could play in
a role. Number of detentions and things like that, attendance,
all these things play into it, which is is pretty cool, Luke.
Aside from the chalk merrow and I'm going to push
out a story today on the Chalkmrrow that you were
gracious enough to host for me up at the Jerry.
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You're also one of This is the thing I'm most
excited about, is one of I think six photographers. Back
in the day we used to have and frankle tay this,
we used to have to pay freelance photographers to come
into Mueller to tape take what I would call professional
high level photographers. Frank, we now have six dudes, at
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least six, maybe more who now come to our sporting events,
not just football, not just baseball and basketball. But you
have one, you have one in track and field and
cross country. The guys that come out and take incredible
images and then share them on Instagram that they don't
make people pay for him. It's unbelievable. How did you
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get involved in that? And how powerful is that having
classmates that you kind of collab with and work with
throughout the year. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So last year a senior brought me on and he
gave me his camera.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Who was it?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Will Shift?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Will Shift? Will was unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
So he brought me on and kind of got me started.
But since then it's been just blowing up based on
how many people want to do it and how people
are so good at it. So it's a blessing to
be able to have people that I am around taking
pictures and taking a video with. Being able to collab
and get better with is someone that challenges me is awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I talk about some of the other guys that are
involved as well.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Yeah, so we have two seniors.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Writer Hicks and Will Schiff for two outgoing seniors, were
who really kind of kickstarted this when they were younger,
of course, but who are some of the other guys currently?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
So currently we have three seniors and Digan Lyons, Hunter Burke,
and Jacob gaff they're all three front runners for our
program and photography.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So they're all and organically happened like it wasn't something
where we said, Frank, from an athletic perspective, we need
these guys to do this. It just kind of organically bloom.
Now the problem is it's hard to get them all
sideline passes to the Big Games. But what an incredible
talent you guys have to give back to the Molar family,
to your classmates. Frank, you've seen him, I mean they're amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Ben Meter need one who is instrumental and he yeah,
he's outstanding. And again the athletic Department really appreciates, you know,
your guys time and effort because social media is so
powerful today and bringing people when to you know, these
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big time events and so your creativeness and talent again
really projects out. And it's a very powerful statement, really is.
And so yeah, it is appreciate.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
The challenge you, Luke is now to find that freshman
or that incoming twenty I guess it'd be thirty class
at twenty twenty ninth, the twenty thirty class, who are
those next guys? So when you and Banner seniors, who
are those next crop of guys coming in? So we
can continue to build this thing. And I've been challenging
these guys to get it, you know, digital art and
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some of these an animated graphics and things like that. Luke.
I think I've pushed you on that too. Is you
know you leave here for Moler. There's a lot of
guys out there that can take photographs and take real
good photographs. What do you what are you doing? Luke?
That just sets yourself even higher. You know, animation, things
like that is another challenge for you. Uh, Frank, we're
gonna go to a break here, Luke, thank you so much.
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I'm gonna ask Luke in a second, if you could
be Halloween's coming up, Frank, if you could be a
go out and be a little socially inappropriate, but if
you could dress up for Halloween? Frank Russo, what would
you be dressing up as this Halloween?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh, that's a good one. Next, Saban, Now, how would
you do that?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
First off, I pulled all the Bama gear. You know that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, that's a that's a.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And uh, you know he would be he would maybe
definitely one.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Uh, I think you could enjoy I think you could.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I think I could pull it off.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, Luke, you're kind of in that. And there's some
high school guys that go trick or treating, so you're
still within that relatively acceptable tricker treating age. You're coming
close to the end, though, Who would you go out
as Halloween?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I think I would go out as a Reds player?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
What a red player? A Reds player? Which one? How
about you're a lefty? So how about nicol Adolo? You're
not tall enough though? No, who would you? Brent?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Suitor would be nice.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah. How would you do that though? Just put a
red uniform on, yeah, with suitor on the back.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yeah, bring my glove, all right, Frank.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Last question, your favorite Halloween song. It can't be Monster Mash.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
There will we give you some options, yes, monster Mash.
How about this one? You can't go run with this one?
Little Rock. Well, somebody's watching.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I thought for sure. I thought for sure the number
one Halloween song I thought would be this one. Luke.
You know this is oh yeah, thriller, thriller Michael Jack. Yeah, absolutely,
it's the big mo podcast. Luke, thank you so much
for joining us again and keep doing what you're doing.
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It's awesome what you and I wish I could get
all you guys in the area, but just so happens,
scheduling wise, it work would get you up here today.
I want to thank you for everything you're doing and
keep doing it. Keep pushing that envelope. What's that next
thing we can be doing to put Moeller on the biggest.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Map and from the Athletic Department, Thanks Luke, to you
and and all the students for for your time and
commitment to help enhance our department in school.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's awesome. That's Luke Sobuluski. We just call him Sobo.
It's a lot easier. Luke Soboluski, the sophomore man of
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This team is locked in. Once you're locked in, everybody's
locked in. Everybody's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Really locked in and very focused.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
See locked in you can Crusader football this Friday against
the Panthers, locked in. Everybody was all locked in the
best Crusader covers before every game, Butgomery in count down
the kickoff.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Focused and locked in on that locked in now first
played it last on w m O, and the Moler
Broadcasting Network wondered.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
What did you hear? What the New York Mets did
City Bank as the City Bank field when the Reds
got made it into the wild Card. No, I'm sorry
it was it was the Miami Marlins. The Marlins beat
the Mets to give the Reds the wild Card birth
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and they play this song down in Miami in front
of the Mets players.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
That is Uh, that's pro level trolling right now. Yes,
that was pretty cool and they were not happy. Then
the Marlins get a photo, a team photo like they
won the World Series because they knocked the Mets out,
and they were all upset about that. Good stuff. Uh, Frank,
that's cool man. Those those kids and Luke's out of
the studio now, what they're doing is fabulous. It is
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so cool.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
They're so talented too. I mean they are and the
high end equipment that they are using is I mean,
it's professional grade, you know, so you can say that
they're investing some.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Of the kids. Actually, Frank, I don't know if you
know this, some of them and their parents go out
and rent cameras because they don't their cameras aren't sufficient
for what they want to produce. They go out and
they rent from Dodds or whatever. They rent these high
end cameras just so these kids can have this experience.
It's it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, but well and again this is you know, high
schools just four straight years, and you know, to be
able to get these opportunities at this particular age, which
again could project them to be doing some things professionally
or on the collegiate level later on in life, is amazing.
And it all starts here.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Very cool, Frank, we talked briefly about the cross country
track program that from a holistic view, fifty thousand foot overview,
how you goten the kids involved. Let's let's drill down
a little bit more on this cross country program. Dave
Pranger's done a great job, as he always does. I
feel like every year the cross country program gets just
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a little bit better. And there used to be from
one of the way I think it was described to
me as there was another school in the conference that
was always number one and there was a big gap
to number two and then three four. That gap from
one to two has shrunk dramatically within the cross country program.
Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah? Accurate? And again, our our program continues to grow
and the success continues to again from our end, we
continue to raise the bar our continue our athletes continue
to again meet those expectations. And we've got the GCL
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Championships that are coming up next week. So the Ross Invitational,
which is the last invitational of the season, is this Saturday,
and you know that kind of sets the tone to
the championship part of the season. The uniqueness which has
taken place in our sport UH this fall and in
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the spring and track and field is that HSAA has
expanded their divisions and as a result of that, the
Division one now is no longer going to have a
district championship, but is going to UH incorporate UH super
regional UH type of or MATT, which is going to
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mean that instead of having four regions, there's now going
to be three. There's going to be twenty seven teams
I believe in our particular region that will step up
on the line uh the last week of October, and
seven of those teams in Boys Division one would advance
to the state championship. I've never this is the first
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year in my forty two years in the sport that
they've brought so many advanced, so many teams to the
state championship, which again provides athletes an opportunity to compete
at the highest level. And that's what everyone, all the
coaches aspire to, the athletes aspire to to getting to
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that level experiencing you know that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So and I'm looking down at your roster now for
your for the cross country program, you're' you've got a
lot of seniors on here. Two of the ones that
I off the top of my head that you Max
Herzog obviously Brock goober presson at Wesley, three of your
bell Cows. I think on that cross country program, oh,
in speed and know in speed, I've got it in speed.
But you got some dudes and great leaders. And what
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I love about that group of cross country runners, they're tight,
like they're extremely close, and it's fun being around them.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And the sport will do that. We'll bring athletes together,
but also MOLAR, the culture of MOLAR again enhances those
experiences and those relationships and fosters those types of relationships.
And so when athletes, and I've seen this in other sports,
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when they get to by the time they get to
their senior year, you see a very connected and group
that from a chemistry standpoint, it all kind of pulls together.
And our leadership has been great this year. We've got
some really really talented and experience in this particular class
I came in with from that particular standpoint. So, you know, Preston,
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Wesley Brock Gruber, Owen Speed, We're three that were highly
accomplished middle school distance runners. And you know, right off
the bat, you know Brocks, you know, ascends to first
team All GCL as a freshman and that's really really
rare just because of the talent that's in our league
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and to be able to do that as a freshman
is again quite unique. And so he's been a great leader.
Preston has been a great leader. Owen is one of
the most passionate athletes I've ever been around and and
loves it once compete at the next level, and you
got Duncan Shirley who we got from.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
He is the funniest guy on the cross country team
and maybe the school dry humor. He is holy. Have
you ever got chances to hang with him? He's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So Duncan brings a different, like I said, kind of attitude.
He's he's great from a state point of his willingness
to be coachable and the work that he puts in.
He's really a middle distance runner that is competing, you know,
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and as a result of that has really been an
asset to the cross country team. He his first two
years he played soccer, uh and transitioned into to running
cross country his junior year, so this is really his
second year of, you know, of the sport itself. And
it's not easy to transition from running the four hundred
and eight hundred, which when he came in as a
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freshman in track, to run in a five thousand meter
race on grass.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
But that's another example of a guy who maybe came
to Mulwer to play this sport and it didn't work
out for whatever reason, and and then he found your
program and there we could fill a library with a
number of guys just since you've been here in four
and a half years. Of guys that have done that
who maybe didn't make the baseball team and ended up
running in they became pretty pretty elite runners.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Right and major contributors. And that is the beauty of
the journey in high school, as you know, for student
athletes to find or to realize they had a talent
or god given talent that they didn't know they had
and then become major contributors. And those experiences then set
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the tone for the rest of their life in terms
of the life lessons that they may experience while competing
in track and field and cross country.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
And as a coach, I don't want to be far
reaching here, but to see those guys excel and contribute,
like you just said, that's got to rival a state
championship wins. Just to see a kid come I had
no idea how to run or wasn't conditioned to run
and then become a you know, competitor inside our conference.
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That has to be rewarding for a coach like you.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Oh yeah, well, it's great to see, you know, athletes
come in like I said, at the ground level and
see that progress that that those day to day incremental
improvements ultimately end up shining. Uh, where the athlete is
exuding confidence in a competitive spirit because of the effort
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that he put in and the dedication that he put in,
and you know, and an almost you know, an attitude
of you know, I want to prove something to everyone,
and that that kind of edge that they would bring.
Let's say they came in to do one sport and
then ended up, like I said, in in you know,
track and field or cross country and and and found,
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like I said, really a particular talent. They had no
idea that they had.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
GCL South Championships this weekend, and then beyond that, what
are we looking at?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
GCL championships are no next week next weekend? So this
weekend is our final invitational at ross this weekend. And
so yeah, really excited. We've got, like, as we mentioned,
some really talented seniors. It's very dedicated seniors. If I
could bring in Zach Laser has also been one who's
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really he's gone through some highs and lows throughout his career,
but it has been one that we could always count on.
And his particular attitude staying with it, working hard. It's
really you know what we're all about what our programs
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about is again persistence and resiliency.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Frank a big one this Friday. I feel like Moeller,
they've been number one all year and I feel like
whatever team they're playing that week is ranked number two.
I think you can go to Princeton, you go to
say Next it's just whatever teams or they're defending state champion.
No different this week. Number one Molar five and one
two in the conference, two and oh or excuse me,
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number two Elder six and oh two and no inside
the conference. This is for all the marbles, the g
CL South Championship. I just feel like every Friday, whoever
Molar is playing is number two and it's a big
game and this is no different this week.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
It's must see. I mean to attend the game to
our fan base, to be a part of that energy
and to be that twelfth man, you know, to really
help the team. And that's going to be an important week.
I mean to be at the pit that they're going
to be. You know, if you haven't been there, there
out yet. They never sell out, That's what I'm told people.
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Thousand seat yep, and they will, they will pack them
in and so uh but that's what makes you know,
the pit unique.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
And the fire department's not listening there you go, it's right, right,
But all those firefighters are there at Station twenty four,
all elder Grass, so they're not going to say anything.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right and so but it makes it unique for you know,
the people and the fans that are in attendance, and
more importantly the players and the coaches that are down
on the field that it'll be you know, this weekend
they will remember the rest of their life. And so yeah,
looking forward to like we do each and every week,
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to be on the sideline, have that opportunity to see
you know, our team, you know, take the field and
you know, dominate games like they have throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Mueller's won twelve consecutive hard to really fathom twelve consecutive
GCL South games, Danny back to September of twenty twenty one,
when you got to go back years to find their
last loss. That's impressive. They're looking to capture their fourth
straight league title. Big Mos Handed Princeton Louisville Trinity, two
very elite teams on their own, They're only losses of
(39:56):
the season. Frank Muller's averaging thirty eight points a game now,
Elder chumping Frank Russo six to zero for the first
time since two thousand and one. Their next three teams
that the Panthers will face are currently five and one each.
The Elder defense is allowing just sixty seven yards a game.
We played a team recently that also wasn't allowing many yards,
(40:17):
and we saw what happen. They're uh, that's sixty seven
yards a game, rushing twelve points per contest. The Elder
Panthers offense is only turned over the ball once or
excuse me twice. Moeller's only turned it over once. Burt
Athy Andy twenty nine and eight overall at Moeler, Doug
Ramsey two twenty nine and one oh seven at Elder.
Mowler with forty appearances in the playoffs sixty seven and
(40:41):
thirty one. Elder twenty six appearances, forty five and twenty four.
This is it, Frank, this is what you come and
I've heard Mark Elder say it many times in Burt
Banthy Andy and Doug Rossfeld. This is why you come
to Moller High School for elite opportunities like this.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
One percent and how exciting it is and to have
two powerhouse tradition, rich communities coming together and settling it out,
you know, between the lines Friday night at a historic
venue like the pit So High School. You know, football
(41:21):
at its pinnacle.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
And of course you got Matt Ponatowski defending mister Ohio,
and everybody's like, wow, you know all his what he's done.
But how about a guy named Juice Glover. Juice Glover
comes on the scene last week and all he did
was lug it for one hundred and twenty nine yards
and two rushing touchdowns. You throw in Reggie Watson, the
Louisville Commit, only five foot six, one hundred and fifty
(41:43):
pounds of them. He has thirty eight receptions on the
year for three hundred and eighty six yards five touchdowns.
This Molar football team can beat you on the ground,
they can beat you in the air. Defensively, they're starting
to get locked in. That od line is starting to
get a lot of experience. This is a dangerous Molar
crusader football team that Elder has to prepare for.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
And the talent in the way in which these guys
attack their game is so different. Reggie's very very quick, elusive,
sure handed Juice the first time. I mean, he just
jumped out. He just punishes, you know, whoever is in
front of him. I mean he he goes in with
(42:23):
an attitude that he is going to be the one
who's going to inflict you know, the contact. And that's
real exciting to see that. And then you know, Cooper
McCutcheon's been phenomenal that that catch was amazing last last
week and I was so excited for him and also
Matt as well. And again the offensive line providing the
(42:45):
protection from that has been amazing.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
And what was most cool for me and I said
this to Sam Hamilton. Everybody thinks those two compete for
balls and that the most excited guy on that field
when Cooper contat was Sam Hamilton. And to see that brotherhood,
that camaraderie between the two is pretty special.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Is right. Yeah, that's great. And both of them are
going to go to outstanding universities. You got Cooper going
to University of North Carolina and you got Sam going
to West Virginia, and it speaks to their talent and
again and their production and what they've been able to
accomplish in their work ethic and so couldn't be happier
for both of those guys.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
And the leaker weapon for the smaller football team might
be junior kicker Jack Malibar is connected on thirty one
extra point attempts, Frankie six for seven field goal tries,
and has scored at least six points in every contest
so far for Moller's. That's a weapon when you get
into close games like that. I think Jack could be
the difference in some of those close games.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh he's money. I mean when you watch him and
there's a confidence that you see in him when he
goes out there to kick that you feel like, hey,
this is going through the upright spar Could you.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Kick a field goal if we went outside right now?
Where are you good? From? Inside? What?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Inside?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I know my strength, the weakness is one would not
be kicking that ball through the uprights.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
It's unbelievable. It's a big game on Friday night, it's
Molar and Elder. It'll be packed. I'm guessing probably what.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Oh ten thousand, Yeah, and that'll be really cool. I mean,
just like I said, the atmosphere there at the history
behind that stadium and that and with the GCL on
the line, can't get any better than that. So real
excited about the upcoming Friday night Friday Night Lights. So
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real exciting, so go Pig Mo.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Kickoff is at seven o'clock. You can get the Montgomery
and countdown to kickoff beginning at six thirty with Joe
Strecker jumping Joe Strecker, Rob Foltz the play by play
At seven o'clock. It's Molar number one in the city
and the state, versus Cincinnati's number two team, the Elder Panthers.
We thank you for joining this rendition of The Big
Mo Podcast's Frank Russo, Associate athletic Director. I'm Big Moo Barrett.
(45:03):
We'll see you next week.
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