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August 19, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jack Ebling here with my good friend Matt Sloan a
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Matt in the gang here on West Grand riverd Okamiz.
They're making friends. Well. Welcome back. It is a drive
with Jack the Spotlight Radio Network. Jack Eblin here with
my producer Boston Rob and a couple of very important

(00:48):
guests in studio. My buddy Uper Rob is here. Rob.
I know that you're playing photographer right now, but first
of all, thank you for all the attention you've given
young Ethan and allowing him to do things that otherwise
would not have happened. Uh, Ethan, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You've been here before, yep, yep, way back when when
I was around go ahead. I was way back around
when I was around seven or nine somewhere. Yeah, there,
it was.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
A fun We said then that you were going to
sit here and succeed me. You're not quite there yet,
but you're moving up.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, not quite there yet. Still got my senior year
of high school and Haslet yep, Haslet so home of
that four star and we're, yeah, getting ready for senior year.
It starts tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, you taught Corea Mockri how to carry the football?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Right? Oh, I wish you wish?

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
You think he's going to wind up at Kansas.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, it really comes down nowadays to you know, yeah,
three major drivers. Yeah and iol yep, you're you know,
how early can you get on the field? And is
the school big enough brand for you?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
And I think Kansas just barely kind of outbeat Michigan
State for him. Yeah yeah, but I mean in the
modern area, you can't burn bridges.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
And I've heard that his school of choice, the school
he loves and has not gotten an offer, is the
Ohio State University. Really yes, I don't know if that's true,
but I've heard that through the grapevine from more than
one source. So it kind of came down to a
Kansas Michigan State choice, and I think that there were
a lot of things pointing in that direction. Michigan State

(02:31):
had just brought in a local running back who was heralded,
and Jace Clarizio who said no to Alabama. Yep, and
they have a couple of running backs they love who
are sophomores. Is going to be around for a while.
So when you talk about playing time, Kansas might have
had a better situation for that. They definitely identified him
and wanted him and said this is our guy. Yeah,

(02:53):
so I hope he does very well. He had the
injury last year and that made a big difference. But
when he's healthy, he certainly looks the party. All right,
tell us a little bit about what you are doing
now going into your senior year. What's going to be
the highlight at Azlet High School?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well? For me, you know, senior year, I've been just slowly,
you know, learning more about broadcasting and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
You know, how have you done that?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, Lucky for me, I happen to go to the
one high school that really has a built broadcasting program. Yes,
with Hazlet you know media productions, their YouTube channel. Right,
they broadcast almost every single sporting event.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
And are you doing play by play?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I have not done play by play.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay, it's a challenge for you.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I've thought about it before and mostly right now, I'm
just staying behind the cameras. They're you know, operating a camera.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You be running the station. You'll be the president ESPN. Right, yeah, okay,
that's a good thing, a very good thing for your wallet.
Let's talk a little bit about after that. You have
one more year to go, and I understand you have.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
A choice to right, Yeah, yeah, it's yea.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Tell us about this. We're gonna have one of those
hat dance things where you have the hats out there
when you decide graduation party.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I'll have, yeah, both the Michigan State hat that I'm
looking into and the Syracuse hat, and I'll take him
out and then I'll throw a hat across the building.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Uh huh. All that with the advantage of Michigan State
besides proximity and the fact that you can work with.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Us here is what well, I mean, you'll be around.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Cost in state tuition, right, we get that. What else?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, Yeah, I have a brother who is growing up
right now, he's just two years old. But uh huh,
getting to stay, you know, with family in the area.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Your dad passed away suddenly, yep. One of my favorite people.
And you have come through that shining fashion. Yeah. But
as far as sticking around, do you want to go
and see something else and experience something different?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I mean, yeah, that's part of the driver to go
to a place like Syracuse is that you get to
kind of see how you can do by yourself, you know,
and you get to kind of take a breath of
fresh air in a sense, and you know, see what
you can do. And I mean it's not just that
that's driving you to Syracuse. They're very good for you know, broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
One of the three communications broadcast programs in the country
that is truly elite. I don't know anyone who's ever
said a negative word about the broadcast curriculum at Syracuse,
Northwestern of Missouri, Yep, those are the three stand out
They're the Ivy League of Broadcast Journalism.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Education. Okay, let's talk for a minute very quickly about
Michigan State. What are we going to see?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well this year, I'm expecting Michigan State to improve. I
don't think they should have finished five and seven last year.
I mean that Boston College game. Not bringing up bad memories,
but you probably don't want to lose that game again
this year, especially and that Missian game yet again bad memories.
But I mean you can't leave you know, six points

(06:09):
of field goal field goals on the field basically, and
I mean it's a game of inches. And that's a famous,
you know, famous saying. Mark d' antonio said, a lot
game of inches, because it's true, Yeah, to find the
inches this year. I mean, there were two crucial false
start penalties in that Mischian game. First one came on

(06:30):
the first drive, and we're at the one yard line,
fourth and goal, we're going to go for it. And
even if we don't get it, moving the ball very well, yes,
And even if you don't get it, Michigan's stuck at
the half inch yard line and they're not passing the
ball very well, they're going to turn it. You could
even get a safety. There's points left out there by

(06:52):
a false start penalty that you take your offense off
the field, then kick a field goal, miss it, and
then later on the game, your last drive with the
offense you're getting down the field. You're down by seven.
You have to score a touchdown now and you get
to round the twenty yard line sixte sixteen and it
is first down ten, you head it off, get three

(07:12):
second down and seven fallse start yeap second.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now you're behind the sticks. That was actually their second
penalty on that drive, and they overcame it because they
had a grounding penalty intentional grounding on the first play
of that drive, and then they had the long screen
pass that made it up to Nate Carter. So yeah,
they had to really work to lose that game.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, but they really did. And of course that last
possession you ended with fourth and five five yards away.
Can only wonder what those five yards came from. And lastly,
you know, this year, you don't play Ohio State, you
don't play Oregon. You do have, you know, a lot
more mid tier You're Minnesota, Nebraska, Indiana's Iowa and they're

(07:59):
they're not at home this year. You have them pretty
much all on the road, right, so you have to
find a way to compete on the road. But I'm
not too concerned about, you know, aiden chials being rattled
by a crowd this year.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
The Michigan State regular season record will be.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm gonna go with eight and four.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
This eight was this Jay Green? We got in here,
run eight and four? Eight and four?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Really?

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay, which games do they lose?

Speaker 3 (08:28):
They're gonna lose to use at USC Penn State makes sense,
and then they're gonna win one of these three, which
is at Nebraska, Michigan, and Indiana.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Didn't you see the Michigan players say the game was
already over. They took out their belts and there You
didn't see that whole thing. I mean, it's just a
manner of filling in the numbers.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Right, not this year, so definitely not last year.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
No matter that Michigan State's won ten of the last seventeen.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Gonna say Jackie's gonna beat up with Jay Green? Didn't
Jagreen say and wins?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes he did? Yes's right?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, got to get them two connected.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Uh, it might be scary for Ethan, I don't know.

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Speaker 1 (09:43):
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