EP 384 Coaches Corner Rowan County Athletic Director Broderick Moore along with Head Football Coach Allen Harris and Asst Matt Logan

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1:01street. Sean, Wes, Adam Darren on the beat downtown now. Strider fans on me. From the corner to the corner, we bring the show. Nope, I didn't think so. Hey everybody, welcome into a another episode from corner to corner coaches corner presented by Community Trust Bank. This camera here if you want to, who's who's they got down there on the end with? I've done a show with him. It was a big show. It was a big show. He's done almost many shows in the studio, Sean. By time was, it's very possible. I mean, we're here for two and a half three hours. I'm probably right there. Overall streaming minutes. All right, so episode 384 here and you know, the runky week that was is as fairly minimal as we get ready to transition out of basketball season and into softball and baseball.

2:06And tennis. And tennis. That was the kickoff tonight, but you know, Mother Nature decided it was going to snow again. Who doesn't like 75 degree weather, then thunderstorms overnight, then a inch of snow on the ground. Who doesn't like that? Right. Welcome, big and touch. It is Kentucky. That is for sure. So I got you one better west. It was shorts and t-shirt this morning. Yeah. And then when you come out this afternoon, you got to have a park. Yeah, sure enough. So our so our runky week that was two two things happened. One GRC boys won the region 10 title. They will play Thursday night against Johnson Central in the state tournament. And then of course, the big thing that happened Saturday night. GRC girls coach Robby Graham and the girls over there won their first state title. So congratulations to coach Robby Graham and and the girls over there at GRC.

3:10Tough fought victory over assumption. They were obviously the best team in the field. Adam, I think back all the way to the beginning of the basketball season. You said that it was GRCs to lose and they did not lose it. They did not. They worried me. Two games on the entire season and one of those was out of state tournament. Yeah, I mean, obviously first round they show up and play a North Laurel team who was ready for them. Credit in North Laurel. GRC did not shoot the ball well. And at that moment, I was like, okay, maybe maybe this will be a little tougher. And I thought it would. But then you look at the team stats. They still forced 30 turnovers. They still dominated the offensive rebounds. They still doubled up the opponent and field goal attempts. The shots just didn't fall. Right. Which happens when you play, you know, and recuperated right here to everybody else's house. Yeah, and you made that

4:12comment in one of the text threads. It's like bigger arena, bigger stage, you know, more people, you know, things like that that you know, you get injured. Even though, like those girls had been there in the last couple of years, they were missing the buyer's sisters, right? So this was the first trip without the buyer's girls, which I think I told you before the season two that that worried me even more because like that unlocked a new level for GRC that we hadn't seen yet. Right. Yeah. Because there's not that inside presence that's just commanding touches on the block. A live stroke can do it all. Yeah. And she proved that this week. Yeah. And on the post came interview and they talked to her and eighth grader talking like she's a seasoned veteran saying, you know, last year, we weren't able to get it done for our seniors. She's, you know, talked about she didn't have that big a role last year, but she said, I knew this year, we had some seniors. I want to make sure that I did all I could do to make

5:13sure they walked out here at the champs. And I mean, the only seniors they had was Nihach Esnutt and Tee Gees, right? Jay was a good one. Oh, good. Okay. Yep. Yeah. So they, you know, they did that Saturday night shooting 0 for 11 from behind three point arcs. Yeah, it didn't make it three. That was one three point shot made in that entire game. And it was an assumption three in the second half. The only regular season lost that they had in in the state of Kentucky was a three overtime loss at assumption. So and that was before Ed Munson came along. It was. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. So congrats again to Coach Graham. We're trying to work it out with him and the girls to see when we can get them on the show hopefully. That'll be next Monday night, but we're waiting for confirmation on that. So just keep your ears open for that. So that's not the only that's not the only thing that happened this week. It wasn't. No. No. The archery team. The

6:14archon. We've got we said it earlier. We got a shout out the Montgomery County archery team. They just they went to a tournament. They went to the state in a SP tournament on Saturday and achieved the highest team score they had ever achieved with a three 32 23 3,223. Oh, wait a minute. That's a high score of the season. Didn't break the team record, but just about did. Anyways, you had Mason Stamper that shot a 287 out of 300 and Bella Walker who shot a 283 out of 300 and each of those shot a perfect 50 50 round throughout the tournament a couple times. So, but main thing is as they competed at state did so well that they get a compete as a team at Nationals, not just individuals, but as a team at Nationals. Very cool. So we go Montgomery County archery team. Absolutely. And we

7:18all sat in here and pretend we knew what 50 of 50 and NA whatever that was. We all pretend we knew what that was. Yeah. I mean, it is what it is. It is what it is. Right. And Sean, you mentioned all kinds of sports that's going on right now. None of those are our guests to not though. No. No. We'll find out who our guests are after we take this opening commercial. We'll be right back. At Rumpkey Waste and Recycling, family is at the heart of all we do. Our name is on every truck, every container, every facility. And we take pride in what our family name represents. Friendly, reliable service. Families trust us. Businesses trust us. Communities trust us. And you can too. Learn more about our family business and the important work we do at Rumpkey dot com. Rumpkey Waste and Recycling done right.

8:21All right. We are right. So talking about guests. It was. We have we we travel a little further east down 64 and the blizzard conditions that you never know how it's going to go. 22.4 miles. Right. Not quite. Yeah. It's a little bit further. A little bit further. Probably 29.4. Probably. Yes. Right. So we we have with us round county's athletic director, Brogart Norr and he brought with them or with him a brand new head football coach Alan Harris and assistant Matt Logan. So welcome guys to the show. So all of these sparkling news got the shine still got a new baseball hat. We got new logos. I mean Matt or Brogart comes in just starts to change all kinds of things. So Brogart. That's a nice quarter zip once again. I'm a two weeks. This is this is the e-base special.

9:24I'm making my two laps. So Brogart. Been a fan of the show, you know, for a while now. And you got the AD job and kind of reached out to us and said, Hey, can we get some love in around county? And you know, it's not that we don't want to. It's just it's hard to travel sometimes. But you know, the show can do that, you know. So do you remember that was what? Because I've met you and there and have always said, let's get the round county and Sean's always been like, no, no, we don't. Vikings like, do we take a boat? How do we get it? It's too far. We can't get there in time. There's not a ways there. Look, can we just because you've been gone for six, eight months, don't mean you come back and don't ball the bull crap in one episode. Okay. I've got to go fast. You guys just can't this can't cross the river over there. That's what it is. Well, management has this role. If we don't have a sponsor in that county, we can't do a show in that county. So so Buffalo while wings will

10:24be hitting up. So anyway, Brogric congrats on the new gig there. And one of the first things you got to do was hire a new football coach. Yeah, usually your most money making sport. 29 year old guy got an AD job. Now we're going to hire a football coach. So yeah, we got Mr Alan Harris. Yes, back at the end of December, probably maybe January. Yeah, you guys were supposed to be on and snow, but getting during snow again, but that that shut all that down. So plus we were moving in to the studio at that particular time. It's funny that it's still snowing. Right. It just started again. So Brogric, when you're going into any kind of coaching search, football, baseball, basketball, whatever it is, what's something that you were looking for in a coach? So being young, people really don't think that my generation is like a

11:26big guy on discipline and accountability and just those kind of trace to having somebody. Me, I personally, I played college baseball, I can tell you where I got my discipline and all that from is Alaswood College coach, Mr. Scott Cornett. He's been there for probably over 30, 30 years now. Great guy, but one of the things that we had down there, we had we had rules. We had couldn't have facial hair. So any kind of practice and he kind of road trip, there are sometimes he would have a box of razors waiting for you to get on the bus. If you had facial hair, you had to dry shave before you got on the bus. Seeing a couple of guys do that couldn't have long, long hair. We just had Yankees Vista Contents. Yes, yes. And that he grew up in that time frame where he was a reds fan, but he liked the way the Yankees ran their organization and stuff. But it was just having somebody that had the old school mindset, what I was looking for. And somebody that had a little bit of head coaching experience and not just an assistant that was coming up. That

12:31could really just get together, the community, get some more players out the play and then kind of just, I guess, get more things under control. I guess you could do to say whether it's making sure we have everything that we're supposed to have helmet wise and jersey and being a little bit more organized. But that was mainly the one. I mean, if you do the little things right when it comes organization, the big things will happen. Okay, I've been known six months. I guess I get all the questions. So, Coach Harris, for you, what was it about Round County that attracted you to that job? Well, you know, most of my careers being at the one I level and if you've ever coached there, you understand how frustrating that is. I have a lot of players to work with, funding's low. And I stepped away last year and said that I would never coach again unless it was for a bigger school. And then

13:34I absolutely died, not coach and put all last year. So at the end of the season, I was working as that lead director, Pumble, and I told the superintendent I said, I'm going to reach out to some bigger schools if they open up and if one of them offers me a job, I'm leaving. And he didn't believe me, but because I, Pumble was very good to me. The administration was really good to me. And I had a really good job there and I was happy, but football has just been a part of my life since I was big enough to know, live breathing, you know. So, without football, I was kind of hard for me, even though I got to be still in the game around the game as an athlete director, it's not the same as coach and young men and teaching them and making them better people. So, I reached out to a few schools and I got a few interviews and the thing that impressed me about Brown was it was a Sunday when I applied for the job and I waited to

14:39apply for Brown because it was so far away from my home. So, I waited till it was almost too late to apply and I was sitting there on Sunday morning and as soon as I saw it, coach Robert, my information, he responded back to me. Well, that impressed me. I got a military background, police background, coaching background, and like he said, I'm big on discipline, I'm out of school. So, it really impressed me that he was on top of things so quickly and that he responded. And, you know, when you're looking for a coach job, even the response of, hey, we've already filled this position, we're not going to interview you. That goes a long way with me instead of just leaving you out there and learning about it. So, when he responded to me the way he did, it really picked my interest and then the principal reached out to me a few days later and then I really was interested so then I started looking at Brown and looking at the landscape and

15:40I was like, you know, that's a place to go and try to change what's going on there. So, one thing, especially like here in Montgomery County, we've noticed what coaches we've had on is they talk about how it's one school and everybody feeds that one high school. Is that something that played a part in going around? Definitely, being a pivol, you know, you have bell counting on this side, you have Millsboro just down the road, you had Boxing for the New York Corbin, and you always had to be with those bigger schools and like if you had a kid that was pretty good, he easily was stolen from you before you ever got to high school. So, I knew that that Brown was the only town, only show town, so I thought that was really intriguing to me also. Plus, a lot of state of body and bigger school, the facilities of phenomenal, the numbers of students that he has phenomenal, the stuff that they provide for your kids is

16:46just everything's just top knowledge and that excited me and I want to be a part of that. So, have you seen an uptick and uptick and interest from other kids outside of the football program already? Yeah, I've tried to talk to about every kid that I see that fits the football bill. When I pass my way like, hey, play football, do you want to play football? And right now we've got about 61 kids on our roster, we've got about 32 in the weight room, the rest of the kids are playing other sports, and then I've spoken to probably 20 or 30 other kids that give me a maybe or 40, I want to play, I'm just playing different sports right now. So, I'm hoping that we have between 60 and 70, maybe 80 kids on the roster that's coming here. There seems to be a really good buzz right now about the football program and that just retrieves to us kind of changing

17:46the culture and some of the kids that have been a part of the past, they see what we're doing and they like what we're doing and they're talking about that so it's a buzz around school, so it takes the interest of that of the natural organics of a coaching change and can even be an athletic director change. It starts that culture from the top down there and kids will naturally see that and go check this out and see what's going on with it. So, that's really exciting. So, culture is something that heck nowadays, it almost loses its meaning because people throw it around like it's just a good buzz word, like culture culture. Obviously, I'm going to guess this one's big and the culture of your team. It is huge and when I was interviewed by around one of the biggest concerns was that discipline need to be greater and the culture need to change and I pretty much told Coach Broderick and our principal that I'm not a yes kind of very

18:54out of discipline and I'm going to be starting and consistent and that's how I've always ran my programs and I told her at a one-day school because you lose kids when you're firm with them, so you kind of got to take a different approach but it's all the same base tools, it's just here around you can do it just a little bit different because you got more kids. But kids won't discipline and once they get in there and they get a taste of it and they see how much better it makes them as a person and an athlete and it makes the program better they play thrive on. So, getting them to the table to eat once they eat, it usually turns into a good thing and if a kid, if you get a kid in there that doesn't want that discipline then you probably need that kid on your football team anyway. Coach Logan, what was it that brought you to round? Oh, just a culture change. I really liked what Alan was bringing to the table. We spoke behind closed doors and liked everything that he had going for him. Same with Broderick,

19:58I think Broderick's done a great job but the higher he's made in his first year from Coach K to Coach Harris, it's a big culture difference in that school and the kids love it. Have you all started offseason, weight lift and all that? Oh yeah, well, well, Coach was running the weight room for us before I got there and I was in contact with him but since I've been there, we've been in the weight room every day except on for our days. I learned a number of syndrome every week. When I first got there we had about 12 to 15 and not now we're about 35 consistently so. We're seeing a change and the kids are starting to see a change in the benefits of the weight run after about a month so let you know those kids get out and talk and it's a good buzz, a good chatter and we're getting ready to start doing some speed work and start our installs for off into the events so thanks, thanks, we'll be really good around now. As I say, the spring practice doesn't is not too far away. We start spring practice

21:01the Monday after spring break and we're going to run that Monday through Thursday the first two weeks and then the Monday, Tuesday, the last week so I don't give us the 12 put up days. Got you, got you. Do you all have any kind of spring game or anything like that's, you know, let's you take it out. He struck something there west. I get a good crucifold on this but I'm on a big spring game kind of guy. I'm on a big contact spring kind of guy. I see no benefit in high school football for spring, for spring game. I just don't see how it benefits you as a program. You throw kids out there with no conditioning, no medicine and for 12 days and you beat the crap out of each over and you can't even use your income and freshmen. So I just don't see a benefit in it. I've

22:01lost kids in the past that we're going to be seniors for the season because I got hurt in spring practice. We're going to do spring practice, we'll run some drills, love contact stuff, we will not play a game. It's a more technique starting to, like you were talking about, starting to learn a little bit more offense defense, you know, mindset and kind of go from there. And it'll give the kids kind of mild ill hell practices or run after they get out of their other sports and we get into the summertime and stuff like that. But I just don't see, I don't even know why high school, like the KHSAA, I don't even know why they allow spring practices. The way that we do it across that. I mean, what the KHSAA allows and doesn't allow, that's a whole three hour show. That's a deep subject. But for you all, I mean, you're talking about how you got about, about, you know, half the roster in your weight room and, you know, having practice during the spring

23:06might be able to park the interest even more for them to come to practice, do a little bit of that more stuff. And then be like, okay, guys, look, we need you all, not just half y'all, but we need more of you all in the weight room at that point. I'm guessing. Yeah, that's been the conversation Natalie for us. And, you know, I'm a big flavor in multi sport athletes. I don't ever tell a kid that I want them to just play football. I actually encourage them to play other sports. You know, there's there's a prize to play as a football coach for that. But some of it's good, some of it's bad. We probably won't have a hundred percent of our team there till afternoon period. You know, that's just kind of the animal that you deal with in high schools. But we know where they're at. We might contact those kids with a system in place where we know where they're at daily. And we're staying in communication with them. They're they're alarming stuff when they can. And they're in the nose. So we've got them kids involved. They're just not we just don't have

24:08them. Yeah, sure. So how much have you looked into the roster wise to know, you know, what you haven't come in back, you know, going to be seniors next year, your what your leadership look like. You know, it you have a young team or is it an experienced team or kind of a mix of both? I think it's a little bit of a mix of both. We've been lacking discipline wise and in the way we're in. So we're we look like a JD team to to me. Now we have some athletes. And I feel like we've got a really good chance to win a lot of ball games next year. If our kids just buy into the process, we're going to be smaller for them for the most part. So, you know, the offense is going to have to be offered for that. But I do feel very good about where we're at

25:09skill wise from what I've seen. And so I want to stay and listen to the coaches. And, you know, from what I know, we we have a very good, nucleus employees. But, you know, like an old coach of mine needs to tell me coach Carson, he needs to say, come cheer by, let's do it in short. So, you know, you really don't know, you know, you know, you're in full pay as to see what you got. That's why they call it the underwear Olympics soon. So, but, you know, from what I say and and from what I've talked about other coaches, our nucleus is good. And I'm very excited about some of our kids that don't want to let those names out by you. I think there's going to be some surprises from Brown County football this year. You know, it seems to be a fairly common theme when we have a new coach come on that just takes over the program. And that first conversation is about

26:10that weight room. And it's like, it's like a foreign subject to the kids that they've just taken over. You all noticed that, right? I mean, it happens a lot. It's like, it's like, you would think in today's games, whatever sport it is. I mean, we the baseball coaches in the softball coaches come on here and talk about the weight room. And it's like, we get brand new coaches come on. And it's like, we got the kids in the weight room. And it's like a new experience to us. Like a whole new world. So, it blows my mind. I think I think at Brown, you have so many kids playing multi sports that they they're not being in the weight room a lot because I mean, half of the football teams playing two and three sports. So, they don't get in there. And then, you know, kids are in team today, especially kids that come from the middle school in the high school. They're in team today, the weight room. And you got from them. You get in there, you won out,

27:12lift your body. But that's not what it's really about. And then you put down some team today. So, a lot of kids are going with that. And I think just the last few years, that's what's happened. You've had a lot of multi sports kids that's just not been in the weight room. And then, the rest of that necklace is kind of been slipping through the cracks because of all the other things that are involved. And I think it's the difference on what you're doing in the weight room. Like, programs that I grew up and played in or whatever, there's some coaches that I'm like, I know this workout's going to suck. And there's something I'm like, I may not even get anything out of this for two hours. So, I think there's there's there's a difference there. I think there's a difference in the people that have the strength and conditioning background that know how to program a specific weight program and a skill program and a speed program compared to somebody that's just we're going to hear we're going to bitch today. We're going to do some curls and then we're going to go home. Right. You know, our, our weight room is very intense. I believe in lifting every single day except

28:12gun day. We will lift in season. It will be part of our practice ritual. Because the weight room is, it just feels comedy. It's like the weight room will never lie to you. And it doesn't matter what school you're playing. If you're in the weight room, it's going to be a better athlete. And I've already seen the confidence in some workies that didn't have confidence when I got there that are struggling to get confidence because they've been in the weight room. So, I'm just a big supporter of it. I believe in it. I counterrun the weight room differently than your most traditional football coaches. We've grown assisted where everybody's done something for 45 minutes everybody's moving nobody's staying around. I've got that from a couple of coaches out of Indiana a few years ago. They kind of taught me what they did. And I've just, I've just put in what I would do in the weight room into their program. And it's, it's a phenomenal program and it's hard. Like, if you come back the next day, you're a strong kid. You're dedicated to what we're doing.

29:15Coach, I was like, yep, I did it. It's not fun. I call it the diamond gym. If you all have seen that on Instagram, I mean, it's, he's the replica for sure. And them kids they, I thought they'd back away from it, but they have fell in love with it. And the change and the meaner and some of the kids and leaders that we have is, it's amazing. Yeah. It's fantastic. So, I mean, obviously, we talked multi-sport athletes at Round County. I don't know if this kid plays football. I don't know what else he does, but Cam Cross needs to be on a football field. I've seen that boy and basketball. The kid looks the part. Cam Cross will be on the football field. We've had several conversations with Cam. And he is, he's a track kid. He's a, he's a basketball kid. He's actually going out in the country playing basketball as summer. So we'll be, we probably not going to get our hands on Cam until after that period, but me and Cam said several conversations. We've already put in a

30:17lot of campaigns for Cam live where he knows what's going on. And we're excited about some of the things that he's going to bring the table for. He played, he played last year, too. Yeah, he got it. I think in this broke his elbow first game. Yeah. What I see on tape last year before you got hurt, he's, he's can really help. Did you say you broke his elbow? Yeah, pretty sure it was his elbow. That's got it. That's got it. That's got a heart. That's got a heart. That's, all right. Well, it's time to take some break and pay some bills. So hang tight. We'll be right back here with the guys from around county. You are watching the From Corner, Corner Coaches Corner. Present about a community dress bank.

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34:35All right we are back here with Round County AD, broader more along with our the brand new head football coach Alan Harris and assistant Matt Logan. We got a we got a comment on the on the Facebook page from from a Mr. Chris Hart. We've already had him on the show. Montgomery County softball coach. He said coach Harris is a quality hire and I knew him back when he he was a softball coach at Corbin. He'll be great for Round County and wishing him the best look. Coach softball too. Coach Hart was at Corbin. I didn't coach softball but I didn't coach for Corbin. I coached for a plumber but Coach Hart was he coached it. That's right. He did coach it for me. Chances are West probably read the comment round five again. When I was in softball coach again. Coach Hart he's a phenomenal guy and he's doing a great job and I actually reached

35:39out to him and his wife when when I was about to move here and got some information from them about the area and fun fact his wife was one of my professors you know. Okay I went to college later in life. Okay um after my police career I went I didn't have to college degree to all after 18 or 19 years of police and then I went and got my teaching degree so nice nice that's good recovery. They're not called Coach Hart's wife out big and all right. Sean did that. Sean not coach. Yes. Sean copper. Hey Sean you know what happens when you call Coach's wife old you could potentially have a fender bender. Jacob's out of body you're trusted home down shop for quality collision repair and out of body work for minor dance to major repairs or experience team we'll get your vehicle looking like noon back on the road fast when accidents happen. Trust the pros Jacob's out of body. So if I get a hit you if I get hit it was

36:42Coach Hart's wife. Is that what you're saying? Yep. Fix your car. So Coach Harris you kind of talked about it a little bit. Talk about your schedule and how around county is going to win some games. Who's on the schedule this year? Is it complete? Yeah it's it's just flared from last year so we're in that two-year cycle so we're going to go off and on the run the road. It used to stay at home, back at home. Yeah. East at home, back at home, flimming and then play it away. Oh wow you get district games early. No we get we get the grateful opportunity to play Johnson Central National in our district every year. So we've got them two in district and then we got Boyd and Green and then we got West to finish out the year. There was one game I'm probably missing and then there's somewhere. The play. We got to go to Clayton this year too so that's going to be a nice two and a half hour bus ride. Yeah three. Yeah it's pretty good little graph. I can't wait. I was going to say that's it's just right

37:47around corner for you. I can't wait. So is that a trip that Coach Logan will be on the bus supervising? You'll just, hey I'll meet you at the So Coach Logan, Coach Harris talks about how you were leading strength and conditioning till he got what have you seen in the weight room from these kids? A complete buy-in. You know a lot of kids talked about the lack of discipline and structure that they wanted and I think Broderick made a great hire about that and then kids. I thought Harris was going to run him away at first. Yeah because I didn't think they was ready for that but they was. You know complete shock in man they love it. They love it and they tell their friends about it and more kids show up every day so it's there's nothing to complain about. Sounds like they might need to build a bigger weight room right? It's pretty big. We get to 60 kids a hundred percent we're going to need a big

38:55hundred percent. It's on my long distinguished list. And or practice facility? That would be nice. If I had an open checkbook there would be a lot of things that I would do but you mean a high school athletic director doesn't have an open checkbook? I wish I had an open checkbook. He has done a phenomenal job by the way. I want to brag on him because you know I was a nice athletic director too and it's a new incredibly hard job. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athletic director and he's always made time for me and taking care of me and our students and our coaches and he just does a phenomenal job so I'm happy to have someone like him run run athletics and when you got somebody that you can turn to it's it's always willing to help you and and he takes care of things it's it's a big plus for you to book out. What is what is we're kind of considered two a three a no we're four a four a okay yeah we um so I guess the

39:55last couple of years on Roman has went down a little bit we coordinate my wife we were she's she's from around kind of she's born and born and born and raised um she said we had probably close to a thousand kids maybe a couple a couple of years ago I think now we're down to the low 900s maybe so we've lost a couple kids a few kids to we we have a virtual academy there on our campus that we've had a lot of kids enrolling that and this be virtual full-time and that virtual academy actually has kids from like six different counties so that's why we can't count their numbers for our enrollment anymore so that makes our enrollment go down which um we were in the upper upper end of four a and I was kind of hopeful that we could get a few more kids and move up the five a eight but we'll probably be stuck in four a for a while at least for football now do do can those kids uh that are enrolled in virtually can they play sports no no so they're kind of like homeschool yeah well interesting there's legislature going through right now trying to get a passport

41:02homeschool athletes yeah seeing that now now we do have some that are like a hybrid model there so they'll they'll do some of their classes at the high school they do more than I think they got to be more than half a day at the high school and then they'll have a couple classes that they'll do virtually too so we do have a few kids that do that option it does it does seem to me that um I mean both my kids go to more head so you know being in a town where you've got a house you know you've got a base you know more head round county base there uh but you've also got a college campus in the same you know in the same area so you know sometimes to me you can think that that would get kind of lost in translation your high school and your middle school could get a lost in translation that doesn't that doesn't come off to me as as the as the issue in round county and in more head I mean they they know and love their round county sports along with the university there yeah and we've and I just got done working at more head the last year and a half I was uh

42:04the athletic trainer there for the women's women's basketball team so um everybody more head was phenomenal uh I can't say enough good things about Kelly Wells the 80 there he is top-notch human bean he's always been he's Hall of Fame guy from the catcher say hey stay championship at Mason County like he's just the top-notch guy um and whenever I took this job I remember him him telling me that he he was jealous of me because he he didn't want to see me leave because he he liked me but he was happy for me because of what the opportunity meant just as a whole and there's times that I'll I'll give him a call and ask him about stuff which idiot to college obviously handles different stuff than the high school but he's been yeah at a smaller school as an idiot pikeful and he's been at other places where he's probably had some roses and and and admit the high school level so he he knows a lot of those answers that I have sometimes and mean him have worked worked together on some on some stuff like obviously there's there's been times in the past where we've used their their facilities when we had our football project I guess last year the year

43:07before last um we got those new bleachers put in and they we had to use their football field for the whole season so that's always good to have a connection with if something happens in the future where we have to use somebody else's facilities having that there's awesome I mean that that I'm sure that's probably phone for the kids being able to play on the college camp oh yeah yeah I went to I went to a few of those games and watched that year I think I don't think it was I think it was a year before last there was two seasons that would be interesting to play baseball there if you round can I head to baseball at more heads now that's that's an interesting based years ago the 16th region baseball tournament was held at more head okay and if you're go back way back um maybe 70s and 80s I think the state tournament used to be held there or at least a part of it um and then I think there was a semi-state game when they did the whole semi-state for a couple of years there I think more than posted a couple a couple of those games too but um yeah they're they they do more head does like a showcase every year where they'll have a

44:10couple high school teams come up and play I don't think we're playing it this year I think bath actually played in one the last couple years I think they may be playing one this year too up there but yeah it's it's definitely I remember going back and um if you go there and watch a college game it'll be 18 to 14 five score usually or especially if the winds blowing out he'll be see about 12 or 14 homeruns hit so it's definitely an opposite fin way and it's definitely interesting part to play it have you seen have you seen more you have it no maybe don't hold up all right don't you worry ask a question have you have you have you heard the old folk tell why it's built like that no I don't know how true this may make comments say it's not true but this is what I was told growing up was there were endangered salamanders in the creek behind there and that they couldn't fringe upon the endangered salamanders whenever they built it I don't know how true my Facebook may comment say I'm wrong that sounds like that you know that sounds as true because it's part of the it's part of the national national force there so that creek that comes

45:13down is the Daniel the National Forest all the way up in those hills there so here you go yeah look at that outfield Sean you're the baseball guy no don't turn your head a nine I have a nine nine lefties in my lineup yeah I was about to say if you're a lefty you're I mean what is it to to to right field there uh you can there's all Facebook posts as people have posted on those like stadium baseball pages I don't know what it is actually um I've heard that it's like two 90 to center and I don't know how true it is well that's 500 to left yeah which two two 90 to center for a college baseball team I mean major league stadiums you're looking at four four hundred to center so yes wow that's a ball there's resting there's actually another another interesting field that I've actually personally played on um oh he's gonna talk about it was uh out in Fulton Fulton County Kentucky so I've played

46:19I played in the Ohio Valley League when I was in college is a woodbatts summer league and we had seven or eight teams out in western Kentucky we had Owens the borough I played for Mulemberg County ever to bunch of them Fulton had one Henderson and there's a team called the Fulton County Railroaders their field was almost identical that it may have been actually shorter um and the funny part of that was in right field was a police station so every time you hit a home run over the fence you may have hit a police car and they would have seven to eight lefties and they're like he would just pinch hit lefty after lefty after lefty that's great that is so co-chairs one thing I always enjoy is like when a new coach gets in they always take the logo and they put their own span on it like they bring us saying with them like for Vikings row the boat or whatever do you have anything like that yeah swing your sword Vikings swing your sword and burn the boats

47:20burn the boats I like that even better and luckily from front that's our three this year I try to do a different slogan every year so um but that's our three this year swing your sword is kind of um kind of like you know you do you whatever your best is you give it your best and then leave from the front's obvious burn the boats is if you ought to know the history behind burn the boats it's when you come into a new area and you're trying to conquer you burn the boat so you know the truth so true I like it yeah that look good on t-shirt that I'm going to get on the boat on the back I don't want to rc on the front I think the Viking on the front I bet that they are too hey Adam I know will guy make that happen all right hey I know I know a place in town I can hook you up with that too we have a sponsor here on this show that does that what we can get it it might happen to be the guy that said enough we are not a part of that

48:23here let me go back I think broader miss it so offensive defensively um and you know don't not to give away too many secrets but I mean what what what's the mindset uh that you're bringing to the to round county uh you know on both sides of the ball well I'm called my offense for last 26 years so I don't think that's going to change um everybody always ask me what kind of offense I run and and I've learned this in 26 years you can't build on offense around a high school thing because it changes so much so you have to develop your offense to the kind of kids you have so you know typically if we can be a powerhouse run team I run it if we need to be a spread team we'll spread it um I'm a little bit I don't care to get into uh an eye or a power eye I don't care to get into a bound I don't care to get into the doubles on each side of quads or nametie I'm just wondering guys it's kind

49:26of a hodgepodge of everything and I usually try to develop the offensive strengths around the kids and what what their strengths are so I'm not really going to say what my thinking is for World War B this year I'm sure I'm safe and defensively um I brought in coach more um he's going better defensive coordinator he's got five years uh college experience a couple of years as a defensive coordinator at the college level and he's he's going to bring a lot of knowledge and and some excitement there again I'm not going to really divulge what kind of defensive will run but I think he's going to a phenomenal job there in the whole coaching staff I I learned a long time ago that you got to put great great people around here you know it will be successful and I've been blessed to have able to hire some some great man that that I'm really excited about what what they're going to bring and uh I'm looking forward to that so I think a lot of good things you will have for a program um and you just got to kind of

50:28sit back and watch so other than coach Logan who who else is on the staff well let me answer coach how much you uh coach Jones yeah coach moose moose miller coach wages more true true that's uh goose or moose I'm sorry no okay okay uh so we got two I can't take the lessons last name maybe landing uh hairs myself and more so so we got we got a bunch of guys I'm good I'm got three line coaches right now I think you can never have to mean line coaches um and then I've got you know the defense coordinator I've got around black coach I've got receivers coach special teams guy they think some guys guys so

51:30we've kind of got it all covered line bikers guy they we promoted too um so you know our coach of staff we've got some young guys that don't have a ton of experience that are really hungry then we've got a lot of experience guys it's going to be coming in so I feel like our coach of staff is just a makes them you need that young coach to be there for the kids and then you need the veteran top of gas so we've got a good good mixture of that I think the young guys are going to learn from the other guys and and uh I think it's going to be a really good good experience for everybody and the big one we have is we have our assistant middle school principal that's also going to be helpful coach Jones so he's that I feel like that's going to be helpful for getting some kids that are in the middle school to stay playing all of the high school when they get their favorite assistant principal out there coaching so well coach Jones he's he's he's high energy and uh he's very knowledgeable we played more in state and um he's he's he's

52:32going to bring a lot of knowledge that they could spline so he he was a very good um add-on to the staff once you're if I was going to be able to get him to to coach he's been a miss straighter in the last couple of years and taking that path and it's hard to do that in coach sometimes but he decided to give it a shot so we're excited about hand coach Jones to that along with the rest of the guys I mean all the guys they're going to they're going to play a tremendous role in what we're trying to do so very cool very cool a lot of exciting stuff sounds like coming coming that round county way for sure on that part of it so Darren are you ready to take that final commercial break over there buddy? Yes sir all right let's take take our last break here uh come back and wrap it up with the round county guys here you are watching the front corner corner coaches corner presented by a community trust bank this segment's been brought to you by CRC roofing and renovations whether

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56:51You know guys thanks for spending your money night with us you know co-chairs it sounds like you've got some exciting plans and brought some life and rejuvenated the round county football program and sounds like quick question for broader economic day system and we had to go to commercial it's too late. No, I remember a long time ago but he got into his field and I didn't want to get him too far into his field. I mean why would we not interrupt me during my pocket? Well yeah, this would be the show if we didn't. A way from football a little bit. What was it like being at at Menifey County for the boys for the boys district championship championship? Oh okay yeah him and you know and we brought him up. I mean hit the shot to win that that was that was a shot that pretty much took over social media for a while. Showed up in my TikTok for

57:56you. Oh yeah. Now honestly that was probably one of the top five high school basketball games I think I've ever watched just from the fact that it was we had 20 to start the fourth. Without a shop lock which is usually don't come back from that but we we made a run and there was points that we even were down by eight and we would have a turnover and there'd be like three and a half minutes left and I'm like this is usually you usually don't come back from this either. Honestly the third quarter I looked at my wife and I was like I didn't have to stay out probably go home but then we came back in that fourth quarter and then Cam came down and my brother-in-law Grant had the ball and he dribbled to the right side and we all thought he was going to shoot it from about 18 feet and he passed it up to Cam coming around fade away three and it came off his hand from our angle it looked like he wouldn't even close the going in and then it banked in and we were like oh my gosh but now it was it was awesome and

59:00for Tim to win a district championship in his first year as a head coach my earlier said that I hired him I can't take the credit for that one I didn't hire Tim but he is he is a great hire though and he's a great guy but he's got kids too and his his wife played for around around county years ago one probably three regional championships and girls basketball whenever she was there as a player so definitely some basketball history there with him and his wife but he his first year as a head coach to win district championship I went back I'm a big history history nerd so I found round county history I used to do that when I was at bath I had bath county history I had Kenny Williams I wrote up a whole document for him for softball history and he's I gave it to him years ago to have and keep but Tim was the first or he's a third coach all time in round county history to win a district championship in his first year so something to hang your hand about usually you take over a program from

1:00:00another Hall of Fame coach usually is going to be a rebuilding year for you but for him win district still in a quote unquote rebuilding year or something say well it was a pretty phenomenal shot it looked like a really good game you like you said you'd come back from 20 down it was pretty awesome so I just want to kind of bring that up you know being that we had the new athletic director here and you know being able to that that's that was was that your first that's your first postseason yeah as that yeah as the director so yeah pretty much like you said it took it showed up on you ticked out you took over social media for a little while because it was awesome and that was one thing that I've also been trying to do is in this job is promote our programs and our kid is much as possible on Facebook I've started up Twitter I only got like 13 followers so I have my own personal one which just has more than that but let's drop the handle right now let's get it the girl I don't even know what it is to be nice I have to look it out I just started I just like you got 13 followers now

1:01:01Facebook if you if you want to go on Facebook and follow us at around county athletics I usually put everything on there for today we rate the EKC banquet I had all the pictures of us all the kids that won awards at the EKC banquet today so but yeah usually I've tried to do like a weekly schedule now I don't think people are done in like the past and I've gotten to the point now where I'm doing middle school weekly weekly schedules so all the games for high school middle school I'll put them on a document I'll post them on there for everybody to see so get people out of the games hopefully and watch these kids but we've got so many programs and to be honest it's kind of hard to keep up with sometimes we've got swimming we've got bowling we've got archery we've got everything tennis and I've had to make a sheet where I write down all my sports and have what they've done for the week or who they play just to keep up with it because because it is a it is a lot and it's a lot of schools I feel like need especially bigger schools need to go to the district a deposition

1:02:06it's just I mean it's you're already doing that right yes so if there's something that is like big catches your eye or you know anything like anything you want to share send it to us on our page and we'll share that so we try to follow everything I know you've opened them a new Facebook page yes so we've got a new football Facebook page I've got that in my office I'll be about our Twitter yeah yeah it's a five big capital beyond a N capital N but the number eight I will end that for sure so it's I can buy a machine all right well we'll make sure that we share that but you know we we'd like sharing that type of stuff out if there's any kid that's gonna make an announcement to play college or something like that we like sharing that type of stuff out as well so you know always try to use our socials for the positive to

1:03:11help spread the word on all that stuff for sure so I'm trying to look up the Twitter can you give that one more time it's it's capital V I K E capital N the number eight I O N capital or nation or see I walked into Harris's oh my way office the other day and he goes you won't believe how long it took me to find a Twitter hand one that's not being used currently yeah yeah with with biking I'm sure yeah I'm just glad that my personal one doesn't have any kind of numbers in it I got started that back in 2010 when Twitter first came out so

1:04:14I was one of the first few people on there probably it doesn't have a number of I'd like to people that have like the the Sean Kiper at gmail dot com you know like the original gmail addresses you know I have my Twitter so long I'm just at Alan W. H. yeah that's crazy so all right so we do have our simple secured athlete of the week from last week and Sean since we got around county people here there's a sponsor in round county that would like to have a round county athlete named athlete of the week athlete of the month or donate to a round county scholarship program feel free to reach out yeah absolutely absolutely so last week's simple secured athlete of the week there's gonna be Jonah Gibson from Bath County he set the new Kentucky indoor long jump record with 22 feet eight and a half inches and reading the article on that his

1:05:18first jump was 20 like 20 feet and then he crushed it on the second jump and they actually had to go and verify that it was actually him yeah that was crazy because we made a two foot jump right right they were like are you sure that this is the right guy so but yes so congratulations to to Jonah Gibson for that being the fact that there wasn't a huge week we won't have nominees for this week but we will have the athlete of the weeks are athletes of the week for next week for sure and this week's maize law office people's champ miss jacee jeviden from minnefee county congratulations there for her and then this week's ronkeys dog of the week dog miss a lion strode from GRC who had an absolute phenomenal state tournament and was key to winning that

1:06:24championship for GRC so congratulations to alia for that so she had eighth greater four games 39 points 31 rebounds 3 assists that's 9.8 a game point 7.8 rebounds she had a 13 and 10 double double versus Franklin Simpson on Friday night and she led the team in the championship game with 15 points and nine rebounds Saturday night kid is absolutely one of the best athletes I've ever I've ever seen and she owes everything she knows to play in for adamant. She I did coach her when she was a sixth grader but look some people sometimes gifts just falling your life and she was she was one of those gifts well you know an adamant we were calling the district championship game here she had a really big district championship game and one of the comments that you

1:07:28made was like her second job is higher than her first job yeah and that's explosive just that that's all athlete right there so and she's just ninth grader so she's going to keep going she's going to continue to get stronger and she will be of a fierce competitor in the state tournament over the next several years you know I watched her as a sixth grader and she was a good as a sixth grader but now as an eighth grader she has turned into a stud and still has her whole entire high school career to go so we've got strode and he got Edminton both of the eighth graders Edminton's just now going in the freshman going to be a freshman next year and Edminton's already got to keep roll yeah Edminton's already got people are offered to go before and right a lie used to tell me every day in practice like I'm gonna be the first girl to dunk in Kentucky and I was like okay go for it gosh I hope so after watching her last week it will

1:08:30happen that would be that would be fun I mean I mean how many how many times do you see an eighth grader starting in the sweet 16 yeah team might can't be stamper none of us a seventh sure that's true so next week for sure Tuesday night special night bath County baseball Patrick Armitage will be here with some players and like I said keep your eyes open trying to see if we can get Rob and Graham and the girls come on Monday night so very possible you get a double double episode of the podcast next week Monday and Tuesday both so let's let's hope this still happens because this week's weather is not the greatest for the start of everything so baseball and softball as we know tends to get rained out or get cold it out yeah and so they might try to pick up a game here

1:09:33in there so you just never know during the baseball and softball season so but we are a little crosser fingers and hope that everything works out yeah all right well guys once again thank you guys for coming spending some time with us tonight you know good luck on the on the season hopefully we can get you into our football rotation you know closer to the beginning of the season and by that time you've had the opportunity to really look at the players and know what you've got and and stuff like that and bring some players with you next time and yeah and let them we appreciate you all having us all the problem the problem let people hear about our program and yep and we love to bring some some athletes on yeah absolutely next time we can make sure that you got some round it talk to your

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