Full Show - 3/8/2025

Full show from the Donovan & Jorgenson Heating & Cooling Studio: Saturday, March 8th, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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This time of year is great high school basketball just
at a high level right now and having a lot
of fun getting out to some of these games. At

(00:52):
nine ten, we're gonna talk to Tyler Pudel from Franklin,
the boys coach. They play oh Creek today and anytime
Franklin ol Creek, it doesn't matter what's for they're playing.
That's a rivalry game. It's gonna be a great game.
At nine to twenty, gym writer from Pewaukee will join us.
We will also talk with the head boys basketball coach
from Waterford, Nick Roland, will join us, Tyler Saxton for

(01:14):
Brookfield East, and we might get a hold of Scott
Herrick from Pious. That first hour, we're just talking to
coaches that are still playing and some coaches that got
knocked out talk a little bit about their season. Second hour,
we'll introduce you this week's current Electric Superhero of the Week.
And then Rocky Waganhurst, the VP and general manager from
my twenty four and coach said the girls coach from

(01:36):
Saint Francis. As we talk about the tournament coming up,
the girls tournament coming up, and the boys tournament that
will be coming up next week. At just all kinds
of high school basketball going on. On Thursday night, I
was over at Wawatosa West along with Billy Schmidt and
my grandson Keegan Bond, are doing stats for the Walkshall

(01:57):
West New Berlin Eisenhower game. Got a chance to talk
to Paul Darling for a while, the head girls coach
at Wakshaw West, and he's joining us right now. Hey, coach,
you can only you can only enjoy that victory against
su berl and Eisener. For about five minutes right.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Absolutely, it's a right time of year. But you honestly
don't get a lot of time for prep work in
between games, so you got to be prepared, and you know,
sometimes taking chances and look.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Ahead a little bit. Hey, coach, going into the tournament.
You guys have won a couple in a row after
coming off a couple of losses, and you really did
have an up and down overall season. I always look
as a former coach, I look at teams, how teams
are playing down the stretch, and when I'm thinking about
if this team is well coached or not, and I

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think teams that are well coached are always playing pretty
good basketball down down the stretch when it comes to March.
And watching your team play the other night, coach, I
was really impressed with how they played for each other.
Some of the girls, one of your best players who
is out now with an injury, I watched her on

(03:07):
the bench and what a great teammate she was. And
I kind of watched the dynamic between your team, your
coaching staff, the girls on the floor and the girls
on the bench, and then the crowd, and I got
to tell you, I was really impressed with all of it. Coach,
and the fact that you guys are playing what I
think is your best basketball this time of year says

(03:28):
a lot about you and your staff.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that. I would agree that
the girls have competed really well down the stretch. You know,
we've had a couple of injuries. Taylor Gifford was out
for five games for US kind of in the middle
of the season, which certainly puts US at a disadvantage,
and then losing Peyton and the regional final was very

(03:56):
difficult for US for more than just her position, but
her just their leadership and her competitiveness on the court.
I'm not really sure you can replicate that too much,
but she's been a great leader for us on the
bench and has just embraced kind of the new role
and this is really trying to help as much as

(04:18):
she can.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Hey, coach, you know you were busy coaching the game,
and where I was sitting on the baseline, I had
a great view of your bench and you would be
so proud if somebody were to videotape your bench during
that game. Kids that that weren't playing weren't getting time,
and the girls that were injured, they were living and

(04:40):
dying with every possession. Coach, it was, so I kept
talking about it on the broadcast because it's really impressive
to me when when I see that kids are fully
engaged and and and look, this team is one team.
It doesn't matter who's on the floor, who's on the bench,
because it's all one team. And I just thought it

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was a really impressive thing for me as a former coach.
Kids that haven't gotten a lot of playing time, kids
that are not going to get any playing time because
the injury are you know, as much as they could
jumping up and down high five and really involved in
the game. And I think that says a lot about
the program that you have at Wakshall West.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, thank you. I do agree that the kids were
very dialed in, and you know, this is not something
that has happened often. In fact, I think it's only
happened once before that they've been playing in a sectional
final game, So they understand that and they understand that
this is a unique situation. And I think they're also

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starting to understand the value of each possession, and every
possession matters, and you know, if you can add value
to the team, whether it's by being supportive and encouraging
or if it's being asked to be playing competing on
the floor too. I think everybody has kind of dialed

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in and playing as one, which is outstanding.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
We're talking to Paul Darling and the head girls basketball
coach at Wakshall West. Coach, you've been around this game
a long time, and you know you sat in the
stands for a couple of years and now to come
back onto the bench. And I love the article I
read where he said, look, after being able to sit
in the stands for two years, I think I'm going
to be a better coach. And I think I'm right

(06:29):
with you on that because it's a whole different view
and it's a different feeling and you see things. Look,
I'm undefeated when I'm sitting up in the stands, but
when you're on a bench, it's a whole different thing
to be. But to be able to take two years
off and then come back, I think that that article
was really impressive where he said, look, i think I'm
going to be a better coach after being away from

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the bench for a couple of years. Do you still
feel that way?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Absolutely? And I think you know, it's funny because I
first started coaching at we're Seine Saint Catherine's and one
of my first games was against Joel Klockson and the
Pious and that was a tough learning lesson, you know,
way back then. But over the years, I think I

(07:18):
have matured, you know, with the evolution of the game. Ultimately,
you know, I think having a very supportive wife has
been a blessing beyond I could ever imagine. She helps
keeps me balanced and she helps me give a different perspective.
And then when I get to the point of having

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children and then children playing in the program, you know,
you see it from a different perspective because now I'm
looking at it from a parent's lens as not just
a coach. And we all want to compete, but we
also want to make sure that we create a positive environment,
a healthy environment, and in the support of you know,

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environment where you know what, it's okay to fail sometimes,
but we can learn from it and move on.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Coach, good luck today one o'clock tip at fond Lac
against West to Pier and we had talked about that
before I left the gym, and you said, look, I
know a little bit about West to Pier. They awfully
good team, really good program. They're a different team than
the Brulin Eisenhower and we will have our hands full.
But coach, as you know, there's nothing like a sectional

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final game to get to bring the best out of
your team. Good luck today against a really good West
to peer team.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thank you very much. You know we're blessed to have
this opportunity and we're going to do our best and
see what happens.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Coach, go get one today.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I appreciate that you got it.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's Paul Darling and the head girls coach at Waukeshaw West.
You know when you when you think about this time
of year, every chance that you get to have a
really good rivalry game, uh, you know, you look to
go to those games. And there's one going on today
on the boys side as Franklin takes on oh Creek.
We're now joined by the head boys basketball coach at Franklin, Tyler,

(09:11):
Pudell Tyler. Congratulations regional champs out. It's time to get
get going and to be able to play oh Creek
right now this time of year. You can I don't
know if you can get better than that, can you?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, you know tonight Mike, I appreciate first off, being
on the phone with you and taking time and h
tonight is for the regional championship, and it's uh, you know,
it's when the bracket came out.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
We we were.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Excited to see the opportunity to be in such a
great basketball environment. And you know, if if the there's
with the computer rankings and everything that come out, uh,
there's there's no appeal process. There's no complaining, there's no
chance to not complain, but there's not an opportunity to
to appeal in any in any situation. And for my kids,

(10:01):
I said to them, like, we have two teams that
that we get to play here leading into a fourteen bracket,
and uh, we've beaten trump Or twice and we've beaten
O Creek twice. And we're really excited though, to go
on the road in an environment that's going to be
it's going to be a great environment. And and that
coach over there at at Oak Creek, Eric Hollo, has

(10:23):
done a really good job over the last few years
with this program.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yep, hey, coach, tell me about this this team. And
you know, you and I kept in contact a lot
because I loved watching your son play and I loved
the toughness that he brought to your team and that
that that high basketball IQ. And and I'm wondering, you know,
you coach, you had him on the floor as almost
another coach on the floor this year, you've been doing it.

(10:49):
He's not graduated, he's off at college. And and wondering, different,
different type of team this year than you have had
in the past, but obviously still rolling pretty well.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
I do appreciate everything that those seniors last year put in.
They've been with us from the beginning, but this particular group,
they they have just been together the entire season. Like
we haven't had a single team meeting, we haven't had
any any negative like peer leadership going on and through

(11:22):
the years, sometimes that can be a bump or an
obstacle to fight through. These guys, these guys have been
locked in, they've been they've they've enjoyed the process. And
our senior leader, Matt Mitcheeski's a four year varsity member,
and he's a quiet leader, but he's and he's really
smooth and cool. He doesn't get too high, he doesn't
get low, and I think people vibe off of that.

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And the second part of it is we got another
guy that's just a gym he's a gym rat. He
was a sophomore on the team and he got a
lot of good leadership experience from from Eli and some
of those seniors last year, and he saw what he liked,
he saw what he didn't like, and he's been putting
in tons of effort. His name is Jacob Misslich, and
he went from three point six points a game last

(12:06):
year to twenty points a game this year and he's
first team All Conference. So and then we just have
other seniors like cam Heim and starting point guard. He
had to weigh his turn and that's kind of our
process to our program is is you kind of got
to weight your for your opportunity and when you get it,
take it. And we really we really vibe off of seniors.

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And Ben Vergis is another guy. You know, I'm glad
he's on our side. He's a tough, beastie, beefy guy,
and he's had his licks this year and he didn't
but he's really risen up and he's gonna go play
football Coast to Carolina. He's six five, two hundred and
sixty pounds and makes a difference for us in the middle.
He reminds me of a kind of a Porman version

(12:49):
of Gilbert from Arrowhead last year. Just that size that,
but he can shoot the three. He's shooting forty percent
and as our team as a whole, we're shooting thirty
seven percent from three, and that's been a real big
asset for us this year.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Hey, Tyler, and we're talking to Tyler. He's the head
boys basketball coach over at Franklin. They play at O
Creek today. A couple of questions before we let you go.
Seven o'clock tip tonight.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
That's right, seven o'clock tip, And tell me.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
About the Old Creek team. You've played them twice. Both
games have been really close. As almost any sport, when
you're playing Franklin ol Creek, those games normally come down
to the wire. Tell me about that team and what
kind of team that they have. Are they a big team,
fast team? Give me an idea of what I'd see
if I'd come out to watch you guys play oh
Creek today.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well, I mean our guys will tell you too. They
just got they've got seven guys that can play basketball day.
They got a tight rotation over there. And they've got
two guys that were second team All Conference, Daniel Franklin,
who's a college level player, and Cam Davitts, who, again,
he's had a kind of like a Disney type year,
you know, like went from from kind of somebody that
wasn't in the picture last year or to a guy

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that was second team All Conference. He's a six to
two post player, so old school kind of kind of style,
a lefty. And then they've got a sharp shooter, sophomore
Tyson Bush. He had I think seven threes last night
against the Indian Trail team they've played, so you can shoot.
They're just gritty and tough and just make good plays.

(14:20):
They've had really good wins this year. And the first
game over at Oak Creek that we played them, we
went into overtime and Jacob Misslesch hit a three to
send it overtime and I came down to a miss
free throw at the end. And then the then the
game over at Franklin, it was, you know, we took
an early lead, and we we had Jacob Missless hit
four threes in the second half and Josh Samborsei hit

(14:42):
a couple, so we shot the ball really well. So
but with their particular team, they've got a freshman that
comes off the bench, and they've got another player that
Bryce Bundy, that senior that comes off the bench, and
they just know how to play and they run a
good system. They're they're just gritty. Uh there's they don't
have anybody really over six three sixty four. They just

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they just all play well together and it's a tight
seven man unit.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
If you're looking to get to a game tonight, guys,
if you have not been in the gym or on
the sidelines for a Franklin Oak Creek game, and if
it's baseball, if it's softball, if it's basketball, boys and
girls football, it doesn't matter. And I've told this story
one hundred times, but when Joe Cook was coaching football

(15:27):
at Oak Creek and he was my co host on
this show years ago during the football season, he said
to me, if I come up missing, just go to
the Franklin Police Department and go to the basement. That's
where they have me. And I started laughing. He goes, no, no,
I'm serious, And that's look these games are are they're
high school sports. But the communities, man, it's just as

(15:49):
fun an atmosphere when a Franklin team plays an Oak
Creek game team, especially for a regional championship, that kind
of stuff, I don't know. Pay the four bucks and
give him an extra tip because the game's going to
be great. The atmosphere, the student sections, the parents, the
whole bit. It's exactly what high school sports should be about. Tyler,

(16:10):
thank you so much for a couple of minutes. Good
luck tonight at oh Creek. I'm sure you didn't sleep
great last night.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Hey, this is an exciting day. And we were there
in twenty seventeen after Oak Creek beat us twice and
we ended up winning the regional championship, going to sectionals
for the first time and a long time in the
Franklin program. And we get the opportunity to do it
again and there'll be fifteen hundred people there. And you're
right about Oak Creek, like I have a hard time
just driving through it. Or I don't think i'd shopped
there either.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
So Joe cook o, hey cook said, I'm not getting
a haircut, an ice crew cone or gas. I did.
I can't because Oh Creek. Those people don't like you know,
the people in Franklin don't like me a whole lot
because I'm coaching at oh Creek. The winner of this
game will get the winner of the Wisconsin Lutheran Marquette
game next week Thursday over at Brown Deer Franklin at

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O Creek Boys Basketball Night, seven o'clock tip Tyler, good luck,
go get one.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
It's been great, Mike. Thanks and thanks for all the
things you do and coverage around the area. And thanks
again for taking us today.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
You got it. Tyler, good luck tonight. He's tired. Man.
It's gonna go. Sabers. There you go. We're gonna get
to a break. Other side of the break, we're gonna
be joined I think Jim Rider from Pewaukee. Yes, Jim Rider,
the girls coach from Pewaukee will join us. And then
Nick to the head boys coach at Waterford n Tyler

(17:30):
Saxton from Brookfield East. And I just got a text
from Scott Herrick from Pye's You go to see if
I can't get Scott to join us. About nine p
fifty or so. It was great to run into him
on Thursday. This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home improvement
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show presented by your local pick and Say have a
metro market stores on Fox Sports nine twenty in your
iHeartRadio app. So at the end of the last segment,
I said, Hey, this is the creative construction with Scott's
a home improvement show. Don't get old, guys. And I
tell people all the time some of these shows are
way too fast for me. But we're trying to reach

(18:12):
Jim Ryder from Pewaukee, the girls basketball coach, and we'll
try to get to him. We're going to reach out
to Nick, who's the head boys basketball coach at Waterford.
Here in a second. There's some great games going on today, guys,
if you're looking to get some games, I can tell
you both on the girls side when you talk about
these sectional finals, just some really good games. Mosquigo's playing

(18:35):
Kenosha Bradford and Wakshaw West playing West to Pier Union
Grove against Wallwood Tosa East. That's over at Whitefish Bay
one o'clock tip and man, it's awesome. Let's go ahead,
Nick Scott hereck excellent. Let's get over to Scott. He's
kind enough to join us. I ran into him yesterday

(18:56):
and or Thursday night over at wawaod Toasta West High School,
and Scott and I have known each other a long time.
Milacque Pies took one out of the chin, and I
wanted to talk to Scott a little bit about, you know,
at the end of the year, what it looks like
for him. Coach Harrick, how are you good?

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Very good? Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, you bet. It was good to see you the
other night. I know that you would wish that I
I would see on the sidelines, but you guys took
one on the chin, and man, that game was the
tail of two halves, right.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Yeah. We we got off to a really good start,
and you know, we knew why FISHMI would come back
because they're they're unloaded with talent. They're a really good team.
And you know, we were up nineteen and then all
of a sudden, bulquit going in the basket and they
were making things like crazy, and they had a kid
come up the bench. It four threes and before you

(19:48):
know what, we were trailing. And then you know, kudos
to them and coach Schneider over there. They did a
great job. Will come back And there was a tough
lot for us, but our kids went down fighting. So
I'm out of home.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Hey, coach, at the end of a season like this,
and and look, you guys had a great year, and
and a lot of times for guys like us that
have been at it a long time, you know, we
don't we don't take the chance to to to take
a breath. Look back at at the kind of year
we had. You guys were twenty and six and had
a really good year in a really tough conference. Are

(20:24):
you able to take a breath and go, look, we
did have a good year and we can build on it.
Or is it something that once the losses is there,
you kind of forget about it and start moving on
the next year.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Well, that's a little bit of balls, because you know
that we lost. We had six losses, and six of
them were all the rank teams. I mean we lost
four Division one teams. You know, we lost place to Milwaukee,
which everybody does, you know, and then we lost Utzburg,
which is the number one rank Division three team, and
then Whitefish you know who's really good. We lost the

(20:58):
Brookfield he so you know, teams that were really really good.
I mean, we challenged our team we played a really
good nine conference get us kill. Like you said, our
conference schedule's crazy. You know, Milwaukee's really good and Wisco's
really good. And I said, as coach, clost are really good.
I mean, we're battles tested all the way through, you know,
and that's why we thought maybe we'd be ready for

(21:20):
the playoffs, because you know, every game is crazy, and
you know when you play games like that during the season,
you know, I think you're ready for the playoffs. But
you know it didn't work out. But yeah, we're We
had our meeting with the kids the other day and
everybody's jacked up for next year. So you know, it
still hurts, you know, it's it's you think about it

(21:40):
all the time than what if, you know, But we're
we're ready for next year and we're gonna we'll be back,
so we'll see what happened.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Hey, last question, Scott, and I've been asked this a lot,
and I haven't asked other guys like like you that
been doing it in a while. Still in it is
it harder dowadays to coach than it was years ago?

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Well, I don't know the word harder, but it's it's
certainly different. Because you know, we talk about this with
our team once in a while, Like we would have
our five contact days in the summer. You know, we'd
have fifteen kids there and they're diving on the floor
and they're they're battling for positions, blah blah blah. You know,
in these past few years, you get seven kids, you
get six kids. Where is everybody? Well, I'm on vacation,

(22:24):
I'm getting getting my hair done, I'm going to the Dells.
I'm going you know, like it used to be, you know,
high school sports. It was they were so dedicated that
they didn't want to miss you know. I mean kids
are great kids, They're our group is so much fun.
I love them to death, but they there's times where
they just don't come open. Gyms used to have sixty kids,

(22:45):
you know, now we have ten. You know, just it's
just like the commitment isn't there the way it used
to be. And I know, in their defense, once COVID hit,
that took a turn for the worst for our team,
for our program, and it's starting to rebuild a little
bit too.

Speaker 7 (23:01):
But I just but.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Yeah, it is it is not to say it's harder,
but it is different. I mean kids, don't you know,
handle the you know, when I got to get in
their case, you know, they don't like that, you know,
you know, they get really upset. And then you have
to you know, go back and sometimes you know, patting them.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
On the back and say you'll get him next time.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
It's not always the thing that works. Sometimes you got
to get on their case, and it's it's harder to do,
you know, And and and you wonder, it's just like
at home when you miss curfew, you know, and they'll go,
don't do that again. Well, what lesson did you learn?
Their phone needs to be taken away, they need to
get grounded, you know, and with us too, they need
to lose playing time or they need to you know,

(23:40):
run extra after practice or something. And it's they don't
like to do that. They don't want to do that.
And it's it's a little different, a little different now
than it was before.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, I look, I've been a fan of Scott Herricks
for a long time and I love what he just said,
and I I would walk lockstep with him on all
of that. Hey, Scotty, thank you so much for a
couple of minutes of your time. It was really good
to see you the other night.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
Yeah, it was great to see you too. Miss you guys,
and thanks for having me on. And your show is awesome.
And I speak for everybody in the high school sector
that they love what you do and they love being
on your show.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
So thank you very much, Scott. I appreciate that a lot.
Thank you very much. You know, Scott had talked about
God losing twice to Pewaukee and they took second in
that conference in the Woodland West. We're now joined by
the head coach from Pewaukee and I always have him
on this time of year. He seems like he's a
regular this time of year. Jim Reud, How you doing, coach?

Speaker 8 (24:36):
Good welcome, how are you?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm doing great? Twenty five and two and h still
rolling the Mighty Pirates. Got a big game today, coach
and I look, I had the twins in studio. Big
fans of those girls. You're gonna miss those girls in
that family when when they graduate. Let's hope they got
a number of games left in the in this season

(24:58):
playing Kimberly. Kimberly is an awfully good team. It's going
to be a difficult game for you guys to go
out and get tell me a little bit about Kimberly
and and they type of the style of play that
they're going to bring today.

Speaker 8 (25:14):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what I mean. They really
have the five official spots in basketball down so well.
You know, they got the point guard who creates, They
got the shooting guarden, the guinness who can fire from anywhere.
They got a wing player this Ava van Vandren who
can you know, long strides get to the basket and
two or three dribbles very easily, very strong post player.
And Reagan Krueger. So I think they really have all

(25:35):
five spots covered very well. It's a lot of tough
matchups for us.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
They're long.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
You know, they're starting three six foot kids right now. Yeah,
well you mentioned about five nine ten, But uh hey
got to come to play, right Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
You got to come to play. And look, if you
roll the ball out and the Terran Twins are on
my shide, I know, I know I got a shot,
I got a chance. And look it's not just the
Terran Twins team. Look, you you lost some really good
players to graduation after winning the state championship last year.
But I'm really impressed coach. I think that there are

(26:10):
people in the area that thought Pewaukee was going to
take a step back this year a little bit. And look,
you guys have had some close games, but man, it's
it's a team that has figured out, you know, how
to play together. And I know there when you have graduation,
especially with the talent that you had, it takes a

(26:31):
little while to get kids to understand, you know, where
they should be taking their shots and who are the
kids that need to get the ball down the stretch
of games. But I think that's stuff that you guys
have figured out now. And this game that you guys
have today against a really good Kimberly team that that
that beat Hartford, and I think that people kind of
thought it was going to beat Pewaukee and Hartford, but

(26:54):
they beat Hartford and you guys tip today three o'clock
against just a really good quest all of the opponent
who's had one lost the entire year.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
Right, Yeah, you know he brought the twins with Arrians.
I tell you you're lucky in your coaching career to
get one kid like that. They have two of them
right now. Like we are blessed with abundance of leadership, toughness,
and you know competitive nature's out there. They're both like
assistant coaches for us. You know, they're so articulate that
they so team oriented. First, they make other kids play better,

(27:24):
they pull them over, they keep their poise so well.
You know, I can't so lucky to have them out there.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, I agree, and and and coach. It'll be different
because you've had them since freshman year. Next year will
be different. But trust me, the uh the coverts not
not there at p walking. You got some underclassmen. Is
Janowski she's done for the year? Or is she?

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Is she?

Speaker 1 (27:49):
I know that she's played eight games. Is she go?
Is she done for the year?

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Gee?

Speaker 8 (27:54):
She's done for this year, but still doing a great
job for us, helping all with her leadership, helping out
during film sessions, being a great teammate for us, helping
us what she would do defensively if she were out there.
And there are other kids in junior classho are really
stepping up for us right now. We're seeing Vanessa Johnson
having a big year for us. She's crazy athletic and
can cause chaos on defense. Here. We do have Kylie

(28:15):
peeperback now who missed much of the year with an
acl theare. She'll be limited minutes today, but she's still
a difference maker for us and other kings too, Like
can he rather third ella old seniors who are really
kind of stepping into leadership roles for us too?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Hey, coach, it never gets old, does it?

Speaker 7 (28:30):
No?

Speaker 8 (28:31):
It never gets old?

Speaker 4 (28:32):
So much fun.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
I was asked last night. I was at the Greendale
martin Luther Greendale game and a guy came up and
sat next to me at halftime. He said, Hey, do
you miss it? And I said, I miss this. I
missed that regional, the atmosphere of the sectionals, I that
part I do miss, But after thirty six years, I
didn't miss the I don't miss the grind, the every
day practices and getting kids home and checking grades and

(28:56):
all that. But I sure miss big games. And you
guys have one today, three o'clock tip at Hartford against
a Kimberly team that's used to winning, and I can
tell you that's gonna be a heck of a game.
Good luck tonight today at three o'clock, coach, And thanks
for a couple of minutes of your time.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Thank you, Mike.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
I appreciate it again.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Love the show, Love what you guys do.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
And hey, let's try to get one today.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, you got it. You know, if you get one today,
I'll be in touch.

Speaker 8 (29:22):
Right, sound good?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
You got it? Thank you so much. Hey, we're gonna
we're gonna go a little long spatch And we got
Nick Roglan, the head boys basketball coach at Waterford. Look,
I think I'm a uh, you know, maybe it's the
first year, but I gotta get some green man. I've
become a big time Wolverine fan. I had Nick and
and some of his players in studio got down to

(29:46):
do a game down there. Was really well received. The
people at Waterford were so kind to getting us as
a great space, making sure the sound was good. They
got us waters Ay. It just was really a good
experience to me and for me to have my grandson
and for Billy Schmidt and I to come down and
do the game. When water for beat mcgwanago, this team's rolling.

(30:07):
It was really fun game for us to watch. Hey, coach, congratulations,
really good win and and still playing in March. You
got to feel pretty good about this team.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, I think you you hit the nail on the
head when when you were talking about the people of
Waterford That's a big reason why we've had a little
bit of success this year is the people. The people
that we get to coach, the people that support our
basketball team, water for basketball, the culture that surrounds it

(30:40):
is just in a different place than than it was
in the past. We got some pretty good kids that
we get to work with on a day to day
basis that are all in. You know, they set some
some pretty lofty goals for themselves and work to achieve
those goals. So we're we're really happy to be in
the position we're in and ready to play walkchhaw Lets tonight.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Hey, coach, So I've had a chance to deal with
Jamison Beasley, who's a really man you want to talk about,
an ambassador for you this program, the school, the district,
all of it, and really well spoken. But it's not
just there's two players on this team that I think
everybody identifies with it. These are the two leaders on

(31:23):
the court. But man, watching your team play, yeah, I
was watching a team that went eight nine deep and
everybody seemed to understand their role. Mcgonaga came out of
that game that we were doing and they were raining
threes all over the place. You took a time out,
and I watched that huddle and what nobody's head was down.
Everybody's high five, and you were directed made a couple

(31:46):
of adjustments. You know, let's close out with a high hand,
let's get some better looks on the offensive side, you know,
quick turning the ball over, and we're going to be fine.
And coach it. These kids came out of that huddle
and they were still talking to each other out of
the huddle when you guys went back to the bench,
and I thought, Okay, this is the leaders on this

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team are making sure everybody knows where we're going. Nobody
got nervous about it. You know, Cayden started hitting some shots,
Jamison started getting to the basket. But then all the
other players were doing the stuff that they do, boxing out,
not giving up offensive rebounds. They stopped turning the ball over,
and you guys took control of that game just before halftime.

(32:28):
And I was really impressed. You've seen that all year,
first time I saw it in person. Got to feel
pretty good about about the way that team handled that game.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Yeah, we had been in that position before. You know,
like coach Eric said, we built our non conferences schedule
to prepare us for moments like that. You know, you're
not going to be front runners in every game, and
I think just being in those positions, our guys have
never doubted themselves as they learned how to make adjustments

(33:02):
in game, how to kind of just whether the storm.
One thing we talk about a lot is winning the
next play, whether whether the play goes good or bad.
We got to get to that next one and win
that next one. Stacking stock stacking stops is important for us.
But you know, all that basketball stuff, the x's and

(33:25):
o's and what we're doing on the floor, it doesn't
matter if you don't have leaders. And you know, you
met three of them when we came into studio. Every kid,
every kid that we put out there, has the capacity
to lead. They lead in their own way, completely dialed
in and committed to each other. And that that's really

(33:46):
been kind of the theme, just an unspoken theme that
with this team is that they're just willing to do
whatever it takes to win.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
But hey, Diick, I got to ask you so on
January twenty seven, you guys went to So So Central
and got beat and I look as a coach, I'll
never say it out loud to my teams. Every once
in a while, there is a thing as a good loss.
You guys lost was Still Central on January twenty seventh.
Exactly a month later, you played them at home on

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February twenty seventh for a conference championship and you beat
them by thirty five something like that. And I'm wondering,
if you look back at this season once the season's over,
if you might agree with me that that loss on
January twenty seventh, though it's stung at the time, may
have been a good thing.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
I would agree one hundred percent. You know, we went
to West Social with that game on the twenty seventh
you're talking about. We went there, We're really excited to play.
One of one of our guys had a really freak injury,
Jas Brechtel, just a random, weird injury, was not able

(35:01):
to play, was actually hospitalized for the weekend, so we
were without one of our guys. They went to a
triangle in two and we learned a lot about ourselves
in that game. One As a coaching staff, we let
our boys down. We didn't have a plan for Triangle
and two and I'll own that because I didn't think

(35:22):
a solid game plan was to let our third, fourth,
and fifth best shooters be wide open. They gambled, they
left our guys open. We did not hit shots, but
we learned. We learned that we needed to have a
plan for all different types of defenses. So from that
point on, triangle into box and one my assistant coach

(35:44):
thought that they were going to go an inverted triangle
and guard our three best players and put their six
ten kit at the rim and Elijah Griffin at the nail.
So we've really focused on detail for every possible situation
and learning how to work with each other, just in
different ways. Right, So everybody keys on JD and Kayden,

(36:09):
So we had to figure out, you know, how do
we how do we turn them into screeners and get
other guys looks. But then, if we're being honest with ourselves,
our best option for scoring is those two are those
two guys, So how do we not go away from
that and still get them looks? And we've come up
with some really good actions. But I think the more

(36:30):
important thing is the team came even closer together in
the in that low spot of the season and really
committed to each other. It took a kid average in
twenty something points a game to sacrifice his stats to
screen in these junk type defenses. He was willing to
do that. And if you have a leader like that that, yeah,

(36:54):
good things happen.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yeah, I agree, I shoving a clock tip at Waterford. Look,
if if you're looking to go to a game, there's
a number of great options there are. We talked to Tyler.
The Franklin Oil Creek game is just going to be
a phenomenal game. I'm telling you, if you want to
feel a community that embraces people from the outside to
come in and watch a game in their building, the

(37:18):
atmosphere is marvelous. The student section is going to be rocking.
Their concession stands are just some really nice people, some
great food. I'm telling you head down to Waterford, watch
the Walkshell West Waterford game and feel what we felt
when we were down there. Anytime I do something with
either high school football or high school basketball in the

(37:38):
Waterford community, people come up out of nowhere to say, hey,
thank you so much for highlighting our school, thank you
so much for highlighting our kids. It's just a really
welcoming atmosphere, welcoming school, really well coached and these kids.
They play a style of high school basketball that's really
fun to watch. I can tell you this, that shot

(38:00):
clock that we might have coming one day. This team
for Waterford, they'll be okay. I don't think they're gonna
get down to the one second if there was a
shot clock. Very often. They move the ball side to side,
they get to the basket, they create good shots for teammates.
They're a fun team to watch. Hey, Nick, congratulations, go
get one to night. Good luck against Wakshall West.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Thanks Mike, appreciate the shout out to the Waterford High School,
our community in our basketball program and just highlighting the
great people that we have. And then you know, like Mike,
like coach Eric and coach Ruder said, thank you for
doing what you do to bring some attention to high
school basketball. Means a lot.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
So you got up doing the great work.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, Nick, I look good in green. So I'm goa
have to get some Wolverine gear.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
Man.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
I don't know what about you and this team when
you guys came in, but I don't have a dog
in the fight. And I love the people I watch
Soll West, but I'm kind of rooting for I gotta
be honest might be rooting for Waterford to night on
the boys' side.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Hey, I'll get you. I'll get you many tea. We'll
get you up in that. We'll get you up in
the rooms to broadcast again too.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
You got it. I will let you know Nick Rogland,
the head boys basketball coach. Here, I'm pippin for free gear.
I'll go to the store and buy a couple, no problem,
And that he is Nick Rogland, the head boys basketball
coach at Waterford again seven o'clock tip in the regional
final at home against the Wolverines from Walkshow West. We're

(39:28):
gonna get to a break. This side the break, we're
gonna reach out to Tyler Sackson. He's the head girls
basketball coach at Brookfield East. They took one on the chin.
We're going to talk to him about some of the
things that we talked to Scott Herrick about end of
the year. They're used to playing deep into the playoffs.
Find out a little bit about how he's doing. And
at ten o'clock will introduce you to Jacob Smith from

(39:50):
Brookfield Central at Colonel Electric Superhero of the Week. This
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(40:12):
the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios. So we're
talking to high school basketball obviously this time of years,
it's really fun and we get a chance to talk
to coaches they're still playing. We talked to Scott Herrick,
head coach at Pius this time year. I'm always talking
to Tyler Saxton, the head coach at brook fe l East.
Their teams for years have gone deep into the playoffs.

(40:35):
They took one on the chin and their season ended
against obviously a really good Pewaukee team. And you heard
Scott Herrick say, look, everybody gets beat by Pewaukee. It's
such a good program. But I've reached out to Tyler
because I wanted to talk to him a little bit
about this year's team and how he's taken I hopefully
he's not in the fetal position anymore. Hey, coach, how

(40:56):
you doing damn great. How are you good? Hey, Tyler?
We always talked this time of year, and it's because
the Brickfield East program is so used to going deep
into the playoffs. And you know, I've seen I saw
your team play a couple of times this year, coach,
and I was really impressed with with with your team
and wondering how you're doing after that lost Milwaukee or

(41:19):
you're feeling.

Speaker 7 (41:20):
Okay, yeah, you know like we I feel like we
played about as hard as we could. I don't really
have any regrets. No, I don't think the girls do.
That's a really really great team. It's just you know,
it's just a shame it happened so early, that's all.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah. I agree, Well it's a shame that. Look, I've
the wi does what the w i A does. But
I never understood as a basketball coach why we need
to know who's in a regional and sectional four months
before we start our season. And that bothers me. And
when you look at look, I don't think a team
that that that tied for first and the Greater Metro

(41:57):
with Tosa East. You know, you ended the season twenty
you were twenty three and three and then lost Milwaukee's
are twenty three and four. There's got to be a
way that we don't need to know who's in our
regional sectional four months before we start playing basketball and
they can move some teams round. To have that game

(42:18):
Brookfield East against Milwaukee so early in the playoffs just
doesn't make sense to me. Coach.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
Yeah, no, it's tough. It was, Uh yeah, it's quite
the sectional that we were in, and you know, telling
the girls and you know, it's you know, sometimes things
are out of your control and this is one of them.
And we just we needed to try to beat the
best team in the state early. But you know, it
just you know, didn't pan out that way. But like

(42:47):
I said, we've played as higher as we could and
they are great. They're a really, really great team. And
this just to think about that team, you know, if
Danaoski's healthy, is just nuts. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yeah, it really is. When you look at that bracket
and you look at you know, Pewaukee being the one
and Germantown being the nine to peer be in the five,
these are really good basketball programs for you guys to
get a four seed. Coach, I'm just like man Kimberly
gets the two and and I just looked at that

(43:20):
whole sectional. I thought, man, oh man, you know the
best teams in the state are all in that same
regional sectional. And and I struggle with understanding the reason why.
And you're a much smarter and more mature guy than
I am. Where you're going You tell your team, look,
that's out of our control. Understand. I'm hoping that you're

(43:41):
like me. But when you're sitting in the kitchen table
at ten o'clock having dinner after a tough practice, looking
at that going there's there's got to be a better
way to do this.

Speaker 7 (43:52):
There needs to And you know, talk to quite a
few coaches and they're you know, everybody's kind of in
a line in alignment as far as like we got.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
To do something.

Speaker 7 (44:02):
There's a lot of states that do it, just like
the NCAA does. And I think there's an opportunity there
for us to allow more girls to be viewed on
a on a grander stage throughout the state of basketball
or throughout the state of Wisconsin as far as basketball goes.
We have really good girls basketball here in Wisconsin, and
Io was I just need more girls need to be seen.

(44:27):
And you know, it's it's not fair to the girls
that work so hard, you know, I think about that
to peer team. I mean they're twenty one and three
and they got to drive.

Speaker 9 (44:34):
To Brookfield right right, it's just nuts and he on
her and Tyler they you know, when you asked a
WI they say, well, we put a circle around different areas.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Well, you don't Brookfield Central boys, you know. Dan Wandry's like,
I don't know how we got put out here and
why team's got to drive all the way to Brookfield
on the boys side that you know, I am I
happy with where we're at. Yeah, we got the one
seat and and look, he does as good a job
as anybody in the state getting his team ready this

(45:06):
time of year. But there are things that we can
do with and and it's easy switches, it's easy changes. Hey,
before we let you go, Tyler, I got to thank
you for a couple of things. Hannah Christensen invited me
to come over for that game that you guys played
against brook Central then to see what happens between the

(45:26):
boys and girls game, and I got to tell you
it was life changing. And and she's such a good
ambassador for your program and your school, and I got
a chance to watch you guys play Brooks Central and
and those rivalry games. Brook Central girls team didn't have
a great year, but they gave you everything they could
hand that you could handle that night. And then to
be able to be part of just to be able

(45:49):
to see in person what goes on and the things
that that a girl like Hannah Christensen does and and
and she's such a good ambassador for you, for your
program and your school. It was a really cool atmosphere,
and I thank you for that.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
Oh man, that's Hannah gets all the things there. That's
just that's a very special human beings. We're gonna do
really great things in this world. And she brought something
absolutely incredible and left changing for everybody to East and
to Central and sure schools that will fall in line
after that. So no al thinks is to her that's uh,

(46:24):
we're very lucky that we got all get to be
a part of that.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
One hundred percent. Hey, last thing, when teams at your conference,
you guys graduate a few seniors, and I'm sure that
there are some teams that are like, Okay, finally we
get a chance. I'm telling you, looking at your roster,
you got some young girls that are coming back that
the cupboard is not going to be bare.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
No, we uh, we just you know everybody knows we
just reload. You know, they gotta figure out next people
up and come right to play.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah, I Tyler, I really appreciate your time. You know,
we get again this time of year where you and I.
I've got you either in studio or on the air,
and I didn't want this year to go by even
though you guys got beat. Good luck in this offseason. Yeah,
take a little break, take a rest if you can,
because I know you guys start thinking right away about

(47:17):
what are we gonna do this summer. Let's make sure
we get shots up, we get in the weight room.
But take a breath, relaxed a little bit, enjoy this tournament,
and then get after it once this tournament's done.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
All right, I appreciate that. Take care.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah, Coach Saxton, head girls coach at a Brookfield East,
you know their rival brook Central. Anybody who's listening because
we had Tyler on stick around because our current electric
Superhero of the week he's from Brookfield Central. But we're
we'll talk a little tennis, not a ton We'll talk
a little tennis, but our current Electric Superhero of the Week,

(47:53):
Jacob Smith from Brookfield Central, will get to him on
the other side of the break. This says the Varsity
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(48:16):
Donovan and Jorgenson Heat and Cooling Studios. That first hour
was fast man, a lot of coaches, had five different coaches.
We can take a little bit of a break, take
a breath here and talk to this week's colonel Electric
Superhero the week. He came in by himself, mister Jacob
Smith from Brookfield Center. Where's your mom and dad? Oh

(48:36):
my mom.

Speaker 10 (48:37):
I think she's a little afraid of the air.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, your Bob works in radio. She did great last
time she was in. I am Jacob. I'm a huge
fan of Scott and Mary Smith, your mom and dad,
and they've done a marvelous job with you. And I
wouldn't well, you know, I'm in line. I would have
put her on the air, So Mary, probably a smart idea. Hey,

(48:59):
senior year going out care for you at brook Central.

Speaker 10 (49:01):
Yeah, we're almost a spring break so.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, bigs. Look at the smile on your face and
tennis is right around the.

Speaker 10 (49:07):
Corner exactly right after spring breaker child.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
So okay, and how you feeling about this year's team?
You know that if you go to the kerrl Electric
facebook page, I love the picture you said. I love it. Man,
State champion, State champion, you're holding the trophy. I would
highly recommend go to the If you want to see
what a genuine smile looks like, you go look at

(49:31):
Kernel Electric and look at Jacob Smith and read his bio.
This kid has done a lot. And when I talked
to the principle over at at Brookfield Central, I asked
him about you, Jacob, and he said, you know, quiet kid.
I didn't know a lot about him his first two years,
but I know a lot about him now. He said,
He's played some volleyball with my son, and he's a

(49:53):
really good kid. It's a great ambassador for a school.
He's very active in the school. His grade point average
is phenomenal. What's your GPA? It's above a four, above
a four above a four man. You and I are twins.
I'm just telling you it's exactly what.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Whatever, Let's talk a little bit about some of the
things that you do in the school. Editor in chief
of the school newspaper. Yeah, yeah, having fun with that.

Speaker 10 (50:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (50:22):
I enjoy the the editing side of it, but I
really like the the interview.

Speaker 10 (50:27):
Side of it. So we do a lot of video production.
I've having a lot of fun with that.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
You should have brought a few of the people in
here could videotape this and made you a star man. Yeah,
we didn't. You didn't think of that, did You should
have thought of that next time. Next time you come in,
we'll do it. Tell me about some other things that
you're involved in in the school. What is barstool account
What tell me what that is?

Speaker 11 (50:49):
Yeah, so that's the same that's kind of the same
thing as the newspaper. We reranted our newspaper last year,
and so the bars we're kind of replica, replicating Barstool Sports,
and so we're interviewing different teachers and staff members. We
just did the lunch ladies around the school, and that
we did our principal, We did how to mean hot

(51:12):
wings or interviewing, so just fun stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Man, how did he do? I would I would be
I'm one hundred percent I, which should be horrible with
that About the second level, I'm telling you, the juice
from a halipeno pepper makes my nose. Everything I ate
is a kid was boiled. I can't do it. How
did mister Gritzmyer get through that?

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Yeah he did.

Speaker 11 (51:32):
He did pretty well, and then we had his son
on there, so it was really fun.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Henry's a good kid. Yeah, that's awesome. Tell me some
of the other things you get. You're involved in SEA
and explain what that is.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Yeah, so s c A.

Speaker 11 (51:46):
So it's CE Literacy, which is a nonprofit in Milwaukee,
and they're aimed at tutoring refugees. So I go out
there every week every other week and just volunteer and
just help kids kind as to life here.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
You host a pickle pick a ball tournament.

Speaker 11 (52:02):
Pickball tournament. Yeah, that was last year and we're gonna
do it again this year just to raise money. But
I so much fun I couldn't play, but because I
had to running it.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Have you played pick a ball?

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yeah? I love?

Speaker 10 (52:11):
We have said in our driveway do you really Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yeah, you against your dad? Who wins that you do?
You crush him? I mean, look at a smile. Yeah,
you're you know, you're too nice of a guy. You
told me during the break you could beat him left handed.
Is that what you said? No, it's Scott. He didn't
say any of that. Hey, your motivation for having this
servant leadership Hart And we talked about it and I

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talk about it every week, Jacob, that it's not something
that we're born with. It's a learned behavior. And I'm
wondering giving back and we haven't gone through half of
the things that you volunteer with. But where where do
you think that came from?

Speaker 3 (52:50):
For you? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (52:51):
Well, a lot of it is just like how blessed
I am. I was born to a really good school district.
My parents work really hard for a lot of opportunities
to have, so I kind of feel like it's my
duty to get back, and when I'm doing it, I
have a lot of fun.

Speaker 10 (53:04):
Like whether it's.

Speaker 11 (53:06):
Volunteering, there's just a lot of opportunities that that's opened
up for me.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
You know, Jacob, there's a lot of kids that are
born into a similar situation, and I love the fact that,
and I know how hard your mom and dad work, right,
I've known them both for a really long time, and
they do they work extremely hard. And but there's a
lot of kids that have would would would be born
into a similar situation that don't understand how important it

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is for us to try to give back into the community.
And I love what you said, look at it's it's
almost the least I can do with the situation that
I've been given. Do you feel after you volunteer that
you feel like you're getting more out of it than
the people you're helping.

Speaker 10 (53:46):
I do a lot of it.

Speaker 11 (53:48):
I recently actually went to volunteer at like a wheelchair
basketball event through Key Club, and I've never watched wheelchair basketball.
It is the coolest thing ever. Yeah, I do think
I get a lot, if not more than the people
I'm volunteering.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
And I think that once kids understand that, and I
don't think they know it until they actually jump in, right.
There are times with National Society that you might have
to volunteer and you've got to do ten hours, and
you just get the ten hours done and you get
done with it. Now you're you know you're through it,
and you don't have to do it anymore. But what
happens for a kid like you that when you when it,

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when it hits you in your heart and your soul,
that you want to find other opportunities that you can
help people in our community, and that that's really cool
for me. You also do a little coaching, correct, Yeah,
little kids or it's.

Speaker 11 (54:40):
It's mostly little kids. I sometimes do. Last time, I
did adults in the nights, and then this summer I'll
be coaching for our school.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Okay. And he coached tennis.

Speaker 10 (54:49):
Yeah, tennis.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
I love that. Yeah. And you were a multi sport
athlete growing up and decided tennis was your your jam.

Speaker 10 (54:56):
Right, mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Talking to coach and I told him you were coming in.
He said, yeah, they have a six seven kid walking
down the hallway that's not playing basketball. You know. I've
had a couple of conversations with the young smith boy,
but tennis is something. Do you think you'll play at
the next level.

Speaker 10 (55:13):
I think I'll play club wherever I go.

Speaker 11 (55:15):
If I miss it too much, maybe I'll transwer never know,
but right now I'm planning to not play.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
And where are you going to school next year? Do
you know yet?

Speaker 10 (55:23):
It's between Madison and Saint Thomas, same times where my mom.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Went, and you were up there last week two weeks,
two weeks ago. There is a scholarship that you're up
for and one will they let you know if you get.

Speaker 12 (55:37):
That or not.

Speaker 10 (55:37):
It's late March anytime.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Okay, man, let's say we're knocking on. What can you
can when you walk on that campus? Can you see
yourself spending four years on that campus?

Speaker 10 (55:48):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
I love it. There a lot of it.

Speaker 11 (55:50):
Yeah, it's I think it's a perfect size. And then
my cousins are there so that they make it realle ease.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
You got some family there, and second choice would be
would be Wisconsin, would be Madison. Have you been accepted there?
I have? Yeah. Okay, what do you think you're going
to school for?

Speaker 10 (56:04):
I'll go for business and then probably finance.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
It's gonna be Yeah, you're good with numbers. Can you
explain crypto to me? Because I don't understand that one day?
One day you gotta because it's getting a little bit
bigger and I gotta. I should probably understand that. Hey,
can we talk about the I don't understand this either,
so I have to ask you on your bio created

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an app with a buddy to center playlist with AI,
planned to release on Apple Store by the end of August.
Explain what's the name of the company.

Speaker 11 (56:38):
It's called Wavelow. I'll kind of explain the story, the
fun side of it. So last last tennis season was
my junior season and we were about to play Arrowhead
and I wanted to get everyone riled up. So I
got music on our big speaker. But our tennis courts
right next to school, and it echoes and when bad
music comes on, we get in trouble with our It's

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just it's just a mess, right. So I looked into
it and then my buddy. For like the past eight
months or so, we've just been creating and then we're
kind of we're waiting for it to get approved right
now by Apple.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
So yeah, look at you start your own company. Good
for you. I love that. Do you think that that
thing will that's gonna happen.

Speaker 10 (57:21):
I think it will. It's it's built.

Speaker 11 (57:24):
It's just a matter of like if everything we did
was legal to like the standards, because it's where you're
getting the music from. It's it's confusing, you know, I
don't understand everything.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
No, but you guys are getting it done. When you
get to school, you talked about business, You talked about finance.
The cool part is you're you're seventeen, eighteen years old.
You can change your mind a couple of times before
you leave the studio. Why finance? Why business? What about
that area has caught your your your kind of direction

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and why do you want to go into that?

Speaker 10 (57:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (57:59):
Well, I think I've been saying that since I was young,
So all my all my cousins did finance. But I
think if I can find a career where I can
make decent pay and I'm helping people, I think finance
is a is a good way to do that.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Do you think coaching is in your future?

Speaker 11 (58:18):
Maybe, like maybe like a side gig, like yeah, like
the local high school Tennessee.

Speaker 10 (58:22):
I feel like that'd be sweet.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Yeah. Yeah, And tennis is something you think you'll play
the rest of your life.

Speaker 10 (58:27):
I think so, yeah. And then eventually pick a ball.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Eventually pick a ball. Yeah, I got a chance to
play pickleball one time. So maybe once you know, you
invite me over and I'll smoke you and and then
you'll feel bad that an old grandfather or six I
played against my brother John, who he had been playing
for a while, and he called me and he said, hey,
if you ever played pick a ball? And I said no.
He said, you know, I've been playing a lot. You

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want to play one day? I go yeah, He goes,
how about tomorrow morning? I said, I don't have a right,
I have two. I said okay. So I went online
and watched the rules and and I played a little time.
Has played a lot of racketball at one point, and
after two games he just left. He didn't want to
play me anymore. And I don't. It's not because I'm
any good, It's just he wasn't very good. So to

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beat my brother John in the sport is not something
I should be talking about on the radio. Hey when
do you leave then? If you go to Saint Thomas?
You know, is it end of August early September. And
I'm wondering what that's going to be like for you
an only child. You know, mom and Dad are gonna
be really sad. You know that they're gonna it's gonna
be a difficult time to either move you into Saint

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Thomas and moving in the Madison. And I'm wondering how
you're feeling about that.

Speaker 11 (59:37):
I'm I think I'm ready. I don't know if my
parents are are going to be ready. House is gonna
be pretty quiet.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
It's gonna be really quiet. They are so proud of you.
I can tell you. I have a coffee with your
mom sometimes, I have coffee with your dad every once
in a while, and you know, we talk about our
families and they are so proud of the young man
that you are. There are times your dad said to me, like,
I don't know how he continues to do all of

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this stuff because when I was his age and similar
to me, like we didn't know where our socks were right,
And you're doing all of this not only over a
four point zero at Brookfield Central, which is something already
been accepted the Saint Thomas already been accepted, the Madison
And I think whatever school gets you, young man, is

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the winner in this whole thing. I appreciate you coming
in our current Electric Superhero of the Week. He's Jacob Smith.
He is a senior from Brookfield Central. Go on the
Current Electric Facebook page. Look at that. Even if you
don't want to read the kids bio, look at that picture.
Genuine smile, state championship for their team in tennis last year.

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You understand the difference between hunting and being hunted, right.

Speaker 10 (01:00:49):
Yeah, we'll probably be hunted this season.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
They're all hunting you. Everybody wants a piece of that
Brookfield Central Tennis team. You'll be one of the leaders
on the team. You got to get that team ready
to go. Oh you know that, right?

Speaker 10 (01:01:00):
Yeah, we'll be out there next week.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
You've been playing a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:01:04):
Uh, yeah, definitely. It's like five or six days a
week and then workouts.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
You've been hitting the ball. Well, what's the best part
of your game?

Speaker 10 (01:01:12):
Probably my serve? Yeah, I just hit down on it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
So okay, Yeah you're tall and yeah, you don't know
yet if you can play singles or doubles. Would that
be a coach's decision or a player decision?

Speaker 11 (01:01:24):
It's usually a coach's decision what's better for the team.
But I'm honestly whatever wherever I end up, I'll be happy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
What would you prefer to? You think you played doubles
last year, but your partner, you guys knew you guys
you played really well together. Are you thinking about playing singles?

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:01:41):
I mean they're both they're pretty tied right now, it's
just kind of dependent on well, I don't have my
partner from last year, but there's some guys that I
would I'd still love to play with in doubles.

Speaker 10 (01:01:51):
I think you can go pretty far.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
It'd be interesting to see how that decision is made.
I know that this, Jacob. Whatever the decision is, whether
it's playing doubles playing singles, you'll play your best. You'll
beat in great ambassador for the sport, for the school,
and certainly for your family. Say tell your mom, she's
a chicken. I can't believe she's worked in radio a
long time. I put a microphone in front of her

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last time. She hasn't talked to me since you. Tell
Mary I said hello. Tell Scott, I say hello. Congratulations,
You'll be put in. Just so you know, there's a
five thousand dollars scholarship that the Foundation gives at the
end of the year for every current Electric Superhero of
the Week. They'll pick one winner as our Superhero of
the Year and send a five thousand dollars scholarship to

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the school of your choice. You'll be in that. Congratulations
on that. Keep up the good work. If I find
out you stop doing your homework. I'm going to come
and pull you out of this thing. All right. That's
Jacob Smith, big time tennis player Brookfield Central, and I
can tell you this, as good a tennis player as
he is, he's a better kid and he's gonna do
great things. If he goes away to Saint Thomas there,

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goes to Madison graduates and comes back and he's one
of the new leaders in our community. My grandkids are
going to be just great. It's good to see young
man as well. We're going to get to a break.
On other side of the break, Rocky Wagenhurst, he's the
VP and general manager of my twenty four and coach
Sid from Saint Francis. I would say the retired girls
coach from Saint Francis, but then he coached a boys

(01:03:22):
I don't know. He's I got to figure out what's
going on with Coach Sid. We'll talk to these guys
on the other side of the break. This is the
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(01:03:43):
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I feel I didn't take a breath. It's been really fast.
We had a bunch of coaches on the first hour.
Really good young man Jacob Smith, our Colonel Electric superhero
of the week. And go to that curR Elector Facebook
page if nothing else to look at the picture. You

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see a genuine smile of a kid who just want
to state championship in tennis last year, and he is
just a really impressive young man. We're now joined in
studio Rocky Wagenhurst. He's the VP and general manager over
at my twenty four hockey on today. First of all,
it's good to see how did wrestling numbers were pretty good?

Speaker 13 (01:04:25):
Yeah, I mean we carried wrestling for the second year,
and you know, people are really finding the high school
with the kids, their parents, the grandparents are all starting
to watch. And we ran it from five o'clock till
almost nine thirty last Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Unbelievable number. I turned it on right because I wrestled
in high school. Yeah, I got at least with your brother.
I know I won my first match, and I thought, oh,
I'm really good. And I got pinned in thirty six
seconds of a kid from Saint Catharine. I realized I
wasn't any good Bridge Bridge. I'm like, I've got fridge
in the whole court, you know. Oh my goodness. Today

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at eleven o'clock high school hockey on my twenty four
Amvery Warriors against Tomahawk Hatchets three thirties the girls state championship.
And then the night match, Notre Dame is playing against
Madison Edgewood at seven o'clock. High school hockey, not a
ton of hockey university school. As we talked about coach

(01:05:21):
Sitt and Brookfield, there's some co op teams that do
pretty well. I don't care who's playing high school sports
is for me it is I will stop and watch it.
And at eleven o'clock today you get a chance to
see some teams from our state playing for a state championship.
And I love the fact that my twenty four is
covering wrestling, covering hockey, covering girls basketball, boys basketball, all

(01:05:46):
of it. And I again, every time I have you
and I thank you for doing it.

Speaker 13 (01:05:49):
Well, you know, and I appreciate it, but you know,
and we do ten sports, right, but I'd like to
do more.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
I mean, there's a point more. I mean, man, I'm tired,
I know well between Mike, but I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (01:06:01):
That just that, you know, it's so important and kids,
I don't care what sport they're in, especially when they
reach that varsity level in high school. I wish I
could get them all on television so they can share
that experience with their families and those who can't attend
all the games. And you know, it's hard to get
to Madison and it's hard to get to Green Bay
for some of this stuff, for some of the other

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places in Wisconsin to go watch the games.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
And so I'd love to do more.

Speaker 13 (01:06:26):
You know, we're just only limited by, you know, what
we can do at this stage. So I'd love to
expand as much as we could.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Hey, And the reason I've got coach sit in is
I'm a little confused. I am so confused, you you know,
I don't know. Six weeks ago made the decision to
step down from being the head girls coach at Saint
Francis to be an assistant, and then he was a
head coach, and then all of a sudden, I get
a text he's had boys coach for a little while

(01:06:53):
and I know some changes going out in Saint Francis.
I don't care about any of that. I want to know,
like are you retired? Are retired? Are you going to coach?
First of all, coach said, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Real good? I don't have an answer for you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
I don't know what I am people asking me, I said,
I'll ask them on Saturday. But did how different was it?
I've coached both girls and boys, and it's a different animal.
You coach girls for a long time. What was it
like for you to step in a couple of days
of practice and then give Charline Lutheran everything they can handle?

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What was that transition like for you?

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
I was it was different. As you know, the game
is the game.

Speaker 12 (01:07:35):
I credit the kids administration for having a trust to me,
and kids responded.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
Really well, you know, played really hard.

Speaker 12 (01:07:41):
Unfortunately didn't make the plays at the end when we
needed to, but it was a very positive experience. Crowd
was into a little different crowd experience obviously for the
boys regional game compared to you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Did it make you think about maybe coaching on the
boys' side? Maybe I'll keep for a while.

Speaker 12 (01:08:02):
I thought that cross my Hey, Doug Sarver, are you listening.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
If you're listening, I would go right to his house
today with a cup of coffee and say, hey, let's
talk about it. The other reason I watched you in
studio is and thank you for this once again. You'll
be my co host for the girls and boys. But
the Kernel Electric Girls Tournament tip off show that's going
to air Thursday at twelve thirty, right before the state

(01:08:29):
tournament that starts at one thirty on My twenty four,
and you and I will break down all five divisions,
will break down teams and players to watch, and we'll
interview a couple of the coaches from around the state.
And when I'm talking girls basketball, you're kind of my
go to guy. Maybe next year it would be my
go to guy in the boys side. Who knows, But

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thank you for doing this, And we did it last
year and we both really kind of enjoyed it, and
I think we'll do a better job. That's the first
time either one of us said Rocky was foolish enough
to hire us to do that, and they actually asked
us back, which is the most shocking part. For me,
But twelve thirty this Thursday, and then we'll do a

(01:09:09):
pregame show that that pre tournament showed that air of
Friday morning as well. But thank you for doing this
this time of year as coaches. Man, it's just so
much fun, right.

Speaker 12 (01:09:20):
Oh, it's great. I was at a game Thursday night,
game Friday. I'm going to today. Boys and a girl a.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Girl in a game? Did you get to on Thursday
Thursday one?

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
I went and saw Toast the East and White for
Big Girls.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Yeah, during the break, let me tell you about the experience.
I love Tiy Mosler, I do. I think he's one
of the guys. He's a great guy. We were set
to do that game on nine to twenty and we
ended up not being able to do the game there.
We were over at TOASA West for that Walkshell West
New Berlin Eisenhower game. That was a really good game.

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That was a fun one for us to do. You
saw a really good game that that Toast. He's team
is really good.

Speaker 12 (01:09:59):
They were very well prepared to got talent and Mary
just does a really good job over They had him
really prepared and they got a great chance.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
They do have a really good chance. They they they
have a great chance. I agree, and they're that's sectional
that they're in. They're playing today. They're playing today at
Whitefish Bay at one o'clock against Union Grove. I don't
know a ton about Union Grove. I know they've had
a really good year. But your thoughts on that game.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Rob's run a really good program.

Speaker 12 (01:10:28):
They've been at either at the doorstep or he's he's
he's one of the better ones hidden down that area.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Don't get them a game.

Speaker 12 (01:10:36):
But I if I have to bet, I'm not a
betting man, I would say say Toasteses, hey.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Your thought and we had talked. I talked to a
couple of coaches in that first hour. Do we need
as coaches, do we need to know who's in our
regional and sectional four months before the season starts.

Speaker 12 (01:10:54):
I don't think so, But I was looking in it's
if you look at the seeds on the boys and girls,
pretty much one in two's advanced to at this point.
There was a few one or two sixes in there.
But for all the complaining and that, I think they
do get a lot of one and two seeds down there.
Obviously they could reshuffle the deck sometimes, but I don't

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think there is a perfect science.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
There's not. But in Sectional four on the girls side
in Division two, when you're looking at teams like Wawaotos East,
Whitefish Bay, Pious Union, Grove Whitnell who had a really
good year, there's like five of the top ten teams
in the state and Division two all in the same sectional.

(01:11:39):
And I just think there's a way for us to
get around that. And I know the WI is trying
to get representation from all parts of the state. I
get that I want the best teams at you know,
in the final four, and I think that more people
agree with me than then care about if there's a team,
you know, a West Salem team that gets in a

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good enough to get in, well, then you know they don't.
We don't have to give them an easy path.

Speaker 12 (01:12:05):
It should be it should be the best four that
make kid. So you could I don't know the exact science,
but you could wait until January and then figure out
who's in what sectional.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Yeah, I agree with that. Hey, Rocky, when you started
over at my twenty four and made that decision to
start to be the high school sports station, and not
only high school sports, but you've expanded into wrestling and
college sports and do a great job with that, but
the high school one has been the one that you've
really kind of put your flag down and said, look,

(01:12:36):
we're going to own this. And I get a lot
of people will say thanks for everything you do for
high school sports because we talk about it on the
radio and I love it so much. But the fact
that you guys stepped up and said, not only are
we going to be the place, you don't have to
stream it anywhere, you just go to my twenty four
and watch it, and then put the commitment to have
guys like Sid Nay and I hope Coach Wallership I didn't.

(01:12:59):
I went to last night and they got beat. So
I didn't ask him last night if he'll be available
to come and be my co host again. I hope
that he will be. But the fact that now we're
even doing these pregame shows and pre tournament shows me
it shows the commitment that that you have to high
school sports.

Speaker 13 (01:13:16):
Well, and you know, I mean, you know, thanks, you know,
you you always, you know, thank me, and I appreciate
that stuff, but it's you know, it's really you know,
in a broadcast station in the community I mean, so
much of everything has become network, you know, and so
much corporate. You know, we all love our hometown teams,
our home and college teams, but you know, high school

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is just something is such a great experience and it
shapes you know, most of us look back at our
high school years and how we did and what we did,
and who our friends were, and what opportunities can shape
our entire life and give us a that's our filter
for everything after that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Rock I get asked and coach did I bet you've
been asked this a million times? Why do you do it?
You didn't get paid one point two million to coach
that the girls team at Saint Francis and the boys
team for a day or a game three days. But
people will ask me when I was coaching, Look, you
got two kids at home, and why There's something about

(01:14:13):
that journey and the things that kids learn. And look,
Spencer loves high school sports. Our producer here today, kid's
been doing it for years. You know what you just said.
And for me too, there's so many lessons that are
taught and I look, I don't know how long it'll continue,
but for me, the purest game is the high school

(01:14:33):
game because these kids play with the kids that they
grew up with, they play with their teammates, their schoolmates
come out and cheer them on, and there's something said
about that. I'm sure you've been asked a hundred times,
why do you spend so much time in a gym.

Speaker 12 (01:14:47):
Yeah, there's a purity to the high school game. Obviously
it's changed from when we first got involved, but it's
still the purest sport out especially with college with the
nil and kids leaving after year. There are kids that
go from one high school to another, but not obviously
not to the level of college and for the money

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that's involved.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Hey, I get to ask you this, and I hope
that you don't get mad at me for asking you,
this coach said. But as far as an excen o
and then a basketball coach like, your reputation is really high.
The knowledge of the game. Saint Francis has never been
this hotbed of great girls basketball players. And I know

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that over the years you've had opportunities to go elsewhere
and coach in different communities. You have been consistently just
stayed in Saint Francis because you love the community and
you love the school. When it's all said and done,
are do you look back and go? That was the
perfect direction for me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Yeah, I have no home regrets.

Speaker 12 (01:15:49):
As they always say, home is where it hired is
coach sarn and put together a really nice retirement ceremony
on one of the last Mondays and had received a
giant plaque with all thirty teams that I had coach
pictured on it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (01:16:06):
And then there's probably twenty to twenty five players even
dating back to my first teams that came to celebrate.
It was and that's made it all worth it. All
the bad, long evenings, long summers right kind of all
came to head that evening.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
You know, you've coached Doug Sarver's been at Saint Francis
for a long time, and so when the administration understands
the importance of high school athletics like he does, and
the fact that he did that as a surprise and
did all the backwork to get that done tells me everything.
I've been a Dug Sarver fan for a long time,

(01:16:43):
and I love the fact that when you said, look,
you know, your heart is where your home is, and
that's the reason you stayed there for as long as
you did, and again, you had opportunities and you don't
have to. I know you did, and we don't. We've
never even talked about it. But people would call me
and say, hey, we're going to take a run at him,
you see, we get him to make a move, and

(01:17:03):
I'd say, good luck, you're not going anywhere, and they'd
be like, yeah, but we have there's a lot in
the cupboard here. We've got a lot of talented players.
I said, yeah, but you're not saying, Francis, you're not
that community. And I love the fact that that you've
been so loyal to being a Mariner for so long.

Speaker 12 (01:17:21):
Yeah, it's it's like, you can't you know, you can't
take it out of me. It's always going to be
part of me. It's a special place office going to
high school there, I'm working in special ed there, and
I've lived there my whole life.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
I lived like two minutes from the school.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Hey, when they came to and said, hey, listen, we
we we were going to we need to make a
change on the boy's side, and we need somebody to
coach this team. You know, in the next couple of days,
get him ready for the playoffs, and then as deep
in the playoffs as we can go, and they came
to you. Your initial reaction to that was what.

Speaker 12 (01:17:55):
I meant to be honest. Yeah, well I was kind
of pumped up. I was ready to go.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
He's such a This is the reason I love him.
I would have been right there next year, brother, I
would have came off out of retirement for a game
or two. I coached against PAULA Shorln Lutheran. He's a
great coach. He's a really good coach. Yeah, and he
is he and I would assume that he saw Saint
Francis Boys team play way more than you did.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
He was at He was at the game Saturday.

Speaker 12 (01:18:25):
I was sent to Saturday before when we played at
Kingdom Prep and he was playing them when he was
there scouting. The only advance we had to put in
some new stuff that I know he had not seen.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
And got you out on top in the first half.

Speaker 12 (01:18:39):
We jumped out by ten. He was kind of surprised
when I came walking out. And I've known Paul for
a while.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Oh, you didn't give him heads up?

Speaker 12 (01:18:47):
No, he might have heard through the grapevine, but it
was kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
He didn't hear from me.

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
Not for me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
I would have been a little surprised too. What you
should have done is got like five guys like me,
older tired guys, Adams coming over me, all of us
walking out, sitting on the bench. Man. We wouldn't added much,
but it certainly would have been a fun reaction that
he would have had.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
You know, we started a couple.

Speaker 12 (01:19:11):
They had played him two weeks previous and beat us
by like twenty four How we were missing our point guard.
It was a really good player and a sixth man.
But we started four sophomores. We switched up Kidder two
in the starting lineup, so there's promise there. We started
four sophomores and a seniors double jarver.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
I'd wait a eleven fifteen go. We head right on
over to coach Sid's house, cup of coffee, a couple
of donuts, and sit. Pretty good contract and I'm his agent,
so you might you might have to call me on that.
We're gonna get to a break. On other side of
the break, we're gonna talk a little bit about next week,
right the girls basketball tournament and the following week. Everything's

(01:19:52):
gonna be the same for the girls and the boys.
We'll do a current Electric Girls Tournament tip off show
presented by Cannon and Dumpy Thursday at twelve thirty and
then at one thirty the game start. And then on Friday,
we'll have a show that starts at eight o'clock on
Friday and nine o'clock the girls will start from Green Bay,

(01:20:13):
and then the following week we'll do the boys. And
I love the fact that the people over at My
twenty four that Rocky and his team have put this
together so we can break down what you're gonna watch.
And again the numbers for the girls tournament and the
boys tournament are really high, and the people here at
My twenty four the fact that you don't have to
figure out what stream and you don't have to pay

(01:20:35):
to watch these games. You can sit in your on
your couch, sit in your living room and watch high
school basketball all day Thursday, all day Friday into the
evenings and then five state championships on the girl's side,
five boys state championships. And don't forget, hockey starts at
eleven o'clock. So in about fifteen minutes, turn on Channel
twenty four watch some great boys and girls hockey. Let's

(01:20:58):
get to a break guest in studio. He's Rocky Wagenhurst,
the VP and general manager at my twenty four and
coach said from Saint Francis, this is the Varsity Blitz
High School Sports Show presented by your local Picket Save
and Metro Market stores only on Fox Sports Sign twenty
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(01:21:19):
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Rocky Wagonhurst, Cock, you've been in two weeks in a row, Man,
Well you know you miss me. I did miss it
and then I go away for a long time. I'd
love it. Oh I'm having again, Man, I love having you.

(01:22:02):
He's the vice president general manager. Over at my twenty four.
Eleven o'clock today hockey State championships. And I don't care
if you're a hockey fan or not, if you're a
high school sports fan, turn this out.

Speaker 13 (01:22:15):
Eleven o'clock and yeah, eleven o'clock at one thirty, then
three to five thirty, and then seven to nine thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
And the three is the girls state championships. The girls. Man,
girls hockey's really good. I'm telling you, yeah, you're good.
Hockey eleven o'clock, three o'clock, and then the seven o'clock
for the state championship. On the boys side, eleven o'clock,
smaller schools, three o'clock, girls seven o'clock the big schools play,
and turn out my twenty four. You'll get a really

(01:22:44):
good feel for the man. Great way to watch high
school sports. You don't have to get out of stream.
You don't have to find a station somewhere in Green
Bay and try to stream it. It's right here in
our market. And then basketball next week, and coach said
the retired I don't even know how to introduce you man.
Retired girls coach, retired boys coach. Now I guess own

(01:23:07):
one on the boys side. I'm a little disappointed in you, coach.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
Yeah, got to even it out. Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
Yeah, I will see, We'll see. I've got no breaking
news for anybody. I tried to get some from from
him during the break, give coach Sarvara heads up, but
he was not the He said, n I maybe as
an assistant, who knows, it's gonna be hard for you
to just be done with it.

Speaker 12 (01:23:29):
I think, yeah, I mean I got you start up
next Sunday, and I'll always stay stay involved in that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
But yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 12 (01:23:38):
It's hard to think of not being in a gym
in a competitive standpoint.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Hey, when when we get together to do the current
Electric Girls Tournament tip off again presented by Canon Duffy.
That's gonna air this coming Thursday at MY twenty four
twelve thirty, and then Game Action follows live from Green
Bay at one thirty. You know, we did it last year,
and I think think we both did as much research
as we thought we needed. We might need a little

(01:24:04):
bit more this year. And and and the other thing
that they've done under Rocky's leadership is instead of us
doing all five divisions and one hour, we're gonna break it,
break it up a little bit and all seven.

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
Right, I'm gonna I'm gonna be studying up tomorrow Monday,
I'm gonna have more notes, more prepared I and watching
you know, a big ten networks.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Don't hey, don't go. I'm gonna tee you up. Hey,
the left handed point guard from Turtle Lake, what's her story?
You know, stuff like that. I have no idea. I'm
just gonna do as much research. But the fact, Rocky
that that this year, you guys made the decision that
we had to go pretty quick in each division last year,
and now this year, he said, let's do two shows.

(01:24:47):
Let's double it up so we can give people a
little bit more on each of the divisions and these teams,
and and we want to thank you for that.

Speaker 13 (01:24:54):
No, well except for Mike trying to negotiate for a trailer.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
Yeah, and like just blue em and M's or something.
I don't know. Just get us a water and yeah,
maybe market Mark and Steve got to be nice to us.
They're gonna spend a lot of time with us. I'll
let you dress in my car. Nice car. It's not
a bad car.

Speaker 13 (01:25:15):
But that, you know, to me, you know, sports has
always been and I was one of those kids, you know,
I was lucky enough.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
My grandfather got back.

Speaker 13 (01:25:23):
In the sixties, gave me a subscription to Sports Illustrated
and I used to get that every week. And what
was great about that was, you know, the scores of
who's playing whatever is great, but it was the backstory,
the personal stories of the athletes and why they did
what they did. And and to me, that's the most
interesting thing about this, you know, because you know, they're

(01:25:44):
all out there performing, doing what they're supposed to do
and competing, but knowing their backstories, know what kind of
you know, what kind of background they came from and
some of the things they had to kind of achieve
to get there, and that's where people get the inspiration.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
I love the faces in the crowd. You remember the
faces face in the crowd. You're shaking your head. You
were a Sports Illustrated guy.

Speaker 12 (01:26:02):
Too, So yeah, I remember what he's talking about. The
subs question, are going to buy it?

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
And I still have it.

Speaker 13 (01:26:08):
I won't give it up even you know, I still
get the magazine part, I get the electronic part, but
it's just you know, My grandfather meant a ton to me,
and he was He was the guy that used to
take me watch baseball games. He was a big San
Francisco Giant fan. And you know, when when we come
down to Los Angeles where I grew up, he'd take
me to see the Dodgers play, and we sat out
in left field for about fifty and that was the greatest.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
He's amazing that that you remember. And I've told the
story a million times. My mom is gone now, but
she was. I was a kid, and she did. She
took me in the car during it was snowing out
and we drove to thirty fifth, Wisconsin to Marquette High
to watch Alan Maguire play against Jim Chones. It's we're
seeing Saint Catharines. The game was sold out and my

(01:26:51):
mom walked to the table and Marquette High kid the
man at the table said, sorry, sold out, and she said, no,
you don't understand. My son's going to get a chance
to see this game. And he said, man, were sold out.
My mom said, I'd like to see your supervisor. And
the high school kid said, ah, just go. You might
have to stand, but go. And I stood at the
bleaches with her and watched this game in the atmosphere,

(01:27:13):
and I knew that I was going to be involved
in high school athletics. It was because she took me
to that gamp and said, you know what, I need
for you to see and be a part of this.
And I thank her for that because she when this
ye when she was alive, she never missed listening to
this show. She always forgotten. I put that up in
quotations that I did a home improvement show before that,

(01:27:34):
and she goes, yeah, I always forget about that, but
that at nine o'clock I tuned in to listen and
she would text me during all this. And she had
such a love for high school athletics and like your
grandfather getting you that sports illustrated. For me, that's where
it started.

Speaker 13 (01:27:50):
Yeah, no, I mean that's it's all in baseball especially,
you know, watch on TV is one thing and you know,
thank God that we can see those things and watch them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
You know, my mom.

Speaker 13 (01:27:59):
Ninety three three years old, she will not miss a
Dodger game. I mean there was three years this year. Oh,
I mean they you know, and she calls me and
yells at me like I you know, like I had
something differ with it. But my daughter's like that too.
She's a huge sports fan. You know, it's funny when
you talk about high school sports and how much they
mean to people and how it forms your life. You know,

(01:28:21):
my daughter, you know, the oldest one, played Division one lacrosse.
You know, I went to all the club you know,
we did all that stuff. And you know, even now,
she's thirty three years old, got two little grandsons, four
and a half year old and a fourteen month old.
And you know, she had a sister. She didn't have
any brothers, and she's like, Dad, I don't I go.

(01:28:41):
You know, can I tell you sports? Whole different ballgame.
I grew up with brothers. But the one thing I
always say to her is that when she gets tired,
I say, hill fourth quarter, fourth quarter?

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Remember of fourth quarter? Yeah, two kids will worry out.
Yeah we're tired. That's what you think about. Hey, guys,
thank you. I really appreciate it you and I will
be doing that show again Thursday at twelve thirty and
then again on Friday at eight o'clock for the girls tournament.
An hour before the the live action from Green Bay starts.

(01:29:12):
And I really appreciate you being my coach for the
current Electuring Girls Tournament tip Off presented by Canon and Duffy.
Maybe by Thursday you'll have more information for me on
you know again the retired coach from the girls side
boys side who knows coach is always good to see you.

Speaker 12 (01:29:31):
Good, thanks for having man. Look forward to Thursday Friday.
Tune in, folks. We're gonna put on a good show.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
And hopefully Coach Wallersheim. I'll put a call into him
probably tomorrow. I'm we'll give him twenty four hours to
get over it. Maybe we should. We can get him
on the show on Thursday. You know, you know, well,
maybe are back in studio with you Sat next Saturday,
three weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
In a row.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
I'm here. When do you need me? That's remember, hey Spencer,
I want that taped, please because I want to be
able to play that back if you ever turn down. Guys,
thanks for listening. Remember my twenty four Today at eleven o'clock,
watch some high school hockey eleven o'clock, three thirty and
seven o'clock some of the best hockey players in the
state of Wisconsin playing. Is it a goldpuck? Probably right?

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Yeah, I don't either. Let's just say it's a goldpuck.
They're playing for the goldpuck. Cut down those hockey nets, guys.
Thanks Loud, it's good to see you. Spencer. A great
job today, had you moving today, man, Well done. This
is the Varsity Blitz high school sports show, presented by
your local Pick and Shave and Metro Market stores, only
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