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(PSR) Prep Sports Report 6.22.2024 w/guests Bart Hyche and Brent Dearmon

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Duration:: 1h 21m
Broadcast on:: 22 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

Coming to you live from the Eastern Shore, Toyota and Hyundai Studios. The Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. Here's your host, Randy Bergen with Coach Rick Cleveland and Coach Mark Leseter. Welcome to the Thompson Tractor's Prep Sports Report as we're coming to you live from the Eastern Shore, Toyota and Hyundai Studios located right here in beautiful South Alabama. So glad to have you on board with us this morning. I am Randy Bergen along with the other two musketeers, the stars of the show. Coach Rick Cleveland, how you doing brother? Man I'm doing good Randy. Thank you. I'm doing better since you're sitting where you are. And then we have the little man. The guy I see with Coach Mark last year, you looking good? Have you been working out? No. Oh my goodness. How you being a man? Man I'm doing fantastic. I really am, you know, summers in full swing and you know, football workouts are going rocking along, drivers is going along. Cookouts at the house are going along so it's, you know, it's just what you want. It has been a little while since the three of us have been together. So good to see you. Glad to get a big show today. Lot going on. Got a lot of topics you're going to get into this segment and the next segment. Bottom of the hour got a former Mississippi State basketball player. Good friend Bart Hich is going to be on with us Rick. Yeah, Bart former team captain at Mississippi State played for, I can't thank you Coach Williams first name, but they went to the final four. I think the last time Mississippi State men's team has been to the final four. He is a basketball guru. I'm telling you, he knows high school basketball upside down inside. What do you do about 42 games? Yeah. How many games did he do? It's exactly right. During what we call the final four. Right. He did every game on the Alabama Public Television. He and Kevin Skorbinski and you know, he is just a great analyst and we look forward to talking to him about some of the things going on in high school basketball. He's got a new job too. So we'll talk a little bit about that. He's a mess. There's no doubt about it. You won't miss that coming up at 8.30. We're going to have him on for a couple segments and then we're going to, at the top of the next hour, we'll be talking with Brent Dearman University of North Alabama, head football coach. Yeah, Brent is bringing his whole staff to mobile to do a clinic and I was noticing something online earlier this week. Mark, you're real familiar with Brent Dearman. Yeah. And of course, his dad, Roger, is a buddy of all of ours. Former former coach at Wagner went over to Mississippi after retiring and coached over there, but just just just to peach of a man. Yeah. Think the world of him. But we just want to get Brent on to kind of we're in a legend series summer. So we're going to kind of flip flop it. We're going to take a young guy that has done very well and we're going to let him talk about the path that he took to get to become the head coach of a division one college football team. And I think that'll be pretty interesting. And Brent's just a wonderful person. He's done a great job there already at North Alabama recruiting as a on an uptick. He's got a great attitude about kids and about how to coach them. And of course, he learned that from one of the best is dad Roger. And I got to say Roger, he's been just been a few years ago. He had come back. He was at Sarah Land middle school helping coach out coach over there. And I think Brent's brother is coaching there. It's Sarah was it Sarah. I don't know if he's still there or not, but his brother was there. And so it's a coaching family, coaching tree and just great people. And they they do it right. They do it with the right intentions. You know, they want to teach kids how to be great football players, but they want to teach kids how to be great men. Yep. And that to me is the ultimate challenge that we all have as coaches. You know, there were a lot of eyes on the state of Alabama on Thursday night. As in Birmingham, a place you know very well, coach Rick Woodfield. They had a big ball game up there. Yeah, they sure did celebrate the Negro leagues. And I'm gonna tell you right now, it was really something they did so much work there at Rick Woodfield to even they had to bring defenses in for Major League Baseball because that was a man. If you hit a baseball out of there, you hit one. You hit one. I was I was on fire in the East West game one time in Bojax and who I didn't know who he was had no clue who he was. He was younger. And he hit a ball over the left field fence at Rick Woodfield. It's still going, Randy. I'm there. And you know what Patterson field you're very familiar with. They got a graveyard out there. That's exactly right. This ball might have landed all the way to go in the don't go graveyard because I never nobody ever found Rick Woodfield. If I'm not mistaken, that's the oldest field in America. Yeah, now Spring Hill field is pretty is an audio in an old field as well. It has some historical but I know Rick Wood is before his professional fields. It is the oldest in America. And I got my family, my dad, he loves going to Rick Woodfield and watching baseball. My my middle brother Alan, he'll come by and pick him up and them two will go down there and watch a Rick Wood baseball. They just love going well, they had a big baseball game. They're going to be on the Giants. Of course, Willie Mays passed away on Tuesday. And that's another 93. Yeah. And you know, when you think about Rick Wood, it's one of those old fields, Randy. And you probably played at Patterson field when they had that, um, what do you call it on a football field? The crayon. The crayon. They had a crayon and you from home plate. Right. The only thing you could see of the left fielder was his jersey. Yeah. And so they they redid that, of course, at Rick Woodfield. Major league baseball came in and told everybody at Rick Woodfield leave. They've got, they fixed it up to get ready for the crowd that was coming in Thursday night. More what a great game it was. And you know, if you didn't see Reggie Jackson's interview, if you didn't see it, you got to see it because he played there for Charlie Finley's double A baseball team in Birmingham. And it was tough in those days. In the late 1960s and Bull Connor had done what he did. And Reggie was, he didn't, he didn't shade it anyway. I can tell you that. He said exactly the way he was treated there. Yeah. And it was tough. Yeah. It was tough. And it got emotional. Sure it did. So but but Randy, thank you for bringing that up about Rick Woodfield because it was a tough time for Negro players in that day and time. And it's called the Birmingham Black Barons. Yeah, sure was. Okay. And look, Willie Mays, if you didn't know, is from Alabama. Yeah. All right. From he's from Fairfield. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Actually Westfield. Well, Westfield Fairfield. Yeah. But think about the great baseball players that come from Alabama. Mobile. All right. I mean, obviously Willie Mays, Willie Maccovey. Hank Aaron. Yeah. Aussie Smith. Brook Chobson. Yeah. I'm up in that area. You talk about some of those but and you know, I'm glad he said what he said. I want to make sure that everybody understands that. If you didn't hear Reggie, I want you to go back. I hope he'll go back and listen to what he said. It was it was one of the best. I think it's one of the best scenarios that he portrayed. He talked about to describe Birmingham in the 1960s. Yeah. I tell you what I got to I was a little bit different. It's still about Willie Mays. Yeah. And Willie Maccovey. Yep. One of my favorite stories. I didn't realize it was a story at the time. I was living in St. Louis, Missouri as a kid had gone to Bush Stadium to watch the Cardinals play the Giants. You're so lucky. And we're at Stadium and Willie Mays tips up to the plate. It's in like the second inning course. I know who he is. This is later on in his career now. Yeah. And he hits a dinger to left field. I mean, all of us Cardinal fans are, God mighty. You know what? What are we doing that for? He hits one out. Well, he was the number three batter. Number four batter was Maccovey. Maccovey stands up there. You know, the bat looks like a toothpick because he's so big. He stands up there. Big left-handed hitter. He hit one over the right field fence. So I got to watch two of the greatest players in Major League Baseball that are both from Alabama, hit back-to-back home runs in Bush Stadium. Didn't realize at the time that was a pretty big deal to see those two Hall of Famers do. Let me throw something at you before we take this quick time out. Coming up in our show, Southern Fairways, Sports Radio coming up at 10 o'clock. David Musial is going to be on with us. The great nephew of Stan the Man Musial, he's got a Willie May story that you're going to love. So you'll need a little space. He's going to be up at 1030. So it'll be, it'll be great. You should get to play a lot with his, with his own great uncle. Would you like to be a flounder wall when David's family was talking baseball? Oh my God. Can you imagine that? Boy, that's something. Good stuff. There's some stories told about those guys back in those days, guys that are unbelievable. Ted Williams stories about him telling them that the the the pitching rubber was out of line. Isn't that something? He looked out there and he said that thing's out of line. It's not lined up, correct? He's in the batter's box. That's funny. And so I heard that. He stepped out of the thing and they went out there sharing about six inches off. They had to move it before they could continue pulling it. That's so well. That's when you know your profession right there, right? Yes, sir. Hey, let's take a great time out when we come back. We've got small hot topics to talk about that Bort Heights at the bottom of the hour. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report brought to you by Alpha Insurance. This segment presented by Green and Phillips Attorneys in Law. Now back to the show. We've missed you, Mark. I know you have. We have missed you. Well, I'll tell you what, we've missed you too. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. Randy Bergen, coach Rick Cleveland, coach Mark Laster. Glad to have you on board with us a lot to get into. Rick, you know, we're not that far from football and it's the time of year. Who's there by in the south? Probably the nation. Enjoy football and high school football, certainly college football and tell what there's a young man not very far from us by the name of KJ Lacey. That's he's pretty dull going spanky. Yeah, he's a good player. He's he's kid that Jeff Kelly and those guys have really had a great run of athletes more. I mean, they've just had a tremendous run of athletes KJ Lacey playing quarterback for them. Multi-dimensional does so many good things on the football field got great feet. That's the first thing you recognize as a coach, his footwork, it's just somebody's done a really good job with him over there. Sarah Land, Brett Baat, all of those guys have done a great job. Jeff Kelly, more than likely because the quarterback that he was, but KJ went out to Los Angeles this past week and to the elite 11 camp. Now, most of the people that I've talked to that really follow that kind of stuff say the elite 11 camp in Los Angeles is the one where all the great quarterbacks come to be evaluated. Well, we know that in the south, we have the Manning Academy, which is pretty stinking good too. So when you get Archie Manning, you get Peyton Manning and then you get Eli Manning together. I mean, what better background can you have than those three guys playing the quarterback position, but at this camp, they picked the 11 best performances during that week. And I think there's 20 to 25 quarterbacks that come in there with four and five starters all over them, whatever that means, and I had never been able to figure that out. But he was selected to be in the top 11. And you know, that's that's a pretty prestigious thing. He's committed to Texas. Personally, I think I think that he will, I don't know if you'll keep that commitment because they got so many pieces. You just mentioned a Manning right there. Yeah, Archie Manning is going to be is going to be there. You know, he's going to be playing and everybody's been a lot of there's a lot of money around him. But but how long does the quarterback stay there? If you're a backup quarterback with a transfer portal and everything going out, I just don't know, but I know he's committed to Texas. And that's where we need to leave it. But I think the good thing, the thing that stood out to me when I was told about all this and then read it, I thought about Randy and Mark because you guys are huge Alabama fans. And you know what? The most valuable player out there, as you said earlier, Mark, was Keyline Russell. And Keyline Russell is an Alabama comedian. How many of those quarterbacks are they going to have there? They're going to have a bunch of them. The last one I remember that came from Alabama that won that tournament was Bryce Young, if I'm not mistaken, either him or two have won it. Right. And they were pretty good. Yeah, they were. I'll tell you what I like about KJ Lacy is his pocket awareness. He's got a great sense when he's in the pocket of where the pressure is. He already knows all of his offensive line protections. Jeff Kelly's already coached him up on that. Who's where? And he has an idea of where to slide, where to, but he moves. And then he has that sense of urgency like, oh, got to go. And he just takes off. And when he takes off, it's, it's a thing of beauty. But KJ's a really, really, I'm so glad he got into that deal because that's not about running the ball. That's about throwing it. And so that is a big step to make sure that everybody understands he's not just, he is a quarterback that can also run the devil out of the football. He sure can do that now. That's a good point. You know, and I'll tell you, not too bad to have Jeff Kelly's your, your head coach and your quarterback coach to a certain point. I mean, the guy's got a lot of experience back there. Hey, and he was very good. Jeff was a student of the game exactly when he played and has just continued to do that as a coach and as a player. And so he's a great teacher. I can remember when the Seattle, whatever they call Seahawks, came to Mobile, they practiced at Fair Hope at, at our field there, right? The head coach at that time came into our office at Fair Hope and that old shed up on the hill. And he was talking about Jeff Kelly said, he is the best quarterback in a film room that we've got. He teaches everybody else things about coverage drops and all of that. So you're, that's a great point Randy to make about Jeff Kelly. Yeah, there's a big, big thing to think about. We got Jeff Kelly and right down the road here, we got Phillip Rivers. I mean, I mean, really, if you're a parent and you got a kid that's a quarterback, would you rather in play for anybody other than Jeff Kelly or Phillip Rivers? I mean, too pretty good. I will tell you this, I sit and watch one of the best quarterback coaches I've seen in a while in Barrett Trotter. That guy's really, really smart. Now I'm going to tell you, I watch and listen to him and I feel like, I mean, I've been doing this for 42 years, I've been doing this. And I sit and listen to him talk about the nuances of playing quarterback and I feel like an idiot. I go, my goodness, how did he see that? How did he just teaches those things that those kids, I think it's fantastic. We're very fortunate. You're exactly right. And, you know, kids that have had a chance to be around David Cutcliffe. Yeah. That's where he cut his teeth. That's right. And buddy, he studied at every aspect of it. So, you know, it was a great quarterback coaches. And listen, you got David Norris here as well. David Norris. Yeah, you're right. David, that's exactly right. But I mean, good gracious alive. David Morris is pro quarterbacks come in, they use field at UMS because they've kind of landlocked over it where they aren't quarterback country. My goodness gracious, what a good football coach he is for quarterbacks. He's phenomenal. You're right. And it starts and all the thing about is, you know, you hear all the time offensive lineman get called for holding not because of their hands, it's because of their feet. Okay. It's the same thing for a quarterback. His feet are the keys to getting the ball set where it wants to go, where it is. And those coaches, they, I mean, I watched the drill the other day we were doing and it was so good. It was so good watching him do it. And then I got to watch and then I go, dang, I saw that drill before. Well, Tony Franklin used to do it when he was at Kentucky and then at Auburn and at Troy, when he was the offensive coordinator, he had this little drill that they did. It's a wonderful drill. And, and now you can make it even better. There's more things that go to it about moving your feet, moving your feet, moving feet in the quarterback. It's got to keep his eyes down the field. And then all of a sudden there's somebody flashes. There's two receivers over there just standing there and they flash their hands up and you got to stop, throw the ball and you have X amount of time to get it off. Well, I mean, that ball's got to be cocked. I don't tell you somebody that always kept their feet moving, Peyton Manning. No doubt. No doubt. Well, somebody else has got some good food. I don't know. I don't know if it's because he was great feet or because he was scared. Yeah, I think he was scared. I got to get out of here, man. No, because he wasn't well, he wasn't the fastest man on the field. Well, I tell you what, what a general on the field. He was what a general on the field. Another guy. This got some really good footwork is in South Baldwin County down at Gulf Shores, a little running back back there, Colin Wilson. Yeah, Colin Wilson committed senior this year coming up this year, committed to Cincinnati, got to got an offer from Jeff Lebo over at Mississippi State. Yes, sir. He can play. I can tell you right now. God, the young man who committed Ronnie Royal, who committed to North Carolina State, a good player. Really good play. I mean, he can electrify and win a ballgame by himself. This guy may be better. Well, he may be because I think Ronnie Royal collegial, he's going to be a corner by defensive side of the ball. This guy here, Colin Wilson, man, he's a man among boys. He's got some shape football player. So we can see him in the SEC. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Speaking of Mississippi State, we're going to have an alumni of Mississippi State coming up in our next segment, but he played basketball and he was he wasn't too bad at basketball. Bart Heich is coming up next. You will want to miss that. I promise you this can't know some people for sure. We're back with the top subtractors prep sports report right after this. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. The Pops Market communication lines are open at 251-343-0106. Here's your host, Randy Bergen with coach Rick Cleveland and coach Mark Leseter. [Music] [Music] Well, I'll say it again. Every time I hear that song, it just kind of gives a chill box. Look at them. We want them right down the old arm right there. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. Coach, and I know that that's got a little special meaning to you as well. Well, it does, but I'm thinking about Winfield, Alabama and how you do it, Alabama, and Hamilton. You can imagine there's some those lyrics. They get a little bit fired up and they do get a little fired up in Winfield, Alabama, when Hamilton comes down the road, down through Marion County and end up in that stadium. That place is rocking on Friday night. That's just for a football game. You ain't seen nothing until you've seen a basketball game. Well, let's talk about that real quick. On our Pops Midtown communication line, we have a former or an alumni of said Winfield, Board Heights on the line with us. Board, how you doing, my man? I'm doing well this morning, gentlemen. How are y'all? Oh, he sounds serious. A little too serious. He sounds serious. I know where Winfield is. I don't know where that other thing outside about it. I knew that was coming. I knew that was coming a minute. We brought it up. See that song, "Kitty Chesty Song" talks all about that talking trash, right? That's exactly right. That's good stuff. Board, welcome to PSR again. This easy has been very character building for you here lately. We're going to talk a little bit about that later on. We want to talk about some high school basketball with you. There's been some big changes up in, well, in close to your area of the state, Ferrell Key has left, Hartzel, in going to, I think Wallace of Hansville, if I'm not mistaken. Does that surprise you? Not really. I'm known, Farron, often often years, and one of the more underrated basketball coaches is kind of Alabama, but if people don't know, because they hadn't seen him in Birmingham, I mean, for a year and a year out, his teams have consistently played in the best area that Coleman came out of. You won it a few years ago. You've got Coleman and you've always had to cater and say it's just been a knock-down drag-out. He was never able to get able to have that Hartzel, but he can coach. It's been proven as we just saw, I guess, the last time, I don't know, however, making sure it is a coach shot that he was there, but Xs and O's, when you really break things down and run stuff from an offensive and defensive standpoint in a junior college level, it works, and it's always working well. I think it's a good hire, and I think he probably had that itch just to kind of step on into college and just see what the next column was, because he is a basketball man with a lot of basketball hard pass, and I think if you're going to step into a junior college realm, you've got to have great relationships with high school coaches. Obviously, you understand about Alabama, and he's the guy that has a lot of those. I think he will be loving. Well, he played there. I mean, he's an alumni there. He's one of the best basketball players that ever played there, and so, and we saw him this past year, he had his heart, so team over in a tournament that we played in the Birmingham area, and he can flat coach, no doubt about that. You got some others that are moving. One that you probably are for me with Jamie Skuygens has decided to retire, and just, I guess, teach, do whatever he wants to do for a while. Yeah, and that one was a little more surprising, because Coach Skuygens has had a small team of championships for a long time, and I think he's one who's got to have been there a lot longer than people really realized, but sometimes it's, you know, I mean, look at the goal. I mean, it was time, you know, and sometimes, no matter if you've won multiple match championships, zero-state championships, what have you, we'll just call you in a different way, in a different manner, and I don't think you lose the fire, but I think things change. You know, the years, Coach, you know, you would agree with this, I think, kids have definitely changed. Parents, for sure changed over the last 20, 25 years, and so, you know, with social media and a lot of things, there's a dynamic of, you know, there's a dynamic of, well, what's the next, what's the next move, how are we going to get up from now? And I'll say this, you know, when you're looking across the street and you're seeing what hustle's doing, Christian Swears, I mean, that's, that's a, that's a mountain that, as long as Swears is there, it may be difficult for anybody to call them that mountain. So, I was somewhat surprised, but I'll tell you what, man, that there was never anybody that wanted to take coach talking to teams in a bracket, man, because they would lock you down in the half court like no other. Bring me up to date on Jack Doss, because I bring us all up to date on Jack Doss, because many people around the state consider him to be one of the premier coaches in our history. He's now, he's taken on a job at Grissom that I don't know if he can compete with all those big dogs in the Huntsville area. He's got the best coach in the area. That's a shot. Coach Doss, it's, Coach Doss has had a lot of count of years ago. It's got a lot of great players, I don't know how to count. And in a very fruitful basketball area, whether it be Birmingham, I'm guessing. But you hadn't been seeing anything happen since he's been there. Right. A lot of the reasons for that. It wasn't just Huntsville. He couldn't be, he couldn't be smart. So big games that we were supposed to see, the RJ year when all the term will happen. We were supposed to end up seeing a, and I actually did that game in the area tournament, we were supposed to see a Huntsville Grissom thought two years in a row, and it didn't happen. And so, you know, I think legacy is a legacy. I think during that era, I know this sounds cliché, but I don't think you had as many skilled basketball players, and I definitely don't think you had as many skilled coaches as you did in the 80s and 90s, but now it's not, I don't have that feeling an aura of Jack Knowles, like Jonathan Hyde, though, it's not. So, I don't understand what that means to me because I've never been around it. I wouldn't around them. Well, I wouldn't around them. That's up there. That's all everybody will tell you, but I mean, it's kind of like the Tiger Woods thing. Yes, you know, all these young guys are like, yeah, you look good. No, I don't see him limping around. I didn't see him doing all these things. You can't really changeably steal it, if that makes it. Now, we'll say to you some good story about it. Because was he? I can't remember when Grisham wanted in like 93? Yeah, 92 or 91 in basketball. Would he have been there, Dan? Or am I wrong about that? No, no, he wasn't there, Dan. That's his first stand at Griffin. Yeah. No, he was probably a butler of Huntsville. That's where he was. That's where he was. That's where he won all of his. But anyway, that Griffin State Championship before Marvin Stone, okay, which would have been like late 80s. I saw that Griffin team, and then obviously, and that was the last. That was really the Grisham that I remember when I was young. I just, I haven't seen it and I don't see it coming. Again, especially as long as Huntsville has Grisham's with. Yeah. Well, they certainly have the, they have the pedigree there, and there's a lot of pedigree in Huntsville. I mean, and you were right in the middle of that entire North Alabama area, and you teach a lot of really, really great basketball players. And when I say great, I mean great. I mean, look at, look at some of the people that you've worked with and have sought your advice. And that is an up and coming thing. And that's what I want to talk to you about today, more so than coaches or anything else. I wanted to talk about the developmental style that you use to develop young basketball players. And it's not just boys, it's boys and girls, because that is something when you talk to people in North Alabama, they say, that's one of Bart Hachis players. That's one of the, you know, one of the people that he has talked, and they get, you get nothing but high echelon skilled players because they utilize what you teach. So, we see people don't know that about Bart. They know he's an analyst, they know that he covers basketball from golf shores to Huntsville. But he's a teacher, and he does a great job of teaching. And where did, was that a Richard Williams thing? Was that a high school thing? Where did that come from? Got some two people. Got some, my late father. Thanks for being a man. I don't want to get, I don't want to get emotional on y'all. It's one of the, it's okay. My late father, every day, it was something, it was a different sport. And so, what I teach is the mental aspect. I know, if anybody knows more each school, it's fairfield, okay, to go in the world. So, Walker Sharp, how was that? Yeah, I've gotten to be friends, and we kind of hung out a couple of times. And I mentioned to him, like, his coaching style is basically talking noise to his kids when they mess up. Like, it's literally like a backdoor way. That's how you're going to see it. Are you not smart? What is wrong with you? And you can see his body language and see it doing it. In that type of manner, I somewhat do that to challenge the kid in the right way. First of all, well, my dad taught me what mission trips to Africa taught me was kids. When I took Africa, my first mission trip, I couldn't really get the kids to communicate with me, even though a lot of kids spoke English. So, y'all remember the old Bud Light was the commercials, right? Yeah. Hey, hey Bart. Hey, Bart, hang up. We got a hard break right here. Keep that thought. When we come back, we're going to pick it up right there, all right? You got to tune into the top subtractors prep sports report. Bart, all right? On the line with us, we'll be back right after this. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. PSR is live every Saturday from 8 until 10 a.m. Now, back to the show. You boys are not right. Why? Well, you let boss play for just a second. Yeah, I got to catch my breath. Wow. I bet people aren't privy to what we talked about off the air, even though it's very P-rated or whatever. But my goodness. P-G-rated. P-G-rated. There you go. Man. God, I can't even breathe after you told me that. Oh, my goodness. Hey, welcome back to the top subtractors prep sports report. Randy Burger along with Coach Rick Cleland, Coach Mark Lass. We're broadcasting live from our, I started to say our shricks on studios. That happens at 10 o'clock, all right? That's the same studio. You got to stay on for that show. That's something special. We have got a great show lined up for you at 10 o'clock. There is no doubt about it, but we're coming to you live from our Eastern Shore Toyota Hyundai studios right here in Lower Alabama. On our Pops Line. I just couldn't get to them. I couldn't communicate with them. And so I just remember, I don't even know when I'm thought I was funny when I did the Popside. I was trying anything shit. I said, "You know what? If I could learn what's up," and we've gone to American Native language, we need kids with automatic listening. And man, I found out what Omega G was. And I started saying, "Oh my God, he and those kids didn't come run. The reason was, you've got to find a way to get on those kid run ones. It may be Snapchat. It may be Instagram. It may be not through social media. It may be going through divorce, like I did for my folks. It could be that they're an only child. Whatever it is that no one has kept in through, that's what you got in front of. What I've always learned about basketball is when you have a sport that has 20% accountability on everyone, 20% accountability is not that much to have to teach. It's a kid who really wants to play. Because in basketball, especially at the hospital level, in this talk, school is like he talks about where I'm from. If you can defend your guy or girl, and you can rebound, you play hard, and you can pass and dribble a little bit, like I have to go basketball in a fairly high level. I've always found a way to get on the level with me because I just firmly believe, if it's not my favorite version, it's close. Don't tell me I've got to become like a little child and say like a little child to get to heaven. I'm issue guys, even both. I'm being a leader all that long. Yep, that's right. Well, you certainly have earned the accolades that coaches and players have said about you because I hear it, I see it, and enjoy it. You can catch what is it Monday, or is it Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Easter schedule? Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays will Mike Grace. He's with Mike Grace on the press box, and does a great job with that. And yesterday, you had Greg Burnham with you, didn't you? We did. Yeah, and but the action outside of me, and now my dad, let me get that out of the way. And that's amazing. I do want to get him credit, or I'll get in trouble for that. He might be riding the mobile right in my chair. More so a cargo, man. He might be riding the Chicago, and maybe going to play it for sale farms. He might be. I got that, so he's not so much the athlete. People don't know. I think you've got a way to get us on farm links, and so that may be something we can talk about later on. We pick up the phone and call David. Yeah, yeah. Do that anytime. David's going to be way more pulled than me. But if you need me on the backside, I can be the guy behind me. Yesterday, we literally had Greg Burn on the press box, and guys, I saw him. This is the 24th, so I saw him at Mississippi State, Alabama getting last year. Every time they say Alabama comes to struggle, he would come and he would walk from our school board club. He would take that elevator, and then go and just walk the stadium, because you know, he used to be the AD there. A lot of people out in the street. Well, he had a swing on, and I don't think a lot of Alabama fans know what I'm about to play, and the radio was on my Twitter at the highest 22 or the interview. So we were sitting talking, "Man, game has like a shoulder or something." It wasn't. Yeah, back in hiding. I was like, "No, I thought I'd shoot the game. You had like a shoulder swing." He said, "Oh, yeah." And coach, you've seen my crooked stinger, you know, and I know you've gotten crooked past safe from all the sports. He had his finger amputated. Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness. And he's got a lot of thinking, and I'm probably going to have to get it done. At some point, I don't know how to play, no. I'm not going to, but he had pain, and he would wake up in the middle of the night with this dislocated finger from basketball. I was done like, "I've seen times in a three-week stand-lock. I'm dating it just. Philangie's going to be very painful. I had full foot surgery. I've got finger surgery, whatever, but I was telling you, we started talking about Norman Wald, which you see a lot of people know well. You know, that's right, legend. You want to say to him, "Yeah, that's all between him, now the best foot surgery in the world, he's my surgeon." And I had no pain. So, guys, I literally showed Greg buying my foot on his own call, and I crooked footed, and they lived in it. And he said, "He said, wow, that's the first time that's ever happened. I said, "Hey, man, you got to make sure I'm ready for it." Oh, we born high! Oh my goodness. [crosstalk] There you go. There you go. Hey, Bart, we got about a minute and a half left here. Let's, real quick, as we wrap this up, let's talk about what you're doing now. And I'm going to tell you, I am looking for this product that you're now selling. It is easy. It is easy. Because we don't give a case to you, right, Bart? I love it, man. So, I am, I'm working for easy hemp company, and we are now officially the number one hemp infused water in state of Alabama. It is three milligrams, KCCB, but our product is not a product that's trying to give you this crazy buzz. It will get you higher. It's a social, unique, calming drink that will help you sleep. It will help you. Finish water. Harking things into water. I mean, you can find me at easy hemp store in piggywigs.com. And we're in a lot of convenience stores. Come to go to easyhemp store.com and use the light shoot. So, H-O-C-H-L-T-S. And you can get 10% off of wherever you order. Easy hemp is delivered to your store. From the website, or you can love your lucky body. Bart, we're out of town. Coming to you live, the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. Presented by Alpha. Here's your host, Randy Bergen with Coach Rick Cleveland and Coach Mark Lasseter. And welcome into the second hour of the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. As we're coming to you live from the Easter Shore, Toyota, and Hyundai Studios, located right here in South Alabama. Glad to have you on board with us this morning. I am Randy Bergen along with Coach Rick Cleveland, Coach Mark Lasseter, the three Musketeers back together again. Been a little while. And we want to say hello to our friends that are listening to us all over the nation, especially one mark in Montana. Ooh. All right, she was listening to us in Montana. She's on a mission trip up there, Sheila Lee. And Sheila, thank you so much for listening in every Saturday morning. But best wishes for you and and praying for your mission trip there in Montana. Absolutely. Coach, how many do you want to go? It's great to have board H-O-N. One of our good friends was a head football coach there at Wentfield, Coach Barry Gibson for a couple of years. So, I meant to mention that to Bart. I didn't know if they knew each other. You're going to pay the consequences for not mentioning this. I can tell you that. Well, look, let's do this. We have a very special guest on with us right now, Coach. Well, we sure do. Brent Dearman is the head football coach at the University of North Alabama in Florence. And, golly, great memories of Brent and especially his dad, Roger, heck of a high school football coach here locally. And just want to welcome Brent on Brent. Welcome to Press Force Report. I guess in our 25 years, you're the first head coach of a division one college football team on PSR. I still consider myself the the office coordinator at Weiger High School. There you go. Small ball coach. I'm a mobile guy and man, I've listened to you guys for years as a kid. I played against one of you and then I'm up in on with you. Yeah, I was telling the guys off the air. I remember back in, I guess it was your senior year. If I were least fanning and I did a game at Lad Stadium and you guys, with Roger calling the play, you guys were running the ball and running it very well. I think you might have thrown maybe three or four passes at game to Marcus Russell probably through 40 and you guys won and double over time. I don't know if that was your coming out or if that was a thing where you sat down with your dad said dad, look how many times he's throwing it. I think what he told you after it was over. He said, okay, how many times we threw it. We won the game, didn't we? I'm not going to say that I still remember exactly what happened, but I tell you I was one for two for I hit a slant in the second quarter and that was the only pass I completed that night. That's pretty good. Well, one of the real reasons, of course, we love to get people to come back that have just done so well in life and one of the things that you do is you give back and you and your staff are giving back. You bring your entire home field staff to mobile and you're going to have an off campus camp that your staff is going to conduct this summer and we will really want to promote that and let you tell us a little bit about it, give us the dates and then we're going to talk some X's and O's. Absolutely. You know, all three of you guys, I remember these days, Phil Savage every summer put on a quarterback camp and I think I went like seven or eight straight years starting when I was in middle school and learned so much from going to those camps and they would be at Ladd. There were some years that he would do an afternoon session mark over at Fair Hope that I may hear those sessions go over there and just from all the people in Mobile that's been beneficial to me, I want to give back to the community. I think between, we're going to do a high school coaches social on the Monday night of the 8th to give back to those high school coaches. We're going to put on the camp, there is a camp fee but between bringing my whole staff down there and the social and everything we're going to do, we're not really going to make any money and we're going to do a kids camp for free before the camp because I just, mobile means so much to me, Wadd Stadium, the many games that I coached or played there means so much to me so we're really looking forward to this event. The camps on July 9th, you can go to BrentDeremanfootballcamps.com to find it to register or you can walk up the day of but I'm really looking forward to this event for sure. You know when you talk about that and we really need to emphasize that you've got a high school students camp grades 9 through 12 and the registration I think begins at 9 and that cost is $40 but before that, before that there's going to be a free condensed kid camp from 830 to 930 and that's a free camp for kids, for children and I think that's a wonderful, wonderful idea, Brent. You know, whatever we can do, you know, me growing up as a kid, North Alabama was a dominant division two football program and I know for me as a player, me as a coach, we didn't hear much about North Alabama. I know, you know, it's on the complete other end of the state and Florence and it helps us to kind of extend the brand as well to getting North Alabama all the way down to the coast. We do a huge amount of recruiting down there. We've got nine players on our team from the Mobile Ball and County areas so one to make sure that we give back to those young kids and they have such a good memory of North Alabama of those days. So 830 and 930, kids camp and they'll be elementary age kids up through sixth grade and then like you said registration for the big camps will start at nine. The camp will actually start about 930 and get rolling from there. Well and you've done well in that you've got two Metro Mobile area young men, former college football players, Deshawn Davis, of course, who played at Auburn and then former Spanish four player Thomas Johnston who's both on your staff. Yes, you know that because Mobile's such an importance to me, I want to make sure we had a couple great coaches from that area so we could have good name to go recruit down there but also former great players and it's easy to get recruits when you get guys that have done at a high level. You know, Thomas Johnston played in Spanish one multiple state championships with him and his brother over there, the dynamic duo and then Deshawn Davis. I remember Deshawn going into his ninth grade year, me going over and picking him up and driving him to practice at Viagra every day. He had to get out his ninth grade year because he lived in Davison's own but he wanted to come play a liger. So once he transferred over, we did everything we could to keep him and what a heck of a player ends up being a scout team full back. Well, I played scout team quarterback that year, goes on and as you could tell from Pufflin when I'm talking about him, Deshawn Davis got a special place in my heart because of what all I've seen him go through here is the ACL senior year. Still goes on to Auburn, two-time all SEC gets drafted by the Bengals and that man, that name in Mobile and for sure in Fisher is a big-time man. So those guys are busting their bucks and are becoming great college football coaches as well. Hey coach, it's so good to hear your voice buddy. I just wanted to ask you real quickly. We only got about a minute left in this segment. What do you all plan to do at your camp when you have the 9 through 12th graders come? Give it a little synopsis of what you're going to do. You know, we're a little different Mark. You've probably through the years have been to a few camps one or two. A lot of places that's turned this thing into just a testing event, a measurable event. We're going to get one 40 and one shuttle to start the day off during registration. After that, we spend about 40 minutes of doing individual and there's not a lot of places to do that anymore. They go straight to just seeing what a kid could do for them where we're going to port about 40-45 minutes worth of individual time of teaching and coaching kids the same way we would do our own team. And then we're going to get into some routes on air. Then we'll get into some one-on-ones and then we're nothing. We're a little different. I like to see guys compete when they're tired. So we do a little one-on-one tug of war with some of the high light with some of the MVPs from camp to see how they're going to compete, to see how they finished, to see how they handle adversity. And we ended up offering a lot of those guys from from events like that. Man, I tell you what, I really like the way that sounds about what they're doing. Not just because it's so many of these things are little factories. And that's not what Brent and Emily do. I knew it wasn't going to be when he started talking about it. So Brent kudos to you. But I think we're going to carry you over into the next segment. When we come back after this segment ends, we're going to keep on for a few minutes and talk some more football. Yeah, we got about 36 left here. Actually, coach, when we come back, we got a special sponsor we want to mention as well. Hey, don't go anywhere. This is the Top's Attractors Prep Sports Report. And we've got the University of North Alabama head football coach, Britt Deerman, on the line with us. Don't go anywhere. We're back right after this. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report. Call or text the Prep Sports Report at 251-343-0106 on the Pops Market Communication Lines. Now back to the show. And we certainly welcome you back to the Top's Attractors Prep Sports Report. Randy Burget, coach Rick Cleveland, coach Mark Laster, coach Brent Deerman, the head football coach for the University of North Alabama on our line. But before we go back to him, Rick, we've got, we've got some great sponsors of the show and certainly Premier Collision to one of them. Well, we sure do Premier Collision, Chris Garris and the guys and gals there. They do a fantastic job. You don't have to go much further than us three cats to tell you that they have taken care of our vehicles for years. And if you have a fender bender or major collision, you want to give Chris Garris a call or Kim, you've got the beauty and the beast there. There ain't no doubt. That's exactly right. Five, five people. You got Tyler running the shop there as well. And so Chris Garris over at 251-477-4800. I'm sorry, 277-4500. And I can tell you right now, they will treat you like family. Any kind of collision you have, anything you have, you've got just a boo-boo in your car. Go by, Chris and him will have it fixed in a couple of days. You'll be in great shape. Just great people. Premier Collision, two locations in Mobile Off of Schillinger. It's just their newest location, but they're in Midtown, is their primary location. Premier Collision, we think the world of them, and they think the world of high school athletics, and they do everything they can to help in as many ways as possible. They'll take care of you, just like family. All right, we're talking with Coach Brent Dierman. Coach, let's go back and review real quick on this camp that you got coming. That's actually July the night at Lab People Stadium. Give us some more details on that. So July night at 8.30, from 8.30 to 9.30, we're doing a free elementary school kids camp where our all-field coaches are going to teach kids basics and the base fundamentals of playing football from how to tackle, how to catch the ball, how to throw the ball, just the samples of base fundamentals playing the game. Then we've got a high school camp that the registration is actually going to get started around 9 o'clock. The camp will get rolling right at about 9.30 on the finish and the kids camp, and then we will get started with the camp about 10.15 once the registration is wrapped up, but we're one of the only camps in the country that we're going to pull about 45 minutes of individual time where our coaches are going to coach the campers just like they were one of our own. Instead of it just being an EVAL camp or we're the only ones that benefit, we're going to pull into these kids where they're going to get just as much as not more of the benefit out of this camp than we do. Now we will, this is an EVAL camp for us, so we will still get to offer kids and recruit kids and start working on our signing class for next year, but we wanted to make sure that we were different than most people. We want to make sure that the kids got something out of coming to our camp. Then after individual will go into some routes on air, then we'll get into one-on-one situations, and then we get some competitions where we do the fastest man at camp and we do some tug-of-war one-on-one battles, and that just lets us see how kids like to compete because you don't want football players that don't love to compete. We're really looking forward to it tonight. What I'm going to shout out to this is on the night before we're actually doing a high school coach's social, where we're going to take care of everything. We just wanted to hang out with the high school coaches and just pour into them and let them know that we care about them too, because I'm a son of a Mobile County Alabama high school coach, and my brother said Sarah Land, he's still a high school coach in the area. I coached five years down there, so I still consider myself a Mobile County high school coach myself, so we wanted to pour into those guys that night before. Working people go to find out about that you gave us a website a moment ago. You can go to Brent Deerman, footballcamps.com, and you can find all the information there, and the other thing is that the very next day we're going up to Montgomery and we're going to do the same thing there, so we're trying to flood the state. We're the University of North Alabama for a reason. We want to recruit players in our own state instead of continuously going out of state to try to find guys. Let's flood our team with players from this state. Yes, sir. Brent, when you talk about your journey, tell us a little bit about how you got to North Alabama. Of course, when we think about North Alabama, we think about Bobby Wallace and the job that he did there in one national championship many years ago, but tell us where you were, and we know, but tell our audience where you were when you got the opportunity to go to North Alabama, and tell us kind of go through how all that happened. I tell you what, I have the coaches after me all the time about my journey, and I don't know anybody else who's got a journey quite like mine, and it's all because the Lord has blessed me. When I first got into coaching at 23 years old, Kerry Stevenson offered me the offensive coordinator job at Wiger High School, and not many people get a coordinator position as their first opportunity in coaching, and I was blessed because Kerry was my position coach at Wiger, so he knew me really well. He worked with my dad for a few years. That's my alma mater, so to be able to go back to my alma mater was just fantastic to begin with, and then my first year in coaching guys, we go 15 and 0, then we average like 40 points a game, we win state championship, and I thought, "I'll go home," and I tell my dad, I said, "Man, it can't be this easy dad." First year in coaching, and then win a state championship, and he said, "Oh, don't worry, it'll humble you pretty quick." But I figured out that year, we had like eight division one football players, and Johnson Fowler, they wasn't a player in the country that could tackle him in senior year, and we just handed it off to him. It wasn't the plays that we taught, I promise you that, it was the players that we had, and that really catapulted my career. I was the head coach at BC Rain for two years during the kind of renovations of the school, and those two years won two games and three games, and so it goes from state champion to struggling, and fighting, and scratching, and clawing, and got an opportunity to go to Auburn, Damien Craig helped me get my foot in the door, and interview with Coach Miles on. I spent two years at Auburn. My first year there was the kick six season, go to a national championship, my first year there, lose the Florida state, and then I wanted to start making a name for myself, and took a D2 job at Arkansas Tech as an offense coordinator, spent three years there, had good years, and then got to go be a head coach at my alma mater at Bethel in West Tennessee, go 10-0 win the conference championship, going to the playoffs, have a good run, and then get a call from West Miles at Kansas. His first year there to go be on staff there, got elevated in game seven to be the offense coordinator, go from an analyst to an offensive coordinator. I don't know how many times that's happened, and my first name calling it was in Texas against the Texas Longhorns, and I just, I joke around that the year before, I think exactly a year before, I was preparing to play Campbellsville University when I was at Bethel. And one year later, I'm calling it against the Texas Longhorns in Austin, and I'm on the big, I'm on the, the Longhorn network, the night before, is interviewing me, and like coach, are you ready for this stage? I said, as far as I know, from middle school ball to high school, to NAI, to, to ball in big 12, they're going to send 11 guys out, and we're going to send 11 guys out. Sure, ball. That's, that's exactly right. And we scored 48 that night, we lost 50 to 48, and it kind of, it put my name out there in the Division One world, then went on to Middle Tennessee for a year, was it FAU last two years ago, and this job came open, and I got tired of moving, I got tired of chasing the Division One coordinator dream, and, and uprooting my family all the time, and I said, I want to be a head coach, and I, and I want to build it my way, I want to put my roots in the ground, and I want to get back to the state of Alabama, and got an opportunity to be a head coach in north Alabama, and have it look back since. So, like I said, my journey's a little bit different than most people, and, and it's because the Lord has had his hand over me throughout this whole process. Well, that's a wonderful, wonderful journey. I'm going to tell you right now, I've kind of written some things down on that, and that's, that's, that's something special. Coach, Coach Jeremy, we got to thank you so much for taking time to be with us. We look forward to having you back on real soon, and that was a great interview, except one thing, Mark, when he said the kick six, we couldn't let that happen. That was great, we can let that happen. Good, thanks, friend. Welcome back to the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report, brought to you by Alpha Insurance. Now, back to your host, Randy Bergen. [Music] I'm just telling you, you look like June Lockhart and somebody from the 1960s. I cannot unsee that. That's bad. That was pretty bad right there. Friend of steer, you're not. Okay, I can promise. Oh my goodness. Well, welcome back to this crazy, crazy show called the Thompson Tractor's Prep Sports Report. Coach, I got to tell you, I enjoyed that, I enjoyed that interview with Brent Dierman. He is, he's a class act, there's no doubt. Well, there's no doubt about that. He had a great mentor in his daddy, Roger Dierman's one of the finest men and finest coaches that you just, he was just blessed. God richly blessed that young man. He did. He's got a great foundation, he does. It is time for our leadership segment, and you've got that today, Force Coach. Yeah, I came across something the other day that applies to all of us, and Randy, that even applies to what you and Joey do on the Southern Fairways Golf Tour. Seven behaviors of the world's best managers. You know, most managers learn best management practices based on managers they've had, just like coaches, learn what they learn, how to run a program from the coaches that they've worked for and with. So, I wanted to share this, and I won't get all of it in, but I wanted to share some of the high points of it because I think it's important in every aspect of life, whether it be sports, whether it be business, whether it be church work, whether it be running tournaments, whatever it might be. You know, today in our world, nearly every organization is going through massive change. Maybe in the business world, regulatory changes to new competition, to technological disruption. We seriously that in school. One manager in the healthcare industry explained how she leads during change. If everybody understands why we need to do this, not just because our leaders say we need to do this or that, they are more willing to make that specific change. Only four in ten U.S. employees strongly agree that the mission or the purpose of their company makes them feel their job is important. Now, that's huge because in everything Randy and what you do, I don't know your job description, but there's got to be something that tells you, that makes you feel like you're really important to the company that you work for. Mark, as coaches, as assistant coaches, we always felt like that we were doing something that was helping the team be the best that they can be. In our world today, only four out of 10 workers believe that they are an essential part of their team to run a business. That's not a good stat. That's not a good one at all. It's just not. If managers don't know why their team is being asked to do something, they should ask leaders for the purpose behind the task of the project. If a head coach has assistant coaches who don't know why they're doing what they're doing, they need to go to that head coach and they need to ask. I don't understand my role here. Help me get to where you want me to be, for us to be what you want us to be. That's huge. That's really huge. What if your leaders won't give you a reason why? Well, you just keep asking until you get one. Good leaders should appreciate questions and debate. Change does require innovation. It doesn't matter when Brett Deereman is going into a situation in North Alabama where they hadn't been very good for a while. I think they won three games last year. I bet they win five this year. Being that kind of leader, you got to be innovative. But how does a manager inspire more innovation from their workers? How does a head coach motivate assistant coaches to be the very best they can be if the position to stay coach? If you know the people on your team, you know who the creative thinkers are. You talked about John Blackman a couple of weeks ago with Steve Saverich and y'all's staff. John had great ideas. He might not have known in a young age how to carry them out, but some of the older coaches on the staff might take those ideas and put them into effect on y'all's football team. As you said, they did do that later on. You young assistant coaches, don't be scared to go to your coach or if you're a baseball coach, don't be scared to go to the skipper and throw out what you believe might be beneficial to help your team be the best you can be. Don't be scared, don't hesitate to go one-on-one with your coach and tell him how you feel about where you are in the organization because he'll help you and he'll help you feel better about who you are and what position you hold in that organization. Even if he doesn't make the change, hearing someone speak out on how they feel about where they are in the business or in the sport that they're coaching is very valuable. Coach your team in a way that allows for genuine tender. Now, that hit me when I saw it. It hit me because I didn't understand it. So, I read on. Every morning, this particular coach has a safety huddle and he asked everybody around, "Has anything happened that you think will help us be better tomorrow than we are today?" Those people in the business or those coaches on the staff, that gives them the opportunity to say what they see that they feel like will help them be better and that does nothing but open doors for a head coach in any sport or a CEO of a company because now we're being innovative and we're listening to our employees and we're listening to our staff. I think that's a wonderful, wonderful thought. I think each one of the things that is expressed here and so appreciative to 68 Ventures for sending this to us, most head coaches realize that communication matters. But how does that work when your team is only practicing one time a day and coaches are going to different sports to coach, well then that's when you need to have that meeting with your coaches on a weekly basis, especially during a springtime sport. You need to have a meeting with them and let them converse and ask questions and that way your coach's staff is unified and the head coach is getting all the input that he can get from his assistant coaches. I think that's great stuff and that is brought to you by our people that go past. We appreciate everything that 68 Ventures does. Leadership has grown. I mean the mindset of leadership is totally changed more from when we first got into this and I had a chance to play golf with the UMS guys other day and they're having a big leadership meeting this week in Mobile at the Battle House and I got to play with a couple of guys from Mississippi and they're at the conference and they were talking about leadership and how it has completely changed in the school in schools. It's just you have a leader and then you have a leadership team and that's what we've always done in sports. That's what we've always done and now schools are doing that and they seem to be running so much smoother. I think it was good stuff and I appreciate 68 Ventures for sending us out. I thought we would share that and that's where we are today. You know I think that some of the things they mentioned in there were so good. I remember I learned this. I actually learned this at a clinic or camp with rush probes. I asked him I said what do you do? I was just asking what do you do to get all your offensive coaches involved in the game plan for Friday night and it shocked me kind of to be honest with you where I said well I have one of my coaches. He has the screen package. He comes up on Sunday and he at what screen passes we're going to run that week. He has one coach that is the trick play. He comes up with it and usually that's like one of the younger coaches. You know he has a play and then you have your coordinators to do the rest or he may have a coach. He even told me one time he goes I have a coach for short yardage. He goes he does this is what but I wanted to make sure every coach had input into the game plan. Every one of them and he goes now the key is hiring good coaches. Got to hire good coaches but also even with the young guys who may not be ready to do that they come in they give an idea and then we hash it out. I'll never forget doing that same deal with Saverice one night. One Sunday we were working get ready to play a game and we came up with this reverse and I said coach fake it. I don't know why I said this. I was young. I said fake it off the ISO or something like that and he says let's look at that. We looked and we started playing with it and we came up with it and then during the ballgame against Aniston that ran it touched down. He gets right on ahead and says and he goes that was done Sunday Mark. Good job. That was the first play of the game wasn't it. No I was one Tony Franklin coach. I knew you told the tennis coach Tony Franklin not the not the all right. Well we certainly are in every sport Randy you know I'm seeing it in golf too but I really saw it at the US Open. Yeah how good was that man it was absolutely but to see the advice that those players were getting on every hole from different people. And then when they get on the green they got another guy that's out there coaching them and giving them advice on putt. Yeah you're talking about doing practice right. Yes you're in the practice right. Yeah no it's as good stuff as a matter of fact we're going to talk about the US Open coming up in the show at 10 o'clock Southern Fairway Sports Radio. We've got a great show lined up for you. Jimmy James is going to come on. Now again this is a guy you want to hang with if you play golf okay. He just released a book called Playing From the Rough a personal journey through America's 100 greatest golf courses he's going to be on with us. David Musil is going to be on him with us. Matt Branson the house. Doug Halton is in the house. We're going to have a great show. Join us. All right we'll take a quick time out when we come back. Mark has got a camp great segment. Don't go anywhere. This is the Thompson's Tractors Prep Sport Report. This segment of the Thompson Tractor Prep Sports Report brought to you by Camp Grace. Now back to Coach Rick Cleveland. Camp Grace is located in West Mobile is the summer home of Camp Rapid Hope Camp Mash Camp Smile and Camp Sugar Falls as well as the home of Outback Mobile and is shared by many other community organizations throughout the Mobile Area. Camp Grace is a place where God's love is bestowed freely upon others. The true definition of God's grace. Before we get into the grace segment just a quick note. No you can't do this more. You can't do that. Yes you can. You can't do it. You can't raise you. I'll cut his mic off. Sheila, Sheila Lee, I know you were happy that Brent mentioned the kick six. You didn't have to send that to Randy and I. Could have kept that to yourself and triggered it in your heart. But we understand. We really do. Now you've got to be kidding me. Thank you Sheila for sending that. Now Sheila we love you. Have fun in Montana. Be safe and blessings to you. Anyway on the grace segment. This is what I want to talk about today is that it's May is Mother's Day, June we have Father's Day. Summertime is a time for families where everybody tries to get vacations and trips to do things with your family. Things about nature and I just to me families is one of the most important things that we we do. I can remember my daddy telling me you know like I would say I'm gonna go visit some friends of mine or something like that and he'd say why can't you just stay here with our you know and parents want your kids to be around. He goes can't you just stick around and our family's important and I got to know dad but I'm seeing y'all every day yadda yadda yadda. Well now at this point in my life you know look back and go I probably wish I'd have spent a little bit more time at home you know instead of going in going in going but that's just part of being kids and growing up I do believe. Anyway the family God created the very first family was Adam and Eve's family and from the very beginning God blessed and encouraged families by commanding Adam and Eve be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. The example of Adam and Eve shows us that families are of God. God encouraged family. Summertime is about families about spending time with families about being a part of each other's life while there's no while the young kids don't have the kids don't have school or kids come home from college or kids are you know families have grown a little bit and maybe the kids have moved back home you know or come home for a trip in the summertime. I was thinking about this yesterday I was a really kind of a cool day it was yesterday was mine and my wife's 33rd anniversary and man you know it was like I like to kid all the time it was like a mid-summer night's dream you know it just it just didn't seem like we've been married for 33 years but as we sat there yesterday it was really cool to me not to her it may seem like an eternity you know I don't know I can't speak for her I can only speak for me I didn't mean it enough yeah you did a good job though but yesterday also my my sister Ginger who is 20 months younger than I am came to visit and Ginger is probably my hero Ginger was born deaf I had the measles as a little kid my mama got it from me while she was pregnant with Ginger and and it's I think it severed a part of her eardrum or part of a nerve in her ear and Ginger's never heard anything so all her life she's been deaf she's been used to hearing aid we traveled around the country to Central Institute for the deaf to teach Ginger how to be a oral deaf person where she could actually read lips okay and that's how she kind of that's where she that's how her communication skills are she can also sign language she carried on a job for many years there at south central bell in in Birmingham raised two beautiful daughters who are now both grown but Ginger came to visit and we sat and talked last night my boys were all able to come to the house we grilled out hamburgers and connect the dogs and and I just had a really large time hanging out with each other and talking and I sat and listened to my sister talk and we she and I talked back and forth for probably two and a half three hours it was very very meaningful I got in bed last night and I got to thinking this is the same little girl who gave me claustrophobia as a little kid one day we were living at outside and living in pencil now I'm outside of Birmingham and Ginger and I were playing and I got inside the toy box and she sat on it okay and I wasn't strong enough to get her off and I was trapped inside it she couldn't hear me I'm screaming bloody murder trying to get out of that toy but I'd been in there running a hella pushing I was pushing up and I was absolutely terrified I think my mama finally heard me muffled screams coming from inside the toy box and came in there and told Ginger get off the toy box and she says no he's mean to me anyway so I get off so we we talked about that for a few minutes last night and she just laughed she said I don't remember that I go sure you don't but what a what a great moment but then to watch her grow a child that's never heard a thing and then to be sitting you know she's Ginger's 20 months younger than me and we're sitting there on the back deck talking about our families looking at my children talking about her kids talking about our family and I think to myself man if I had half of the intestinal fortitude that she had just to grow up in a world that she doesn't understand she doesn't hear she drove all the way down here from Birmingham went she went to Alexander City to do something and then she drove all the way on down she got she got here and we just had the best time and we're going shopping today we're going downtown Fair Hope walking around and going out to eat and just spend some time together but God told us to put families together and he honors those families and I thank God so much for my family and for the ability to spend time with them and you know it it's pretty cool to be a part of a wonderful family and I think you guys are family even though y'all rag on me all the time you guys are like family you like my twin brother you know which I already have one this is true but I'm like the triplet read thanks thank you for that family man brother Martin remember this no matter what you do no matter where you go he is always with you God bless you see here's the same place same time next week if you love local honey then southern farms honey located in Spanish Fort Alabama is for you established in 2019 by a small beekeeping family southern farm honey is raw unfiltered wildflower honey and can naturally sweeten anything kids will love the healthy smack of honey straws the honeycomb is perfect on a chacrutery board the decorative bottles of honey make the perfect gift from the hive to the model you can't get much fresher than that 40 years today at southernfarns honey.com