 Hello everybody and welcome to TV8's annual football preview show. My name is Mike Martin and joining me as the coach Chris Wright. Chris, we have four coaches we're going to be interviewing tonight. We got a new guy and we got a Hall of Famer and a couple of regulars. Yes, of course the traditional coaches, Coach Tudis and Coach Pfeiffer from North and South respectively. And Coach Yiddish from Sheboygan Falls in a strong program. He's the Hall of Famer and Al Holsheimer has just taken over for Sheboygan Lutheran. It should be an interesting show. One of the things we're going to do during the breaks we're going to be showing the home schedules for the different teams that we're covering tonight in North, South, Sheboygan Lutheran and Sheboygan Falls. And we're also going to show our schedule for the season so make sure you're paying attention during those breaks. You're going to get some real good information. Chris, at the end of the show we're also going to do our annual predictions and if I remember correctly I think I got all mine right and you got all yours wrong. I think maybe the other way around but yeah it's always fun to kind of pick a team out of the hat and see how they do. You never know they're just kids so it's just for fun but we'll see what we can do there. I don't want to get myself in trouble like I did a couple of years ago with another season that we cover. We're going to take a short break and when we come back Chris is going to interview Al Holsheimer from Sheboygan Lutheran. Welcome back. Coach, thanks a lot for coming in. I know you're pretty busy this week with practice and first game this week. Since you're new to the football community why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Okay. I have a wife Michelle and three kids and I'm the principal at Emanuel Lutheran School in Sheboygan. This is my second year helping out at Sheboygan Lutheran. I spent three years at Lakeland College. It's a defensive line coach out there. And previous to that I helped out at two other high schools, one in the state and one in Illinois. So I know this was kind of late for you to get started. Job was kind of posted late and things, did that affect anything with transition or anything? Well I think it ended up, that's why I got the job. It was kind of too late to bring somebody in. I was the offensive line coach last year and I worked with coach Lynn Scalcel played football with him at Concordia, Wisconsin. And so when the opportunity came up that he left they asked if I would take over and I was able to put together a really good staff. I got two assistants that played at Lakeland as our two of our offensive coaches. And then there's another teacher in the area that's our head JV coach and then we had a person on staff. So I was able to put together a good staff which made the decision pretty easy to go ahead and do this. Well over the last few years Lutheran has basically been a power kind of running team and been pretty successful at that. What are you going to bring to the Crusader offense this fall? Well we're hoping to run the ball still. We're a little bit different formation. We're going four-wides and three-wides most of the time. The kids I brought from Lakeland are used to that type of offense and so we're spreading people out. We have a lot of quick skill kids and we're looking to get the mismatch each week and just capitalize on that. Up front we're not as strong as everybody is in the conference and so to compensate for that we have to do something a little different and take advantage of our skill positions. Well we've seen Lutheran play the last few years and there's been a lot of fun so it must be fun for the kids as well. The kids are really excited. The first scrimmage we had, we had scrimmage with the parents there, the green and gold scrimmage and the kids are really excited. The parents were excited. We went to our scrimmage last week with the three other teams and we scored the very first play of the scrimmage so that really got people excited. 40-yard touchdown pass, first play. So there is a lot of excitement right now. And on the defensive side of the ball your philosophy is? Defense level, hopefully we just told them one more time than the offense can score. We were on a 43 with a monster back and then probably a lot of cover two and cover four. Our philosophy is going to be just to attack people. Once again our sizes are a disadvantage and we're just going to try and force the issue a lot. So we're going to come after people. Has the transition been pretty good between the change of coaches with you and the players? Yes, I had a good report with the players last year and they were, from what I've heard, they were really excited about that we were taking over and we were bringing some fresh philosophies into things and so it's going to be a good change. Good to hear it. Who are some of those skill players you have? Can you name some of the young men that we might be reading about this fall or scene? Josh Binsler, he was an all area running back last year, second team. And so he's going to be quarterback for us. He's made the right reads for us. He's our backup quarterback. Ryan Schmidt graduated last year so we need somebody that had some game experience playing the position. We also, he's a threat to run the ball and he's made the right reads. He's a very intelligent kid. So he's making the Blitz pickups and those things in practice and carried over in scrimmage too. TJ Radloff, he's been a sprinter, run the hurdles in the track and field and he's playing wide receiver for us and hopefully be a big play threat for us out there. Josh Korn played running back for us last year and he'll be our slot receiver and Joe Renzelman will be another wide receiver so we'll have those three guys out all the time. Tony Holm, who didn't play last year, is coming back this year. Right now he's been looking really good so far in camp and at one running back and Tyler Coleman who kicked for us and played soccer last year is going to be our other tailback. So we feel really good about our skill kids there. You say you're a little undersized on the line but who are some of these young men on the line? Eric Moldenhauer is our center. He's about 6'3, 250 and he's a senior. Mike Byneman, he's about 175 but he's just a tough kid, very tenacious and he's able to pull out and get out there for us. Matt Brendel played fullback for us last year. He's moving to the right tackle. Matt Riesop is our left tackle, he's a junior and Kyle Bax will play the left guard. He's a senior and he's about 170. Our guards are pretty small but they get out there and they enjoy hitting people so it's going to be a lot of fun with those guys. You got some kids that can kick the ball for you? Tyler Berkicker again. He kicked the ball really well for us last year. He does a lot of directional kicking so our coverages don't have to be perfect all the time. We kind of cheat a little bit with that. So he's able to kick out of bounds and along the hashes. Being a smaller school are the numbers still going up there? I know the last few years things have been gradually getting bigger. Is that still the case? Yes, this year we had 40 kids out. In the four years they've had the program, that's the largest amount of kids they've had. We're hoping to get two or three more freshmen when school starts. There always seems to be a couple of kids that haven't figured it out the whole football season thing so we'll welcome them to come in with open arms. I had to order more equipment this year. We ran out of equipment so it was a good problem to have. It is a good problem. Lutheran's really been moving up since they started football a few years. They've been moving up to CLC. High expectations this year? We'd like to think so. We have nine returning stars on both sides of the ball. I think we learned a lot last year. We were a young team in the first varsity season and it was just a lot of new things. The reason we switched to a different offense was so we have a chance against some of the bigger schools in our conference. That's where we're hoping to be able to compete with them. Coach, thanks so much for coming in. We look forward to seeing you. I know we won't see you until the end of the year, but good luck until then. When we come back, Marty will be with Coach Yiddish from Sheboygan Falls. Joining me is Hall of Fame head coach at Sheboygan Falls, Dan Yiddish. Dan, thanks for stopping in. Talk a little bit about this Hall of Fame thing because it's really a big deal. What it means to you and the community and the football team? Well, Mike, it certainly is a big honor. I view it as kind of an honor for all the people that have been in the program during the time that I've been there. One person doesn't do this. I've been very lucky. I've always said I've been very lucky to coach some great players at Sheboygan Falls. I've had an outstanding group of assistant coaches that have just been very true to me throughout my career. My family has been very supportive of the time I put in. Our school district and administrative staff have supported our program. Being in the Hall of Fame, I think, is a reflection on all of those individuals, but mostly I think it's the players that I've had a chance to coach. I wouldn't be here without them. You've got 23 years. You're starting your 23rd year as a head football coach. You've been at Sheboygan Falls 29 years. That's quite a run. I'm going to nail you down on one, maybe two. If you had to pick your best back in your career as a head coach, can you nail it down to one, maybe two? My best running back? Oh boy, that would really be tough. I've had so many good running backs and some two great backs on our state championship team. Nick Martin and Matt Kimmler, they rushed for over 400 yards in that state championship game, but going back into the 80s and early 90s, I've just had some great, great running backs. So it's really hard to just single out one person. I've been lucky to have a lot of good, solid running backs. Very diplomatic. Let's go to the line, because I know you've had some outstanding linemen over the course of your career. Anybody that stands out as being the best or a couple that stand out as being the best? Well, in terms of college potential, we had Tyler Adam, we received a scholarship and played with the Badgers. He played on our 87 and 88 team that were very outstanding teams. In the 90s, we had Kevin Campman. He was offered a couple of full-ride scholarships and decided he just wanted to walk on to the Badgers. So in terms of college recruiting, those two guys stand out. We just had a lot of those 205 pound guards, the Majerys Walsh group. I could list so many names that were just such phenomenal high school players. Maybe they didn't have the size to go on and play division one football, but in terms of a high school football player, they were great. One of the things that I've noticed in covering your team over the years, Dan, is pound for pound, your kids are really tough and it just hits a dog on hard. Now, how do you teach those kids that? Well, I've always said and I don't want it to change. I've always said I've been lucky that your boy and false kids are tough kids and we don't want that to change. I think a little bit of you can teach in drills, but I think some of it's just in their heart and like I say, I'm just lucky to coach those kids. Now, last year was an atypical year and there were some unfortunate situations that went on with injuries in particular. First of all, how are the injured kids doing? Are they going to be coming back? Okay, I know your son was one of them when he graduated, but it just wasn't the kind of year that you certainly expected. Well, we started out having three real key injuries by the time we got out of the first game. Andy Wolfe, one of our lead receivers coming in, broke his foot at a camp in the summer and missed about five games. And then Dieter went down with a shoulder separation in the lex cascades early in the game and then Pat Seifert had a season ending injury and that came also. He tore his ACL. So good news is Andy's playing baseball and basketball. Dieter's got a week and a half in of college football at Oshkosh. Pat's back. He's a junior. He's trying to work himself back in shape. And I don't think he's anywhere close to where he was last year, but it'll take a little time and hopefully we can get him there. When Dieter moved in as the quarterback, and I don't recall if it was a sophomore or freshman year, but anyway, once he moved in as a full-time quarterback, you changed the offense a little bit. It seemed like if you threw three or four times a game, that was pretty much. Yet when Dieter stepped in as your quarterback, you opened it up a little bit more. Now he's gone. Who's going to step in at quarterback and what's the offensive philosophy going to be? Well, we've actually changed our philosophy again. We really try to build an offense to the talent we have. One of the things people probably say, well, your son's a quarterback. You're going to throw it more. But we were blessed his junior year to have a kid like Ryan Walsh, a player of the year in our conference, who was a phenomenal wide receiver, and then Andy Wolfe on the other side. We trimmed that back a little bit last year when Andy got hurt. Once he came back, we opened it up again. But we have some very, very big offensive linemen this year. We have three juniors in our offensive line right now between 270 and 290 pounds. We've always been a wing tee, a quick hitting team. So we're kind of changing our philosophy to match the ability of the players we have. So we're going through some growing pains right now. When you run your wing tee offense, you run an unbalanced line or do you keep the two and two on each? We'll do a little unbalanced, but that's not our base set. We're usually not an unbalanced line team. Now we talked about a little earlier about all your kids really love to hit. And of course, when you're a hitting team, usually that translates into pretty good defense. And I think that as you look at your teams over the course of your tenure at Falls, defense has really been a strong point. How does the defense look for you this year? I think you're right. I think that's the thing that we try to hang our hat on. You know, we've got a lot of young kids out there this year. You know, we lost a good senior class last year and we've got a couple of kids coming back. Eric Meinert, a defensive tackle, started for us last year. Josh Merzberger started an inside linebacker. Seth Mauer started at a half-pack last year and Dylan Stresner saw a little playing time before an injury. So we've got about four kids out there with some experience, but we're kind of up in the air right now as to who our defensive starters are going to be. We've got a lot of really close races going on for a lot of positions. So that would be a good thing because you're battling for positions. I think it's always good to have good competition. That's right. And hopefully the guy that finally gets the job is a good athlete. One of the things that stands out is you've got a really great program going and one of the things that hinges on that is your stability in the coaching staff. Talk a little bit about those guys. Yeah, I really have been lucky. You know, just this last year, Chuck Bronic, after 20 years with me, has retired from football. His son, Chuck lives in the Port Washington School District and his son is a junior on the varsity down there. And rightfully so wants to watch his son play on Friday night. So I understand that. So he's going to be out of our program for two years and whether or not we'll get him back three years down the road. We'll see how much he enjoys it. But I had Chuck for 20 years. This is the 20th year for Keith Minverse, our offensive and defensive line coach. And then Greg Priebeck, one of our JV coaches, I kind of call him the general manager of our team. He's doing all that behind the scenes stuff. He's been with me every year I've been at fault. So I've been lucky to have those people for a long time. You know what that tells me is that you must be a pretty nice guy. I don't know if that's the case or not. Let's talk a little bit about the conference because time is running short. Plymouth won it last year. I know that on the show last year we picked you as winning and of course injuries really hampered that effort. But how do you see things playing out this season? Well, like we always tell the kids, you know, things the game isn't played on paper. I think probably unanimously in our conference, you know, people will probably pick Plymouth. I think this is a year that they've been waiting for. They've got just a phenomenal group of senior athletes that have kind of gone through the freshman and JV level undefeated and then helped them win a championship last year. And while they lost some seniors, they were a very junior-orientated team. So they, you know, they'll probably get everybody, the coach is nod. And then I think you really have a pack of teams kind of in that next echelon. You know, I'm sure Campbellsport has a lot of people returning. Kiewaskim, I think, will have a very good team. I think New Holsteins' program is really taking off. And I'd like to think we could be in that next pack of teams also. And I'm not, you know, sure about some of the other teams, you know, in terms of their numbers and where they're at right now. I haven't seen any videotapes on them. One of the things you got to do over in Sheboygan Falls is get them to pipe in the TV8 so they can see that rebroadcast of the Plymouth Falls game. Coach Dan, thanks a lot for stopping it. You're a great interview and I really appreciate it. We're looking forward to doing that game of Plymouth Falls. And when we come back, Chris is going to interview Dean Tutus. So stay tuned. Welcome back, everybody. Coach Tutus, thanks for coming in. Let's get right to it. Last year, the running game really took off, especially the second half of the year with Santos Medina. You should love the potential. The number one, well, two emphasis that we went into camp with, number one was play better defense. And the other one is to run the ball. Actually, we're tired of being referred to as a finesse running team. So our running game this year, it actually started in the weight room. I've had the guys think in every rep they're taking that we're running the ball. And all summer, all last spring, you know, I'd go up to kids and ask them what they're thinking. And they'd say, run the ball. And yeah, the running game started to gel. And basically it was against Manitowoc then Preble. And we knew that was going to happen because we had three sophomores starting. And then, you know, Andy Eirik had left tackle that had never started a university game. And, you know, the offensive line takes some time to gel. And, you know, in the beginning, we took some, you know, the south game and the Notre Dame game. There were flashes of it, but just not consistent. So one of the things that we've focused on is, you know, in the weight room getting our guys stronger and, you know, transferring that to the field. And we're hoping it takes off. When we lost Sean McGee with the ACL, you know, we had to throw another sophomore in Peter Reschke. And he got the chance to start the last four games. I didn't think losing Sean would be that significant. And, you know, hindsight 2020 it really was. One of the problems we had in all those last games is when it came to crunch time we just, we couldn't convert it on a third and short or whatever. And that's, we need to be consistent and develop more continuity in the running game. So that's, it's very important. And tonight in West Bend West Game, that's going to be significant. Brian Herman's a pretty special player and well, he's a special kid too. After, you know, two years with you, you got to be lucky to have him back. Yeah, I think any coach that had, you know, Brian Herman on his team would be lucky. And I think one of the good things that stems from last year and even his sophomore years, more guys in our program have kind of seen him take the lead and they've taken the lead to follow his work ethic and how he is on the field and off the field. And, you know, that's what good leaders do. He's not a, he's not a raw, raw guy. You know that Chris, but he, he just works hard and he lets his play on the field do his talking. The thing though, when he does speak, you know, it's like the old EF Hutton commercials when, you know, when Brian talks, people listen. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. The only thing that concerns me is his ankle. You know, it's still not, I don't think it's a hundred percent. He tells me it is. And we'll find, I've seen flashes of it, especially in the scrimmage. He went up and caught a ball that, you know, only he can do. So we'll see tonight. He's going to, he'll run the ball, catch the ball. I'm even telling him with the possibility of having him throwing the ball once in a while. Yeah, I like the way that you move him around. You move him to the slot. You move him out wide. You know, sometimes you got him carrying the ball. I like the way you use him as much as possible. Get the good players the ball and that's what a good coach does. Well, one of the things, when we first had him at X, which he's underlying scrimmage, we had three guys loading him up. So early last year after the second game, we decided to move him to Z so we can move him around. I mean, we even had him in the backfield and direct snap to him and stuff. But yeah, we got to try to find, you know, different ways to get him the ball. And I think what's going to happen now with the way that Santos tie and even Nate Pitch. Nate Pitch has really looked good. And Peter Prigge's, Peter Prigge has really surprised me at tight end with his ability to block because he's not real big and his ability to find open spots in the zone and run away from guys that are in man coverage. That it'll take some of the pressure off Brian and make him even more dangerous because they're not going to be able to overload. They're not going to be able to take two and three defenders to cover him. And at the end of the year, you know, they're doing the same thing to Nate. So, you know, they had linebackers, squatted corner and safeties over top. They're not going to be able to do that. They're going to have to keep their safeties in the run game. And that's going to make, you know, our receivers, especially Brian, more dangerous. They're not going to be able to double team him. And I wouldn't want to be a defensive guy. It's all stems on a running game, though. I know some teams take special teams kind of for granted, but I know your brother, Todd, coaches special teams. And I think it really makes your team. And there's great pride in your special teams at North. Yeah, in fact, you know, yesterday my brother came up to me and he goes, you know, we have Gooch, Todd Gutschall, on every special team. He's one of our starters. And right now he doesn't come off the field. And we had to make, you know, we got to get him off the field. So we made a couple of substitutions. But yeah, you know, special teams, to me, they are special. We call them special forces. So we give them little military monikers for each one. You know, that's a, you know, going back to Brian, people are saying you need to get him off the field. You need to get other. But Brian, you know, he loves special teams. He's mad because I don't have him on kickoff. But, you know, we got to give him a break. And one of the things we do, we coach up and teach our special teams, just like we do offense and defense. We do individual and then we do a group and then we do a team period. So it is, we take a significant time out of our practice, more so than a lot of other people. And, you know, it'll show up, it'll be there tonight because we've tweaked some schemes. We had to, you know, with Brian we've had to tweak our punt return and other things because they started directional kicking away. So now this year, like our punt return, we're going to have two people back that are a threat. So they're going to have a hard time kicking away, thinking that, you know, they're just going to let the ball roll around and get it down. So yeah, they are special. And, you know, that's one facet of tonight's game that is going to be, you know, crucial that we win that ball game. We're running out of time here. But one last thing I want to ask you coach, you've been around now for a little bit. Time to kind of put in your things. How do you keep kids enthusiastic with Raiderball? One of the things we try to do, our guys know that when it's time to work, we're going to work. And, you know, there's times in practice where we'll just shut it down and, you know, I'll tell some jokes. We try to do little things like play softball. The other thing, our guys get involved with our camps so that they can see how coaches work and how they can give back. They fundraise. They do community service. And, you know, just hopefully they take a lot of pride in what we do and not just on the field but off the field. And I want them to be gentlemen and have class pride and discipline. And then when they get on the field, you know, get after it but still maintain the class pride and discipline, you know, that we ask for. Well, thanks so much for coming in and good luck this season. Thanks. We're looking forward to seeing you on September 10, excuse me, next week Friday. When we return, Marty will be with Suboygan South Coach Dave Pfeiffer. Joining me is Dave Pfeiffer, entering his ninth year as a head football coach at Suboygan South. And little changes here, Dave, here on that side. You're supposed to be asking me the questions. Hey, you had a really great year last year and you have a strong core of skill players coming back that should really help your team offensively this year. Why don't you go through some of those kids and what you expect from them and what positions played and those type of issues. Well, first we've got Tim Stuby. It's a three-year starter quarterback. He was first team off conference. I believe he led the conference in total offense last year. He'll be back for his third year at the helm. That's obviously a plus. Running back, we have Eric Donovan back at tailback. He led the conference in rushing and scoring. And he was back of the year. He's 20 pounds bigger and faster. I heard he was just like a Greek god now. He's got a nice physique on him. He was second team off conference. Average about 18 yards of carry and probably, or a catch, excuse me, and probably more important than that. Blocks like an offensive tackle. We have three receivers back. Andy Shane, Travis Wilson, and Danny Teller. And they're all very, very athletic. And then at the fullback position, Will Hartman's going to play some of that from the defensive side of the ball and Will's obviously an impact player on our defense but it really will help our offense as well as Jacob Billman who played there last year. Now, last year you had a really great line and I thought, I mean, you had some great skill players don't get me wrong, but I thought they really got your offense in here and you really had an impact player in Jones, Ricky Jones, but you lost four of those guys. How's the offensive line stacking up this year? Well, first I really like our tackles. Trevor Klobacek is back at what we call our four tackle. He makes all the line calls. He's a more experienced, a more mature player and he's really leading on the field. And he's a big kid. He's six foot five and 260. The other tackle I really like as well and that's John Lindsay. He's six, three, two, 70 and he's a junior. Those two kids I think are going to be as good as anybody in the conference. Inside we're going to be a little bit inexperienced, although not small. Justin Lamers is playing our two-guard. He's six, one, two, 90. And right now the three-guard is a sophomore, which concerns me a little bit but Tyler Courtwright has done a nice job maturing. He's six foot and he's 250 pounds. We have a couple other guys who are going to back them up. And at center we have Dan Milans, who's, he's a smaller of the guys but at our center position that's really not bad because we really like to get him to the back side. Just a point about last year's line, you don't replace a guy like Rick. You don't replace full right guys. But I really think this group is as big as our offensive line last year and I really think they're deal mature and to be in a pretty good group. I want to talk a little bit about philosophy and your line play because you don't have a right tackle and left tackle. You move them back and forth side to side. Talk a little bit about the philosophy behind that. And before you get into that, is that leading the defense to where the play is being run? Well it can if you continually run to one side you're tight inside all the time. But what, where I got that from was previous to coming to Sheboygan. I was a defensive coordinator at New Berlin West and what I found is by flopping the line, yes you have to teach the kids to go right and left with their movements that reduces the amount they have to know by half. So in essence we can run the same play to the right, flip the line, run the exact same play to the left. So the kids have to learn half as much. I like that. I try to keep things simple in that regard. It's probably more difficult for our backs to learn it initially than it is our linemen. But it keeps things pretty simple and the more simple we can keep it in the line the better so they can be more aggressive. One of the things that was really a highlight of your team last year was the explosiveness. You had that ADR touchdown run in the playoffs and Stubbe broke numerous lung gains on option plays. It looks like with those players back you should be a big play offense. Well, I hope so. I mean we've got enough team speed where if somebody misses a tackle we've got a chance to make a six yard gain into touchdown from any distance. Again part of that is I'd like to see this become a consistent team and not drop the ball on the floor and not throw interceptions and kind of beat teams up but we've got some athletes. There's no question about that. Even though your team was extremely strong offensively I still think probably the signature of your ball club last year was its defense. They were very, very good. Let's talk a little bit about that maybe starting with the line. First and foremost they led the conference in literally every statistic and we have eight starters back. In the defensive line is Gavin Majorly. He played defensive end and he'll play there as well this year. My son Jacob will play defensive end and he's got to make it a little unpredictable where he's going to be. The nose tackle right now is Peter Bettner. Six foot kid, 210 pound kid very strong, very, very aggressive and the other tackle right now is Kyle Berlin. Kyle's a little under size but a great technician, very strong stays down, doesn't get knocked off the line. We have a couple other guys John Valdez, Mike Brookens who are also battling and filling in some spots in that regard. Linebackers were a highlight of your team last year and it seems like it's been that way for the last five or six years and of course the guy that Chris and I always had a good time with was Will the man Hartman. I imagine he'll be playing some linebackers. Will will play what we call our Sam linebacker at the strong side. First team all conference, all region great player, played really well in the scrimmage. Next team will be David George those two are returning. Will's 195 pounds, 511 Dave 6-3, 210 they both run 4-7's or better. The two outside linebackers right now want to be Trent Brook for sure. Trent's more of a customized position, half D-back, half outside linebacker does a great job against pass. The other side is between Steve Chang is playing what we call our Apache up on the strong side a little bit although Ben Hendricks will play some inside linebacker and he might also play some of that outside. That's a really good group of kids, good players. Can we talk about the D-backs a little bit? Well Ben Miller's back, he was second team all conference, led the conference interceptions he's going to move to free safety. Matt Fister's back at corner and the other corner position right now is Adam Math as well as Jamal Johnson those two guys are kind of warring out for that position. I want to talk about something Dave that we haven't talked about over the last couple of years you may have thrown it in I don't remember but one of the things I think really helps your program is you've got pretty good consistency with your coaching staff but those guys our continuity has been very good the last couple of years first on the offensive side of the ball Carl Beckham's been with me eight of the nine years he does a very good job he's really invested a lot of time becoming a really good quarterback coach Jimmy Renzelman coach is our receivers I believe every year since I've been here we've had an all conference receiver that says a lot about Jim I coached the offensive line and this year we have Chris Corf who played at Whitewater he's one of the best defensive backs he'll really tame the stallions back there and we've got a chance to be pretty good with that staff defensively Chris Hine leads our defense he does an unbelievable job I believe that's been the biggest reason our program's twisted the other direction winning far more games Jamie Berlin coach is a defensive line he's been there all nine years with me and then Mike Rayn coaches the D-backs we've had good continuity we have two things that I would like to discuss yet and I think it was the Norse South game last year you held your guys after the game for like a sleepover in the gym and I thought that was a really good move on your part and keep the kids from getting out of trouble what other kinds of concerns or issues you have to deal with eligibility wise to keep the kids playing well grades are always an issue sadly that's one of the things that I'm not really happy about is we have probably five kids that are academically ineligible 100% against what I believe in I'm disappointed by that it hurts the team we have a couple kids that would definitely contribute we're going to have to make ends meet without them that I disappointed in we check that literally to all year round sometimes you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink and I'm afraid that's what's happened academically last question how do you see the conference playing out this year I mean you guys got to be right in the mix well I think we have a chance to be a good football team if our offensive line matures I think we could be really pretty good I think the conference from top to bottom is going to be much better than it was last year Manitowoc's got a great tradition huge kids North has got an incredible amount of athletes coming back on offense Preble is not going to be the way they were last year they had almost 20 starters back East no one's given them any credit but John Colestead wouldn't be sticking around unless he had a great group back and I've heard he does and Notre Dame is Notre Dame they're going to come at you with a bunch of great kids from their JV program and John will probably get a couple extra kids from the Green Bay area to fill in some blank sounds like you got your work cut out for you this year it's going to be a real good league this year it really is Dave thanks a lot for stopping in I really appreciate your great interview when we come back Chris and I will wrap up this evening's program so stay tuned the coaches for stopping in all the interviews really went good Chris as we look at our schedule this year we have some key games and let's talk about a couple of the games our fans should look for as the season progresses as key games for the area well this year for the first time in a number of years the North-South game is going to be right at the beginning I believe it's September 10th and that'll be a huge game and then the following week is Revenge Week Sheboygan South Green Bay Notre Dame is coming to Sheboygan this year last year that was kind of the pivotal game Sheboygan South with a couple of breaks probably could have won that game I think that's a two key games especially for Sheboygan South to get off to a good start later on in the season this year we're going to do Falls and Plymouth which we've been begging to do for years one of the biggest games maybe in the state for rivalries and things and then of course Coler and Lutheran will be towards the end of the year as well now we need to get into the key part of the whole broadcast those interviews were nothing compared to what we're going to talk about now and that's the predictions from the two gurus first of all let's talk about the central lakeshore and what do you see going on in that conference we don't cover them very much we're not very familiar with them but I know I'm going to go out on a limb here and maybe take Random Lake Random Lake's always been a very strong team over the number of years they have a nice coaching staff I know Coach Holzheimer said something about Cedar Grove this year so let's watch them well last year it was Aki won the championship Coach Coach Al mentioned that he felt it was going to be Cedar Grove so I'll go with Cedar Grove so you have who? I'm going with Random Lake and I've got Cedar Grove let's move on to the eastern Wisconsin and there we've got the big game coming up it'll be on TV8, Plymouth at Cheboygan Falls Plymouth won the conference last year how do you see it panning out this year? Well as every year I take the purple birds and Coach Edis I know he's got a this is one of the best groups that he's been looking forward to for years to become seniors so I'm going to go with Falls they just have an amazing program out there the way they every year they recycle players it doesn't matter if they've got big players or small players they always seem to compete and I'm taking them again well so I don't get mugged out in the parking lot I'm going with you we both have Cheboygan Falls on that one and the Fox River Valley and South has a legitimate chance of winning conference this year they were right in the mix last year but there's always an older game right I think Coach Pfeiffer made some very good points Green Bay Preble wasn't a great football team last year but they were bringing back about 20 players this year sometimes you say well they're bringing back 20 players but just because they're 20 players it's good but I think there's somebody you should probably watch out for Green Bay Notre Dame until they get knocked off they got to be the team to pick Cheboygan Falls south excuse me is definitely their offensive line is the key but I know us on the sidelines last year they're backups for some big kids they're both Mantowock I'm not a big you know Mantowock's probably got a nice I think they have a new coach this year the third coach in probably the last five or six years right I'm gonna you know south could do it I think those first two games are just huge and they got Eric Donovan the way they play defense Coach Hines got those guys going they are not going to be overlooked this year they're going to be a decent team to compete with and hopefully Cheboygan North with their good skill players back they got a boatload of skill players maybe they can sneak in there I'm gonna go with Notre Dame but I'm gonna hope that south can maybe knock them off I'm going with Cheboygan south now our first game is going to be Port Washington at Cheboygan north that game will be September 3rd that should be a good one it's a non-conference game we'll get a good we should be able to get a good feel for what north will bring to the table this year and Chris any closing statements before we sign off no the weather outside today as we're doing is kind of chilling cold so it's time for football it's hard to believe it's the end of August already but I'm ready and I'm excited well Chris and I got to get going because we got some sleep to get tonight we got to play tennis tomorrow morning and for Chris Wright and the crew Scott Miloff our director Steve Reinhardt and Isado Hemi the two camera person my name is Mike Martin saying so long everybody thanks for watching and we'll see you down the road