 I'm John Weber, joined today by Jim Zabrowski, the head football coach at Lakeland College. Jim, as usual, on the show, we like to get right to it. Let's go. But I got to tell you something. I was a little disappointed. I actually stayed up the other night, watched Jay Leno, and he said, let's get right to it. No, you didn't. And I was like, this is our catchphrase. I'm thinking that Leno stole it from us. I think he got Lusha Boygan proud. I think he got Lusha Boygan proud. I think he got Lusha Boygan proud. It's all overseas nationwide. That's right, exactly. But anyways, I guess we should get right to the game stuff. Enough fun there, of course. But you guys had a great win over Aurora University, a nice 34. Yeah, it was really good for our seniors. Even for some of our guys that coached on our staff that have played, they haven't beaten Aurora. And I actually got a nice letter. You'll love this one, because it's your boy, Coach Hines. I got a letter on Friday from him saying, hey, great game. You guys played great against us. Good luck, and beat Aurora. It'd be a great way for the seniors, too. And their home career, because they've never beaten them. And it's the letters I talked about. I have a vested interest in the program still being there. And I really love for those kids to go out and get that winning against Aurora. So it was really great. So it was more than just our kids. It was a lot of people. I think it was the first time, at least since 97, 98, that they'd beaten Aurora. And the coaches were all happy, especially the guys who played here. And the kids played really well. We started out bad, but then we came through and really ended up dominating the game, which was really great. Well, Aurora jumped out to 7-0. And the first half was actually pretty close. We went back and forth. You guys ended up with a 13-7 half-time lead. But at the same point, it was, I think, the first play, like you said. It was kind of scary. Great coaching on the first play. We ended up, we usually kicked off, but we lost the toss. And they decided to kick off. We had the ball like in a 20-yard line in the first play. We fumbled the snap. Two seniors. Well, we've been together forever. I look at both. I'm like, what happened? And they're just looking, I don't know. It was like, it was like Twilight Zone. I'm like, hey, you can't worry about it. Let's go. They end up scoring right away. It gives them momentum, 7-0. And we ended up getting the drive defense guy. We ended up struggling to get the next drive. They had a chance to score. They fumbled. We hit the ball back. We have a 97-yard drive. End of the first quarter of the second quarter, tie it up. Got some momentum back. And I think it was 10-7. 10-7 and a half-time. 10-7 and a half-time. We ended up scoring right 4-1 half on a field goal. And we were playing pretty well. After that horrific start, our defense played great. Our special team were great again. Then our offense got a roll in. And I told them a half-time. I go, man, you got them almost broken. It sounds weird saying that at 10-7. You had over 200 yards of offense in the first half. They had like 80. I know the scoreboarders didn't indicate how the game was going. I go, we just keep playing the same way. You got a chance to really do some damage to these guys in terms of the scoreboard. And it ended up coming to fruition, I guess you could say. And the kids did it and played outstanding. And we ended up rolling them pretty good. You guys really controlled the second half. Obviously just done a complete domination. The first half getting back to there, they did score on a 4-yard pass at the 13-12 mark to make it 7-0. And you guys put together a 97-yard drive. And it was an old song, you know, the bird, the bird, the bird is the word. Something like that. I know I got a little off, of course, the bird, the bird, the bird is the word. But anyways, Sean, the bird, Barry, he did a great game. He did a great game as our senior wide receiver. He ended up, you know, so when we talked about after the Oshkosh game, because he had 12 catches or something for 150 yards against the Oshkosh, outstanding athlete. You said, I talked about he had a chance to be, maybe go to the professional level in baseball and play some modern league ball possibly. He has some shoulder problems or whatever. Ended up playing football, never played in high school. Wider Sears did a great job. And this game just came out. He played outstanding. He's a great athlete. He's just been banged up. And we always, I always joke about him, because he's like a 10th-year senior, because he feels old. When his body's right in terms of he's healthy, and this is going to sound stupid now, but it's a little warmer out of the bone that we always joke about, because his old bones got to get loose and so on. But he was outstanding. He had 7 catches for 190-some yards. Two big touchdowns, almost a third touchdown. He played great. And our passing game was really good. Our running game did what it had to do. They just gave us some opportunity to start taking some shots in terms of calling and saying, let's let it loose here. And the kids came up with some big plays. So it was, it wasn't, but Bird played. He was, he was kind of, that kind of dominated that game in the middle quarters. Yep. He had a 43-yard touchdown pass, let you guys even score. And then Gerald Starner, which is nice because you guys had, obviously Gerald, I believe is a senior as well. Yes. He had a 44-yard field goal and your kicking game had been struggling. Yeah. The last two games, like we said last week, the last game we were 7-7 on extra points. Did a great job. No pressure this game. We were 4-4 on extra points. When you kick two field goals, and I personally, I hate field goals. If you're kicking field goals, you're not scoring touchdowns. But when you have to kick a field goal, you need to kick it. You need to make it. And they did. And that was great. That was great to see him step up. And if you look at that, look across the board, you know, Sean Barron, to see your Jeff Taft had another good game. Senior Brent Lukey, senior, our old line is three off, three seniors played well. We had almost 500-yards offense. Brent Lukey, you know, played well. I'm so hard on him because we had this opportunity, this game to really, we were open. He had a missing three or four throws. And if you're in the cry, you probably heard Coach Z going, Brr, throw it there. But he's a great kid in terms of being able to, he's an athlete. He understands what you're saying. He lets go of the stuff you're saying to him in terms of the volume or the loudness. And he takes what he needs to take out of it and just bounces right back and it's a great way for a kid to lead the team and say, yeah, I can take this so-called brow beam, but I know I'm, he's more mad than, he's more mad himself than I could ever get at. And then there's a couple senior ground defense just, you know, played well. And we, that second half, they had no chance. It kicks field goal because I tried an outside kick that faltered. But that's how they got a short field to drive on. But we came right back and scored a touchdown the way we went. Well, this is kind of jumping ahead ourselves. We're going to talk about what you said to the guys at halftime again, too. But you've got to get really excited. You only have a couple seniors on defense. On offense, you're going to have to replace five guys or so, give or take. But you've got to be excited about the youth coming back, too. Yeah. I think some people think, occasionally, I think some people are going to say, hey, you're a, you must be a veteran team. You know, some people may say, you walked into a pretty situation. You got a chapter degree, a great job recruiting, got great kids here. And you're senior loaded, but we're not senior loaded. We have 15 seniors. We have a senior mark. Two seniors start on defense. Three seniors play. On offense, we have three, six seniors. Greg Dorian has a chance to come back and play if his schedule lets him. He has another year. So you're losing Shane and Nick, our center and right tackle. You lose three receivers. It's tough and you run out the quarterback. But that's only six out of 22 positions. Or, you know, it's eight out of 22 positions. And the kicker, and we kind of mix match kickers anyway, so Jason's doing a great job. We have other people, so we are. It's a pretty good situation that these young kids are learning to play big. I think the big thing is the young kids are learning to play big games. In terms of big games, our kids, my most nervous part of this week was trying to get these kids convinced that stop thinking about being over Aurora and never beating Aurora. It's just step A. I know it sounds stupid. Everybody jokes, oh, you're a, it's like an alcohol awareness program. Step by step. I said, if you can't play, you just keep getting better and better hopefully. But it's Aurora. And I told them, when I was at Millicombe being 54-12, you know, I think they think they're physical and they try to be physical and that's what they want their demeanor to be. And I said, I want our demeanor to be. So we just became, I guess, more physical and I turned those young kids to learn. Like you said, by a young kid out there making plays, they're learning to play. Now they're like, Aurora. I'm one of them. I'm one of them. I'm one of them. I'm one of them. I'm one of them. I'm one of them. So those kids are learning to say, hey, I don't have any quote, unquote, old, whatever you call it, old bag. You just say, hey, we always struggle against these guys. Not anymore. You know, that's what I'm trying to get across. Trying to sound like a tough guy saying, not anymore. But you know, you're trying to get that point of saying, I'm new. I don't know. I'm one of them. This is Aurora being 34-10. It could have been 48-10. And the mindset is hard to change. And the thing is, no matter what any coach does, I'm one of them. I try to use some stupid concepts, but I'm like, I'm one of them. You're not going to be personal here. I've played Aurora once in terms of coaching, and we beat them handling. So I'm not thinking, ooh Aurora, ooh whatever. I'm thinking, let's worry about us. And it's funny, we'll work our week on stuff. And it comes back every game you watch tape, and you're like, oh, they're going to know we've run this play. But you know what? We just need to get the emotion and shift in. But we do the same stuff on both sides of the ball. We just try to make sure our kids get better instead of worried about Aurora. I don't care what Aurora does. I want to make sure we are good at what we do. Well, you must have been pretty good at halftime, because as you mentioned, it was 10-7. I'm rolling half. Yeah, it wasn't okay at halftime. And somehow the message got across obviously because you guys outscored them 24-3. My slow mat there, of course, but 24-3 in the game. That sounds stupid to say again, but 10-7, a lot better than 7-7. I know it's only three points, but you have the lead. You just score right the end of the half to take the little wind out or whatever they had, because they knew they were in for a pretty good fight. And I was there saying we're hanging with them. I'm saying they're not hanging with them. We're letting them hang right now because we struggled early in the first. We wasted a quarter of a second. We're going to be that confident. We'll score. And then let's roll and go from there. That's what happened. And you guys came out in the third quarter and Jeeps hit another 27-yard field. Yeah, we drove really well. Deep was a great job. We ended up dropping a touchdown pass right there. We could have made a 17-7. Pounce back to the field and we got points. And then we came back right after that. I think the next drive was the second drive. I don't know. I don't think that's slow. But it was great. We had a play action. It was 13-7. Good field position. Oh, not good, but 30-yard line. We played action pass. Sean made a great catch. We'll see on the highlights in the second part of the show. 17-7 or 20-7 now they're thinking, here we go. And the reason that was a big play was it was 13-7. We had noticed that we were going to get a little bit of a tough off-team. So I said, let's get them with an on-site kick and a force where he kicked it too hard. They fell on top of it. They made it 13-10. So we needed to get the momentum back and we ended up scoring 20-10. And then it was kind of over from there in terms of the way we played. And the one thing about Berg as well, obviously we've mentioned he's fast, but a lot of guys don't realize he's about six foot four and can jump out of the deep. And he goes after it. You know, the ball is in the air, he expects to catch it. You know, and he did a great job all day doing that. Well, you guys took a 20-10 lead in the fourth quarter. Then you guys scored right four seconds in the fourth quarter. First, yeah, play action pass third and two on the two-way through Travis Jervis. Our play action pass team was really good. Now they try to put a lot of guys in the box. We play action pass Travis wide open, 27-10. They fumble or interception the next drive. They're trying to get the ball in the system. It's taking them a little longer. You can run the rock now. We give it to them twice. Six yards, 15 yards, touchdown. Now it's 34-10. And the lights are out. Yeah. I mean, what do you do that? Were you just trying to milk the clock and run it out? Unlike last week when I was trying to rub it in, people would say, no, 34-10 is your comfortable. I want to get the scenes out there. One more drive. We ended up driving down. We got stuffed on the fourth and fifth. We ran, ran, ran, ran through two passes that drive. Just tried to eat up the clock. They got the ball back, punted. I took a five-yard penalty. As a matter of fact, delay a game and let all our seniors on offense come out. Kind of give them a four-five. And great job and put all our kids and our young guys in. And we ended up eating up the clock somehow. I think we ended up last three-and-a-half minutes. Defense never got back up. What we're trying to do is run the ball, stay physical, keep the clock moving. The biggest thing you're trying to do is keep the clock moving and don't be stupid in terms of making a play with no time and just prolonging the game that you know you have. Right. Again, you guys had a good balance of passing and run. You guys had 48 rushing attempts and 34 passing. Yeah, and the weird thing is I like to go to the balance. It just felt like I was going to run the ball, but I'd love to get 300 yards at the end of the passing game because we're hitting some big plays. And this time I think Brown was 19 or 34 for 3-14 or something like that. Exactly. I do my homework too, buddy. But he had three touchdowns, I think. One interception. The interception was, Sean almost made another great play. We took, we take chances in this program. We threw it deep in there. They ended up with a little sore. So we took them out on the third quarter and got some other guys in there. But still another solid effort. We did not get a big run. We got a lot of those three, four, five. You know, we were controlling the line of scrimmage. Yeah, again, you guys had 48 rushing attempts for 158 in that yard. So you guys really did a good job. Your longest run on the day was 15 yards. Yeah. It wasn't any of those just a three, a four, never a big play. It was, and then we made some big play. But yeah, and that's what you need to do in that. In our offense, we need to control the line of scrimmage. And once you control that, they have to start creeping up. We used to, we just went over top with Sean and Jeff and got some big plays. Again, this time here, we got to go to Breaker and come back and talk a little bit more about the game and talk, or take a look at some highlights and go from there. To be better than you ever dreamed imaginable. Junior achievement is also about dreams and the potential to make those dreams come true. Jay's free enterprise education programs help kids say I can when everything around them says you can. Junior achievement, let their potential be your inspiration. I love the challenge of computers. Not that I have much time with these little guys and my job. But when my wife went back to school, I thought, why can't I? Certain things in life demand my attention, but a new career in computer science deserves my attention. An evening class at Lakeland doesn't tie my life in knots, thanks to a flexible, easy to manage schedule that allows me to balance work, school and the twins. Evening classes that meet once a week, that's the easy part. Hi everybody, and welcome back to the Lakeland locker room. Once again, I'm John Webber joined today by Jim Zabrowski. Zee, we're just going to do a video here in just a minute. What was supposed to be a close game really just turned into a blowout. You guys control everything. We run down the stats here. You guys had 21 first downs. They only had 8. You guys had 174, 158 net rushing, and they only had which was amazing. 22 yards. They're a physical run team. They got that in the first drive. You take away some of the sack yardage and they rush for maybe, they're running the defense was lights out. Just lights out. When you get down to it they average less than one yard per kid. It's really unbelievable. And of course as you mentioned the defense you guys held them to 129 total yards which is unbelievable. And you guys racked up nearly 500. Yeah, 472 or whatever. There you go, good job. Past yards like 100 to 314 or something. And that's just that means they couldn't run it and they weren't throwing it. We were running it and we had the ability to take it vertical and it was really, I was really proud of those kids. All the seniors played even this is, we got Kevin Cox and he was having struggles eligibility wise and ended up playing him and he rotated the last two years I think and he has an eligibility issues and just wasn't in form and he's never played and I just wanted to, you know, he struggled through sometimes as dad's ill and things and he got in also which was good. Joe Heuber and Eric Fritz but Eric played a little bit in the last game which he really wanted to kind of, you know, against Coach Hines just to show that he's still okay which was neat. You know, he wanted to do at least he got a couple of carries. He's been playing with no ACL which is amazing and then Joe Heuber has been hurt all year and Joe Heuber I think he's actually going to try and get up. Going to come back I think next year hopefully it should be great for us for medical red shirt so all the others and then it is a lot because when you're deep I think the plays and you can look at this because I'm going to be wrong on this we're around 83-84 plays around offense you can correct me on that one. I think it's on the 82 plays 82 plays and they had like 55 or 58 that's the big thing the top of the session is nice but you run 27 more plays your defense is three and out in them and we're running eight play drives that's a huge thing to rest your defense and just physically dominate their defense I was really happy with that I think the turnovers was a big in your favor as well you guys had three turnovers and excuse me don't be going there we had I know our turnover goal we got three I was batting and they got one we took three away and we I think we turned the ball over twice matter of fact Brent threw an interception and we fumbled that snap I looked at the stats yeah get rid of that but that's good because that goes in the national stats we'll take that but we a big thing you always hear about before I go to the video the take away ratio the plus minus differential and we are a little over one we're a little like we're top 15 16 in the nation somewhere around there May 20th but that means you're not turning the ball over that much and you're getting turnovers that's always good because you get more opportunities and that's the biggest most games come down to big games in terms of all games are big but games come down to turnovers most of the time it's amazing how true that plays out because I just even one and two and take away the Vikings and the Chiefs and now still the Chiefs because I fell super last time but they were pounding the bills that I have to I think they took over but you're right that's something you really got to work on we try to work on we need to get better but we're doing a good job I know that's a nice thing you guys have several guys and we're going to recap that towards the end of the year as you guys right now have several guys ranked in the national statistics which is pretty fun too let's go ahead and take a look at the video we're going to get about 15 yards that chance to really go off great this is Sean Barron's first touchdown he's the outside receiver we play action up top we get two verticals an eight man protection scheme and Sean just makes a great catch right a great ball by Brent touchdown big play this is a quarterback sneak we almost break a quarterback sneak on fourth and one I'm a psycho I go for like on fourth down every time there's a lot of confidence in our kids great play by Jeff Taffer great throw by Brent this is Sean making a great play end of the half 12 seconds left makes the catch kisses and field goal range here's Sean's second big play we play action again Sean is the outside receiver makes a great play it's tough to see jumps over top the kid pushes him off stays on his feet 70 yard touchdown one play drive here's Travis in the flat we catch him in a blitz Travis wide open that's nice by what our play action game has given us we actually get some guys on the flat open there's a turn over seven nothing right here webs and they got a chance to go 14 our defense gets a turnover first quarter we get a fumble recovery great play helped us out a ton huge just as I think quarterback tripping over our defense we're going to sack him anyways it's always a positive way to say it another