A conversation with Dave Campbell's Texas Football insider Matt Stepp: The State of Recruiting

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Mike Roach sits down with Dave Campbell's Texas Football high school insider Matt Stepp in this week's edition of Open Mike. The two discuss Stepp's career path from posting on message boards to eventually gaining a job with SCOUT.COM to cover high school football, all the way to his current position with DCTF. Stepp discusses the best players he ever saw, the best stadiums and restaurants tucked away in forgotten corners of the state and the dynamics of breaking Texas high school football news. Host: Mike Roach To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the state of Recurting's Open Mike. I'm Mike Roach with Horns 247, and this week I'm sitting down with Matt Step of Dave Campbell's Texas football. As Dave Campbell's Texas football insider, Step is responsible for breaking most of the major news within Texas high school football. He also travels the state and hits every corner yearly as he sees more games
0:39.1	than anybody in the country. Step talks about his path to his career, some of the best players
0:44.3	and games he's seen, and some of the best food and stadium combinations you can find on a Texas
0:48.3	high school football weekend. So without further ado, please enjoy this conversation with the
0:52.6	Matt Step of Dave Campbell's Texas football.
0:55.2	All right, joining me on this week's episode of Open Mike.
0:58.0	It is Dave Campbell's Texas Football Insider, the man to know for news in Texas high school football,
1:04.5	creator of the Step bomb.
1:06.2	And one of my favorite guys to be stuck in a press box with, it is the great Matt Step.
1:10.0	Matt, thanks for joining me today. Mike, always a pleasure it's always a fun to talk talk shop and talk ball
1:16.1	with you it's been it's been a while so it's good to catch up with you yeah you know i was probably
1:20.5	i think i was looking forward to probably catching up with you at like some seven on seven state
1:25.1	qualifiers or maybe out of some spring football or something,
1:28.6	but alas, that was not to be this year.
1:31.5	Yeah, it kind of sucks.
1:32.9	I'm not going to lie.
1:33.8	It kind of sucks.
1:34.9	But, you know, it is what it is.
1:36.4	And we just keep trucking forward and hope, you know, like I told TEP are on a TEP and step.
1:42.6	You know, if it means having real football in the fall
1:45.2	means sacrificing our summer fund, then hey, you know, we got to do what we got to do.
1:50.4	So I'm here for it.
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