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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to Move the Sticks.

DJ Buck with you.

Buck.

What is going on, man?

Not too much, DJ.

You know, last part of the week as we look forward to a weekend with some really good games. What before we get to the games here, by the way, what's the latest? Are we healthy? We got the high school squad healthy. We got a little over a week before we tee it up. What we got? What are we looking like? Yeah, trying to put it all together. you know, it's crazy because it's more like a collegiate thing, like trying to get a team ready to play.

You hope you get through the scrimmage without any injuries and issues. But you know what it is, man. Like the first month of the season is just trying to figure out who you have because everyone looks good in t-shirts and shorts. And then we put the pads on and the game kind of changes things. So we just got to be able to adapt and adjust and kind of see what we can do. One thing I love talking with you about every year. And we're going to get to a coach discussion here in just a few minutes here talking about the coaches we think will have success as rookie head coaches. But before we do that, I'm curious. We talk about innovation trickling up in football, right? It usually starts

at the lower levels and it works its way up the ladder. Any expectation or anticipation of

stuff going on in the high school world that you see is new that's coming your way.

So I would say this. And like obviously in Southern California, we have like two of the top,

three, I would say three of the top high schools nationally that people talk about and they recognize.

St. John's Bosco, Modder Day, and Corona Centennial in any order that you want to do. I would say that

when you look at Modday and Bos bosco their ability to morph into 21 personnel

old school run oriented teams i think that's the thing that we're continuing to see kind of

trickle back up as a league and as the game is cyclical a lot of the spread stuff is great

but i notice when i watch those teams playing the games that matter,

they go back to an old school approach where they're running the football,

they're pounding the rock, and they're leaning on the offensive and defensive lines to kind of lead them to victory.

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