Get ready to hear from Superintendent Mark Kopp discussing the latest happenings in our school district. We express our gratitude for the families and staff who've made the start of the school year such a success. Also on our radar are the upcoming preschool screenings, and we have an enlightening conversation with Erin Harrell, our coordinator for early childhood and preschool. We unwrap the screening process, the roles, and even get a little personal with Erin.
Switching gears, we plunge straight into football season - a time marked by anticipation, excitement, and intense preparation. Hear directly from our high school football coaches, Eddie James and Simon Vanderpool, about their preparations for the season. With their sheer dedication, exhaustive efforts, and the resilient bonds they've forged with their players, they share a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to build a successful team. Learn how they balance fundraising efforts while keeping in mind that their team members are kids first and foremost.
We've made some impressive upgrades to our athletic facilities – all for the love of sports and our students. From state-of-the-art turf fields to grandstands, our domain has seen a transformation. These improvements proudly serve not just our football teams, but other sports as well. Our coaches spill on their goals for the season, revealing the influences that have shaped their careers. As we wrap up, we extend our best wishes for the upcoming Battle of Elkhorn Creek. Stay tuned on FCS Unscripted for all the updates and interviews.
Get ready to hear from Superintendent Mark Kopp discussing the latest happenings in our school district. We express our gratitude for the families and staff who've made the start of the school year such a success. Also on our radar are the upcoming preschool screenings, and we have an enlightening conversation with Erin Harrell, our coordinator for early childhood and preschool. We unwrap the screening process, the roles, and even get a little personal with Erin.
Switching gears, we plunge straight into football season - a time marked by anticipation, excitement, and intense preparation. Hear directly from our high school football coaches, Eddie James and Simon Vanderpool, about their preparations for the season. With their sheer dedication, exhaustive efforts, and the resilient bonds they've forged with their players, they share a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to build a successful team. Learn how they balance fundraising efforts while keeping in mind that their team members are kids first and foremost.
We've made some impressive upgrades to our athletic facilities – all for the love of sports and our students. From state-of-the-art turf fields to grandstands, our domain has seen a transformation. These improvements proudly serve not just our football teams, but other sports as well. Our coaches spill on their goals for the season, revealing the influences that have shaped their careers. As we wrap up, we extend our best wishes for the upcoming Battle of Elkhorn Creek. Stay tuned on FCS Unscripted for all the updates and interviews.
Welcome to FCS Unscripted. A new podcast for one team, FCS, where we look at the stories behind every one in Franklin County schools. Okay, welcome to FCS Unscripted. This is Episode 3. I'm your Superintendent, Mark Copp, and today we're going to give a few updates. We're going to share a fun fact for the district and we're actually going to listen to two interviews today one with Aaron Harrell, the coordinator for early childhood and preschool here for the district, and also we're going to have an interview, an interview with both of our high school football coaches Eddie James at Franklin County High School and Simon Vanderpool at Western Hills High School. They're going to go ahead and preview their upcoming football season. So that's coming in just a bit.
Speaker 1:Just wanted to say again thank you to everyone. We have had a fantastic start to the school year. Thanks to all the parents and families for your patience. It's always difficult at the beginning of the school year, but I think everything has gone very seamlessly and you all play a big part in that in terms of being patient with us, and we greatly appreciate that. We also want to thank all of our staff. They've just done a phenomenal job ensuring this smooth start and working to ensure that everyone in our district is taken care of. We do have some preschool screenings coming up. We have slots available on the September 1 screening date and for that information please contact Aaron Harrell. We're going to get to hear from her in a bit at 502-695-6700, or you can go to the district website for sign up information, and again we'll be speaking with Aaron later on in the podcast.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow, Friday, August 18th, marks the beginning of the football season for both of our high schools. We are very excited to have had the chance to speak with Coach James and Coach Vanderpool Just a little while. We're going to be listening to those interviews and you can tell their excitement for the start of football season. Pretty soon the weather's going to be cooling down and it's going to be fall, and I think all of us are excited for that. Before we move any further, though, it is fun fact time, and this week's fun fact a question was actually submitted to us how many employees work in Franklin County schools? That's a great question, and when you factor in all of the substitute positions that we have, as well as all of our other positions, one team FCS employees nearly 1,100 people, so think about that. That's 1,100 people, and those employees serve over 6,300 students in 15 different school buildings. So again, big numbers. We're very proud of every single one of our employees and we know that they keep every one in every thought that they do and they focus on that hashtag, every single one. It's so important that we focus on every single child that we serve and every family that we serve.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's jump right into the interviews. They will be coming up next. Welcome back to the podcast. I am very thrilled to have with me for this segment Aaron Harrell. Aaron is our coordinator of early childhood and preschool for the district and we've got some preschool screenings coming up that we're going to talk about in just a minute. But welcome to the podcast, Aaron, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for being here with us and we're going to start off just with a little background. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Okay, I live here in Frankfurt with my family. I have two kids that are here in Franklin County schools, love them every minute of it and originally from Michigan and lived in Indiana for a little bit, so kind of hopped around and landed here in Frankfurt and haven't looked back.
Speaker 1:Well, we love having you here and we love you taking care of all of our little ones, that's for sure. So you oversee preschool early childhood for the district. Kind of explain to us what you do in that role.
Speaker 2:I work a lot with families that are coming into our school system from first steps families, which is early intervention, that birth, the three. I get to meet with them, even when they're kids, are two years old, and work them, work without those families to get involved in the preschool program, schedule screenings and coordinate those. I also work with the teachers on our curriculum and getting their classrooms to the best practice standards and just a lot of time with families and problem solving behaviors with teachers and sure also get to work a lot with the speech pass sounds like a little bit of everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so preschool set up here in Franklin County Schools and and it's a little bit unique in that we have a preschool center and early childhood center on one side of town and then preschools and some of our elementary schools. So can you kind of talk to us about that a little bit.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. The east side serves the early learning village, and that's the whole east side of town. We have four classrooms over at ELV and then on the west side. Each elementary has a preschool setting as well, and we just have one classroom per building on this side of town.
Speaker 1:Gotcha Okay, so getting a little philosophical now. What is the best part of your job?
Speaker 2:Definitely time with the kids. I love getting to go in the classrooms and those all ha moments and, honestly, sitting in this role it's been a lot of fun when teachers get those moments. You know, when I see a teacher leave a good lead, a good lesson, like you can just feel it. So that's been fun in the in this coordinator position to get to see them grow too.
Speaker 1:Well, now the tougher question is what's the most challenging part of your job?
Speaker 2:Probably balancing everything Just a lot of meetings and paperwork and I try to stay on top of everything and sometimes it's a little tricky staying on top of it all.
Speaker 1:It sounds like with as many responsibilities as you have, that that would definitely be challenging. So we've got some preschool screenings coming up. Can you kind of talk to the audience about those?
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. Our next one's tomorrow. It is fully booked. I think. We have a little over 80 families coming tomorrow, which is really exciting. That's our max that we can do in a day. We have another one September 1st and have quite a few openings still, and then we'll have another one December 1st and by all means you know families. Just call in if you have questions about those. They take approximately 30 minutes to an hour. The children go through a screening it's called a brigance that we use and afterwards you meet with someone that goes over the results and you'll know right away whether or not your child might be eligible to attend our program, which is based three year olds, if they have some sort of delay that's flagged during the screening, and then four year olds can be eligible based on household income or if they have a delay.
Speaker 1:Okay, great, so sounds like tomorrow. And tomorrow again is Friday, august 18th, so it sounds like tomorrow is booked up, but September 1st is still open.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. Just go to that Franklin County preschool website and we have it right there, a hyperlink you just click on. It's a Google form and you can make your appointment.
Speaker 1:That sounds awesome. Well, thank you for sharing that. We appreciate it. Now we got to do something a little bit fun. Wow, let's do some fun facts. Okay, so this is the fun fact time with Aaron Harrell. These are going to be quick and easy. All right, what's your favorite food?
Speaker 2:Probably like Pad Thai Pad.
Speaker 1:Thai. That's the first time that one's come up. That's good. What is your favorite movie of all time?
Speaker 2:The Jerk. Oh that's great. I love that movie. I love that movie.
Speaker 1:Steve Martin is incredible.
Speaker 4:I love that movie All right.
Speaker 1:So what about your favorite TV show or streaming show?
Speaker 2:Oh, this is almost embarrassing, but really liked. I loved Gilmore Girls and Friends. I kind of like the mind numbing kind of show or the office actually was probably all time favorite.
Speaker 1:Oh, the office is classic. Yeah, last one, what is your favorite music type and or group or performer?
Speaker 2:Oh well, rusted Root, oddly enough, is my favorite band, but my favorite music type would be Bluegrass. Oh, wow, that's great Love, like Jamgrass Kind of yeah.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Well, aaron Harrell, you have been a treat to have with us. I sure appreciate your time today. We will get this information out and if you have any questions about preschool screenings, contact Aaron at Central Office, 502-695-6700. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to the podcast. I'm so pleased right now to have two of our high school football coaches our head coaches at both Franklin County High School and Western Hills High School. So we have Eddie James and Simon Vanderpool here with us today and they have agreed to not fight during the podcast episode. They are highly competitive, but we're also all one team, so welcome guys, appreciate having you.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I wanted to talk, obviously, about our football season that's getting ready to start and I've got several questions here. But you know, football coaches, this may veer in a different direction. You know, we might talk about all kinds of plays and stuff. Obviously, we don't want you to share any secret information that you might steal from each other, but we are very excited about the start of the football season. So tell us and talk to us about what you're excited about the most as the head coach. We'll start with Eddie.
Speaker 4:Every season is a new opportunity. So we've got a new group of kids that have been in our program seeing new leaders emerge at this time of year. You know everybody's O and O so everybody's excited about the possibility, what this season can be, and for us at Franklin County it's a lot of new faces. We graduated a lot of talent and got a lot of young talent coming up and you know it's time for them to kind of step up and be leaders in our school and our program and we're excited.
Speaker 1:It's about carrying on that tradition at Franklin County. The Flyer Pride right. Coach Vanderpool talked us about Western Hills.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know we're excited about where we're at right now. You know the biggest thing for us is we're trying to build a program and, you know, not just the team. So just looking at overall everything, what we're trying to do not just the high school with the middle school or trying to start a youth up and you know all of that seems to be going in the right direction. And you know we tell our kids is it's not something that happens overnight. You know it takes time to be able to do that, but if you built the right way then it's going to be built to last. So we're excited where we're at right now. Feel really good with the numbers. We got 58 kids right now on the roster, which is big for us, and you know we're just taking it day by day and what we tell our kids. We got to be one and all, but in order to do that there's a lot of steps to do that.
Speaker 1:So and I love the newspaper article where both of you were talking about your teams and how you're excited for the season. I love what you said, coach Vanderpool, about. You know you got to win the day and there's a lot beyond just winning the football game on Friday night. It's about everything else that you build with the program. So I share that excitement with you. So let's talk about the off season and how all of the hard work I think a lot of our audience maybe don't understand how much goes into getting ready for Friday night. So, coach Vanderpool, why don't you start with that one?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, I think for us it was probably new for even the kids who were returning. You know just getting kind of the expectations set in the weight room, what that looks like, being on the whistle, you know conditioning and what that consistency looks like, and I think that's been the biggest thing for our guys is seeing what that consistency looks like. And so we've been fortunate. We've got a really a lot of good kids who are hungry for success, and with that it starts in the offseason. So we're fortunate that I've got a lot of great guys that's on staff that are like, minded, who the kids have bought into.
Speaker 3:And so, you know, one benefit I've had was I was able to start in January at the school, felt like that was a huge advantage, being able to get in there and start to develop relationships with the kids, and so you know, just as much as we're trying to develop them physically in the offseason, we're trying to then, you know, develop relationships with the kids, so then that starts to help you throughout the season as well. So I feel like that was really good for us this offseason, where you know we got to the point where the kids started to trust us and be comfortable being around us and we did a lot of different things outside of just lifting and running just to get them around each other and enjoy being around each other, enjoy being around the coaches. So I felt like we're, you know, it was on the right track and everything was really positive.
Speaker 1:I agree. I've heard nothing but good things, coach James.
Speaker 4:You know, I think a lot of people don't understand our season ends. We ended our season November 27th last year. We started weightlifting January the 10th or 11th. So our kids, they get that little bit of time off but their commitment to what we're doing is pretty amazing to see. At Franklin County we lift in the morning, so we're our kids, are coming in at seven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4:They're getting to lift in before they even go to the first class, so they're making a huge commitment to what we're trying to build and it's really worked well for us. We've seen an increase in our attendance, our grades, all the things our kids are up, their blood's flowing and so it's actually been a really good benefit to the school side of things and along with the weightlifting and all that we fundraise in the spring. So we've had a huge off season in terms of just trying to go out and get the things we need to fund our program and just work really hard to build this team, get them together. Just like coach said, we do fun things, we try to let them have fun. I think when you're trying to compete at a high level, sometimes you forget their kids and getting to watch them play dodgeball or play a kickball game Right.
Speaker 4:Do little silly things like that. They love it and it's a fresh reminder for us that they're children too, you know, and they have a sense of humor that you know most coaches enjoy. That's one of my favorite things about coaching is being around those kids that keep you young.
Speaker 1:Well, I know you guys don't do it for the money, you know, none of us do, and leadership is all about building a team, you know, and the fact that we have a very strong team that we can develop. That's one of the most important things that we have to focus on. So let's get into football specifics. Talk about offense Kind of, without giving up too much information. What kind of offense can we see from Franklin County this year? What kind of style of offense are we going to? Obviously, I don't think we're going to see some wingtea or some run and shoot.
Speaker 4:We have a quarterback. He's actually came to our district from Frederick Douglas.
Speaker 2:So it's going to allow us to open things up.
Speaker 4:The past two years we've had a young man and Gavin Hurst playing quarterback. He's a really really good wide receivers, a really good athlete. Probably played out of position but sacrificed for our team and led us well.
Speaker 4:That's just the final four twice, but being able to open it up and coach knows if you have a signal caller who can control the offense, you're allowed to. You know you can do a lot more things and you're a lot more balanced. So we've probably been a little run heavy the last two years. So we're going to try really hard to be balanced this year and quarterback's a good player, so you may even see us on the side of passing a little bit more than we're running it when we return four out of our five offensive ones. So we're excited about what's there. It's just kind of figuring out where those pieces fit as we get into it and really can't do that until you get to Friday night.
Speaker 1:So Right, right, coach Vanderpul, what about you guys?
Speaker 3:You know, really our philosophy is just players over scheme and you can X and O and do all that and it goes down to who has the last pin. But you know, for us we wanted to be able to do something offensively that gets the ball in the hands of our best skill guys. And so with us I'm a little old school and mindset of I think you have to run the football to, you know, be able to have success later on in the season, and so we've told our kids that that's the buy-in of being physical and being able to run the ball and then from there being able to throw it around. So we've been able to do that. Cam Higgins is a kid who transferred in from another district and he's been a big part of running the football for us Feel like he's gonna have a big year.
Speaker 3:We also returned our starting quarterback from last year and you know he's somebody that's had to get in there at a young age and start as a freshman and play as a sophomore and you know he's really went through it and feel like he's a great leader. We've seen that early on in the weight room of you know him taking charge at RACs and getting guys to work and guys to get guys set, and so he's exactly what you look for, you know, in a guy with that. But you know, obviously too, we feel like we have, you know, other kids too that are on the perimeter, that we can, you know, throw the ball around a little bit and stuff. So, but I think you know, for us it's got to start of being able to put our hand in the dirt, run the football, be physical and, you know, give us an opportunity to be engaged with anybody we play. So I think that's where it's gotta start.
Speaker 1:What about on the other side of the ball defensively? What are you looking at from your squad?
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you know, defensively feel like we've got a lot of room to grow, and it's the same thing offensively, but we've got a lot of upside. You know, I feel like our defensive line is very big. We're probably averaging right now around 6'3", 2'60" across our defensive line, with our front four. Obviously, you know a lot of talk and having JB on Campbell out with us.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 3:It's a lot of excitement and you know his upside and you know right now he's still figuring out how to play football, you know, and just being able to get in a stance and consistently come off the football. But you know, I feel like he's somebody longer in the year. Once he gets a hang of it and really starts to understand what he is doing, that you know he's gonna be a big piece for us. And so and you know we've got other guys there too that you know have a tremendous amount of size that we feel like is gonna be big for us in our defense. But you know, the big thing is it doesn't matter if you go to University of Tennessee or Michigan or anywhere and start talking to those guys.
Speaker 1:Man, he just said the M word.
Speaker 3:Ha, ha, ha ha. I had to throw it in there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know they're gonna tell you the same thing is, schematically, it really doesn't matter, but you've got to have 11 guys run into the football and I think you know, for us that's the biggest expectation that you know we're trying to set and practice every single day of. You know, it doesn't matter what we draw up, it doesn't matter what we do, it doesn't matter if you mess up. You know you've got to be 100 miles an hour, you got to go to the ball and so you know, feel like we're on the right track with that and, like I said, I think it's a daily process. But you know, feel like we're on the right track. Good.
Speaker 1:Eddie, what about you?
Speaker 4:guys. We're excited about our defense. We've shuffled some staff around, we've got some new guys and some new roles, but I think it's brought a breath of fresh air to defense, and defensive football is running to the football and tackling. You know our motto, our brand. What's on the back of our defensive practice jerseys is our PD boys. That's relentless physical and disciplined.
Speaker 2:So we try to teach those things every day.
Speaker 4:Our scheme kind of fluctuates with our players but having those guys that want to run to the ball, they want to be disciplined, they want to play physical football and give us a chance to win in November. So we're excited about what we have. We're probably a little undersized but I think we make up for it in speed and our tenacity getting to the football. And we've got several good players that are going to kind of step into roles. Luke Two-Takers one. He's a defensive lineman that's. He's ready to flourish. He's been a role player for the last year, got hurt last year. He's ready to kind of step into it. Gavin Hurst is another one back there playing corner. He's a phenomenal athlete on the field. He's a fifth year guy for us, so he's kind of the quarterback. You know they make fun of him all the time and say he played with Larry Compass. He was like a late 70s graduate for us.
Speaker 2:So he's been around the block.
Speaker 4:He's kind of seen some things and know what we're looking for, so he kind of the captain of the defense. We're excited about it.
Speaker 1:That's great. Well, let's talk about facilities for a second. You know the district since I've been here in 2017, we have really and with the Board of Education, supporting what we've been trying to do is upgrade all of our athletic facilities. We added turf fields, which was something when I came in I was told that we would never be able to do, and we did it within a couple of years. So we're very obviously we're proud of that, and now we're adding new grandstands. We've had made additions and you know improvements in terms of field houses and things like that weight weight rooms. Talk about the facilities and you know what those mean to your program. Go ahead, eddie.
Speaker 4:I think, just strictly speaking, to our facility. You're gonna be hard pressed to find anything better Now, once the grandstands and the things that we're doing are completed. Now we had schools over for seven on seven and they walk in the weight room. They're just in awe. And it's really a commitment and a testament to the work that you guys have done in our community, rallying behind it. But you know for us it.
Speaker 4:It doesn't do justice to you. See, I walk out there and we've got everything from soccer band, us, cheer. There's so many people that are getting used to these facilities that it's just more than a football game on Friday night and it's really cool to see. And even for us last night, wednesday night we practiced boys soccer practice and then there's a middle school football game. So the use of it and those things, it just makes it so much nicer for the kids in our district to have something that they're proud of.
Speaker 3:Right, right For me. I've had the opportunity to be in a lot of different school districts and see facilities at multiple schools and this one compares to any of them. And obviously for us this off season we did a lot of changes and stuff to build to where what we kind of wanted to and you walk in and we've got a teammate room where we can fit 60 kids in there and be able to watch film. And there's not many high schools that you're going to go to, not only in the state of Kentucky but other states as well, where you've got a full team meeting room where you can get all your guys in and you can speak to them and see them all face to face. And that's been a huge, huge part for us so far being able to go in there and watch film and then everything from two with the grandstands. That's going to be such a big thing for not only us, but then soccer and then all of the other sports.
Speaker 1:Graduation Up there.
Speaker 3:So I feel like that's going to be a huge part. So, like I said, I've been able to be at a lot of different school districts and it goes back to kind of like what Coach was saying. It's something that kids can take pride in and, more than anything, they spend a whole lot of time in those four walls and so if it's something that they know, they can come in and they see their picture on their locker.
Speaker 1:They mean something to them. And it's something they can be prideful. Well, they deserve the best. At the end of the day, they deserve the best and we're going to do everything we can to make that happen. So last question about just football and your season. Let's just talk about goals for the year. Coach Vanderpool, what's your overall goal for the year?
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is one of the things people talk about. You go into each year. Every team has the same goal they want to win a state championship. Well, at the end of the year, well, there's only one happy team. So one of the things you look at is say well, if you don't want a state championship, was it not a great year? So really, for us, the biggest thing is what's the maximized potential of our team, whatever it may be, whether it's to make the playoff team or whether it's have a win in season team. What's the maximized potential of our team? And with that, I think that's the biggest goal that each program has to set in order to say where can we be? And with that, just the buy-in from the community, and that's been something that we've been very fortunate on.
Speaker 3:After the kids ended practice yesterday, there was a 65-inch TV waiting on them that the boosters had bought for them to have in the locker room to use, and so it's stuff like that that we look at and at the end of the day, we tell the kids the standard's the standard and we're going to play every game to win it, no matter who we're playing. And so I think you've got to set that standard and give them that confidence that they can compete with people. So maximize our potential.
Speaker 1:Awesome Coach James.
Speaker 4:For us. Our goal is we want to play on Thanksgiving, we want to play on Thanksgiving weekend. It's kind of been the measuring stick we've used. But the major thing that we talk about to our kids is no, what ifs at the end of the same.
Speaker 4:So, whether we go out in the second round, whether we don't make the playoffs. No, what ifs? If we've done everything right, squeezed every drop out of that orange that we can for that football team, that year's been a success. There's been years. My first year we were five and six. We ended the year that way Great football team.
Speaker 4:We got every bit out of that orange, those kids left it all on the field, and they laid the foundation for the 2020 team, whose goal was getting as about as close as you can get to a state championship without winning it. So it's just no what ifs at the end of it, it has our coaches has our parents, has our players, everybody given everything they can where there's no what ifs.
Speaker 1:That may have changed the outcome to a game or something. One tip pass Not to you know that was heartbreaking for all of us, but we were so proud of those kids and your staff. They just did such a great job. So let's now shift to something a little more fun. Little that sound means it's fun fact time. I was told that doing the air horn was a little too annoying so I went shifted to the chime. So these are quick questions, quick answers, whatever comes to mind first. So we'll start with you. Simon, favorite NFL team Bangles oh, what a good man.
Speaker 4:Eddie, I don't like the NFL. I like Ohio State's players on NFL rosters.
Speaker 1:Boom, that's the winning answer right there. So favorite college team Buckeyes.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go with.
Speaker 4:Kentucky.
Speaker 1:OK, that's fair. That's fair. It's not the Buckeyes, but it's fine. Yeah, that's good. All right, this is as good as Eddie. We'll start with you. What coach has been the most influential to you?
Speaker 4:He's actually on my staff, denny Lecher. He's a mentor and now he works for me. He's a great guy.
Speaker 3:Awesome, Simon, he's actually on our staff. Charlie Persons he's somebody that's a long time head coach and a state forwarder. He's been able to mentor me my coaching career.
Speaker 1:Great. Last question then you're going to be off the hot seat Favorite sport outside of football? And if it's not hockey, and if your favorite team isn't the Tampa Bay Lightning, we're going to have some problems.
Speaker 4:I'm a college basketball fan. I like watching Kentucky play in college basketball.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm a basketball fan too College basketball. I like to watch NBA too Awesome.
Speaker 1:So Tampa Bay Lightning hockey Great, I love it. Guys, I sure appreciate you taking the time. It's a very busy time of the year for all of us, but especially you guys, getting ready for the first game. We've got the Battle of Elkhorn Creek coming up right, so hopefully we'll be able to release this podcast prior to that game or those games. I should say Good luck. I wish you all the success.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be out there and, by the way, coach James, thanks again for the gear that you've hooked me up with with some Franklin County stuff. Don't only have as much Western Hill stuff yet, but that's not a hint or anything. Don't worry about it For those games. By the way, if I'm wearing a Franklin County hat and a Western Hill shirt or whatever, I got to rep both teams. Very well, I'm going to get you on a split. I like it. That sounds great. Hey, good luck to you guys. Thanks so much. Well, that wraps it up for this week's episode of FCS, unscripted. Thank you for listening in and I encourage you to subscribe and follow this weekly podcast where we will share updates, information and interviews with hashtag. Everyone, the wonderful students and staff who make up One Team, fcs have a great week everybody.