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Speaker 2: hundred WLWRNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm
Speaker 2: last McAllister Elder. Saint Next Division one Region four Final,
Speaker 2: Friday night, seven o'clock now at pay Corps. You know
Speaker 2: the story that's unfolded over the last twenty four to
Speaker 2: thirty six hours or so. Let's get perspective on this
Speaker 2: from the man who is the CEO of In Game
Speaker 2: Sports puts on the longest running high school football event
Speaker 2: in the country with the Skyline Chile Crossdown Showdown presented
Speaker 2: by Mercy Health. Completing his twenty eighth year this year.
Speaker 2: He's also, by the way, the commissioner of the g South,
Speaker 2: the conference for both Elder and Saint X. That must
Speaker 2: mean we're talking to the man they call chief. He
Speaker 2: is Tom Gamble. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good, lads. Yeah, that title sounds a lot better
Speaker 3: than the work that I did. It really does just about.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's funny you bring up the Skyline
Speaker 3: Chile Crosstown showed out because these two teams met in
Speaker 3: the Skyland Chiley Crosstown showed out at Saint X, and
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, I think that's when Saint X
Speaker 3: kind of turned its season around. They went into the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter of that game losing sixteen to nothing, came back,
Speaker 3: made it sixteen thirteen. Elder went on to win twenty
Speaker 3: three to thirteen. But Steve Speck, the coach of the Bombers,
Speaker 3: four time state champ coach, We'll tell you he had
Speaker 3: Daniel Volmer, who's committed to Vanderbilt, playing largely defense. He
Speaker 3: since moved into offense, and they came back in that
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. Then the next week beat Louisville Trinity, obviously
Speaker 3: one of the Big six A favorites in Kentucky seventeen
Speaker 3: fourteen have won five in a row since. So I
Speaker 3: think it's He'll tell you the move of Volmer and
Speaker 3: just the maybe the matchuration first year starter Jackson Fry
Speaker 3: at quarterback, who was former Ohio State you know Greg
Speaker 3: Fry's son, I mean, you know, first year in the programs.
Speaker 3: So and An Elder has just been undefeated, first undefeated
Speaker 3: Ragular season since nineteen ninety one. And they were down
Speaker 3: twenty three to nothing last week in the third quarter
Speaker 3: to a really good Princeton team came back scored nine
Speaker 3: points in the final minute, one including an on side
Speaker 3: kick of seventy five yard TV pass and a twenty
Speaker 3: two yard field goal with a couple of seconds left
Speaker 3: to win. Thirty two to thirty one has the makings
Speaker 3: an outstanding well.
Speaker 2: One of the wildest finishes that I can recall a
Speaker 2: racing I mean, you could do an ESPN documentary on
Speaker 2: just the final couple of minutes of that game last week. Insane.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and it's so weird because Princeton was down
Speaker 3: the week prior sixteen to nothing to Winton Woods and
Speaker 3: came back to win. Yeah, you're right, that on sidekick
Speaker 3: seventy five yard pass from Kaydene Step to Jackson Ruth
Speaker 3: and an Adam Ray with the twenty two yard field
Speaker 3: goal and insane last minute. But you know this Lance,
Speaker 3: this is GCL South football. It is I mean, you
Speaker 3: know the last time these two met in the region
Speaker 3: final was way back in two thousand and one. That
Speaker 3: was an X one X won that game and lost
Speaker 3: to Cleveland Sainty Nations in the D one final that year.
Speaker 3: But don't forget in two thousand and one that was
Speaker 3: when forty eight thousand plus showed up at then Paul
Speaker 3: Brown Stadium to watch Say Max beat Princeton sixth to
Speaker 3: nothing and Elder B Coleraine thirty five pointy one in
Speaker 3: the regional semi finals. I mean, that's insane, almost fifty
Speaker 3: and that was legit. I mean I was there. You know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you hear these numbers and you're like, yeah, right, okay,
Speaker 3: but this was the perfect storm. I mean, on Monday
Speaker 3: they put the tickets on sale. Everything as you well know,
Speaker 3: is done online now and within about an hour, seven thousand.
Speaker 3: It's for Nason High School, which is an awesome facility.
Speaker 3: We're sold, and you know, I think they were worried,
Speaker 3: you know, that the students didn't have a chance to
Speaker 3: purchase them, and so they and I'll give you know,
Speaker 3: and I don't say this much, but I'll give the
Speaker 3: County of Hamilton and the Bengals credit for a quick turnaround.
Speaker 2: That's let me draw on your expertise there, because I
Speaker 2: think people when they hear they made the mover, or
Speaker 2: they think initially, well, why don't they make the move?
Speaker 2: It's as easy as just moving the game to a
Speaker 2: different place. You've been involved in what you do in
Speaker 2: promoting and setting up these games, all the inner workings,
Speaker 2: it's not easy. Kind of give us the cliff notes
Speaker 2: version of how the wheels have to turn in how
Speaker 2: you do something like this.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you have to have the facility available,
Speaker 3: so you see, which is where normally it would be
Speaker 3: held at Nifferd Stadium, but they've got you know, the
Speaker 3: big new kickoff coming in. They play BYU eight o'clock
Speaker 3: Saturday night, so that's off the table. I do know
Speaker 3: that they reached out to Miami University, but people at
Speaker 3: were for Jager Stadium, great facility too, but people that
Speaker 3: understand you at this staff, to have gate workers, you
Speaker 3: have to have security, you have to have concessions, you
Speaker 3: have to have the ability to do all that. Miami
Speaker 3: of course playing right now in the Tuesday Max and
Speaker 3: they play next midweek, but I'm not sure they can
Speaker 3: galvanize the people. And then the same thing with now
Speaker 3: pay Course Stadium. I mean a you have to have,
Speaker 3: you know, at the county owned facility. And I heard
Speaker 3: Denise Treehouse, the county commissioner, say, you know, this is
Speaker 3: what this is all about, and letting schools like this
Speaker 3: play there and you know, she's got a little bit
Speaker 3: of an Elder connection, which is great. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: but the reality of it is, you have to be
Speaker 3: able to get people in a really short period of
Speaker 3: time to commit to work in the game. That's not easy.
Speaker 3: Everybody just does why don't they hold it there? Don't
Speaker 3: The people need to understand too. With Mason, this is
Speaker 3: the perfect storm. Mason has hosted semi final games and
Speaker 3: region finals for D one for years. This was the
Speaker 3: perfect storm, unbeaten Elder, red hot Saint X two league rivals.
Speaker 3: You know, some years, Mason is big enough and people
Speaker 3: need to understand too. The school has to put in.
Speaker 3: They have to put in some time ago. Yes, we
Speaker 3: are willing to host, for instance, Trotwood Madison, which is
Speaker 3: playing in a region final. They're also hosting another division
Speaker 3: region final. So it's not that easy. You have to
Speaker 3: be willing, you have to have staff, you have to
Speaker 3: be committed. You know, everybody just goes, why don't they
Speaker 3: play there? Why don't they play here? It's not that easy.
Speaker 2: You mentioned you mentioned last week's game involving Elder. Let
Speaker 2: me flip it over to Saint X and they beat
Speaker 2: Moeler last week that's a heck of a Bomber's defense,
Speaker 2: is it not?
Speaker 3: Well, it's I mean it is really this is a
Speaker 3: great elder offense, kdey step who was the co GCL
Speaker 3: Offensive Player of the Year. He's had an outstanding season
Speaker 3: the junior quarterback. They got a good running back, Tommy Becker,
Speaker 3: Jackson Ruth dwide receiver. But I gotta tell you Lance
Speaker 3: led by Jacoby Klapper, who's the Notre Dame commit uh
Speaker 3: at for Saint X. Their defense who was a co
Speaker 3: GCL Defensive Player of the Year along with Derek Yuran
Speaker 3: on elder side committed to Virginia. But you've got Kobe Klapper,
Speaker 3: You've got Braydon Riley Clemson commit. You got Daniel Volmer
Speaker 3: playing more offense now but he's going to Vanderbilt. You
Speaker 3: got Aiden Reeder going to Wisconsin. I mean it is
Speaker 3: loaded with power five commits. Yeah, they've been really good.
Speaker 3: And you know they they won seventeen to thirteen over
Speaker 3: Moler and when they played during the regular season, that
Speaker 3: was a score at halftime and Mohler went on to
Speaker 3: Alscorn thirteen to nothing to win thirty to thirteen the
Speaker 3: first time they played. But no, this st X defense
Speaker 3: is really really good. Like Cody East came into their
Speaker 3: game in the postseason against Saint X with a prolific offense.
Speaker 3: St xelum to seven points. So no, this is again.
Speaker 3: You got these coaches. I mean, don't forget Lance Doug Ramsey,
Speaker 3: who's been an elder seemingly forever. Great coach, won back
Speaker 3: to back to the D one state titles in two
Speaker 3: thousand and two, two thousand and three. Then you had
Speaker 3: Cole Rain maybe one of the best teams ever in
Speaker 3: two thousand and four, then Saint X unbeaten in two
Speaker 3: thousand and five, two thousand and seven. You hang out
Speaker 3: with Rocky Boyman, he knows a thing or two about
Speaker 3: st X and it's defense. St X has wonted four times.
Speaker 3: In twenty sixteen, that's when they were five and five.
Speaker 3: They became the first D one team in Ohio high
Speaker 3: school history to go five and five in the regular
Speaker 3: season and win a state title, and then the COVID
Speaker 3: the regular season in the shortened year they wanted again.
Speaker 3: So st X has won, you know twice since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: So these are two great teams, two great programs, two
Speaker 3: great fan bases, two really good coaches and it should
Speaker 3: be a hell of a game.
Speaker 2: Cannot wait. Thank you Chief for the background and information
Speaker 2: you were. You were perfect in your role as g
Speaker 2: l C South Commissioner. GLC got first one you got.
Speaker 2: You got to get the initials. It's DCL. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: gotta start with that.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's maybe maybe we'll have you write that
Speaker 3: down on a sheet at a number of times. But
Speaker 3: I do want to I was told this by Elders
Speaker 3: Athletic Director Kevin As Butch, it'll be the normal parking
Speaker 3: like as if you're going to a Bengals can. The
Speaker 3: price will not be the same thing. It's ten bucks,
Speaker 3: but you know it's the same rules. You know you
Speaker 3: can only if if you're bringing a bag in. It's
Speaker 3: got to be clear all that it's NFL rules because
Speaker 3: it's obviously an NFL stadium, So just any policies there.
Speaker 3: Just make sure you're prepared for that on Friday night
Speaker 3: and hope that it's not a weather impact day with rain, right.
Speaker 3: Hope the weather holds up and cooperates, because this has
Speaker 3: the makings of a of another instant classic.
Speaker 2: So you I feel as though you left a little
Speaker 2: opening for me to jump in and pride you about
Speaker 2: local weather forecast. But I don't have the time to
Speaker 2: do that, so we'll have to save it for another time.
Speaker 3: You mean, like this morning with the fog, I mean,
Speaker 3: boy brutal. I mean because we all hang around down
Speaker 3: in valleys and by the river.
Speaker 2: I gotta go.
Speaker 3: Have a great night, Chief, Thank you. Appreciated already?
Speaker 2: Is Tom Gamble a