WEBVTT - 10-2-25 Roundtable Show with Greg Shoemaker 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:10.160 Seven seven hundred WLW Cincinnati Tax Resolution powered by Tope 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.720 Shot and round Table Show. We this month are at 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.240 the Long Necks in Richwood, presented by Postman Law. Thanks 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.600 to Uh Suzanne. Suzanne dropped off the buttons from Ovation. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.119 We've got really cool Ovation Welcome to the Jungle, Ovation 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:25.680 buttons we gave her. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:26.520 She was the UH. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.120 She was the driving force for winning the Standing Ovation. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.360 And she was sitting there and when when I saw 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.080 the look on her face light up, and I said, well, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.720 we're onto something by recognizing the fans for getting the 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.720 standing Ovation from Ovation, because anybody who's stuck through that 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.400 entire game on Monday night deserves the standing Ovation from Ovation. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.239 And last time she was present for our show, the 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:47.880 best One. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.880 Well that's true too. There you go. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.199 Oh all right, So if they win this week, then 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.800 she's got to be back next week and we'll have 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.800 to deal with her again. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.000 Oh man, man, I don't know if that's a good deal. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:03.520 And it is great to see Susanna and everybody involved 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:03.960 with Ovation. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.920 We appreciate their support of the show. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.160 Let's talk some high school football, man, oh man, there 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.479 are some big ones this week, and you hear our 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.320 next guest on Friday nights with the award winning High 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.119 School Football Tonight Show on ESPN fifteen. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.320 Thirty and Fox Sports thirteen sixty. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.520 You read him as the content manager of Tri State 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.480 Football dot Com. Let's talk week seven and a matchup 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.600 with what nine teams on? Nine teams still undefeated after 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.000 six weeks. We're going to talk about four matchups tonight 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.280 as we welcome in Greg Shoemaker. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:33.800 How are you. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.160 I am wonderful guys. How are you guys doing on 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.640 this beautiful Thursday night. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:40.720 We are fired up, ready to go. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.800 We've got a great dock of the games to get too, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.360 so let's get right to it. Let's start with Mohler 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.600 Elder one versus two for the GCL South title. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.760 Yeah, how about this one? Elder's six and oero for 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.880 the first time since two thousand and one. The next 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.160 two years after that they won state titles with Chilli 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.360 clatheart those days back in the back in the last time 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.680 in elder Woods state championships. But they were good for 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.080 a while there, so that started good runs to them. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.840 Interesting thing about Elder is the next three teams that 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.480 are going to face are all five and one right 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.639 at currently five and one, so they've got their work 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.680 cut out for him, you know. But their defense has 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.519 been outstanding. They're only giving up sixty eight yards of 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.840 game rushing, twelve points a game, and you know, seniors 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.040 Derek Ran and Alex Duggan have combined for sixty four tackles, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.639 seven and a half sacks, and sixteen tackles for losses. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.880 I mean, this is this is a team that's got 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.720 a lot of things going well for him. They've only 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.280 turned the ball over twice and now here come the 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:45.000 Moller Cruise. Saders into town. Twelve consecutive GCL South wins 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.160 dating back to September twenty twenty one. They have owned 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.680 the South and just been fantastic, and you know, they're 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.000 looking for their four straight league title. They you know, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.400 they've just been playing great. They're averaging thirty eight points 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.480 a game, which is a good It's gonna be a matchup, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:06.160 you know, a good offense versus a mistellar defense. Muller 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.000 just keeps getting it done. They've had a lot of 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.960 injuries this year, and a lot of people haven't really 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.880 paid attention to their injuries. But they had a running 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.320 back last year or last week a freshman named Juice 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.839 Glover Brown and he ran for one hundred and twenty 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.560 nine and two touchdowns. So really a just a great 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.160 matchup between two different teams. Like I said, one versus 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.919 two at the pit and Rocky, I want to ask 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.280 you a question. You played in a lot of great places, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:36.680 you know, Notre Dame, Kansas City, Arrowhead, But where does 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.400 the Pit rank for you as far as all time 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.840 places played? Because on a night like that, in a 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.480 GCL side game like tomorrow night's what have happened? Oh man, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.280 it can't be anything better for an eight sixteen, seventeen, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:48.120 eighteen year old kid. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.120 Yeah, it's as good as it gets. It's a hostile crowd, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.000 but that's what you love about it. And you know 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.360 everybody comes out of the woodwork and the whole basically 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.240 West side of Cincinnati shuts down, all those streets around 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:06.720 out of high school. No, absolutely a fantastic place to play. Yeah, great, yeah, good, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.960 go ahead. Now I was gonna say, just moving on, Greg, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.680 I see you know cubcasts at Highlands. Now, I'm old 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.520 enough to remember when this used to be like a 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.320 yearly rivalry kind of thing that hasn't happened in a 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.040 couple of years. I guess, first question why and I 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.280 guess how's it been rekindled here? 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.800 Yeah, so Cubcast went down and they were been playing 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.599 Class four A and Highlands has been playing in Class 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.000 five A for the last couple of years. They hadn't 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.280 played each other during the regular season, but when they 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.800 were both back in Class four A District five, they 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.600 would not only play each other during the regular season, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.279 but they always seem to catch up with each other 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.320 in the playoffs as well. In fact, these two teams 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:52.440 since twenty sixteen played thirteen times since twenty sixteen, and 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.520 Cupcat holds an eleven to two advantage in the series 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.760 in that span, and before that, Highlands won like ten 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.040 or twelve in a row in this year, so it's 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.839 a series of streaks. But right now cubcast is looking 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.000 very good in this series. Now Highlands is won two 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.800 of the last three they lost last year, but one 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.400 of the two before that, so their seniors know how 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.560 to get it done in this game. Really interesting matchup here. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.320 Cubcasts won four in a row. They're averaging thirty six 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.520 and a half points in those games. They lost their 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.640 first two and they were both I think by six 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.680 or eight points. They have a couple of seniors, Dyan 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.440 Geyser and Cash Harney the quarterback. They've combined for fifty 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.000 six touchdowns. Since the beginning of last season twenty games, 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.919 those two have had scored fifty six touchdowns. And on 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.920 that On the contrasting side of that, Highlands had thirteen 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.120 players score touchdowns and only one of them has scored 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.400 more than than two, and that's Tayon le Wrenz in 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.560 the junior He's got ten on the season. But I 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.119 look for this to be a very irritating, high scoring game. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.080 You know, it's a Highland's another great place to see 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.200 a game, And yeah, I just think that this one 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.719 here is is going to come down to the wire. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.440 Highlands has got one loss, that was on the road 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.720 to Boyle County. Boyle County came into the season having 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.760 won like something like thirty in a row. So no 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.560 shame to lose there. If you're the Bluebirds, it it's 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.600 gonna be It's gonna be a really good night over 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.119 there in Fort Thomas, for sure. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.680 All Right, how about the Battle of Forest Hills the 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.200 Anderson Raptors, Turpin Spartans, your thoughts. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.919 Yeah, Anderson six to zero, and they look fantastic. Turpin's 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.360 sort of a surprise team. They're four and two and 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.840 four and one in the league. Had a big win 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.560 a couple of weeks ago or last week over West Claremont. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.520 But Anderson, you know, they just looked the part. They 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.920 look like they could be a state champion already. They're 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.279 averaging they got a forty point two average margin of victory. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.280 I mean, they have been fantastic. They're averaging forty nine 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.720 point eight points per game, you know, two hundred and 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.920 ninety nine points in six games. It's a lot of points. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.880 Their quarterback Griffin scaff has thow for two thousand and 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.680 eight and nineteen touchdowns. But there's a couple, here's a 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.080 couple really odd as good as Anderson has been, a 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.120 couple of great stats about this team. They have fourteen 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.559 to two point conversions on the season. Running back Jordan 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.760 Davis has ten of those. So it's interesting. They almost 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.200 out there watching them last week, and you know they 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.080 get up their first every time they go and score 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.520 touchdown early in the game, their first touchdown they score. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.160 They are always scoring for two points. They want to 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.120 get by eight points. And then the other interesting stat 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.520 they have is they've only punted once all year. It's 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.280 an amazing thing to see. They take all four downs, man, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:41.880 and they're gonna make you pay for it. It's hard 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.840 to stop them. And then turf it. On the other hand, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.840 eight games they had their two and two in games 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.960 decided by eight points or less, and they haven't beaten 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.440 the team yet this year. That's one more than two games, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.520 so this will be a huge test for the Spartans. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.720 They spread the wealth around on offense. They got four 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.200 guys that have more than three hundred sixty yards of offense, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.040 two of those are are and another guy with sixty 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:09.679 six receiving, so you know, they look really good. Now again, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.000 they haven't been really tested. Luke Milam their quarterback has 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.960 seven rushing touchdowns and seven passing touchdowns. And their defense, 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.440 their defense has four takeaway touchdowns already with three interception 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.560 returns and one scooping score on their ten takeaways. That 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.800 they have, so really really interesting team right there. A 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.160 great game, but I think Sparkan Anderson's going to be 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.760 just too much for the Spartans in this one. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.599 I really like that coach Anderson has Evan Dryer. I 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.640 think he's one of the best offensive minds around. But 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:44.840 moving on here, Greg Northwest Nights at Taliwan. The Talawan 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.360 has not been six and oh since nineteen ninety one. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:49.840 Tell us about this one. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.360 Yeah, yeah, So this is a really good, good game. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.520 We'll have a Northwest head coach, Brandon Shoan on with 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.800 us in the pregame portion of high school football tonight tomorrow. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.120 And they've won three in a row. They had had 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.679 a couple of tough losses early in the season, they 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.760 started to play well. They got some dudes on that 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.120 side of the football. Now Tliwana, they haven't beaten the 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.240 team with more than two wins yet in the season. So, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.280 and it's really weird because the top four teams in 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.400 each division will get buys this year, and they're sitting 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.160 at number five even though in the computer rankings, even 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.120 though they're six and oh. So it's an interesting game tonight. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.560 I think it's going to be a lot closer than 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:31.439 people think Tomorrow night. Running back lancecan Trail for Talawana 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.320 has fifteen hundred yards rushing already. He's averaging two hundred 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.600 and fifty five point eight yards per game twelve point 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.440 seven per carry, and the team has twenty touchdowns or 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.040 twenty s toenty touchdowns rushing, so he's got games already 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.360 this year four hundred and twenty three yards, three hundred 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.880 and thirteen and two hundred and eighty six rushing. I 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.240 mean he's putting some mileys on those those cleats, that's 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.880 for sure. And this is an interesting team now. Their 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.960 quarterback Oliver better Stone ten touchdowns and only one interception, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.839 so you know when when they're setting up to run 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.680 and they're knocking it out with the pass late and 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.160 drives as well. So a very very good, very very 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.960 good Taaliwanda team, and congratulations for those guys up in Oxford. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:18.280 We're doing such a great, great job getting to this point. Northwest. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.880 Northwest has six defensive touchdowns already, three stoopid scores and 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.760 three pick sixes, and Jalen Lily has three of those 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.240 with two pick sixes and a fumble recovery. Jalen also 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.120 is their starting quarterback, so he's playing not only on that, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:35.920 they're having a hard time getting him off the field 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.000 even on special teams. He doesn't want to come off. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.520 He's been a great junior leader for them. He was 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.679 a defensive player last year and moved to quarterback and 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.800 is having a great, great season for Northwest. I think 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.600 that's gonna be a fun with tomorrow night for sure. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.440 All Right, Greg, give us a wrap up with a 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.960 preview of the show at tri statefootball dot com. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.280 Yeah, so tomorrow high school football tonight. I'll be doing 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.559 the pregame portion of it. Like I said, I'll have 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.160 bread shown. The head coach at Northwest is on holy 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.400 Cross head coach Kurt Spencer's joining us. The Holy Cross 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.320 Indians are five and oh for the first time in 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.920 school history. They had never been four and oh in 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.719 school history. They're looking for a good with tonight there 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.600 or tomorrow night. They're playing Frankfurt. That'll be a food 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.040 un and I'm also interviewing d Aca head coach Calvin Renfro. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.920 They're sitting at five to one and had a bit 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.920 back to back wins or Division four team that back 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.280 to back wins over Division two teams the last two weeks. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.320 They're looking good. And then of course the Satan Xavier 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.360 game against Trinity is in the middle of high school 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.760 football to night and then Supuan alv and I will 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:43.840 be back until eleven o'clock with scoreboard updates and coach interviews. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.199 It'll be a great night there. And then tri statefootball 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.839 dot Com you can get everything there. We will have 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:55.880 postgame interviews. I know Jake, Jake, burt Meyer are guys 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.120 gonna be on the scene there and do postgame interviews 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.800 at the elder More game, so we'll have plenty of 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.920 good stuff. I wanna try to State football dot Com 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:02.320 as well. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.160 Sounds like I'm playing always excellent stuff. We'll talk next week. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:06.839 Thank you, Greg. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:09.600 All right, see you guys have great weekends.