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It's a great time to be a Hoosier. Brian Tonsoni is joined by Ryan Phillips and Bob Moats to break down Indiana basketball's newly released non-conference schedule, sort through the latest eligibility questions, and get ready for the defending national champion football Hoosiers to open the 2026 season against North Texas. Sam Alexis' eligibility remains unresolved, sparking a broader discussion about the NCAA, professional contracts, Summer League participation, and where college eligibility rules should ultimately draw the line. Victor Oladipo is attempting an NBA comeback, while a new documentary celebrates longtime Voice of the Hoosiers Don Fischer.Indiana volleyball earns a huge five-set victory over defending national champion Texas A&M, while IU men's soccer continues its strong start. The guys dig into a schedule featuring five power-conference opponents, including neutral-site matchups with Syracuse, Arkansas and Kentucky, plus home dates against UCF and Missouri. Add exhibitions against Butler, North Carolina and Western Kentucky, and IU will have plenty of opportunities to learn about itself before Big Ten play. Why the Arkansas-Kentucky back-to-back could provide an early measuring stick.How marquee games at Madison Square Garden and Lucas Oil can help Indiana build its NCAA Tournament résumé.Why the schedule feels appropriately ambitious for a veteran roster—and why the Big Ten alone can't be counted on to provide enough quality opportunities. The overlooked value of games against teams like Bellarmine and Tennessee Tech, whose styles could give IU useful early-season tests even if they aren't marquee opponents. And what would constitute a successful record in those five biggest non-conference games.Finally, attention turns to Memorial Stadium as Curt Cignetti and the defending national champions begin another season. Expectations have changed dramatically: IU has reloaded, the entire home schedule is sold out, and simply getting to six wins feels like ancient history. The guys discuss what to watch against North Texas, why nobody should overreact to the first game, and how football success is changing the entire Bloomington experience—from ticket demand and hotel prices to the atmosphere surrounding every home Saturday.

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. On this edition of Sons LIVE, we'll get you ready for Opening Knight as UCF takes on Bethune-Cookman. First, we welcome Chris Boyle from the Daytona Beach News-Journal to preview the matchup. Next, our good friend Andrew Cherico stops by to talk about this Knights team and what he expects from the season. As always, we take your questions, review cows of the week, and figure out what is in the box Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Bailey Adams and Christian Simmons for the 346th episode of the Pegasus Podcast! This week, we break down UCF's newly released depth chart and preview the Bethune-Cookman game.

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. Join Eric Lopez and Trace Trylko as they debate some of the current topics surrounding UCF Sports. In this episode, just days away from kickoff for the UCF Football team, what do you want to see them accomplish in week 1? Plus: Scott Frost provided updates on the status of several players; did anything concern you? Also: Pressure on Frost?, 20 years of Bouncing, Schedule Picks, and Fantasy Draft Be sure to subscribe to our channel to watch future episodes of Around the Kingdom, with a new drop each week.  #goknights #ucfknights #ucf #ucffootball #big12  Check out www.SonsofUCF.com for more coverage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. ELO Online is hosted by longtime UCF commentator and the voice of UCF Softball, Eric Lopez. ELo will bring his unique perspective and in-depth analysis on all the sports happening around the kingdom. On this episode, ELo is joined by Brian Peterson to break down the biggest questions facing UCF Football as they begin the 2026 season this week against Bethune-Cookman. Next, ELo is joined by ESPN+ Soccer Announcer Ryan Davis, who has covered UCF's men's and Women's programs since 2021. To close, ELo recaps UCF Volleyball's winning weekend, which included big performances from Abby Schommers and Avah Armour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. On this episode, Adam breaks down the latest with UCF Football, including the release of the first depth chart. What is surprising, and is there anything concerning? Next, with the first game looming, what are the keys to the game on offense and defense? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clemson's trip to LSU is officially a sellout, and Swanny wonders if it's finally time for the Tigers to BYOG again. Longtime Clemson SID Tim Bourret joins the show to preview the matchup, discuss the quarterback battle and Clemson's running backs.Plus, Vic Burley apologizes following his arrest, and the Pigskin Prognostication series continues with Stanford, Purdue, Vanderbilt and UCF.

The Mark Moses Show is joined by UCF Broadcaster Eric Lopez to preview a new season of UCF Football.  Mark broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #UCF #collegefootball 

SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, AND SHARE! We release 2 episodes a week with live episodes added in throughout the season. Follow me on social media: Sean Twitter- https://twitter.com/SeanmrGreen Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/seanmrgreen Also subscribe to our official Youtube channel as well as Bleav's to get even more awesome content Charge On- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJEqq5umfrBwq4VCt79b_qQ Bleav- https://www.youtube.com/c/Bleav On an all new CHARGE ON, we preview the Knights first game as UCF takes on Bethune-Cookman in the Bounce House to open the 2026 season! Intro 0:00 UCF vs Bethune-Cookman Preview 06:45 Predictions 30:03 Final Thoughts 31:53 Also follow Nick: Nick Twitter- https://twitter.com/NickGeddesNews Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. On the season debut of Sons LIVE, Trace and Adam start the countdown to kickoff by welcoming former UCF coach Paul Lounsberry to give us an update from fall camp. Next, former UCF Football players Michael Colubiale and Michael Campbell stop by to talk about what the players are experiencing as camp winds down. Plus: sound from fall camp, an update on Women's Soccer, the BWP mailbag, and cow of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Mark Moses Show is joined by Phil Steele with Phil Steele's College Football Preview Magazine to get his thoughts on the Gators, Miami, FSU, UCF & more around the state of Florida.   Mark broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #gators #ucf #fsu #miami #collegefootball 

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. In this edition of ATK-Overtime, Eric Lopez, Trace Trylko, and Adam Eaton continue the conversation from Around The Kingdom as they discuss - How are the vibes feeling as the season is about to get underway - Is there pressure on Frost, and who are some players who could emerge? - Storylines in the Big 12 to follow - Fall Olympic Sports off to a solid start For more, check out the Sons of UCF YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@sonsofucf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SEC has officially drawn a line in the sand on the growing NFL-to-college eligibility madness. After an initial 16-0 vote, SEC presidents formally approved penalties 15-0 with LSU abstaining, establishing consequences for programs and coaches who put former NFL players on active college rosters. We break down what the new rules mean, LSU's decision not to vote, and where this increasingly bizarre fight between college football, the courts and eligibility rules goes next.Plus, Thomas Castellanos is headed to Texas Tech after stops at UCF, Boston College and Florida State, ESPN is getting rid of the BottomLine ticker during college football games, and the NFL and NFLPA introduce new discipline for repeated violations. We also get into the Commanders suddenly selling merchandise featuring their abandoned name and logo.Live Show Tuesday and Thursday, 3pm est.SOCIALS: https://linktr.ee/drewberquistWEBSITE: https://AirItOutBro.com #DrewBerquist #Balls&Banter #BallsShow Notes/Links:In the formal SEC presidents vote today to confirm the penalties in the legislation involving banning of NFL players, there ended up being a 15-0 vote. LSU abstained from voting. There was an initial vote of 16-0 on Tuesday https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2092681115689508887?s=20SEC sets new rules for schools and coaches if NFL players are on active rostershttps://x.com/BussinWTB/status/2092655264113586576?s=20Thomas Castellanos has committed to Texas Tech, he tells ESPN. He's a former quarterback at Florida State, BC and UCF. He has 6,449 career passing yards and 48 passing touchdowns. He's also rushed for 24 touchdownshttps://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2092693746781462678?s=20ESPN removing bottom line ticker from college football game productionshttps://x.com/CFBKings/status/2092665846116041135?s=20NFL and NFLPA have announced that players who commit three violations in any of these categories in a season will be suspended one gamehttps://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/2092705882198995422?s=20Washington Commanders are selling gear with abandoned name and logo at the team storehttps://x.com/ProFootballTalk/status/2092428741687263388?s=20

THURSDAY HR 1 Russ eating his bowls of ceral and spilling milk. Ryan enjoys his pickle soup. Levels of pop culture fame. Russ shocked at some UCF students not knowing who Dolly Parton was. Jaye P Morgan is a hero! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Mark Moses Show is joined by Kyle Nash of Locked on UCF to preview a new season of UCF Football and by UCF DB Braeden Marshall to talk about his expectations for the Knights Defense this fall.  Mark is also joined by new King Center GM Nick Palmiotti to talk about his vision for the King Center moving forward.  Mark broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #football #collegefootball #UCF #Sports 

The Mark Moses Show is joined by Kyle Nash of Locked on UCF & Jaguars to get an update on both teams during fall camp and the guys debate if Jacksonville Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence can get better this fall in year 2 of Liam Cohns offense.  Mark broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #football #collegefootball #nfl #ucf #jags 

The Mark Moses Show is joined by DB Braeden Marshall on what it means to be a UCF Knight, playing in the Big 12 and how the defense wants to get more turnovers this season.   UCF opens at home against Bethune-Cookman on 9/3.   The Mark Moses Show Broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #ucfknights #ucffootball #CollegeFootball

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. On the season debut of Around The Kingdom, join Eric Lopez and Trace Trylko as they debate some of the current topics surrounding UCF Sports. In this episode, the 2026 season is upon us, and for the Knights, what does success look like? How many wins will equal a positive season? Plus: Who will lead UCF in rushing, receiving, sacks, and interceptions? Also: What are the big stories in the Big 12, Fall sports off to a good start, and a rousing game of 'where did he play'.  Be sure to subscribe to our channel to watch future episodes of Around the Kingdom, with a new drop each week.  #goknights #ucfknights #ucf #ucffootball #big12  Check out www.SonsofUCF.com for more coverage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thanks in large part to the massive drop in the cost of getting a pound or kilogram of stuff into orbit and beyond, many of the boldest Space Age dreams are now possible. The business of space makes economic sense like never before. And here comes the AI Revolution to really give the sector a boost.Today, on Faster Please!—The Podcast, I am joined by Phil Metzger. Phil is a professor of planetary science at the University of Central Florida and director of its Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education. Before joining UCF, Phil spent nearly 30 years at NASA, where he worked as a senior research physicist. (I also highly recommend his X account.)In this episode, we talk about why AI has made the economics of space work by providing a “killer app,” what the first off-world industries might look like, what obstacles we still have to overcome to make them viable, and what the long-term future holds.In This Episode:* The economics of space (0:49)* Industries launching in space (7:36)* Cutting space expenses (11:31)* How do we start? (16:55)* Dealing with lunar dust (22:31)* What does the future hold? (29:31)A lightly edited transcript of our conversation will appear in my Week in Review issue on Saturday. (Another option is using the Substack auto transcript function.)But here are some edited highlights from the chat:On orbital and lunar manufacturing…We have a lot of work to do. But it isn't gonna require any new physics. It's just gonna be industrial engineering, aerospace engineering, civil engineering on the moon, and a straightforward effort to do it. And so we've got to spend the effort building these technologies. But there are already companies getting ready to build commercial space stations in low Earth orbit. There are companies getting ready to start launching data centers in space. I believe that once that begins to expand and grow, the economics of space in every sector of the space industry will be pulled upward by the huge economic value of AI.On how the case for AI is the case for space…We were hoping that Mars settlement would drag up the entire in-space industry. I ran models on Mars settlement, and I believe it's very doable. But the new thing now is AI. AI swept in like a storm two, three years ago. Suddenly everybody woke up and realized, “No, this is the killer app for space.” Elon immediately started talking about “Mars is gonna have to wait a couple years because we're gonna do the moon right away.” And it's all because of AI. So AI has changed our whole assessment of the business case for space.On the economics of orbital data centers…The amount of throughput of spacecraft hardware will be so gigantic that there will be this huge motive to shorten the supply chains and move more industry closer to the launch pads. And then the workforce we're gonna need is gonna grow gigantically. Maybe we'll do AI and robotics, but there will be an opportunity for huge growth in the labor force. So I think governments, universities, everybody in industry and in finance needs to get ready for this tidal wave that's about to sweep through. …So in Elon's mind, the issue is the demand for AI will keep growing, and it'll grow so fast that you can't build the data centers fast enough and you can't launch them off the earth fast enough.It'll be a logistics problem and a supply chain problem. [Musk] hasn't said this, but I will add, it will be an atmospheric protection issue. If you start launching too fast, then it does cause some cumulative damage to the atmosphere. The atmosphere will heal pretty quickly, so it's not long-term damage from rocket launch. But I believe there will be political pushback when people see gigantic rockets launching every hour, hour after hour, 365 days a year, from 50 launch sites around the world.So Elon's idea was we're gonna have to build these AI systems on the moon using lunar resources, and we don't need to launch them off the moon with rockets because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere. We can just shoot them off the moon with a railgun. They call it a mass driver in that context. On lowering launch costs…We're expecting launch costs to go from—right now they're like $1,500 or $2,000 per kilogram to low Earth orbit—we're expecting it to go down to like $35 per kilogram in 30 years, and that's a conservative estimate.On the future of humanity in space…Most people don't know this, but there are at least 150 planet-sized objects in our solar system. Most of them are dwarf planets far away. But the moons are amazing worlds, and pretty soon we're going to have buildings being constructed. We'll have architects designing buildings for the environment of Titan. I can't imagine what beautiful architecture will be developed. Once we've got an abundance of robotics driven by AI, then we're not gonna be doing things on the cheap. We won't have to. And so we'll be able to make beautiful cities on all these worlds. We'll be bringing beautification to all these planetary bodies throughout the solar system.On sale everywhere: The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

The Mark Moses Show is joined by OL Henry Tabansi on what it means to be a UCF Knight, playing in the Big 12 and how the offensive line needs to improve on the field for the 2026 season.    UCF opens at home against Bethune-Cookman on 9/3.   The Mark Moses Show Broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #ucfknights #ucffootball #CollegeFootball

In this episode, Tiberius sits down with Benjamin Schmidt, the creative mind behind Schmedia, to explore the world of video production, storytelling, drones, editing, and content creation. Benjamin shares how a colorful TV production poster in his middle school cafeteria sparked a passion that eventually turned into a career creating high-quality content for businesses, podcasts, educational projects, commercials, and more.From making pirate and sci-fi videos as a kid to studying at the Nicholson School of Communication at UCF, Benjamin takes us through his journey of building a career behind the camera. He shares what makes a video truly engaging, why storytelling matters more than flashy graphics, and how beginners can start creating professional content—even with just a smartphone.In this episode, you'll discover:• How Benjamin's passion for video production began in seventh grade • What Schmedia does and the types of content Benjamin creates • Why storytelling is the foundation of every great video • The difference between filming and editing—and which one can take more time • Common mistakes beginners make with camera angles, framing, and white balance • How long it can really take to create a short professional video • Why your smartphone can be a powerful tool for content creation • The difference between traditional camera drones and FPV drones • How gaming and drone simulators can help you learn to fly • Benjamin's experience studying media production at UCF • How his internship helped prepare him for the real world of video production • How technology has transformed video production over the years • Tips for helping people feel comfortable on camera • Advice for teenagers who want to become content creators • Why Benjamin believes young creators should stop second-guessing themselves • How math, coding, creativity, and video production all work togetherBenjamin also shares some hilarious behind-the-scenes stories, talks about his love for drones, video games, and Star Wars, and gives valuable advice for young people interested in pursuing a career in media. During Math Corners, Benjamin helps break down the real amount of time it takes to create a promotional video, proving that there is much more work behind the scenes than most people realize.Whether you're interested in videography, editing, drones, content creation, filmmaking, gaming, or turning a creative passion into a career, this episode is packed with fun stories, practical advice, and valuable lessons for students and aspiring creators.Be sure to like, subscribe, and leave a comment below: If you could create a video anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you film?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tiberius-show--3352195/support.

Chris Williams and Chris Hassel predict the entire 2026 Iowa and Iowa State football seasons, breaking down every game on both schedules and projecting their final win totals. The guys debate Iowa's quarterback battle between Jeremy Hecklinski and Hank Brown, the massive Cy-Hawk matchup at Kinnick, Iowa's brutal three-game stretch against Michigan, Ohio State, and Washington, and whether the Hawkeyes can make the College Football Playoff. For Iowa State, the guys discuss Jimmy Rogers' first season, Jalen Raynor, the Cyclones' difficult schedule and the path to bowl eligibility. They break down Iowa State's matchups against Utah, West Virginia, BYU, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Baylor, Cincinnati, UCF, and Kansas State before revealing their final win totals. Two Guys presented by Fareway Meat & Grocery. Only on Iowa Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Brend and Derek Duke make their official 2026 Big 12 football preseason predictions on Bigger Than 12! The guys reveal their Big 12 preseason standings, conference championship pick, Player of the Year and Coach of the Year selections, biggest games of the season, hot seat rankings, and several bold predictions. They debate BYU, Texas Tech, Utah, Houston, Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, TCU, Iowa State, UCF, and the rest of the Big 12, including which teams could surprise, which coaches are under the most pressure, and which players could become national stars. The guys also identify the three most important Big 12 games of 2026, including Houston at Texas Tech, the Holy War between BYU and Utah, and Notre Dame at BYU. Plus, they discuss the Big 12's College Football Playoff chances, TCU vs. North Carolina in Dublin, and whether the conference can finally win another playoff game. Bigger Than 12 presented by WealthCharter Retirement + Tax. Only on Iowa Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rece Davis, Pete Thamel, and Dan Wetzel break down the Big 12 heading into the season. Is Texas Tech's rise good for the conference and can Houston emerge as a legitimate contender Plus, the crew weighs Utah's changes of making a run, Arizona State's loaded wide receiver room, TCU's sleeper potential, and the wild cards that could shake up the Big 12 race.   0:00 - Welcome 1:55 - Oklahoma St. Eric Morris vs. an armadillo 9:44 - Is Texas Tech's rise good for the Big 12? 17:53 - BYU freshman WR Legend Glasker turning heads 19:54 - Can Houston emerge as a Big 12 contender? 29:58 - Utah: Big 12 contender or spoiler? 35:37 - ASU has the Big 12's best WR room? 46:05 - TCU: The quintessential Big 12 sleeper? 48:16 - Arizona, Baylor & Oklahoma St: Big 12 wild cards 53:43 - Coach Prime at Colorado: What's next? 58:10 - Final word on the Big 12: WVU, ISU, Arkansas St, UCF, Cincinnati, KU, Baylor, Kansa St Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We hear from NASA astronaut Mike Fincke who is retiring after 30 years. Plus, we'll speak with UCF's Dr. Manny Urquieta about the efforts to solve medical problems in space, from low-Earth orbit, the moon and Mars.

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With a combined 70+ years of legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. ELO Online is hosted by longtime UCF commentator and the voice of UCF Softball, Eric Lopez. ELO brings his unique perspective and in-depth analysis on all the sports happening around the kingdom. In this episode, ELO breaks down the Men's Hoops non-conference schedule. Plus, an interview with UCF Football's TE Dylan Wade about the upcoming season and Alonza Barnett. Next, a UCF Volleyball season preview, including an interview with Outside Hitter Avah Armor, coming off a 2025 season in which she was named All-American Honorable Mention and Big 12 1st team all-conference. ELO also breaks down UCF's Women's Soccer 3-0 start and Men's Soccer 1-0-1 start, and concludes with a look at UCF Softball's schedule, including playing in the Clearwater Invitational and Mary Nutter Classic, as well as Big 12 schedules for Softball and Baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Galen Clavio launches the newly dubbed Bison Briefing on CrimsonCast with a live afternoon episode covering two major Indiana sports topics: the continuing NCAA eligibility mess and the release of Indiana basketball's non-conference schedule.Ryan Phillips joins Galen to break down the latest eligibility confusion involving Class of 2022 athletes, professional opportunities, and whether players who spent time around NFL teams should be able to return to college rosters. They discuss the SEC's statement, the Big Ten's proposed rule, the legal uncertainty around the Wisne case, and what all of this could mean for Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt as Indiana football gets closer to the season.The conversation also gets into the bigger structural problem: college sports keeps trying to operate without a stable, collectively bargained system. Galen and Ryan talk through why the NCAA's current rulemaking keeps leading to lawsuits, why basketball complicates the definition of “professional,” and why the next few weeks could remain messy for athletes trying to decide whether to enroll, practice, sue, or move on.The second half shifts to Indiana men's basketball, where the newly released non-conference schedule gives Darren DeVries and the Hoosiers a stronger slate than fans have seen in recent years. The schedule includes Syracuse, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, UCF, Bellarmine, Fairleigh Dickinson, Bowling Green, and more.Galen and Ryan like the schedule from a basketball perspective: more name brands, more résumé opportunities, and a better mix of tests and tune-ups. But they also dig into the season-ticket holder issue, because many of the best games are away from Assembly Hall or on neutral floors. That leads to a larger conversation about IU basketball's atmosphere, rebuilding fan trust, and why winning is the only real way to make Assembly Hall feel like Assembly Hall again.

Join Bailey Adams and Christian Simmons for the 345th episode of the Pegasus Podcast! This week, we grade each of UCF's position groups.

It's our 8th annual UCF Football Roundtable on JAS as Adam Eaton from the Sons of UCF, Eric Lopez from ELO Online and Around the Kingdom, Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel and Chris Boyle of the Daytona Beach News Journal join me to breakdown the upcoming 2026 season

Rece Davis, Pete Thamel, and Dan Wetzel break down the Big 12 heading into the season. Is Texas Tech's rise good for the conference and can Houston emerge as a legitimate contender Plus, the crew weighs Utah's changes of making a run, Arizona State's loaded wide receiver room, TCU's sleeper potential, and the wild cards that could shake up the Big 12 race.   0:00 - Welcome 1:55 - Oklahoma St. Eric Morris vs. an armadillo 9:44 - Is Texas Tech's rise good for the Big 12? 17:53 - BYU freshman WR Legend Glasker turning heads 19:54 - Can Houston emerge as a Big 12 contender? 29:58 - Utah: Big 12 contender or spoiler? 35:37 - ASU has the Big 12's best WR room? 46:05 - TCU: The quintessential Big 12 sleeper? 48:16 - Arizona, Baylor & Oklahoma St: Big 12 wild cards 53:43 - Coach Prime at Colorado: What's next? 58:10 - Final word on the Big 12: WVU, ISU, Arkansas St, UCF, Cincinnati, KU, Baylor, Kansa St Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football is so close you can taste it! Host of the UCF Charge On Podcast Sean Green joins Game On for one last pre season breakdown! How important is week one against Bethune Cookman going into week two against Pitt? looking further down the schedule how will UCF handle the in conference schedule?

The Mark Moses Show is joined by DB Jayden Williams on what it means to be a UCF Knight, playing in the Big 12 and how the defense wants to get more turnovers this season.   UCF opens at home against Bethune-Cookman on 9/3.   The Mark Moses Show Broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #ucfknights #ucffootball #CollegeFootball

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. On this episode of the Sons of UCF, Trace and Adam ponder the question: this will be a successful season for UCF if _______. Plus: updates from the soft opening of the new Roth Tower and controversy on the mall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, AND SHARE! We release 2 episodes a week with live episodes added in throughout the season. Follow me on social media: Sean Twitter- https://twitter.com/SeanmrGreen Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/seanmrgreen Also subscribe to our official Youtube channel as well as Bleav's to get even more awesome content Charge On- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJEqq5umfrBwq4VCt79b_qQ Bleav- https://www.youtube.com/c/Bleav On an all new CHARGE ON, we talk about my tour of the new Roth Tower and why this new facility is a game changer for UCF moving forward! Intro 0:00 UCF Has A Power 4 Facility 03:43 Final Thoughts 26:19 Also follow Nick: Nick Twitter- https://twitter.com/NickGeddesNews Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Mark Moses Show is joined by WR Waden Charles on what it means to be a UCF Knight, playing in the Big 12 and the feeling of scoring a TD!!   UCF opens at home against Bethune-Cookman on 9/3.   The Mark Moses Show Broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #ucfknights #ucffootball #CollegeFootball

The Mark Moses Show is joined by UCF Kicker Will Stone on what it means to be a UCF Knight, playing in the Big 12 and the feeling of hitting a big kick!   UCF opens at home against Bethune-Cookman on 9/3.   The Mark Moses Show Broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #ucfknights #ucffootball #CollegeFootball

The Mark Moses Show is joined by DB Jayden Bellamy on what it means to be a UCF Knight, playing in the Big 12 and how the defense wants to get more turnovers this season.   UCF opens at home against Bethune-Cookman on 9/3.   The Mark Moses Show Broadcasts from The Law Offices of Anidjar & Levine Studios. #ucfknights #ucffootball #CollegeFootball

All content from the Sons of UCF is brought to you by the law office of Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia. With 70+ years of combined legal experience, WHG specializes in personal injury, workers' comp, veteran disability, and SSI/SSDI cases. For more information, visit wernerhoffman.com or call 1-800-320-HELP. Welcome to ELO Online, hosted by longtime UCF commentator and the voice of UCF Softball, Eric Lopez. ELo will bring his unique perspective and in-depth analysis on all the sports happening around the kingdom. In this episode, ELo welcomes Sons of UCF and Knights247 Reporter Andrew Cherico to break down the teams in the Big 12 Conference on the eve of the 2026 Football season. Next, a UCF Men's Soccer preview, featuring an interview with Knights midfielder Joey Mueller. Plus: UCF Women's Soccer with a big come-from-behind win over the Florida Gators in their season opener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Stadium and Gale: your weekly Florida Gators show.Three uniform reveals in six days. One quarterback job still wide open. And zero answers out of Jon Sumrall.Florida held its first fall scrimmage of camp this week and we're no closer to knowing who takes the first snap on Sept. 5. Aaron Philo or Tramell Jones Jr.? Sumrall isn't telling — and he's said out loud he might not tell anyone until five minutes before kickoff.Joining us this week: former Florida Gators tight end C'yontai Lewis.From Eutaw, Alabama — one of the poorest counties in the state — to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Four years in the SEC under Jim McElwain and Dan Mullen. A suspension, two injuries, and a career that never quite broke through. Then draft weekend 2019 and a phone that never rang, followed by a tryout invite from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Today he's the tight ends coach at Miles College, telling a room full of young men exactly what nobody told him.We get into what really changes for a player when the whole staff turns over, what he'd say to his 19-year-old self, why he chose an HBCU over chasing a Power Four job, and what he tells kids who'll never see a dime of NIL money.Plus, the week in Gators sports (Aug. 10–16):

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What do professional baseball and tactical strength and conditioning have in common? NSCA award-winning coach Matthew C. Krause knows the demands of both worlds, with 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) and his current public safety work with the Pasco Sheriff’s Office. Krause explains how lessons from baseball transfer when preparing law enforcement officers, who face long shifts, changing schedules, and fatigue that affects decision-making. In a new setting, his first step is to learn the job before making adjustments. He explains the Pasco Sheriff’s Office health and human performance model for deputy care and long-term development, then talks through how to show value with data and earn leadership buy-in over time. Krause also looks back on his United States Marine Corps service, mentors, and career opportunities as he advises young coaches to “always take the conversation.” Tune in to hear how you can step into a new setting, prove value, and build programs that last. Reach Matthew by email at mkrause@pascosheriff.org | Find Eric on Instagram: @ericmcmahoncscs and LinkedIn: @ericmcmahoncscs Join the NSCA Tactical Strength and Conditioning Professional Development Group (PDG) on LinkedIn to connect with peers and stay involved in the profession.Show Notes "You do a good job, you work your butt off, you're not sure what you want to do. You take these opportunities. [...] I tell all, all young strength coaches always take the conversation and you might not want it, but it's good to work on your skills as far as your interview skills and kind of understanding. You know, that process, learning how to sell yourself a little bit in those scenarios..." 10:25 "If you're going to be working for another organization or going to be in a team environment, you're never going to get everything you want. So, you have to pick and choose, figure out what you think on your list of things is the most important thing that day, right? And ask for those things, at the right time" 23:20 "I think people out there need to know that you need to give your time back and a lot of it's going to be in the form of education and time and talks like this." 25:30Transcript 00;00;00;00 - 00;00;21;24 Welcome to the NSCA Coaching Podcast season ten, episode six. And then somebody else, you know, you do a good job or somebody, you know, tell people, hey, listen, you work your butt off. You're not sure what you want to do. You take these opportunities and Bruce Hammel, who was the major league strength coach with the Cubs, came and said, hey, listen, you know, there could be some opportunities in baseball for you. 00;00;21;27 - 00;00;48;13 What wasn't where I wanted to be. I thought I was in college football, like I said, and wound up, you know, getting into, with the Pittsburgh Pirates, you know, went down, interviewed. So now, another thing I tell all, all young strength coaches always take the conversation and you might not want it, but it's good to work on your skills as far as your interview skills and kind of understanding, you know, that process, learning how to sell yourself a little bit in those scenarios. 00;00;48;13 - 00;01;09;27 Learn. You know how that dynamic is. This is the NSCA Coaching Podcast where we talked to strength and conditioning coaches about what you really need to know, but probably didn't learn in school. There’s strength and conditioning. And then there's everything else. This is the NSCA Coaching Podcast. I'm Eric McMahon NSCA’s Coaching and Sport Science Program Manager. 00;01;09;28 - 00;01;33;15 Today we have a guest who has extensive experience with the NSCA as a presenter. He was a 2018 Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach of the year, tons of experience working in MLB, but now he's working in tactical, the public safety space with the Pasco County Sheriff's Department in Florida. Matt Krauss, welcome to the show. Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you being here. 00;01;33;22 - 00;01;53;17 It's going to be fun. Yeah, yeah it's great man. I'm really excited to hear about your path from MLB and all the work you've done in the past and now working in the tactical space. What's that been like? I'll tell you a lot of a lot of similarities, being in a major League baseball with certain things from, from an everyday perspective, and you got a chance to experience that too. 00;01;53;17 - 00;02;11;17 In baseball. And then coming into the law enforcement space where it's, it's every day. Right? There's, there's, it's 24 hours a day, every day. It doesn't it doesn't stop. So it's one of the things that, that I, that I really like about it because I always like the grind of baseball. Right? You know, 20 something years and then coming into this space. 00;02;11;17 - 00;02;31;18 And I do enjoy that part of it. I enjoy the every day. There's something every day you're preparing for something every day. The ongoing of of it never stopping to where people talking about, you know, loading unloading this when it's every single day, you got to have that knack, to keep people going on on their best day and on on the worst day. 00;02;31;18 - 00;02;53;21 Right. So, and just the mental aspect of of a grind. So I really enjoy the space. That's cool. It's something I hear come through is when you're every single day, there's really no peaking, you know, you go, you always gotta be ready to go. You might be at your best, you might be at 80%. But that's your best that day. 00;02;53;24 - 00;03;30;13 How do you prepare law enforcement officers? And just like you did in baseball, to go out there every single day? Well, you know, the number one thing and for, for for any industry is learning the job and kind of getting understand the mentality and the physical part of it, you know, knowing the job, being around. So I think the ticket out for a six months of you coming into this space, kind of not asking as many questions, being more observational, but, you know, asking here and there, certain things, but just really getting to learn, understanding terminology. 00;03;30;15 - 00;03;48;29 You know, certain things are the same. Certain things are not, but really, you know, diving into it. And I've had an opportunity to, really get a chance to, to, to understand kind of what they're doing. I was not part of shift work. Right. Because baseball is is all day to. But understanding how you apply that to. 00;03;49;04 - 00;04;05;18 But but baseball has that you know that set schedule. You know every single day of the ramp up to a game and then and then there's a travel piece to it. But here it's ramping up every single day. And then and then going from a mid shift to a day shift to a night shift and understanding all those different pieces to it. 00;04;05;20 - 00;04;29;15 As people transition from from those aspects and how to how to apply the process or a program or their routine. All of the things that you would say to to a baseball player, right. But you know, it, it applies here to and how to make those adjustments. So seeing all of it and then getting a chance to dissect it a little bit, you know, obviously when you're a college training coach, when I was, when I was working in college, I worked ten different sports. 00;04;29;15 - 00;04;47;29 There's ten different things going on. And then, and then just being in one area, like, we just just in baseball, you get to dissect a little bit and to really kind of hone down on it. And once you kind of understand and get the chance to, to start implementing and, and so I'm making adjustments to try to make it better. 00;04;48;02 - 00;04;59;05 Tactical wasn't completely new to you. I know you have a military background. What was your path into S&C? Being enlisted in the military? 00;04;59;08 - 00;05;16;25 Well, joining the Marine Corps. So I was in the Marine Corps back when I was 18 years old. That was it was one of my paths, an opportunity to to make money and to go to school wasn't I didn't come from a very, a family with a ton of money. And but I definitely wanted to go to school, you know, I was, say, A33 sport athlete in high school. 00;05;16;28 - 00;05;32;17 And obviously I wasn't good enough in any one of those, you know, I was I got I was a plus player, but not enough to get a scholarship right or to continue on a at a lower level. And so that was part of my path. My dad was a marine. My uncle was a marine. I knew some of the people in my neighborhood that Marines. 00;05;32;17 - 00;05;49;13 And so I, I didn't even think, of another, branch. Right. I was just I was going to be, you know, if I was going to do this, I was going to go into the Marine Corps, and but I knew I wasn't going to do it long term. I mean, my path was, you know, my uncle was a college football coach. 00;05;49;16 - 00;06;07;06 He was at Richmond, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, you know, he played football at Mississippi State. So as you're, you know, building where you want to kind of go in life, you know, I had all these friends I wanted to be on Wall Street coming out of New York. I was a Queens, Long Island guy. Right. And I wanted to be I wanted to get off the island, get out of there and be more like my uncle. 00;06;07;08 - 00;06;27;06 And so I just thought I would, you know, moving, move in that direction. So the Marine Corps was, was a great place for me to one grow up. So I give a lot of a lot of credit to Marine Corps. I was, you know, some punk kid that, you know, thought he knew everything. And then I learned that I didn't know anything and that I needed a little structure in my life. 00;06;27;09 - 00;06;39;21 I like to say it taught me a little bit more of the killer instinct. I wish, I wish I played high school sports after I went to the Marine Corps, I would I would have been a better practitioner. I would have been a better planner. I would have been a lot of things instead of, just doing them. 00;06;39;23 - 00;06;59;05 And, so it definitely prepared me to learn how to focus in on some things, and it helped me be better into my career. And, so I'm very, very appreciative for, for taking an 18 year old kid and teaching him how to grow up. So you got out of the Marine Corps and that pushed you into college. 00;06;59;05 - 00;07;18;21 And were you looking at exercise science? What was your original goal when you were looking at a career? I always laugh, I said, so I had a buddy that I was at East Carolina University. I know Campbell's is, 71 miles from, from East Carolina. So I go over and visit with them, and that's where I saw they had a good sports medicine program. 00;07;18;21 - 00;07;36;29 It was my introduction into the athletic training where it kind of started. I was looking at the different ways how I can kind of get into sports. Talk to us a little bit. And they had a great program. So I knew when I was transitioning out into the reserve piece, they had a unit over in Raleigh that come. 00;07;36;29 - 00;07;56;00 So, you know, registering getting into East Carolina was my entrance. They had that exercise science, you know, different disciplines. You're going to go the exercise physiology or out of the sports medicine route. I started in the exercise science. I mean, in the sports medicine side of it, becoming an athletic trainer and, you know, Coach Connors was there. 00;07;56;00 - 00;08;10;01 A lot of people say at the NSCA, I know who Coach Connors was. He was, you know, I wanted to be him. You know, you know, the way he came in, he would do some pre-game speeches for football, for the men's basketball team that I was working on, like, wow, this guy was like, not only training guys in the bedroom, but he was doing pre-game speeches. 00;08;10;01 - 00;08;30;18 And I was like, that's a job that I want. You know, he got everybody going and I know he's he's done some talks for, for, for the NSCA. And so I was I looked at him as, you know, I wouldn't have known that the strength conditioning was even a job. Right. And when I saw him do it and the way he did it, was exciting to me and say, hey, this is something that I could possibly do. 00;08;30;20 - 00;08;48;20 And, so he actually, you know, crossed the bridge from the athletic training side to the strength conditioning side for me. He was very generous with his time. You know, people, he kind of finished school in December, but I don't graduate to make enough to do an internship. So I did my my my time at his Carolina in the sports medicine program as an athletic trainer. 00;08;48;20 - 00;09;03;24 And then in that window, he allowed me to come in and help out with the men's basketball team. I had to go do my cardiac rehab back in the day, say, internship in the morning, and then in the afternoon, he let me come into the weight room and then help out. And we got to the end of that semester. 00;09;03;24 - 00;09;21;29 I was looking at some some graduate assistantship opportunities from the athletic training side. And coach was like said, I can get you one right now if you won't go down to UCS, but it'll be on the training conditioning side. And I still didn't have enough money, as a driver, but I still wanted to get my masters and, he made a few phone calls for me. 00;09;22;02 - 00;09;43;25 I had a quick interview, and four weeks later I was down in Orlando, Florida, at UCS in that transition. And that's when I started my my career in, say, strength conditioning. Got in, there was work in, you know, football. UCF was working on every sport, obviously as a GA. And then so that was that was it. 00;09;43;25 - 00;10;00;27 He made a few phone calls. You stuck his neck out for me. So I appreciate that. You know, you want to give you a thank you along the way and then, took that opportunity and ran with it. And then the following semester, I took my CSCS and got, you know, became, got my certification and never looked back. 00;10;00;28 - 00;10;19;23 You know, it took my. So from that point, while I was a GA, I worked like 15 sports. There were college football, but took my time did my it did a few other internship. I'll. I worked for the Buccaneers. There are many camps one summer and then the following summer I did it with the Daytona Cubs and that was my entrance into into baseball. 00;10;19;24 - 00;10;40;20 Not to date ourselves here on here in 1999, I went over there and did an internship with the Daytona Cubs and then somebody else, you know, you do a good job as my, you know, tell people, you listen, you work your butt off, you're not sure what you want to do. You take these opportunities. And Bruce Hammel, who was the major league strength coach with the Cubs, came and said, hey, listen, you know, there could be some opportunities in baseball for you. 00;10;40;22 - 00;11;03;05 What wasn't where I wanted to be. I thought I was me in college football, like I said, and wound up, you know, getting into, with the Pittsburgh Pirates, you know, went down, interviewed. So now, another thing I tell all, all young strength coaches always take the conversation and you might not want it, but it's good to work on your skills as far as your interview skills and kind of understanding. 00;11;03;08 - 00;11;22;14 You know, that process, learning how to sell yourself a little bit in those scenarios, learn, you know how that dynamic is, but wound up getting an opportunity and get to take the job with the Pittsburgh Pirates and got into baseball. Never look back. 22 years later. It's been three years for the Pirates. 13 ish with the Reds. 00;11;22;17 - 00;11;52;05 You know, it's a major league level. And in my time with the New York Yankees and I finished in 2020, I like how all those early experiences, you got a ton of experience working with different teams, obviously on the medicine side, and that led you into strength and conditioning. But you had tons of experience building programs. I think, your time with the Reds, your time with the Yankees, now you're working in building a tactical strength and conditioning department at Pasco County. 00;11;52;08 - 00;12;12;01 What are some of the unique challenges when you come in? Maybe the program isn't where it needs to be. How do you build a department from the ground up? So every opportunity along the way is even coming to it, even at UCS at that time. So I don't want to take a step back. It just was that transition from one to Division one. 00;12;12;03 - 00;12;28;21 And we're building a program. So it's just me and somebody else, as the interns, you know, I'm saying then Augus and then I got hired on there as a full time strength coach, and then want of building on that program and being there to kind of see that. But Coach Bridgeman, I think he's done some things with the Navy at the time. 00;12;28;23 - 00;12;41;21 Showed me some administrative things that I didn't know that needed to happen. Right. So you can't put these things away for when it's your turn to kind of be in charge. So I wasn't in charge anything, but I kind of learned the process well because we were limited staff. So he had to put me in some challenging situations that I need to do. 00;12;41;21 - 00;13;00;11 Right. You got to grow up real quick. So then I want to went to the Pirates. Baseball was transitioning into developing minor league programs, right? Because at the time was just a major league strength. I had athletic trainer, assistant trainer, major league strength coach, and a minor league coordinator pretty much only outside of that. It was a lot of internships in and around it. 00;13;00;14 - 00;13;21;09 And then while I was my my time there with the Pirates, we built out that program. We created, a full time position. At different levels. Right. So super short season, you know. Oh, well, Gulf coast, short season, high, low and triple AA were they weren't in crazy salaries, but they were full time positions. Those are probably some of the first in the game at that time. 00;13;21;11 - 00;13;37;09 Correct. And so we were able to from a job creation standpoint that that was that was pretty cool to be a part of that. And then, had the opportunity to, you know, left the Pirates, came to the Reds. We're building the same kind of minor league program at this time. Now, I had a plan. Right. 00;13;37;11 - 00;13;54;22 You need this amount of people. Here's how we're going to roll this off. Carl Alvarez was a major league strength coach at times. I got hired on as a minor league guy, and then. And, had the opportunity to take it, take a major league job, two years later and then spent, you know, 15 years at the Major league level. 00;13;54;22 - 00;14;08;20 So I had, you know, five minor league years and then and then 16 at the major league level. It was it was pretty cool. So being able to watch that program grow put everything in place from a programing standpoint, learning how to deal with the coaches in the front office and all the other people in the scouting department. 00;14;08;22 - 00;14;28;20 What was great, and then getting a chance to to even do with the New York Yankees and building out even more programs, and then adding in the sport science piece and adding in a dietitian and adding all that. So from a job creation standpoint, I feel like we, you know, over say, 20 something years, we're able to, you know, builds almost 30, 35 jobs, you know, in the game, which I'm excited about. 00;14;28;23 - 00;14;47;21 And, and then watching some people that came in behind me that all work for the pirates and different things and moves along and, really excited about having those opportunities to where it gave me this opportunity when I, when I, when I got out of baseball and someone came up here and said, hey, you know, Pasco Sheriff's Office wants to build a human performance program. 00;14;47;21 - 00;15;04;21 At the time, this was an EXOS contract. We had a lot of people here from from special operations that seen some different things. While they were time there in the military, they knew it was something that needed to happen. And then I was lucky enough to, to land this position and I said, hey, you know what? 00;15;04;23 - 00;15;22;27 It's not just going to be a human performance program. We did a health and human performance program, right? We have to add in the the care aspect from we have a lot of people that have issues. So we're able to bring in. So now we're here I guess we're, we're we wanted to go with this was we're the first I call it a long term development program, right. 00;15;22;27 - 00;15;48;05 Where the first health and human performance program or a sports medicine program in law enforcement. So we're playing both both sides of that. When we're able to build out a staff from a job creation standpoint, now we have another strength coach, acts as the trainer and strength coach. We have a chiropractor and a registered dietitian, and we're able to provide care for the people who need, you know, some soft tissue work and some different things that that need to happen. 00;15;48;07 - 00;16;08;11 And taking that team, team approach that we learned through sports over time. On how to provide player care. We need to provide, you know, deputy care and, from from a tactical athlete standpoint and what I mean, long term development, we're able to impact the agency by we we have an explorer program at the high school level that we do, you know, exposure to all these different things. 00;16;08;13 - 00;16;43;24 And we work out of the academy as people come, you know, they want to become deputies. We we have some, opportunity to help and build foundational movements and corrective exercise at that level. And then like this morning, we have people that when we hire them officially into the sheriff's office, where we have a program to where we have a strength conditioning program for for six weeks, as we're training our deputies and teaching them and taking that exposure from those lower levels, right to, to here to where we can build out and show them all the mobility and the FRC stuff and control the programs and weight room programs and, you know, start, you 00;16;43;24 - 00;17;15;14 know, running programs and conditioning programs and agility and everything kind of gets built out. Show them how to expose them to it. And then we we have meetings through our FTO program. And then we do what to control. But we have programs for canines, you know, slot and you know, the tip of the spear. So when you think of a long term development program, Eric, we have stuff from the Dominican Republic to the big leagues, and now we have some things from the high school program and people who want to be in law enforcement or ROTC, whatever, and how we get them all the way to Swat or canine, you know, to to be our 00;17;15;14 - 00;17;43;01 best. And, I feel like we're impacting the agency and getting a lot of support. And so I'm excited to help be a part of that. So you've seen the culture obviously change and MLB to adopt strength and conditioning. Now you're experiencing that on the tactical side. Do you see a big difference in the culture of how strength and conditioning, sport science, all the different areas you mentioned nutrition, sports medicine, all how all these different areas are being adopted? 00;17;43;03 - 00;18;02;11 Yeah, it just takes a little bit of time and, you know, a lot of lot of sweat equity to, you know, in the beginning, you know, in the beginning times with, with baseball. Right? You didn't you didn't have as many people or there are some people on the coaching staff for the nonbelievers. Right. As long as you have some support at the top, it gives you opportunity to kind of, show the value. 00;18;02;13 - 00;18;23;16 Right. And, and how we're going to help impact the agency from, from injury prevention to also to performance and then how how that bleeds into the hitting and ground balls and pitching, you know, everything. And I've watched a huge swing say on the baseball side from from pitching coaches that maybe weren't they don't want to say what not to say. 00;18;23;16 - 00;18;50;20 Not I say as nonbelievers in the beginning, but weren't as adaptive to where that swing over that, say, 20 year period to where they're they're almost your biggest advocate. They they apply the most science right to, to to things to where we gain traction and show them, hey, the value of it to where as the front office started adding people in and, and over time, now you see a huge shift in culture, say, and baseball all the way from the D.R., all the way through the big leagues. 00;18;50;20 - 00;19;15;14 Right. And so I'm, I see the same thing here. You have people here who, who teach the skills. Right? You have shooting skills and jujitsu or defensive tactics and all those different things. And we want to impact the coaching staff to say, hey, here's ways that we can help your skill acquisition, right? To getting people more mobile, right, to get people in a better condition and doesn't, you know, have to be, say, marathon runners or bodybuilders and all those type of things we do. 00;19;15;15 - 00;19;32;18 You have to be in just enough shape to to do the job. And this is a tough job. When they go to trainings, they're out there for six, eight, ten, sometimes the 12 hour shifts, right. So when you're preparing people to do things for 12 hours, you know, you have to be able to dissect that a little bit. 00;19;32;20 - 00;19;52;28 And they got a hard they got a hard job, they got a hard job with a lot of liability. And so we want to make sure that, you know, you know, the number one thing that affects any kind of skill or division decision making is fatigue. And we have to make sure people are ready to do their job so that they're always making good decisions from hour one to hour 12. 00;19;53;00 - 00;20;10;09 You know, that that that's that's the approach. And so I'm just fortunate enough to, to get a chance to see people do something really well. Like I see it on the baseball side, when you get to watch baseball played at a high level for a long time, you get to appreciate a lot of little things. And then I've got a chance to watch people who are really good at their job here. 00;20;10;12 - 00;20;29;16 Show me the right, I guess, the right way to go about, you know, say, policing and law enforcement and how to from a from a skill side of it. And now we're able to to add the all the things that we've done on the sports side of it into this side. So from from a sports medicine side to, to the, you know, conditioning and strength conditioning side. 00;20;29;16 - 00;20;51;03 So now adding some tech. Right. So we're adding in. So we have a full assessments here. We you know we you know we do all smoke screens and movement screens and different things that people you know didn't really think about in 2005 and six and seven, you know, back in the day. And now to where we have, you know, the on base you and this and that and TBI and you have every single kind of, assessment possible. 00;20;51;03 - 00;21;05;16 Well, we're bringing some of those things here, right? We have to get people assessed. We have to get, we're using the body, we're using some tech, we're using some pressure mats. We're going to be adding in some some stuff involved and or some force playing some different things. And, you know, there's a lot of hitting drills that apply to shooting skills, right? 00;21;05;16 - 00;21;23;06 You teach things from the ground up and, and we're showing the value of that because people get better. So, you know, and people need to see the numbers. Right? You want to make change, right? They need to see the body numbers. They need to see some of the, some of FMS numbers. They need to see those things because you just talk about it. 00;21;23;06 - 00;21;43;05 Right. It's you know, they can't really understand it. But when they see it it's like, hey, holy cow. We're actually, you know, I'm actually getting better at some of these things. So it's been fun to watch. Yeah. Sounds sounds exciting. And you talk about the tech before we were talking about job creation and how that's really allowed you to build programs everywhere you've been. 00;21;43;05 - 00;22;05;08 But when I hear that, I'm like, hey, you're going to your leadership and you're asking them for money. Essentially, you're saying, hey, we need money to hire a strength coach or hire an athletic trainer or to purchase this technology. What's your approach going back on what you said you have, you're believers, you're nonbelievers. When you're going to somebody in a leadership position saying, hey, we need budget for this. 00;22;05;11 - 00;22;27;14 They may not be on board. How do you how do you navigate that process? I think over my years of learning how to get to. Yes, and to be patient and and to pick and choose your spots. I think I think when you're a young, trained coach, you don't know when to ask and not ask. So I've learned, like when you lose ten games in a row, you don't go ask for anything. 00;22;27;17 - 00;22;40;26 You mean you went on days in a row and everybody's happy, right? You got you learn how to pick your spots. And I think, you know, those are some of the things that the that I've learned around here. So like when you know, hey, we know we're down X amount of deputies. Right. So don't be asking for things. 00;22;40;26 - 00;22;58;10 Right. And then all of a sudden, you know, when things are moving at full speed around here and things are going well, like know you learn how to pick your, pick your spots. So you learn how to get to. Yes. And then and part of that is, You know, I've learned, you know, in baseball, you have a union. 00;22;58;12 - 00;23;13;13 So I guess you learn that you're only even at your best. You're about to do about 75% of the stuff you really want to do, right? Because there's unions and rules and guidelines and legal stuff and all these other things. So no one ever gets so hope. So. If anyone out there watching, you never have to get 100% of what you want. 00;23;13;14 - 00;23;24;09 If you do that, go in your own business, right? If you want to do everything you want to do, when you want to do it, and how you want to do it right then and there. But if you're going to be working for another organization or going to be in a team environment, you're never going to get everything you want. 00;23;24;09 - 00;23;43;12 So you got to pick and choose, figure out what you think on your list of things is the most important thing that day, right? And ask for those things, at the right time. And we've been lucky enough here to now get some federal dollars. And we are building a performance center, and we are, you know, building and getting a dedicated space. 00;23;43;12 - 00;24;03;18 Right? Because right now I'm in the Joint Operations building, right? I'm going to have a housing human performance, a building. We're in that process. We got some federal dollars, we got some state dollars, we have some county dollars that, we're we're now building a building, right. You know, here. And we have five satellite locations in and around the county or the county, 700mi². 00;24;03;20 - 00;24;27;17 And how we're able to, to do some of those things. And so we found the right time. We built some success. We got some people from an adoption standpoint that want to do these things, from a sweat equity standpoint. And now we're on the other end of this to where, you know, we put the time and and we're being rewarded with, you know, our, our sheriff and our leadership and, and, that, that want to make sure we have a dedicated space to train up to train our deputies. 00;24;27;19 - 00;24;53;27 Right. Not to, and to help impact the agency. So I'm really excited about that, that we're moving in that direction. And they want to build an add on. That's huge man. It's cool to see departments grow. And I think back when you were the president of the PBSCCS, Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society, and you've really had to be an advocate for strength and conditioning through your whole career. 00;24;53;27 - 00;25;15;27 It goes back to what you said on job creation, and it's it's exciting for me to hear that and just see your involvement. Over the years you've been a presenter, you've been an award winner. What's the NSCA meant to you at different career stages? Well, I want to still say that I moved from the president of the PBSCCS to the administrative director. 00;25;15;27 - 00;25;32;27 I've not left that aspect of the game from the education standpoint. Listen, we all have to give back in certain ways, right? And, you know, and I'm fortunate enough to that the board with the PBSCCS allows me to be a part of, say, the trade show and to be part of what we're going to be doing another webinar here soon. 00;25;33;00 - 00;25;48;07 I think people out there need to know that you need to give your time back and a lot of it's going to be in the form of education and time and talks like this. And so along with that, yes. You know, I still like coming to the, to the, I don't wanna keep screwing up like that. 00;25;48;07 - 00;26;09;26 Kind of. Right. So the NSCA and then just you being let me be a part of this is this is huge. Right? But, I want to just make sure that, you know, that I'm taking the time to, you know, help out people just like Connors and Bridgman and different people. And then, you know, like, obviously one day, like this, this program, the sheriff is, you know, given their time and opportunity to to me, to where I like to give back to some of these things. 00;26;09;26 - 00;26;34;18 Right. And, and go and just, hey, I'm gonna tell you right now that I was going to agree with the way I do things, that it's okay to go out there and be judged by your peers a little bit. I think some people get nervous about that. We all are in the beginning part of our career, and now you get to a certain point to where, you know, I'm okay because some of the things I'm talking about, I'm doing good at and some I'm not doing as good, but hopefully someone in the room can be constructive enough to say, hey, hey, man, here's a better way to do it instead of just kind of beating 00;26;34;18 - 00;26;51;22 you down. And I've been on both ends of that, but I'm not as worried about that anymore. And and I'm okay to. Hey, here's what I got. Here's what we're doing. Help me make it better. Be constructive on that, and then I'll come to you and to other people. Well, through the NSCA. And you got a lot of good people in this tactical space. 00;26;51;22 - 00;27;11;25 And they've been very welcoming. This is the more welcoming they are. So you want to say the sports out of it. And what a great community. And everyone everyone wants to help it get better. And so I, I'm very, very, very appreciative of that. And, so that that's the community with from the NSCA. They've been they've been great. 00;27;11;27 - 00;27;34;20 Yeah. Your willingness to be open to share what you do, even if it's the the best thing out there, or maybe it's something you're still working on. I love that that comes through. If someone wants to reach out and get some of that advice from you, what's the best way for them to do that? Yeah, just as just, you know, I guess if you I don't know if you can put the email up on the screen, but email's the best, way to get Ahold of me. 00;27;34;20 - 00;27;52;24 I do try to reply to all of them. And hopefully, you can just take a little tidbit from here because everyone should put their own flavor on some things. You know, we all take some tidbits from each other, and hopefully you can kind of process some of the things that we're doing here and about, I'm always willing to help because I know other agencies. 00;27;52;24 - 00;28;15;27 Now we're starting to in the state of Florida, right? We have 68 counties, and I hope all 68 counties at some point, they are hiring a strength conditioning coach, and to help all their programs, to help all these deputies. What a much needed, job. Like a lot of job satisfaction and helping these people. Yeah, it's it's really exciting to hear job creation is the name of the game we care about. 00;28;15;27 - 00;28;38;28 Creating opportunities for coaches to move through the field like we have. And that's that's something that comes through on your baseball background through the PBSCCS. This is cool that this was a, baseball episode, but it was also a tactical episode. We don't always cross those two areas in this. In the same, episode here on the podcast. 00;28;38;28 - 00;28;59;02 So I think it speaks to the fact that you can move through different areas of the field, and our skill set is valuable, our knowledge is valuable, and we can take that with us when we have a new career opportunity or something that interests, so I think that's a really positive, encouraging messages for our listeners. Matt, thanks so much for being on today. 00;28;59;04 - 00;29;16;00 Yeah. Thank you. Hey, Eric. Appreciate it. Appreciate your friendship. I think I got a chance to meet two more people today. You know, that that are that are in the background there. So, any time and then I'm also going to be at the speaking at the tactical. Just let everyone know that I'll be speaking at the, tactical conference come August. 00;29;16;02 - 00;29;41;01 I love it. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, everybody, for tuning in today. Great episode. We talk tactical baseball, strength and conditioning. Matt has a ton of information and knowledge experience with the NSCA. He's a great contact so we'll put his information into the show. Notes. Also a special thanks to Sorinex Exercise Equipment. We appreciate their support. This was the NSCAs Coaching Podcast. 00;29;41;09 - 00;30;01;03 The National Strength and Conditioning Association was founded in 1978 by strength and conditioning coaches to share information and resources and help advance the profession, serving coaches for over 40 years. The NSCAs be trusted source for strength and conditioning professionals. Be sure to join us next time.

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