Episode 7 - Tripp Hare

Hello, hello, hello everyone. Welcome in to Rollins fan radio here on WPRK 91.5. I apologize for those technical difficulties earlier. The station subs being a little weird today, but we overcome it, we persevere and now we are back. So again, as always, just a quick little read on what happened last week in Rollins sports and we've a lot to catch up on because everything kind of got jam packed into this last week. So men's soccer defeated St. Leo in order to draw against number eight, Palm Beach Atlantic last week. The win versus the Lions, it was a one-oh thrill or that's all freshman to Lujan, score the lone goal of the match. On Saturday, the Lads scored off against top team the SSC and lead for and led for 88 minutes before the sailfish tie things up for a one-one draw. The Tars only had two losses in conference flight during the regular season and they hoped to continue that into the deep postseason run. The women's soccer team came in through clutch winning the final two home games in the season slate to slip to solidify a playoff spot. Wednesday, the one four two against St. Leo that included two goals from freshman Alia Townsend and two assists from Emma Grineer. Saturday, senior day ended with a win over Palm Beach Atlantic. The freshman defender Gabby Mel headed in as Grineer corner kick for a one-oh win. Shout out to the six seniors to play their final home game against the Santhir Stadium. Gabby Boyd, Lexi Cooper, Darren Irman-Trout, Alice Tilla, Tesser, Harmony Thomas and Jesse Wade. I apologize some difficult names to say. Vival, played on Wednesday taking defending natural champion number 10, Lynn, to five sets before falling just short. Martinez, Sennava led the attack with 14 kills while Robin Repas had seven blocks on defense. Things didn't get any easier for the Tars. On Saturday, the face number three, Barry on the road. Repas added four more blocks for a season total and she was rewarded on Monday with an SSC defensive player of the week award. Swimming plundered the visiting Barry Buccaneers on both men's almost 200 to 60 and women's 189 to 35 sides. Things started in the best ways. Ronald's taking the top spot and top three spots in both men's and women's 400 medley relays. Seth Basin is your finish first in men's 500 free and a thousand free. Well, Julian, Julian Armstrong took on the women's 500. Leah Fontono, I apologize for pushing that last name, captured the first 1000 free. Things went, things went, things went this way. Virtually every event in the rest of the day giving the Tars a nice shot of confidence. Baseball wrapped up the fall season with exhibition game against UCF at Alfon, stadium. Playing in front of the standing room crowd only, the Tars saw some big swings from newcomers, Gavir Lopez and Ellen Figueroa. A solid effort from Noah Greenson and Brent Davis. The two teams welcomed youth players in from Central Florida Miracle League, including a pregame beat and greed as well as fun in-between innings games. Freshland Lindsey Lee took on SSC Women's Golf of the Week award. Thanks for a runner up, finished flag or fall slam last week. Her score of 211 minus 5 overall was the lowest of her young career and helped the Tars capture her first place trophy. So for this week, I have the man that was going to be on here last week but couldn't make it unfortunately. My actual fraternity is president and member of the GVVF team and Mr. Trip Air. So Trip, how are you today? I'm doing good. Trip, it is great to have you on and I believe I left my water somewhere. Dang it. So if you want to start off, just give us a little bit about who you are, where you're from, all that kind of fun stuff. What do you do here? All right, yeah. So you want me to give a little bit about yourself. Okay. Yeah. So I came to Ron's. Actually, I took a year at junior college back in Texas and I'd always wanted to play baseball. That was pretty much the only reason for me going through the whole college thing and then things didn't work out my way since I ended up graduating 2021. So the year after the new COVID rules. So I ended up having to go the junior college route and then thankfully through some trials and tribulations, I landed a spot here. Ron's however I could. So I mean, whatever gets it done in the end of the day because it's so impressive to make a team here. So it is with a varsity team as strong as a former runner-ups in the national championship in my first year here. Yeah. Yeah. My baseball journey has definitely been a hard one. Some people might say for things out of my control. I guess I could have been the best they could have ever seen. I wouldn't have to worry about anything. But there was a lot of things out of my control. I mean, that's just the nature of the beast. You're going to have injuries. You're going to have things hit. You can't control. And baseball is one of the sports where you kind of got to rely on a little bit of luck and other people to get their jobs done. Yeah. Because obviously you can't bat nine times every inning and then hit like 12 home runs. That's for sure. Yeah. And I know that you probably can agree with that more than anyone here. Could you update the audience a little bit about how you're feeling this year? Again, I know the JV team isn't really covered that well, but we try want to get a little bit more coverage of this team. So. Okay. Yeah. We had been, yeah, we had been having honestly one of our best seasons ever. I mean, you know, it's not really like a real season. We're just more of the like developmental team for the varsity. But any team that we had been put up against, whether it's junior college or in our conference, just a freshman team put together, we had been undefeated and all those really, really putting a show to all the other teams in our conference or exhibition games with with the junior college or an NAIA team. And unfortunately, we had some some hiccups at the very the very end the last last couple of our games, but are the last three, I guess, to be specific. But up until that point, we were completely undefeated and then thankfully last night we were able to close out the the fall season with the victory. So I guess we got to end on a good note. But yeah, no, it was, you know, it was a it was one of our better better seasons ever and it really looked like we could, you know, do you make some ways? Because do you, does JV have a playoff or no? No, no, no, no. Okay. We're basically just straight up like just development. I guess so if that's the way you want to look at it. I mean, that's still cool though. It's just it's just a good season. I mean, if it doesn't be anything then it's still great to be able to know that you are able to make a D1 or at least a D1 part of D1 team and then contribute to them as well with helping the young guys develop, even if you can't make the main roster, especially with like most, I'm assuming most of the JV team has a lot of maybe freshmen, maybe like a first year transfer players. Is that kind of like what kind of like the team make up for like JV? Um, to be honest, it's it's pretty much just just anyone. I mean, it's just how it goes. You get in as a freshman and, you know, and then, then yeah, you're there based on based on your performance. So, uh, no, it's I mean, it's still great to see that Rollinscares so deeply about the the freshman they may that might need a little bit more development, especially as like, do even this even though this team is D2, it's still very competitive in D2. The SSC conference alone had at least five or six teams ranked last year, and I believe they had the number two and number four teams, I believe I might be wrong. It was either one or three or two and four, but either way, they are still a really strong division and you'll have that amount of depth that you can call up at any time because again, injuries are a part of baseball and it's a long season like, uh, how many games is a college have for a season? Is it no idea? It's like, it's probably someone that I'm aware of at least like 80 games. I wouldn't be shocked. Um, because and then again, we're here for college for probably about 130 days. So they're playing maybe 70% of the days that they're here, especially in the spring when they have their main season. Yeah. Yeah, and then you get the whole call out or play out. Then you make it, uh, you know, the college world series that just extends the season, maybe even passed whenever, whenever school gets out. So yeah, it's, uh, it's definitely a lot, a big time consumption. Then obviously we have practice all throughout the fall. So I would say is fall semester more of your heavy practice time and spring is your more just game game game game game game. Um, no, not exactly. I mean, um, I don't remember what the rules specifically state, but, um, yeah, no, I for this fall, it's, it's felt a little bit lighter, you know, I don't really mind it, but that's just the new rules in place. But, um, yeah, normally our fall is just, we're just trying to get, get prepared, get ready, see any kinks we need to need to work out with the team on like culture wise or, or whatever. And then, um, yeah, and then be ready to play in the spring and hopefully have a good season. So yeah. No, I, I definitely see you guys have a great culture on the, especially the JV team as well. How close you guys are like, I know you talk about how you always I always love to see your. new guys come out, hang out them, whether it be in class, whether it be just out doing college activities. But I mean, it's great to see that you guys have such chemistry with that because I know a lot of teams can struggle with that. And it does show in the field, especially with baseball, when you need to be, you need to rely, make sure you can rely on others to get a job done because obviously I know you, you're not a pitcher, but because you play a different position. So you got to rely on your pitchers, get the job done, the catchers to catch the ball, the infillers to make the place that they need to. And obviously they need to rely back on you to make some, make sure the pop flies, deep run ball, run, run down the ball and stuff like that. And I think that with the amount of effort it takes to just be play that your game, it also takes a lot of effort to make sure that you don't get too involved in other games, even though that they, you rely on them as well. And I think, I know you could probably speak to this a little bit, but like, understanding that some things are out of control. I know you mentioned this already. But some things are out of control and how you kind of manage that, especially on the field when say you give up a home run, but it's not necessarily your fault because you know, it's not your side of the field or obviously you're not pitching. Yeah. I would say, I would say to that, in coming into response like for those different situations that happens, it's on the culture and the makeup of the team. However you want to make, make the team, that's, that's how they're going to react to different consequences. They might already have their, their, you know, before they even got on this team, whatever their reactions were going to be. And through this team, we can mold the guy and see how everyone else treats these things. And they know after playing with us that, that we have their back and that, you know, whether they fail, whether they win, we're still going to be there. So I think it's, I think it's all about the culture that you make your team up with and the, the player, the players on the team personally. So yeah, so however they're going to react, however they build up the team because I mean, honestly, whatever the, whatever the coach can say, whatever happens, you know, hopefully you can get everyone behind it. But then in the real, in the real time, it's, it's really just the players sitting there. So you got to get the right, the right people on your team to be able to back up those, back up your other players, I guess, per se. So it's all about just the culture that you're able to build even before gathering up the team and then molding and then having the right leaders on the team to be able to, to be able to mold the people that, you know, might, might not agree with all these to be able to mold them into the right person on the team. Because I mean, in the end of the day, the coach can say whatever, you know, is that really going to change anything? Probably not. It all has to come down to the players that you decide to put on the team and who's out there. And I think that end is about those players also self-to-be committed because you can put any, anyone out there. It just, it matters how they come, how committed they are. Obviously they're skill level, but committing to committing into a team, it takes a lot, especially knowing that you can be so busy. Like I know yourself, you're my attorney, you're our fraternities president. You're also running a couple of other things in programs and it's, it can be hard to kind of find that balance. So I think can you speak a little bit to that kind of finding that balance between school, maybe your, like a school life and then also obviously baseball team and all that stuff? Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm, I guess I'm a bit of a freak, I guess. I mean, I don't really, you can ask the most people. I don't, I don't ever get really pressured by anything. It's a really impressive, by the way. It is extremely impressive. I guess it's nice. Yeah, I guess it's just like my, my laid back nature, but you know, I was just, I'm just always thinking how, how can I get the most in? That's what I'm always thinking, like get the most accomplished, get the most done. So I guess that's kind of my goal, goal behind everything. So I'm, I mean, you just finish your work. You just finish your work whenever it's put out and then you find yourself that you got a whole lot of extra time being freed up whenever you actually, whenever you actually make a priority on the things that need to get done and you create a list on how you need to get those things done. It seems to flow pretty every day, you know, like a calendar, I guess. Some days I guess it is a little more busy whenever there's an unforetold things, but I mean, if you have the whole calendar wrote out and everything like that, you'll have your spaces to, to be able to fit that in. So I mean, in the end, you just got to plan it all out. I would say biggest, biggest thing, playing everything out, complete it whenever you have a time set for it. If there's unforetold things, push into one of your open slots, you'll be able to finish everything. Trust me. And, you know, I guess for some people it might be a little harder, but in the end, like, are you not going to experience that because you can't figure out your calendar? Yeah, yeah. For me, no. Well, I am glad to see that you have kind of almost like a set schedule and that's really important to have here at college, especially when it comes to being on a team and knowing that weekend, week out, you have your schedule, you can stick to it, you can get your work done, and you can also go out and be yourself, go out and do the things you want to do in college, be on the baseball team, go out and party, go out and run 500 clubs. They feel like I am right now. But, again, speaking to that kind of resolve, what does it kind of, what does a set week normally look like for the team or do in particular? Yeah, I guess I'm not the best person to speak on this because I got my class schedule for runs pretty late, but typically for this fall, we're looking at Tuesday, Thursday, and then that's around 3.30. I mean, I get a class at 4.45, so we got to do our academics first. Student athlete always comes. So, I mean, yeah. And then we'll have practice sometimes Friday, maybe for like, honestly, like an hour, just to meet the requirements of the weeks and how many hours we're allowed to practice and then we'll have a game Saturday, Sunday. Okay. Do you ever travel for games, right, and JV? Yeah. How far away do you travel sometimes? I would say, for this this year is probably St. Leo, so that's really okay. That's a Tampa, or just Florida Southern. Is there a place that you visited so far because of baseball or not really? Yeah. I mean, I know you haven't gone to many places, especially because you've been busy here, but yeah, no. Unfortunately, yeah, the other teams that we do plan our conference, the ones that are, well, actually Tampa's pretty great. Yeah. But, yeah, any other school, thankfully I came to Rawls, the other schools. Not great. Yeah, you're looking pretty rough out there. You're in a barren, barren wasteland. Make sure you make sure the teams don't hear that then because this might give them a little bit of bolts important for motivation. I mean, at that point, you just got to change the whole city. So, I mean, you're just, you're just out in a wasteland of, I don't even know how to describe it. I haven't been in Florida that long. I don't know. But, you know, I get like a certain type of feel whenever I'm there. And I'm like, oh my God, this is the worst place I've ever seen. Oh, God. Okay. Well, I'll definitely make sure the teams do not hear that because I might give them some motivation to kind of defend their city. But I don't think you got any, I don't think you got any motivation to defend their city whenever it's, you know, yeah, you never know. But either way, moving on a little bit to a kind of different topic, but always want to like bring up the seniors here, especially on campus. Obviously, this is your senior year. You've done a lot here at Rawls. You've done a lot in your time here at Rawls. So how do you feel kind of getting to move on to your next stage of life after this? Is it kind of hard for you? Is it kind of easy for you? How do you, what's your kind of opinion on that? You know, I'm always thinking about it, I guess, you know, I've had my internships. I've done the work. So I mean, I'm not really worried about, you know, the next stage, whether it be a job or whatever, I'm more worried about how am I going to be able to experience everything. So I, you know, I'm a big experience guy. And I would say the thing that I'm worried most about is just not being able to experience enough while we're, you know, because everyone's stuck in the, in the cycle of trying to make as much money as possible. And, you know, going down that route, you're going to be glued to your desk for, for quite a bit. And yeah, so I, I'm always trying to figure out how am I going to balance or how am I going to figure out how to be able to experience the things in life. Wow, I guess, you know, inevitably having to work this job. So I guess that's like the only thing I'm really worried about. But I mean, it's still, it's so hard to think about because college has been something it's like almost a staple for the last four years of your life and you're like, well, now that I'm so used to it in these four years, then I have to just snap my fingers and it's gone again. And I had that kind of feeling coming to college where I was like, well, I've known in school, like, like, being living in my home and then going to school. Now I have to live at the school. Now I have to change my way of work, the way I hold myself, and kind of do it all over again. And now that I feel that I should represent some seniors well, but now that I kind of have that kind of mentality of like, all right, I know what I'm doing. I'm a schedule, I'm second to it. It's been four years going strong in that. And now I got changed it up all over again, because of wherever I end up after this. I believe law school, but I will figure that out once I get to, or once I get into a school where exactly that I'm going, I should prefer to say, no, I'm going to law school just, you know. Don't know what school yet, but like, it's interesting to see kind of my perspective change on going from freshman to sophomore to junior to now senior. And kind of seeing how I've shifted my view on college the entire time, like freshman year, I was like, oh my god, this is so exciting. I'm scared. I'm kind of terrified to be honest. And then I ended up rushing for fraternity and that change restrictive again on things kind of gave me a new view, especially here at Rollins, where fraternities are kind of like a whole separate ball, almost ballpark for students. Is it opens like a whole new world of doors? And it's kind of, it's kind of its own thing, I would say. It's all in person in college here, especially because we are so small. And I know you can kind of speak to this being a fraternity president, being an active member of your community, just not just an active member, but a very active member of your community. How is your kind of perspective changed over the course of freshmen to senior year, especially with the baseball team? You know, like I've been saying, I'm always a big experienced guy and I was always like I said, worried, I guess, somewhat about the outside after college. So either way I could ease, I guess, whatever you want to call it, the pain, conflict or whatever, of going out that, going out outside in the real world, trying to have to get a job on your own. I was like, well, the one thing that was always taught to me as a kid is the relationships matter. So whenever I came out to join my fraternity, it was all for the purpose of making these relationships with whoever might be with young guys that weren't just some random guys, but good quality men that I could surround myself with and be able to connect with to help myself out later in life after college was done. Because I mean, the best way to get a job is through your connections. And my fraternity has some of the best connections in the-- In the country. Yeah, in the whole country. So whenever I joined, it was straight for that. Straight for that. And then the relationships with the other people as well. So it was just purely relationships more on a professional level, I would say. And then once joining it, then obviously you meet some of the greatest guys, I guess, that's just to say that there's kind of a vetting process. I guess you got to get in. You got to earn your stripes. Yeah, so it's only high quality people. So I mean, in the end, it's the best people to surround yourself. And yeah, it's just-- It's a lot of fun. It's definitely great. As someone who was on the fence about it, especially for me, I actually signed up two days before the process even started my freshman year. I waited that long because I was so nervous. And it was one of the best decisions that I've ever made here. And if anyone who is listening to this is thinking about rushing at any point, I highly recommend it. It's really fun. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about the things you like, things you enjoy. And obviously, it is a time period, especially if you want to be involved, me and myself and TripR. But at the same time, it's also a wonderful experience. And it helps-- you understand yourself better. I got into radio broadcasting. I got into all the things that I enjoy now. And that was kind of all locked away behind that, because I didn't know that there was experiences that could be had. And yet, here I am making these connections, making these changes to my life, because of all because of this one connection that I have, I've kind of been an impulsive decision. I'm not going to lie to Russia's attorney, because I was kind of scared of how I'd be perceived. But now that I'm here, I'm very glad to be here. And I think that kind of that aspect of college life has kind of changed-- again, changed my perspective on things. But it's also changed how I see-- I see attorneys and see the college itself, as well as the new people coming into the college. For example, freshman year, you kind of look up the seniors and go, oh my god, I'm going to be that one day. But that's so long from now. It's four or five years from now. And I'm never going to be that old and all that stuff. And then now that I'm here, I'm like, well, where did my sophomore and junior years go? I feel like I was just a sophomore, a semester ago. And now I'm all the way up here. But watching all the freshmen coming and doing the same song and dance that I did. And I think that, again, as someone all in sports team, as someone seeing the recruiting process go on, as someone who is also involved in the other recruitment process. But has your perspective on recruiting also changed towards it? Are you kind of not involved with recruiting? Is that kind of just like-- once the recruits get here, you're helping coach them on the field kind of thing? Yeah, I mean, I guess for what I was saying about the culture earlier is-- I guess now I'm actually the coach, I guess, in this perspective. So I can't control the people that come onto the team. I guess I get to experience both ways and be able to build them up whether I like it or not, too. And then from the fraternity side, I'm more of the coach. And I'm getting the right people on the bus, the right people that fit our culture. And yeah, so I guess I get to experience both sides of it. And it gives me good experience on how to handle any situation. Even if I was misled about a person about thinking about if they would fit our culture, I still have the experience to be able to mold them and shape them into someone-- somebody that matches the culture that we have. And obviously, thankfully, that Rollins is such a small school. All the fraternities are pretty tight in it, especially with us only having four fraternities and not that many guys in Greek life. That is kind of due to the colleges, 80% women and 20% guys. But we can control. We can control. But I think today we still have a lot of guys. I think it's 33% of guys here involved in Greek life, which is an absurd number. But-- and that's only with four chapters. But that comes down to numbers and math stuff and data. But don't worry about that. But again, that high time commitment to that chapter doesn't seem like a lot. And then you out and you try. And it is a lot because of how involved you are in the chapter and how much you want to be in that chapter. And I think it is such a great thing here for Rollins to have a Greek life. And I am so proud to be a member of it, especially one that is doing quite well right now. We are pretty happy with where we are. We're improving. We're getting better. And that's just how it is. And I think that it's kind of the same for a baseball team that's maybe not varsity. It's like, well, you kind of got to understand, like, hey, even though I'm not varsity, I'm still performing at a high level. I'm still working my butt off day in, day out. And if that call doesn't come, that's fine. I'm happy where I am. And I like being here. And with the amount of transfers that Rollins baseball gets with the amount of high quality athletes, I should also prefer to set Rollins gets here, not just for baseball, but for all the club teams, especially hockey, is starting up again soon. I believe I'll have to double check my notes on that. But then again, you have sports like basketball and rowing and crew that are going to be kind of those winter industry sports. That no one really talks about here, but they're still very strong. Basketball has made the double-ay tournament a couple of times rowing and crew have been a couple of high ranking teams in D1 or D2, I apologize. But they have been very, very strong. And yet, no one really talks about them because the athletics program here is kind of flies under the radar. And that's what we're trying to build back up here is looking at those athletic programs. That's why I have people like Triple-A, and that's why people have the coaches on here to talk about that stuff. And-- I just think that obviously I think you can mention this a little bit further trip, but I'm like being able to get out in public and say like, hey, we exist. I think it's a great start because I'm assuming not many people end up coming to the GAB games unfortunately. It's just kind of out of the way in weird times. There's a good number actually. It's surprising. That's awesome. That's great to hear. I know that some other teams, they do have like a lot of people come, but it's not as much as you would think because the same is never, it's not really often that full. It's like an important game, maybe it's like a playoff game, maybe it's like publicized really well, but as Rawlings as a community, we've really struggled with publicizing sports. Moreover, I'm assuming you would like to see that your sport at least get more publicized. Yeah, I always thought about ways to be able to do it and then, you know, what I have one. In the end of the day, it's unfortunately how whoever came before us set up the school where I guess sports started becoming less important, but it's an integral part of every other college, except maybe D2 schools. I don't know. Just from what I've seen at the other division two schools, I guess it's less important, but it would be cool. And I think it's obviously doable with however, with how the people on the baseball team stand and everything that in the community, I think I think there is a good chance if we actually sat down and figured out a plan to be able to get people to come back to sports games. And honestly, that helps out everyone. So it's free. Yes, games are free, so go to them. So you're not even spending any money, but increasing that college experience for everyone. Now a lot of these people are going to go out and I even be able to experience the sports side going out in college game day and everything like that for your school. You know, I don't really know why that can't be a thing. So we might as well just sit down and start it. I mean, because someone, someone ended it at one point. So we might as well just start it back up. And I guess that starts with the, you know, the whole team banding together. And you know, it's kind of hard to go against a culture shift, but I think it would be one that most people would be inclined to participate in. And I think so actually there was a program similar to what I run now a long time ago, but that shut down because there was no interest. And now that I have built that interest up, this has kind of been my passing project, my baby per se. But we've had people come in. I have a lot of great writers come in and write for me for scripts, not for this, but for those readouts you see, I think it's like at like 6 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday. And they help a lot when I'm doing my own personal script here for the show on Fridays. But I think it is great to have those people here and to know that I hope, well, at least I hope that my show is going to be in good hands when I leave because I would love to stay here and continue to run this show. But unfortunately, I'm not going to be a member of Rollins anymore. So it might be a little hard to even run this in the first place. Concerns won't be in Rollins. And I think that if I am able to build up this program and build up sports, especially the more interesting sports, I think I'd go a long way in helping this program thrive, especially maybe if I'm able to continue something like this into the future. And I will update anyone here on that later, depending on where I go with my path is and hopefully that involves something in broadcasting is that's kind of my passion here. And we might be able to actually start calling some games with it be JVB baseball games, whether it be basketball games, whether it be soccer games, the cross games, any sport that kind of comes around. And I think it'd be great for the school if we get more publicity. Especially even on the radio, even on TV, because I know we broadcast some of the actual baseball games, but no one clicks on because it's a little side link that's like hyperlink to the Rollins sports page, then it's hyperlinked again. It's a whole thing. It's a very, very off the side. And the one game that I did get to call, I noticed it was like, I raised the concern. I was like, hey, this is kind of the way for someone to even watch this game in the first place. And it's all because of laws and the reality stuff where streaming rights and I don't know. It's a bunch of hoopla, I might want to say. But I think honestly, if we can just start somewhere, some of these smalls this show, some of these smalls getting coaches on, getting players on, getting more people involved in knowing that hey, there's a sports radio dedicated to the school. There's something dedicated to the school, this program. I didn't go a long way in helping the school thrive, especially in the sports department. And I think that also might help in recruiting because you never know that that, there might be that one star player that's like, hey, I didn't even know there's a GAB team here. And they hear about us, they hear about this, they hear about Trip, they hear about some way or some form they hear about the team and they want to get involved in it. And I think it'd be a great start, especially for the team. And I know Trip, you said you guys are really good this year, which is awesome to hear. Just a few, two or three more questions as we wrap up here. What do you think the best aspect of the team has been this year, whether it be offense, defense, pitching, base running, anything like that? I would say, I guess I can talk about whatever, like how good we do in certain aspects. But being a part of the team, honestly, what I would say, I know I've been talking about the whole time in hammering at home. But personally, I would say the, I think our culture sets us apart. The culture that we've been able to build here over the last four years, you know, you know, it's so strong that everyone, you know, is like, is it going to be able to continue after we leave? Because, you know, we work together. It's not just, it's not just varsity and JV. We are pretty, pretty, you're development program. We're pretty entwined in each other. So all the people that are seniors now, we all had an integral role in building the culture here that it is, that it is today. And I would say that sets us apart from a lot of other teams because of how close knit we are. And the people that we have on the team, everyone's able to come together, really know who each other is. And then, you know, even if that helps us perform on the field, we're always there to be able to back each other up. We know what everyone's capable of. We know how to succeed with the people that we have. But I would say the most important part to our team is, is the guys that we got on it in the culture that we are able to build of trying to be better every single day, trying to be the best person, and then, you know, having fun. So I think that's what sets us apart. You know, most people are, you know, some teams might be all, you know, most teams are just all serious. You know, it might seem like they have a, you know, a facade that their friends or whatever, but they're actually not. They're stressing the whole time about making a plane. And in baseball, unfortunately, you're going to make countless mistakes. It's just, it's just how it goes. So they build up this whole facade on other teams of that they are actually close nib, but in reality, they're just one, one thread away from a complete meltdown. And I would say a very important part of our team, which never lets us get down like that, is the, is the culture that we've been able to build here of, you know, like I said earlier, of what type of guys we are so we can figure out what type of team we have. And that one that just doesn't break down after whatever happens, we're going to keep, we're going to keep fighting. And yeah, and be the best people in the field. And that is awesome to hear, especially with someone who is directly on the team and know and seeing that kind of impact on the team live. And that is awesome because and kind of kind of one more thing to note. I know the baseball team has a couple of different jerseys. Are you guys able to get also those alternate jerseys or is it just, you guys have that one set of jerseys? Oh, no, yeah. We have a, we got a bunch of jerseys. What's your favorite one? My favorite one I would probably say, does I know there's a pink one that looks pretty sick because I was on I've seen it. Yeah. Don't know. I would probably say I like the black one. It's just pretty simple. I don't know, just it just more so fits right. It's black and blue, right? Yeah, it's black and blue. I would just say, you know, maybe not looks wise, but you got to go with the, just feels the best. I always offer this to coaches that you guys got to get a black and pink jersey for the old, for the old Rollins colors that the colors are actually my show is a shout out to those colors. I personally like them way better than the boring, little blue and gold, but, you know. beggars can't be choosers. But are old colors used to be black and pink? Yeah, old colors used to be black and pink. Long time ago, long, long time. You can look it up. I don't know who made that, but you know. It's so you walked on Winter Park. I have you see those signs, the historic district signs. The signs are pink and pink or black and pink. Because those are the colors of Winter Park. And Ronald just took those colors. There's an old polo somewhere. I see a couple people wearing it. I think it's like maybe and it's a pink R. Yeah, I think I've seen that. Yeah, those are old ones, colors. So one last question here, future, but thank you for coming in. Is there any special shout outs you want to give? Maybe even on the baseball team does have to be on the baseball team. Just maybe in the penalty. Either one works. Yeah, no, I mean, I guess I give a shout out to Ian for being able to do. I'm able to throw this whole thing together. I guess this is obviously on the fraternity aspect. Yeah. I think by the way, you know, being able to come and create something, you know, I always I always have a passion for creating something new, making your own, creating a unique experience. So, you know, I'm hopefully he, you know, got what I've been preaching or showing all these all these years, I guess. So maybe I influenced him. Maybe I did. He has he has. Good way. In a good way. Also shout out to Gabe. He's also in our fraternity as well. Gabe. I know I know. I don't trip is waiting to say that one. Now he's he's he's one of my writers. So shout out to him as well for being in the fraternity. So as we wrap up here, just look a few little notes. Or I would say a few, but it's more of a lot of notes. Really, really special announcement coming from me and on my end. Next week I have on the coach of the women's basketball team. So he will be on next week to talk about the startup of their season. As they will start soon, I believe I have it listed in my notes. I might get to that a little bit. And more important or not more importantly, I don't want to be a writer. But very, very thing that a cool thing that I've been working on for like two weeks now is tomorrow. It won't be live. Unfortunately, it's going to be have to be recorded tomorrow. I will be interviewing the current general manager of the Las Vegas Golden Knights and former and Stanley Cup champion with them and former general manager of my favorite team of all time, the Washington capitals. Mr. George McThee, the great guy who's one of the guys I looked up to when I was little. The song who always wanted to run a sports team and wondered how it worked. And I have a very special show for that that will air two weeks from now. I believe as recording it will be a little weird to be alive slash recording. I'll talk a little bit more about it next week. When I kind of sort that all out and the technology aspects of it because that's not my forte. And thankfully, I have people here to help me with that. So please stay tuned for that. That will go live two weeks from today. And I'm very excited to get to talk with him. It's going to be about unfortunately. I'm not really going to talk about hockey with him as much as I want to as much as I dream to. I could probably ask a thousand questions to him about it. It's going to be about sports as a business and how around here is a school as a business school and how people who might want to be involved in sports business, how can they, how, how they can get into the game essentially. Is a good way to say it. EA don't copy right me for that. How they can get into the game and see that kind of see that kind of side of sports. Because right now we know I only have a player's opinion. And I now I'm going to get a general manager opinion. I'm going to get someone who runs a team's opinion rather than someone who is just running the team on the field. And I think that will be great for this show. And I think I might be able to actually get that announced on some major media outlets actually. I've been in contact with them for about two weeks as well. So I got to email them back actually after the show to get them kind of posting about it publishing it. But again, that show will not air live or will it will air live. And that will be in two weeks. And then once those two weeks are up, it will be posted to our Spotify. And you can find us at Rawls Fan Radio on Spotify. Very simple, very easy. You also find on Instagram same tag Rawls Fan Radio. I tried to post on my try to post a little bit more. I've been kind of slacking on that and I apologize. But thankfully I will have more time now to start up and in the spring, I will definitely have a lot more time on my hands to run that program. So a little two minute drill to wrap us up here is we are approaching our final final moments here on the show tonight. Or today this morning, I should say nothing I want to my saying. So here's what's happening in the week ahead. Men soccer eight, three and five in the season turns the page towards the sunshine state conference storm. And which they will get on Monday, November 10th. That's a secure to home match Monday, but they will not know yet who they play that information will follow regarding the Florida Tech and Barry match that will happen actually happened last night. I forgot to check on that. So whoever won that game rounds will play. Regardless, be sure to join your fellow towers at St. through field six PM on Monday night for playoff game playoff round one. Women soccer seven five and three will also write high in the SSC tournament next week. So I rush off two home victories to secure to spot in the playoff for a conference championship. The ladies will head on the road against an opponent to be determined following Wednesday's matches. Live both 14 and 12 returns to the fin the home court this weekend after four game road stand. The stars have do not have a light though as they were host number one overall Tampa 21 and 0 tonight. Hoping to spoil the Spartans undefeated season. Stay quiet over the show. I hear even the back of them like as their first set begins at 7 PM today. The following day or tomorrow should say coast robin squad will be back in action for the date and rival Florida Southern even 500 or 11 11. Bring your friends and your parents says they'll be around users parents day for both those game or for that second game. Both home games will are a chance to be mentioned early season losses before charge head back on the road to face Eckerd. Tritons for 14 and 10 on Tuesday night. Rollins walked away the throwing five set victory in the last time those two got together. And importantly, Rollins College hoops his back in section to support your Tars. They prefer the regular season, which is just 10 days away. Finally, this afternoon clear schedule is because you want to miss this. The Rollins world class water ski team will take the lake from 12 to 2 PM for exhibition event performing tricks jumps and races. You get to see from World Champion skiers. Please stay tuned for them. Go check them out. They're awesome. They're great. I've had a couple of them on here. Create people love to see them a few of them actually in SE as well. And that is just awesome to see them being involved in sports as well. That is all the time you have here today. I want to thank my guest trip here for coming on today. Yeah, thank you for having me. No, it's been a pleasure. Thankfully, he actually ran here. So I was pretty proud of him for that. Thank you for that as well. It means a lot for you to show up. I run a little late. No, it's okay. Don't worry about it. It's okay. How did I just slide you here? Nice morning run. Oh, no, it's actually beautiful today. Normally, normally I wake up in the morning and it is ice cold. And it sucks because then I get like a change again. Take off all my actual hours I wear. Again, thank you guys for tuning into today's episode of Rollins fan radio. We will catch you here next time next week for our show with the head coach of the women's basketball team. And make sure you mark those calendars down two weeks from now. I will Mr. George McFee, General Manager of the Las Vegas Golden Knights and a Stanley Cup champion will be here with us on the show. So make sure you guys get some R&R before RFR next week. Thank you guys. This has been Rollins fan radio here on WP. here on WPRK 91.5.