The Talking Preps Interview: Ethan Royal Hough High School

Welcome back, everyone, to the Talking Preps interview. This week, got on a good friend, Ethan Royal, Huff High School quarterback. Ethan, appreciate you coming on. How are you, bud? No problem. Doing good, doing good. Yeah, I would assume you're doing good. You guys are winning games by halftime as of late. That's going to be my first question for you. As a quarterback who's extremely competitive, obviously, you're not seeing much of the field late in games. just how are you using this as a kind of a way to encourage the younger guys that are getting some playing time late in games? And I know you texted me this morning, your voice is a little raspy because you're probably cheering a lot on the sidelines. So how are you kind of using this as a motivating tool for some of those younger guys? I'm just really just helping coaching the younger guys up and really just helps motivate me to motivate them really. So just telling them what things they should see or what I've seen out there on the first half, kind of like trying to guide them in the right direction. So it's a heartfelt moment just being the teacher instead of actually the player. Yeah, I got that. And one thing that Talking Preps co-host Dale Ross brought up this past week on Talking Preps OT is possibly in the future CMS redoing conferences conferences to where Huff is in the conference with Chambers and uh Butler Mallard Creek teams like that do you think obviously you're a senior so you won't see that but do you think a conference that's a little more balanced would be better moving forward so a team like Huff isn't playing teams that they're gonna you know beat by halftime oh yeah for sure um um that's not Huff like we always want to play the top like the best of the best so like if we get if we getting that conference is going to be really challenging for us but i mean i feel like we'll handle our own like we've been doing the past couple years um but i feel like it would be a good success if we could move conferences and get into tougher conferences i got you to talk about this season obviously undefeated haven't i don't think you guys have given up points in conference play i could be mistaken but the defense is obviously still doing their thing but how have you seen the offense kind of matriculate and get to where they need to be for the postseason because we are just a few weeks away from uh postseason play i feel like uh as a group offensively we're all coming together playing as a one team like there's not a lot of individuals that's just looking for stats i feel like uh the run game's working i mean that's what we're going to roll with but the pass game working we're going to roll the pass i feel like there's not one aspect of our offense that's just how i said it's like focused on one part i think we all just come together um know our assignments do what we're supposed to do and reading our keys and that's what made us so successful these past eight games yeah and obviously it's probably to no one to surprise it unless Huff beats Huff that you guys are the favorites um in the 8a not just the 8a west but how do you make sure as the quarterback as a leader of this team that you don't maybe fall into a slump have a have a rough game to where I know in that Mooresville game they were up 10 to 7 after the first quarter and that was probably a wake-up call like hey look Nobody's going to roll over for us. We've got to go out there and assert our dominance. Yeah, just making sure Monday through Thursday that we're going 100% to 110%, not just getting complacent just because of who we are. Us as captains, like me, Jackson, Ryan, and Tua, we just got to keep our team on the high standard and not make sure we get below our standard because the standard is the standard. It's like Huff is going to be Huff. Huff always violent on contact. So we just got to keep the main thing the main thing and keep our goal the goal. Our goal is to go back to the States and win it again. I hear you, boss. Well, appreciate you coming on this morning. I know there's only a few games left in the regular season, but we'll be seeing each other down the line. I appreciate you coming on the Talking Preps interview.