Trojans' Football Talk: Recent Episodes
Tom Vartanian
Tom and head coach Gary Podsiedlik reminisce about the 18-month run in this final episode of Trojans Football Talk.
Tom talks with Homer coach C.J. Kudla about his coaching football and girls' basketball for the Trojans before he heads to the Port Byron school district.
Tom catches up with 2010 Cortland High graduate Caleb Wright to talk about playing football with the Southwest Kansas Storm in the the Champions Indoor Football League (CIF).
Tom tails with 2014 Homer graduate Connor Simonetta about his football days as a Trojan.
Tom and Trojans Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about assistant coaching days of unsung heroes from 1983-1989.
Head coach Gary Podsiedlik reveals his unsung heroes from 1990 to 2004 with Tom in part two of this series.
Head coach Gary Podsiedlik reveals his unsung heroes from 2005 to 2021 with Tom in part one of this series.
Head coach Gary Podsiedlik and Tom reflect on the Homer Athletic Hall of Fame Classes from 2012-2021.
Tom chats with Homer senior quarterback Jake Calabro about his nearly perfect two seasons as the Trojans signal caller.
Tom talks with former SUNY Cortland football coach Dan MacNeill about his coaching career.
Tom and Trojans Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about the Homer Athletic Hall of Fame inductions from 2005-2011.
Tom and Trojans Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about the players who have received National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholarships.
Tom talks with 2006 Homer graduate Brian McDermott about his Trojans' football playing days and 2005 sectional championship.
Tom catches up with Cortland and SUNY Cortland alum Dan Pitcher about the Cincinnati Bengals run to the Super Bowl, being the QB coach for Joe Burrow and becoming a new dad.
Tom and Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik discuss the release of the 2002 Section 3 Class B Football Schedule.
Tom talks with 2004 Homer graduate Derek Davis about his football playing days with the Trojans.
Tom talks with 2004 Homer Central graduate Will Rumsey about his Trojans football days.
Tom and Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik update the 2022 offseason and talk about what's upcoming this fall.
Tom talks with 2004 Homer graduate and Cornell alum Luke Siwula about his football days as a Trojan and for the Big Red.
Tom joins former Homer Football Coach Paul Belodoff to wrap up his career with the Trojans, what followed and what he's doing now..
Tom joins former Homer Football Coach Paul Belodoff to talk about the 1986 State Championship Team.
Tom talks about the 1985 season with former Homer head coach Paul Belodoff. It was the 1st sectional championship for the Trojans football team.
Tom talks with former Cazenovia football coach Jay Steinhorst about the success with the Lakers posting a 10-5 record against the Trojans.
Tom talks with former Marcellus football coach Joe Fiacchi about preparing to play Homer each season and his Mustangs teams.
Tom recaps the first year of Trojans Football Talk, the 2021 football year and what's ahead for 2022 with Homer head coach Gary Podisedlik.
Tom talks with 1986 Homer graduate Dave Medeiros about playing for both Mike Norris and Paul Beledoff in his football career.
Tom talks Homer's all-time receiving yards leader and 1986 graduate Jim Currie about his Trojans' career.
Tom joins Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik in announcing the award winners from the 2021 Trojans season.
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik recap the 2021 season where the Trojans finished 9-1 overall.
Tom chats with the final Homer Blue Collar Men of 2021, senior Jake Calabro (non-lineman) and junior Sean Brown (lineman).
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik recap Saturday's 48-22 NYSPHSAA Class B Central Region Championship Game loss to Maine-Endwell.
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik preview Saturday's 3 p.m. NYSPHSAA Class B Central Region Championship Game against Maine-Endwell at Vestal H.S.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Men for Week 10, senior Ryan Poole (non-lineman) and junior Dylan Pittsley (lineman).
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik recap Saturday's 34-20 win over New Hartford in the Section 3 Class B Championship Game for the Trojans 6th Class B Championship.
Tom and Trojans Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik preview Saturday's Section 3 Class B Championship Game against New Hartford at the Carrier Dome.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Men for Week 9, senior Will Dady (non-lineman) and junior Noah Young (lineman).
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik recap the Trojans' 62-49 win over V-V-S Friday night in Section 3 Class B Semifinal Round action.
Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik and I preview Friday's 7 p.m. Section 3 Class B semifinal game at Butts Field.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Men for week 8, juniors Hunter Riehlman (non-lineman) and Owen Murphy (lineman).
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik recap the Trojans' 30-13 win over Central Valley Academy in Section 3 Class B quarterfinal round action.
Tom and Homer Head Coach Gary Podsiedlik preview Friday's 7 p.m. Section 3 Class B quarterfinal game against Central Valley Academy at Butts Field.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Men for Week 7, senior Tavyn Malchak (lineman). Senior non-lineman Braden Marsh was not available for the podcast.
Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik and I recap the Trojans' 55-26 B West Championship win Friday over Marcellus.
Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik and I preview the Trojans Friday night's 7 p.m. game at Marcellus for the B West championship.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Players for Week 6, seniors Zack Arnold (non-lineman) and Nathan Bearup (lineman).
Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik and I recap the Trojans' 34-0 victory over Cortland in the 43rd Hom-Cort Jug Game.
Tom and Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik preview Friday's 7 p.m. Hom-Cort Jug Game at Butts Field.
Tom chats with the Trojans Blue Collar Players of the Week, Cameron Fidler (lineman) and Tommy Mahunik (non-line).
Tom chats with The Trojans Blue Collar Players for Week 4, Blair Wakula (lineman) and Andrew Lynch (non-lineman).
Tom and Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik recap the Trojans' 61-6 victory Friday night at South Jefferson.
Tom and Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik preview Friday night's 7 p.m. division game at South Jefferson.
Tom talks with the Trojans Blue Collar Lineman of the Week, senior Carsen Johnson. Sam Sorenson was the Non-Lineman of the Week , but was unavailable.
Tom and Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik recap the 51-20 victory over Syracuse ITC at Butts Field.
Tom and Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik previews Friday night's home game with Syracuse Institute of Technology at 7 p.m. We dedicate this podcast to Tyler Christman, the Carthage JV football player who passed away this week.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Men of week 2, Tyler Riehlman (lineman) and Damani Durham (non-lineman) after the Trojans' 30-21 victory at V-V-S.
Tom and Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik recap Homer's 30-21 victory at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill.
Tom previews Friday's Class B match-up against V-V-S with Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik.
Tom talks with Trojans' Week 1 Blue Collar Men David Morse (Non-line) and Logan Darling (Lineman) after the 61-14 win over Chittenango.
Tom and Trojans head coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about the 61-14 season opening win over Chittenango.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik about wrapping up the pre-season and prepping for Friday's 2021 home opener against Chittenango.
Tom talks with the Homer Blue Collar Lineman of the week for the preseason, senior Jack Smith.
Tom and head coach Gary Podsiedlik talks about new changes to the regular season and how the Trojans roster looks through the first preseason week.
Tom talks with 1995 Homer graduate Matt Cutia about his football career with the Trojans.
Tom talks with 1994 Homer Central graduate Mikel Withers about his football days with the Trojans.
Tom talks with 2000 Homer graduate Mike Discenza about his Trojan and college football career.
Tom talks with. 2018 Homer graduate Tucker O'Donnell about his football career, including the 2017 Section 3 Class B championship.
Tom talks with 2006 Homer graduate Zach McMullin about his football career including the 2005 Section 3 Class B championship win.
Tom. talks with Section 4 Hall of Fame coach Tony Abbott who coached at Oxford for 20 years starting in 1972. Old school football talk.
Tom chats with 2011 Homer graduate Andy Parker about playing with the Trojans and SUNY Cortland.
Tom talks with 2014 Homer graduate Jack Connery about his Trojan career, especially recovering from a serious injury tp get on the field his senior season.
Tom talks with 2021 Homer graduate Andrew Van Patten, #3 on the Trojans' all-time rushing list, about his career.
Tom talks with 2005 Homer graduate Ben Connery about his playing days of the final years of the Butts Field grass.
Tom chats with 2015 Homer graduate Drew Cottrell about his Trojans football career and winning the 2014 Section 3, Class B championship.
Tom talks with 1993 Homer Central School graduate Matt Caughey about his Trojan football career.
Tom talks with Homer coach Gary Podsiedlik about the off-season summer program for the Trojans to prepare for the fall 2021 season.
Tom talks with Homer Central alumnus Bob Avery about his Trojans and Syracuse football careers.
Tom continues his talk with head coach Gary Podsiedlik about Trojans' football traditions.
Tom talks with 1975 Homer Central graduate Dusty Stillman about his Trojans days and Coach Norris.
Tom and Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik wrap up the 2021 spring season and announced the team's award winners.
Tom chats with Homer Central School alum Chris Whidden about his Trojan football career and now coaching high school football.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 2017 Section 3 Class B Championship season.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 40-6 victory over Cortland to finish the season at 3-0.
Tom talks with Cortland coach Pete Reif and Homer coach Gary Posiedlik about the upcoming Hom-Cort football game.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik about the Trojans' 40-0 win over Syracuse Institute of Technology.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik to preview the Syracuse Institute of Technology game.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 55-6 victory over Chittenango.
Tom talks with Homer Central head coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 2021 season opener against Chittenango.
Tom talks with Homer Central head coach Gary Podsiedlik about how the Blue-White Scrimmage went for the Trojans.
Tom talks with Homer Central head football coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 2021 team as the Trojans prepare for Marcellus scrimmage.
Tom talks with Homer head coach Gary Podsiedlik about the start of preseason for spring football.
Tom talks with Homer Central graduate Dustin Morris about his career and winning the 2005 Section 3 Class B Championship with the Trojans.
Tom talks with Trojans head football coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 2014 Section 3 Class B championship team.
Tom talks about the first two months of Trojans Football Talk. What's been done and what's to come
Tom talks with Homer football coach Gary Podsiedlik about the latest update that there will be a short spring season starting in March.
Tom talks with Homer Central football coach Gary Podsiedlik about the 2005 Section 3 Class B Championship team.
Tom talks with Homer head football coach Gary Podsiedlik about the approval of high-risk sports in the state and the potential of a football season this spring.
Tom speaks with Homer Central School and Hobart graduate Angelo Catalano about his football playing days.
Tom and Homer football coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about Trojans' linemen over the years.
Tom and Homer football coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about the 1986 Trojan team, second Section 3 Class B Championship team and only Class B state championship team.
Tom and Homer football coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about the 1985 Trojan team, the first Section 3 Class B Championship team.
Tom speaks with Homer assistant football coach Jim Whidden about his athletic career and coaching the Trojans.
Tom speaks with Homer football coach Gary Podsiedlik about Trojan quarterbacks over the years.
Tom talks with Homer alumnus and current Trojans assistant football coach Tom Cottrell.
Tom and Homer football coach Gary Podsiedlik talk about Trojans' tailbacks over the years.
Tom talks with Homer Central School alumnus David Podsiedlik about his playing days and now helping coach the Trojans football program.
Tom talks with Homer Central School football coach Gary Podsiedlik about the Trojans football program over the years.
This is the short introduction to my new Trojans' Football Talk podcast which will begin full production in January 2021.