Optic Sports Podcast: Recent Episodes
Gabriel Myers
A sports podcast for northern New Mexico sports, featuring players, coaches and important people in the athletic community from across the region
With basketball season now upon us Gabe and Phil sit down to talk about what to expect from the teams in Las Vegas, and if this Winter sports season can be as successful as the Fall for Robertson.
Robertson has made it to the state championship game! They will be hosting St. Michael's and we have Cardinals head football coach Leroy Gonzalez on the show to talk about the season, getting to this point and what they need to do to beat the Horsemen.
We bring our first student-athlete on the show with Robertson quarterback Mat Gonzales, who had a career game in the Vegas Bowl. Playoff football is here, and with the way it worked out we could be seeing a Vegas Bowl rematch!
We sit down with the coaches from both sides and bring in Optic Sports Editor Phil Scherer to preview this year's Vegas Bowl between No. 2 Robertson and No. 4 West Las Vegas
Gabe and Phil recap the West Las Vegas and Raton football game from Friday night, and look ahead to this Friday's game when Robertson travels north to take on the Tigers
We talk to West Las Vegas head coach Adrian Gonzales ahead of his team's toughest game to date against Raton on Friday night.
We bring on the Optic's fearless leader and former Los Alamos sports editor and radio broadcaster Phil Scherer ahead of West Las Vegas' game against Los Alamos.
Robertson head football coach Leroy Gonzalez picks up his 100th career victory in under 11 seasons as a head football coach, so naturally we have him on the show. Plus we talk about the brutal district his team is in and their upcoming schedule, the NMHU Cowboys, his thoughts on certain situational football and the NMHU Cowboys.
Coach Kirkland sits down with us for a preview of the Cowboys' upcoming season before their week one contest with Fort Lewis on Saturday Sept. 4.
Week 2 of high school football is in the books. Today we have Robertson head football coach Leroy Gonzalez on the show to talk about his team's performance so far along with several other topics.
We talk about what we learned in week one from West Las Vegas and Robertson's football teams. We also sit down with West Las Vegas head coach Adrian Gonzales.
It is finally week one of the high school football season in New Mexico. For our guest this week we bring on West Las Vegas athletic director and New Mexico sports icon Richard Tripp to talk about the season, his philosophy as an athletic director, the responsibility of high school coaches, and why he hides out during athletic events. Plus we get to hear from the man just moments after he rescheduled his team's season opening football game.
A welcome to the Optic Sports Podcast. Very excited to have everyone here and go through this season of New Mexico athletics. Stay tuned for more episodes coming this week!