RISON - You never know what a casual conversation can lead to. Just ask Dustin Prescott and Brian Phillips, this week’s guests on the Herald’s Free Range Conversations podcast.Free Range Conversations can be streamed through Apple Podcast and Spotify, or heard through the Herald’s website, www.clevelandcountyherald.com.While watching a preseason junior high football practice this summer, Prescott and Phillips said they were remembering some of the great players who have come through the Rison Wildcat football program when they came up with an idea: why not start a Rison High School Sports Hall of Fame.“We’re sitting there talking about all the great football players and teams. So, we’re sitting there on the visitor’s side of the stadium, and we’re looking over there at our home side press box and we’re seeing all the state champions. It’s just sparking conversations, ‘Man, you remember so-and-so?’,” said Prescott, a 2004 Rison graduate and former football coach who became president of the Rison Booster Club in August. Phillips then chimed in to say that the conversation was really about who was the greatest quarterback, jokingly admitting that he was biased and felt it was his first cousin Brad Phillips. “But that’s what we want to know,” Phillips said. “We would love to have people come to us with those names, and say so-and-so is this, and so-and-so is that.”So it was that conversation that sparked the creation of the new Rison High School Sports Hall of Fame. Since both are deeply involved in the Rison Booster Club, they wanted to have a tie-in with the booster club so they came up with the idea of having the booster club members vote on the hall of fame inductees each year. Prescott said he looked at a lot of different high school sports hall of fame models, but he said the one he liked best was the one for the Warren Sports Hall of Fame. He said Wa...
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