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Greg Tepper on Texas/Texas A&M, Big 12 Chaos, and TXHSFB · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Greg Tepper is the managing editor Dave Campill's Texas Football magazine,
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  Speaker 1: co host of High School Scoreboard Live along with Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Hartigan And when I don't have a football or basketball
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  Speaker 1: conflict myself as well. Tep does not have red hair,
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  Speaker 1: but he does have plenty of hair. And would you
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  Speaker 1: have bet the hair on your head that Rice was
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  Speaker 1: going to hire Scott. I guess it's Abel to replace
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  Speaker 1: Mike Bloomberm as the head coach of the Owls coming
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  Speaker 1: in from Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, I would not have. I would not have
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  Speaker 2: bet the hair on my head. That is. It's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a stunner. You know, we have been tracking
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  Speaker 2: the story. Mike Craven had had sources saying that he
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  Speaker 2: believes that what was most likely was the was that
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  Speaker 2: Yale's coach was going to be headed that way specifically.
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  Speaker 2: You know there's a guy who has led them to
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  Speaker 2: three ivy leaes called Tony Reno is his name, that
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  Speaker 2: he was the favorite and then they zig when they's
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  Speaker 2: at when they said they were gonna zagh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this is a really interesting high up skate. Scott Abel
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  Speaker 2: is a bit of an He's a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: football wonk Darling in the sense of he runs essentially
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  Speaker 2: like the pistol triple option, and they run the stinking ball.
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  Speaker 2: It is an old school style of offense. I believe
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  Speaker 2: they are second in FCS in rushing yards this past year,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been a winner there at Davidson. It is
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  Speaker 2: certainly off the beaten path for Rice. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: they when they hired Mike Bloomgren, he was a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a known commodity there at Stanford, is the offensive
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  Speaker 2: coordinator there at Stanford. Uh, this is definitely an off
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  Speaker 2: the board choice. He has no ties to the state
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  Speaker 2: of Texas that we know of. I'm sure he's visited,
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  Speaker 2: but that's about it. Uh. And so that will be
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  Speaker 2: an uphill climb there for Rice as far as as
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  Speaker 2: far as they're concerned, but as far as the product
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  Speaker 2: on the field, there's no doubt that he's won wherever
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  Speaker 2: he's gone, and he has an identity, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna run the dang ball. And I would imagine
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  Speaker 2: that's what we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I start doing well.
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  Speaker 1: And I can tell you having grown up in the
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  Speaker 1: state of North Carolina, and I had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: friends get into Davidson College. Davidson is a lot like Rice,
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  Speaker 1: about three thousand students and a high academic school. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's used to, you know, being able to recruit
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  Speaker 1: to that. Certainly did it at the FCS level. Now
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  Speaker 1: the D one level. Now I got to ask you this,
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  Speaker 1: what is a better story in college football in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Texas this week? And we're removing Texas and
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M from the equation. Okay, so we're
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  Speaker 1: just pulling that out. What is a better story SMU
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  Speaker 1: having already clinched an ACC championship game, birth can creep
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  Speaker 1: closer toward a college football playoff if they handle their
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  Speaker 1: business against col or the fact that you've got Hard
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  Speaker 1: and Simmons getting ready to play Mary Harden Baylor for
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  Speaker 1: the third time this year.
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  Speaker 3: Third, yeah time this year.
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  Speaker 2: I would need to check the last time that you
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  Speaker 2: had teams play each other three times in a season.
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  Speaker 2: I guess theoretically, like there's an opportunity now that, like
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  Speaker 2: some of these conferences have gone away from divisions. Do
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  Speaker 2: you play each other in stute, you know, in the season,
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  Speaker 2: and then you could play each other again in the
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  Speaker 2: conference championship game, and then you could play each other
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  Speaker 2: again in a playoff, but a three three matches is
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  Speaker 2: very rare, and especially a three match between what can
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  Speaker 2: only be described as hated rivals. If you don't know this,
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  Speaker 2: Mary Aarn Baylor and Hard and Simmons don't like each other.
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  Speaker 2: And it is I mean, and and for Hard and Simmons,
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  Speaker 2: they've been they've been real dang tied to hearing about
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  Speaker 2: Mary Hard and Baylor, and they've been off winning national
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  Speaker 2: championships and they feel like this is their time. So
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  Speaker 2: with all due respect to S and U, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the I feel like for the the S and
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  Speaker 2: U story, this is the chapter before the chapter when
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  Speaker 2: they play in the a SEC Championship game that of
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  Speaker 2: course will be will be a game to behold because
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  Speaker 2: they can clinch an automatic birth to the college football playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: So with all due respect to the Ponies, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to wait a week before I put them in the
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  Speaker 2: spotlight because this week it is all about the third
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  Speaker 2: meeting between Mary Hard and by An Hard and Simon.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And again for folks who didn't know, and we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about Hard and Simmons, what a big year they're having.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Brown their quarterback, Vistaadge product, and of course his
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  Speaker 1: dad was the offensive coordinator there is now the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator at Maynor.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's uh, that's a that's a big thing there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, what's what's the buzz in the office about that?
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  Speaker 3: That game over in the Brasses Valley? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: On, And and let's let's not kid ourselves, tap, let's
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  Speaker 1: not kit ourselves as big as Texas Texas A and
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  Speaker 1: M is this week. If we get a quarterfinal between
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  Speaker 1: A and M consolidated and college station in a rematch
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that maybe the game, you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know if there was a high school maybe like the
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  Speaker 2: Franklin game was what you're referring to. But no, look,
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  Speaker 2: A and M in Texas is Uh, it is what
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  Speaker 2: we expected it to be. It's it's a big game. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it is a I don't I know what. Let me
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  Speaker 2: put this one. I think everybody it is not a
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  Speaker 2: hot take at the beginning of the season to say, boy,
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  Speaker 2: Texas and Texas A and M is a big game.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it is. But I do think that it
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  Speaker 2: is a surprise the stakes that are at play here
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  Speaker 2: specifically because I think Texas, let's say they've played to
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  Speaker 2: their paper, They've played to their expectation, and I would
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  Speaker 2: say that A and M for the most part has
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  Speaker 2: perhaps slightly exceeded expectations. The first year of Mike Elco
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  Speaker 2: certainly looked or at the very least, the SEC is
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  Speaker 2: such a such a mess that A and M being
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  Speaker 2: in a win and in situation for the college for
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  Speaker 2: for you know, they control their own destiny for the
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  Speaker 2: college football Playoff at this point in time is certainly,
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  Speaker 2: I think a surprise. I think this game is obviously
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  Speaker 2: box office for all the reasons that I don't need
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  Speaker 2: to tell Texas and A and M fans about. The
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  Speaker 2: thing that I think is most interesting in this matchup
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the not just the scene, but
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  Speaker 2: who is able to handle seeing the most. I think
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  Speaker 2: what's really interesting is is throughout the course of the
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  Speaker 2: week you've heard from players and journalists like us have
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  Speaker 2: gotten up there and said, well, what does this game
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  Speaker 2: mean to you? And a lot of them have simply said, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I didn't grow up with this game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been dormant for them for the large part of
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  Speaker 2: my football consciousness. So I know we're supposed to beat them,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure exactly what that means. I think
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  Speaker 2: that'll change once they got on the field, and once
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  Speaker 2: these two I think all I think all it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take is about one quarter of play and everyone's
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  Speaker 2: going to remember why why these two teams don't like
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  Speaker 2: each other. That'll be really interesting to see how that blossoms,
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  Speaker 2: because I think for a lot of these players, it
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  Speaker 2: really is just another game. But I think that's going
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  Speaker 2: to change once the once the atmosphere and the weight
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  Speaker 2: of the game really start to take hold, probably about
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the things that I hear from the players are
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  Speaker 1: similar to what the things you hear, like say. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just use this as an example of Texas where to
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  Speaker 1: play Baylor or TCU or Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 3: And here's what I mean by this.
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  Speaker 1: Jade Baron yesterday, the FOURPE Reward finalists and a captain
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  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. He said, and they were asking
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  Speaker 1: him about you know, because it's could be his first
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  Speaker 1: time playing against A and M, and he said. I
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  Speaker 1: joked with him, I said, uh, you've been here long eno,
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  Speaker 1: because he's a six year senior or a joke with
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  Speaker 1: him the other day on the post game. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you just barely missed it the last time. But I said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: somebody asked him about this and how much and the
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  Speaker 1: rivalry and this and that, and his response was to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got some friends who play at A and M,
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  Speaker 1: so I know.
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  Speaker 3: Some guys over there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what we hear him say about
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  Speaker 1: Baylor or TC were tech same.
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  Speaker 2: Thing, absolutely, absolutely, in the same way. It's like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like the guy that I played against in high school
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  Speaker 2: and and and he was he was the third ranked
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  Speaker 2: cornerback and I was the fourth ranth cornerback in the class.
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  Speaker 2: Like those are the guys That's why I want to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and beat But that's the same way
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  Speaker 2: when when you're going to play in Alabama, that's the
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  Speaker 2: same way when you're going to play you know you're
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  Speaker 2: going to play that. So that's what's going to be
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  Speaker 2: interesting is to see what this new generation feels like
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  Speaker 2: about this rivalry, which which does exist in a different uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a different you know atmosphere, is a different kind
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  Speaker 2: of zeitgeist of college football as far as like you know,
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  Speaker 2: these games, like the sport's much more nationalized. I think
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  Speaker 2: that what Nate tex is in A and M so
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  Speaker 2: special in the yesteryear was that college Well that was
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  Speaker 2: in the age when college football is much more regionalized.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know, you're you know, and I'm playing conference
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  Speaker 2: games against South Carolina. It's a different ballgame, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: interested to see how much this this rivalry really takes hold, no.
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  Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: Visiting mcgreg tepper managing editor Dave Campbell, Texas Football Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: Here in the prayer, Okay, let's jump to high school.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do something difference with you this time
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  Speaker 1: because we're down to the sweet sixteen in all the
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  Speaker 1: eleven man brackets and to an elite eight in the
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  Speaker 1: six man So what I'm going to do is, because
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  Speaker 1: this is very convenient, I can go region by region
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  Speaker 1: where there are two games and ask you which game
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  Speaker 1: has you has your attention as more of your attention
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  Speaker 1: which one does. For example, six A Division one Region one,
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  Speaker 1: you got uh, North Crowley against Coppel. Of course that's
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  Speaker 1: your alma maters, so that's probably an unfair question. Uh
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  Speaker 1: and then and then uh and and they're playing in
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  Speaker 1: Mansfield on Saturday Friday late Friday afternoon, Ulish Trinity and
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  Speaker 1: Allen they're playing in South Lake, which one kind of
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  Speaker 1: sticks out to you more.
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  Speaker 2: I think it has to be the battle of unbeatens
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  Speaker 2: North Crowley and Copel. Certainly, that's that's I think going
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  Speaker 2: to be the big game. I will say that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Allan and Yulis Trinity does feel like a throwback to
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  Speaker 2: about ten years ago of like these two programs back
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  Speaker 2: in a major spot, and this Trinity team's played really well.
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  Speaker 2: They're kind of vintage Trinity. It's probably the two teams
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  Speaker 2: that like like they're they're the most back, uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're the they are kind of the the revenge of
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  Speaker 2: the Old Guard. So that game is interesting. But I
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  Speaker 2: think North Crawley Copel's the play here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Region two Duncanville in the Woodlands.
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  Speaker 1: For folks who might be looking for a good game
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  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoons in Huddo.
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  Speaker 3: At one o'clock, you have that one and then and
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  Speaker 3: then if.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking for a good game in the area, like said,
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  Speaker 1: Waksahatchie and Bridgeland are playing at the field in Flugerville
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, so you got two in the area for
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  Speaker 1: Region two.
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  Speaker 3: Which one stands out more to you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's Bridgeland and Waksahatchie simply because I think
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think Duncanville is a pretty clear favorite
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  Speaker 2: over the Woodlands, and I think that this Bridgeland Walks
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  Speaker 2: Hatchy game has an opportunity to be more of the
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  Speaker 2: most evenly matched games of the week. I love the
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  Speaker 2: Walks of Hatchie passing attack. This Bridgeland team has survived
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  Speaker 2: big blow after big blow from teams. They've taken their
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  Speaker 2: best punch. I like this game a lot. I think
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  Speaker 2: that that's and I think it has to be more competitive,
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  Speaker 2: probably than the Duncanville who feel like they're steamrolling people
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  Speaker 2: at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of clear favorites, Region three one that to
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  Speaker 1: use your term would be box office, Katie and north
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  Speaker 1: Shore at the computer likes north Shore by seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: then you got full sure and a task seat in
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  Speaker 1: the computer likes a Task con seeded by thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think you can make of those twos?
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  Speaker 2: So Katie and north to play here? I mean, these
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  Speaker 2: are the d two high school football programs of record
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  Speaker 2: in Houston, and they do it in such different ways.
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  Speaker 2: It's strange to remember they haven't played in the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen. It's been a minute since because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Katie's just gone D two a lot. But
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  Speaker 2: this is a fabulous, fabulous ball game, great stylistic clash.
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  Speaker 2: Can the Katie defense keep a lid on North Shore?
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  Speaker 2: And for how long can the running game get going?
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  Speaker 2: It's at NRG. There's gonna be twenty thousand people there.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fantastic game. But don't overlook at
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  Speaker 2: that bullshyear at task to the game a task Casita
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  Speaker 2: has had two kind of dicey calls the first two
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  Speaker 2: weeks of the year of the playoffs, and fullisher is
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  Speaker 2: good enough to beat them if they if they go
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  Speaker 2: out there and they play with their food. If I'm
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  Speaker 2: fond of saying, then I think this is this is
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  Speaker 2: This has an opportunity to be a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving weekend stunner.
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  Speaker 1: Is it safe to say, folks in the Greater Austin
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  Speaker 1: area just going to keep your power to drive one
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  Speaker 1: more week because it's like Travis and East Central and
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  Speaker 1: less like commuted John's. And then we'll talk next week
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  Speaker 1: about serious business about a lake Travis Westlake rematch in
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  Speaker 1: the quarterfinals.
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  Speaker 2: I think both the Austin area teams are clear favorites.
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  Speaker 2: I will say though, District twenty nine to six a
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  Speaker 2: one of only two districts in the state with all
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  Speaker 2: four teams still alive with East Central and Buda Johnson
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  Speaker 2: probably aside, along with New bron Fols Canyon and Sibilo
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  Speaker 2: Steel there in the D two ranks. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think it probably ends this week.
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  Speaker 3: Vander Griffin Steele, what do you make of that.
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  Speaker 2: One true fascinating ball game. This is a Vandergrift team
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  Speaker 2: that remember they lost that season opener, and then since
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  Speaker 2: then they have been a house on fire. They are
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  Speaker 2: taking on a Sibilo Steel team that is loaded with playmakers.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely look Chad Warren or Jalen Cooper. They have got
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  Speaker 2: dudes all over the field. It's this is San Antonio's
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  Speaker 2: best shot. This is San Antonio's best shot I think
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  Speaker 2: of getting a team to win the region, but this
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  Speaker 2: is the big is a big hurdle for them because
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  Speaker 2: a Vandergrift team that is playing really, really well and
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  Speaker 2: with a ton of confidence. I think I took Steel.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're fire power might be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: too much. But I think this is a really interesting ballgame.
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  Speaker 2: And if history is any guy who, then Austin will
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  Speaker 2: continue to stranglehold over San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt about. Okay, before I jump out of six A, the.
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  Speaker 1: Game you have you have Saturday night for folks in
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  Speaker 1: the Desto and Willis. So if Texas jumps out to
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  Speaker 1: a huge lead on Texas A and M and your
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  Speaker 1: board with it or whatever, understand Uh, they're on your
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  Speaker 1: local FanDuel network. You can see De Soto and Willis
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  Speaker 1: there at the Star in Frisco, and you and the
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  Speaker 1: inivitable Ashley Pickle will be on.
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  Speaker 3: The call for that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up dreaming of counter programming A and M
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  Speaker 2: in Texas. It's just it's what a real dream for me.
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  Speaker 2: It is a great it's a fabulous game. I think
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  Speaker 2: Willis could do it. They're an underdog. They're an underdog,
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  Speaker 2: but I think Willis can do it. They have got
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  Speaker 2: if you've never seen them. They lose DJ Lagway and
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  Speaker 2: mister texasball the graduation, and I think there's an argument
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  Speaker 2: to be made that they are even better. In twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, quarterback Jack Emerson has been fantastic. They have
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  Speaker 2: Dremaine Bishop, who I think is the Travis Hunter of
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  Speaker 2: Texas high school football. He's playing both ways at a
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  Speaker 2: super high level for them. But they are taking on
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  Speaker 2: the two time defending sixth A Division two stay champs
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  Speaker 2: in De Soto with Tiger Wrighten with Daleen, Singleton with
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  Speaker 2: Quiel and Abram, I mean they're loaded for bear. I've
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  Speaker 2: been running for a fascinating and high octane ballgame at
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  Speaker 2: the Star. It's the final game of the playoff of
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  Speaker 2: the weekend in the playoffs, and I think we're going
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  Speaker 2: out to some good dessert for a Thanksgiving feast.
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  Speaker 1: Our regular Permian fan on the text line says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just wondering if North Crowley is comprised of actual humans
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  Speaker 1: or AI generated monsters.
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  Speaker 2: If you guys didn't know. To his point and condolences,
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  Speaker 2: North Crowley handed Odessa Permian their worst playoff loss ever
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  Speaker 2: last week. I want you to think about Odessa Permian
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  Speaker 2: and how long they've been playing football. North Crowley put
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  Speaker 2: a hurtin on Mojo last week. It's a big reason
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  Speaker 2: why I think North Rowley has gotten an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: be playing in Arlington at.
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  Speaker 3: The end of the year. Yeah, yeah, I know that
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  Speaker 3: about it. Uh, I'm missed out on this.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asking where is the the Hardened Simmons u U
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  Speaker 1: M HB game being played? I think it's I think
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  Speaker 1: it's an abling because Harden Simmons is the number two
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  Speaker 1: overall national seed.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that's correct. That should it should be an aboling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that that should be where it where it is,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: all right? And then I'm letta say that confident on
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: the radio.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: And then somebody asked if you still hate our gyle?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Really actually got.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: That never dies? No, of course I love Todd Rodgers.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I love what that part of that. And I'll tell
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: you that's another team kind of flying under the radar
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: there playing exceptionally well. Uh. They got in a real
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: dog fight with which Tall Falls Memorial last week. I
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: do think that Region one of five A, Division two
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: is more even more treacherous than we saw they were
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: it was going to be, because you think about it this.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: We've got a rematch of Lovejoy and Anna this week.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Remember that game the last time we saw it in
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: regular season playing district play that came in in sixty
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: six sixty two. I think we're going to have that.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: And then you've got Argyle taking on a pesky, peski
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Walnut Grove team, first year varsity program that's just coming
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: off of their biggest win in program history when they
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: knocked off a lot of Cooper. So I think we
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know our guys playing really well right now,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: but they're gonna have to strap it up the rest
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: of the way because this is a this is a
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: dangerous path on the way to Arlington.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I've said that. You asked me,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and I told you I thought that the two most
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: interesting or fascinating classifications going into the playoffs for five
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: A D two and three A D one, and I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: still stand by that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: And by the way, five A D two it's getting
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: the judgment week here. We get Texas high and P
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: ANDNG this week that is going to be absolutely fascinating.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Richmond Randall takes on Brent this week that is really
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: tasty as well. Five day Division two is starting to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: come to a head, and same with three eighty one
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: where we get our first real big state ranked tussle
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: with the Columbus or rather with Franklin taking on Hitchcock.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, looking forward, to all of that. You're in Saint
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Louis with family.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I am, I'm in Saint Louis. I'm calling you from
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: the study room, from a study room at one of
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: the Saint Louis County Public libraries, because the boys are
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: off playing with mom and grandma.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Oh that's very now. Listen, you have made no bones
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: of it, no secret of it. This holiday forty eight
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: hours out. That's your favorite holiday the entire year, isn't
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: it Thanksgiving?
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, Thanksgivings. Thanksgiving is the best day of
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: the year. That's what you think about it. It's football,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: it's food. You don't have to bring gifts, like, there's
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: no like monetary expectation of you. Everything about it, Like
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I want you to think about another holiday, another day
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: in which a nap is a key component of it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's where we're at with it. Giving is
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: by far the best day of the week, and then,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: by the way, it leads into I think, the best
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: football weekend of the year. So it's just this is
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the best. We've been counting down ever since, ever since
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: last Thanksgiving, and is finally is finally here. I'm excited.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll look forward to it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, have a great have a great Thanksgiving feast, have
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a great call Saturday.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: We visit next week.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. Happy holidays man YouTube.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Greg Tapper, managing at our Dave Campbell's
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Texas Football magazine. He and Ashley Pickle will call that
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: De Soto Willis game on Saturday night.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: FanDuel Sports Network is gonna be. That should be an
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: awful lot of fun.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And then we'll see about the quarterfinals what we have
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in front of us. There could be some just absolutely
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: atomic matchups that I'm looking forward to. All Right, more
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: coming up here, we're gonna hear it talk a little
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: basketball next on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone
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