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Talking Minnesota Gophers w/ Tony Liebert · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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  Speaker 2: Sports done right, we are bad. And tonight we have.
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  Speaker 7: A friend of the show, mister Tony Liebert. He does
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  Speaker 7: all the everything go for football. I mean he's out there,
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  Speaker 7: he is in the and he just knows it all.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 7: I mean I can't even talk about Tony because he
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  Speaker 7: is doing it all. So he is working with Bring
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  Speaker 7: Me the News, he's writing for SI, He's got all
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  Speaker 7: kinds of things popping here.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, it just hit me, man, it
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  Speaker 2: just hit me a few days ago where it's.
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  Speaker 7: Like, you know, pro football this weekend, this weekend, man,
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  Speaker 7: I mean team's reporting this weekend. I was like, damn,
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  Speaker 7: here we go, Sports done right.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta get back.
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  Speaker 7: It's football season, man, And I mean, now two things
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  Speaker 7: suck about that. And again I am vince rech your host,
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  Speaker 7: the Sports Governor of Minnesota. And while we all love football,
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  Speaker 7: of course, but it's just a reminder here summer is
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  Speaker 7: flying by, and this summer in particular is really flying by.
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  Speaker 7: So I thought it was a good time just over
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  Speaker 7: a month away to pick Tony's brain, and we'll be
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  Speaker 7: reaching out to Tony throughout the season as well, but
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  Speaker 7: just to kind of see where we are. So we
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  Speaker 7: really go over it all here, talk about the goal
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  Speaker 7: for success in the portal PJ and his staff, offense, defense,
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  Speaker 7: new players, you know, new quarterback, everything. So this is
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  Speaker 7: Tony Leebert, go for football, Big ten football, college football
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  Speaker 7: just a few weeks away, literally.
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  Speaker 7: All right, everybody, we are back Vince Wright, sports governor
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  Speaker 7: Sports Done Right Podcast and joining.
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  Speaker 2: Us once again.
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  Speaker 7: Friend of the show, friend of the podcast, Tony Liebert,
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  Speaker 7: and I just call him to go for expert.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the guy knows everything.
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  Speaker 7: He is in the bowels of the stadium and knows everybody,
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  Speaker 7: and he is the contact for Gopher football. So Tony,
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  Speaker 7: thank you for joining us once again. How you been
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  Speaker 7: doing this offseason?
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for having me, Vince. I've been doing great. It's
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  Speaker 9: been a nice Minnesota summer.
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  Speaker 2: It really has weatherwise.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I'd rather be hot and cold,
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  Speaker 7: so even you know, with the recent hot streak and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, I'm taking this over winter any day.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with that, all.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Okay, so we got Tony for a few minutes, Skase,
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  Speaker 7: so we're just gonna jump into it. We are just
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  Speaker 7: over a month away from Gopher football, college football in general,
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  Speaker 7: and it just kind of hit me, folks, it's like, man,
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  Speaker 7: we gotta we gotta get up the snuff here, you know,
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  Speaker 7: kind of taking the summer off from the podcast a
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  Speaker 7: little bit, so reached out to Tony. He was nice
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  Speaker 7: enough to join us today. So let's just start with
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  Speaker 7: the big question. It's always you know, the quarterback, the quarterback,
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  Speaker 7: the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Drake's in the house.
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  Speaker 7: Now and it is his show and you know, former
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  Speaker 7: Arkansas Player of the Year and then all the kudos
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  Speaker 7: that went with him. So just kind of give us
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  Speaker 7: your thoughts early on from what you've seen of him, Tony,
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  Speaker 7: and just kind of, you know, a little bit of
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  Speaker 7: background for people who aren't familiar with Drake Lindsey.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's it's super interesting and it's it's
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  Speaker 9: exciting because, i mean, just on the surface, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 9: he was a very accomplished high school player, six foot five,
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  Speaker 9: huge arm gunslinger type of mentality. And for a program
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  Speaker 9: like to Go, when you have a guy like that
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  Speaker 9: who already earns the starting job as a retir freshman,
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  Speaker 9: There's going to be plenty of excitement from the fan base,
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  Speaker 9: and I think that's that's rightfully so from my perspective,
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  Speaker 9: now that I've been covering the team for five six
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  Speaker 9: years almost, I've definitely learned a little bit. When uh
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  Speaker 9: Athan was coming up, Athan calliac Manus, there was a
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  Speaker 9: lot of similarities where he was an accomplished high school player.
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  Speaker 9: He was kind of the heir apparent that they were
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  Speaker 9: kind of developing him behind the scenes to be the
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  Speaker 9: guy to take the.
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  Speaker 3: Prora to the next level. And I don't necessarily.
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  Speaker 9: Want to buy all the way in with Drake Lindsey
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  Speaker 9: right away because I feel like I've kind of to
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  Speaker 9: an extent learned my lesson there. But I do think
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  Speaker 9: what makes Drake Lindsey different than Tanner Morgan Athan Max
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  Speaker 9: Frosmer is it's definitely the personality, because I think he
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  Speaker 9: has a gunslinger type of personality. Brosmer was a little
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  Speaker 9: more introverted. It kind of just seemed like it was
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  Speaker 9: just he would just grind tape and he was just
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  Speaker 9: a football, football or nothing guy. And Tara Morgan definitely
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  Speaker 9: was the same way. He seemed very measured, almost a
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  Speaker 9: clone of PJ. Fleck to an extent, Ethan was kind
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  Speaker 9: of somewhere in between there. I think Drake Lindsay's way different.
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  Speaker 9: He spoke to the media for one of the first
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  Speaker 9: times yesterday at their their internal media day, and he just,
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  Speaker 9: you know, kind of just seems like a like a
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  Speaker 9: college recher freshman that just kind of wants to go
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  Speaker 9: out there and sling it. And I'll be interesting interested
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  Speaker 9: to see how that works, because I mean, in high
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  Speaker 9: school he didn't throw that many interceptions, so maybe he
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  Speaker 9: doesn't show that much on the field where play a
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  Speaker 9: gun slinger. But that's been my big takeaway is he
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  Speaker 9: does exude confidence and he's a little different than what
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  Speaker 9: we've seen.
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  Speaker 3: From the past few quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, that's kind of what I've
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  Speaker 7: been hearing as well. And I can't wait to see him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: Gopher fans can't wait to see him. He's gonna be
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  Speaker 7: our guy. But you know, a lot of kudos coming
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  Speaker 7: out of Arkansas, Gatorade Player of the Year out of
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  Speaker 7: the state, so yeah, people are just very excited to
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  Speaker 7: see him.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, you talk about his personalities.
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  Speaker 7: I was watching some of your film from Twitter, and
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  Speaker 7: actually before we just got started here, I was watching
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  Speaker 7: him talk about, you know, Max being more introverted and
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  Speaker 7: he is more.
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  Speaker 2: Out there and things like that.
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  Speaker 7: So you know, I think that'd be fun to see
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  Speaker 7: if you know, some early successes, you know, him trotting
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  Speaker 7: around the field, guns blazing, all that fun stuff, and
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  Speaker 7: you know, we are off and running there. Let me
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  Speaker 7: ask you about this because there has been a lot
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  Speaker 7: talk to talk about here with the Portal.
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  Speaker 2: And the Gophers.
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  Speaker 7: Now bear with me, folks, because I got the list
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  Speaker 7: written down here so I'm not looking at my camera.
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  Speaker 7: But and obviously we don't have to tell Tony, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Key Loss is here ers obviously our quarterback Big Max
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  Speaker 7: from last year, John Joiner, strig Out, justin Wally, Cody Lindenberg.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, some huge, huge names, and perhaps to most
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  Speaker 7: of these guys because they wound up in the NFL,
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  Speaker 7: whether they were drafted or you know, being uh, you know,
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  Speaker 7: a free agent so to speak. But there is a
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  Speaker 7: lot coming in here in some really big talent. So
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  Speaker 7: let's talk about the portal aspect here because we've had
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  Speaker 7: people coming in. Logan Loya from u c l A.
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  Speaker 7: Is getting a lot of talk. You know, AJ Turner
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  Speaker 7: out of Marshall's getting a lot of talk. So I
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  Speaker 7: defer to the expert talk about the Gopher and actually
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  Speaker 7: the Gopher success in the portal, because I really don't
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  Speaker 7: think that people really give PJ enough credit here maybe
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  Speaker 7: the past two or three years with what he's been
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  Speaker 7: able to do and actually some people he's been able
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  Speaker 7: to kind of keep around.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think that's where I'm the
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  Speaker 9: most impressed by PJ, especially over the last few years,
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  Speaker 9: is just a team building perspective, because especially in the
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  Speaker 9: Big Ten at best, they're kind of like in the
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  Speaker 9: middle when it comes to spending and like ambition to
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  Speaker 9: build like this great contender. And I was really impressed
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  Speaker 9: with what they did in the portal this offseason, especially
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  Speaker 9: at the skill positions. Like you mentioned, AJ Turner might
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  Speaker 9: on paper be their most I guess highly touted edition,
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  Speaker 9: being that he's the second fiddle to Darius Taylor. He
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  Speaker 9: might not be the most important, but he led the
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  Speaker 9: country last year in yards per carry at Marshall. Just
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  Speaker 9: a big play waiting to happen, and I think that's
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  Speaker 9: a really underrated storyline heading into the U seeing how
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  Speaker 9: they use him next to Darius Taylor, because Darius Taylor
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  Speaker 9: is going to be the bell cow. He's gonna get
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  Speaker 9: twenty plus touches a game. But aj Turner's too good
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  Speaker 9: of a playmaker to not get the ball in his
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  Speaker 9: hands like five to eight times a game, maybe even
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  Speaker 9: a little more. Maybe they use him in like gadget scenarios,
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  Speaker 9: but they have a lot of playmakers because you mentioned
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  Speaker 9: Logan Loya from UCLA. He's gonna be that slot guy
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  Speaker 9: who I think is an ideal number two receiver on
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  Speaker 9: an offense. He's gonna be able to move the chains.
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  Speaker 9: He's not gonna be a guy who probably has many,
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  Speaker 9: you know, one hundred yard games, ten catch games. But
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  Speaker 9: Javon Tracy from Miami, Ohio is the other guy I
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  Speaker 9: want to mention who I think is probably their most
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  Speaker 9: important portal edition because if he can, he has the
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  Speaker 9: potential to be the number one receiver. And they have
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  Speaker 9: a huge gap now there with Daniel Jackson gone. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: if you go back to twenty nineteen, it was Tyler Johnson,
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  Speaker 9: then it was Rashad Bateman, then it was Chris hopmanbel
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  Speaker 9: then it was Daniel Jackson, and now they don't really
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  Speaker 9: have that true number one receiver. But uh, Javon Tracy's
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  Speaker 9: the guy that they're gonna kind of need to assume
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  Speaker 9: that role. He is the younger brother of Tyrone Tracy
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  Speaker 9: who's in the NFL. Fun fact, but they're gonna need
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  Speaker 9: him to step up. I definitely think he can. Sounds
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  Speaker 9: like he's.
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  Speaker 3: Has a really close relationship with Drake Lindsey.
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  Speaker 9: But those are the three additions on the offensive end
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  Speaker 9: that I think fans are gonna learn about pretty quickly
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  Speaker 9: this year.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, and again, folks, Tony Lieber joining us, let me
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  Speaker 7: ask you this before we get to the offensive line,
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  Speaker 7: because obviously huge turnover there. But one thing, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the tight end position here. You know, we have such
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  Speaker 7: a deep history of some very very very solid tight ends,
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  Speaker 7: obviously NFL quality tight ends here. What do you think
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  Speaker 7: because I'm looking at our depth chart here, Jamison Gears,
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  Speaker 7: Frank Berman, we got Drew Bieber out of Purdue that
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  Speaker 7: transferred in. Does PJ maybe look to maybe reestablish throwing
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  Speaker 7: that ball to a very worthy tight end because I
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  Speaker 7: think that's just one of the things we've missed here.
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  Speaker 2: Recently.
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  Speaker 7: No disrespect to brevns van Ford by any means, because
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  Speaker 7: I just thought something to play calling really just didn't
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  Speaker 7: take advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Of him and his size. But you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we've had.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of great tight ends here, so I just
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  Speaker 7: like to see them get back to using the tight ends,
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  Speaker 7: you know, as there is a real threat to this offense.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Jameson Gears is a guy who I definitely think
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if you can get up to five
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  Speaker 9: hundred receiving yards, but he's one of the better tight
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  Speaker 9: ends in the Big ten.
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  Speaker 3: I think he can get around there.
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  Speaker 9: Like honestly, I uh, they were a couple of games
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  Speaker 9: last year where where he was a serious playmaker. Uh
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  Speaker 9: Brosma really liked throwing the tight end. And that's gonna
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  Speaker 9: be something we figure out early because is Drake Lindsay
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  Speaker 9: just gonna want to be a gunslinger and take all
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  Speaker 9: these deep shots which typically don't go to tight ends,
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  Speaker 9: or is he going to kind of continue that that
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  Speaker 9: dink and dunk type offense. Is it gonna be a
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  Speaker 9: little conservative that those are the answers I don't have,
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  Speaker 9: And we're gonna figure out when uh, when the ball
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  Speaker 9: is spotted and they start playing.
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  Speaker 3: But I think.
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  Speaker 9: Jameson Gears is one of the more I guess overlooked
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  Speaker 9: players on the offense. I think he totally has a
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  Speaker 9: sneaky NFL potential. I don't know if he's gonna be
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  Speaker 9: like a draft pick, but we saw ko Keief get
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  Speaker 9: drafted Brevians. Van Ford is stuff around in the NFL
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  Speaker 9: now with the Cowboys. I think he's a weapon on
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  Speaker 9: offense that not many Gophers fans are going to point
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  Speaker 9: out when they're looking at the roster. But I like
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  Speaker 9: his game a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Nice nice, So yeah, because I agree, man, I'd being
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  Speaker 7: real nice to get the tight ends going back here.
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  Speaker 7: So let's just keep it moving again, folks. We get
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  Speaker 7: at Tony.
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  Speaker 2: Lieber joining us here on the Sports Done Right podcast.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive line. The offensive line some.
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  Speaker 7: Say, maybe disappointed a little bit last year with all
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  Speaker 7: the talent that was on that line, but lots of
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  Speaker 7: new names. Man to Fi out of Washington, Dylan Ray
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  Speaker 7: transfer out Ofentucky Marcellus Marshall University is a Central Florida transfer.
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  Speaker 7: You know, there's just obviously this is wholesale changes at
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  Speaker 7: you know, across the offensive line here, What are your
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  Speaker 7: early thoughts Tony from what you've seen him, from what
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  Speaker 7: you've heard, and obviously I mean, we're really just gonna
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  Speaker 7: have to wait and see how it starts yelling with
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  Speaker 7: the games or play but just from maybe a practice standpoint,
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  Speaker 7: how they been looking.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think kind of going along with the theme
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  Speaker 9: of the whole team, I think especially on the offensive line, quarterback,
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  Speaker 9: and then we'll get into Koy Parritch and everything. But
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  Speaker 9: I think there's really like a two year window almost
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  Speaker 9: here with a lot of the players where like if
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  Speaker 9: they reach their potential, like Minnesota could really exceed expectations
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  Speaker 9: and you know, there's a bigger playoff now, maybe they
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  Speaker 9: sneak in. Like that's a big statement there, But the
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  Speaker 9: offensive line kind of fits that mold. Because one player
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  Speaker 9: that I want to mention that Gophers should know pretty
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  Speaker 9: quickly is Nathan Roy. He was the number one recruit
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  Speaker 9: in Wisconsin two years ago with Parris and Drake Lindsay
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  Speaker 9: in that class.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't play much throughout the year, but he played
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  Speaker 3: in the bowl game.
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  Speaker 9: He was a four star recruit, a really big high
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: school recruit that has the potential to start up left hack.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he does Week one, but he's
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: going to play this year.
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: Uh pj Eds has shown, I guess the willingness to
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: kind of rotate a few guys early in the year.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: But he's that that that name up front that has
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: uh arianta airsree potential where he could be a top
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: one hundred draft pick that if he hits, so to speak,
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: this offensive line could exceed a lot of expectations. But
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: there's not many red shirt freshmen that do that really
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: in all.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Of college football.
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: But he's he has the potential to So that'll be
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: an interesting storyline to watch. And then you mentioned a
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: bunch of transfers. They they have four of them that
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: could play a big role this year to five as
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: a guy who was kind of banged up all spring.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: That he's another young guy. I believe he has two
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: years of elibella left, maybe three, but he's a guy
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: that that could, you know, help them reach a new
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: level up. I don't know how much he'll play this year.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: I kind of have a wait and see approach with him.
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: But you have Greg Johnson from Prior Lake returning. He's
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: been a two year starter. Ashton Beers was a starter
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: last year at He'll probably start at center, and then
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: the right guard spot you have probably you know Dylan
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: Ray from Kentucky like you mentioned Marcello's Marshall from ucf U.
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: And then right tackle. There's another transfer, Jaden Ball from Purdue,
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: who's a guy they got in the spring. Came down
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: to Ohio State and Minnesota. So if you're out recruiting
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: Minnesota for Ohio State for a guy, you know what,
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: he's pretty good. So there's a lot of question marks
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: up front, but a lot like the wide receiver position
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: and kind of what I mentioned. There's plenty of talent
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: and they did a really good job accumulating talent. They've
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: had Brian Callahan as the old line coach for as
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: long as fle's been there, and he's done a great
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: job developing talent. So it might be they might start
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: a little slow this year as they, I guess, learn
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: how to play together. But there's plenty of talent upfront,
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: and there's a lot of variations where ow could go.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: But it'll be an interesting storyline to follow, that's for sure.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Here you go.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: Over on the defensive side of the ball, Tony, let
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: me ask you this instead of kind of maybe the
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: way we've been breaking it down. What are you looking
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: for from the Gopher defense this season?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Again?
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: You know, plenty of transfers, you know, I'm very interested
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: in John Nester. Hopefully he can bring some of those
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Howkeye secrets and we can bring that pig back home
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: there and he and I see he's gonna probably be
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: used more on a nickel package than anything else. But
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: just on the defensive side of the ball. Again, we
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: lost some big names. But what are you looking for
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: for the Gopher defense this year? Or maybe just early
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: on in the season.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's it's definitely interesting because Corey Heatherman
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: last year's DC, He's now at Miami. They promoted within
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: Danny Collins, longtime assistant, finally getting his shot to call plays,
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: which is a massive storyline. But as it pertains to
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: I guess personnel. My biggest question on the whole roster
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: is their cornerback position, Zekwon Bryan Returns. He was their
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: third cornerback last year behind Justin Wally and Ethan Robinson,
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: and I think he certainly has the potential to be
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: a number one corner in the Big ten. And he's
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: not a huge question mark so to speak. He's shown
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: that he can produce at this level, but outside of that,
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: it's a lot of question marks. You mentioned John Nester,
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: he comes from Iowa. On paper, that sounds good, but
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: he hasn't played a whole lot. And they brought in
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Jalen Bowden transfer from NC Central FCS school. They've had
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: a lot of success with that route the past two years.
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: They had Trayvon Jones two years ago from Elon Ethan
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: Robinson last year from Bucknell, and now Bowden from n
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: C Central.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But he's uh, pretty small, and I believe he has
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: two years left as well, but it's hard to jump
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: from the me act to the Big ten, but you
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: never know. And then uh, Jona Ty McMillan, who's another
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: guy who might slot into that that nickel role. He
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: played a little bit last year former TCU transfer. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: then I know they like a lot of a couple
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: of young guys too, But it's just a lot of
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: question marks after Zaekwon Bryan, and there's a lot of
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: teams that are really good at throwing the ball in
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the Big Ten. Notably, the first one I think.
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: They'll play is Ohio State, and it just on paper
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: when I see that game and Ohio State's gonna roll
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: out Jeremiah Smith, who's one of the revers I've ever
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: seen play right. He might get two hundred and fifty
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: yards in that game. But so but and then it's
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: interesting because they might have the two best safeties in
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: the conference behind him with outside of Caleb Downs at
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: Ohio State, but Coy Perrich and Kerry Browner.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Future pros.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: So that secondary is gonna be really interesting because I
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: think up front they got the talent they got Anthony
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: Smith future NFL player. I'm higher on the d line
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: than most. And then that at linebacker, Maverick Baranowski.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: He's right in that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Cody Linnenberg, Yeah, I think he's I think he is
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: very close to being a borderline All Conference linebacker.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he kind of he fits the mold of what
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: the Gophers have had with PJ.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Flecky.
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: He does a lot of the same things that Lennenberg
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: and Sorry marn did And so when I look at it,
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: it's just the cornerback position. I don't I'm not very
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: skeptical of Danny Collins calling play is it's he's been
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: with PJ. Fleck forever. He's built for this moment. Fleck
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: knows what's what to expect. Collins knows what to expect.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: I think they're gonna have a really good defense again.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: But the only thing that scares me is that cornerback verge.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, I totally agree with that. All right.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: So a couple of things here as we head towards
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: the end of our time with Tony. One thing I
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: wanted to talk about nil, you know, always you know, present,
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: especially for teams like Minnesota. Do we have any updates?
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Do we have any numbers of what they're dealing with?
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: I think for you know, obviously whatever the budget is
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: over there, they've been doing very well. You know, we
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: talked about a little bit ago here with the porol
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: and everything. But do you have any I guess kind
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: of concrete numbers or anything that they're dealing with Tony, Yeah, I.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately don't have any numbers.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: But the biggest thing, obviously was about a month ago
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: the House VERSU NCAA settlement was finally approved, which changes
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: a lot what I am hearing because now the schools
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: are technically allowed to directly pay the players, and each
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: university has a has a cap now which is around
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: twenty million.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I know, that they can dive you up to all
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: their programs.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: But the thing that's really fascinating that I keep hearing
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: that is kind of baffling is there's now this third
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: party system that has to approve the NIL deals.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: So if a school wants.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: To pay a player an NIL deal out of that
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: revenue sharing thing, the third party company has to figure
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: out if it's a legitimate business practice blah blah blah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: And it sounds like school are struggling to get those approved.
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: So I don't know if it's like just since it's
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: a new thing, they're working out some kinks, but it
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: seems like there's a lot that still needs to be
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: figured out there in the grand scheme of things. My
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: optimistic view and my personality, I like to think that
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: five ten years from now, we're gonna be like this
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: ten year window of college sports was absolute madness, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: we came out the other ended.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: And I like to think that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: I like to think this revenue sharing things one step
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: towards that. But as it pertains to the Gophers, I mean,
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: the football team is really competitive with from a financial
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: perspective because they retained Darius Taylor, who's arguably a top
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: ten running back in the sport. They retained Coy parrotsho
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: could generate a number of open market and they're recruiting
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: really well at the high school level. They got a
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: couple of big name in the transfer portal. From a
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: football perspective, I don't think you can really ask for
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: much more because they all, yeah, they're acquiring talent like
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: a program even better than them should.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I totally agree. Okay, So PJ.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Fleck has been extended yet again, kind of becoming an
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: all half for him, So props to the agent there.
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: But you know, Pj's been here what almost ten years,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: almost that magical decade mark. And when you kind of
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: sit back, take it all in from where he came from,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: what he's done, the state of the program so to speak.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: What does Tony Liebert say on the span of coach PJ.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: Fleck at the University of Minnesota. How do you look
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: at this and how would you characterize it so far?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a fascinating discussion.
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: It's one that I have often with my grandpa, who
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: just turned seventy nine, and he has a very different
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: perspective than I do.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: He's seen a little different levels of Gophers football.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: But as a twenty four year old, I guess what
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: I'm most impressed by from PJ Fleck was last season.
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: I had really low expectations going into the year. There
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: was a lot that I saw in that twenty twenty
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: three season that I guess concerned me.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: From a coordinator perspective.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: I thought the play calling in twenty twenty three was
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: atrocious offensively, especially, and there were a lot of questions defensively.
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: And then in that offseason, Joe Rossi, their longtime defensive coordinator,
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: he leaves for Michigan State and PJ. Fleck decides to
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: retain Greg Harbo Junior the offensive coordinator after a borderline
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: abysmal year offensively right and it paid off for him.
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: Greg Harbot Junior improved a ton. PJ trusted him and
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: it worked out for them offensively. They went out to
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: get a transfer portal quarterback, which I didn't think they
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: were going to do because PJ is a guy who
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: likes people who are bought into his program and doing things,
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: And what I saw last year was a willingness to change,
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: which is why I think he should be the golfers
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: coach as long as he wants to be because that
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: is something I wasn't entirely confident that he would show.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: And the fact that he showed that last year in
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: the hiring perspective, from hiring Corey Heatherman from a different program,
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: which is also something that he hasn't done often. He
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: did a couple of things that I didn't think he
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: was gonna do, and it paid off for him. They
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: had a productive year last year. They keep beating Wisconsin.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: He got the Iowa monkey off his back. It just me,
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: as someone who's lived my whole life in Minnesota, if
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: you beat your rivals and you get around eight wins
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: and maybe every five or six years, there's a twenty
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: nineteen tight season for Minnesota's Gophers football. I just I
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: don't know why how you can really expect much more,
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: especially in this new sixteen team Big Ten.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It like they're not not going to play in the
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Big Ten championship. That's not gonna happen. There's just too
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: many good teams in the conference.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Right But ironically can still find the way and you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: God bless those Indiana Hoosiers of last year. Man, but
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: that I'm telling you, that's the that's the way though,
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: I mean Indiana, what they did last year shows you
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: that a team like Minnesota, if you're a Purdue fan,
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: you know whatever, that type of quality team is that
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: compares to a Minnesota that with a twenty nineteen type
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: of break in the season, Like, yeah, we would have
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: been either in the playoffs right on the cusp of
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: the college playoffs, had you know, the present system.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Been in place. So you just never know.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: And you know, let's ended with this because I'm pulling
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: up our Gopher football schedule here, Tony. You know, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: just recently learned Northwestern State was from Louisiana.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: California is in all kinds of.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: Exactly California for folks that don't know, I mean, they
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: lost their whole running back room. They've had all kinds
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: of people kind of bail on the team out there.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: The Gophers open with Buffalo and then you know, obviously
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: kind of the usual games Iowa, Ohio State, Big Ones,
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: and of course the Oregon game there in November fourteenth.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: But let's just kind of talk records, Tony. I mean
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: we were kind of chatting before the show.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: I was saying, you know, kind of maybe seven wins
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: might be the bottom, like you know that might be
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: disappointing on up to a possible nine ten wins season
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: with a break here and there.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts early on?
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Obviously not a game has been played, but what do
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: you think and if kind of everything should play out,
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: no major injuries, things like that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I went game by game and not not
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: to do that right now.
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: I could talk to you for another half an hour,
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: but I feel free.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I means you want to pop up talk about for free.
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a few games that I'm circling. They have
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: an insane, I guess road schedule this year. They go
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: cross country to cal they play Iowa on the road,
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: they play Ohio State on the road, they play Oregon
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: on the road, and they play Northwestern at Wrigley Field.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: And on the surface, when you have a redshirt freshman
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: quarterback who's never started a game at the college level,
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: having those type of road environments is.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: A little intimidating.
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: And if there's one thing that a national person, if
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: they say out not high on the Gophers, that's one
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: reason I could be like, I kind of understand it.
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: But I do think Drake Lindsay's going to be a
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: guy who can show up in those moments, and I
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: think the schedule works out well for him because on paper,
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: probably the easiest of those road games might be Cal
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: and that's the first one. So let's say they take
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: care of business against Buffalo and Northwestern State at home.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: Tough ast to go cross country to Cal, but on paper,
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: their roster was absolutely decimated in the portals. So yeah,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: let's say they win that, and then you get a
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: buy Rutgers comes to town. And this is one of
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: two games that I'm circling that will tell you a
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: lot about this Gophers team. And I think that Rutgers
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: game will a lot because it's the definition of a
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: trap game because the following week they go to Ohio State.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: But you have your former quarterback coming in, all the
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: connections with the Rutgers and PJ and now eight in
• 35:01
  Speaker 9: the beach of last year too, right, So yeah, that's
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: a sneaky game that not many people are circling.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: That Rutgers is going to be a tough out.
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: They might be a six and sixteen, but they lost
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: to him last year. I don't think they loose from
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: two years in a row. I don't think PJ will
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: make let that happen. But it Let's say they sneak
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: by and then they're four now going into Ohio State.
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: We mentioned Jeremiah Smith at that game. I just don't
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: really see how they're even competitive in that game, to
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: be completely honest. But so maybe they get they get
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: a piece of humble pie there, and then they come back,
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: they get Purdue at home, which if there's a big
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: ten opponent to come off Ohio State with, right, that's
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: a good one. Regain your confidence a little bit. And
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: then I have a schedule behind me. And then they
• 35:46
  Speaker 9: go two to the Nebraska which is a Friday night game,
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: and that might be the biggest home game of the
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: year other than Wisconsin, but Friday night under the lights,
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: Nebraska's sneaky rivalry.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Now there'll be a lot of DRAFTA fans there.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And and that's the thing.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: We've gotten the victories, but man, they've they've been you know,
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: hairline victories.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: So you know that I never ever overlook Nebraska. I
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: know a lot of Gopher fans like talking craft to
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: the Husker fans that have come up here for that
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: game and stuff, but kind of hold off on that
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: because you know, we've been very lucky to pass a
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: couple of games here against Nebraska.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that that's obviously another big one.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: I think they're gonna get up for that game and
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: it's gonna be a great atmosphere. And I think that's
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: when we see maybe Huntington Banks say, do you maybe
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: you know underrated place to play?
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Maybe Nebraska struggles.
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: And then to Iowa, I was a team that I'm unfortunately,
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: I think they're gonna be pretty good this year. So
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: that's gonna be a really tough game. But yeah, and
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: then after Iowa, you have a Michigan State game sandwich
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: in between Iowa and Oregon, which, much like that Rutgers game,
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: just screams trap game that it seems like PJ has
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: kind of had one of these games every year where
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: no one circles and you're like, wait, how do they
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: just lose to them? And I have a feeling that
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: might be Michigan State this year. They're it might be
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: you know, six and six, seven and five team, they're
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: not anything special, but Joe Rossi defensive coordinator there. Still
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: they're gonna be well coached, and you have a they
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: have a bye week after that before they go to
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: Oregon but I think they could overlook Michigan State there
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: and then that Oregon game.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Another game. I if they.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: Could beat Oregon, Ohio or Ohio State, I'm much more
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: confident they'd be competitive against Oregon. Being at the games
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  Speaker 9: on a Friday, they're coming off a bye, it's late
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  Speaker 9: in the year. So there's that game, and then you
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  Speaker 9: got uh Northwestern at Wrigley in Wisconsin at home. So
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  Speaker 9: really overall, I guess that was a really long win
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  Speaker 9: to answer, all right, I think my predictions eight and four.
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  Speaker 9: I think they're gonna drop one of those Rutgers or
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  Speaker 9: Michigan State games. It's really hard to predict an Ohio
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  Speaker 9: State or Oregon win. So there's two losses there. I
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  Speaker 9: think that Iowa game is gonna be really tough. So
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  Speaker 9: there's three losses and four with the Michigan State one.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, hey, Tony real quick here because we speak on
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  Speaker 7: I well, kind of the thorn in the side.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've talked about it so many times.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Gophers losing to out Now last year they
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  Speaker 7: came out in the second half and just you know,
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  Speaker 7: just kicked us in the nuts. So I mean you
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  Speaker 7: got to give props where you know, props was earned
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  Speaker 7: and running back. You know they came to play in
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  Speaker 7: that second half. But you know we've lost to the
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  Speaker 7: some very mediocre Iowa teams that have honestly cost the
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  Speaker 7: Gophers probably two Rose Bowl appearances because you know, it
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  Speaker 7: was one of those seasons where it's like, hey, you
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  Speaker 7: win this.
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  Speaker 3: Game, you go to the Rose Ball. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: What is it that you're hearing about this year's io
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  Speaker 7: Would's team? Because I actually have a friend of mine
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  Speaker 7: a big Iowa fan. He's actually coming in on some
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  Speaker 7: Gofer season tickets with me because he lives here, but
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  Speaker 7: he loves college football.
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  Speaker 2: But what is it about this year's Iowa team that
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: you're hearing that.
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  Speaker 7: You think that you know they're just going to kind
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  Speaker 7: of continue on down there in Iowa City.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's quarterback play.
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  Speaker 9: I think they brought in Mark Ronowski from South Dakota State,
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  Speaker 9: who I'm really high on, and I think he fits
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  Speaker 9: their system so well. Like if you had to make
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  Speaker 9: an Iowa quarterback in a lab, I think it's him
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  Speaker 9: and he could. I mean, the last few years their
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  Speaker 9: quarterback play has been so bad with Kate back as
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  Speaker 9: Spencer Petrius, I think he's probably their best quarterback at
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: least since Nate Stanley, maybe CJ. Bethard. And I think
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  Speaker 9: they're gonna have a sneaky of good offense this year.
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  Speaker 9: Brian or yeah, Brian Farrens is no longer call him
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  Speaker 9: plays Tim Lester a year two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, They're.
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  Speaker 9: Not gonna be an air raid by any means, but
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  Speaker 9: they could have their best offense in quite a while.
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  Speaker 9: And you always know they're gonna have a good defense,
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  Speaker 9: good running game. So if you add a sneaky good
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  Speaker 9: offense to that, they're my sleeper team that could be
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  Speaker 9: that fourth Big Ten team in the playoff. Unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 9: don't want us to happen.
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  Speaker 7: No, of course not, but you know, yeah, just you know,
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  Speaker 7: being honest about it again, honestly, That's why I asked
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  Speaker 7: the question because also former Gopher Ed Hawthorne, former offensive
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  Speaker 7: lineman friend.
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  Speaker 2: Who was in school when I was there, his son, you.
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  Speaker 7: Talk about the South Dakota His son was offensive lineman
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  Speaker 7: out there South Dakota when they won the championship.
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  Speaker 2: He also entered the portal and is now down in Iowa.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, exactly, So I mean, you know, you talk
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: about championship portal picking another reason I wanted to ask
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  Speaker 7: you about those pesky unfortunate Iowa Hawk eyes there. But
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: shout out to the cyclone Syhawk champs, by the way, so.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give them some love.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: But Tony, first off, man, here, I'm gonna get you
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: out here. We've been here for forty minutes almost. I
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: want to thank you so much again for taking some
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: time out of your schedule. Will definitely kind of hit
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: you up throughout the season, especially since I'm back to
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: being a fan. I won't be up in the in
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: the booth there with you, so I'll definitely be picking
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: your brain from the journalistic standpoint, and just tell the
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: folks real quick before you get out of here, man,
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: where they can find you and where they can follow
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: you at.
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the easiest way is at Tony Liebert on Twitter
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: or x or whatever you call it nowadays.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: But that's where most my stuff is. I'm now working
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: with bring me the.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: News and yeah, congrats on that.
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  Speaker 9: Find all all of the written content on our SI sites,
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: Gophers on SI doing a little other Minnesota sports stuff
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: too if you if you're interested in that with the Vikings,
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: Twins and Timbers a little bit. But yeah, you can
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: find me on Twitter is probably the easiest way, and
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: I appreciate you having me on Vince. I always I
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: love getting my Gophers takes off to someone my friend.
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: Have heard him too many times, so I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Hey man, we love having you, and you know you
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: do a great job there, Tony, and.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I just you know that's why I love talking to you.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: I read your stuff, I follow you, and you know
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: what you're doing and you got good info. Man, So
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: appreciate you joining us, my friend. We will talk to
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: you soon.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: All right, the one and only Tony Leeber joining us
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  Speaker 7: here on Sports Done Right.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Another great episode and another great guest joining us. So
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: with that, we will be back next week.
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  Speaker 7: As we said, NFL camps open this week and we
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: will get back to it. So football is basically back.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: This is crazy summer flying by. But what can you
• 43:14
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  Speaker 2: Peace.
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