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What stands out about Florida to Steve Sarkisian · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: First reveal of the first release that one other point
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  Speaker 1: that I was gonna make up the Big twelve, and
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Colorado is twentieth in the first reveal rankings
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  Speaker 1: six and two, and it's the first time Colorado has
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  Speaker 1: even been in the CFP rankings since twenty twenty. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a great deal of excitement building up in Boulder
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of folks saying, yeah, we told you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this thing turned and flipped. And they're
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  Speaker 1: already Bowl eligible and so on and so forth. They
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  Speaker 1: do have a pathway to get to the Big twelf
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  Speaker 1: championship game, so does Texas Tech. But say to say,
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  Speaker 1: the loser of the game in Lobbock this Saturday will
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  Speaker 1: be eliminated from that pathway. So it is kind of
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  Speaker 1: an elimination game, and much as the LSU Alabama game
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  Speaker 1: is pretty much an elimination game for the se C
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  Speaker 1: championship game. Although although Cam heather Dinich, who studies this,
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  Speaker 1: Alverias Dudeley pointed out that a loss by either LSU
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  Speaker 1: or Alabama does not necessarily take them out of the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Given I think Alabama street the schedule is eleven.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you they cannot quit Alabama. Well, they won't quit.
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  Speaker 1: Them in Alabama, I think, giving them reason not to
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  Speaker 1: quit on them yet to quit them. We'll see, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how it goes. It's a very important game, no
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  Speaker 1: question about. In fact, after the Long Worns game, which
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  Speaker 1: has an eleven AM kick, there's two very important SEC
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  Speaker 1: games following Georgia Ole miss Follows followed by Alabama and
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  Speaker 1: LSU in the night time slot. So important stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the Texas Florida game goes. Long Worns
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  Speaker 1: head coach Steve Sarkisian took part in the SEC Coaches
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  Speaker 1: Call today and uh, you know this, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we're back on a regular schedule now for Texas football
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  Speaker 1: and for the media availabilities. And so sark was asked
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  Speaker 1: about this matchup with the Florida Let's start off with
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  Speaker 1: his opening remarks about this matchup with the Florida Gators
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good do it back on the back on the field
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  Speaker 3: this Saturday, coming off our second by getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: play a Florida team that my opinion has gotten better
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  Speaker 3: all year long. They played really good over the last
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  Speaker 3: month and a half. And I don't think they're they're clearly,
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  Speaker 3: their record is an indicative of you know, how good
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  Speaker 3: of a football team coaching Apier has the job he's
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  Speaker 3: done and developing that team. So it should be a
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  Speaker 3: great ball game. And like I said, looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: getting back on the field and competing.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that is the first part.
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  Speaker 1: So then the questions came for Sark, and I noticed
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  Speaker 1: this on Monday, even when Cameron and I were in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas getting ready for the basketball game, we were
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  Speaker 1: watching and listening to Sark online. Of course, we bring
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  Speaker 1: you the press conference as part of our long Orange
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  Speaker 1: Monday presentation every Monday, with our coverage starting at eleven am,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course it's televised. They're locally here on KBVO,
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  Speaker 1: but also on the long worn network and on the
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  Speaker 1: longer network Gap. And a lot of the questions that
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  Speaker 1: happened on Monday, or let's just say there was a
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  Speaker 1: healthy handful of those questions, seemed to center around the
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  Speaker 1: offense and getting back in a rhythm, getting back in
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  Speaker 1: a groove. And so Sark was asked this morning on
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  Speaker 1: the SEC teleconference, how close is his offense to connecting
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  Speaker 1: the way he wants to see them do and operating
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  Speaker 1: the way he wants to see them operate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're pretty close. That's it. See.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why he answered that way is because
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  Speaker 1: he had such a bevy of questions about it on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how close is close? And what do you
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  Speaker 2: need to do?
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  Speaker 1: He I thought on Monday, I thought he did pretty
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  Speaker 1: good job, liking it to a shooter in basketball getting
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  Speaker 1: some shots to drop, or a baseball player, you know,
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  Speaker 1: making good swings, making good contact, but finally getting some hits,
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  Speaker 1: some things to go through and or drive the ball. Well,
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  Speaker 1: so he probably heard quite a bit by the time
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  Speaker 1: it got to the day. He was also asked about
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  Speaker 1: having two bye weeks in the regular season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and this is always something I found interesting is that reporters,
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  Speaker 1: it is their job to ask about certain things, even
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  Speaker 1: things over which the head coach has absolutely no control whatsoever,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes the two bye weeks, good, bad, and different.
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  Speaker 2: Sark was asked about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it obviously makes it long, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but the length of the season. You know, when you
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  Speaker 3: really analyzed it from front to back and you look
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  Speaker 3: at you know, kicking off the season in August, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, all of us have goals and aspirations of
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  Speaker 3: playing until January twentieth and now with the format of
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  Speaker 3: the twelve team playoff, if you're fortunate enough to get
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  Speaker 3: in that, I think there is a lot of value
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  Speaker 3: in the two buys this year. Again, it's not always ideal.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you just want to keep playing. But I can
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  Speaker 3: say this for us, I think that the buys came
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  Speaker 3: at really good times. We definitely had some injuries that
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  Speaker 3: we were dealing with in the first buy, dealing with
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  Speaker 3: some injuries here.
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  Speaker 2: At the second bye.
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  Speaker 3: We had some things that we needed to work on,
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  Speaker 3: especially offensively, where we were trying to get ourselves back
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  Speaker 3: to the standard of which we can play.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the timing was good for us this
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  Speaker 2: time around. Again.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So now we're on the Florida and you
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  Speaker 1: heard last hour we had Sean Kelleyhong talking about out
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  Speaker 1: them being four and four but a highly competitive for
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  Speaker 1: and four. After the Sluggers start losing to Miami, losing
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  Speaker 1: to Texas A and m but they took Tennessee to
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  Speaker 1: overtime on the road. It's a twenty twenty fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: ball game with Georgia. Before the Bulldogs scored the final
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns of the game. So what has impressed Sark
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  Speaker 1: about the Gators.
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  Speaker 2: Well, their last five game stretch.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they beat Mississippi State pretty handily, they beat
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  Speaker 3: UCF pretty handily. They go they go to Knoxville and
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  Speaker 3: lose to Tennessee in overtime. Who I think they're ranked
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  Speaker 3: six or seventh in the country right now. Then they
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  Speaker 3: turn around and they beat Kentucky pretty handily. And then
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  Speaker 3: they're tied twenty twenty with the number three team in
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  Speaker 3: the country Georgia last week with seven minutes to go.
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  Speaker 3: So and that's playing with their third quarterback. So I
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  Speaker 3: commend Billy for the job he's done of keeping that
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  Speaker 3: team playing at a really high level. They played really
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  Speaker 3: good defense, their physical on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It definitely, you know, really woke Ocean all three phases.
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  Speaker 1: And again, when you get to press conferences and conference calls,
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  Speaker 1: quite often, you'll have a unique variety of questions not
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  Speaker 1: only about his own program and also the program that
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  Speaker 1: his team will encounter this week, and talking about Texas
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  Speaker 1: and Florida as football programs. But Sarcus also asked if
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  Speaker 1: he thought there were similarities between the two schools Florida
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  Speaker 1: and Texas as academic institutions as universities, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think there's some familiarity there. I'm sure that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of other schools would kind of deem themselves in the
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  Speaker 3: same light. So again, you know, I don't we just
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  Speaker 3: try to focus on exactly what we do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure of all the ins and outs of
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  Speaker 2: their place.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a great job, They've had a great
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  Speaker 3: program for a lot of years, and obviously it's good institution, So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, comparing them to all the other schools, off
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  Speaker 3: the top of my head, without having any notes that
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  Speaker 3: I could do some research on right now, probably a
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  Speaker 3: little bit difficult.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, knowing Sarcus, I know him and
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  Speaker 1: knowing what his schedule is like, I don't think he'd
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  Speaker 1: want to put a lot of time and energy into
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  Speaker 1: researching the academic comparisons of the University of Texas and
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  Speaker 1: the University of Florida, whether it be in terms of
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  Speaker 1: GPA or degrees, degree programs offered, and however it might be.
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  Speaker 1: But in any event, he said that without any notes
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  Speaker 1: in front of me, it'd be difficult to do that,
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  Speaker 1: but he does have an appreciation for them. Just going well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Cam that I'll ask him that exact
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  Speaker 1: question when we record long, long, weekly, like what's your
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  Speaker 1: opinion of Texas in Florida's universities how they did? And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that I'll ask him that
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing. But you know, on a conference call
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  Speaker 1: deal like this, there's going to be a variety of
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  Speaker 1: topics discussed. What I am surprised in looking at the
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  Speaker 1: list of what we call in the business slugs, the
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  Speaker 1: cut slugs, in other words, the description of what he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about. I don't see one thing. And I was
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  Speaker 1: traveling in so I didn't get to hear the call.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see one thing here. One question of Sark
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  Speaker 1: asked about the college football playoff ranking or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody asked him about that. Nobody nobody asked him about Now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course there is he does have a media availability tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he'll be Yeah, he'll have the
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  Speaker 2: Thursday media zoom.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be asked about that because that's what would you say,
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine percent local media.
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  Speaker 2: For the Yeah, so I'm sure he'll be is but
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  Speaker 2: nobody asked him about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting given the SEC know what you think on
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  Speaker 1: the teleconference today, they that they didn't ask Kirby Smart
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  Speaker 1: about it, that they didn't ask you know, Kaylin de
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  Speaker 1: Boorr about it. Interesting, that's all right, That's something I
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  Speaker 1: will ask him about so and I don't even think
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to ask, you know, the question cards that
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  Speaker 1: we hand out, somebody will write what do you think
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  Speaker 1: of your ranking in the college football play and I'll
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  Speaker 1: let that person have the question, if that's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, we'll hear more from start coming up next
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