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The Charles Huff Era Begins at Memphis, G6 and CFB Landscape with Dave Woloshin · The Craig Way Show

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: We welcome you back here on a Monday.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Labor Day holiday, but we're glad to be with you here.
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  Speaker 2: Craig Way alongside the producer, Jay Kerman. Nothing like a
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  Speaker 2: little Paul Simon with going to Graceland. Not going exactly
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  Speaker 2: to Graceland, but we are going to Memphis there to
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  Speaker 2: visit with a longtime friend of mine and the voice
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  Speaker 2: of the Memphis Tigers, Dave Woloshin, who joins us now.
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  Speaker 1: Wolow, great to see you. How are you, my friend?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go. Your intro says Hall of Famer. Is
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  Speaker 4: that correct?
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am a Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 5: How in the world is a Hall of Famer working
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  Speaker 5: on Labor Day? They should be much more respectful than that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I could say you don't get to be
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  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame unless you do work on holidays, right?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you why.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the simple explanation, Willow. Sark has his press conference
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. So if they're all working, they got the
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  Speaker 2: press conference on Monday, and I'm over on campus until
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  Speaker 2: after one o'clock in the afternoon, and my show starts
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  Speaker 2: at noon, I might as well just come.
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  Speaker 1: Over here and do the show, you know, and give everybody.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: And so we hear from Sark, you know, on Mondays.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm glad you joined us. And Dave and I
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  Speaker 2: have known each other a long time. Wolo and I
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: go back, I guess, almost, it'd be an even 40 years,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, was it 80?
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  Speaker 3: 85.
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  Speaker 4: 85 was when you came to Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I met you at TRLD in Dallas. You were a youngster.
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  Speaker 1: So were you.
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  Speaker 3: I was young too.
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  Speaker 2: We both worked at KRLD in Dallas there in 85
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  Speaker 2: and 86.
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  Speaker 1: You think about this, Roger.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'd like to talk about coaching trees that
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  Speaker 2: Roy Williams, Dean Smith of the coaching tree, and John
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  Speaker 2: Wood and all these great coaches at coaching trees. The
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  Speaker 2: KRLD broadcaster coaching tree, even before Brad Champ, Frank Lieber,
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  Speaker 2: the immortal Frank Lieber.
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  Speaker 5: That's the guy that I replaced because of his– unfortunate
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  Speaker 5: passing that's.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly that's exactly right and and uh so so you
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  Speaker 2: had frank lieber and verne lundquist working there and doing
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  Speaker 2: cowboys games and then brad sham chuck cooperstein dave will
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  Speaker 2: ocean and myself and george dunham and craig miller of
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  Speaker 2: the ticket in dallas uh were with us as well
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  Speaker 2: uh later.
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  Speaker 5: On brian briscoe brian briscoe was also Kind of like
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  Speaker 5: the fill-in guy.
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  Speaker 1: Great producer.
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  Speaker 4: And he went to the Motor Sports Way, right? The
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  Speaker 4: Texas Motor Sports Way.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 2: He worked at Texas Motor Speedway. Did that for years.
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  Speaker 2: Now pretty much retired doing a podcast in Denton that's
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  Speaker 2: called Built for This.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I'm going to put him in touch with you,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't mind, because I know we'd love to
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  Speaker 2: have you on his podcast.
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  Speaker 4: No, I would love to chat with him.
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  Speaker 5: I would tell you, you're not going to believe this,
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  Speaker 5: but we were doing, I can't remember if the game
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  Speaker 5: was in Memphis or somewhere in Texas, probably in Texas,
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  Speaker 5: because Fran Fraschilla was doing the game on TV. His
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  Speaker 5: wife comes up to me and she goes, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I just love listening to you. You were part of
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  Speaker 5: the dream team. She considered that group of 85 a
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  Speaker 5: dream team. And if you think about it, Cooperstein, you, me,
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  Speaker 5: we're still all working. And so is Sham.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How about Brad? They're going along. Yeah, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: You're mentioning the former Meg O'Connell, Meg Fraschilla, Fran's wife.
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  Speaker 2: And at the time, Meg was working in the Southwest
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  Speaker 2: Conference Media Relations Office. That's how she got to know us.
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  Speaker 2: That's how she got to know us. Meg worked in
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  Speaker 2: the Southwest Conference Office and then met Fran later when
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  Speaker 2: Fran was coaching and.
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  Speaker 1: Married Fran. And they had two sons and yeah, great
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  Speaker 1: people as well.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason I wanted Wolo on the show today
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  Speaker 2: was not to talk about our indoor soccer backgrounds, because
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  Speaker 2: we both have that. Wolo was the voice of the
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  Speaker 2: Memphis Rogues, and I was the voice of the Dallas
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  Speaker 2: Sidekicks for a time.
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  Speaker 4: And don't forget the Memphis Americans. That was the first
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  Speaker 4: one that.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 4: That was an MISL team. That took on Dallas. Who
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  Speaker 4: was the guy?
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  Speaker 5: There was a great player at Dallas. It was while
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  Speaker 5: we were in Dallas. Short guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about the wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Antonio Carlos Pecorari, who we all knew as Tattoo.
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  Speaker 3: Tattoo, that's it, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Tattoo is coaching now. He's coaching, yes.
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  Speaker 4: So you called me to talk about my Cubs. I'm
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  Speaker 4: very sad today. They blew.
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  Speaker 5: A 2-1 lead in the bottom of the eighth and
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  Speaker 5: lost 4-3.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I saw Zephyr John let it get away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw Zephyr John let it get away from
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  Speaker 2: him when me as the Dodger fan is wanting to
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  Speaker 2: see L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Make up ground on Milwaukee there.
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  Speaker 2: So I was rooting for the Cubs today as well.
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  Speaker 2: But the reason I asked Wolo on the program today
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  Speaker 2: is not any of the stuff we've just talked about,
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  Speaker 2: although it's great to catch up. How many years now
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  Speaker 2: for you is the voice of Memphis Tigers?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I came back from Dallas to start doing basketball
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  Speaker 5: and football for them on television. And then, I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: I think it was 98 I transitioned over after doing
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of ESPN stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I transitioned over to radio. And so that's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: really 86. Go back there. So we're talking 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. The reason why I also bring this up.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched and listened, by the way, to Wolo call
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  Speaker 2: the first two games of this football season for the
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  Speaker 2: Memphis Tigers. And I got a chance to hear and
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  Speaker 2: watch with the zero week win over UNLV. And then
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  Speaker 2: the other night driving home after the Texas-Texas State game,
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  Speaker 2: I'm listening to you, I picked you up on SiriusXM,
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  Speaker 2: when you're playing Arkansas State.
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  Speaker 1: And the Tigers won a couple of ball games now.
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  Speaker 2: So Memphis, one of the few teams that you could
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  Speaker 2: even have in a conversation to talk about the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of being in the college football playoff, that's 2-0.
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  Speaker 1: USC is there. Florida State can get there tonight if
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  Speaker 1: they win.
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  Speaker 2: But USC, I think, I would submit, has a much
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  Speaker 2: more difficult path to try to get to the playoff
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  Speaker 2: existing in the Big Ten and having to deal with
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  Speaker 2: the likes of Ohio State and Penn State and Indiana
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  Speaker 2: and those.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Memphis, a G6 school, is in the American.
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  Speaker 2: Not to say it's an easy path because you have
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  Speaker 2: to go to what many consider to be the favorite
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  Speaker 2: to be the one automatic out of the G6, Boise State.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the gamblers in Vegas agree with you. They made
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  Speaker 5: it an eight and a half point game after it
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  Speaker 5: opened up.
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  Speaker 1: Did they? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll get to that in a moment, but I
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  Speaker 2: want to get your thoughts on this Memphis team, which,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was, I was listening to you describe
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  Speaker 2: the exploits on the field and a tremendous game from
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Carter who ran for 183 yards. And before we
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  Speaker 2: even get to that, you're on a new head coach
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  Speaker 2: and Charles Huff is Not only is the new head
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  Speaker 2: coach at Memphis, Charles Huff is on his third head
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  Speaker 2: coaching job in his many years. So he's been the
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  Speaker 2: turnaround guy at Marshall, at Southern Miss, and now at Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: So how has it gone so far with Coach Huff
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  Speaker 2: and him getting acclimating and getting the program off.
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  Speaker 1: To a good start?
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, there were many questions, Marshall. I really did
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  Speaker 5: not know what to expect going into Vegas. You got
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  Speaker 5: 81 new players. 81. 61 transfers and 20 freshmen. You
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  Speaker 5: did have a bunch of those transfers that came from
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  Speaker 5: that Southern Miss school. And no one was able to
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  Speaker 5: go from Marshall to Southern Miss to Memphis because they
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  Speaker 5: ran out of eligibility.
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  Speaker 4: But those players love Charles Huff. They really do.
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  Speaker 5: Charles is a Nick Saban disciple. He also learned from
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  Speaker 5: James Franklin. So he says he learned all about recruiting...
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  Speaker 5: and how to work boosters from Franklin, he learned about
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  Speaker 5: the process from Saban.
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  Speaker 4: Part of that is you don't learn very much at all.
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  Speaker 4: So I had no idea.
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  Speaker 5: I had no depth chart until the night before the game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: We had a thought about how it was going, but
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  Speaker 4: that's it.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, you know when Arkansas State give
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  Speaker 5: us their depth chart?
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  Speaker 4: For the game on Saturday? Yeah. Literally five minutes before
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  Speaker 4: the game. So, you know, you can find out ways.
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  Speaker 5: There's ourlands.com, and you talk to the other broadcasters, and
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  Speaker 5: they'll give you some, but they can't give you everything.
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  Speaker 5: And a kid that you know, that Owens kid, Trey Owens,
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  Speaker 5: was a backup attack. He's a junior. I guess he
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  Speaker 5: couldn't beat out Arch. He was the number 16 quarterback
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  Speaker 5: prospect ever. Of the class of 24 when he went
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  Speaker 5: to Texas. We didn't know if it was going to
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  Speaker 5: be him. Butch Jones said it could be four guys.
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  Speaker 4: Four guys, come on now.
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  Speaker 5: But that's the way it is. But we didn't know
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  Speaker 5: anything about Huff. Huff is a great orator without telling
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  Speaker 5: you a whole lot. Until finally we went to this
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  Speaker 5: production meeting. That was with Tim Brando. Because the way
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  Speaker 5: it works is you don't get coordinators. And in your
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  Speaker 5: production meeting, it's always going to be TV and radio.
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  Speaker 5: So you've got to share your time kind of. And
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  Speaker 5: it's hard to share with Tim Brando. Love the guy,
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  Speaker 5: but it takes him about 20 minutes to ask one question.
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  Speaker 5: um but we did find out some stuff then and
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  Speaker 5: um you can't help but like charles soft he is
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  Speaker 5: a good football coach when he tells you about the
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  Speaker 5: strategy and why he's doing this and why he's using
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  Speaker 5: this guy and what he expects and how that's overrated
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  Speaker 5: and you understand that.
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  Speaker 4: He really knows X's and O's, and he knows.
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  Speaker 5: Motivation, or he couldn't get these kids to keep following him.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm really impressed with that. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 5: Memphis' defense won the game in Las Vegas. It was
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  Speaker 5: really their offense and their offensive line. So the two lines... O-line,
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  Speaker 5: D-line have really been the factors in the game against
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  Speaker 5: Arkansas State. They just took over, and they trained at
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  Speaker 5: 30 yards, rushing to 200-yard runners.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned Jalen Carter and Manny Covey.
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  Speaker 5: So Manny Covey's a kid that came from the University
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  Speaker 5: of Cincinnati, had a great game in the AutoZone Liberty
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  Speaker 5: Bowl the year before, liked the stadium, and I guess,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how he knew Huff, but he did,
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  Speaker 5: or maybe knew Kevin Decker, who was the OC that
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  Speaker 5: came from Old Dominion, he's really a bright guy. He
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  Speaker 5: had actually been a.
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  Speaker 4: Player for Tim Cramsey, who's the OC at Arkansas that
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  Speaker 4: was Memphis' OC for the last four or five years.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a similar offense, but it's even more spread out.
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  Speaker 4: It's really fun to watch.
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  Speaker 5: But it's the line play on both sides that has
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  Speaker 5: impressed me so far. But they haven't seen a team
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  Speaker 5: as good as the guys that almost upset Oregon today.
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  Speaker 5: Boise is really good. They got two good running backs.
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  Speaker 5: They got a really good quarterback. Memphis beat Boise a
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  Speaker 5: few years ago.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was 23. And believe it or not,
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  Speaker 4: the kid was there then. He was a freshman. And
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  Speaker 4: Memphis got a pretty good lead on them.
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  Speaker 5: And they just changed quarterbacks to see what would happen
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  Speaker 5: in the second half.
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  Speaker 4: And Madsen almost brought them all the way back.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, this game is a tough game that
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  Speaker 5: Bluefield is hard to play on for visitors. They're really
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  Speaker 5: good there. It's their 40th anniversary. Their record over 40
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  Speaker 5: years is pretty darn impressive. And it's a little like Vegas.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Vegas was about a six and a half,
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  Speaker 5: seven and a half point favorite. And that's what Boise
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  Speaker 5: is right now. So who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit about Marcus Stokes, what you
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  Speaker 2: saw out of him at quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, Marcus Stokes was so nervous.
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  Speaker 5: In that first game. He threw his first two passes
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  Speaker 5: into the dirt.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like Arch Manning last year in Columbus.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And then toward the end of the first half, he
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  Speaker 5: runs over the line and throws the football. He went
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  Speaker 5: over the line of scrimmage and threw the football. So
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  Speaker 5: he had really lost his awareness a little bit. And
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  Speaker 5: of course, the.
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  Speaker 3: The pass was completed.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going, of course the pass was completed. The guy
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  Speaker 5: that was covering the receiver came.
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  Speaker 4: To tackle you.
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  Speaker 5: But then in the second half, he really, he steadied himself.
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  Speaker 4: And he played pretty well. I thought he played fair.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we've seen the best of him yet,
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  Speaker 5: but he played a couple of touchdown passes, but he
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  Speaker 5: threw two picks. So we'll just have to wait and
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  Speaker 5: see how he plays out.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the line play in the interior lines on
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  Speaker 2: both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel good about the defense? I mean, they've
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  Speaker 1: given up.
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  Speaker 2: Some points in the game, but on the road at
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  Speaker 2: UNLV was going to be tough, and they held the
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  Speaker 2: line late in the ballgame and then did so as well,
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  Speaker 2: stopping Arkansas State down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Had him there. I'll tell you what. Let's do this.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a break, and we'll get him back, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get a few more minutes out of him before
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  Speaker 2: we wrap up here. here on a Monday afternoon on
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 6: All right, so we've re-established the long-distance connection here with
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  Speaker 6: the voice of the Memphis Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Woloshin joins us now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was right in the middle asking you about
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  Speaker 2: how you felt about the.
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  Speaker 3: Can I just say something really quick?
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  Speaker 4: I love that song.
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  Speaker 3: I do like the Chuck Berry version better, just so
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm ever on again, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: And you do that.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Next time, you'll get the original from Chuck Berry instead
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  Speaker 2: of the Johnny Rivers rendition.
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  Speaker 3: I have no disrespect for Johnny Rivers.
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  Speaker 4: Believe me.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we should restrict Johnny Rivers to Secret Agent Man
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  Speaker 2: and some things like that. Slow dance and sway into
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  Speaker 2: the music, stuff like that as well.
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  Speaker 3: I love that song.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I was just starting to ask him when we had
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  Speaker 2: the dropout. I was starting to ask you how you
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  Speaker 2: felt about the defense. Gave up some points in each
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  Speaker 2: of the first two ballgames for the Tigers, yet got
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  Speaker 2: stops certainly down the stretch in the second half of
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  Speaker 2: the game when you had to have it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: They have been a second-half team. Memphis has outscored the
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  Speaker 3: opposition in the second half, 41-14. And I think a
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  Speaker 3: lot of that, Craig, and this is what Huff has
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  Speaker 3: preached all year long, he does these training drills the
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  Speaker 3: players have talked about that are just so tough. And they,
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  Speaker 3: they just say, as, as they're doing it, they're, they've
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  Speaker 3: all accepted his culture, right? I told you he's a
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  Speaker 3: players coach and they really had come, you know, some have, have, have, uh,
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  Speaker 3: transferred schools with him. Like he had 30 guys that
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  Speaker 3: went from Marshall to Southern Miss, um, and the 18
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  Speaker 3: from heat from Southern Miss to Memphis. Uh, Dan bought
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  Speaker 3: into this. So, you know, he says to them, look, I'll,
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  Speaker 3: I'll make you a better player. You'll win. If you
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  Speaker 3: listen to what I say. And part of that is
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  Speaker 3: you've got to be in the best shape of your life.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to put weight on you or you're going
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  Speaker 3: to lose weight. You're going to go on this diet.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to do this training. You've got these, these
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  Speaker 3: numbers and goals when, when it comes to weight training.
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  Speaker 3: We've got these numbers and goals when it, when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to cardio.
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  Speaker 1: And weight.
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  Speaker 3: They believe when the fourth quarter comes, the other team's
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  Speaker 3: going to wilt, and so far that's been the case.
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  Speaker 3: Memphis has just dominated the fourth quarter in both games,
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  Speaker 3: and it's come from lines. You asked me specifically about
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line. He's playing 10 different guys. He's got
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  Speaker 3: two guys that are outstanding. One's a young guy who
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  Speaker 3: played for Southern this last year named Elijah Kinsler. He's
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  Speaker 3: a kid out of New Jersey, and he's the guy
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  Speaker 3: they had to put weight on. He was like 230.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: They list him now at 256. They said at one
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: point he got 260. And then there's this guy who
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: started in Texas. So you may know him. He went
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: to Arizona State and then to Southern, and his name
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: is Jamon Tapp. He's a kid out of Louisiana. He's
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: just a high-energy guy, and he's made him.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: A good player.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: There's an interesting thing that Huff said. He goes, and
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: so this guy was on his third school. Now he's
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: on his fourth, but his third school, he went to
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Southern Miss. And Huff says, I'm really good with guys
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: who are on their last chance. I'm the guy you
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: want to play for if you're going to last chance
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: you need. Because I can relate to you and I
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: will make you better, but you've got to live by.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: What I say. And he goes, most of the.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Time, it doesn't always work. Most of the time, because
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: they know it's their last chance, they're going to listen
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: to him and they buy in.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Well, and by the way, since that was two schools
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: ago when he was here, I see that he's changed
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: his name slightly. When he was here was Jamond. So
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: apparently going by Jamond now may have helped his game.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: He was Jamond when he was here, and he was
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: a good player when he was here.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: He's a guy caught up in a numbers game.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: We've got an All-American playing on that same spot on
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the rush end as a freshman two years ago came in,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Colin Simmons. who's a preseason All-American now, and that's right.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I think he just got caught up in the numbers game.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you about this. I kind of build
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: this in talking about it today as saying that Memphis
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: might have as good a shot as any G6 team
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: to get into the playoff if, and this is obviously
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the big if, if you win the game in Boise
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: this week. Because I look at the rest of your schedule.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: You've got UT Martin, and then you've got an open day.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: My goodness, Charlotte lost to the Citadel. They lost to
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: an FCS team over the weekend. moving the football at Duke,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and they lost. You have ECU at home. You do
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: have Army at home. You do have to go to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: South Florida, but they're rebuilding with Golish having gone to Auburn.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe that trip to Annapolis helps determine conference championship seeding
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: or something like that before you finish on Black Friday
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: against Temple. Do you see it in similar ways, Wolo,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: if the Tigers are able to find a way to
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: get that win on the Smurf turf that they got
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: a shot to win run the table and get into
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the American Championship game with a chance perhaps to play for.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: A playoff spot?
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Two thoughts. Yeah, I think since the college football playoff
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: expansion and the group of six has sort of been
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: now it's the best ranked group of six. Doesn't have
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: to be the champion like it used to be thanks
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: to the ACC and Duke last year.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I think this is.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: The best draft at this time, the best G6 matchup
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: in the history of the separation between the P4 and
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the G6 because UNLV was the second best G6 team
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: coming in. Memphis took care of them on the road.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: A lot of people thought Memphis was the third and
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Boise is number one and Boise didn't hurt their stock
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: by going to Oregon and being tied at the half
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: and being tied at 27 and losing by a touchdown.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: So I think if you're Bob Arum and you're promoting
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: this game and This is maybe the greatest G six
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: matchup since the college football playoff expansion and the seat
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: at the table, because it's clearly defined. Now, these are
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the two best teams at the moment. Now you mentioned
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: the American schedule, every tough game, although army looks like
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: they're a little bit better than maybe I thought they
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: put 59. I know it's on Brian, but you put
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: 59 on a team is pretty good. Um, Every other
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: game that the prognosticators preseason thought was tough is on
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the road. You've got to go to USF. Brian Hartline
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: was the big hot hire because he was the OC
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: at Ohio State. You've got to go. to South, uh, to, uh, Tulane,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: you got to go to Navy. And most people pick
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Navy kind of to win this league. So, uh, even
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: though to me, they lost their quarterback, who was one
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of the best they've ever had in Blake Corvette, they
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: lost their best tackler, uh, tackling machine and defensive lineman.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: They lost their best running back and they best lost
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: their best receiver from last year. Now there's great continuity there. So, uh,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You've got to play in Annapolis. That's
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: a tough place to play. So I would say to
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: you that Memphis' schedule in the conference is one of
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the toughest, if not the toughest. But I don't think
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: they have to win every game. If they get the
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: leg up here and they only lose.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: One, say, in conference, I think the winner.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: clearly, of this Saturday game in Boise, has the leg
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: up on everybody in the G6 to make the playoffs.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. Hey, before I let you go, for
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: folks who don't know... Lola will be in town December 16th.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Memphis plays Texas in basketball. So tell me what kind
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: of team Penny Hardaway is going to bring in to Moody.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I see you've got two big-time exhibition games in Starkville
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: and Mississippi State against Arkansas in Fayetteville. Texas has to
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: play St. John's at Madison Square Garden. That's an exhibition game.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I think that's their one public exhibition. But what kind
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of team is Penny Hardaway going to bring into Austin
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: in December?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: That's another one of those. Every single player, well, there's
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: two guys on the team. One that was at the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: end of the bench is a high-flying athletic guy. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: the other is a pretty good guy in Fedford. All
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the other guys are new. You've got a kid named
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Reed who went to Northwestern, but he played at USS.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I've seen him before. He's really a good point guard.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: You've got some really good three-point shooters. And here's the caveat.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Here's what I think will make them a good team.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: They've got a kid who will be 25 in December
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: named Popovich. He played in the Polish league prior. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: think he's Ukrainian. He is truly a pro, and we're
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: waiting on eligibility with him. They think they're going to
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: get that. He may have to sit on a few
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: games early in the year, but he's going to be
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the key that really makes this team, I think, a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: solid ball club. I think they'll be one of the
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: best in the American. How they will line up with you,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: that's another story.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: You've got to play in Austin, but I'm hoping that
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: that means that you guys come to Memphis the year
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: or two after.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I hope so.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I loved the one game I got to call there.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Two nights before Texas played USC for the national championship
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: in football, remember, was there when Texas played Memphis when
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: they had P.J. Tucker when they played there. That was
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a heck of a ball game that night. I do
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: remember that very well. So you're telling me this guy
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Popovich will be in a Memphis uniform if Lane Kiffin
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: doesn't get him through the portal first.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Can you believe what we're doing here?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: The reason why I bring this up, for folks who
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: don't know, Dave also, like I do, hosts a daily
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: show in Memphis. And I can only imagine, because you're
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: only an hour away from Oxford, I can only imagine
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: what your show has been like over the past couple
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: of weeks, given everything that's gone down in the name
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: of the SEC and Lane Kiffin and LSU.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Well, Lane Kiffin is a magnet. You can't help but
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: watch him. he's like a car wreck. You know, you,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: you want to turn away, but you can't. This is
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: a guy, he doesn't need more help. Look what he
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: did to Clemson.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: My God.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: And he's literally willing to.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Risk 50% of his budget, 50% of his games, because
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: they can suspend them for 50%.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: And literally if, you know.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Greg Senkin, the SEC commissioner, has sued Lane Kiffin, sued LSU,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: sued the administration. It's unbelievable. But he's saying, and everybody
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: in the league agreed, LSU has said, we're not allowing
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: players who have signed pro contracts... Back into the league.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: You made your decision to go pro.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Now, the European thing is a little different, Craig, because
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: they don't have a college system. So they put them
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: into the pros when they're 12 years old.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: To me, that's a little different story than a guy
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: like Daquan White or Zabian Harris, who said at the
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: end of their senior year, last year in Oxford, you
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: know what? We got a chance to make an NFL team.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: We're going to go. And they signed a contract.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: To play for those.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: NFL teams respectively. And then because they can make more
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: money at LSU with Lane Kiffin and still go back
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to the NFL, and they weren't guaranteed slots, they go, well.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Why wouldn't we go back?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: And you know Kiffin, he's going to do whatever it
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: takes to win. But the commissioner is saying, don't do it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Because if you do, here are the penalties. And, you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I thought the judge said, that made it an injunction
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: from a temporary to a full injunction. I thought he
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: was going to bail out Lane Kiffin by not allowing it,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: but once he did, now the administration probably sat down
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin had said, hey, let's not take a chance
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: because these guys, look what happened with Texas Tech and Sorsby.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, the league basically said, we.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Won't play you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: That could have happened with the SEC and Lane Kiffin.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: By the way, since you're right about the Europeans coming in,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: which gives you time to work on the pronunciations of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: modus foca titus. and Montes Lorenzikas before you get here
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: in December.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Well, look, I did tennis. I did golf.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: And I've done, I'm sorry, soccer.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: With all those Czechoslovakian names, this is nothing.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Lithuanians are easy, right? Hey, give my love to Gail.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you taking the time. And I'll look forward to
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: seeing you in December. But best of luck up in
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Boise this week. And I hope it goes really well
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: for you. And I appreciate you joining me today.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: My pleasure.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Happy holiday to you and your loved ones. And I
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: can't wait to see you in December.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. Thanks, Willow. You got it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: That's Dave Woloshin, play-by-play voice of the Memphis Tigers. We'll
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: be back to wrap up today's edition of the program
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: on 13 Under the Zone.
• 27:29
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• 27:33
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