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Texas Head Coach Steve Sarkisian Explains His Journey To Head Coach, Philosophy On Coaching QBs + His Opinion On The Best CFB Rivalry · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 2: Let's get let's get the pressing question out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's start off, and really forgot where this interview
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  Speaker 1: is going to go.
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  Speaker 2: Right off the bat.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you stand on the twenty nine Big Twelve
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  Speaker 3: Championship when Texas sold from Nebraska with one second left?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So, you know, throughout history and throughout time, there's
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  Speaker 4: always been you know, controversial plays, players getting injured, whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the football gods, man. Things happen the way
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  Speaker 4: they're supposed to happen, right, So Texas won.
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  Speaker 1: When you're at the University of Texas, the gods are
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  Speaker 1: kind of in your guys's favor.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to think.
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  Speaker 2: So you weren't at Texas at the time when you're
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  Speaker 2: watching it, when you're at the team. I was watching
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  Speaker 2: the game live and you see us celebrate games over cold.
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  Speaker 2: If Sue wasn't that fast, bro Cole was not.
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  Speaker 3: He does an interview I bust his balls about it
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  Speaker 3: all the time where he's like, oh, there was an
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  Speaker 3: alarm clock that went off in my head. I threw
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  Speaker 3: it out. There was one second left. I'm like, bro,
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  Speaker 3: if Sue wasn't that fast, you're not getting rid of
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  Speaker 3: the ball. But they add the second back on kick
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  Speaker 3: canfield goal to win the game. But it was the
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  Speaker 3: most we celebrated. And you, as a coach watching, what
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  Speaker 3: are you thinking there's one more second.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, I thought there was one
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  Speaker 4: more second. Now, mind you, we're gonna jump around here.
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  Speaker 4: I was at USC for the bush push against Notre
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  Speaker 4: Dame N five and they stormed the field and they
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  Speaker 4: had to get him off the field.
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  Speaker 5: Then there was the bush push to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: So I've been hard of those games too, Like this
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  Speaker 4: is you know, I hate to tell you that, like
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  Speaker 4: this is the only time it's ever happened, It happens.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get out of my bubble. You're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know when you were so you're in
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  Speaker 1: high school, you received no offers.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a shot.
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  Speaker 5: Just read your Wikipedia.
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  Speaker 1: You walk on a USC play to play baseball, ends
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  Speaker 1: up transferring to El Camino. I believe it was where
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  Speaker 1: did you find, like regain your love for football to
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  Speaker 1: eventually turn you into.
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  Speaker 5: A ball coach? Questions?
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  Speaker 4: So I went back to El Camino and John Featherstone
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  Speaker 4: was the head coach at that time at El Camino,
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  Speaker 4: kind of a legendary junior college coach. And I was
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  Speaker 4: playing baseball, but I was in health class with Coach
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  Speaker 4: Featherstone and he just kind of kept prodding me to
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  Speaker 4: come back out, come back out play football and uh,
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  Speaker 4: legendary junior college program. I had no business in my
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  Speaker 4: mind thinking I was going to go out there and
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  Speaker 4: play with these guys. But I went out when baseball
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  Speaker 4: season was done and just kind of started working my
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  Speaker 4: way up the depth chart and next thing you know,
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  Speaker 4: here comes the season open and I was a starting
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  Speaker 4: quarterback at El Camino and we had the worst team
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  Speaker 4: in El Camino history.
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  Speaker 5: Two and eight.
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  Speaker 4: My freshman year, like never happened at El Camino, and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I must not be very good, right,
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  Speaker 4: I mean individually.
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  Speaker 5: I played Okay, Yeah, I played pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: I had Actually I had a couple offers to leave
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  Speaker 4: that year, and I just thought, man if I could
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  Speaker 4: stick around and do it again. And then the next
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  Speaker 4: year we went out and had a really good year
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  Speaker 4: and got a lot more opportunities and old ultimately went
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  Speaker 4: on to BYU.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those first couple offers, you got what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: D one double A.
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  Speaker 5: No, they were actually pretty good. I mean they were. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like the weird thing about junior college, I played it
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  Speaker 4: and I coached it. Everybody's got a need and at
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  Speaker 4: that time, there was no transfer portal like we're dealing
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  Speaker 4: with now. It was like, you better go to the
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  Speaker 4: the JC ranks and get a guy that can leave
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  Speaker 4: right now. And I could haven't been a four to
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  Speaker 4: two four transfer or I was already academically eligible, so
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  Speaker 4: I could have left after that first year, but ultimately
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  Speaker 4: stuck around and played the second year.
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  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for that coach and that health class,
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  Speaker 1: where do you think you would be now?
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  Speaker 5: I'd probably be a high school teacher and a high
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  Speaker 5: school coach. I really would.
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  Speaker 2: Coaching football or baseball, probably probably both.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you get you know, when you're a high
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  Speaker 4: school coach and teacher. I mean in California especially, man,
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  Speaker 4: you got to do it all. You got you got,
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  Speaker 4: you got gym class, You're probably coaching football, You're probably
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  Speaker 4: coaching baseball, and you might be coaching freshman basketball too.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you got to do it all.
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  Speaker 4: But that's what I was doing in the off season
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  Speaker 4: when I was playing in the CFL. I was a
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  Speaker 4: substitute teacher and I helped out, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: I was always that. This has always made sense to me.
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  Speaker 3: So when you transfer from El Camino and you go
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  Speaker 3: to BYU, when you get that scholarship because you were
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  Speaker 3: slinging the rock around your sophomore year at El Camino,
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  Speaker 3: you get a scholarship to go to BYU. In ninety six,
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  Speaker 3: you win the Semi Ball War, the top passer in
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  Speaker 3: the in the country. Then you play three years in
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  Speaker 3: the Canadian League, you played professional ball. Talk to people
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  Speaker 3: about how that translates for you being here now managing
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback room with nothing but talent With Quinn yours
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  Speaker 3: arch man comes to mind, and I know there are
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  Speaker 3: more guys even in that room, but talk about how
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  Speaker 3: you keep that healthy competition going while also teaching and
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  Speaker 3: developing developing these guys, because you know, especially in this
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  Speaker 3: day and age, like guys want to come, they want
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  Speaker 3: to play right now. And you've been at spots like
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  Speaker 3: BAM and USC where you've had talent all around these rooms.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about how your experience there being in every seed
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  Speaker 3: has helped you become the teacher.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's a valid point in question.
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  Speaker 4: I was never the most physically gifted player, right, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't have the biggest arm. I'm not the tallest guy.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't the fastest guy. So I had to play
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  Speaker 4: the game up here.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I had to know our offense so well. I had
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  Speaker 4: to know defenses so well, and how plays were going
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  Speaker 4: to work predicated off the defenses we were going to get.
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  Speaker 4: That's how I played the game, and so that's how
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  Speaker 4: we teach the game. We try to teach the game
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  Speaker 4: beyond just knowing how to run our plays, but how
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  Speaker 4: do they fit with the defense We're going to get?
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  Speaker 5: What's the front, what's the coverage?
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  Speaker 4: You know, where's the weakness in the defense and where's
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  Speaker 4: the whole predicated on the play we're going to run.
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  Speaker 4: So that's how we teach it and we've been teaching
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  Speaker 4: it that way for jeez, almost twenty five years now,
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  Speaker 4: going back to when I was back at junior college
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  Speaker 4: to coaching Carson Palmer at USC. But at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, we try to get these guys to
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  Speaker 4: understand that, like your journey's your journey, focus on what
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  Speaker 4: you need to do and not get so caught up
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  Speaker 4: in what the guy next to you is doing or
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  Speaker 4: what he's working on, because everybody's at a different stage.
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  Speaker 4: Those early years at UC had I had Carson Palmer,
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  Speaker 4: Matt Castle, and Matt Lioner all in the same quarterback room.
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  Speaker 4: All three of those guys went on to have careers
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL and make a bunch of money, and
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  Speaker 4: they're great guys that lent itself to shoot. When we
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  Speaker 4: were at Alabama, you're in the same room with Jalen
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  Speaker 4: Hurts to a tongue of Illo and Mac Jones, everybody
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  Speaker 4: was at a different stage. Everybody was working on their craft.
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  Speaker 4: Now all three of us were starting in the NFL
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  Speaker 4: and doing their things, so you can recruit that room
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  Speaker 4: and you can get guys to understand it's not about
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  Speaker 4: just getting on the field and playing, it's when you
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  Speaker 4: get your opportunity to play great Mac. You know, Mark
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  Speaker 4: Sanchez was a one year starter for US at USC
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  Speaker 4: was a fifth pick of the draft. Mac Jones was
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  Speaker 4: a one year starter for US at Alabama, was a
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  Speaker 4: first round pick for New England. And if both guys
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  Speaker 4: were first year starters in the NFL, we felt like
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  Speaker 4: we prepared them to play in the NFL and they
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  Speaker 4: only needed one year to go do it. And both
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  Speaker 4: those guys were championship quarterbacks in college. So that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of what we preach here. You know, we've got a
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  Speaker 4: great room. You know, it's a talented room. With Quinn,
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  Speaker 4: with Arch, with Malik Murphy. All those guys are going
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  Speaker 4: to have have aspirations of playing in the NFL. Our
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  Speaker 4: job is to have them have a great experience while
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  Speaker 4: they're here, be part of championship teams, and then put
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  Speaker 4: them in position to fulfill their dreams of playing in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: With the new landscape of college football and the way
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  Speaker 1: the NIL deals are going and the transfer portals, essentially
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  Speaker 1: turning into free agency those huge rooms and like you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about USC and Alabama, Like how do you keep
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  Speaker 1: a talented quarterback room together? And getting guys to believe, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: all it takes is one year when guys can just
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  Speaker 1: go off and go wherever they want to be starters
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  Speaker 1: right away, Yeah, with lots of just And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's that's always the challenge, right at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day. Nil deals are great, you know they are,
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's good for our sport, I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, guys are working their tails off and trying
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  Speaker 1: and if they can use their name, image and likeness
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  Speaker 1: to to take advantage of of who they are and
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  Speaker 1: get paid to do so, unbelievable. But the reality of
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  Speaker 1: it is that money compared to the money that's really
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  Speaker 1: going on in the NFL, and especially now more than ever,
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  Speaker 1: of where the money is going in the NFL with
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  Speaker 1: the guaranteed money and the free agency con that's the
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  Speaker 1: real money. That's that's the real money to try to
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  Speaker 1: go attain and achieve that, that's that's life changing money
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  Speaker 1: that you have opportunities to go get. So do we
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  Speaker 1: try to create opportunities for our guys here from anil perspective,
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  Speaker 1: and is that part of the motivation to keep him.
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  Speaker 5: I hope not.
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  Speaker 4: I hope they want to be here because they want
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  Speaker 4: to be great, and they want to have a ten
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  Speaker 4: to twelve year career in the NFL and get three
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  Speaker 4: contracts and you know, their kids never have to work again,
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  Speaker 4: kids exactly. But if if we're short sighted, and if
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  Speaker 4: the individual or the family short sighted on that, this
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  Speaker 4: probably isn't the place for him anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, when you do with Famili's from a recruiting standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: we all watched arts Manning and I'm sure you get
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  Speaker 1: the question all the time of.
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  Speaker 2: The entire family. Yeah, the entire family. And he's not
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  Speaker 2: doing media. He did.
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  Speaker 1: He took a very unique approach to his high school
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  Speaker 1: football and how he went about his business. Like, what
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  Speaker 1: was your process like recruiting him? Was it the whole family?
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  Speaker 1: Because nowadays, like with Nil and all that, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to recruit an entire family, not just the player.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I couldn't. I tell his mom and dad
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  Speaker 4: all the time. They did an unbelievable job raising him.
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  Speaker 4: And in the process, I never I never talked to Peyton.
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  Speaker 4: I never talked to Eli. I talked to cup, I
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  Speaker 4: talked to Ellen, I talked to Arch, I talked to Hyde,
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  Speaker 4: I talked to sister. Like it was about the family,
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  Speaker 4: truly the family. It wasn't about the Manning brand. It
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  Speaker 4: was about Arch Manning and is this the best fit
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  Speaker 4: for him to go to school football wise, academically, socially,
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  Speaker 4: the city of Austin. And I think that's why they
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  Speaker 4: got to a spot to where they could make a
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  Speaker 4: really kind of just clear minded decision what was best
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  Speaker 4: for him.
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  Speaker 5: And it wasn't this enormous media circus.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they kept that thing pretty tight, but they
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  Speaker 4: went about it in a really positive way. They took
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  Speaker 4: on official visits, they took official visits, They created relationships
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  Speaker 4: with the coaches at the varying schools, and they're all
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  Speaker 4: great schools. Ultimately, they felt like this was the best
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  Speaker 4: place for him, and I think it came down to
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  Speaker 4: what he wanted and then the family supported him.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it makes you feel like like if you
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  Speaker 3: just had one year of eligibility to play quarterback, like
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  Speaker 3: this could be a guy. See why guys gravitate towards
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  Speaker 3: wanting to play absolutely, speaking of recruiting you've been You've
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  Speaker 3: mentioned the talent rooms at USC Alabama here. Now, what's
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  Speaker 3: a what's a unique recruiting story that you have back
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  Speaker 3: in the day to where a guy's had an incredible
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  Speaker 3: career that you look back on and they might have
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  Speaker 3: had the most interesting recruiting story from your time on
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  Speaker 3: the road.
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  Speaker 4: This is always the toughest one, man, Like I always
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  Speaker 4: remember one story we were in We were in Gatson City, Alabama,
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  Speaker 4: and I was assistant coach at USC and we were recruiting. Man,
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  Speaker 4: I want to say, it might have been Drake or
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  Speaker 4: Patrick or that. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 5: There was there's some kids there, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of coaches there, and I were meeting this young coach
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  Speaker 4: and and he was talking really fast, and I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out, like what what is this guy's name?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: And then Coach Carol met him and I circle back
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  Speaker 4: and I said, hey, can I get your card because
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to know his name. Come to find out,
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  Speaker 4: it was Dabo Sweeney and he was a young coach.
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  Speaker 4: He was a young coach at Clemson like almost twenty
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  Speaker 4: years ago now, and we're all there, you know, recruiting
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  Speaker 4: the same guys at Alabama.
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  Speaker 5: But man, he was a fast talker.
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  Speaker 4: And Davel and I have a great relationship now, but
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  Speaker 4: that one was funny to me to think, like, everybody's
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  Speaker 4: on this journey, in this path, and we all started
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  Speaker 4: somewhere right and we were both young coaches, assistant coaches,
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  Speaker 4: just trying to go recruit good players for our head
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  Speaker 4: coach and our programs. And we're talking you man, let's
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  Speaker 4: due deb And I was like, what did this guy
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  Speaker 4: just tell me his name was?
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  Speaker 5: You know? Can I get your card?
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  Speaker 4: You know? And I joke with him about it now, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: oh okay, Davil sween, I remember that. Pretty good career
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  Speaker 4: so far. Now that's one a couple of national.
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  Speaker 2: JP. He's a he's a South Carolina game cop. Ye.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man, hey he's doing a good job. Man, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: That's doing great right there.
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  Speaker 1: With when you were you were in Alabama before you
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  Speaker 1: were here, correct, yes, sir. So when you are obviously
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  Speaker 1: having the talent you are the type of coach that
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  Speaker 1: you become, you obviously had a lot of offers out
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  Speaker 1: there to go to different universities. What about Texas was
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  Speaker 1: such a selling point?
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  Speaker 5: For you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think it got to a point
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  Speaker 4: at the end of my first year at Alabama, I
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  Speaker 4: had gotten a couple job offers, and at that point
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  Speaker 4: it was, Okay, I'm going to be a head coach again.
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  Speaker 4: Let's make sure it's right because I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get another opportunity after that one. So
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  Speaker 4: we got to make sure this is the right one
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  Speaker 4: and coach another year at Alabama. And when when Texas
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  Speaker 4: ultimately called. And you think about like as a kid
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  Speaker 4: when I was growing up, right, first of all, the uniforms,
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  Speaker 4: like the helmets, like the helmets like to me, those
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  Speaker 4: were iconic helmets and uniforms. And I had when I
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  Speaker 4: was a kid, I had a remember the Sports Illustrated
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  Speaker 4: Posters edition. Yeah not those ones posters, but yeah, I had.
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  Speaker 4: I had the poster of Earl Campbell above my bed
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  Speaker 4: playing for the Houston Oilers, like it was Earl Campbell.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So then you fast forward Ricky Williams. I'm like, he
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  Speaker 4: was a California kid coming to Texas. I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they never come to California, you know, And
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  Speaker 4: there's Ricky goes and wins the Heisman, Trophy, and then
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I'm on the other sideline when
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  Speaker 4: Vince Young beats USC. I'm calling plays for USC in
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  Speaker 4: that game, and I'm watching what I thought was Superman
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  Speaker 4: and the.
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  Speaker 5: Confetti come down.
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  Speaker 4: And so I've always held Texas football in very high regard.
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  Speaker 5: And then you start doing the research.
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  Speaker 4: You start looking at the value of the education, You
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  Speaker 4: start looking at what's happening in the city of Austin.
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  Speaker 4: You start looking at recruitability and the recruiting base in
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  Speaker 4: the state of Texas, and then the national brand, the
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  Speaker 4: ability to go national and to do that and then
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  Speaker 4: have a known Chris del Connie, the athletic director, and
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  Speaker 4: then getting to meet President Hertzel, it just felt right.
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  Speaker 4: And then the last piece to the puzzle that I
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  Speaker 4: always hold on to, it's like, it's a lot easier
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  Speaker 4: to win championships when they've won them before and this
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  Speaker 4: place is one and before and naturally, hey, there was
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  Speaker 4: a decade there where it wasn't Texas like what everybody
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  Speaker 4: thought it was. Shoot, but when Pete Carroll got hired
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: by USC, there was about a decade of mediocrity before
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: they went on that run, before Nick Saban went to Alabama,
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: there was about a decade of mediocrity. So all the
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: blue blooded programs at times can fall on some hard times,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: but they're a lot easier and a lot quicker to
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: get back on track because of the history and tradition.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: You hear that Nebraska fans before Matt rule was brought
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: to Nebraska a decade of losing. The good times are coming.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: We have one last question. I see, I see.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: We're going to have one last question. It's called factor fiction.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: That's a segment, Taylor, get it outa get it out.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: We're going to show you a photo and you're basically
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: going to express your opinion if it's fact or fiction. Taylor,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: show the camera the photo, and then show him the photo.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: I can't see.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Fact you have over here.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Fact It says the glass Rivalry and college football Fact
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: ninety six thousand fans. If there is a game played
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: in the third week of November. I think it's called
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: It's called the game.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, between Ohio State and Michigan, widely noticed, the greatest
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: probably in sports. So how is what I just said fact?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Yet? That is fact?
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I was before you said that, I was like, man,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: the iron Bowls.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: That was a pretty good rivalry. Yeah, I would say
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: probably be second.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I think five, and then Nebraska I think up there too, seriously.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Right right behind Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, and then
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: probably you're right the iron ball. I was going to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: give you guys top three, but you kind of just
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: talked yourself out of that.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: No, I think he's saying his list is rhetoric one
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: iron ball one. I think that's what he's saying. You're saying,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: the game is three?
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Which game?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: The game?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Oh he's got he's got us playing his game. He
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: goes which game? He knew the game he's got us?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: In a blender? Would you put usc U c l
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: A over Oha State Michigan say.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, probably because of proximity.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: You know, the mileage of proximity, the how tight, how
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: close the schools are.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: You think about how many people you have to pass
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to get from one place or the other. Though it's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: probably way more people, so technically it seems farther away
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: and LA traffic, it's a hell of a deal.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I feel like.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I feel like he's he's really flipped the flip the script.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Well, great game, though, I watch it when I can listen.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: If it was if it was two years ago, i'd
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: have probably given you it. But Michigan, we've won two
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: in a row.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: So they're both dynasty and I will say this, that's
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: what makes right, That's what makes rivalryes great.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: The great thing about yours too, is it's early in
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: the year. I feel like there's like a you know
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: when that week's on, right, the sunshine.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: This setting is amazing, right, I mean, you go, you
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: go to Dallas, You're at the State Fair. The stadium
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: is split fifty to fifty right down the middle. The
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: locker rooms. When you come out, you're about ten yards apart.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Both teams are right there. It's at the old Cotton Bowl.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: You know, we're at in Jerry's world. Yet you know
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: it's you're on the grass like in It's It's a
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: really cool setting, man. It's it's something that I have
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: never experienced in a game like that where the fans
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: are split fifty to fifty and they're not split, they're
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: split at the fifty yard line. So in one end
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: of the field it's a home game. You get to
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the other end of the field, it's a road game.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: And I mean that I had to learn that the
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: first the first year, I mean, we couldn't we fall
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: start and I'm like, what is going on? We were
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: stuck in their end of the field, and that that
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: ultimately kind of spun the game there in the fourth quarter.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Tack and you said it. You said it quickly. But
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: for everybody watching, the Texas State Fairy is taking very
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: serious in the State of Texas.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Yes it is.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: It's very serious. But there we thank you for your time.
• 18:38
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• 18:39
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• 18:39
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• 18:41
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• 18:46
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