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Lee Sterling - @Paramount Sports · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: This is the Sean O'Connell Show, your home of the
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  Speaker 1: best inside of your Utes. Let's get back to OC
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  Speaker 1: from the Murdoch Chevrolet studio of ESPN 792.1 FM.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, our long nightmare is over.
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  Speaker 3: Football is back, and that means we get to check
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  Speaker 3: in with the best in the business from Paramount Sports.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Lee Sterling, and for entertainment purposes, he
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  Speaker 3: will guide us through the lines on a college football weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Lee Sterling, good friend of the show. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: I'm great. I am terrific. First time in a long time,
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  Speaker 4: took a long vacation, went to Norway. You ever been there?
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  Speaker 2: I have never been to Norway. I've been to Sweden,
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  Speaker 2: but not Norway.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. Put it on your bucket list. The fjords are
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  Speaker 4: incredible with the waterfalls and the glaciers and the people.
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  Speaker 4: That's a country that has figured it out. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know they ended up finding oil offshore in 69, and
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  Speaker 4: they just keep reinventing and just keep taking that money.
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  Speaker 4: They're making it and investing it, and every person gets
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  Speaker 4: a nice return every year, a nice paycheck, and they
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  Speaker 4: get free health care. There's no homeless. The only problem, well,
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  Speaker 4: there's two problems. It gets cold in the winter, and
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  Speaker 4: you're six hours ahead. Following sports is practically impossible.
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  Speaker 3: That is tough, but shout out to Norway.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll have to pay a visit sooner than later.
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  Speaker 3: Man, great to have football back, Lee, and excited to
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  Speaker 3: have you back on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's dive right into the lines here.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up for this weekend, uh, Oregon Boise state and
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  Speaker 3: the ducks are big time favorites here. This is not
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  Speaker 3: in most people's opinion, the Boise state of old that
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  Speaker 3: might be more capable of pulling off an upset like
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  Speaker 3: this one. It's also not the Oregon of old. This
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  Speaker 3: is one of the top payrolls in college football.
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  Speaker 2: How do you see it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's the problem with Boise. They just don't have
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  Speaker 4: the money. They can't keep their players. They're able to
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  Speaker 4: keep their quarterback, but not much else. So, uh, Last
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  Speaker 4: time they played Oregon, they had to scramble. The Ducks
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  Speaker 4: had to score with 10 minutes to go on a
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  Speaker 4: 100-yard kickoff return to tie that game up and then
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  Speaker 4: win it on the last play of the game. I
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  Speaker 4: think this is going to be a different game than
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  Speaker 4: two years ago. So the only difference is they have
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  Speaker 4: two new coordinators, and that actually might help them in
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  Speaker 4: game planning. I don't think Boise knows what to expect here,
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  Speaker 4: and any of those kids who are around two years ago,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of them, they're going to be forewarned,
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  Speaker 4: and I think they're going to want to lay one
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  Speaker 4: here on Boise. So Boise switching conferences went to a
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  Speaker 4: much weaker conference. I don't like the switch here. I
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  Speaker 4: think the Ducks' role here behind Dante Moore, sometimes you've
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  Speaker 4: got to lay it if you want to play it here. Ducks, 45-17.
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  Speaker 3: Do you believe Oregon is a national championship contender because
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  Speaker 3: it's championship or bust for them from here on out
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  Speaker 3: as long as Uncle Phil's writing checks on this payroll?
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  Speaker 3: Is this a year where they're national championship contenders for you?
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  Speaker 4: It's the only year that they have a chance, but
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  Speaker 4: I still think that there's a couple other teams that
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  Speaker 4: are just better than them, and they just have the
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  Speaker 4: DNA to pull it off. But how great would it
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  Speaker 4: be if the Ducks faced Miami and Mario faces his
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  Speaker 4: old team? That would be something.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: The old master versus the successor and Dan Lanning trying
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  Speaker 3: to get it done up there.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be a fun storyline. All right. We're the home
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  Speaker 2: of the Utes.
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  Speaker 3: We will see the Aggies of Utah State, not this
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  Speaker 3: coming weekend, but the following for week three. Utah State
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  Speaker 3: are 12 and a half point favorites against Idaho State,
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  Speaker 3: a big sky team, much like the one Utah played
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  Speaker 3: last night. The Aggies lost their starting quarterback, Bryson Barnes.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the Canadian Football League now.
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  Speaker 2: They're favorites here, but not by much. How do you
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  Speaker 2: see it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I still think that there's a talent discrepancy here.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that Hill said, I think that he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be good enough for them. Here's a guy that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, can run and throw the football. He's played
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  Speaker 4: against good competition, you know, being at BYU. And I
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  Speaker 4: like some of their transfers. You don't know them. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they're not big names, but some of these guys, I
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  Speaker 4: think they did some really good scouting. They played a
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  Speaker 4: lower level school, especially on defense teams. Comic colleges like St. Thomas,
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  Speaker 4: Mississippi Valley State, and also, like I said, they always
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  Speaker 4: get guys from BYU looking to get more playing time.
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  Speaker 4: So I like Utah State here. I think the home
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  Speaker 4: field advantage is big here. And also, I think their
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  Speaker 4: special teams will be improved over last year, where they're
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  Speaker 4: only ranking 113th out of 134 teams. So they get
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  Speaker 4: those return games going with Jacob's. Javon Jacobs, Sarah, they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be tough to beat. I like the, I
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  Speaker 4: like the Aggies here. I think they went in cover here,
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  Speaker 4: 35 to 20.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker 2, maybe one of the headline games of this
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  Speaker 3: opening weekend, which lacks, if I'm being honest with slacks,
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  Speaker 3: like big time premier match-ups, but from a brand value standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: and certainly from a headlines, a recent headline standpoint, Clemson
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  Speaker 3: LSU carries a bit of intrigue to it. LSU for,
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  Speaker 3: as far as we know, is going to have a
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  Speaker 3: couple of former NFL guys on the roster after winning
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  Speaker 3: that case yesterday, they are ranked Clemson is not at
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  Speaker 3: least not in the preseason LSU, 10 point favorites.
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  Speaker 2: How does this one play out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I think that, you know, dabble, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he might have an expiration date on his stay here
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  Speaker 4: in Clemson. So you watched him last year. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: everything that could go wrong, went wrong. His quarterback, Kate Klubnick, who,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there for four years, everyone thought after the
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  Speaker 4: freshman year, he's going to be the next coming, never
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  Speaker 4: got it done. They finished seven and six. He goes
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  Speaker 4: to the Jets training camp and looks great. So probably
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  Speaker 4: wasn't the kid, probably the coaching and getting him to
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  Speaker 4: play at a high level. They even lost four of
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  Speaker 4: the top five defensive linemen. We're not able to get
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  Speaker 4: the best out of those guys. There was projections two
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  Speaker 4: years ago that three or four of those guys were
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  Speaker 4: going to be top 10 picks. LSU had trouble running
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  Speaker 4: the football last year, just 104 rushing yards per game.
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  Speaker 4: They've got to pick that up. Only 10 rushing touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: They ranked 118th out of 134 teams running the football. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you get the best offensive tackle, maybe a
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  Speaker 4: kid that goes in the first round from Colorado, another
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  Speaker 4: couple guys there, a couple receivers in the transfer portal
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  Speaker 4: that will open up the passing game. And Sam Leavitt,
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  Speaker 4: when he's healthy, and he is right now, he may
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  Speaker 4: not be in four or five weeks. They're going to
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  Speaker 4: be a team that is going to be tough to
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  Speaker 4: reckon with. So I know Dabo would like to finish
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  Speaker 4: strong here, maybe have a big season, move on to
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  Speaker 4: Alabama as alma mater, but I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be happening. This place is going to be rocking.
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  Speaker 4: They say they might blow the top off the stadium
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  Speaker 4: here on Saturday night. LSU rolls here, LSU Tigers, 30
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  Speaker 4: Clemson Tigers, 17.
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  Speaker 3: We certainly haven't heard the last Lee of this like
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  Speaker 3: big picture stuff with pro players coming back in and LSU,
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  Speaker 3: they're the ones who are willing to die on this hill.
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  Speaker 3: The sec is like, no, we're not going to let
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  Speaker 3: this happen. So I mean, is this going to be
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  Speaker 3: a storyline that plays out through the season or are
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  Speaker 3: we going to shelve it until after it's done?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's not going to play out for more
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  Speaker 4: than a week, 10 days, and then they'll have to
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  Speaker 4: decide which way to go. But, I mean, LSU is
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  Speaker 4: kind of caught in the middle. They're saying they need
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  Speaker 4: to play the kids, and the conference is saying, no,
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  Speaker 4: you don't. So, you know, maybe we need to open
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  Speaker 4: up a new TV station. You know, you have court TV.
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  Speaker 4: Call it sports court TV. There's at least one case
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  Speaker 4: going on every week everyone wants to see that involves sports.
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  Speaker 4: There's at least one athlete or ex-athlete. you know, that,
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  Speaker 4: that has a court case is arrested. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 4: you got, you know, guys on the scene, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: We got a Georgia offensive lineman pulled over for 85
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  Speaker 4: and a 25, you know, show the footage there. How
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  Speaker 4: great would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: No limit on the stuff we could get in this
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  Speaker 3: year of college football, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Um, High expectations for BYU as they start their season
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  Speaker 3: under Kalani Satake. After a little minor athletic department turmoil
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  Speaker 3: in the offseason, I don't think anything that affects players,
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  Speaker 3: but certainly a distraction for Kalani and some of the
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  Speaker 3: coaches with that whole Brian Santiago situation. They are massive 51.5-point
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  Speaker 3: favorites against Utah Tech, who is still a pretty recent
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  Speaker 3: addition to Division I football. Can BYU cover on a
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  Speaker 3: line this fat?
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  Speaker 4: It seems like one of the few schools that's able
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  Speaker 4: to play some of these schools in Utah tough is
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  Speaker 4: Weber State. Isn't that where you went to school also
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  Speaker 4: to finish your career?
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  Speaker 2: Weber State, yes. Utah Tech, though? Utah Tech.
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  Speaker 4: No, no. Utah Tech, I mean, the talent, I was
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  Speaker 4: watching their game last week. They just don't have the
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  Speaker 4: players right now. And, you know, it just depends on
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  Speaker 4: how long the BYU keeps their starters in. They have
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  Speaker 4: Arizona next week, which is a big game. So I
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  Speaker 4: think they're going to keep their starters in at least
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  Speaker 4: three quarters. And I just think Utah Tech, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they should be playing probably NAIA Division III ball. They're
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  Speaker 4: just not at this level just yet. fear Bachmeier and
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  Speaker 4: also LJ Martin should have huge games. And I think
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  Speaker 4: they're going to try to get some of the young receivers,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and, and some of the transfer guys, some action.
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  Speaker 4: So I like BYU. I think they win this game here,
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  Speaker 4: 65 to six.
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  Speaker 3: BYU covers according to Lee Sterling on a 51 and
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  Speaker 3: a half line, um, paramount sports.com. What else can our
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  Speaker 3: people know about what you're doing as we start off
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  Speaker 3: this college football season?
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  Speaker 4: So this is what I want to do today. I
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  Speaker 4: know people listen. I know people like to have some
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  Speaker 4: fun and would like to win. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 4: them three free selections for tonight. I have three plays
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  Speaker 4: I like tonight and caution nothing. So we've won 32
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  Speaker 4: out of 33 seasons. I'm a former college quarterback. This
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  Speaker 4: is all I do. Study tapes. I think I'm able
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  Speaker 4: to figure some things out that most people can't. We've
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  Speaker 4: won six of the last seven Super Bowls, six of
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  Speaker 4: the last seven national championship games. You want to get
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  Speaker 4: you the three plays for tonight. I know if I
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  Speaker 4: win for you, go 2-1 or 3-0 and put some
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  Speaker 4: jingle in your pockets. You're going to want to consider
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  Speaker 4: me for the future. Also, the UFC. We've won 13
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  Speaker 4: of the last 15 cards and got robbed, I thought,
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  Speaker 4: last week. Did you watch the Jenkins-Woodson fight?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. it was clearly one, one out of the judges
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  Speaker 4: and the, I think it's the 15 ring side of observers.
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  Speaker 4: They had it one, one watched the last round of
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  Speaker 4: that fight. We had Jenkins plus one 25. I thought
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  Speaker 4: he dominated the round. I don't think woods had landed six,
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  Speaker 4: seven punches the entire round. He shakes his head, you know, no,
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  Speaker 4: every time he gets hit. But, uh, I thought it
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  Speaker 4: was one of the biggest robberies. One of the judges,
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen his name before who judged the fight
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  Speaker 4: at a, out of Shanghai. But, you know, I guess
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  Speaker 4: they pick up some guys. They don't want to fly people,
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  Speaker 4: you know, halfway around the world. But I thought it
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  Speaker 4: was a really bad decision, cost us a winning card.
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  Speaker 4: But looking to get back on track, we do that well.
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  Speaker 4: And we have a super saver card, five selections, including
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  Speaker 3: Lee, we got less than a month until the UFC
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  Speaker 3: returns tonight. to Salt Lake city and no announced main
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  Speaker 3: event yet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Crazy. They got it. They got to
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  Speaker 4: figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Lee.
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  Speaker 2: You're the man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we're doing this again this year. Appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: joining us. We'll talk again next week.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: See you.
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  Speaker 3: Lee Sterling paramount sports, best handicapper in the business.