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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Sounds of the ACC · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 5: producing the show like he always does and chiming in
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Speaker 5: with the bone man out one more day. We'll get
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Speaker 5: week too. They report for training camp in two days
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Speaker 5: on Wednesday. They got Brady Christiansen signed on Friday to
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Speaker 5: for O line depth. It's go time, baby, it's go time.
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Speaker 5: But right now it's go time to talk college football.
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Speaker 5: I always feel like you have the media days right
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Speaker 5: when talking season gets going. Acc was last week. We've
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Speaker 5: got the se starting today in Tampa. That's one sign
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Speaker 5: that college football is on the way. Another sign that
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Speaker 5: college football's on the way is that the Phil Steele
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Speaker 5: Bible of college football preview magazines is out there.
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Speaker 4: You get it.
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Speaker 5: At Barnes and Nobles. You can get it at Phil
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Speaker 5: Steel dot com. And yet another sign that college football's
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Speaker 5: on the way is that Phil Steele joins us to
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Speaker 5: talk college football and preview the seasons of all our
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Speaker 5: local teams. And Phil Steele is ready to do that
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Speaker 5: right now on the Mac and Bone show, Phil, great
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Speaker 5: work again on your magazine.
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Speaker 4: Man, how you been Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I am doing great. How about you? Gentlemen this morning?
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Speaker 5: We're doing so good. We're talking football. We've got you
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Speaker 5: on the show. We got the magazine out and about
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Speaker 5: it's beautiful times. And I want to try we do
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Speaker 5: this every year, and I want to try to get
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Speaker 5: to all the different FBS schools here in our area
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Speaker 5: in the Carolinas. Let's start with one, Phil, that we
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Speaker 5: talked about earlier on the show, North Carolina. What are
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Speaker 5: your expectations for the tar Heels this year? Is it
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Speaker 5: gonna it's gotta be better than last year?
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Speaker 6: You're right, Oh, definitely, And you know I'll tell you
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Speaker 6: what going to over the teams with the coaches this year.
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Speaker 6: The one common theme is without that second spring portal window,
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Speaker 6: it felt like more of a team for all the
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Speaker 6: teams across the country, but more so for a team
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Speaker 6: like North Carolina, which hit the portal hard after spring
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Speaker 6: practice last year brought in a lot of players. It's
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Speaker 6: tough to assimilate a team and can get them playing
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Speaker 6: all together. Now. They did have a couple of close
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Speaker 6: losses last year, so we're close to a bowl game.
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Speaker 6: I think they're They're improved on both offense and defense
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Speaker 6: this year, like the addition to Billy Edwards, a quarterback,
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Speaker 6: offensive line, stronger, just a much better team. The thing
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Speaker 6: that concerns me is last year they played a really
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Speaker 6: good schedule, very manageable schedule. This year they take on
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Speaker 6: the thirteenth toughest schedule in the country non conference games
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Speaker 6: against Nor Dame and TCU, and in conference play they
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Speaker 6: actually played one of the second toughest schedule in the ACC.
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Speaker 6: So I think you see a much improved team. How
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Speaker 6: much they improved record wise will be the question because
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Speaker 6: the schedule is a lot tougher this year.
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Speaker 4: It is. Yeah, we've talked about that.
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Speaker 5: Man I wish you can't get what you want, but
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Speaker 5: man I wish this team could have last year's schedule.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to see that.
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Speaker 5: For tar Heel fans, Hey a schedule that feels the
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Speaker 5: complete opposite, and you can tell me your thoughts on it.
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Speaker 5: In the ACC is NC State that feels like a
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Speaker 5: schedule fill where there's an opportunity there for the wolf Pack.
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Speaker 5: Like what type of season do you see them having
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Speaker 5: this year? In the ACC?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they have the opportunity to finally get
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Speaker 6: through and get that double digit win season possibly with
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Speaker 6: the schedule they have. It's the number seventy six schedule.
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Speaker 6: That's quite a big difference from North Carolina's number thirteen schedule.
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Speaker 6: And you got to like the fact that CJ. Bailey's back,
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Speaker 6: a three year starting quarterback in college football almost unheard of.
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Speaker 6: You got a guy like Duke Scott at running back.
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Speaker 6: Offensive line looks solid. Defensively, I like the additions that
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Speaker 6: they have. You know, they're a lot better than they
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Speaker 6: were a year ago. It's the second year in the
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Speaker 6: system of the defense, and I think you're going to
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Speaker 6: see that improved. And then you touched on at the schedule,
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Speaker 6: and I also like the fact they don't have to
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Speaker 6: travel to Brazil. You know, last year, when I was
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Speaker 6: talking to coach Campbell and coach Climbing of Iowa State,
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Speaker 6: and Kansas State. They were concerned about the overseas trip
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Speaker 6: and affected both teams. Remember Florida State and Georgia Tech
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Speaker 6: both had there are seasons weaker than expected, traveling overseas,
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Speaker 6: NC State, not having to travel to Brazil, and getting
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Speaker 6: two by weeks in the same year. You gotta love it.
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Speaker 6: This schedule sets up well. They do have to play
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Speaker 6: Florida State North Carolina on the road, but those are winnable.
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Speaker 6: I think they've got a shot at that elusive double
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Speaker 6: digit win season.
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Speaker 5: God, that would be huge. Man So wolf Pack fans
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Speaker 5: loving what you're saying. Right now, We've got to get
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Speaker 5: to the two teams that were not talking about as
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Speaker 5: much on Tobacco Road in the ACC. Let's start with
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Speaker 5: a defending ACC champs. Manny Diaz is Duke Blue Devils.
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Speaker 5: What do you think about Duke. They obviously lost Mensa Bark,
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Speaker 5: they lost some key guys, But Manny has kind of
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Speaker 5: outdone our expectations his first two years in Duke. Can
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Speaker 5: he do that again? Or are you skeptical?
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Speaker 6: What do you think I'm expecting him to out do
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Speaker 6: my expectations again. That's just many Diaz and what he
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Speaker 6: gets done here. At the Duke and I really like
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Speaker 6: what they did, losing Mensa last minute like they did
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Speaker 6: and Barkate, but bringing in Walker Egitt coming in from
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Speaker 6: San Jose State. I think him getting eligible was key.
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Speaker 6: Here's a guy that's got a lot of experience, like
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Speaker 6: what he did at San Jose State. They've got Nate
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Speaker 6: Shepherd back at running back and this guy really came
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Speaker 6: on last year. They've got talent, and they've got many
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Speaker 6: Diaz as the head coach. So if that's the case,
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Speaker 6: I see him definitely getting back to a Bowl game.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if they can get back to win
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Speaker 6: the ACC again this year, but who the heck thought
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Speaker 6: they would win it last year. I just expect Many
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Speaker 6: Diaz to overachieve expectations once again.
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Speaker 5: Now, speaking of overachieving Wake Forest with nine wins last
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Speaker 5: year on Jake Dickard's first year, I mean, we Phil,
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Speaker 5: your prognostications are pretty damn good every year, but that
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Speaker 5: Wake thing was hard to see coming. What does dicker
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Speaker 5: do in year two? What do you think?
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Speaker 6: You know? And the thing I liked about them last
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Speaker 6: year was when they were in the portal, their main
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Speaker 6: thing was snaps. Snaps. Now, how many snaps has this
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Speaker 6: player played? How many snaps has this guy played? And
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Speaker 6: it wow? Look at the results nine wins last year.
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Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be tough to match last year's
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Speaker 6: nine wins. Of course, who would have thought they had
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Speaker 6: nine wins last year? But Geo Lopez coming in a quarterback,
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Speaker 6: I think it's a better fit. Remember a couple of
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Speaker 6: years ago he was with Rob Zel at South Alabama
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Speaker 6: and really thrived in this offense, So I think getting
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Speaker 6: back in that offense is a good thing. They've got
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Speaker 6: Carlos Hernandez a receiver. The defense looks solid. I do
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Speaker 6: think it's another bowl year for wake Forest. Don't see
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Speaker 6: a match in last year's nine win total. But Jake
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Speaker 6: Dickerd's doing act of a job.
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Speaker 5: He is man looking forward to seeing what they do
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Speaker 5: in year two. We got to go to the Palmetto
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Speaker 5: State and the acc field Steel by the way with
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Speaker 5: us his magazine, his annual preview magazine, robust as always
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Speaker 5: and it is a must have for college football fans
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Speaker 5: getting themselves ready for the season. Let's go to Clemson.
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Speaker 5: What an interesting storyline they are as dab owned company
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Speaker 5: try to follow up a season in which Phil you
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Speaker 5: talk about prognostications. I had them in the damn Championship
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Speaker 5: game winning it all last year.
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Speaker 4: How horrible was that? What you do? They bounce back?
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Speaker 4: What do you think of this edition of Clemson?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they absolutely bounced back. I like the talent on
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Speaker 6: this team. You know, last year, I don't think Kate
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Speaker 6: Klubnick played up to the expectation level. But Vizino or
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Speaker 6: Tate Reynolds, whoever ends up being the full long time
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Speaker 6: start of Visino was named the starter. Reynolds is pushing them.
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Speaker 6: It should be a good battle there. Offensive line looks out.
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Speaker 6: I think the receiving courch was banged up last year,
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Speaker 6: is going to be much better. They've got Westco and
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Speaker 6: more of both couple of NFL guys. Defensively, I was
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Speaker 6: really surprised Tom Allen's defense gave up three hundred and
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Speaker 6: fifty seven yards per game last year. They really hit
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Speaker 6: the portal hard on the defensive side of the ball.
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Speaker 6: You know, they brought in like ten transfers this year,
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Speaker 6: the majority of him on the defense. I think we're
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Speaker 6: going to see a much improved will held at defensive
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Speaker 6: ends Sammy Brown and linebacker ash And Hampton at quarterback,
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Speaker 6: three NFL caliber guys every turn, and when I look
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Speaker 6: at the schedule, the only games I've got him an
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Speaker 6: underdogger at LSU and home to Miami, and both of
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Speaker 6: them slight underdogs. I think Dabo gets back to contending
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Speaker 6: for the ACC title.
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Speaker 5: Interesting, all right, what do you think before we get
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Speaker 5: to some more teams here in the Carolinas, do you
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Speaker 5: seem how big of a threat do you see Miami
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Speaker 5: for the national championship this year?
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Speaker 6: A clear threat? I mean, look, the key is making
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Speaker 6: the playoff, right, They were the last team to make
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Speaker 6: the playoff and came within one play off actually winning
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Speaker 6: the national title. The key for Miami is going to
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Speaker 6: be the offensive line. But Mario christ Ball is the
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Speaker 6: head coach. Just talked to him a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 6: once again going over the offensive line. How's it progressing?
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Speaker 6: He likes it, and you know he's going to build
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Speaker 6: a good offensive line. You take a Darien men, say
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Speaker 6: a quarterback Cooper Bark the receiver, ad him into Mark
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Speaker 6: Fletcher and Malachai Tony that were already there. Defensively, they're
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Speaker 6: outstanding throughout the board. The only game I have an
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Speaker 6: underdog in is aunt Notre Dame. But I think this
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Speaker 6: in Miami team clearly capable. And you got to love
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Speaker 6: the fact that they got that playoff experience last year.
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Speaker 6: They got big wins in the playoffs. They're going to
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Speaker 6: be a confident team when playoff time rolls around.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's go to South Carolina. What are you?
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Speaker 5: They're a team that also in the Palmetto State needs
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Speaker 5: a bounce back year. Do you think they bounce back?
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Speaker 5: I mean, how good can they be this year?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? I've had a pretty good pulse on South Carolina
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Speaker 6: through the years. They come off a five and seventh
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Speaker 6: season in twenty twenty three, I put them on my
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Speaker 6: most Improved list. They bounced up to nine and four
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Speaker 6: last year. Everybody's talking they're going to be a playoff contender.
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Speaker 6: And I had a middle of the pack of the
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Speaker 6: SEC because they lost all those defensive linemen and they
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Speaker 6: bounced back down to four and eight. Well, good news
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Speaker 6: for game Cock fans. They're back on my most improved list.
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Speaker 6: Leonora Sellers is back at QB. I like the way
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Speaker 6: Nick Harbor exploded down the stretch last year, and when
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Speaker 6: I talked to coach Biember going over the square with him.
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Speaker 6: He said, this defensive line reminds him a lot of
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Speaker 6: the group of twenty twenty four, which was outstanding. Dylan
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Speaker 6: Stewart's back, they got Brown Low Dindy inside, They've got
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Speaker 6: good depth. And if the defensive line gets back towards
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Speaker 6: those standards of twenty four, not saying they're going to
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Speaker 6: get there, but get close to it, then I think
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Speaker 6: they're going to have a good year. So back of
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Speaker 6: my most improved liss back to a bowl game this
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Speaker 6: year despite taking on the number twenty five schedule in
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Speaker 6: the country.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's get to the group of six schools
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Speaker 5: here in the state of North Carolina, right here in
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Speaker 5: our city, Charlotte. Tim Albin, like what Tim Albin did
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Speaker 5: at Ohio was so was so good and impressive, and
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Speaker 5: I just I wonder if he can pull that off
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Speaker 5: here in Charlotte. Last year, man, that was a rough year.
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Speaker 5: What do you think happens in the second season for
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Speaker 5: Albin at Charlotte, Well.
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Speaker 6: He stepped into an extremely tough situation. As you know,
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Speaker 6: coach Poge was a guy that relied on the transfer
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Speaker 6: portal heavy for two straight years and then when he left,
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Speaker 6: everybody was gone. So now you have a third straight
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Speaker 6: year of a transfer portal heavy class. They were not
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Speaker 6: look at this year's squad. They're number one twenty four
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Speaker 6: in my homegrown chart. Very few players were recruited as
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Speaker 6: freshmen that are still there. They are still in experience.
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Speaker 6: This year they're just number one seventeen on my experience chart.
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Speaker 6: I think that coach album is going to hit his
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Speaker 6: strides year three. It's going to take him a little
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Speaker 6: bit to rebuild this thing. I do think it's going
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Speaker 6: to be a much more competitive forty nine er team
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Speaker 6: this year. You know, you go back to last year,
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Speaker 6: they're a team that was minus two hundred and seven
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Speaker 6: yards per game at conference play, hardly even competitive. Much
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Speaker 6: more competitive this year, probably picking up for a few
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Speaker 6: more wins. But I think next year, year three will
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Speaker 6: be the year Tim Albyn had gets him back to
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Speaker 6: a Bowl game.
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Speaker 5: Phil Steele is a machine, y'all. You're hearing him right now.
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Speaker 5: His magazine is available Phil Steel dot Com or Barnes
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Speaker 5: and Noble stores to get you ready for the football season.
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Speaker 5: All right, Phil, let's go to ECU. I love the start,
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Speaker 5: and I'm sure you do too. For Blake Harrell in
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Speaker 5: his season and a half in Greatville, Man, I wish
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Speaker 5: he still had kateon Howser though, who's transferred to Illinois.
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Speaker 4: What do you think about this ECU team?
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Speaker 6: Well, he's done Wonders, you know, took over midseason and
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Speaker 6: guided them to a great finish in the nine and
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Speaker 6: four last year. As you mentioned, they lose their quarterback
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Speaker 6: from last year, lose their top running back from last year,
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Speaker 6: so there are some losses. But he's been doing a
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Speaker 6: great job building the team. I like every Williams, now
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Speaker 6: every Williams Mitch Griffiths two guys battling out for the job.
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Speaker 6: But I think Williams, if you watch him at Miami,
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Speaker 6: I think he's got the potential to have a big year.
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Speaker 6: They got to rework the offensive line, they got a
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Speaker 6: lot of transfers coming in again. But Blake Carroll is
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Speaker 6: doing a phenomenal job with this squad. When I look
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Speaker 6: at the schedule this year, I've got him an underdog
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Speaker 6: at Bama, a slight underdog at Memphis, and a slight
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Speaker 6: underdog at Army. I think they're an actual contender once
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Speaker 6: again in the American Conference this year.
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Speaker 5: Awesome, all right, app State. App State fans are waiting
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Speaker 5: for you to break them down, and they're hoping that
12:58
Speaker 5: you say that they are in proved team and down
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Speaker 5: long second season.
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Speaker 4: How do you feel about APP right now?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know they had some close losses last year.
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Speaker 6: I think the bowl experience helps them now. Naturally, when
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Speaker 6: you send your team home for the postseason and then
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Speaker 6: have to call them back, odds are you're going to
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Speaker 6: lose the bowl game. But I think getting those extra
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Speaker 6: practices do help APP. I like Malachi Singleton at quarterback.
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Speaker 6: Nobody's really talking about him, but he's a guy that
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Speaker 6: would transferred in from Purdue this year, originally at Arkansas
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Speaker 6: and is already a captain, So I like that he's
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Speaker 6: taking control of the team. They bring in a Jocos
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Speaker 6: cross coming in from Arkansas State at running back, an
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Speaker 6: all conference caliber guy. Defensively, they're going to be much stronger,
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Speaker 6: and generally every second year coach I talked to tells
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Speaker 6: you that they're in much better shape this year. They
13:46
Speaker 6: know the players, players know the system. So I'm looking
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Speaker 6: for I have to definitely get back to a bowl game,
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Speaker 6: and I think they could be a sneaky team contending
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Speaker 6: actually in the Sunbelt this year.
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Speaker 4: That'd be awesome, all right.
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Speaker 5: Last question, Marcus Freeman was on ESPN on Friday talking about,
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Speaker 5: you know, their belief internally as we can win every
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Speaker 5: stinking game this coming season. I would guess you agree, Phil,
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Speaker 5: because they're your preseason number one team. What do you
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Speaker 5: like about this Notre Dame team?
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Speaker 7: You know?
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Speaker 6: And I think when everybody looks at the team in
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Speaker 6: the offseason, it's easiest to look at the quarterback, running back,
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Speaker 6: and receivers, and that's how they make their pick. But
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Speaker 6: I'm different. I look at defense, offensive line as really
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Speaker 6: heavy and Notre Dame actually as my number one defense
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Speaker 6: in the country. They got nine starters back from outstanding
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Speaker 6: defense last year, loaded in talent. Then I'm on the
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Speaker 6: Joe Moore Award Committee. We've study offensive line all the time.
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Speaker 6: They've got my number one rated offensive line. I think,
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Speaker 6: got four possible NFL offensive linemen up front. And then
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Speaker 6: you add that to a veteran quarterback like CJ.
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Speaker 1: Carr.
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Speaker 6: You take on the number sixty six schedule in the country.
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Speaker 6: The only two question mark games, the only two games
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Speaker 6: I don't have them at least a two touchdown favorite,
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Speaker 6: are at BYU and then home against Miami, but I've
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Speaker 6: got I'm favorite in both. I do think they run
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Speaker 6: the table this year. I love their motto leave no doubt.
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Speaker 6: If they can overcome that bye week only coach Signetti
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Speaker 6: has done that so far, then I think they have
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Speaker 6: a great shot of winning the national title this year.
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Speaker 6: Love defense, offensive line and veteran quarterback.
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Speaker 5: That's a good formula, man, it really is. I Phil
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Speaker 5: great work. The magazine's tremendous as always, Am I leaving
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Speaker 5: anything out?
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Speaker 8: You can?
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Speaker 5: You can order the magazine at Phil Steel dot com.
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Speaker 5: You can also get a digital copy there or Barnes
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Speaker 5: and Noble. Am I leaving anything out?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? Three hundred and seventy six pages. It's like getting
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Speaker 6: And I give you the same amount of coverage on
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Speaker 6: Charlotte that I do in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State two
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Speaker 6: Barnes and Noble, but also Books a Million, or you
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Speaker 5: Awesome, Phil, you knocked it down the park again, man.
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Speaker 5: Always loved talking to you this time of year. Enjoy
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Speaker 5: the season, brother, Thanks so much.
16:17
Speaker 6: I always love talking football with you. I appreciate you
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Speaker 6: having me on.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate you. There you go. That is Phil Steel.
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Speaker 5: The magazine is amazing, and I believe now if you're not, say,
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Speaker 5: if you don't work out, though, you gotta be careful.
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Speaker 5: this thing, Fitty. This thing is remarkable, brother, It really is.
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Speaker 3: Every year there's so much information, like, to be honest
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Speaker 3: with you, is probably unless you're a diehard, it's probably
16:45
Speaker 3: too much.
16:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, but man, I love it.
16:48
Speaker 3: Like I was finally yesterday, I had some reading time
16:52
Speaker 3: before I went to the racetrack. I was eating my breakfast,
16:54
Speaker 3: had the Open Championship on, and was having some reading time.
16:58
Speaker 3: And you just you come away with smarter football fan
17:00
Speaker 3: because it's all this all he does all years work
17:03
Speaker 3: on this magazine.
17:04
Speaker 4: True.
17:05
Speaker 5: My only issue, Fitty, I told you about it last week,
17:07
Speaker 5: is I my eyes. I may be fifty two, but
17:11
Speaker 5: I swear I have the eyes of a ninety two
17:12
Speaker 5: year old like I have such I can't see this
17:15
Speaker 5: without readers.
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Speaker 3: There's like four bucks at the local walker. I broke
17:20
Speaker 3: my readers, so I gotta get Oh you actually have them?
17:23
Speaker 4: I had them, I broke them. Oh yeah, I've had
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Speaker 4: readers for like ten years. Man.
17:26
Speaker 5: My eyes went quickly, you know, kind of not as
17:29
Speaker 5: quick as your hair, but like, my eyes went pretty quick.
17:31
Speaker 4: What was that straight for? By the way, I.
17:37
Speaker 5: There is an amazing you said you want a NASCAR
17:41
Speaker 5: woman that I don't realize your type of woman. There
17:44
Speaker 5: are some amazing have you seen it? There are some
17:46
Speaker 5: amazing texts coming in from guys about their experience with
17:49
Speaker 5: NASCAR fan women.
17:53
Speaker 4: That they're all positive.
17:54
Speaker 3: You go.
17:55
Speaker 4: It does appear to be a mixed bag.
17:57
Speaker 5: Fitting It appears to be a mixed bag, including the
18:00
Speaker 5: man known as Dom capers Topey, who said, Fitty, I
18:04
Speaker 5: moved in with a hot girl showing her boobs at
18:06
Speaker 5: the racetrack.
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Speaker 4: It didn't work out well.
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Speaker 3: Sounds like a you problem. I love nothing more to
18:15
Speaker 3: have that problem on my head. You're right, let me
18:18
Speaker 3: have that horrible experience. All right, Let's take a breather
18:22
Speaker 3: here on the Mac and Bone Show. When we come back.
18:25
Speaker 3: It sounds of the ACC the final edition. Right, it's
18:28
Speaker 3: SEC Media Days starting today down there in Tampa. We
18:32
Speaker 3: gotta let you here, Bill Belichick, why the heels are better?
18:36
Speaker 3: Manny Diaz firing back at critics who said they didn't
18:39
Speaker 3: deserve to be in the ACC title game, and Pat
18:42
Speaker 3: Nardoozy and Rhett Lashley start it up. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 5: Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn Z Mac and Bone
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Speaker 5: with you Mac and Bone Show with you Bone man off.
19:12
Speaker 5: He will be back tomorrow and we'll be back, be
19:14
Speaker 5: back at full strength, just in time for the Panthers
19:17
Speaker 5: to report for training camp on Wednesday.
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Speaker 4: Man, we made it, y'all.
19:20
Speaker 5: We made it back to Carolina Panther time and cannot wait.
19:24
Speaker 5: I absolutely cannot wait. We want to do some sounds
19:28
Speaker 5: of the ACC. We want to let you hear some
19:31
Speaker 5: of the most interesting things set at ACC Media Day
19:34
Speaker 5: on on Friday, like I said, it's SEC media day.
19:38
Speaker 5: I think it's Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri today, and there's one
19:43
Speaker 5: other team who's who is escaping me right now? But
19:46
Speaker 5: we start SEC. They'll do it four days, of course,
19:49
Speaker 5: because I don't know if you've heard before, it just
19:50
Speaker 5: means more. They gotta have a four day media event
19:54
Speaker 5: and Sanke I am guessing today we'll do his usual
20:00
Speaker 5: arrogant speech that will have me annoyed. But anyway, I digress,
20:04
Speaker 5: Sea Fans. I'm sorry, what's about the acc Also, I
20:07
Speaker 5: need to point out during the break, Fiddy is telling
20:10
Speaker 5: me some stories from his trip to North Wilkespur with
20:13
Speaker 5: Smoke Ludwig yesterday, and he tells me the least surprising
20:17
Speaker 5: thing I've heard all day, which is someone had to
20:19
Speaker 5: get kicked out.
20:22
Speaker 4: At the race yesterday near you.
20:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, we thought that someone had fought, but undoubtedly this
20:29
Speaker 3: dude that got escorted out parked by the guy that
20:32
Speaker 3: I was sitting beside, and the dude tolds he said, Dude,
20:35
Speaker 3: they've been there for all week, and the drove from Florida.
20:38
Speaker 3: He's like, we part beside each other early this morning
20:41
Speaker 3: and he already should have went home that's how far
20:43
Speaker 3: gone this guy was. He fell walking down like and
20:47
Speaker 3: the cops are just like walking behind him. They're not
20:49
Speaker 3: helping him, and he like stumbles and goes down about
20:52
Speaker 3: three three rows of sayers. So we had that, and
20:58
Speaker 3: then man, we had this woman mac convinced that we
21:01
Speaker 3: were sitting in her spots like, and I told Smoke,
21:04
Speaker 3: I said, dude, you gotta double check the phone because
21:06
Speaker 3: if we're sitting in the wrong spot, it's gonna be
21:09
Speaker 3: pretty embarrassed.
21:10
Speaker 5: There's no way sports rain Man, Smoke a Lodwick is
21:12
Speaker 5: messing those seat that seat up, you know what I mean.
21:14
Speaker 3: And then when we left, she was still standing in
21:16
Speaker 3: there and I was like, Smoke, We're gonna go down
21:18
Speaker 3: a few rows and then get to the aisle because
21:21
Speaker 3: I felt like she was gonna try to confront us
21:23
Speaker 3: because she she had four people ask us if we
21:26
Speaker 3: were singing her seat, and at one point, Smoke's like
21:29
Speaker 3: showing her the phone and.
21:30
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, this is our section. Fitty a text
21:35
Speaker 5: or asked a great question. Was that guy so drunk
21:37
Speaker 5: he puked in his own shirt?
21:38
Speaker 3: Fitty?
21:39
Speaker 4: That did not happen.
21:42
Speaker 5: Fitty behaved himself. Man, stay sober smoke is a good
21:46
Speaker 5: influence on you. All Right, let's get into these sounds
21:49
Speaker 5: of We'll talk more at the NASCAR race. Legano winning
21:52
Speaker 5: in Fitty's Tales from North Wilkesburg. Good to see that
21:56
Speaker 5: joint get a points race. But let's do some of
21:58
Speaker 5: these sounds of the ACC. Let's start with many Daz.
22:02
Speaker 5: This dude came out on fire. You could tell it's
22:05
Speaker 5: been bothering for months, hearing about the need for a
22:08
Speaker 5: change tiebreaker, which they now have in the ACC and
22:11
Speaker 5: al Duke did not deserve to be in the ACC
22:14
Speaker 5: title game, which they oh won. Oh by the way,
22:17
Speaker 5: listen to many Daz before even taking questions on Friday.
22:22
Speaker 9: It's been quite a week. I've heard, we made the news.
22:24
Speaker 9: I heard we got a rule named after us. It's
22:26
Speaker 9: pretty cool, right, the Duke tiebreaker rule. I just want
22:30
Speaker 9: to start remarks by just addressing our thoughts on that.
22:35
Speaker 9: Inherent in the narrative of changing a tiebreaker for the
22:37
Speaker 9: conference championship game is the assertion that last year's team
22:41
Speaker 9: was undeserved of being in the championship game. You hear
22:44
Speaker 9: that word that now there'll be more deserved teams in
22:46
Speaker 9: the championship game. And I want to push back against
22:49
Speaker 9: that narrative. I think it's not just false, I think
22:52
Speaker 9: it's insulting. Well, we're in is and we're in a competition.
22:57
Speaker 7: That's what this is.
22:57
Speaker 9: Seventeen teams showed up here this weekend to compete for
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Speaker 9: one championship.
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Speaker 6: The most simple.
23:05
Speaker 4: Way to do that is if we could all play
23:07
Speaker 4: each other.
23:08
Speaker 6: Right, we can't do that.
23:08
Speaker 7: There's too many damn teams.
23:10
Speaker 3: Right.
23:11
Speaker 9: It'd be great to have head to head, but there's
23:13
Speaker 9: so many teams it's hard to get us all together
23:14
Speaker 9: head to head. It'd be cool to have common opponents,
23:16
Speaker 9: but you know what, it's hard to have enough common opponents.
23:19
Speaker 9: But the one thing you can do is you can
23:21
Speaker 9: add up all the wins and losses, and you can
23:22
Speaker 9: add up all the wins and losses of the eight
23:24
Speaker 9: teams that you played against are the nine teams this year,
23:27
Speaker 9: And by that metric, which is the most objective metric
23:31
Speaker 9: that you can possibly have, there's no feelings or emotions
23:34
Speaker 9: involved in that. We were the top team to go
23:37
Speaker 9: play Virginia in that game, and then we thoroughly deserve
23:40
Speaker 9: the victory in a great game against an outstanding Virginia
23:43
Speaker 9: team Tony ellit deserved Coach.
23:45
Speaker 5: Of the Year a year ago, So listen, I don't
23:48
Speaker 5: blame him for using that stuff as fuel. I hope
23:51
Speaker 5: he's using that in the locker room, Fitty as fuel. Hey,
23:54
Speaker 5: you hear what they've been saying about you. You didn't
23:56
Speaker 5: even deserve to play. You're not worthy of this chain
23:59
Speaker 5: and all that talk. But by the same token, we
24:02
Speaker 5: all watched them play in the non conference last year,
24:05
Speaker 5: and we all saw Miami almost miss out on the
24:08
Speaker 5: playoff because they were not in the ACC title game.
24:12
Speaker 5: So it's not personal Many DZ, but hey, go ahead
24:16
Speaker 5: and use that stuff to fuel you.
24:17
Speaker 4: And it made for a good SoundBite, it did.
24:19
Speaker 3: And Mac, when I pulled it this morning and I
24:22
Speaker 3: heard I heard it on Friday.
24:23
Speaker 4: Too, I thought I was in his camp.
24:28
Speaker 3: I understood what Many Das was trying to get across
24:31
Speaker 3: there after hearing that for a third time, that that
24:35
Speaker 3: comment was the epitome of dookie filth. No one said
24:39
Speaker 3: that you're undeserving. What they want to guarantee are the
24:43
Speaker 3: two best teams. You weren't the second. You weren't theoretically
24:49
Speaker 3: the second best team in the ACC.
24:50
Speaker 4: A year ago.
24:51
Speaker 5: So we did all say that they shouldn't be, but
24:54
Speaker 5: we never said undeserving you.
24:56
Speaker 3: You just took advantage of a system that this system
25:00
Speaker 3: has its own issues as well.
25:03
Speaker 5: But with this system, Duke would not have been playing
25:05
Speaker 5: for the correct But we're not saying they didn't deserve.
25:08
Speaker 4: And we just want to.
25:09
Speaker 3: Have a system that ensures ninety plus percent of the
25:13
Speaker 3: time because even with this system, AC is it a
25:16
Speaker 3: guarantee will always get the two best teams. That answers no,
25:21
Speaker 3: But this system gives us a greater chance listen of
25:24
Speaker 3: giving us the two best teams, which is what the
25:28
Speaker 3: championship game and college football should strive for.
25:31
Speaker 5: Duke being a five loss ACC champ was not good
25:35
Speaker 5: for the ACC, not at all. It was just not Again,
25:39
Speaker 5: it's not personal, Manny, it's just business. But Manny's got
25:42
Speaker 5: a team to coach, and I think, Manny, I think
25:45
Speaker 5: there's I think he's playing chess here. I do believe
25:48
Speaker 5: this is I believe that speech was meant for his
25:51
Speaker 5: locker room personally. That's kind of the vibe I get.
25:54
Speaker 3: Oh, you would know because you know how to speak
25:56
Speaker 3: through the media to talk to your team. That's how
25:58
Speaker 3: you talk to the Indian Trail.
26:01
Speaker 5: They have no idea, They would have no idea where
26:03
Speaker 5: to even find me. They think it's a PI. They're like, coach,
26:06
Speaker 5: where's your podcast? At them like it's a radio show man,
26:09
Speaker 5: there's a radio What what's that? People said, listen to that?
26:13
Speaker 4: All right?
26:14
Speaker 5: Anyway, let's move along here. Pat Nordoozy, he dropped some
26:18
Speaker 5: duze bombs, man, didn't he That sounds weird done that dude.
26:22
Speaker 4: Dues with a Z. So you had a doozy of
26:25
Speaker 4: a day.
26:26
Speaker 5: He had the comment that we played earlier where he
26:29
Speaker 5: said the acc is better than the Big ten, which
26:32
Speaker 5: is totally not true, but man, it made for headlines.
26:34
Speaker 5: And then he had this one. Manny Diz took the
26:37
Speaker 5: high road when it came to was Miami tampering? Are
26:41
Speaker 5: you upset about it? He said, it does no good
26:43
Speaker 5: to get emotional over it.
26:44
Speaker 4: Right.
26:45
Speaker 3: Uh.
26:45
Speaker 5: Pat Nordoozy did not necessarily take the high road, called
26:49
Speaker 5: out Miami and called out the art of tampering in
26:52
Speaker 5: college football.
26:54
Speaker 7: Uh, you know, I won't call it the team maybe
26:55
Speaker 7: it's already out. It's it was in the publication, you know.
26:59
Speaker 7: You know, Mason came in the office and it was like, coach,
27:01
Speaker 7: something come up. I was like, you're staying here. I
27:03
Speaker 7: just said, listen, you ain't going anywhere. You're a pitman,
27:06
Speaker 7: You're not going anywhere. Just give me a couple of hours.
27:08
Speaker 7: We'll get this thing straight out. And by noon that day,
27:10
Speaker 7: on a Thursday, you know, a day before the portal closed,
27:13
Speaker 7: you know, Mason was, you know, on Twitter saying I'm
27:17
Speaker 7: committed to stay a pitt. So we got it done.
27:20
Speaker 7: You know, we didn't match that crazy offer, but we
27:22
Speaker 7: got pretty darn close. And you know, can I give
27:24
Speaker 7: our athletic department, our chancellor Jieng Gable and Alan Green
27:27
Speaker 7: credit for finding a way to keep Mason here because
27:29
Speaker 7: we couldn't lose them. You know, your quarterback is so critical.
27:33
Speaker 7: But you know that's a fifteenth tape portal window. So
27:36
Speaker 7: on the fourteenth day that happens. Okay, the very next day.
27:39
Speaker 7: Matter of fact, I'm in communication with Main Ideas that
27:42
Speaker 7: afternoon saying you better watch out because they're coming for
27:44
Speaker 7: years two and bang loan hold.
27:47
Speaker 5: It happened.
27:48
Speaker 7: And and you know, with that being said, I'll talk
27:50
Speaker 7: about change. You know, last year we had two portal windows.
27:53
Speaker 7: This year was just one. In January. We need to
27:55
Speaker 7: get that window closed down. As coaches were working going
27:58
Speaker 7: from fifteen to fourteen. If it went from fifteen, excuse me,
28:01
Speaker 7: fifteen to ten. We want a ten day portal window,
28:04
Speaker 7: which is something the AFCAS and Craig Bulls is working
28:08
Speaker 7: hard on. We got to get a ten day window
28:09
Speaker 7: which would eliminate that. I don't think there's anybody in
28:12
Speaker 7: the country talks about tampering more than you know coaches
28:15
Speaker 7: in the country. But the tampering has got to end,
28:17
Speaker 7: especially in conference.
28:19
Speaker 5: It's it's a shame that the ACC or any conference
28:23
Speaker 5: can't make a rule. That's the part of this that
28:26
Speaker 5: hurts so much is they took from Duke in conference
28:30
Speaker 5: to benefit themselves another conference team. Jim Phillips very mum
28:34
Speaker 5: about that. Damn words say really about that. It's a
28:37
Speaker 5: shame they can't make that illegal to transfer in conference.
28:41
Speaker 5: It used to be right, but if you tried to
28:43
Speaker 5: I know the SEC used to have that, but or
28:47
Speaker 5: SEC had a rule where you couldn't be an eligible immediately.
28:50
Speaker 4: Here's the problem. Where do you think that ends up court?
28:54
Speaker 3: Yeah?
28:55
Speaker 5: Exactly, that ends up at injunction. Junction, what's your funk?
29:00
Speaker 5: That's where that ends up, Fitty.
29:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Ted Cruz sitting up there trying to legislate
29:06
Speaker 3: college athletics local judge, that's where that ends up at Man,
29:11
Speaker 3: I I appreciate how honest Paton Arnowsy is.
29:16
Speaker 5: He is a gem. He is great for our business.
29:19
Speaker 5: It really don't give a damn.
29:21
Speaker 3: Say what you want about the coaches in this league.
29:24
Speaker 3: And not that there aren't other brass coaches in the
29:26
Speaker 3: SEC or even the Big Ten, but look at the
29:28
Speaker 3: guys the accs tried out last week and they all
29:31
Speaker 3: had something to say that. Bo're gonna let you know, hey,
29:33
Speaker 3: we're still great.
29:34
Speaker 4: Franklin. We won the off season.
29:36
Speaker 3: Franklin won the off season. You know, we just played
29:40
Speaker 3: the DS, we played Rdews. We're gonna get Torett Lashley.
29:43
Speaker 3: The ACC coaches, they're not afraid to talk.
29:45
Speaker 5: Now there's some entertaining stuff. I'm sure you're gonna hear
29:48
Speaker 5: some talking this week down there in Tampa for the SEC. Now,
29:52
Speaker 5: let's go to a man fitty that tries to not
29:54
Speaker 5: say a damn word while he's talking. Although I found
29:58
Speaker 5: this interesting. This is on the A Seen Network, This
30:01
Speaker 5: is Bill Belichick, and I found I thought this was.
30:04
Speaker 5: I think it makes sense, and again I wish their
30:07
Speaker 5: schedule wasn't a gauntlet the heels I'm talking about. But
30:10
Speaker 5: listen to Belichick talk about, you know why we are
30:14
Speaker 5: better off right now than we were last year at this.
30:16
Speaker 2: Time, Well, just having the team together. You know, last
30:23
Speaker 2: year we had you know, where half our team was
30:25
Speaker 2: new on the portal and the January and the uh,
30:28
Speaker 2: you know, the June freshmen. So you know, this year,
30:30
Speaker 2: ninety percent of our teams here. We had a few
30:32
Speaker 2: freshmen come in in May and June, but ninety percent
30:35
Speaker 2: of our team is a carryover from what we had
30:37
Speaker 2: in the spring. So we can actually go out there
30:39
Speaker 2: and run player run practices because we know how to run.
30:41
Speaker 4: We couldn't do that last year.
30:43
Speaker 2: Nowhere to go, what drills to be in, and they
30:45
Speaker 2: like how to call of play exactly. Geo wasn't even here,
30:48
Speaker 2: you know, Geo, you know, didn't get here till June spring,
30:52
Speaker 2: that's right. Yeah, so we had no spring practice, never
30:55
Speaker 2: worked with him. Max didn't practice last spring, So things
30:59
Speaker 2: like that were really, you know, way we're there yet,
31:02
Speaker 2: we're way ahead of where we were.
31:04
Speaker 5: That is Bill Belichick definitely makes sense. I just hope
31:08
Speaker 5: it transfers onto the field, right that advantage that being
31:12
Speaker 5: ahead of where they were last year.
31:14
Speaker 4: Rhet lashly.
31:15
Speaker 5: He didn't go full Nardoozie, he didn't go to full dues,
31:19
Speaker 5: but he definitely got some people talking about the way
31:23
Speaker 5: he was talking on Friday. At one point he said
31:26
Speaker 5: Duke should have been in the playoff over Jmu says
31:28
Speaker 5: there's never a time where a Sunbelt team should make
31:31
Speaker 5: it over an ACC team. And then he showed up
31:36
Speaker 5: on the ACC Network set and unveiled a Kevin Jennings
31:40
Speaker 5: for Heisman T shirt underneath his sport coat and dress
31:44
Speaker 5: shirt and something he said on the podium he wanted
31:48
Speaker 5: to brag on his SMU team a little bit.
31:50
Speaker 8: You know, we're not a blue blood, but we are
31:52
Speaker 8: a new blood, and so when you start thinking it
31:54
Speaker 8: along those lines, new blood is what we're currently doing.
31:57
Speaker 4: We're present.
31:58
Speaker 8: Blue Blood means it's what you've done in the past,
32:00
Speaker 8: and we're not resting on what we've done in the past.
32:01
Speaker 8: We're living on what we're doing now. And I think
32:04
Speaker 8: when you look at it from that standpoint, in the
32:06
Speaker 8: last three years, we're a top ten team. And the
32:08
Speaker 8: reason I can say that is we have the eighth
32:10
Speaker 8: most wins in America in the last three years. We
32:12
Speaker 8: have the most wins in the ACC in the last
32:14
Speaker 8: three years. You know, we've got the most wins in
32:18
Speaker 8: the state of Texas. We have the most road winds
32:20
Speaker 8: in the state of Texas. So I think when the
32:23
Speaker 8: data starts to take We're seventeen and two at home
32:25
Speaker 8: in Fort Stadium. It's the best home record in the ACC.
32:28
Speaker 8: We've yet to lose an ACC game at home. We're
32:31
Speaker 8: fourteen and two in the league, which is two games
32:33
Speaker 8: better than anybody else in our first two years.
32:35
Speaker 4: So we've had a good start.
32:37
Speaker 8: We're so thankful to be here, and candidly we've been good,
32:41
Speaker 8: but we're in pursuit of great and we haven't achieved
32:43
Speaker 8: it yet.
32:44
Speaker 5: He's talking big, but the numbers ain't lying. He's done
32:46
Speaker 5: a hell of a job at that program since they
32:49
Speaker 5: entered the ACC. There's no doubt about it. All Right,
32:52
Speaker 5: fit dog, it is your time to shine, baby, It
32:55
Speaker 5: is time for your fitty flash.
32:57
Speaker 4: What do you got over there?
33:00
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33:05
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33:09
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Speaker 3: the number everyone thought was maybe gonna hold up, and
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Speaker 3: Ryan Fox Birdie's eighteen to go on to win the
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Speaker 3: major championship. I feel like We're saying this now just
34:25
Speaker 3: only a matter of time for Cam Young captures a
34:28
Speaker 3: major title.
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Speaker 5: Uh, Cam Young, very strong beard game, Oh tremendous. I
34:32
Speaker 5: like that beer as a bearded man myself. Love your
34:35
Speaker 5: beard game, Cam Young, you go get yourself one eventually.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 5: By the way, when we come back, Ryan Fox, congratulations,
34:42
Speaker 5: we come back. We talk about the storyline everybody was
34:44
Speaker 5: talking about this weekend. It wasn't Ryan Fox sadly race
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Speaker 5: into shambo. We gotta talk about this. What did he
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Speaker 5: deserve the two shot penalty. Let's go to our guy Greenie,
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Speaker 5: the host of the Golf Shop Radio Network off show
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Speaker 5: here on WFNZ on Saturday mornings. Let's get an expert
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Speaker 5: weighing in on Bryson's penalty and the way he handled
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Speaker 5: the penalty. To Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ.
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Speaker 5: That's next, Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ. Mac
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Speaker 5: and Bone with you Mac and Bone Show with you
35:45
Speaker 5: the Fit Dog doing double duty filling in for the
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Speaker 5: Bone Man, who is back.
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: We'll do a full blown Mac and Bone Show weekend
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Speaker 5: recap coming up top of the hour, run through all
35:56
Speaker 5: the stuff that happened, including the world Cup final with
35:59
Speaker 5: Spain winning. But right now, though, we gotta get some
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Speaker 5: golf expertise that's certainly not coming from Fitty and I.
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Speaker 5: When it comes to rules technicalities, we're gonna talk about
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Speaker 5: this to Shambo situation. Also, I'm sure I'm gonna ask
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Speaker 5: a question about my man Scotti Scheffler's putting, because my
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Speaker 5: got he missed an opportunity to win that damn tournament.
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Speaker 5: But let's talk about the Open Championship, and let's do
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Speaker 5: it with Mark Greenouch, who hosts Golf Shop Radio Network
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Speaker 5: seven to nine am Saturday mornings. You're a golf guy,
36:30
Speaker 5: you're out in about on Saturday. Tune in here to
36:32
Speaker 5: it on WFNZ and Greenee nice enough to join us
36:36
Speaker 5: here on the Mac and Bone Show.
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Speaker 4: Greeney, how you been man? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. It's a lot to break down from
36:42
Speaker 1: Friday through Sunday, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Let's do it, baby, and I wanted to bring someone
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Speaker 5: in like you that's a legit golf guy and understands
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Speaker 5: these rules.
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Speaker 4: Listen.
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Speaker 5: I usually fall on the side of the players because
36:55
Speaker 5: I usually feel like the golf rules seem so TICKI tech,
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Speaker 5: I gotta be honest, Bryson was high stepping like he
37:03
Speaker 5: was Roger Craig for the Niners back and like that
37:06
Speaker 5: looks it looked like I can understand why it was penalized.
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Speaker 4: Did he deserve that two shot penalty?
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Speaker 1: Oh? And what you got to remember is that there
37:18
Speaker 1: are certain rules that are there to protect the field.
37:22
Speaker 1: I mean, and golfers know, like if you're in the
37:24
Speaker 1: trees and you go into the trees and you're trying
37:27
Speaker 1: to you know, find out if you can take a swing,
37:29
Speaker 1: or if you're going to hit a tree or if
37:30
Speaker 1: you're going to hit a branch. I mean, if you
37:33
Speaker 1: take a practice backswing and you knock a leaf or
37:36
Speaker 1: a pine needle off a tree or a piece of
37:40
Speaker 1: bark taking a backswing, that's a penalty, right. And we
37:44
Speaker 1: all know, as you know, when you're a big tom golfer,
37:46
Speaker 1: you playing tournaments, you know that if you're in that
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Speaker 1: kind of situation, you're allowed to take your normal stance.
37:54
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that like if there's a giant
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Speaker 1: palm leave or something in the way that you can
37:59
Speaker 1: like you know, get in there in a certain way
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Speaker 1: to knock this thing out of the way. You can't
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Speaker 1: do that, and I mean, it's obvious that's what he did.
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Speaker 3: He.
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Speaker 1: I mean when you go back and look at it
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Speaker 1: and break it down. I mean, his first couple of
38:12
Speaker 1: looks with his backswing looks like he's ticking some grass,
38:15
Speaker 1: and then he goes in and kind of spumps it
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, and then he doesn't touch it again.
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Speaker 1: So it's obvious from me for that perspective.
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Speaker 5: Do you think because I looked at it and was like,
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Speaker 5: oh man, he's got to know, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 5: how to handle himself around his golf ball, I start wondering,
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Speaker 5: do you think that was on purpose?
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Speaker 4: This is a tough one.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm of the opinion that it was unintentionally intentional.
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Speaker 1: If that makes sense, is that he was thinking that, well,
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Speaker 1: if I do my normal saying that, it shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: an issue. But I mean, and now remember people have
38:56
Speaker 1: picked on Patrick Greed. Patrick Greed has become the huge
38:59
Speaker 1: villain because a couple of years ago, before he went
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Speaker 1: over to live, there was a situation where he was
39:05
Speaker 1: in a sandy area and he kind of put the
39:08
Speaker 1: club down and was like taking the club back just
39:10
Speaker 1: to kind of see like how he thought the ball
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Speaker 1: was going to react and whatnot, and the back of
39:14
Speaker 1: his club was kind of scooping some sand out of
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Speaker 1: the way. Was it intentional? Not really, but maybe so,
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Speaker 1: but he got vilified for it. So I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is no different from a Bryson's fish boat perspective. And
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Speaker 1: I mean you can go. You can go several places.
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Speaker 1: Lexi Thompson on the LPGA tour inside of a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks marked her ball back beside the coin slightly
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Speaker 1: different than it had gone down, and it was captured
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Speaker 1: on camera and they were playing preferred lies in your
39:44
Speaker 1: own fairway because of wet conditions. She took a preferred
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Speaker 1: lie in another fairway and didn't receive any of the
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Speaker 1: things that like Patrick Red got that, And it's no different.
39:56
Speaker 1: All of these are serious rules violations and they should
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Speaker 1: all be try that you have broken the rules, accepted
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Speaker 1: and move on. I think I have a problem with it.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of the players do. Of the
40:06
Speaker 1: petulent actions of him afterwards. Yes, it's like, accept it
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Speaker 1: and move on. Man, you've been penalized, except what you
40:14
Speaker 1: did was wrong, and move on. He still hasn't accepted it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to ask you about that and
40:18
Speaker 5: you just answered it like I and I like Bryson.
40:21
Speaker 5: And the reason I like Bryson is just because he's interesting, right,
40:24
Speaker 5: you know. I mean a lot of the golf guys
40:25
Speaker 5: just seem kind of cookie cutter. He's interesting and different.
40:28
Speaker 5: So I like that. But yeah, I mean it did
40:33
Speaker 5: seem like he got carried away there. Now, I will
40:36
Speaker 5: say this, I'm surprised we've got some Texters standing up
40:39
Speaker 5: for Bryson. I didn't necessarily see that coming. And one
40:42
Speaker 5: of the point that two Texters have made is and
40:44
Speaker 5: Scotty Scheffler actually brought this up yesterday. He defended Bryson, saying,
40:48
Speaker 5: I know he's not a cheater, And the point is
40:52
Speaker 5: that these golf rules, it's it's kind of unfair to
40:56
Speaker 5: a guy like Bryson who's high profile because everything thing
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Speaker 5: they do is televised and kind of scene.
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Speaker 4: Do you buy into that?
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Speaker 1: Yes? And no, I mean sometimes it can be something.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look look at what Tiger Woods did. If
41:12
Speaker 1: you remember the Masters years ago, when Tiger hit the
41:15
Speaker 1: flagstick on fifteen and the ball ricochet back into the
41:18
Speaker 1: water and he went back to where he hit from
41:22
Speaker 1: and he made and he made a comment in the
41:25
Speaker 1: press conference that he dropped it like I don't know,
41:29
Speaker 1: like a foot off to the right or something like
41:31
Speaker 1: whatever comment he made. They went back and they almost
41:34
Speaker 1: disqualified him for that because he made a comment. So
41:37
Speaker 1: there are if yes, your high profile, you're gonna be
41:41
Speaker 1: you know, looked at more. But the point is is
41:44
Speaker 1: that it's not like a caller pulled in and made
41:47
Speaker 1: reference to this. You know, the officials are watching the telecasts,
41:52
Speaker 1: so they're seeing every shot that's made by every player
41:54
Speaker 1: that's being that's being covered, and they also generally have
41:58
Speaker 1: in major championships a rules official walking with every group.
42:02
Speaker 1: Now I'm sure that rules official didn't quite get as
42:04
Speaker 1: close as maybe he could have and had a better
42:07
Speaker 1: perspective of it. So that's when you know the TV
42:11
Speaker 1: coverage comes in and makes a play of that. Yeah,
42:13
Speaker 1: I mean Scotty's going to be under that, Rory's going
42:15
Speaker 1: to be under that. You know, if you're in contention,
42:18
Speaker 1: you're always going to be under that. But that's helping
42:20
Speaker 1: to protect the field, is the way I look at it. Again,
42:23
Speaker 1: I'm somewhere between a traditionalist and kind of a new
42:26
Speaker 1: wave of people. I can see the traditional waves of
42:29
Speaker 1: things I can see some of the newer wave of things.
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Speaker 1: I never liked a person sitting on their couch calling
42:35
Speaker 1: in and getting a rules violation claimed on somebody. But
42:38
Speaker 1: if the officials are watching, I have no problem.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Mark Greenouch is with us. You can listen
42:42
Speaker 5: Golf Shop Radio Network on WFNZ seven am to nine
42:46
Speaker 5: am on Saturdays. All right, Greene, We're getting a great
42:49
Speaker 5: question from the Texters about Scotty Scheffler on seventeen. Like
42:53
Speaker 5: Scotty Scheffler, look, I thought he should have just got
42:56
Speaker 5: it out in the fair way and tried to play
42:58
Speaker 5: in that way on seventeen for Scottie, and it felt
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Speaker 5: like for a moment he went full Michelson, which is
43:04
Speaker 5: so weird for him. But the ball he ends up
43:07
Speaker 5: getting a reprieve and being able to drop it with
43:09
Speaker 5: no penalty. Because it's Explain that to me, because that
43:13
Speaker 5: felt like that has to be the luckiest rule link
43:17
Speaker 5: that he's ever gotten in his life. Explain that situation.
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Speaker 1: And this is a different one that you a lot
43:22
Speaker 1: of times. You see at the Open Championship where they
43:24
Speaker 1: set those metal gates. They don't do the ropes like
43:27
Speaker 1: the PGA Tour and other events do they do those
43:30
Speaker 1: metal gates on some of the final finishing holes because
43:33
Speaker 1: they know and again, those golf courses a lot of
43:36
Speaker 1: times are different because of the way that they're set up.
43:38
Speaker 1: They're so old school that everything's kind of on top
43:41
Speaker 1: of each other. So they set those metal gates up
43:44
Speaker 1: and they don't want to have to keep moving them around,
43:47
Speaker 1: so they put up they designate that in area that
43:50
Speaker 1: people automatically get relief from, so you know, if any
43:54
Speaker 1: like on eighteen, if you hit it far enough right
43:56
Speaker 1: on eighteen onto the right side of those metal things,
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Speaker 1: they basically have areas where that you're going to drop it.
44:03
Speaker 1: And I've seen it before, they actually have areas marked
44:06
Speaker 1: off every let's say fifteen or twenty yards sometimes where
44:10
Speaker 1: you automatically get to pull the ball into the closest
44:13
Speaker 1: one of those areas. No potion of the whole in
44:15
Speaker 1: this instance. They basically say that if you hit it
44:18
Speaker 1: out into the masks of people, that you get to
44:20
Speaker 1: bring it back over to the to the course side
44:23
Speaker 1: of that gate and drop it off. So that's a
44:25
Speaker 1: standard issue thing with the Open Championship, So no big
44:28
Speaker 1: deal there.
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Speaker 5: Interesting, man, I was happy. I was happy. He got
44:31
Speaker 5: the break and he got the birdie but could not
44:33
Speaker 5: finish it off. All right, Grandy, that was a tremendous
44:36
Speaker 5: performance by you. And you'll be happy to know half
44:39
Speaker 5: the Texters like what you're saying. Half the Texters are
44:43
Speaker 5: mad at you. That's the way it should be. I mean,
44:45
Speaker 5: you're doing your job. Listen, listen to Grady on Golf
44:49
Speaker 5: Shop Radio Saturday morning, seven am, right here on wfn Z.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, brother, appreciate the expertise.
44:55
Speaker 1: All right, have agreement.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, all right, there you go.
44:57
Speaker 5: Oh by the way, Ryan Fox one Open Championship, I
45:01
Speaker 5: feel like I gotta throw that in there for the guy.
45:03
Speaker 5: But man, this rule stuff, obviously, the Bryson stuff too,
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Speaker 5: just took over man. On Friday afternoon. All right, we
45:10
Speaker 5: come back. We'll talk more about this because we gotta,
45:12
Speaker 5: because there seems to be a debate on the text line.
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Speaker 5: People that think Bryson did it on purpose and people
45:17
Speaker 5: that think it was an accident. So we'll have to
45:19
Speaker 5: talk about that. You'll hear from some people in the
45:22
Speaker 5: golf world weighing in World Cup. We gotta talk about
45:25
Speaker 5: World Cup. Thank god Spain won yesterday. I'll tell you
45:29
Speaker 5: why I feel that way, and we got to talk
45:34
Speaker 5: about a Panther signing over the weekend as well. Sports
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