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October 20, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. It is a Tuesday edition
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  Speaker 1: and we have slapped together a really decent show for
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  Speaker 1: you today. We're going to hear from Mike Elko, Micah Riley.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a high school report in the second hour.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be joined by author Michael Starr. His
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  Speaker 1: latest book is called Bob Newhart, The Life and Laughter
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  Speaker 1: of an American Treasure. Mallory is here with some entertainment
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  Speaker 1: news as well. So buckle up. I think it will
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  Speaker 1: be a semi-entertaining two hours of your life. Ross Dellinger
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  Speaker 1: is reporting $ 125 million conferences gained from the ESPN new
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  Speaker 1: expansion deal is not additive, but replaces lost ticket and
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  Speaker 1: sponsorship revenue from the conference championship games. According to Dellinger,
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  Speaker 1: a small group of college sports executives hammered out the
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  Speaker 1: new ESPN deal and and the 24-team expansion, including SEC
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Greg Sankey, Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti, and Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame AD Pete Pavacqua with the most conversations. Executives presented
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  Speaker 1: the new contract details to the rest of the CFP
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  Speaker 1: management committee. Each power conference champion will receive an automatic bid. Well, duh.
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  Speaker 1: The first round, will be played on the second week
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  Speaker 1: of December on the campus of the Higher Seeds. The
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  Speaker 1: second round playing in the third week of December on
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  Speaker 1: the campus of the Better Seeds. There will be weeknight
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  Speaker 1: playoff games. The quarterfinals and semifinals will continue to be
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  Speaker 1: played in the rotation of the Cotton Sugar Fiesta Rose
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  Speaker 1: Peach and Orange Bowl. The quarters remain New Year's week,
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  Speaker 1: semifinals second week of January, so the season just keeps
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  Speaker 1: getting extended. And the most likely destination for the Army-Navy
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  Speaker 1: game and the Heisman ceremony will be the opening week
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  Speaker 1: of December, which will be an off week for teams.
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  Speaker 1: Still not sure what is going to happen to the
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  Speaker 1: bowl games. It's been announced that former A & M
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  Speaker 1: AD and football coach Jackie Sherrill has been selected as
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  Speaker 1: the recipient of the Bear Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored
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  Speaker 1: by the American Heart Association. Sherrill, of course, led the
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  Speaker 1: Aggies to their first Cotton Bowl in nearly 20 years
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  Speaker 1: when he won the SWC Championship in 1985. one of
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  Speaker 1: the five honors given every year at the Bear Bryant
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  Speaker 1: Ceremony in Houston. This year will be January 27th, which
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  Speaker 1: will be two days after the national championship game. On3
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  Speaker 1: is reporting that Tennessee set the highest scientifically verified decibel
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  Speaker 1: record in college football history against Alabama, 130.3. They say
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  Speaker 1: a game at Death Valley and LSU registered on the
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  Speaker 1: Richter scale one year that measures earthquakes. Suffice it to say,
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  Speaker 1: it was loud at Neyland Stadium Saturday when Tennessee upset Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn has dismissed star linebacker Xavier Atkins. Atkins suspended in
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  Speaker 1: the win over Georgia Saturday. His status had been uncertain.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Golish announcing the suspension last week before the Georgia game.
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  Speaker 1: No reason was disclosed. Atkins took to Twitter today saying,
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing but respect for Auburn, will continue to
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  Speaker 1: support my teammates, and will enter the transfer portal at
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  Speaker 1: the appropriate time. College football continues tonight with Middle Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: against Florida International in a big Conference USA game. Another one,
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  Speaker 1: Missouri State at Delaware. Another one, South Alabama and Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, Sam Houston hosts New Mexico State. Tex-Ax is
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  Speaker 1: reporting that Jordan Pope's preliminary injunction has been granted by
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  Speaker 1: a California judge, meaning as of now, he will be
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  Speaker 1: eligible to play for Texas A & M. The court
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  Speaker 1: case continues. Meanwhile, Bill Self has announced that he has
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  Speaker 1: a new player. Kaufman Wren played for Purdue. He was
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  Speaker 1: like the Carl Malone finalist last year. He is 104
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  Speaker 1: years old, redshirted his freshman year due to injury, played
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  Speaker 1: four years at Purdue, filed a lawsuit seeking a sixth
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  Speaker 1: year of eligibility under the new 5-for-5, arguing his redshirt
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  Speaker 1: year should have counted. A Clark County judge gave him
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  Speaker 1: a preliminary injunction. October 9th, allowing him to join another
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  Speaker 1: team while the case continues. This stuff won't go away.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of it is basketball. And where did
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  Speaker 1: my story on LSU go? Doggone it. Let me see
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  Speaker 1: if I can dig this out somewhere. Will Wade has
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  Speaker 1: gone two for three in the courts. R.J. Lewis, who
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  Speaker 1: he expected to play, has been declared ineligible. But a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other, quote, amateur athletes have been so far
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  Speaker 1: granted permission to play for LSU. Still not known how
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  Speaker 1: many players... Will Wade has on his roster right now.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know if he has enough to scrimmage with as
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  Speaker 1: he continues to try and add players. A & M
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  Speaker 1: season starts November 3rd. Their exhibition game is in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon against SMU. The World Series is set. I
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  Speaker 1: doubt if Fox is happy. I know Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: is unhappy because whatever happened to that buy your championship stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Milwaukee are playing for a world championship.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays eliminated Cleveland last night, the Indians slash Guardians.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers have been waiting, I don't know, the last month.
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  Speaker 1: to start the World Series. It will start Friday night
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. Also, police in California are investigating the theft
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  Speaker 1: of trading cards worth almost a million dollars taken from
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  Speaker 1: a FedEx truck parked outside of a company that verifies memorabilia.
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  Speaker 1: The truck was broken into Last week, near PSA, that's
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  Speaker 1: Professional Sports Authenticator, where authorities say trading cards, autographs, comic books,
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  Speaker 1: other memorabilia, they grade their condition. A Santa Ana Police
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  Speaker 1: Department spokesman said in a news release, Pokemon and sports
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  Speaker 1: cards were among the items stolen. The driver had left
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  Speaker 1: the truck unattended. How long the driver was gone, part
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  Speaker 1: of the investigation. The truck's lock was gone and two
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  Speaker 1: pallets taken out of the truck. A third was disturbed,
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  Speaker 1: meaning probably some things from that pallet were taken. The
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  Speaker 1: estimated value, $ 963, 000. But the exact value of the items
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  Speaker 1: have not yet been determined. Goodness gracious. So we got
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  Speaker 1: that going on for us, which is not nice. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take a break. Scott Clendenin will be
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  Speaker 1: with us tomorrow. We're going to hear from Kalen DeBoer
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  Speaker 1: either tomorrow or Thursday. Next Tuesday, a week from today,
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  Speaker 1: Big Bill O'Reilly joins me. His new book is called
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  Speaker 1: Confronting America. Bill O'Reilly will be with me a week
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  Speaker 1: from today. Okay, so phone the neighbors, wake the kids
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  Speaker 1: on that one. Today... author Michael Starr, and his book
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  Speaker 1: on Bob Newhart. We're going to hear from, oh, there's
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  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. He's at a basketball game. I bet
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  Speaker 1: LeBron is playing if it's on ESPN, because ESPN is
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  Speaker 1: the LeBron Network. Do you know LeBron is now 59
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  Speaker 1: years old, still playing in the NBA? All right, we'll
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  Speaker 6: Remember when that used to be the song that's open
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  Speaker 6: Monday night football?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened to that?
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  Speaker 4: That's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: Stan looked at me like I'm crazy, like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. All my rowdy friends, Hank Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Thursday on the show, we've got the Clark
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  Speaker 1: Eisenhower Outdoor Edition. We're going to be taking a float
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  Speaker 1: trip down the Roaring Fork River. So that should be fun.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it was fun because it's on tape. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to be doing it live from the Roaring Fork.
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of active animals this week on the
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  Speaker 1: Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition. On Friday, our cast of characters
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  Speaker 1: that join us on Friday, Tony Catalina with our Aggie
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  Speaker 1: football preview, and Kirk Bowles, our columnist from the Houston Chronicle,
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  Speaker 1: follower of all things Longhorns and college football. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: everything is calm and collected over in Austin this week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Kirk about that. Ryan Starr will be
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  Speaker 1: back in the saddle on Friday. At least I think
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  Speaker 1: he will. Yeah? Okay. Ryan will be back on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure he'll have to tell some personal stories
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  Speaker 1: about his trip to Houston to watch the Cougars play.
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  Speaker 1: play this last Saturday night against Oklahoma State. That's a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a football game. Not a lot of defense,
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  Speaker 1: but if you like offense, that's a heck of a
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  Speaker 1: football game. Okay, we're going to do this. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear from Mike Elko. Every Monday at 1.30ish, we
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  Speaker 1: carry Mike Elko live here on The Zone. He meets
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  Speaker 1: with media, answers questions on Twitter. monday this is yesterday
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  Speaker 1: we played part of it today we'll play another part of.
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  Speaker 7: It mike jamari mentioned last week uh y'all have had
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  Speaker 7: some players only meetings each of the last few weeks
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  Speaker 7: uh what kind of started that what's your kind of
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  Speaker 7: philosophy with those and what do you think you've your team's.
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  Speaker 8: Gotten out of those yeah i think just just trying
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  Speaker 8: to make sure everybody's on the same page i think
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  Speaker 8: um Obviously, when things aren't going the way you want
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  Speaker 8: them to go, you start having a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 8: with the leadership group, the leadership parts of the team,
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  Speaker 8: and trying to figure out just what can we do.
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  Speaker 8: I think certainly on offense there was some conversation about
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  Speaker 8: a lot of new faces having to gel and play together,
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  Speaker 8: thinking there might be a benefit of them just getting
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  Speaker 8: in a room together and talking things out without the
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  Speaker 8: coaches there to kind of help them through things and
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  Speaker 8: just letting them kind of sort through issues and solve
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  Speaker 8: issues together. And so it's kind of where it started,
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  Speaker 8: and it's kind of growing from there.
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  Speaker 7: And how's Ashton doing, and do you have any update
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  Speaker 7: on his status?
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  Speaker 1: No, no update.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: We'll go to the second row.
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  Speaker 11: Olin.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, Mike, first of all, how much progress do you
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  Speaker 12: think you've seen in the defense over the last, say, month?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that we had two bad games in
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  Speaker 8: back-to-back weeks. I think outside of that, when we function
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  Speaker 8: and play the way that we're capable of, we have
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  Speaker 8: been a good unit. We've probably gotten a little bit
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  Speaker 8: more consistent over the last couple weeks. That's obviously the
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  Speaker 8: biggest thing with us on defense, has been going all
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  Speaker 8: the way back, it seems like, for years. But I
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  Speaker 8: do think when we play consistent the way we're capable of,
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  Speaker 8: we have played pretty solid defense at times.
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  Speaker 12: You mentioned the last couple weeks especially. How much Do
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  Speaker 12: you think the play of the Colorado transfers has played
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  Speaker 12: into that?
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  Speaker 8: I think it's been good getting those guys healthy for sure.
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  Speaker 8: I think they both have found ways to impact the game.
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  Speaker 8: Brandon Davis Wayne was a kid that we had high
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  Speaker 8: hopes and expectations for when we brought him in. He's
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  Speaker 8: a bigger bodied kid and obviously having lost Tyler and Albert,
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  Speaker 8: the need to get a bigger bodied kid in there
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  Speaker 8: was important and you know not having him was impactful
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  Speaker 8: for sure and so it's great to have him back
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  Speaker 8: and healthy and playing the way we hoped he could
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  Speaker 8: you know Tawfiq has a really good nose for the
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  Speaker 8: football and a really good feel for downing the football
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  Speaker 8: and so you know adding him into that safety mix
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  Speaker 8: to be able to rotate and get take some reps
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  Speaker 8: off some guys and obviously go out there and be
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  Speaker 8: an explosive playmaker has been really good for us we'll
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  Speaker 8: go to.
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  Speaker 13: The back left Nick Hey, Mike, I'm just wondering, do
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  Speaker 13: you have any type of relationship with Kalen DeBoer? And
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  Speaker 13: from afar, just how would you evaluate how he's done
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  Speaker 13: taking over a difficult task, taking over for a legend?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I've got my own things to worry about. I
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  Speaker 8: know him from afar. I don't know him really well,
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  Speaker 8: and I certainly don't have a ton of evaluation from him.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 13: And to follow up with you on the backup offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 13: what do you got to evaluate the tape? How do
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  Speaker 13: you think they did? How do you think that group did?
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  Speaker 13: Did anyone sort of stand out that you think would
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  Speaker 13: provide more depth in the second half?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I thought Zayden Krempen probably was the guy that
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  Speaker 8: stood out the most of the guys who went in.
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  Speaker 8: Ty Thomas, it was good to get him a bunch
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  Speaker 8: of reps, too. He's a kid who has been teetering on,
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  Speaker 8: playing some, not playing some. And so the more reps
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  Speaker 8: we can get him, the better it is. And I
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  Speaker 8: thought both of those guys stepped up and played well.
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  Speaker 12: We'll go over to the right, second row, Peter.
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  Speaker 14: Five years ago was the victory over number one Alabama here, 41-38. Obviously,
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  Speaker 14: you have not been here for all 1,836 days since
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  Speaker 14: that game. But reflecting on that moment, how would you
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  Speaker 14: evaluate the trajectory of the program over those five years?
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  Speaker 8: That's a challenging question. It's been up and down, I guess,
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  Speaker 8: would be the right way to answer it. A lot
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  Speaker 8: of it I wasn't here for, so I'm probably not
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  Speaker 8: comfortable commenting on a lot of it.
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  Speaker 14: More so from the excitement of that game, the excitement
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  Speaker 14: of making the Coltswell playoff last year, how have you
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  Speaker 14: seen the highs of the program showcased to the country,
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  Speaker 14: what this place can be?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, again, I don't know how that relates to that game.
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  Speaker 8: I think we, yeah, I don't know. I don't really
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  Speaker 8: know how to answer that question. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 14: And then just going back to the 2014 playoff, you
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  Speaker 14: talked about the pageantry of the regular season. How did
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  Speaker 14: your experience playing at Penn, a school where until last
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  Speaker 14: year in the Ivy League they were not doing any
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  Speaker 14: postseason competition, influence how you view the importance and your
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  Speaker 14: love of the regular season?
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  Speaker 8: Probably not. I was on like punt team in college
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  Speaker 8: and so. I don't draw much back to my college days.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a college football fan, and so my feelings on
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  Speaker 8: the 2014 playoff were driven around big rivalry weekends, games
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  Speaker 8: that you always circled on the calendar, probably more so
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  Speaker 8: than my playing days, honestly. It was those Saturdays when
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  Speaker 8: you came back to watch the big games on TV afterwards,
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  Speaker 8: in my opinion. Don't take any offense to that. Tell
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  Speaker 8: my pen teammates and all. No, I just... I think
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  Speaker 8: that so much of college football is about those really
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  Speaker 8: meaningful games. It doesn't take hard to draw conclusions of
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  Speaker 8: what those last games of the regular season will look
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  Speaker 8: like if one team is clearly hosting a playoff game
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  Speaker 8: and they're not playing for a conference championship because those
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  Speaker 8: things don't really exist. You just worry about where this
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  Speaker 8: thing could go. As you see what week 17 in
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  Speaker 8: the NFL is like, you would hate for that to
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  Speaker 8: become rivalry weekend in college football.
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  Speaker 15: We'll stay on the right, first row, Travis.
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  Speaker 13: Mike, with the guys that were out, anybody you're expecting
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  Speaker 13: for long-term?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll wait until the injury report comes out on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 15: Go to the first row on the left, Tony.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that's Rob.
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  Speaker 16: That's tony we get a chance to talk to des
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  Speaker 16: ricks tomorrow uh just what have you seen from his
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  Speaker 16: maturation just as a player as a person now he's
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  Speaker 16: kind of been a stalwart and a leader in that secondary.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah again i think um it's been an interesting year
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  Speaker 8: at times for for him because there's been some weeks
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  Speaker 8: where where there just hasn't been the ball in the
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  Speaker 8: air very much it feels like we're defending the run
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  Speaker 8: a lot more than we're defending the pass just over
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  Speaker 8: the course of the season and um you know so
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  Speaker 8: so I think he'll probably be looking forward to this
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  Speaker 8: week getting into a challenge against a full field passing
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  Speaker 8: game a team that's going to really put the ball
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  Speaker 8: in the air quite a bit and so um it'll
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  Speaker 8: be a really big challenge for him and you know
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  Speaker 8: obviously I think his his growth has been huge I
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  Speaker 8: think you know coming here as a young kid who
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  Speaker 8: hadn't played a ton of football and you know getting
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  Speaker 8: thrust on the scene as a redshirt freshman and playing
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  Speaker 8: a lot and a little bit up and down to
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  Speaker 8: last year where he became a much more steady player
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  Speaker 8: to this year where I think he's playing so far
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  Speaker 8: pretty good football and obviously some big challenges down the
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  Speaker 8: road for him.
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  Speaker 3: We'll stay on the left, fourth row, Rob.
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  Speaker 17: Howdy, Coach.
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  Speaker 1: Howdy.
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  Speaker 18: So having watched lots of games in Tuscaloosa, sometimes I
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  Speaker 18: describe it as the opponent is playing uphill as they
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  Speaker 18: are playing downhill, and you even mentioned when something happens
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  Speaker 18: and they start rolling, how do you kind of prepare
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  Speaker 18: your team during the week to, like, when something, instead
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  Speaker 18: of letting it build on one, how do you kind
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  Speaker 18: of prepare your team for that to be able to
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  Speaker 18: stop that rolling tide?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you just grow on past experiences. You know,
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  Speaker 8: I think, again, this team has been through, some challenging
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  Speaker 8: road environments, through some ups and downs where we were
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: able to come away with victories, through emotional games where
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: we didn't get the job done but played back and
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: forth football going back all the way to the first year.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: And so I think you're just drawing back on experiences
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: of what it actually feels like and takes to go
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: on the road in this conference and be successful.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go to the second row on the left.
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  Speaker 17: Alex.
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  Speaker 13: Not to interrupt.
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  Speaker 10: Dilute into the playoff more. I'm just curious, though, was
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: there a team or a school that you grew up
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: really watching from up in New Jersey, and was there
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: a rivalry game that you maybe remember circling yourself that
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: you enjoyed watching growing up?
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: There's zero chance I'm putting that on the record. I'm
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: going to keep that one to myself.
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  Speaker 10: Fair enough. I'm curious, too. You talked about how when
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: guys go home to their home state, maybe that means
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: a little bit more to them. When you got guys
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: maybe like T.K., or Wilkin, who grew up in Northport,
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: what do you tell them to maybe not let the
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: emotion in that moment get too much for them?
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you're just talking about at the end of the
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: day you've got to play football, right? And that's the
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: most important thing. I think they have to experience that
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: every week to some degree. I just think it is.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: It's just always a little bit special when you're returning home.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: There's usually more family. There's more ticket requests. There's more
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: people there watching you. I just feel like those games
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: are a little bit more meaningful for guys. Back over
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: to the right, first row, Carter.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Mike, what do you think has held back the pass
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: rush at times this season, and what's the key when
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: you face a quarterback like Russell with them?
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we've got to find ways to become disruptive.
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: That's a big part of it. Again, I think we
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: created a lot more opportunities to do it last year.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: There's a lot that goes into that. Part of that
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: is the pass rush on early downs can create more
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: third downs to stay in. And so there's certainly some
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: of it that's just on the pass rush alone, but
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: I think some other factors also, but like, um, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: we've got to just continue to find ways to get creative,
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: disrupting the quarterback. I think that's really, really important with
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: how the game unfolds and, you know, game control plays
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: a huge role in it too. I think that's a
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: big piece of it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: We'll stay on the right.
• 25:26
  Speaker 19: First row, Travis.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Noah McHale has a pretty unique, um, family heritage.
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: Um, have you seen that, you know, how have you
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: seen that maybe affect or come out in who he
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: is as a person?
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I just think he's a kid that was raised
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: really well. He's got a phenomenal family. You know, we
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: talked a little bit about him being a kid who
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: really fit this program from day one, and I just
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: think he's a really, really special kid who was raised
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: the right way, who stands for all of the right things, and,
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: you know, it's not my place to say what part
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: of that comes from his heritage, but I do think
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: he was raised really, really well, and I know he's
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: really proud of his heritage and proud of his family.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: We'll go to the third row on the right.
• 26:09
  Speaker 20: Coach, we saw a couple younger players really start to
• 26:12
  Speaker 20: explode this past week.
• 26:13
  Speaker 14: How does that energy shift things during practice and during games?
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I just think we have some talented freshmen that
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: are really starting to get a little bit more comfortable,
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: a little bit more situated, and are earning more and
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: more opportunities. Obviously, at times, that's a daunting thing because
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: you don't want a ton of freshmen running around there,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: but obviously, it's also a promising thing, too. It's a
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: great opportunity for those kids to go out there and
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: continue to grow and develop. They've got a ton of energy.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: They've got a ton of energy at practice. I think
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: it's starting to translate into the games and Obviously, as
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: the competition level increases like it will this week, the
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: ability to continue to play at that level is going
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: to be really, really important.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Coach Elko yesterday. And we're going to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: hear from Micah Riley coming up. We've got a high
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: school report coming up. We've got author Michael Starr. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Mallory is here with some entertainment news coming up. Ross
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Dellinger has another story on LSU. We were just talking
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: about Will Wade. And the battle continues. Attorney General Elizabeth Murrell.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: This is the Attorney General of the state of Louisiana writing.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So obvious is the case for dismissal that the SEC
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: throws a Hail Mary. New and demonstrably false claims. that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the LSU men's basketball program is violating SEC rules. Enough
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is enough. It's unclear why the SEC has not dismissed
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: this case. They've abandoned its request for preliminary relief because
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it conceitedly faces no harm at this time. It has
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: abandoned its core allegations that LSU would include two former
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: professional athletes on its football roster and block or interfere
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: with the September 10th meeting. The SEC claims the right
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to terminate LSU's membership in the conference, so there is
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: no compelled association. This is a lot of lawyer talk.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So obvious is the case. And then that's when she
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: says they throw the new Hail Mary. There is no
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: good reason to waste this court's time and resources. The
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: court should summarily dismiss the SEC's complaint without prejudice to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the SEC's ability to file a real case. So there's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: still friction. There's still legalities happening. Will Wade is still
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: challenging things. Uh, Kansas has added a player. A &
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: M has gotten a temporary injunction, which is a notch
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: above a restraining order. That was just announced and reported
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: by Texags for Jordan Pope, the transfer from Texas. The
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: NCAA could... Uh, go back to court before the season
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is over to get the injunction dismissed. But apparently Pope
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: will play. He did not play in the scrimmage last week,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: according to Bucky. Neither did Ryland Griffin, who is still waiting.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So all of this court stuff is not finished yet.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It's resurfacing because of basketball, honestly, which has always been
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the dirtiest of sports. Even when paying players wasn't really legal,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: basketball has been the most troubling, for sure. And it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: not a surprise that we're getting all of these stories
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and all of these injunctions and temporary restraining orders with
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: players who have already played their five years or or
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: have reasons why they weren't able to play their five
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: years and trying to get a sixth year. And some
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: cases is seventh year. I was watching football on Saturday
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and some guys like 25, he's played for seven teams.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: This has been going on like eight, eight years. I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: forget who that was, but, but he was, I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the second oldest player. It's, it's pretty incredible. Um, all
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: this stuff that's continuing to happen. I mean, we're not
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: done with any of it by any stretch of the imagination.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: And then Bill Self announcing that Trey Kaufman-Wren has been
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: added to the Kansas class. He was drafted, albeit in
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the second round. He did not sign. redshirted his freshman
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: year due to injury, filed a lawsuit seeking a sixth season,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: arguing his redshirt year would allow him to play a
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: fifth season, and Bill Self being Bill Self, and Bill
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Self needs help. And Dollar Bill is going to continue
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to do what he has to do to try to
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: finish on top at Kansas because the direction they're headed
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: is not Kansas, basically. And I don't think Self wants–
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I know Self doesn't want to go out like that. Hey,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Galleria is the top of the top. The best of
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the best has been since they opened in 1993. They've
• 32:48
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• 32:52
  Speaker 1: win in the Brazos Valley. Two locations, the Day Spot
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Rock Prairie across from Scott and White, the Century Square location,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: which has a salon, hair salon, boutique, jewelry, clothing, different
• 33:08
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• 33:13
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• 33:17
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• 33:24
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• 33:30
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• 33:38
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• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a manicure, pedicure? You can get both of those things.
• 33:43
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• 33:47
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• 33:51
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• 33:54
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• 33:56
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• 33:59
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• 34:02
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• 34:08
  Speaker 21: This is C & J Barbecue.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: Okay, so for the ad, I'm thinking fog machines, laser lights,
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: maybe a.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Do kids eat free?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Uh, yes. Like, actually free? Yes, every Wednesday night. So
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I can get free barbecue? That's how kids eat free works, buddy.
• 34:25
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• 34:27
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• 34:27
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• 34:29
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• 34:30
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• 34:33
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• 34:36
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• 34:39
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• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Well, we keep hearing that this year he has more
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Buckyball players, so we're going to see more of what
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Buckyball means. Why don't you tell us what that means,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: that we're going.
• 34:51
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• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Lou, I don't want to jinx it, but they have shooters.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Jinx it, jinx it. They have shooters.
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: They have guys that can knock down shots. And I'm
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: not talking about they had to be set shots and
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: they can't be guarded. I'm talking about, they have guys that,
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: that can go make a play. Now they have guys
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: that can catch and shoot from anywhere on the court.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny.
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: The other day I was, I was in the practice
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: gym and I'm looking at the lines that they have,
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: the taped lines.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: On the court.
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: And I'm standing behind the furthest three point line. That
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: is the NBA line. And it is about four inches
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: from the logo at half court.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm just like, What? This is.
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  Speaker 15: Welcome into the High School Report. I'm Caleb Rapley, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 15: today we are jumping out to the Polaris Fun Center
• 36:01
  Speaker 15: phone line to visit with the head coach of the
• 36:04
  Speaker 15: Brazos Christian Eagles football team, Mr. Jordan Black. Coach, thanks
• 36:08
  Speaker 15: for joining me today.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Glad to be here. Glad to have you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 15: A very successful season for your Eagles so far. Last
• 36:16
  Speaker 15: time we talked was preseason, but, you know, into week
• 36:19
  Speaker 15: nine or week 10, I believe, of the season now,
• 36:22
  Speaker 15: and your Eagles sitting at seven and one on the season.
• 36:25
  Speaker 15: So what have been some keys to this success that
• 36:28
  Speaker 15: you've had so far this year?
• 36:30
  Speaker 22: Well, I mean, I think it's always easier to be
• 36:34
  Speaker 22: successful when you have talent, and I think we kind
• 36:36
  Speaker 22: of have a surplus of talent at the moment. We've
• 36:38
  Speaker 22: got a fantastic senior class. They've invested a lot. They've
• 36:43
  Speaker 22: worked really hard. So whenever you have kids that are
• 36:47
  Speaker 22: willing to put in the work and are talented, you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 22: it makes things a little bit easier.
• 36:52
  Speaker 15: Yeah, so like you mentioned, very experienced team from last
• 36:56
  Speaker 15: year's state championship runner-up went 12 and 1 and only
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: lost a few starters on each side of the ball
• 37:04
  Speaker 15: I think it was five or four starters on offense
• 37:07
  Speaker 15: and two on defense that graduated so very experienced team
• 37:11
  Speaker 15: but you know with a little bit of a heavier
• 37:14
  Speaker 15: senior class this year does that put more pressure on
• 37:17
  Speaker 15: you as a coach to make the most out of
• 37:19
  Speaker 15: that talent.
• 37:20
  Speaker 22: Well, now that I think about it, no, I mean,
• 37:23
  Speaker 22: it really doesn't. And I mean, I try to be
• 37:29
  Speaker 22: as consistent as I possibly can as a coach.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: So I.
• 37:35
  Speaker 22: Believe that if you prepare the right way, you shouldn't
• 37:42
  Speaker 22: really feel that pressure. You should just be so consistent that...
• 37:47
  Speaker 22: that there's no room for pressure because you're simply just
• 37:51
  Speaker 22: doing what you're supposed to do and the results will
• 37:53
  Speaker 22: take care of itself.
• 37:55
  Speaker 15: So one player that wasn't a returning starter for you
• 38:00
  Speaker 15: as your quarterback, Cooper Murr, but he has performed very
• 38:04
  Speaker 15: well across these seven games and hasn't had to do
• 38:07
  Speaker 15: too much through the passing game, but has had a
• 38:11
  Speaker 15: lot of success when he's been called upon to do so.
• 38:14
  Speaker 15: So how much of a strength has that been for
• 38:16
  Speaker 15: your team to have a quarterback like that that you
• 38:18
  Speaker 15: can really lean on?
• 38:20
  Speaker 22: Well, that's been great. I think last week really showed
• 38:27
  Speaker 22: his value. I mean, we go to Bay Area, and
• 38:31
  Speaker 22: that weather system that came through, we had 25-plus mile-an-hour
• 38:37
  Speaker 22: gusts throughout the game. And, I mean... The wind will
• 38:42
  Speaker 22: take the ball, and it's just really hard to throw it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 22: We ended up pretty much just ground and pound the
• 38:49
  Speaker 22: whole game, and when you have a quarterback that can run,
• 38:53
  Speaker 22: it just makes that a whole lot easier. So it's
• 38:58
  Speaker 22: really been a blessing to have Cooper, to have an
• 39:03
  Speaker 22: athletic quarterback. You know, sometimes a team will cover you well, but...
• 39:10
  Speaker 22: they can't always account for the legs of the QB.
• 39:14
  Speaker 22: So that's, that's been very nice. And it just made
• 39:18
  Speaker 22: the transition a whole lot easier for us. Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 15: So one reason that you haven't had to lean too
• 39:25
  Speaker 15: much on him is the deep stable of running backs
• 39:27
  Speaker 15: that you've been able to go to this year between
• 39:30
  Speaker 15: Reed Jackson, Slayton Caffey, Braden Hickerson, and Carson Ramsey. Those
• 39:35
  Speaker 15: four players, which have got a pretty even amount of
• 39:38
  Speaker 15: playing time. I don't know if I'd say there's one
• 39:40
  Speaker 15: that's got a much higher workload than the rest of them,
• 39:43
  Speaker 15: but between those four players, they're averaging over 10 yards
• 39:45
  Speaker 15: a carry.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: So it's a pretty.
• 39:49
  Speaker 15: Pretty big strength for your team, and I'm guessing that
• 39:52
  Speaker 15: not only has to do with the talent of those backs,
• 39:55
  Speaker 15: but also your offensive line.
• 39:58
  Speaker 22: Yeah, for sure. And I will say, you know, you mentioned...
• 40:03
  Speaker 22: Slayton Reed and Braden, you know, they, they are the
• 40:07
  Speaker 22: true tailback types. And then Carson does get a lot
• 40:11
  Speaker 22: of carries, but that's usually, you know, we'll, we'll put
• 40:14
  Speaker 22: them in motion and things like that. And he'll get
• 40:17
  Speaker 22: carries from the wide receiver position. But yeah, I mean,
• 40:21
  Speaker 22: it's a combination of things. Each three of those tailbacks
• 40:25
  Speaker 22: are all, they bring something different to the table, whether
• 40:29
  Speaker 22: it's blocking, whether it's, You know, whether it's the vision
• 40:35
  Speaker 22: of a zone runner or the straight ahead, hard running
• 40:41
  Speaker 22: in gap scheme plays, they all have something unique. And
• 40:47
  Speaker 22: we all try to utilize it. utilize them accordingly. And
• 40:51
  Speaker 22: it's just really nice. You know, you can put a
• 40:54
  Speaker 22: guy in for a drive, get him a blow, roll
• 40:58
  Speaker 22: another one in, and you don't skip a beat. So
• 41:01
  Speaker 22: that's been fantastic. And the offensive line is very experienced.
• 41:07
  Speaker 22: They're very coachable. And their overall situational awareness and being
• 41:14
  Speaker 22: able to identify defensive fronts and stuff has just gotten–
• 41:18
  Speaker 22: they're actually surprising me at this point. So the overall
• 41:22
  Speaker 22: maturity and toughness of all parties involved is really manifesting
• 41:27
  Speaker 22: right now.
• 41:29
  Speaker 15: So we've talked plenty about the offense, but the defense
• 41:32
  Speaker 15: has also been very solid for the Eagles just two
• 41:37
  Speaker 15: games where the defense has allowed over 20 points. So
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: who are some of the players that have stood out
• 41:42
  Speaker 15: on defense and are really leading that group?
• 41:45
  Speaker 22: Kind of like on offense. It's a, it's a host of,
• 41:49
  Speaker 22: of players. I mean, I'll point out Reed Jackson, you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 22: as far as coverage goes he's, he's a secondary player.
• 42:00
  Speaker 22: That's always going to be there to deliver a big hit.
• 42:04
  Speaker 22: in the run game to maybe pick off, pick off
• 42:08
  Speaker 22: a pass and just a momentum swing type of guy.
• 42:14
  Speaker 22: Clark Palomo had a three interception game one week. You know,
• 42:21
  Speaker 22: the same thing with, with Slayton Caffey, with Landon Sands.
• 42:27
  Speaker 22: It's like each one is having a good game, an
• 42:31
  Speaker 22: exceptional game.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Each week.
• 42:35
  Speaker 22: So they're all doing something special and it's almost like
• 42:38
  Speaker 22: they're taking turns, not to say that when one plays
• 42:41
  Speaker 22: really well, another one doesn't. I mean, they're all playing
• 42:45
  Speaker 22: really well. It's just different players have, have big games
• 42:49
  Speaker 22: on different nights. So, um, I think it's just one
• 42:52
  Speaker 22: of those situations where, you know, competition is contagious and
• 42:56
  Speaker 22: they're all trying to one up each other. And, um,
• 42:59
  Speaker 22: each week they try to, uh, kind of up, up
• 43:04
  Speaker 22: their game and, and it's showing, um, as far as,
• 43:10
  Speaker 22: you know, who, who are some contributors? I mean, we,
• 43:13
  Speaker 22: we've got a, we've got a pass rush that's, that's
• 43:18
  Speaker 22: consistently a threat to the quarterback. And you can tell teams, uh,
• 43:23
  Speaker 22: how they game plan against our pass rush, uh, you know,
• 43:27
  Speaker 22: against that defensive end Hunter black, um, uh, We also
• 43:32
  Speaker 22: moved a linebacker, Ty Urban, from the linebacker position to
• 43:36
  Speaker 22: the end, and he's done a remarkable job stopping the run,
• 43:41
  Speaker 22: and he's been an effective pass rusher as well. And
• 43:43
  Speaker 22: obviously Jack Williams, kind of a sideline-to-sideline linebacker. They've been
• 43:51
  Speaker 22: playing really well, and I'm proud of them, and hope
• 43:56
  Speaker 22: we can make the most of it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 15: So this is the Eagles' first year in taps division
• 44:02
  Speaker 15: three after moving up from division four last year so
• 44:05
  Speaker 15: it's a little bit of a different landscape as far
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: as who you're matching up with in district play um
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  Speaker 15: but you know hasn't had too much of an impact
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  Speaker 15: on the results undefeated in district play so far this
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  Speaker 15: year you know what are your thoughts on being in
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  Speaker 15: this higher division how different is the competition.
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  Speaker 22: Uh you you can definitely you can you can tell
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  Speaker 22: a difference and you know i i know that some
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  Speaker 22: feels different. I think quite a few games in district
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  Speaker 22: play have been much tighter by the time you get
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  Speaker 22: by the time we get to playoffs with a, uh,
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  Speaker 22: a smaller playoff pool this year, and more talent. So
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  Speaker 22: each playoff game that we play is going to be
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  Speaker 15: This Friday, playing your final home game of the season,
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  Speaker 15: from them?
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  Speaker 22: I think they're going to give us their best shot.
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  Speaker 22: We're in a situation right now where there's potentially a
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  Speaker 22: number two playoff seed on the line. Now, as far
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  Speaker 22: win is also an outright district championship for us. So,
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  Speaker 22: you know, this is an important game for us. It's
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  Speaker 15: So outside of, you know, what it means as far
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  Speaker 15: game for all of these seniors, and again, pretty heavy
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  Speaker 15: been a part of this program. How much does it
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  Speaker 15: mean to them and to you to have this final
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  Speaker 22: Well, that's something that I preach to them all the time.
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  Speaker 22: I mean, somebody like me that has... played all of
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  Speaker 22: significant it was. And I just tried to, to teach
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  Speaker 22: but when you have that mindset of truly understanding how
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  Speaker 22: comes with football if you can teach them to see
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  Speaker 22: that way um I think the chances of them taking
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  Speaker 22: a game for granted drop significantly. So that's my hope
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  Speaker 22: is that they understand how special each opportunity is and
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  Speaker 22: they just take full advantage of it.
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  Speaker 15: All right, Coach, well, I appreciate your time today. Good
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  Speaker 15: luck the rest of the season to your Eagles.
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  Speaker 22: Of course. Thank you.
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