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Another Double IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (3.125) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

0:06
[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to another double edition of the IU report with Grant Shows and my console as football and basketball season overlap, and it's only on the central Indiana Sports Report.
0:22
[SPEAKER_00]: We might be a first-cold football playoff ranking came out on Tuesday night ending and it comes at a number four, not really a surprise.
0:29
[SPEAKER_00]: we can sit here and talk about dnd number four, but again, I don't think that really comes to a surprise to Indiana fans program to offer at least.
0:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the other rankings do kind of come as a bit of a surprise.
0:43
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm curious your thoughts on the first college football playoff pool.
0:48
[SPEAKER_02]: We could say it's not a surprise, but boy to the ESPN panel, it sure is how it was.
0:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Heather Denich is out here having kittens about the ranking.
0:57
[SPEAKER_02]: She's not happy.
0:58
[SPEAKER_02]: As normal, about her alma mater's football program.
1:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting rankings all around.
1:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, real SEC bias, as always.
1:09
[SPEAKER_02]: In these rankings, Alabama coming in at fifth is probably the biggest shocker to me.
1:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Because of, you know, they have fat, they have fat.
1:18
[SPEAKER_02]: to watch the game film of the Tennessee game and tell me that's the fifth best team in the country.
1:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they haven't been pushing that high in the polls.
1:26
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I feel like Utah is getting by on being undefeated, which is a good reason, but I don't believe they're truly number three.
1:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're going to run into a game on their schedule, maybe as soon as this weekend, where they're going to lose.
1:45
[SPEAKER_02]: So that spots up for grabs.
1:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Kentucky.
1:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I think their fans are just happy to be where they are, but I thought you can make an argument.
1:52
[SPEAKER_02]: They should be higher than sixth Ohio State was the shocker to me, and Notre Dame.
2:00
[SPEAKER_02]: If you go by the polls, Notre Dame is a top five team.
2:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think
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[SPEAKER_02]: means effectively, they have to win Saturday against Miami.
2:18
[SPEAKER_02]: If they don't win Saturday against Miami, I think they're done, which is bonkers to think about because they were supposed to be a lock.
2:25
[SPEAKER_02]: If they were in that top 12, they were in, but the committee holds no value apparently with this team.
2:34
[SPEAKER_02]: They say they don't have that win, which they don't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's hard to argue that point, but the disconnect between the poll and Notre Dame at 11.
2:45
[SPEAKER_02]: And then Ohio State right now, not even being in the field.
2:48
[SPEAKER_02]: The losses are to Texas and USC with their backup quarterback.
2:52
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a huge surprise.
2:54
[SPEAKER_02]: The committee kind of said they felt like their defense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: did not show well in the USC game.
3:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're more worried about Ohio State long term, which makes a lot of sense.
3:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we don't know how this is gonna look without saying the rest of the year, but to have a gap that they have between Ohio State and Indiana when that's Indiana's only loss.
3:16
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a bit surprising as well.
3:20
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're an Indian fan, I think you feel really freaking good right now.
3:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I was expecting my call was fifth.
3:28
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that they would come in and have to play a first round match up.
3:33
[SPEAKER_02]: They're in a position right now where they went out.
3:35
[SPEAKER_02]: They're probably going to secure one of those top four spots and that's a good spot to be in with the initial rankings coming out.
3:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, what a great week for Indiana to be on a by week when you probably have your biggest, your biggest day of the college football regular season coming up on Saturday, just the matchups are really enticing, um, where we've got that Miami Notre Dame game, and like you said, it's a must to win for Notre Dame, which now makes me the biggest Miami fan on the planet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'll just tell you that, sure it off the bat.
4:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Utah you're right being undefeated does hold some way and they should be in the top five.
4:23
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt they are undefeated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've played a good schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they could lose to be value very easily this weekend.
4:30
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to look at teams like Kentucky and UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're now there in that top 10 here where they are in the bracket, if it all into today, it'd be in the playoff.
4:41
[SPEAKER_00]: How do teams like UCLA and Kentucky, not perform with some pressure on them to make that playoff spot?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I want to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think those teams are good enough to do so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think UCLA's better than Kentucky.
4:56
[SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy to like, we all sat there last year in the year
5:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, everybody else is going, I can't stomach Indiana being in the top 12 or even being in the college football playoff conversation.
5:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just like, now, what rude people?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why can't you accept that?
5:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I hate to say it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's kind of where I'm at on Kentucky right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously they do plan a good conference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're a good team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are they a college football playoff team?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they lose to Ohio State even with their backup quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Notre Dame would destroy them hypothetically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that type of aesthetically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what's kind of killed us as Indiana fans is these hypotheticals.
5:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't want to put that all on Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, one thing you can't argue about Kentucky is they have great wins.
5:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, points are like, they're just, they lost a Bama.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was their biggest game of the year, but they went to South Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They won.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They beat LSU at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They went to Oklahoma.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They won.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have a big matchup this week coming up on the road against one of their big rivals, Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if they went at their next four or
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[SPEAKER_02]: aren't going to be easy for them, so it'll be interesting to see how they navigate because they play Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got a game against Florida at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They go to Missouri and then they will face their
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[SPEAKER_02]: big rival Louisville who's a dangerous team on the last game of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So how this next month goes will be interesting for them, but right now they're positioned really really well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they have good wins.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's hard to argue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like you could argue them to be higher.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Putting them ahead of Bama may have been a tough argument to make, given how that game went.
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[SPEAKER_02]: they led that game in half time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was actually a close game into the third quarter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It just kind of all fell apart for them there, um, but I don't, I don't argue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can tuck a UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're undefeated man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, the best story in college football in my opinion right now Bob Chesney coming in there and.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Effectively doing what Kurt Signetti did in 2024 at a big 10 program that was just in the absolute pits It for being realistic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They haven't got a great win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're best win right now as Oregon Who was in the ranking surprisingly in the top 25 tonight, but that's not a great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a three lost team and it really wasn't
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[SPEAKER_02]: really wasn't a huge win for them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was on the road.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a very ugly game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think UCLA, though, they've got a favorable schedule down the stretch, but...
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm watching them this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to Minnesota.
7:48
[SPEAKER_02]: We know about Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We saw first hand about Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's going to be I can 9 a.m. game for them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So spread right now is only five and a half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You would think it would be higher.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm keeping an eye on that one.
8:01
[SPEAKER_02]: There's going to be shakeups and this thing that that's just inevitable.
8:05
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what he's actually 18.
8:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of these SCC teams have to play each other still.
8:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Your I still think you're going to see a three loss of CC team get in, who that is.
8:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know Texas, Ole Miss, maybe Bama, committees over, over confident about Bama right now.
8:25
[SPEAKER_02]: But.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If the schedule was laid out and they started playing the tournament tomorrow, any in it could be facing Baman, quarter finals again, and I would personally love to see that match up just to really mess with Baman fans for another offseason.
8:43
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things I wanted to look at here was the bottom part of the pool.
8:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you mentioned, Oregon briefly there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was surprised they snuck in.
8:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm surprised about South Carolina.
8:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Give them a lot of credit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They won big games last couple weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were kind of waiting for the Shane Beamer Fire notification a few weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's he snuck this team in the top 25 in the AP and now in the top 20.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or in the top 25 in the CF people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it kind of pisses me off nonetheless though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a lot of SEC bias there, but give them a lot of credit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned UCLA, them going on the road at Minnesota, Minnesota and Huntington Bank Field or Huntington Bank State and I can't remember one, but going on the road to Minnesota has kind of hurt teams this year and hurt Michigan and heard Iowa, they played really
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[SPEAKER_00]: has beaten ranked teams, they almost beat Indiana last Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, they probably should have beaten Indiana last Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be real.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's like the shot they should, they didn't probably should have they should have beaten any.
9:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm just saying when they play UCLA, I wouldn't be shocked to Minnesota nap them.
9:58
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm, I don't want to go on the record and make that prediction right now, but don't be shocked to Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That didn't find a way to win that game on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: really shake things up for UCLA because it'll be interesting to see how much weight of that loss potential loss would carry into the pole.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kentucky's got to win Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think if Tennessee beats Kentucky, I think those two teams on Saturday are fighting for a spot in the top in the top
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[SPEAKER_00]: essentially the last team in the field because you have to have the group of six so for some reason boysy stage is get that automatic birth is the group of six team every year.
10:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be a fun day of football on Saturday to see how this shakes up and the reason it's fun is because we don't have to stress about what it's going to do to Indiana this week, Indiana City.
10:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we can put our feet up, man, and I can't wait.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Order some pizzas and enjoy the day, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's the perfect weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've been desperately trying to get to the buy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like, and it comes in the perfect weekend as a fan to kick back and not have to think about things.
11:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pumped for Saturday night, uh, Notre Dame Miami as a neutral fan, you know, you're not neutral dude, let's talk, let's talk, Virginia, we're, we're not all pulling out our hurricane gear for, I don't know what the bigger game Purdue Maryland or Notre Dame Miami in the state of Indiana, on Saturday, you know,
11:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Now that the ball sack game and has been played, I think this Notre Dame Miami game, I think it was ranked Indiana, Ohio State, the Ball State, Sacramento State, Ball Sack Game, and now Notre Dame Miami.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, and mind you, not this Saturday, but the next Saturday, Wallbash versus DePaul at Schuman Stadium in Muncie, be another big one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for the bill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not stunned by Miami, Georgia's, where I feel like we know where Georgia should be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Georgia's not getting a lot of heat for that loss to Auburn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like they've got good winds, so you can go right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious, the Georgia's not getting a lot of heat from that loss to Auburn, but what Indiana be getting a lot of heat, if they had beaten Ohio State but lost to Minnesota, you think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course absolutely, of course they would.
12:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You told, again, you told a credit for one thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought they were in a prime position to get picked off last weekend.
13:01
[SPEAKER_02]: They won that big game at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the game day game against Houston.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were going out on the road to play an early game at Cincinnati who had just destroyed Texas Tech a week before.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Utah just dominated that game start since it was never closed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I do have to give you a talk credit there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, they're undefeated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think the Holy War.
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[SPEAKER_02]: is played Saturday in the wrong way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's an early game on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am local time game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that'll be that's another good one to watch on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That might be the early one that I watched this week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I game that I think kind of holds some way, maybe not necessarily for Oregon because they're at the, you know, they just barely snuck in another loss there eliminated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: theoretically to the Big Ten Championship game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a huge game for Ohio State on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This, this, well, not potentially this is an elimination game for Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They can't afford to lose to Oregon at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a game they could lose with a backup quarterback to refresh from quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like their chances, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll win the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll be Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll kind of weather the storm a little bit with being at home, and you get the best receiver in America.
14:19
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll have the home crowd behind you, but that is huge for Ohio's stay, and I will have my organ gear on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm quite quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got a Miami T that I can pull out on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a home field Miami T. You're going to rewatch the U.
14:38
[SPEAKER_02]: All about the U, baby.
14:43
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15:15
[SPEAKER_00]: My didn't eat in a one their first basketball game of the season ninety one fifty seven against Eastern Illinois on Monday night Seem rebounds the ball very very well kind of was off to the sluggish start
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[SPEAKER_00]: at the start of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually honestly didn't even get a chance to watch it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't end up getting the big 10 plus I was going to and some got jacked up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So probably my fault, but I didn't get a chance to watch it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of watched the score, listen to Don Fisher, but Indiana was only up by four kind of way through the first half and then ended the first half on a 20 to two run and never really looked back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they started well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got out to a quick like 14 to five lead.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was probably not Bryce Lindsey, Marcus Burton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hit some shots early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I had a, you know, his best game after those two exhibition games that didn't go his way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they're out 14 to five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He subs in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it felt like when he subbed out, you know, there was a little bit of struggles, communications.
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[SPEAKER_02]: on defense at that point, Eastern Illinois was getting some back cuts, easy baskets, then they got a little hot from the outside to credit to them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They kept it competitive, but man, over the last nine minutes of the first half, and he and he held them without a field goal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, they just really clamped down, and you could just see their
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[SPEAKER_02]: their physical dominance over that opponent two seven photos in the starting line of defensively summit and charo really control got some block shots near the basket uh and then you saw Burton like I said with his other great game Lindsey comes off the bins scores 14 points didn't shoot great again which i don't love and i'm
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[SPEAKER_02]: Very curious to see how long he goes with this Bryce Lindsay off the bench.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do like having a pure score come in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can add punch off the bench, but at some point I'd also like to maybe see what a lineup with Burton and Lindsay run in together from the start looks like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not great performances by anybody in particular other than Burton, but a solid all around game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Ken Palm said 30, they won by 34, Vegas at 34 and a half, they won by 34.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's about in line with what you expected.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Eastern Illinois, not a team I expect to, they're in a one-bid league in the Ohio Valley.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they're going to contend for that tournament birth out of that league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, Marty's in and still trying to build something there, but you can't really complain about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They did what they were supposed to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got another chance to play on Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got Bellerman coming to town and
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[SPEAKER_02]: next week after that, it really starts to bring up because that's that's Syracuse on Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We kind of set it in the preseason there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's three exhibitions when you got three guys that scored double figures and two of them came off the bench.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot about your depth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I really like this Trevor Man, her 11.4th night, three for six from the floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a team Indiana for the game shot 50% but again, you'd
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[SPEAKER_00]: a bit of a higher clip, 55% 60% would be phenomenal, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Each challenge only just not a good team to be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Marty Simmons has been there for a few years now, kind of hasn't really done anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the concerning parts of the depth for Indiana was that Prince Alexander Moody came out on crutches before the game last night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and was obviously unavailable and won't play for a while it seems so uh that could have maybe potentially hurt Indiana's depth a little bit uh again you still got man hurts and Lindsey coming off the bench Alexis says Lee kind of leaves you a guard out of place uh with not having print out Xander maybe there I'm with you I don't know how much longer you can keep up Bryce Lindsey coming off the bench for now you can probably get away with it but
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[SPEAKER_00]: When things really start to ramp up like you said in an on conference, Kentucky game, Arkansas, uh, Syracuse coming up Missouri, you see if this kind of games and then in the big 10 play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You may need a peer bread score like him and you're starting line up and, you know, it's good to have him coming off the bench, you know, he's he's plus 21 when he's when he's in the game and you got guys like Darren Harris who's plus 28 or you get to was plus 27 you got data and me staff he's plus 35 which is great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he'll start seeing more production on a me staff and Darren Harris and even eight and Charlie only had nine point six rebounds the other night shot three of 11 from the floor.
20:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Darren to various of like to see him get going a little bit more and hopefully that's what you see on Thursday against Bellarman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bellarman had a rough rough opener against the Vanderbilt last night and ace on team and other one of these one bid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: league teams that come in that I just don't think you're going to see content for for anything in their conference.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it should be another chance to get guys minutes get different rotations on the floor.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a little sad to see Alexander Moody out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was really kind of counting on him to be that third ball handler for this team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he says, I'll be back soon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: but then if you look at various reports is like, well, you know, it might be January, February, if at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you hate to see it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He showed some promise in that last exhibition game, but I don't know that Indiana can ever get through a season without somebody getting injured.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A name that we talked about earlier today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: who basically just took in, I'll check from Indiana last year, Jason Drake, still playing college basketball at Temple.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We always heard he was about two weeks away last year, so any didn't play a game or a minute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Indiana's got an notorious mysterious injury.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They don't say a lot, which with it, but you kind of can't say a lot, but we don't know a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All we know about Alexander Moody is, it's a knee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's what it seems like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It sucks to see that at least he's not wearing the official, you know, shoe of Indiana basketball, which is the protective boot, but I hope to see them come back maybe before the end of season.
21:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you look at Bellarman on Thursday, there are a team that historically has recruited the state of Indiana well, they've got a kid from Carmel Evan Harrel on the roster who I actually personally know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: have known him and used to come to camp at Indian Westland.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our team camp super hoops and he would come with Carmel and I got to see him play and got to 9 when I was working the camp.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's getting a play a game at assembly hall and know a lot of his buddies as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tucker Tornada, another guy there at Bellarman went to Evansville Wright's
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... he's coming in he transferred in from indian westland here in marion and then uh... you got mason daryl a guy from crown point got a guy brady clops and signs from taro so this is the program and not just this year and years pass is really recruited in the and a well bellerman and this is kind of a fun mid major program you know they they've had a good story they made the transition
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[SPEAKER_00]: a couple years ago from D2 to D1, the super rule that they have to set out a year because of, you know, the rules for the NCAA tournament their first year in the ace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know how they're first year in D1, they had to miss the NCAA tournament, even though they won their conference tournament.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Scott Davenport was the coach there for years and they ran and probably still do do an extent run this offense where when they get the ball across half court, it never really
23:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, they got play the game or they did play the game the way it was intended to be played.
23:34
[SPEAKER_00]: But they've kind of struggled the last few years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw them go to war with Notre Dame last year up in South Bend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was at that game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is kind of a sneaky game for Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll be able to win comfortably though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But uh, Bellarmetta team obviously, you don't want to overlook.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Scott Devon Ports replacement was, uh,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Doug Davenport is his son.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, they're they're going to look pretty similar to anything Scott did when he was there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Scott, a real fun guy to get to know during my days and journalism, the only person, the only person that
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[SPEAKER_02]: Denny Crum had on his staff at Louisville that Rick Petino retained, which is a fun fact about him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was the only assistant that survived the coaching change to Rick Petino.
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[SPEAKER_02]: High school legend, Larry Coach at Ballard, you know, came to Jeffersonville several dimes and just had some great game, so yeah, it's a neat program.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had all this wide-eyed optimism when they made the move from D2 to D1 and Scott additionally scheduled like a madman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he had a schedule one year that featured Duke at UCLA at Michigan State.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, just at Kansas at Kansas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was it was wild when you saw Bellerman schedule that year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they won that year, couldn't play in the tournament.
25:03
[SPEAKER_02]: But
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, NIO comes in and it's really really hard for some of these small small programs and Bellum and is a small small school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we're not talking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tens a thousands of alumni out there.
25:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's a it's a very small campus.
25:22
[SPEAKER_02]: They've used to play a freedom hall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They move back on campus for their home games because they weren't drawing as much as they once did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's an interesting opponent to bring in this early in the season, and again, that game will be Thursday 6 o'clock on peacock, so another game you got to pay to watch, you don't have peacock, Pee!
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[SPEAKER_01]: entities the NBA college basketball if they even like their fans.
26:08
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't, they do, if they have my name, but other than that, they don't.
26:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Especially the NBA, I know a lot of Pacers fans that just can't watch them right now without pants.
26:19
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the tie zone or whatever?
26:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Does that own, I got it, I don't do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of people aren't going to.
26:28
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people would normally be watching a Pacers game, aren't going to be.
26:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a pretty bad business model.
26:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not getting in.
26:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm not going to lie.
26:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know.
26:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't blame you.
26:43
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just going to hide them from everybody.
26:46
[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about people in envy.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't get the paces.
26:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think J&V invested in them.
26:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take if they're just gonna have everybody sit out, not play anymore than no, no point watching.
27:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm not gonna watch Braiden Smith run up and down the floor every night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm too good, why not, man?
27:08
[SPEAKER_02]: We just watch Bob Coosie play last night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Does he play the game the right way?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, coach on the floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: quarterback of the offense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Scrap, gritty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just some grit about him.
27:32
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27:33
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