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2 Minute Timeout: What can we learn from Indiana? · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Welcome into the two-minute timeout
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  sponsored by Bunkers of Auburn downtown
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  and um saw Indiana finish off a 16-0
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  season. Uh winning a national
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  championship and unlikely uh for people
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  that know college football history to
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  see Indiana do it. Uh but you know, I
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  think it's it's a different era. It is.
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  And and it's the first time that you
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  know, team with the most talent really
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  hasn't been in the equation. and they
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  weren't the most talented in terms of
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  star rankings, but look, experience, um,
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  veteran presence,
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  um, system, all those things now matter
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  more than they've ever mattered because,
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  uh, the talent's more spread out now
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  than it's ever been. U,, I think that's
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  something you can learn from this. I
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  think it's a cautionary tale, too, a
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  little bit of that. Um, you know, I
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  think you see it in the NFL right now
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  where, well, you don't win, well, we
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  spend a lot of money, then then you must
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  win. Well, everybody's not going to win.
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  U there's going to be some challenges
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  when you look at this and the and you
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  know, people now are going to go, "Well,
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  Indiana did it. We we ought to be able
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  to do it." And you can. You can do it,
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  too. But there's also a formula for
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  doing it. And um I think system um
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  obviously getting the right pieces. I
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  think evaluation is now maybe more
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  important than it's ever been because of
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  the portal. Evaluating guys that fit
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  your system, not necessarily the most
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  talented guys, but the guys that fit and
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  can execute what you want to do on both
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  sides of the ball has never been more
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  important than it is now because you're
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  not developing talent in college
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  football anymore. There'll be a few guys
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  that hang around and you'll develop some
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  players and positions, but now you're
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  fitting pieces and trying to make it
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  work. And we saw it for Auburn
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  basketball the last couple of years and
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  fitting those pieces, keeping guys on
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  campus for a second year was a big deal.
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  I think that's something you look
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  forward to now for football. Can you
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  keep guys transfers a second and third
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  year and develop them like you would
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  high school players? That's something to
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  watch for and that's what Indiana did.
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  Really successful. So go check out
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  Bunkers Auburn downtown. Tell them we
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  sent you.