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UNC close to hiring Bill Belichick? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's Wednesday, Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program
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  Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Craig Way. Glad to have you with us,
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  Speaker 1: and we're with you up until five o'clock this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And us, of course includes the producer of this program,
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  Speaker 1: Cameron D.
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  Speaker 2: Parker. The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, as in the name of his favorite pro football
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  Speaker 1: It's not just it wasn't just by coincidence. Your dad
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  Speaker 1: and mom negotiated this, right. Your dad wanted Dallas to
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  Speaker 1: be your first name, and your mom kind of stood
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  Speaker 1: firm on it not being your first name.
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  Speaker 2: God, I'm glad someone had sense between those two. So
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  Speaker 2: it became your middle name.
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  Speaker 1: But it was because of your dad's loyalty, least at
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  Speaker 1: the time to the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they were just going off of their what fifth
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl championship, right, yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Five?
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  Speaker 1: They were just like two years removed from it is
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  Speaker 1: all right, ninety five season. You were born in November
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  Speaker 1: of ninety seven, yeah, so it was just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years after that, so the Cowboys were still a
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  Speaker 1: viable team. They made the playoffs that year, a friend,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Garrett was doing their play by play at the time,
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  Speaker 1: while Brad Sham had taken a break from them, was
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  Speaker 1: doing the Rangers, and then Brad eventually came back to
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: But you so.
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  Speaker 1: You were named in honor of the Dallas Cowboys, correct?
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  Speaker 2: I think so?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the middle Land At this point, we just
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  Speaker 3: gotta get my dad on the show and you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: You can pester him about that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna do. That's in Portugal right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is he really was in the single Bachelor life?
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  Speaker 1: Is that out there hanging out and in Lisbon or
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  Speaker 1: Porto or any of those other plays something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, good on him.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So all right, when when when the time comes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll we'll get him in the studio and we'll we'll.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about the stump button ready just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So there are a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to discuss on the program, but I'm gonna lead off
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  Speaker 1: with the thing speakin of the Dallas Cowboys, something that's
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  Speaker 1: going to disappoint you as the long suffering Cowboys fan
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  Speaker 1: that you are, and you are ready to reclaim your
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  Speaker 1: fandom as soon as Jerry Jones parts company with Mike McCarthy.
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  Speaker 2: Correct depending on who he hires.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and this is where I'm going with this, because
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  Speaker 1: you were hoping, thinking, projecting, predicting that it might be
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Now it looks like it's getting pretty close
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  Speaker 1: to Bill Belichick returning to coaching, but at the collegiate level,
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  Speaker 1: to be the head coach of the North Carolina tar Heels.
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  Speaker 1: I thought about putting this in inconceivable because you know,
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  Speaker 1: it almost seemed like it was.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's really weird about this because.
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  Speaker 1: There's one report that's coming down I think from on three.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it is where they flat out called it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like calling the election early. Their headline was North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina names Bill Belichick next head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Really that's their headline, Okay, because the ESPN right now
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  Speaker 3: is reporting that the ball is in his court.
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  Speaker 1: On three is saying North Carolina names Bill Belichick next
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  Speaker 1: head coach, So they must be that confident that it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. But to Cameron's point, the headline on
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  Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com says sources Belichick and UNC work on
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  Speaker 1: issues before potential higher and their lead in the story
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  Speaker 1: is North Carolina is working to try to close the
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  Speaker 1: deal with Bill Belichick to make the six time Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champion the Tari Hills coach, but sources told ESPN
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  Speaker 1: there are still issues that both sides need to work through.
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  Speaker 1: Sources added that the ball is in Belichick's court and
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  Speaker 1: that North Carolina officials are on board with him becoming
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  Speaker 1: the coach. A resolution expected in the near few And
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  Speaker 1: so you're going, so what are the issues? If there
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  Speaker 1: are issues, what might those issues? Well, according to this report,
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  Speaker 1: among the looming issues are the potential role for his
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  Speaker 1: son and current Washington defensive coordinator Stephen Belichick.
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  Speaker 2: Also North Carolina's.
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  Speaker 1: Name, image and likeness resources and they're nil things. Also
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  Speaker 1: Belichick's salary and the resources for the staff and the
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  Speaker 1: reporting structure. Talks between the two have been going on
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  Speaker 1: at least since last week. You know, Belichick, you know,
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  Speaker 1: said he was pretty coy about it when he was
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  Speaker 1: on pack McAfee the other day. And we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. Here's my question, if he gets the job,
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  Speaker 1: is he going to be exactly the same Bill Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: they're curmudgeonly Bill Belichick down the stretch, or really be
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  Speaker 1: the more affable, fun loving one that shows up on
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  Speaker 1: the Manning cast on Monday Night. I'm betting it's the
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  Speaker 1: former when he's coaching again. I mean, how long will
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  Speaker 1: it be before he here to say we're on the
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  Speaker 1: wake Forest, you know, or something like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and like Belichick that were on the was on the Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it? Yep, on the Cincinnati. We're on the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: and he I'm saying, we're on the Clemson, We're on
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, something like that. I don't know, but looks close
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  Speaker 1: that he could be. He's seventy two. Back Brown is
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  Speaker 1: what seventy four?
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  Speaker 2: I think? Do they just let go? I think he's
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  Speaker 2: seventy seventy three. Seventy seventy four in August of next year?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yeah, so so he's seventy three.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Belichick seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's worked in the NFL in some capacity
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy five until he parted company with the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots following last season.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that, by the way, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying this is not going to happen because it looks
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  Speaker 1: like I said, threes calling it. They're saying it has happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it's not going to happen. But
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  Speaker 1: some of these issues I think could be problematic. The
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  Speaker 1: salary is something I think they would work through. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's that big an issue. The resources for
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  Speaker 1: the staff and the reporting structure, that's a little more work.
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  Speaker 1: The deal with getting his son in as a defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: And then most importantly, I think is the NIL thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because they in North Carolina is not ranking near the
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  Speaker 1: top in terms of NFL NIL expenditures. What was the
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  Speaker 1: deal that we saw. I think you probably saw it.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it as well. It was on social media
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  Speaker 1: about n C estimated NIL expenditures and Texas was like
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  Speaker 1: number one at twenty two million dollars something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's yeah, I didn't see them on the list.
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  Speaker 1: And that's for the entirety of the athletic program. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you and I know that the vast majority of it
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  Speaker 1: would probably be football related, and that there is also
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  Speaker 1: basketball related and some of the other things as well,
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's a lot of coin's a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: so and and I understand the other side of it,
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  Speaker 1: and folks say, yeah, but when you bring in two
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  Speaker 1: hundred million a year, is that you know, there's capital
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  Speaker 1: projects and things like that, and ongoing there's there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a payroll to meet. There are bills to be paid,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But I don't know what North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's NIL commitment would be to football. It obviously has
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  Speaker 1: to be big for basketball, one would imagine, but of
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  Speaker 1: course basketball you don't have as many male's defeat, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak. So it's gonna be interesting to follow this
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  Speaker 1: probably over the next twenty four to forty eight hours,
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  Speaker 1: maybe sooner. Maybe we have an answer by late this
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  Speaker 1: afternoon or tonight or tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't got the breaking news notification yet from the athletic
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  Speaker 3: or ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: I'll wait on that. Yeah, I mean I trust on three.
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  Speaker 3: But until one of those, you know, you would think
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  Speaker 3: that maybe like Pete Thammeil or yeah, something like that
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  Speaker 3: would break there. Felman Feldman, Yeah, exactly. But also I
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  Speaker 3: mean with Belichick's NFL size, that could be a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a chefty type of break.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been working it too, and and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of speculation about you know, what
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  Speaker 1: could this guy do?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how how good might he be on this?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a seventy two year old man who's
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  Speaker 1: been in the NFL for the last fifty years, and
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  Speaker 1: I's gonna try to do a college nobody.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't tried this before.
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  Speaker 1: A Bill Wash remember after he retire from the forty
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  Speaker 1: arms king back and coach Stanford. Really I didn't know that, actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he went seventeen seventeen and one. An
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  Speaker 1: even bigger reach was the Saint Louis Football Cardinals. This
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  Speaker 1: is in the late seventies. I believe brought back the
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  Speaker 1: old immortal Bud Wilkinson, the former OU coach from the
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  Speaker 1: forties and fifties and early sixties, who then I guess
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  Speaker 1: became a congressman or something, and then it was a
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  Speaker 1: television commentator. In fact, he was working the shootout game
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  Speaker 1: Texas Arkansas with Chris Shankel there on December sixth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine.
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  Speaker 2: The Cardinals hired him. That did not know, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the most the most likely scenario here, Craig is that
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  Speaker 2: he has one good year, he has one OK year,
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  Speaker 2: he has one bad year, and then that's that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: his son takes over or you and c support directors
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  Speaker 2: are so tired of him they push him out, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that might be maybe onto something there that might
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  Speaker 1: be part of the negotiating thing is that Belichick comes
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  Speaker 1: in as the head coach. Coach Steven Belichick is the
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  Speaker 1: coaching waiting They don't Yeah, I would understand, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a program not wanting to agree to that.
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  Speaker 2: Commit to that, right, yeah, yeah, exactly, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Also, coming up on the program in the three o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour, both hours, the three o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour, we'll hear from Vick Schaeffer,
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  Speaker 1: Texas women's basketball coach. Like we said, Longhorn's played tonight, Vic,
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  Speaker 1: as you know from the times that he's been on
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  Speaker 1: my programs in the past, and when I was doing
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  Speaker 1: the morning show, it was a lot easier, dude, because
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  Speaker 1: him have been diminished in terms of live conversations. However,
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  Speaker 1: he does those media zooms and we've availed ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: that and it's it's got some to it, both in
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  Speaker 1: So anyway they'll be, there'll be parts of it in
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