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Did Connor Stalions Just Throw Himself Under the Bus? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Monday, July fourteenth, of
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  Speaker 1: State and Ohio State football for the most part, but
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  Speaker 1: one of everyone's favorite topics is, of course, the University
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  Speaker 1: of Michigan Wolverines and especially former Michigan staff for Connor Stallions.
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  Speaker 1: He's made quite a name for himself thanks to a
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  Speaker 1: story you are probably somewhat familiar with, and he made
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more of his name for himself in
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  Speaker 1: just the last couple of days. After TCU coach Sunny
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  Speaker 1: Dykes was asked about the horn Frogs college football playoff
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  Speaker 1: game against the Wolverines, ECU of course won that in
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  Speaker 1: a kind of big upset. Dyke said that they were
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  Speaker 1: told that Michigan was stealings, so they mixed their signs up,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course they went on to win that game.
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  Speaker 1: Connor Stallions, well, he logged on what's rule number one?
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  Speaker 1: Never tweet? Well, Connor Stallions broke rule number one, had
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  Speaker 1: to hop on Twitter dot com and explain no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they knew exactly what TCU was running and
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  Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with anything, so all right,
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  Speaker 1: who's lying? Garrett Seawright tries to break it all down
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  Speaker 2: It's still somewhat wild to me that, even though it's
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  Speaker 2: almost the middle of July twenty twenty five, we're still
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  Speaker 2: talking about Michigan and the signs dealing scandal, because it
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  Speaker 2: continues to come up every once in a while, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just it fascinates me that on one side, you
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  Speaker 2: still have the overwhelming majority of Michigan fans who will
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  Speaker 2: tell you that they did nothing wrong and even if
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  Speaker 2: they did something wrong, it's not that big of.
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  Speaker 3: A deal and it didn't matter whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: And then on the other side, you have reasonable people
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  Speaker 2: who will tell you that it absolutely does matter, and
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  Speaker 2: yet Connor Stallions just can't keep getting out of his
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  Speaker 2: own damn way. And it's fascinating to me that this
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  Speaker 2: still happens because Sunny Dyke's the head coach at TCU,
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  Speaker 2: who of course led the horn Frogs to a National
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  Speaker 2: Championship Game appearance via a win over the Michigan Wolverines
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two or in the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 2: College fot Paul Playoff semi finals, said that, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: got word that Michigan was stealing people's signs. We changed
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  Speaker 2: our signs, and we got some advantageous matchups because of that.
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  Speaker 3: Because they thought we were running one thing, we ran another.
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  Speaker 3: And if you go back, it like.
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  Speaker 2: There is some truth to that that there were some
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  Speaker 2: obviously big time plays from TCU during that game, but
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  Speaker 2: Michigan just like shot itself in the foot over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again, and Jim Harball did where Jim
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  Speaker 2: Harball does and he costs his team a win. It
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  Speaker 2: just happened to be that time that season where he
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  Speaker 2: got cocky, got cute, tried to out smart everybody, be
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  Speaker 2: the smartest guy in the room and it backfired horribly
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  Speaker 2: on them. But then so after Sunny Dyke sis, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we got things were pretty favorable for us because we
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  Speaker 2: knew Michigan was stealing signs and we changed them and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't know that. Connor Stallions comes out and says, now, bullshit,
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  Speaker 2: we knew your signs. First of all, if you are
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  Speaker 2: in the position of, like, hey, somewhat trying to defend
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  Speaker 2: yourself with the NCAA plus the court of public opinion,
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  Speaker 2: and like, the reason I created an elaborate scigns dealing
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  Speaker 2: operation was because I love my mama so much.
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  Speaker 3: She loves Michigan football. How that computes, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're in the midst of that, maybe just
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  Speaker 2: flat out coming out and saying you think we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have your signs, we absolutely did. It's a whole level
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  Speaker 2: of like, I don't know if you've ever seen there's
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  Speaker 2: a clip that's just famous. It goes viral like once
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  Speaker 2: every six months from Judge Judy where the case lasts
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  Speaker 2: like forty five seconds. This chick says that these two
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  Speaker 2: dudes stole her purse at a party, and Judge Judy
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  Speaker 2: says like Hey, what did you have in your purse?
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  Speaker 3: And she's like, well, I have a wallet, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: My cell phone and one of the defendants says, there
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a cell phone in there.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations, you just lost.
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  Speaker 2: Like Judge, Judy, who is tough as nails, serious as
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  Speaker 2: a heart attack, literally laughs out loud at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know how you don't have that similar reaction.
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  Speaker 2: When Connor Stallion says, Joey, we had your signs, we
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly what plays you are, run like, well, wait
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  Speaker 2: a second.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't you for quite a while been like I didn't
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  Speaker 3: do anything wrong. I did what.
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  Speaker 2: I needed to do, tell my favorite team win a
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  Speaker 2: national championship. And if that included breaking several NCAA rules, eh,
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  Speaker 2: who can be.
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  Speaker 3: Mad at me? Because I did it because I love
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  Speaker 3: my mama.
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  Speaker 2: And then be like no, no, you might have gotten
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  Speaker 2: word that we were stealing your signs, but we still
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  Speaker 2: stole your signs.
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  Speaker 3: Opens up kind of a whole other like, well, wait
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  Speaker 3: a second.
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  Speaker 2: If that's the case, If that's the case, what the
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  Speaker 2: hell is going on here?
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  Speaker 3: Because TCU says, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We changed up all of our signs. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: one of three things. Either TCUs lyon and they did
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they usually did, and Michigan knew what was happening,
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  Speaker 2: knew what was going on, and still tripped over their
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  Speaker 2: own thing away from a National Championship game appearance where
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  Speaker 2: they probably still lose to Georgia because that Georgia team's
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  Speaker 2: a buzzsaw and DCU fans were like, no, no, no. The
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  Speaker 2: season ended after we played Michigan. We played in that
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  Speaker 2: Bowl game, it was great. We definitely didn't have another game,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a spectacular season, great, great memories. So
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  Speaker 2: either TCU's lion, why would they have reason to lie?
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  Speaker 3: What do they get out of lying in this situation?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody would fault them, conceivably for not knowing that Michigan
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  Speaker 2: was stealing people's signs. So you can't be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't know if people were stealing your signs, and
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  Speaker 2: also you won, you won the game, nobody's gonna fault you.
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  Speaker 2: So what reason does TCU have to lie? I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that one you can strike out pretty quick. Number
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  Speaker 2: two is Michigan stole their signs throughout the regular season
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  Speaker 2: slash Big twelve championship run.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 2: And I had the wrong signs and TCU beat them
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  Speaker 2: because they changed their signs or three? Like, does this
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  Speaker 2: go deeper? Is there a spy network of hackers? Is
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  Speaker 2: there a hey, we had moles inside TCU's program to
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  Speaker 2: send us their signals, because why would TCU say they
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  Speaker 2: change their signals but they didn't. And if they did
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  Speaker 2: change their signals, how do you assert that you knew
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they were running? Maybe furthermore, how do you
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  Speaker 2: say we knew exactly what you were doing, but we
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  Speaker 2: didn't win because we didn't tackle well or play well
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  Speaker 2: with a line of scrimmage? Is what Connor Salley he
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  Speaker 2: said he went through, there are seven games that we
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly what the other team was running, which I
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  Speaker 2: don't think is a great defense of I didn't do
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  Speaker 2: anything wrong. By the way, there were seven times we
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly what the other team was doing, and we
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  Speaker 2: lost three of those times. Anyway, But the reason he
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  Speaker 2: says they lost was because they didn't tackle well, didn't
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  Speaker 2: play well with a line of scrimmage, which feels like
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  Speaker 2: if you knew what the other team was doing, exactly
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  Speaker 2: what was coming, you would play well with a line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage and somewhat tackle well, but.
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  Speaker 3: Then why would counter stallions lie?
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  Speaker 2: What does he have to gain by lying and saying
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  Speaker 2: in a game we gave up what fifty two we
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly what the other team was running?
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  Speaker 3: So what the hell is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: And that is why I'm still fascinated by this, That
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  Speaker 2: is why it still has this this strong, firm grip
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  Speaker 2: on you.
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  Speaker 3: That's like, well, wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what sucks is because I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: we're ever gonna get to the bottom of this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that we're ever gonna know the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't think it can be both TCU changed
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  Speaker 2: their signs and Michigan knew exactly what was coming. Because
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  Speaker 2: if those two things are true, that just opens up
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  Speaker 2: a whole nother dungeon of questions that I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that you'll ever get the answer to.
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  Speaker 3: And so I while I'm still.
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  Speaker 2: While I'm still just enthralled by this entire thing, I
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  Speaker 2: understand why I continues to pop up because there are
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  Speaker 2: still so many questions that remain unanswered, and I think
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna remain unanswered for a really, really, really long time.
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  Speaker 2: Kyra Stallion's apparently has a penchant for creating manifestos. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll get a deathbed manifesto confessional about here's how I
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  Speaker 2: did it, Here's what I did. But by the time
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  Speaker 2: that comes out, I don't know how you believe any
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  Speaker 2: of it. I don't know that how don't understand how
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  Speaker 2: you could hear anything this guy says and go, oh,
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  Speaker 2: well that's the truth. That feels really difficult to buy
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  Speaker 2: at this point, and yet I still want to hear
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  Speaker 2: from him because I want the answers I want to learn.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know just really what the hell happened.
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  Speaker 2: And it's frustrating, it's all get out that I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're ever gonna get those answers. But in the
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  Speaker 2: words of Connor Stallions, there are seven games we knew
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  Speaker 2: exactly what was coming and we went four and three.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that makes anybody look good if
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  Speaker 2: you know exactly what's coming, what the other team is doing.
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  Speaker 3: And you still screwed that up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that that's a great rebuttal, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that that's the defense you think it is of, like, well,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't matter in our rise to prominence into winning
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  Speaker 2: the national championship because of the seven times that we
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly what was coming at us, we screwed.
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  Speaker 3: It up three of them. That's not that's not the
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  Speaker 3: world's greatest defense. I don't believe.
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  Speaker 2: But his overarching argument was we didn't tackle well, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't win a lot of scrimmage. But when we did
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  Speaker 2: tackle well and we did win the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: things went well, that's football. This is not rocket science.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about rocket science, though, is those nerds have
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  Speaker 2: done the calculations. They know what's about to happen, and
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  Speaker 2: so did you.
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  Speaker 3: And that's my biggest pet peeve about the whole thing,
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  Speaker 3: is you're gonna sit here and.
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  Speaker 2: Be like, well, you know, there's all these extenuating circumstances.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's real easy. When both of you know what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: It sure gives a leg up to the other team,
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  Speaker 2: because like, that's three quarters of offense, baby is we
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  Speaker 2: got the element of surprise. Defense doesn't know what's coming,
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  Speaker 2: except apparently the seven times Michigan did no exact actly
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  Speaker 2: what was coming, and yet they still screwed the boots
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  Speaker 2: all three of them. I don't know what I believe,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know that we'll ever get to a
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  Speaker 2: point where we know what we know about the situation.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just one of those that I think you're
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  Speaker 3: just gonna have to deal with. If you're like me,
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  Speaker 3: want to know your thoughts. Who do you believe in
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  Speaker 3: this situation?
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  Speaker 2: You believe TCU, you believe Sunny Dyke's Cottage Down's Michigan?
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe no One? Let me know your thoughts
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