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May 5, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: That's Baltimore Warktop better known as Freddie Finder from San Benito, Texas.
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Speaker 1: I heard Roger Craiger sing this very song Saturday night,
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Speaker 1: New bron Fels when he opened for Willing.
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Speaker 3: It is Singga de Mayo. It's also Taco Day.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how that figures, because every Tuesday day
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Speaker 1: as Taco Tuesday, and every so often Taco Day falls
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Speaker 1: on Cinco de Marios. So we have a harmonic convergence
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Speaker 1: going on today. I'm going to celebrate with Tacos tonight.
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Speaker 3: Glad you're here.
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Speaker 1: This portion of the program brought to you by Central
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Speaker 1: Texas Sports Medicine. I don't want to call this an
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Speaker 1: unusual show, but we have a lot of different stuff
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Speaker 1: which isn't unusual for our show. But I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: like Dabo Sweeney, I'm talking about Baylor basketball coach Scott Drew.
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Speaker 1: We've got a high school report. I am going to
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Speaker 1: replay an interview I did yesterday, but I did it
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Speaker 1: in the first hour. I realize some of you may
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Speaker 1: not have heard it. Although whenever you miss interview or
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Speaker 1: any part of the show, I don't know why you would,
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Speaker 1: but I understand things come up. You know, we have
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Speaker 1: it on our website that you can always listen to.
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Speaker 3: But we're going to replay an interview.
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Speaker 1: That we did yesterday and it's on Boomtown. That's the
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Speaker 1: name of the book. Joe Popolarto is the author. And
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Speaker 1: we have a shortened show because we have Aggie baseball.
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Speaker 1: It is the fifth game of a five game homestand
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Speaker 1: for the Aggies, they are hosting Prairie Few tonight for
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Speaker 1: the seventeenth time. The Aggies are sixteen and oh against
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Speaker 1: prairie View. There's been a lot of run rules against
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Speaker 1: prairie View lately. Texas A getting ready for its road
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Speaker 1: trip to Oxford for Ole Miss, and the Aggie is
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Speaker 1: sitting at thirty five and ten. They've been really good
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Speaker 1: in mid week games. D one Baseball has them ninth.
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Speaker 1: RPI has them eight, probably four out of six. We'll
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Speaker 1: get them in the Super Regional. Of course, before we
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Speaker 1: talk about super Regional, they have to win before that.
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Speaker 1: But hey, last year A and M one fourteen against
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Speaker 1: the Panthers. So that is six o'clock five forty five
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Speaker 1: here on the zoneers in the Bronx against the Yankees.
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Speaker 3: That's the bad news. The good news.
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Speaker 1: Jacob Degram is throwing the bad news. The Rangers are
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Speaker 1: sixteen and eighteen. The Yankees are twenty four and eleven.
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Speaker 1: The bad news is that they have put Josh Smith
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Speaker 1: on ten day IL with a right glute strain retroactive
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Speaker 1: to May the fourth. Justin Foscue has been recalled from
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Speaker 1: Triple A Round Rock, where he was hitting two eighty
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Speaker 1: seven with two homers, ten doubles, fourteen runs batted in.
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Speaker 1: Josh Smith has hit just two seventeen, with two doubles
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Speaker 1: and six.
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Speaker 3: RBI so far this year.
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Speaker 1: Bad news for the Astros they have to play the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers again tonight. Good news for the Astros Shohi Otani
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Speaker 1: will not be dh because he is oh for his
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Speaker 1: last seventeen. Bad news for the Astros. He's pitching tonight
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Speaker 1: and he's pretty good, so we'll see what happens there.
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Speaker 1: Bad news for the Astros is they played the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: last night and lost eight to three, and Yam and
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Speaker 1: Moto got the victory.
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Speaker 3: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: One hockey game in the playoffs tonight. It's Minnesota Colorado.
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Speaker 3: That game is on ESPN.
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Speaker 1: Colorado won the opening game nine to six, nine eight
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Speaker 1: of those goals. With Jasper Walstead in net, and so
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Speaker 1: Phelippe Gustafsen has been tabbed by Wild coach John Hines
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Speaker 1: to be in net tonight. He hasn't played since April thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: when he allowed five goals at Saint Louis had a
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Speaker 1: two point sixty nine goals against. Walstead surrendered fourteen goals
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Speaker 1: in six games against the Stars, but eight goals against
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Speaker 1: the Avalanche. Jay Gottinger one of many stars who has
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Speaker 1: gone before the Dallas media for the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: By the way, we are working on.
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Speaker 1: One of our favorites, Darryl Razor Ray to be on
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Speaker 1: the show for his annual State of the Stars season
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Speaker 1: wrap up.
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Speaker 3: I will let you know, could be this week, could
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Speaker 3: be next week.
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Speaker 1: Jamie Benn may Or may not have said goodbye today,
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Speaker 1: said he can't imagine not wearing a Star's uniform. It's
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Speaker 1: been an honor, he said, it has been an honor.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we read anything that he's the captain,
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Speaker 1: but near the end of a brilliant career, Jason Robertson
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Speaker 1: is a free agent. Jake Ottinger said today, I don't
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Speaker 1: feel like I accomplished any of my goals. I want
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Speaker 1: to win the Stanley Cup. I want to win the
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Speaker 1: Vezina Trophy. I wanted to be a starting goalie for
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Speaker 1: Team USA. None of those happened. I think it's important
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Speaker 1: to set big goals. Those are three really hard things
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Speaker 1: to do, but I think I can do it. I
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Speaker 1: think I'm proud of the regular season I had. I
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Speaker 1: think there's another level I can go to. I have
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Speaker 1: a lot of things. I need to look at, things
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Speaker 1: I need to change to get better at if I
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Speaker 1: want to achieve those goals and help this team win.
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Speaker 3: Live golf.
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Speaker 1: This CEO, Scott O'Neill is confident that it will continue,
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Speaker 1: but of course the bit of factor. The Saudy Driven
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Speaker 1: Public Investment Fund announced last week it's ending its back
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Speaker 1: being of Live Golf, O'Neill saying, today I think I
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Speaker 1: find myself energized, excited, happy, feeling a bit of pressure
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Speaker 1: for sure, and grateful for the opportunity. I'm feeling inspired.
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Speaker 1: I feel we have a clear path to win. But
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Speaker 1: he didn't outline what that clear path is. He says,
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Speaker 1: I think the team format is transformational. We'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: No buyers for the teams. Live Golf owns and operates
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Speaker 1: the thirteen teams while committing thirty million a week in purses.
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Speaker 1: That's without a lucrative TV and media rights deal. Phil
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Speaker 1: Mickelson is not playing in the PGA and has withdrawn
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Speaker 1: from live competition due to an ongoing quote personal health
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Speaker 1: matter with his family. Michelson will skip the PGA, where
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Speaker 1: he's won twice. O'Neil said, I want to be really sensitive.
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Speaker 1: We all have things going on in our lives that
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Speaker 1: are personal, and his is. I have a lot of
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Speaker 1: love and respect for him as a human being, and
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Speaker 1: certainly of respect for him over what he's accomplished in
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Speaker 1: his career. His presence is really helpful. I hope he
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Speaker 1: comes back soon. He carries a ton of weight in
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Speaker 1: every room he walks. That's not only because he's a
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Speaker 1: six time major champion, but he's got gravitas. It comes
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Speaker 1: with something that's way beyond winning. He's one of the
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Speaker 1: guys helping me. John Ram says he has multiple years
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Speaker 1: left on his live contract and doesn't see quote many
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Speaker 1: ways out. During a news conference ahead of the tournament
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Speaker 1: this week at Trump National Golf Club, Rom revealed he
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Speaker 1: has settled his long dispute with the DP World Tour
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Speaker 1: over unpaid fines. The settlement allows him to regain his
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Speaker 1: eligibility to compete for next year's Ryder Cup European team.
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Speaker 1: Ram is a two time defending Live Golf Individual champ,
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Speaker 1: leads the league and points this year. Top ranked Arena
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Speaker 1: Sablenka believes tennis players should organize a boycott if they
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Speaker 1: don't start receiving a bigger share of tournament revenue at
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Speaker 1: the Grand Slams. Sabolenka and fellow number one men's player
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Speaker 1: Yallnique center among leading players who issued a statement yesterday
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Speaker 1: expressing deep disappointment over prize money the French Open.
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Speaker 3: Without us there, there.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't be a tournament and there wouldn't be an entertainment.
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Speaker 1: I feel definitely we deserve to be paid more percentage.
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Speaker 1: I think at some point we will boycott it. I
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Speaker 1: feel like that's going to be the only way to
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Speaker 1: fight for our rights. The players are seeking better representation,
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Speaker 1: health options pensions from the.
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Speaker 3: Four Grand Slams.
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Speaker 1: French Open organizers announced last month they were increasing overall
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Speaker 1: prize money by ten percent, but the players statement said
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Speaker 1: the underlying figures tell a very different story, claiming they
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Speaker 1: will receive a smaller share attorney revenues. The players claim
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Speaker 1: their share Roland Roland Garros has declined from fifteen and
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Speaker 1: a half percent in twenty twenty four to fourteen point.
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Speaker 3: Nine percent this year.
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Speaker 1: Seventy two million dollars in the purse. So we'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens there. We'll get our professional tennis correspondent Scott
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Speaker 1: the wild Man tribally on to talk about that when
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Speaker 1: the French Open starts, and we hope to visit and
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Speaker 1: wrap up the season with Steve Denton tomorrow on the program.
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Speaker 3: All Right, we're going to take a break.
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Speaker 1: We'll come back going to hear from Dabbo after this
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Speaker 1: Orlando Magic have dismissed head coach Jamal Moseley, not unexpected.
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Speaker 3: Billy Donovan should absolutely.
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Speaker 1: We're celebrating Sinko to Mayo today. Scott Clintenon will not
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Speaker 1: be with us tomorrow, but someone will. I'm just not
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Thursday, we've got our Clark Eisenhower Outdoor edition, and Friday
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Speaker 1: Ryan will be in and Kirk Bowles will.
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Speaker 3: Be back with me on Friday. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Greg McElroy does a podcast called Always College Football, and
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Speaker 1: he visited with I don't want to say in battled.
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Speaker 1: Clemson was one of the preseason favorites last year and
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Speaker 1: it just didn't work out for them. Dabbo sparred with
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Speaker 1: the media at times. He wasn't used to criticism. But
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Speaker 1: the problem is when you win Natties and you play
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Speaker 1: for Natties, there's only one way to go from there.
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Speaker 1: There is only one way to go. And the Clemson
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Speaker 1: program has not won a Natty or played for a
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Speaker 1: Natty in a few years. And the Clemson faithful, who
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Speaker 1: forgot what Clemson was before Dabo got there, are restless.
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Speaker 1: Dabo is not an ANIO guy. Doesn't matter anymore. He
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Speaker 1: has to be. He's not a transfer portal guy. He's
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Speaker 1: a developed the players guy. But that hasn't worked too well.
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Speaker 1: Here is Greg McElroy with Dabo Sweeney.
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Speaker 9: Great to be with you. You are as candid as they come.
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Speaker 6: It feels like when it comes to talking college football
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Speaker 6: and the state of colleg football, let's start with your team.
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Speaker 6: It does feel like a very different Clemson team than
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Speaker 6: the one we've had the last couple of years. A
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Speaker 6: lot of new faces, a lot of new roles. So
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Speaker 6: is where kind of is the program right now? What
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Speaker 6: is the state of the program based on what you've
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Speaker 6: learned about yourself over the last few weeks in spring?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, you know, everything for us, it's always
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Speaker 9: inside out.
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Speaker 10: You know, there's whether you know, we're never outside in uh,
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Speaker 10: you know, last year outside where we were great and
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Speaker 10: we had you know, we're gonna win the national championship
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Speaker 10: and and you know, we didn't get that done.
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Speaker 9: And and this year it's we.
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Speaker 10: Stink and and you know, nobody's any good and we
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Speaker 10: don't have any players and and neither one of those
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Speaker 10: are true. You know, it's it's really just the same
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Speaker 10: for us, and that we start over, new season, new challenge,
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Speaker 10: and you know, it's not about what people right, it's
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Speaker 10: not about what people predict. If it was about those things,
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Speaker 10: then we would have won the national championship last year.
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Speaker 10: And if it was about those things, I'd have been
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Speaker 10: gone fifteen years ago. So so it's it's just about
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Speaker 10: what you do, and it's really what it's about. It's
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Speaker 10: about the work you do, and you start over every year.
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Speaker 10: There's always new people. You know, we're a developmental team.
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Speaker 10: There's always there's always guys that are in our program
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Speaker 10: that take the next step that people don't really know
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Speaker 10: about that that you know, every single year there's and
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Speaker 10: then there's new people that come in that impact you early,
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Speaker 10: or maybe it's a portal guy or somebody who's filling
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Speaker 10: a gap like will Help did last year.
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Speaker 9: So you know, it's just a combination of putting it
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Speaker 9: all together.
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Speaker 10: And we signed I think twenty one twenty two high
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Speaker 10: school kids and ten portal guys and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 10: most all of those guys, I think we we've got
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Speaker 10: five or six guys that will be joining us this summer,
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Speaker 10: but other other than that they were all here, so
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Speaker 10: you know, people move on. So that's what a lot
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Speaker 10: of times people want to talk about who was here
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Speaker 10: or who's not here as opposed to who is here.
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Speaker 10: And uh so we're excited. I mean, it's a it's
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Speaker 10: a new it's a change at quarterback. You know, we've
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Speaker 10: had a starter here for the past three years and
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Speaker 10: so uh new change there and new competition there. We
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Speaker 10: we but we like our team. It's a different vibe
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Speaker 10: for sure, you know, in that these guys are coming
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Speaker 10: off a season, those those guys that were on this
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Speaker 10: team and were coming off of our work winning season
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Speaker 10: in fifteen years.
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Speaker 9: You know, the last time we had a season like
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Speaker 9: last year was twenty ten.
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Speaker 10: Won six games, you know, but we lost five games
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Speaker 10: by six points or less that year. And it actually
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Speaker 10: feels similar to me to coming off that twenty ten
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Speaker 10: season because you know, we had won we won the
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Speaker 10: division and played for the championship my first year, and
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Speaker 10: so there was a lot of excitement after the old
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Speaker 10: nine season going into.
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Speaker 9: Ten and then our quarterback came back, Kyle Parker.
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Speaker 10: We had Kyle Parker, Jamie Harper, Andre Ellington, we had
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Speaker 10: Chris Harrison, and some guys in the ol We had
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Speaker 10: a really good defense in Daikwon Bauers and Jarvis Chkins
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Speaker 10: and all.
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Speaker 9: These guys, and we didn't get off to a good start.
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Speaker 10: We lost at Auburn in overtime on a miss kick
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Speaker 10: in overtime, and Auburn went on to win the national championship.
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Speaker 10: We lost at Florida State in overtime. We lost three
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Speaker 10: other games by six points or less. And it just
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Speaker 10: Kyle Parker got hurt. Didn't we didn't play or perform
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Speaker 10: as well. We had a bad Bowl game, and so
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Speaker 10: I made some changes on the staff in the off season.
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Speaker 10: There we I brought in Chad Morse, I hired him.
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Speaker 10: Nobody knew who Chad Morse was, and and there was
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Speaker 10: a lot of criticism, a lot of activity. I've only
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Speaker 10: been the head coach two years and now we just
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Speaker 10: won six games, so eleven was a big year. And
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Speaker 10: uh so there was a lot of criticism, a lot
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Speaker 10: of noise in the off season, a lot of you know,
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Speaker 10: you suck all the time stuff, and you know, so that.
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Speaker 9: That's familiar to me.
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Speaker 10: That's kind of what this feels like this spring, honestly,
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Speaker 10: And and we were we had a new so I
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Speaker 10: hired a guy that's only been in college for nine
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Speaker 10: months or so in Chad Morse. I have this young
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Speaker 10: quarterback who's been in our seat system for three years
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Speaker 10: that nobody really.
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Speaker 9: Knows in taj Boyd.
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Speaker 10: And and well they're like, well, he couldn't meet Kyle
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Speaker 10: Parker out and how can he be good? You know
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Speaker 10: that type of thing, and and uh so, uh a lot.
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Speaker 9: Of similarities coming that.
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Speaker 10: We had lost all these guys off of depense that
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Speaker 10: year that were really good players. De Kwon Jarvis, a
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Speaker 10: bunch of guys got drafted, Marcus Gilchrist. I mean, we
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Speaker 10: had a good Byron Max. Well, we had some dudes,
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Speaker 10: and you know, we came back that next year and
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Speaker 10: won the league for the first time in twenty years,
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Speaker 10: won ten games for the first time in twenty years.
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Speaker 9: But we just kind of put our head down and
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Speaker 9: did the work.
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Speaker 10: And you know, we went out recruited and didn't have
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Speaker 10: a great you know, it's not like we signed the
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Speaker 10: number one recruiting class in the country and we started
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Speaker 10: going And I feel similar to that. Again, we've had
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Speaker 10: fifteen winning seasons in a row. There's only three teams
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Speaker 10: in the Power forward that can say that last year
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Speaker 10: was a frustrating and tough season, but it was still
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Speaker 10: a winning season, and we responded. We stayed together. There
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Speaker 10: was a lot of negatives, but there were some positives too,
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Speaker 10: and we've tried to build on that this spring. These
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Speaker 10: guys have have had a little bit of callousness to them.
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Speaker 10: I think that's come from the sting of defeat. I mean,
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Speaker 10: because again, and we lost three games by eleven points
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Speaker 10: last year. Yeah, three games total eleven points, and we
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Speaker 10: lost two games on the last play of the game,
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Speaker 10: in particular early, so we lose to Georgia Tech Game
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Speaker 10: three on a fifty five yard field goal two seconds ago,
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Speaker 10: tie game, and so now you're one and two.
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Speaker 9: We lose seventeen to ten.
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Speaker 10: LSU, and then we beat I think it was Troy
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Speaker 10: or somebody, and then we lose on the last play
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Speaker 10: and now you're one to two and you're basically out
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Speaker 10: of everything. And man, it was tough, I mean, so
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Speaker 10: you know, and it affected our team and we didn't
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Speaker 10: handle it well and we didn't have a season. But
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Speaker 10: those guys rally, man, because we were knocked to the ground.
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Speaker 10: And to see those kids stay together and have to
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Speaker 10: reset our goals. Winning seasons not a goal at Clemson,
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Speaker 10: but to reset our goals and to go win four
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Speaker 10: in a row and two of those teams that beat
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Speaker 10: US Florida State, Louisville, South Carolina, and to finish the
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Speaker 10: way we did was good and some momentum going into
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Speaker 10: this thing. But man, we've just kind of reset obviously,
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Speaker 10: made some changes, brought Chad Morris back, and the same
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Speaker 10: reasons I hired him in eleven is why I hired
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Speaker 10: him now and kind of going back to my roots
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Speaker 10: and some things that I believe in.
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Speaker 9: And so it's been it's been a good spring.
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Speaker 10: But it'll be a great spring if we apply all
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Speaker 10: the things that we did this summer to I mean
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Speaker 10: the spring to the summer, and everybody will commit to
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Speaker 10: doing what they got to do to come back being
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Speaker 10: the better version of themselves whatever area they are, are,
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Speaker 10: phased they're in in their career, whether it's a fifth
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Speaker 10: year senior or a new guy just get here. If
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Speaker 10: everybody will do what they need to do to be
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Speaker 10: the best version of themselves to this point, then hey,
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Speaker 10: it'll be a great spring. But I love our staff.
23:45
Speaker 10: I like the changes that we've made I like our personnel,
23:49
Speaker 10: and you know, we're excited to go compete.
23:53
Speaker 6: But you had talked earlier this spring about kind of
23:55
Speaker 6: a sense of peace and that you are trying to
23:58
Speaker 6: purge entitlement. Like I really like some of the messaging
24:01
Speaker 6: that's been used a little bit.
24:02
Speaker 9: And I'm just.
24:03
Speaker 6: Knowing you personally and have known you for a really
24:05
Speaker 6: long time, coach, I feel like you kind of you
24:07
Speaker 6: yourself as like the underdog, as a guy that's gonna hey,
24:10
Speaker 6: we're gonna punch up like little old Clemson playing that
24:14
Speaker 6: with your team, and how you were even at the time,
24:17
Speaker 6: one of the alpha dog programs in college football, and
24:19
Speaker 6: you still love flying under the radar a little bit.
24:22
Speaker 6: So Dore's maybe the preseason expectations more align with what
24:27
Speaker 6: you have traditionally done and getting the most out of
24:31
Speaker 6: what your team is capable of accomplishing.
24:33
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think we've done both in my
24:35
Speaker 10: tenure here. I mean we've had to deal with both.
24:37
Speaker 10: I mean we've been exactly we're kind of Yeah, we're
24:40
Speaker 10: It's very familiar to me. I mean I've been doubted
24:44
Speaker 10: my whole life. So it's really that that part doesn't change.
24:49
Speaker 10: It never, never does. Whether we're preseason number one or
24:52
Speaker 10: you know, top fifty, it really doesn't matter. And all
24:56
Speaker 10: you got to do every year is look at the
24:58
Speaker 10: preseason rankings and see how many teams don't even finish ranks.
25:02
Speaker 10: And especially in today's world, the way rosters turn over,
25:05
Speaker 10: because you don't really know until people start playing and
25:07
Speaker 10: people get hurt, there's a lot of things that impact it.
25:10
Speaker 9: Early momentum in a season I think is critical.
25:14
Speaker 10: But you know, I mean, it's it just is what
25:17
Speaker 10: it is, and I just I just teach.
25:19
Speaker 9: I just always like to teach and.
25:21
Speaker 10: Get these guys to try to create their life, create
25:25
Speaker 10: their season, and build our team from the inside out,
25:27
Speaker 10: because that's really what matters. Teaching you on people, how
25:30
Speaker 10: to think the right way, building team. I love the
25:33
Speaker 10: challenge of that, but we've had to do both. I mean,
25:35
Speaker 10: but at the end of the day, whether we're number
25:36
Speaker 10: one or top fifty, I mean, at Clemson, we always
25:40
Speaker 10: got to, you know, have a chip on our shoulder.
25:42
Speaker 10: I mean, because I mean we I mean, it just
25:46
Speaker 10: is what it is. We don't have the alumni base
25:48
Speaker 10: that some places have. We don't have some of the
25:51
Speaker 10: things that some of the schools that we've played and
25:55
Speaker 10: had to compete with over the years. Have It's just
25:57
Speaker 10: the way it is. But I've always liked I mean,
25:59
Speaker 10: we're three and one against Ohio State, We're four and
26:02
Speaker 10: two against Notre Dame. I mean, Notre Dame has their
26:04
Speaker 10: own TV station, they make their own rules, they print
26:07
Speaker 10: their own money. They got like a money machine in
26:09
Speaker 10: the backyard or something. I mean, like, I mean, we've
26:12
Speaker 10: beaten Texa, A and M a couple of times. We've
26:14
Speaker 10: beaten Oklahoma a couple of times. We've won four in
26:16
Speaker 10: a row against Auburn. I mean, we've we've beaten Nick
26:18
Speaker 10: Saban in Alabama in two national championships, and so you
26:23
Speaker 10: know we've had we've done all of that at Clemson.
26:26
Speaker 9: I mean again, when.
26:27
Speaker 10: I got the job here, prior to our tenure here,
26:29
Speaker 10: Clemson hadn't won the ACC in twenty years, and it
26:32
Speaker 10: wasn't it wasn't a seventeen team league in those days.
26:36
Speaker 10: Clemson had won ten games in twenty years. We've had
26:39
Speaker 10: thirteen ten win seasons in the past fifteen years. You know,
26:42
Speaker 10: we've won. We punched above our weight class, if you will,
26:46
Speaker 10: for a long time. But that's just it still comes
26:48
Speaker 10: down to play in the game. Like Coach Stallin's my
26:51
Speaker 10: coach at Alabama. It's one of the things he taught
26:53
Speaker 10: us early on is you know, like it's not about
26:58
Speaker 10: you know, because when Coach Stallins took over at Alabama,
27:01
Speaker 10: you know, because I was I was on the ninety
27:03
Speaker 10: two National Championship team, and when we won the Natty
27:05
Speaker 10: in ninety two, it was very different. I mean, Alabama
27:08
Speaker 10: hadn't won the National Championship. It's the seventies, so what
27:12
Speaker 10: like it you know every other year, you know, or
27:14
Speaker 10: so like like Alabama hadn't won it since the seventies,
27:17
Speaker 10: and so I think there was a certain mentality that
27:19
Speaker 10: had been lost at Alabama and Coach save I mean
27:22
Speaker 10: coach Coach Stalin's came in and that was one of
27:24
Speaker 10: the things he taught us early on, was like, Hey,
27:27
Speaker 10: it's not about you know, I mean, it's not about
27:31
Speaker 10: the ex's and o's. It's not about it's not about
27:33
Speaker 10: the you know, how many five stars they got. Like
27:36
Speaker 10: if we met at the middle of the field, and
27:38
Speaker 10: with some of these teams that we've played over the
27:42
Speaker 10: almost two decades i've been here as the head coach,
27:45
Speaker 10: like we would have lost every time if they if
27:48
Speaker 10: they would have looked at their roster and looked at
27:50
Speaker 10: our roster and they go, oh man, you got this
27:52
Speaker 10: many five, Oh, y'all's budgets, this y'all that winner, you know,
27:56
Speaker 10: and the crowd with oh and on. But it's not
27:59
Speaker 10: about that. It's about the players playing the game. And
28:03
Speaker 10: it's belief, and it's toughness, and it's it's it's synergy
28:06
Speaker 10: and it's alignment, and it's all. I mean, you can't.
28:09
Speaker 10: You got to have enough, and we have and we've
28:11
Speaker 10: always had enough. It's never been the same. It's never
28:15
Speaker 10: We've never had the same as Alabama or Georgia or
28:19
Speaker 10: LSU or Ohio State or we've never had the same.
28:22
Speaker 9: But we've won, and we won't look.
28:25
Speaker 10: At our recruit My recruiting classes have been like eight
28:27
Speaker 10: to twenty five since I've been a head coach. I
28:30
Speaker 10: think the highest ranked recruiting class I had was my
28:32
Speaker 10: worst recruiting class.
28:34
Speaker 1: Debo is always working it I like him. Let me
28:39
Speaker 1: let me preference that he's always working. That we're an
28:43
Speaker 1: underdog angle. But when you beat Alabama and Nick Saban
28:48
Speaker 1: for Natty, you do have talent on your team. Yeah,
28:53
Speaker 1: he has had a lot of talent over the years
28:56
Speaker 1: on his team and has not played the transfer portal
29:02
Speaker 1: game well and it's cost him right. Kind of reminds
29:07
Speaker 1: me of Shryzhevsky at Duke when he said we're not
29:09
Speaker 1: going to take any one and Dons and he went
29:12
Speaker 1: like three or four years, which is you know, Duke
29:15
Speaker 1: time a lifetime without going deep into the playoffs, and
29:20
Speaker 1: then he changed his mind.
29:22
Speaker 3: Decided I think we are going to take one and Dons.
29:27
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29:30
Speaker 1: two more from that Dabbo conversation when he goes into
29:33
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29:36
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Speaker 18: Walk into the high school report. I'm Caleb Rapley, and
34:03
Speaker 18: today we are jumping out to the playeris Fun Center
34:05
Speaker 18: phone line to visit with the head coach of the
34:08
Speaker 18: Mumford Mustangs baseball team, mister Aaron Thomas, coach.
34:12
Speaker 14: Thank you for joining me, Thank you for having me.
34:14
Speaker 18: Absolutely so. It's been a solid season for your Mustangs,
34:18
Speaker 18: ending up nine and three in district play and making
34:22
Speaker 18: the postseason already through the by district round. Your Mustang's
34:26
Speaker 18: got the win in two games over Dan Berry. So
34:30
Speaker 18: what have some of your takeaways been from the season.
34:33
Speaker 18: What are some things that you know have been keys
34:35
Speaker 18: to success for the Mustangs this year.
34:37
Speaker 19: Well, some some takeaways is we had a lot of
34:40
Speaker 19: questions going to the year we had. We had we
34:43
Speaker 19: had to fill about four to five spots and and
34:47
Speaker 19: and it took us a long time to to figure
34:51
Speaker 19: it out. We had a as you know, we had
34:53
Speaker 19: a long basketball season. We made the state semis and
34:56
Speaker 19: there was a significant portion of our of our baseball
35:00
Speaker 19: team that was a part of that. And so we
35:03
Speaker 19: were kind of fill in spots and trying to figure
35:05
Speaker 19: out where everybody's gonna fit. And and you know, one
35:08
Speaker 19: of the takeaways was it's it's taken a while to
35:11
Speaker 19: figure out where everybody is. But luckily, I think just
35:14
Speaker 19: at about the right time, we found it.
35:17
Speaker 18: Yeah, so that's definitely a challenge when it comes to
35:19
Speaker 18: high school baseball at the two A level, having those
35:24
Speaker 18: multi sport athletes, you know, I think it's definitely good
35:27
Speaker 18: for the players to have those different experiences.
35:31
Speaker 20: I think it.
35:32
Speaker 18: I know baseball and basketball aren't just super similar sports,
35:35
Speaker 18: but they're both very athletic sports. So it's definitely an
35:38
Speaker 18: advantage there in that case. But like you said, trying
35:42
Speaker 18: to figure out your team, uh, it's a lot shorter.
35:45
Speaker 9: It's a lot shorter.
35:46
Speaker 18: Time period between the end of the state championships and
35:49
Speaker 18: basketball to the beginning of district.
35:51
Speaker 19: So we we had we had our first district game
35:55
Speaker 19: when we got four starters from uh from basketball over
36:00
Speaker 19: spring break and and and one practice before our first game.
36:04
Speaker 19: Well actually happened, so you know, it was it was
36:08
Speaker 19: work and we luckily found it.
36:10
Speaker 14: We figured it out. We started to come together as a.
36:12
Speaker 19: Team, and and and people have found a role and
36:16
Speaker 19: found their spots and and and started to step up.
36:19
Speaker 18: So you mentioned that you had to fill some spots
36:22
Speaker 18: from last year's team. You know, seniors have graduated. Who
36:25
Speaker 18: are some players that really stepped up and filled those roles.
36:29
Speaker 19: So obviously I've had I've had I've got like four
36:32
Speaker 19: seniors that essentially have been four year starters for me.
36:35
Speaker 19: And they are the top of the lineup one, two, three, four,
36:39
Speaker 19: they're my one uh and two pitchers. They're a pitcher
36:42
Speaker 19: and catcher, you know, and they they they play some
36:45
Speaker 19: big roles and what you know, obviously you have to
36:50
Speaker 19: have kids step up.
36:51
Speaker 14: But but what I feel.
36:52
Speaker 19: And I've had some of the younger some of the
36:54
Speaker 19: greener kids step into some roles, but I feel like
36:57
Speaker 19: early on in the season, the seniors were playing the
36:59
Speaker 19: role that they're used to playing, where they've had, you know,
37:02
Speaker 19: some older kids to to help guide them, and they
37:04
Speaker 19: weren't necessarily ready to to step up and and be
37:07
Speaker 19: and be those leaders. And they've had good stats, you know,
37:10
Speaker 19: I've got all four of them are batting over four
37:12
Speaker 19: hundred and but but finally we played some tougher games,
37:16
Speaker 19: we got some practice under our belt, and they really
37:19
Speaker 19: have stepped up. For instance, in the Danbury game, Hagen
37:23
Speaker 19: Berlin comes up with runners at first, Uh, we're runners
37:26
Speaker 19: at first and third, and then and you know, just
37:29
Speaker 19: steps up and hits one out of the park to
37:32
Speaker 19: pull the game away in the bottom of the sixth.
37:34
Speaker 14: And it was you know, it's just a big thing.
37:36
Speaker 19: And so I feel like those guys have stepped into
37:39
Speaker 19: finally stepped into a role you know that we needed
37:42
Speaker 19: as as leaders.
37:43
Speaker 14: As guys who just I it's time for me to
37:45
Speaker 14: take over the game.
37:46
Speaker 19: It's time for me to to go ahead and execute
37:48
Speaker 19: with with the skills that I have and and and
37:51
Speaker 19: I've been really proud to see that transition, that that
37:54
Speaker 19: that step up filling in those roles.
37:56
Speaker 18: So this is the second year since the U i
37:59
Speaker 18: L split the baseball playoffs into to a Division one
38:03
Speaker 18: and Division two, so only two teams from each district
38:07
Speaker 18: going to each bracket. What are your thoughts on this
38:10
Speaker 18: new playoff format? Do you think it's an advantage to
38:12
Speaker 18: your team or not?
38:14
Speaker 19: Well, disadvantage to us, but I think it as a whole,
38:17
Speaker 19: I think it's good. We The reason it's that disadvantage
38:20
Speaker 19: us is as we probably should be small school it
38:23
Speaker 19: would be nice to be small school. Region four to
38:28
Speaker 19: a big school is one of the more difficult regions,
38:31
Speaker 19: even our section of the bragg As you know, we
38:33
Speaker 19: we did not We got third in our district, and
38:34
Speaker 19: we we played a district champion, a good district champion,
38:38
Speaker 19: last year's regional finalist, and then found a way to
38:40
Speaker 19: get it done uh in the first round.
38:43
Speaker 14: So so that you know, for us, it was tough.
38:46
Speaker 19: I I do like the format in that it does
38:49
Speaker 19: kind of give schools some opportunities to match up with
38:54
Speaker 19: with you generally.
38:55
Speaker 14: Their their size.
38:56
Speaker 19: I mean there's some there's some things that can be
38:58
Speaker 19: done and manipulated and stuff to try to to try
39:00
Speaker 19: to give yourself different routes. But but as a whole,
39:04
Speaker 19: I really like it. Were we should be a small school.
39:08
Speaker 19: But I'm not going to sit and complain. I like
39:11
Speaker 19: what the uile did? They need to It's a good thing.
39:15
Speaker 19: It gives more opportunity and and and like next year
39:17
Speaker 19: we get realigned, we will probably be a small school,
39:20
Speaker 19: and almost we will be a small school and.
39:22
Speaker 14: Almost certainly get to go that route.
39:24
Speaker 19: And so all the enjoy the fruits of playing in
39:28
Speaker 19: a different region or a different section of the bracket
39:31
Speaker 19: next year. But as a whole, I really like it.
39:33
Speaker 19: I think it's good.
39:35
Speaker 18: Yeah, District twenty six, I think is one of the
39:38
Speaker 18: smaller districts by enrollment, right, you know, Burton, Iola, ground Top,
39:44
Speaker 18: Karmeine the other three schools that I believe those are
39:47
Speaker 18: the three that made the playoffs.
39:48
Speaker 14: That're right, Roundtop made the playoffs.
39:50
Speaker 19: So Burton is a small school, Millenno is a small school,
39:53
Speaker 19: and then Iola, who also does not have just a
39:56
Speaker 19: large enrollment, right they they're growing.
39:58
Speaker 18: But so this weekend taking on another district champion in
40:02
Speaker 18: the Thorndale Bulldogs, they went ten and two in District
40:09
Speaker 18: twenty seven play. So what are you expecting to see
40:12
Speaker 18: from them this weekend?
40:13
Speaker 19: So they're solid, throwing mid eighties, touching ninety and he
40:17
Speaker 19: was he was really tough. Uh and and and But
40:21
Speaker 19: at the bottom of their order they had some young guys.
40:24
Speaker 19: They looked a lot like us where they were. They
40:26
Speaker 19: were senior heavy, and then they had some guys stepping
40:28
Speaker 19: in some rolls. But Thorndale, Yeah, they've had kids that
40:32
Speaker 19: are two to three year starters for.
40:34
Speaker 14: A while and they won through nine.
40:38
Speaker 19: Sometimes you can't even tell the difference in the one
40:40
Speaker 19: batter in the nine batter because they all they're all athletic,
40:43
Speaker 19: they're all fast, they all really understand how to play
40:46
Speaker 19: the game. They make it really tough. They put pressure
40:51
Speaker 19: on you all the way through the lineup.
40:52
Speaker 18: So what are going to be some of the keys
40:53
Speaker 18: to victory for you all this weekend?
40:55
Speaker 19: I as always I tell my kids, I actually have
40:57
Speaker 19: a scouting report and I put the I put how
41:00
Speaker 19: we win. It's not enough to know that you're gonna win,
41:02
Speaker 19: and you got to know how you're gonna win. And essentially,
41:07
Speaker 19: the keys almost always are are get into counts, right,
41:12
Speaker 19: have long counts. Get into those guys because Dorndale has
41:15
Speaker 19: you know, they have a lot of pitching, but they
41:17
Speaker 19: have a lefty that's going to be really good.
41:19
Speaker 14: He's going to throw them at eights.
41:20
Speaker 19: And we've got to work counts, work walks, and then
41:25
Speaker 19: don't let one mistake turn into two. One mistake is fine,
41:28
Speaker 19: a single's fine, one walks fine. But if you pile
41:31
Speaker 19: on a walk with an error and a hit I
41:33
Speaker 19: pitch and a bad decision, then it turns into a biginning.
41:36
Speaker 14: And so one run innings don't don't lose your games.
41:38
Speaker 19: It's the ones with the crooked letters that lose your games,
41:41
Speaker 19: or crooked numbers that lose your games. And then lastly,
41:45
Speaker 19: well don't strike out, get the ball and play. And
41:47
Speaker 19: then and then lastly, like we have to attack the zone.
41:50
Speaker 19: That's kind of been a little bit of our struggle
41:53
Speaker 19: all year. Luckily, I feel like we're finding it. But
41:55
Speaker 19: on the mound, we have to attack the zone and
41:58
Speaker 19: we have to have we have to have the fast
42:00
Speaker 19: end the slow stuff working in the zone in order
42:04
Speaker 19: to in order to win. If we don't do that,
42:06
Speaker 19: it's gonna be really tough because as Thorndale challenges.
42:09
Speaker 14: You have to plate.
42:10
Speaker 19: They make sure that they make sure that the pitches
42:12
Speaker 19: they're swinging at are good pitches, and so we've got to.
42:16
Speaker 14: Be in the zone.
42:17
Speaker 18: All right, Coach, Well, I appreciate your time today. Good
42:20
Speaker 18: luck this weekend against Thorndale.
42:22
Speaker 14: All right, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Over four and a third.
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Speaker 1: podcast with Seth Davis and Andy Katz. Recently, one of
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Speaker 1: their guests was Baylor coach Scott Drew. The Bears did
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Speaker 1: not make the tournament this year for the first time
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Speaker 1: in a while. Is this the beginning of the end?
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Speaker 1: Just as we were talking about Dabbo. It's just such
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Speaker 1: a new world. We were talking with the writers yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Can the Baylors of the world consistently compete in athletics?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: Baylor has money, They do have money. They have got
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Speaker 1: people with money they have got alums with money, but.
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Speaker 3: Can they compete?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's still coaching in my mind, but you
49:43
Speaker 1: still have to have players.
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Speaker 3: You gotta have players.
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Speaker 1: Here is Scott Drew on Hoops HQ with Seth Davis.
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Speaker 24: You probably don't have as much as you'd like to
49:55
Speaker 24: have to be able to compete in the transfer portal.
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Speaker 24: So how do you go about fixing it? How much
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Speaker 24: time do you spend on it? Is it about getting
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Speaker 24: that whale that's got a couple billion dollars?
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Speaker 14: They can just cut you a check or.
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Speaker 3: If bake sale?
50:10
Speaker 14: Like what explained us how this works? Yeah, well, I think.
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Speaker 15: First and foremost every coach would tell you they wish
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Speaker 15: they had more. And like you said, when the more
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Speaker 15: nil money you have, the more mistakes and injuries you
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Speaker 15: can sustain. And it's very similar to the stock market.
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Speaker 15: I mean, you're never going to get every stock right,
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Speaker 15: and uh, no college coach is going to get every
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Speaker 15: portal person right, just like the NBA misses on on
50:38
Speaker 15: draft picks. Uh And and in sports, you can't buy championships.
50:42
Speaker 15: And what I mean by that is like Dodgers Yankees
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Speaker 15: can make more mistakes, but it doesn't guarantee their winning
50:48
Speaker 15: it every year. So there is there is some luck
50:51
Speaker 15: in chemistry and everything involved to advance and win, but
50:56
Speaker 15: definitely the more money you have. And I think every
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Speaker 15: schools trying to figure you're out, what that sweet spot is,
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Speaker 15: what's sustainable, what's something that and some do it with
51:06
Speaker 15: many hands make white work.
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Speaker 14: Others do it with.
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Speaker 3: One or two whales.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I know you two are whales.
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Speaker 15: And you support your alma maters and they're appreciative of that.
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Speaker 15: But I can tell you from a coaching standpoint, We'll
51:20
Speaker 15: control what we can control, and that is whens the
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Speaker 15: portal open and who can we recruit from there and
51:26
Speaker 15: hopefully that with the contractual language, allows people to have
51:31
Speaker 15: options to maybe stay at a school, graduate from a school,
51:36
Speaker 15: and those things I think helped the game more than
51:41
Speaker 15: There's no league that has free agency every year. I mean,
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Speaker 15: if the NBA did it every year, I don't think
51:47
Speaker 15: that would be good for the game. And at the
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Speaker 15: end of the day, most college kids are going to
51:54
Speaker 15: use that college degree.
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Speaker 24: I know a lot of injuries as well, but did
51:58
Speaker 24: not make the NCAA Tournament for the first time.
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Speaker 3: Since twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 14: I believe.
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Speaker 24: You do not get dumber as a basketball coach.
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Speaker 3: You are still a great basketball coach. But it does feel.
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Speaker 24: Like this new model has been not great for Baylor.
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Speaker 24: Tell me what's going on.
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Speaker 15: Well, I think first year, right, we had the year
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Speaker 15: we won it all, the year before we would have
52:21
Speaker 15: been a number one seed, The year after we were
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Speaker 15: number one seed, and then the next couple of years
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Speaker 15: we made the tournament, won a game in the tournament,
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Speaker 15: and in advance. Some of that depends on matchups, Some
52:34
Speaker 15: of that depends on your injuries and whatnot. One thing
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Speaker 15: that's been tough for us is the first seventeen years,
52:42
Speaker 15: we had one aco injury, and now in the last
52:44
Speaker 15: like six years, we've got six.
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Speaker 14: So it's like we have hit. Last year we basically had.
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Speaker 15: Three season ending injuries and within il you, I think
52:54
Speaker 15: most teams probably don't have the depth that they used
52:57
Speaker 15: to have because once that money runs out, then the
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Speaker 15: quality of player tends to go down.
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Speaker 14: So instead of having.
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Speaker 15: Ten, eleven, twelve quality, thirteen quality players, maybe that nil
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Speaker 15: sour you're paying for nine and then after that there's
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Speaker 15: a drop off, and if you get a couple of injuries,
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Speaker 15: it's hard to go through the rigors of any power
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Speaker 15: for a conference or any good conference with six or
53:24
Speaker 15: seven guys and staying out of foul trouble and whatnot.
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Speaker 15: So with us, every year you try to get better
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Speaker 15: at what you do. Hopefully I'm not, as you say,
53:33
Speaker 15: I haven't gotten dumber. But I found that with Phil Jackson.
53:37
Speaker 15: You know, he won three championships, Mike Michael went played
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Speaker 15: pro baseball, and then he didn't win the championship, and
53:43
Speaker 15: then Michael came back, and then he wins three more.
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Speaker 15: And I tell you it's amazing how all that works.
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Speaker 13: Right.
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Speaker 15: But at the end of the day, we are really
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Speaker 1: There you go, that's Scott true interesting opinion on on
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