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February 16, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 5: Welcome in glad to have you with us. It is
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  Speaker 5: We're joined by Robert Sesna rusty person. Uh normally, well,
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  Speaker 5: I say normally it's still a little early to talk
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  Speaker 5: football because spring training had started yet, Fine, what about
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  Speaker 5: ELCO today? What I'm looking at after after after listening
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  Speaker 5: and reading the transcripts, we already knew that. But man,
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  Speaker 5: when you start going through the new coaching staff, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is total, total, eventful, total.
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  Speaker 5: Almost and the new players, it's like, hey, and I
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  Speaker 5: get the DIC. Yes, in this day and age, except
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  Speaker 5: for the coaching staff, not necessarily, but in this day
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  Speaker 5: and age, you're gonna be starting over almost every year.
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  Speaker 2: Like you talk to about getting Robinson back, Well, as
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  Speaker 2: he said, when Robinson he went up with childhood buddy
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  Speaker 2: to be at Syracuse with it was but you know,
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to be a coordinator and got the big
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  Speaker 2: box in el Caselde came back on the market. He
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  Speaker 2: was not to be a DC. He was one of
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  Speaker 2: the top in the country, which I could see. If
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  Speaker 2: you've been around Robinson you can see that. But once
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  Speaker 2: again is and you know, you take things in here
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  Speaker 2: and now when we talked about somebody asking about his
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  Speaker 2: transfer part and he said, it's a little bit like
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  Speaker 2: going to the grocery store, but you only have so
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  Speaker 2: much budget. It's not like who you don't get or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: it's who you And let's be honest, it's all about
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  Speaker 2: who can you afford? Who can you get?
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  Speaker 5: I don't care who you are, and how can you
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  Speaker 5: coach them and how to develop them and developed them?
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  Speaker 2: Because first thing I noticed, because I'm working a story,
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  Speaker 2: is I mean thing jumps out at He's thirteen players
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL combine. I mean, the NFL doesn't screw up.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have talent to get to the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going to talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have thirteen? That means they think you can
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  Speaker 2: go out in these elite fifty three man rosters and
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  Speaker 2: possibly make it. So that tells me Elko's doing something right,
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  Speaker 2: which we all know Jimbo could sign top ten classes
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  Speaker 2: out as Ying Yang, but he couldn't develop them ortiev them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that obviously Elko has proven in the short
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  Speaker 1: time he's been here is that he has produced in
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  Speaker 1: the trend.
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  Speaker 5: He can evaluate talent.
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  Speaker 1: He can, and there's no doubt, so I trust him.
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  Speaker 1: He talks about a bunch of guys I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: of exactly, but I trust that he knows the way
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  Speaker 1: he's do it because his track record here is pretty
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  Speaker 1: aren't good?
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  Speaker 5: Pretty good? When you see thirteen players.
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  Speaker 2: And some of those guys maybe in one or two
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  Speaker 2: years once again is he gets the most part?
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  Speaker 5: But what did we say except even the high draft
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  Speaker 5: choices cease? I mean, a couple of them have gone on,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I don't can't name all of them,
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  Speaker 5: but you didn't see thirteen players going to the NFL combine.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and what we talk about and what we
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  Speaker 5: continue to talk about when they were losing under Jim,
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  Speaker 5: It's like, Okay, these other teams do have thirteen players
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  Speaker 5: going to the NFL combine this year, right? They they
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  Speaker 5: had more more talent despite all the five star stuff
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  Speaker 5: and all the hooplah, they still didn't have guys that
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  Speaker 5: you're looking at, going Okay, this guy is not only
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  Speaker 5: going to the NFL, He's going to do some things
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL. And so I think that's a big change.
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  Speaker 5: The last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: I was hearing Elko talk about it. I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a great positive way look at it is
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  Speaker 1: say hey, you know, we want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: put people in the NFL. People And yeah, part of me,
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  Speaker 1: I guess the negative Nancy and me was like, hm,
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  Speaker 1: that makes the last two games a little more disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: We've got.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely correct because what comes with that is comes
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  Speaker 2: high expectation.
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  Speaker 1: Expectations.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you're telling me you have thirteen NFL
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  Speaker 2: team players and you didn't win the first round of
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Miami has thirteen going through the point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Looked it up, right, of.
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  Speaker 2: Us are most in the nation, the most going to
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  Speaker 2: the combine. When you start to think about that, that
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  Speaker 2: floored me because I'm saying, like.
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  Speaker 1: But again, a lot of it's going to come down
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  Speaker 1: to coaching, because I guarantee you Wisconsin Indiana doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: that many going right, No, and they won the NAST Championship.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, so yes, white teams still still coaching.
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  Speaker 2: You did all these things we always talkingship, show, talent
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  Speaker 2: and coaching.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, yep, you gotta have talent and you gotta have
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  Speaker 5: a big pocketbook. Now you have to have a big pocketbook.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to have a way to develop. You've got
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  Speaker 5: to have somebody in the UH players and coaches who
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  Speaker 5: know how to bring guys together who have never been
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  Speaker 5: together before. And that's every year, every single year. It's
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  Speaker 5: going to be new.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 5: In college, used to you had at least three years
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  Speaker 5: to develop these guys, right, and you had guys who
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  Speaker 5: and if the coaches were around, they knew what to
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  Speaker 5: tell the guys coming in. This is how we do
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  Speaker 5: things here, and this is you know what he said today.
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  Speaker 5: Let me let me explain that to you. Why he
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  Speaker 5: said it the way he did. All of that stuff's
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  Speaker 5: out the window now, and I just I think you
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  Speaker 5: have to be even more intentional. I think you have
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  Speaker 5: to be even better this day and age, because you're
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  Speaker 5: getting new guys every I mean a lot of new guys.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is like he was going on about
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  Speaker 1: the linebacker from Tulsa, right yep, And I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is so weird because I mean, you see it
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  Speaker 1: every year that these guys from smaller schools make great
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  Speaker 1: NFL players, right, I Mean, we've seen it for forever right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Jerry Rice Walter Payton. I mean, come on
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  Speaker 1: on and on, Hall of Famers, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to evaluate. Okay, this guy did this playing
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  Speaker 1: at Tulsa. Can he do that in the SEC? And
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  Speaker 1: that's so far. Elko has done a really good job
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a lot of it is Fanny because I
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  Speaker 2: always have to laugh and I'll throw out a name
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  Speaker 2: because he went to Seeters George Pickens for example. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of times you'll see these guys in college don't
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  Speaker 2: have any problems really, and I think it goes back
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  Speaker 2: to the culture. Then when they start getting all this
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  Speaker 2: money to get all this attention, you see their jerk,
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  Speaker 2: so they do things wrong, and I think it goes
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  Speaker 2: back to the colleges when you Nick saman divides.
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  Speaker 1: All all Pickens needed was Jared Jones's influence look at him.
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  Speaker 2: But you know if you go in and played for Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: when you played for SABAN, you know you're going to
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  Speaker 2: do it his way and correct. And I think Elko
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  Speaker 2: does a good job when you let's be honest. When
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  Speaker 2: he first took over, what did some of the first
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  Speaker 2: guys say that even if you even hold over like
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  Speaker 2: they had discipline the program you take nia Smith said,
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  Speaker 2: the immediate thing he noticed was was was discipline or culture?
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  Speaker 2: And once again is we've been around sports a long time.
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  Speaker 2: You go out, whether you go out to baseball park
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, does that team of chemistry? Does that team
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  Speaker 2: of leaders? Because the coach I don't know how many
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  Speaker 2: coaches he named, so many analysts, I go. My head
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  Speaker 2: was spinning to it's crazy. But once again, is you
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  Speaker 2: gotta have some coaches on the field. You can't. Coaches
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  Speaker 2: can't go on the field and coach.
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  Speaker 1: The longer the season is the more important. That is too, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the culture. I mean because you're living with
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  Speaker 1: these guys round the clock, right, and so that influencing
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  Speaker 1: each other positively, that makes all the differences.
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  Speaker 5: Well, winning breeds winning does it? Not?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 5: And winning certainly helps the culture. It's like a double
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  Speaker 5: edged sword. What comes first, right, But when you win, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you can put up with whatever the coaches, however they're coaching.
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  Speaker 5: If you're winning, right, doesn't matter what their style, doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 5: if they're on you all day long. If you're winning,
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  Speaker 5: it's like okay, then you get guys coming in going, hey,
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  Speaker 5: these guys were in the playoffs last year, right that
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  Speaker 5: I want to be part of that. So I if
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  Speaker 5: this is what they did to get there, I'm in. Right,
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  Speaker 5: You're you're gonna have kids coming going yeah. If this
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  Speaker 5: is if this is how we coaches and they want
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  Speaker 5: to love it games, I'm in.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get back to thirteen players going to
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  Speaker 2: the NFL combine, one thing that all Savings team had
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  Speaker 2: is competition for spots, who benches their quarterback, that work
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  Speaker 2: with the national championship and put someone in better.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what, I don't know in this day
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  Speaker 5: and agecs can you build that kind of depth, not
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  Speaker 5: at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: But what's it? What's the it is? Like Elko touched
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  Speaker 2: on today, you know he's rolled heavily in the last
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  Speaker 2: two years on transfers. He wants to get a little
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  Speaker 2: bit away from that. And now I feel some of
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  Speaker 2: these younger guys are going to be competing. And as
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  Speaker 2: he said, these guys coming in from Tulsa whatever, all
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  Speaker 2: these guys expect to start. Now, if they get beat
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  Speaker 2: out by somebody that's been here two or three years,
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  Speaker 2: then A and M is the big winner because then
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  Speaker 2: they have a better player. Today.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely just talking about the competition and practice every day.
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  Speaker 1: That makes everybody, I mean makes everybody better, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And once again is when you have a big payroll,
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  Speaker 2: you can go out and get better players to compete.
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  Speaker 5: They got twenty five high school kids and seven team transfers. Right,
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  Speaker 5: that's forty two. Okay, that's forty two. That doesn't include
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  Speaker 5: the special teams. He talked about five specialists he brought in.
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  Speaker 5: I underlined this Illinois five specialists, three high school kids, okay,
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  Speaker 5: and special team coach. Obviously, Well, you have special.
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  Speaker 1: Teams weren't great, Like yeah, having a snapper, because I
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  Speaker 1: mean the grand kid had a great career. It's a
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  Speaker 1: deep snapper. You never heard of it because.
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  Speaker 5: You never want to hear of your deep snapper. You
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to know who it is.
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  Speaker 1: They use up for All American Honors as a snapper.
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  Speaker 5: Boots Hey boom Stout's played like three or four five
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  Speaker 5: years in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean you can play fifteen years if you
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  Speaker 1: course you can't. So yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: It was gonna get back to the next year when
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  Speaker 2: they're lining up kick a forty yard field goal. You
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  Speaker 2: can go to the bathroom. The concessions stand on.
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  Speaker 1: I feel good about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel good about.
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  Speaker 2: It because that guy from Illinois pretty good. If he
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  Speaker 2: can kick that way, transfer up up the way in
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  Speaker 2: the bad weather up in Illinois in big ten countries
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  Speaker 2: should be able to Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, swirling winds against Miami was something else.
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  Speaker 5: It was. It was a little tough for both kickers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was at the topest stadium that day.
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  Speaker 5: It was blowing.
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  Speaker 2: This just did not Miami was better than a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people thought that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they were pretty good, and so was Indiana. Soone
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  Speaker 5: keeps Indiana was pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, uh, I just
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's just so interesting. And Russey used to
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  Speaker 5: do these previews because you've talked about it a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, I don't know what these teams are going
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  Speaker 5: to do, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so glad I don't do. They're new.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they're new every year. It's like, we don't know,
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  Speaker 5: you have zero. You know, you've got quarterbacks coming see
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  Speaker 5: you mentioned it. You know you have to have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: But if you have a kid coming in from somewhere else,
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  Speaker 5: and to me, it's let's go to Indiana. It's like
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  Speaker 5: the TCU kid Who's Hoover Hoover Joshua. It's like where
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  Speaker 5: I'm going. You know, man, that's a big step down
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  Speaker 5: from the number one pick in the NFL draft. But
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  Speaker 5: that number one pick from the NFL Draft had come
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  Speaker 5: in to Indiana and he didn't have that kind of
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  Speaker 5: hype either, right, not at all?
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  Speaker 1: So you don't know, no.
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  Speaker 2: What I laugh about. You mentioned Priggymr Houston, chuckle whiz.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing these previews on A and M in Texas
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  Speaker 2: into going back to the old SWC and then Rice
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  Speaker 2: would say everything they got well and in your laughing
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  Speaker 2: because Rice can't compete. But now today in the SEC
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, Shane Beemer's jobs on the line. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the people he brought in better be able to play.
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  Speaker 5: Look at Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 2: But once again, when you're in the SEC, everybody is reloaded.
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  Speaker 2: You're not. They're not going to rely on a lot
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  Speaker 2: of freshmen. These guys are approving and that's why they're
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  Speaker 2: spending money. It's such a gauntlet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right, but I mean you
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  Speaker 1: just have absolutely no idea. I mean, and when you
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  Speaker 1: recruit a freshman, the likelihood of him stay there for
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  Speaker 1: four years pretty small.
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  Speaker 5: Well now you know what, it was always pretty small, Okay. So,
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  Speaker 5: and you know I'm a recruiting expert because you're studying
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  Speaker 5: so in the old days, you knew that a third
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  Speaker 5: of those that signing class was going to stay here
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  Speaker 5: and at some point start for you. A third of
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  Speaker 5: them would would be here, but they would never make
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  Speaker 5: any impact on your team, and a third of them
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  Speaker 5: would end up not being part of the team. Right
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  Speaker 5: right now, man, I don't know what those percentages are,
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  Speaker 5: but as you mentioned, Rusty, it's high that they're not
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  Speaker 5: going to be around for.
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  Speaker 1: Two or three years. Yeah, freshmen coming in. If they're good, other.
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  Speaker 5: Teams are going to be offering more money, right, and
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  Speaker 5: you're going to have a bidding war. If they're not
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  Speaker 5: any good, they're still good and they're not playing well, right.
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  Speaker 2: They don't.
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  Speaker 1: Marc just kind of rare breed in this color absolutely football,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely is.
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  Speaker 5: I think that speaks to his character, right, And you
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  Speaker 5: see guys who have been you know, I know it
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  Speaker 5: cuts both ways, but for the most part, guys who
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  Speaker 5: stay you know, three even four and sometimes five years,
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  Speaker 5: it's like, Okay, this is a high character guy. I
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  Speaker 5: want him in my locker room, and I think he's
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  Speaker 5: going to be pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, is I guarantee you a and m
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  Speaker 2: up there, Auntie to keep mister reed.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you know what's again is and you can
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  Speaker 2: send that money to mel kiper Junior care of this
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  Speaker 2: station for what Chip just told you. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's the way the game's being played anymore. It's wow.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at it and when I still
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  Speaker 2: can't get over whatever sport you watch, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: like they're got to say where the guy transferred from.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's like half the baseball players, softball, basketball.
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  Speaker 1: They have schools listed now, like multiple schools exactly, so
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  Speaker 1: most of them have you know, this is the third
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  Speaker 1: school at minimum, and always.
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  Speaker 2: Go by by.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: In basketball, you've been here for the whole season going through,
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  Speaker 2: You're you're not really transfer anymore. You're actually on the
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  Speaker 2: in and men's basketball team or the in and women's
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  Speaker 2: basketball team. But uh, it's amazing basketball.
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  Speaker 5: Football, by the way, I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's it's just phenomenal. But at least Elko
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  Speaker 2: did touch on there's only one transfer or to Windle.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's like there's not two per year, because that
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  Speaker 2: was that was just how could you form a team
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  Speaker 2: when you had two different transports?
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  Speaker 5: What else stood to it out to you? See, to
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  Speaker 5: me it was all the new faces. What stood out
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  Speaker 5: to you as you said, I just.
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  Speaker 2: The new faces, And you do wonder and we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to know when do we go out about the
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  Speaker 2: meshing of the staff because once again, as you got
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  Speaker 2: a new offensive coordinator and let's be ask client was
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  Speaker 2: only here two years and you do like this, what
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  Speaker 2: do we always say about all the continuity and the staff,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: all the assistants back and all this, Like you said,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: well anymore there's such reshuffle, and let's be honest. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: don't care what sport you guys, is it a twenty
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: four to seven whether you're yes.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: But but I think I think this staff is just
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: critical right in any sport, in any sport, right, good
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: assistant coaches to me are just critical.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: But I think Elko touched on it because everybody wants
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: to nitpick. You know, he didn't go out and hire
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of people outside. He pretty much promoted a
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: lot of guys inside. In the bottom line, Elka said
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: he's going to do what he feels more comfortable.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: And I will say this, if he's as good at
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: evaluating assistance as he has talent, yeah, then absolutely he'll
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: be fine.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Why should some make concise?
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Well, the other thing is, okay, Colin Klein didn't leave
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: for you this even job true have to become a
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: head coach, that is all my mater. Yeah, yes, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: mean yeah, dream job for him.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Yes, And I think the same thing is I think
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: it's already happening with assistants, even more so in this
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: day and age as the players.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Right, I think once again is bottom line and it's
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: coming off eleven win season. They made the college football Playoff.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, everything is rosy right now, and we haven't
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: said that in a while with the Jimbo era. You know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: it's it's like there was a lot of why aren't
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: they winning with all this talent at one hundred five
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: thousand seat stadium. Well, now they expect to reload and
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the fans expect that, and that's what the and the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Elkos basically said, that's that's what you should expect.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So again though, you also with great results come
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: higher expectations, and so year three, you'd like to see
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: him taking a step of those step foward. Well that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: means at least winning a playoff game, right, So I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: mean you always want to keep progressing, which is very
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: very difficult.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to said that you put that well
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: tag at the end because it's really hard, really hard.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Last year, just time Texas was looking to go into
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the College Football Player for the third straight time, they
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: were number one. You look about how far they fell quickly,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and people out there were not happy the fact that
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: they didn't make the College Football Player right third Street.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: And they had won two in a row. I mean
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: they've been to in a row and one games one games.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But Indiana two years ago they made the playoffs, lost
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: first round and then they came back to tak the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: ultimate step.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: They are the poster chick.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: They're the model because.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, we want to do that. That's what people say, Like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I don't care if you're Oregon or whatever, because Oregon's
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: getting tired or not win inter national, no doubt, no
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: matter who you are, we want to be Indiana. If
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Indiana can do it, and let's be honest, the fact
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that Indiana did do it, you're gonna get more coaches fired.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Hey, and'll get more coaches fire.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, if Indiana could do.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: It, why any anyone.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: You don't think he expects to win next year at
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: all with Kiffin.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: But again when that, when that, it's.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe the greatest story college football man for a long time.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I thought Bill Snyder was, yes, and what he did
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: at Kansas Cittate, but this one tops it because they
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: won the NASCE championship.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. Yeah, you know it's it's like
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: one of those we love sports so much five years ago,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: so you know it's gonna win a championship in football Indiana, Like.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Are you crazy?
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Nuts?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Not Indiana State Division two. Uh, you know, Indiana, you.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Have to have so many things happened. I don't care
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: if you're Indiana or Alabama. You have to have so
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: many things happened to do that. Right, Well, I mean
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: you have to win a game. You're that you were
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: going to lose Indiana. Yeah, Indiana did that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Right with a spectacular cat.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Right they had one. They had one, uh, a bad
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: injury all year and that was at the end of
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: the season. Right, You've got to you know, you're very
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: goes out. You're right, You're not winning the National Championship. Right,
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Marcel Reid goes out last year, you're not playing Miami.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: It's just not happening, right. I mean, you think you've
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: got to have everything happened right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: And you talk about that fine line, and also.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: And you better have some you better have some players
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: that have been there before in the wars. I mean,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I don't think you do it with freshmen at sophomores.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: And I don't care what the situation is that we've
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: talked about. And these guys could have come from somewhere else,
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: which in Indiana. You know, they they were seventeen of
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: them were with him at James Madison, Right, he had
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: a he had an old team last year.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: And most of these teams who win, you look at them,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: they have got more than a handful of guys that
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: have been in the battle.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: You know, you bring up a good point because I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: go back, you go back to Elka's first year when
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: they knows Dove dating five. I'm sitting here going, that's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: typical A and M football team. They start and then
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: you expect maybe they're gonna not. You think where that
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: team went in one year to go from eight and
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: five to eleven and two. Yeah, so you're talking about
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: what Indiana, but you're seeing what Elko and his staff
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: can do. Because would anybody been surprised if they won
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: eight and five again this year. I wouldn't have been
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: on heels because that's what they do. But no, Elko
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: slammed it down it well, and I.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Think you have to learn from what happened is that
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: they slowed down. They weren't in Elko said that today, said,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you know, when we were at our best, we're good
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: enough to win the NAST championship, but we couldn't maintain it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And really, right there at South Carolina game, that's where
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: it started. And they didn't play particularly well the rest
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of the year. No, even though they won that game,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: even though they won that non conference game, they didn't
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: play well well. They didn't play well against Texas, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: they didn't play well against Miami. So the thing, you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: he said, you know last year we're talking about finishing games.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I think now they've got to finish the season because
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: they didn't finish the season the way they wanted to.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Consistency an urgency as we talked, and like I said,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: when you look at where they went from year one
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to year two. You know, once again, is that's amazing.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: You go from it's hard to go from eight to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: eleven wins in the SEC I don't know who you
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: are or what you do. And the fact that they
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: did it when they walked off that field in Vegas,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: that was not a good football team. You know.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Scheduling has a lot to do with it too. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: don't care, you know, and their their schedule this year
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: is not as conducive in my mind.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: No, it's not as it was last year. Right, you're right,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: but I mean last year.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Now, if you're good enough, it doesn't matter. I get that, Okay,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: if you're good enough, you go into the opponent's place
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: and you beat them. And I understand that. It's just
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: it's really hard in this league to go in any
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: opponents building and win. Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I mean last year at this time I was I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was looking at the schedule, going who, I don't know, And.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: It turned out it wasn't that daunting.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It wasn't that though.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: We didn't know that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: No, because we don't know about so much about it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: We don't know that much this coming year right season
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: about where they have to go.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: It's like maybe they're not as preseason, you know, top
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: twenty five teams, Yes, and they weren't turned down in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the regular season. Yes, And you know, I mean there
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: was a lot of teams that were like, oh, this
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a really tough game, and then it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: turned out not really.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I were down for a loss. I had Texas down
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: for a loss because you're going on the road. Those
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: are tough places. You're eight in five. They might lose
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: in Missourisu. You had for a loss. Definitely a loss, yeah,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: because you never won there. That's for losses right there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeaheah to go into Baton Rouge and win, that was
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: like no, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah in the stadium, which
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: might have been the high point of the year.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: It was probably that probably wasn't the high point, you know,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I still say because of the quality. Uh, getting that
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: win in South Bend in the last few seconds, that
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: was that started the whole That jump started the whole season.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Fourth damn play that started the whole season. That's a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: huge as a huge conference builder.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Huge and just hey, you went to South Bend and
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: you won, and that was a good football team. It
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: was right, you beat a really good football.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, they should have in Miami should have been home.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Uh no, that boat should You're right, they both should
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: have been.
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  Speaker 5: an abbreviated show. We're out at five point forty five
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: because Aggie baseball, which we will talk about. I'm want
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: to talk basketball right now. Uh, the Aggies have lost
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: four in a row.
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  Speaker 2: I blame on Rusty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: If he handed gotten season tickets, they'd probably be undefeed.
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  Speaker 1: That season is nineteen ninety eight.
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  Speaker 5: Come on right, Uh, so you've enjoyed much of the season,
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  Speaker 5: which which should absolutely here's the deal, I send the
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: first hour. I'm want of your opinion on this, because
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: you you watched the team a lot. Rusty. I thought
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: they looked tired at Vanderbilt. I just thought they looked tired.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: That's the best way I can put it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: They look tired against Florida. I thought they looked tired
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: against Vanderbilt. Yes, and they had. If you look back
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the previous games prior to each of those, those are
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: gut punches Alabama and Missouri and the Missouri shot where
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you had so both those games you had the last
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: shot to possibly win, and those just take a lot
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: out of you. And there was that five game window
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: where I thought it was really important to go for
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: them to go two and three. Well they went one
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to four. And you know that's frustrating, but they're still sitting.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: There four points going five and oh exactly are close
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: to it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Well except for Florida, you know what I mean that Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but you know they were tired. They absolutely looked like
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: they didn't have legs. Correct, They missed so many shots
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: in the paint correct, and it just and they shot
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the ball really well the first half against Missouri, but
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: then they couldn't finish well.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: Ruby Domingus is really hurting them right now. You cannot
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: buy a basket.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And he hit the first shot against Vandy. Yeah, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: it kind of swirled around. Yeah, it wasn't pure, No,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it wasn't, but it went in, went in. I was like, okay,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: maybe that's what it takes. It wasn't, it wasn't. And
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: he you know, he not only did miss every other
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: shot he took, but he had some real short I
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: mean jump shots that he got to hit, Yes, like
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you know, seven footers wide open. Yes, and you've got
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to be able to do that. That's what he's here
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: for to shoot. Yeah, And you know, God love Frederico
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: is just sometimes he finally scores for the first time since.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: The lame He was the only one with a plus.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Well that's not true. Ali Diva had a plus five.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Jbie Vincent was plus two and Frederica was plus four.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Everybody else was minus on Saturday.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: The rebounds, No.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Just on the plus minus on point score when you're
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: on the court.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Oh well, he also had five fouls in about five
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: minutes of total action. How long did he play there?
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: He played third team minutes, had four fouls.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, called the technical foul, which I'm not sure that
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: was all about.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know what that was. But he did get
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: four rebounds, and he got two offensive rebounds. I thought,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: of course, he hadn't played at all. I thought he
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: finally showed a little bit of life on Saturday. Actually,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: we talk about Federico.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M's best player right now to me
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is Marcus hild Well.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: He certainly, he certainly was on Saturday.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Oh but I mean he also the way he drives
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the paint when they need a basket so much, been
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: very aggressive. Oh and he's just his reverse layups.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: By the way, Roley Griffin has had two bad games.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, and he was not himself against ag was not
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: because he looked tired.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: They all looked tired.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, you said tired. I got home. I was busy,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: said Wednesday. I got home and watched the second half
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: mis game and watched man, I thought they looked uncomfortable.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: And that gets back to me, is you don't make shots.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You don't you don't get.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: When you're not making shots, you don't look good.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not playing well. And this is a team
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: that plays a lot on you know runs. Yes, to me,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: they looked uncomfortable, which.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Well, because here's the I thought Wednesday, Russell, you watch
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: that team Wednesday night. I thought Missouri looked like a
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: team that could win, not only get in the tournament,
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: but win games in. They had the size that God
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: was huge, and they were great. And then I watched
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Saturday night against Texas. They're at home, their first sellout
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: of the year. They delay the game because of traffic
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: because the officials can't get in the game, and I'm going,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: where the hell was this Wednesday night? This team was terrible.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: That wasn't the team I watched Wednesday night.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Shots in, the shots go in. It's amazing thing. How
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: pretty bad?
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: But but they but but I realized that we're so
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: much bigger than A and m Texas isn't a big team.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Well, Texas got the one big they got.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: The one big kN and he was good.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He's good.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: He can be a little bit of a rim protector.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: But but they weren't going to get the dunks like
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: they got to saying them again.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Not because of the style, right, They're not going up
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: and down. Texas wants to slow them down and they did.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: But still I'm going good gosh A and them would
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: have beatn that team like Texas did on Saturday night.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And so when you're looking at the rest of the way,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you said, oh man, right now, Texas playing better than
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: in now and you know they they host them. But
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I mean that's the old Miss game Wednesday night is
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: so important huge. I mean, if we're going to talk
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: about this team making the.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: Term now, Oklahomba's playing better of course now that they
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: have to go up there, but I would argue these
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: next two games, they have to get those games.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: If they watch if you go to Oklahoma, if did
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you see that, No, I didn't the popcorn machine caught
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: off fire, set off.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: The sprinklers watch that game. I didn't know that.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, they had to lay the game because the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: sprinklers are going on.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: So they did not know that weather.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: No, the popcorner Sine up on the concourse literally was
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: on fire, was pouring in smokes.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: No, I'm watching pictures. I mean that was a big fire.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: It was a big fire.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know that story.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: That's one of the few SEC games I did not
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: watch this weekend. But but back to back to old
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: miss coming in. They've lost seven straight games this game,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: you know, and they played a rivalry game and they
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: were horrible Mississippi State.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were home against Missippi State.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: They just punked them.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: And you have got to find a way. Uh. And
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's by one point. You've got
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: to win Wednesday night. If you have hopes in my
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: mind of getting to the tournament, that's just huge.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Didn't like that last played. I didn't either, Missouri. I'm
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: thinking I didn't either. But you're not going to get
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: a phone call, you know.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, Cees.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: My thing is at the end of games, I hate
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: dribbling the ball outside and taking a while three as
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: the clock expiring, I want to go to the bucket,
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: right I do. I want to go to the bucket
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: and he just didn't have the ball the driving lane
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: right against those two big guys that he was going against.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: It was just it was it wasn't It was unfortunate.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: What I really hated, though, was the previous possession you're
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: talking about. It was a long three porter by Rilin. Yes,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and you know, I just didn't like that shot, and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: so that gave Missouri the opportune to go down the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: court and immediately have the aly oop, I mean, which
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: was the game winner right there. But the long rebound
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: they got after Rolin's missed three was big, and I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: didn't like that shot either.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, in a one point game, there's just
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: so much you could go back and look at and say,
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: you know, they should have done this, should have done that.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know. And you just mentioned Marcus Hill. Maybe
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: I put the ball in his hands at the end
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: of the game, Rustee. Yeah, I mean you're wondering, who
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: do you want with the ball?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: What Marcus is doing is driving and then when he
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: feels the pressure he is really then he's kicking. But
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: he had he doesn't. He got one shot blocked against Vanderbilt,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: just one, I mean went in there so often, and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I'll take my chances with that because I listened. Love
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: his guts and the way he plays. I mean he's
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: smallest guy in the court most time, and he plays
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a lot bigger than the end he does.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so, although again, you know ag
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: had eight points. Unfortunately they're used to you know, he
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: did have a loving boards, but they're used to about
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: four to six to eight more points from him than that.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, Domingus is going to have to
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: keep shooting because the only way shooters breaking is by
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: shooting correct right, and he he he gave up some shots.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I thought of it's vandy that he probably shouldn't, but
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: that mental right, He's got no confidence right now because
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: you know he can shoot.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: We've seen him hitting nine threes in a game. It
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter they were playing against I mean, inferior competition,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: but you still got to hit nine threes. I could
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: hit nine threes in the gym if you gave me
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: an hour with nobody on me.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Look once. Once he did that, obviously he drew a
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: lot more attention. Sure, but he has gotten good looks.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Improved defensively.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: I think he has improved defensively, but.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to play much earlier season because
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: he was so slow.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Correct, Yes, now I'm.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: With you, Yeah, but he's really his footwork is a
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: lot better defensively.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: It just you know, Vanderbilt is a good team too.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm telling you. They did play well. They
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: hit some shots.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: That Nicols got.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: He was well, he could shoot the three. Oh god,
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: he's been good all year. He's been very consistent with
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: the three all year long. But Vanderbilt's playing without one
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: of their best players, their guard, Miles Duke. I mean,
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: he was a huge part of what they were doing earlier,
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: and one of the reasons they lost those few games
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: when they went on the losing streak was because he
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: went out. And then their best player, Tyler Tanner, ends
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: up with four points and I'm going you tell me
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: that before that game, and and it was gonna win
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: by ten easy, yeah, And I just they just weren't
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: what they've been on Saturday.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: You're exactly right, but they've got to In my mind,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: they still need to win to take all I mean
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: doubt remaining. Still need five wins, and that's gonna be tough.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Five wins because you got to you gotta steal one
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and you know ten, Mike, you think they have to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: be twelve? Now I think they ten four. I think
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: they need to get four six more. They got to
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: get to eleven, so seven, So you really need to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: go four and two. And it starts on Wednesday night,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: and four and two means you're gonna have to beat
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: somebody that.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: I would put him at twenty one and ten for
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: the year and said the league, which.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Seven in the league.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want them getting ten and having a
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: sweat right now.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: The you don't want to leave n CA committe because
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: they don't have a top twenty five win, not a
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: single one. And that's what was so disappointing against Missouri
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, Vandy, because here's your opportunity to get
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: top twenty five win.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: When I turned TV on Wednesday at halftime whatever it was,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: and I saw scroll across the buzz and one, I said,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: ain't was gonna lose. I said, it's karma, I said,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: buzz one tonight, I said, And sure enough they ended
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: up losing. But you know it's like, I do believe
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: in karma, and uh, they got the losses out of
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the way. So they win these two games, well they'll.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Be It's going to be really hard to win at Arkansas,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I mean right, I mean, so you've got to get
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: one impossible, you can you can possibly get one of Oklahoma.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: You gotta be Texas at home, and then you know,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: then you can split those last certainly be well, got
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Kentucky has to.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Be a rival game that could be great.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Well, Kentucky's been and you still got to go to
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: LSU the last week or the last game of.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Season, and I don't go there win.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: LSU is not a good team record wise, but they
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: play everybody close just about.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: You know, I was looking a little Barney because he
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: put you know, he puts out things among the falling
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: all of most of the teams he had in the tournament. Nebraska,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: of course, Michigan State, Clemson in North Carolina State, A
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: and M S, m U U, C l A, Virginia Tech,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: all those on the falling page. That doesn't mean My
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: point is Lonardi still has A and M in the tournament.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, but he had him last week as the nine
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: seed before they lost to vany correct, So I'm sure
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: that drops down to you know, a lower seed now
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: so now you're talking about on the bubble there.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not on the bubble yet. Okay, the bubble
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: is s M U the last four buys meeting their in.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: It would help a the M. If s M you
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: could win some more game, they would, Yeah, and they got.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: They lost a horrible game against UH Syracuse this weekend.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: UH the last four in or U, c l A,
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: Santa Clara, TCU, and San Diego State the first four out.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Missouri is on the top of that list, and like
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: I said, if Missouri doesn't make it, I'm going good gosh,
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: that wasted a lot of talent on that team. They're huge.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: They're as big as Florida.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: They're they're huge, and they're athletic. I would say they're
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: more athletic than Florida. They're not as good as Florida,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: but there's a coaching athletes are so good and Florida's
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: just gianting no block shots and then they you know,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I mean Flora is really really playing well.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Gold they just reflect.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: I still don't have a clue how they lost at
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: home to Texas on Saturday night three days after that,
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: because I was I was so impressed. Yes, with Missouri win.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, couldn't handle success.
• 43:23
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• 45:14
  Speaker 1: If you need somebody to talk about movie stars and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: stuff like that man died today. I'm just sick about that.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: This guy was was the quintessential American actor. He's one
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: of the best.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: Goodness. I mean, you can't name all of them, you can't.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: I said at four o'clock. I could start now, but
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: I don't have time. I mean, he has just been
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: You start naming movies and it's just Robert Duvall, Augustus McCrae.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: I got Woodrow. It's been a party, ain't it?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Today ninety five?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: He was a great life.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, was it ever? Unbelievable accomplished life from
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: from Boo Radley into Kill a Mockingbird. That's how you
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: start your career. Go from there. I mean good.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: That was his first movie.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it was his first. It was
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: his first, maybe titled.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: You have to get Gary Blair to give his top five.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Because Gary went to all his movies, you.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Know, I'm sure he did. I mean most of them.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: He went by himself because wait, did I mean when
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: his wife is living in an Arkansas lunch?
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: Lonesome Dove is still the greatest Western of all time.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: And that's just one of the great characters of all time.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: And when he says he thinks that's his best role,
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: you better listen to it.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: It was about Gary Blair, then Lonesome Dove. It was
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: his life.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I love that. Baseball season started this weekend.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Hey Mike, my daughter went to the opening game. I
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: wasn't there, but at least there's a sister there.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: If you open it, you'll you'll probably get the I'm
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: gonna make a prediction here, here we go.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: If if you continue to average fifteen runs a game,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good season.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: You think, yeah, I'm gonna go out on that teeth
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in the CC. Yeah, I'm gonna go out on that limb,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I tell you what. But really, the impressive thing to
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: me about all weekend I watched all three of these games,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: was that they they really did a great job of
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: attacking pitches, getting bareing up pitches and just driving them.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: And it was just like, yet not all of them
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: fell in and they left a lot in the first game,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: they left a lot of guys on base. I mean,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: that game could have been a blowout early and they
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: didn't you know, you know, knock them out there. And
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't think today, Oh was really that sharp. In
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the first thing, he hit ninety five and then that
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: fastball started falling off and he gave up the two
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: run homer and they're they're in that game late, and
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: then they had him rent rented. What I loved about
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Saturday is they sent up I can't remember fifteen batters
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: in the first inning or something like that.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: You know, they put nine run the ninth spot.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, they just tucked all life out of
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: that team.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: And then, like Early said, I really like the way
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: they changed their offensive approach on Sunday with the north
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: wind coming in. They went from hey, we're gonna drive
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the ball out of ballpark too, We're gonna hit line
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: drives and opposite field, opposite field. Yes, yeah, And so
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I loved the approach. I mean, Cayden Surreal was incredible.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I mean that guy, he was the SEC Player of
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the week. Yeah, that's that's well deserved because that guy,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: oh something else man, he had good numbers last year.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: He came out.
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: So we always say that's baseball. And and they could
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: lose tomorrow night. You don't expect them to. You get
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: A and M Corporus, you get three with pen, you
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: get Lamar before they go to Arlington and play in
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: the tournament up there. Uh so so they they have
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: a chance to get a little momentum here early and
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: and I think that's you know, I think that's yes,
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: they do. You know, but again, you've got some guy,
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: You've got a mix here. You've got guys that have
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: been around. Uh, You've got these guys back that were
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: hurt that are really good players, right, You've got some
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: guys that he's brought in that are apparently really good players.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: So and then you look rusting at the bullpen and
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: the starters, and I know Sedea wasn't particularly sharp, but hey, uh,
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: let's let's give them a pass with these pitchers that
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: are just you know, getting started here. But they look
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: like they have some guys that can shut some people down.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Well, opening nine, I'm like, I look up there and go,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Terrence Keel is hitting the bottom of the order exactly.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty good offense, exactly because he was one of
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the best players last year.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Covic looks so so good, you know, and I mean
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: top to bottom, that lineup is just really really good.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, they have some guys coming back,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: some new guys who.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: And Jakopians started out great in both games. He was
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: he was ill yesterday.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Oh you could just tell his approach. He was so good. Yeah,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, the only guy who had a really
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: bad week he are for the most part was bar Harrison,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna come around. He was no
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: doubt he may have been last year at one point
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: when he got going, he may have been their most
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: feared here, and so I really I very optimistic after
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: one weekend. I know it's Tennessee Tech. But the way
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: they hit that ball, I mean the way it was,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: just the approach. Yeah, I love the approach, the approached
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and I love the fact that they changed their approach
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: when the weather changed.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And they talked about that yesterday and then you know,
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: I was listening to Jordan Wesley Jordan, he was fantastic.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: Well yeah, it looks like seven hits, seven of nine
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: or something like that. But he talked about that. He said,
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: you know, we know that that Friday night and Saturday
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: balls were going out that weren't going to go out today, right,
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, they just weren't, and so you have to
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: change your approach. And I love that, you know, I
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: love the maturity of that thought. And I think Early
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: like that too. I think he was impressed that. And
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: obviously you have to tell them, hey, guys, wins from
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: the North, we ain't hitting anything over the fence. Let's
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: let's hit line drives and go opposite field. And that's
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: what they did. So I do like that.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: I think maybe something about fourteen runs per game maybe
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: looking forward.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Well, the other thing I want to touch on is
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: the Game three starter Sims. He took advantage of the weather,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: but he was fantastic. He had a one hit in
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: six innings. Yeah, he walked to guys, but I mean
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I thought he can really We saw fresh Corn as
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: well come in. Yeah, you know, and we know he
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: can pitch. Last year in the SEC tournament, he was
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: he was practically unhittable, and so yeah, you expect him
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: to be even better and he's probably gonna be your closer.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I would imagine. We'll see it's a nice option to have.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: For sure, well, pitching. I'll start with pitching and need
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: to be better last year, so it's good start see
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: where they go from there.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I think I was most encouraged by Sims. I mean,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: to give up one hit.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: If there's twelve other better teams in the SEC, that's scary. Yeah, yeah,
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: I mean I was. I was a little surprised, I
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: guess I don't know I was. But if there's twelve
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: better teams in this league.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: It's overreaction, you know, of course it is. It's what
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I do. It's where they ended up. They you know,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: not not playing well, stretched not even getting in the postseason.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: So after being ranked number one. So they were ranked
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: too high last year. They're definitely ranked too low this year.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Tom will tell, but I think
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: based on one weekend, I'm very encouraged. You sound the
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: courage they just I am. I am definitely.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: They just need to avoid the injuries, which they didn't
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: do last year. So let's wait and say they a
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: lot of early had a lot of bad Luckily he did,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: so he's due. You know, he lost like players even
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: so they should be healthy this year. Yeah.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll be watching. This is a team. I'm really
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: excited about watching how they progressed through throughout the year.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, so I want to go back to hoops on
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: the national level, just for the last couple of minutes.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: So I watch what's that game?
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: Gosh, what Tech?
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: What a game?
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: Texas Tech is a Final Four caliber team. I don't
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: think there's any question they were coming off a loss.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Yes they were, And so you didn't te you beat them? Right?
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: No, TC, It wasn't Tech that that that TC beat.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: I mean it wasn't. I forget who TCU beat b
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: y U?
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I know that guy? Okay, uh uh oh, you know
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I was thinking you had great week in baseball because
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: they be Vanderbilt.
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: Yes they did. Houston and Iowa State played there. In
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: my mind right now, Houston and Iowa State playing Okay,
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: So just like the Arizona Texas Tech game Saturday night,
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: this is like a tournament game tonight at Hilton with
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: with with Houston ranked number two right now going into
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: Iowa State ranked number six right now. Uh, I missed
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: those big Monday games.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: By the way, I bet it's not seventy eight and
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: names I would. I bet it is not seventy eight
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: names Siwa. But but you know what, it will be
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: rocking inside their corner.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Machine will blow up.
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: It will be I don't think it will. They have
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: somebody to fix that.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: The crowd is like clear now because they're getting sprinkler system.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, your wife was all buttered up or something like.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the players just turning like, what
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the heck?
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: I missed that totally.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I just happen to be watching at that moment.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: The machine went up and flames. Okay, So I'm I'm
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: gonna go home and hopefully there's more ski jumping to watch.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: You're gonna year ago home and you watch out of
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: State in Houston.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: Oh that's not till eight. Duke Duke and Syracuse played
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: the early game, and yeah, I like watching Duke.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go with Rudies and watch and
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: get the final Aggie Basketball Hour. Oh good for you
• 54:57
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• 55:09
  Speaker 1: like I've said all year, this is the worst team
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Bucky's ever going to put on the floor at text
• 55:12
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• 55:16
  Speaker 1: they're in this position right now seven, let's.
• 55:19
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• 55:25
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• 55:28
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