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February 10, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is another instance of how old I am.
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Bucky. He met with reporters today,
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Speaker 1: so did Jacari Lane. We've got a high school report.
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Speaker 1: You need to phone the neighbors for this one. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna play a Dale Hansen rant. Dale Hansen, if you
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Speaker 1: for years until Jerry Jones wanted him out because he
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Speaker 1: about the NFL a lot. But I'm just telling you
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Speaker 1: does and dialogue with Dale. You can get it on YouTube. Uh,
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Speaker 1: this was worth it, So we're gonna put We're gonna
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Speaker 1: play that. Uh. Mallory was going to be here, but
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Speaker 1: she has laryngitis and that is very difficult for the
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Speaker 1: radio when you can't talk and you probably couldn't see
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Speaker 1: her hand gestures. So we're giving her a couple of
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Speaker 1: days off so she can recover. We'll have a best
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Speaker 1: of And I'm I'm redoing an interview. I'm replaying an
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Speaker 1: interview I did with a legendary Texas Monthly crime writer
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Speaker 1: Skip Hollinsworth his book She Kills. It's a book about
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Speaker 1: female accused murderers and it's the stories are just wild.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to redo that one in the second hour.
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Speaker 1: All in all, a fairly entertaining show. I would say
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Speaker 1: there is not going to be an undefeated Power Conference
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Speaker 1: basketball team this year. The Arizona Wildcats succumbed to the
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Speaker 1: fog last night at Allen field House in Lawrence eighty
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Speaker 1: two seventy eight. That's without Darren Peterson, their NBA star,
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Speaker 1: who had the flu. He always has something. I'll be
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Speaker 1: honest with you, I'm not so sure this team isn't
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Speaker 1: better without him. I know it's crazy. He's probably going
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Speaker 1: to be the number one pick. He's wildly talented, but
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Speaker 1: they can't count on him. And I tell you, Kansas
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Speaker 1: is just getting better. They knocked off Arizona last night
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Speaker 1: and this just this stat I still can't believe this.
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Speaker 1: They put this up during the game. Kansas had never
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Speaker 1: beaten a number one team at Allen field House. That
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Speaker 1: just seems crazy to me. Bill self is forty and
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Speaker 1: zero on Big Mondays at Allen field House. You do
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Speaker 1: not want to play at Allen field House. If you're
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Speaker 1: watching that game last night.
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Speaker 3: There.
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Speaker 1: First of all, don't talk to me about Cameron. You
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Speaker 1: pick any building in America you want. There is no
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Speaker 1: better basketball arena than Allen field House, period period. And
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about this last night, and I'm thinking there
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Speaker 1: might not be a better sports venue period than Allen
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Speaker 1: field House. They just don't lose there very often. I
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Speaker 1: think they've won like six or seven straight Big twelve games.
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Speaker 1: They haven't done that in forever. So this Kansas team announced,
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Speaker 1: if we didn't know already last night, that they are, Hey,
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Speaker 1: that's Allen field House. I've been to a couple of
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Speaker 1: games there and it was just A and M right,
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Speaker 1: So it wasn't necessarily jumping like it would be against
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Speaker 1: Kansas State or like the number one team last night,
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Speaker 1: but it was jumping enough. And that's a team that's
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Speaker 1: going to be reckoned with. So in the SEC tonight, Vanderbilt,
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Speaker 1: which has been struggling lately, is at Auburn, and Arkansas
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Speaker 1: is at lsu per Due and Nebraska a Big Ten matchup.
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Speaker 1: Husker seventh, Boilermakers thirteenth North Carolina visits Miami BYU is
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Speaker 1: at Baylor, Houston is at Utah, Duke is at pitt
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Speaker 1: Iowa State is at TCU, and the Zags are hosting
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Speaker 1: Washington State tomorrow night. And I'm we're gonna hear from
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Speaker 1: Bucky here a little bit tomorrow night, Aggie's and Missouri.
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Speaker 1: That's an eight o'clock game on the SEC Network. In
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Speaker 1: case you missed it, Alabama's Charles Bettioco can't play college
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Speaker 1: ball anymore. That's from Judge Daniel Pruitt of the Circuit
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Speaker 1: Court denying a preliminary injunction that would allow Bettioco to
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Speaker 1: continue to play. He's actually forty seven years old. Now,
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Speaker 1: he's not really, but he played in the G League.
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Speaker 1: He played five games for the Tide. He averaged ten
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Speaker 1: and five, close to five rebounds a game. He played
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Speaker 1: the Aggies last week, but it ain't playing anymore. There's
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Speaker 1: some G players and international players that have granted eligibilla,
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Speaker 1: including James Najai from Wood to Baylor, but he had
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Speaker 1: not previously played in college or signed an NBA contract.
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Speaker 1: That's the difference here. What I think they should do,
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Speaker 1: and Alabama would certainly go to court immediately, is say
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Speaker 1: that Alabama has to forfeit the five games in which
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Speaker 1: Bettioco played. That may keep them out of the NCAA
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Speaker 1: tournament and would certainly discourage any other team even thinking
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Speaker 1: about doing that. It is a good day today. The
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Speaker 1: Texas Rangers had their first workout today. In surprise, Arizona
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball started today. Those cheating Astros start tomorrow
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Speaker 1: in West Palm, Okay. Just in case you care, not
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Speaker 1: know why you would. Justin Verlanders, returning to the Detroit Tigers,
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Speaker 1: forty two years old, has signed a one year deal
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Speaker 1: with the place where it all started. So Verlander back
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Speaker 1: in Detroit at the Winter Games. The biathlon I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at right now from earlier today. But big news US
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Speaker 1: women hockey team five. The Canadian hosers nothing. It's the
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Speaker 1: first time the Canadian women's hockey team has ever been
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Speaker 1: shut out at the Olympics. They are thirty seven and
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Speaker 1: four in forty one games at the Olympics, all four
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Speaker 1: losses to the good old US of A. But its
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Speaker 1: mixed doubles curling gold medal match today, when the Swedes
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Speaker 1: came back and won six to five on the eighth
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Speaker 1: end after the Users had taken the lead in the
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Speaker 1: seventh very disappointing silver medal. No medal again from Mikayla Schiffrin,
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Speaker 1: who fell again at the team slalom event. So that's
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Speaker 1: not good. And you know, Breezy Johnson was really good.
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Speaker 1: She had given the team the lead before Schiffrin fell.
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Speaker 1: The most successful World Cup racer of all time one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eight career wins, seventy one of them in
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Speaker 1: the slalom. She has gone seven straight Olympic races without
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Speaker 1: a metal, really hard to do. In her first two
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Speaker 1: Olympics she has two golds and a silver, but since then, nada, zip, nothing.
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Speaker 1: And Lindsey Vaughn just said she's got to have a
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Speaker 1: lot of surgeries to fix what happened, a complex tibbia
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Speaker 1: fracture that she says will require multiple surgeries. But no regirts,
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Speaker 1: she said, and her blown out ACL had nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with her crash whatsoever. Ah, you know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure I believe that. But hey, there you go. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's all the news that's fit. Right now, we're going
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Speaker 1: tennis coach. We'll have our first visit with him tomorrow
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Speaker 1: on the program. Okay. Earlier this afternoon, Bucky talked to
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Speaker 1: the media a little about Florida, mostly about Missouri coming
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Speaker 1: up tomorrow.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, obviously very capable team. They're long, they're big,
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Speaker 8: they have shot makers, dangerous team, could beat anybody. You know,
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Speaker 8: they've they've they've shown at times that they could get
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Speaker 8: wins at home and shown at times they can play
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Speaker 8: well on the road. So be a fight, be a
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Speaker 8: physical game, you know, we just got to worry about
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Speaker 8: playing our best basketball. Obviously, usually things work out.
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Speaker 9: When we do that.
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Speaker 10: You spend more time talking about your team since Saturday
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Speaker 10: than your next opponent.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we kind of do do a mix
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Speaker 8: of both, but it's mainly us. I think at the
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Speaker 8: end of the day we talk about you know, we
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Speaker 8: played three games last week is Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, and
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Speaker 8: we played maybe the best game we played all year
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Speaker 8: at Georgia. We played one of the best games we
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Speaker 8: played all year at Alabama, even though we didn't win
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Speaker 8: at so irrelevant how we played. We played great and
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Speaker 8: put ninety seven almost one at a spot that no
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Speaker 8: one ever wins at with their whole roster and added
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Speaker 8: roster right and then we just didn't play a game
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Speaker 8: verse Florida. But you know, you can be short term
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Speaker 8: and forget that. A week before we played a great game.
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Speaker 8: In three days before that, we played an awesome game
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Speaker 8: as well. Uh games before that was Missisippi State in
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Speaker 8: South Carolina. We were phenomenal. So we just gotta, hey,
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Speaker 8: play play like we've been playing for the most part.
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Speaker 8: You know, iglay, No, I can't. I can't comment on it.
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Speaker 8: I jokingly say this in every single way. So don't
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Speaker 8: take one part of what I'm about to say, because
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Speaker 8: I don't want to know social media wars. A complete
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Speaker 8: joke was said. I don't want anything to be counted,
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Speaker 8: uh against ineligible player. I just want his points not
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Speaker 8: to count. And I think he scored like five or
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Speaker 8: five or six on us, so we win. That is
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Speaker 8: a joke, and nobody get out there. We'll have death
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Speaker 8: threats going on. That's not from It's not for me
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Speaker 8: to decide, as is a reality of it.
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Speaker 11: But to that point, when the committee looks at that
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Speaker 11: game in the future, do you hope that that is
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Speaker 11: factored in when kind of looking at resumes.
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Speaker 8: Everything, Well, the the you hope has got to be.
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Speaker 8: But like I, you know, we're trying to compete and
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Speaker 8: try to get the best seed for the sec urnam.
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Speaker 8: We'd love to get the one seat. We'd love to
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Speaker 8: go try to win the league. Right, we know that
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Speaker 8: I'm not talking about Alabama. I don't care about Alabama.
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Speaker 8: You know, how do they make it right for us?
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Speaker 8: How's it made right for us?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 8: That's the only okay, I don't you know they could
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Speaker 8: do that. That's not my deal to well, how's it
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Speaker 8: made right for us? Because they're not going to be
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Speaker 8: able to play with their full roster against the other
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Speaker 8: teams when we had to play against their full roster.
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Speaker 8: And that's just that's something that you know, you hope,
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Speaker 8: you know, I don't know how that's made right for
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Speaker 8: us and for the NSA tournament, and also obviously, you know,
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Speaker 8: people say for the NCA tournament, well we got to
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Speaker 8: look at this for the NSAY tournament that you you know,
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Speaker 8: you ought to play against a team at full strength
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Speaker 8: in that regard. But let's just throw out the NSA tournament.
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Speaker 8: Let's talk about the SEC race and the SEC seeding,
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Speaker 8: and a reg in pursuit of regular season competing is
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Speaker 8: hot to to try to win the SEC. You certainly,
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Speaker 8: you know, you certainly, uh, you know that that playing
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Speaker 8: those guys at full strength there that is and they're
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Speaker 8: not able to play other teams at full strength. That's
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Speaker 8: a disadvantage us.
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Speaker 1: We know that.
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Speaker 11: So when you look back at the Florida game and
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Speaker 11: you look at the first half film or whatnot, how
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Speaker 11: do you did you kind of diagnose what was going
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Speaker 11: on with the shooting and how to prevent another over
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Speaker 11: twenty three streak again moving.
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Speaker 8: Forward, well, we we if we took half court shots,
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Speaker 8: we're probably gonna make more than one out of twenty seven.
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Speaker 8: We know that now they played. They played very good
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Speaker 8: defense in the game. You know, they have a lot
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Speaker 8: of length, they're good on defense. I think that our
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Speaker 8: guys were a little too amped in the game, which
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Speaker 8: which sometimes it takes a game with the great crowd
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Speaker 8: and all that for your guys for the next time.
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Speaker 8: They can settle in a little bit more. But you
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Speaker 8: got to focused on getting the right shots. You know,
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Speaker 8: early it's not so much the open shots that we missed,
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Speaker 8: but what about the shots that we got blocked that
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Speaker 8: we could have dropped it off to somebody. What about
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Speaker 8: the two on ones that we threw out of bounds,
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Speaker 8: What about the miss laips that we had. So besides those,
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Speaker 8: I mean, we missed several layups, had several two on
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Speaker 8: ones that we didn't convert. And you know, it's an
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Speaker 8: eleven point game in half and not only we were
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Speaker 8: missing those shots and they're blocking it and we're gonna
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Speaker 8: shoot a layup and be soft and just fall down.
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Speaker 8: They got a five on four on the other way,
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Speaker 8: so we spotted them. You know, six points there on
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Speaker 8: shots we should have been able to finish and maybe
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Speaker 8: we going a halftime with elite. I dang sure know
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Speaker 8: this the physical out of that game. You know, we
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Speaker 8: came out there were physical as you can be. That's
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Speaker 8: not a game where someone would poke their chest out
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Speaker 8: saying there is one team out physical. The other team
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Speaker 8: that shows up in rebounding and our guys battled being undersized,
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Speaker 8: were able to rebound at a very high level in
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Speaker 8: that game. I mentioned this to everybody. Our guys shouldn't
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Speaker 8: walk away from that game thinking we didn't play great
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Speaker 8: defense because for the first twenty five minutes of the game,
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Speaker 8: or twenty four minutes we did. We got down by
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Speaker 8: so much that they were gonna get some dunks because
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Speaker 8: the only way to get back in it trying to
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Speaker 8: score the ball was to pretty much go to we're
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Speaker 8: gonna steal it or you're gonna get a dunk mode.
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Speaker 8: So what as bad as it felt like I said,
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Speaker 8: but you know, it's a good team.
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Speaker 12: To your point about you know, feeling maybe a little
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Speaker 12: too empt up, do you do you change maybe a
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Speaker 12: little bit of how you you know, go into like
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Speaker 12: pregame routine at all I mean, I'm sure you guys
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Speaker 12: are hoping that, you know, playing some other big environments
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Speaker 12: at home this season as well.
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Speaker 8: I wouldn't you know, again, you know, I wouldn't change
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Speaker 8: too much. We've got to remind ourself that the same
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Speaker 8: routine we've done has been the same routine. That that's
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Speaker 8: you know, put us in a good position since since
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Speaker 8: you know and SEC play for sure, right, So I
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Speaker 8: just stay with it, and you know, if it became
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Speaker 8: a pattern, then I probably evaluate it.
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Speaker 13: Does your messaging change at all coming off back to
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Speaker 13: back losses? And do you use maybe what happened earlier
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Speaker 13: this season when you'll have back to back losses and
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Speaker 13: how y'all kind of bounce back and motivations.
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Speaker 8: Well, I didn't think we played well in our back
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Speaker 8: to back losses. We played early in the year. We
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Speaker 8: played Oklahoma State, we were not very good at all
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Speaker 8: Central Florida. We were actually good for about twenty five
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Speaker 8: minutes and not good. I think we we we played
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Speaker 8: really well at Alabama. We just we didn't play well
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Speaker 8: in the last game. But it wasn't an effort deal,
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Speaker 8: wasn't a physicality deal. So I don't I don't really
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Speaker 8: keep up I keep it with how we're playing more
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Speaker 8: than anything more than winsor losses, you know, So I'd
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Speaker 8: stayed with what we got and knowing that, like we
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Speaker 8: have to have the humility as a program to know that,
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Speaker 8: just like every other team every night, it's not going
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Speaker 8: to be perfect. I watched North Carolina State play Louisville
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Speaker 8: last night in North Constinate's been a great defensive team
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Speaker 8: and insay tournament team and got beat by about forty
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Speaker 8: and gave up hundred twenty points. Like you'll look up
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Speaker 8: and Alabama's a very good team and they lost, got
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Speaker 8: got pounded about thirty. You got Missouri Beach Florida, you
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Speaker 8: got Bandy's a great team, and Oklahoma goes in there
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Speaker 8: and gets them. It's just the way that it is.
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Speaker 8: You got to understand that, like, well, how could this
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Speaker 8: happen to us where we can't make a shot. That's
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Speaker 8: what it is. We got to have the humility to
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Speaker 8: understand that and know that the SEC the SEC race, man,
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Speaker 8: it's a gauntlet, and you gotta have perseverance to keep
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Speaker 8: going and get to the next game.
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Speaker 12: When when you look at eligibility stuff, just going back
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Speaker 12: to that real quick, how much of a topic of
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Speaker 12: discussion is Adam on other coaches that you maybe talk
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Speaker 12: with right now and just are there any things that
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Speaker 12: you guys are talking about trying to fix or change
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Speaker 12: as it's currently staying.
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Speaker 8: With eligibility stuff, there'll be topics in the off season.
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Speaker 8: I think the biggest deal with eligibility when it gets
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Speaker 8: down to so all this stuff is these ideas that
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Speaker 8: people have they're to take up in the off season, right,
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Speaker 8: I mean, that's where you take it up. It is
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Speaker 8: like if we think, for example, you know, if if
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Speaker 8: we think that you know, and you're asking the question
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Speaker 8: about discussing it or implementing it. I mean, if we think,
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Speaker 8: because we can make a lot of threes from thirty feet,
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Speaker 8: and yet they're giving people three points because they can
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Speaker 8: make three pointers at twenty three feet, why can't they
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Speaker 8: be four pointers at thirty feet. We'll use it as
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Speaker 8: something after the season we talk about, you know, we
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Speaker 8: we we're not going to go in the middle of
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Speaker 8: the season and say, well, we feel that they're making
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Speaker 8: twenty three footers, so let's make these worth four points
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Speaker 8: all of a sudden in the middle of the season.
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Speaker 1: Right.
23:50
Speaker 8: It's just that's not how it works. You go to
23:52
Speaker 8: the end of the season and we discuss that and
23:55
Speaker 8: then everybody kind of votes on it, and then we
23:56
Speaker 8: go there, I guess kind of.
23:58
Speaker 12: Though, is it tough when some of the leads through
24:01
Speaker 12: into the season, throughout the middle of the season, Well.
24:04
Speaker 8: Is anybody you gotta have clarity on on you know,
24:10
Speaker 8: whether it's rules, whether it too you can recruit. There
24:13
Speaker 8: has to be clarity, you know, like the Europeans for example, right,
24:19
Speaker 8: everybody knew the Europeans were going to be eligible to
24:21
Speaker 8: come over here.
24:22
Speaker 11: We knew that.
24:22
Speaker 8: In the recruiting cycle, every coach knew that. Everybody knew that,
24:26
Speaker 8: So therefore everybody got to recruit the Europeans, right, So
24:30
Speaker 8: like that was to me very fair. We all knew it.
24:34
Speaker 8: So that's what's got to happen, you know, with with
24:36
Speaker 8: any rule change. And I'm not talking I'm not talking
24:39
Speaker 8: about any specific team. I don't want you know, I
24:41
Speaker 8: don't even crying out there what I'm saying talking about
24:43
Speaker 8: in general, Right, there's got to be clarity with what
24:47
Speaker 8: you do where everybody has the ability to be playing
24:51
Speaker 8: on a level playing field, right, And that usually is
24:55
Speaker 8: done in the off season. So everybody's clarity going into
24:57
Speaker 8: the next season.
25:00
Speaker 10: Who played professional or what's the difference you know, while
25:04
Speaker 10: they're eligibles to Yeah, because well, first off, it's it's
25:10
Speaker 10: the rules are clear about the NBA draft, right, So
25:13
Speaker 10: I'm not saying and then the the nature of the
25:16
Speaker 10: European system is.
25:17
Speaker 8: Totally different than here. There's no high schools. They they
25:19
Speaker 8: come up in the farm system, in a pro style
25:22
Speaker 8: farm system right there, they play for that club coming
25:25
Speaker 8: all the way up, so they're essentially a sin as
25:27
Speaker 8: they start high school, they're kind of a pro in
25:29
Speaker 8: that regard, right, And that's and that's why. Now if
25:32
Speaker 8: someone could argue, well that and I'm not disagreeing or
25:35
Speaker 8: agreeing that, hey, well these people are eligible, why can't
25:39
Speaker 8: we do this for these players or this for their players?
25:42
Speaker 8: They're you know, well, okay, that's something to talk about
25:47
Speaker 8: and then after the season we should talk about it.
25:49
Speaker 14: You know.
25:54
Speaker 11: Was there any conversation with the league offs or anything
25:58
Speaker 11: about what happened after the game or is.
25:59
Speaker 8: That prety much just uh, I think there's so there's
26:05
Speaker 8: you know, just a blanket deal that they're trying that
26:07
Speaker 8: people try to get into it. I didn't see much
26:09
Speaker 8: of it, you know, like people ask me about it. Great,
26:12
Speaker 8: I'm really glad when we have teams that are that
26:15
Speaker 8: are you know or at one national championships, in the
26:19
Speaker 8: first place in the league that if they if they
26:21
Speaker 8: get a win, they're so freaking happy. Like that makes
26:25
Speaker 8: that that that that means something like it's like they
26:28
Speaker 8: if people got it, you know, if it's like, man,
26:30
Speaker 8: we gotta be a lot of talking a lot John.
26:32
Speaker 8: That meant so much because they value that we're pretty good, right,
26:37
Speaker 8: So like the more that goes on, the more I'm like, good,
26:42
Speaker 8: we're getting there. That means something to them, you know.
26:46
Speaker 8: So I like that personally, you know what I'm saying.
26:49
Speaker 8: And but but you know, you know, we'll we'll we'll
26:54
Speaker 8: be good, be good.
26:57
Speaker 1: So we did talk about this yesterday with the writers.
26:59
Speaker 1: Is like the coaches doing the alligator chomp after the
27:05
Speaker 1: game to the crowd, and Bucky's like, hey, I'm I'm
27:12
Speaker 1: kind of honored by that because that means it was
27:16
Speaker 1: a big win for them. It was a big win
27:18
Speaker 1: for them. They're playing for first place in the league.
27:21
Speaker 1: They're coming here and the place is packed against a
27:24
Speaker 1: team that's been playing really well. So yeah, it was
27:28
Speaker 1: a big win for Florida, and I like how he
27:35
Speaker 1: spends it. It's like, hey, it'd be nice if everybody
27:39
Speaker 1: celebrates like that. When if they beat us, that means
27:43
Speaker 1: that we're pretty good. That means that they're excited to
27:47
Speaker 1: get a win. And as we said, the second half
27:51
Speaker 1: of the season, A and M's not going to be
27:53
Speaker 1: hiding from anybody. Everybody is going to be ready to
27:58
Speaker 1: play the Aggies because they know how good they are,
28:01
Speaker 1: they know their record. They've watched them with the wins
28:05
Speaker 1: that they've had, they've watched them with the losses that
28:08
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28:10
Speaker 1: our game. We'll lose by thirty. We'll hear from Jakari
28:17
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28:20
Speaker 1: this Missouri team, and Bucky didn't say the opposite that
28:24
Speaker 1: he said they can't beat anybody, then that's true. My
28:28
Speaker 1: thing is they can also lose to anybody. They're really inconsistent.
28:33
Speaker 1: But like a lot of teams that shoot threes, and
28:36
Speaker 1: we saw this Saturday, you're not making threes and you
28:41
Speaker 1: live with the three. That's a problem. Missouri lives with
28:45
Speaker 1: the three. In my mind more than A and M
28:48
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28:52
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28:55
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29:00
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29:03
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29:07
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29:11
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29:16
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29:20
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29:25
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Speaker 19: Welcome into the High School Report. I'm Caleb Rapley, and
32:22
Speaker 19: today we're jumping out to the Player's Fun Center phone
32:24
Speaker 19: line to visit with the head coach of the A
32:26
Speaker 19: and M Consolidated softball team, Miss Heather Slayton, coach, thanks
32:30
Speaker 19: for joining.
32:31
Speaker 20: Me today, Hi Caleb, thanks for having me on today.
32:34
Speaker 19: Absolutely, this is my favorite time of year, and you know,
32:37
Speaker 19: getting the softball and baseball seasons going. Those are my
32:41
Speaker 19: favorite sports to watch, So I'm really excited to get
32:43
Speaker 19: to talk to all of you softball and baseball coaches
32:47
Speaker 19: this season coming up. So last year, your Lady Tigers
32:51
Speaker 19: twelve and nine on the year, made the playoffs, did
32:54
Speaker 19: have an early exit unfortunately. So one of the biggest
32:58
Speaker 19: challenges in high school sports, as you know, the roster
33:02
Speaker 19: changes every year. So what are your thoughts on your
33:05
Speaker 19: team this year?
33:07
Speaker 17: Yeah, you're so right, Like every year, we have to
33:11
Speaker 17: kind of work that puzzle together. You know, you want
33:13
Speaker 17: to be a program that stays relevant and has a legacy.
33:17
Speaker 3: To pass on.
33:18
Speaker 17: But the the truth just about you know, high school
33:21
Speaker 17: sports and high school students is sometimes they decide to
33:25
Speaker 17: move on from things, or sometimes they decided.
33:27
Speaker 20: That, you know, they need a year off and injuries
33:30
Speaker 20: and things like that.
33:31
Speaker 17: So what I'll say about our group this year is
33:33
Speaker 17: we're really excited about the upperclassmen. We have four seniors
33:37
Speaker 17: that have been with us kind of from the jump,
33:38
Speaker 17: and so it's gonna be fun to watch them play
33:41
Speaker 17: out there, you know, senior year.
33:43
Speaker 3: Three of those four are committed, and.
33:45
Speaker 17: Then we are really excited about the underclassmen that are
33:48
Speaker 17: coming as well. We've got, you know, a handful of
33:51
Speaker 17: freshmen that are going to end up helping us on
33:53
Speaker 17: varsity this year.
33:55
Speaker 3: They're they're going to skip that whole jv.
33:58
Speaker 17: You know, kind of tears, and they're just gonna have
34:01
Speaker 17: to jump up and really catch up to the speed
34:03
Speaker 17: of the game.
34:03
Speaker 3: So we're excited.
34:05
Speaker 17: By no means what I say that our team is
34:07
Speaker 17: you know, quote unquote stacked, but we're excited to see
34:10
Speaker 17: what these young kids can do.
34:11
Speaker 3: And it's a fun group to be around.
34:14
Speaker 19: And you mentioned three of your four seniors are committed.
34:18
Speaker 19: What is the coach's role in today's world of you know,
34:22
Speaker 19: college athletics and recruiting. What does what does your role
34:24
Speaker 19: look like when throughout those those players' careers they're trying
34:29
Speaker 19: to get recruited by colleges.
34:31
Speaker 3: You know, it's so different for each sport.
34:35
Speaker 17: The parents really deserve a lot of credit, and then
34:40
Speaker 17: these kids, of course deserve a lot of credit because
34:43
Speaker 17: what they're doing.
34:45
Speaker 3: Really all summer.
34:47
Speaker 17: Long is going to exposures and getting seen by college coaches.
34:50
Speaker 17: Hopefully it makes sense to everybody out there listening that
34:53
Speaker 17: softball season for high school is the same as softball
34:57
Speaker 17: season for college so college coaches aren't doing a whole
34:59
Speaker 17: lot of recruit rooting from our field, you know, they're
35:03
Speaker 17: not coming on campus in that role. College coaches certainly
35:07
Speaker 17: do reach out to me about kids they're interested in,
35:10
Speaker 17: and they asked me, you know, hey, is this a
35:11
Speaker 17: kid of good character?
35:13
Speaker 20: Is this a kid that I would want to have?
35:14
Speaker 20: You know, what can you tell me about their parents?
35:16
Speaker 3: You know, all of those things. But we really do
35:21
Speaker 3: have more of a supporting role in that.
35:23
Speaker 17: And then you know, I take on a lot of
35:25
Speaker 17: responsibility for signing day for them because I want it
35:28
Speaker 17: to be special. We only get one shot at that.
35:31
Speaker 17: I want it to be special. I want it to
35:32
Speaker 17: be something that they're proud of and something that they're
35:35
Speaker 17: excited about, you know, just kind of bragging on our
35:39
Speaker 17: kids and all the great things that they're doing. So
35:40
Speaker 17: this past signing day that we had in November, we
35:44
Speaker 17: had the largest class sign across the board. We had
35:48
Speaker 17: athletes from not only softball and baseball, but we had volleyball,
35:53
Speaker 17: we had soccer, we had swim we even had gymnastics
35:57
Speaker 17: represented there.
35:58
Speaker 20: And so it was just such an exciting thing for
36:00
Speaker 20: me to be a part of. As far as that
36:02
Speaker 20: goes all right.
36:03
Speaker 19: Well, moving on to this season specifically started out the
36:08
Speaker 19: year with a six to three win over Harker Heights
36:10
Speaker 19: at home last Tuesday. So how would you evaluate performance
36:14
Speaker 19: from that game? What were some of your takeaways?
36:16
Speaker 17: You know, we try to schedule all different times for
36:22
Speaker 17: our scrimmages and all different you know, types of schools
36:27
Speaker 17: that we're going to compete against.
36:29
Speaker 3: So Harker Heights is a six A you.
36:31
Speaker 17: Know, from the Colleen area, so they're not a school
36:33
Speaker 17: that we typically see, but we try to schedule them,
36:35
Speaker 17: and we wanted to show off our new field as well,
36:39
Speaker 17: and just you know, some takeaways.
36:40
Speaker 20: From that is like we don't turn the scoreboard on
36:42
Speaker 20: during scrimmages.
36:43
Speaker 17: It's a practice where we're both getting better, you know,
36:47
Speaker 17: both sides are working on some things, and we're able
36:49
Speaker 17: to to do some free substitutions and see some kids
36:52
Speaker 17: in roles that they might not normally get to take on.
36:55
Speaker 3: But overall, real happy with our performance.
37:00
Speaker 17: It's at the plate, I think offensively, you know, this
37:02
Speaker 17: group is a hard working group and so you know,
37:06
Speaker 17: hopefully we'll see that as this season progresses and we
37:09
Speaker 17: just keep getting better and better with our offensive prowess.
37:13
Speaker 19: So is this game against Eton, is that going to
37:15
Speaker 19: be a scrimmage as well? Or is that is that
37:17
Speaker 19: are y'all treating that as a game?
37:18
Speaker 3: Nope, that's a game.
37:19
Speaker 17: So as far as softball goes in the state of Texas,
37:23
Speaker 17: Uil says, we start real games this week and so
37:27
Speaker 17: you'll see some teams who are scheduled to play in tournaments,
37:30
Speaker 17: some teams who just schedule you know what we call
37:32
Speaker 17: friendly against each other.
37:34
Speaker 3: But these are real games.
37:35
Speaker 17: So on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we'll host at our
37:40
Speaker 17: field and take part in one of the biggest tournaments
37:43
Speaker 17: in Texas. It's the NFCA Leadoff Classic that we host
37:49
Speaker 17: here in Texas. So we'll have ten locations with over
37:52
Speaker 17: one hundred and fifteen teams that are competing, and each
37:56
Speaker 17: high school that's involved will be around robin location with
38:00
Speaker 17: our times set just for travel purposes. So Kansas, we'll
38:04
Speaker 17: play at nine am and eleven am all three days
38:08
Speaker 17: we're here, so we'll be the first first teams to
38:11
Speaker 17: show up, but we'll have, you know, multiple games on
38:15
Speaker 17: our field.
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Speaker 20: As far as the tournament goes this weekend.
38:19
Speaker 19: The district this year, you know, it's I think it's
38:22
Speaker 19: been pretty similar throughout the last few realignments. But College
38:26
Speaker 19: Station Brenham Montgomery Rudder, what are your thoughts on your
38:30
Speaker 19: district monk mates this year.
38:32
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, we think we have the toughest district
38:34
Speaker 17: in five A, you know, seventeen to five A has
38:37
Speaker 17: you know, multiple state contenders, and so there's not a
38:45
Speaker 17: game that you can just take lightly. Every single school
38:49
Speaker 17: in our district can compete, and we just have to
38:53
Speaker 17: come out, you know, and take it one game at
38:55
Speaker 17: a time and not be overly you know, overly district
39:00
Speaker 17: by all the outside noise and all the outside things,
39:02
Speaker 17: and really kind of focus where we're.
39:05
Speaker 3: At and where our feet are and play that game.
39:08
Speaker 19: All right, coach, last question for you here, what are
39:10
Speaker 19: some of your goals for this season? What does a
39:13
Speaker 19: successful season look like in twenty twenty six for you?
39:16
Speaker 17: Well, I think everybody wants to talk it up to wins,
39:18
Speaker 17: you know, that's that's the easiest thing for them to say.
39:21
Speaker 17: But I think what we're looking at is the growth
39:23
Speaker 17: of our young players, because they are going to have
39:26
Speaker 17: some big shoes to fill at the end of this season.
39:30
Speaker 17: You know, our freshman sophomores and juniors coming up are
39:32
Speaker 17: really going to have to take some ownership in that.
39:36
Speaker 17: On a personal note, I've got two hundred and fourteen
39:40
Speaker 17: wins on my career, so I'm looking to hit another
39:43
Speaker 17: milestone here soon. So I'm excited about the girls helping
39:47
Speaker 17: me get there. Maybe we'll have a pizza party or
39:50
Speaker 17: something after that first one. But just looking at this group,
39:54
Speaker 17: we're looking for a lot of growth.
39:57
Speaker 20: And understanding that you know, it is what it is.
39:59
Speaker 17: Some of these young kids are going to have to
40:01
Speaker 17: catch up to the speed of the game and it's
40:03
Speaker 17: not always about what the scoreboard says at.
40:05
Speaker 20: The end of the game.
40:06
Speaker 19: All right, coach, Well, I appreciate your time today and
40:08
Speaker 19: I wish you luck throughout this season.
40:11
Speaker 3: All right, Caleb, thanks so much for having me on
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Speaker 1: Dale had some thoughts in the Dallas Cowboys, as he
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Speaker 14: This has proven to be a little bit harder to
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Speaker 14: write than I thought it would be. Not that I
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Speaker 14: don't have something to say about another lousy Cowboys season,
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Speaker 14: but that I've been saying it for thirty years now.
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Speaker 14: This isn't about Super Bowls anymore. Thirty years have come
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Speaker 14: and gone with the Cowboys not even playing at a
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Speaker 14: conference championship game, the only team in the NFC that has,
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Speaker 14: and one of only four of the thirty two NFL
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Speaker 14: teams that haven't made it to at least the NFL's
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Speaker 14: Final four since nineteen ninety six. Houston, Cleveland, Miami, and
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Speaker 14: your Dallas Cowboys. A Cowboys team valued at around thirteen
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Speaker 14: billion dollars, the highest value team in the NFL for
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Speaker 14: the nineteen consecutive year, has a streak of thirty years
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Speaker 14: on the field of play, matched only by Houston, Cleveland
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Speaker 14: and Miami. If you want to make money, Jerry Jones
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Speaker 14: is your guy. You want to win football games. You
45:32
Speaker 14: need another guy. It's a lousy football organization and I
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Speaker 14: blame him for that. Jerry Jones has had nine coaches
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Speaker 14: since he bought the team in eighty nine. Only two
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Speaker 14: of the nine wanted by anybody else, and he ran
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Speaker 14: those two off because, as he has said, when Jimmy
45:47
Speaker 14: Johnson and Bill Parcells were coaching, it wasn't fun for him.
45:51
Speaker 14: Jones has also said he would write any check and
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Speaker 14: do almost anything to win another Super Bowl, anything except
45:58
Speaker 14: hire a new general manager. Of course, I said this
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Speaker 14: to Jones in a live TV interview years ago. Can
46:05
Speaker 14: you name any team in any sport that would hire
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Speaker 14: you to be their general manager? He said he could.
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Speaker 14: I said I'll wait, and he never did because he can't.
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Speaker 14: The man who insists on being the general manager of
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Speaker 14: one of the most iconic teams in all of sports
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Speaker 14: could never get another GM job anywhere on the planet,
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Speaker 14: and that simple fact should drive every Cowboys fan absolutely nuts.
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Speaker 14: He pays too much for free agents who can't play,
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Speaker 14: wanted to draft Johnny Manziel to play quarterback and that
46:35
Speaker 14: would have worked out so well. And when he found
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Speaker 14: Dak Prescott to replace Tony Romo, he made him the
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Speaker 14: highest paid player in the game, Dak Prescott, a quarterback
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Speaker 14: I like and have always defended when others didn't, but
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Speaker 14: the league's highest paid player, as the great Jimmy Johnson
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Speaker 14: would say, please, this is how the Cowboys general manager
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Speaker 14: has made a mess of this. Once great French, the
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Speaker 14: only way you could play defense in this game anymore
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Speaker 14: is with the pass rush, and Jones traded away one
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Speaker 14: of the very best to ever do it. After that
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Speaker 14: Michah Parsons trade, Jones and his allies were saying Parsons
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Speaker 14: had to go because he couldn't stop the run. He
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Speaker 14: disappears in a big game, not a leader and says
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Speaker 14: we weren't winning super bowls with Micah Parsons anyway. Well,
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Speaker 14: if that's the standard, he needs to trade everybody on
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Speaker 14: that football team, a fifty three man roster, and only
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Speaker 14: eight of the fifty three or even alive when the
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Speaker 14: Cowboys won a Super Bowl. But here's the question I
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Speaker 14: have about Parsons that I haven't heard or seen anyone ask.
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Speaker 14: And if you did and I missed it, I apologize
47:39
Speaker 14: for that. But Jones has tried to defend the Parsons trade,
47:44
Speaker 14: saying it made financial sense to get more players and
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Speaker 14: draft picks instead of paying one of the league's premier
47:51
Speaker 14: pass rushers. If that's true. If that's really true, then
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Speaker 14: why did Jones offer him forty million a year to stay.
47:59
Speaker 14: Jones was willing to pay forty million a year for
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Speaker 14: a player who can't stop the run, disappears in a
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Speaker 14: big game, not a leader, and couldn't win a Super
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Speaker 14: Bowl anyway. The ignorance of that football argument is staggering
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Speaker 14: to me. And while Jones wasn't willing to pay the
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Speaker 14: higher price for Parsons, the Cowboys fans have been paying
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Speaker 14: the price of four playoff wins in thirty years. Jones
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Speaker 14: will argue, and he has, that you can't pay everybody
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Speaker 14: because of the NFL salary cap. But I think that
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Speaker 14: cap is like our government's national debt. It's only a
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Speaker 14: problem when you want it to be money for the poor.
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Speaker 14: Our money is tight. Blow up a vote at the
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Speaker 14: Caribbean or our military in the streets. Oh, we have
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Speaker 14: more than enough money. Jones didn't have the money from
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Speaker 14: Michaeh Parsons, and we saw what that did to the
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Speaker 14: Cowboys defense. But Prescott and Tony Romo before him the
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Speaker 14: money flows like Johnny Walker blue in the owner's suite.
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Speaker 14: The Cowboys change their quarterbacks and co players we used
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Speaker 14: to cheer at the Super Bowl or getting close to
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Speaker 14: Social Security and Medicare now, but the general manager never changes.
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Speaker 14: There's an old saying that goes back almost six hundred years.
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Speaker 14: A fool and his money are soon parted. But like
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Speaker 14: a lot of old things, it's just not true. Jones
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Speaker 14: has his money and he's a fool, an absolute football fool.
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Speaker 14: I'm disgusted by thirty years. Maybe next year because I
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Speaker 14: don't have that many next years left. But I can
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Speaker 14: always tell my thirty year old granddaughter and her husband
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Speaker 14: I was there and have seen the Cowboys win super Bowls,
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Speaker 14: although I know you haven't because it was thirty years ago.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So I hope you like that. Dale is a
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Speaker 1: terrific writer. He's terrific doing editorials. He did in his
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Speaker 1: entire career. He always has an opinion on everything, like
49:58
Speaker 1: it or not. He doesn't really care. But I thought
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Speaker 1: that was worth a listen. And I know you're gonna
50:08
Speaker 1: find this hard to believe, but he and Jerry aren't
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Speaker 1: the best of Frid's. In fact, he tells that story
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Speaker 1: on air live. They were on air when he asked, Jerry,
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Speaker 1: is there any other professional sports team in the world
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Speaker 1: that would hire you as general manager? And Jerry apparently
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Speaker 1: kept this cool kind of during the interview, but afterward
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Speaker 1: his people called Dale to let them know they were
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Speaker 1: not happy about that question. It's a great question, a
50:40
Speaker 1: fair question, all right. Now for something completely different tomorrow
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Speaker 1: evening eight o'clock, Aggie's Missouri. Missouri is jackal and Hyde.
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Speaker 1: They shoot a lot of threes, they play a lot
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Speaker 1: of guards, they can light it up. They're better at
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Speaker 1: home than they are on the road. But dangerous. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: you don't know what team you're getting. You better be
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Speaker 1: ready for the best one or you'll get beat. That's
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Here is Jakari laid for from earlier this afternoon.
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Speaker 12: Well, your courage is how do you feel like he's
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Speaker 12: lost a couple of days?
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Speaker 8: Have been a few guys come last week.
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Speaker 24: It's definitely been a test for our team. But you know,
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Speaker 24: like every team in college basketball will go through adversity.
51:29
Speaker 24: It's about the toughest team's gonna stay together, grind together,
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Speaker 24: you know, throughout the adversity and just you know, overcoming
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Speaker 24: and that's.
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Speaker 9: What we're doing right now. What does it take to
51:38
Speaker 9: overcome everybody?
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Speaker 24: We gonna need everybody from from the first man on
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Speaker 24: the roster the last man on the roster, and most importantly,
51:46
Speaker 24: just keep putting confidence in each other on the court.
51:48
Speaker 9: You know, it's starting.
51:48
Speaker 24: Practice, just having great practices back to back, just getting
51:51
Speaker 24: ready for the next game.
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Speaker 11: Y'all been able to kind of diagnose why the shooting
51:57
Speaker 11: struggles happened so much and how to make sure that
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Speaker 11: an athlete and moving forward.
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Speaker 9: Uh, I mean, it's definitely gonna happen again. It's a
52:04
Speaker 9: part of basketball.
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Speaker 24: You know, we're not gonna come out shooting good every game.
52:07
Speaker 24: And like I said, the most important part is just
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Speaker 24: you know, stay uh stay stay to the grind, stay connected,
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Speaker 24: and just you know, keep putting in the work.
52:17
Speaker 12: You guys got a chance to really scouting this very much,
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Speaker 12: and if so, just to be noticed about their team.
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Speaker 24: Definitely definitely a long athletic team. You know, the guys
52:28
Speaker 24: very athletic in the passing the lanes a lot. So
52:30
Speaker 24: we're just gonna have to keep doing what we do
52:32
Speaker 24: and play our game and drag them into our game.
52:36
Speaker 12: What have you seen from especially Mark and Sam Pop
52:39
Speaker 12: his last few games.
52:41
Speaker 24: And just their ability to score particularly just just confidence
52:46
Speaker 24: showing the showing that they they're one of the best
52:49
Speaker 24: players in this uh in this conference. And I think
52:51
Speaker 24: just them just playing off each other, just giving each
52:53
Speaker 24: other confidence. That's that's helping our team alife. They can
52:56
Speaker 24: keep doing that along the way, and so so the
52:58
Speaker 24: other guys too, would be will be good.
53:01
Speaker 8: You know what to kind of think about Missouri when
53:04
Speaker 8: you see a team that goes out and beats Kentucky
53:05
Speaker 8: and Beach Florida than loss l SU miss they're kind
53:09
Speaker 8: of like all of them.
53:10
Speaker 9: Yeah, this league, this league is crazy this year. You know,
53:12
Speaker 9: anybody can be anybody.
53:13
Speaker 24: And that's why we got to come out and just
53:15
Speaker 24: you know, play our game, don't take don't take no
53:17
Speaker 24: game for granted. You know, come out and do do
53:20
Speaker 24: exactly what the coach is given us. And like the
53:21
Speaker 24: Sky report, so just being able to come out and
53:24
Speaker 24: just focus, stay connected the whole forty minutes and you
53:26
Speaker 24: know we'll have success.
53:30
Speaker 9: Always.
53:31
Speaker 12: The biggest thing you learned after that for the game.
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Speaker 25: About the team.
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Speaker 24: Really just how close and connected we were after that game.
53:39
Speaker 24: Nobody like nobody was in shock. Nobody was in panic mode.
53:42
Speaker 24: You know, Like I said, team's gonna go through adversity.
53:44
Speaker 24: It's about the teams that can stay together, stay connected
53:47
Speaker 24: through that time.
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Speaker 9: So that's what we're doing. Everybody is still positive and
53:50
Speaker 9: we're just we're just ready for tomorrow. You want to
53:53
Speaker 9: work on in your game, really just being more confident
53:57
Speaker 9: shooting the ball.
53:57
Speaker 24: I know last game I kind of got in my
53:59
Speaker 24: head a little bit by shooting the ball, and Coach
54:01
Speaker 24: Bookie kind of got on to me and was telling me, like,
54:03
Speaker 24: you know, you're you're a great shooter, so just take
54:05
Speaker 24: those shots of confidence.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
54:07
Speaker 12: I feel like after the game, Buck he was saying,
54:08
Speaker 12: you'd have to go back and watch the film and
54:10
Speaker 12: kind of look at the shot selection. Y'all had a
54:13
Speaker 12: chance to kind of review that. We're pleased with the
54:15
Speaker 12: shots selection. It wasn't it wasn't that shots were falling
54:19
Speaker 12: or where y'all taking shots that you weren't really liking
54:23
Speaker 12: to take.
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Speaker 24: I think I think it was kind of both, Like
54:25
Speaker 24: we were getting the shots we wanted, but at saying
54:27
Speaker 24: time the shots weren't falling, but the shots we were
54:29
Speaker 24: taking we were kind of like rushing. I guess rushing
54:32
Speaker 24: a little bit, so the shots weren't really you know,
54:34
Speaker 24: online enough, So I think it's just just stand poised
54:37
Speaker 24: and just you know, stand focused.
54:40
Speaker 13: Why do you think you guys were able to bounce
54:42
Speaker 13: back so well from back to back losses earlier this season?
54:45
Speaker 13: Is there anything you could take from that experience that
54:47
Speaker 13: you can kind.
54:47
Speaker 9: Of carry over here? Because you repeat that, I'm sorry
54:50
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54:51
Speaker 13: Guys had back to back losses earlier in your real
54:53
Speaker 13: estate and UCF and bounce back so well from that.
54:57
Speaker 13: What can you take maybe from that experience that you
54:59
Speaker 13: can maybe you replicate here.
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Speaker 24: Really, just like I said, just staying connected, keep trusting
55:05
Speaker 24: each other. You know, the coach is giving us a
55:07
Speaker 24: blueprint in the sky report, you know, just focusing on
55:10
Speaker 24: that and just you know, paying attention to the details,
55:13
Speaker 24: and that's what we got to do for this game.
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Speaker 12: Coach mentioned y'all like may have been a little antsy
55:18
Speaker 12: in that Florida game. Did you think y'all were a
55:20
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Speaker 24: Uh, yeah, a little bit in the first half, but
55:23
Speaker 24: second half kind of calmed down. But you know, sotomoren't falling,
55:26
Speaker 24: so there's nothing we can do about that. We just
55:29
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