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Texas Basketball coach Vic Schaefer on bouncing back after loss to Notre Dame · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, there's a lot more to get to, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to jump right into this. Texas Women play
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  Speaker 1: Southern University tonight at Moody Center at seven o'clock. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear the broads hope to see out there
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  Speaker 1: Moody and if not, you can certainly hear it on
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  Speaker 1: one of three point one FM, Austin's eighty station. You
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  Speaker 1: can listen through the app that would be the connect
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  Speaker 1: through the iHeartRadio app, also the Texas Longhorns app and
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  Speaker 1: the LHN app on our network app as well, so
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  Speaker 1: there's different ways to access it also. But leading into
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  Speaker 1: the game, the thoughts from Vic Schaeffer again, this was
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  Speaker 1: a media availability yesterday and he was talking about the
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  Speaker 1: road they'd have with five out of six games on
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  Speaker 1: the River, actually five in a rowing road in six
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  Speaker 1: out of seven in total. So here is the Q
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  Speaker 1: and A with Vic Schaeffer yesterday talking about this impending
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  Speaker 1: matchup with Southern and what's to come with the trip
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  Speaker 1: to Richmond this Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for being here everybody. I'm glad to be
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  Speaker 2: back home for a few days. Proud of my team,
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  Speaker 2: proud of the effort they gave on Sunday rebounding from
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  Speaker 2: obviously a tough loss on Thursday night where we probably
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  Speaker 2: didn't play very well. That's not taking anything from Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 2: but twenty three turnovers against two three zone is.
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  Speaker 3: Hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to beat anybody, especially a top ten team
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  Speaker 2: on the road, when you turn the ball over twenty
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  Speaker 2: three times, and so many of our turnovers were unforced,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to do way too much. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a game like that, much like in the football
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  Speaker 2: game the other night, it's it's one possession, it's one play,
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  Speaker 2: it's one rebounds, it's one defensive stop. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: one execution versus a you know, poor execution. And when
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  Speaker 2: you're playing in those types of games, in that scenario,
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  Speaker 2: you really you know, for us being on the road,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be on point. And had so many
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  Speaker 2: good things happening down the stretch. Rory showed tremendous toughness,
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  Speaker 2: making a tough shot and making two free throws to
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  Speaker 2: get it to overtime. And so, you know, got in
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  Speaker 2: at three in the morning on Friday morning, had to
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  Speaker 2: go to class, tried to practice Friday afternoon a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't very good as I'm sure you can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday was much better, but playing problems, playing delays. We
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  Speaker 2: got in there late Saturday night, had early shoot around
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning, and then the way we showed up and played,
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  Speaker 2: especially Rory and Madison. I thought Taylor was really good
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  Speaker 2: after taking a tough, tough fall on Thursday night, really
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  Speaker 2: was limited practicing on Friday, didn't practice at all. It
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  Speaker 2: would be correct, and then Saturday was a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: But man, I thought she was right on point on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday defensively altered shots, block shots or hedging on ball
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  Speaker 2: screens was on point. She only went one for one,
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  Speaker 2: but she impacted the game so much. And then Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Lee obviously making shots. She actually went six for seven.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't get the one that she missed, but she
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  Speaker 2: went six for seven from three.
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  Speaker 3: So anytime you can add that to.
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  Speaker 2: Your arsenal Rory went two for two, it really helps
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  Speaker 2: your case. And obviously we made shots early. Our defense
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  Speaker 2: was on point, held them to nine points in the
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  Speaker 2: second quarter. You're up fifty seven I think to twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine and half or twenty eight, or maybe it was
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's fifty seven to twenty eight.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a lot and played really good. It's
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  Speaker 2: a team that has got some really good players. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're probably gonna win their league like they did a
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  Speaker 2: year ago. They've got pre season player of the Year
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  Speaker 2: on their team, and so, you know, I thought we
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  Speaker 2: played really well and again four kids really showed up
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  Speaker 2: and made a really positive impact and.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of carried our team.
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  Speaker 2: So gave them the yesterday off and much needed and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get ready today finally going to get to play
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  Speaker 2: it in Austin.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a home game.
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  Speaker 2: We hadn't been in the Moody in a while either,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know how well we'll shoot it in there.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to get to play in Austin on
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  Speaker 2: our campus anyway, and so that'll be good tomorrow, and
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  Speaker 2: then back on the road this weekend against a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a really good Richmond team that was twenty nine and
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  Speaker 2: six last year in the NCAA tournament. They've got five
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  Speaker 2: starters back and two kids out of the portal from
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  Speaker 2: Power our Fives that were pretty good players at their
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  Speaker 2: previous school.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll have another, you know, challenge.
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  Speaker 2: This weekend going back on the road, but excited for
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  Speaker 2: our kids to be able to play at home tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 2: Excited for our fans to be able to see our
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  Speaker 2: kids play, hoping we'll have a great environment.
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  Speaker 3: NKS coach.
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  Speaker 4: We'll start with Mark, Hey, what prompted this sudden I
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  Speaker 4: guess it's two game barrage of three point baskets?
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  Speaker 3: And is this something we could expect to see more of? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Mark, I think we're more than capable of shooting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: making shots from out there. Rory's already been in this morning,
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  Speaker 2: like she is every day. Shay comes in just about
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  Speaker 2: every day, Jordan Lee's in every day, Madison Booker's in
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  Speaker 2: every day. When I talk about my kids and being
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  Speaker 2: a pro, that's what I'm talking about. They're invested in
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  Speaker 2: their game. Y'all have heard me say this a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: The game is real fair. You're going to get out
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  Speaker 2: of it what you put into it. Those kids invest
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  Speaker 2: in their game. I wish I could say I have
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  Speaker 2: fourteen kids again in the gym and do that every day,
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  Speaker 2: but I just can't.
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  Speaker 3: But those kids do. They work at it, and when.
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  Speaker 2: We go to the arena right now, you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: got four kids that they want to be out there
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  Speaker 2: on their own early. I'm talking about two hours prior
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  Speaker 2: to tip, working up a sweat, getting up game like shots.
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  Speaker 2: And so I just think, to answer your question, we're
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  Speaker 2: more than capable of that. I had told Jordan Lee
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  Speaker 2: last week after the Notre Dame game, I said, you're
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  Speaker 2: probably you know, if you're not our best three point shooter,
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  Speaker 2: you're right up there with them. I go make shots,
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  Speaker 2: you get a chance, and they leave you open, make shots,
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  Speaker 2: and she did, and.
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think we have a team that's got
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  Speaker 2: kids that can make shots. So but you know, life
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  Speaker 2: on the road is like that, y'all. Some nights you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna make more than others. Some nights you're not. And
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  Speaker 2: that's when you've got to find another way to help
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  Speaker 2: us win. When your SHOT's not falling, you got to
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  Speaker 2: help me win another way. It's not well, take me out,
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  Speaker 2: it's let me help you win another way. Let me guard,
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  Speaker 2: let me defend, let me rebound, let me be a
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  Speaker 2: great help side defender. You know, there's all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: ways that you can can help us win. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the struggle with any young person. Their ego thinks
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  Speaker 2: they got to go in and score. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have people on this team that can do that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our five players are shooting sixty and seventy
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  Speaker 2: percent from the floor, like Taylor and Kyla are shooting
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal number. Well, we need to play inside out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, our.
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  Speaker 2: My video guy Connor, did some research and like our
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  Speaker 2: shooting percentage is in the fifties when when we play
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  Speaker 2: you know, inside out, when we don't, when we don't
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  Speaker 2: get a paint touch, it's like nineteen percent. So you've
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  Speaker 2: got to realize, hey, we probably need to get a
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  Speaker 2: paint touch. That's not necessarily the five player. That's the
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  Speaker 2: guard getting into the paint. It's a kickout for three,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a jump stop in a mid range.
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  Speaker 3: All those things are are part of that.
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  Speaker 2: So that I do believe we have kids that can
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  Speaker 2: make shots, and that includes a three point shot.
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  Speaker 3: I know that's been a.
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  Speaker 2: Topic of conversation for this group, and that's fine. But
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  Speaker 2: some nights you're going to get that. Some nights you're not.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think we proved the other night
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  Speaker 2: that we made them get out of his own you know,
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  Speaker 2: he was down there, coach was down there shaking his
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  Speaker 2: head and I had to tell him afterwards, I go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you caught us on the wrong night. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we were pretty smart and after Thursday night, and we
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  Speaker 2: played really good. Our defense was really good. Offensively, we
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  Speaker 2: made shots. Look, when Booker goes ten for thirteen and
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  Speaker 2: Rory's eight for eleven, we're gonna have a chance to
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  Speaker 2: win every night. Then you throw in a six for
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  Speaker 2: seven from three with Jordan Lee, it's gonna be hard
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  Speaker 2: to guard us.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Mark, let's got to know it.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Vic, you talked about your conversation with Jordan after
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  Speaker 4: the Notre Dame game. When a freshman is you know,
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  Speaker 4: has a couple of games where they're not shooting or
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  Speaker 4: maybe playing like they want, what are the conversations like
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  Speaker 4: for you with them? And is Jordan somebody that even
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  Speaker 4: needs a conversation like that? I mean she kind of
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  Speaker 4: turned it around in a pretty major way this past weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think my conversation with Jordan, it was actually
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  Speaker 2: with jordanan Brie Preston was Look, you know you didn't
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  Speaker 2: play a lot Thursday night. I don't think that'll ever
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  Speaker 2: happen again, So be ready. Keep working those kids. Both
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  Speaker 2: those kids, you know, they're part of the four that
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  Speaker 2: get out early.
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  Speaker 3: And they're just great kids.
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  Speaker 2: They invest in their game, they want to be great,
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  Speaker 2: and I just wanted them to know. Look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you get in those games like the Notre Dame game,
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  Speaker 2: and as a coach, you rely on those veterans because
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  Speaker 2: you have confidence and trusting them, and you're still trying to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe figure out some of your newer, newer
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  Speaker 2: players and don't know how they're going to respond in
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  Speaker 2: those moments.
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  Speaker 3: And so I just wanted them to know.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you guys, continue to do what you do, get
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  Speaker 2: ready and be prepared. And both those kids have been
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  Speaker 2: great all year, and uh, you know they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have some ups and downs, and you know they had
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  Speaker 2: them in the Notre Dame game. They had them. You
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  Speaker 2: know they've had them in other games. But I'm we're
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  Speaker 2: going to play through it. You know, we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna learn from it. Those two really work hard every day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're sponges. And uh, you know Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Lee is she's she's not only in here working, but
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  Speaker 2: you know she's, oh she's really smart, Like that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a doctor one day. We may all be
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  Speaker 2: going to her at some point in our life. She's
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  Speaker 2: she's really really sharp in school and doing a great
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  Speaker 2: job there as well. And you know that's that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons she's here. She she's she wants that
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  Speaker 2: that medical degree, and she'll get it, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. So anyway, I think those kids, I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted them to know, a I've got confidence in them
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  Speaker 2: and you know, be ready, And of course they both were.
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  Speaker 3: The other night. Good Brian Vic.
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  Speaker 5: Going back to uh Thursday night, did it? Did it
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  Speaker 5: bother you more about who was turning the ball over?
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  Speaker 5: I mean it was your veterans as opposed to you know,
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  Speaker 5: your freshman out there being freshmen?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what he touch a little bit more than
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  Speaker 3: anything else.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing, Brian, was how we did it,
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  Speaker 2: I mean unforced. You know, Coach Blair used to call
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  Speaker 2: them eye passes. We had a lot of eye passes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where you look good if they catch it
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  Speaker 2: and if they don't, you know, in their fifty fifties,
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  Speaker 2: I call them fifty fifties.
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  Speaker 3: And you know it just we made some really poor decisions.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, if you looked at the box if
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  Speaker 2: you had a turnover in that game, you either had
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  Speaker 2: three or five. Nobody had one or two. You either
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  Speaker 2: had three or five. And so I just think it's
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  Speaker 2: decision making. It's kids trying to make things happen. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to try and there, you know, to make
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  Speaker 2: it happen. But sometimes just playing old vanilla, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty good. I don't need all the relish and
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  Speaker 2: onions on my hot dog. I just need a plain
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  Speaker 2: old hot dog sometimes. And so I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's the thing, you know, when you're playing the game
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  Speaker 2: is just blue collar plane, old vanilla, grind it out.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the road. We've got to take care of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, you know. Sunday Rory had zero turnovers. Madison
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  Speaker 2: Bookers zero turnovers. We're gonna have a chance to win
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  Speaker 2: a lot of games when those two are taking care
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  Speaker 2: of the ball like that. So we had I think
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  Speaker 2: five turnovers at halftime Sunday and then we had eight
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. Some of that some of those
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  Speaker 2: kids coming off the bench. You know, you've heard me
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  Speaker 2: talk about continuity through substitution, and so we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get better there. But yeah, I just think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it was just trying too hard. It's a two
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  Speaker 2: three zone, y'all. That's it. I mean, we just we
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  Speaker 2: got to be better. We worked really hard on it,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you. The next day we had
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight turnovers on Friday and practice, so it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: any better and we were working on it. But then
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  Speaker 2: Sunday was much better. So these kids will get it again.
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  Speaker 2: Rory Harmon is getting better and better, y'all every day.
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  Speaker 2: So she looked to me like her old self Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: pull up and transition, get into her spot. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think she took a bad shot. If she did, she
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  Speaker 2: might have taken one. And she went eight for eleven,
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  Speaker 2: no turnovers. I don't know how many assists she had,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure she had several, and so that's always
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  Speaker 2: good to see.
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  Speaker 3: Real quick coaches.
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  Speaker 5: One quick follow up, a little bigger picture the game itself,
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  Speaker 5: the Notre Dame game, obviously, in this game against a
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  Speaker 5: high level team, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then I don't know how much you saw, but.
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  Speaker 5: That game in the highlights got an incredible run on
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  Speaker 5: Sports Center after that, Just what did what did? What
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  Speaker 5: do you think of the whole SEC A SEC challenge
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  Speaker 5: concept in terms of the type of matchups you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get to play in it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my initial response is I hope they send Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame back to us next year.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's only fair.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we went up there, we played them in
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  Speaker 2: front of a pretty good crowd. It was a good environment. Again,
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  Speaker 2: not taking anything from them. Wasn't our best night obviously
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  Speaker 2: with twenty three turnovers. Hadalgo played really good and in look,
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  Speaker 2: I think people acknowledge that because she went against somebody
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  Speaker 2: really good in in in in Rory.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those two went at it, and.
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  Speaker 2: So I think, you know, from the matchup standpoint, I
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  Speaker 2: hope they send them back to us next year.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's only fair.
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  Speaker 2: Don't send me somebody different wouldn't be fair to them,
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  Speaker 2: whoever that different person is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're going to do this to me. The
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  Speaker 3: right thing to.
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  Speaker 2: Do is is send them back to us next year
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  Speaker 2: in a return. But you know, I don't mind the
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  Speaker 2: sec ACC challenge, which we could have held up our
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  Speaker 2: end of the bargain and won the game.
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  Speaker 3: But we went into a top ten opponent.
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  Speaker 2: They moved up from I think ten to six, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe we dropped to six. They moved up to eight,
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  Speaker 2: so obviously you know it wasn't viewed. It's too bad
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  Speaker 2: of a loss that we only dropped two spots and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't jump us.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine with me if we didn't play that game,
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  Speaker 2: we'd try to schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody like that anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's only fair that, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, they returned to us next year.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that works out. I know with the SEC Big
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  Speaker 1: Twelve Challenge games, you didn't always play the same team
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  Speaker 1: in back to back years. You might play one team
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  Speaker 1: when they kind of you ever do really well. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to think if they did it one time they
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  Speaker 1: did it with Tennessee, the men did it with Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Had that remember when when Texas won by one point,
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  Speaker 1: when Rick Barnes came into the Irwin Center and fifteen
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  Speaker 1: two run by Tennessee at the very end of the
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  Speaker 1: game or something ridiculous. Yeah, and Jaxson's won like fifty
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  Speaker 1: fifty or fifty two. And then remember they played the
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  Speaker 1: return game in Knoxville and Tennessee won. Now, but it's
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  Speaker 1: more the exception than the rule, and some of that
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  Speaker 1: is because of size of the conferences, and some of
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  Speaker 1: it is also because of they're trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: best matchups, and one team that's really good one year
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  Speaker 1: might not be that good going into the next year,
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  Speaker 1: and vice versa, and they project what ahead. I think
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  Speaker 1: Texas and Notre Dame will both be good next year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt about that. So Vix's
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  Speaker 1: point is well taken for sure. All Right, we have
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