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Tennessee Safety: "The Shoe Isn't As Loud As The SEC" · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, December fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Tennessee game is in
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  Speaker 1: seven days, the game against Michigan in three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty days. When that Tennessee game rolls around, should be
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  Speaker 1: one of the most unique atmospheres in the history of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Stadium. First December game inside the Horseshoe Burst, December
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  Speaker 1: night game inside the Horseshoe Burst and meaningful night game
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  Speaker 1: of the season inside the Horseshoe Sorry, Western Michigan going
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  Speaker 1: to be a lot of excitement, might be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Tennessee fans there as well, But what is the
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere inside Ohio Stadium actually going to be?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Can be talking about that with Ohio with Buckeye huddles
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdeman in just a minute, But first I want
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  Speaker 1: to play you ecliped from an interview earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: This is from Tennessee safety Andre Turentine. He has a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a unique perspective on this game because,
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  Speaker 1: of course, he started his college career as an Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State safety. Played with the Buckeyes for one season in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one before transferring to play for the balls.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked about what he expected in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere inside Ohio Stadium for the game.
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  Speaker 2: The shoe isn't as loud as the SEC. It's a
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  Speaker 2: different it's a different animal here. Whether you're at South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina at nighttime or whether you at Arkansas at nighttime,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're kneeling at nighttime or the daytime for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: is loud. Here's you really cas deafening. I would say
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  Speaker 2: the shoe is the same way. They have really die
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  Speaker 2: hard fans that are prepared to make enough noise to
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  Speaker 2: that chaine that they need to. So I would say
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  Speaker 2: that the SEC is a little bit louder, but the
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  Speaker 2: shoe brings it as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. Let you hear the
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  Speaker 1: whole quote there, because there was plenty to it and
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  Speaker 1: sort of sort of brought it back around and gave
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Stadium some credit there at the end. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the shoe isn't as loud as the SEC. It's a
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  Speaker 1: different animal here, boy, That's yeah. I think Tony Gerderman,
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  Speaker 1: I think Buckeye fans might think them is fighting words.
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  Speaker 3: They should you would hope they would take that personally
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  Speaker 3: and They'll have plenty of time to prepare to get
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  Speaker 3: loud for that game, and it's the biggest game of
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  Speaker 3: the year. There's no reason not to be loud for it.
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  Speaker 3: You've been challenged. Fans have been clamoring for a night
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  Speaker 3: game all year long. They've been complaining about the new
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  Speaker 3: in games because I guess they can't get loud enough
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  Speaker 3: at the new in games. And so, hey, you want
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  Speaker 3: a game that you can get loud at, this would
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  Speaker 3: be the one. And you've been challenged, and you've been
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  Speaker 3: called up front to the rest of the classroom. Let's
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  Speaker 3: let's see your project. Let's let's hear the book report.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what you've got. But I will also say,
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  Speaker 3: like the SEC, the crowds in the SEC are are
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  Speaker 3: pretty legit, and I think a lot of that is
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  Speaker 3: also because they play a lot of night games as well.
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  Speaker 3: If Ohio State got to play meaningful night games, then
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  Speaker 3: there would be a better you know, they'd have a
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  Speaker 3: better reputation this she would have a better reputation then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all these new and games. And also I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that Fox has necessarily necessarily miked the crowd
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  Speaker 3: as well as ESPN and CBS have done over the
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  Speaker 3: years where they really bring you to the environment, whereas
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  Speaker 3: with Fox the environment is more about I guess the
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  Speaker 3: broadcast and the people doing the broadcasting, and of course
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  Speaker 3: the commercials, and you've got to turn the crowd down
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  Speaker 3: when you're doing the commercials.
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  Speaker 1: So, if I understood your book report there correctly, your
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  Speaker 1: conclusion was that Ohio Stadium is a land of contrast.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we will We'll take that. I'll get
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  Speaker 1: you your grade later on that one. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is an interesting game because this is one where you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the crowd it's like, oh, it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: lowed environment. Okay, this could be a game where the
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  Speaker 1: crowd has a legitimate impact though, because we've watched three
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  Speaker 1: different Tennessee games already for the Buckeye Weekly podcast where
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  Speaker 1: you we watched the Tennessee Alabama game, the Tennessee Georgia game,
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  Speaker 1: in the Tennessee Arkansas game, and the and when Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: was playing in Nyland Stadium with the out on their side,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line looked pretty good. When Tennessee was playing
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  Speaker 1: in Athens or playing in Fayetteville and the crowd was loud,
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  Speaker 1: we saw some communication issues. Some false starts. Now that's
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  Speaker 1: not unique by any means. Ohio States offensive line had
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  Speaker 1: some challenges playing on the road in loud environments this year,
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  Speaker 1: and so does just about everyone else. But this does
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  Speaker 1: feel like a game where if you can make make
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee have to go to a silent count, if you
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  Speaker 1: can force a false start, you can force a delay
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  Speaker 1: of game, force some communication issues. This is one where
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  Speaker 1: the crowd could potentially have a pretty significant impact.
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  Speaker 3: Forcing an offensive line to go to a silent count
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  Speaker 3: is a win for the crowd. This is an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for them to impact the game. And we just came
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  Speaker 3: off watching the lass to Arkansas for Tennessee and that
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  Speaker 3: crowd absolutely impacted that game. The crowd gets loud enough
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  Speaker 3: and your tackles, the Tennessee tackles look like Redshiert freshmen
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  Speaker 3: and their first you know start. And we saw Nico
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  Speaker 3: Iamaliava at the end of the game get hit with
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  Speaker 3: a snap because he wasn't necessarily ready and that could
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  Speaker 3: have been a disaster for them. So yeah, the crowd
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  Speaker 3: can absolutely impact the game anytime you can throw off
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  Speaker 3: the timing or change the operation of the snap, and
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line where they've got a guard is looking
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  Speaker 3: back and is then tapping the center, and then you've
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  Speaker 3: got all this motion going on. You create more moving
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  Speaker 3: parts for the offense, and you create more opportunities for
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  Speaker 3: them to not fire off as ideally as they would like.
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  Speaker 3: So this is an opportunity for the crowd to really
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  Speaker 3: get involved, make their impact. It's what they've been asking for,
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  Speaker 3: is what they've been begging for. Is what they've been
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  Speaker 3: complaining to. This is what they've been adding Gus Johnson
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  Speaker 3: and Joel klapt for. This is what you have been
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  Speaker 3: getting blocked on Twitter for, you know, So I would
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  Speaker 3: expect for the seventy five thousand Ohio State fans to
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  Speaker 3: drown out the thirty thousand Tennessee fans who have purchased
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven thousand tickets from Ohio State fans.
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  Speaker 1: All numbers approximate. Of course they have they have been.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State has been begging fans to get loud for
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of home games, the Indiana game the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan game. The stadium got very, very loud for both
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  Speaker 1: of those games, but Ohio State put players and coaches
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  Speaker 1: up on the scoreboard. Talking during midweek interviews about the
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  Speaker 1: importance of being loud and you know, we need the
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  Speaker 1: Horseshoe to be the loudest stadium in the nation and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. They're not going to have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to do that during this game next Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Because the way this works, Yes, it's a home game
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State. Yes, Ohio State has the majority of
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  Speaker 1: the tickets. Yes, they get to stay on their own
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  Speaker 1: campus and Tennessee has to fly and all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. So yeah, it's a home game. Except it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when you have the NC DOUBLEA tournament
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  Speaker 1: and the NC DOUBLEA Tournament, you can you know, you
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  Speaker 1: might have it on a campus site, but Tony, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get to drink out of regular cups. No, you
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  Speaker 1: have to drink out of the NC Double A cups.
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  Speaker 1: That's those are the rules, because it's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a home game for some team. It is.
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  Speaker 1: This is a NC DOUBLEA tournament game. And this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of how the game is going to be run
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  Speaker 1: as well. For this game next week. It's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be Ohio State putting their stuff up on the
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  Speaker 1: scoreboard and you know, oh, here's brutus and find the
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  Speaker 1: key under the right brutus helmet or you know doing
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  Speaker 1: you know, running the usual contests and who's got the
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  Speaker 1: craziest haircut and all that nonsense. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a college football playoff show where there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a Tennessee hype video that plays before this game, just
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  Speaker 1: like there's going to be an Ohio State hype video.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a neutral site in terms of the scoreboard,
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  Speaker 3: operations and the bands basically, and it's it's the college
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  Speaker 3: Football Playoff branding that rules it all. And you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament thing, and just so people know, like
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  Speaker 3: if you're covering the NCAA tournament saying that the men's
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  Speaker 3: basketball tournament, and you're sitting courtside as a media member
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  Speaker 3: and you go to the media room and you grab
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  Speaker 3: a diet coke, you have to you have you can't
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  Speaker 3: have that coke out there. You can't have that can
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  Speaker 3: there because Coca Cola is not paying to have their
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  Speaker 3: their can on the screen. So you have to like
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  Speaker 3: pour into a plastic coup that says NCAA on And
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  Speaker 3: you can't have certain branding out there because hey, they
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  Speaker 3: didn't pay CBS and Turner. They didn't pay the NCAA
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  Speaker 3: for this, so you know, drop that drop that brand
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  Speaker 3: right there, sir. And so that's kind of what is
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  Speaker 3: uh what you'll see here as well with that collegrotball playoff,
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  Speaker 3: tanks control, they get the scoreboard, and you know, perhaps
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  Speaker 3: Tom they will add a kiss cam because I think
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  Speaker 3: that's something that has been missing from Ohio Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: You but you may only kiss someone if they are
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  Speaker 1: truly an NCAA corporate champion. Those are the rules. I
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  Speaker 1: don't make the rules, Tony. Those are the rules. I think.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that's that's sort of interesting around
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  Speaker 1: the conversation around this game is what is the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State fan base's approach, mood, whatever going to be heading
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  Speaker 1: into this game. Per curb Street on the Selection Show
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  Speaker 1: rather famously said that you know, maybe Ohio it would
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  Speaker 1: bet are off playing this game in neil And Stadium
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  Speaker 1: because what if they get off to a slow start
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  Speaker 1: and the fans boo, Like I have watched teams playing
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  Speaker 1: neil And Stadium that does not look like they are
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  Speaker 1: having a good time. So no, I do not think
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  Speaker 1: that would in fact be better for Ohio State. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what, what is a reasonable expectation for this atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? What is a reasonable expectation for the
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  Speaker 1: division of the crowd. There's there's been plenty of talk
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  Speaker 1: about oh Tennessee fans are going to take over the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, I mean, I watched the Georgian Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame game in South Bend a few years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what taking over the stadium looks like. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: expecting anything close to that for this one. It's also
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  Speaker 1: going to be a scarlet out, and so the the
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  Speaker 1: orange is going to probably blend in pretty nicely with
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  Speaker 1: the with the red in the crowd anyway, But how
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  Speaker 1: how hostile and environment can Ohio State stir up in
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  Speaker 1: this game? Are they going to be able to or
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  Speaker 1: is Tennessee's fans going to be able to neutralize this
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  Speaker 1: or not?
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a good question because I think Tennessee
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  Speaker 3: is happier to be in this situation than Ohio State fans.
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  Speaker 3: Are Tennessee fans are happier than the Ohio State fans,
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  Speaker 3: and so you know, I think ross Byorke has come
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  Speaker 3: out saying asking Ohio State, the season ticket holders and
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  Speaker 3: the ticket holders to hey, whatever you do don't sell
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  Speaker 3: your tickets to Tennessee fans and the visiting schools have
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  Speaker 3: all been allocated thirty five hundred tickets for this game,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's you know, one hundred thousand tickets for
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  Speaker 3: the Ohio State fans and the season ticket holders, and
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee is going to get some of those for sure.
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  Speaker 3: The resale market is what it is. The tickets prices
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  Speaker 3: are are already high. And so if I'm if I
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  Speaker 3: can pay for my two tickets by grabbing four other
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  Speaker 3: tickets and then selling them and doubling the price, and
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  Speaker 3: now I've gotten Now I've paid for all of my purchases,
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: doing that, trying to do that, And you know, I
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  Speaker 3: the fact that ross Byorke had to come out and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: please don't sell least to Tennessee fans tells you that
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  Speaker 3: it's already going on. And so I know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what is a is fifteen thousand that would be
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  Speaker 3: that's a takeover. But that's more than you're ever going
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  Speaker 3: to see at Ohio Stadium from an an opposing fan base.
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  Speaker 3: But this is also unlike anything we've ever had it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a playoff game, so you would you would hope
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  Speaker 3: that Ohio State fans would want to be part of
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  Speaker 3: it and would want to not let Tennessee fans be
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  Speaker 3: part of it. But also, good luck keeping rabid opposing
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  Speaker 3: fans out of your stadium. It's hard to do. We
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  Speaker 3: every everywhere we go, we see Ohio State fans. We
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  Speaker 3: saw some really loud Ohio State fans out in Eugene,
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  Speaker 3: and they were able to be heard when things were
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  Speaker 3: going well. So I fully expect Tennessee to travel. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's not it's a it's a drive, and so I
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know. It's fifteen thousand seems way high, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and fifteen fifteen thounds would be a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also not going to materially impact the ability for
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State fans to make noise. Fifteen thousand would
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  Speaker 1: be great showing for Tennessee, even twenty I mean twenty
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  Speaker 1: sands crazy high, But you know, even then you have
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  Speaker 1: eighty five thousand Ohio State fans in there. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, if Ohios date can control the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, Tony, this game will in fact mostly be
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  Speaker 1: one in the line of scrimmages as you may or
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  Speaker 1: may not be aware. And if Ohios date gives their
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  Speaker 1: fans plenty to cheer about, well guess what their fans
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  Speaker 1: will probably cheer. So we'll be a great game one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other. We're looking forward to it. Historic
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  Speaker 1: night inside Ohio Stadium, first home playoff game in Ohio
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  Speaker 1: state history, first playoff game period in Tennessee history. Could
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  Speaker 1: be two fan bases very excited about that game, and
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  Speaker 1: with the winner going on to the Rose Bowl, something
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  Speaker 1: else everyone should be excited about as well. We'll probably
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Rose Bowl sometime later, but man, it
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  Speaker 1: is quite a high stakes game, buck Eyes and volunteers
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  Speaker 1: eight versus nine for the chance to play the top
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  Speaker 1: ranked Oregon Ducks. So we will have plenty of coverage
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  Speaker 1: coming up for you all week long in the lead
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  Speaker 1: up to that game. If you were a Tennessee fan
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  Speaker 1: That will do it for today. Thank you guys all
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow.