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IU-North Texas Preview (The IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell, 3.23) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the IU report with Grant Shows and Mycutsl, and it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Today Grant and Mike Preview, National Champion Indiana's season opener against North Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My cut pulled the time is finally come, it has been 229 days from Monday, January the 19th until Saturday, September 5th, since Indiana last played a football game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you remember that game, it was the National Championship, they beat Miami, in dramatic fashion, tomorrow he's sharp, picked off a pass that we'll literally see the rest of our lives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are done talking about it, this is the last we can discuss that is Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: turns the page a program internally turned the page probably about a week after the national championship but as a fan base we're still kind of we're still celebrating but the celebration really starts to die down and end on Saturday when they welcome in the North Texas mean green and I don't know about you but I'm really really excited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Football, baby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready for some football?
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[SPEAKER_00]: as jet prompts that do I or do I not currently have a pulse?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I do, let's play football.
1:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's break down the main green.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Taven Jackson, the former hosier coming in to this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As the quarterback of a team that, let's be real isn't the team that we saw last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Last year, more Texas was one of the best group of five teams in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and their coach took the job at Oklahoma State, took Drew, Mr. Maker, a Heisman level quarterback, and team with him.
2:01
[SPEAKER_01]: And took the rest of the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He basically pulled a JMU with his team to North Dakota.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think a lot of people really feel like Oklahoma States are really dangerous team in the big 12 this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this isn't the big 12 report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the IU report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they're going to come in with Neil Brown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The former West Virginia head coach guy coach that Troy, he's he's coached really well at the group of five level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got his one shot in the power four went to West Virginia didn't really take off their West Virginia got tired of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was just inconsistent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't they couldn't contend for the big 12 titles so they went back
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, brought Richard Regas home and deal brown, you know, he's at North Texas now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be there are a wildly unknown program not a lot to that that you're going to know other than Taven Jackson that's in the let's be real.
3:04
[SPEAKER_01]: We know Taven Jackson because of who Taven Jackson is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and he's royalty and Bloomington based on his family, but nationally, I don't think he's really, you know, that much of a well-known entity.
3:17
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't really have a lot to break down on this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a extremely one-sided spread, 40 and a half, the over-under 55.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that tells you they're not expecting a lot of orphans on the North Texas side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On paper, it looks very lopsided and I'm sure you got some stats that are going to I do lay that out it's tough to get a gauge on North Texas when they all but I did go back and I did compare it from what Indiana did last year to what North Texas did last year, it's not fair to do that, but it's all you really have to work with here, but these things were a lot more similar than different last year again, this is all last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: dark Texas average more points for gain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had more passing first downs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They actually has a team pass for more yards than Indiana did that over 4,000 passing yards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana only had about 3800 passing yards between.
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[SPEAKER_00]: essentially for Nando and Alberto Mendoza.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana obviously ran more often to plays, but really not by much it was kind of a more slim margin than people would imagine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They ran over a thousand plays last year, 1,065 plays, North Texas ran 9air, 92, plays from Scrimmage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: North Texas is actually out gained Indiana and yards per place, 7.2 yards,
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[SPEAKER_00]: for play to Indiana 6.8, they out gained Indiana and yards per game with over 500 yards on average per game from North Texas, Indiana only average about 452.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Statistically, North Texas really matched up well last year with Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how that team didn't make the playoff last year in North Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they were probably better than two lane or James Madison and didn't get in the playoff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: they won the new Mexico bull beating San Diego State 49 47 with all those guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So again, that's all last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't really make a fair assumption for both these teams going into this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what you can look at Mike is what Indiana's done and season openers the last two years under Kurt Signetti.
5:31
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we'll ever forget the first play of the 20 25 season for mold Dominion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're Colton Joseph butthole off the 75 yard touchdown run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're all sitting there going, oh my god, what's happening?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana comes down a little lackluster inside the 10 yard line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It stopped on fourth and goal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had a fumble in the first quarter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't score their first offensive touchdown from scrimmage until about three and a half minutes to go in the second quarter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were up ten seven other than the play that Colton Joseph had for old Dominion last year it stands out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: all because of that play and then Indiana turned it over and then got stopped and got stuff on forked down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody really remembers that Indiana absolutely dominated that game on the stat sheet, just because of the eye test because you walked away from it going, man, I don't know about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about this team, you know, they just didn't look good, but really when you go back and analyze it, they did look good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the FI, you game two years ago,
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[SPEAKER_00]: we didn't know any better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have anything to go off of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like they beat the opponent 31 to 7.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's clips of Kurt Signetti looking absolutely pissed on the sideline because his team's not playing to his standard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as a fan base, we're all sitting there going, oh my god, we just hired a maniac as our head coach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's this guy doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We love this guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't know any better at the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you didn't think anything of it till maybe the use the LA game two years ago when they went out there and beat them, something they would never do under previous administrations given the given that circumstance, but I think in Kurt Signetti said this Mike in the in the press conference this week is they want to be able to walk away from Saturday against North Texas feeling good about it and if they feel good about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: feel good about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then I think that's a really good sign going away from the first game of the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and we talked about it in our season, best case worst case scenario pod earlier this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, week one in the end just has not historically, you know, two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two whole years in history here, they just haven't shown a lot in week one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's by design.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't they're very vanilla.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't run a lot of, you know, they try to just line up and beat you really with your offensive line and pulverage you on defense and any last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said, they got inside the 10 last year, they turned it over on downs, then they had a fumble in the first quarter of that game.
8:17
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's some opportunities here if Indiana can put this thing away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there's things that Indiana wants to implement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure they want to see if, you know, get Libby on the field, get him some contact, get him running.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, against D1 opponents again, so he gets that feel back because I think he's going to be a big part of this team get Kobe Martin some more reps we were begging for that kid a lot last year and this is his chance to really show out as maybe the second running back behind the best name in college football turbo Richard so I don't expect a high scoring explosive affair.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't expect to cover here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you throughout a lot of stats about last year, more Texas, but we've already established there really don't mean anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that would have been really interesting, it's interesting that we're going to see Taven Jackson who started for games across two seasons at Indiana, and he's going to be making his first started in or Texas in the stadium that he played in as a loser,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could have been really seriously because if you remember until he decided to go follow with coach, Mr. Maker was long rumored to be Indiana's guy in the port.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were, you know, that was supposed to supposedly, one of Indiana's first, first choices in the portal, you know, it was going to be tough to get him away from his coach and it ended up, you know, playing out that way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana's pretty happy with who they got.
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[SPEAKER_01]: About I don't know if you watched week zero at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stick into the video.
10:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Can we talk about how awful Texas Christian looked without jogs over?
10:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really glad you brought that up.
10:07
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great point.
10:09
[SPEAKER_00]: They are horrible without that, dude.
10:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I've not spent a whole lot of time, don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've gone back and watched a little bit of what he did last year at TCU, and obviously you're watching as highlights he looks good, but I mean, when he's on, he's on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a real accurate quarterback, statistically coming into the season is better than what Fernando Mendoza was coming in from Calda, Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's statistically shined more than Fernando Mendoza at times last year, and people are sitting there going, well, he threw too many interceptions.
10:43
[SPEAKER_00]: My God, dude, go back and watch DCU North Carolina, and you tell me, you tell me that you wouldn't have thrown that many interceptions, or the average, you know, decent quarterback wouldn't have thrown that many interceptions with how bad those receivers work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and how bad that offensive line was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a little bit of that gunslinger mentality where he feels like he had to feel like he was the only chance of winning based on what and it's so funny now looking back and thinking about the summer where
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sunny Dykes was trying to talk a little bit of a little shade at Hoover and if Hoover doesn't go turn the ball over the way to here at Indiana, and of course, remember Sig famously clap back with, well, you know, he got here and he actually ran into a couple things he's never seen before, which was what a running game and a good defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man, that was, that was alarming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we heard and I saw just tweets all summer
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[SPEAKER_01]: about this kid from Harvard that TCU is going to roll out in week one, you know, bet them to be at UNC.
11:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be easy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This kid's going to be a star.
11:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that looked like that was a de-performance by TCU.
12:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Josh Hoover stock went without even playing his stock went soaring last Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think when given that, you're feeling real good about going
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[SPEAKER_00]: about going into this first game with Hoover and all of them, you know, I'll be really interested to see how he adapts again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect him to open the playbook very much and honestly, you know way more about this than I do last year when we talk.
12:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I'll just again, I'll be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't really know and I'm kind of stupid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like being a fan has made me a little
12:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't really know that they were trying to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of thought they, they look bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they weren't trying to keep it pretty vanilla to start the year until you brought it up in our podcast and then I'm like, okay, I'm excited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now that I think people expect that a little bit, I don't think it'll be more of as a shocker as an alarm to people, if Indiana does come out and look kind of lack less, especially the fan base.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now if they come out and do look lackluster and do keep things pretty vanilla,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, don't want Indiana to succeed or going to point that out, and that's what sucks is that you're kind of having to prove to all these people again that, you know, obviously, 16 to know what enough you return one of the best rosters in the nation from an undefeated national championship and people just still won't buy it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: obviously it's the point it's like there's not you can do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It almost seems like as people have kind of written off last year is maybe a fluke and I don't think it was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, if you listen to the season preview, we discussed what we think this team is capable of going back to back and I think I
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that they're going to show they can go back to back in a week one, I don't know they can show it in week two or three or you know whenever but at some point maybe around the middle of the season you're sitting there looking at this team going yeah they're they're once again an astral championship container make sure you're subscribed as a central Indiana sports report so you don't miss any of the IU reports including
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[SPEAKER_02]: their reactions to Saturday season opener.
14:28
[SPEAKER_01]: On paper, and if you talk to certain people, they'll tell you this, the seniority can be better than last year, talent-wise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the questions that I have is,
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[SPEAKER_01]: the secondary, that to me is the secondary and the reshuffling on the O.I.
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[SPEAKER_01]: are the two things that I'm most interested in, and seeing how they play out in an actual game on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Sharp is back at Corner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They got the safety out of Wisconsin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They did Harris.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Penn State Transfer at Corner is very highly touted coming out of the portal,
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[SPEAKER_01]: he's replacing the angel opons man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, one of the, one of the, I don't think it's hyperbally to say one of the 10 best players in Indiana program history is the angel opons, so that's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the biggest test for this coaching staff is how does this secondary shake out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lou Moore's gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Guy who went to camp in the NFL was kind of a surprise cut by the Dolphins honestly last weekend, a lot of positive reviews of his play over OTAs and things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: there's a ton of experience and a ton of talent and just playmaking ability gone from that secondary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So how's that going to shake out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the O-line, I think we know what we have in Carter Smith.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is coming back from a shoulder surgery, you know, from an injury suffered in the national title game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of been rehabbing that all summer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you lose Cougat, the heart and soul of that line last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The, what was the offense of MVP of the, of the rosable?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, Drew Evans, if he stays healthy, he makes that line a lot better when he got hurt in 24.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's when the line really started to fall apart when he was out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: last year for a couple games, the lion seemed to struggle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a really important piece at guard.
16:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, Brailant is going to be the guy starting at Center for Cougan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's...
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[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't really seen it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If we know what Cougan was coming from Notre Dame, we had high expectations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't really know a lot about Bury and how he's gonna fill that role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the O-line reshuffle and the secondary or my two things to watch early in the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Kurt Signetti said this week that he probably would like there to be a little more depth in the secondary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously you have Rylan Gandhi
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like every week in his press conference, he's praised how but she's like, Rylan Gandhi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In my opinion, he could be one of yours that makes a big jump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could see him playing a huge role this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned sharp coming back, obviously, we remember him, Preston Zachman transfer from Wisconsin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, we talked about AJ Harris from Penn State to highest transfer
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh uh yeah one of the highest recruits in program history if you count the transfer portal he's gonna be at staple at corner back and then Byron Baldwin but I felt like was a little bit under look the last couple years and then one guy we all forgot to mention a Mari Feral is back at the free safety position so the secondary is good
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[SPEAKER_00]: My question is with the death.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have quant things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a transfer, he started it since at Attie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Carson Williams was a starter at Montana State that won an FCS National Championship this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, the secondary could be tough, but man, look at it this front seven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not just talking about the front six, but also who they have coming in, depth wise for their defensive line, and then their linebackers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: transfer from Kansas State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tyre Tucker obviously coming back probably could be an all-American no stackel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mario Landino and other all-American candidate defensive tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Toby Oston-Thami, nobody's talking about him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was one of the best defensive players in the country last year.
18:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you return to great linebackers from your national championship team last year, realize your hearty and Isaiah bones, Jones.
18:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah Jones obviously is going to get the attention he's the guy that replaces eight in fishery.
19:04
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be your green dot for Bryant Haines's defense this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was really good kind of at that weekside linebacker position last season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He came in and he played the green dot when Fisher got hurt and didn't play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the Maryland game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He came in and was huge for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to kind of be the
19:30
[SPEAKER_00]: But then when you look at the depth you have Josh Burnham who's a backup defensive end comes in from Notre Dame started at Notre Dame Joe Helgi I believe is how you say it
19:40
[SPEAKER_00]: he comes in I think from Tulsa he played a lot there and then guys like Daniel and Duke way who played a huge role in the playoff run Jeff Latzinger who's kind of been a special team's guys back up linebacker and Kate and Turner who played a lot the back half of the season as well so there's been depth on that front six there and then Tyrone Burris who is a guy he came in I think I think he came in from
20:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Lawrence Stentrol or Warren Stentrol, maybe Lawrence Thorthernery's from Indianapolis, but the death on that defense is just really impressive.
20:13
[SPEAKER_00]: And then going back to your point of that offensive line there, pray wins the center.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, like you mentioned, Drew Evans, left guard, Carter Smith left tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The biggest win of the offseason came literally right after the National Championship on Carter Smith.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the field after one of the National Championship
20:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, one of the guys that I'm a little concerned with in the O line shuffle is Adam Oley a Johnny.
20:38
[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of came in there late.
20:40
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... they had him at a tackle spot at one point last year they've now moved to him to write guard i think probably a more comfortable position and then they bring in private best offensive linemen from west constant i know what's got to send a good team they've had some good online joe brunner will be there right tackle this season so it'll be interesting to see that offensive line their depth is kind of young you know letter red shirt and true freshman coming in off the uh...
21:10
[SPEAKER_00]: But then when you look at the field guys, we know Hoover's going to be the quarterback turbo Richard is going to be in the back field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kobe Martin's going to split a lot of carries with him.
21:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we know Nick Marsh coming in for Michigan State, Charlie Becker as well, Tyler Morris, and then Shaz Preston, probably the best receiver at two lane last year.
21:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously to the see guys like Davy on Chandler and LeBron, Bob to take take a big leap.
21:36
[SPEAKER_00]: One position group we haven't mentioned is the tight ends there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where I, you know, not concerned, but just kind of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Question a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Brock shot went to Leo high school up in Fort Wayne.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He transfers in from Miami.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you have Andrew Barker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually a coconut kid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that that is a really inexperienced tight in room that they'll have to work in and grant canes the tight in coach special teams coach as well.
22:02
[SPEAKER_00]: So the tight in room is really going to be interesting from Indiana.
22:06
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
22:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, I'm thinking about what Riley Noah Caleski met to that team last year.
22:12
[SPEAKER_00]: At that time, we're going to sit back in 15 years and just, like, man, remember how big Riley Noah Calsky was for that national championship team?
22:21
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
22:22
[SPEAKER_01]: My, my really close friends are stealer guys, you know, stealer season ticket holders.
22:28
[SPEAKER_01]: And they've been texting me in the preseason, like, we freaking love this guy.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Was he this good?
22:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, he was that good.
22:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he really seems to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was fantastic last year, as we talked about all year last year.
22:42
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, guys, make some predictions.
22:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for this game, against North Texas, here I know we talked about it on the season preview.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna kind of stick with it.
22:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna take Indiana to win.
22:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll cover honestly.
23:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it'll be right at the spread.
23:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna take Indiana to win the game.
23:10
[SPEAKER_00]: 42 to 14 over North Texas on Saturday.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a game where, you know, kind of like last year, we're sitting in half time wondering, why is this game close?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he has dominating the game, but it's, you know, 10 to three right now, I don't, I don't get it.
23:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it ain't a pulls away.
23:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it ain't a wins of the game, like something along the lines, like 38 to 10, you know, somewhere in that ballpark, I just don't expect a lot of fireworks from them on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The heck, they may come out and just show out, like, look, we got Charlie B.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Nick Morris, we've got this Shaz guy, Tyler Morris runs a punt back, you know, and they may put do like a 60 to 10 tight scenario, but I think Indiana keeps it pretty buttoned up, they get guys reps, they just try to line up and beat this team on pure physicality and and he wins something like 38 to 10.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, before we go, I wanted to mention that
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[SPEAKER_00]: all-time meeting between Indiana and North Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first meeting was on September 24, 2011.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In Denton, North Texas, 124, 21, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I kinda somewhat have a recollection of that game somehow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you did the mic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to, I remember following it on my phone thinking, really, North Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, play loss, I game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they played again in 2014, Indiana 149, 24 on October 4th in Bloomington.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one last stat here and maybe one trivia question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know we got to wrap this up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Indiana in their last 21 openers going back to 2005, believe it or not, it's 17 and four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've started 180, 17 out of the last 21 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: two season opening losses for Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've been within the last 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, 2021.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They last 34 to six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Iowa and I think here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I'm going to be able to come up with the other one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's probably going to be one that I'm just going to be obvious to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't they lose, I take that back, I take that back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to look at the last three losses they've had.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned the Iowa one, I forgot about one of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I'll give you a hint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They lost to the same team twice to open the season in the last 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know who it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The same team twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a conference game, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is not a conference game, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ohio State, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ohio State, they lost in 2023, the last year of time out on 23 to three, that game was hilarious just because like Indiana, like was spooky for a half against Ohio State, it was kind of seem to be the trend then, like they would be kind of spooky for him for like a quarter and a half or like a half of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they were spooky that game, Ohio State was super underwhelming that year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They won 23 to three in Bloomington.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then in 2017, the Thursday night game on there, forget it as maybe like the most punch I ever watched from one team in a game that I can remember.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, gosh, I wasn't that old, I think I was 12, 12 or 13, they they lost
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so those are the last three they've lost open the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've all been comforts games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then throw this one out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They lost in 2011 to Ball State at LucasLail Stadium, 27, 20.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't really remember that one early Kevin Wilson days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember that season as it being they beat South Carolina State is the only game they won because I was there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But like they lost the Ball State and North Texas that you're embarrassing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were the worst team in D, they were the worst team in D, one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were actually worse than probably the last couple per few teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of, speaking of, you want to play trivia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Grant, what number is North Texas in Matt Painter Bingo?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are number 13.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're the 13 on Matt Painter's Embarrassing First Round NDA Tournament
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[SPEAKER_00]: They beat them at Lucas oil stadium on Friday night at the COVID year in C. Double A tournament.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched the game and celebrated that was awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a, I forgot about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We only need a 14.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Almost.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're, we're, we're, we're, we've, we've got a 12, a 13, a 15 and a 16.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Makes a lot of good points to those press conference, is that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: 34 to nine is my prediction for the record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll have a full reaction of this game coming up probably on Sunday or Monday or potentially on the next eye you report next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't really know quite yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're kind of playing it by ear, so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But looking forward to keep doing this all year with the previews and all that kind of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be another fun year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoy putting stats together, and it gives me something to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it lets me channel my inner Kevin Harris.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm enjoying it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh, that notebook was the original John Harold man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care what anybody says.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good night everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time for producing a whole talk.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Make sure you tune in for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do, friends.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was taken.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I needed to go to sleep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The central Indian sports report is a product of ITG media, and I love Susie.