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BONUS: Iowa's Kirk Ferentz Recaps Shocking Upset Over Michigan · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, this is time for another bonus show, and
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  Speaker 1: this is not something we normally do. We don't normally
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  Speaker 1: give you the sort of press conference clips from the
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  Speaker 1: opposing team for the next game. This is, in this case,
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  Speaker 1: a chance to hear a little bit from Iowa head
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  Speaker 1: coach Kirk Ferentz following his team's 20-19 win over Michigan
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  Speaker 1: on the final play up in Ann Arbor on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: So Why are we doing this? Okay, well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to let you in on some careful market research we've
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  Speaker 1: been conducting over the span of many years. Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: fans definitely interested in whoever the Buckeyes are playing next.
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  Speaker 1: That's obviously something that Ohio State fans are interested in.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another thing Ohio State fans tend to enjoy. Hearing
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  Speaker 1: about Michigan suffering crushing losses and those two areas intersected
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday in Ann Arbor. as Iowa, Ohio State's next opponent,
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  Speaker 1: stunned the Wolverines 20-19 on a touchdown on the final
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  Speaker 1: play of the game on a 16-yard back shoulder throw
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  Speaker 1: from Hank Brown to Reese Vanderzee. I'm going to guess
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  Speaker 1: you have probably seen that online and watched that, I
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  Speaker 1: will say, an average of between 6 and 10 times.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to let you hear a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from Kirk Ferens and the Iowa Hawkeyes about that, just
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  Speaker 1: to sort of let you start hearing about some of
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  Speaker 1: the players who the Buckeyes are going to be facing
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  Speaker 1: next weekend in Iowa City. This is going to start
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  Speaker 1: with his general statement just to open the press conference,
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  Speaker 1: and just a couple quick notes to give you some
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  Speaker 1: context here. You're going to hear him reference the Capital
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  Speaker 1: One Bowl. That was the 2005 game where they stunned
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  Speaker 1: LSU on a final play Hail Mary, so sort of
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  Speaker 1: a similar final play win. You will also note that
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  Speaker 1: he talks about being absolutely fine with running for three
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  Speaker 1: yards at a clip on the ground. That's the philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: and it's boring, but it does seem to work more
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  Speaker 1: than you'd think.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep us pretty short, but obviously we're really proud
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  Speaker 2: of our players. Just a phenomenal effort and really was
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  Speaker 2: all week long. And basically everybody associated with the team,
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  Speaker 2: support staff, everybody just did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: And today is clearly a total team effort.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are all at the game. There's nothing easy
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  Speaker 2: out there. We anticipated that going into it. But good
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  Speaker 2: news is nobody flinched. Everybody just kept playing. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why they got 60 minutes up there. So just really
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  Speaker 2: proud of our guys there. You know, everybody's going to
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  Speaker 2: remember the end of this one, rightfully so, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit like the Capital One bullets, you know,
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  Speaker 2: really all about the 59 minutes prior to to get
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  Speaker 2: you there. And I couldn't be prouder of the way
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  Speaker 2: the guys hung in there and what they did and
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  Speaker 2: how they executed that last possession.
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  Speaker 3: But, again, it was, you know, it took.
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  Speaker 2: The total effort, and we knew things weren't going to
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  Speaker 2: be easy today kind of coming into this game. And
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  Speaker 2: that was one of the emphasis points is, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just we'll live with three-yard runs if we got them.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep pushing it and just keep playing. That's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan's a really talented team, really good team, and extremely
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  Speaker 2: well coached. But again, just really proud of our guys,
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  Speaker 2: the effort that they put in. It really got down
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  Speaker 2: to mental toughness for us. Our guys stay in the
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  Speaker 2: course and just go on there and go back to
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  Speaker 2: the Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Moore, hardest and longest.
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  Speaker 2: If you're doing it right, you give yourself a chance
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  Speaker 2: to make that true, and that's really what it got done.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously happy. We'll leave here at some point and go
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  Speaker 2: back to Iowa. Nobody's in our area in there right now,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll look forward to that. We're going to enjoy
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  Speaker 2: it tonight, study it tomorrow just like we would any game.
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  Speaker 2: A lot to learn from, certainly, in all facets, all
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  Speaker 2: three areas. Plenty to improve upon, but we're going to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy that. It really gets down to just basically right
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  Speaker 2: now it's a 13-day race for us, and that's really
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  Speaker 2: what our mindset's been. Four games into it, obviously happy
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  Speaker 2: with what we've done so far. the next 13 days
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  Speaker 2: are really going to be important for this, this team
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  Speaker 2: and we're developing, we're getting better moving forward, but obviously
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  Speaker 2: a lot of work to do still.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of the season.
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  Speaker 1: In that last answer, you did hear him mention the
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  Speaker 1: next 13 days. So just to give you some context there,
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  Speaker 1: that is this week's weekend's game against Ohio state, and
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  Speaker 1: then a trip out to Washington before their week off.
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  Speaker 1: So that's sort of the next chunk of the schedule
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  Speaker 1: that they're looking at. That's why they're looking at the
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  Speaker 1: next 13 days there. So, Kirk Ferentz is not the
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  Speaker 1: most over-the-top guy by any means, not on the field,
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  Speaker 1: not on the sidelines, not in terms of his offense,
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  Speaker 1: not in terms of anything. But his players did say
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  Speaker 1: he got emotional in the locker room after the game
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday in Ann Arbor. So what do games like
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  Speaker 1: this mean to him at this stage of his career?
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  Speaker 3: Same as they did 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a breeze of happiness is watching guys work hard,
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  Speaker 2: which they do.
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  Speaker 3: They have to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you play at this level. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: when I was in college, like that was rec sports.
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  Speaker 2: This is a really serious thing, and these guys put
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  Speaker 2: so much time and effort in, and they're invested. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to see them do things maybe they didn't
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  Speaker 2: envision happening, not much around vision, that's quite frankly. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: you just never know how it's going to go. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the fun part about this is when you see
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  Speaker 2: guys just, you know, do some things that are pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Ferentz has talked about the fact that the offensive personnel
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  Speaker 1: has improved on their team over the last few years,
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  Speaker 1: and this year's team is definitely a step ahead of
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  Speaker 1: where they were a few years ago. Now, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear him in this answer reference the last time
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  Speaker 1: they played Michigan. That was in the Big Ten title
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  Speaker 1: game in 2023. In that game, in case you have
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  Speaker 1: tried to drive it from your memory, and I understand why,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa had 155 total yards, three turnovers. They got shut out.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't cross midfield in the first half, and they
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  Speaker 1: never got closer. to scoring than by reaching the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: 44 at one point. So then to go from that
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  Speaker 1: in 2023 to put together an 11-play, 91-yard drive to
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  Speaker 1: win the game on Saturday, well, yeah, man, that does
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  Speaker 1: feel like an improvement.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, last time we played these guys, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get too in-depth, but we had
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  Speaker 2: some challenges.
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  Speaker 3: We don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I think the story that year was how did we
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  Speaker 2: win 10 games? It was a hell of a job
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  Speaker 2: by everybody, the coaches, the players. So, you know, We're
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  Speaker 2: playing a championship game. Probably we weren't on par with
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  Speaker 2: our opponent in that game. That happens sometimes. You still
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  Speaker 2: got to go play, and we did that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're in a little better shape right now. Part of
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  Speaker 2: it is some newcomers have helped us out. A bigger
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  Speaker 2: part is let's go back. That's the beauty of college football.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say Van Der Zee's a much better player than
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  Speaker 2: he was two years ago. So is Dayton Howard. Our
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  Speaker 2: tight ends are all better guys than they were. Vontae
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  Speaker 2: made nobody who he was two years ago, so to
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  Speaker 2: watch guys grow and improve. And we certainly, I think,
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  Speaker 2: we've got some guys that can threaten, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: a good group of backs. And then Bray Jackson, right,
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  Speaker 2: what a play today for him, and what a response
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  Speaker 2: that was. So that's, you know, that's when you get
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  Speaker 2: some guys that are capable of doing that, it just makes.
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  Speaker 3: It a little bit easier. And, you know, so it's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit healthier that way. I'll skip over Hank Brown. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played a great game today. Again, nothing
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  Speaker 2: was easy. It wasn't going great. There was not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of rhythm. Second quarter, or third quarter, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: the ball three plays, and then maybe something there the
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  Speaker 2: last minute. They did a great job hanging on to
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  Speaker 2: the ball, making it tough for us, but Hank never
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  Speaker 2: lost his poise. I don't think he stayed in control,
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  Speaker 2: and then he got nailed on that last two-minute drive
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  Speaker 2: and got back up on his feet, and he's there
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  Speaker 2: at the end. So that's got to be good for
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  Speaker 2: his confidence, too.
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  Speaker 1: So this is one of these questions where you ask
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  Speaker 1: and you hope to get a really exciting answer. And
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  Speaker 1: instead you get an interesting answer. And he talks about
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of different stuff here. The question is, what
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  Speaker 1: is he thinking as that last play is sort of developing?
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  Speaker 1: And so he actually starts talking about what happened before
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  Speaker 1: that last play. And you're going to hear him reference
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  Speaker 1: an injury if you did not watch the game live.
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  Speaker 1: Iowa was out of timeouts. They only had two seconds left.
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  Speaker 1: So therefore, by rule, they did not have time to
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  Speaker 1: spike it. You need three seconds to spike it. So
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have a chance to spike it. So When
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  Speaker 1: they complete a pass for a first down, they've got
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  Speaker 1: two seconds left on the clock. The clock has stopped
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  Speaker 1: as they set the chains. And then they were going
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  Speaker 1: to have to just snap it and just do something
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  Speaker 1: real quick. Instead, Michigan defensive lineman John Henry Daly went
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  Speaker 1: down for an injury right before that last play. So
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  Speaker 1: it provided them a little bit of time to get
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  Speaker 1: things together before that winning touchdown. All right, here's Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Ferentz's thoughts on that last play.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had two seconds. And luckily, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to phrase this. First of all, I
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  Speaker 2: hate to see anybody get injured, but that was a
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  Speaker 2: huge help to us.
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  Speaker 3: It gave us a chance to get on the staff.
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  Speaker 2: We would have had a chance to at least get
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  Speaker 2: the ball off on the other way, but it gave
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  Speaker 2: us a chance to get what we want. And again,
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  Speaker 2: the guys just did a great job of executing.
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  Speaker 1: Iowa quarterback is one of those job titles where everyone
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  Speaker 1: sort of cringes when they hear it. But Hank Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Hank Brown, Iowa's quarterback this year, he's definitely taken some
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  Speaker 1: steps forward since last year. Last year, they had some
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  Speaker 1: close losses. But, you know, to see him then go
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  Speaker 1: from those games where his performance was not always great
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  Speaker 1: to then have the moment that he did in Ann
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  Speaker 1: Arbor on Saturday, what did that mean to Kirk Behrens?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I've tried to emphasize, maybe dwell on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for fans.
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  Speaker 2: Like, don't, what happened last year is, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: do they call it in court? Inadmissible evidence, right? I mean, that's, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we all saw it and he wished he'd done better.
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  Speaker 2: But that didn't define his career. I mean, it's just,
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  Speaker 2: he was, you know, he didn't know what the hell
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  Speaker 2: he was doing, quite frankly, at that point in young innings.
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  Speaker 3: Not in a negative way.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell you, you know, I'd get in trouble for
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  Speaker 2: talking about quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: But he was a young, inexperienced player.
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  Speaker 2: He's so much a better player now than he was
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, as is Jeremy. And we are really
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  Speaker 2: happy with both these guys. They practice well. They give
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  Speaker 2: you confidence. And, again, that's the beauty of the sport.
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  Speaker 2: You know, think about Van Der Zee being a better player.
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  Speaker 2: DJ's a much better player because they work out, they've
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  Speaker 2: got great attitudes.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, about a lot of our guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Jay Montgomery, we didn't know who that was defensively, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a year ago at this time. And then he gets
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  Speaker 2: his opportunity and just takes off and goes with it. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just that stuff was ancient history. We, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we started back in January with a clean slate for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And same thing with Lutmer. I mean, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a new season. We're all going to calendar year. And what's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what are you going to do? I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 2: He's still one of our best players and we expected that,
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  Speaker 2: but there's no givens in life.
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  Speaker 1: I skipped an answer because it was a long answer
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  Speaker 1: that was not particularly interesting, but he did have an
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  Speaker 1: interesting stat in which Iowa is 78-5 in games where
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  Speaker 1: they win the turnover battle. That is definitely one to
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  Speaker 1: stick in your back pocket for this week. That is
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  Speaker 1: a stat that Kirk Ferentz referenced during one of his
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  Speaker 1: answers that I'm not playing for you here, but The
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  Speaker 1: next question that I am going to play for you
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  Speaker 1: here is sort of how the pass game developed for
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  Speaker 1: them throughout the course of the day. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there was.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing easy out there and it got loud and certainly
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  Speaker 2: got loud in that last possession. That's the stuff you
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  Speaker 2: try to simulate in the practice week, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: the same. You know, just the energy and you just
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  Speaker 2: feel like the field's tilting down towards you when you
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  Speaker 2: get 91 yards to go.
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  Speaker 3: So just really proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 2: And Michigan had an opponent a couple weeks ago that
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  Speaker 2: didn't fare as well in that situation. So as a
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  Speaker 2: real credit to our guys, they showed good mental toughness.
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  Speaker 3: And got it done.
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  Speaker 1: Ferentz was asked about sort of a process question here.
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  Speaker 1: They decided to kick a 51-yard field goal on 4th
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  Speaker 1: and 6th when it was late in the game, and
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  Speaker 1: they were down 5 points. It was going to be
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  Speaker 1: 4th and 1. The offensive line had a false start,
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  Speaker 1: so okay, then it's 4th and 6th. He decides to
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  Speaker 1: kick it instead. 51-yard field goal, and they missed it.
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  Speaker 1: I will note for everyone, I'm going to spell, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say the quiet part out loud here. Note
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  Speaker 1: that other teams' kickers, even those known for special teams,
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  Speaker 1: do at times miss crucial kicks. So, okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: There's the subtext there. But what was the thinking there
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  Speaker 1: for Kirk Ferentz deciding to kick it when they were
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  Speaker 1: down five late? You weren't sure you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back. So this is kind of an interesting
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  Speaker 1: window into his thought process in what he does in
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  Speaker 1: those close and late situations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and, you know, we got moved back a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So thinking there was obviously you're playing for the field goal,
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  Speaker 2: and we felt like that was within the line, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that we established halftime and pregame. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what you're playing for then is get the ball back,
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  Speaker 2: you go onside, kick it, or more likely we had
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  Speaker 2: three timeouts, so kick it down there, count on the defense,
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  Speaker 2: get the ball back, and then you got another two-minute drive,
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  Speaker 2: but it only would have taken three points to win
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  Speaker 2: the game at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of having to go for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: So I would have preferred that scenario instead of 91
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  Speaker 2: yards on the touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: What do I know?
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  Speaker 1: The guy who played hero at the very end of
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  Speaker 1: the game was Reese Vander Zee, wide receiver for Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: He was ranked the 134th receiver in the 2024 recruiting class,
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  Speaker 1: ranked below 1,000 overall in that class. I will name
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  Speaker 1: off some of the top guys just so you can
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  Speaker 1: sort of put this in time. The top wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: in the 2024 class, Jeremiah Smith. Number two, Cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, Ryan Coleman-Williams. I'm guessing you have probably heard
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  Speaker 1: of all three of those guys. Vanderzee, though, he was
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  Speaker 1: ranked right behind a guy who went to... I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a second to think about where did the guy
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  Speaker 1: ranked right ahead of him go to college. How about
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  Speaker 1: West Florida? He's a West Florida Argonaut. So that gives
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  Speaker 1: you a sense for where Reese Vanderzee fell in the
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  Speaker 1: recruiting rankings. But he's a guy who his teammates talk
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  Speaker 1: about all the time. And this is, you know, predates Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: This has been sort of a storyline anytime he gets
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  Speaker 1: brought up. Great teammate, really respected player on the team.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean to Kirk Ferentz to see a
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  Speaker 1: player like that have a moment like that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, historically, a lot of our best guys, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say just about all of our best guys have
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  Speaker 2: been our best guys.
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  Speaker 3: To me, the two go together, like, you know.
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  Speaker 2: In my career, I mean, most of the best players
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  Speaker 2: I've been around were just like stellar team guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: teammates and all that. And Reese is unreal. He just
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  Speaker 2: always has a smile on his face. He's always got
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  Speaker 2: a great attitude. His only challenge really over the last
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  Speaker 2: two plus years would be he dealt with injuries. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but this year, knock on wood, he's been
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  Speaker 2: able just to, you know, he's practiced every day.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how players get better, too, is you've got
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  Speaker 3: to practice.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you've got to compete in games, but that– just
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  Speaker 2: doing that practice, putting the work in, and you can't
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  Speaker 2: do it when you've got some injury to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just really happy for him. He certainly earns
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  Speaker 3: it and works hard for it.
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  Speaker 1: Coaches have their little sayings and their little catchphrases, and
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day has fight, and so they have a theme
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  Speaker 1: for the year. This is a very common thing. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things that Kirk Ferentz has really been drumming
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  Speaker 1: into his team is going the hardest way for the longest.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're playing a 60-minute game, yeah, that sort
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  Speaker 1: of feels like, yeah, if you can keep going hard
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  Speaker 1: all game long, scrap and claw and come back to win,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: does a game like that help build confidence in the
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: team in that belief?
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I think our guys have belief in that. I really do.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: It's kind of in the history of the program. When
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: we're doing well, our guys go hard. They play hard.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: You know, you go as long as you have to go. Sometimes,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: you know, 60 minutes in a second, you never know.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: So it's just about, you know, staying in the game
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: and playing the game as hard as you can. And
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: the coolest part about it was players, you know, recognized
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Tom in the locker room.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: It was pretty cool.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: So that was not the best part of the day,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: but it's up there in the top three.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Iowa entered that last drive down by five points, 91
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: yards away from the end zone inside the two-minute warning.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: What did they see on the sidelines? What did the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: coaching staff see on the sidelines from the offense and
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: quarterback Hank Brown in terms of their level of confidence,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: level of comfort going into that last drive?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: That's one more thing we couldn't simulate was trailing on
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the road, you know, for accident at home.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: But so that was.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Valuable for our whole team because none of these guys
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: were pretty, you know, fairly young that way. And then
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: they'd be out there with a tough crowd and a
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: tough team playing. You know, it's tough to duplicate that.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: So that's got to be huge. And if we'll let it,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it'll be a really good, you know, building, helping build
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: our foundation. That's all we're trying to do is build
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: a good team right now. And, you know, our work
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: is hardly done. But this is, you know, the one-on-one
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: game like this where you really got to fight for it.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: You know, we were playing uphill almost the entire day.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Those are good things, you know, and it's, you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: There's going to be more of those coming. It's just
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: part of playing in this conference and any game on
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the road is hard, typically in our league. So, you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: like I said, we'll start worrying about that tomorrow. Right
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: now we're going to enjoy this one.
• 16:44
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• 16:46
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• 16:49
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• 16:51
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• 16:57
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• 17:00
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• 17:04
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• 17:06
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• 17:10
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