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Set 2: No Ice Cream Trucks Needed (w/ Charles Huff) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Our thanks to Mel Kiper Jr. for joining us in
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: set one.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Taylor is right. Matt Rushmore of guests.
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: He's number one on my list. Chris Sims is going
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: to be offended by that. What, Mikey?
• 0:32
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Who was right? Taylor? Who? You were both right, all right?
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: But you were wrong about a fork.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: No, I'm trying to figure out who Taylor is.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Lance. My bad. We'll get
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: to that in a second.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I know where we're going here, and we'll get to
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Lance in just a second. I was just trying to
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: promote Charles Huff, who's coming up here in about five
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: to ten minutes here, the head coach at Memphis. And, Mikey,
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  Speaker 1: I did not realize– that we have spoken to Charles
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  Speaker 1: Huff before. We spoke to him right after Marshall beat
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and now he has moved on to Memphis,
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  Speaker 1: and I am excited to talk to him in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes. Now let's get to Lance, okay? Because
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: we had Mel on, and it started. Mikey, what happened here?
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  Speaker 1: Because when we first got Mel on, he was talking
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: to Taylor as Taylor, and then as the interview went on,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly Taylor became Lance.
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: So, peek behind the curtain when.
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: when Mel joined the zoom, I was talking to Mel,
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: you guys hadn't joined yet.
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  Speaker 2: And he asked me who was going to be on.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, it's going to be me and Stu
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  Speaker 4: Gatz and Taylor. And he goes, Oh, you Stu Gatz
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  Speaker 4: and Lance. And I said, no, his name's Taylor. And
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  Speaker 4: he goes, Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking of somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why I thought Lance, it was another
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  Speaker 4: producer from another show.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Problem fixed. Right. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 5: But to Stu's point, the interview started, and every time
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  Speaker 5: I asked a question, he would say... Yeah. Taylor kept
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: saying Taylor. And then Mikey texted me on the side
• 2:10
  Speaker 5: and said, do you hear that? He keeps calling you Lance.
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  Speaker 5: And I said, no, I haven't, I haven't noticed that.
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  Speaker 5: And then the next time I asked the question, I
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  Speaker 5: was like, let me hear, let me listen in specifically
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  Speaker 5: how he refers to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And it couldn't have been a more clear Lance.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened there was I think front end, he,
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  Speaker 1: it was established Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: He got it.
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  Speaker 1: And then he just, he lapsed back. It happens with
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  Speaker 1: age Taylor. He laughs back into Lance.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Who was he thinking of? I mean, Trey Lance?
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: Lance Bass?
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  Speaker 2: Now I want to come up with top five Lances
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  Speaker 2: of all time.
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  Speaker 5: Lance Armstrong.
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  Speaker 2: And Lance Vipolis would be number one.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, Lance a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Lance Vipolis. Oh, my God. How great is that, man?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, are you guys down with the idea where.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: We draft flowers for the garden and And Mel breaks
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: down our picks as we're drafting them.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: I think I.
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  Speaker 4: Would feel more comfortable sharing with Mel a big board
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  Speaker 4: of my college football players than I would be the
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  Speaker 4: wrath that'll be if I pick the wrong flowers. Because
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  Speaker 4: he seemed really into it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Well, of course he is. He's Mel.
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  Speaker 5: And it seems like Mel Kuyper wouldn't respect a first-round
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  Speaker 5: pick of roses. Like, in Mel Kuyper's eyes.
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  Speaker 2: No, too easy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: In Mel Kuyper's eyes, the roses is the overrated prospect
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  Speaker 5: coming out of college.
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  Speaker 1: The roses are in the minor leagues if you're Mel Kuyper.
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  Speaker 1: The way he cares about flowers and gardens. He has
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  Speaker 1: no time for roses.
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  Speaker 2: He wants petunias. I mean, it's the only other flower
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  Speaker 2: I knew.
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  Speaker 3: Pansies.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, the pansies. He loves the pansies. He really does. Um, it's, uh, he,
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  Speaker 2: he really is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not certain there is a better guest I've ever
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  Speaker 1: had on any show at any point in my 20
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  Speaker 1: plus years of doing this. Taylor is so, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Lance is so right about this. Um, he's the greatest.
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  Speaker 1: He just knows how to fill time. Like you have
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  Speaker 1: followups and Mel will answer your followup within his answer
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  Speaker 1: for the first question.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like Charles Huff could give him a run
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  Speaker 5: for his money because I love Charles Huff. The more
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  Speaker 5: I listen to Charles Huff talk at Memphis, the more
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  Speaker 5: I wish I could go back to college and play
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  Speaker 5: college football for Charles Huff.
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  Speaker 1: So it's odd because Charles Huff is very old school.
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  Speaker 1: He's very strict, but his kids seem to love him.
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  Speaker 1: They don't seem to care. They just seem to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's one of the great leaders, unknown leaders we
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  Speaker 1: have in.
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  Speaker 2: The sport of college football. He's great.
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  Speaker 1: He was great with me and Mikey when he came
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  Speaker 1: on after the Notre Dame victory. In fact, it just
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  Speaker 1: dawned on me, I think, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: this offer still holds. We're going to find out when
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  Speaker 1: we speak to Charles Huff. But Mikey, didn't he offer
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  Speaker 1: me the opportunity if you and I went to a
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  Speaker 1: Marshall game, which we often say we're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: but we never do it, that he would allow me
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  Speaker 1: to call a play?
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  Speaker 3: He did.
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  Speaker 4: He said you could probably call the first play if
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  Speaker 4: you wanted.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 5: I got a listener of the show in Huntington, West Virginia,
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  Speaker 5: just walking through the streets, through their day, through campus,
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  Speaker 5: and looking and being like, is that Stu Gatz? What
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  Speaker 5: has happened in his life that he's ended up in Huntington,
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  Speaker 5: West Virginia?
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  Speaker 4: Why does he have one of those Denny's menus and
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  Speaker 4: he keeps covering his mouth with it and yelling into
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  Speaker 4: a microphone?
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  Speaker 2: So now he's at Memphis. They're 1-0. They beat Dan Mullen.
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  Speaker 1: He had an Elvis impersonator come out. Mel was right
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  Speaker 1: about that, by the way, as well. So he beat
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  Speaker 1: Dan Mullen. They were down at half. They came back.
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  Speaker 1: Big halftime speech by Charles Huff. Do you think the
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  Speaker 1: offer is still going to hold? Because the school, it's
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  Speaker 1: slightly bigger in terms of profile. He has a chance,
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  Speaker 1: people are saying, of making the playoffs. If I ask
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  Speaker 1: Huff if I can call a play at a Memphis game,
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  Speaker 1: do you think the offer is going to hold?
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  Speaker 4: I think the offer could hold. I'm just wondering how
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  Speaker 4: far up Huff can climb. before you can't call a
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  Speaker 4: play no matter what happens.
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  Speaker 2: One more stop.
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  Speaker 5: And Memphis has been a school historically the past couple
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  Speaker 5: of years where their coaches have springboarded to bigger programs.
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  Speaker 5: You look at Justin Fuente, Mike Norvell, Ryan Silverfield going
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  Speaker 5: to Arkansas, Virginia Tech, and Florida State. But, Stu, I'm
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  Speaker 5: looking at Memphis' schedule.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Big one, September 12th at Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to go to Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a far trip.
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  Speaker 5: The game I have scheduled is October 22nd versus ECU.
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  Speaker 5: And the reason why I'm picking this game is because
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  Speaker 5: it's the Thursday college football game. So it's the standalone
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  Speaker 5: spot on ESPN2. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So we get maximum exposure. We get to get home
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy our weekends. We don't miss any of the
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  Speaker 1: good college football games. that are going on, and I
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  Speaker 1: get to call a play.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking it.
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  Speaker 5: You just said.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 1: The last time we spoke to this man, Charles Hoff,
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  Speaker 1: he was coming off a victory over Notre Dame at Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: He promised I could call a play. I never attended
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  Speaker 1: a game. He said if I showed up to the game,
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  Speaker 1: he would allow me to call a play. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's coaching at Memphis, and they just beat UNLV over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, do you recall allowing me?
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  Speaker 1: You said you would allow me to call a play,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm calling BS on you because there's no way
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  Speaker 1: if I showed up.
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  Speaker 2: To that game, you would have allowed me to call
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  Speaker 2: a play.
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  Speaker 6: Trust me, I'm a man of my word. So if
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  Speaker 6: you showed up, you would have called a play. Probably
• 9:18
  Speaker 6: would have been much better than us coaches. So you
• 9:21
  Speaker 6: would have been great. Or at least you wouldn't have
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: had to worry about getting fired if it was a
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  Speaker 6: bad play.
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  Speaker 1: He says it with a smile. Are you enjoying Memphis?
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  Speaker 1: This is your first season at Memphis. You had a
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  Speaker 1: big victory over the weekend. We'll get to that in
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: just a second. But are you enjoying the city of Memphis?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been great.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, I've had time in this city before, especially in
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  Speaker 6: this state recruiting and.
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  Speaker 3: The welcome, the community, the fans have been great.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, we're still a work in progress in the football department,
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  Speaker 6: but we're making strides. You know, the administration has been great.
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  Speaker 6: We got a lot of work to do, not just football. wise,
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  Speaker 6: but what we're trying to do here. But couldn't be
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  Speaker 6: prouder and happier to be around these group of people,
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  Speaker 6: these players, the.
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  Speaker 3: Fans, the whole nine.
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  Speaker 5: Coach, the win against UNLV was billed as a huge
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: game for the group of six for that playoff spot.
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  Speaker 5: How do you keep your team from getting caught up
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  Speaker 5: in that narrative, especially after the win?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like I told him on Sunday, a great job,
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  Speaker 6: but it was only four games that day. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you kind of somebody had to be the one that
• 10:27
  Speaker 6: he talked about. You know, I mean, playing week zero
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  Speaker 6: obviously creates a lot of hype and attention. Everyone's ready
• 10:35
  Speaker 6: for football to come back.
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  Speaker 3: And we did some good things. And, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: I told him.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't just come through all we came through from
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: the time we've got here to now just to win
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  Speaker 6: a game. We talked about things we wanted to put
• 10:48
  Speaker 6: in place. And then when you go back and watch
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: the film, you see that we still have a lot
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  Speaker 6: of work to do. So it's a different.
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  Speaker 3: Day and age.
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  Speaker 6: Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of noise. We
• 10:58
  Speaker 6: talked about that a little bit in the offseason. There's
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  Speaker 6: a lot of noise that comes with winning and losing.
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  Speaker 6: And managing that from our perspective in-house is is probably
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  Speaker 6: as important as how we play.
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  Speaker 3: So we focus a lot on that.
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  Speaker 6: We talk to our players about it, you know, the
• 11:16
  Speaker 6: old way you'd move on after 24 hours and you
• 11:18
  Speaker 6: wouldn't hear about it. But now, because of the way
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  Speaker 6: the media runs, you know, Monday morning, it starts all
• 11:24
  Speaker 6: over again. And you're trying to find a balance of
• 11:27
  Speaker 6: letting your players be involved in the, you know, the
• 11:30
  Speaker 6: media attention for their branding and their value. You're trying
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: to find a way to balance the head coach doing
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: interviews throughout the week. So you're still marketing the program,
• 11:40
  Speaker 6: but you still got to move on. So it's a
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  Speaker 6: tough job, but I think where we are in today's world,
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  Speaker 6: you got to kind of balance both.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, you were down 14 to seven at half. You
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  Speaker 1: outscored UNLV, I believe 20 to seven in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: I have you as a coach who gives probably the
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  Speaker 1: best halftime speech anywhere in college football.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you tell the kids at halftime?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know about the best, but first of all,
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  Speaker 6: I told him that we were playing just like I
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: was acting because I got a 15-yard penalty for questioning
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: a referee's tempo. And I was in the wrong. And
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  Speaker 6: I told him, I said, guys, I apologize. You're playing
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  Speaker 6: just like I'm acting. I said, and leadership leads emotions
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  Speaker 6: and energy. And I said, well, just like we always
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  Speaker 6: talk about, right, one is responding. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: respond and show you guys how you should be acting
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  Speaker 6: on the sidelines. And I'm asking you guys to respond
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  Speaker 6: on the field. And we talked about our process. Our
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  Speaker 6: process is a four-quarter, 60-minute process. We talk about playing
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  Speaker 6: 60 minutes with a focus and intensity that another team
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  Speaker 6: can't match. And I told them, I said, you're prepared
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  Speaker 6: for this. So go challenge their physicality. Go challenge their toughness.
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  Speaker 6: I told them, I don't think they're as tough as you.
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  Speaker 6: So go challenge it and see if they'll punch back.
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  Speaker 6: And we were able to have some success in the
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  Speaker 6: second half. Our coaches did a really good job of
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  Speaker 6: making some adjustments.
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  Speaker 3: First game of the.
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  Speaker 6: Year, there were some things that we were a little
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  Speaker 6: bit chasing ghosts on that we thought we were going
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  Speaker 6: to see but didn't see. So we were able to
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  Speaker 6: kind of settle into what we were seeing. And then
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  Speaker 6: the kids executed. I mean, they challenged their toughness. They
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  Speaker 6: challenged their physicality. They leaned back on their process. They
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  Speaker 6: leaned on each other and we were able to get
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  Speaker 6: a win.
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  Speaker 5: Coach, I don't know if you're a baseball fan, but
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: sometimes a manager has to get ejected to kind of
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  Speaker 5: rile up the group. You can kind of spin that
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  Speaker 5: penalty that you got into being like, this is what
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  Speaker 5: got the team going.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's kind of what I was thinking after the penalty.
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  Speaker 6: And then I was like, well, wait a minute, if
• 13:37
  Speaker 6: we don't score a touchdown here, that could be a
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: big moment in the game. But they bailed me out.
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  Speaker 6: So I went to the tight end and I told him,
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  Speaker 6: I said, I did that for you. I wanted you
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  Speaker 6: to catch a touchdown pass. So He was like, thank you, coach.
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  Speaker 6: I said, yeah, that's what I'm here for. I'm just
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  Speaker 6: trying to motivate you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Playing chess, not checkers. What a great spin job by you.
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  Speaker 5: Coach, when Dan Mullen brings out Elvis, that started a
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  Speaker 5: debate on our show. Does Elvis belong more to Memphis
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  Speaker 5: or Las Vegas? Would you be in favor of settling
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  Speaker 5: that on the field every year, Memphis, UNLV, For the
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  Speaker 5: Elvis Bowl trophy.
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  Speaker 2: No, there's no debate. I mean, when you think Elvis,
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  Speaker 2: you think Memphis, right, Coach?
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  Speaker 6: Well, to be honest, we probably had 80 guys on
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  Speaker 6: the trip, 80 players.
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  Speaker 3: None of them knew who Elvis is.
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  Speaker 2: Just you and Dan Mullen.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I knew who he was, and I didn't even
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  Speaker 6: really pay attention to it. I saw it after the game.
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  Speaker 6: um but none of our guys I mean now if
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: he'd had like Glorilla or Little Baby that might have
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  Speaker 6: fired us up but I don't know if you can
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: get a rental Glorilla or a rental like Little Wayne
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: or Little Baby but none of our guys had no
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  Speaker 6: clue who it was one of our guys was like
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: oh I thought that was their mascot all right so
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  Speaker 6: I I don't know if it worked um obviously it
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  Speaker 6: was it was great for for the fans and Like
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  Speaker 6: I said, after the game, I realized it.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I always thought Elvis was from Mississippi, to be completely honest.
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  Speaker 6: And he actually grew up in Memphis and then obviously
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: had his residency in Vegas. So I guess we all
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: can kind of claim, you know, Elvis.
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  Speaker 3: National treasure.
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  Speaker 2: He's all of ours.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Um, was that as excited now you beat Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, but was that as excited as you've
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: been after a victory? Because we'll get to your celebration
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: in just a second here.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, was that as excited as you've been?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we work really hard, man.
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  Speaker 6: And I, I live and die with every first down
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: every tackle because we, we put a lot of work in, man.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: So I try to enjoy the games with the kids. Um,
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Every time we win, I'm excited until I watch the film.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: So it's all for me because I know how hard
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: these kids work. I know how many fans put so
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: much energy and time and commitment into this. There's a
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: lot of fans that spend a lot of money to
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: come all the way to Vegas to support their Tigers.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: So whenever we can win, I just get excited because
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: I know it affects so many people. It affects the
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: kids in our locker room. It affects their families. It
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: affects the fans. So that's what gets me excited. And
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: then I watched the film and I get mad again.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: So it kind of balances.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: I think that Notre Dame and this win, they're two
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: different groups or two different stories. So the excitement is
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: probably the same for different reasons.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Coach, when people hear you say things after the game,
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: like no music, no ice cream truck, we don't do
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: fun things. They wonder how is that going to play
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: in recruiting? But If you follow college football, you've been
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: an elite recruiter at every stop you've been to. How
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: do you do it?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, there's the fine line, right?
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: I'm not Daddy Warbucks here and everybody hates me. There
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: are some things that we do where we have a
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: hyper sense of focus and business approach. And then there's
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: some things we do that is uberly fun. If we're
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: in a team meeting, We play music. Our guys in
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: position meetings, they play music while they're watching film. Like
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: they play music in the locker room. We play music
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: getting on the bus. We just don't play music in
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: between the actual practice time because it's hard to teach
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: when there's music blaring, right? So we try to minimize
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: the distractions, right? So we do a lot of teaching
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: in practice and it's hard to.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Teach with music on.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: We don't do a lot of fun things because the
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: time that we spend with these guys, we eat up
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: a lot of their time. So I tell them all
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: the time, I'm not going to waste your time with
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: dodgeball and ice cream trucks. I'm going to waste your
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: time with helping you become a better football player, a
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: better man, and a better student. So when it's time
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: to go, go home. Don't want you standing around eating
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: ice cream. Go get out of here. Go be yourself.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: And then again, ultimately, all the people that have an opinion,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I'm not recruiting them. I'm recruiting kids that want an
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: opportunity to create value for themselves and want a relationship,
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: want to be with a head coach that's willing and
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: available to develop that relationship to help them grow. You
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: tell them straightforward, this is how it is. I think
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: kids ultimately want discipline. They want accountability. They don't want
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: to be lied to and fluffed to and told, hey,
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: you're really, really good, and hey, everything is going to
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: be great. They want the truth. Who they're willing to
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: accept that from is the difference, right? They don't want
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: the truth from social media. They want the truth from
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: a person that has a relationship with them, that can
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: look them in the eye, be honest with them, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: help them grow.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Coach, just to be clear, you do love a good
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: ice cream truck, right? I mean, just a, yeah?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's not during football time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: If you guys want to go on your own and
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: go downtown Memphis and get ice cream, go right ahead.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: But while we're over here, we got a little bit
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: of time. We get these guys for six months, really, right,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: when you talk about during the season. So you got
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: January to December, and some of these guys' college careers
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: are over. So I'm responsible for trying to help a
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: young man create value for his entire life in a 12- or.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: A 10-month span.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I don't have time for ice cream trucks, right? So
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I got to make sure that I'm maximizing that opportunity.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Some of these guys may go on to play in
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: the NFL.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: A lot of them won't.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: But the time that I spend with them in these
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: 10 months could change their life. So I try to
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: focus on that. They can chase ice cream trucks and
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: all that stuff when they get out of here. But
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: I just don't have enough time. It's not like the
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: old days where you had five years, right? I don't
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: have five years anymore. I get 10 months, sometimes less.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: to change young men's lives. So I try to do
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: that with as much intentionality as possible.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Awesome. Coach, there's a large national conversation right now about NFL.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: players trying to go back to college. I walked on
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: to the University of North Carolina. If I had a
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: fifth year right now, I'd be at Memphis.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: So would I.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Well, look, if you're tough, physical, and don't mind no
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: music at practice, you'll fit right in.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: You're out, Taylor.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he doesn't care about music. This guy had
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: an open bar. He ordered a Shirley Temple, Coach. He
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: doesn't care. He's responsible.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: This guy's taking care of his body.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Speaking of taking care of your body, what happened there
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: in the post-game celebration?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Did you miss time to jump? What was going on there?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: No, well, I mean, our D-line was playing so well
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: that I wanted to give them another.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Sack, so I made sure.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: that I sacrifice myself to get them another stat to
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: make them feel good.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Again, I'm all about the players, man. If I can
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: help the players, whether that's.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Motivating them and getting them 15 more yards to throw
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: a touchdown pass or getting them one more sack opportunity
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: before we leave, you know.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: The Raiders stadium.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Some of those kids may never play in that stadium again.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: So I wanted him to tackle one more person before
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: we got out of there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Again, chestnut checkers. Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: All right, Coach, I'm telling you, Taylor wants to play
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: at Memphis. I just want to call play for you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So now I am promising if we attend the Memphis game, OK,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and we'll do it at home. Will I be allowed
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to call one of your first plays on offense?
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: I'll let you call the first play on offense, whatever
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: game you make it to. And we'll make sure that
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: you're on the scoreboard for the result of if it
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: goes good or goes bad.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: We'll leave it up to you.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Taylor, make this happen, please.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Just throw me on the plane to Memphis and just
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get me there.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: What game? Any game in particular or just pick a game?
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Any game.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: I don't want to handcuff you from your true ability,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: your true calling.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: This is very exciting. And if the play works, do
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I get to call another? I pushed it too far.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: You can take my spot. We'll switch roles.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: You can take all the credit. I'll do the podcast.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: I'll critique. I'll have all the answers on Monday of
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: what you should have did.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I'll be good.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: All right, Coach. We appreciate it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Congratulations again on the 1-0 start.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Week 1 is coming up this week.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You guys have a shot at the playoffs, right? You
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: tell your kids that. You have a shot in the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: 12-team playoff. Memphis has a shot.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: We got an opportunity to play really well this week,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: and that's the reality of it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of football left. I said before the game,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: it's one game.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, if we don't win another game, no one
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: will ever remember me chest bumping and falling.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: No one will ever remember me going to Vegas. No
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: one will ever remember.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: So we got an opportunity to go 1-0 this week
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: with some momentum from last week and some things we
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: can learn from. And then we got to try and
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: find out how to do it again this week with
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: the improvements we need.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: All right, Coach, super happy for your success. Good luck
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: in the upcoming season here. We'll get with your people.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: We'll let you know what game we're coming to. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: look forward to standing right next to you on the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: sidelines and chirping in your ear, okay?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, man. You guys have a hell of a day.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: All right, you too, Coach. Thank you so much.