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December 2, 2025 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: I don't play enough Nora Jones in my life, but
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you Welcome in. As part of the
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Speaker 1: program is brought to you by Central Texas Sports Medicine.
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Speaker 1: We've slapped together an sec kind of preview show in
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Speaker 1: the first hour with Kirby and then Caden Proctor of Alabama.
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Speaker 1: In the middle, we're going to have a high school report.
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Speaker 3: And then.
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Speaker 1: In the second hour, this is the time of year
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Speaker 1: that I start replaying some of my favorite interviews when
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Speaker 1: we have a chance throughout the course of the year.
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Speaker 1: So I went back to January with this one. Eric
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Speaker 1: Moyan wrote a book called College Sports. It is like
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Speaker 1: the Dictionary, and it's about that big of college sports,
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Speaker 1: of the history of college sports. And I waited through
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Speaker 1: start to finish, and if you can stick with it,
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Speaker 1: it's worth the ride. What you'll find is there's a
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Speaker 1: lot that hasn't changed in college sports in one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty years, a lot. Where do you know that
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Speaker 1: Roosevelt wanted to shut down football in the early nineteen
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Speaker 1: hundreds because guys were dying on the field and there
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Speaker 1: was way too much emphasis on college football. Back in
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Speaker 1: nineteen oh two, there wasn't enough emphasis on college too
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Speaker 1: much emphasis on football. Oh my gosh. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: back then, some of the presidents did shut down the
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Speaker 1: programs at their schools. They're like, now, we ain't doing that,
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Speaker 1: but they weren't getting a bazillion dollars to show their
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Speaker 1: games on television back then either. I wondered if they
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Speaker 1: would have been, as you know, protective of their college
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Speaker 1: and academics if they were getting a bazillion dollars, which
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Speaker 1: is what's happened today. So much money today, as we
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Speaker 1: talked about yesterday with the writers, the presidents and chancellors
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Speaker 1: have basically said, this is my job anymore. You guys
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Speaker 1: are on your own. We can't do anything about this.
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Speaker 3: Go to school.
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Speaker 1: Don't go to school.
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Speaker 3: We don't care.
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Speaker 1: Basketball tonight, Aggie's Panthers sec ACC Challenge. I'll say it again,
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Speaker 1: I missed the Big twelfth Challenge, so because of this,
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Speaker 1: A and M had to fly to Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh's okay,
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Speaker 1: they're probably Florida statish. I'll know better when I see
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Speaker 1: them this evening. But that game's at six o'clock part
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Speaker 1: of the challenge. It's on the U. And you know
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Speaker 1: they've sent their top announcing team, Jay Alter and Randolph Childress. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: never heard of them.
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Speaker 4: Never.
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Speaker 1: And I watched college foot basketball all last week, right,
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Speaker 1: there were a thousand games on TV. I did not
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Speaker 1: hear Jay Alter and Randolph Childress. Bless their hearts. Also
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Speaker 1: tonight in the challenge. Oklahoma's at Wake Forest, Tennessee at Syracuse,
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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech at South Carolina, Florida Duke. That's the biggie Georgia,
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Speaker 1: Florida State, Missouri, Notre Dame, Miami, Ole miss And then
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Speaker 1: at eight thirty North Carolina and Kentucky. I read today
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Speaker 1: those schools have I don't know, five million wins between
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Speaker 1: them historically, about four point nine nine million more than
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Speaker 1: A and M in terms of number of basketball victories.
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Speaker 1: Purdue and Rutgers play Yukon and Kansas play usc Oregon
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Speaker 1: play Kansas. Star freshman Darren Patterson's still not going to
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Speaker 1: play against Utah. He's got a bad hammy. He's missed
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Speaker 1: the past six games. Bill self says he's very close.
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Speaker 1: He's worked his butt off, but he's not one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: He's day to day. Bill, We're all day today. Alabama
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Speaker 1: and South Florida have moved next year's scheduled game to
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Speaker 1: twenty thirty two. The Crimson Tide has replaced South Florida
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Speaker 1: with Tennessee Chattanooga. This is the first of a lot
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Speaker 1: of this that's going to start happening if the CFP
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Speaker 1: refuses to consider strength of record and strength of schedule,
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Speaker 1: which apparently they're not. Vanderbilt has landed a historic recruiting
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Speaker 1: win and flipped a five star quarterback from Georgia, Jared Curtis,
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Speaker 1: by far the top ranked recruit in Vanderbilt history. He's
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Speaker 1: going to replace Diego Pavia. If Diego ever leaves, this
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Speaker 1: guy may be sorry.
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Speaker 5: That he came.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be sitting on the pitch five years
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Speaker 1: from now while Diego's having grandchildren. Penn State interested in
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Speaker 1: BYU coach Kilani Sataki. Sataki apparently interested as well. That
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Speaker 1: woke up rich BYU alum Jason McGowan, the CEO of
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Speaker 1: Crumble Cookies, who called Sataki quote not replaceable and vowed
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Speaker 1: to quote get off the sidelines and get to work
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Speaker 1: to keep the coach at BYU. Now BYU's got a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, all right, The Mormons have a lot
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Speaker 1: of money.
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Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Is that official, Caleb that he's continuing as the head coach?
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Speaker 1: Er is that's just one of those Hey, I don't
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Speaker 1: plan on going anywhere.
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Speaker 7: It says he's begun to inform people he intends to
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Speaker 7: stay begun.
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Speaker 5: Oh that's that's horrible.
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Speaker 1: That's terrible. Begun to inform people he intends to stay. Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's that's definite right there. Tiger Woods admits, man, he's
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Speaker 1: having a hard time physically still. Tiger turns listen to me.
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Speaker 1: Tiger turns fifty on December thirtieth. How old was it?
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Speaker 1: Wasn't it his birthday when Tiger got his dome wrapped
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Speaker 1: by the two iron in his driveway. Wasn't that his
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Speaker 1: thirtieth birthday?
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Speaker 8: Anyway?
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Speaker 1: He had his seventh back procedure in October. That was
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Speaker 1: following achilles surgery in March. He has no timetable. He
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Speaker 1: said it's been slow to recover. Said he won't be
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Speaker 1: available for the schedule in January. You know they play
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Speaker 1: that indoor link stuff, the TV stuff that he's part
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Speaker 1: of with Rory, He's probably not gonna be playing there either.
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Speaker 1: And Serena has just stopped all of the craziness. There
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Speaker 1: was a story that came out that that she had
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Speaker 1: officially applied to the ITIA to re enter the International
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Speaker 1: Registered Testing Pool, which could be first steps to return
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Speaker 1: to tennis. She put on some kind of tweet that said,
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Speaker 1: let's stop all this madness or something like that, which
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear. And Joey maguire has gotten more
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Speaker 1: of Cody Campbell's money. He's agreed to a new seven
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Speaker 1: year deal worth seven millionaire. By the way, the cost
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Speaker 1: of living in Lubbock, it's not bad. McGuire of course,
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Speaker 1: has led TECH to the number five ranking. We'll see
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Speaker 1: tonight when that comes out in three hours or whenever
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Speaker 1: it's coming out. That's seven, Caleb probably tonight something like that.
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Speaker 1: Tech faces BYU of course in Jerry World for the
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Speaker 1: Big twelve title.
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Speaker 5: Let's see seven.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't say how many. Yeah, seven years averaging seven
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Speaker 1: million a year, and I'm sure there's all kinds of
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Speaker 1: bonus stuff to go on as well. And Charlie Weiss junior,
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Speaker 1: who went with Lane to LSU going back to Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss to be the offensive coordinator during the college football playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I like that.
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Speaker 1: So they won't let Lane coach, but they're gonna let
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Speaker 1: the OC coach.
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Speaker 8: That's okay.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the players seriously are thrilled. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: been the voice you know all year with late So
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Speaker 1: there you go, all right, I'll catch up on that.
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Speaker 6: I didn't think it was great. Through one too, it
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Speaker 6: felt so comfortable and so much gripped. I'm like, man,
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Speaker 6: I could have used a little bit more throttle and everything,
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Speaker 6: but it felt super smooth, and you know, going through
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Speaker 6: three and four it felt really good ride quality obviously
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Speaker 6: easy wide open cut distance and they said it was
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Speaker 6: P one and you know that's ultimately where I was like, man,
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Speaker 6: it felt so good, it felt slow, so yeah, really fortunate,
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Speaker 6: really thankful to have a fast car obviously fastested practice,
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Speaker 6: you know, do it again obviously, and qualifying and be
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Speaker 6: able to back that up. I think it's really important
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Speaker 6: for our group and showing the strength of being able
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Speaker 6: to you know, go from practice to qualifying adjustments and
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Speaker 6: the way we've been going, be able to do that
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Speaker 6: to the race too, and just put together a whole
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Speaker 6: weekend and whole race worth of adjustments. And I think
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Speaker 6: we're getting a lot closer right now. Normally you could
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Speaker 6: see lap time on the dash, and even that didn't
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Speaker 6: work right away, And I mean, I don't know how
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Speaker 6: good this was. And luckily they told me pretty quickly
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Speaker 6: and I didn't have to you know, wait in anticipation
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Speaker 6: or anything. But obviously, you know, Mico going out and
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Speaker 6: put it up a really good lap time. I felt like,
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Speaker 6: we're you know, faster than him in practice. So give
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Speaker 6: me a little bit of confidence that, you know, our
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Speaker 6: stuff was going to be asked quick, if not hopefully
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Speaker 6: a little quicker. To be able to back that up,
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Speaker 6: and for him to run a good lap, you know,
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Speaker 6: gave me a little bit more confidence in our car. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: All right, right now, we're gonna hear from Georgia football
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Speaker 1: coach Kirby Smart ho hum, another SEC title game.
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Speaker 14: I guess most of you guys were on the conference
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Speaker 14: last night, so there's not a lot to say.
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Speaker 5: That hadn't been said.
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Speaker 14: SEC Championship game also opportunity for our guys. I told
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Speaker 14: him last night, you know you you you earned the
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Speaker 14: opportunity to play in this game. This was not given.
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Speaker 14: This was earned. This is not picked by a committee.
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Speaker 14: It was It was on the field and two teams
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Speaker 14: that had already played once both played really daunting SEC
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Speaker 14: schedules and get a chance to battle it out to
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Speaker 14: see who the SEC champion is, which a lot at
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Speaker 14: stake and always is. Uh. But you playing a really
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Speaker 14: good football team. Coastal Boards done a great job with
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Speaker 14: them playing at a high level when you when you
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Speaker 14: when you look at both sides of the ball, they
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Speaker 14: compliment each other, playing really well offensively and defensively. I
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Speaker 14: think that's important to be successful in our conference. And
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Speaker 14: they've got a good group of players and they're they're
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Speaker 14: staff done a great job.
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Speaker 5: To put them in this position.
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Speaker 14: So this will be our guys opportunity to go out
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Speaker 14: and play in a place that we've played a lot
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Speaker 14: of games in and I'm excited for the opportunity. It's
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Speaker 14: always a great atmosphere and crowd, and then the viewership
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Speaker 14: the people that watch it across the country is always
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Speaker 14: really high.
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Speaker 5: So I'm excited for our guys.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, coach, I'm sure you've had an opportunity to go
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Speaker 14: a full deep dive on this offense from Alabama. How
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Speaker 14: have they developed and changed since you guys played them
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Speaker 14: last I wouldn't call it a deep dive. I got
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Speaker 14: to watch the games in between our game and theirs.
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Speaker 14: I don't think you change a whole lot during the year.
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Speaker 14: You play to the skill set of your playmates. They've
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Speaker 14: got playmakers, they've played with the skill set of those guys.
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Speaker 14: Ties still playing really well. He's extremely athletic. Uh, he
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Speaker 14: can extend plays, he knows where to go to the ball,
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Speaker 14: he knows defenses, He's played a lot of football, and
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Speaker 14: he's played with a lot of confidence. So I don't
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Speaker 14: think there's a lot of change. I mean, they're really
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Speaker 14: good at what they do, and they do a great
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Speaker 14: job with shift the motion, keeping you off balance, with tempo,
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Speaker 14: you know, vertical plays, horizontal plays.
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Speaker 5: They do a great job.
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Speaker 15: But you were talking about the progression of Gunner yesterday
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Speaker 15: in terms of how the team has changed, in terms
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Speaker 15: of the identity is the offense right now pretty much
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Speaker 15: what you thought it would be in the spring. You
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Speaker 15: said you'd have to run the ball, or have you
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Speaker 15: guys been able to do some some different things or evolve.
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Speaker 5: A little bit.
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Speaker 14: I'm not sure your question. Is our offense what I
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Speaker 14: think it would be? A yeah, I'm very pleased with
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Speaker 14: what our offenses done this year. I'm very pleased with
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Speaker 14: the total package of how they utilized the skill set
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Speaker 14: and the strengths of the team. Considering two to three
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Speaker 14: freshman linemen have been in there a lot.
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Speaker 5: I've been really pleased with that group.
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Speaker 14: The ability and the commitment to the run compliments what
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Speaker 14: Gunner does well and please where those guys have been.
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Speaker 16: You talked last night about how valuable experience was for
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Speaker 16: the guys on defense. How much do you like that
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Speaker 16: applies to your defensive line and just the growth you've
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Speaker 16: seen how valuable the experience has been.
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Speaker 14: I would say it's more the experience has been bigger
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Speaker 14: for young linebackers, outside linebackers and secondary maybe the defensive line.
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Speaker 5: I mean, outside of EG. A lot of those guys have.
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Speaker 14: Played football, and EG is a guy that's gotten better
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Speaker 14: with time and gotten more comfortable, but a lot of
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Speaker 14: those guys were experienced coming into the year, and I
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Speaker 14: don't think any of our early struggles were a testament
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Speaker 14: to anything about the defensive line. It was just more
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Speaker 14: a matter of growth and getting more experience and executing
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Speaker 14: at a higher level at all positions.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, sticking with the defense, How have you seen Glenn
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Speaker 17: Schume as a coach develop and grow over the course.
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Speaker 5: Of this season? Honestly, I don't think.
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Speaker 14: I mean he's grown over the course of his career,
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Speaker 14: and he's grown over the course of ten years being here,
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Speaker 14: but specifically this year, I don't think he's had it grow.
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Speaker 14: I think he's had to do a great job of
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Speaker 14: deciding what this group does best and trying to utilize
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Speaker 14: and improve the skill sets.
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Speaker 5: We don't know.
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Speaker 14: We don't have a dynamic, clear cut, dominant rusher. We've
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Speaker 14: had some of those in the past, with Jalen Michael
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Speaker 14: both coming out early and Tye those guys not being there.
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Speaker 5: It was a little bit of an adjustment.
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Speaker 14: To get the younger players groomed faster, But I can't
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Speaker 14: say that that humans had to grow.
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Speaker 5: He's had to utilize what we have. You had to
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Speaker 5: kind of follow up on that.
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Speaker 7: You answered a little bit, but you said the other
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Speaker 7: night the coaches have figured out who we are on
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Speaker 7: defense utilizing those skill sets. What is the process like
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Speaker 7: that and process of doing that and how much of
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Speaker 7: it is just you've got to see what it looks
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Speaker 7: like in the game before making some.
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Speaker 5: Of those changes.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I don't know if there's a lot of changes
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Speaker 14: make guys. I mean, I think y'all are making a
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Speaker 14: bigger deal about something that. I mean, we're improving, we've played.
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Speaker 5: Better, but.
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Speaker 14: You know, some of the offense we played have been
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Speaker 14: really explosive. I mean, Ole Miss is a really explosive offense.
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Speaker 14: Tennessee is a high arctane offense, and they get a
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Speaker 14: lot of snaps, they go to tempo, they score points.
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Speaker 5: Alabama's done that.
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Speaker 14: So some of it is how you play, some of
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Speaker 14: it's who you play, and some of us how you
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Speaker 14: change and adapt.
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Speaker 5: And I think we're always trying to change and adapt.
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Speaker 3: Kirby Saindy Day's coming up Wednesday.
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Speaker 18: There are there are any advantages it to it being
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Speaker 18: the week of the SEC Championship game, any disadvantages?
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Speaker 3: How are you going to handle the scheduling or and
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Speaker 3: would you like to see that dy changed.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean change to win. When's a good time
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Speaker 14: to have it? Last week, the next week? I mean
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Speaker 14: there's no, there's no you know, they made the decision
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Speaker 14: a long time ago to move this in front of
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Speaker 14: your roster changes in additions to your own team, so
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Speaker 14: that you would have one thing squared away. You got
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Speaker 14: to remember, as a little less two to three years ago,
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Speaker 14: we had portal going.
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Speaker 5: On and sign a date going on.
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Speaker 14: So I mean I was in the decision making process
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Speaker 14: when it went to signing on the week of the
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Speaker 14: SEC Championship. I didn't like it then, I don't like
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Speaker 14: it now. But I don't have a better answer. There's
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Speaker 14: a calendar timeline, there's an academic calendar to universities and
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Speaker 14: also high school kids. There's not an opportune time to
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Speaker 14: have it, and so you do what's best for the
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Speaker 14: most and not necessarily the least or the teams that
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Speaker 14: are playing. It makes for some tough challenges this week,
23:06
Speaker 14: for sure, but people understand that they respect teams that
23:10
Speaker 14: are still playing.
23:14
Speaker 19: Coach, obviously, you've been in a lot of these championship
23:16
Speaker 19: type moments since you were a coordinator, Because how does
23:20
Speaker 19: experience going into a championship like atmosphere, championship like football game.
23:25
Speaker 19: How does that impact your preparation? How much have you
23:28
Speaker 19: kind of learned over the years about you know, how
23:31
Speaker 19: many random things that can decide these games that you
23:33
Speaker 19: have to prepare for. What's what's How how is that
23:35
Speaker 19: kind of shaped your process?
23:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't change game to game.
23:39
Speaker 14: I mean, championship game is no different than the game
23:42
Speaker 14: that gets you to the championship game. Right, We've been
23:44
Speaker 14: playing championship games every week in my opinion, so the
23:49
Speaker 14: the you know what wins football games doesn't change. You know,
23:53
Speaker 14: good players win football games, not turning the ball over,
23:57
Speaker 14: when's football games? Being explosive when's football games? And that
24:01
Speaker 14: that will not change in this this this game. I mean,
24:04
Speaker 14: the turnover margin of the last game was a factor,
24:07
Speaker 14: explosive plays of the last game was a factor. There
24:10
Speaker 14: will be factors in this one. There'll be factors in
24:13
Speaker 14: the next one after this one. So that doesn't change.
24:15
Speaker 14: And I don't you know, if anything, the experience you
24:18
Speaker 14: learned from playing in this or more about you know,
24:21
Speaker 14: time management with sign of it going on, practice management,
24:26
Speaker 14: with the loads your players got, you know, this extra
24:29
Speaker 14: week in the season.
24:30
Speaker 5: That's that's what we try to lean on from an
24:33
Speaker 5: experience standpoint.
24:35
Speaker 20: Coach, touch on it briefly, but back to the identity
24:39
Speaker 20: part of things. You've been vocal about running the ball
24:41
Speaker 20: and how that's going to be like part of the
24:44
Speaker 20: winning culture here. How if if that identity has changed
24:48
Speaker 20: over the course of the season, how would you say
24:50
Speaker 20: it has.
24:51
Speaker 3: Sort of supposed to be.
24:52
Speaker 14: Yeah, I wouldn't say the identity has changed for us
24:55
Speaker 14: of needing to be able to run the ball to
24:58
Speaker 14: be successful.
24:59
Speaker 5: That can't change, not not not for us.
25:03
Speaker 20: I or just more so wondering like on we could
25:06
Speaker 20: be basis, would you say like the team has like
25:09
Speaker 20: a broader at fee or is it more so like
25:11
Speaker 20: focusing on what it was at the beginning of the season.
25:15
Speaker 14: No, the the things that are important to our identity,
25:18
Speaker 14: the physical toughness required, the discipline, the all the things
25:22
Speaker 14: that we require to be successful. Uh, have not changed
25:25
Speaker 14: week to week or since the beginning of the season.
25:28
Speaker 14: We might do better at 'em one week or the other,
25:30
Speaker 14: but they don't change.
25:33
Speaker 21: Or you're preparing for this game, but meanwhile, coaching changes
25:35
Speaker 21: all around the SEC and uh, you're now the DNA
25:38
Speaker 21: SEC coaches.
25:39
Speaker 3: What do you make of that?
25:42
Speaker 14: Uh got a great program, great administration, uh gr great
25:47
Speaker 14: supporting cast here, and it's allowed us to be successful.
25:50
Speaker 5: I mean I talk about it all the time.
25:51
Speaker 14: If you have good players, you coach 'em the right way,
25:54
Speaker 14: coach them hard. Uh you can, you can be successful.
25:58
Speaker 14: And we've been successful. It's hard to sustain anything and
26:04
Speaker 14: stay consistent, and especially in this league where it's really competitive,
26:09
Speaker 14: and I don't think a lot about the tenure or
26:14
Speaker 14: you know, their person that's been there the longest. I
26:16
Speaker 14: got a lot of respect from Mark and he's a
26:20
Speaker 14: good friend.
26:21
Speaker 17: On a similar note, you mentioned consistency a lot. What
26:25
Speaker 17: are some things that you've done to instilled in this
26:26
Speaker 17: program that allow you guys to be that consistently excellent?
26:31
Speaker 14: Things like Jonas Jennings being part of our staff since
26:33
Speaker 14: I've been here, Scott Sinclair, Glynn Shuman, Tray Scott their
26:38
Speaker 14: pillars in this building. They believe in the core values
26:42
Speaker 14: of the head coach. They helped push those. I think
26:46
Speaker 14: reinventing yourself as much as you can every year and
26:51
Speaker 14: trying to be a good teacher creates consistency. I think
26:55
Speaker 14: the player buy in and the players we select to
26:57
Speaker 14: be part of our program.
27:00
Speaker 5: That's the only way you're.
27:01
Speaker 14: Gonna be consistent is, you know, not be afraid to
27:04
Speaker 14: make tough decisions. And we've talked about, you know, qualities
27:09
Speaker 14: of great leaders require you to make tough decisions.
27:13
Speaker 22: I would think that Drew has helped Gonna be comfortable
27:16
Speaker 22: back there, helping him out with his experience. But how
27:18
Speaker 22: much has Drew really helped those freshmen, true freshmen be
27:20
Speaker 22: able to play this year and what comfort does he
27:23
Speaker 22: bring to those guys.
27:24
Speaker 14: Yeah, he's he's very knowledgeable the game.
27:28
Speaker 5: He grows up, he grew up around it, in it.
27:30
Speaker 14: He understands football, he knows leverages, he knows a lot
27:34
Speaker 14: about what's going on. You know, he and his dad
27:37
Speaker 14: have a great relationship that allows him to know a
27:40
Speaker 14: lot of things and make a lot of checks and
27:42
Speaker 14: put us in right situations a lot of times.
27:44
Speaker 5: So he's certainly a really good football player.
27:49
Speaker 3: Kurby.
27:49
Speaker 23: There's obviously you've coached a lot of rematch games from
27:53
Speaker 23: the regular season, and is there any how much of
27:57
Speaker 23: the gap between games matters. I mean, there's been some that,
28:00
Speaker 23: you know, like twenty twenty one, Alabama was a month
28:03
Speaker 23: later and twenty seventeen Auburn was like three weeks later,
28:08
Speaker 23: Texas was a little further. Does the gap matter in
28:13
Speaker 23: terms of the dynamics of a rematch, I.
28:17
Speaker 5: Mean, unless you just.
28:20
Speaker 14: Beat up and got a lot of players missing, which
28:23
Speaker 14: they're pretty beat up, we're pretty beat up.
28:26
Speaker 5: The gauntlet of the stretch.
28:27
Speaker 14: That they played and we've played, has you know, impacted
28:30
Speaker 14: both of our seasons. I think, you know, we both
28:33
Speaker 14: had people coming in or coming out of lineups the
28:37
Speaker 14: last time we played, and now you look at the
28:41
Speaker 14: long spell between games seven, six, seven, eight games, whatever
28:44
Speaker 14: it is, it's both teams are coming out of and
28:48
Speaker 14: coming into injuries. But in terms of the x'es and
28:51
Speaker 14: o's and the schemes, in terms of the gap, I
28:53
Speaker 14: don't think so. I mean, you evolve as a team,
28:56
Speaker 14: you have trends, but good teams do what they did.
29:00
Speaker 14: There's not gonna be a lot of change. And both
29:02
Speaker 14: these teams are good teams. Yeah, where have you seen?
29:06
Speaker 7: Gabe and Quatavia's just progress the most throughout the year,
29:09
Speaker 7: and especially looking back on that first matchup with Alabama since.
29:12
Speaker 14: Then, confidence in in in repetition, and I think they
29:19
Speaker 14: both are very knowledgeable, a little more experienced a lot
29:24
Speaker 14: of practice reps between that game and this one, quite
29:27
Speaker 14: a bit of game reps between this one and that one.
29:30
Speaker 14: I mean, Gabe's a little older, Q. You know, we're
29:34
Speaker 14: still kind of coming into his own He was young then, and.
29:37
Speaker 5: He's growing up a lot.
29:38
Speaker 14: He's had to grow up because he got forced into
29:40
Speaker 14: playing time at an early age last year and even
29:43
Speaker 14: this year, and he's accepted that role and he's improved.
29:48
Speaker 5: Coach.
29:49
Speaker 15: Obviously a lot of shifting landscape in the in the SEC.
29:52
Speaker 15: I guess kind of two part question. One, what did
29:54
Speaker 15: you think about Lean's decision to go to l s U?
29:56
Speaker 5: And two? When there's this many new coaches, is that
30:01
Speaker 5: gonna make.
30:02
Speaker 15: For a lot of I mean there's a lot off
30:04
Speaker 15: season work anyway, but does it add even more now
30:06
Speaker 15: that there's gonna be so many different faces and new
30:09
Speaker 15: schemes Ex's and O's.
30:10
Speaker 3: Coming in the league.
30:12
Speaker 14: I mean, I think most of these guys are descendants
30:16
Speaker 14: or they come from a tree of coaching, and and uh,
30:20
Speaker 14: there'll be similarities. I mean, we have tape of every
30:22
Speaker 14: team we play. We have tape of every team that
30:24
Speaker 14: those guys coached. So, uh, there'll be some carryover in
30:29
Speaker 14: terms of the new coaches, but it's, you know, it's
30:32
Speaker 14: a long whale way before we start worrying about that.
30:37
Speaker 14: I don't I don't envy the position he was in.
30:39
Speaker 14: I think it's a really hard position to be in
30:43
Speaker 14: and to navigate. I think, you know, coach Saban addressed
30:47
Speaker 14: it best. It's not a it's it's a we're in
30:51
Speaker 14: a time frame where ads or and people are making
30:55
Speaker 14: decisions in a timeline that's not congruent with the season
31:00
Speaker 14: in the playoffs, so it makes for really difficult decisions.
31:06
Speaker 21: Drew Brannan helped you guys with some of these big
31:09
Speaker 21: game weeks.
31:10
Speaker 5: Do you think the history.
31:10
Speaker 21: Against Alabama something he may help with in terms of
31:13
Speaker 21: if there's you know, any mental hurdle or just external
31:17
Speaker 21: noise that they will come up by, you know, during
31:19
Speaker 21: a week like this.
31:20
Speaker 14: He's helped every Alabama game since twenty twenty. He does
31:23
Speaker 14: a great job.
31:25
Speaker 1: Apparently he hasn't done a good enough job because Kirby
31:29
Speaker 1: can't beat Alabama. It's the white whale. He beats everybody
31:34
Speaker 1: and beats them badly. He can't beat Alabama. And I
31:37
Speaker 1: got to tell you It's kind of like a Michigan
31:40
Speaker 1: Ohio state thing, which I thought last year. Man, if
31:43
Speaker 1: they can't beat him last year, you know, they were
31:44
Speaker 1: number one, the whole whole deal. But Michigan is a
31:48
Speaker 1: little maybe a little better last year than they are
31:50
Speaker 1: this year. About to say, I'm thinking, if Kirby can't
31:54
Speaker 1: take Alabama this.
31:55
Speaker 5: Year, he may never be able to beat.
31:58
Speaker 1: Him, because this ain't Alabama. Is not the Alabama team
32:01
Speaker 1: we're going to accustomed to. Ty Simpson, who was the
32:05
Speaker 1: focus of my Heisman vote back in October, has not
32:11
Speaker 1: been good the last five weeks at least. And I
32:18
Speaker 1: just look, Championship games are different.
32:22
Speaker 5: I get it.
32:23
Speaker 1: Alabama thinks they can beat Georgia because they've done it,
32:26
Speaker 1: and they did it earlier this year at Georgia. What's
32:30
Speaker 1: spread on that game. Georgia's got to be favored. I mean,
32:35
Speaker 1: they've got to be favored in that game.
32:39
Speaker 5: Two and a half.
32:40
Speaker 1: Two and a half.
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Speaker 26: Welcome to the High School Report. I'm at Williams and
35:31
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35:35
Speaker 26: Iola Bulldogs, Jamie MCDOUGALLD.
35:38
Speaker 5: Thank you for joining us.
35:39
Speaker 3: How are you doing today?
35:40
Speaker 27: I'm doing fine, Thank you.
35:42
Speaker 26: Yes, ma'am. First off, congratulations on securing that twenty twenty
35:45
Speaker 26: five state championship. How does it feel to lead your
35:47
Speaker 26: team to such an accomplishment.
35:50
Speaker 27: It feels really good. The girls worked hard and we
35:52
Speaker 27: put in lots and lots of hours, you know, working
35:55
Speaker 27: toward it, and it it feels great to finally finally
35:59
Speaker 27: achieve it.
36:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
36:01
Speaker 26: And this was your third straight year in a row
36:03
Speaker 26: where you faced Crawford for a championship title. What did
36:05
Speaker 26: you expect from this matchup and what surprised you about
36:08
Speaker 26: the match?
36:11
Speaker 27: Any time you played Crawford, you're expecting a good match
36:14
Speaker 27: and UH, coach Cocher from Crawford is very good at UH.
36:17
Speaker 27: He watches film and picks a partser team and he's
36:20
Speaker 27: very good at finding weak spots and just picking at him.
36:24
Speaker 27: And we were expecting it. So we went to work,
36:28
Speaker 27: you know, fixing everything we could and scouting to see
36:33
Speaker 27: what we could we could guard against. And you know,
36:36
Speaker 27: he did it. But our girls stood the test and
36:39
Speaker 27: everything we practiced, they put fourth on the court and
36:41
Speaker 27: they did a great job. Playing that on on Thursday,
36:48
Speaker 27: and then you always expect, you know, multiple sets. And
36:51
Speaker 27: I was just proud of the way our girls stood
36:53
Speaker 27: in the in the second and third game and they
36:56
Speaker 27: played they got better every game and you can see
36:59
Speaker 27: that the score. I was very proud of the way
37:01
Speaker 27: they played.
37:03
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
37:04
Speaker 26: And do you think your preparation changed. Do you think
37:08
Speaker 26: that you prepared for this game any different than any
37:10
Speaker 26: other game during the season.
37:13
Speaker 27: You do, It's just on a big stage, so you
37:15
Speaker 27: know you have to just first try to get the
37:17
Speaker 27: girls to calm down, you know, treat it like any
37:20
Speaker 27: other game kind of attitude. But you know, the girls
37:23
Speaker 27: are excited and they put an extra time watching film
37:26
Speaker 27: and we watched it a lot of films, So we
37:28
Speaker 27: probably put in a lot of extra hours preparing for
37:30
Speaker 27: this game because we knew Crawford was going to be good.
37:34
Speaker 26: And what would you say your toughest matchup was this season?
37:37
Speaker 26: What do you think went well during that matchup? What
37:39
Speaker 26: did your team struggle with and what did you take
37:41
Speaker 26: away from it?
37:43
Speaker 27: Well, we lost five games, and so three of them
37:47
Speaker 27: were to five and six A top cools, but you
37:51
Speaker 27: know we had to battle to get to win our
37:53
Speaker 27: own district. We have Jewet Leon who was the D
37:55
Speaker 27: one two a winner of you know, state champion, and
37:58
Speaker 27: they're in our district, and so that was in district
38:02
Speaker 27: a very very tough match. And I think our girls,
38:06
Speaker 27: you know, once they played that match and they got
38:08
Speaker 27: through it, I think it gave us confidence that they
38:11
Speaker 27: have a heavy hitter and they hit a lot out
38:13
Speaker 27: of the middle. And once we could get by those
38:16
Speaker 27: two matches, that gave them the confidence to think, you know, hey,
38:21
Speaker 27: we can do it, because you know, if we can
38:23
Speaker 27: stand the Leon's test, we can do it. So I
38:25
Speaker 27: think we just gained a lot of confidence from those
38:28
Speaker 27: And you know, in the five losses, you know, you
38:30
Speaker 27: don't win state without a few losses most of the time,
38:32
Speaker 27: and those are the most important matches a lot of
38:34
Speaker 27: the time because you figure out where your weak spots
38:37
Speaker 27: are and get in the gym and go to work
38:39
Speaker 27: trying to fix them.
38:41
Speaker 26: Right and speaking of weak spots, what do you think
38:42
Speaker 26: was the hardest lesson this team had to learn this season?
38:45
Speaker 26: And how do you think that'll shape how you coach
38:47
Speaker 26: next year?
38:49
Speaker 27: Well, you know, we played fifty three matches, I think,
38:53
Speaker 27: and part of it is just our attention span about
38:56
Speaker 27: you know, we started doing pretty well at the end
38:57
Speaker 27: of the season, and you know, they're involved and so
39:00
Speaker 27: many activities. We have banned people, We have cheerleaders, we
39:03
Speaker 27: have robot people in robotics, and they're you know, they're
39:06
Speaker 27: spread thin, and their attention span kind of kind of
39:09
Speaker 27: you know, Wayne for a little while. But you know,
39:12
Speaker 27: once once you get in district and start playoffs, you
39:14
Speaker 27: get it back together. But we're gonna have to do
39:16
Speaker 27: better working on that next year.
39:20
Speaker 26: And do you think which players do you feel really
39:22
Speaker 26: stepped up under pressure this season? Perhaps surprisingly so, is
39:25
Speaker 26: there anyone that you'd like to shout out?
39:27
Speaker 27: Well, you know, our outside hitter, Shane McCowan uh stepped
39:31
Speaker 27: up big time in the playoffs, and with Shiner and Crawford,
39:34
Speaker 27: with Kills, our libero and our setter. I was so
39:38
Speaker 27: proud of them the way they played in the playoffs
39:41
Speaker 27: and at the state tournament, they really stepped up. And
39:43
Speaker 27: then Shelby McCowan sophomore, uh out she's a right side hitter,
39:49
Speaker 27: and Cammy holl our other outside hitter, really came up
39:51
Speaker 27: big in Garland and so I was really proud of
39:54
Speaker 27: proud of them. A junior and a sophomore.
39:58
Speaker 26: What are some things as far as strategy on the
40:01
Speaker 26: court and the ways that you think your team can improve.
40:05
Speaker 26: What are some things you want to improve for next season?
40:08
Speaker 26: Even with the state championship under your belt. Where do
40:10
Speaker 26: you see room for growth in this offseason?
40:14
Speaker 27: Just consistency from the service line, for sure. We spent
40:19
Speaker 27: the year missing way too many serves in a lot
40:21
Speaker 27: of matches, and we've got to go to work fixing that.
40:25
Speaker 27: Our service option we started off kind of iffy and
40:27
Speaker 27: then it got better all year, So I was really
40:28
Speaker 27: proud of that, But I would have to say our
40:31
Speaker 27: patients in a match and not expecting, you know, to
40:33
Speaker 27: win points the first swing out of the gate and
40:36
Speaker 27: are serving. We've got to work on everybody that's returning.
40:39
Speaker 27: We've got to get to the service line and be
40:42
Speaker 27: more consistent.
40:44
Speaker 26: Right, which players are graduating this year that are going
40:47
Speaker 26: to leave big shoes to fill and who are you
40:49
Speaker 26: expecting to step up and fill those shoes next year?
40:52
Speaker 27: Well, we have four seniors, so we're graduating a big
40:55
Speaker 27: portion of our team. We have outside hitter Shani McCowan
40:59
Speaker 27: and our set Riley Goodney, our libero Ava Bassett and
41:03
Speaker 27: not one of our servers, Colin Thomas. And they're gonna
41:07
Speaker 27: leave big shoes to fill, and we're gonna kind of
41:09
Speaker 27: rearrange the players. We have to feel some of those spots.
41:12
Speaker 27: And then I haven't decided to yet exactly who we're
41:16
Speaker 27: going to pick to fill those spots. But I feel
41:17
Speaker 27: confident that some of the we had ten players on
41:20
Speaker 27: the team, and I feel confident that we can uh
41:22
Speaker 27: some of those players can pick up new positions and
41:25
Speaker 27: feel some of those spots.
41:27
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
41:27
Speaker 26: And last question for you here, coach, how to use
41:30
Speaker 26: a coach measure growth and success for your team both
41:34
Speaker 26: on and off the court, besides just ones and losses.
41:37
Speaker 27: Well, they're there. You know, I start, I'm lucky, I
41:40
Speaker 27: start with some great kids. When I get them, they're
41:42
Speaker 27: they're just very good kids. And just we measure success
41:48
Speaker 27: mainly in consistency and you know how they work together
41:53
Speaker 27: as a team, and it's just personal improvement. You know,
41:56
Speaker 27: we may not win every every game, but how did
41:59
Speaker 27: each person improve?
42:03
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47:22
Speaker 1: We heard from Kirby at four point fifteen. Right now
47:26
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Alabama offensive lineman on All American
47:31
Speaker 1: type Caden Proctor on the championship game Saturday.
47:37
Speaker 22: In this game as a young freshman back then, where
47:41
Speaker 22: are you taking away from.
47:42
Speaker 5: That to help you out?
47:45
Speaker 35: I mean, really just having fun with it all, you know,
47:47
Speaker 35: it's it's it's obviously fun making a c championship. I'm
47:50
Speaker 35: just going out there with my teammates having fun. I mean,
47:52
Speaker 35: I know, I'm like one of the only ones that's
47:54
Speaker 35: that's here Alabama now that had played in there. So
47:57
Speaker 35: that's definitely special, especially actually one of the only ones
48:00
Speaker 35: that that's wanted here. I mean just just from being
48:05
Speaker 35: a younger, I've I've learned a lot, We've all learned
48:07
Speaker 35: a lot, and I feel like we have a great
48:09
Speaker 35: team coming in and yeah, feel confident.
48:11
Speaker 22: If I remember correctly that Washington on your take backs
48:14
Speaker 22: that year, that was probably one of your Yeah, yeah,
48:17
Speaker 22: for sure.
48:18
Speaker 3: It's what what was key your success there?
48:20
Speaker 36: And what do you want to kind of bring.
48:21
Speaker 3: Up really just I mean, you're a young guy.
48:24
Speaker 35: You you gotta you gotta have gain confidence through through
48:27
Speaker 35: your play.
48:28
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's what that's what it was.
48:30
Speaker 35: I mean, towards the end of the year, everybody's a
48:32
Speaker 35: different player from from game one to you know, game eleven, twelve,
48:35
Speaker 35: and thirteen. So I feel like that's really just what
48:38
Speaker 35: happened when I when I was a first when.
48:41
Speaker 16: You watched Georgia tat now versus when you face them
48:44
Speaker 16: earlier this season, does.
48:45
Speaker 29: Anything stand out?
48:47
Speaker 3: I mean, just just the rushers. I I see that.
48:49
Speaker 35: You know, they're they're their moves are a little different,
48:51
Speaker 35: you know, they're they're definitely working on that and they're
48:54
Speaker 35: they're they're really good.
48:56
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
48:56
Speaker 35: They as I said, you get better from you know,
48:59
Speaker 35: we played in week four and it's is week thirteen
49:02
Speaker 35: or fourteen, Like everybody's gonna be different players, so I
49:05
Speaker 35: know they're gonna come out starting not and there was
49:06
Speaker 35: really good defense.
49:07
Speaker 5: So do you feel like the.
49:08
Speaker 18: Offensive lineus sort of found something in terms with the running.
49:11
Speaker 8: Game in the front?
49:12
Speaker 35: I feel like we have not still still haven't played
49:16
Speaker 35: a full game, honestly, Uh, you know, kind of kind
49:19
Speaker 35: of just finding your feet, And I feel I feel
49:22
Speaker 35: like that's what it is. I mean, like I said,
49:25
Speaker 35: it all comes through confidence, and it comes through the
49:27
Speaker 35: preparation throughout the week.
49:28
Speaker 3: So I feel like we've been focusing on that.
49:30
Speaker 35: We've we've been implementing different drills to go out there
49:34
Speaker 35: and and and run harder, run off the ball, run fast.
49:37
Speaker 7: So yeah, you consistently have the same guy next to
49:41
Speaker 7: you in this bass GT.
49:42
Speaker 3: Does that did that help you in terms of the
49:44
Speaker 3: communication piece of it.
49:46
Speaker 35: I feel I feel like it did, especially with it
49:49
Speaker 35: being a loud environment. I feel like that was that
49:52
Speaker 35: was that was the biggest emphasis on me. I gotta
49:55
Speaker 35: I gotta talk to Cam you know what I'm saying
49:57
Speaker 35: for for everything to be okay.
49:58
Speaker 3: So I feel like that that that was a good thing.
50:01
Speaker 35: Like like like you can go back to my first
50:03
Speaker 35: and second year talking the book like we you just
50:06
Speaker 35: have to build that that conversation and build that camaraderie
50:09
Speaker 35: throughout that.
50:10
Speaker 3: So I feel like that was it was a a
50:13
Speaker 3: good thing to go through. You see Tie taking all
50:15
Speaker 3: those hits and you just keep getting back back. Like
50:17
Speaker 3: what do you guys think about.
50:18
Speaker 35: That resiliency that? I mean, that's all it is. He's
50:21
Speaker 35: that That's all he is. That's all he is. I mean,
50:24
Speaker 35: he's gonna get up. It doesn't matter how hard you
50:26
Speaker 35: hit him, doesn't matter if you hit him in the
50:27
Speaker 35: chin and the elbow, he gonna get up.
50:29
Speaker 3: I promise you that. So I mean, just resilient. Speaking
50:33
Speaker 3: of hits for that blocker kids pre President in that game,
50:38
Speaker 3: what would you guys think of what he did that?
50:40
Speaker 35: He's He's just been doing a really, really great job
50:42
Speaker 35: of just hustling to the ball and and and really
50:44
Speaker 35: finishing blocks and just being being an aggressor that he
50:47
Speaker 35: needs to because he's he's an athletic free like that's
50:51
Speaker 35: that's that's what we're expecting him to do, and that's
50:53
Speaker 35: what we're respected of of everybody throughout the office line.
50:57
Speaker 5: So how you guys approaching the kind of the state
51:00
Speaker 5: this game?
51:00
Speaker 3: You know are about?
51:01
Speaker 14: The playoff?
51:02
Speaker 13: Is it?
51:02
Speaker 8: Is it an elimination game in your mind?
51:04
Speaker 35: Or are you not at all? I mean playoff playoffs
51:06
Speaker 35: are like out of the picture right now. It's it's you.
51:08
Speaker 35: You got wanna know you this week and and I
51:12
Speaker 35: mean really just not letting it, letting it up to
51:15
Speaker 35: the committee's hands, you know what I'm saying. We gotta
51:17
Speaker 35: take care of business and it'll it'll all come through
51:19
Speaker 35: at the end of the day. But playoffs are that's
51:22
Speaker 35: that's how that's the side out.
51:23
Speaker 3: Of mind right now. We're folkus on Georgia.
51:25
Speaker 20: So put a good, big game, the community does well
51:29
Speaker 20: and then you know, be a big game.
51:31
Speaker 3: As I mean, it's you.
51:35
Speaker 35: You You ain't the Alabama head coach for no reason,
51:37
Speaker 35: you know what I'm saying, Like this it's it's his job.
51:40
Speaker 35: It's our job to go out there and take care
51:42
Speaker 35: of business. And that's really all it is at the
51:43
Speaker 35: end of the day. I mean, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
51:45
Speaker 35: this is a big game, but every game is a
51:47
Speaker 35: big game cause it's the next one that we got.
51:49
Speaker 3: So that's what it is. What do you tells your
51:52
Speaker 3: teammates about what to expect this SEC.
51:54
Speaker 5: Chams your game.
51:56
Speaker 35: Obviously we know that, you know, we beat Georgia the
51:58
Speaker 35: first time, so where they're gonna, I'm out with a
52:00
Speaker 35: different intensity, especially for the SEC Championship like this, that's
52:06
Speaker 35: that's a crazy game to play in. So really just
52:09
Speaker 35: they're they're gonna come out hot, they're gonna you know,
52:11
Speaker 35: fire off the ball, physical. We already know that they've
52:15
Speaker 35: got better at at some things that that they weren't
52:19
Speaker 35: too good at, like on on week four, because like
52:21
Speaker 35: I said, everybody's a different player and we we're different
52:24
Speaker 35: players too.
52:25
Speaker 5: About the games.
52:30
Speaker 35: Really just the electricity honestly, and in the stadium really
52:34
Speaker 35: just having fun taking it at all in I mean,
52:36
Speaker 35: I was I was eighteen years old.
52:37
Speaker 3: So it's like, Wow, I'm in.
52:39
Speaker 35: A I'm in the biggest stadium that I've that I've
52:41
Speaker 35: ever seen before. So that's really what I was what
52:43
Speaker 35: I was thinking. But you really can't let the let
52:46
Speaker 35: the moment too be too big for you.
52:48
Speaker 8: You're in front of him on the field.
52:50
Speaker 7: But what the like blocker for.
52:50
Speaker 5: A year and how much of them they can be.
52:54
Speaker 35: I mean, he's a young guy. He he focuses and
52:57
Speaker 35: pays attention and the meetings. He knows what he's doing.
52:59
Speaker 35: He's stuff in the playbook. So we see, we see
53:02
Speaker 35: how hard he's working, and we see how hard he's
53:03
Speaker 35: working out here on the field. Honestly, So I mean,
53:05
Speaker 35: that's that's just what I see. You know, I don't
53:07
Speaker 35: obviously I'm not too focused on where the running back
53:11
Speaker 35: is that after playing work focus on my block.
53:13
Speaker 3: But if if you see him going, you know, you
53:16
Speaker 3: know he's out there working, you maybe give advice and
53:18
Speaker 3: got some Mike workers in him.
53:19
Speaker 35: As with the experience this for the first time, ye
53:23
Speaker 35: I mean not, I mean not too much. You know,
53:25
Speaker 35: you don't want to like get in their head and
53:26
Speaker 35: and make it bigger than it is. Honestly, like they
53:30
Speaker 35: just got to go out there and play. They know
53:32
Speaker 35: what they have to do. I mean, they've like I
53:33
Speaker 35: said it it comes back to your preparation and you
53:36
Speaker 35: also building that experience. I mean, Mike's been playing, you know,
53:39
Speaker 35: all season, so he knows what he needs to do.
53:41
Speaker 14: What does that balance look like those you know, realizing
53:44
Speaker 14: that this were also kind of you know, approaching.
53:47
Speaker 11: Like any other game.
53:50
Speaker 3: I mean you say, again, so what does it.
53:54
Speaker 16: Look like in terms of like internally like to balance
53:57
Speaker 16: and say, hey, this game means a lot.
53:59
Speaker 3: There's a lot.
54:00
Speaker 35: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's it's like it's every week.
54:04
Speaker 35: It doesn't matter for playing ULM Eastern Illinois or George
54:07
Speaker 35: or Tennessee. Like you have to treat that as as
54:10
Speaker 35: as the same game. Yes it's STEC Championship. Yes you
54:13
Speaker 35: want to win that and go to the playoffs and
54:14
Speaker 35: and do all that, but you have to focus on
54:16
Speaker 35: the now, focus on the want to know. So I
54:18
Speaker 35: feel like we we would do a really great job
54:20
Speaker 35: at that, not not looking too far ahead and just
54:22
Speaker 35: really just focusing on like it's Tuesday. He focused on Tuesday,
54:25
Speaker 35: and then when it comes to Wednesday, focused on Wednesday,
54:27
Speaker 35: and when Saturday comes to focus on Saturday.
54:29
Speaker 3: So pretty much haven't grab on the sideline he brings it.
54:33
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54:34
Speaker 35: Like we've we've kind of implemented a new auto system
54:39
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54:41
Speaker 35: everybody in sync. I feel like that's that's been working
54:44
Speaker 35: very well. But just to see him, just to see
54:48
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54:51
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54:53
Speaker 35: on the plays and he he's up there you know,
54:55
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54:57
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55:01
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55:03
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55:05
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55:08
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55:12
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