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BONUS: Jim Tressel, Maurice Clarett To Be Honored At Ohio Stadium · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is another bonus show for you. We got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to talk about this week, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of interesting stuff in Ryan Day's Tuesday press conference.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you a few bonus shows
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  Speaker 1: just to let you hear a little bit more straight
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  Speaker 1: from the head coach of Ohio State. And he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about one of the former head coaches of Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Jim Trestle, former Ohio State head coach,
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  Speaker 1: current lieutenant governor of the state of Ohio, and Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: soon to be an inductee into Ohio State's ring of honor.
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  Speaker 1: Only Woody Hayes and Paul Brown in that ring so far.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Trestle will join them on Saturday. And he will
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  Speaker 1: not be the only member of the 2002 National Championship
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  Speaker 1: team being honored on Saturday. His star running back, Maurice Claret,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming back to ring the victory bell pre-game. Now
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  Speaker 1: that was obviously... a little bit of a tie-in with
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  Speaker 1: the Jim Trestle thing. But there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an interesting angle to that, where these are guys who
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  Speaker 1: at one point had some kind of complicated legacies at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. Yeah, they won the national championship, but you
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  Speaker 1: know how both of their times in Columbus ended. Ended
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  Speaker 1: about eight years apart, but ended nonetheless. So with that,
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean to have both of those guys
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  Speaker 1: not only back in the program, but back in the
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  Speaker 1: good graces of the Ohio State program?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the first thing is the history of
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  Speaker 2: the coaches at Ohio State is significant. I think we
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  Speaker 2: have somewhere around seven or eight or nine of our
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  Speaker 2: head coaches who are Hall of Famers. And when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the success that Jim Trestle had here, you
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  Speaker 2: look at the record in the rivalry game, the national
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  Speaker 2: championship game, it speaks for itself. Uh, but to me, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's the impact that he made on so many people.
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  Speaker 2: When you get to talk to his players, when you
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  Speaker 2: talk to his coaches, when you look at the impact
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  Speaker 2: he's made on the state, I think that's probably what's
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  Speaker 2: most significant there. Um, and then when you talk about Maurice, um,
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  Speaker 2: just a lot there, you know, and when you sit
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  Speaker 2: down and talk with them, you realize just first off
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  Speaker 2: how passionate he is about this place in particular. Um,
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  Speaker 2: When you look at what he did as a freshman,
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  Speaker 2: it was almost unprecedented. I think he was one of
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  Speaker 2: the first guys to ever come in early. And then
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  Speaker 2: he started off on the scout team and then had
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  Speaker 2: the season he had, wins a national championship, makes the
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  Speaker 2: play that he made. And then to see all the
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  Speaker 2: challenges that he went through, but then come out the
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  Speaker 2: back end and what he advocates for now, the success
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  Speaker 2: that he's having in life with his family, and He's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that I like to have around the program.
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  Speaker 2: I love the messages that he gives to our players.
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  Speaker 2: He's an intense guy, but he does care. And he
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  Speaker 2: cares a lot about Ohio State. So for him to
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  Speaker 2: come back around has meant a lot to him. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think we all felt that him being the
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  Speaker 2: bell ringer on the day that Coach Trestle was recognized
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  Speaker 2: was the right thing to do. And we asked him.
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  Speaker 2: And he wanted to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of Ohio State fans are kind
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  Speaker 1: of counting the days, counting the hours, counting the minutes
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  Speaker 1: down to the kickoff on Saturday of that game against
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  Speaker 1: Ball State to start another Ohio State football season. But
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  Speaker 1: what is this time like for Ryan Day? Obviously, he's
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  Speaker 1: busy with practice and film study and all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff during the week. But when you get to
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  Speaker 1: the hotel on Friday night, then what? What is the
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  Speaker 1: night before the first game like for a head coach
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  Speaker 1: like Ryan Day?
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  Speaker 2: You know you're going to see a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: you've seen on film in practice, and there's also things
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  Speaker 2: that are going to come up that you thought maybe
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  Speaker 2: would work. So I always say there's certain assumptions that
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  Speaker 2: we felt like are going to be accurate, and there's
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  Speaker 2: certain assumptions that we feel strong about that aren't going
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  Speaker 2: to be accurate, and then we have to identify those things.
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  Speaker 2: And then when we come out of it, we have
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  Speaker 2: to recognize and do a good job of what is
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  Speaker 2: going to carry over to the next week, what needs
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  Speaker 2: to get fixed, what went well, So, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you just know that there's certainly things that are going
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  Speaker 2: to come up that you're not really predicting because this
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  Speaker 2: is a different team. Every team is different, how it looks,
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  Speaker 2: how it operates. But I think there is a certain
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  Speaker 2: level of excitement for everybody when they just get started
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  Speaker 2: across the country to see what they have and then
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  Speaker 2: go from there. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to play a clean game here and then
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  Speaker 2: come back in and figure out what we've got.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot that's new inside Ohio Stadium this year.
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  Speaker 1: We gave you a look inside in a behind-the-scenes video
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  Speaker 1: last week. We'll try and get in there early on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: give you a little bit more of a game-day look
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  Speaker 1: at what's new there as well. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that is new there is the turf inside the field. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it looks really good, very bright, colorful. It feels really
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  Speaker 1: nice when you walk on it and when you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of tugging on it. It's not loose. It feels like brand-new,
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  Speaker 1: fantastic turf. but what did the Buckeyes think when they
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to go out there and scrimmage on
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  Speaker 1: it a couple of times this month?
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  Speaker 2: It was Jeremiah approved. So that was a big deal. Um,
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  Speaker 2: went up to the big fella and asked him, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think? He said, I love it. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: so that, that helped. Um, we were on it a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times and, uh, it seems to, uh, so far, um,
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  Speaker 2: really be a good track. The guys like it. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And being out there and scrimmaging on it and practicing
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  Speaker 2: on it, got a lot of great feedback from the players.
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  Speaker 2: And they're the ones who know. So, you know, really
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  Speaker 2: want to thank our administration for investing because that's a
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  Speaker 2: big investment. But it's a very important one. And certainly
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  Speaker 2: our players appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the rule changes this year in college football
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  Speaker 1: is 5-for-5. So no more redshirting. You just have five
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  Speaker 1: years and you can play as many games or as
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  Speaker 1: few games. but you get five years. So you can
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  Speaker 1: play every single game for five years or you can
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  Speaker 1: play no games. But once you've played, once you've been
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  Speaker 1: there for five years, that's it. So how does that
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  Speaker 1: change the approach for freshmen this year with redshirting no
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  Speaker 1: longer being a thing? Does that maybe open up more
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  Speaker 1: opportunities for them to play?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a mindset for those guys. Like there
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  Speaker 2: is no redshirt rule anymore. So like if you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you're holding back because someone said you're going to red,
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  Speaker 2: there is no redshirt anymore. We used to say it
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  Speaker 2: all the time, but now I think it's, it's more
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  Speaker 2: important for them to understand, like, the only person holding
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  Speaker 2: you back at this point is you. So go. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter when in the season. So every rep's going
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  Speaker 2: to count. And to your point, if these guys can
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  Speaker 2: play and put it on the field, then they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to spend a lot of time trying
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  Speaker 1: to convince you that the Ball State Cardinals are going
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  Speaker 1: to give Ohio State a real stern challenge on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: They are enormous underdogs. There is a reason for that.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of new faces there. It's also
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  Speaker 1: a team that is picked to finish near the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the MAAC. So we're not going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that this is going to be one of the teams
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State can't overlook. But what does Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: know about Ball State and their program coming in this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I think you saw this in week zero. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of teams are different. So when you say, what do
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  Speaker 2: you know about this team? I'm sure Coach would say
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  Speaker 2: that he doesn't know about the team. Just like I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about our team yet. We haven't played a game.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of new faces over there. I think
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  Speaker 2: they're very well coached. I think on both sides, both
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  Speaker 2: Matt and Arthur and Rob have looked at all three
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  Speaker 2: areas of special teams. And, you know, last year's team
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  Speaker 2: schematically was very sound and the guys played hard, but
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of new faces over there. So are
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  Speaker 2: they going to continue to do what they do? I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure. We'll have to figure that out on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: but certainly have respect for their coaching staff and their program.
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll kind of see once we get on
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  Speaker 2: the field. So Yeah, early in the season. I think, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: the first four games of the season, there'll be some
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  Speaker 2: unknowns because a lot of the guys will be playing,
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  Speaker 2: certainly on Saturday, will be new faces.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that is kind of a question
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  Speaker 1: this time of year, it's always sort of something that
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  Speaker 1: comes up, is how you balance wanting to do what
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  Speaker 1: you want to do, but not wanting to put too
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  Speaker 1: much on film. Again, this is a weekend where Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's playing Ball State, probably not going to be the
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  Speaker 1: most challenging game but you also have Texas right on deck.
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  Speaker 1: You got Texas seven days later and you want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get yourself ready for Texas, but you
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  Speaker 1: want to hold stuff back maybe a little bit in reserve.
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  Speaker 1: How do you balance those two things?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. It's something that we talk about
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  Speaker 2: as coaches, but at the end of the day, you
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  Speaker 2: can't get too cute with that. You got to get
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  Speaker 2: out there and play. There's only so many games you're
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  Speaker 2: playing and You know, guys got to get game reps
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  Speaker 2: of what we're doing. So there's certain things you want
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  Speaker 2: to save and there's certain, you know, things that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as the season goes on, you want to keep in
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  Speaker 2: your back pocket. But good teams have tendencies and we
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  Speaker 2: got to identify our identity. And that's the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing than trying to, you know, not do something in
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  Speaker 2: week one to save something for.
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  Speaker 1: Down the road. Well, hope you guys enjoyed that. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to be cranking out some of these bonus
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  Speaker 1: shows for you. Pretty much all week long because we
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Ryan Day again on Wednesday evening. Had
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  Speaker 1: a great interview with Carson Hinsman on Tuesday. Going to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some more players on Wednesday. We'll try and
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