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Football Friday Previews: Eastern Hancock at Centerville with Josh Holden (Co-Host: Michelle Garmon; 2.19.9) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_03]: We have so much high school football coverage for you every week every Tuesday Thursday Friday and Saturday We have high school football coverage Thursdays Michelle and I preview and predict all of Central Indiana's best games on Friday We hear from head coaches from around Central Indiana and On Friday night Saturday morning was close to midnight as we can we release our
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host Greg Middown.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to football fan for the central Indiana Sports Report and our football Friday previews as we preview the eastern handcock royals against the
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They played each other twice last year.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They were two epic games and centerville came out on the winning side of both of them.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But these are programs very familiar with themselves a big game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely a big game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, Eastern Hancock is under the direction of a new head coach for a year guy, John Holden.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I know he was the head wrestling coach.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm trying to get your prediction for this game after we talked to Coach Holden, but I just want to let everybody know that this is one of the games that a lot of people disagree on, one of those games that had a lot of different people taking both sides.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: and want to let people know that on Friday night we will have our football Friday scoreboard show we will have the results from all over central Indian including that win and we'll talk to some coaches from around the state and have a lot of fun doing it Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Here is Easter and head got head coach Josh Holden.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report Eastern Hancock head coach Josh Holden last week.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We talked about coming off of a big win over Green Castle this week coming off the first loss of the season coach and what's the, uh, what's the mood been coming off a loss.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we've been really focused it's.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, we know we lost to a really good team and they just, you know, we're kind of transitioning from a zone offense to a little bit more of, you know, inside down block pole gap scheme type thing and, you know, we're trying to get more physical up front and be a little meaner and.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: North Decayters got about a 30 year head start on us on that so it's it's you know that's where they won the game up front and we know that and that's no knock on our kids we just.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're trying to play a different kind of game than we've played here in the past.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, there's some growing pains.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I think we learned a lot from that game on who we are and kids have been super focused and trying to fix the things that we didn't do well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, we're excited to play centerville.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's always a good game and they're a great ball club and very well coach.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, we're excited for the opportunity on Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I bet you are, especially after the beat you twice last year and two really, really competitive games, but your kids are looking forward to facing them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely, you know, it's nice, you know, as a head wrestling coach for 21 years, you know, we never wanted to go wrestle somebody, we were going to beat up on, we always wanted it to be competitive and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I had a kid telling me once he said coach, I'd rather go get my butt kicked and come and rest.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, somebody that I know I'm going to beat, and that's the mentality that I walked into here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's no, our kids don't want to go just roll over people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They want to go play people who are good and see how did we are and be tested and centerville's going to do that for us, because they're very, very good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, three games in a row where we're battling people who are
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  [SPEAKER_01]: well coached and very athletic and tough and pretty up front.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So how to win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, know how to yeah exactly it's you know and know how to win in you know this area right it's yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know they've they've all been here every coach has been here a lot longer and I have I'm trying to learn the ropes and.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what different programs do and the intricacies and they already know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we, you know, I'm walking in a little bit blind, but our kids know what the challenge is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, they're excited to.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not backing down.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coach, being an independent with no contact with, I'll have a conference schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: How hard is that to set up your schedule?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then how hard is it?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What do you guys do as far as because your kids can't earn like off-conference owners and things like that is that kind of a heart thing to battle when you're recruiting kids out?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So this is the first year we've not had a conference.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It dissolved last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We really haven't talked about it as a staff or as a program.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: for me it just is what it is and it's that's all I know is it a bummer that you don't get to go battle for you know some hardware absolutely it's a lot of fun you know those big games within a conference and the rivalries but you know it doesn't it doesn't take away from you know all the other things that we have that are goals for us throughout the season and you know the kids don't
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  [SPEAKER_01]: they haven't said anything so I don't think that they're worried about it at their focus on it as far as scheduling I walked into this schedule and I'll tell you it was one of the first things I walked in and I went oh my goodness who made this schedule like do they want me to get fired around here because that's right that's right it is not a joke it is it is a schedule set up to prepare you for sectional and it is a darn good
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  [SPEAKER_01]: you know, it's it's going back to wrestling.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's, you know, we had teams that we were never going to be maybe, you know, cathedral in a dual meat, but we scheduled cathedral in a dual meat because we knew that we were going to wrestle cathedral somewhere along the line in the tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we got to see those kids.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's the same thing here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't go play a team like North Decatur who's solid up front and they're pulling in downblock
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, a quarterback who can get the ball out on to all those things, you're not going to be ready to go play the track and centrals and northeast turns and, you know, center fills and those teams.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So you got to go play them and again, it's boring to go beat up on somebody you know that you're going to beat.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's way more fun to walk into a game go.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea how this is going to go.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: coach, you got to such a great start in week one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Last week, you did not get off to a great start.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: What was the big difference between the two games?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think the first thing was you guys picked us to win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that pretty much doing stuff all the way around.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So don't do that this week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I really think that there's something and this is coming from people who have been here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about playing on the road.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This team plays better on the road.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it was our first home game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe we hyped it up too much.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but we came out a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: hesitant, I guess I'd say we didn't seem super focused and really revved up and ready to go try to win the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We were just kind of hesitant and it looked like we were trying not to make mistakes and trying not to lose the game instead of going to win the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, as a coaching staff, we got to fix that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got to figure out what a home.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: routine looks like so that we can get ourselves ready to play a home and I guess luckily we're on the road this week so we don't have to take care of this week and yeah I think we just we were hesitant instead of going out and winning the game we went out and tried not to lose the game and that's when you lose.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You didn't have 450 yards of offense so it was that
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We want to run the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's we got a couple going darn good backs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got some big boys up front.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But again, we're trying to kind of change our scheme a little bit and the past blockings kind of the same.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think towards the end when we had to kind of throw the ball to come back and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, not waste time, so we're going fast.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that suited us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We just really, we were past, past protection was good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got a quarter back that he's, you know, pretty unbelievable with his legs, he can sling the ball around.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's make out there, making plays with his legs and throwing dots to people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we found a little bit of maybe we're kind of a tempo team and get after it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we should be throwing the ball maybe a little more than we thought we should.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I don't know, we found that we, I think we can change with what we need.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's a good thing for us to learn that if we're behind, you know, we can come back from behind because we got a passing game that we can go hurry up and make some plays.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Coach, what concerns you most about Cinderville and I'm guessing it's number nine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's not bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's all right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that family and man, they just produce studs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So to tell you the truth, it comes down for me every week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I look at it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think, you know, you compare quarterbacks and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They got a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You look at their skill guys.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They got good ones.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got good ones.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You look at them up front.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they got some big boys, but they're not all like monsters, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They got some tough little guys in there and we got the same stuff.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So you look at the two teams on paper and you go, man, they're we look pretty even.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, they play an odd front on defense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We play an odd front on defense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just so many similarities.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Their coach is about five six and I'm only about five eight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's we got a whole bunch of similarities and it comes down to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Who is going to win up front, can our offensive line move their D line and can our D line, you know, get some penetration and make some plays, uh, against their really really good O line.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what it comes down to to me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that I'm necessarily worried about any one specific thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just think that that is what at the game is going to come down to which lines specifically O line wins the battle up front.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Alright Michelle, this is one that we disagree on and also one that Coach Holden asked you to have for Coach Holden to ask you the prediction to make.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he asked both of us not to choose his team, and I did not choose his team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I did, so if Eastern Hancock loses, it's not only is it good for me, bad for you, Coach Holden may never speak to you again.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's right, it might be my fault, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He might just send you a message and say, hey, I don't want to be a part of that show anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's not the thing, I thought.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That means you promised not to pick my team anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's right, it's the thing, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think we both agree that this is going to be a close one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, most definitely I do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's going to be a very close game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I just think Senator knows going to eat it out a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I know you think the other way, but I do think it's going to be a thrilling game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, one, if you're in the area, if you're in that area, live in that area.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Go and you want something to do on the Friday night.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Go check out that football game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, and just go check it out to that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the weather's going to be really, you know, it's going to be nice.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, whether not too cold, not too perfect to.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, except timber football weather.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's in a fells underway.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's all begun, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So exciting.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And everybody, make sure you tune in on Friday night, early Saturday morning.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's close to midnight as possible for the football Friday scoreboard show.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And we will have the results from all of them.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, Greg.