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Second night of the NBA season begins · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt leads the all time series with Texas eight wins,
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  Speaker 1: the three losses, one tie. Now, they haven't played since
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight, when Vanderbilt beat Texas in Dallas thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to twelve, but they do have the overall series lead.
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  Speaker 1: They also have what I think is the biggest eye
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  Speaker 1: opening win of the season. They're forty thirty five home
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  Speaker 1: win over the Alabama Crimson Tide and the back coming
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  Speaker 1: up on three weeks ago. Were very pleased to be
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  Speaker 1: joined by the play by play voice of the Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 1: Commodores Andrew Alligretto, who joins us on the hot line. Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the time. How are you this afternoon. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing great.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about the golden era of Vanderbilt football there
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  Speaker 2: nineteen twenty eight, where the coaches and the players have
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  Speaker 2: now become the names of our streets and buildings.
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  Speaker 3: That for sure is the golden.
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  Speaker 1: Era, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yet.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine these days are pretty exciting times there
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  Speaker 1: in Nashville, aren't they? After not only the win over Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: but I went over Virginia Tech certainly had a shot
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  Speaker 1: to knock off Missouri, a top ten ranked team lost
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. You had to win the road win at
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky Gamming. Folks are really seeing the difference that Clark
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  Speaker 1: Lee is making now in his fourth season there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really significant season, Craig for sure.
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  Speaker 2: First off, it's great to do an interview with you
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  Speaker 2: guys and talk with you guys as conference members. It's
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  Speaker 2: really really fun. I genuinely enjoy this. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: special season so far. The Alabama game, no doubt eye opening.
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  Speaker 2: It's both Clark Lee, but it's all of the changes
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  Speaker 2: that clark made in the offseason, bringing Jerry Kill and
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  Speaker 2: Tim back from New Mexico State, and obviously Diego Pavia,
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  Speaker 2: who you know, I've kind of joked a bunch that
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of a self made SEC starting quarterback. Like
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  Speaker 2: he didn't he didn't go to any of the Elite
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  Speaker 2: eleven quarterback camps.
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  Speaker 3: If he showed up, they would have kicked him out.
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  Speaker 3: They wouldn't have let him participate, right.
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  Speaker 2: Like, he has made himself into a Southeastern starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he doesn't have the same physical gifts
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  Speaker 2: as perhaps viewers are manning, but his football IQ I'd
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  Speaker 2: put up there with anybody in the country. So all
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  Speaker 2: of those things have been kind of the perfect combo,
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  Speaker 2: at least so far for seven games.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one of the things that really it kind of
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  Speaker 1: warms the hearts of a lot of folks around here
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  Speaker 1: is the play of Cedric Alexander. And I had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to call, as did our producer Cameron, several of
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  Speaker 1: his high school games when he played at LBJ and
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  Speaker 1: just a great kid and was just an unbelievably special
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  Speaker 1: football player in the Austin Independent School District, all time
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  Speaker 1: rushing leader there, and then as the guy who calls
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  Speaker 1: the state championships for television, I got pretty familiar with
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  Speaker 1: Eli Stowers only long enough to see him go down
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  Speaker 1: with a knee injury in the first quarter of the
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  Speaker 1: championship game against Westlake and replaced by the now sometimes starting,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes back up quarterback at Oklahoma. To have him knocked
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  Speaker 1: out of the game in that, but then to see
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  Speaker 1: him reinvent himself as a receiver has been really interesting
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  Speaker 1: to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine this happens to you guys a time to time,
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  Speaker 2: where you go play somebody and you see a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of all of these really talented Texas high school football products,
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  Speaker 2: but we've been overwhelmed with what Cedric has been able
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  Speaker 2: to do for us. He's still growing and maturing us
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  Speaker 2: running back at this level, but he was All SEC
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  Speaker 2: freshman team. He led all SEC freshman running backs in
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  Speaker 2: yards a season ago, and he's certainly our primary back
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And Eli Stowers is the best tight end.
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  Speaker 2: That Vanderbilt has had, which I imagine that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a unique sentence for you knowing him as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: but the best tight end Vanderbilt has had since Jordan Matthews,
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  Speaker 2: who ended up playing in the NFL with a handful
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  Speaker 2: of teams like that combo, and again the calculus of
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  Speaker 2: Tim Back as the offensive coordinator, and the calculus and
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  Speaker 2: the improv of Diego Papa, Like you're talking about four
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  Speaker 2: guys that are making this offense go for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you bring up Tim Back and that brings
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  Speaker 1: us out of my face because when he was on
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  Speaker 1: Tom Herman's staff here, he was always fun to visit
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  Speaker 1: with and would take time to sit down with Roger
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  Speaker 1: Rawlis and myself and visit with him. So it's good
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  Speaker 1: to see his path working out really well. As we
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  Speaker 1: visit right now with Andrew Allagreta, played by play voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Vanderbilt Commodore. How about that the doors defense
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  Speaker 1: and what has stood out to you about Vanderbilt's defense?
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  Speaker 1: And they've been able, I know in some games they've
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  Speaker 1: given up some points, but in other games they've kind
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  Speaker 1: of held their water, like the Kentucky game and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of the other games where they were able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hold everything down and give the offense a
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  Speaker 1: chance to put enough points up on the board to
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  Speaker 1: win the game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's one percent for sure, Craig about Vanderbilt's defense
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that in his fourth year, Clarkley has
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  Speaker 2: his best defensive coordinator and it's himself. Like he went
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  Speaker 2: through three years into this process, he tried to delegate
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  Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator role to a couple of different guys
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  Speaker 2: and it wasn't clicking the way that he wanted. So
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  Speaker 2: one off the changes he made in the off season
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  Speaker 2: was too to install himself as the defensive coordinator. And
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  Speaker 2: he's an outrageously good defensive coordinator from a Texas perspective.
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  Speaker 3: Fans would be interested to know.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, clark went up against coach Sark in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty Rose Bowl between Notre Dame and Alabama, Clark
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  Speaker 2: was Notre Dame's defensive coordinator. Of course, Sark was Alabama's
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  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. Now, Alabama still won that game, but Clark's
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  Speaker 2: defense that Notre Dame held Alabama twenty points below their
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  Speaker 2: season average, from fifty down to thirty. So the thing
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  Speaker 2: about Clark is he's an outrageously good schemer. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have Notre Dame's talents, we don't have perhaps some of
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  Speaker 2: the other big pieces that he's had throughout the course
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  Speaker 2: of his career. But he's so good at structuring a
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  Speaker 2: defense that helps reduce the weaknesses of the players and
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  Speaker 2: amplify their strengths.
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  Speaker 3: And we do have talent.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say that we're out there with a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of dollar store pieces. It's just it's not the
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  Speaker 2: same depth, it's not the same overwhelming force as athleticism.
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  Speaker 3: And he's put them.
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  Speaker 2: In great positions to make everybody, as he says, go
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  Speaker 2: the long hard way. Like if you're going to score touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: at least the goal nine times out of ten is
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  Speaker 2: to make you do it in nine, ten, eleven plays.
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  Speaker 3: And that's going to plan the Vanderbilt's hands I want
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Diego Pave again because I watched him play
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  Speaker 1: when he was playing for New Mexico State, and I
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  Speaker 1: saw what he did for Jerry Kill there and he
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  Speaker 1: and Eli and then getting him to that Bowl game
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  Speaker 1: was just a landmark accomplishment there in Los Cruises and
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  Speaker 1: win that game was something. And to hear interviews with him,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like his entire life in football, once he's
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  Speaker 1: gotten beyond high school, has been playing with house money,
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  Speaker 1: and that he's taking that he's taking the biggest advantage
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  Speaker 1: of his attitude seems to be like, look, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even supposed to be here anyway, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun. And I guess what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech offered him a walk on position, but he
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  Speaker 1: always kind of believed in himself. Let me go to
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  Speaker 1: Juco and then on to New Mexico State and to
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  Speaker 1: have a real refreshing attitude about being the quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's accurate.
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  Speaker 2: I would add I'm not sure if he views it
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  Speaker 2: necessarily as house house money and more as I deserve,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm talented enough for this. It's it is how
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  Speaker 2: large can you how large can you think of someone's
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  Speaker 2: chip on their shoulder and then amplify it by about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred for somebody like Diego Pavia, right like, he's
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  Speaker 2: five foot ten eleven, six foot whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Again, he doesn't have a massive arm.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody was scouting out Volcano Vista High School for him
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  Speaker 2: to play quarterback in Albuquerque. But all that did was
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  Speaker 2: motivate this young man because he genuinely believes in the
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  Speaker 2: most positive way that he's the best player on the
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  Speaker 2: field every time he steps on. And at least from
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  Speaker 2: a Vanderbilt perspective, I do think you need somebody like
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  Speaker 2: that to shock the system because all of the obvious
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  Speaker 2: narrative is Vanderbilt is playing from the underdog position, so
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  Speaker 2: one and so forth. And you get somebody like Diego
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  Speaker 2: Pavia who steps on the field and completely occupies the
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  Speaker 2: oxygen of confidence and demands that everybody come with him
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  Speaker 2: that in that quest. Now, he's not perfect, he has
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  Speaker 2: made some missteps, he was not great versus Ball State,
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  Speaker 2: he was not great versus Georgia State. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that has waivered his confidence, and all it has
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  Speaker 2: done is just allowed him to get out there with
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  Speaker 2: a bigger fire burning in his stomach. I just think
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  Speaker 2: he plays with this outrageous sense of like, I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to prove the fact that everybody thinks I shouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 2: If that's house money, that's house money, if it's a
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  Speaker 2: chip on the shoulder, whatever it is. But he's out
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  Speaker 2: there with this maniacal tunnel vision to prove that he
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  Speaker 2: belongs in the field with everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew alligreta play by play voice for the Vandervelt Commodore,
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  Speaker 1: is joining us here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: zent right. Tell folks a little bit about what the
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  Speaker 1: environment's been there some long horn fans making the trip.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the stadium is sold out on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: as well, but folks, a little bit about what the
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  Speaker 1: environment will be like for a stadium. Unless I'm completely missing,
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  Speaker 1: it is still kind of undergoing some renovation right now,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can drop the kind of it's definitely still
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  Speaker 2: an active construction zone. First off, it's been fun to
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  Speaker 2: see longhorned fans throughout the course of the season.
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  Speaker 3: This is not new for us.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we get Georgia fans or Bama fans throughout the
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  Speaker 2: course of the season because they purchased their season tickets
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  Speaker 2: from Vanderbilt, and they'll show up occasionally when Vanderbilt plays
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  Speaker 2: Missouri or whatever it happens to be all for the
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  Speaker 2: one game that they actually wanted.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been good to see them throughout the course
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  Speaker 3: of the season. Yes, we are absolutely under construction.
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  Speaker 2: What effectively it is is we've blown out the north
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  Speaker 2: and south end zones. The north end zone it's effectively complete.
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  Speaker 2: The south end zone is still an active construction site.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see one of the best
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  Speaker 2: atmosphere for Vanderbilt football. You know, quite frankly, in twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: The last time there was a Top twenty five matchup
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  Speaker 2: at home for Vanderbilt was two thousand and eight, and
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  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt was nineteen, Auburn was thirteen. That is the last
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  Speaker 2: time you've seen ranked on rank at Vanderbilt Stadium two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and eight. So it's gonna be. It's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Texas fans will not be surprised. And you know, Nick
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  Speaker 2: Sabman had his quote about the fact that there's more
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  Speaker 2: of your fans than their fans at the building, and
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  Speaker 2: we played that and that became a thing after our
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  Speaker 2: Alabama victory, but it's gonna be sixty forty seventy thirty
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  Speaker 2: Texas fans in that building.
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  Speaker 3: But I think what Texas fans will end up.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing is a way more engaged Vanderbilt fan base. We
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  Speaker 2: have overshot our student ticket allotment by nearly double throughout
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  Speaker 2: the course of this season. Like it's been a kind
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  Speaker 2: of a cattle fraud to get students to engage age
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  Speaker 2: with the football program for obvious reasons.
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  Speaker 3: Some of it the success on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Some of it is just like the intellectual makeup of
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  Speaker 2: the student body, Like you know, some of them are
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  Speaker 2: just not going to be engaged with what happens on
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  Speaker 2: a football field on a Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: But they have showed up in a big way.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think Texas fans are going to see
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  Speaker 2: a very passionate, passionate Black and Gold section to go
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  Speaker 2: right up against what will be a very very upsure,
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  Speaker 2: loud and passionate bur doorm steps.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Andrews, is are the broadcast boots under construction as well?
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  Speaker 3: You joke, but I will say fingers crossed.
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  Speaker 2: I had a small panic attack the week leading up
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  Speaker 2: to the Alabama game because I showed up on the
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  Speaker 2: Sunday beforehand, and there was a bunch of buckets out
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  Speaker 2: collecting rainwater because there had been a leak in the
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  Speaker 2: press pot.
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  Speaker 3: So no, technically.
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  Speaker 2: They're not under construction. I will say your view is
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  Speaker 2: really good. I don't know what it is obviously at
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  Speaker 2: Texas because I've never been there. But in terms of
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  Speaker 2: like vantage points, you're going to have a lovely perch
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  Speaker 2: to call the game. You're not going to be ten
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  Speaker 2: miles away, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Not in the end zone. But you know there might
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  Speaker 3: be a little water damage from a league about two
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago. So as long as you're cool with that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we can live with that. We can definitely live with that.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Andrew, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: join us today. I look forward to seeing you on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday at the stadium and it ought to be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. Thanks again for taking some time.
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  Speaker 3: Today, of course, it's a pleasure. All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's Andrew Alligh rather play by play voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt Commodore's all right, coming up, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: some more coming up from our colleague Will Matthews visiting
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  Speaker 1: with another Longhorn. It'll be Jaye Bluemom. We continue on
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone