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April 7, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: champion Ship game. It wasn't pretty. It was a rock fight.
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Speaker 1: I've got my opinions as to why, and they don't
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Speaker 1: have to do a defense. Well, we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1: We've got a high school report today. You know, we
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Speaker 1: have spring football today. We are all over that for you.
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Speaker 1: Mallory will be here with a new entertainment update for us,
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Speaker 1: and we've got Aggie Baseball coming your way five forty five.
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Speaker 1: This is actually my last show of the week. I'd
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Speaker 1: like to tell you I'm going to some exotic beach somewhere.
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Speaker 1: It's just the schedule. Tomorrow, We've got Astro's Baseball Thursday,
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Speaker 1: Jared and Jason are in Friday, Ryan is in with
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Speaker 1: Kirk Bowls and I think Dusty will be with Kirk
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Speaker 1: on Friday. Next Monday, more Astros Baseball. I'll be back
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Speaker 1: next Tuesday, but normally I will be working for you
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Speaker 1: the listener parts of that those days when I'm not here.
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Speaker 1: Just keep that in mind. And today we're going to
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Speaker 1: give away a prize package to our Sports Talk Madness
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Speaker 1: contest winner. Since the season is over. As I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: Aggie Baseball tonight against Texas State from San Marcus five
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Speaker 1: point forty five start the sixty sixth time these programs
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Speaker 1: have met. A and M has won fifty of the
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Speaker 1: previous sixty five an m won last year. Aggie's are
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Speaker 1: seven to zero on Tuesday Night so far this year.
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Speaker 1: That is a big, big deal, big big, big big deal.
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Speaker 1: They're three to twenty two. Batting average is fifteenth best
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Speaker 1: in the country, in the top five, and on base percentage,
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Speaker 1: slugging percentage, home runs, run scored, and walks. In other words,
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Speaker 1: they're pounding the Polota Cole Hubert. I think we'll get
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Speaker 1: the start tonight for the Aggies, Rangers, Mariners. The Rangers
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Speaker 1: still can't score runs, but they made two runs stand
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Speaker 1: up last night. They beat Seattle two to one. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often. If they can win one of
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Speaker 1: these next two games, it will be the first time
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Speaker 1: they have beaten Seattle in a series in three years.
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Speaker 1: I wish I was kidding, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: The Rangers are sitting at five and five, half game
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Speaker 1: behind the Astros at six. They're playing the Rockies, which
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Speaker 1: you know. And let's see Mike Burrows set to start
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Speaker 1: his third game of this season tonight. Oh in the
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Speaker 1: Rangers game. Native Baldy's getting the start. We're going to
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Speaker 1: watch him closely. He has not been good in his
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Speaker 1: first two outings. He may have been the best pitcher
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Speaker 1: in the American League all season long last year, but
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Speaker 1: he hasn't been good so far. National Championship Game last night,
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Speaker 1: sixty nine sixty three, the Wolverines of Michigan knocked off
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Speaker 1: the fighting Danny Hurleys in a rock fight of a game.
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Speaker 1: I don't have the halftime stats, and I'm meant to
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Speaker 1: do that to make a point. We're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about that here in just a little bit. Uh Luke.
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Speaker 1: Evangelists of Texacts is reporting Ruben Domingus is in entering
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal and Josh Holloway has already entered the
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Speaker 1: transfer portal. The transfer portal is open as of today,
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Speaker 1: so there will be lots of players coming and going.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. A and M has spots to fill,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see I think eight spots maybe to fill.
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Speaker 1: They're asking waivers on Zach Clements and Marcus Hill, so
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Speaker 1: don't know how all of that is going to work
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Speaker 1: its way out. We shall see. Speaking of college basketball,
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Speaker 1: we've got an early favorite next year. Duke at plus
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Speaker 1: eight hundred is the early favorite. Now John Shire has
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Speaker 1: not won a Nattie. There's been some heartbreaking losses along
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Speaker 1: the way. We'll see Michigan is second at twelve to one,
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Speaker 1: Florida is fourteen to one, and Arizona is fifteen to one.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I would bet the field right now if
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Speaker 1: I could. If I could bet the field, I would
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Speaker 1: take the field. I you know, that would be an
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Speaker 1: easy bet for me, frankly. So okay, there's that. And
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Speaker 1: here's some featured first round groupings at the Masters on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Bryson d. Chambeau is playing with Matthew Fitzpatrick and Xanders Shoffley.
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Speaker 1: They will tee off at nine seven am, Texas time.
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Speaker 1: Rory defending the title at nine thirty one with Cam
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Speaker 1: Young and Mason Howe. At twelve oh eight John Rob,
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Speaker 1: Chris Godderip Ludwig obern Man. That's a good Perry. And
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Speaker 1: the next to last group off on Thursday at twelve
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Speaker 1: forty four two time champs Scottie Scheffler along with Gary Woodland,
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Speaker 1: former US Open champ and winner from the Houston Openness
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Speaker 1: last two weeks ago, and Robert McIntyre. So those are
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Speaker 1: just some of the features as the Master's tease off
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Speaker 1: on Thursday. I have a minute here, so I'm going
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Speaker 1: to propose this theory. The shooting was terrible all weekend
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Speaker 1: long at the Final four. We talked yesterday with the
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Speaker 1: writers about how the shooting background in these huge stadiums
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Speaker 1: is terrible and apparently Lucas Oil is one of the worst.
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Speaker 1: Why do I say that because one end of the court,
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Speaker 1: the combined teams were something like one for thirty. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Yukon was five for fifteen in the first half. Michigan
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Speaker 1: was over. They were for eleven, oh for twelve? Do
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Speaker 1: you have the halftime breakdown trade on that on three
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Speaker 1: point on three pointers, Michigan was like over in the
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Speaker 1: first half. Uh, and we'll I'll look at that. I
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Speaker 1: meant to do it before we got here. In the
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Speaker 1: second half, Connecticut hit a late three, I believe by Caravan.
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Speaker 1: I think that was the only three on that end
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Speaker 1: of the court. Okay, the entire game. I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: that was the only three point shot that was made
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Speaker 1: on that would be where the Connecticut bench was to
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Speaker 1: your right as you were watching the game. What was
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Speaker 1: Michigan in the first half?
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Speaker 4: Michigan was.
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Speaker 1: No from the three? Did it break up eighth for eight? What?
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Speaker 1: What was Yukon in the second half? From the three
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Speaker 1: point line four for eighteen. No, no, not for the game.
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Speaker 1: That's the second half they hit four. Okay, never mind,
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Speaker 1: So that was four for twenty six from three from
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Speaker 1: that end of the court. Okay, first half that were
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Speaker 1: five for fifteen something like that, right, Okay. I just
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Speaker 1: like the shooting was atrocious in all three games. And
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Speaker 1: these are teams that are in are buying for the now.
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Speaker 1: These are the four best teams, right, and they can't
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Speaker 1: hit threes. Why can't they hit threes? Oh well, the
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Speaker 1: defense was great, you know, there's pressure now they played
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Speaker 1: five games already, right, No, No, that's not it. The
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Speaker 1: site lines are terrible, The shooting is terrible with the background,
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Speaker 1: and that's just another you know, reason not to play
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Speaker 1: these games in these cavernous football stadiums. I mean, they're
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Speaker 1: not going to stop. You know, it's sixty thousand paying
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Speaker 1: customers versus eighteen thousand paid customers, so they're not going
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Speaker 1: to stop it. Just it just cheapens the product. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Now you're saying, hey, that'll be shooting from anywhere, Well maybe,
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Speaker 1: but they're not. They're not. Okay, And I would argue
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Speaker 1: if you could look back on some of the these
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Speaker 1: games over the years that have been played in these
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Speaker 1: stadiums three point percentages versus regular season or even in
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Speaker 1: the preliminary games, because none of them are played in
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Speaker 1: the stadium, right, They're all in basketball arenas until you
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Speaker 1: get to the final four. So if you want to
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Speaker 1: go back and do a deep dive on that, I
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Speaker 1: suggest you do that and prove me wrong. All right,
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Speaker 1: You know, I was I was a little disappointed in
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Speaker 1: one shining moment last night. I mean it was okay.
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Speaker 1: I always love one shining moment. That's the way to
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Speaker 1: close things out right. And and uh, I mean I
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Speaker 1: love the crew. I love Ernie, I love Charles Barkley,
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Speaker 1: Clark Kellogg. I'm not sure how much Bruce Pearl added
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Speaker 1: to the mix. But right now we're going to go
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Speaker 1: after the Players Fund Center phone line, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to visit with the winner of the Sports Talk Madness
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Speaker 1: Contest brought to you by Chad Jones Law at Zornaman Florg.
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Speaker 1: He is Darren Wilkinson. Darren, how are you?
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Speaker 13: I'm doing well, sir, How are you so?
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Speaker 1: At what point did you know you had won this contest?
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Speaker 13: When I got a call about.
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Speaker 1: So, so you were a little surprised. Did you know
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Speaker 1: that you were among the leaders?
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Speaker 14: No?
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Speaker 1: I did not, Oh you were not you you you
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Speaker 1: just filled it out and you just let it go right.
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Speaker 13: Absolutely, I did, yes, hey, because I very rarely win anythings.
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Speaker 13: I just figured out to it to see how it goes.
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Speaker 1: So you you there were six people that were tied
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Speaker 1: for first place, Darren, But you're one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: three points.
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Speaker 14: Uh.
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Speaker 1: You you had a total point total. Uh that was
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Speaker 1: within eleven points of the total, and that was far
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Speaker 1: and away the best. So so that's why I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to you. Okay, you're you're the wheel. When you said
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Speaker 1: you've never you hardly ever win anything, when was the
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Speaker 1: last time you won something?
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Speaker 13: Oh, my long, long time ago?
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Speaker 11: I remember?
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Speaker 1: Do you do you play every year?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 14: Sir?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Did I get this right? Do you teach at
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Speaker 1: blind or an administrator at Blinn?
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Speaker 13: Yes?
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Speaker 1: Okay, what do you teach?
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Speaker 13: I teach math?
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Speaker 1: Okay, so mathematically you figured out this tournament.
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Speaker 13: Absolutely. My winner didn't win, all right? So I had Arizona, Yeah,
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Speaker 13: I had Arizona going all the way, and of course
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Speaker 13: they didn't. So me too.
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Speaker 1: In my bracket. I had Arizona going all the way
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Speaker 1: as well. But the but but that didn't matter because
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Speaker 1: you had Michigan as one of your ten, you had
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Speaker 1: Arizona as one of your ten. You had Yukon as
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Speaker 1: one of your ten.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I only got one team in my final four and
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Speaker 1: that was Arizona and that ended on Saturday. So I
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Speaker 1: have way back. Okay. So first thing I'm gonna do,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you some kind of collector item stuff, okay,
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Speaker 1: and you can do with them what you want. I
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Speaker 1: have a I have two things from the National Championship
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Speaker 1: football game that was played in Houston at NRG Stadium
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Speaker 1: and actually Michigan won the championship then as well.
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Speaker 15: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I have a collector's pin that is really cool. It's
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Speaker 1: got the National Championship Trophy on it. I have a
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Speaker 1: college football collector's pin. I have a pristine program from
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Speaker 1: the National Championship okay game, Okay. I have tickets to
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Speaker 1: Sherwood Forest, which is between here and Austin every year.
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Speaker 1: I have I have a family four pack to Moody
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Speaker 1: Gardens which includes the aquarium, the rainforest, the discovery all
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Speaker 1: of that. And I have a compliment Sunday brunh buffet
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Speaker 1: for two at Casa manyari On University. If you haven't been,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna really enjoy that, Okay, because you told my
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Speaker 1: producer you're an Astros fans. You're an Astro fan. You're
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Speaker 1: missing out on a couple of really cool things. But
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give those two a Ranger fan.
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Speaker 13: That's fine.
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Speaker 1: I figured you wouldn't mind that. Darren. I appreciate you playing,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening, and I'm going to put you
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Speaker 1: on hold. Jet's gonna tell you how to pick up
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Speaker 1: all these goodies. And do you play the football contest?
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Speaker 3: Darin?
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Speaker 13: Absolutely?
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Speaker 1: Okay? And and have you ever won anything? A weekly
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Speaker 1: on that?
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Speaker 13: I won one week, probably about six years ago.
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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, Hey, winning a week is good. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with that. Well, thanks, thanks for doing it, and
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Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you. If you'll stay on
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Speaker 1: the hold, we'll tell you how to pick up these prizes.
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Speaker 15: We do.
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Speaker 1: We did it, thanks Darren.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 1: That's Darren Wilkinson. He is the winner of Sports Talk
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Speaker 1: Madness Play Mission Impossible. Just a little bit, would you
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Speaker 1: be a be uh, just so I can say we're
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Speaker 1: not going to hear that till the end of August. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're done, hey, from when they managed and JUNI July
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Speaker 1: four months, it'll be four and a half months before
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Speaker 1: we're playing a contest again. You guys talk amongst yourselves
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Speaker 1: until then. Okay, Uh, let's do this. We are going
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Speaker 1: to hear from the coaches from last night. First. We're
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Speaker 1: going to start with with Dan Hurley. And I will
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Speaker 1: tell you this, I can't think of another coach in
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Speaker 1: America that would have done what he done did with
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Speaker 1: his team last night, exactly how he wanted to play,
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Speaker 1: except they couldn't hit shots. Here's Dan Hurley.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, uh, you know, number one, congratulations to
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Speaker 14: Michigan just uh incredibly talented, incredibly imposing team, uh physically
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Speaker 14: obviously well coached, great staff. Uh you know, just overall
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Speaker 14: just a you know, tremendous university. Uh you know, with
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Speaker 14: with with what they're able to accomplish in sports. So
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Speaker 14: uh obviously, you know, for us, it's it's it's tough.
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Speaker 16: You know.
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Speaker 14: Again, we did not come here for watches, Uh, you know,
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Speaker 14: we came here for rings, and uh, you know it's
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Speaker 14: hard to be I'm not real emotional you know, players
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Speaker 14: are crying a lot more than I am. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 14: it's hard to be upset with your team. You know,
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Speaker 14: we we lost the game because we missed you know,
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Speaker 14: we just we missed.
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Speaker 3: Uh, we didn't make enough shots.
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Speaker 14: But it's hard to be upset with your team when
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Speaker 14: it get twenty two offensive rebounds versus that team. I mean,
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Speaker 14: that's just how hard we just played to hold you know,
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Speaker 14: that that team to thirty eight percent from the field.
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Speaker 3: But obviously the.
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Speaker 14: You know, I just thought, you know, the guys picking
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Speaker 14: up two fouls in the first half. Losing those three
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Speaker 14: guys when we had thought had a great chance going
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Speaker 14: to the locker room with the lead, you know, really
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Speaker 14: put us in a bad spot. But you know, it's
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Speaker 14: you know, it's hard to be disappointed in your team
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Speaker 14: when they fight so hard.
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Speaker 17: First rough yep, Joe Rudhart re current Dan you said
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Speaker 17: you weren't emotional.
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Speaker 18: It looks like you're starting to get there.
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Speaker 19: But how do you balance the pride that you have
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Speaker 19: and and those guys in this team this year with
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Speaker 19: the sadness that comes with the end of it.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm not. I mean, like I said before, it's
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Speaker 14: like it's hard to be to have a level of
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Speaker 14: disappointment where literally it's just you know, obviously it just
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Speaker 14: came down to we just we we didn't make enough
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Speaker 14: shots in the basket.
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Speaker 3: You know, like to be.
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Speaker 14: Able to you know, keep that team, you know, under
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Speaker 14: forty percent from the field, thirty eight percent. You know,
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Speaker 14: this team has destroyed everyone they faced in this tournament. Again,
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Speaker 14: your team gives you twenty two offensive reboundser that's how hard, uh,
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Speaker 14: you know how hard we played and just you know,
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Speaker 14: just what the group has been able to overcome through,
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Speaker 14: you know, just throughout the year, the growth, the way
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Speaker 14: they played in March.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I like to.
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Speaker 14: Just the whole experience that this team has given, you know,
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Speaker 14: the coaches, the fan base, you know, to play to
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Speaker 14: the last, you know, to be one of the last
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Speaker 14: two teams standing. You I know a lot of people
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Speaker 14: talk about, hey, it's better off losing the first game
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Speaker 14: in the final four than losing in the championship. That
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Speaker 14: is the biggest bunch of It's the biggest bunch of
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Speaker 14: crap of all times. It's such a.
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Speaker 3: Bullsh stuff stuff it is.
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Speaker 14: I mean, it's like this is where you want it
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Speaker 14: to be. You know, listen, it hasn't set in yet.
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Speaker 14: You know, on the flight tomorrow. It'll set in on
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Speaker 14: the bus ride back. You know, eventually it'll hit you
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Speaker 14: that you were you know, you were, you were close
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Speaker 14: to pulling off. You know, you know what would have
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Speaker 14: been a historic Stork third championship, but just his team
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Speaker 14: just gave us so much this year, you know, just
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Speaker 14: didn't make enough shots.
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Speaker 20: To the right of the isle, Lindsay Lindsay Schnell, the
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Speaker 20: athletic Dan, how do you sum up what Alex has
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Speaker 20: meant to your program the last few years and his contribution.
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Speaker 14: Okay, so now they're crying no, no, I mean, come on,
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Speaker 14: this guy changed my life, the staff's.
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Speaker 3: Lives, the joy he's brought.
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Speaker 14: To the university fan base, his decision to come to Yukon. Uh,
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Speaker 14: you know, it's made us to you know, Florida won
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Speaker 14: the national championship last year.
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Speaker 3: I'll probably get in trouble for this.
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Speaker 14: Michigan won the national championship this year, you know, but
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Speaker 14: you know he's helped to make Yukon. I think right now,
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Speaker 14: you know, we're probably the premier program in college basketball
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Speaker 14: right now, you know, having been to three out of
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Speaker 14: four national championship games ever won two of them. He
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Speaker 14: just he's put Yukon in that in that rarefied place
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Speaker 14: in college basketball. So everyone owes everything to that guy,
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Speaker 14: and I figure, let me just play, let me play
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Speaker 14: him into the ground one more time. We're just one
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Speaker 14: more forty minute game for Alex. Let me just let
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Speaker 14: me just let me just play that guy into the
23:50
Speaker 14: ground one more night, like I have throughout his career.
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Speaker 3: He deserved to play forty minutes to the right of
23:56
Speaker 3: the issle.
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Speaker 21: Hey coach having Mikawa a dot com obviously, you mentioned
24:02
Speaker 21: Michigan has rolled through this tournament. I know you have respect,
24:04
Speaker 21: a lot of respect for Dusty May. Where does this
24:06
Speaker 21: Michigan team rank for you in terms of the most
24:09
Speaker 21: difficult opponents that you've played in your career.
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Speaker 14: Uh, It's one of the better teams that I've played,
24:16
Speaker 14: you know, you know, certainly since I've been a you know,
24:19
Speaker 14: a college you know, college basketball coach. Now, like when
24:23
Speaker 14: I was back at Rhode Island, I coached against an
24:25
Speaker 14: Arizona team with Aaron Gordon and and uh Hollis Jefferson
24:29
Speaker 14: and Nick Johnson and t J.
24:31
Speaker 3: McConnell.
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Speaker 14: You know, I you know, I've coached against some teams
24:35
Speaker 14: you know, with a lot of you know, with a
24:37
Speaker 14: lot of good players.
24:38
Speaker 3: They're they're I mean, they're legit.
24:40
Speaker 14: I mean they're there are definitely you know, uh deserved
24:44
Speaker 14: to win the national championship. They're clearly the best team
24:47
Speaker 14: in the country this year. You know, they're they're just
24:51
Speaker 14: so hard to score against at the rim. I could
24:53
Speaker 14: talk about the the threes that we missed, and I
24:55
Speaker 14: thought we had a lot of good threes that we missed,
24:58
Speaker 14: but they just made it's so tough on us around
25:01
Speaker 14: the rim. I mean it was probably what even got
25:04
Speaker 14: us more than the mysteries was some of those rim
25:06
Speaker 14: shots Solos transition basket. I think they cut at the
25:09
Speaker 14: four could have put some serious game pressure on them.
25:12
Speaker 14: They changed so many shots around the rim. They're just
25:14
Speaker 14: so tall.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they's right, they are really tall, really good, and
25:25
Speaker 1: that team played them within six had no business doing it, honestly,
25:29
Speaker 1: because nobody else did. Let's hear from the winning coach,
25:33
Speaker 1: Dusty May. Then we'll get some questions for the student athletes.
25:36
Speaker 11: First.
25:37
Speaker 15: Yeah, what a way to wrap up the twenty five
25:38
Speaker 15: to twenty six college basketball season with this group. I
25:42
Speaker 15: want to begin by thinking last year's team at Michigan,
25:47
Speaker 15: we came up a little bit short, but those guys
25:49
Speaker 15: laid the foundation, established an identity for us and also
25:53
Speaker 15: helped attract these guys to come in and chase this
25:57
Speaker 15: stream together. And secondly, I want to think our FAU guys,
26:01
Speaker 15: the team and staff that really, really this is one
26:05
Speaker 15: time I'm make it about me that really helped us
26:07
Speaker 15: grow together. And that was the first time I'd been
26:11
Speaker 15: with a group that was truly sacrificial, where we were
26:14
Speaker 15: about each other and because of that, we all improve
26:17
Speaker 15: so much.
26:18
Speaker 18: And this team's done the same thing.
26:20
Speaker 15: When you bring a group this talented together and they
26:23
Speaker 15: decide from the beginning that they're going to do it
26:25
Speaker 15: this way and they never waiver and they never change,
26:28
Speaker 15: that's probably the most uncommon thing in athletics now. And
26:31
Speaker 15: it's a tribute to their to them their character, but
26:34
Speaker 15: also those in their circles around them, their coaches, their parents,
26:38
Speaker 15: their their mentors. They allowed these guys to give themselves
26:43
Speaker 15: up for the group, and it's never guaranteed, but for
26:47
Speaker 15: these guys to cut down the nets after all they
26:49
Speaker 15: sacrifice is pretty special.
26:51
Speaker 3: Dan Wilkan, y'all who sports.
26:52
Speaker 18: Congratulations, it's Dusty.
26:53
Speaker 19: It took you a very long time in your career
26:56
Speaker 19: to get to a point where you could pick your
26:59
Speaker 19: next move. Essentially, what made you think that that you
27:02
Speaker 19: could do it at Michigan and do it quickly once
27:05
Speaker 19: you got to that point The.
27:07
Speaker 15: Hardest part, and first, hold that question real quick, Dan,
27:10
Speaker 15: I want to Elliott beat me to it.
27:12
Speaker 18: LJ.
27:12
Speaker 15: Cason was playing as well as any backup guard all
27:17
Speaker 15: the country and probably playing as well as anyone on
27:19
Speaker 15: our roster. And he at Illinois, he's hoop and has
27:22
Speaker 15: the most Florida man injury in the history of injuries.
27:25
Speaker 15: And the next day you would think he retired.
27:29
Speaker 18: And took over an assistant coaching spot. His spirits were up.
27:32
Speaker 15: He's immediately pouring into the guys trying to learn pick
27:35
Speaker 15: their brain because he had a different perspective, and that's
27:39
Speaker 15: very indicative of this team. He never one day brought
27:42
Speaker 15: negative energy because he felt sorry for himself, and for
27:46
Speaker 15: Elliott to shout him out beat me to.
27:48
Speaker 18: It is pretty impressive as well. But the toughest part.
27:52
Speaker 15: About jobs, and this has always been my opinion because
27:55
Speaker 15: I've just taken jobs.
27:56
Speaker 18: My wife used to get angry.
27:57
Speaker 15: With me because I just call her and say, hey,
27:58
Speaker 15: what do you think you might if I take this
28:00
Speaker 15: job for whatever reason? And and so now you don't
28:04
Speaker 15: get a chance to really go feel the place and
28:07
Speaker 15: see it. And even fau I went to see it,
28:10
Speaker 15: and before I'd seen anything, I already signed the contract.
28:13
Speaker 18: That's how impulsive I am.
28:14
Speaker 15: And whatever the case, Yeah, and I will give you
28:17
Speaker 15: a better background than me on all this stuff, and
28:21
Speaker 15: living in Ipsilanti when I was assistant, a young assistant
28:23
Speaker 15: in eastern Michigan, I'd never I wasn't that familiar with
28:27
Speaker 15: Michigan other than eighty nine and being a fan of
28:30
Speaker 15: the game, and just the feelings that people had, the
28:34
Speaker 15: pride they had in their university. I just thought that
28:36
Speaker 15: was really really cool. We thought it was a great
28:39
Speaker 15: time to get back to the Midwest. We are to
28:41
Speaker 15: stage our life, or we were empty nesters and just
28:44
Speaker 15: wanted something different, and then just felt like Michigan was
28:46
Speaker 15: a place, ultimately with the changing landscape, that we could
28:50
Speaker 15: retain really good players. Even if it wasn't going great
28:54
Speaker 15: for them, it was gonna be hard to leave. And
28:57
Speaker 15: even Terrorist is a great example. He had to go
29:00
Speaker 15: anywhere in the country, and it was difficult for him.
29:02
Speaker 15: Based on my conversations, it was difficult for him to
29:05
Speaker 15: leave the University of Michigan and the relationships that he
29:07
Speaker 15: had made and all the people that pored in him.
29:09
Speaker 15: So I just felt like that's the type of place
29:11
Speaker 15: that I'd love to coach at.
29:13
Speaker 22: We have a question in the front row.
29:16
Speaker 23: Clayton Safety with the Wolverine coach, congrats. I mean, you
29:19
Speaker 23: just won the national championship. You talk a lot about
29:23
Speaker 23: doing something eternal. You're around Terry Mills a lot. What
29:27
Speaker 23: do you think this accomplishment is going to do for
29:30
Speaker 23: this group the rest of their lives and beyond.
29:33
Speaker 15: It further strengthens their bond and we didn't need this
29:36
Speaker 15: for that to happen because of their actions all year.
29:39
Speaker 18: But to hang us, we call this.
29:41
Speaker 15: We talked about early the season a center banner, like
29:43
Speaker 15: we have a lot of Michigan's got proud tradition. There's
29:46
Speaker 15: a lot of banners on the side, there's one lonely
29:48
Speaker 15: banner up in the middle, and if we were having
29:50
Speaker 15: a bad practice or we didn't have our edge, we
29:53
Speaker 15: would remind them that if we're ever going to hang
29:56
Speaker 15: another banner.
29:57
Speaker 18: So that one has some company, then we can't.
29:59
Speaker 15: Have these type of days or we can't have these
30:01
Speaker 15: type of practices, And usually that was one way that
30:04
Speaker 15: we could refocus our group.
30:05
Speaker 7: We have two in the front road towards the right.
30:07
Speaker 24: Mitch first, Yeah, congratulations, I see Mitch Alvim pre press.
30:12
Speaker 24: Like I asked the players before, it seemed like this
30:15
Speaker 24: was a really unusual blueprint to try to win free throws,
30:18
Speaker 24: blocks and steals. That's not kind of the Michigan thing.
30:21
Speaker 24: Were you conscious of that was the way we're going
30:23
Speaker 24: to have to do it. Did you talk to the
30:25
Speaker 24: players about, Okay, if the other stuff's not working, this
30:27
Speaker 24: is what we have to do. We talk about like
30:29
Speaker 24: changing on the fly.
30:30
Speaker 15: Yeah, we talked we early in games, we can tell
30:33
Speaker 15: how the game's being played, and so then we talk
30:36
Speaker 15: about how we have to adjust and we have to
30:38
Speaker 15: figure out solutions based on how their guarding us and
30:40
Speaker 15: all the things. We actually thought the basket would open
30:45
Speaker 15: up a little bit in the second half. We felt
30:46
Speaker 15: like we were going to make shots in the second half.
30:48
Speaker 15: We generated I think there were two threes in the
30:50
Speaker 15: first half that we didn't We didn't really love those
30:52
Speaker 15: attempts and you're not gonna love them all the rest
30:55
Speaker 15: of them. We thought we're really good offense, and the
30:57
Speaker 15: ball just didn't go in, and so we just were
30:59
Speaker 15: trying not to result in all that we do and
31:03
Speaker 15: just stay with the process and evaluate the contributions and
31:07
Speaker 15: how it felt. And so then early in the second half,
31:10
Speaker 15: the game got a little bit chippy and physical, and
31:14
Speaker 15: so we thought, this is going to be a game.
31:16
Speaker 18: We just have to figure it out.
31:17
Speaker 15: We started going to offensive defensive early, offensive decent substitutions early,
31:23
Speaker 15: and Yukon was dominating us on the glass. Credit to them,
31:26
Speaker 15: they were motivated and determined as any team we played
31:28
Speaker 15: on the offensive glass, and but we did feel like
31:32
Speaker 15: we were defending well enough that we were gonna be
31:35
Speaker 15: able to find enough baskets.
31:38
Speaker 7: Up front of the right side.
31:39
Speaker 17: Jake Singer with mains and brew first, Well, congratulations, Dusty,
31:43
Speaker 17: A lot of the players just now we're talking about
31:45
Speaker 17: your assistant coaches being so instrumental in getting them ready
31:47
Speaker 17: in game before the game. Can you talk about your
31:49
Speaker 17: cohesive coaching staff and how much credit was to them
31:52
Speaker 17: to getting you guys to this point winning this national championship.
31:54
Speaker 15: I go on until tomorrow that's one of our secret
31:59
Speaker 15: sauces is we have an incredibly talented group of coaches
32:03
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32:08
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32:12
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32:14
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32:15
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32:19
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32:22
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32:26
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32:29
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32:33
Speaker 15: that behavior every day. And they deserve a big, big
32:37
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35:48
Speaker 27: to the Polaris Fund Center phone line to visit with
35:50
Speaker 27: the head coach of the College Station Cougar's baseball team,
35:54
Speaker 27: mister Chris Litton, coach, Thanks for joining.
35:57
Speaker 8: Us once again, Cayle, thanks for having me on man.
36:00
Speaker 27: Yes, sir, excited to have you.
36:03
Speaker 6: You were Cougar's.
36:05
Speaker 27: Sitting at three and three in district play, you know,
36:08
Speaker 27: right there on the edge of the playoffs. We got
36:11
Speaker 27: to hear your thoughts before the season on what you expected.
36:15
Speaker 27: So what has been some of your biggest surprises now
36:18
Speaker 27: that we're pretty deep into the season.
36:21
Speaker 8: To be quite honest, the fact that it took us
36:25
Speaker 8: this long to come together is probably my biggest surprise.
36:29
Speaker 8: You know, we played a lot of really tough competition
36:31
Speaker 8: early and it just, you know, felt like there was always,
36:36
Speaker 8: you know, one phase of the game that just fell
36:38
Speaker 8: apart on us and cost us ball games, you know,
36:42
Speaker 8: and it could have been any phase on any given day.
36:45
Speaker 8: But you know, through that, like the you know, the
36:50
Speaker 8: last I'd say, since we've started district play coming off
36:56
Speaker 8: to two defeats from Brentham, you know, we've really put
36:59
Speaker 8: together some solid baseball, you know, in all phases of
37:02
Speaker 8: the game and playing complete games, you know. And with that,
37:06
Speaker 8: with that, I think we've we've won, you know, three
37:09
Speaker 8: out of our last four district ball games, splitting with
37:14
Speaker 8: Montgomery and then taking two last week from Huntsville.
37:18
Speaker 27: You know, getting hot at the right time for sure,
37:20
Speaker 27: with three of the last four district games being a win,
37:23
Speaker 27: like you said, and you know, this is kind of
37:26
Speaker 27: the most important part of the season right here. You're
37:29
Speaker 27: tied with Rudder for fourth place in district both at
37:31
Speaker 27: three and three, and tonight opening up the home and
37:36
Speaker 27: home series with the crosstown rival, the Cross you know,
37:39
Speaker 27: school district rival and them consolidated. So what are your thoughts,
37:43
Speaker 27: what are some of the keys to victory? And these
37:45
Speaker 27: these last three series of the year against Kansol, Rudder
37:48
Speaker 27: and then Lake Creek.
37:50
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm keep things in perspective like this is this
37:53
Speaker 8: is all about us. This has nothing to do with
37:56
Speaker 8: our opponent. We're gonna face you know, we're gonna good
38:00
Speaker 8: baseball teams and we know that. But at the end
38:03
Speaker 8: of the day, like if we can play championship defense
38:06
Speaker 8: and we can get the ball on his zone and
38:09
Speaker 8: force the other teams to uh to score by by
38:13
Speaker 8: putting stringing together hits, and then you know, our offense
38:17
Speaker 8: is extremely explosive and it could pop off at any
38:20
Speaker 8: moment with any amount of outs in any inny. So
38:24
Speaker 8: you know, we just uh just got to stay the
38:26
Speaker 8: course and be who we are and be true to
38:28
Speaker 8: that and don't try and look ahead, just stay right
38:31
Speaker 8: in a moment, play one game at a time and
38:34
Speaker 8: and let everything fall chips forward where they may.
38:38
Speaker 27: So Brenham is, you know, undefeated at the top of
38:41
Speaker 27: the district eight and zero, and then the next five
38:44
Speaker 27: teams are all within two games of each other. So
38:46
Speaker 27: how how has that been? You know, having having that
38:50
Speaker 27: close the competition between that many teams all fighting, you know,
38:54
Speaker 27: five teams fighting for three spots in the playoffs, and.
38:57
Speaker 8: It's another day in the office for us, Like this
39:00
Speaker 8: isn't this isn't anything new. You know, you can you
39:04
Speaker 8: can go back like our district is one of the
39:06
Speaker 8: toughest districts in the state of Texas and five A.
39:09
Speaker 8: You know again, I've and I've said it and I'll
39:11
Speaker 8: go on record and I'll say it again that I
39:12
Speaker 8: don't think we get enough credit, you know, throughout the
39:16
Speaker 8: state and polls and rankings and all the things. With
39:20
Speaker 8: the teams that we have in our district. I think
39:22
Speaker 8: Brenham is really overlooked.
39:25
Speaker 28: Uh.
39:26
Speaker 8: They they put it together in all three phases and
39:28
Speaker 8: they've done so all season long. And then you've got
39:30
Speaker 8: everybody else that's right there battling it out for two, three,
39:33
Speaker 8: four spots to get in. So you know, it's it's
39:38
Speaker 8: again just another day at the office. We know the
39:41
Speaker 8: competition is going to be stiff on every night. We
39:43
Speaker 8: we we strap it up and go play. But that's
39:48
Speaker 8: also a part of you know, who's gonna get those
39:51
Speaker 8: final spots is who can come together late in the season,
39:54
Speaker 8: make a run, do things right, and get hot.
39:57
Speaker 27: So your lineup really seems to be a length of
40:00
Speaker 27: the team. You know, a lot of guys batting over
40:03
Speaker 27: three hundred as of now, who's been you know, one
40:07
Speaker 27: of the biggest surprises on the team that you weren't
40:10
Speaker 27: expecting maybe to have as big a role as they are.
40:13
Speaker 8: That's that's a hard one for me to answer, Like, like,
40:16
Speaker 8: these guys, aren't they don't they don't surprise me. I
40:18
Speaker 8: watch them every day and I get to see how
40:20
Speaker 8: good they are, right, I think I guess the one
40:24
Speaker 8: thing that that kind of surprised me was, you know,
40:27
Speaker 8: some of them with this little confidence as they had
40:29
Speaker 8: themselves during parts of stretches during the season. You know,
40:34
Speaker 8: we got Blade Sanger, who's pacing everything, pacing our offense,
40:38
Speaker 8: and and he's he's our spark at the top, you know,
40:43
Speaker 8: and he's he's been extremely consistent all year long, just
40:47
Speaker 8: pounding baseballs, you know. And then we've kind of shuffled
40:52
Speaker 8: around the two, three, four spot, but you know, you
40:56
Speaker 8: got you know, Hudson Hutson stories been coming on strong.
41:00
Speaker 8: And then you've got Zeke who's uh leading us an
41:03
Speaker 8: RBI and you know, he's one of the tops in
41:06
Speaker 8: Texas and in the home run who's been hitting the
41:10
Speaker 8: three hole for us Uh, Brett Basham over three hundred,
41:14
Speaker 8: extremely productive right behind that, and and then you know,
41:19
Speaker 8: we worked down the lineup and you got a guy
41:21
Speaker 8: like Keaton Johnson, who's a two time All District player.
41:24
Speaker 8: You don't say that very often in our district, you know,
41:28
Speaker 8: and uh, and then we've got you know, other guys
41:32
Speaker 8: down there towards the bottom with the freshman Atlanta and Atkinson.
41:37
Speaker 8: You know, you've had Jordan Morales all year in our lineup,
41:39
Speaker 8: and and then we've got guys that are fighting in
41:42
Speaker 8: like a Cade Newton right now and Tyler Banfield.
41:45
Speaker 3: Who's d H and for us, who's super.
41:48
Speaker 8: Athletic and who can hit the ball freaking mile, you know,
41:53
Speaker 8: and it's just like there's not there's not a soft spot.
41:55
Speaker 8: So uh, you know, there's no there's no breaks one
41:59
Speaker 8: through nine, and you know it is. It's it's the
42:03
Speaker 8: most potent offense that we've had since twenty two.
42:08
Speaker 27: All right, coach, Well, I appreciate your time today, good luck.
42:11
Speaker 27: You know these last three series of the year will
42:13
Speaker 27: be a lot of fun to watch. Looking forward to.
42:15
Speaker 8: It, Yes, sir, Thanks kettle.
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Speaker 32: Okay, Marco, where's the ash rush is going to come
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Speaker 32: from in twenty six without all the guys that are
48:43
Speaker 32: they're gone.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean the pass rush, Like you know, everybody,
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Speaker 9: everybody's been working super hard getting their pass rush, like
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Speaker 9: the whole you got to expect it from the whole
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Speaker 9: D line, right between all the dns, all the d tackles,
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Speaker 9: right linebackers, Like the whole defense is going to be
48:55
Speaker 9: involved and really getting home. It's kind of just like
48:58
Speaker 9: a brotherhood name where we all going let it like
49:00
Speaker 9: we all eat so like you know, even if somebody
49:02
Speaker 9: doesn't get a sack, they setting it up for somebody else.
49:04
Speaker 32: How have you grown from my last spree?
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Speaker 16: Uh?
49:08
Speaker 9: Yeah, basically Yeah, I think I think I've just kind
49:11
Speaker 9: of like been able to understand more of the game, right,
49:14
Speaker 9: Like I I came and thinking I knew a lot
49:16
Speaker 9: about the game, but I really didn't know a lot,
49:17
Speaker 9: like situational wise and stuff like that. But I think
49:20
Speaker 9: a lot just like knowing understanding more of the game
49:23
Speaker 9: and also just like kind of like understanding myself as
49:26
Speaker 9: a player, like really like tapping into what I like
49:28
Speaker 9: to do, how like my my true play style, and
49:31
Speaker 9: really like kind of refining that and and fine tuning everything.
49:34
Speaker 32: Is it at all, Dawn think that a lot of
49:37
Speaker 32: people look at you as bag Addam's gonna step in
49:39
Speaker 32: and replace or try and replace the SEC defensive player.
49:43
Speaker 14: Of the year.
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Speaker 9: No, not at all. I I opened it. I'm I
49:46
Speaker 9: welcome with open arms. You know. That's That's all I've wanted,
49:49
Speaker 9: right Like, I mean since I've since I came here.
49:51
Speaker 9: You know, nobody comes here wanting to ride the bench
49:53
Speaker 9: or anything like that, So you know, you kind of
49:54
Speaker 9: want to come in here and really do the right
49:56
Speaker 9: thing and be able to step up and and feel
49:58
Speaker 9: feel big shoes and hopefully exceed big shoots at the
50:01
Speaker 9: end of the at end of time too.
50:02
Speaker 33: You mentioned trying to understand your play style, and so
50:05
Speaker 33: you've learned more about yourself as a player. How would
50:07
Speaker 33: you start to describe the players the stylid play that
50:10
Speaker 33: that you you're starting defining yourself.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think just really like aggressive and also, uh,
50:17
Speaker 9: I think a good thing is like technical, like really
50:19
Speaker 9: understanding like when to do certain things, and you know,
50:22
Speaker 9: liked playing defensive end is kind of like playing a
50:24
Speaker 9: game within the game, right You're going against big guys
50:26
Speaker 9: who are also athletic and things like that, like especially
50:29
Speaker 9: in the pass words, like really just understanding the type
50:32
Speaker 9: of rushler I am, and and just you know, just
50:34
Speaker 9: going from there and and sending them up to do
50:36
Speaker 9: what I wanna do and like be able to control control.
50:38
Speaker 30: Again, how do you change is pally this so season?
50:41
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I gained probably like ten ish pounds
50:45
Speaker 9: or like like seven pounds from last year since the
50:47
Speaker 9: end of the season, but really just getting a lot faster,
50:51
Speaker 9: Like I got a lot faster since offseason, working on
50:54
Speaker 9: you know, getting more flexible and things like that.
50:56
Speaker 3: You can consider yourself more like the Trump.
50:58
Speaker 9: Side since then that, Uh, I mean right now, I'm
51:02
Speaker 9: still playing jack. So I think I think kind of
51:04
Speaker 9: all just like I you know, last year, I played
51:06
Speaker 9: a little bit of both, right in the spring last year,
51:07
Speaker 9: I played uh big end, and then and then going
51:09
Speaker 9: to the season, I played jack. So I think it's
51:11
Speaker 9: kind of just for me, like just being able to
51:14
Speaker 9: uh help out the D line. I could play both places,
51:16
Speaker 9: but really just wherever we need somebody, I'm I'm there
51:18
Speaker 9: to fill on.
51:19
Speaker 22: Those are the biggest differences between those two positions and
51:23
Speaker 22: how fun.
51:24
Speaker 12: Is it to be able play?
51:25
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think the biggest, uh, the biggest
51:28
Speaker 9: difference uh is really just I mean, there's not too
51:30
Speaker 9: many differences. The really biggest difference is just one is
51:33
Speaker 9: to the field once the boundary. But also, like you know,
51:35
Speaker 9: the jack uh tends to drop in the coverage a
51:37
Speaker 9: little bit more, but nothing too crazy, like, I mean,
51:40
Speaker 9: who knows, you know, we have a lot of stuff, uh,
51:41
Speaker 9: a lot of stuff that are very similar. It's really
51:43
Speaker 9: just the hand in the dirt and standing up.
51:45
Speaker 33: I think that baseball back draft and help dropping in
51:47
Speaker 33: the coverage a little.
51:48
Speaker 12: Bit at all.
51:48
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely taking angles kind of just understanding that, Like
51:51
Speaker 9: that's something that I always helped me. I mean I
51:54
Speaker 9: also played middle backer in high school throughout my whole
51:56
Speaker 9: high school career, so I think that's something that also
51:58
Speaker 9: helps me gout.
51:58
Speaker 17: And there's a lot of Uh, you guys on the
52:01
Speaker 17: offensive line, what's been like going against those guys as
52:04
Speaker 17: team and have you.
52:05
Speaker 14: Seen them come to be in so far?
52:06
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's been great. I mean they've been, Like, it's mean,
52:08
Speaker 9: there's been great battles, great work between us. Right, the
52:10
Speaker 9: whole goal is it's to go out as hard as
52:12
Speaker 9: you can, you know, so we could all be the best,
52:15
Speaker 9: the best version of ourselves right going into this season,
52:17
Speaker 9: because at the end of the world, teammates. So I
52:19
Speaker 9: think it's been it's been really good kind of just
52:21
Speaker 9: collaborating with collaborating with them and getting to go against
52:24
Speaker 9: them and kind of like you know, getting their feedback
52:26
Speaker 9: on what are our stuff looks like and us giving
52:28
Speaker 9: them feedback on what their stuff looks like. Trying to
52:29
Speaker 9: just help each other out so we could be the
52:31
Speaker 9: best version of ourselves.
52:32
Speaker 16: You know.
52:32
Speaker 1: Similarly, there's a lot of new additions, better pieces in
52:35
Speaker 1: the room with you. What if you learned from some
52:36
Speaker 1: of the new guys that come.
52:37
Speaker 9: In, Yeah, I mean all all of the new guys
52:40
Speaker 9: are are super talented, right, like you have all the
52:42
Speaker 9: the new defensive ends you have, Like they're they're all
52:45
Speaker 9: really talented, right. They they all came in here like
52:48
Speaker 9: kind of like already command and commanding who they are
52:51
Speaker 9: as a player. I think, you know, like they're they're
52:53
Speaker 9: gonna have super bright futures in in front of 'em,
52:55
Speaker 9: and it kind of just helps me understand like like
52:58
Speaker 9: just you know, like owls in their shoes kind of
53:00
Speaker 9: just helped me like get to that role like like
53:02
Speaker 9: being like a older, older guy to help them out
53:05
Speaker 9: when whenever they needed.
53:06
Speaker 32: What did you learn the most about playing the SEC
53:09
Speaker 32: is a it's a break.
53:10
Speaker 9: Yeah. I mean I think what I learned the most
53:12
Speaker 9: is really just like every every game is a dog fight,
53:16
Speaker 9: right no matter if they're the top of the SEC
53:17
Speaker 9: the bottom SEC. Like every every p every team has
53:20
Speaker 9: good players. Every team is gonna be good that you
53:22
Speaker 9: play like there's nothing not gonna be just like a
53:24
Speaker 9: game you could breeze through. And I think that's something
53:26
Speaker 9: that like people don't realize. It's like even if a
53:29
Speaker 9: team is super low on the on the s on
53:31
Speaker 9: the schedule and they're zero and eight, right like, there's
53:33
Speaker 9: still it's still gonna be a dog fight and it's
53:34
Speaker 9: still gonna be a good game. Like everybody has really
53:36
Speaker 9: good players.
53:38
Speaker 22: Uh.
53:38
Speaker 9: I definitely miss baseball a little bit, but I think
53:40
Speaker 9: it's the best decision for me personally.
53:42
Speaker 33: Similarly, the pup's first question right there, just what would
53:45
Speaker 33: you learn the most from cashes, especially as someone that.
53:48
Speaker 26: You might be second this year.
53:50
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think for cash like something that
53:52
Speaker 9: I learned to just like make everything like super intentional, right,
53:56
Speaker 9: everything you do when whenever you're rushing or set in
53:59
Speaker 9: the edge or doing things like that, just like make
54:00
Speaker 9: everything intentional and always bring your best your best game.
54:04
Speaker 22: What would end your decision to kind of si football?
54:06
Speaker 9: And yeah, I mean I think my my goal has
54:11
Speaker 9: always been to go to the NFL, and I think
54:13
Speaker 9: that's probably more in my future than going to the
54:15
Speaker 9: MLB quite to be quite honest. So I just had
54:18
Speaker 9: to kind of sit down and see, you know, like
54:20
Speaker 9: I'll be missing a lot of reps if I do
54:21
Speaker 9: play baseball in the spring. So he's something I was
54:24
Speaker 9: just like, hey, like it's it's a hard decision. I
54:26
Speaker 9: love baseball. I want to play it, but at the
54:28
Speaker 9: end of the day, like I gotta I gotta do
54:29
Speaker 9: the best for me and my family and.
54:31
Speaker 23: We have the team at all the season watching the
54:33
Speaker 23: games or anything.
54:34
Speaker 17: Like that, when you making the best, sorry the team,
54:37
Speaker 17: if you watching the games the season, when you make
54:39
Speaker 17: the best.
54:40
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, I I I've watched a lot of
54:42
Speaker 9: the a lot of the games, and I mean they are,
54:44
Speaker 9: they're on fire, Like all the freshmen are hitting Jorian Nico,
54:48
Speaker 9: my guys are, They're they're super cool, GAVs going. He's
54:51
Speaker 9: hitting really well. Surreal obviously is I don't even know
54:53
Speaker 9: how many moms he hit now, So I think they're
54:55
Speaker 9: they're hitting really well.
54:56
Speaker 15: Uh.
54:56
Speaker 9: They they have a really a really bright season ahead
54:58
Speaker 9: of them.
54:59
Speaker 32: So where has you been hit in that order?
55:01
Speaker 3: No, that's a great question.
55:02
Speaker 17: Trade truck guy last night?
55:04
Speaker 33: You think he could commenters?
55:05
Speaker 9: You know, Oh yeah, he's he's a big dude, So
55:07
Speaker 9: I think I think he could. I think he could.
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Speaker 1: We understand where your team bows up. But is that
55:11
Speaker 1: any personal goals who said up this season you can
55:13
Speaker 1: share with us?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think personally, you know, I just
55:17
Speaker 9: want to be the best player I could be possible
55:19
Speaker 9: a right, Like every season, I want to I want
55:21
Speaker 9: to really be able to work on something. I don't
55:23
Speaker 9: have any like number goals or something like that, because
55:25
Speaker 9: that's you know, sometimes like people get fixated on that
55:28
Speaker 9: and it kind of takes away from other parts of
55:29
Speaker 9: the game. So I think really just just being the
55:31
Speaker 9: best teammate, the best leader, and the best version of
55:33
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55:34
Speaker 32: You were thinking.
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