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Set 1: 11 Rings (w/ Kelly Amonte Hiller) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The
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  Speaker 1: rex was not chasing the jeep.
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  Speaker 2: Murray, Murray, you there.
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  Speaker 1: You love sandwiches. Huh, Let's go to eighty.
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  Speaker 3: It was bo.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that Prime Time. Maybe I had a crush on
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  Speaker 1: Betty Rubble. I honestly, until after the segment ended and
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  Speaker 1: we went to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Coachman was black. He caught them the game last night.
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  Speaker 4: Although they won the game.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to to Gottson Company. I am very excited,
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  Speaker 1: at nervous for this. Kelly Amante Hiller. She is a
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  Speaker 1: nine time national champion as a coach, two times as
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  Speaker 1: a player, eleven total national championships. She has made women's
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  Speaker 1: lacrosse matter in the Midwest in Chicago, and it was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful to see over the weekend. And she joins
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  Speaker 1: us right now, Taylor. She's also in charge of my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: So be careful with your questions. And Kelly, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you right now the front end. If Taylor gets out
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  Speaker 1: of line here, I will fire him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Kelly, Okay, you got to get my last name right.
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  Speaker 5: It's a Monty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Okay, I'm sorry. Well, listen, it's the New York accent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously, Stu, your daughter plays for her and you can't
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  Speaker 3: get her last name correct. Let me start there, Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead. When when you were recruiting Rachel, how much
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  Speaker 3: of an impediment was stue to this whole thing of
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  Speaker 3: if I get take Rachel, Stu has to come along.
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  Speaker 2: For the rhyme.
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  Speaker 5: I would say, probably pretty massive impediment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, his wife's really nice. We like her though.
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  Speaker 3: His wife is a goddess without question. Angel in all
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  Speaker 3: serious says how many how many parents do you get
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  Speaker 3: of players that you recruit who coached their kids?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you'd be surprised. I think a fair amount.
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes when uh, you know, their parents are coaches,
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  Speaker 2: they kind of understand a little bit of the behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes of you know, what it takes.
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  Speaker 5: To be successful. So sometimes we like that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know, they they really understand, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: big picture of things. My daughter is a college wrestler,
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  Speaker 2: and I think she's really benefited from the knowledge that
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  Speaker 2: Scott and myself have and you know how we guide
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  Speaker 2: her behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: Michael, I'm I'm a I have a kinship to your daughter.
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  Speaker 3: I was a college wrestler at Notre Dame that okay, awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Times at the University of Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, aren't you in the Wrestling Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 6: I mean yeah, but unfortunately not as a wrestler. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: skip over that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Kelly, I know how much the sport means to you.
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  Speaker 1: I know how much expanding this sport and growing this
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  Speaker 1: sport means to you. So if you wouldn't mind just
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  Speaker 1: kind of put us in your head before the national
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  Speaker 1: championship game. The game is being played on your home
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  Speaker 1: field at Northwestern in Evans State, and the final four
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  Speaker 1: is being played in a non Atlantic Coast state for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in the sports history. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: how overwhelmed with pride you were right before the championship game,
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  Speaker 1: just to see all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly, absolutely, I think you know. Honestly, before the Final four,
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty nervous because not of competing, but I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to make sure that we had fans in the stands,
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  Speaker 2: and I just like had a moment of like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, like they gave us this moment, they gave
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  Speaker 2: us the opportunity to hoe was first time ever outside
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  Speaker 2: of the Eastern time zone.
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  Speaker 5: Will we pack these stands?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, on Friday when people showed up, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, this is awesome. I am just so grateful
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  Speaker 2: for this moment. And then you know, it was just
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  Speaker 2: tenfold on Sunday in the championship game to be able
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  Speaker 2: to make it there and to see the crowd and
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  Speaker 2: how many people were there to support not just us,
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  Speaker 2: but the sport in general, and how much they appreciated,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the competition on the field and how elite
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  Speaker 2: both teams were.
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  Speaker 5: It was a really cool situation.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you've been involved in this game such a long time,
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  Speaker 3: as Stull mentioned, two time national champ while playing at Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: nine times now at Northwestern. So the first difference of
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  Speaker 3: winning as a player and winning as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would see. Uh, it's like the degrees of separation.
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  Speaker 2: As a player, you have the most amount of control
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  Speaker 2: over your situation, so you know, if something's going wrong,
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  Speaker 2: you can just go out there and make an impact
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  Speaker 2: and you know, or talk to one of your teammates
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  Speaker 2: and make an impact and bring energy and make an impact.
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  Speaker 5: And as a coach, it's much harder.
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  Speaker 2: You have to help the players you know, understand their
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  Speaker 2: own greatness, understand how you know, the way they carry
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  Speaker 2: themselves makes a huge difference. And and obviously, like the strategy,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's harder, which makes it even more satisfying.
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  Speaker 2: And then as like a fan or a parent, it's
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  Speaker 2: even harder because you have less of an influence.
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  Speaker 5: And so you know you have to kind of figure out, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Like what how can I make the impact to help
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  Speaker 2: this team? And I actually have had all those experiences.
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  Speaker 2: I've had it as a player, I've had it as
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  Speaker 2: a coach and a parent, and it's just really cool
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  Speaker 2: to be able to experience the highest level of sports
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  Speaker 2: in different ways and figure out. I'm a big fan
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  Speaker 2: of like figuring things out and figuring out how can
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  Speaker 2: I be my best in this situation so I can
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  Speaker 2: impact the people around me and help them be their best.
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  Speaker 1: All championship pads are different, Kelly, All championship teams are different,
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  Speaker 1: and this one that was certainly the case. If I
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  Speaker 1: had told you after you lost to Ohio State that
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  Speaker 1: you were going to win a national championship on your
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  Speaker 1: home field, you would have told me what.
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  Speaker 2: I would have said, I don't know if we're going
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  Speaker 2: to make the NCAA tournament, Like I literally, I just
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  Speaker 2: didn't know.
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  Speaker 5: I just didn't know if this group had it.
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  Speaker 2: Like the there wasn't a full comitment to what we
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  Speaker 2: believe in at that point, and I think that the
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  Speaker 2: results were kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of indicative of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that like we had great leaders but
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  Speaker 2: maybe the leadership wasn't like impacting in the best way possible.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we just had a lot of hard conversations.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, your daughter, the seniors, the fifth years,
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  Speaker 2: the younger players, they all committed, the parents, they committed
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  Speaker 2: to what it takes to be great, and it was
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  Speaker 2: just so cool to see it come to fruition, because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it doesn't always and to see them commit to
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  Speaker 2: something bigger than themselves and then to see it come
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  Speaker 2: to fruition on their home field. I'm just so proud
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  Speaker 2: of them. And they are going to carry these lessons
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  Speaker 2: and these memories for the rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: That's senior class that I know. All senior classes are
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  Speaker 1: very important to you, Kelly. That class, in particular, the
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  Speaker 1: class of twenty six four Big Ten championships, four Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten Title Game championships, four straight appearances in the National
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game, and two final fours. Can you talk about
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  Speaker 1: that group and just what they mean to you and
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  Speaker 1: what they meant to that program.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know.
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  Speaker 2: You actually sent me a video after the game of
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  Speaker 2: one of the seniors she tore her acl in the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter, and how her friends, her teammates supported her
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  Speaker 2: through that, how she like supported everyone else in that
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  Speaker 2: hardest moment.
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  Speaker 5: It was just truly incredible.
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  Speaker 2: The video was of them at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 2: when everyone was rushing the field to celebrate. Her classmates
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  Speaker 2: friends did not leave her, and she wanted them to
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  Speaker 2: leave and join the crew, and they ended up carrying her.
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  Speaker 5: Over over there to the celebration.
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  Speaker 2: I think it just epitomizes what that group is about
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  Speaker 2: and how no matter what, through thick and thin, they
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  Speaker 2: were going to stick together. And when you have a
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  Speaker 2: group like that, it makes a lasting impact on everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, they certainly were a special group, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they did a great job after that first
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  Speaker 2: stretch really stepping up and making an impact.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, You'll love this because you and I love the
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  Speaker 1: same things about sports. But Lucy did tear her knee up,
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  Speaker 1: and she was she was being brought into the tent
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  Speaker 1: and her three senior friends, I wouldn't even call them teammates,
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  Speaker 1: just friends. They went inside the tent with her because
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  Speaker 1: they were that concerned about her. How crazy is that?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: That's just I mean, that's just teammates.
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  Speaker 1: Yes said, yeah, awesome stuff, Kelly. I am hesitant to
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  Speaker 1: do this. Here is Taylor's first question. He gets two
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  Speaker 1: more after this. I think we'll see how the first
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  Speaker 1: one goes. But go ahead, Taylor, fire away. She's very
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  Speaker 1: friendly with Bill Belichick. By the way, Kelly, I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, Taylor went to North Carolina, so you
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  Speaker 1: have the last five no matter what. Yes, he was
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  Speaker 1: a walk ball, he was a track star, and then
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  Speaker 1: he walked onto the football team. And I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: right now, Taylor, Kelly loves a person who was strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to walk on to a Division one football team.
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  Speaker 1: So she's already impressed. Don't ruin this relationship you have
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  Speaker 1: with her.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, and.
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  Speaker 5: Those are my favorite people, Taylor, Kelly.
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  Speaker 4: I was also rooting for Rachel Stu Gotts. Doesn't believe
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  Speaker 4: me when I say I wasn't rooting for my school.
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  Speaker 4: I was rooting for Rachel. But when you took the
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  Speaker 4: Northwestern job in the early two thousands, and peopo are saying, like,
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  Speaker 4: how tough it is to build Northwestern into what you've
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  Speaker 4: built it. Did you have any concerns about being able
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  Speaker 4: to win there? Or can you not even let those
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  Speaker 4: thoughts in your mind when you have that big of
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  Speaker 4: a turnaround to build?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had just come off an incredible playing career.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually still playing when I took the job
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  Speaker 2: for the USA team, and I was young. I was
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  Speaker 2: only twenty five, so I was young enough to think
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  Speaker 2: that I could do anything that I wanted to and
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  Speaker 2: no one was.
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  Speaker 5: Going to stop me. And I've never led a thought
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  Speaker 5: of doubt.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Northwestern University, this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: greatest universities in the world, and we are right on
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  Speaker 2: the lake. We have this the most beautiful place, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I know how to coach, Why can't I build a champion?
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  Speaker 5: We can do this. And I think it.
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  Speaker 2: Was just that, you know, almost unrealistic optimism that started
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  Speaker 2: this thing and got that first group to really believe
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  Speaker 2: that they could achieve anything that they wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: Mikey A is upset with Taylor because his opinion the
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  Speaker 1: other day he was he was really going at your husband,
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  Speaker 1: who's my friend, Scott Hiller. He would saying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he compared it to building a national championship skiing team
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  Speaker 1: in Florida, which I thought was the property.
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  Speaker 4: I just thought it was a little dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor said it was a little dramatic, and that's really
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  Speaker 1: what he wanted to ask you, Kellyan.
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  Speaker 2: Scott, Scott, He's not He's not a dramatic guy, so
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty shocking.
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  Speaker 5: But I would agree that might be a dramatic analogy
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  Speaker 5: for Shucky.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, so go ahead, you take over there
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  Speaker 3: in two and that was your only losing record. You've
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  Speaker 3: had a winning record every year. You win your first
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  Speaker 3: title in O five going undefeated, you run off five
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  Speaker 3: in a row and an nine going undefeated. I know
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  Speaker 3: this may be hard because there's nine of them, but
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  Speaker 3: difference of the first title again twenty five years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and this title or twenty years ago, I should say,
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  Speaker 3: and this title kind of the difference in feeling for you.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that like every single person on our
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  Speaker 2: team was like Taylor, like that walk on not necessarily recited,
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  Speaker 2: but had just tremendous potential.
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  Speaker 5: On that first team.
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  Speaker 2: Every single kid, no one was a name, and we
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  Speaker 2: just loved each other and built something special together and
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  Speaker 2: really just believed in each other.
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  Speaker 5: And I think, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, now, we've obviously got a tradition of success in
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  Speaker 2: our program, and I think that there's a lot of similarities,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, to the beginnings of our program with
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  Speaker 2: how this group carried themselves. But I think the athlete
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  Speaker 2: is so different today than they were back then, and
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  Speaker 2: how I coach, honestly is very different from when I
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  Speaker 2: first started. So I would say, you know, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing that I'm most proud of, I would say these
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  Speaker 2: two championships, my first and this one were so so special,
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  Speaker 2: and just being able to see the difference in how
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  Speaker 2: we've grown the sport and how we've grown the following
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  Speaker 2: in the Midwest and beyond, that's probably the coolest part
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  Speaker 2: to compare the two championships.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly, I know, one of the big things you and
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  Speaker 1: Scottie preach is you never know when we're gonna call
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  Speaker 1: your number. And so back to Lucy, who went down,
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  Speaker 1: you called Gabby's number number nine She's a freshman and
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  Speaker 1: she was a bit up and down, but everyone could
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  Speaker 1: see the talent. You called her number in a national
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  Speaker 1: championship game. She's a freshman and she delivers four goals
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. It was so cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: You had to be so proud of that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was incredible. I would say that's pretty accurate. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I think we saw Gabby's talent, but it wasn't it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't very consistent.
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  Speaker 5: I think she was.
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  Speaker 2: Struggling to find her mindset and her right mentality. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's back to that senior class and the
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  Speaker 2: older players, like they were really helping her and mentoring her,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, uh the coaching staff as well, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that she just kept.
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  Speaker 5: Kept plugging away.
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  Speaker 2: And I actually have the opportunity to work with her
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  Speaker 2: every day just because I'm on the draw with her,
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  Speaker 2: and I could just see, like the week of the
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  Speaker 2: Final four, we were doing draws and I was like, Gabby,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to go shoot, you can go shoot,
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  Speaker 2: and She's like, no, I want to stay there, stay here.
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  Speaker 5: I just love this. I love working with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: And she knew there was probably not an opportunity or
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  Speaker 2: not not much of an opportunity for her to be
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  Speaker 2: on the draw in that game. But I think she
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  Speaker 2: just found a way to love the process and that's
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  Speaker 2: really where the sweet spot is.
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  Speaker 5: And I'd like to believe that is how she.
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  Speaker 2: Was able to step into that game and have that
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  Speaker 2: level of success. It wasn't a singular thing. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just her. It was a lot of people that contributed
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get you out here in just a
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  Speaker 1: second question number two for Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Kelly. I feel like the true sign of
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  Speaker 4: a successful program is when you have assistants leave to
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  Speaker 4: become head coaches elsewhere and try to re establish that
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  Speaker 4: culture that they had. If you had an assistant coach leave,
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  Speaker 4: would you consider Stu Gotts for an opening because he
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  Speaker 4: was the big man on campus that she's a Clark University.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're fired.
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  Speaker 5: I would say that.
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  Speaker 2: I think having a player on the team, I think
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  Speaker 2: that would be really challenging, honestly, like we try to
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  Speaker 2: consider maybe having our own daughter on the team. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm so happy that she chose a different path
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  Speaker 2: because I think it just would have.
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  Speaker 5: Put a lot more pressure on her.
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  Speaker 2: And I think if Stu came and coach with us,
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  Speaker 2: I think it would put additional pressure on Rachel. And
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  Speaker 2: I think she's just such a phenomenal girl and leader
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  Speaker 2: in this program that I would want her to have
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  Speaker 2: the best possible experience, and I think that might be
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  Speaker 2: without him.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great That is such a nice answer,
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  Speaker 3: because you fire him after day one.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, Kelly knows this, Lord knows. I tried, and Kelly
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  Speaker 1: was right, and she did enjoy it more than had
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  Speaker 1: I with me not being there, had I been there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let let Taylor ask a third question
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  Speaker 1: because that one was dicey, and so I have done
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  Speaker 1: with you. Kelly, thank you so much. Congratulations to you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for a wonderful weekend. There were so many
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  Speaker 1: emotional moments and they all came courtesy of you, your
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  Speaker 1: staff and everyone at Northwestern. A wonderful weekend and congratulations
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  Speaker 1: nine national championships, Kelly, your coach k I mean, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: get your chefsky out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Ky you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you guys for the last today.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome being on here and in all seriousness, no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for being a great parent of
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  Speaker 2: our program and and all that you do.
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  Speaker 5: To support us.
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  Speaker 2: You're there every everywhere we turn, and that means a
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  Speaker 2: ton to us.
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  Speaker 5: So thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's very kind of you. Thank you, Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor's third question was he's not happy with Belichick. He
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  Speaker 1: knows you're very friendly with Belichick. If you have a
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  Speaker 1: spot on the coaching staff Northwestern, can you get Belichick
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  Speaker 1: out of Carolina? And to Northwestern?
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  Speaker 5: Did you do texting with him the other day? He said,
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  Speaker 5: everything is great.
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  Speaker 2: They're undefeated right now, so everything is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Kelly, congratulations again and we appreciate everything. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you soon
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  Speaker 5: All right, gokats all right,