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The Infomaniacs: September 9th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: Bryan City Council voted last night to approve the proposed
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  Speaker 1: tax rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 of a home's valuation.
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  Speaker 1: No one signed up to speak on a public hearing
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  Speaker 1: for the matter. The approved rate is the same tax
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  Speaker 1: rate that has been in place since 2023. Council also
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  Speaker 1: had to officially adopt the city's $ 569 million budget.
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  Speaker 2: Roll call vote. Councilman Torres? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman Arrington?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Councilman Salvato?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman Edge?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Shurtleff?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Berski?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm a yes as well.
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  Speaker 1: Motion passes unanimous. That's Mayor Bobby Gutierrez. Councilwoman Ewer Shurtleff
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  Speaker 1: shared her optimism over a mid-rise apartment development coming to
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  Speaker 1: the 2.2 acres on 600 Woodson Drive.
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  Speaker 9: That's not just in my district. It's in my neighborhood,
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  Speaker 9: and I think it's going to be a welcome addition
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  Speaker 9: to see some progress there. I know it's been a
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  Speaker 9: long time. For those of you who don't remember, we
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  Speaker 9: approved a PD there. It kind of fizzled out. So
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  Speaker 9: we've got some new life, a very innovative concept. This
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  Speaker 9: is going to be more for higher-level grad students, a
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  Speaker 9: little bit older crowd. A mix of indoor-outdoor use. There's
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  Speaker 9: a parking garage. I think it's going to be a
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  Speaker 9: great addition, not just to District 5, but to the
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  Speaker 9: city of Bryan.
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  Speaker 1: Police in College Station now say that someone was injured
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night after a gun went off inside a Northgate bar.
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  Speaker 1: CSPD says a victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to
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  Speaker 1: the hand came forward and spoke with investigators on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: They say that the victim and suspect knew each other
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  Speaker 1: and traveled to College Station together. 19-year-old Trey Wheeler remains
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  Speaker 1: jailed on $ 145, 000 bond. He is not yet facing additional charges.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump will headline the Republican midterm convention Wednesday as
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  Speaker 1: he pushes the party to campaign on his achievements. Vox's
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Heinrich is in Dallas with the details.
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  Speaker 10: The president said the event is sold out and organizers
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  Speaker 10: are also, quote, saving the stage for candidates who are
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  Speaker 10: in tight races and that he'll be speaking on both
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  Speaker 10: nights in addition to the vice presidents and cabinet members
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  Speaker 10: and other big names who will be spotlighting legislative wins
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  Speaker 10: that they say helped improve the lives of Americans from
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  Speaker 10: no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security, to border enforcement,
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  Speaker 10: energy and jobs. But House Democrats are counter-programming. They're sending
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  Speaker 10: a delegation here to slam Republicans for, quote, partying with
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  Speaker 10: their super-rich donors amid an affordability crisis. They're also needling
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  Speaker 10: Republicans on absences, saying some Republicans are keeping their distance
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  Speaker 10: from the president's low approval ratings.
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  Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bissett, Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanch, and Donald Trump Jr. will also speak at
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  Speaker 1: the convention. Some candidates, like Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn, plan
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  Speaker 1: to campaign in their home districts. A bipartisan Texas effort
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  Speaker 1: is pushing for a review. of the nation's emergency oil stockpile,
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  Speaker 1: as it sits at the lowest level since the early 1980s.
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  Speaker 5: Democrat Lizzie Fletcher of Houston and Republican August Pfluger of
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  Speaker 5: San Angelo have authored the 21st Century Strategic Petroleum Reserve Act.
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  Speaker 5: This would direct the U.S. Secretary of Energy to request
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  Speaker 5: a public report and look at ways to modernize the
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  Speaker 5: reserve's operations. These can include strengthening oil storage facilities to
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  Speaker 5: withstand frequent drawdowns or encourage oil purchases when prices are
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  Speaker 5: lower to keep replenishing the reserve. There would be one
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  Speaker 5: year to submit findings to the Energy Department and Congress
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  Speaker 5: and make the report available to the public. The Strategic
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  Speaker 5: Petroleum Reserve is currently at about 40 percent capacity, holding
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  Speaker 5: 287 million barrels of crude oil during the week that
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  Speaker 5: ended on August 28th. I'm Kristen Yates, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news ahead at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that just reminds me real quick.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened to hump day?
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  Speaker 14: It came back.
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  Speaker 1: And then it went away again.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 14: It's still.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is it on the resurgence now?
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  Speaker 14: It's having a moment. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because I hadn't heard it in a while. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to interrupt the forecast.
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  Speaker 14: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 14: Let's take a trip back to, again, the original hump day.
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  Speaker 14: I want to say it's like 15, 13 years. I mean,
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  Speaker 14: it's old.
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  Speaker 1: A long time ago.
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  Speaker 14: It's a minute ago. But since then, you may have
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  Speaker 14: noticed the camel has been popping up again. Like, I'll
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  Speaker 14: give you one example right now. Here is the NFL
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  Speaker 14: kickoff promo for the Patriots and the Seahawks. Mike, Mike, Mike,
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  Speaker 14: what day is NFL kickoff?
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  Speaker 2: It's a day early, we know. Thanks, Chris. I'm asking Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Mike. Just say it.
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  Speaker 1: Hump Day.
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  Speaker 2: Hump Day!
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  Speaker 13: Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Patriots and Seahawks. NFL kickoff on NBC and Peacock. Legitimately,
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  Speaker 1: I had no concept of that when I asked that question.
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  Speaker 14: Legitimately, that's been running for a minute, but... During college
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  Speaker 14: football games this Saturday, the camel, the original camel, was
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  Speaker 14: back in the Geico ads with the two little guys
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  Speaker 14: with the banjo and the guitar playing him out. The
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  Speaker 14: original hump. I mean, it's the exact same commercial.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, Mike, Mike.
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  Speaker 13: What day is it?
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  Speaker 2: Mike, Mike, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: It's a day earlier than we know.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Chris.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: When you said the original camel. Come on, Mike.
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  Speaker 14: Just say it.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about Joe.
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  Speaker 14: A different camel.
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  Speaker 1: Different camel.
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  Speaker 14: a difference? That's right, I said a love story. Chase,
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  Speaker 14: text in the following. I have fond memories of sitting
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  Speaker 14: next to a campfire in the middle of winter during
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  Speaker 14: deer season and my grandfather telling me, here you go, boy.
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  Speaker 14: Take a sip of this. That'll warm you up. I'm
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  Speaker 14: a teenager at this time. This is one of my
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  Speaker 14: greatest memories of my grandfather. A crown royal hits that
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  Speaker 14: nostalgic bone real hard. That's a better commercial than crownsmen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, forever.
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  Speaker 14: He says, I'm going to have to go get me
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  Speaker 14: some crown while the getting's good. I imagine the stuff
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  Speaker 14: is going to fly off the shelf. Hell yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 14: You've got a month.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to fly off the shelf into my house.
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  Speaker 1: But I get it, Chase. I absolutely get it. Those
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  Speaker 1: things you have a sentimental attachment to. For example, I
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  Speaker 1: shave with an old school safety razor and a badger
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  Speaker 1: brush in honor and memoriam of my grandfather.
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  Speaker 14: Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Because I remember him doing that as a kid. So
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  Speaker 1: when I picked that up 10 years ago or so,
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  Speaker 1: every time I shave, I think of him. So I
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  Speaker 1: understand that.
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  Speaker 14: Chase goes on to say, I think what Crown Royal
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  Speaker 14: did well was to make The working man. I feel
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  Speaker 14: like he was drinking something special. Plus, you always got
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  Speaker 14: that sweet purple and yellow sack.
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  Speaker 1: Which I still have in my golf bag to carry
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  Speaker 1: my teas.
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  Speaker 14: Guys, if they ever allow us to have Crown Royal again,
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  Speaker 14: Crown Royal and the entire Chase for some marketing work,
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  Speaker 14: my God. You are hitting all the notes.
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  Speaker 2: Today, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: You could become the next influencer.
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  Speaker 14: I want to talk a little bit about Pumpkin Spice
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  Speaker 14: for a few different reasons, obviously. I guess tis the season.
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  Speaker 14: I don't really know. Here is the latest commercial from
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  Speaker 14: our friends at Dunkin', which we don't really get subjected
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  Speaker 14: to because we do not have Dunkin', nor will we probably.
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  Speaker 2: Ever get one.
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  Speaker 14: Who got Dunkin'? Do we here?
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  Speaker 17: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 1: On Welborn Road.
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  Speaker 14: Holy cow. Y'all been dunking?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You don't get down to SoCo often, do you?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 14: Apparently not.
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  Speaker 1: We do have a dunk in there, and occasionally the
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  Speaker 1: daughters will insist on driving through there. Fortunately, it's not
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  Speaker 1: with me most of the time.
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  Speaker 14: Pumpkin spice with the spice girls.
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  Speaker 19: The secret to our group was that everyone had their
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  Speaker 19: own flavor ginger had red hair and baby was the
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  Speaker 19: youngest and a.
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  Speaker 20: Lot of people don't know but we originally had a
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  Speaker 20: six member.
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  Speaker 21: Pumpkin spice i like pumpkin she had.
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  Speaker 14: So many amazing tracks there.
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  Speaker 8: Was my favorite was bumping pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins i like
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  Speaker 8: pumpkins do you like.
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  Speaker 1: What I really want.
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  Speaker 20: Should we get the.
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  Speaker 15: Band back together?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 14: Make it stop.
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  Speaker 1: Just make it stop. That's a brilliant commercial.
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  Speaker 14: No, it's so good. Rachel Dratch, by the way, is Spice.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 14: What was that abomination you texted me a picture of?
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  Speaker 1: So last night, I think it was on the socials
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  Speaker 1: that I picked that up off of. Some friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine had actually in their hand a bottle of pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: spice juice. Shampoo or body.
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  Speaker 14: Soap or something. I don't think it was. I thought
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  Speaker 14: it was sunscreen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sunscreen. That's what it was.
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  Speaker 14: I read it as sunscreen.
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  Speaker 1: It was pumpkin spice sunscreen.
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  Speaker 14: You don't need those two things at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Not in most places in the world. I mean, typically
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin spice, you know, it's a fall, winter sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And sunshine is typically... Despite what we see here, not
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  Speaker 1: a fall-winter sort of thing. So yeah, those two seasons
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  Speaker 1: collide in unusual ways. But come on, can we just
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  Speaker 1: reach the end? Can we see the end, the light
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the pumpkin spice tunnel, please?
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  Speaker 14: Well, according to CNN, so take this for what it's worth,
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  Speaker 14: they believe that the end could be coming.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah. They think that, well, I guess what inspired this
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  Speaker 14: article was McDonald's said, What? Don't need it. It said
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  Speaker 14: Apple Pass, not on the fall menu.
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  Speaker 1: Bucking the trend.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, it said, you don't need it. We've got a
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  Speaker 14: caramel apple pie. It's the only one we care about.
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  Speaker 14: And presumably because it's sold better than the pumpkin spice.
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  Speaker 14: And so, again, does that mean it's over today?
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  Speaker 22: No.
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  Speaker 14: But does that mean the winds of change are blowing?
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  Speaker 2: Possibly. Possibly.
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  Speaker 14: You know, just give it a few years. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think the pumpkin spice is going to
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  Speaker 1: go away quietly into the night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Unless something happens like, you know, somebody comes out and
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  Speaker 1: says pumpkin spice causes some sort of, you know, incredible,
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  Speaker 1: like you'll get a third eye.
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  Speaker 14: Might I ask an important question?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 14: Do we import our pumpkin spice?
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 14: And if we import our pumpkin spice, where do you
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  Speaker 14: think that comes from?
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  Speaker 1: You notice the mainstream media is not reporting on this.
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  Speaker 14: I think some digging needs to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Because if that juice comes from the great white north,
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  Speaker 1: we could be in trouble.
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  Speaker 14: That would be a hell of a twist.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, can you imagine the blowback from women everywhere? I.
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  Speaker 14: I cannot imagine.
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  Speaker 1: They would overthrow our government over this.
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  Speaker 13: That is absolute.
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  Speaker 14: That is the definition of October surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 23: If all of a sudden, oh, no more pumpkin spice.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 14: All right. I, I, this is the death star weakness
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  Speaker 14: of the United States, by the way, apparently. All right.
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  Speaker 14: here for a second, but you so rarely get to
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  Speaker 14: speak to a living legend, uh, and in football season,
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  Speaker 14: This is the perfect time to invite in Coach Jackie Sherrill.
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  Speaker 14: Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 1: We do have to mention that Coach Sherrill nearly sat
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: in our booby-trapped chair. We have one chair in here.
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  Speaker 14: That was an amazing save, Will.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 14: That was an amazing save.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been funny.
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  Speaker 14: That would have been trash.
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  Speaker 1: Better on video.
• 16:56
  Speaker 14: That's what you call a viral clip. So we've got
• 16:59
  Speaker 14: a lot of things to talk about. The first thing
• 17:01
  Speaker 14: we want to start with. is the youth sports camps
• 17:05
  Speaker 14: of the city of Bryan. And how long have you
• 17:07
  Speaker 14: been involved with this now?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Well, one year.
• 17:10
  Speaker 14: One year, this is okay.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: We started the original King Gill, I mean King Gill,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: King Register asked me to start a sports program. And
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: so when I went and visited all the schools to
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: kind of get a feel, I realized that over 86%,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: of them are on some type of assistance, which means
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to do a 501c3 to help.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: And so we started, and we had a combine in
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: a four-day camp, which was really good.
• 17:51
  Speaker 14: How many kids did y'all draw last year?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: We had like 80-some-odd kids. That is really good. Yeah,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: and it's a community affair to.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Be able to give the young kids an opportunity to
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: get into sports. It's not only just for football. It
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: will go into all other sports. But to help the
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: kids have something other than going to school, going home,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and give them an opportunity to understand teamwork, understand discipline.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: And we've reached out, I have, to the ministers. Ministers
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: will be a part. And You know, we have some
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: older guys that have been head coaches, offensive, defensive coordinators,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: assistant coaches, Phil Bennett, Darryl Dickey, Melvin Smith, that have
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: jumped in and are helping, and they did a great
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: job at the four-day camp. So we're registering right now
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: kids for a fall camp, which you're kind of juggling
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: trying to get measurements. Right.
• 19:07
  Speaker 14: You've got to get kids fitted and everything. Correct me
• 19:10
  Speaker 14: if I'm wrong. We're talking currently fourth, fifth, and sixth graders.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Fourth, fifth, and sixth. And we will have two weeks,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: maybe three, of nothing but techniques fundamentals. We want to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: make sure that the kids themselves are prepared, not only prepared,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: but can enjoy, but also make sure they're physical enough
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: to compete.
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: And I know, like you mentioned, this is a real
• 19:44
  Speaker 14: collaborative effort between a lot of different groups, a lot
• 19:48
  Speaker 14: of people, a lot of coaches.
• 19:49
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 14: Who are coming to the table to help this out
• 19:53
  Speaker 14: continue to grow over this year and then hopefully many
• 19:57
  Speaker 14: years to come. If people want to get involved, is
• 20:00
  Speaker 14: it too late if you are a business or someone
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: that could donate time or funds to this?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Well, it is a community affair, yeah. My objective is
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to start, make sure it's sustainable. And you can go
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to BrianTexYouthSports.org.
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: BrianTXYouthSports.org is the website. We'll link that to WTAW.com here shortly.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And if you want to volunteer, text, email. CCAP, C-C-A-P-P-S,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: at bryantex.gov.
• 20:44
  Speaker 14: I want to ask you about this, too, in relation
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: to this, because like you mentioned, there's a real disparity
• 20:51
  Speaker 14: in terms of kids that would benefit greatly from experience
• 20:56
  Speaker 14: in sports. And now, in today's times, it seems like
• 21:02
  Speaker 14: for anyone, this is almost a prohibitive thing to get
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: your kids involved in youth sports because the expense is
• 21:08
  Speaker 14: so high.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I have a granddaughter, and they're paying $ 2, 500, I think,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: per two sessions.
• 21:17
  Speaker 14: $ 2, 500 for two? Really?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just all youth sports, and especially you get into
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: those travel ball things and like that. You can spend
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: astronomical amounts of money, and it's becoming harder and harder.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for kids to compete at levels above them if they
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: don't have that background.
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: Because, sure, you do have the ability to play at school, but, again,
• 21:37
  Speaker 14: you know, that's different. It's just different.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Well, the state of Texas, UIL, organized sports below junior high,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you can't have coaches on your staff, for instance, College
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Station or Bryan, on your staff that is actually coaching.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: organized so if they can do camps like in the
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: summer but they can't go out and coach because they
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: feel that you're recruiting kids to your school right and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: which it could be but you know so you have
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: this group of young kids that have the ability but
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: there's no place for them to go other than pick.
• 22:25
  Speaker 14: Up our club sports and yeah so then I mean
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: You want your kids to start getting exposure to, again,
• 22:32
  Speaker 14: good coaches, good equipment, structured practice. And if you don't
• 22:39
  Speaker 14: have something like this, it's either a ton of money
• 22:42
  Speaker 14: or you are going to wait until they get into
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: junior high, which, frankly, is a lame game.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Chances are good they're going to start behind. So this
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: program tries to bridge that gap.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: We have been well-received, you know, Aguiland Orthodontics. they have
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: offered to make and give every kid a custom-made mouthpiece. Wow.
• 23:06
  Speaker 14: That's incredible.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't have a custom-made mouthpiece when I played ball.
• 23:10
  Speaker 14: That's what I love about this is that it really
• 23:13
  Speaker 14: is turning into a very, very good program, and it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 14: being done by a lot of people who are, I mean,
• 23:19
  Speaker 14: Jackie Sherrill, legendary coach, other very high-level coaches, local businesses
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: giving some of the equipment. It's a great thing for
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: your kids to You've got kids in the 4th, 5th,
• 23:28
  Speaker 14: and 6th grade. They want to get involved with ball,
• 23:30
  Speaker 14: learn the game, learn the fundamentals, learn some discipline. Incredible.
• 23:34
  Speaker 14: You should sign up for this. And I want to
• 23:36
  Speaker 14: say there's scholarships available too.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's what I'm saying. There is a way to
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: go on the website and go through the process. We
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: want to give every kid, every child an opportunity to play.
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Regardless.
• 23:56
  Speaker 14: Again, it's important. I can't think of what life would
• 23:58
  Speaker 14: have been like not having sports growing up as a kid.
• 24:01
  Speaker 14: And I'm not crazy old, but yeah, this rise of
• 24:05
  Speaker 14: youth sports and extremely expensive youth sports has been the
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: time since I've been in school. I don't know how
• 24:10
  Speaker 14: parents do it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I'm crazy old, and I have also funded two children
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that have gone through competitive cheerleading.
• 24:16
  Speaker 14: It's got to be such a trip because all the
• 24:21
  Speaker 14: time you've given to the game and all the time
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: that you've coached, High school kids and junior high kids
• 24:27
  Speaker 14: had to be a completely different ball game back when
• 24:30
  Speaker 14: you got started. Like dealing with high schoolers and junior
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: high now, they've just got to be different. How do
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: you teach? Do you teach them the same as you
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: did back then? Is it the same instruction in general
• 24:40
  Speaker 14: about discipline and everything, or has that adapted over time?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Well, that's never changed, you know, the game. You still
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: have 11 offense, 11 defensive players, still the same size field.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: What's changed is the safety. You know, just like if
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: you look at the helmets today, instead of seeing a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: solid helmet, you'll see a helmet with, you think it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: cracks in it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: But that is engineered. So when you do get a hit, meaning.
• 25:13
  Speaker 14: You have some give there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: It's going to spread to the whole helmet instead of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: that one spot. And so... They've made an awful lot
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of progress. The equipment that we're putting the kids in
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: is the top-of-the-line equipment, from shut helmets, their air helmet,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: all the way down to the shoulder pads. And what's
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: interesting today, for youth, their pads are sewed into their pants.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: So you just throw them into the washing machine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 14: That's a nice change.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: So they don't have to put those pads, knee pads.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Half of them don't even wear pants. They're in shorts
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: these days.
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: That's crazy.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine playing the game without knee pads.
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: You know, since we have the opportunity to have you
• 26:04
  Speaker 14: in the building, again, you know, obviously we know what
• 26:07
  Speaker 14: you did at A & M. We know what you
• 26:08
  Speaker 14: did at Miss State. And the college game has become
• 26:11
  Speaker 14: so insane currently.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 14: As you look at it as a coach, how do
• 26:20
  Speaker 14: people get a handle on this thing? Because it's true.
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: It strikes me as it's a completely different structure. How
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: would you even be a coach and manage a team
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: in under the, the, under the situation that we have
• 26:33
  Speaker 14: at the NCAAs?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Well, everybody has to be aligned from, you know, the
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: super from the president all the way down. Also the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: chancellor president. And, and, You have to have the support.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Your job is to coach. You can't change as a coach.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, here's the guidelines, although there's no guidelines right now.
• 26:57
  Speaker 14: Exactly.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: But it's very difficult, and I've said this years ago,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: that pro ball will move down to college ball, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that's where we're headed. And every day we're getting closer
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: because if you look on the staff today, You have
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a general manager. You have somebody in charge of recruiting.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You look at the staff. I had nine coaches. Today,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you may have 100.
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: That's crazy when you think about that. You had a
• 27:30
  Speaker 14: staff of nine coaches, and yet now it goes down
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: into having an analytics guy on staff, and you have
• 27:36
  Speaker 14: GMs and assistant GMs.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Do you think this is inevitable?
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: That we're going to get there. Do you think there's
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: any way?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: No, we're going to be completely. What people don't understand
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: real quickly, I don't want to get on the soapbox,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: but there's two people, two companies that control college sports,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: or control sports, period. Fox, ESPN, ABC. Yeah. Those are
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the two that control. Now, If you, you do not
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: hear one word from ABC or Fox.
• 28:14
  Speaker 14: That's true. You never really, you never really hear anything
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: out of them other than when it's time to come
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: in and pay an ungodly amount of money for the broadcast.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Right. And because so much money ESPN makes so much
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: money off of billions Fox does. So putting a, entertainment,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: meaning a sport, on that time slot makes a million.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: And every tick that they get, meaning eyeball, then that's
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: more dollars advertising or paying. But the two that will
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: run it, it's kind of like, and what I'm saying
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: is my opinion, but it's kind of like the old AFC, NFC,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: where you did have two people, but you have Fox, ABC,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: which is ESPN, and those two do the negotiation. Those two,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: like 24 teams to the playoff.
• 29:17
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Who's going to decide that? ESPN, Fox.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 29:23
  Speaker 14: They have a phenomenal amount of control, which I understand
• 29:26
  Speaker 14: they don't like to talk about that.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: No, they don't want anybody to know.
• 29:30
  Speaker 14: But it's a phenomenal amount of influence over... Is it
• 29:34
  Speaker 14: more– are they more important than the old NCAA organization,
• 29:38
  Speaker 14: like the infrastructure? Probably.
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I think most are. I think the Girl Scouts are
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: more important.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, but I have to say this, whatever I say
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: is my opinion.
• 29:48
  Speaker 14: Of course.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the attorneys understand.
• 29:53
  Speaker 14: I'll tell you this, your opinion comes very highly weighted
• 29:56
  Speaker 14: for a lot of people.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: The first lawsuit not the first, but one by a student,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: was against the NCAA years ago, back in the 60s.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And it was a track star at Kansas that back
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: then you were on BEOG, Basic Economic Grant, which is
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Pell Grants today. But back then, the NCAA would not
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: allow the kids to get their full BEOG grant. So
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: he sued, won the lawsuit, and Fast forward, Oklahoma and
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Georgia sued the NCAA for proprietary rights, which means up
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: until that time, the NCAA made the money off the TV.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: They did the negotiation. They had a say-so who played
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: on Saturdays. And if you look back in the old days,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: there were very few teams that were on national television.
• 30:55
  Speaker 18: True.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: So that, because of the TV and the NCAA, that
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: was taken away from them when Georgia and Oklahoma sued them.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: So then, fast forward, that's when it went to the conferences.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: So the conferences made the deals with television. Notre Dame
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: was the only one that didn't. And their first, back then,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: their first agreement was a million a game.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: $ 11 million with NBC.
• 31:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: But that was what all networks. With David Eller, we
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: went to New York, went to ABC, CBS, NBC, and ESPN.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: They all were saying the same thing. We'll pay you
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: a million dollars a game. So fast forward, it's multi-million
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: dollars a game. Oh, yeah. College football is still the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: leader in pulling people in.
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: It's the last monoculture that we can all agree on
• 32:03
  Speaker 14: is sports. And college sports, to me, in a lot
• 32:07
  Speaker 14: of ways, is a lot more unifying in terms of
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: a fan base than the NFL can be. Unifying and divisive.
• 32:16
  Speaker 14: I used to watch, I went to games in Kyle
• 32:19
  Speaker 14: when you were coaching. Obviously, we've been to games at
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: Kyle today, just everything about it, it's amazing how much
• 32:29
  Speaker 14: it has transformed in really not that long of a time.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Well, just think of the economic impact.
• 32:36
  Speaker 14: Billions of dollars. So much money.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: When you take 100, there was 107,000 last game. Multiply
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: that out. When you look at people coming in, just
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: say 200 tickets, you're at 200 to 300 per and
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: then multiply that times five. That's what the economic.
• 33:00
  Speaker 14: What was the capacity your last year here for Kyle?
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Do you remember? I want to say 78.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I believe that's correct. That's the number that popped into
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: my head.
• 33:10
  Speaker 14: Yeah, man, it's just wild. Again, I don't want to
• 33:13
  Speaker 14: get too far away from what you're here for, which
• 33:15
  Speaker 14: is again, The camps, please, please, please, whether you're signing
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: up your kids for fifth and sixth graders or if
• 33:21
  Speaker 14: you're a business and you want to help out, this
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: is an amazing effort, bryantxyouthsports.org.
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  Speaker 2: Or a volunteer.
• 33:28
  Speaker 14: Or a volunteer. Coach, thank you so much for waking
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: up early and coming in to see us today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The Bryan City Council held
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  Speaker 1: a regularly scheduled meeting last night. The main focus was
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  Speaker 1: the proposed tax rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 of
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  Speaker 1: a home's value. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez asked Elisa Kinney, the
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  Speaker 1: city's interim chief financial officer, what the lowest rate could
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  Speaker 1: be that would allow the city to maintain its services
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  Speaker 1: and bond ratings.
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  Speaker 26: So really to keep at that 100 days of cash
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  Speaker 26: without dipping below it, it would be 0.6235. So it
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  Speaker 26: would be a very small, small adjustment.
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  Speaker 1: Gutierrez was in favor of adopting the lowest possible rate,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: but a motion to do so did not pass. Councilwoman
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Mark your shirt lift weighs in.
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  Speaker 9: Where we're coming from, in my perspective at least, the
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: Texas legislature is a bit unpredictable for our municipal bodies
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  Speaker 9: right now. I think that Brian... We're holding the rate steady.
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: We're not increasing it, but we're still responsible for police
• 39:45
  Speaker 9: and fire as we continue to grow. And I really
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: do admire the mayor for being willing to put a
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: motion in front of this council that would lower it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: But from my perspective, given the unpredictability and the obligations
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: we have to maintain Public safety, which as y'all know
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: is about 85% of our budget, I'm comfortable staying with
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: not raising it but not lowering it.
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  Speaker 1: The difference between 62.4 cents and the 62.35 cents would
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: have been the difference of $ 1. 25 per year for the
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: homeowner whose value is $ 250, 000. The now approved rate of 62.4
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: cents per $ 100 is the same tax rate that has
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: been in place since 2023. One person is dead and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: another injured in a single car crash in Bryan Tuesday afternoon.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: The accident took place around 6.30 on Highway 6 southbound
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: near Tabor Road. Bryan police said that the driver was
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: pronounced dead on scene and a passenger was transported to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: a local hospital. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: The Brazos Valley Food Bank has received some significant contributions recently.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, Producers Cooperative Association reported presented the organization with
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  Speaker 1: a check for $ 5, 000. On Tuesday, nearly $ 6, 000 was awarded
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  Speaker 1: The funds will be used to help the BVFB reach
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: their goal of ending hunger in the Brazos Valley. The
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: College Station Police Department released more information Tuesday about the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: weekend shooting in Northgate. They say they received reports on
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Saturday that someone had been shot inside the 115 bar,
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  Speaker 1: but a victim was unable to be located. CSPD now
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: says a victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: hand came forward and spoke with investigators on Sunday. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say that the victim and suspect were acquainted and traveled
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: to College Station together. It's been one year since Texas
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: implemented a ban on cell phones in schools. Experts are
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: reflecting on the changes seen in classroom behavior.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: You know, across the board, there was just initial tension
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: in the air. And a lot of teachers that we
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: spoke to and even personal colleagues of mine who are
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: psychologists and speech pathologists, they also just kind of felt
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: this tension in the air initially.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: School psychologist Dr. Israel Arivalo with Texas A & M
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Telehealth says while there was initial anxiety among students, parents,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and staff, things have since settled back to a normal routine.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: He says teachers are reporting fewer classroom distractions and students
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: are engaging in more face-to-face interactions. Arivalo says while the
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  Speaker 1: new law has been positive, it will take a few
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  Speaker 1: more years before experts can say if the benefits are
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: true results of the ban. Another traffic project is getting
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: underway today. Starting this afternoon, the City of College Station
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: begins work on the final section of rehabilitation of William D.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Fitch Parkway from Williams Creek Drive to Rock Prairie Road.
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  Speaker 1: Alternating one-way traffic will shift to continuous two-way traffic, which
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  Speaker 1: will also be maintained for access to and from Williams
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  Speaker 1: The project is expected to be completed by mid-December. There's
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  Speaker 1: state's private school voucher program.
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  Speaker 8: Acting Comptroller and GOP nominee for the job, Don Huffines,
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  Speaker 8: has requested $ 2, 226, 000, 000 for the next two years. The first
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  Speaker 8: year cost a billion. Clay Robeson with the Texas State
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  Speaker 8: and says any increase is too much.
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  Speaker 3: This is not a sustainable program.
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  Speaker 14: Or they can sustain it, but they're going.
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  Speaker 5: To basically close many more public schools.
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  Speaker 8: There's data from the state that shows 7 in 10
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  Speaker 8: families in or trying to get into the program already
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  Speaker 8: had kids in private schools. Texas touts the program as
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  Speaker 19: The Aggie volleyball team is gearing up to play Stanford
• 50:09
  Speaker 19: tonight on the road in the second annual Shiner's Children's
• 50:12
  Speaker 19: Showdown at the net. Head coach Jamie Morrison spoke about
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  Speaker 19: what the Aggies have been working on in regards to
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  Speaker 19: chemistry on the court ahead of the Stanford match.
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  Speaker 17: It can happen with time or you can force it
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  Speaker 17: to click. And one of the things I left them
• 50:25
  Speaker 17: with after we watched video was just the responsibility to
• 50:27
  Speaker 17: make it click. And there's certain things that I can
• 50:30
  Speaker 17: try to do, but at the end of the day,
• 50:31
  Speaker 17: like unless the player is willing to step out there
• 50:33
  Speaker 17: and put in the effort to go make it click,
• 50:35
  Speaker 17: like I can force it in some ways, but it's really,
• 50:37
  Speaker 17: are people wanting to go have a sense of urgency
• 50:40
  Speaker 17: of we're going to go make this change right now?
• 50:41
  Speaker 17: And this group is capable of doing great things. It's just,
• 50:44
  Speaker 17: we got to make things click faster and faster and faster.
• 50:46
  Speaker 17: And it can't be, again, that meeting was a little
• 50:48
  Speaker 17: bit along the lines of it can't be waiting for
• 50:50
  Speaker 17: a loss to go learn a lesson. It's got to
• 50:52
  Speaker 17: be some trust that the lessons that we're trying to
• 50:54
  Speaker 17: teach are put into action right away that we're going
• 50:57
  Speaker 17: out on the floor. And hopefully, again, some of the
• 50:58
  Speaker 17: things that we're pushing right now, you're going to see
• 51:00
  Speaker 17: against Stanford with us necessarily having to go out and,
• 51:02
  Speaker 17: I don't know, learn from something bad that happens.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: So I think it's a little bit of both. Again,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I've always said.
• 51:07
  Speaker 17: Talent takes time. It's one of the things you do
• 51:09
  Speaker 17: have to be patient to have true talent to not
• 51:13
  Speaker 17: put Band-Aids and shoestring and duct tape on this thing
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  Speaker 17: to make it kind of not work and be where
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  Speaker 17: to last beyond their time here at Texas A &
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  Speaker 17: M to go off and play professional and play.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: For a national team.
• 51:23
  Speaker 17: But if there's a sense of urgency and a sense
• 51:25
  Speaker 17: of having mindful practice, you.
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  Speaker 14: Can do it a lot faster.
• 51:28
  Speaker 19: First serve for tonight's match between the Aggies and Stanford
• 51:32
  Speaker 19: is set for 8 o'clock, and you can watch the
• 51:34
  Speaker 19: game on ESPN2. The A & M football team moved
• 51:37
  Speaker 19: down two spots in the AP poll rankings yesterday afternoon,
• 51:41
  Speaker 19: falling behind LSU and Ole Miss. In the Aggies' Week
• 51:45
  Speaker 19: 1 game, the defense played a strong game, allowing Missouri
• 51:48
  Speaker 19: State to only 67 total yards on offense, which is
• 51:52
  Speaker 19: the lowest total the program has allowed since 1978. However,
• 51:56
  Speaker 19: on the offensive side, things were a little bit slower
• 51:59
  Speaker 19: to get rolling in the first half. Head coach Mike
• 52:01
  Speaker 19: Elko spoke about what the team will be doing ahead
• 52:04
  Speaker 19: of the Arizona State game to clean up that side.
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  Speaker 14: Of the ball.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard now because of the iPad. There was times
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  Speaker 6: where you were doing so much of it off of
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: feel and off of the video board. Now you actually
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  Speaker 6: have the iPad. For the most part, you've got a
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: pretty good feel for what it looks like as you're
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: going through it. I think maybe just to the naked eye,
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  Speaker 6: I thought the way we grew into the game on offense,
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: especially on the offensive line, I think is something that
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: It was really good to see. I think there were
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: some guys out there really anxious in the beginning, certainly
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: the two young guards, Blake and Tyler Thomas. It was
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: their first time going out there and playing meaningful snaps
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: in a meaningful game, and Lamont Rogers threw him into
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: that category as well. I thought when they got into
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: their second series, third series, fourth series, you could really
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: see them slowing down and playing the game the way
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: we've seen them play throughout fall camp. I thought that
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: was really encouraging as we moved through it.
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  Speaker 19: Coach Elko also spoke about the growth of the offensive line.
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  Speaker 6: I thought there was a lot of good, certainly some
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: things that we had to clean up. I think it
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: was a little bit of a storm in that it
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: was a lot of things that we hadn't practiced with
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: a lot of guys out there playing together. You had
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: no idea what to predict the scheme was going to
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  Speaker 6: look like, and so we certainly didn't play to the
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: level or standard we need to early in the game.
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  Speaker 6: I think everybody's aware of that. But again, I think
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: it was good to see us adjust, settle in, and
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: start to make better plays as we move forward from
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: an O-line standpoint. And again, there's big challenges coming up,
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: and we're going to have to continue to get better.
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: And that group is going to have to continue to
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