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Gators Coach LEAKS TRUTH on UF RETURN that makes UF fans SMILE · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: All right, Gator fans, I am so excited for this one.
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  Speaker 1: My college friend, Phil Troutwine, joins us to discuss his homecoming. Phil,
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  Speaker 1: I think for our generation, which honestly just made me
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  Speaker 1: feel really old in this moment, you being back is
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  Speaker 1: a link to our best years. And you said right
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  Speaker 1: when you were hired that you came back to win championships.
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  Speaker 1: In your opinion, what has to change inside the building
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  Speaker 1: before that statement is a possibility and not just, you know, motivational?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to really come down to the culture.
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  Speaker 3: You know, being in that culture and what this program
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  Speaker 3: is about and what we need to do is get
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  Speaker 3: the right guys or the guys to buy into that culture,
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  Speaker 3: which I think, you know, that's what Coach Summerall is
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  Speaker 3: here to do and he's doing a great job so
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  Speaker 3: far and You know, I really feel like we got
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  Speaker 3: the guys in the room, you know, in that team
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  Speaker 3: room to be able to do that because the kids here,
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  Speaker 3: they do want to be great.
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  Speaker 2: We just have to show them the way.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what, you know, great programs are able to
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  Speaker 3: do is get the kids to buy in and have them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, be part of the culture and understand the
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  Speaker 3: culture and then leadership because talent will only get you
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  Speaker 3: so many wins.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's the leadership.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, coaches can do so much, but it
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  Speaker 3: really has to be player driven, not coach driven. And
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  Speaker 3: when we get that, you know, that's going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the key. And that's what, you know, Coach
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  Speaker 3: Meyer was able to do. And I was able to
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  Speaker 3: see it as a player. And, you know, I always
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure that as a coach, I want
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  Speaker 3: to be somewhere where I would think I would want
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  Speaker 3: to play. And, you know, being back in Florida, of course, but,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with the program and the way it's run
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  Speaker 3: with the leadership is is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I would play here right now.
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  Speaker 3: And that's always key to the success of a program.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned that you were here during that transition from
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  Speaker 1: Zook to Meyer. And, you know, I remember so vividly
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  Speaker 1: when that happened. And I think it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things where you didn't know what you didn't know. And
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  Speaker 1: then this whole new staff came in. And what would
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  Speaker 1: you say was the thing that just changed immediately in
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  Speaker 1: that building that told you, man, this is different?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, just the details and the demand and, you know, the, the,
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  Speaker 3: just the coaching staff of trying to get you to
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  Speaker 3: be elite and to get you to be detailed oriented
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  Speaker 3: and relentless effort. Having that, you know, the things that
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  Speaker 3: take no talent and being able to get the talented
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  Speaker 3: guys to buy in. And from day one, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not letting us wear Gator stuff and Matt drills and
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  Speaker 3: toughness and, you know, that was what he came to
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  Speaker 3: do and he was able to do it. And we
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  Speaker 3: had great talent in, you know, in that team room
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  Speaker 3: and he got them to work and buy in. And that's,
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  Speaker 3: that's what he's able to do. And that's why we
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  Speaker 3: were able.
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  Speaker 2: To win a lot of games.
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  Speaker 1: As a player back then, how long do you think
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  Speaker 1: it took before you felt like the program had flipped?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was probably, you know, really, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I would say we, we knew what we were getting
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  Speaker 3: into and then it probably took, you know, a good
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  Speaker 3: year for us to really understand, you know, the offense
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  Speaker 3: and really understand how to truly work. And what we
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  Speaker 3: need to see is we have to see improvement, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's what, you know, guys need to see. And as
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  Speaker 3: improvement happens, then now the guys buy in even more.
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  Speaker 3: And as they see them getting better and they see
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  Speaker 3: us winning games and they see, us having a good
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  Speaker 3: spring practice and spring game and all that stuff as
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  Speaker 3: it evolves that way. And it took a good, in
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  Speaker 3: my mind, took a good six months to a year
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  Speaker 3: for us to really understand. We probably bought in, but
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  Speaker 3: we probably truly didn't buy in until we saw some
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  Speaker 3: of the results of us just buying in. So truly
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  Speaker 3: buying in is what takes some time.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the removing of the Gator logo, which that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that stood out to me back
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  Speaker 1: from Myers days, that Gator head and you know, under
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  Speaker 1: the stadium being removed, y'all not being able to wear
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  Speaker 1: the logo. Did Summerall really have no idea that Meyer
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  Speaker 1: had also done that? Or is that like, he just
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  Speaker 1: borrowed that from him because it worked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I, I guess not. Like I haven't really asked
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  Speaker 3: him to be honest with you. I just, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Like I, that what's, that's what we did. And we
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  Speaker 3: kind of, bought into that and we earned it back,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is a great, just understanding of what
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  Speaker 3: this place is about. You know, how much that logo
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  Speaker 3: really means a lot to a lot of people and
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  Speaker 3: it should mean everything to you and to wear it,
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  Speaker 3: you have that pride. And to have that pride is
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  Speaker 3: what really should drive you. And that's, you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: who he is and that's what he wants. He wants driven,
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys that just love football and want to
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  Speaker 3: be great. And it's kind of the same DNA that
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  Speaker 3: Meyer wanted. He wanted guys to come in and being
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  Speaker 3: able to understand that and being able to be the
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  Speaker 3: guy that leadership and that DNA is tough.
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  Speaker 1: You are so uniquely qualified to talk about the comparisons
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  Speaker 1: between Summerall and Meyer. And obviously, wins are what's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the ultimate decider. So, you know, in three years,
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  Speaker 1: we may be saying they're exactly the same, or we
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  Speaker 1: may be saying they weren't that similar at all. But
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  Speaker 1: what similarities right now do you see? And do you
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  Speaker 1: see any differences?
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  Speaker 3: Um, you know, similarities, I mean, he's detailed. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he sent a staff, you know, a picture cause the
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  Speaker 3: weights weren't exactly the way they should be. The Gator
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  Speaker 3: head needs to be on the bottom, like stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: And I can see Meyer doing that. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: the little details that sometimes fall through the cracks that
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  Speaker 3: that's what the details that you lose games, um, same details.
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  Speaker 3: And so you can see he's detail oriented. Um, he's,
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  Speaker 3: he's no bull crap. Like he's, you know, all about
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  Speaker 3: toughness and, and demands a lot from the coaching staff
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  Speaker 3: and also from the players, which that's what coach Meyer
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  Speaker 3: was all about. Um, and then, you know, he, he
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  Speaker 3: loves his players. He goes down there and works with
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  Speaker 3: them and he's actually works out with us or with them. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and so he grinds with them. And, and I think
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  Speaker 3: the players take a liking to that because he's a
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  Speaker 3: coach that's willing to get dirty and willing to do
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  Speaker 3: the things.
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  Speaker 2: That you know other.
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  Speaker 3: Coaches won't do which is different um in my mind
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  Speaker 3: um than a lot of coaches that have been around
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  Speaker 3: and so it's not just because he likes to work
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  Speaker 3: out he just likes being in that environment like he
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  Speaker 3: likes to be down there and really grind and he's
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  Speaker 3: just a gritty went you know play to Kentucky and
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  Speaker 3: he understands SEC football um which is different than you
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of other coaches out there the coaches
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  Speaker 3: I've been um able to work with so that's what
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  Speaker 3: kind of sets them apart. And I think the kids
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  Speaker 3: really liked that because a lot of coaches out there
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  Speaker 3: will say the man, the man, the man, and then
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  Speaker 3: they just go and they don't see them for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the day, but he's right there, like doing
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  Speaker 3: bench with the wide receivers and he's, you know, benching
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  Speaker 3: and sitting there deadlifting, um, showing them, Hey, you know, I'm,
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  Speaker 3: I'm willing to work too.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, that's just who I am.
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  Speaker 1: Are you down in the weight room at all? And
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  Speaker 1: if so, what are you seeing from these players?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm down there a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we, we lift every morning or every Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: Friday at seven 30 offense does. And, you know, you're
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  Speaker 3: just seeing guys, you know, really buy into coach wit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's an awesome, awesome dude, but he's also
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  Speaker 3: an awesome man. And you know, he's a good strength
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  Speaker 3: coach and he knows exactly what he's talking about, but
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  Speaker 3: he's also teaching them life lessons during the strength conditionings
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  Speaker 3: aspect as well, which is cool, really cool to see.
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  Speaker 3: And he's trying to drive them and trying to push
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  Speaker 3: them and try to get them ready, um, for spring ball. And, um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he, the, the energy in the weight room
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  Speaker 3: is different than day one. Um, till now the guys
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  Speaker 3: are getting a lot stronger, um, which is great to see. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's, he's doing his job and he's doing great.
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  Speaker 3: And guys are really buying into that because your strength
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  Speaker 3: coach is everything like, You know, our strength coach, Mickey
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  Speaker 3: Mirati was, you know, he was, he's now at Ohio
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  Speaker 3: state and he was, you know, the main driver of
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  Speaker 3: that culture.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing here.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Witt is the main driver of that culture. So
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  Speaker 3: if your strength coach isn't right and your strength coach
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  Speaker 3: isn't echoing what you're saying or doesn't believe in what you,
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  Speaker 3: your four core values and all that stuff, then it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be hard for you to really have them
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  Speaker 3: buy into to you. So having him, really be his
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  Speaker 3: guy who he was with him at Tulane and also at.
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  Speaker 2: Troy.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, that's awesome for him to be able
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  Speaker 3: to continue those, you know, that culture and continue to
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  Speaker 3: tell them and help them buy in.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember all the things that Mickey Marotti brought
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  Speaker 1: in for you guys, that Midnight Lifts and the St.
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day Massacre, Matt Drills. Are you seeing anything that
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  Speaker 1: looks familiar to any of that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, we do, we do kind of workouts in the morning, um,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing like wrestling and Matt drills and no, they,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we can get away with that anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So they, it goes from variety guy, lucky. Uh, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, it is, this program is, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: strength conditioning is built on toughness. Um, it's all about
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  Speaker 3: competition and competing. So everything is a matchup. Everything is
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  Speaker 3: detailed and, You know, we have a thing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're going on our sixth gauntlet workout tomorrow, which is
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  Speaker 3: basically six stations, kind of like what Matt drills is.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have the wrestling part, but it's really about
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  Speaker 3: like details of having your foot behind the line and
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  Speaker 3: being in a stack line, making sure that how you finish,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everybody has to do the right way, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do it the right way during that rep. If not,
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  Speaker 3: then you after the rep, your your group does three
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  Speaker 3: up downs. And you're trying to finish the whole entire gauntlet.
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  Speaker 3: It's three rounds and you have to try to finish
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  Speaker 3: it in an hour. And when you finish it, it's
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  Speaker 3: like you no longer have to do it. So if
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  Speaker 3: they would have finished it on gauntlet one, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been over. And it's just seeing them communicate and
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  Speaker 3: lead and understand like when you get tired, you still
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  Speaker 3: have to be mentally tough. So it's a really good thing.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really just built off of mental toughness and
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  Speaker 3: discipline and being able to push when you're tired.
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  Speaker 1: Are they getting closer each time?
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  Speaker 2: They are, they are.
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  Speaker 3: They got all the way to the last round, this
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  Speaker 3: last one, which was last Wednesday. So we're hoping tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? As this coaching staff, they
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  Speaker 3: pass it, but like coach tomorrow, we'll tell you like,
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  Speaker 3: if we don't pass it the March 3rd, we're not
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  Speaker 3: going to practice. So we might not have spring practice.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, if we don't pass the gauntlet. So our,
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  Speaker 3: our main thing is to pass the gauntlet. Cause if
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  Speaker 3: we do, then we know that we're ready for the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter and we know our team is ready for
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  Speaker 3: spring ball. But until then, we're going to keep doing
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  Speaker 3: the gauntlet.
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  Speaker 1: culture more about what coaches demand or is it more
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I would say that, man, that was a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I would say that it has to be, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's both, but I would say it has
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  Speaker 3: to be the players being able to buy in because
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  Speaker 3: we can demand a lot and they could just go
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  Speaker 3: through the motions or never really buy into what we're
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  Speaker 3: really saying. So it really has to be player, you know,
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  Speaker 3: player buy-in and player believing that what we're saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: is going to help them become the best version of themselves.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why we're doing it through, you know, showing
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  Speaker 3: them like, for instance, the offensive line, like I am,
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  Speaker 3: demanding a lot from them. We're doing tests. We're doing things.
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  Speaker 3: I do voiceovers. I'm trying to install this offense. I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to teach them the game of football and not
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  Speaker 3: just for spring, but also for the NFL and further development.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, with that, they hear this and
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  Speaker 3: they're working really hard, harder than they ever worked. And
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  Speaker 3: they're probably in the back of their mind. They're saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: why am I doing this? Well, they have to have
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  Speaker 3: a belief and understanding that what I'm telling them and
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  Speaker 3: helping them with will help them become, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: player they want to be. So it's always, in my mind,
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  Speaker 3: it's about, you could demand, demand, demand, but if they
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  Speaker 3: don't buy in, they don't truly believe it, then the
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  Speaker 3: culture will never become what you really want. It can
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  Speaker 3: get better, but it will never be, it will never
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  Speaker 3: thrive through adversity. And when it gets tough and that's
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  Speaker 3: when you really know when it gets hard, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter versus Georgia, if our culture isn't right,
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  Speaker 3: then we're going to break. If our culture is right,
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  Speaker 3: then we're going to be able to, or we're down
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  Speaker 3: or we lose a, you know, a star player. That's
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  Speaker 3: when your culture is really, you know, really tested. And
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  Speaker 3: that's when you truly find out. So that's what these
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  Speaker 3: workouts are doing. That's what them understanding our, our four
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  Speaker 3: core values. And then, you know, doing that and understanding
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  Speaker 3: why and pushing them. So they have to buy in and,
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  Speaker 3: and we have to help them and show them and,
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  Speaker 3: get them to understand why.
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  Speaker 1: You talked earlier in this interview, but I've also seen
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  Speaker 1: in other interviews you've given, you've talked about no talent things.
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  Speaker 1: If I watched your offensive line for a full practice,
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  Speaker 1: what would I see that reflects that NTT in action?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, of course they're going to be tough.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're going to finish. They're going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, high energy. They're going to, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: run off the ball. They're going to have great technique
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  Speaker 3: and fundamentals. They're going to communicate. They're going to understand,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the game of football. They're going to understand
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  Speaker 3: the offense, which all those things I talked about are
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  Speaker 3: the no talent things like being fundamentally sound, being tough,
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  Speaker 3: being physical are things that, you know, take no talent.
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  Speaker 3: So being great at those are what you're going to see.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see an offensive line that's relentless, that's tough,
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  Speaker 3: that has great technique and fundamentals and that love football.
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  Speaker 1: You and over the course of your career have sent
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  Speaker 1: three star guys and even zero star guys to the
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  Speaker 1: first round. When you are evaluating a recruit, what are
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  Speaker 1: you seeing that rankings don't measure?
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of it comes down to heart
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  Speaker 3: and determination.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, our line is very developmental.
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  Speaker 3: So having a guy that works hard and has overcome
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  Speaker 3: any weaknesses, like Every single offense lineman out there, maybe
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  Speaker 3: there's one or two that don't have any. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they all have weaknesses right now because they're high school
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  Speaker 3: kids that really don't know and aren't developed. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they have to know that it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: process and they're willing to work and grind and overcome
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  Speaker 3: any deficiencies that they have. So, you know, the inside,
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  Speaker 3: the heart. you know, what they really truly are core
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  Speaker 3: deep down. And I have to do that by building
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  Speaker 3: a relationship with them and really get to understand them
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  Speaker 3: and really know them so that I can push them.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm, and they're willing to be pushed and be coached.
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  Speaker 3: So that's, that's like number one. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with that comes toughness and, and the love of the
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  Speaker 3: game and, you know, then athleticism, great feet. And I
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: know like, let's say they're, You know, some some reason
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: they have them a three star. It might be they're
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: not flexible or they maybe don't have fast enough feet
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: or they're not they don't bend as well or they're
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: maybe not powerful yet. But what I've found are if
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: the kid really wants to be, he will overcome it
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: with something else. Maybe it's understanding the game, understanding or
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: if he's not super flexible, he'll do yoga three times
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: a week because he's willing to do those things that
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: maybe no one else wants to do. And it kind
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: of comes down to the no talent thing. So having
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: them buy in to that and, you know, I've been
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: able to develop and if they want to be developed
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: and they want a great relationship, then, you know, I've
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: been able to, you know, push them through those moments
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: and those times and help them through them because they
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: want to be coached and they know that, you know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I'm pushing them and I'm giving them everything I got.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: And so they're able to overcome that and prove a
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: lot of people wrong.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Now, I'm not going to hold you to this answer
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: because I can't even imagine how you even start to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: evaluate what you have when you haven't seen them work
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: together in person yet. But how do you feel about
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the State of the Oat line room?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a lot of talent.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: We got some guys that are coming back that played
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: a lot of football, which is great. And I got
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: some guys in the portal that I feel really good about.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: We have some young guys that are eager to learn.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: The one thing I can tell you is that they
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: all want to be great. They all really are working hard.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I think I can get them to work harder. I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: going to keep pushing them to do that. I truly
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: believe that they truly want to be good football players.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: They want to play. There's competition in the room, which
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: is always good. I truly believe we should have I
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: think we'll have a good offensive line when it's all
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: said and done, and I think we'll have depth going
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: into week one.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: In the media availability last week, you talked a little
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: bit about recruiting, and you said Florida won't always be
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the highest bidder. How do you win recruiting battles in
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: that environment without promising money or immediate starting jobs and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: making sure you get guys that care about the logo
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: on the front of the jersey?
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's through just the recruiting process and Bill relationships
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: and getting them to understand like, you know, because someone's
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: always going to look at just like in jobs, like
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: they know that one, if you can go somewhere to
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: be developed or you can.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Go this place because it could help you further your career.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: That place is more valuable. So what do people do?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: They'll say, we'll come here and we'll pay you more money.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: So that's kind of what, what people will do. Like
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: people will try to outbid us, but if you're willing
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: to put in the work and understand that development takes time,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I'm going to develop you. I'm going to give you
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: everything I got every day. And in the long-term return,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: you know, is you become going to the NFL and
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: being a first round draft pick. Like, you know, the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: first round draft picks are making guaranteed 20 plus million dollars. Well,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: what's the difference of, you know, being in college and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: maybe making whatever it is less right for you to
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: be developed and make that long-term money and generations of wealth,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you know, being coached and also being somewhere where, you know, you,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: you feel like you're being loved and cared about and
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: getting to be the best version of yourself.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: You have been a part of a really successful staff.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Penn State made it to the playoffs when you were there. Obviously,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: as a player, you won two national championships. And I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: think the best coaches, the best athletes, the best businessmen
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: learn to emulate great leaders that they're around. But they also,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: maybe the very best, learn what not to do as well.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: What is something you've seen in the programs that you've
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: been around that you think maybe you're going to do
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: differently now that you're in charge?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, that's a good question. I've never I don't
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: think I've ever thought about that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You know, I honestly like I mean, I don't know
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: if if being a head coach is something that I
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: truly want to do. You know, a lot of people
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: ask me, would I ever be an OC or anything
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: like that? Like right now, I just want to be
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the best offensive line coach in the country. And I
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: want to get here. I want to get Florida back
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to where, you know, we're all proud. And that's honestly
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: like I did. If I didn't get this job, I
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: probably would have waited and went to the NFL just
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: because I didn't know if I could deal with NIL
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: and changing a room for somewhere that I truly didn't love.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: And I truly like I didn't want to do that
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: all over again. And I thought maybe I'll wait for
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: this opportunity. But, you know, when this opportunity came, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: knew that this is where I always wanted to be.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So that was kind of, you know, my role.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I know that doesn't really answer your question, but, you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I haven't really thought about that. You know, I could
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: tell you, you know, core values, you know, are something
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: that I truly believe in and having that be the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: starting point of your culture. And, you know, I have
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: had different, you know, Coach Franklin was positive attitude, great
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: worth ethic, compete in everything you do, must be willing
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to sacrifice.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: And here are attitude, toughness, discipline, and love. So I
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: probably would take a couple of those and make it
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: my own. But the philosophy of that has to be
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: true and you have to have your guys believe in
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: those core values. I know your husband would tell you
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: ours were a little bit different. I don't know if
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you can do all of those. I mean, honesty, treat
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: women with respect, no guns, no weapons, no stealing. I
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: don't know if they help you for you know, you
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: as a human and you as a, you know, as
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: a husband.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: But I know those other.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Core values that I've had, you know, here at Florida
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and at Penn State definitely help you as a man.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And help you as a husband.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: You showed everybody last week your national championship tattoos. What
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: do they remind you of more? Is it the wins
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: or the work it took to get there or the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: guys you won with?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, just the whole experience. You know, my journey
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: here wasn't easy. You know, freshman year, you know, they
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: all got fired, right? Coach Zook got fired. Then came
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Coach Meyer. You know, Coach Meyer, believe it or not,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: did not think I was good enough to play at Florida.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I think if there was a transfer pool back then,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I would have been pushed out to go into the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: transfer portal. So, you know, I never, you know, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: then I didn't start till my junior year. So it
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: was really just that what I've been through, the journey
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: that I had, the journey that all of us had,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: ups and downs, the good and the bad, and all
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: the hard work that it took to, you know, be
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: able to win two national championships and do something that
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: not a lot of programs and universities have been able
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: to do. And, you know, it's pretty special to me
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: to be able to do that and with all the
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: guys I played with. and all the, you know, midnight
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: massacres and the, and all the things we talked about
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: early in the program. I mean, the mat drills and
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: it just, it shows, you know, all that hard work
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: paid off. Cause if we didn't get that, you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't be on the zoom with you right now.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: So it's just, it's everything that came into play to
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: be able to do that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: All right. This is the last question. It's an important one.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I asked coach Summerall this as well, and he had
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a great answer and, It's been a lot of years.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to guess that Natty light pitchers at
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Grog will not be how you celebrate anymore. So when
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you win your first rivalry game back, uh, in orange
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and blue, what are you going to be toasting with?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't even know. I probably just smoke
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: a cigar.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Um, to be honest with you, uh, or some vodka
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: or something like that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not a big drinker.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I'll probably do a nice cigar and just sit and
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: relax and just enjoy it a little bit longer.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: All right. I love that answer. Well, Phil, I appreciate it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I know Gator fans are going to be so excited
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to hear this. Welcome back. We are so glad that
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you are back in the orange and blue where you belong.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And we're going to have to do this again soon.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: All right. Sounds good. Thank you so much for having me.