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BONUS: Kirk Ferentz On Jeremiah Smith's Dominant Day · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is the first of what are going to be
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  Speaker 1: several bonus shows that we're going to have for you today.
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  Speaker 1: Following Ohio state's 31 to 14 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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  Speaker 1: And this one, you're going to get to hear just
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  Speaker 1: a few soundbites from Iowa head coach, Kirk Ferentz, some
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  Speaker 1: of his thoughts on the game, what he saw from
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state, what that man in the white number four
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  Speaker 1: Jersey did to his team. And a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start with just some general thoughts from
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Ferentz on the game, where things went wrong for them.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, the, Just congratulate and give credit to
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State. They've got a good football team and played
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  Speaker 2: a really good game. We knew it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a challenge going in. Unfortunately, we weren't able to
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  Speaker 2: meet that challenge. If you're going to beat a team
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  Speaker 2: like that, you've got to play clean and really be
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  Speaker 2: smart in terms of that. I think if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to give yourself a chance to win, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: do that. We came up short today. Various times it
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  Speaker 2: really hurt us there. Just, you know, from where I
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  Speaker 2: was standing, two biggest things that happened early. Obviously the
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  Speaker 2: turnover early. First of all, we had a false start
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  Speaker 2: before that. I think we were second and two, second
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  Speaker 2: and three. Put ourselves in a predictable situation, then had
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  Speaker 2: the sack and fumble. So, you know, that started out,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought then at the end of the half,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're moving the ball, converted third down, they
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  Speaker 2: get called for an illegal formation. So, you know, that–
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  Speaker 2: took the first down off the board and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ended up punting. And we couldn't get a stop after that.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought those were two big plays that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just really impacted that first half. We'll never know what
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  Speaker 2: the second half would have been. But, again, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to win a game like this, you really have
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  Speaker 2: to be able to execute that way. So single those
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  Speaker 2: two things out. And I just, again, I think our effort,
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  Speaker 2: our investment was good in the game. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't match up there in the second half. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: credit to them. It hurts to lose any time you
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  Speaker 2: do anything, especially when you've got a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 2: that are invested. So I know how they're all feeling.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how it's going to be tonight, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: be that way tomorrow. And then we're going to move on.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look at the film, learn from it like we
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  Speaker 2: always do. And then it's imperative this week especially. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to move on. You've got to move on faster
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  Speaker 2: because we've got a six-day week. So that'll be the
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  Speaker 2: message tomorrow. But, you know, I'm proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good group of guys, and we're just going
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  Speaker 2: to keep pushing forward.
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  Speaker 1: After playing Iowa State, Michigan, and Ohio State now, do
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  Speaker 1: they feel like they can stack up with some of
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  Speaker 1: the best teams in the country?
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  Speaker 2: Here's all I would say. You know, I've been with
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  Speaker 2: this team since mid-January. You know, so it's almost nine months,
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  Speaker 2: nine weeks now in season, four of camp and then
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  Speaker 2: five in season. And we're still a work in progress.
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  Speaker 2: We knew that coming in. I don't think anybody would
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  Speaker 2: have predicted this before. No, probably not. Maybe they would have.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is, just like in July or June,
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  Speaker 2: we'll know more in a couple weeks here when things
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  Speaker 2: really get going. One thing I do know is in
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  Speaker 2: this conference, every game's tough. Every game's hard. Take Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: They've 17 games now. They've had two close games. I
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  Speaker 2: say close. I think one was a touchdown last year
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  Speaker 2: when they played Texas. This year was one point. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: they really haven't had a competitive game in season, regular season. So, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they're a good team, and they've been that way for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. But I would say this about our conference.
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  Speaker 2: I bet a lot of wrong predictions have already been
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  Speaker 2: made going into the week, whatever it is, three next week.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't know. You know you find out on
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  Speaker 2: the field, and it's week to week. So instead of
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  Speaker 2: worrying about all that stuff for us, I mean, our
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  Speaker 2: focus right now is simply, you know, just like I
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  Speaker 2: encourage the players back in August, this is a six-week block.
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  Speaker 2: We take it a week at a time. That means
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  Speaker 2: we've got six days left, and then we'll figure out
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  Speaker 2: all the other stuff. But the reality is, even during
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  Speaker 2: a bye week, we won't know. All we can do
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  Speaker 2: is worry about getting better, and that's our focus, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we'll stay that way.
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  Speaker 1: One week ago, of course, the Hawkeyes went into Ann
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  Speaker 1: Arbor and beat Michigan on a dramatic last-second touchdown, now
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  Speaker 1: losing to Ohio State. Now, this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: probably a little bit of an up-and-down year for them
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  Speaker 1: because they've got a relatively young team, but building a
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  Speaker 1: lot of experience, certainly week by week, how do they
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  Speaker 1: now bounce back after suffering their first loss of the season?
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  Speaker 2: Like we always do. It's just you go back to
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  Speaker 2: work and it's day by day. I'll go on a limb.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just guessing right now, but I don't know this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing the next seven teams, any one of them
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  Speaker 2: could beat us, and I'm guessing we will have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to beat them. That's all you can ask for.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a matter of going out there week
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  Speaker 2: by week and not worrying about what's out there in
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  Speaker 2: October or beyond that. I guess we are in October now,
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  Speaker 2: but you get the picture after this next game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll figure that out later on, but right now we
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  Speaker 2: just need to worry about getting ready for this next one,
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  Speaker 2: which means, again, looking at the tape, learning from it,
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  Speaker 2: and that's going to be the key part, and trying
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  Speaker 2: to do a little better in those areas where we
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  Speaker 2: didn't measure up, whether it be the run game, the penalties,
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  Speaker 2: on forced errors, that type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Jeremiah Smith has once again done it to
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  Speaker 1: an opposing team, 200 yards receiving for the second week
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Kirk Ferentz has been around the college
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  Speaker 1: game for decades at this point. He started at Iowa
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  Speaker 1: in 1999 as the head coach. So, with all the
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  Speaker 1: players he's seen over the years, how does Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: stack up?
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  Speaker 2: I think I said during the week, Barclay, Saquon Barclay
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  Speaker 2: is probably the only... There's been a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: players we've played against. So I'm probably minimizing somebody, but Barclay,
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  Speaker 2: whatever year he was out there, pretty impressive. And we
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  Speaker 2: gave him everything we had. And You know, he's still
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  Speaker 2: pretty effective in the same thing today. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got great size, great competitiveness, and just great ability for
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  Speaker 2: a receiver. So, you know, all you can do is
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  Speaker 2: do your best and try to be as smart as
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  Speaker 2: you can play on him. But he's a great player.
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  Speaker 2: And with a little bit of luck, we won't see
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  Speaker 2: him again during my career. So that'd be okay. All right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll move on. I'm sure somebody else is coming.
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  Speaker 1: All right, hope you guys enjoyed that one. We're going
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