Transcript

01/20/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the h I'm all
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Speaker 1: for someone huddling if you have something to.
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Speaker 2: Say right into It's time to wake up and talk
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Speaker 2: about the teams you love.
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Speaker 1: Nobody nobody work with the guys you love. It's just
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Speaker 1: about getting the group together.
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Speaker 2: I need you, you need me.
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Speaker 3: Today.
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Speaker 1: Let's keep touching each other. Let's make sure we feel
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Speaker 1: each other.
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Speaker 3: Let's make sure we.
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Speaker 1: Smell each other for a hour. Watch us on youtue.
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Speaker 1: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to correlate with a
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Speaker 1: number of cameras. Take the cameras off the field. Then
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Speaker 1: there'll be no huddling. Now, gather around because it's time
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Speaker 1: to huddle up.
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Speaker 2: Let's less lunch.
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Speaker 1: We tree watch six on one, Ready to be learning. Well,
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Speaker 1: if it looks like man covered, I'll check, I'll go
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Speaker 1: you order.
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Speaker 2: Get you gotta cutting crack now I'm cutting crag red
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Speaker 2: light eighteen by on one. Ready cut you look at
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Speaker 2: this play.
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Speaker 4: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 4: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 4: in the hour.
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Speaker 1: That's let's go harder to turn God, yeah, and thank you,
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Speaker 1: please be right all the way outside. Why left banks
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Speaker 1: three ninety thick bag be hent puck. Is that long
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Speaker 1: enough for you? It drewe Olds mythical legendary figure Bill Schmidt. God,
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Speaker 1: this man's been out all night and armand sorry, yes,
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Speaker 1: don't get skinned. It says, we ready. Welcome to the Huddle.
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Speaker 2: Got yourself.
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Speaker 3: Welcome, indeed to the inaugural voyage of the Huddle, coming
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Speaker 3: to you Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's early, we're here. Our show should be called
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Speaker 1: first Take, because we get the first take. It's fresh
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Speaker 1: powder for us boys. I'm Drew Wilson, joined by Billy Schmid,
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Speaker 1: armand Sari. And how do you guys do this for
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Speaker 1: so long? How do you do this morning stuff?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: My goodness? Is it always this early?
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Speaker 4: Was the first question that I got asked by a
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Speaker 4: friend of ours when he first joined us.
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Speaker 1: Drew, it is. This one's a little bit earlier than ever.
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Speaker 1: But you're right, man.
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Speaker 4: First things first, the fresh coat of snow to be
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Speaker 4: able to get out here, or you know, the first
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Speaker 4: taste of the defrost on your car over the last
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Speaker 4: couple of days, but the first look in the first
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Speaker 4: response to what was the hell the National title game yesterday?
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Speaker 4: And this incredible holiday weekend, a lot of discuss.
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Speaker 1: The sports gods knew that we were going to have
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Speaker 1: a show day.
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Speaker 3: We took the holiday off on Monday, and we were
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Speaker 3: going to come in fresh at it on Tuesday with
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Speaker 3: our new.
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Speaker 1: Venture back on in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 3: Great way to start, best way to start on nine
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Speaker 3: to twenty, ten to seventy in Madison. And of course
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Speaker 3: all the accoutremonts, the iHeartRadio app, YouTube x, Facebook, the
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Speaker 3: streaming and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: But the sports gods smiled upon us.
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Speaker 3: You had a close Bucks win, you had a thrilling
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Speaker 3: Marquette victory for armand sorry in toa baskin. We had
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Speaker 3: the National Championship game, which was absolutely epic. And then,
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Speaker 3: of course, oh, a couple of coaching moves over the
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Speaker 3: weekend while we were dark. Matt Lafleur gets an extension.
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Speaker 3: Gooty's coming back ball. They're running it back, and then
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Speaker 3: Halfley goes to Miami. We've got Robert Sala taking the
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Speaker 3: Tennessee job. Today, we've got well Harbaugh opened things up.
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Speaker 3: He opened the bidding by taking the Giant's job. So
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Speaker 3: it is a fruitful time for us. We begin, though,
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Speaker 3: where Billy and I left off before drifting in his slumberland.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't turn off that game last.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Now I've done mornings before, and truth be told, folks,
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Speaker 3: mornings is a better time to do a show than afternoons.
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Speaker 3: It's fun for the reason I said, it's fresh powder.
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Speaker 3: Nobody's like burned out on anything. You get to kind
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Speaker 3: of react to things. And this this Indiana story, the saga,
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Speaker 3: their victory, Mendoza with his Heisman esque play after he
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Speaker 3: already won the Heisman with a play for the ages.
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Speaker 1: This I was thinking about this on the drive in boys.
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Speaker 3: It's a shocking story, the turnaround, the fact that they
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Speaker 3: go sixteen to zero. In my lifetime, this is before
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Speaker 3: you your time, So come on, come on over here,
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Speaker 3: gather up, huddle up, as we say, in my lifetime.
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Speaker 1: I was trying to think of the most shocking, just.
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Speaker 3: No way sports stories, and for me, I would rank
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Speaker 3: them as the nineteen eighty United States Olympic hockey team
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Speaker 3: winning at last.
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Speaker 1: One being the Russians.
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Speaker 3: Now that was It's a different thing because that was
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Speaker 3: a two week tournament, and but it was a year long.
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Speaker 3: It was years, yes, and it built towards it, but
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Speaker 3: nobody really paid attention mounting political as well, which made
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Speaker 3: it a whole lot more question. You know that to
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Speaker 3: me will always be like the oh my god, holy cow.
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Speaker 3: If you live through that, you'll never forget that, that moment,
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Speaker 3: that team, what it meant, the the seismic kind of reverberations.
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Speaker 3: But then I thought, like the Badgers when they got
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Speaker 3: good and went to a Rose Bowl. I remember like,
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Speaker 3: oh my god, Wisconsin's going to Rose bul Wisconsin going
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Speaker 3: to Rose Bowls and Final fours was shocking for someone
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Speaker 3: who grew up when they were everybody's homecoming.
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Speaker 1: Yep, totally, they.
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Speaker 3: Were everybody's home coming to But this Indiana thing on
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Speaker 3: a national scale to do what they've done in two years,
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Speaker 3: to go sixteen to zero, to never.
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Speaker 1: Trail in the college football Playoff, and to cap.
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Speaker 3: It off last night winning at Miami in a home
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Speaker 3: stadium environment which was actually about seen by sixty forty Who's.
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Speaker 4: Yours Yeah, which was as cream and crimson as it
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Speaker 4: possibly could be, And then you put the backdrop of
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Speaker 4: it Drew on the made for TV movie that is
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Speaker 4: the leading character of this year's team of Fernando Mendoza.
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Speaker 4: Signetti gets so much of the talk but think about
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Speaker 4: it this way, and you said it right there with
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Speaker 4: the Heisman esque play a fourth and five design quarterback
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Speaker 4: run out of a timeout is hold on here one second.
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Speaker 4: Let's have our best player touch it, and nobody, everybody
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Speaker 4: just get out of his way. And the will and
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Speaker 4: the desire to not be denied, with his mom in
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Speaker 4: a wheelchair in the stands and his dad letting her
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Speaker 4: know exactly what was happening in front of his new bosses,
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Speaker 4: Arman's favorite Tom Brady looking sweet Raiders hoodie and Mark
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Speaker 4: Davis with a with a really sweet fresh haircut.
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Speaker 1: I could tell that one was that one was clean.
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Speaker 4: But to do that all and then to not allow
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Speaker 4: the eighteen ninety four Yale Bulldogs as the only team
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Speaker 4: in college football history to.
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Speaker 1: Ever go sixteen and oh Indiana does it and in.
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Speaker 4: A remarkable, remarkable fashion, we didn't win it last night
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Speaker 4: when we invoked the Ivy League team from over one
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Speaker 4: hundred years ago.
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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, my cockles, I love that. So those
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Speaker 1: Bulldogs were popping bottles the way the Dolphins do. Every
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Speaker 1: time it came in.
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Speaker 3: The regular happened like it's you're you're right, Billy, You're
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Speaker 3: one thousand percent right.
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Speaker 1: The Mendoza story.
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Speaker 3: Had he been from had he had he gone to
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Speaker 3: Clemson or something, right, but he had it had to
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Speaker 3: be in the stadium. He grew up a mile away,
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Speaker 3: his parents have roots there. His dad played with Mario Cristoba.
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Speaker 3: Like it's like, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 4: He went to the Miami football camp and basically he
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Speaker 4: got told yeah, no, thanks Bob, and then came back
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Speaker 4: Adam this year in the portal and they're like, we'll
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Speaker 4: pay four million bucks for Carson Beck, who apparently everybody
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Speaker 4: hated on the Georgia football team. And in the way
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Speaker 4: that the game was being played last night, you almost
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Speaker 4: felt like Beck was gonna be able to steal away
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Speaker 4: the movie, like he was gonna be able to steal
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Speaker 4: away the finish from the main character. And instead it
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Speaker 4: ends the right way for the team that began the
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Speaker 4: year as the losingest program in all of college football history,
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Speaker 4: it finishes it with a sixteen international title. It's wild
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Speaker 4: it also and to your point, Drew of where we
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Speaker 4: go from here with it, It's such a unique story
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Speaker 4: in a landscape of college sports that we don't know
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Speaker 4: that this would be the only time you could see
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Speaker 4: a team do this. Now, it'd be hard to find
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Speaker 4: a team that had a worse start for the one
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Speaker 4: hundred plus one hundred years of the sport than Indiana.
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Speaker 4: But people are always like, who could be the next
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Speaker 4: Indiana story? You gotta find a team that has that
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Speaker 4: much misery and pain first to be able to have
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Speaker 4: a redemption story in two years, all of a sudden
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Speaker 4: being a national title, no.
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Speaker 1: Doubt and signetti with the Google me the whole their
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Speaker 1: whole thing. Just it's just a shock to the system.
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Speaker 3: And now we've had three years in a row where
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Speaker 3: a Big ten team wins the College Football Playoff, three
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Speaker 3: different ones toofferent Big ten teams in this era of NIL,
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Speaker 3: when Alabama was just gonna be better and get all
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Speaker 3: the players, they're gonna be like the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, opposite of basketball. So maybe this is equalizing the
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Speaker 2: field the way some people thought it might go. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you probably wouldn't have any end of winning at all
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Speaker 2: and having a season or two seasons like this without
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Speaker 2: the NIL, without the portal era, even with the good coach.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it has changed a landscape in that regard.
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Speaker 4: But well, if Saban did even say you can't tell
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Speaker 4: me any different, Hu that the nil was gonna help
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Speaker 4: the Big ten teams more than the SEC teams because
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Speaker 4: you've got to pay people from the South to go
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Speaker 4: up to the North. If it wasn't for money, there
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Speaker 4: was no way they were getting these big defensive linemen
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Speaker 4: to go up north.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good logic there, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: So we watch your thoughts, share them with us. Eight
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Speaker 3: seven seven nine four ninety seven three. We'll find out
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Speaker 3: who our early risers are and a bunch. Ye's so
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Speaker 3: good to be back on the.
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Speaker 1: Air in Milwaukee. It means a lot to us because
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Speaker 1: we were We.
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Speaker 3: Put the Game Network the artist formally known as the
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Speaker 3: Game Network to bed on Friday, and that was that
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Speaker 3: closed the chapter.
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Speaker 1: And now this is a new chapter. We're kind of
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Speaker 1: back where we started.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, on the Big nine twenty on AM in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 3: slugging it out with this little show, trying to bang
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Speaker 3: pots and pans together to get people to pay attention
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Speaker 3: to us.
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Speaker 1: Arman went through all those clips and found all those
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Speaker 1: Huddle clips for us.
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Speaker 3: The show is called the Huddle because we didn't want
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Speaker 3: to put our names on it, because we know that
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Speaker 3: we're disposable and some other donkeys in here. We've learned
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Speaker 3: our lessons, so we don't have our names on the
9:42
Speaker 3: show anymore because then you.
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Speaker 1: Know, just then they don't have to say, Hey, where's Billy,
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Speaker 1: where's Army. It's like, no, we're huddling up, huddling up.
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Speaker 4: We're huddling up today and Drew, the way you said
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Speaker 4: it is sublime because it means so much to us
9:55
Speaker 4: as a bunch of Milwaukee dudes to be back on
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Speaker 4: in Milwaukee. It's been awesome to be able to service
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Speaker 4: our li listeners and friends in Madison and to have
10:02
Speaker 4: them be along with us as well to bridge the
10:05
Speaker 4: sports gap in the state of Wisconsin. Man, a show
10:08
Speaker 4: is a show whenever it ends up being, but for
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Speaker 4: it to have a home on the dial, it still
10:16
Speaker 4: means something, and it means a lot to us. And
10:18
Speaker 4: it's good to be able to still to be back
10:20
Speaker 4: have that landing spot, but also good to be able
10:23
Speaker 4: to have something because there was a lot of reaction,
10:26
Speaker 4: and it's also awesome to be able to walk in
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Speaker 4: and for the first ten minutes us not feel like
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Speaker 4: it's strange because we've been doing a show for a
10:32
Speaker 4: number of years already.
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Speaker 1: On Packers o tea.
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Speaker 4: For us to roll this in daily, and on top
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Speaker 4: of all of this, to have a bunch of packers
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Speaker 4: conversation to start out with. It makes it a lot
10:43
Speaker 4: easier to get into a new venture into the offseason. However,
10:48
Speaker 4: for it to be this exciting, it's always going to
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Speaker 4: have us fired up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the names of this, the names are the same.
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Speaker 1: We just moved next door a little bit to our
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Speaker 1: old house. That's okay too.
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Speaker 2: We're all in the same neighborhood. We're all on the
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Speaker 2: same block and it's all the same people. So it's
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Speaker 2: just the it's just the walls that have changed. Really,
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Speaker 2: that's all that really matters.
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Speaker 1: It is very true. It's great to be on here
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Speaker 1: with you guys as well. It's like when you move from.
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Speaker 4: Well Armand was Armand was the ra so he didn't
11:09
Speaker 4: move into one of those college houses. But like when
11:10
Speaker 4: all your money are thinking about where we're going to
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Speaker 4: move next year on the same street before they even
11:18
Speaker 4: have moved into that house. Well, we got our junior
11:21
Speaker 4: year house. We should probably start looking for rent for
11:23
Speaker 4: senior year.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 3: But this is almost because we've worked together so long.
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Speaker 3: It's almost like when you get that corps of freshman
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Speaker 3: arm and coming into the floor, and then they all
11:32
Speaker 3: come back for the sophomore year and they're all like
11:34
Speaker 3: they know each other exactly, just like it's a like
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Speaker 3: putting on old hoodie or something.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's exactly very comfortable. That's exactly what it is, guys.
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Speaker 1: So what it's been. It's it's been quite a ride,
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Speaker 1: but it's great to continue this voyage with both of
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Speaker 1: you exact and and to be up. But it's okay.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're getting Drew, you were up early this
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Speaker 2: morning when a few years ago when we first started
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Speaker 2: the other venture and Billy and I have been doing
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Speaker 2: this uh this early, so it's not that bad.
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Speaker 1: A lot of less traffic we're up.
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Speaker 2: You know, you feel more accomplished being up in front
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Speaker 2: off when everybody.
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Speaker 1: Wakes up to you. You know, you feel like you
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Speaker 1: actually did something well.
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Speaker 4: They say the early bird gets the worm, the worm
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Speaker 4: ends up being the great And as Drew would always say,
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Speaker 4: smart and good looking listeners. Now listen, We're not going
12:14
Speaker 4: to judge anybody if you don't think you're all that
12:16
Speaker 4: good looking at five am. But once we start getting
12:18
Speaker 4: into the third hour at seven am. We know we're
12:21
Speaker 4: all going to be dashing in impressive, but to be
12:23
Speaker 4: able to I also have the cheat code now, and
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Speaker 4: this is a little unfair part.
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Speaker 1: I get the natural alarm clock. Like today when the alarm.
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Speaker 4: Was supposed to be set for about three thirty five
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Speaker 4: and at three twenty five, I had the nine month
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Speaker 4: old just smack me in the mouth and say.
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Speaker 1: That you're supposed to be up. So I did.
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Speaker 4: At least I've been used to it now. It's just
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Speaker 4: the initiative of hey, why don't you move? You're you're
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Speaker 4: kind of in my seat. That's great, you're kind in
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Speaker 4: my spot.
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Speaker 2: Getting you up, getting you up early is pretty nice
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Speaker 2: because he's you know, he's a listener too.
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Speaker 1: He wants to make sure you're good to go for
12:54
Speaker 1: the show.
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Speaker 2: I mean he's like, hey, come on, get going here,
12:57
Speaker 2: I gotta show the listen sick and tired of miss
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Speaker 2: Rachel reround, all right, let's get me something new, give
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Speaker 2: me something live.
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Speaker 3: Enough of that we want to hear from you, smart,
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Speaker 3: good looking listeners eight seven seven seven nine four three
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Speaker 3: question A halfway and I know it's it's early if
13:10
Speaker 3: you got to go get your uh your cup of
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Speaker 3: Joe without the pros or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Sorry about those, Sorry about that, boy, Yeah, it sucks
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Speaker 1: to sucks. Sorry, sorry about that. Boys.
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Speaker 3: If they're any angry fans, If there are any angry
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Speaker 3: fans of two pros and a cup of Joe, We're sorry.
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Speaker 4: But hey, yeah sorry, not sorry. And there's a lot
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Speaker 4: more area to be able to find. But I also
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Speaker 4: love Drew. It is the same nicolay lot dot com
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Speaker 4: talking text right, it is still a seven seven three
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Speaker 1: Hit us up.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, Tommy and Stallas. He's up with us. He's asking
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Speaker 3: if it's the same number. Sure it is, absolutely it is.
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Speaker 3: Now the question is where does this rank for you
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Speaker 3: in terms of shocking stunning. I can't believe I just
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Speaker 3: saw that stories because there was a moment last night
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Speaker 3: when Carson Beck had the ball and uh Signetty went
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Speaker 3: for the field goal.
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Speaker 1: Now I had I was.
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Speaker 3: Most of my friends know that I have to sleep
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Speaker 3: earlier now and there, but they were texting me ended
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Speaker 3: the game.
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Speaker 1: They knew I was up. How could you resist that game?
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Speaker 1: He grew correct? Yes, last night texts and my pal
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Speaker 1: Johnny Vegas who had Indiana and the over is like, why.
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Speaker 3: Does he go for everything else and then pucker and
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Speaker 3: kick a field goal when he could have gone for
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Speaker 3: a touchdown and put the game away. And he didn't
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Speaker 3: like the conservative kind of like he didn't like the
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Speaker 3: handoff on third down, he didn't like the.
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Speaker 1: Last field goal.
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Speaker 3: He was pissed about that because he had a financial
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Speaker 3: stake in the proceedings, right, And it reminded me of
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Speaker 3: what people say about Matt Lafleur, who we're going to
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Speaker 3: talk about at length later in the program, but.
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Speaker 1: That he's like, why did they do that?
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Speaker 3: Why?
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: He was just lamenting the fact.
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Speaker 3: And then but after that, there was a moment when
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Speaker 3: you thought, on Miami could pull this off and Carson
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Speaker 3: Beck could be the story today.
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Speaker 4: He was.
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Speaker 1: He had a chance to do it. He had a chance.
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Speaker 3: And my pall of mine, Andy and West Bend texted
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Speaker 3: me and said, fifteen and zero winning for fifty nine minutes.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine losing this game? Well, that'd be pretty rough.
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Speaker 4: It'd be like say Toronto Blue Chase would think that
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Speaker 4: you blew it and had a heartbreaking end to a
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Speaker 4: seat to a champions.
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Speaker 3: In incredible and I thought Carson and then Carson back
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Speaker 3: threw the pick, and Billy and I talked about it
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Speaker 3: right before the show. Our pre show meeting was thirty
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Speaker 3: seconds of us passing each other. It's pretty hilarating. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's probably the best meeting we've ever had. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we got an email, but then email. Signetti's defensive time
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Speaker 3: out is right up there with the fourth and five
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Speaker 3: draw quarterback draw of a great coaching move, and that's
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Speaker 3: the one that coaches are gonna be like, Oh, he's
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Speaker 3: the dude. He took a time out, is his defense
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Speaker 3: is disheveled, They're they're buckling a little bit. Miami's gone
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Speaker 3: and moved the ball in the second half like defense
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Speaker 3: dominated the first half.
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Speaker 1: Miami's moving the ball almost at will.
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Speaker 3: They got a guy that nobody can stop, and it's like, oh, man,
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Speaker 3: Miami could pull this off, and this would be like
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Speaker 3: the flip of this because.
15:49
Speaker 1: Nobody really was invested in Miami unless you're a bella Danger.
15:53
Speaker 4: Yeah that well, no or Saban and the great clip
15:57
Speaker 4: of him putting a hat on for League Corso or
16:00
Speaker 4: everybody that just realized the Bell of Danger was jeering
16:02
Speaker 4: for Miami.
16:03
Speaker 1: So they're like, sweet, I'm with the Gaines. You could
16:06
Speaker 1: tell that it was.
16:08
Speaker 4: It was shifting and similar to the Packers game, I
16:12
Speaker 4: think the second time more than the third game against
16:15
Speaker 4: the Bears, the first of the two collapses down in
16:18
Speaker 4: Chicago after the on side kick Drew.
16:21
Speaker 1: I struggle a lot.
16:23
Speaker 4: Of times to put a lot of things on coaches,
16:26
Speaker 4: but that is one time in particular, with multiple timeouts.
16:29
Speaker 4: Packers at three timeouts, if you remember correctly, on that
16:32
Speaker 4: final drive where it's sixteen sixteen or at sixteen nine,
16:36
Speaker 4: everything's still in front of you.
16:37
Speaker 1: There were multiple third downs.
16:38
Speaker 4: There's a fourth down there as well, where you can
16:41
Speaker 4: call a timeout one get your pass rushers a little
16:44
Speaker 4: bit of a blow, and I thought that was a
16:45
Speaker 4: part of it for Signetti.
16:47
Speaker 1: But man, we are, as you said, disheveled.
16:48
Speaker 4: We got this Malachi Tony who looks like the closest
16:51
Speaker 4: thing to Tyreek Hill that I've ever seen, and he's
16:54
Speaker 4: got the Braylan Allen treatment of he's supposed to be
16:56
Speaker 4: in high school. Still, you have all of this flowing again,
17:00
Speaker 4: and we're not gonna let this miracle run end because
17:04
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a time out with me into the offseason.
17:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's calm this thing down.
17:08
Speaker 4: And immediately right after it's covered two in my man
17:12
Speaker 4: drifts and I don't know if that was an adjustment
17:14
Speaker 4: in the huddle, but you.
17:15
Speaker 1: Know, Lare will say it was.
17:17
Speaker 4: And they told his DB's coach said, hey, we're in
17:20
Speaker 4: cover two, but drift back if you don't have a
17:22
Speaker 4: flat responsibility and the ball goes right to you and
17:24
Speaker 4: his Uh, that picture is gonna be living lore there
17:26
Speaker 4: in Bloomington forever.
17:27
Speaker 1: Well, and you said it, Billy, Laura Will say it was.
17:29
Speaker 2: This is the type of game guys will be talking
17:31
Speaker 2: about in the exaggerating stories on podcasts in twenty five
17:34
Speaker 2: thirty years. You know, I mean no question, this is
17:36
Speaker 2: the one, so pretty pretty amazing we see And I
17:40
Speaker 2: don't know how you guys feel about this one.
17:42
Speaker 4: You mentioned who who was invested in the Canes. Now,
17:44
Speaker 4: sadly this idiot wash and you could see now luckily
17:48
Speaker 4: caught eight and a half. I was gonna say, you cash,
17:51
Speaker 4: so that worked out well. But in the midst of it,
17:54
Speaker 4: we did kind of get robbed of what the content
17:57
Speaker 4: with the little mic energy yeah from Michael Irvin would
18:01
Speaker 4: have been.
18:01
Speaker 1: That would have been it the end of the the
18:03
Speaker 1: end of his documentary or whatever he's filmed, might have been.
18:05
Speaker 4: The end of Michael Irvin would have been when I
18:07
Speaker 4: was watching him on the sideline, might have been the
18:09
Speaker 4: end of Michael Irvin.
18:10
Speaker 1: I hope it wouldn't have been.
18:11
Speaker 4: But he was an electric factory in this playoff run,
18:14
Speaker 4: and we did get kind of stolen from that that concert.
18:17
Speaker 1: We're going to dive into that later too.
18:18
Speaker 3: It's like, where do we stand on like former players
18:21
Speaker 3: being coaches on the sidelines based what do we do.
18:24
Speaker 1: Coaches in street closed? He has a role. I believe
18:28
Speaker 1: his role is vibes guy. Wait, which again good John l.
18:33
Speaker 3: And the boosters who remember, like the guys with the
18:36
Speaker 3: old money guys they said it was the seventy year
18:39
Speaker 3: old guys with the twenty year old girlfriends in Miami,
18:41
Speaker 3: like the peel Off the cash and Miami Vice.
18:44
Speaker 1: The real guys.
18:46
Speaker 4: You don't necessarily, yeah, you don't necessarily those guys. Shout
18:51
Speaker 4: out to Clinton Ports for wearing the I'm a Cane shirt.
18:54
Speaker 4: I don't know if you noticed that he was rocking
18:57
Speaker 4: on the tall on the telecast, like thirty minutes before
18:59
Speaker 4: the game. The sweatshirt that my man is always selling
19:03
Speaker 4: outside of every event, the b I'm a packer, you know.
19:07
Speaker 1: The ones that are on the pop up It's right
19:09
Speaker 1: on the front.
19:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a Caine, right on the back, and like
19:12
Speaker 4: Glynn bord Is, way to go buy that twelve dollars.
19:15
Speaker 1: You got your gear. You guys are talking about gear.
19:18
Speaker 2: You found the guy on the corner with the pop
19:20
Speaker 2: up shirt with the shirts that are obviously legit.
19:22
Speaker 1: Right, wait a second, I meet that one exactly. Do
19:24
Speaker 1: we have Ed Reid and ray Lewis sightings and all
19:26
Speaker 1: the like? Oh, they were all over the place. They said.
19:28
Speaker 4: It was also difficult for the Hurricanes because all the
19:31
Speaker 4: former players thought, it's the home game, why can't I
19:34
Speaker 4: be on the sideline? Well, it's actually the national Championship,
19:37
Speaker 4: so there's a little bit more restriction than if we
19:39
Speaker 4: were playing.
19:40
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna laugh at me too really quick. Though.
19:43
Speaker 1: My cousin is an alum and I I you a lump.
19:45
Speaker 2: So she was at Assembly Hall last night They're having
19:47
Speaker 2: a watch party, and I wasn't even full. I'm still
19:50
Speaker 2: convinced that they don't know what to do with themselves
19:52
Speaker 2: with a football national CHAMPIONSIP Indiana. When it's not basketball
19:55
Speaker 2: like it was basketball, I know it would just be
19:57
Speaker 2: next level. I'm sure it's cold last night and there
19:59
Speaker 2: still looks like I did that. They had fireworks going
20:01
Speaker 2: off on the streets in Bloomington, but they wasn't even full.
20:04
Speaker 4: They were camping out to get into the bars at
20:07
Speaker 4: like eight in the morning. They're all having fun. We
20:10
Speaker 4: need to go to the official the r A wants
20:12
Speaker 4: to go.
20:14
Speaker 1: Section Repezza. They're not extra credit, they're not a nerd
20:19
Speaker 1: like me going to the watch party of this day.
20:21
Speaker 1: Now we're going to the bar, going to the bar.
20:23
Speaker 1: This is the official campus events. Let's go.
20:25
Speaker 3: We are off and running. Thank you for suddling up
20:28
Speaker 3: with us early early this morning. We're doing this from five.
20:31
Speaker 1: To eight every day.
20:31
Speaker 3: I don't know that we're always gonna have this much
20:33
Speaker 3: ground to cover because it was a great game last night.
20:35
Speaker 1: So question out of the out of the shoot is
20:38
Speaker 1: where does this rank for you, Like, what is the
20:39
Speaker 1: most stunning sports story of your lifetime?
20:41
Speaker 3: Because this is up there, this is up there for
20:43
Speaker 3: everybody for this turnaround and for them to do what
20:46
Speaker 3: they've done in two years, going from everybody's homecoming date
20:49
Speaker 3: to National Championship is something that we haven't seen and
20:52
Speaker 3: it is stunning.
20:53
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about this.
20:54
Speaker 3: We got plenty to unpacked with the Packers decision that
20:57
Speaker 3: did not happen on our time, but we're happy to
20:59
Speaker 3: talk about it today. Will react to Matt Lafleur and
21:02
Speaker 3: Jeff Hafley. They need a new defensive coordinator in Green Bay.
21:05
Speaker 3: Will react to the reaction of Little.
21:08
Speaker 1: Flower News, which I think is also interesting.
21:10
Speaker 4: That was the hot part, and I got a couple
21:12
Speaker 4: of names. I got a couple of subs already in
21:14
Speaker 4: for Jeff Hafley. My number one candidate is still on
21:16
Speaker 4: the board, but sadly everybody likes them.
21:19
Speaker 1: We will discuss as we move ahead. Thanks for hanging
21:23
Speaker 1: out with us. You're in the huddle. We are huddling
21:54
Speaker 1: up on a Tuesday, the good last.
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Speaker 3: Armand sorry and bringing it to you from headquarters eight
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Speaker 3: seven seven seven nine four one to ninety seven three.
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Speaker 1: Nicolay loa dot com talk and.
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Speaker 3: Text line Indiana, caps off what I think is one
22:07
Speaker 3: of the great stories in sports history, and I don't
22:10
Speaker 3: say that lately.
22:11
Speaker 4: No and Drew with one of the best games that
22:15
Speaker 4: we've seen in the national title in a couple of years, right.
22:18
Speaker 4: I do remember the TCU result with Georgia a couple
22:23
Speaker 4: of years ago, and it felt like it was gonna
22:24
Speaker 4: trend that way. I mean, Indiana had run away with
22:27
Speaker 4: every single game you mentioned. They never trailed in the playoff,
22:30
Speaker 4: trailed in the playoffs.
22:31
Speaker 1: They beat the.
22:32
Speaker 4: Breaks off of the Crimson Tide, which many people would
22:35
Speaker 4: have rubbed their eyes and said.
22:37
Speaker 1: Wait a seconds at five to twenty eight in the morning,
22:38
Speaker 1: how on earth are I see?
22:39
Speaker 4: And Indiana beat them into football just went from play
22:44
Speaker 4: one to play seventy five belt to ass against Oregon
22:49
Speaker 4: fifty six nothing or fifty six to twenty something like
22:51
Speaker 4: that with a pick six on the first play. And
22:54
Speaker 4: then last night without the Canes and without this Malachi
22:57
Speaker 4: Tony guy, who you're gonna have to lose a lot
22:59
Speaker 4: of games in two years to be able to draft him.
23:02
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose a lot of games now.
23:04
Speaker 4: Luckily, the Packers will finally have a first round pick
23:06
Speaker 4: when Malachi Tony becomes available in the draft. However, I
23:09
Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna be picking high enough to take
23:12
Speaker 4: that dude. He was an absolutely electric factory last night, you.
23:15
Speaker 3: Would hope not yeah, eight seven, seven, seven, nine four
23:18
Speaker 3: one ninety seven three. The two questions there is like,
23:20
Speaker 3: where does this rank for you in terms of just stunning,
23:22
Speaker 3: Like I can't believe I saw that, I'm watching this,
23:24
Speaker 3: and like, I know Nebraska could win the men's basketball
23:28
Speaker 3: title and that would be completely like freaky Friday upside down,
23:32
Speaker 3: topsy turvy. What is going on in this world that
23:35
Speaker 3: Nebraska's a basketball school in Indiana's a football school. But
23:37
Speaker 3: that's where we are, and you process that. And then
23:40
Speaker 3: the other question is, and I heard it from us
23:43
Speaker 3: on socialists everywhere, can we envision can we allow ourselves
23:46
Speaker 3: to dream about the Badger's doing something like this? Now,
23:49
Speaker 3: the Badgers isn't going to be a shocking because they've
23:50
Speaker 3: been a going concern for most of the last thirty years.
23:53
Speaker 1: They've been in a good program.
23:54
Speaker 3: That no one it's not a reach for them. I'll
23:57
Speaker 3: billy hit a button's about to go off. It's not
24:00
Speaker 3: reach for people to say, you know, at least you
24:03
Speaker 3: know prior to the last three years or four years
24:05
Speaker 3: for people to say, oh, Wisconsin should be in that mixer. Oh,
24:08
Speaker 3: it's not a shock because Wisconsin's been well, a thriving program.
24:12
Speaker 1: For much of the last generation.
24:13
Speaker 2: I think that's what's been so shocking about Indiana is
24:15
Speaker 2: they haven't been like approaching that level. They haven't been
24:18
Speaker 2: on the cusp of greatness. Whether you've seen this in
24:20
Speaker 2: so many sports, right, guys, that teams that are on
24:23
Speaker 2: the cusp of it, that are right there, and that
24:25
Speaker 2: it can't take the next step, that's where the level
24:27
Speaker 2: of frustration gets to. That's where they start talking about, well,
24:30
Speaker 2: we're not doing enough to take the next step, and
24:31
Speaker 2: we have to fire this coach. And that's where the
24:34
Speaker 2: frustration gets to when you get close to that purgatory
24:36
Speaker 2: and don't take the next step.
24:37
Speaker 1: Indiana had been nowhere, uh nowhere in that kind of
24:41
Speaker 1: realm at all. You know.
24:42
Speaker 2: I kind of think of the year Villain Obibie Georgetown
24:44
Speaker 2: and basketball is at eighty five, when there was kind
24:46
Speaker 2: of a shocking up set eight to one, but they
24:48
Speaker 2: were still a decent program the whole time.
24:50
Speaker 1: It wasn't like, yeah, the Big East. Yeah.
24:53
Speaker 2: The one thing is that this is gonna get, guys,
24:55
Speaker 2: I think, is it's gonna get every fan base, every college,
24:59
Speaker 2: you know, directors, every alumni group saying Why can't we
25:03
Speaker 2: be them? Why can't we be like Joe down the street.
25:05
Speaker 2: And we've talked about this a lot. Now somebody like
25:08
Speaker 2: this comes out when they get signetty, they get the
25:10
Speaker 2: nil money, they turn the whole ship around.
25:13
Speaker 1: Now everyone's gonna say, see, they did it, we should
25:16
Speaker 1: be able to do it too. Because Mark Cuban didn't
25:17
Speaker 1: go to your business school.
25:18
Speaker 4: I mean, like, as bad as it sounds and as
25:21
Speaker 4: simplistic as it might be, I think that's the part
25:24
Speaker 4: of the college landscape that that is so clear.
25:27
Speaker 1: And I don't know, Drew, maybe I'm being too naive
25:30
Speaker 1: to this.
25:31
Speaker 4: Does this happen if Mark Cuban doesn't sell the maps
25:36
Speaker 4: like that, He's this invested, has this much disposable income
25:39
Speaker 4: after he sells that money. Uh, that's a good point
25:42
Speaker 4: to take himself off of the ownership group, off the sidelines.
25:45
Speaker 4: Remember they said, hey, you can still run basketball operations,
25:48
Speaker 4: and then like six months later they said, that's cute.
25:50
Speaker 4: We just gave you two billion dollars. We're gonna run
25:53
Speaker 4: this now. Uh. And he's sitting here palms up now
25:56
Speaker 4: on the sidelines last night being able to enjoy it.
25:58
Speaker 4: I would say the one that is, it's a slower
26:01
Speaker 4: build to the victory. Like Harmon said, there were many
26:05
Speaker 4: moments where I thought an NBA title in Milwaukee was
26:09
Speaker 4: the furthest thing from a reality or a even possibility.
26:13
Speaker 4: Exams and I very much remember a sinking moment in
26:16
Speaker 4: a hotel room somewhere in northern suburbs of Illinois for
26:21
Speaker 4: a wedding with my now wife, but I was there
26:24
Speaker 4: with her family meeting them for the first time. Big
26:27
Speaker 4: moment after the Bucks lost in Game six of the
26:29
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen Eastern Conference Finals, legit leaving the gathering for
26:34
Speaker 4: a good thirty forty maybe upwards of an hour, saying, damn,
26:37
Speaker 4: there's no way they're ever going to win this thing.
26:39
Speaker 4: There's no way they can ever win this thing. And
26:41
Speaker 4: then two years later they end up poisting the trophy.
26:45
Speaker 4: But if you would have told me during the Herb
26:46
Speaker 4: Coal Bucks and the Bucks that I was lucky enough
26:49
Speaker 4: to see in the high school years and winning fifteen games,
26:51
Speaker 4: there's no chance you.
26:52
Speaker 1: Were winning, that's an amazing example.
26:54
Speaker 2: I think when the Rams also won the Super Bowl
26:56
Speaker 2: ninety nine, that dig for meal Rams.
26:58
Speaker 1: The Rams had been kind of a laugh stock of
27:00
Speaker 1: the NFL.
27:01
Speaker 4: For a while.
27:02
Speaker 2: Then you know, was it Mark Boulger who got hurt
27:05
Speaker 2: and then and then Kurt Warner took the Warner Yeah,
27:07
Speaker 2: and that was kind of that was Trent Green my bad,
27:09
Speaker 2: not Mark Boulder.
27:10
Speaker 1: Trent Green.
27:11
Speaker 2: And that was kind of a shocking one too, because
27:12
Speaker 2: they had made some improvement, some strides, but this was
27:15
Speaker 2: a bad, kind of a bad franchise that lost their
27:18
Speaker 2: starting quarterback in the preseason and all of a sudden,
27:20
Speaker 2: this backup takes them all the way to be the
27:22
Speaker 2: best team in football eventually whin the Super Bowl. That's
27:23
Speaker 2: pretty shocking as well. Tony Dundree had Dungee had a
27:26
Speaker 2: similar turnaround in Tampa where you know, this was a
27:30
Speaker 2: pretty bad franchise, they started winning, they eventually turned it around.
27:33
Speaker 2: You know, not everything's the same, but this is similar,
27:36
Speaker 2: similar examples in the league that has a lot of
27:38
Speaker 2: parody of the NFL.
27:39
Speaker 4: Well, and I know that they feel themselves a lot
27:40
Speaker 4: now because they were just fifteen and two in the
27:43
Speaker 4: number one seed in the NFC and they had a
27:45
Speaker 4: seventeen point lead in the NFC title game a couple
27:48
Speaker 4: of years ago. But the Detroit Lions winning a championship,
27:51
Speaker 4: winning a Super Bowl that that would be in the
27:53
Speaker 4: conversation of things that you just can't see.
27:55
Speaker 1: But that's in a field with thirty two teams in
27:58
Speaker 1: a salary cap.
28:00
Speaker 4: This is now no salary cap college sports where you
28:03
Speaker 4: can be able to bid through. But it's not like
28:07
Speaker 4: Indiana was the Texas Tech that everybody was hearing about
28:10
Speaker 4: throughout the year, spending thirty to forty million bucks.
28:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. They're very, very well funded.
28:15
Speaker 4: They got a bunch of cash, but they were doing
28:16
Speaker 4: it with development and smart identifying it.
28:19
Speaker 3: Turnkey because they went and got a guy who wasn't
28:22
Speaker 3: a head coach till he was fifty.
28:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point.
28:24
Speaker 3: And they went and got this guy who's you know,
28:26
Speaker 3: it's the lineage, his father and all that stuff. But
28:28
Speaker 3: then they go get that guy and he brings so
28:31
Speaker 3: many guys with him that he it was a plug
28:33
Speaker 3: and play type thing. I don't know you can ever
28:35
Speaker 3: see that inside straight again of a coach with all
28:37
Speaker 3: those players coming over and like the culture was already developed,
28:42
Speaker 3: like they had already had it, you know, and so
28:45
Speaker 3: many he can see it, and so many of his
28:47
Speaker 3: coaches have been with him at every step.
28:49
Speaker 4: Yes, much like somebody who was in the in the conversation,
28:53
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily know that he was in the running
28:55
Speaker 4: because I don't know that he was leaving at the time.
28:56
Speaker 4: But Lance Leipold's name was hot when the Wisconsin job
29:00
Speaker 4: comes available and Luke Fickle ends up getting it. What
29:03
Speaker 4: Lance had as his secret weapon for a long time
29:06
Speaker 4: were the same coaches that were at Wisconsin Whitewater with them,
29:09
Speaker 4: that rolled the Buffalo with them, that then rolled to
29:11
Speaker 4: Kansas with them.
29:13
Speaker 1: But then Colton Nicky goes to Penn State and they're
29:15
Speaker 1: mid in the big Big twelve.
29:17
Speaker 4: That kind of consistency is difficult to keep year in
29:21
Speaker 4: and year out. Now they were able to do it
29:23
Speaker 4: again this year, and they retain their entire staff. I
29:26
Speaker 4: would imagine sooner rather than later, it will shift at
29:29
Speaker 4: that point and you got to start funneling more guys in.
29:32
Speaker 4: But as much as the players and the coaches, you're right, Drew.
29:35
Speaker 4: It was a built operation that they were able to
29:38
Speaker 4: pluck and move. And you're seeing other teams try to
29:41
Speaker 4: do it, like Oklahoma brought the quarterback and offensive coordinator
29:46
Speaker 4: from Washington State to Oklahoma this year, and I mean,
29:51
Speaker 4: I'm watching Charlie Becker throughout this playoffs, and if the
29:54
Speaker 4: Las Vegas Raiders are anything worth their assaulting their decision
29:58
Speaker 4: making process, you figure out a to draft that cat
30:00
Speaker 4: as well. I'm taking Mendoza one and I'm finding out
30:04
Speaker 4: a way to be able to make sure that i
30:05
Speaker 4: have Beck around my team.
30:06
Speaker 1: If that's a second round pick, a third round pick, a.
30:09
Speaker 4: Seventh whatever, I'm getting that guy because they got a
30:11
Speaker 4: crazy connection role.
30:12
Speaker 3: So Signetty had the culture, he had the continuity of
30:16
Speaker 3: the bringing everybody over, and then they were able to
30:18
Speaker 3: identify in a Mendoza and they were able to they
30:20
Speaker 3: were able to pick some guys, and then they got
30:22
Speaker 3: a couple of gifts like the center Coogan, Right, Yeah,
30:25
Speaker 3: that's a gift, like I like what you guys are doing.
30:28
Speaker 1: I'm coming here. Yeah.
30:30
Speaker 3: So the planets aligned for them and that's what makes
30:33
Speaker 3: the story so incredible, all us to come together.
30:35
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:35
Speaker 1: So u arman, what are the Texters saying?
30:37
Speaker 3: Give us a give us a sample of what the
30:39
Speaker 3: people are saying on our first show here in the huddle.
30:42
Speaker 4: Uh.
30:42
Speaker 3: If you text us, you're in the huddle. If you
30:43
Speaker 3: call us eight seven seven seven nine seven three, you
30:46
Speaker 3: are then with us in the huddle. Yeah, the whole
30:49
Speaker 3: idea of the show.
30:50
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, guys, a lot of great reaction
30:52
Speaker 2: to us being on the air, obviously, and I'm popping
30:55
Speaker 2: these in if you're watching us on the stream. We're
30:56
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31:00
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31:02
Speaker 1: You'll be able to see these throughout the Whisko Fun morning. Guys.
31:05
Speaker 2: Can't wait for the new beginning, time for Wisconsin to
31:08
Speaker 2: hop on this trend of Midwest teams winning the Natty.
31:10
Speaker 1: It's a good one from CJ. I like that as
31:13
Speaker 1: well in terms of the question to what you were
31:15
Speaker 1: saying Justin and Jacksonville. So the closest thing that I
31:17
Speaker 1: you in the NFL would be Cleveland if they somehow
31:19
Speaker 1: figured it out, what of say that would be?
31:21
Speaker 3: It would I was also kind of flashing back to
31:23
Speaker 3: the Cubs winning a World Series, which we didn't think
31:25
Speaker 3: would happened, or the Red Sox breaking the curse back
31:28
Speaker 3: in the day.
31:29
Speaker 1: But those were builds. Those were there.
31:31
Speaker 4: Wasn't like it turn you know, turn on a dime
31:34
Speaker 4: like Yeah, and and now with the with with the
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Speaker 4: Any market that's not Los Angeles or.
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Speaker 1: New York is gonna feel like it is becoming that do.
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Speaker 3: We not live in a world where the Oklahoma City
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Speaker 3: Thunder our reigning champions and the dominant force on the
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Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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Speaker 2: That would have thought there ever be a pro championship
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Speaker 2: parade in Oklahoma City? You know, one of the great
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Speaker 2: That's fine, Yeah, that's.
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Speaker 1: Fine, right. And just because you have us in the
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Speaker 1: I like this one from Tony and No Creek as well.
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Speaker 4: Drew Boys talking about a guy that goes for everything
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Speaker 4: but when he should have gone for the wind kind
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Speaker 4: of chickened out Ben Johnson and the Bears. That was
32:42
Speaker 4: I was getting that feeling from the signetti train, because
32:45
Speaker 4: as much as I enjoyed the day off yesterday and
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Speaker 4: was observed and thanked and remembered doctor Martin Luther King,
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Speaker 4: I also did quite a bit of hate listening to
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Speaker 4: our friends from the South, and there were a lot
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Speaker 4: of people upset with Ben Johnson designed to be a
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Speaker 4: little bit different than he's been all year long once
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Speaker 4: they got into the biggest game and trying to go
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Speaker 4: for fourth down and fourth down and fourth downd and saying, man,
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Speaker 4: maybe if you just decide one time to take the
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Speaker 4: points and pull a signetti.
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Speaker 1: We're still playing and we're in the NFC title game.
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Speaker 3: feasting on the buffalo. That is the National Chapter WHI game.
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Speaker 3: Where does this rank in terms of shocking? I can't
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Speaker 3: believe I just saw that sports story. It's up there
33:37
Speaker 3: for me and what what does it look like? What
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Speaker 3: what has to happen for Wisconsin to enter and have
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Speaker 3: a party like that?
33:43
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you this, Colton Joseph is the savior
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Speaker 4: that has been promised.
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Speaker 1: And my man rolls in here from old Dominion.
33:52
Speaker 4: It just starts making memory Lane at Camp Randall Stadium
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Speaker 4: and is just running wild and over that. What feels
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Speaker 4: like a fifty place Big ten his first year or
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Speaker 4: his second year as Patriss quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Does it have to be a build? We have to
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Speaker 1: have a we have to have a an apprentice year
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Speaker 1: like did like, Well, you don't have to go to class,
34:09
Speaker 1: just ask Carson Beck. Doesn't matter what you do. Now,
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Speaker 1: we don't believe in that. In the w were all athletes.
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Speaker 1: I already got my degree. I'm twenty five. What are
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Speaker 1: you talking about?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 1: The people really quick, the people parl clutching about that.
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Speaker 2: I will to remember when Matt Ladder only had ballroom
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Speaker 2: dancing as his only three credits last year.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not that different from what it used
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Speaker 1: to be now.
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Speaker 4: Granted it it was Carroll University and Division three and
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Speaker 4: now much like D three's Finest Things, you take it
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Speaker 4: made for TV movie that that was, which went straight
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Speaker 4: to Netflix. Uh, we had a we had a sixty
34:38
Speaker 4: year punter that I believe only had pottery class. Yeah,
34:41
Speaker 4: pottery only had pottery tough, but that's tough. You got
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Speaker 4: the kill and you got everything going on again. Though
34:47
Speaker 4: he was also in a uh second victory lap, so
34:51
Speaker 4: I don't know how many victories that is.
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Speaker 2: But he had himself a randall time man history of
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Speaker 2: rock and roll. Marquete's real the toughest classes I ever took.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what he says.
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Speaker 3: Somebody had to make the ashtrays for the coffee table
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Speaker 3: at the offensive linehouse, not correctly.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, all right, hit us up eight seven
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Speaker 3: seven seven, nine four three, still talking college football championship,
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Speaker 3: but get right it.
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Speaker 1: Coming up after six, We're diving into.
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Speaker 3: The Packers' decision and the Packers future and the Packers
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Speaker 3: present because it is fascinating.
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Speaker 1: It's the Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Continuing The Huddle.
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Speaker 3: Freded program Andy and West Penn hits us up and
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Speaker 3: he said, first of all, he said the Huddle was
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Speaker 1: Watched many Detroit games there.
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Speaker 3: I love saying done and then he's he was talking
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Speaker 3: about these upsets. The Lions winning the Super Bowl would
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Speaker 3: be up there like as unfathomable as Indiana winning national
36:53
Speaker 3: championship along with Cleveland. And then he said, just an observation,
36:58
Speaker 3: how about Mendoza praising God and with his mom watching
37:02
Speaker 3: drops an f bomb that ESPN did not bleep.
37:05
Speaker 4: That's amazing, so real as corsees, you would just say, cinema.
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Speaker 1: I mean to be able to.
37:11
Speaker 4: Get to be able to get that flip because he
37:12
Speaker 4: already knows I do have to get a little more
37:15
Speaker 4: street cred if you're gonna roll into Vegas quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: He needs man.
37:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, but like I was thinking, and my
37:24
Speaker 4: wife said it last night, She's like, holy cow, they're
37:26
Speaker 4: gonna be so lucky. There's no way this guy's gonna
37:29
Speaker 4: be hanging out at New York, New York at two
37:31
Speaker 4: in the morning. There's no way this guy is gonna
37:33
Speaker 4: be out at Red Rock, Fernanda Mendoza. He's gonna be
37:35
Speaker 4: starting up by youth groups out there in Las Vegas
37:38
Speaker 4: throughout his time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. See, that's the thing.
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Speaker 3: The other other observations again were unless they break him
37:45
Speaker 3: in like a young Mustang once he gets out there
37:47
Speaker 3: putting a bow on this national championhip discussion because it
37:50
Speaker 3: was such a great game, such a great story. Cinema
37:52
Speaker 3: is the best way because, like, if this was a screenplay,
37:54
Speaker 3: it probably get rejected because no one's gonna buy that.
37:56
Speaker 3: Come on, wait, the quarterback are up a mile from
37:58
Speaker 3: the stadium where they're playing. Yeah, a team with the
38:01
Speaker 3: home field advantage, the home stadium advantag It's just there's
38:04
Speaker 3: just too many layers.
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Speaker 4: No doubt, and his mom in the stands in the
38:07
Speaker 4: visual of his dad hugging her and telling her what
38:10
Speaker 4: happened on the quarterback draw.
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Speaker 1: It does, it brings it to your to your eye.
38:13
Speaker 4: I like this one from Zach and Lake Mills on
38:14
Speaker 4: the text line, he goes, everyone wants to talk about
38:16
Speaker 4: Cuban helping him out with money, But the end of
38:17
Speaker 4: the day, Signetty has that team disciplined. They don't make
38:20
Speaker 4: mistakes and they don't have stupid penalties that kill drives Hopefully.
38:22
Speaker 4: Fickle was watching how a great coach does it well
38:25
Speaker 4: Zach and and no doubt. We don't want to take
38:28
Speaker 4: anything away from what they're doing. It is tremendous coaching.
38:31
Speaker 4: It's phenomenal talent evaluation. I think that's the other part
38:34
Speaker 4: of it. It's evaluating talent as well as the kind
38:38
Speaker 4: of characters that you're bringing in. And that becomes even
38:42
Speaker 4: more difficult Drew when you're getting money at a younger
38:45
Speaker 4: age to realize who's about the right stuff and the
38:48
Speaker 4: right development and they're they're clean cut being able to
38:51
Speaker 4: pick out those right dudes.
38:52
Speaker 3: There was a little roughing the passer penalty on the
38:55
Speaker 3: last drive that that was like a little undisciplined, and
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Speaker 3: but that that negated the unfathomable delay of game by Miami.
39:08
Speaker 1: That holy Holy packers like they stole that one from
39:12
Speaker 1: the floor. Yeah, no kidding.
39:13
Speaker 4: And I did also like a walking up with Holly
39:16
Speaker 4: row at halftime. But coach, what's you think in the
39:18
Speaker 4: first half, Well, there's three personal files on the quarterback
39:21
Speaker 4: that clearly ain't been called.
39:23
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I'm fine. Other than that, I'm
39:25
Speaker 1: have a nice day. Okay.
39:27
Speaker 3: Mendoza did take some shots. He was at no doubt,
39:31
Speaker 3: he cement an if there was any doubt going into
39:33
Speaker 3: last night that he was going to be number one
39:35
Speaker 3: and that the Raiders are gonna take him, it's gone
39:37
Speaker 3: bright half there with his jaw dropped, and Mark Davis
39:40
Speaker 3: is there, like they might as well just take him
39:41
Speaker 3: to the on the private jet taken to Vegas now
39:43
Speaker 3: and start let let let lem start looking at.
39:45
Speaker 1: Film in advance of the new coach.
39:48
Speaker 4: Well, and I I do under I would still be
39:51
Speaker 4: very interested to see if they they were there for
39:54
Speaker 4: a reason, not only for Mendoza, but to say, Kurt,
39:57
Speaker 4: we understand you said you're not an NFL guy, what.
40:00
Speaker 1: Would twenty million a year do for you?
40:02
Speaker 4: Because I mean, if you're trying to make the biggest splash,
40:05
Speaker 4: and we know Mark Davis does, that would be the
40:07
Speaker 4: biggest splash you could have. And if you wanted to
40:09
Speaker 4: have the alignment, that would be it. That's one of
40:11
Speaker 4: eight jobs still available in the NFL. So many and
40:14
Speaker 4: as we tie a bow on the most improbable victories
40:17
Speaker 4: in a super Bowl, now, listen, they've been there four times,
40:20
Speaker 4: but until I see them actually do it in the
40:22
Speaker 4: biggest moment, the Buffalo.
40:23
Speaker 1: Bill's winning one might be in there, and now their.
40:26
Speaker 4: Jobs available and might be the most appealing of all
40:30
Speaker 4: of these head coaching jobs because they might have the
40:31
Speaker 4: best player in the sport. Drew at the helm, although
40:35
Speaker 4: he might be the main reason why the coach is
40:37
Speaker 4: fired because of four turnovers in their biggest game, just
40:40
Speaker 4: a fascinating, fascinating game, the Superman cape that he wears.
40:44
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, he has to do it all because
40:46
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot around him.
40:47
Speaker 3: And then they extend the GM and give him a
40:50
Speaker 3: promotion promotion, Wow, Drew, what does your reporter hat tell
40:53
Speaker 3: you about that?
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Speaker 1: That potential power struggle going on in that organization? Did
40:58
Speaker 1: it happen? Holy wow? But he did an admiral job. Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Do you want anybody to know an admiral job?
41:05
Speaker 4: When you do fire a coach that has won one
41:07
Speaker 4: hundred games for the team, you might want to proofread
41:10
Speaker 4: the statement or get it.
41:11
Speaker 1: Right or slow down, make sure you're yeah right? Do
41:14
Speaker 1: we just get? Do we just get?
41:15
Speaker 4: Mister pagoula ghost writer allowed to have the PR team
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Speaker 4: write this one coach.
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Speaker 2: Listen, chapt Ai doing great things these days. I see
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Speaker 3: Get back in the game, all right. We haven't talked
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Speaker 3: a lot about the Packers yet. We're going to as
42:37
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42:39
Speaker 3: appreciate all the early risers here.
42:41
Speaker 1: We got so many. There's so many here. How about
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Speaker 4: Well, it's minus six and the frozen North and Hell
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Speaker 4: is officially frozen over Indiana's national champions.
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Speaker 1: How about that, Janny, You're spot on with that one.
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Speaker 4: We do have a ton though, hanging out with us
42:55
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42:58
Speaker 4: being up early with us. Maggie and Georgia, now she
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Speaker 1: Now I get to actually get ready with you guys.
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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven, seven nine four one ninety seven three.
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Speaker 1: Still take your thoughts about Indiana.
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Speaker 3: Still shocked that Indiana is the champion of college football