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Foster and Friends Vol 152 "Momentum" · Foster and Friends

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  SPEAKER_01: This is Foster and Friends with former coach Bud Foster and his co-host Mac McDonald.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_11: I would say that's probably fair.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_11: I did not want to come in here after a loss at home to a house stadium and have some sort of y'all telling me we're not good, all that stuff.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_11: I could not let that happen.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_06: I'm not, they didn't hire me to keep it close, they hired me to win.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_06: Nah, that's a loser's state.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_06: Winners win, baby.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_06: You gotta go for it.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_11: Start, you know, a year ago.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_06: I'm not they didn't hire me to keep it close, they hired me to win.
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  SPEAKER_10: There's uh things that the coaches, you know, want to do better.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_10: There's some things that the players will want to do better, but overall, very, very pleased with just the uh uh the effort, you know, the intensity, the focus, and the ability to go out and execute with as many guys as we play.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_04: Welcome in.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_04: It is Foster and Friends for another Saturday.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_04: And uh the name of the show today is uh Momentum and Method or Method and Momentum, whatever, uh, because I wanted to talk to Bud about it.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_04: It just the word came up, and I thought today I am gonna interview Bud about is there momentum, especially with everything that happened.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, Texas, Ohio State, Oregon, and Oklahoma State, which has just got more just cray, just crazy numbers.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_04: And then we're gonna touch base on UVA and tech and the two-0 starts for both teams, you know, uh, and and and big games now for both uh UVA and uh tech coming up this weekend.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_04: So a ton to cover.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_04: But how you been, man?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_04: I know you're putting together your tournament, you got a lot of stuff coming up with the foundation, which we're gonna get to, the ACC schedule, all that today.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_04: But this is just a good day to talk football because there was overreaction Monday.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_04: It carried on through the whole week, and so now we get to kind of talk about game day.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_03: So that's that'll be I mean, well, a couple things.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, number one, it's great seeing you.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_03: Number number two.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_03: It was a good weekend.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_03: I was expecting some rain at Lane Stadium on Saturday.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: It turned out to be a beautiful day, you know, and uh uh good football game early.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_03: Noon kicks are early, you know.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_04: But they really are, yeah.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: They are, but it we had a great crowd, and uh so but um yeah, I mean, just an overreaction, you know, Monday.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_03: It was just interesting to hear everybody talking about, you know, what's happened to Ohio State.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, can they are they fixable after I mean you're talking about, I mean, uh my God.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's just week this week two.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, um, but that's just you know, I was just thinking, you know, we over sensationalize every little detail right now.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_03: So are you gonna have something to talk about and write about?
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_03: We're already predicting who's gonna be in the turn in the playoffs.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's the one thing that's different in basketball.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: You kind of get that towards the end of the year.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_03: Football, it starts right from the get-go, yeah.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_03: And then it's kind of who drops out or who pops in.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_04: Which is a good reason, is an argument for why maybe we just leave it at 12 because of look at look at the conversation and who get.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I we might just want to leave the playoff at 12, you know?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I would even think, you know, I mean, you got to do a poll, but I wouldn't even start talking about any of this stuff until the actual poll playoff poll comes out, which won't come out until midway or three quarters of the way through the season, which I think that's what the realistic part should be.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_03: Let these teams battle week in, week out, and the the cream is gonna rise to the top, so to speak, you know, and the others are gonna fall off, you know.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_03: But it's not gonna happen week one or week two.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_03: That's it's a long season.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Ohio State, we beat Ohio State, you know, and then they turn around and win the national championship.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know, the same thing could happen this year, but they're talking about Ohio State, you know, what what problem do they have?
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: They gave up some points.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_03: They had a good against a good football team.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, that's that's what happens.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: You won't talk about giving up points, you talk about the NFL, the best of the best.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they gave up there, there was more points flying around the NFL this last week than I've ever seen.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, my God.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, if something's broke, look there.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know, but it goes back.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_03: College football is extremely exciting, young kids making things happen, and um it's just gonna be an exciting season as we move forward.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_03: I think this is just the start of big things to come.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_04: With all the numbers, and we'll go to breaker in just a second, but with all the numbers and all the talk and all the uh of Texas uh and Ohio State and Oregon and Oklahoma State, and of all the talk, the one number that literally jumped at me this past week, Oklahoma State has 91 new players.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_04: 91.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_04: How do you no wonder you lose to Tulsa?
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_04: But how does that but how does Coach Morris in one way, and we're gonna explain, I'm gonna try to break it down, comes back and beats the number six team in the country.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_04: And Oregon felt it 21st with the law.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, so but 91?
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna talk Virginia and Virginia Tech.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_04: First big weekends for those guys, and we'll have that story when we come back.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_04: As I said, and momentum.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_04: Bud has got to explain to me momentum, and we'll do it when we come back.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_04: We got momentum on the show already, I can tell.
• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 7:21
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• 7:27
  SPEAKER_04: Welcome to Foster and Friends with uh, you know, momentum and method.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_04: You can reverse it, method and momentum, and how coaches try to put things together.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_04: And uh, we're gonna talk about Virginia, Virginia Tech in this segment.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_04: Um just you know, interesting starts, and I think people really start to put the and and Bud had a great point just a minute ago and talking about the polls.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_04: You probably don't need the poll till November.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I mean, I mean you could do you need it though in August, Bud, do you think?
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_04: Do we need a poll that early?
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I mean, I think it's you know it's all it's it's just intrigue.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, yeah, I know from uh coaching standpoint and as a from a player standpoint, it's nice to know how people feel about you, you know what I mean?
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_03: As a coach, you can use it as a motivational tool, particularly if you're lower in the rankings or not ranked, or you know, they you have pre-season league rankings and predictions, you know, all those kind of things.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, or and it also tells you, hey, this is where we are, and we're gonna be the have the bullseye on our chest, you know.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: So we're gonna have to play at a high standard every week.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_03: But that's okay because it's not about them, it's about us.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's the that was our mantra, you know, that I don't care who we play, it's we're playing at a standard, you know, and that's that's what it's gotta be.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, I think this the polls are the the polls are probably more for the fans than it is for the you know for the the players and coaches when it's all said and done initially.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, but now that the playoffs are what they are, and it was a big factor back in the you know in the BCS, and it only took two teams, so you want to be one and two, and that's so hard.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: Now you've got an opportunity with multiple teams to get in.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_03: So the polls are a factor, but I don't think it really matters until about halfway through the season when you know the the the when you start having more league play, which really factors in more than all your non-league.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you got Ohio State uh Texas, you know, that's a big non-league game.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_03: You got West Virginia UVA playing this week, that's a big non-league game.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_03: But more than as we've seen in these early schedules, these non-league games are non-factors.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you're playing a bunch of uh FCS schools or lower end, you know, group of six, you know, for the most part, and um, it's just getting your team together and getting getting that chemistry and that continuity to lead into your uh regular season play, your conference play.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_04: How long?
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_04: You bring up uh a dozen good points as you always do.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_04: How long are the meetings between a head coach and an athletic director as far as putting a schedule together?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think they, you know, uh they want to be aligned together.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: I think a lot of people now, particularly as as the teams are moving towards a nine uh power of four schedule.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, nine conference games, yeah.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then you're probably gonna play one uh other power of four game.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_03: I think your non-conference uh schedule is extremely important because your those nine weeks within the league are gonna be extremely competitive and can be brutal.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I know how they match up can be more difficult from one year to another.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, you know, you're when you're gonna be playing probably 10 uh power four games a year, counting, you know, nine and then one usually uh you know non-commerce power four game, which I think everybody's kind of agreeing to, but then those other two games are almost like play those the first two weeks and let those be your preseason games, so to speak.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that's what a lot of teams are looking at doing, and I think aligning with their athletic director and working out that schedule because you don't have that.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: And that's a you know, we can talk about Oklahoma State.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, that's a perfect example.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: You know, they're they lost to Tulsa, but they learn, you grow from more mostly from week one to week two.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_03: And I guarantee Oregon, you can I know they coached against Dan Lang's a hell of a football coach.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure they coached against us, you know.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_03: Don't look at that and score, you know.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: But that's what unfortunately kids do, you know, and and that's what we're coaching still.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: You're coaching kids.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I know they walked in there in Oklahoma State.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: You know, they they brought a team from basically uh North Texas and a few other places, but that was their first time coming together.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: That was my concern with James Franklin and his staff and players in the first game.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_03: But we had we had just outmatched uh, you know, um VMI was not Tulsa.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_03: Tulsa's got a traditionally a consistent program, you know, when it's all said and done.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, good stuff.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, well, let's talk about uh Maryland and Virginia Tech, and then we'll get into the the UVA West Virginia game too in this segment.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_04: We are gonna talk Texas and we are gonna talk uh uh uh Oklahoma State and Oregon and just you know some of the surprises from the weekend.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_04: Um, you knew Coach Loxley uh for a long time.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_04: He's been around.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_04: I know uh Coach Franklin has a lot of respect for him, you know, because he's been you know up and down uh you know positions and recruiting and and everything.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_04: But did I did I hear or read that he was had an interest in this guy named Bud Foster to uh come to College Park?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, when he first took the job, and I've known Mike for a long time too, and um, you know, just great outstanding football coach.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: You know, he's been a head coach prior to this, was with Nick Saban.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, just guys a great background.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: Was in Illinois, did a great job there with Ron Zook.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but uh yeah, when he got the job at Maryland, he reached out to me, you know, and uh said, Hey, between you and me, why don't you come on up here to College Park and I we're getting ready to build a new facility?
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, uh, would you be interested in coming out of retirement?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_03: We can make this thing work, and just nobody would need to know.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_03: You can just drive up from Blacksburg and you know, we'll we'll just kind of tool around campus and facilities and whatnot.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_04: So uh Mike, it was very it was intriguing, but you know, I was gonna say my guess is the decision was made when you saw the sunset on the lake.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_03: And then oh yeah.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, hey, who am I talking to now, brother?
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, exactly.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Coach Franklin after the two-0 start, uh, the budgets talked about a lot of respect for the head coach of Maryland, Michael Loxley.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_08: Whatever responsibility's been put on his plate, he's thrived.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_08: Whether that was the running backs coach with Lamont Jordan, or whether that was the recruiting coordinator when uh he was able to, you know, do a really good job of not only recruiting the area, you know, the DC, PG County area, but also nationally, did a great job in that role.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_08: And then obviously went on to be the offense coordinator, Illinois, and had a ton of success there with Coach Zook.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_08: Um, you know, his time at Florida, you know, his time in Alabama, obviously a Bruyles Award winner, um, and then goes back, you know, to his home and takes over the University of Maryland and has done a really, really good job.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_04: That's a resume.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_04: That's uh Coach Franklin talking about Michael Loxley in Maryland and uh uh Virginia Tech play at 7:30 tonight.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_04: So that is uh that's a lot of respect, though.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, there are not there aren't too many uh coaches that don't know the other coach or don't, you know, but uh I think they have a pretty good relationship, it sounds like.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they do, they do, and I mean, obviously they've they battle against each other um over at various times of the year, you know, on the field and off the field in the recruiting wars.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_03: But um, you know, there's there's a as you can, there's a mutual respect there and and uh um and you know Mike's done a Maryland's a tough job, and it and it's and he's done a yeah, I in my opinion, they probably haven't had the success on the field at the from the result from the recruiting because they've really done a nice job in the DOV keeping a lot of those players at home.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: Now they've got a really dynamic quarterback right now.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: He's a sophomore, big athletic kid, and they and I watched their video leading into this game.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh they've got some they've got some skilled kids, you know, and big physical approach, just like you'd expect.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they're a big 10 team.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: Um in it's an early game.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, um, and and both teams feel good right now, you know.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so it's gonna be it'll be a big test for Virginia Tech on the road at Maryland.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I know there'll be a lot of Virginia Tech fans there.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_03: I bet you there'll be 20 plus thousand people there.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, so uh there'll be a there'll be a big contingency there, but still once all said and done, we're on the road for the first time.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh, you know, Maryland's got a lot to prove as uh as they move forward too.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: And so I think it's a great matchup for for the this weekend.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and credit uh credit the Oakie's defense, 32 TFLs tackles for loss already in two games.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_04: Granted, I understand old Dominion VMI get it, but still uh Tech's defense is playing pretty well.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_04: In Charlottesville, um, Norfolk State, uh, it was last Friday night, week ago Friday night, uh 59-3.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_04: It was the largest margin in 36 years for uh UVA.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_04: One of the things that Tony Elliott said about the the Cavs are now ranked 24th or 25th for the second week in a row is that they got to play a lot of people, and that was the goal.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_10: Everybody's role is critical.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_10: And that's two weeks where I felt like the preparation was good, and now the key is to be able to stay humble.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_10: But it's huge for us to be able to play a ton of guys and then be able to illustrate that the standard you know didn't change.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_10: Are there things that are correct?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_10: Yeah, there's things that I got to do better.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_10: There's uh things that the coaches, you know, want to do better.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_10: There's some things that the players are wanting to do better, but overall, very, very pleased with just the uh uh the effort, you know, the intensity, the focus, and the ability to go out and execute with as many guys as we played.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and the Dukes Mayo people continue to spread the good news.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_04: All right, I'm so sorry.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_04: Uh the the Mayo Classic is gonna be in Charlotte.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_04: So they they're playing that in a neutral site.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_04: It's uh a rematch of the O2 uh was a tire bowl or computer bowl, one of those, but I think it was the tire bowl at that time, but uh uh you know, Matt Schab, Wally Lundy, those guys uh for that game.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_04: So the rematch of that game.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_04: But anyway, as far as Virginia and Virginia Tech, so it's a pretty important week, and you start to look at the steps now and you look at where you are, and so week three becomes fairly important.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I mean, you know, it's it's it's nice that uh for UVA to have uh WVU at home.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you know, it's I mean, home field advantage is in for the most part is a is big.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_03: And I know Rich Rodriguez will bring in a good football team, good quality football team, an improved football team uh coming into UVA.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_03: So that'll be a another big non-conference matchup, you know.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_03: And UVA's playing well.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: I and and that's kind of with tech.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, really the the second half was kind of a lull.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: We dominated the first half.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: It really was a much better football team than um than uh VMI and a much better football team than a lot of people give credit.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_03: You know they won 10 football games last year.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but both teams, I think this will be a true test when you're you're you're stepping up to power four.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, to be able to play uh your backups, and that's what happened with tech at the end.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know, the big a couple plays that popped a run play.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it was against the like about the third team guys in there.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_03: But those are learning moments, not just for them, but also for the first team guys.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but you know, the only way you get better is the best teacher's experience, you know.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: And so for UVA to be able to get people in and get game time is is and and for tech to get people in to get game time and game experience, that's invaluable.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: So um, you know, it's good to have those kind of wins where you can do that in those kind of games, you know.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, ask Billy Nipp, your JMU.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_04: Uh thank you, thank you, Wayne, thank you, Wagner, for participating.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_04: All right, with we'll go to break, we'll come back.
• 19:32
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• 21:02
  SPEAKER_07: Um and become men.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_07: And Arch played like a man tonight, and that was that was really cool to see.
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• 21:23
  SPEAKER_04: It is Foster and Friends, and I I have to admit, um, while Bud was celebrating the old Dominion win and uh parting just a little bit, I I fell asleep late third, thinking, okay, 23-3.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_04: Come on, this game is over.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I missed the first touchdown of the fourth quarter, but all of a sudden I went, wow, Texas is within striking distance.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_04: So uh I just uh added another iced tea to the table and said, I think I'm gonna watch the end of this.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_04: Man oh man, uh, Texas, the new number one.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_04: It goes without saying.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_04: I know people have been talking about it all week, and but that's an Issue, isn't it?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_04: When when schools and fans start to keep talk every day about what happened, you know, and it was just incredible.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_04: It was incredible.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: I thought it was a great win.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, and and and we talked about it off the air, but um, you know, Arch Manning's had so much pressure on him just because of his name.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: And I remember last year it was so unfair to that kid.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: He had needed maybe started two games prior to last season.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: He was already the you know the Heisman Trophy winner, and he was good, he was the second coming to you know to the Manning family.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, but um I was happy for him when it's all said and done because if he doesn't do that, uh, you know, there's no telling what the media is gonna be writing about him this week, what they're saying about him.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but yeah, he showed a lot of poise, uh, showed his true um, I think his abilities.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, some of the the the throw, his arm strength, and the things that he did, uh, his accuracy.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_03: Now, you got to go back and give Ohio State credit too for early in the game.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, how they played, and and uh and don't get me wrong, we've talked, I mean, I mentioned earlier that you know the athletics talking about, you know, is it is Ohio State fixable?
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: What do you got to fix?
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they just they they gave up some points against a good football team.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_03: You know, they lost a bunch of good players themselves last year, but you know, they were the number one defense in the country, and Matt Patricia's an outstanding defensive football coach, you know, and and Arthur Smith's an outstanding offensive coach.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: And um, but you know, when you're playing, you know, two powerhouses, it's just like uh, you know, a battle in the NFL.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it comes down to the wire, and who's gonna execute better at the end?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_03: And it just happened to be Texas did that and you know, Arch Manning.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm congratulations to him.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_03: I'm happy for him because I think that kid, more than anybody in America uh right now on the football field, has more pressure on him than anybody.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, since 04, number one teams were 197-0.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, how about that state?
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_04: When holding a 20-nothing lead uh before the final 15.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Arch Manning led drives of 15, 13, and 12 plays for the 24-23 win, and then he could breathe a little easier in his postgame.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_11: I would say that's probably fair.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_11: I did not want to come in here after a loss at home to Ohio State again and have some sort of y'all telling me we're not good, all this stuff.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_11: I could not let that happen.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_11: So I think that was going through the back of my mind like, let's not let that happen.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_11: Had to get something going.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_11: Whatever it takes at the end of the game.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_11: I'm so glad we won.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so glad we won.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_04: And I I totally uh get that.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_04: Um Connor Hawkins felt bad for him.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_04: The Ohio State kicker misses the 45-yarder that you know would have put the game out of reach.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_04: For Steve Sarkazian, though, bud, um, he couldn't be happier for a young man who struggled last year, and had this been a 40-3 or whatever, uh, it could have been disaster.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_07: Last September was a hard month for him.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_07: Not just this game against Ohio State, San Jose State, UTEP.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_07: There were some tough moments, but he got on the other side of it.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_07: And I think him getting through that adversity last year helped him get through the adversity of tonight.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_07: Because we got booed.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_07: Uh, I don't know what series that was.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_07: Um, we were going left to right and we were getting booed coming off the field.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_07: Uh, we had to punt.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_07: But his ability to come back, and then when he comes back, everybody else comes back.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_07: That's a guy who has some grit, some resilience, you know, that that you can you can come back and fight through adversity and get on the other side of it in real time.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, pretty good stuff from Sartre, you know, who went to bat for.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_04: And then of course, uh the the comments right after, too, uh, with his press conference.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_04: I hope the uh, you know, I hope Ohio State makes the CFP at nine and three.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_04: He said if they're nine and three.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I will say this, you know, we're talking about momentum and things of that nature.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: I think this is the one win for sure for you know my anticipation for Archmanning is this is a kind of a breakthrough game from a self-confidence standpoint that will drive that momentum to get him to feel good about himself and what his abilities are, and then you know, rally with his teammates to continue to move forward and get better.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_03: So I think that's a momentum moment for uh for Arch Manning.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the second largest fourth quarter rally in Texas history, trailing only an 07 game against Oklahoma State.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_04: And as Bud just talked about the first quarter, the Longhorns finished the first quarter with five yards.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I mean, you know, the first play of the game, they fumbled on it, and it wasn't Arch Manning, it was a bubble, and you know, the kid got hit.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: Then what is it, the one of the next series or series later, the throws a completion, the kid falls, and the ball bounces up off the kid.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_04: Bounces up immediately.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's just one of those kind of fluke um early scenarios that as a football team, you just say, that happens.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_03: We just that wasn't, you know, those were kind of unforced errors.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: We gotta, we gotta, you know, just keep our nose to the grindstone, so to speak.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_04: He completed Arch completed 11 of his last 15.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_04: He was 23 of 37 for 195.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_04: He rushed eight times for 24.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_04: And then uh the 15-play, 91-year drive, that they just got it started, and then he just knew that, hey, you know, I think things are gonna be okay.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_04: So anyway, uh for Texas now, the new number one, and uh Ohio State, you know, they they dropped a couple of notches too.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_04: So your top five is uh uh Texas, Georgia, Notre Dame, Indiana, and Miami.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_04: So they're your your top five as we yeah, and as Bud was talking about, we continue to already sit and talk about CFP and so on and so forth.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so that was just one of the games.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_04: So let me ask Bud.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_04: We got a couple of minutes here, but momentum.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_04: Uh the overreaction Monday talking heads always talk about momentum.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_04: Is there such a thing in college football?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I I I believe there is.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_03: You know, now and I just mentioned it.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_03: I think momentum comes with um self-confidence um as a as a player, as a unit, as a team.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_03: And I I remember there was times we were rolling, and there there is momentum.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't want to have a break in the season.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't want to, I didn't want to know what we're doing.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_04: You didn't want the bye week, you didn't want the bye week.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, just because of the way we were rolling, I didn't want to disrupt that momentum that we had rolling, you know.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_03: Not that uh, you know, and it because you you there's that fine line in that off week.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_03: How do you uh, you know, you want to take it easy on the guys, but you also want to keep that intensity and keep that chip on your shoulder.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_03: But once you get that momentum going, because we've been through that as a you know, we started out 0-2 and won 10 in a row, you know, won a sugar bowl.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we've had other years like that.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_03: We were 0-2 and you know, or lost a heartbreaker early and we went on a 10-game run, you know.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_03: There there is such a thing.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_03: And um, but you know, and right now teams are trying to find that momentum.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_03: And it's hard because that's the as we mentioned earlier, that's a hard part of college football.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have preseason games, you don't have uh scrimmages against other teams like high schools do to kind of know what your team's really about till you get out there and play against someone else.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_03: And unfortunately, that's the drawback, and that's what happened with Oklahoma State.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you know, they go and beat, get beat by a Tulsa team, and and what also what happened to Oregon.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: I guarantee you you can't look at the scores, you know.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_03: You gotta, and you know, you gotta, it's all about respecting the opponent.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, and I guarantee Oklahoma State came with a chip on their shoulder when they played Oregon State.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: And I it's just natural for Oregon State, not that the coaches were overlooking Oregon State, because I'm sure they were they were that's a trap game potentially, and they got caught up in it, you know, thinking they could probably roll through there and uh, you know, just check that off the box and get ready to go to the next one.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, move on.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Oregon, Oklahoma State, the other game that we're gonna cover and talk about momentum and and what happened, because you're talking about a first-year coach who loses the Tulsa and has to turn things around with 91 new players.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_04: So we'll cover that when we come back.
• 30:28
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• 30:33
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• 31:44
  SPEAKER_05: Not that we didn't coach hard um before.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_05: I just uh I think we're we're we got a lot of new people figuring people out, and so uh, but some of that expedited I think is a good thing.
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• 32:05
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• 32:06
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• 32:07
  SPEAKER_04: That was Coach Eric Morris.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_04: We'll have more with him in just a little bit.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh a great story because Eric had been every, you know, a lot of different teams uh had had really been around.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_04: And and when uh when Oklahoma State made the decision on Gundy, inner, you know, this Eric Morris.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_04: So he brings in 91 new players, he puts together this whole program, and then they go throw up on, you know, throw up on their shoes against Tulsa.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_04: So now, you and that so they had lost 12 in a row.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_04: The program had lost 12 in a row.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_04: So now, though, Oklahoma State had won 30 straight home openers.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, and so the this 91 new player thing that I keep harping on is the most ever in the FPS.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_04: The portal class, bud, was ranked seventh.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_04: How do you bring a group together?
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_04: I know you got the month of August, I get it.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_04: Film sessions, fun sessions, dinner sessions, I get it.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_04: But how do you bring 91 guys together in that?
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that that number one is hard.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_03: And and and kudos to Coach Morse and his staff for doing that in week two because I think that's extremely challenging.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that's a you know, the and I mentioned before with the break, that's a perfect example of you know first game scenarios coming up with a new staff.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_03: This one, you know, Virginia Tech, we had 50 new players, you know.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_03: But I've never heard of, yeah, 91 new players.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, basically you have 105 people on the roster, so 90% of your team is uh is uh roughly, you know, is is brand new.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm sure that was part of the first game process and scenario of just everybody being on the same page, and and then probably to some point um not knowing exactly who all your players were and who's gonna perform sometimes when the lights come on and that type of you know, that situation.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_03: Just not knowing there's a lot of unknowns going into that first game.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_03: And I without looking at who played the first game and who played against uh um uh Oregon, you know, it'd be interesting to see who started against Tulson and who started, you know what I mean, from you know how guys played.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure they played a lot of people trying to figure it out a little bit.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_03: But uh like I mentioned, you just that's one of those uh scenarios that you improve the most from week one to week two in college because of you know experience, and you just have not played against anybody other than yourself.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_03: And um and you know, Oklahoma State's got some talent.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they're they're recruited, like you said, seventh class in the portal.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_03: So there's some athletes there, and there's talent.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, the challenges you mentioned, the challenge was bringing them all together, and that's that goes back to coaching.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: And um, and now I'm expecting Oklahoma State, they've had a good run.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they really have the last couple years have been tough, you know.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: But uh Coach Gundy and his staff, I mean, they did nothing but win there, right?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_03: And utmost respect for that program, and you can't sleep on those guys, and you start talking about momentum.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_03: I think this is that's a win right there that will give these guys self-confidence to that trust the process.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_03: And they're just building this program or this staff together with this, you know, getting this group together.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_03: That there's some hope right there if you do things the right way.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_03: And so, you know, I think Oklahoma State will take advantage of this win and will uh have some momentum as they move forward.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_04: The Cowboys had 554 yards of total offense.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_04: They rushed for 237, and last Saturday's game marked the first time in FPS history that a team snapped a 10-plus game losing streak against an AP top 10.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, and already the media is throwing Oregon under the bus that they're gonna be done.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, to the uh Clemson collapse of you know a couple years ago.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be, you know, that they're they're already done.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_04: You like you said, we'll give Eric Morris a lot of credit.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_04: He said, we we came back, we said, guys, get ready, we're gonna coach you hard.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_05: There'll still be so much to learn from this.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_05: Um, you know, we'll come back, we'll we'll continue like for me now, and I told the team just now, like what worked was us coaching you really hard this week, and you responded.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_05: And so, like, don't don't feel like you're gonna come in here and get not get coached hard again next week.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_05: Like, then that would be shame on me, right?
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_05: Like, why why would we not take the formula that was the better of the two?
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_05: Not that we didn't coach hard um before.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_05: I just I I think we're we're we got a lot of new people figuring people out, and so um, but some of that expedited, I I think is a good thing.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_04: Uh our good friend Pete Gillen, who coached basketball of Virginia, and I I love Pete to death.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_04: He used to say at halftime we counseled them aggressively.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_04: So I I have a I like that.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_03: I think I did that a few times myself.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_03: I know you did, I know you did.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: So when it comes to I will say this, you know, not to cut you off, but I don't know if you saw the interview of Eric Morris after the game.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, and saw the emotion of him, and that goes back to a tough week.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_03: That goes back to a challenging week, nothing, but what you did to, you know, how you challenged your players.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and uh, you know, and and that was uh that was a you could see the emotion, you know, from him.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_03: And that's what makes this you know, college athletics and and this great game so so special.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_04: You want to define for me when a coach says um we're gonna coach him hard what that actually means.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_03: Oh well, I don't know if I can uh you know, but I I did learn this after you coach him hard, you gotta love them a little bit harder afterwards.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I like that.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_04: I in fact, I gotta find a place to put that.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna have to coach them hard, but love them harder.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_04: That's uh that's a good thing.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_04: Remember that with your kids too.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_04: That's exactly what you should do.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_04: All right, we got a couple of minutes left in this segment.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and uh Bud was talking before we started today about the ACC and what really a good weekend this is.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_04: We already talked about tech and Maryland and and Virginia, West Virginia, but there are uh really some good matchups this week in the ACC, which will, you know, it's good.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_04: I'm glad the conference, you know, and they went three and three and oh against Big Ten last week, but now the ACC will be almost front and center this weekend.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, you know, I I understand Ole Miss and LSU.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_04: I understand the return and the Lane Kiffin story, but boy, some good games in the ACC.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for us who were we cover regionally here, you know, particularly from the radio standpoint of it.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you got UNC at Clemson.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_03: That's gonna be able to find out what UNC's about.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see what Clemson.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_03: You know, Clemson uh had a tough time against Georgia Southern.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_03: It wasn't a you know, it wasn't a cakewalk.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think the marquee game in the ACC this week is SMU at Louisville.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, SMU's a uh top 15 or 16-ranked team in the country.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_03: Louisville, you know, uh was a playaway.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_03: They're kind of like the Texas uh Ohio State game.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, had a chance to beat Ole Miss.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_03: Really, I thought was an impressive football team.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh that'll be a big game.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_03: You got FSU at Alabama, which might be a revenge game for Alabama.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_03: I know um Florida State lost a heartbreaker to SMU.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_03: SMU kind of slapwalked through, you know, that game and was lucky to come out of a win.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: And and so um, and then you've got uh, I think the other game, you can't sleepwalk Miami at Wake.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know, uh that's gonna be uh, you know, Miami would be a much better football team, but I think Wake, they do a great job coaching there.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um, sometimes that's a tough environment to play in.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_03: But um you you know, Miami can't sleepwalk right there.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_04: They run you talk about a review in the Purdue game, you know, in the overtime that produced the game.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_04: They had a review and a uh line to gain was the two-yard line.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_04: It looked like the kid stepped out of bounds, but the ball was across the yard to gain, and the uh the review officials gave, yeah, and they won in double overtime.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, big, big win.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_03: And uh and then, like I said, you got uh uh I think um um you know that NC State at Bandy, you know, that'll be uh, and then there's another one, the old rival game, and there's a much improved Syracuse football team at that they're gonna play at Pitt.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I think Pitt's kind of the dark horse, in my opinion, one of the better football.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_03: They're they're always competitive, always tough.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but you know, the S the ACC's kicking off some uh games.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_03: A couple non-conference that are big games with Alabama, you know, FSU at Alabama.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we talked about UVA and WVU and Maryland and my and tech, but uh everything else is within the league.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh, you know, it's that time of year that, and even in the Big Ten and Big 12, you got the Big 12, Houston at Texas Tech.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_03: That's gonna be a big game.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_03: Both are ranked, um, you know, and uh that'll be a big test early in that league.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, it's gonna be fun.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_04: Well, but of course, we'll be checking his phone, uh uh, you know, using it uh quite a bit this weekend because he just happens to have tickets uh to a very just an awesome event.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_04: We'll talk about that when we come back.
• 41:37
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• 41:41
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• 41:43
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• 41:47
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• 41:55
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• 42:04
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• 42:51
  SPEAKER_01: From the desk of former coaching great Bud Foster, this is Foster and Friends on the NSB Radio Network.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_04: Welcome back.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's Foster and Friends, of course.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_04: That music that you just heard coming into this uh segment, of course, will be all over uh Bud's iPod and everything before he steps in to the the sphere in Vegas.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_04: So have you you haven't seen now?
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_04: I don't even know how old the sphere is.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_04: Is it a couple of years old?
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's only a few years old.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I don't know exactly either.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_03: I probably but you haven't seen it.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_04: You haven't been there in your world.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I've been to Vegas twice.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_03: I was out there for uh Corey Moore's induction and Mike Vick's induction into the college football hall of fame.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_03: But you didn't know the sphere.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_03: I think the year we went out and saw uh that Mike or uh Corey Moore got into the four or five years ago.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_03: Oh but uh yeah, we're going uh so I'm missing the game today at Maryland, and uh I'm gonna be checking my phone for the game because it's a ninth game.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_03: And uh but yeah, the Eagles have been one of my top.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: Five bands here, and you know, you're familiar with them too.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I just love their music, they're such a wide uh variety from hard rock to you know, some you know, just good uh acoustic and you know and harmonizing and that type of thing.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_03: But I everybody that's been to the sphere and seen these guys say it's incredible.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that they number one, the spirit's incredible, but number two, they say the Eagles sound as good as they ever have, and they're just uh they're just on point.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm anxious to see it.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so yeah, we're gonna go and stay at the Venetian.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_03: So I might even take a gondola ride on uh on Sunday after taking my lovely bride.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_03: Of course.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_04: Of course.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_04: Well, when you get back, I mean, you get back, you have your plate full because a week from Monday, uh Bud's uh the Bud founded the Lunch Pale Defense Foundation uh uh annual golf tournament is gonna be in Richmond.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_04: And uh I get to see it this year, so I'm excited as could be uh because I know it's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_04: But boy, you raise so much money with this tournament.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, hats off to you, your foundation, all the people that work.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_04: Because uh, man oh man, you this is this is a great accomplishment.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_04: Say what you want.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_04: Charity golf tournaments normally they spend 100 and they make 110.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_04: Not this one, not this one.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_04: You guys do a great job with this.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_03: No, I've got, like I said, we've got a great board, and you know, I'm excited.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_03: We've got and we're playing at Hermitage uh Country Club, which is we have two 18-hole courses side by side.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_03: So we have over 40 teams.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_03: I think the last count 42 teams.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you'll play around, and and it's a you know, it's a captain's choice, but you're gonna because of the two 18 holes.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_03: You know how some of these captain's choice can be a marathon, you know, it's like, oh my god, when's this gonna end?
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_03: And this will we'll get done about three and a half hours, and then we've got uh, you know, it's just uh it's gonna be a fun day.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_03: But more importantly, we're excited that you're coming to MC the thing, and and uh we've got some great uh we've got some great auction items and a variety of things we're gonna do.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be a fun day.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, we couldn't do what we do as a foundation without the support of the people out there that uh, you know, uh are feel strongly about our mission of giving back and supporting the the communities and and the young people and giving them the resources that we we feel like it would they need to be successful.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, and so anyway, we appreciate you mentioning this.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_03: And like I said, we're excited that you're coming up.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I know you'll be itching to want to get out there on the golf.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but that's okay.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I'll hit a couple of putts or something.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_04: So anyway, well, with the Vegas thing on the eve of it, just remember you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so just you have you have a terrific time in Vegas, obviously.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_04: A couple of pictures would be nice, just of the a roof or the ceiling or something.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_03: So I will I will get that to you, Providence.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_04: All right, have a great time for Bud Foster on Mac McDonald, and that's Foster and Friends for another week.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_04: We we hope you have a great, great college football weekend and Eagles weekend as well.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_02: Gathered for the feast.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_02: Stab it with the stealing eyes, but they just can't kill me.
• 47:22
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• 47:24
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