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Quinn Grovey previews Utah's week 2 matchup with Arkansas from a Razorbacks perspective · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: You're tuned to the Sean O'Connell Show for the Murdoch
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Speaker 1: one a f M. All right, final half hour. Here
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Speaker 1: Bill Riley filling in today for Sean O'Connell. We have
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Speaker 1: football five weeks from today, that's right, five weeks from today,
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Speaker 1: thirty five days. The Utes open up against the Idaho Vandals.
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Speaker 1: That's Thursday night, September the third, and then after that
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Speaker 1: schedule gets a little bit better. An SEC team come
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Speaker 1: into Rice Ecle Stadium on Saturday, September the twelfth, but
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Speaker 1: an SEC team maybe in a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: rebuild mode with a new head coach and a pretty
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Speaker 1: new roster as well. Thought we could the insight on
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Speaker 1: the Arkansas Razorbacks for the guy that's been part of
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Speaker 1: their broadcast team and played for the Hawks back in
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Speaker 1: the day. Quick Rove with us joining us from I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing somewhere in northwest Arkansas, Quinn.
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Speaker 2: How are you, Bill?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing good. I'm in Faydville, Arkansas, and getting ready
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Speaker 3: to go play some golf after I've finished with you.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's good, that's what you should be doing. On
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Speaker 1: a Friday, because once football season begins, it's harder to
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Speaker 1: get out there and play a little golf for guys
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Speaker 1: like you and either travel on the weekends to do
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Speaker 1: these football games. So what do the Utah fans and
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Speaker 1: me in particular, who's going to be prepping to call
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Speaker 1: this game? What do we need to know about this team?
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Speaker 1: Last year was tough two and ten, You lost your
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Speaker 1: last ten games, had some fourth quarter leads get away
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Speaker 1: from you. So what's new? What's what needs to be
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Speaker 1: known in coming out of Faydeville.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think what people really need to understand is
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Speaker 3: that we're not as far away as people think. I mean,
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Speaker 3: when you talk about losing your last ten games, I
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Speaker 3: mean that's very difficult to do. But when you talk
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Speaker 3: about having old myth on the rope, you should have
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Speaker 3: beat them. I mean you had them down. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you lose forty one to thirty five to them, You
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Speaker 3: lose the Memphis, you get beat by Notre Dame pretty soundly,
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Speaker 3: but then you come back and you played Tennessee tight.
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Speaker 3: So when you look at all the games that Arkansas
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Speaker 3: played last year, they were right there. It was just
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Speaker 3: really you know, attention to detail a lot of focus.
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Speaker 3: You always expected something bad to happen. And that's what
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Speaker 3: I love about Coach Silverfield. Coach Suverfield is a guy
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Speaker 3: that says, we're going to control everything that we can control.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna be the best in the country of controlling that.
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Speaker 3: And so that comes down to making sure you can
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Speaker 3: care of the football. The way he runs is practice
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Speaker 3: with the offense. I mean there's a lot of protection
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Speaker 3: with the football, making sure you understand where to go
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Speaker 3: with the football when you're the quarterbacks, making sure you
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Speaker 3: hold it on to making sure you catch it. And
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Speaker 3: so they're really focusing in on the protection aspect of
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Speaker 3: it and then just really making sure you find a
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Speaker 3: way to create turnovers give yourself a chance. And we
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Speaker 3: experienced ourselves. We lost the coach Civerfield in Memphis over
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Speaker 3: there at the Liberty Bowl. All they did was just
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Speaker 3: hung around, hung around, hung around, wait for us to
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Speaker 3: make a miston and finally found a way to win
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Speaker 3: a football game. So I think what you're gonna find
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Speaker 3: for this Arkansas football team. While we may not be
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Speaker 3: as explosive offensively under like a Bobby Petrino, we will
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Speaker 3: be very good offensively. And I just think what you're
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Speaker 3: gonna find is that we're gonna be fundamentally sound, and
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Speaker 3: we're gonna be a team that's not going to beat itself.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a team that's going to try to
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Speaker 3: stick around to the fourth quarter and try to force
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Speaker 3: you to make a mistake.
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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Ryan Silverfield. He was the head coach
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Speaker 1: at Memphis, went fifty to twenty five, twenty nine and
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Speaker 1: nine over his last couple of seasons, a couple of
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Speaker 1: Bowl wins over power forward teams. So he's got the
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Speaker 1: good resume and he may have auditioned for that job.
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Speaker 1: And that win over Arkansas that was at the Liberty
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Speaker 1: Bowl as well. So what's he done? You know, there
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Speaker 1: was a coaching James here, but Morgan Scalley had been
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Speaker 1: on he played here, he'd been on staff here, he'd
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Speaker 1: been around the program for twenty five years. It was
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Speaker 1: an easy shift and changing of the guard when Kyle
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Speaker 1: Whittingham decided to step aside and then eventually go to Michigan.
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Speaker 1: What Silverfield had to do down there in Fattville.
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Speaker 3: Well, he's had to just really re energize this program.
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Speaker 3: And if you look at the higher I mean I
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Speaker 3: think a lot of people were expecting a much bigger name,
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Speaker 3: but we got some really good football coach. And this
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Speaker 3: is a football coach that understands all parameters of the program.
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Speaker 3: What I love about Coach Superfield. He understands how to
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Speaker 3: engage with the donors. He's done a fantastic job of
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Speaker 3: just latching into our donors and really getting people to
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Speaker 3: really support this program at a high level. He's brought
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Speaker 3: in a great staff of coaches, guys that have been around.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about a guy like Ron Roberts,
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Speaker 3: he is like as the young kids will say, he's
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Speaker 3: an OG when he comes down to being a defensiuppordinator,
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Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that has been around that
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Speaker 3: understands how to get defenses moving in the right direction.
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Speaker 3: To get a great job at Florida. Tim Cramsey is
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Speaker 3: offensive coordinator from Memphis, came over. He's brought in a
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Speaker 3: nice coaching staff. But the thing about it is he
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Speaker 3: just put parameters in place. He sa, you know what
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Speaker 3: we're gonna be the best at what we can be
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Speaker 3: the best at, which is control of what we control.
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Speaker 3: We can control how we line up, we can control
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Speaker 3: our effort we can control all that. So I think
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Speaker 3: he's set in the right mindset. Now, you still got
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Speaker 3: some quality players here, don't get me wrong. Now we've
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Speaker 3: got we've got a brand new roster pretty much. I
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Speaker 3: mean when you talked about forty transfers and almost eighty
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Speaker 3: new people, I mean, that's that makes it very, very difficult.
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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, coach Suverfield is
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Speaker 3: very very solid in his mindset and his thinking. And uh,
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he's coached in the NFL, he's
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Speaker 3: coaching college, he's coaching high school. He understands how to communicate,
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Speaker 3: and Uh, to me, that makes a difference. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'll just give you a prime example. We're at a
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Speaker 3: donor event his first week here, a bunch of donors,
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Speaker 3: big money, got to have that big money. But when
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Speaker 3: his players walked up, he was locked in and then
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Speaker 3: he immediately went back to the dollars. And so I
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Speaker 3: love the aspect of it. He gets all components of
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Speaker 3: what it takes to build a program, and he's doing
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Speaker 3: the right things. He's Uh, he's given our fan based
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Speaker 3: a lot of hope right now.
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Speaker 1: Arkansas color analyst and broadcaster and former player Quinn Grovey
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Speaker 1: with us here on the Shat O'Connell Show with Bill
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Speaker 1: Riley filling in today. So replacing a lot of faces,
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Speaker 1: you got to start at the quarterback. It's the most
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Speaker 1: important position on the field. As you know, Quinn Taylor
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Speaker 1: Green's gone. He had a great year last year, part
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Speaker 1: of that great offense. Mike Washington, the tailback's also gone.
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Speaker 1: But tell me who you expect or is there a
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Speaker 1: leader or is there a defined guy already at quarterback?
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Speaker 3: You know, that's a million dollar question. You know. I
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Speaker 3: know kJ Jackson. kJ got a chance to play last
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Speaker 3: year and he did well when Taylor Green was not
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Speaker 3: in the football game. So he understands the University of Arkansas.
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Speaker 3: He understands, you know, where to go, eat, where to park,
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Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, and so he gets he
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Speaker 3: doesn't have to learn all that. But then you got
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Speaker 3: a guy like aj Hill. He comes there from Memphis
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Speaker 3: transferring with coach Superfield. He understands the offense and so
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Speaker 3: he's got to understand some other players as well and
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Speaker 3: other things at the University of Arkansas. At the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, Coach Simperfield said, they're gonna battle it out,
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Speaker 3: and I've always said being a quarterback at Arkansas myself,
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Speaker 3: the team is going to select the quarterback by the
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Speaker 3: way they perform. I mean, they're gonna move down the
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Speaker 3: field when a certain guy walks into the huddle, guys
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Speaker 3: respond differently. That's gonna be the difference in my opinion.
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Speaker 3: Both these guys are extremely smart. They understand pre snap,
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Speaker 3: they understand post snap, so they'll be very good there.
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Speaker 3: They're both very very athletic. I'm not sure exactly who's
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Speaker 3: going to be the starter. I mean, Coach Silverfield and
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Speaker 3: coach Cramsey and those guys are keeping it close to
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Speaker 3: the vest. I would say, basically, just based off of
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Speaker 3: just a playing experience at Arkansas, I would think that
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Speaker 3: kJ probably has the edge, but AJ is right there
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Speaker 3: with him. And you've got to have a quarterback if
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Speaker 3: you want to win football games in this conference, and
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Speaker 3: especially if you're talking about going to win a football
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Speaker 3: game and way out in Salt Lake City at nine
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Speaker 3: to thirty Central Standard time, which will be very very
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Speaker 3: difficult for us.
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Speaker 1: You guys would like to talk about that kickoff time
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Speaker 1: and awful lot everybody seems to be hung up. What
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Speaker 1: does it matter whether you just gotta shoot up and
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Speaker 1: play a little football.
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Speaker 2: Utahs playing at nine.
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Speaker 3: No, you're right about that. It's late, you know, I'm speaking.
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Speaker 3: I'm speaking for myself. Now, I wouldn't care. I would
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Speaker 3: not care. But at the end of the day, at
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Speaker 3: nine thirty, I'm usually in rem sleep. So that's one
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Speaker 3: of the things where you gotta you gotta get that.
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Speaker 3: But no, they'll be excited about getting out there. That's
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Speaker 3: gonna be a fun environment. We went out to BYU
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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago and that was the nicest
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Speaker 3: fan base that I've ever been associated with. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they handing out ice cream and all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: I was like, are you kid? I mean, we're like
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Speaker 3: from the SEC We're expecting to get cussed out as
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Speaker 3: we walk in and they're clapping for So I don't
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Speaker 3: expect that same environment in Salt Lake, but I expect
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Speaker 3: it to be a fun environment. That's gonna be a big,
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Speaker 3: big game, and that's that's one that a lot of
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Speaker 3: people here are hanging their hats on to see how
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Speaker 3: improove we are.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that North Alabama's gonna give you
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Speaker 1: a good feeling week one, but Utah'll probably give you
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Speaker 1: a little bit better feeling week two where you're at right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's going to be a big time matchup.
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Speaker 3: And I know you talked about the coaching change that
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Speaker 3: y'all have as well, and that is the easy transition.
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Speaker 3: But it's it's it's going to be a fun game.
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Speaker 3: We can't wait to get out there and and experience
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Speaker 3: that environment and that kickoff time gives us a little
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Speaker 3: bit more time to to go ahead and frolic and
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Speaker 3: enjoy saw Lake City in a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: Well, you were talking about teeing it up and playing
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. You can get up in the morning and
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Speaker 1: play a little golf that morning, Quinn, and then get
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Speaker 1: get to the game at a little bit later.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I'm looking forward to to all of that.
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Speaker 3: I'm looking for great restaurants, Bill, I love eating. I
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Speaker 3: heard about a spot called it Vaulters. Is that a
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Speaker 3: good Is that a good spot?
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Speaker 1: Valters is pretty good. There's another Italian place called Mateo
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Speaker 1: downtown and I could I could send you over to
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Speaker 1: that place to the Quinn. I'll take care of you
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Speaker 1: and in the broadcast crew on a good spot to
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Speaker 1: eat on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: Don't you worry about that.
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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that because we love to eat and
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Speaker 3: we love to take people to eat with us, and
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Speaker 3: so that's gonna be a fun trip. We got a
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Speaker 3: lot of a lot of fans coming out. We've got
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Speaker 3: people putting together travel packages. So there's gonna be a
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Speaker 3: huge Arkansas contingent out there, and we're excited about coming
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Speaker 3: out there.
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Speaker 1: Well, and Utah fans are excited too because you know,
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Speaker 1: as you know, SEC teams don't really leave the South
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Speaker 1: very much to play non conference games. So to get
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Speaker 1: to get an SEC Florida was out here a few
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Speaker 1: years ago, Utah got them out here, and Utah made
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Speaker 1: a trip and LSU is on the schedule in a
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Speaker 1: few years as well. There's a home and home with
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Speaker 1: LSU still, So I know Utah fans are excited about
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Speaker 1: getting the Hogs out here and just getting some SEC
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Speaker 1: teams at of riceycle Stadium.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, it's a great trip for us, and you know,
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Speaker 3: we're stepping outside of our normal footprint, there's no doubt
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Speaker 3: about it. But playing against a team like Utah with
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Speaker 3: the rich history that they have, I mean it makes
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Speaker 3: a lot of sense. And I mean that's a tough game.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you, look, you want to play against somebody
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Speaker 3: in conference. I could find the twenty other people that
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Speaker 3: I'd rather play than Utah. But at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day, if you win that football game, that sets
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Speaker 3: you up to put yourselves in a good position. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: Utah is a is a quality opponent, and boy, we're
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Speaker 3: excited about it.
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Speaker 1: Then you get Georgia the next week back at home,
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Speaker 1: so it's back to back. That is not easy for
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Speaker 1: Ryan Silverfield early. All right, give me give us an
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Speaker 1: idea of you know, obviously there's a lot of change,
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Speaker 1: a lot of new faced quarterback battle right now. But
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Speaker 1: if you feel is there a position group or an
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Speaker 1: area on this team you feel pretty good about heading
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Speaker 1: into camp.
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Speaker 3: Well, I feel really good about the wide receiver corps.
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Speaker 3: A lot of we lost a lot of our wide
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Speaker 3: receivers as well. We lost to make a Blake, we
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Speaker 3: lost Rason Sharp. Those are two guys that were very,
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Speaker 3: very effective for us. But now you've got to j
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Speaker 3: Brown coming back. He's a guy that will be probably
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Speaker 3: your tough returning receiver. Then you got Jaylen Brown who
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Speaker 3: actually actually Jaylen Brown just left the program, but he's
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Speaker 3: a guy that was is going to be able to
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Speaker 3: help this program in a big way. But Cordy Crutchfield
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Speaker 3: is a guy from Pine Bluff that can help you out.
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Speaker 3: It's Melcci, he's the transfer from Stanford. He's a guy
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Speaker 3: that is big, that is strong, that can run. He
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Speaker 3: can make a lot of plays. But I think the
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Speaker 3: guy that's going to be probably the biggest difference maker
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Speaker 3: in the wide receiver position is going to be Chris Marshall.
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Speaker 3: He's a transfer from Boise State. He's a guy that's
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Speaker 3: very athletic, and I think they'll be putting positions where
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Speaker 3: they'll be able to catch the football. They block, they
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Speaker 3: do a lot of different things from a wide receiver perspective,
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Speaker 3: but they're very, very effective in the spring game. They're
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Speaker 3: very explosive and yards after the catch. So those guys
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Speaker 3: are going to be one of the key calls. I
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Speaker 3: think they'll help the young quarterback in kJ and AJ
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Speaker 3: and then also and then you flip it over to
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Speaker 3: the defensive side. I think the defensive front is going
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Speaker 3: to be probably the strongest position group that we have.
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Speaker 3: You lose some really quality guys in Campbell and Phillip Lee,
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Speaker 3: Keyshawn Blackstock, all those guys, but Quincy Roase is the
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Speaker 3: second team All SEC guy. And when you want to
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Speaker 3: talk about somebody that can get out to the quarterback,
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Speaker 3: he can flat get after the quarterback. Last year he
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Speaker 3: had fifteen and a half tackles for lost in eight
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Speaker 3: and half sacks. He will have more than that, even
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Speaker 3: though he will be double teams in a lot of
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Speaker 3: different ways. But the guy that transferred from Virginia, Hunter Osborne,
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Speaker 3: number zero, a big fellow over three hundred pounds, likes
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Speaker 3: to wear number zero. He wears number zero. He wants
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Speaker 3: to look a little skinnier. But he's a guy that
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Speaker 3: is very, very affective. He's played a lot of snaps.
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Speaker 3: I love what he does. I love what he did
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Speaker 3: in the spring, the attitude that he showed with this
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Speaker 3: football team. He's going to help this defense out an
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Speaker 3: awful lot. And then you get into our linebackers. There's
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Speaker 3: a linebacker by the name of Kamori House. He is very,
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Speaker 3: very disruptive. He's a transfer as well. Reminds me a
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Speaker 3: lot of the Honey Badger. Okay, I mean, just the
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Speaker 3: guy that is just all over the place. He understands
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Speaker 3: how to blitz. Like if you send him on the blitz.
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Speaker 3: He understands how to get back there and get the sack.
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Speaker 3: He understands what his job is to do. But he
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Speaker 3: can jump up and get in passing lanes. He can
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Speaker 3: make a lot of plays. So Kamario House is a
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Speaker 3: guy that is electric and I think you're going to
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Speaker 3: see him be somebody that's going to create a lot
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Speaker 3: of impact defensively for Arkansas. But Ron Roberts is a
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Speaker 3: defensive coordinator who understands how to put those guys in
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Speaker 3: a great position, and I expect him to really turn
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Speaker 3: those guys loose, moving them all over the field, using
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Speaker 3: them as chess pieces.
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Speaker 1: Arkansas will come to Salt Lake City on September the twelfth.
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Speaker 2: Quinn will be part of that trip.
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Speaker 1: He'll be on the radio side of things with this
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Speaker 1: broadcast partner, Chuck Barrett, and they'll call that game. You
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Speaker 1: played a little QB back in the old Southwest Conference days.
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Speaker 1: You ever miss those days? I mean the Southwest Conference? Man,
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Speaker 1: that was some good And I'm gonna guess. I'm just
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Speaker 1: guessing because you and I are about the same age.
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Speaker 1: So are you an option quarterback?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, that's what they that's what they call us
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Speaker 3: back in the day now that they call them rpo
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Speaker 3: you know, so.
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Speaker 2: It's always going to be an option quarterback to me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, we won a lot of games back then.
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Speaker 3: That was conference back then was one of the tougher conferences.
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Speaker 3: When you talk about Texas, Texas A and M and
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Speaker 3: Baylor and all those guys, they were very, very difficult
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Speaker 3: to deal with. I was fortunate enough to win two
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Speaker 3: conference championships. Very proud. I'm the only quarterback in school
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Speaker 3: history to win two conference championships. And yeah, it was tough.
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Speaker 3: But I don't I don't miss getting hit. I really
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Speaker 3: don't miss getting hit. I do miss the you know,
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Speaker 3: the adrilline aspect of it. But what I will say,
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Speaker 3: I've done this radio broadcast thing for this. I think
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Speaker 3: this will be my twenty ninth year and so I
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Speaker 3: get I get my fulfillment from traveling with the team
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Speaker 3: and still being a part of all that. I you know,
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Speaker 3: once I graduated and had to start flying commercially and
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Speaker 3: going through TSA, I thought, man, what in the world
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Speaker 3: is going on? And now you know, I'm back to
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Speaker 3: flying with the team and join all that, and so
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Speaker 3: it's a it's really a cool deal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those are back in the days where quarterbacks wore
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Speaker 1: those half shirts, those meshy half shirts, and they were
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Speaker 1: holding that ball and flipping it outside. And well, you
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Speaker 1: you you you used to play against the old Big
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Speaker 1: twelve teams. You Baylor was in the Southwest Conference back
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Speaker 1: in the day, and yeah, I think Texas Tech was
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Speaker 1: probably in the Southwest Conference back in the day. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: some of those schools that are now in the Big
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Speaker 1: Twelve with Utah were back those were old South Who
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Speaker 1: was your head coach back back in those days?
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Speaker 3: So my head coach was a guy named Ken Hetfield Hafe.
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Speaker 2: He went the Air Force.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, that's right, and so he, uh he
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Speaker 3: came back to the University of Arkansas. He was my guy,
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Speaker 3: and man, we won some conference championships. I love playing
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Speaker 3: for him. He was the reason that I came to, uh,
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Speaker 3: the University of Arkansas, and uh, you know, I caught
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Speaker 3: a lot of heat for not going to Oklahoma and
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Speaker 3: playing for Barry Switzer's So yeah, I still catch you
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Speaker 3: every time I go across off that state line being
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Speaker 3: an Oklahoma guy and then coming back and coming back
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Speaker 3: into the States. So but I've made my home here.
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Speaker 3: I'm in Arkansas, and I love doing what I do
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Speaker 3: here with the University of Arkansas, and I'm thankful for
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Speaker 3: everything that I did because it was the best decision
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Speaker 3: I made my life.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say that those were the days
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Speaker 2: when J. C.
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Speaker 1: Watts and Jamel Holloway and all those quarterbacks were over
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Speaker 1: there at Oklahoma.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, those were It was a good crew over there.
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Speaker 3: Now that the one thing I always like to say
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Speaker 3: is I wasn't afraid of competition. But at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, when you know, Jamel Holloway was a
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Speaker 3: freshman and they had won a national championship, and so
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Speaker 3: that's going to be very, very difficult. So I like
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Speaker 3: to say, I'm just a I had to be smart
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Speaker 3: about where I decided to go, and the University of
17:43
Speaker 3: Arkansas was a perfect fit.
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Speaker 2: Well, you just showed your ability to read.
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Speaker 1: You can read a defense and you can read a
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Speaker 1: quarterback situation and made you made the right read, Quinn,
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: Well I did, and I'm thankful for it. And this
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Speaker 3: state has been so good to me and the fan
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Speaker 3: basically just off the charts crazy, and I'm always grateful
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Speaker 3: for the people of Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: Win's Camp begins begins Monday for Utah. When's it begin
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Speaker 1: for Arkansas?
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Speaker 3: Yep, Monday. Yeah, yeah, we'll be getting ready to go,
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Speaker 3: and so everybody be fired up and getting things ready
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Speaker 3: to go. And once you get things started, I mean,
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Speaker 3: you start that media day and you do all that,
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Speaker 3: and then now it's just it's time to go. And
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Speaker 3: then before you know it, Bill, we'll look up and
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Speaker 3: it'll be week six. I say that, how fast that
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Speaker 3: football season goes?
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Speaker 2: Quenn I say it all the time.
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Speaker 1: It's the season we wait and count down the days
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Speaker 1: to get here, but it flies by the fastest. Nobody
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Speaker 1: ever says basketball season or baseball season fly by fast.
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Speaker 1: But man, football season, it's gone in a blink of
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Speaker 1: an eye.
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Speaker 3: It is, it is, and I love every bit of it.
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Speaker 3: It happens so fast. But it's one of the I
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Speaker 3: like to say in the Grovy household, the holiday season
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Speaker 3: starts when the first game kicks off, and then we
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Speaker 3: just roll on in the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas and
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Speaker 3: New Years, and it's just a big holiday for the
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Speaker 3: Grovey family.
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Speaker 1: I agree, same thing with the Rileys and the Smileies.
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Speaker 1: So enjoy yourself. We'll connect again. I'll get with you
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Speaker 1: and Chuck and we'll connect again, maybe get you on
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Speaker 1: my podcast tape something for a pregame show. But I'll
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Speaker 1: for sure you guys are gonna go to breakfast at
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Speaker 1: Park Cafe. My friend Sean owns the place. It's the
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Speaker 1: best breakfast spot anywhere in Salt Lake City. So breakfast
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Speaker 1: for sure there, and I'll figure out some dinner spots
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Speaker 1: for you too.
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Speaker 3: All right, Bill, I appreciate it, Man, thanks for having
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Speaker 3: me on Talk.
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Speaker 1: SO and Quinn, thank you. That's Quinn Grovey with us SEES,
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Speaker 1: the color analyst. Former Arkansas quarterback. You heard it, won
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Speaker 1: a couple of Southwest Conference championships over there for Kenny Hatfield.
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Speaker 1: They'll be in Salt Lake City coming up on the
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Speaker 1: twelfth of September.