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July 8, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to all.
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  Speaker 8: Willie Wednesday here on Chip Howard's Sports Talk It is
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  Speaker 8: quittin time. Calebin Riley here filling in for Chip. He
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  Speaker 8: likes to go have a good time in July. I
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  Speaker 8: don't blame him.
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  Speaker 9: I don't either at all.
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  Speaker 8: But he leaves us here in the doldrums of the
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  Speaker 8: off season for most sports. We've got, of course MLB
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  Speaker 8: going all summer long. My personal favorite sport is baseball,
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  Speaker 8: so I'm happy. But a lot of sports fans, you know,
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  Speaker 8: they don't. They feel like there's not as much to
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  Speaker 8: talk about, not as much to read and react to.
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  Speaker 8: But big twelve media days have been happening this week.
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  Speaker 8: Just wrapped up earlier this afternoon. We heard from University
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  Speaker 8: of Houston head coach Willie Fritz at the end of
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  Speaker 8: the four o'clock hour. We're going to hear from Baylor
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  Speaker 8: head coach David Randa here shortly, but there have been
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  Speaker 8: some interesting things come out about the Big Twelve in
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  Speaker 8: this week, you know, with media days.
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  Speaker 4: Brent you or Mark.
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  Speaker 8: Had his press conference at the very start of everything
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  Speaker 8: before the coaches talked, and they announced that the Big
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  Speaker 8: Twelve will be partnering with Monster Energy a multi year
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  Speaker 8: sponsorship agreement. Schools will have jersey patches and field logos
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  Speaker 8: featuring the Monster Energy logo. Okay, so Riley told me
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  Speaker 8: that she hadn't heard about this yet, so she gets
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  Speaker 8: to it live. First of all, I think this is
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  Speaker 8: probably the most flamboyant sponsor that we're going to see
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  Speaker 8: on a jersey to start off this new era of
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you're probably gonna see a lot of jersey
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  Speaker 8: patches jersey sponsors. I don't know that there were any
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  Speaker 8: last year, maybe one or two, but Wisconsin I think
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  Speaker 8: announced Culver's is going to be their jersey sponsor, and
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  Speaker 8: now the Big Twelve is going to have a conference wide.
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  Speaker 4: Jersey sponsor, which is really interesting.
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  Speaker 8: The main problem that I see, uh, it's only I
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  Speaker 8: think it's like a twenty million dollar deal for the
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  Speaker 8: whole conference, So each team is only getting like a
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  Speaker 8: little over a million dollars to have Monster energy all
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  Speaker 8: over their jersey and their field.
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  Speaker 4: That seems a little up.
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  Speaker 9: That's really low in my opinion, I agree.
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  Speaker 8: So we will see if any more details come out
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  Speaker 8: about that, and you know, maybe the twenty million is
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  Speaker 8: only for just the jerseys, and then.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just really got to be something else.
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  Speaker 9: I just think it's funny like monsters trying to step
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  Speaker 9: into the games. You know, red Bull they sponsor everything
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  Speaker 9: that you're an adrenaline junkie, your Red Bull, you just
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  Speaker 9: go over in your own category. So monsters like we
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  Speaker 9: got to enter the pitcher, Let's go with one of
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  Speaker 9: the I got nothing, it's a Big twelve, one of
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  Speaker 9: the lower end conferences, Like, let's just go for the
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  Speaker 9: Big twelve because I guess they could pitch the cheapest
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  Speaker 9: amount of money to give. I guess that's my opinion,
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  Speaker 9: because you know the Big ten or that season. I
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  Speaker 9: would laugh at you if you did that. They'd be like, okay, yeah, sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: we can make twenty million a one game.
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  Speaker 4: So here's another weird thing about it.
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  Speaker 8: For me, monster has so so many flavors. So there's
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  Speaker 8: a lot of different can designs that have different colors. Right,
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  Speaker 8: So you'll see you know, they have like their coffee
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  Speaker 8: versions that will be like a brown logo on a
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  Speaker 8: tan can. Blue Hawaiian is like a silver logo on
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  Speaker 8: a blue can. But according to the Kansas State Athletic director,
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  Speaker 8: he said that they were told the jersey patches are
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  Speaker 8: required to be the monster green, So no matter the team,
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  Speaker 8: it's gonna be the monster green and black.
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  Speaker 9: Some team's gonna look Christmas.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't understand, Like, I don't get why you
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  Speaker 8: would have all of these different flavors, with all these
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  Speaker 8: different logos. Why wouldn't you just tailor it to the
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  Speaker 8: team so that it doesn't like, I know you want
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  Speaker 8: to stand out, but I feel like fans would be
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  Speaker 8: more open to it if it wasn't just because that's
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  Speaker 8: gonna the green and black is gonna clash on a
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  Speaker 8: lot of the jerseys.
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  Speaker 9: I completely agree with you. I think that what they
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  Speaker 9: should do is tailor it to each of the emblems,
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  Speaker 9: to the depending on what team you're on.
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  Speaker 8: No, it is definitely gonna stand out. But like Iowa
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  Speaker 8: State is maroon and gold, and they're gonna have a
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  Speaker 8: green and black logo on their a big green and
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  Speaker 8: black logo on their jersey. And their field, Like what
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  Speaker 8: are we doing?
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  Speaker 9: I like Arizona States will be were with the red
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  Speaker 9: and the blue and then you'll have green. I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I feel like that's kind of weird and has red
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  Speaker 9: on it. It's gonna look funny.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like Houston, Texas Tech PCU and Kansas State with
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  Speaker 4: the purple. I don't know. I feel like that honestly
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  Speaker 4: might look kind of.
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  Speaker 9: Good because they got Halloween going on.
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  Speaker 8: That, And like TCU and Kansas State are both like
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  Speaker 8: it's purple and then a neutral color either white, silver,
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  Speaker 8: or black. So I feel like the green won't look
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  Speaker 8: two out of place, true, But any school that their
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  Speaker 8: color combo is like like Arizona State and Arizona red
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  Speaker 8: and blue, red and gold.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm going through it over here. Baylor's gonna be
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  Speaker 9: weird though, because it'd be green on green on all that,
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  Speaker 9: like yeah, and those greens, don't Matt, Yeah, different shades
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  Speaker 9: of green too, that'll look weird.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't know how this is.
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  Speaker 8: I don't get how they're getting how the Big twelve
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  Speaker 8: and the schools agreed to this for only twenty million
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  Speaker 8: dollars for the whole conference, Like UNLV their Jersey sponsor
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  Speaker 8: is giving them two point two million a year.
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  Speaker 9: Oh you missed it. Texas Tech just announced who their
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  Speaker 9: starting quarterback is going to be if he's cleared from
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  Speaker 9: his ACL tear. Well will yeah, we'll.
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  Speaker 8: Hand Yeah, I guess that's probably who it's going to be.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't think you'd be healthy.
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  Speaker 9: Honestly, they said if he's cleared. I it just went
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  Speaker 9: across the headline right now.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, Well, Hammond is Uh, he's definitely shown a
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  Speaker 8: lot of upside and he's been kind of the de
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  Speaker 8: facto next man up since the whole brendan swersby situation
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  Speaker 8: went down. Yeah. Yeah, I'll be interesting to see what
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  Speaker 8: he can do. I think Texas Tech will still win
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  Speaker 8: the Big twelve pretty easily.
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  Speaker 10: I don't.
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  Speaker 9: I think there's so much mayhem and chaos that's been
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  Speaker 9: going on since this whole Brandon sorosby sagas happened. I
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  Speaker 9: think they'll be at the top, but I don't think
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  Speaker 9: they're gonna win the whole thing. I mean maybe you
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  Speaker 9: never know. You never know. Yeah, they do have a
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  Speaker 9: very expensive roster and team, so but your whole team
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  Speaker 9: kind of relies on a good quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: So for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 8: One team that we're gonna hear a little bit more
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  Speaker 8: about here in just a second. The Baylor head coach
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  Speaker 8: David Randa. He's on a little bit of a hot seat.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: I think this is fourth or fifth year with the program,
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  Speaker 8: and he's had that one really good season. I think
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  Speaker 8: it was twenty twenty two or twenty one, So it's
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  Speaker 8: been a while and kind of disappointed since then Sawyer
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  Speaker 8: Robertson graduated this past season. So DJ Lagway, the former
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  Speaker 8: Florida quarterback, coming into the transfer portal kind of a
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  Speaker 8: high ceiling, low floor type of place.
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  Speaker 4: I could see him being really good. I could see
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  Speaker 4: it working out really terribly.
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  Speaker 9: He's one of those players, in my opinion, I got
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  Speaker 9: nothing against him, but when he shuts down, it's game over.
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  Speaker 9: Like if his team's not cooperating and they're losing it,
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  Speaker 9: he's like, I'm done, I'm throwing in the talent. I
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  Speaker 9: don't want to be out here anymore. He's like that
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  Speaker 9: LSU quarterback that's meyer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, we are going to hear what coach Randa
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  Speaker 4: had to say at Big twelve media days yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 11: It's good to see everybody I'm blessed to be here,
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  Speaker 11: I'm humbled to represent Baylor.
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  Speaker 12: Really have three things.
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  Speaker 11: The first is ownership last year was not up to
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  Speaker 11: our standard. I take accountability for that, which leads to
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  Speaker 11: the second thing of what are we doing now? What's
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  Speaker 11: the plan? And there's been strong change. There's been me
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  Speaker 11: moving out of defense and bringing in Joe Klanderman and
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  Speaker 11: brand new scheme and new excitement and new methods. It's
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  Speaker 11: bringing in Dj Labway and his energy and his passion
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  Speaker 11: to play.
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  Speaker 12: Football and achieve at a really high level.
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  Speaker 11: There's building the team inside out as opposed to outside.
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  Speaker 11: In mistake I made a year ago was spending too
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  Speaker 11: much money on the outside our skill positions and not
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  Speaker 11: enough on the inside. The line of scrimmage is where
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  Speaker 11: our attention and our moneys have gone this year.
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  Speaker 12: And then just the overall investment into this team.
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  Speaker 11: Our athletic director Doug mctamie has done a great job
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  Speaker 11: of being an advocate and fighting for the football program
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  Speaker 11: and supporting me and the rest of the guys to
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  Speaker 11: be competitive in a way competitive market. All that leads
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  Speaker 11: to the third thing, which is belief. You know, the
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  Speaker 11: group we've got here today are our captains. They believe
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  Speaker 11: our team is hungry, has a chip on his shoulder
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  Speaker 11: and believes that we can win. We've got a really
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  Speaker 11: strong staff alignment, and we've got really good administrative support,
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  Speaker 11: and we're ready and excited for the challenge to come
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  Speaker 11: this season.
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  Speaker 12: Take any questions you guys got.
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  Speaker 13: Did we have a question? Please raise your hand.
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  Speaker 14: We'll go to front right.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, Coach Nick Hampilinton, Nightcast Media. I want to ask
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  Speaker 15: you about DJ and what exactly did you see in
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  Speaker 15: him that you felt like it was a great fit
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  Speaker 15: for your program, and ultimately, what is your vision for
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  Speaker 15: him when it's all said and done with this season,
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  Speaker 15: where would you like to see him expand upon and
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  Speaker 15: maybe make correct some shortcomings.
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  Speaker 11: I've known DJ since his high school days and recruiting
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  Speaker 11: him since that time, and so there's a good relationship
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  Speaker 11: kind of built already in the communication prior to his visit,
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  Speaker 11: and then for sure on his visit to Baylor, it
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  Speaker 11: felt to me like kind of straight jacketed, kind of tight,
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  Speaker 11: kind of closed up and felt like he wanted to
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  Speaker 11: be free, and I feel like he felt Baylor is
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  Speaker 11: a place that he could play free, really kind of
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  Speaker 11: be free and I'm all about that man, And so
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  Speaker 11: the opportunity to really kind of get to know him
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  Speaker 11: on a more personal level and get to where there's
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  Speaker 11: trust and where we got his back and he's got ours,
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  Speaker 11: and to really build that relationship I think allows us
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  Speaker 11: to really impact the player that he can be and
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  Speaker 11: excited for what's to come.
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  Speaker 12: You know, there's a huge chip on his shoulder. I
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  Speaker 12: would say that it's pretty true of our team.
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  Speaker 11: And to keep it to where it's like, man, I'm
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  Speaker 11: doing all this stuff because I want to prove me
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  Speaker 11: right more than I'm trying to prove other people wrong.
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  Speaker 12: Is really what we're trying to get.
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  Speaker 13: Left Center Front row coach Neil Meyer the front office
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  Speaker 13: News speaking in DJ we spoke to some of the
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  Speaker 13: players in the breakout side is earlier. They praised this
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  Speaker 13: his leadership skills and his ability to bring guys along
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  Speaker 13: with him. What's been the big the biggest thing for
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  Speaker 13: you as a coach to see him throughout this process
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  Speaker 13: and journey at Baylor so far.
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  Speaker 11: He communicates through football, and so there's guys that that
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  Speaker 11: communicate sometimes off the field.
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  Speaker 12: They'll connect whether it's.
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  Speaker 11: In the locker room or it's you know, at an
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  Speaker 11: apartment or kind of in the hallways of the facility.
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  Speaker 11: And then there's guys that connect through football, through the
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  Speaker 11: language of football and on the field, right, and DJ
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  Speaker 11: is that way.
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  Speaker 12: He's the best seen that way man. So whether it's taking.
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  Speaker 11: The old lineman out to eat, or it's taken all
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  Speaker 11: the receivers out to throw more or taking them to
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  Speaker 11: Florida to throw more, right, He's been very driven to
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  Speaker 11: connect and to build this team, and so I appreciate
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  Speaker 11: that about him. I think just the self determination and
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  Speaker 11: the strength that he has in his efforts to achieve
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  Speaker 11: a successful season is going pay dividends.
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  Speaker 16: Center right, second row, Dave Parker, Ring Fox forty four
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  Speaker 16: and Waco. You mentioned earlier it's more about proving yourself
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  Speaker 16: right instead of proving the doubters wrong. In your case,
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  Speaker 16: specifically entering year seven, how do you feel about proving
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  Speaker 16: yourself right to maybe the Baylor fans and also Baylor
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  Speaker 16: fan base as you guys look to get back to
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  Speaker 16: that Big twelve championship consideration.
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  Speaker 11: I'm always I'm always taken back, you know, from just
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  Speaker 11: the interaction that I have with our.
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  Speaker 12: Fans of just their.
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  Speaker 11: Their love for Baylor and just their kind of heartfelt
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  Speaker 11: appreciation of the program and just everything else. You know,
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  Speaker 11: as I was on a plane, family was on vacation
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  Speaker 11: and they're still on vacation right now, and so I
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  Speaker 11: came back off of it, and so on the plane
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  Speaker 11: to hear was a Dallas Fort Worth crew and there's
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  Speaker 11: a bunch of Baylor fans on the plane, and so
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  Speaker 11: there wasn't.
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  Speaker 12: Much sleep on that flight.
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  Speaker 11: There was a lot of just talking to them and
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  Speaker 11: taking pictures and all of it. And a lot of
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  Speaker 11: my interactions with fans have been that way, and I'm
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  Speaker 11: so appreciative of it.
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  Speaker 12: I know of what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 11: And so I think for us to kind of kind
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  Speaker 11: of stack some wins this summer, you know, had a
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  Speaker 11: really good Monday, Let's.
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  Speaker 12: Make sure we got a really good Tuesday.
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  Speaker 11: Let's build on it with a really good Wednesday and
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  Speaker 11: Thursday and Friday, and keep building and stacking wins. I
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  Speaker 11: think we'll be able to get everybody. I'm pretty confident
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  Speaker 11: that that's the course.
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  Speaker 17: Wrong Sener writer in the back coach Madison Plumbo case
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  Speaker 17: and Channel six, what did this off season and reveal
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  Speaker 17: about the team's identity that we may not not see
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  Speaker 17: until September.
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  Speaker 11: They crave winning, they need to win, and they're very
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  Speaker 11: they're hungry to win. I think that would probably be
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  Speaker 11: the term hungry. And there's a lot of confrontation. There's
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  Speaker 11: probably been more confrontation this year than the past couple
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  Speaker 11: of years.
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  Speaker 12: And there's been a higher.
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  Speaker 11: Level of keeping up, keeping people to the standard of
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  Speaker 11: the things that we say we are and the things
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  Speaker 11: that we say we're going to do.
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  Speaker 12: And so that's been.
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  Speaker 11: Coaches involved with that for sure, but that's been more
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  Speaker 11: player led than it's been in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 14: Serl breaking back Donovan Bridge for t xaying twenty four News.
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  Speaker 14: I wanted you to speak a little bit about Wheeler's
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  Speaker 14: elvis ability and him coming from Indiana and how.
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  Speaker 15: That looks.
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  Speaker 11: Big fans of Hoseiah, and just his leadership and his confidence.
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  Speaker 11: You know, he walks in the room and you feel it,
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  Speaker 11: you know, and when he's when he speaks, everybody listens.
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  Speaker 11: He's on our leadership council and so he's got a
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  Speaker 11: spot that he always sits and we'll talk about a subject,
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  Speaker 11: go go around the room, and when it gets to him,
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  Speaker 11: everyone kind of quiets down to hear what he says,
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  Speaker 11: and he says it was such confidence, and the guys
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  Speaker 11: believe him and they want they want to play for him,
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  Speaker 11: and it's a it's been a great Connector is someone
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  Speaker 11: that has seen the the lows and the highs, and
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  Speaker 11: so we're fighting for him.
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  Speaker 15: You know.
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  Speaker 11: I think right now all of that's going to be
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  Speaker 11: in the courts and we're hoping that we get a
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  Speaker 11: quick resolution because the time is running down that we
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  Speaker 11: have to before we start.
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  Speaker 18: The season for a left side HI coach is Kennedy
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  Speaker 18: Hardiman with D two ten Sports. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 18: ask you, what does your vision look like for a
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  Speaker 18: fall camp. How do you plan to really build this
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  Speaker 18: team with the new audition so that Baylor can exceed
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  Speaker 18: their expectations and succeed during this season.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm kind of triggered a little bit when you
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  Speaker 12: say vision. When I think of vision, I think of
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  Speaker 12: McClain Stadium that's full.
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  Speaker 11: It's got green and gold all the way at the
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  Speaker 11: top levels are green and gold. If people have tickets,
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  Speaker 11: they're using their tickets, and people that want to go
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: to the game, they are Baylor fans are trying to
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: find tickets to go and support Baylor, that there is.
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: Jams, logjams in the.
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: Front to get in that on the river there's people
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: partying and there's boats up and down.
• 18:15
  Speaker 12: And that when the opponent.
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: Is in a third down you can't hear anything in
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: the stadium.
• 18:21
  Speaker 12: That's the vision, you know, to get the whole the
• 18:24
  Speaker 12: whole city of Waco and.
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: Central Texas and Baylor fans engaged is the vision. And
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: so to do that is like every squat that we take,
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: every power clean that we do, every run that we do,
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: we're working with that in.
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: Mind's our that's our goal. That's what we want, and.
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: We can achieve that, man, and we can we can
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: say we're doing that right here, right now. And so
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: that's that's a bit of a triggering thing for me.
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: I've talked a lot about it. I think what happens when.
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: You think that way and you believe that way, you
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: take ownership of it. And so now you own what
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: you're doing and you own how you're going to be.
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: And that's happening right now in our team, and I'm
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: excited to see it happen.
• 19:09
  Speaker 19: So all right, Coach Miranda Conrad with a KMU quick
• 19:14
  Speaker 19: question about your losses. First, Houston TCU in Arizona State
• 19:21
  Speaker 19: all one score losses. Talk about what you're going to
• 19:26
  Speaker 19: have to do in the fourth quarter in the Big
• 19:27
  Speaker 19: twelve this upcoming year versus those losses last year.
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: We got to close the deal. I think you look
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: at any any.
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: Workout that's happening today, right there's going to be a
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: start to it. We got to start fast in the
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: middle of it. There's got to be the scoreboards a distraction.
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: I'm not looking to see how much times left in
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: the in the period.
• 19:50
  Speaker 12: I'm not looking to see what the score is. Can
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: I take it easy? Do I need to turn it up.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: I'm not looking to see, hey, there's only a couple
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: of minutes left and then I'm done, or there's only
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: a couple.
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: Minutes to the break. The scoreboards the distraction. I'm focused
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: on the present.
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: I'm focused on what I'm doing right now, and then
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: at the end of it is close the deal. Hey man,
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: you've gone through all the things and have done all
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: the things, and now you're in a position to close
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: to close this game. This is what we're here for,
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: this is what you do, this is who we are.
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: And so that's been a huge emphasis throughout.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: And that's played out, and all the workouts we do
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: that's played out, and all the meetings we have that
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: are in the evenings that's played out, and anything that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: We do, there's a start, there's a middle, and there's.
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: A finish, and we've got to be really strong with
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: the finishes. And you know, I think every day you've
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: got to build stack up wins in this league because
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: there's a lot of fourth quarter changes, like you just
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: talked about, and you know, something that's happening in April
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: on a Tuesday has a direct effect to those games
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: you're talking about in November.
• 20:53
  Speaker 16: Final question for right side coach Locktop and Pieheads podcast networker.
• 20:59
  Speaker 14: You've had a jury's back and forth with b Yu.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: There was the state of Utah as a whole.
• 21:05
  Speaker 20: How excited to have the Cougar's back on the schedule
• 21:08
  Speaker 20: this fall.
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: Have a lot of respect for b Yu. Klonie.
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: I would consider him a friend, you know, Klanie's the
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: type word.
• 21:15
  Speaker 12: I imagine.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: He's got a lot of friends, but he's someone that
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: then I've known for a while and is whether I've
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: been up or down or all around, he's treated me
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: with total.
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: Respect and so I have a lot of respect for him.
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: I know his team is a team that's gonna fight tough,
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: and they're gonna you're talking about four quarter games. They're
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: going to play a four quarter game, and so what
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: a test for us, especially in a real tough environment.
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: And so it's gonna take our best, but we're excited
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: for that challenge.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: That was Dave Randa, head coach of the Baylor Bears.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: How much longer he'll be the head coach remains to
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: be seen. Uh, entering year seven, which I didn't realize
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: until they said it, and that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Sound that is insane.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: He got that job immediately after he was the defensive
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: coordinator for the twenty nineteen LSU team that won the
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: national championship, and he's managed to hang on to it
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: for a long time. Kind of kind of wild. It's
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: been very up and down in his tenure. I would
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: say his first season was the COVID year twenty twenty.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: They went two and seven. But you know, having your
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: first year at a school be the COVID year is
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: just that's unfortunate. You can't really, you know, you can
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: kind of write that off. That's definitely special. Circumstances, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: especially since in twenty twenty one they came right out
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: and won the Sugar Bowl, went twelve and two, first
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: in the Big Twelve. Looked like Baylor was going to
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: be one of the powerhouses they follow.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: That looks like that every year and then we just
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: know the big point.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: They went twelve and two in twenty twenty one, they
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: barely missed the playoff.
• 22:53
  Speaker 20: I know, by the.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Skin of teeth.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: That's I'm sane. It's always like, oh my gosh, we
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: get here like and then something happens at the end.
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: It just makes me so sad.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, because then twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: I thought he was gonna get fired. After twenty three
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: they went three and nine, So back to back losing
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: seasons six and seven and three and nine and twenty
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: two and twenty three. Twenty twenty four went eight and five,
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: solid year, and then this past season went five and seven.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: So I think this is definitely if he has another
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: mediocre year, he's probably done.
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: Oh hunred percent.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: And it's not the easiest schedule. I mean, it's the
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: Big Twelve, so none of the schedules are that hard.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: But starting the year off against Auburn, who is in
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: the opposite situation, first year under a new coach, Alex
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Alex Golish.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I believe South Florida.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: That game is in Atlanta on September fifth, so technically
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: a neutral site game, but you know, George's way closer
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: to Auburn than it is Waco. And then I think
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: that's the only real tough non conference game. Big Twelve
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: does play a nine game conference schedule now, So the
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: other two non conference for Baylor is Prairie View A
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: and M and Louisiana Tech. Both of those If if
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: Randa loses either of those games, then I think you
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: can just go ahead and assume that he's going to
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: get fired. So those aren't really going to tell you
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: anything unless he loses them. But I mean, they'll take
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: care of business against the bad teams they usually do.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: But it's the Big Twelve. Anything could happen. They could
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: make a run at the title, they could be the
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: last place team in the conference.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: You really never know in this conference. That's the b I've.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Never heard a better description of the Big Twelve than
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: what you would just say.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: The Big Twelve is always the hardest conference to predict
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: except for now you can now and for the next
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: you know, probably five to ten years. You can assume
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: that Texas Tech is going to be in the conversation
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: for the title just because of the way that the
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: NIL situation has gone with them. But other than that,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: I really don't know who's who else is in the conversation.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Like I think maybe Kansas State, you know, new head coach.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: They took our offensive coordinator, calling client, and now he's
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: the head man at k State, which is where he
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: started his his playing career and his coaching career. So
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: you know, when when he got hired there, there were
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: some people that felt betrayed, but I completely get it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: That's his, that's his that's home for him.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: He's the head guy there now, and I think that
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: that works out best for all parties, because I mean,
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: he was he was a fine offensive coordinator.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: He was fine. I didn't have any issues with him.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: I definitely, you know, I mean, you can second guess anybody,
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: but anyway, I think Kansas State's definitely in the conversation there.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: I haven't kept how has recruiting been.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: I'm it's hard to judge anything about recruiting in in
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: the first off season because it's not a full off season,
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: so I don't really know what it looked like this
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: year or this past offseason. But this next year is
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: really what's gonna define whether or not he can recruit
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: on his own. So a lot of talent in this league.
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: I'm really excited to see what Connor Wigman does in
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: his senior season at Houston. I think they could be
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: in the in the competition for the Big Twelve title.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: I like Drew Mestamaker at Oklahoma State that Oklahoma State
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: might be my biggest, biggest question mark this season in
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: the Big Twelve because new head coach Eric Morris, coming
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: over from North Texas, brought his quarterback with him. They
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: were both great in the American Conference last year.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Will will it translate to the Big Twelve is the
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: big question.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: They were Oklahoma State was so bad last year and
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: finally decided to end the Mike Gundy era, and he
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: was one of the longest tenured coaches in the sport.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: So it'll be a very different chapter and a new
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: chapter for the Cowboys. I could see them making a
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: little noise if it all clicks right away. Usually that's
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: not how how these things work, but you never know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: And then of course b Yu it's gonna be in
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: the conversation always. Bear Bachmeyer was one of the most
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: fun players to watch last season. So I think those
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: are probably the three. The three teams that I would
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: say I wouldn't be surprised if they won it won
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: the conference are definitely Texas Tech BYU and then Houston.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: We'll see, We'll see how that goes, but should be
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: very interesting. To keep up with the Big Twelve is
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: always fun, especially if if you're not an Aggie fan,
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: maybe you're maybe you're a fan of one of these
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: smaller schools, or your team's just not very good this year.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Just watch the Big Twelve and you will stay entertained
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: throughout the season, I promise, because you don't, No, you
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: never know what's going to happen week to week. Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: in the now the Monster Energy Big twelve football, so.
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: Oh god, you know that, you know those commercials are
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: gonna be over like you're gonna by the time and
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: get two weak Drea and be like, okay, Monster, we
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: get it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: I'm interested to see the jersey patches if it's like
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: a combined Monster Energy Big twelve patch or if it's
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: two separate patches, because those jerseys are gonna start looking
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: really busy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: If it's two separate patches.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's gonna look weird.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: But a lot to look forward to, lots to get
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: excited about.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Football season will be here for you know, We've only
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: got about another month and a half, thank god, so
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: we're getting close. We're gonna take a break, and when
• 28:41
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• 28:44
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  Speaker 4: That caught my eye.
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  Speaker 8: I remember seeing this before. I think it was last season,
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  Speaker 8: and the trend has continued to hold up. So there
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  Speaker 8: is a trend that has been holding up since twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 8: Every college basketball national champion has checked at least one
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  Speaker 8: a top twenty high school recruiting class, enrolled a top
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  Speaker 8: twenty transfer class, or returned their leading scorer. At least
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  Speaker 8: one of those boxes has been checked for each of
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  Speaker 8: the last champions since twenty eighteen, only Villanova in twenty
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  Speaker 8: sixteen and twenty eighteen and the last two teams to
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  Speaker 8: defy this trend. So there are twenty five teams that
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  Speaker 8: meet this criteria this year. None of them fulfill all
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  Speaker 8: three of those, but there are a few teams that
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  Speaker 8: have two of them. So Duke has the number two
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  Speaker 8: recruit high school class, number ten transfer portal class. Louisville
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  Speaker 8: actually has the number one transfer portal class and number
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  Speaker 8: twenty recruiting class in the SEC. You've got Michigan number
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  Speaker 8: fourteen in both high school and transfer portal.
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  Speaker 9: You mean big ten for Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: Did I say Michigan, I met Missouri?
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you said Michigan, Michigan, I.
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  Speaker 8: Say Missouri, Sorry, fourteen and fourteen. Tennessee has the number
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  Speaker 8: two transfer portal and number seventeen high school class. Texas
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  Speaker 8: has the number four transfer portal class, number sixteen high
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  Speaker 8: school recruiting. So definitely this I with these stats. You know,
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't mean, it doesn't really mean that this is
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  Speaker 8: exactly what's gonna happen, but in college basketball, having that
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  Speaker 8: high level talent definitely is does kind of determine how
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  Speaker 8: far you're gonna be able to go, like we always
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: get with March Madness. We always see those Cinderella stories
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: that you know, make a run to sometimes even the
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: final four of the Elite Eight. But you never really
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: see those mid major teams win just because they're not
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: as deep as these power conference teams. Pretty Much everybody
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: on this list of twenty five as a power conference
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: team except for Saint John's and Villanova, but you know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: those are two basketball powerhouses that are always in the mix.
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: You know, Like I said, Vilenovo is the only team
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: not to stick with this trend back in twenty sixteen
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: and twenty eighteen. So Texas A and m fulfills this
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: this these criteria. They had the number eleven transfer portal
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: class this season. And I know we didn't actually bring
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: back our leading scorer, but we are bringing in the
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: leading scorer in all of NCAA from last year in PJ.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Haggart.
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: Isn't that crazy. I'm so excited to watch Lay.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I'm extremely excited to see what he's gonna do.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: I think that this Aggie basketball team, Bucky McMillan has
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: definitely shown that his teams are going to be fun
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: to watch. And we'll talk about this a little more tomorrow.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: In the five o'clock hour, I'll be talking to the
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: president of the Reid Rowdy Student Organization, day Rendelos Santos,
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: and we talk about Aggie volleyball and men's basketball. So
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: that'll be tomorrow evening and we'll talk a little bit
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: more about Bucky and coach Jamie Morrison as well. But
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: I'm really excited for this transfer portal class, the number
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: eleven transfer portal class in the nation. They He's brought
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: in a lot of high end talent and the first
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: season under Bucky, I'd say it was a success. You know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: got that one March Madness win over Saint Mary's in
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: the round of sixty four, did end up getting knocked
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: out in the next round, but didn't go one and done.
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: In March Madness, competed very well in the SEC. They
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: were near the top of the league for most of
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: the season before, you know, dropping off a little bit
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: there at the end, but that's to be expected in
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: a team in its first year under a new coach.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: He doesn't he didn't fully have his players in there yet.
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: And this year, you know, this year the expectations definitely
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: are going to be higher, There's no doubt about that.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: But I think that these these players are gonna be
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: up to the task. He brought in six new transfers
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: to the team, did lose three transfers, but the three
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: transfers that left were Pop Isaacs, Rubin Dimingez, Josh Holloway,
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: all players that contributed, but also all players that definitely
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: had their pros and cons. So I think these replacements
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: for them, I'm really excited about.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be very ard at depth.
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: Like we need to add like Bucky talks, I mean
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: to add length, we need to add height, and we
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: need to add younger players. I mean, we had an
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: older roster, and I'm not taking anything away with older players,
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: but I feel like with this group, if they stay
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: for a couple of years, it will be able. He'll
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: be able to finally build and establish the team he
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: truly wants here.
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, last year he brought in ten transfers because you know,
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: there were a lot of holes to Phil. There was
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: only one scholarship player left on the roster when Bucky
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: took over last year, Chris McDermott. So guys like Rashaun
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: ag Ddy Federico, Jakari Lane, Ryland Griffin. We're all towards
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: the end of their college careers, and that's just you know,
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: when you come into the game so late, you take
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: what's left. And I think he did a very job,
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: a very good job of making the most of what
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: he had in the twenty five to twenty sixth season.
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: Oh, I was, I'm not gonna lie to you. I
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: was very, very impressed with what he did with this
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: team this past season. I mean, he surpassed almost everybody's
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: expectations if you're being honest.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and last year we didn't really have like a
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: go to guy. We had a lot of guys that
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: would be really good second and third options, but we
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: never really had a number one option. Rashaan Ag was
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: that tried to be that, and he did a great job.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: I think he would be a very very good second
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: best player on a team, but in the SEC it's
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: just he's not quite enough to be your best player.
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: Well it's not even that he didn't have enough people
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: backing him to give him that option.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: That too, but this year he j Haggerty immediately makes
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: your ceiling so much higher.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Having a guy like that that when you need a bucket,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: you know who you're going to give the ball to. Yeah,
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: and then Jalen Reese as well Bryce and Warren.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: If that eligibility requirement ever gets figured out, I think
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: he'll be really good and once again kind of similar
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: to last year, they are still gonna We're still gonna
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: be kind of a smaller team, very guard heavy, so
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: I think, but that's just I think that's also gonna
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: be a little bit of how Bucky's teams are. It
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: seems like as he really likes to have great shooting
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: is definitely a priority, so it's always going to be
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: a little guard heavy.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I think next.
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: Year going and getting a really a good forward is
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: going to be a priority. But we are kind of
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: getting a big forward just by getting McKenzie, mackenzie and
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: Baco back from injury. He will be healthy and ready
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: to play in the fall, I think, is what Bucky said.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: I think he said he's almost back to the one
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: hundred percent in practice if I remember correctly.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: So that's huge.
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: He showed flashes of what he could do in the
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: little time that he had with us last year before
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: going out for the season.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: With that injury.
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: We have Zach Clemens back from last year, the six
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: to eleven forward, and bringing in Cad Phillips from Tennessee,
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: a player that Bucky recruited.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think him and Zach will both.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: I think they're gonna be kind of the so Clements
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: and then Jamie Vinson as well and Phillips are all
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: kind of going to rotate as kind of that second
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: option for a forward behind Imbacco.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Mbacco is definitely the number one out of that group.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: That's what he was.
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: Meant to be when we picked him up out of
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: the transferportal last year. But he's also only six foot nine,
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: so having it well, I mean, I'm being funny.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: I just love him.
• 43:07
  Speaker 9: Say he's only six nine, only fought five and a half.
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: I'mna be walking by him, staring up and him like, man,
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: you're a foot and a half taller than me to
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: press conferences.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: So we've got three players just under six or just
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: under seven foot Zach Clements, Jamie Vincent, and Josh Irving,
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: So I think we're probably gonna want to have at
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: least one of them on the floor at all times.
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: But I think the average height of the team this
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: year is gonna be a lot, yeah, a lot taller.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Which is good in the SEC.
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: That's something that you know, we ran into problems with
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: Florida and Vanderbilt just because we didn't have the size
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: to compete with them. I don't think that's gonna be
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: as big of a problem this year, So I'm really
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: excited to see what Bucky does. The expectations are gonna
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: be much higher though. That's that's the biggest difference between
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: this year and last year. Last year we were not
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: expecting I mean, we were expected to be one of
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: the worst teams in the SEC. You know, we were like, Okay,
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: if we go five hundred, I guess that'll be fine.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: He exceeded those expectations by a lot.
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: But what that means is that now this year, the
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: expectations are so much higher. The talent level is so
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: much higher, the ceiling is so much higher. But in
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: college basketball, anything can happen, So it will be very
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: interesting to see how they perform this under this pressure.
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: And it's only year two, but there's definitely a lot
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: more pressure this year than last season.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: But I'm really.
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: Excited the roster he brought in. I'm not gonna lie
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: to you and just seeing kind of how Bucky is.
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: I have never been you y'all know, I'm not the
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: biggest basketball fan. I have never been more excited for
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: an Aggie basketball season than I am this upcoming season,
• 44:49
  Speaker 9: just with the transfers coming in, just with how he's
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: changing the way this program works, and also just the
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: I don't know, the different level of skill we kind
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: of have going into this. Like last year, I was excited,
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: but I was like, hmm, this manstin we have a
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: whole entire new roster one players coming back, whereas this
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: year it's like a few people coming back and we
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: finally get to see you know, his name just slipped
• 45:13
  Speaker 9: my mind, finally gets hit the court and play and
• 45:15
  Speaker 9: you bring in all this stuff, yes, Abacca and then
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: needs to have all this other talent comings Like, man,
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: what are we like, what are we truly in for?
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: What are we going to get to finally see? Like
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: this is gonna be the A and in basketball, I
• 45:25
  Speaker 9: think a lot of people are excited to see.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, it's gonna be a lot of fun and the
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: Aggies will get not officially their season, but they will
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: be playing in the Baja mar Hoops summer League in
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: the Bahamas in August, so we'll get a little glimpse
• 45:42
  Speaker 8: into what the team might look like in the actual season.
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: That's an exhibition summer league over. I think it's just
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: a weekend in the Bahamas, so that'll be a lot of.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: Fun to watch. And then non conference schedule is tough.
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: We'll get to play TCU, Stanford, I think Oklahoma State,
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: so definitely going to get tested. But looking forward to
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: this season, I think it'll definitely be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 8: And we found a lot to talk about here in
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  Speaker 9: Crazy before you get into this, sorry meeting a Brownie,
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  Speaker 9: because they have a summer league that starts right off
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  Speaker 9: the playoffs is over. I never knew this.
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  Speaker 8: Oh really, Noe, Yeah, well, it's the summer league is
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  Speaker 8: usually like guys that are right on the fringe of
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  Speaker 8: the rosters. So rashaan Age who we mentioned earlier, is
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  Speaker 8: the summer league. Wade Taylor is on a roster. I
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  Speaker 8: can't remember where all they are, but a lot of
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  Speaker 8: recent Aggie basketball players that will be taking part in
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  Speaker 8: the NBA Summer League, so it'll.
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  Speaker 4: Be a lot to watch see how they do.
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: You know, Aggie, There aren't very many Aggie basketball alums
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  Speaker 8: in the NBA, but there definitely are some pretty prominent
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: ones like Alex Caruso I think is probably the biggest
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  Speaker 8: one right now. DeAndre Jordan back in the twenty tens
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  Speaker 8: was really great for the Clippers in Lob City.
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  Speaker 4: He's still hanging around.
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  Speaker 8: He's a I think he just signed another contract with
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  Speaker 8: the Pelicans, so we'll get to see him play again.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's like his eighteenth or nineteenth season, and
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  Speaker 8: then I believe it's Chris Middleton was also Anaggy. So
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  Speaker 8: there are still a few in the NBA, but I'm
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: hoping that with Bucky McMillan now, we will see more
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: and more Aggie's in the NBA. I hope it's a
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: little better represented. But NBA free agency is, you know,
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: officially underway. There have been some interesting moves. There have
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: been some interesting trades, as well, still some big names
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: on the market. Obviously, Lebron James has announced I think
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: it was last week that he will not be returning
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: to Los Angeles this season, and that there have been
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: there's been a lot of speculation about some different landing
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: spots that he could go to. I really think that
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: it probably will just end up being back in Cleveland,
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: just because a lot of the other places that have
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: been named they just don't really make sense. Like going
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: back to Miami right now wouldn't really, that'd be that
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: one would be the weirdest, honestly, Like as far as
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: fit goes, they just with the heat just trading for Jannie,
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: They're gonna have Jannis and Bam are there. That's their
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: dynamic duo right now, and they're they're kind of lacking
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: in guard play. So bringing in Lebron, yeah, he wouldn't
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: have to blame the post at all, but you still
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: don't really have any shooters.
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: He just needs to retire. I said it, I'll say it,
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: I'll say crazy. He just needs to retire because I'm sorry,
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: great player, this, that and the other. But there gets
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: to a point where this drama is not necessary. We
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: all know that he's only gonna be playing for a couple,
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: maybe one or two more years even that, and on
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: top of that, it's a waste of a contract and
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: money and potential for another player just and kind of
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: get his run going. He's just taking a roster spot
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: just because he can.
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: Okay, a lot of what you said is valid, but
• 53:08
  Speaker 8: I will push back a little bit. He did average
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: twenty one points per game, seven assists, and six rebounds
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: in the games that he played for.
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: Oh.
• 53:15
  Speaker 9: I'm not saying he's still not a great player. I'm
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: just saying it's time to move on.
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: Okay, that's fair. I mean this would be his twenty
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: second season I think in the NBA.
• 53:23
  Speaker 9: Oh I thought, okay, maybe wait how old is he
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: you guys tell me age.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Forty two?
• 53:30
  Speaker 9: Okay, he needs to move on. He's like, I'm sorry,
• 53:32
  Speaker 9: and I'll say, like this, Tom Brady agoat amazing football player,
• 53:35
  Speaker 9: but it was time for him.
• 53:36
  Speaker 13: To move on.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: It's forty one.
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: It's when you hit a certain age and this is
• 53:41
  Speaker 9: nothing against you, as like, it's time to move on,
• 53:44
  Speaker 9: focus on family, start doing things like that, and stop
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: worrying only about your career. It's time for family and
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: he's at that point where it's time for family.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: Hey, he played with his son on the Lakers.
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  Speaker 9: I don't care, the same son that had a heart
• 53:58
  Speaker 9: attack from doing drugs, but they covered up hot.
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  Speaker 8: That's a rabbit hole there. I don't know if we
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: need to go down that one. But anyway, I'm sorry.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: We could go down the rabbit hole, but I don't
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: know if that's the best place to go with only
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: six minutes left in the show here anyway, So Lebron,
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: I think the main landing spots right now are Cleveland, Miami,
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: and Philly. I think it probably will be Cleveland, and
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: that would that would be the easiest way to.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: Wrap up the career. I think back where it started.
• 54:33
  Speaker 9: I think that would actually be kind of cool.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that would be the best for all
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: parties involved.
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: So we'll see. Let's see James Harden. Speaking of Cleveland,
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: he will probably be leaving the Cabs. He declined his
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: player option, so I would imagine he's not going to
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: come back.
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  Speaker 4: He's also getting up there in age.
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: He's thirty six, but still average twenty three point six
• 54:57
  Speaker 8: points per game last year, choked in the playoff once again.
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: But you know what, you're signing up for if you
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: bring James Harden onto your team. Jalen Brown going to
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: the seventy six Ers, Like, it's been a while a
• 55:11
  Speaker 8: little while now, we've had some time to think about it,
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: but it still just does not make any sense that
• 55:16
  Speaker 8: the Sixers gave him up for Paul George and two
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: first round picks.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I still don't understand that move.
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: That's it's not as bad as the Luca Dashas trade,
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: but it's it's not good. It's up there. It's definitely
• 55:33
  Speaker 8: up there. Jalen Brown is not Luca, but Paul George
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: also is an eighty, So I don't know. I think
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: the Sixers are probably the favorite in the East now
• 55:44
  Speaker 8: because of that move. I mean they got Joel Embiid
• 55:46
  Speaker 8: Jalen Brown. I mean just those two right there, that's
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: two of the biggest stars in the league.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: And then VJ.
• 55:54
  Speaker 8: Edgecombe going into a sophomore season Tyrese Maxey. That's gonna
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: be a really, really solid team, but.
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: A lot a lot more moves to come.
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: The Rockets have been fairly active, bringing in Marcus Smart,
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: re signing Tarry Eesen, trading away Dorian Finney Smith to
• 56:18
  Speaker 8: free up a roster spot. They literally got nothing. That's
• 56:22
  Speaker 8: one of the funniest things about just salary dumps. The
• 56:26
  Speaker 8: Rockets literally traded him to the Hornets and gave them
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: two second round picks just to get rid of him,
• 56:33
  Speaker 8: like they all they got back. I don't even know
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: that they actually gotten anything back. I think they basically
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: just cleared his contracts. They were like, all right, we'll
• 56:41
  Speaker 8: take his contract, you give us two second round picks.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: Cool.
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: So trades like that always baffle me. We're about out
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  Speaker 8: of time here. We're gonna take one more break and
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  Speaker 8: then we'll be back to wrap it up. You're listening
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  Speaker 8: to Chip Howard Sports Talk here on the Zone.