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Miami Hurricanes Head Coach Mario Cristobal · College Football with Stugotz & The Bear

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  Speaker 1: This is college football with Stugatz and the Bear.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's go time.
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  Speaker 1: T-Bob is with us. Wake up, barstool.
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  Speaker 3: And then at the time of greatest triumph, I want
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  Speaker 3: to suck from the cup of their tears.
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  Speaker 4: I want to watch their women.
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  Speaker 3: And children writhing on the ground. Everything that is precious
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  Speaker 3: to Ole Miss, everything they pray for when they lay
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  Speaker 3: their head down at night and they talk to their creator,
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  Speaker 3: you want to take all of that and you want
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  Speaker 3: to melt it in front of their faces and pour
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  Speaker 3: it back down their throat and execute them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who cares?
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  Speaker 5: What, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: If I heard somebody utter those words, I would throw
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  Speaker 3: them out the second story of the football life.
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  Speaker 1: I love you boys. The College Football Show with Stugatz
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  Speaker 1: and Baer. And there's T-Bob again. We also have Mario Cristobal,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach at the University of Miami. I have
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  Speaker 1: known this man for a long time. He is a
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  Speaker 1: staple down here in Miami. Mario, thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: What I love about what you're doing at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Miami, I know how much that school means to you.
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  Speaker 1: I know how much the city means to you. I
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  Speaker 1: know how much that program means to you. And to
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  Speaker 1: see the pride, I love it, to see the pride
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  Speaker 1: on your face, to be the guy who is bringing
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  Speaker 1: the U back to glory is fantastic to see. And
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  Speaker 1: so I know you're feeling it, and I am wondering
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  Speaker 1: how much pride you do take in being the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the University of Miami Hurricane football program.
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  Speaker 6: Well, first off, thanks for having me on the show.
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  Speaker 6: Really appreciate you guys doing that. And I would say
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  Speaker 6: I have a lot of pride in being a Miami Hurricane,
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  Speaker 6: and I have just as much pride as being part
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  Speaker 6: of this team, this collection of people that have worked
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  Speaker 6: really hard, that we all shared a vision, and we
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  Speaker 6: all were willing to take the hits and go through
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  Speaker 6: the painful steps that go with a rebuild, keeping in
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  Speaker 6: mind and knowing that Miami should look a certain way
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  Speaker 6: and that we're making a lot of progress. So I
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  Speaker 6: have a lot of pride in knowing that I owe Miami,
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  Speaker 6: the University of Miami, as a former Hurricane, and that
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  Speaker 6: a lot of pride in the fact that the appetite
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  Speaker 6: and the hunger and the drive right now is at
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  Speaker 6: an all-time high and getting stronger, so we just got
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  Speaker 6: a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 5: I figured I'd just start right away with asking for
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  Speaker 5: an exact, detailed update on the injury report and everyone
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  Speaker 5: that is injured right now. Kidding aside, how hard is
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  Speaker 5: it as a coach and being on that sideline to
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  Speaker 5: just be like, what the hell is going on? Is
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  Speaker 5: guys just continue to get nicked up and hurt? Your
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  Speaker 5: team has an unbelievable, like a resolve that I've never seen.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's cliche to say next man up, but
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  Speaker 5: everybody who, whether guys got out, guys come in and
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  Speaker 5: replace and play well. I mean, that says a ton
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  Speaker 5: to me about the culture in your program.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate you seeing that. It's difficult.
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  Speaker 6: It really is hard. There's no, you know, just like
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  Speaker 6: our program, there aren't any slogans on the walls. We
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  Speaker 6: don't go in there and slogan it up and try
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  Speaker 6: to cliche it up.
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  Speaker 4: Like it sucks. And it's hard to deal with this.
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  Speaker 6: And especially with a group of people that love winning,
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  Speaker 6: like these guys love winning. And I think they showed
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  Speaker 6: that because they popped back in the game when, you know,
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  Speaker 6: probably most wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 6: And at the same time, you know, you always assess
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  Speaker 6: and analyze, man, what, you know, how can anything be prevented?
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  Speaker 6: Is there a common thread here? And it was the
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  Speaker 6: most successful and healthiest offseason we had had. And we
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  Speaker 6: were very mindful of having a deep run last year.
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  Speaker 6: So it's hard to pinpoint why it happens. But I
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  Speaker 6: do believe just as people, as players, as an organization, coaches,
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  Speaker 6: that we're dealing with it as well as we can.
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  Speaker 6: And we are optimistic that some guys will be able
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  Speaker 6: to return. And the other part, too, Bear is like,
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  Speaker 6: we went right at the guys that have been recruited
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  Speaker 6: and let's call it what it is now. Nowadays, you know, people,
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  Speaker 6: you earn a living, you're getting paid to be a
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  Speaker 6: college football player, like.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to earn your damn money.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: There is no, you're not going to inherit a position
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  Speaker 6: because somebody gets hurt. You're going to be able to
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  Speaker 6: step in because you've prepared your ass off like a
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  Speaker 6: mature pro and you're ready.
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  Speaker 4: To take the moment on.
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  Speaker 6: I pointed out Booker Pickett this morning to our team
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  Speaker 6: and how he stepped in and did a phenomenal job.
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  Speaker 4: And so did Ryan Mack, you know?
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  Speaker 6: And so, you know, there's a lot of pride in
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  Speaker 6: performance and there's more, I don't know. The team becomes
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  Speaker 6: more and more galvanized with some of these hits and
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  Speaker 6: the green tree is starting to really show up on
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  Speaker 6: game day. I want to say green tree guys, that's
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  Speaker 6: our practice field, green tree practice field, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 6: decades and decades of elite players, you know, Iron sharpens
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  Speaker 6: iron took place out there.
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  Speaker 4: That green tree is starting to show more and more.
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  Speaker 4: And we're not very good at a lot of things.
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  Speaker 4: So we have a lot of work to do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: As you alluded to their green tree, a lot of
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  Speaker 7: legendary stories. Remember Art Kehoe back in the day, tell
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  Speaker 7: me stories about Warren Sapp ripping face masks off and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: And, um, You guys approach.
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  Speaker 7: The game right now, Mario, with a, you mentioned the toughness,
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  Speaker 7: the discipline.
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  Speaker 2: What is a Tuesday practice like?
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  Speaker 7: Because we live in a day and age where, I
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  Speaker 7: don't know, practices seem to be getting lighter, maybe more
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  Speaker 7: pro in some ways. Nobody wants to hit anymore. Take
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  Speaker 7: me through the practice week, Tuesday, Wednesday. Are we full pads?
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  Speaker 7: What's the nature of those practices?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there are.
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  Speaker 6: Their camp practices there. And, and, you know, look, we're
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  Speaker 6: mindful of a guy's banged up and he can't go.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe we prevent some of those types of repetitions for them,
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  Speaker 6: but not for the entire team.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if someone, if that person can't do it
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  Speaker 6: by Tuesday, Wednesday, I think we're kidding ourselves to think
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  Speaker 6: that a college player can miss an entire week and,
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  Speaker 6: you know, be able to play at.
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  Speaker 4: His best on Saturday. Um, but, Yeah, they're intense.
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  Speaker 6: One thing that we won't do, we won't brag about
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  Speaker 6: like being super tough and having this and that. We
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  Speaker 6: just want to keep our mouth shut, work our asses off,
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  Speaker 6: be extremely physical during the week.
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  Speaker 4: And then let it show on Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: And then let that do the talking for the types
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  Speaker 6: of practices that we have. But we believe in them.
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  Speaker 6: They're extremely physical and regimented, but I think everybody's is.
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  Speaker 6: We just, I don't know. We don't, we're very... Private, man,
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  Speaker 6: we don't like proclaiming much. I think that's not.
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  Speaker 4: For me, man.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned private, and the other night in the Clemson game,
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  Speaker 5: late in the game, after the Dunagan pick six, there
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  Speaker 5: was a little bit of a screen grab that went
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  Speaker 5: around our Miami chat, and it caught you with a
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  Speaker 5: big smile.
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  Speaker 4: On your face. That was AI. That was AI.
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  Speaker 2: That was AI. Coach, it's okay to be human.
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  Speaker 1: Good defense. Look at you, people.
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  Speaker 5: People don't people see you as ex-player offensive lineman face
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  Speaker 5: steel uh dedication grind one and oh but that was
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  Speaker 5: a little insight at how much that that play uh
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  Speaker 5: by jj and that win at clemson and how you
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  Speaker 5: guys just emerged from everything then along that night you
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  Speaker 5: know you know what you came out with.
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  Speaker 6: A big win well you know we were um i
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  Speaker 6: think it was 34 to 13 at the time and
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  Speaker 6: We were, as a staff, we were going at each
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  Speaker 6: other on the sideline because we were trying to get
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  Speaker 6: personnel in and J.J. was still on the sideline. And
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  Speaker 6: we didn't want, we wanted to play to the standard
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  Speaker 6: all the way to the end of the game. And
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  Speaker 6: we thought that was really important for our players to
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  Speaker 6: see our levels of intensity just sustain itself all the
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  Speaker 6: way through. And we finally get him out there. He
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  Speaker 6: starts running out there as we're making the call. He
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  Speaker 6: gets the call. We're in man. He follows him. We
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  Speaker 6: get pressure. It's like, just like you draw it up, right?
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  Speaker 6: Catch the ball and run to the end. So it was,
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  Speaker 6: it was almost a moment like, well, you know, that's
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  Speaker 6: a great reason why you do your best to recruit
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  Speaker 6: the right dudes.
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  Speaker 1: You yelled cafecito. So I am wondering the best place
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  Speaker 1: to get Cuban coffee in Miami. Where does Mario go?
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  Speaker 4: It's my house. I think you'll find great places on
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  Speaker 4: a street.
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  Speaker 6: I think Casa cool right here around the corner.
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  Speaker 4: It's phenomenal. Pinecrest Bakery is great.
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  Speaker 6: Just about every restaurant has succumbed to the fact that
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  Speaker 6: you better have it or your clientele is going to
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  Speaker 6: go somewhere else to get it.
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  Speaker 4: But I do think we make the best coffee here.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time you paid for coffee in Miami?
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  Speaker 4: I kind of don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: There's... I mean, there's not much free time. Last time
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  Speaker 6: I paid for coffee.
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  Speaker 4: I believe in that. I believe in paying. I believe
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  Speaker 4: in tipping. All right. Well, you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Why shouldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just guessing.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you're a hurricane legend.
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  Speaker 4: I know the bear.
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  Speaker 1: You're a hurricane legend and you're the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the game. They want to give you the coffee for free.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you. I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 6: Brother, you know what's awesome? I was born and raised here.
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  Speaker 6: I say it all the time. It's not like I
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  Speaker 6: know every street corner and shortcut. I don't need a GPS.
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  Speaker 6: I know the cracks on the street corner. I know
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  Speaker 6: the stuff. I like I am familiar.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's in my DM. I have it all in here.
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  Speaker 6: And I run into people that sometimes I haven't seen
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  Speaker 6: in 20, 25 years. And sometimes, you know, old teammates
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  Speaker 6: and classmates.
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  Speaker 4: And it's, it's awesome. I don't get out much. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, almost like a social moron.
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  Speaker 6: I just, you know, all of a sudden you're running
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  Speaker 6: into people, but what's awesome to see is the level
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  Speaker 6: of energy and pride and enthusiasm right now behind the canes.
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  Speaker 6: Cause that was really, you know, uh, like my brother
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  Speaker 6: said back in, you know, 22 right before coming over
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  Speaker 6: when he was, he was after my ass saying, what
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  Speaker 6: are you waiting for to come down here? You know,
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  Speaker 6: if you're, Ass don't come down to who the F
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  Speaker 6: is going to do it.
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  Speaker 4: He's just ripping my ass. I'm like, dude, what's your problem?
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  Speaker 2: I was saying the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: So it's kind of neat to see us getting better
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  Speaker 6: and better. But also that we acknowledge that we have
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  Speaker 6: a ways to go. But the progress is like, again,
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  Speaker 6: the hunger and the appetite is strong. So mouth shut,
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  Speaker 6: working hard. Let's just go get better.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 7: We got more Coach Cristobal coming up right after this break.
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  Speaker 7: Welcome back to the show. We're still here with Coach Cristobal.
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  Speaker 7: I think I know how you're going to answer this,
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  Speaker 7: but I have to tell myself, you've.
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  Speaker 2: Dealt with many like me, flies on your neck, right? Naysayers.
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  Speaker 2: sitting there saying he can't do it. This guy's not there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you look, you may be, you may need a
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  Speaker 3: lot of crow the last few years, right? I've had
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  Speaker 3: to come all the way over and you've done it
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  Speaker 3: because of your actions, right?
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  Speaker 2: You've earned it. That, that, that, that this works that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you have success.
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  Speaker 7: Um, do you, does any of that motivate you when
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  Speaker 7: people tell you, you can't, does any of that motivate
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  Speaker 7: you or do you find that motivation elsewhere?
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  Speaker 6: I don't, I just, I don't find any value in,
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  Speaker 6: like humans, like just spewing diarrhea out of their mouth.
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  Speaker 4: I just, no offense.
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  Speaker 6: I just, I think, I think that, I mean, we
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  Speaker 6: all know the most abused constitutional right is the first amendment, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, people just spew and spew.
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  Speaker 6: And, I just, I just, I don't, I don't think
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  Speaker 6: that is, that's like a shallow pool of fuel and energy.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think there's any value. I never got up
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  Speaker 6: in the morning and say, man, I'm just cause this
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  Speaker 6: guy said this, I can give a rat's fat ass
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  Speaker 6: about what he says or does. I thank God for incredible,
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  Speaker 6: insanely hardworking, almost borderline psychotic parents about doing the right
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  Speaker 6: thing and, and doing right by people. And, um, and
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  Speaker 6: blessed to have, um, to have a purpose of very
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  Speaker 6: clearly defines just nonstop, relentless purpose.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, I just want to, I want to
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  Speaker 4: get after it, you know, you know, unless someone, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Gets my face and has a problem and says something, then,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'll stop there before I get myself in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what I mean? No, we want to, we,
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  Speaker 4: we are, we are.
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  Speaker 6: Completely committed and motivated and self-motivated self-starters to make sure
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  Speaker 6: that Miami becomes the absolute best it could possibly be.
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  Speaker 5: And the self-motivation I think comes from the team. I
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  Speaker 5: mentioned the Clemson game the other night. And after the game,
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  Speaker 5: you hear guys talking about, oh, we left 14 points
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  Speaker 5: on the board here. I missed an assignment here on defense.
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  Speaker 5: And again, I think your team kind of lives a
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  Speaker 5: little bit in the reflection of you in that sense. I,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I, what I, um, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: end up finding out in the middle of the year,
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  Speaker 5: how do you feel about each other?
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  Speaker 6: Right. How a team feels about a coach, a coach
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  Speaker 6: feels about a team. Cause you got to work things out.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, it's no different than any other relationship. Right.
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  Speaker 6: And, um, and one of the reasons I love this team,
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  Speaker 6: they just, they love winning, man. And I do think
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  Speaker 6: that we're all understanding that there's nothing or nobody that
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  Speaker 6: we can like get in the way of that. And
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  Speaker 6: I can, I can be me and I'm not exactly,
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  Speaker 6: you know, um, I don't know. We all have our
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  Speaker 6: flaws and our issues, but they can be them. I
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  Speaker 6: can be me and we could be us together. And
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  Speaker 6: I think we understand each other that we're going to
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  Speaker 6: get after it. It's going to be intense, but it's
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  Speaker 6: never personal.
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  Speaker 4: There's a business side.
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  Speaker 6: And then when the horn blows and practice over, then
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  Speaker 6: the personal side begins and class and life and making
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  Speaker 6: sure we do the best by these dudes as it
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  Speaker 6: relates to everything.
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  Speaker 4: So we're continuing to grow and develop.
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  Speaker 7: Coach, I mean, just from talking to you, I can
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  Speaker 7: already tell where the Miami culture starts in terms of intensity,
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  Speaker 7: work ethic, like you're talking about, the kind of intrinsic motivation.
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  Speaker 2: But we live in a day and age.
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  Speaker 7: Where you're bringing in entirely new rosters every year, almost
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  Speaker 7: like an NFL level in a lot of ways, right?
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  Speaker 7: So what are your– because you've really handled this transition
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  Speaker 7: of the game seamlessly, and you've risen to the top here,
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  Speaker 7: and your teams are consistently performing– What are your processes?
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  Speaker 2: Is it players? Is it coach?
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  Speaker 7: How are you able to maintain a culture when the,
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  Speaker 7: the faces kind of keep changing within that culture?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's all about people and it's all about being
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  Speaker 4: relentless with it. You know, um, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Kevin Elko always says, Hey, get on it and stay
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  Speaker 6: on it. That's what great teachers do. You know, you're
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  Speaker 6: going to get it over a long period of time.
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  Speaker 6: All of a sudden, I know it's an oxymoron, but
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  Speaker 6: there's a lot of value to that. Like, you know, it, um,
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  Speaker 6: what's the best way to put this.
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  Speaker 4: You know at some point in time um everyone.
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  Speaker 6: Identifies with a group right uh culture or whatever and
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  Speaker 6: we try to be very clear up front like we
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  Speaker 6: bring recruits prospects whatever to watch us practice so they
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  Speaker 6: know what they're getting into this is going to be
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  Speaker 6: like turned up cranked up full throttle so don't come.
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  Speaker 4: Here and all of a sudden say well you know
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  Speaker 4: i'm a Does that still exist? Valley Scandinavian?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it's still there for now.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's all about the people. It really is.
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  Speaker 6: And it's about making it clear that we are going
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  Speaker 6: to push and challenge each other so that we can galvanize,
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  Speaker 6: so we can.
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  Speaker 4: Get to that edge.
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  Speaker 6: And when we get to that edge, it's our job
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  Speaker 6: to make sure we have a breakthrough as opposed to
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  Speaker 6: a breakdown. That's when you can find next levels within yourself,
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  Speaker 6: within your team. When someone looks at you and Zion
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  Speaker 6: is a real thing. It's not a shirt. It's not
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  Speaker 6: a slogan. It's not a, you know, there's no slogans
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  Speaker 6: on the wall. There's no, there's no bullshit. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I don't, and we don't proclaim to know everything and
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  Speaker 6: we don't pound our chest and all that stuff. We just,
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  Speaker 6: we believe in the work. We believe in continuing assessing
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  Speaker 6: ourselves and doing whatever is better. And we'll meet with people,
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: get ideas and just keep growing and developing. We do,
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: we do believe this. And this was what keeps us going.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: That sky's the limit at Miami. Sky's the limit, and
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: we just got to keep pushing.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Coach, I know you love Michael Irvin. I love Michael Irvin.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, at any point, at any time during
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a game, have you had to turn to Michael and say, Michael,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: you know what? Just not now. Not now. I'm trying
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to coach. I'm trying to do something. You're too emotional.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Just stop.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Have you had to do that?
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Just that one sweaty cheek kiss.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: After that game.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Like, man. No, but no. Mike Irvin is an elite teammate,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: an elite brother.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: And someone that, you know, I was coming in as
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: a freshman as he was leaving, but he still was
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: so present among the team.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: And, you know, we had that 91 reunion, which he
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: was already gone.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: But when you come across, when you're in Miami Hurricane,
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: you experience what that's like.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Brother, we're from all different parts of the planet. I mean,
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: different skin colors, ethnicities, languages. But that locker room, the
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: first three weeks are frightening because the competition is so
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: thick and so just relentlessly just physical and physical.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Whatnot.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: But man, when that, when that switch takes place and
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: you start doing this, it just, it's a life changer.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: You know, it's why I love being a Miami hurricane.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: It's why I'm back here. I was given, when I
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: was given approval, it's the honor of coming back. And
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: now Mike is, Mike is good, man. You know, he
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: still looks like he can play. He's got a ton
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: of energy and no, he is, he hasn't grabbed the
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: headset yet.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: So we're all good.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You've seen all the great ones at Miami. You've played
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: with them. You've coached some of them. Where does Malachi
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Toney rank for you in terms of all-time Miami Hurricanes?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: That kid is so talented, Coach.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: I think the worst thing we could do is start
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: ranking them before that that book is completed. He's in chapter,
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: last year he had, what, 16 chapters?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Is that right? 16 chapters. He's on chapter five of
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: the season.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: When the last chapter is written and it's closed, I
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: think that's when you do so.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't, I really don't, I don't, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: I don't judge anybody that does.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: I just don't find a lot of value in reflecting
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: and writing now.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know what it does except fill your head
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: with you know, the wrong kind of stuff.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Is it fair to say, I'll try it this way,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is it fair to say he's as talented as anyone
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: who's ever played there? Is that fair?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: You won't give me that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: I think he's absolutely awesome, and he's on his way
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: to levels that could possibly never be matched, you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: until the next great one. But I think the best
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: part about Malachi Toney is that he couldn't care less
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: about an accolade, praise, or something like that. That dude
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: just wants to get better. He wants to win, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: he is... the most unbelievable blocker at wide receiver I've
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: ever seen. That guy has no fear. He will enter
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: the A and B gap like a 340 pound guard
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: and not flinch. And there's, there's, he's, he's as elite
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: as it gets.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you, man. Your program is elite again. Thank
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you for doing this, giving us this much time during
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a busy time for you and your team. Mark, thank
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: you so much, and congratulations on all your success here
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: as the head coach of the University of Miami.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys for having me, man. Go Canes.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: When Malachi leaves, I want to have you back on,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and then we'll rank him, okay? The second he leaves,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you come back on, we'll rank him.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Good?
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I'm ready for that. Absolutely. As long as the bear approves,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I'm fucking good. We got you.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm so excited, Stu. He's fucking capable.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Well, hold on. Just real quick. How many times does
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Bear just show up to practice unannounced? Does he ever
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: do that? Just shows up?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: No, but we have Bear T-shirts that we hand out
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: if he's not around, right?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You should.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I'm going to take credit for the playoff run last
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: year because I showed up the day before you guys
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: left for A & M, and I think I was
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: really the impetus behind the run last year.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: However, you have to write the story, brother. I really
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: appreciate you guys. It's an honor to be on here.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Thank you. We appreciate you, man.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you for doing it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. Thank you.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way.