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The BIG LIFE: Back on the Field, Conference Chaos & Unwritten Rules · The BIG LIFE

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  Welcome back to the Big Life Podcast. It's week nine, and we are now at the
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  peak of conference play.
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  Today we're going to be catching up on life and soccer. We're both in season,
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  but we're on different teams and having our own experiences.
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  And this week we're going to be talking about what's happening on our different
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  sidelines, what progress looks like, and some unwritten rules in our lives.
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  Okay, to start, let's do our little check-in.
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  What's one word that describes your week or your past week?
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  Positive. Low-key, I just had a really good week at training,
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  so that led to a really good game for me individually. But what about you?
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  If I'm thinking about the positives, and I'm thinking about this week has been
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  looking like so far, not as much last week, I would say balling because I've been doing pretty good.
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  Though, not gonna lie, I did just get a 79 on an exam, so that's not very boring,
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  but that's okay, because we're up, we'll get better.
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  Dude, and it's okay. Yeah. Well, if we're talking about academics,
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  I got a 10 out of 10 on my quits.
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  Wow. What's one bud, rose, and thorn for your week, then?
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  I would say bud is I've been working on trying to get myself the ball more and
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  like kind of controlling what I can do to get the ball more and in practice yesterday,
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  I think I did like a really good job of,
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  I got the ball more obviously so that means something's working but kind of
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  intentionally doing that and trying to work on that is my bud,
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  I would say rose is we are 12 and won and we are number one in the SEC right now.
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  And my thorn is I don't think I've been playing as well as I could be,
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  but that goes into the bud where I need to get on the ball more and I think
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  like even though right now I'm not I think it's something that only I can control
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  and and work on and just trying to,
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  Trying to do that. Next game, we'll see. What about you? Rose, I got to play.
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  Finally, I started the game and I played 90 minutes, which was low-key a lot on my body.
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  I had, like, a doctor's appointment. They were like, oh, you're cleared for
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  more minutes. And I was like, all right, bet.
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  So, obviously, I'm thinking I'm going for, like, 30, 45. Or 30,
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  45 in total. Before, I was at 30.
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  Like, 15 each half. 10, 15 each half. So, I was like, okay. But I was just happy
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  to be, like, I don't know, to travel and be healthy.
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  Somewhat healthy and then I started and then I played 90 and I had a pretty
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  good game individually so but I lucky sold and then my rose would be me actually
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  selling like right in front of the goal okay so I can't use my left foot like
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  at all you know when the ball's coming from the left side
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  like I can't physically use my left foot like it genuinely hurts to pass like it's pain,
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  so you know when the ball's coming from like left side and you're gonna getting
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  a cut back cross it should be with your left foot so yeah yeah I hit it with
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  my right and it came across and it went freaking.
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  Out of the pitch, but whatever.
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  But looking forward to the next two games because I'm back and playing again.
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  So Loki is super excited, but we lost. Yes.
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  We lost again that's okay you know what game was we had the ball i think 75
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  of the time like we actually had them on their heels they we got scored in the
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  first freaking two minutes,
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  we have this thing that we go by and like the way that you win games is if you have the ball,
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  territory chances.
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  Dude and that's freaking good like we're like we're not scared of goals but that's like,
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  we're always waiting for like the perfect opportunity you know like someone's
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  waiting for the perfect shot for the perfect,
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  build-up but like this game we like had very good moments like we were going
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  through the middle we were laying each other off
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  we won the ball back instantly like it was it was good it was just like that
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  one actually hurt but what's the funniest thing that happened since the last
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  week which was was a week ago right we found the same day.
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  Bro i don't know what i was on the other night i was playing this so i had this
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  game called tell me without telling me basically it's like a charades game and
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  it might have been the funniest game ever,
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  okay what about you so my friend our friend murphy broke her foot so she has
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  an electric scooter and then terrorizing the streets with that electric scooter
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  and our other friend ali was sitting on the scooter too you're back to playing obviously so kind of,
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  let's give a little update of how we're actually feeling,
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  my body hurts i haven't played a 90 since national team like last last But yeah,
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  overall, I'm feeling good. How was your guys' game? I didn't see.
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  Who did we play? Ole Miss Friday. We just had one game. We like dominated.
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  We could have won like 5-0, honestly. We won 2-0, which is fine.
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  Like, it was good. Like, we got our goals.
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  What's something that your team did well that the score of your game wouldn't show?
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  I promise you, these kids did not have the ball. And they're the Washington,
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  they were talking so much.
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  They were complaining. Like, all it was was them just bickering with the ref.
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  Just let the man do his job, bro. Like, what? I mean, the possession score will
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  say it. But, yeah, and we still got, we still lost one though. But it's whatever.
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  What about you guys? Well, our score should. You guys won, yeah. We did.
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  But what you don't see if you just look at the score is how much Ole Miss fouls.
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  They were the dirtiest team ever.
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  And they were also complaining to the ref like they weren't hitting us after every play.
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  I could probably clip myself getting fouled eight times.
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  And like literally first time I get the ball, I touch it down the line and I
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  make a pass. After the pass, some girl comes in through my back shoulder, absolutely smokes me.
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  I didn't even have the ball anymore. From your game, who do you think,
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  or from your team, who do you think deserves a shout out this week?
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  Shout out Kennedy Garcia.
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  She is our senior and she scored on senior night.
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  Oh okay period yeah and she's just like the goat mine Josie Biel,
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  the chica so clutch nah she's just so good I'm just a glazier like we've been
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  playing together like bro she knows how much I glaze the heck out of her and
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  then obviously like playing college as a freshman is different than.
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  Obviously now both us being sophomores so her stepping up to the plate every single game is like,
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  impressive it as hell so okay well what's something like you're still trying
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  to figure out like on the field well
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  I played on the right okay knowing like playing tens you have your like favorite
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  side I have my favorite side the left side like I like playing on the left field half of the field,
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  so I was playing on the right so I was like you just figuring out like spacing,
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  it's the same thing but I promise you like,
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  where you take your touch like where you what you scan what angle you'd like
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  open up at is like low-key different so yeah figure out the sides I guess if
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  that makes any sense but anything anything you're trying to figure out how to get the ball more.
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  Yeah. Is it, do you drop in as a three, as a three center back,
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  or are you just trying to hide behind the, depending on the press,
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  are you just trying to hide behind? It just depends, but most of the time we go long.
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  So, like, because we like to dominate, like, territory.
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  Yeah. And territory means, like, if their back line is stepped up,
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  like, we're going over them.
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  And then also we have really, really good targeting forwards,
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  like Kennedy, who I showed up.
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  She genuinely, I don't think she's missed a chest trap. Like,
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  every time, she can hold off the player, get the chest trap down,
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  play it to our 10s, and then we go through.
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  Like, and when we keep possession, we like to keep it in their half of the field
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  and not our half in the field. So we're trying to get into theirs as quick as we can.
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  Okay, so then when you guys are up there, then it's like, okay,
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  goal scoring mode, not possess either, though. Because then you would touch
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  the ball more, no? Or is it like they drop?
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  It's like they get in, and then it's like, I don't know why.
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  Maybe they play it back to the outside back, and the outside back goes all the
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  way back to the center back. and the center back just boosts it over to the
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  left side, which is fine, it works, but then I just feel like I get skipped,
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  which I just need to, like, demand it more, you know?
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  Yeah, but also, like, if that's your guys' ideology, like, it's kind of hard
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  for you. Well, I don't know. Like, there has been games I have gotten the ball
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  more. It's just, like, I have to get myself in a flow and, like.
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  Put myself out there to get it yeah it's also loki hard if you don't touch the
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  ball like at least for me if i don't touch a ball for a while i'm loki scared
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  to get it the first time i touch it like if i don't touch it for like five minutes i'm like dog,
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  the first touch is like loki iffy that's just what i just have got in my head
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  so i loki would understand,
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  how you like want to touch it do you ever feel like sometimes you like you start
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  hiding behind your player yeah.
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  I am here.
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  Do you guys travel anywhere soon? We travel today to Florida.
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  Today? After your class?
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  Were you driving? No, we're flying charter, so we practice at 1,
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  and then we shower, and then we go.
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  Oh, how do you feel about Messi retiring?
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  Dude, crazy. Did you watch the game? No.
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  I didn't either, but I'm not a Messi fan. But, like, yes, GOAT,
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  but, like, not my GOAT. Got a question for you. Okay.
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  Did watching, like, when you're hurt on the sidelines change anything?
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  How you've been approaching, like, say, last game or your opinion? Yeah.
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  We don't score. We don't create anything. Anything. So, I was,
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  like, that was my goal. I was, like, dude, we got zero shots against Penn State.
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  Don't know how? Don't know how. Like, at all. I played the end of the game and
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  like you know the end of the game it's like this is all I'm looking at like
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  I'm looking at like freaking it going over my head 500 times so I was frustrated
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  with that but yeah I guess watching and seeing like,
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  my team struggles was honestly like frustrating but,
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  that was something that I knew that that's what I specialize in is freaking
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  anything attacking so like creating chances right at the post should have scored,
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  I should have scored, like, two goals, but I choked. You sold. You sold.
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  Essentially, I choked. But, you know, it's okay. It's okay. And now I know what
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  I need to work on, which is my finishing off one touch. What do you guys play next?
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  Illinois and Indiana. So, I've never played either of those teams.
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  Because I think they played them last year, but I wasn't here.
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  So, yeah. What about you guys? Do you guys play? Just Florida this week. Oh, yeah. Just Florida.
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  One week. And then next week, we have Georgia and Vancouver.
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  Oh, my friend plays on Georgia. And Vandy.
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  Oh, Vandy's really good, right? Aren't they, like, top hives?
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  Yeah. Well, we're top hives, too. Right? No biggie, no biggie.
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  But we're number one in the SEC because they tied Georgia. So Georgia's also going to be good.
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  Well, speaking of, like, actually being, like, peak season, does conference
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  play feel different now compared to the beginning of the season?
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  Definitely. I think we were playing like different, like in a sense that SEC,
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  you have to play a different style of soccer compared to against teams that
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  actually possess the ball because,
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  all SEC teams do is look to go forward as fast as they can and hit you as hard as they can.
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  But I would definitely say I still feel like we are playing strong and we're
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  adjusting to teams that we have to play against, like especially Arkansas.
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  Saw we literally changed oh like basically not everything but we played their
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  game and we did it better than that what.
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  About you well if we look from like our film from the first games we played
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  compared to now i'm telling you we deserved this washington one more than any
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  other one that we've or any other game that we've played like the other games,
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  whatever happened however they scored like the the pieces are starting to click
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  obviously it sucks that it's towards the end of the season and like,
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  but definitely like things are definitely clicking.
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  So it feels, it feels good, I guess to know that like,
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  we're making moves but at the same time it's like damn you know yeah how do
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  you like reset between games when like,
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  your schedule keeps moving and like how do you not think about like how your
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  team did in the last game like how you did and kind of just put it past and
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  focus on the next game well,
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  okay just like there's nothing just knowing that you literally can't do anything
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  about it so whining about it
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  complaining about it i i used to be like the biggest complainer now i've,
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  been become more aware to it like that when you do it doesn't do anything and
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  then also like i started understanding that like your subconscious mind is like
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  always listening when other people complain when,
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  when it's in your head and you're thinking about complaining like i don't know
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  there's there's just knowing you can't do anything about it so why are you gonna like make a,
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  big deal out of it you know and it's just like learning i guess just learning
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  like what you could have done better and knowing knowing that you are capable
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  of it i guess and just moving on to the next but like there's literally.
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  I just can't stand... That's what I'm saying. When people would complain to
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  the ref, like, that shit's so annoying.
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  But, like, I used to do that. So it's not, like, that weird.
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  Or it's not, like, weird when someone does it. Or, like...
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  It's just, like, I don't do that anymore. I try my best not to complain as much.
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  Because it's just not easy for yourself. But, Loki, you guys...
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  But you still have to reset, like, mentally, though. Per game.
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  Especially because you don't play a lot. So.
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  Yeah. I would say for me, like, resetting between games... is literally just
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  taking my mind off of soccer as a whole.
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  Like, and doing other things outside of soccer. Because if I sit and I dwell
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  on how I did and what I could have done better, then I just get in my head,
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  and when I'm actually playing, I'm thinking about what I need to do instead
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  of just doing it, if that makes sense.
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  Yeah. But, like, between games, I literally just read books. Dude.
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  Hey, how far are you on your other book? i haven't been reading a second because
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  i started playing minecraft again so,
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  oh i know i saw yeah but that's also another way to like get your mind off things
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  is literally playing game no yeah you have to you have to put your mind into,
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  instead of something else so no yeah it's good that other like looking you need
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  hobbies if that counts as a hobby but,
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  everyone has their own way of doing things like people like to hang out with
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  friends people like to go eat like Everyone has their own rhythm, so.
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  And I want that gaming trend, too, so. Okay. Every team and roommate and friend
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  group has some unwritten rules.
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  So, like, everyone's supposed to know.
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  That's basically what it means. So let's talk about some unwritten rules and
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  figure out which ones we agree on.
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  Does your team have any? You can't go out.
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  Or you can't drink. That's, I mean, you can go out, but you can't drink.
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  So why are you going to go out? You guys have a dry season? Yeah,
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  like completely dry season. It's not, I mean, like everyone knows,
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  but there's no, it's not like written anywhere.
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  Do people follow it? Yeah.
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  Yeah. We have like a 72-hour, 24-hour rule.
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  Yeah. So you can't like drink like 72 hours before a game and 24 hours before
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  practice. You can still go out?
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  Like, even if... You can't go out either. You can't go out at all. Okay. Yeah.
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  What's another unwritten rule you guys have? I don't know. We're just,
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  like, big on, like, how you treat each other. That's good.
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  Okay, non-soccer. If a friend says I'm five minutes away, how late can they
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  actually be before you get annoyed?
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  Dude, I hate when people are late. I hate it.
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  I'm on Loki like never that late ever either. I don't think I'm ever really late ever.
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  I'm the type of person like I like to be right on time to things.
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  And so I'll leave like kind of pretty late. Like for me in practices,
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  like I'll leave kind of later and get there right before it starts.
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  And like same with like Lyft. But if I have to have someone come with me and
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  they're later than me, I get pissed off. I'm like, dude, I'm on a schedule.
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  I have this exact time I want to get there and you are messing up the time I want to get there.
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  Another one if someone has headphones in when is it acceptable to interrupt
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  them dude i don't even care i'm interrupting them.
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  Bro like we have to do for our games we go out to like where all the students walk to class,
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  and we try and get them to come to our games sometimes people have headphones on,
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  literally don't care i go up to them and i'm like hey oh my god your outfit's
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  so cute and then they go and then they like you know take out their phone they're
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  like oh thanks i'm like i'm page what's your name and they're like and then
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  they start talking to me and i'm like you should come to our game it's honestly
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  like a really good strat because then people are like
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  they're like oh wait this person's nice you know it's hurt about guys though,
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  well they are just because i can't be like hey nice shirt bro.
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  Dude i like those flops you have on you want to walk them over absolutely wicked
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  hair bro okay well good luck in your game,
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  hopefully you guys get the doubt hopefully you get a goal i feel it coming,
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  so thank you i feel one coming for me too,
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  dude and i hope so off your set pieces and also loki just long range for simboli right right right
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