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Curt Cignetti is the Best Coach in America and It Isn't Close · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: on today's show, piking a little look to the west
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  Speaker 1: to Bloomington, Indiana, in particular, the Indiana Hoosiers are getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to take on the Miami Hurricanes in the National
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game. This is an episode of the Daily Huddle
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  Speaker 1: podcast or Buddy Garrett does a great job with that show,
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted to talk about the job that Kurt
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  Speaker 1: Signetti has done leading the Indiana Hoosiers and exactly where
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  Speaker 1: that puts him in terms of rankings of national coaches
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even some all time sort of discussions. So
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  Speaker 1: Guys Tomorrow Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti is the best college football coach in America.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what he's done in the course of the
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  Speaker 2: last two years.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I necessarily believe that statement, to
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  Speaker 2: tell you the truth, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it's hard to argue.
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  Speaker 2: I generally don't like the conversation of who's the best,
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  Speaker 2: who's the greatest, because there are so many different definitions
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  Speaker 2: that nobody can agree on what the parameters are that
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  Speaker 2: would define who the best, who the greatest, most outstanding
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  Speaker 2: of all time. You can't have those conversations because generally
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  Speaker 2: we can't agree on what the stipulations are, what the
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  Speaker 2: criteria are. With that being said, how do you argue
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  Speaker 2: against what Kurt Signetti has done as the head coach
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  Speaker 2: of the Indiana Hoosiers. They're twenty six and two back
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  Speaker 2: to back College Football Playoff appearances where they're two losses
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  Speaker 2: under his tutelage are to the team that won the
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  Speaker 2: national championship and the team that team beat in the
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  Speaker 2: National Championship. Indiana beat Ohio State to make and to
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  Speaker 2: win the Big Ten Championship. They beat Alabama in the
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  Speaker 2: Rose Bowl, they beat Oregon in the College Football Playoffs
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  Speaker 2: semi finals, and should they win on Monday against Miami,
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  Speaker 2: they would have beat the Miami Hurricanes. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: any understanding and appreciation not of how difficult that is,
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  Speaker 2: slash can be, should be whatever, because is Ohio State's
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  Speaker 2: run last year to win the national championship? Probably better, yes, overall,
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  Speaker 2: but if you look at the teams they took to
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  Speaker 2: get here those four that four game stretch is as
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  Speaker 2: blue bloody or damn near close to it turn of
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  Speaker 2: this century bloody as possible with Ohio State, Alabama, Oregon, Miami.
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  Speaker 3: And those teams. Should Indiana win on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Would have the same thing in common in that they
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  Speaker 2: lost to the Indiana Hoosiers Indiana in football. If I
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  Speaker 2: had told you the last time that Bob Knight won
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  Speaker 2: a national championship that the next big time national championship
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  Speaker 2: that Indiana would win would be in football, you would
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  Speaker 2: have thought that I was speaking a foreign language. You'd
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  Speaker 2: have felt like, am I having a stroke right now?
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  Speaker 2: Because it would not have computed. Hell, if I told
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  Speaker 2: you three years ago that Indiana football might win a
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  Speaker 2: national championship before Purdue basketball, that would be as foreign
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  Speaker 2: as here in Swahili for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: It just would not.
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  Speaker 2: Make any sense, and yet two years into his tenure,
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  Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti has the Indiana Hoosiers not only in the
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  Speaker 2: National Championship but as the overwhelming favorite, as the top
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  Speaker 2: seed and one of the first the second team ever
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  Speaker 2: outside of like Yale in nineteen one hundred and eleven
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  Speaker 2: to go sixteen to zero, a perfect Sea's in, a
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten championship, a national championship with the Heisman Trophy winner.
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  Speaker 2: If those accolades don't earn you the title of best
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  Speaker 2: coach in the sport right now?
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  Speaker 3: What does? And I know that the argument can be well, Nabo.
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  Speaker 2: Sweeney's got multiple national championships, Kirby Smart has multiple national championships.
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  Speaker 2: I think the caveat Ryan Day has a national championship.
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  Speaker 3: I think the.
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  Speaker 2: Caveat in that situation is right now, right now. Who
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  Speaker 2: is a better coach over the course of the last
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  Speaker 2: two seasons than Kurt Signetti. I think any of your
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  Speaker 2: responses falls short of what Kurt.
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  Speaker 3: Signetti has accomplished with Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: If he had done this with Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma, Texas, LSU, Florida, USC,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, it probably doesn't get the same attention, and
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  Speaker 2: it probably doesn't get the same accolades and appreciation because
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  Speaker 2: of where it was accomplished, because that's the standard and
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  Speaker 2: somewhat expected at those programs. Right when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the blue Bloodies of blue Bloodies winning going twenty six
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  Speaker 2: and two, winning a conference championship and appearing in the
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  Speaker 2: national championship game, is like, Yeah, that's what you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to do at Oklahoma, LSU, Texas, Florida, the Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Yeah that's what that's why they hired you.
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  Speaker 2: And Indiana you get hired to like, could you get
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  Speaker 2: us to abb Bowl game every other year? If we
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  Speaker 2: can be a little bit better than five hundred, that's hell,
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  Speaker 2: We'll build a statue for you.
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  Speaker 3: And he smashed it out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: He has made what was once the laughing stock not
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  Speaker 2: only of the Big Ten but Power for Football, into
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  Speaker 2: a juggernaut in two years. Do I necessarily like the antics, No,
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  Speaker 2: not especially.
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  Speaker 3: There is some appreciation.
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  Speaker 2: Of the There's a fine line between confident and cocky, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think Kurt Signetty toes the line. I
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  Speaker 2: think he is cocky and has a chip on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: There are parts of that that I can appreciate. Do
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  Speaker 2: I love it at all times? No?
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: But you're allowed to beat cocky when you can walk
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  Speaker 2: the walk, when you can say, when you can back
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  Speaker 2: up your your mouth. If you don't, somebody can't say
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  Speaker 2: to you. If you grow into your mouth, you'll eventually
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  Speaker 2: be about ten foot tall. Because he's he's been right,
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  Speaker 2: He's he said I win, Google me, and all he's
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  Speaker 2: done since then is win. I think it's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to argue otherwise that Kurt Signetti, who turned the Indiana
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  Speaker 2: Freaking Hoosiers into a juggernaut, can be classified anything other
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  Speaker 2: than the best head coach in college football right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your thoughts about that in the
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  Speaker 2: comments below. Do you value the past championships?
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  Speaker 3: What do you.
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  Speaker 2: Value if you don't have a value on going twenty
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  Speaker 2: six and two winning a conference championship at a program
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  Speaker 2: that hadn't appeared in the Rose Bowl since Lyndon Johnson
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  Speaker 2: was president, that has had no discernible success on the
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  Speaker 2: football field virtually. Ever, that when they would get a
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  Speaker 2: player drafted, it would be like, holy cow, wow, look
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  Speaker 2: at the development that Indiana did for that guy. And
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  Speaker 2: now have the Heisman Trophy winner, the Big Ten Championship,
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  Speaker 2: the overwhelming favorites to win the national title as the
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  Speaker 2: number one seed because they're undefeated.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how you look at that and go, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but Dabo Sweeney still exists.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a really, really really difficult argument to make.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe, and maybe the argument is Kurt Signetti is
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  Speaker 2: the perfect coach at the perfect time for the transfer
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  Speaker 2: portal anil era era that very well could be.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think you can discount it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you can say yeah, but when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to that, because those are the circumstances right now.
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  Speaker 2: That is the world in which college football's played. It
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  Speaker 2: ain't against the rules to bring players from James Madison
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  Speaker 2: with you when you take a new gig.
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  Speaker 3: That's not against the rules. That's hell. It's encouraged to
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  Speaker 3: tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think you can knock him because he
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  Speaker 2: didn't do it in the Woody Hayes and Bo Scham
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  Speaker 2: Beckler and Bear Bryant era where they could throw kids
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  Speaker 2: into the wood chipper and still have their job. It's
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  Speaker 2: a whole new world and he's dominating it. And with
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  Speaker 2: that being the case, I don't know how you look
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  Speaker 2: at it any other way other than I started this
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  Speaker 2: episode saying, I don't know that I believe that Kurtz signet.
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  Speaker 3: He's the best coach in America. Now I see, how
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  Speaker 3: the hell do you argue.
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  Speaker 2: It's that evident that when you can turn a program
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  Speaker 2: that has been the laughing stock of college football and
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  Speaker 2: the laughing stock of the Big Ten into a team
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  Speaker 2: that everybody in the College Football Playoff went, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to play them, they don't want a part of
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  Speaker 2: them in two years, and hell, the success he had
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  Speaker 2: in year one, go eight and one of the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten at Indiana, and the two losses you had with
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  Speaker 2: the team that won the national championship and the team
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  Speaker 2: that that.
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  Speaker 3: Team beat for the national championship.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of talk that Indiana didn't deserve
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  Speaker 2: that spot last year, that it was a charity case,
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  Speaker 2: that they're never going to be back here, so they've
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  Speaker 2: got to give it to him. And as the season
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  Speaker 2: progressed this year, Yeah, but the Big ten's not very good.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't played anybody POU.
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  Speaker 2: And they put an ass kicking on the runner up
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC to where that team gave up on
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  Speaker 2: the field and then put a butt whooping on a
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  Speaker 2: team that they had already beaten once in that team's
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  Speaker 2: home stadium before to advance to the national championship game.
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  Speaker 2: What they've accomplished is nothing short of miraculous, because nobody,
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  Speaker 2: even at Indiana thought it could be done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you that any who's your fan that will tell
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  Speaker 2: you that when they hired Kurt Signetti thought we are
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  Speaker 2: going to become the bully on the block.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to play for a.
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  Speaker 2: National championship under this guy, that person is lying to
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  Speaker 2: you because the people who hired the guy didn't think
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  Speaker 2: that that was possible. They didn't think that it was
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  Speaker 2: even something that was remotely within their grasp. That it
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  Speaker 2: might as well have been easier to say Indiana's gonna
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  Speaker 2: start a space program and land on the moon would
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  Speaker 2: have been as likely is playing for the national championship.
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  Speaker 2: And yet in just a few days they're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to hold the gold trophy that everybody in
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  Speaker 2: the sport wants. Kurt Signetti is the best coach in America,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how you argue otherwise. That'll do
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