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College Football Report with Eric & Ryan Robinson: FCS Championship Preview with Wenkers Wright (2.131.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_04]: You are listening to a very special edition of the College Football Report.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The FCS Championship Game Preview, between Illinois State and Montana State.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As always, the College Football Report is with Eric and Ryan Robinson in today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A special guest, Illinois State, star running back Winkers' right, my nephew, to talk
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[SPEAKER_04]: the national championship game, and it's only on the Central Indian Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome college football fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for a special edition of the College Football Report with Eric and Ryan Robinson.
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[SPEAKER_04]: today with special guest Winkers right of the Illinois State Redbirds, one of the senior leaders for the team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Also beside me is Producer Suzy and I just want this on the record Winkers favorite aunt, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I mean, it serves on the record.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Take that Debbie and Theresa.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Winkers and the Illinois State Redbirds, stunning the world going through the playoff.
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[SPEAKER_04]: with four straight road winds to reach the national finals.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And Winkers, first I want to know before I let Eric and Ryan take over the conversation.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Did you see it coming?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, we saw it come and it's similar to last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just get hot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The offense starts out hot, but once the defense starts to figure it out and stop the other teams from scoring, that's when we're basically unbeatable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was basically the same thing as last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we played in the FU pretty good the first time around, but we lost in the fourth quarter by a decent amount.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was still a game that gave us hope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, the team we just kept playing for each other,
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[SPEAKER_01]: everybody wanted to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the biggest difference.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody wants to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody wants to be there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody enjoys practicing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, I kind of saw this coming from a little bit ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would always tell my fiance, oh yeah, this is a good team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes she didn't believe me, but in the end she does now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: After this other Illinois game, I wouldn't believe you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was by far the hardest game to to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't able to play that game because I injured my shoulder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But coming into that game, we were ranked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if we had one that game, who knows what would have happened, we probably would not have been playing still.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wink is real quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to start off with your thoughts in the era of the transfer portal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're a guy that's stuck with the program each season some of that success that you kind of saw with this team a big reason for returning or was it the impact
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[SPEAKER_02]: coaching staff hard on you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what was it that made you stick with this program?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, I just had a lot of time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As a lot of relationships, I wasn't quite ready to just to throw away at the job of a hat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The transfer portal, um, the good side of things are pretty good but the bad side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's scary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you guys take a take a leap of faith, but even then,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Faith isn't enough in the transfer portal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got to have connections and you got to see good science, but come and off of a playoff season, a lot of returning starters and obviously there were the guys that I came with my freshman year that had also been in there for five years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it was just another incentive to stay longer just finishing it up with the guys that I started with because I knew they've been waiting for this opportunity to play just like me and we just kind of took it around with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, I'm sure you probably had.
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[SPEAKER_02]: people make contacts with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was where you ever tempted to go to another program.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, 100% attemptation was there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mainly because I talked to one of my high school teammates who was from Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's at IU this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's having a great time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he was kind of the one that introduced the idea of transferring, coming off of a thousand arts season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then obviously, you have your agents who kind of give you
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the good side of the transfer portal and hype you up and just tell you what you want to hear really.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the temptation was really there, but at the same time I had too much relationships at ISU.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had my fiance who was planning on being engaged to in the literally like a month of thinking about this whole transfer portal thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, the temptation was very real and one of my teammates Daniel Sopquits are best receiver.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The temptation for him was even more real than it was for me because he was getting legit phone calls with coaches and some of the figures that he was seeing was a pretty earth shattering.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, the temptation especially at your age, I don't know what I would have done and those shoes that I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think most of us would probably be making same decisions that a lot of the athletes today are doing, but I'm gonna turn it over to Eric here real quick since he's short on time and let him talk with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Wankers, how's it going?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm good, Eric, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna stick with kind of what the topic we're on for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was wondering,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are there incentives like a lot of these players have a agent or they're incentives like if you if you're a national champion is there a bonus or anything like that when these To players find these deals and these NIO Dales
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[SPEAKER_01]: There can be, they very much can be, so the agents that I signed with, they claim to be my sports agent, but at the same time, they also claim to be my NIO agency.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And because I kind of cut ties with them and they were pressure me to enter the portal and pressure me, and so they can get their cut of whatever deal I signed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I didn't really listen to them, so they kind of cut ties with me, but they also
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[SPEAKER_01]: or actually in charge of people's NIL deals, a big one that they, a big partnership that have is with Johnny Dang, and he does all the big flashy gold chains and silver and diamond.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So all the players that sign with them, it go a big time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're always rocking a big chain, which I'm not missing out on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't want that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want that in my pocket.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't my neck.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, specifically speaking, but yeah, and they, they have a pretty cool deal with
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[SPEAKER_01]: give me a bunch of champion gear, but at the same time I didn't sign with anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't give them any money So they refuse to do anything and I all related to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of reached out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, so what's the word with this champion gear that you guys had me fill out the form for and they kind of go to me left me on open Which is all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's just a hoodie and swept hands, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not missing at all much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think your integrity's worth more than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, 100%.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm really hoping for some playoff gifts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know we see all the ball games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got to, you got to have six wins to go to the ball game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you get so many playoff or ball gifts and headphones and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we haven't got anything for going this far in our our season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's the Natty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Natty now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm really I'm looking forward to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope they give us some good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know they will give us some stuff, but I hope it's worth while in quality stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'd like to add the transfer portal can can be a good thing and you can't benefit from it talk a little bit about the impact Victor Dawson's had on this team coming over from Cincinnati and in particular the last three games what he's been able to do from the backfield.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, of course.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Victor Dawson, his career started at Mayor Mack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's in Maryland, a D2.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he did a thing there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he went to Cincinnati.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he get a whole lot of playing time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he found himself here at ISU.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And before I got hurt, it was a one, two points.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He made a big split in reps, gone back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But since I got hurt, these past couple games, he said, I want to say just about every single one of them has been over a hundred yards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, some of them up to like one safety.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's been, he's been such a blessing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think God, I think God for, I tell, I walk up to the Vic, I say Vic, I think God for you, man, because I've been the only back and had to play with the trees.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's nice and all, but it's not good for the body.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So seeing him, produced the way that he has been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when you meet him in person, too, there's nobody more deserving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's super nice, super chill, very grateful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's never outspoken or demanding anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, the coaches put their trust in him and he proves to them why they need to continue to give them the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just so you know, he's gone for 440 the last three games 440 in three games because I knew it man Yeah, that's absolutely mind blowing and he's he's been carrying the load Talk to us about how tough that's been watching on the sideline as your team makes this run
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[SPEAKER_01]: The only tough part is, we only started running the ball ever since I got hurt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We ran the ball, but it wasn't very good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But once I got hurt, the lime in something flicked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We started getting on that momentum where we're just going, going, going, and then we were able to run the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the only part that sucked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was my timing of playing, then it lined up with the off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, timing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: but seeing Vic do what he's been doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm the happiest person for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's anything that's hearty about watching one of your players succeed, especially when you, you claim to be rooting for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, you got to show it in your action suit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So seeing him go crazy, I wish he got more yards and he has right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like at the end of the day, the program is gonna be his next year when I leave for the taking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Him and Seth Glatz, both have had pretty solid years for running the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I'm more than happy to step back, let them have it, especially if I'm injured.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't up to me, but at the same time, I would have changed the thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the good thing is, it's not the help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're back, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to let Vic start, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's been going crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We wouldn't be this far without him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not going to try to, well, I was just starting back and forgot her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nah, that's all you think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm going to get in when it's my time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're a great teammate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the list of very, really second do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of our, our hey coach, Brock Spacke hates drama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And drama for him is anything complaining about this, complaining about that, or just being a parasite for the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So no drama allowed, don't go around demanding stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're either for the birds or you're against the birds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Simple as that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So can't be, can't be causing any drama just because I'm not playing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I never let my attitude or my emotions get the better of me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: is Nashville, the closest game that you've played down in the post.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely, yeah, it's definitely been our furthest game because we had Louisiana, California, North Dakota, North Dakota, there's one more Philadelphia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Philadelphia with Villanova.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this has been the closest one, but they call us the road road warrior.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's keep playing away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For some reason, we don't play to get at home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's because it feels like a practice or just this same thing that we've been practicing every day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it kind of gets old us the atmosphere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just treat differently, but we feed off of the way games, the environment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We call it walking your trap, take over your trap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... we beat north Dakota uh... i mean uh... north Dakota state south Dakota and south Dakota state so we claim that we claim that the code is every every Dakota team that we played in the code we want so we were we put our flag there so we owned the code is and then we're just trying to own every place that we we go to from this point hey uh... speaking of which Montana state uh... that is uh...
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[SPEAKER_04]: and the tough beast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you know if you go to save us the tough beast, but we made it happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if we can just play like we've been playing like I know we've had a week off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm pretty confident and the team's ability ability to just pick up where we left off, but if we can pick up where we left off, Montana State, they're a very good team, but we should be able to handle them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, specifically for us on offense, they have a very strong defensive line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they they're the lowest blitzing team in our FCS division one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, level, but it has to have a very good defensive line that kind of gets home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll, we should be able to handle them, but they might give us some fits here and there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Purdue and their their program history and he's played line-backer there We all probably don't want a stereotype, but most your line-backers are intense guys Tell us about what his message has been throughout this season and just particularly with this run You've made in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, so everything's I came in this really started up five years ago ever since I came in He's been saying the same thing for us coach
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[SPEAKER_01]: back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's always go to on toughness, effort and, like, is a calth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are, those are, those are, uh, three, um, three axioms to one of the game is what he calls him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's all about old school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, we're going to, we're going to hit him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when they when they fall down and get back to up, we're going to hit him again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to continue to hit him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why our defense opted these a defensive coach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if the defense doesn't win practice, we have to run the drill over again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So their defense can win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the offense, we're not going to let them win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we used to always do drills, but he's all about the defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, their energy, if you watch them play it there, they are sometimes over celebrating, but they're always always in the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But just do what coach does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be the toughest team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The most
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[SPEAKER_02]: give us a little bit like the next few days what's what's your schedule like what are team activities leading into Monday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know there's probably some some team mills and some walkthroughs so yeah a lot of media so I actually tonight at five o'clock my time so six o'clock in Indiana we have a walkthrough so we just go there we walk over this script we do a scouting against Montana State
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[SPEAKER_01]: the young guys give us a look.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We walk through it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we'll have dinner tonight as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then tomorrow we're going to have the practice against a normal practice where we're it's not going to be a walk through.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be running the whole time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then once again, we'll lift tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have treatment, which is a therapy for any bumps or bruises that we have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have another walk through.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think we're going to have
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[SPEAKER_01]: a dinner tomorrow they give us per dime at this time of the year to take care of our meals so a little money I guess tonight we're having dinner though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for the next few days, it's basically practice, lift, treatment, walk through.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're going to get there on Friday after a practice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And oh gosh, it's going to be a lot of media stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Where this massive, I call it, they told us it was a hotel, but it's really a resort.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's called like the Gaylord, up, something, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a big, it's somewhat like a convention center.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'm a presenter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm a person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so it's going to be it's going to be a great time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a lot of media stuff and they call it community stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At my first understanding, we were going to meet Montana State and try to be buddy buddies and go bowling together, but I think that's crap that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad they did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to do all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to do business, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to get there, do the media, and just focus on us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we'll cross past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know there'll be at the same hotel as us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe we'll cross past with them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't think we're going to do any team bonding stuff and I hope we don't respect the league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't think we've talked about your injury much, but where do you stay and where have the body to?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you 90% one hundred percent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a hundred percent one hundred.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, as then I don't feel the shoulder when I'm walking around doing life, but obviously I keep the shoulder tacked down in a mobilizer brace, but the risk of it coming back out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe fracturing a little bit more is always there and that's all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting surgery either ways This is our last game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not whenever the body feels good the legs are fresh I haven't had to I'm take too many hits the past couple weeks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm ready to go and they're gonna give it the opportunity And I'm just gonna run hard and run downhill Well, that sounds good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm I'm a hot very happy for you My schedule got thrown upside down today, so I'm I'm gonna have to cut out of here, but I want to I want to wish you the best of luck
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be watching.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got to think in earlier today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've never been friends or known anyone who's been one of national title.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I could say, I know a guy that just is a national champion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to name drop.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to name drop for Greg and Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But the most famous athlete probably I got to hang out with was,
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[SPEAKER_02]: former middle linebacker from Elwood High School, Mr. Tony Hoover.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He made it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He led Elwood to the state championship game in 1987.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Him and I became really good friends.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We coached a lot of football and baseball with our kids.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Still consider him one of my one of my good friends.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you should have a picture outside of Elwood.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He would not be good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want I need you to be better than my friend Tony.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want you to get it done Monday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be like, I know there's guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I want you to bust a lock, make congratulations on it on a great year and finish it off Monday, bud.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you so much, Eric.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate you coming on and always good to talk to you and we're not going to do our best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do our best, leave everything on the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not going to leave any question for effort on Monday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, there's nothing to leave.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What was the national championship mean to you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's a, it's legendary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is what every team is doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not here just to win eight games and call it quits.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're here to do the thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The other teams weren't able to do this season, and that's the national championship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then that'll be the first time that that happens this in school history in 2015 was the last how we went to the championship, but we got we didn't win that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if we win this game, it's going to mean everything to us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to my idea is it's going to retire coach spec because one he has never beat North Dakota State, which we did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and he has never won a national show, which we could do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is, this is just legendary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not everything in life, but it's a sweet part and a sweet opportunity in life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wink, why don't can you tell us what your plans are for after school after all of this is over?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where's that going to take you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: after season I still have one more semester so I'm gonna finish out the spring semester but after that um two weeks later me and my fiancee we're gonna get married and then um we're gonna have a honeymoon in Cancun so very excited for that very very excited for that um she's done great her and her mom they've spent a lot of time planning it making the job easy on me um i'll be available once the season ends to help out with all that stuff but
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[SPEAKER_01]: After the wedding in the honeymoon, I think we're going to start our life in Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So champagne areas, probably we're going to settle down for the first couple years, but I will be working with state farm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the local agents around here, he wants me as part of his team, so I will join him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not sure if that's what my career will be, but it's a guaranteed job right out of college, which is very, very...
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[SPEAKER_01]: kind of a herd of nowadays the way the market is so I'm not going to pass about opportunity and I'm very blessed for it but yeah we're going to stay in Illinois a little bit longer we'll see where we go after that we'll be close with her family who who are amazing people you guys will get to meet him at the wedding and you will think the exact same thing absolutely yes well we wish you all the luck and you know we'll be cheering for yon monday yes thank you guys so much
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks so much to Winkers Wright for joining the Central Indian Esports Group port.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I am honored and blessed to have him as an effu.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks also to Eric and Ryan for helping out as they do every week on the Central Indian Esports Group port.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Nightlove Susie.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Go Redbirds!