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Is the Oklahoma Sooners Offense Changing? Ben Arbuckle Speaks Out | Another Injury Update · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: The best part about game week is this. We get pressers.
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  Speaker 1: We get depth charts. We get all kinds of updates
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  Speaker 1: on players that we've been hoping to hear about. Let's
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  Speaker 1: dive into this one. Ben Arbuckle's presser was also on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: and he talked about a few players that should get
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  Speaker 1: you all excited, plus some big changes because they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be very much more versatile in comparison. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what I've heard and what you should know, plus
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  Speaker 1: injury update. We got one. But we'll do it later
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  Speaker 1: because guess what? It ain't that big of a deal.
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain before we do that. Welcome to Sooner or
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  Speaker 1: Let's jump right into Ben Arbuckle and what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And I promise you, we'll talk about the injuries. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna give you a brief on it. So if you
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  Speaker 1: wanna fast forward the chapters in here, in the description
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  Speaker 1: should be able to let you know where that is.
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  Speaker 1: But let's jump right into what Ben Arbuckle had to
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  Speaker 1: say at his presser. One of his quotes was good.
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  Speaker 1: This is the exact quote that he had to say. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're definitely going to be more versatile. I
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  Speaker 2: think that comes one with some of the personnel that
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  Speaker 2: we brought in, you know, that we've talked about and
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  Speaker 2: we've alluded to a lot over the last eight months.
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  Speaker 2: And specifically, you know, whenever you think about the tight
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  Speaker 2: end room and some of those bodies we bought brought
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  Speaker 2: in at receiver and how some of our running backs
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  Speaker 2: have come along. I absolutely think that gives us the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: ability to go out there and do a few different things. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, just finding the ways to take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of the space, the numbers on the field wall, ultimately
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  Speaker 2: getting these guys in a situation on the field to
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  Speaker 2: go be successful with operational space. I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: it all comes down to. But yeah, with the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: with some of the additions that we've made just as
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  Speaker 2: a whole and, you know, all that, I think definitely
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  Speaker 2: will allow us to go out there, be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more versatile if you want, maybe some multiple stuff
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  Speaker 2: happening here and there. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: the mission's still the same. Go out there, score touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: move the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: So, in other words, Ben's like, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: put in work. Like, we're going to do a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different stuff. And one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: I know will be a change is, we're probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: see some plays under center. Yes, yes, going under center,
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  Speaker 1: three-point drop, boom. There's videos of John Mateer practicing that.
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  Speaker 1: You heard Gabe and Teddy talk about seeing it in
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  Speaker 1: practices they attended. They're gonna be doing all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: pro-style different look. Now, granted, this is not, to me,
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  Speaker 1: a ploy for them to push to try to get
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  Speaker 1: John drafted. Notice this has nothing to do with the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: It has everything to do with going out there and
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  Speaker 1: winning games and playing power football. And to me, that's huge.
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  Speaker 1: And Ben kind of explained like how that cohesion is
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  Speaker 1: going to work because we're seeing some change at the center.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Mikla is hurt. You got three dudes that's most
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  Speaker 1: likely going to play center from Ryan Fogier to Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Nitta to Hito Zaita. Those are your three that are
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  Speaker 1: the options right now because they're the most, they're the
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  Speaker 1: experienced ones in man to play center very well. So,
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  Speaker 1: or at least the ones they have the most confidence
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  Speaker 1: in right now, it's going to take some cohesion or whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: And Arbuckle did explain that. Let's talk about that. Before
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  Speaker 1: had to say when it came to playing center in
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  Speaker 1: the cohesion is to the needs to happen there.
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  Speaker 2: You're specifically talking about going under center. It just talks, it,
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  Speaker 2: it takes, it takes reps. It takes, continuous coaching. It
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  Speaker 2: takes the details of everything from taking a snap to
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  Speaker 2: your cadence to the footwork, depending on whatever scheme you're running.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always been that way for me whenever I've
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  Speaker 2: gone under center as a play caller. It's always been
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  Speaker 2: that way. And nothing really changed in that facet.
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  Speaker 1: So, see, like, the beat asked him specifically about, hey,
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  Speaker 1: are y'all going under center? What that's going to look like?
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  Speaker 1: And there you go. That was the explanation of it
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  Speaker 1: just requires repetition. And the good thing is they've got
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  Speaker 1: guys to do that with. They've got some guys that
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  Speaker 1: they're very comfortable with. They've got guys that not only
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  Speaker 1: are putting up some work in practices, but they're the
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  Speaker 1: ones that they expect are going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: make that happen for the offense. playing the under center.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you're going to see like 12, 13 personnel, which
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  Speaker 1: means two and three tight ends. You can see a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of big pushing people around type of offenses.
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  Speaker 1: Sign me up.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because we really do need a lot of that beating
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  Speaker 1: people up on the football field type of ball, because
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  Speaker 1: that to me is where Oklahoma can show people, show fans,
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  Speaker 1: show college football that they're serious about being a contender.
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  Speaker 1: The most important thing is going out there and showing
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  Speaker 1: that you can push people around. But as we talk
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  Speaker 1: about being under center and the cohesions and stuff that's needed,
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  Speaker 1: the challenge comes in. So there's injuries that's been going
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  Speaker 1: around social media. I saw a post from Stormin' and Norman.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it from all the beat writers, Parker Thune,
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  Speaker 1: George Doya, Brody Lusk over there at 247. They all
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  Speaker 1: posted about it. And it is unfortunate. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Foggiae is down. Don't mean he's out, but it
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  Speaker 1: does mean that he is down, as in he's probably
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  Speaker 1: not playing in this game against UTEP. Is that a
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  Speaker 1: bad thing? Nah, I don't think it's a bad thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, but I don't think it changes much. You'll
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  Speaker 1: get Michael Fasusi back. He's back over there at the left,
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  Speaker 1: so it means that at center, you're probably going to
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  Speaker 1: play Caleb Nitta, which Caleb Nitta playing against UTEP is
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  Speaker 1: probably not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because UTEP has a combined 93 starts on their entire
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  Speaker 1: starting lineup on both sides of the ball. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of experience at all. Their experience is
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  Speaker 1: very low, which is probably a good thing for Oklahoma, right?
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  Speaker 1: You're not going up against a team that's super experienced.
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  Speaker 1: And they only return like four dudes on defense. They
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  Speaker 1: got a fifth. That's probably going to show up. He's
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  Speaker 1: a safety. He got a TRO to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play this year. That's it. Like they're very inexperienced and
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  Speaker 1: they're just, they're redoing everything. So that's the plus for
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma in that one. There was also a second one
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  Speaker 1: that's been floating around and it sounds like our new guy,
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  Speaker 1: Parker Livingston will most likely not play in this game
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  Speaker 1: as well. It sounds like he's been kind of sitting
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  Speaker 1: out over the last, last week of practice. that's why
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  Speaker 1: you've been hearing the emergence of Elijah Thomas, which means,
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  Speaker 1: and Ben Arbuckle talked about him. Let me pull up
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  Speaker 1: my quotes here. Ben Arbuckle talked about ET and he
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  Speaker 1: talked about how ET knew exactly what he needed to
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  Speaker 1: work on and he needed to work on and he's
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  Speaker 1: attacked it head on. So that means that Elijah Thomas
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  Speaker 1: is going to go out there and he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the one that's going to ball out as your
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  Speaker 1: third dude. As we saw in the depth chart here,
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  Speaker 1: Elijah is sitting here right there as an or with
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  Speaker 1: Parker Livingston, which told me, okay, that means that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to probably play. So since Parker most likely won't
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  Speaker 1: be on the field, you'll play Elijah Thomas instead. For Foggia,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Nitta is going to be the one that will
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  Speaker 1: start in this game. You're fine. He's a fourth year
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  Speaker 1: in college. He's got experience. He's actually played center at biotech.
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  Speaker 1: He played center at Western Kentucky. He's played the position
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  Speaker 1: at some places and he's actually pretty solid. Like he
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  Speaker 1: was good against that LSU defensive front when he played.
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  Speaker 1: So we're good. Nothing for everybody to stress out about
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  Speaker 1: at all. I promise. Let me know what y'all think
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  Speaker 1: up in the comments. Want to hear your thoughts. I
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  Speaker 1: know y'all flipping out injuries. I read it. It's college
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  Speaker 1: football guys. Welcome to football. Go look at the NFL rosters,
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  Speaker 1: how many injuries they deal with. Go look at the
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  Speaker 1: other college teams. I mean, there's a lot of teams
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  Speaker 1: that have got a lot of deemed up players and
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  Speaker 1: some that they sit just because they're like, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to risk it in this game. And I
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  Speaker 1: say that because we're not prepping for UTEP. No disrespect
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  Speaker 1: to them. Again, 93 starts. We're prepping for Michigan. Probably
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  Speaker 1: been prepping for Michigan for a while. That's also why
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  Speaker 1: they move the game to Friday so they get those
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  Speaker 1: extra days of rest that extra day before they travel
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  Speaker 1: and extra prep time get the long weekend yeah that's
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  Speaker 1: what's most important so it's definitely something to keep in
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  Speaker 1: about UTEP on Wednesdays live. I'm getting with my guy,
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  Speaker 1: Colin Kennedy. We're actually going to talk about some of
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  Speaker 1: the visitors because Oklahoma should have a nice list of
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  Speaker 1: people pulling up. So we'll put that together and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk ball for you all. All right, y'all be good. Peace.
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