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Can Illinois Pull Off Another Shocker Over Top-Ranked Ohio State? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, October eighth. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The Illinois game in three days,
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You can consider this a bonus show if you want to.
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Speaker 2: You can't.
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Speaker 1: Let you hear a little bit from Brett Beilama, Illinois
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Speaker 1: head coach. He was not every Ohio State fans favorite
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Speaker 1: when he was at Wisconsin in the early two thousands.
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Speaker 1: I hope that he beat Ohio State, upsetting number one
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Speaker 1: Ohio State ranked team in twenty ten. But you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get to hear a little bit from him now. He's
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Speaker 1: I think, I don't know, become a little more lovable
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Speaker 1: over the years. I think for a lot of Ohio
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Speaker 1: State fans, you get to hear a little bit from him,
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Speaker 1: you'll go to show with Ross Fulton. A letter a
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Speaker 1: little later on today focused on the Ohio State offense
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Speaker 1: how they did against Minnesota. But first let's let you
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Speaker 1: hear from Brett just some general thoughts on this Saturdays
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Speaker 1: game against Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: Obviously a tremendous challenge here with Ohio State. Got a
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Speaker 2: lot of respect for Ryan and his staff, and you know,
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Speaker 2: know several of his coaches don't know them well. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: Matt there Patricia is the defense coordinator. I never really
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Speaker 2: crossed paths with him at New England, followed after him.
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Speaker 2: A lot of respect for what he built there and
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Speaker 2: what he did, and several of my players played for
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Speaker 2: him at Detroit, and just a really fun thing to
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Speaker 2: see him come in the league to what he brings.
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Speaker 2: And obviously they're playing at a high level on defense.
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Speaker 2: So offensively, you know, and O'Ryan's influence and you know
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Speaker 2: what they do offensively, it's a very explosive offense. Got
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Speaker 2: guys on a perimeter, very very good upfront offensive line,
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Speaker 2: good tight end package, good wide receivers obviously, so special teams,
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Speaker 2: good athletes all over the field, and they execute very
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Speaker 2: very well. So tremendous challenge. Number One team in the
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Speaker 2: country for a reason. But like our guys, like the attitude,
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Speaker 2: like their demeanor. I don't know if we have ever,
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Speaker 2: you know, played a game yet where we put it
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Speaker 2: all together for four quarters and there'd be no no
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Speaker 2: time than this week. Right, this is a team that
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Speaker 2: you need your best at opening snaps for the last nap.
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Speaker 2: And with that being said, I need our crew out
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Speaker 2: there in Memorial Stadium, kee'st Memorial Stadium to be as
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Speaker 2: best as they've been. You know. I tell our guys
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Speaker 2: every day three things you should do every day when
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Speaker 2: you wake up. Do things right, respect everyone, and be
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Speaker 2: the best you. Right, anybody that's coming in that stadium,
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Speaker 2: if you can give me that on Saturday and be
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Speaker 2: here a little early. Students make an appeal to you.
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Speaker 2: I know they got up early to go over to
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Speaker 2: the barstool, big new and kickoff thing and then they
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Speaker 2: couldn't quite make it to the fourth quarter last time.
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Speaker 2: So if you got a taper your entry to maybe
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Speaker 2: like seven or eight, don't be there at two am,
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Speaker 2: because we need you for the long haul, right, We
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Speaker 2: need you for as long as we need you on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: So it should be a great environment. I'm telling you
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Speaker 2: when you walk into these environments, into Big ten with
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Speaker 2: great stadiums, you actually feel the energy when you walk
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Speaker 2: on the field. And we are very very close to
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Speaker 2: doing that and hopefully Saturday will be the icing on
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Speaker 2: the cake for this year. So a tremendous moment. You know,
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Speaker 2: memories are created from the opportunity to capitalize on individual moments,
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Speaker 2: and this is one of those. So super excited about
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Speaker 2: that and hopefully we can make it all come true.
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Speaker 1: Mentioned Brett Bielima's upset of number one Ohio State in
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Speaker 1: twenty ten. Illinois had their own upset of Ohio State
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Speaker 1: when the Buckeyes were number one, That of course came
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. You will, like Brett Bilma
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Speaker 1: talked about the fact he didn't watch that one live,
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Speaker 1: knows all about it. Duds did say, though, former Illinois
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Speaker 1: quarterback Juice Williams will be at the game this weekend,
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Speaker 1: so you have that to look forward to. You may
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Speaker 1: have to avert your eyes maasicely some highlights from that
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Speaker 1: one during the broadcast. But who are Brett Bielima's thoughts
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Speaker 1: you know on that game? As I said, didn't watch
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Speaker 1: it live, but he knows all.
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Speaker 2: About it obviously, I know it's a big game. Juce
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Speaker 2: reached out to us. I know Juice's going to be here,
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Speaker 2: and he was a huge part of it. Got a
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Speaker 2: couple of coaches that you know, were part of that, obviously,
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Speaker 2: Josh and his history here at Illinois. This has always
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Speaker 2: been something that's been a really big game. We play
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Speaker 2: Ohiose State. It's a really good opportunity to see where
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Speaker 2: you stay in college football. And they have held up
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Speaker 2: their end of the bargain and hopefully we're starting to
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Speaker 2: hold of ours well.
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Speaker 1: Juice Williams led an upset of number one Ohio State
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. This year, if Illinois does it,
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Speaker 1: it'll be behind Luke Altmeyer. Altmeyer had a really solid
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Speaker 1: day against Purdue last week nineteen of twenty two, three
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety yards, only one touchdown. Kind of a
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Speaker 1: weird stat line against the Boiler Bakers last Saturday Forritpielin
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Speaker 1: was asked how Altmeyer has developed into the player that
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Speaker 1: he is today.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'd say, you know, for me, in dealing
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Speaker 2: with quarterbacks, I've always really admired guys that are the
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Speaker 2: same guys every day, really all positions right, and Luke
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Speaker 2: is that He's a definition of consistency. If something's off,
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Speaker 2: you literally know right away what it is and why
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Speaker 2: it is. So I think, you know, one of the
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Speaker 2: things that you can bring to an organization, especially successful organization,
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Speaker 2: is you can be the same person every day. Consistency
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Speaker 2: and communication is everything, and Luke has a very consistent
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Speaker 2: way of doing things. He's a great communicator. He's not up,
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Speaker 2: you know, going to go out and talk to He
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Speaker 2: can do that right. I saw him communicating in front
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Speaker 2: of the basketball arena when he said he's coming back,
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Speaker 2: and I saw that reaction. But he's also really good
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Speaker 2: at these one on one conversations. I think out on
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Speaker 2: the field of play, he communicates very very well, and
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Speaker 2: his intentional in his leadership. I think he knew Saturday
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Speaker 2: he could feel it. I had a meeting with him
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Speaker 2: on Friday and I literally walked out and I kind
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Speaker 2: of had a conversation with myself and then I saw
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Speaker 2: Art Saikowski about two hours later in the hallway and
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Speaker 2: I said, our quarterbacks feeling pretty good. He started laughing.
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Speaker 2: He goes coach at an all new high right, So
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Speaker 2: it was kind of you could see that one coming
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Speaker 2: and to see it materialize. I think he just his
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Speaker 2: confidence in the way he talks when dealing with Hank,
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Speaker 2: you know, talking with our running backs, with our offensive line.
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Speaker 2: And I tell you the key for me last week
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Speaker 2: when I knew we felt good was when he knew
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Speaker 2: that Josh Krutz wasn't going to play and he knew
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Speaker 2: TJ was going to get his chance he had. TJ
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Speaker 2: has been great all week, like he literally first thing
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Speaker 2: out of his mouth, and I think that when that
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Speaker 2: gets relayd to TJ McMillan, that makes him feel really good.
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Speaker 1: That Illinois team that beat Ohio State in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and seven. Earlier in that year, the Buckeyes played Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: when Buck Guy's renumber one and Bildem was the head
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Speaker 1: coach at Wisconsin. Badger's actually led that one seventeen to
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Speaker 1: ten midway through the third quarter before oh It ran
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Speaker 1: off twenty eight unanswered points to close the game and
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Speaker 1: win thirty eight to seventeen. So is that something that
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Speaker 1: Brett Bielimo has maybe referenced this week in terms of
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Speaker 1: just trying to produce the mystique around the top ranked team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, we definitely are going through a process. You know,
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Speaker 2: I think anybody that knows me or has been around me,
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Speaker 2: anybody that's you know, played for me, we have a
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Speaker 2: way of doing things that is very guided. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I actually reference that team to this group back in
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Speaker 2: fall in fall camp. So to have this moment, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of things more to show them
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Speaker 2: that this is something that you know, if you come
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Speaker 2: to college football, these moments really don't happen all that often.
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Speaker 2: I've been head coached seventeen years and the amount of
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Speaker 2: times where I get this moment have been very few.
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Speaker 2: So to realize the moment you're in and take advantage
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Speaker 2: of it. Like I've said, you know, in total to
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Speaker 2: our players, just a you know, a special memory is
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Speaker 2: created for moments, right, and which do with that moment
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Speaker 2: makes that memory. So I'm super excited for our guys.
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Speaker 2: I'm really excited for our fans. You know, I say
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Speaker 2: it to our players, and I want people to understand
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Speaker 2: where I'm coming from. This is no disrespect to anything
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Speaker 2: that's happened in the past year, right, But like, these
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Speaker 2: moments just don't happen. They're created over a long time.
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Speaker 2: You know, the Michigan moment a year ago created a
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Speaker 2: memory that lasts a lifetime. I still have people coming
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Speaker 2: up to me this year. That and then the USC
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Speaker 2: game last week was really really pretty awesome, right, And
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Speaker 2: obviously to have number one on House State coming here
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Speaker 2: is awesome, but there's a lot of really good players
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Speaker 2: that are playing on both sides of the ball. So
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Speaker 2: you that was a night kickoffs, so it was a
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Speaker 2: little bit different. And that year we had lost to
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Speaker 2: Michigan State earlier in the year kind of knocked us
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Speaker 2: back to You're right, I think we were number eighteen,
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Speaker 2: but that was pre you know, playoffs and all that stuff, right,
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Speaker 2: so the rankings weren't there. So but yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: the fact that, you know, not many of our guys
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Speaker 2: have been in these type of games. So the good
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Speaker 2: news is they've been a lot of big games. They've
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Speaker 2: done well.
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Speaker 1: Illinois has had a little bit of an up and
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Speaker 1: down season. They just had a really good win over
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Speaker 1: USC a couple weeks ago, but then they got absolutely
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Speaker 1: smoked by Indiana earlier in the year, and then they
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Speaker 1: gave up six yards per play and twenty seven points
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Speaker 1: to Purdue, which is not exactly a national title contender.
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Speaker 1: This year in a forty three to twenty seven win.
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Speaker 1: So skip Pripylmo's thoughts on the defense in general right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, without a doubt we when we played
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Speaker 2: defense out of mind. You know, if we give a
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Speaker 2: big play, we just gotta get it down right. And
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Speaker 2: we've just given up over the last three or four
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Speaker 2: games plays that are explosive and goal cross the end
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Speaker 2: zone right, and that's the things we can't play. There's
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Speaker 2: so many times, even like Saturday, I think two of
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Speaker 2: our last three drives defensively, they're going two minutes, we
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Speaker 2: stopped them right and you know, we just got the
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Speaker 2: ball in front of us, got the ball down, they
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Speaker 2: gained some yards. So I think that now I will
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Speaker 2: say this obviously, I'm not oblivious that you know, defensively,
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Speaker 2: we've been pretty riddled with injuries, especially in the back end,
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Speaker 2: which causing a whole chain reaction of things. But you know,
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Speaker 2: we're getting a little bit healthier. I think Aaron's understanding
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Speaker 2: the personnel bit better and then bottom line, the players
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Speaker 2: around and we got to play extremely well.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that has been an issue for
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Speaker 1: Illinois on defense is limiting explosive plays. The align I
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Speaker 1: are tied for ninety first in the country allowing six
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Speaker 1: plays of forty plus yards and tied for eighty third
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Speaker 1: in the nation with two plays, so sixty plus yards allowed.
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Speaker 1: So okay, what did the align I need to do
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Speaker 1: to get better?
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Speaker 2: I think twofold, you got to maximize the moments, like
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Speaker 2: if we dial up a pressure, we it's got to land, right,
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Speaker 2: you know, if we got to overload a pressure, if
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Speaker 2: we got to you know, sometimes like the little thing
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Speaker 2: I always say, pressure away, make it stay, Like sometimes
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Speaker 2: we brought some pressure and they've scaped out of it, right,
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Speaker 2: And there's just some principles there that that we got.
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Speaker 2: We got to do a better job of up holding
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Speaker 2: in And you know, tackling is a big part of
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Speaker 2: that too, Like when you have some of those tackles,
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Speaker 2: you know that could have been a two or three
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Speaker 2: yard gain and all of sudden they're turning into twelve fifteen.
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Speaker 2: The big play that actually got a race because they
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Speaker 2: had a penalty on Saturday that was like Matt was
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Speaker 2: right there and got knocked off it. So you know,
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Speaker 2: I know we'll emphasize that this week in practice. But
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Speaker 2: this week in practice, in my opinion from as a
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Speaker 2: head coach, The real challenge for me is to get
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Speaker 2: my players ready to play a one hundred miles an
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Speaker 2: hour on Saturday, but also get under prepare physically and
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Speaker 2: mentally so Tuesdays we're not going to change. We're always
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Speaker 2: a full padded big boy practice on Tuesdays, and I
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Speaker 2: think we need that more than anything. But we also
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Speaker 2: have to be super intelligent about to get to Saturday
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Speaker 2: and play the way we are. I do like the
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Speaker 2: cooler weather's coming. I think that should allow us to
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Speaker 2: play in a way. I was a little concern they're
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Speaker 2: supposed to be some showers tomorrow, but it's going to dissplate,
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Speaker 2: so I think we should be able to practice in
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Speaker 2: a normal timeslot, which is good.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of a little bit of a long
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Speaker 1: rambling answer, and he sort of touches on some stuff
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Speaker 1: and he kind of goes and ends up talking about
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Speaker 1: a bunch of high school coaches and stuff, and this
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Speaker 1: is just a classic Brett deal in my answer. But
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Speaker 1: the guys he's talking about here, I just kind of
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Speaker 1: wanted to talk about them for a minute. And you
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Speaker 1: can let him talk a little bit about them and
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Speaker 1: then their families and their high school coaches and all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But two players to know at
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Speaker 1: wide receiver for the alignment. Number one is Hank Baby.
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Speaker 1: He had five catches one hundred and eighty six yards
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Speaker 1: and a touchdown against Perdue last week. He's over five
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Speaker 1: hundred yards already this season. Colin Dixon four catches, seven
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Speaker 1: in the yards last weekend. He's three hundred yards receiving
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Speaker 1: this season. Both of those guys averaging over seventeen yards
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Speaker 1: per catch this season. So here's Brett Brett Bielma's thoughts
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Speaker 1: on Hank Baby and Colin Dixon.
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Speaker 2: I think Hank and Colin both are pretty special players,
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Speaker 2: you know, really, Hank, Colin, and Hudson. All three of
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Speaker 2: those guys have more eligibility left right, So like it's
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Speaker 2: fun to think about that room and where they can go.
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Speaker 2: I think a tremendous part of that is Justin Stepp.
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Speaker 2: I think our wide receiver coach is the best I've
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Speaker 2: ever had. An extremely gifted person, but he's an extremely
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Speaker 2: gifted human like, he is very intentional. I'll sit down
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Speaker 2: there before our last meeting, I literally see him hand
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Speaker 2: a card to every player. He writes a note and
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Speaker 2: hands it to every wide receiver that plays in that
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Speaker 2: game and I don't know what's in that card. That's
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Speaker 2: their business, right, But the intentionality of that right, like
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Speaker 2: is really high level. And I think for a guy
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Speaker 2: like Hank and a guy like Colin, there are very
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Speaker 2: they're very emotionally invested players, and they're not just shown
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Speaker 2: up for work. I think what goes on in their
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Speaker 2: heart and in their mind really carries onto the field.
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Speaker 2: And that's not surprising. I'll go back to, you know,
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Speaker 2: with Hank babies, mom and dad, like both doctors that
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Speaker 2: are just really really high level care factor for Illinois.
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Speaker 2: Like when I when I when I first talked to
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Speaker 2: coach when I was recruiting him, like like just the
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Speaker 2: passionate his high school people in his buildy, not just
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Speaker 2: as head coach and all the assistants. The way the
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Speaker 2: high school felt about him at Rochester, you could tell
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Speaker 2: that he was really something special and that's what we're seeing.
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Speaker 1: Mentioned that the big plays have been a problem for
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Speaker 1: Illinois this season. Well, one of the ways you give
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Speaker 1: up big plays is by missing tackles. That has been
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Speaker 1: an issue for the Alaina. I So, all right, how
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Speaker 1: do you fix that?
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Speaker 2: Well, first off, they're pretty good, and the second thing is,
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Speaker 2: you know, we sometimes tackles are like other aspects of football,
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Speaker 2: they kind of come contagious at times, and then then
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Speaker 2: they kind of spread into a lot of different areas
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Speaker 2: and you've got to build their confidence up. I think
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Speaker 2: what we one of the things that plagued is some
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Speaker 2: of those balls that are getting to the second level
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Speaker 2: or getting there very fast. So we just got to
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Speaker 2: be better about what we want to do with the
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Speaker 2: ball at the line of scrimming so that doesn't get
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Speaker 2: up on those guys really really fast, and then just
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Speaker 2: make sure that pre snap wise, a big part of
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Speaker 2: our defense is being able to and I'm sure you
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Speaker 2: hear when people talk about the playoffs like we don't
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Speaker 2: show what we're doing sometimes, But at the same account,
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Speaker 2: you can't put yourself. I remember there's a play earlier
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Speaker 2: this year that happy at Duke Xavier was bailing out
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Speaker 2: over top, but he really was going at a bad
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Speaker 2: angle when the guy's coming at a different angle, And
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Speaker 2: I just said, hey, man, like, there's some times where
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Speaker 2: we can do that, but we got to put our
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Speaker 2: guys in a position to make sure they can make plays, right.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's a little bit of a combo platter.
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Speaker 1: Last week going into the game against Minnesota, we talked
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Speaker 1: about the fact that special teams had been a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a disaster for the Gophers. They were ranked
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Speaker 1: ninetieth in FBI, and then you saw Ohio State had
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a trick play made a big
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Speaker 1: play on special teams with that throwback on the punt return.
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Speaker 1: So this week against getting st. Illinois, you're probably not
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to pull off anything like that. Special
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Speaker 1: teams have been a all mark of Beilemu's teams, and
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Speaker 1: the line are third in FBI in special teams this year.
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Speaker 1: They're eleven to twelve on field goals, averaging forty five
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Speaker 1: yards per punt. This is a little bit of another
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Speaker 1: kind of long winding Brett Bielman answer. But what goes
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Speaker 1: into making your special teams that good?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think you know twofold our special list, right,
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Speaker 2: David and what he's doing in the kickoff game, and
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Speaker 2: he had the one out of bounds, but that was
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Speaker 2: really the only flaw he's had the entire year. He's
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Speaker 2: just those guys have had in I think we've had
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Speaker 2: three kicks return now and none of them have gotten
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Speaker 2: past the twenty yard line, so even if a team's
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Speaker 2: brought it out, they haven't grown pass at twenty, which
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Speaker 2: I don't know. There's another team in college football that
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Speaker 2: i'd played. And then Crimmins the way he hit the
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Speaker 2: ball at Purdue, I mean he had a little extra juice.
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Speaker 2: That was his old team, right. It was funny. The
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Speaker 2: official came up during that pile up for the loose ball.
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Speaker 2: He's like, hey, one of your players is pulling somebody off.
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Speaker 2: So I got on the offensive head sat I told
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Speaker 2: offensive coaches, and I told the defensive coaches, well, hell,
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Speaker 2: it was my punter, right, I didn't know it was
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Speaker 2: my punter pulling people off. I said, do you have
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Speaker 2: a little grudgey? He goes, I don't know who it was,
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Speaker 2: he said, but I just thought it was awesome. And
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Speaker 2: then you know, Andre like like like there's just some
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Speaker 2: guys that have flashed Ashton Hound's coming by and punching
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Speaker 2: that thing out. That's that's contagious things, you know, So
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Speaker 2: like I just give I mean, Robbie Disher, I think
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Speaker 2: he's exceptional. Chris heard You've heard me talk about him.
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Speaker 2: It's just those guy Harper Coles, another guy I brought
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Speaker 2: in who was at TCU, played at Arkansas, a kid
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Speaker 2: from the Chicagoland area. I mean I literally sometimes will
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Speaker 2: walk down the hallway at one point thirty in the morning,
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Speaker 2: those guys will be in there working like it's just
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Speaker 2: the amount of volume of work that those guys do
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Speaker 2: is insane and they and they attention to detail. And
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Speaker 2: I will say this, Chris Heard was the first guy
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Speaker 2: I believe him and Harper I went and sat in
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Speaker 2: their meeting room and they were the first time. You know,
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Speaker 2: Andre love it. They're like, coach, this kid's really doing
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Speaker 2: It was like week two, week three. It was his
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Speaker 2: practice reps. It was look team stuff that carried into
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Speaker 2: where we are. So I've seen that happen time and
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Speaker 2: time again, and that's really fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: Well, you will get to see Bilama's special teams and
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