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Mac & Bone Show - Tim Albin Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Our next guest, Where's a lot of green? He is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Charlotte forty nine ers, and
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  Speaker 1: it is almost go time, fifteen days away from the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday a week one and the Charlotte forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: and everybody getting college football going. Tim Albin is their
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  Speaker 1: head coach, and he joins us here to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming season on the Mack and Bone Show. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on. How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, guys. I really appreciate you guys having me
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  Speaker 2: on this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate chob coach, appreciate you being here, being here with us. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: tell us what have been and tell Niner fans too
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  Speaker 1: that are listening. Tell them, most importantly, what has camp
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  Speaker 1: been like so far? And what are some of the
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  Speaker 1: what are some of the things that you've learned about
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  Speaker 1: your team in a good way in training camp?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me I'm gonna get to that. The first
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  Speaker 2: thing I gotta say about. How about men's soccer? Last
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  Speaker 2: night a big win against West Virginia ranked twenty third
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  Speaker 2: in the country.
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  Speaker 1: That's sweet, that's sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Beat We beat him here on here on campus. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: But for that program, absolutely, But Hey, camp Is, I say,
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  Speaker 2: we're on schedule. Uh, you know, we're in school, so
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  Speaker 2: we're getting into that routine. Had our first week of
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  Speaker 2: school this week, we're we are identity trying to find
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  Speaker 2: our identity. What's that? What's that going? What's that looks like?
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  Speaker 2: And Uh, the guys have worked very hard. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we have our last kind of big stimmage this coming Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: We've had one to this point. You know, our depth
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  Speaker 2: chart is not quite set. We've got to get some
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  Speaker 2: situations handled this Saturday. But I really like this team.
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  Speaker 2: We have got a collection a great student some really
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  Speaker 2: good student athletes. The stats excited. Uh, it's really inspiring.
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  Speaker 3: Coach. How different will the offense look with the revamped
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  Speaker 3: offensive line and all the new faces in the backfield
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're offensive defense like two different sets defensively return
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  Speaker 2: you know a fair amount of experience and starters. Offensively
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  Speaker 2: is a total rebuild. So specifically to your question, again,
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  Speaker 2: we have it's gonna be a lot of new faces.
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  Speaker 2: I mean probably two guys that played stat snap for us. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback situation, we'll see how that plays out. I
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  Speaker 2: really like where Cole's at Connor is coming off that injury.
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  Speaker 2: He's not quite ready. Graton's taking reps. I like Jalen White,
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  Speaker 2: a true freshman. All right, running back room probably going
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  Speaker 2: to be by committee. I think we've got three got
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  Speaker 2: three or four guys that you're going to see there.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've got some explosive guys on the edge.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, everybody knows it's not it's not it's not
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  Speaker 2: rocket scientists. But we got to score more points. We
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  Speaker 2: got to be more productive. I think, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: put ourselves in position as far as from a talent piece,
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  Speaker 2: talent acquisition, we're in a much better place. We've got
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  Speaker 2: to stay healthy. I'm concerned about our depth, but I
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  Speaker 2: think every coach in America is going to be concerned
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  Speaker 2: about depth with with the portal and how things work
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  Speaker 2: out these days. But hey, again, I think we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have some some explosives. It's explosive players on the field
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be makes some play forced out down the field.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Tim Abbot, head coach at Charlotte forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. They open against the Citadel on September fifth.
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  Speaker 1: We are just two weeks away from week one, heck,
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  Speaker 1: week zero with a couple of in state teams next week.
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  Speaker 1: So we are we are here, all right? So the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback situation, Coach, you mentioned a couple of you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys there, So did it does it not?
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  Speaker 1: Is is col Gonzalez? Is his status? Because I know
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  Speaker 1: he's been spending a lot of time running that first team.
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  Speaker 1: He's a kid who's been at Western, he's been at Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: He's got talent. Is it not? As like? Is that settled?
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  Speaker 1: Is he the starter for week one? How's how's that
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  Speaker 1: shaping out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I appreciate the question. I'm not I'm not ready
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  Speaker 2: to say who the starter is gonna be. It's not
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  Speaker 2: but I but everything that you said is correct. He's
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  Speaker 2: taking most of the reps with the ones. I just
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  Speaker 2: want to I want to get through this this this
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  Speaker 2: weekend and see where we're at. But but I but again,
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  Speaker 2: I like where he's at. You know, here's a situation.
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  Speaker 2: We we did some high red stuff work on on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we and we uh called a couple
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  Speaker 2: to take a shot and uh, we got the right coverage,
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  Speaker 2: but the guy was covered and PL tried to get
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  Speaker 2: it in there, and and I like, for hey, the
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  Speaker 2: next The next process of that is going to be, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: they covered a shot, let's check it down, let's make
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  Speaker 2: let's move the chains in three or four yards and
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  Speaker 2: move on to second down. I like to see him
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  Speaker 2: have some growth in that type of situation this Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to earlier in the week. But he's a
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  Speaker 2: he's a gunslinger now, I mean, there's you're gonna like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what are we doing? And then then
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be screaming, go, go go. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: know so, but he I mean, hey, he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: freaking gun slinger.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and he's gonna be exciting for our fans.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, when it comes to the leadership of your team
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  Speaker 3: here in your second year, who's a Who's a player
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  Speaker 3: or two that you would to as really the guys
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  Speaker 3: you want to lead this program? Uh to better days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's funny you asked that. Our our
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  Speaker 2: captain applications went out yesterday. So to be a captain
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  Speaker 2: on our football team, you have to apply and and
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  Speaker 2: we get we give it to all of our our
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  Speaker 2: staff and we read them, you know, and the players
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to read them, and then we vote
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  Speaker 2: all right, But but to specifically to your question, I
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  Speaker 2: think some of the usual suspects guys that played last
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  Speaker 2: year on defense, uh you know, Jayden Johnson, Cayden Smith's
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, a ton of reps. C J. Kling still,
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  Speaker 2: you know, started almost every game at corner on defense offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Connor returns and I will say he was the highest
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  Speaker 2: vote ginner a year ago. You know, he does an
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable job leeding, you know. And then and then you
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  Speaker 2: got like guys like uh Derrek Ealy was with me
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  Speaker 2: at Mey, you know, and so it'll be interesting how
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  Speaker 2: that shakes out this from a vote standpoint. But the
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  Speaker 2: names I mentioned are proving guys in our in our
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  Speaker 2: in our in our program. You know, there's we returned
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  Speaker 2: fifty two guys I mean a year ago. They know
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  Speaker 2: what takes here, and so we'll see how it shakes
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  Speaker 2: out as far as the vote goes. But we got
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  Speaker 2: some guys that can do can can lead for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Coach a lot of times when we talk to Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: fans that are out there listening about, Hey, what to
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  Speaker 1: expect moving forward under Coach Albin, we go back to
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  Speaker 1: what you did at Ohio where you built something right,
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  Speaker 1: like your first year you win three and then it's
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  Speaker 1: three straight ten win seasons. So you can build something
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  Speaker 1: at Charlotte. I think a lot of you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we're hopeful can coach go to building again?
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  Speaker 3: Is it harder now?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you got to Ohio in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one and one that long ago, but my god,
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  Speaker 1: how things change rapidly. Is it harder now to build
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  Speaker 1: because of the comings and goings the guys that leave
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  Speaker 1: and they you got to bring more portal people in.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's the nil space? Or do you feel confident
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  Speaker 1: like I can do what we did at Ohio here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean obviously, you know that's that's a tough question.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say it. It is tougher in these times.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be we want to be a developmental program,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and recruit a student athlete. He's here for
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  Speaker 2: eighteen months, he gets bigger, faster, strongers because we have
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  Speaker 2: the best, we have some great resources here at Charlotte,
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  Speaker 2: and then he plays one season and he needs you know,
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  Speaker 2: a good chance he could leave, and so that with
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  Speaker 2: that environment, it is more challenging. But I will say
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  Speaker 2: from year one and I call it year zero, but
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  Speaker 2: it's technically year one to where we are now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we got building blocks first, the first class we signed
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  Speaker 2: three high schol kids. Okay, because it is all portal.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy five guys were gone that whole thing this year.
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  Speaker 2: This in December, we signed nineteen highsol kids. That's the start,
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  Speaker 2: that's the building block, that's the foundational piece. Sixteen of
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen we're here for spring practice and so they're
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  Speaker 2: going through faul camp and they know the system. That
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  Speaker 2: is a huge piece right there. So I think it
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  Speaker 2: can be done. It's challenging. The hardest piece is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be retention of your building blocks after they get after
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  Speaker 2: they get filmed. That's gonna be. That's gonna be the
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  Speaker 2: deciding factor. And I'm just gonna say it, that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be what is your rep share? And you know that's
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  Speaker 2: that's just where it's at. I'm not it's on some plant.
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  Speaker 2: It's just what it is. But hey, yes, we want
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  Speaker 2: to build, We're gonna be. I want those guys to
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  Speaker 2: get a degree. They're the next wave of alumni of Charlotte.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many wonderful alumni in this area.
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  Speaker 2: And we have one hundred and ninety thousand alumni within
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  Speaker 2: two hours of campus. But I'm a firm believer ninety
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  Speaker 2: percent of your are guys that graduate here, stay in
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  Speaker 2: the area, and they're going to be the future leaders
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  Speaker 2: for the Queen City. And that's exciting for not only
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  Speaker 2: our fan base, for our administration and what we want
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  Speaker 2: to build.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, coach, before you go, we wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 3: because it's been a big deal on the show and nationally,
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  Speaker 3: do you have any thoughts on the fifty year chaos
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  Speaker 3: right now to where we have NFL players playing in
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  Speaker 3: preseason games now trying to go back to college football.
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  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on this latest chaos in the
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  Speaker 3: college football world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Tim Alvin's opinion is it is I'm not a fan.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate, you know, one one or two judges from
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  Speaker 2: from wherever is making this causing this chaos with the
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  Speaker 2: in double A. I say coaches should not do it. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just what it is. Uh. It's it's a mess
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  Speaker 2: and the judges are the reason for it. That's why
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  Speaker 2: we have got to pass legislation to keep this from
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  Speaker 2: happening and give the inctidibility the power to say, to
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  Speaker 2: say something and this' you know, hey, these are the rules.
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  Speaker 2: Follow them.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, no doubt, no doubt, Coach, we appreciate it. I
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  Speaker 1: know Niner fans are looking forward to seeing what the
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  Speaker 1: year brings for you, guys. Thanks so much for coming on,
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  Speaker 1: Coach
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, guys, Go Niners.