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Could Arch Manning play against Georgia? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 3: Back here on this long orange Monday, here on Sports
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  Speaker 3: Radio AM thirteen nundreds, and we were hearing from coach sart.
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear a little more from him this hour,
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  Speaker 3: then we'll hear some more next hour. It was just
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  Speaker 3: about the physicality of his team, and uh, does he
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  Speaker 3: feel as though his team has become much more physical
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  Speaker 3: on both sides of the line of scrimmage since the
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  Speaker 3: Georgia game.
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  Speaker 2: Really and truly over the last month.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's gone upward. I think from an upward
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  Speaker 4: from a consistency standpoint. I think we've had moments or
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  Speaker 4: we've been a very physical football team. But you guys
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  Speaker 4: can recall early in the season me talking about we're
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  Speaker 4: giving up too many leaky yards in the run game,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about on on.
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  Speaker 4: Defense, and we talked about on offense, you know, our
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  Speaker 4: ability to run the ball consistently, especially when our opponent
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  Speaker 4: knows we're going to run the ball. You haven't heard
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  Speaker 4: those things out of my mouth here for about the
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  Speaker 4: last month.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we haven't.
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  Speaker 4: I've been talking about leaky yards in the run game
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  Speaker 4: and letting running backs fall forward. I haven't been talking
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  Speaker 4: about our inability to run it when our opponents know
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  Speaker 4: we're going to run it. So I think there's been
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  Speaker 4: a level of consistency in our physicality that that has grown,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that stems from practice. Our practice habits
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  Speaker 4: have improved as the season's gone on. We're practicing better
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  Speaker 4: defensively than we have all year. I touched on a
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  Speaker 4: couple weeks about ago about how physical practice has been
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  Speaker 4: and even the chippiness at practice, which I think again
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  Speaker 4: is a great sign that we have the energy to
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  Speaker 4: do that. But I think all those are byproducts of
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  Speaker 4: why we're seeing a level of physicality for four quarters
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  Speaker 4: from our guys, not just kind of in spots where
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  Speaker 4: maybe we were early in the year. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: there's a level of consistency now that's better than it's
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  Speaker 4: been all season long.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there's He was also asked as well about managing that.
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  Speaker 3: Here's another one of those portal questions. Managing the portal
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  Speaker 3: a little more strenuously because the season is ongoing.
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  Speaker 2: How you deal with that.
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  Speaker 3: And also as for an update on Kelvin Banks who
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  Speaker 3: had the ankle injury.
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  Speaker 4: That is a challenging component. You know, there's it's like
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  Speaker 4: I used to say that I use this term, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like crying from a yacht. Some people
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  Speaker 4: use champagne problems. We're we're a competing for an SEC championship,
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  Speaker 4: We're more than likely going to be in the college
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  Speaker 4: football playoff.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, is.
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  Speaker 4: It a little bit of a disadvantage when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to dealing with the portal, Sure, but I'd much rather
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  Speaker 4: be I'd much rather this be my problem than a
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  Speaker 4: team that isn't competing for a conference championship, maybe isn't
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  Speaker 4: going to a bowl game or going to a lesser
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  Speaker 4: bowl and saying, hey, I got all the time in
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  Speaker 4: the world to recruit all these portal guys, you know,
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  Speaker 4: so I'll take the situation we're in compared to to
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  Speaker 4: the to the ladder.
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  Speaker 1: Knowingly that we don't make a living in the portal.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we try to recruit high school kids because
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  Speaker 4: we develop relationships with them over time. We understand there
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  Speaker 4: is some advantage to the portal from a free agency
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  Speaker 4: standpoint to stop gap some of the depth issues we
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  Speaker 4: might have on our roster. But we probably don't spend
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  Speaker 4: as much time on the portal as a lot of
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  Speaker 4: other schools do because of our commitment to the high
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  Speaker 4: school recruiting. But again, again, I'd much rather have this
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  Speaker 4: problem right now than than the ladder.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll take the situation that we're in. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Kelvin really is in a situation that I guess kind
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  Speaker 4: of similar to Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of be a process throughout the week to see what
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  Speaker 4: he can look like as we get closer to game day.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a good start to the week for him,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't asked about might they continue to open
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  Speaker 3: up the playbook even more? Have they opened it completely up?
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  Speaker 3: And does that include more perhaps of seeing a little
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  Speaker 3: more of arge banding.
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  Speaker 1: We might. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I I would say no, we haven't fully
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  Speaker 4: opened our playbook because you know, as a staff, we
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  Speaker 4: sit around and we think about our roster, and we
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  Speaker 4: think about our team, and we think about what we're
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  Speaker 4: good at, and we think about where we can improve,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to run stuff Saturday that we haven't
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  Speaker 4: ran all year because of who we are as a
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  Speaker 4: team now and finding new ways to try to move
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  Speaker 4: the football and create issues for our opponents.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, there's always things that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do that are new.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that that the beauty of these guys
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  Speaker 4: offensively is that they really accept that stuff and like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: here's why we're doing it, So let's make sure we
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  Speaker 4: get this this aspect right.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, I mean, we did wildcat
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  Speaker 4: there for about three years, and that was a big
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  Speaker 4: part of what we did with Roshan, and that we
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  Speaker 4: threw arch in here on a couple opportunities here in
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  Speaker 4: the high red to get into some quarterback run stuff
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  Speaker 4: and we've gotten into twenty one personnel and utilize blue
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  Speaker 4: and Tray together, and so we're constantly trying to evolve
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. We did some tackle over things in this
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  Speaker 4: game that we hadn't shown much of throughout the year.
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  Speaker 4: So you're always trying to find little tweaks and things
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  Speaker 4: to find some advantages along the way. So I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: there'll be a few new wrinkles this Saturday as well.
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  Speaker 3: All right, And then he was asked about the Long
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  Speaker 3: Runs playing well in hostile environments in all. In all,
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  Speaker 3: the Long Runs now have one eleven consecutive road games,
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  Speaker 3: eleven straight road games.
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  Speaker 2: So how has that men?
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  Speaker 3: How have they been so good on the road, and
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  Speaker 3: how have they been so good in hostile environments?
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  Speaker 1: I really think so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, our guys love I think they kind of
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  Speaker 4: embrace it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they embrace being together.
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  Speaker 4: They embrace knowing, hey, they're not running out of DKR
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  Speaker 4: and there's one hundred and five thousand burn Orange fans
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  Speaker 4: screaming and yelling for them.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of embrace and get fueled by the booze
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  Speaker 1: and and the crowd noise. On the road.
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  Speaker 4: When you're on offense, you have to really focus, and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes that helps us focus even better. You know, I've
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  Speaker 4: looked at all of our numbers. I feel like we
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  Speaker 4: have more false starts at home than we do them
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  Speaker 4: we're actually on the road, because it forces our focus,
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  Speaker 4: it forces the communication. But I do think our guys
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  Speaker 4: embrace it and enjoy it. It's been a journey to
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  Speaker 4: get to that point, but we've gone into some tough
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  Speaker 4: environments and played pretty good football. I would argue some
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  Speaker 4: of our best football over the last two years has
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  Speaker 4: been played on the road, and so it does give
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  Speaker 4: me a lot of confidence knowing, hey, you know, essentially
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  Speaker 4: going on the road, what it's going to take to
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  Speaker 4: try to come out on top.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well we'll hear a little more from Start coming
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  Speaker 3: up next hour as well the Tech since men's and
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  Speaker 3: women's basketball teams go back on the road this week
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  Speaker 3: and both with challenges. The Long Worn men went on
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  Speaker 3: Friday night against Delaware State and now have won six
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  Speaker 3: in a row after dropping their season opener. So they're
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  Speaker 3: six and one heading into the SEC. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 3: they should say the ACC SEC challenges. ACC is at home.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to play a North Carolina State team that
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  Speaker 3: is five and two. Remember NC State reached the Final
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  Speaker 3: four a year ago. Now they graduated some players off
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  Speaker 3: of that, but they still have some good players like
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  Speaker 3: Ben Middlebrooks, Marcus Hill, Jayden Taylor's their leading scorer, a
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  Speaker 3: guy who transferred in from Butler, Dontrest Styles transferred in
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  Speaker 3: from Georgetown, Brandon Huntley Hatfield transferred in from Louisville. Middlebrooks
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  Speaker 3: transferred income from Clemson. So they've got some transfers they've
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  Speaker 3: really helped to Michael O'Connell, the grad student guard started
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  Speaker 3: off at Stanford. So there's those guys. They average seventy
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  Speaker 3: six points a game and they give up sixty five
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  Speaker 3: a game the Long Wars. Right now, we're averaging eighty
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  Speaker 3: three and allowing sixty two. This will be the first
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  Speaker 3: time Texas has played North Carolina State. Here's that number
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  Speaker 3: again in thirteen years. In fact, the last time that
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  Speaker 3: Texas played nca State was three days before Texas played
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  Speaker 3: Texas A and M in that climactic football game where
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  Speaker 3: they won on the Justin.
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  Speaker 2: Tucker Field goal.
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  Speaker 3: They played in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Ticket
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  Speaker 3: City Legends Classic and lost the NC State that night,
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  Speaker 3: seventy seven to seventy fourth. Series overalls tied to two
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  Speaker 3: between Texas and NCAA State. And then the Texas women
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  Speaker 3: will play at Notre Dame. That is also sec ACC
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  Speaker 3: SEC Challenge since Notre Dame it plays basketball in the ACC.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dane was unbeaten and then stumbled after knocking off
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  Speaker 3: South Carolin lost a couple of games in the Islands.
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  Speaker 2: They have not played Notre Dame since the last year.
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  Speaker 3: Before I started doing the play by play, it was
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  Speaker 3: to ninety six ninety seven season. March seventeen, nineteen ninety seven.
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  Speaker 3: It was in a second round in see A tournament
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  Speaker 3: game at the Irwin Center, Notre Dame in Texas. You
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  Speaker 3: know what the wrinkle on that was Cam. The play
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  Speaker 3: by play voice for Texas women's basketball that year was
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  Speaker 3: none other than our good friend, the late immortal Bill Little,
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  Speaker 3: And the color analyst for that game was John mckovic.
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  Speaker 2: Texas was was coming off.
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  Speaker 3: The high of winning the Big twelfth title over Nebraska,
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  Speaker 3: and so Macovick had nothing going on, and Bill and
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  Speaker 3: vided to be on, and he was on.
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  Speaker 2: He did color for the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's the last time Texas played Notre Dame in women's basketball.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be back to wrap a bower Number two on
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