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USF LB Zavier Hamilton Joins 4th AND BULL · 4th AND BULL

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Xavier? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: My name is Nick. I'm good, man.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you coming on 4th and Bowl and letting Bulls
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  Speaker 3: fans get to know you a little bit and talk
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  Speaker 3: a little football.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that you were from Golf Breeze. Interesting area.
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  Speaker 1: My aunt lives there.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting when it comes to the sports world there
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  Speaker 3: because you're kind of a mixture of fans. Did you
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  Speaker 3: grow up Bucs fan, Jags fan, Saints fan? Because I
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  Speaker 3: feel like they're all in that area.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're all pretty close, but personally, I never really
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  Speaker 4: like followed a specific NFL team.
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  Speaker 1: So like, yeah, that's interesting. I, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: And it's funny because I feel like anytime I talk
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  Speaker 3: to college football players, they, they don't have a favorite
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  Speaker 3: NFL team. Like, is it just because you played and
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  Speaker 3: all you thought about was playing and you didn't care
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  Speaker 3: about watching it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably why I'm not playing.
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  Speaker 3: Cause all I cared about was watching it rather than
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  Speaker 3: being outside and working on my 40 time.
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  Speaker 1: But, Is that, is that what it is?
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  Speaker 3: You just, you just love playing it. Cause like my
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  Speaker 3: youngest brother was really good at football. Didn't really watch
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  Speaker 3: it growing up. You know, he just played.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'll watch, like I'll watch the games.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, but like, I just find like
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  Speaker 4: the college football games more interested, like more fun to
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  Speaker 4: watch than in.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL games. Personally.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. My favorite part about college football.
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  Speaker 3: Is it starts at noon and then you've got games
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  Speaker 3: until like two o'clock in the morning. Nothing beats it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm with you on that. So, You go from
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  Speaker 3: Gulf Breeze, you move to Tampa, much bigger city. What
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  Speaker 3: are some things you like to do in Tampa outside
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  Speaker 3: of football? Maybe when the offseason, because I know right
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  Speaker 3: now you're always in that building and you don't really
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  Speaker 3: have much free time. But when you're not playing football,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing around Tampa?
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  Speaker 2: Around? I like to go downtown a lot. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's really nice. Hyde Park, especially. I like walking around there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hyde Park's nice.
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  Speaker 2: I love the restaurants there. Fort Beach is one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorites. Row, Meat Market, all those areas down there.
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  Speaker 1: Last time I went to Hyde Park, it went to me, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Every time I go to Hyde Park, I realize I
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  Speaker 3: don't have enough money to be in Hyde Park. Every
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  Speaker 3: time I go, it's just like Lamborghini there, Ferrari there.
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  Speaker 4: They do have some crazy cars up front.
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  Speaker 1: They really do. Back to Gulf Reefs a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: They got a ton of snow a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Were you there when it snowed?
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  Speaker 4: I was not there, but everyone said that it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually snowed there the past two years back to back,
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  Speaker 4: so I think it's becoming a normal thing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from the north, so I'm here. I don't ever
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  Speaker 3: want to see snow. I'm good on that.
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  Speaker 1: I pass.
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  Speaker 3: When you were getting recruited out of high school, you
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of offers from schools like Arkansas, LSU, Auburn,
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame, Florida State, which they have a big following
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  Speaker 3: in the panhandle.
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  Speaker 1: What was it about USF that made you choose being
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  Speaker 1: a Bull?
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  Speaker 4: During the process, my sister actually moved down here to Tampa,
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  Speaker 4: and I absolutely loved it. I loved Tampa a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever I came here, it felt like this is where
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  Speaker 4: I need to be.
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  Speaker 2: This is my home.
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  Speaker 4: Now, whenever I go home, I can only be there
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  Speaker 4: for a week before it's like, man, I need to
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  Speaker 4: come back to Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: You probably get bored in a golf breeze going from Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: There's not much to do up there.
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  Speaker 3: I lived in Panama City in the panhandle, so I
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  Speaker 3: get it. It's like the beach, and that's really it.
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  Speaker 2: That's really it, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we owe your sister a big thank you for
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  Speaker 3: you being a Bull. We appreciate her. Um, let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about the game on Saturday, Delaware state, nice victory. Um, the,
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  Speaker 3: the first half, you know, it was 21, 17. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you guys weren't super happy with the performance, but
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  Speaker 3: then you guys came out and played the best half.
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  Speaker 1: I think you've played all year long.
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  Speaker 3: What changed from the first half to the second half
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  Speaker 3: where there's something, you know, people always mention second half adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a real thing in the, in the locker
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  Speaker 1: room or did.
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  Speaker 3: Coach just yell at you guys? What was it that just,
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  Speaker 3: went from playing okay to your best football of the season.
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  Speaker 4: You know uh coach aldridge really isn't like on game
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  Speaker 4: day he doesn't really yell that much it's not much
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  Speaker 4: of a yeller he just came in told us that
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  Speaker 4: like we're just one we're one job away from them
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  Speaker 4: not scoring at all like it's really all it's all
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  Speaker 4: a message was and in the first half like maybe
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  Speaker 4: like we just kind of came out we got to
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  Speaker 4: stop on the first drive but it was still too
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  Speaker 4: many yards and our standards they get nothing at all
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  Speaker 4: and In the second half, whenever we came out, we
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  Speaker 4: all had a mindset that that's never happening to us again.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what the main switch was, I feel like,
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  Speaker 4: in the locker room. And we all just did our
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  Speaker 4: job and executed at a high level in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: No, you guys did.
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  Speaker 3: So there was the 90-yard pass play for the touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: and then there was the 50-yard run. When you look
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  Speaker 3: back on those on film, are those easy, correctable mistakes
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  Speaker 3: that we don't really worry about going forward?
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  Speaker 2: Extremely easy. That probably won't happen a second time.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we like to hear. Like I said, that
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  Speaker 3: second half was just you guys play. It was like
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  Speaker 3: two different teams. You're kind of frustrated going in as
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  Speaker 3: a fan, and then you guys come out, and you
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  Speaker 3: dominated from start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: So love that.
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  Speaker 3: Bowling Green, this weekend, as you prepare for Bowling Green,
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  Speaker 3: they come into the game 0-3.
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  Speaker 1: So they're thirsty for their first win.
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  Speaker 3: Played a couple power four teams, and then they got
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  Speaker 3: lost to Tarleton State, which is kind of a weird
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  Speaker 3: school that came out of nowhere, but they got all
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  Speaker 3: this money, and they're good at sports. When you watch
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  Speaker 3: Bowling Green on tape, what do they do well that
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  Speaker 3: you're kind of preparing for on Saturday?
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  Speaker 4: Bowling Green's office coordinator was an O-line guy, and.
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  Speaker 2: They mostly just want to run the football.
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  Speaker 4: So our game plan going into it is we just
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  Speaker 4: got to stop the run, make them pass.
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  Speaker 2: They utilize their tight ends most of the time in
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  Speaker 2: all their formations.
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  Speaker 4: So we're expecting a heavy run game, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to go out there and bring.
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  Speaker 2: It to them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're coached by a former running back, Eddie George.
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  Speaker 3: He went to Ohio State just like Brian Harline. Brian
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  Speaker 3: Harline been saying anything about Eddie to get you guys
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  Speaker 3: kind of fired up?
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  Speaker 1: Like, does he want this one since they went to
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  Speaker 1: the same school?
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  Speaker 4: The message from our line is this is just another
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  Speaker 4: great opportunity for us to go out and show what
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  Speaker 4: we are about before we walk into conference play.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just– it's a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like kind of like last week. Like, we
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  Speaker 4: got another chance, so we just– We got to put
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  Speaker 4: our best things on tape.
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  Speaker 3: You have, so you guys have now won two games
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  Speaker 3: at home, one on the road, dramatic fashion on the road.
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  Speaker 1: What's more fun as a college football player? Winning at home,
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  Speaker 1: like game one, right? You beat FIU.
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  Speaker 3: There's like 40,000 fans there. You get to celebrate with
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  Speaker 3: the fans. They're all pumped.
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  Speaker 1: Or is going into Army winning the way you did
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  Speaker 1: or going into the Swamp like you did last year?
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  Speaker 1: You played in the Swamp.
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  Speaker 3: Leaving 90,000 fans sad, is that more satisfying than leaving 40,000
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  Speaker 3: fans happy?
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  Speaker 4: Internally, it's a great feeling knowing that you just silenced
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  Speaker 4: so many people.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there's a more comparable feeling than getting
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  Speaker 4: a really nice win at home and you can celebrate
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  Speaker 4: with your own fans. You run down the sideline, running
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  Speaker 4: around the stadium after the game, giving them all high
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  Speaker 4: fives and you've seen everyone just so, like, they're all smiling,
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  Speaker 4: they're all excited. That's honestly, like, that's a better feeling
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  Speaker 4: to me personally.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to the Army game, and we'll talk a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about Delaware State too, but the Army game
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  Speaker 3: was a big one for you because you had your
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  Speaker 3: first sack. That moment, take us through the play, and
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  Speaker 3: how did it feel to get the first sack?
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  Speaker 4: So during the play, I mean, it was really the
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  Speaker 4: accumulation of the whole drive. Like, we knew that we
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  Speaker 4: had It was coming into two minutes. We got to
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  Speaker 4: get off the field. And then after we stopped them,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, they didn't call a timeout. Not a timeout.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't waste any time on the clock. They ran
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  Speaker 4: plays back to back. So we were just, our mindset
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  Speaker 4: going out was we got to stop them. There's no
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  Speaker 4: other option. Our back's against the wall here. And the
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  Speaker 4: play that we had, we've been calling it all day.
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  Speaker 4: And we've been getting great looks off of it. And
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  Speaker 4: everyone just did their job. Mike Will did a great
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  Speaker 4: job shaking the tight end. I was able to get free.
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  Speaker 4: And because of him doing that job and all my
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  Speaker 4: other teammates doing their job, I was able to come free.
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  Speaker 4: And we talk about competitive excellence all the time. Whenever
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  Speaker 4: the play comes your way, you've got to make it.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like that's just what we all did
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  Speaker 4: on that drive.
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  Speaker 3: And, yeah, Army's a hard team to get a sack against, too,
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  Speaker 3: because they don't really drop back very often.
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: As a linebacker, a sack's got to be fun.
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  Speaker 3: So when the play call comes in and you get
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  Speaker 3: to rush the passer, do you get a little extra
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  Speaker 3: excited coming out? You're not huddling, but when you get
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  Speaker 3: out there and line up, are you a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more excited knowing you're going to get to rush the passer?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You try not to show it, but whenever you get
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  Speaker 4: blitzed as a linebacker, it's kind of like, to me,
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  Speaker 4: it's like a mental relief.
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  Speaker 2: Like, man, all I got to do is rush. Like, heck,
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  Speaker 2: let's go. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I wouldn't be good because I'm not, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not good. I don't have a poker face. Like you
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  Speaker 3: would know right from the get go. And I get
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  Speaker 3: out there, they'd be like 52.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming at me. I know he's just laughing at me.
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  Speaker 1: So that's great.
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  Speaker 3: The so against army, you get, you guys did your
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  Speaker 3: job and now you're on the bench.
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  Speaker 1: The offense is, is rolling. What's that moment?
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  Speaker 3: Cause it was just, I know I'm going back to
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  Speaker 3: two games and you guys just had Delaware state, but,
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  Speaker 3: but that moment for the defense, you on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 3: is that one of those moments? Like as a fan,
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  Speaker 3: when I'm watching a game, There are times where I've
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  Speaker 3: got to turn my head, right? I don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: I get too nervous. Are you watching the game standing up,
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  Speaker 3: or are you watching on a screen in the stadium?
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  Speaker 1: Does your back turn to the game? How are you
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  Speaker 1: in that moment knowing there's nothing you can do? You've
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  Speaker 1: done your job. Now it's on the offense.
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  Speaker 2: And that one specifically, I was on the sideline.
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  Speaker 4: I got up off the bench, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I had the utmost confidence in them. There was no
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  Speaker 4: doubt in my mind that they were either going to
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  Speaker 4: make the field goal or go down and score.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, it was an amazing play.
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  Speaker 4: It was something that you can't really replicate or ask
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  Speaker 4: for anything better in college football. So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to Joshua Porter last week. We had him
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  Speaker 3: on the show and it was, it was great getting
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  Speaker 3: to know him and talking about that catch and let
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  Speaker 3: him know his grandma watches the show. She commented on
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  Speaker 3: the YouTube channel. She said, that's my grandson. So I,
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was kind of cool. Um, You guys,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this, but do you
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  Speaker 3: know on defense, you guys give up just 3.25 yards
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  Speaker 3: per play on third down, which is the lowest in
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  Speaker 3: the American Conference, 16th lowest in the FBS. What is
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  Speaker 3: it about you guys on third down that makes this
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  Speaker 3: defense so good?
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  Speaker 4: Just want to be really good on third down. You
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  Speaker 4: got to be good on first and second down. So
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  Speaker 4: that's what we preach all the time. Like, you got
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  Speaker 4: to be better first, second down, makes third down way
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  Speaker 4: more manageable for us. And then whenever third down comes, it's...
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  Speaker 4: Don't relax. Got to do your job. That's all we
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  Speaker 4: do in practice.
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  Speaker 3: Last year you were eighth in tackles. Coach Aldridge comes in.
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  Speaker 3: Eighth is a hell of an accomplishment. And you're continuing
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  Speaker 3: to grow this year, obviously. We're just talking about the
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  Speaker 3: sack against Army. What's Coach Aldridge brought to you as
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  Speaker 3: a defensive coordinator? What has he done that you believe
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  Speaker 3: he's made you better? What area of your game do
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  Speaker 3: you feel better this year compared to last year?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, it's the simplification of just knowing your job description
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  Speaker 4: and then doing it. Last year, we played good defense.
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  Speaker 2: We had a great coordinator. I wouldn't take it back
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  Speaker 2: for anything. I learned a lot from Coach Orlando.
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  Speaker 4: With Aldridge, the job description is explained better, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: It's coached well.
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  Speaker 4: I feel more confident with the way that he has
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  Speaker 4: prepared us to go out and play that there's, there's
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  Speaker 4: no doubt whenever we go out there that we know
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  Speaker 4: what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: When a new coaching staff comes in, obviously it's the
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  Speaker 3: world of transfer portal, this, you know, in college football.
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  Speaker 3: So that's always, you know, an option on the table,
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  Speaker 3: but every defensive player I've talked to loves coach Aldridge.
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  Speaker 3: Like we got to hang out with a lot of
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  Speaker 3: you guys at bulls fast and every defensive player I
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  Speaker 3: talked to just praise coach Aldridge was incredible. Was he
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  Speaker 3: a big part of when a new coaching staff comes in? Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you've got to weigh all your options. Was he a
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  Speaker 3: big reason for you staying at USF?
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  Speaker 2: I actually knew Coach Aldridge in high school.
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  Speaker 4: He was the one who offered me at Auburn whenever
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  Speaker 4: he was recruiting me in high school. So whenever I
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  Speaker 4: saw he got the D coordinator job, I thought it
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  Speaker 4: was pretty simple for me. I mean, I love Tampa.
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  Speaker 4: I like Aldridge a lot. I knew him in high school.
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  Speaker 4: He's been a great guy to me. He's a great
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  Speaker 4: guy to all of us. He loves us like we're
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  Speaker 4: one of his own children. And he shows it every
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  Speaker 4: day in the way that he coaches us at practice
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  Speaker 4: because you don't want a soft coach at practice because
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  Speaker 4: it's like, I really don't respect him. And I love
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  Speaker 4: passionate coaches, and he's definitely one of them at practice.
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  Speaker 4: He'll let you know whenever you mess up, but also
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  Speaker 4: the most important piece is he'll love you on the
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  Speaker 4: field if you made a good play. And I feel
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  Speaker 4: like that's why all of us get behind him so
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  Speaker 4: much and that we all listen to him so well
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  Speaker 4: because he's He shows that he cares by the way
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  Speaker 4: that he coaches us.
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  Speaker 3: Does he hold a grudge against your sister that you're
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  Speaker 3: at USF and you didn't go to Auburn when he
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  Speaker 3: was there?
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  Speaker 2: By the time I was committed, he was already off
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  Speaker 2: being a D coordinator or someone else. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you talk about you don't want a soft coach.
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  Speaker 3: I met Coach Harline, and soft is like the last
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  Speaker 3: word I would use for Coach Harline.
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  Speaker 1: He's just– is he– what's he like.
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  Speaker 3: When he's not in front of the podium and he's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of hanging out with you guys uh just
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  Speaker 3: just kind of hanging out like what is he behind
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  Speaker 3: closed doors that maybe fans don't see because from my
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  Speaker 3: experience you know I and I've told this to everyone
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  Speaker 3: I've pretty much talked to on the team so far
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  Speaker 3: it's like I just think he watches film and goes
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  Speaker 3: to practice and like that's it like is.
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  Speaker 1: There more to Brian Hartline than just football.
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  Speaker 4: There is honestly he's a really funny guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he makes jokes all the time. Like he's,
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  Speaker 2: it's honest.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, he's one of the guys almost, but it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's always a, there's always a line between that.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously you have immense respect for him. Cause he's
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  Speaker 2: your head coach. So he's extremely cool.
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  Speaker 4: I was like outside of it. Like, like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't explain it anywhere else. He's just a normal guy.
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  Speaker 4: Like to us, like that's he's, but he's also just.
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  Speaker 2: Our head coach.
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  Speaker 3: When he comes in from Ohio state, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: guys have a couple of transfers, Rogers and Hicks.
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  Speaker 1: They come from Ohio state.
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  Speaker 3: When, when Heartline comes in and those guys come in,
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: do you immediately like go to those guys and start
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: asking questions about Heartline just to kind of get the,
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: the information or, you know, like if I got a
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: new boss at the radio station, I'm going to call
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: up someone that I knew worked for.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Him, right?
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Like, do you guys do that when, when Heartline comes aboard?
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't, not really.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, just Heartline kind of set like his expectations
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: pretty early and I kind of got a gist of
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: it pretty quickly. And like, I asked a little bit
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: like how he was, like how he was up there,
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: but Then again, it's different.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: I used to head coach here, so I didn't remember.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't tell that much.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: I thought one of the coolest things about him was
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: when I talked to C.J. Hicks at Bulls Fest, he
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: just said he had a great relationship with Hartline at
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Ohio State, which was interesting because Hartline was the OC.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Hicks obviously played defense.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: That, to me, tells me you're meant to become a
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: head coach. Because a lot of times... And I'm not
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: saying that you and Tim Beck don't have a relationship,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: but your relationship with Tim Beck's probably not what your
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: relationship is with Aldridge, right? So I thought that was
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: interesting from Hicks when he said him and Hartline had
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: a good relationship, and that was part of what brought
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: him to USF. And that just reassures me that this
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: guy's obviously head coaching material, and you see it obviously
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: on game day. You guys have played at noon. You
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: played at night. This weekend, you guys are at 5 o'clock.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Do you have a preference as a player? As a fan,
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: I like the night game, right?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Because.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: One, I don't like the noon games because then if
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: my team loses, then I've got to go the rest
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: of the day watching college football kind of piss. As
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: a player, do you like noon games, the 3.30, the 5,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: the night game? What's your preference as a player? Is
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: it getting it out of the way or waiting on
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: it all day?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: If it's early in the season, I prefer the later games,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: not as hot.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: But as we move into it, a noon kick is–
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: preferably ideal for me because with the noon kick we
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: don't have to drive back on the bus with the
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: with the team we get to just leave with our
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: family so oh i didn't even realize that yeah it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: it's pretty awesome at that point.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Then you go home catch the night games.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: It really doesn't matter like like in total like what
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: time we play is like let's just put the ball
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: down let's go play whenever whenever we're called to go
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: play so what's the.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: What's the routine difference though between like a noon game
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and a night game.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Well, night games, obviously, we got longer time in the hotel.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: You wake up probably around 8 a.m. around there sometime
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: and go through our breakfast, meetings, walk-throughs, all that stuff.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And you get a couple.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Hours to chill in your hotel room. And then after that,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: you're rolling down, pregame meal. And you're on the bus,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: you're hitting the road, and you're at the stadium. And
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: then the morning games, it's way faster.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Everything's accelerated. You wake up earlier.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: So I never, we played army. We got up around
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: like six. I woke up like six 30.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I don't think we had to wake up to like
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: seven 30 then, but I like to wake up early
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: so I can wake up and get showered and stuff.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Take your time. Not being a rush.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: You got a game to play. Uh, last thing then I'll, I'll,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I'll let you go. I know you guys are super busy.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Team meal probably happened to right now. I'm sure you
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: guys have something good. Jealous of that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Um, you played the piano for 10 years.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I saw that's like the, like if I could go
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: back and do it all over, like, I wish that's a,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I have this like fantasy where I walk into a
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: bar and there's a piano and I just start playing
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: it and I impress everybody.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: What, what got you into playing the piano?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Do you play anywhere like special or like, how did
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: you learn and where do you play?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: So whenever I was in second grade, I went to
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a private school and the private school wanted us all
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: to play an instrument.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: So I've, The only one they had then was the piano.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: It was a really small school.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Like, I was the inaugural class, so I only had, like,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: eight people in my class at one point.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: So, like, I just played the piano there from second
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to eighth grade, and I carried it on for another, like,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: two years. And then I kind of stopped a little
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: bit once I got to high school. I could still
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: play it just as good as then, I feel like.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: So is your bio on the website lying? Because it
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: says 10 years of experience.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: No, it is 10.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I played it for way longer after that. Six, and
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: then mostly through high school. I played it on a keyboard.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Okay. But you don't play anymore? You gave it up?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Well, since I've been here, I haven't gotten a keyboard.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Once I get one, I'll play again.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, man, don't lose that talent.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: That's a good one to have.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I can 100% still play. Good. You never know.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: When you're going to pull that one out of your
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: back pocket, man. Well, I appreciate you coming on here today.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Wishing you guys the best of luck against Bowling Green.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: We'll be watching.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Anything to Bulls fans that you want to let them know?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: This podcast is growing faster than I ever thought it would.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: You guys have such a strong following. They love you
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: guys here. Is there anything you want to say to
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: the Bulls fans that watch this show?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we appreciate y'all showing out every single game. It's
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: been awesome, especially from Whenever I first got here, we
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: used to not have that many people in the stands
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: for a game like FIU. It never really happened for us,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: and especially now that I get to see it after
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: being here for two years, after winning a lot last year,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: seeing it grow, and especially now, like it's, there's nothing
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: better than seeing y'all out there.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, it, it, it does.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: It doesn't like an, an imaginable amount towards our, our
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: morale and our confidence out there.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: You could feel this program. Just, I mean the stock, man,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: do you, you gotta be pumped for it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I know it's just a fan. I'm like so excited
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: about the stadium next year. You gotta be pumped for that, right?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: It's going to be just the greatest atmosphere.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And, uh, I, Have you guys learned anything about the stadium?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: When I was talking to Rob at Bulls Fest, he
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: mentioned it's got the longest bar in the state of
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Florida or.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Have you guys gotten any virtual tours, or have you
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: guys gone over there while it's getting built or anything
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: like that?
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I haven't done any virtual tours or personally anything like that.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone else has.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: All right, we lost him. Technical difficulties. That was incredible.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Xavier Hamilton, great kid. And we wish the Bulls the
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: best of luck Saturday night against Bowling Green. I will
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: have a preview for you on Thursday of that matchup
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: right here on 4th and Bull. Make sure you subscribe
• 20:46
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• 20:50
  Speaker 3: follow me on social media. I am Nick Wise. And
• 20:53
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• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Go Bulls!