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2024 Oregon Preview: Can The Ducks Bring Home Their First National Title? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck guys tomorrow morning for Wednesday, July thirty.
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  Speaker 1: First time your host Style Moore. The Akron game in
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  Speaker 1: thirty one days, the game against Michigan in one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty two days. Oh boy, where to start today? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: one month from today, the Ohio State Buckeyes will be
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  Speaker 1: playing the Akron Zips. That's something to be excited about.
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  Speaker 1: One day from now, Ohio State starts its fall practice.
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  Speaker 1: Be there more stuff to be excited about. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: one more thing for fans in Columbus to be excited about.
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  Speaker 1: The report that the notice V allegations from the NCAA
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  Speaker 1: going to be coming out against the University of Michigan
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  Speaker 1: for the counters Dallions incident that's supposedly coming out sometime
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  Speaker 1: this week has not come out yet.
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  Speaker 2: When it does, don't.
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  Speaker 1: Worry, we will do a show on that. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: a show on the practice. We will do shows all
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  Speaker 1: the way leading up to the first Ohio State football
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  Speaker 1: game one month from today. All right, that's plenty to
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  Speaker 1: be excited about. Here's something else to be excited about.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio State Buck could be part of one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest games of the regular season this year, and
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  Speaker 1: it is not the one against Michigan. It is the
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  Speaker 1: one against Oregon. The Ducks considered one of the best
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  Speaker 1: teams in the nation, as is Ohio State, So that
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  Speaker 1: game on October twelfth in Eugene could potentially be.
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  Speaker 2: A one versus two or two versus three type of game.
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  Speaker 1: So today we're gonna be talking about that, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about the Ducks, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing it with longtime friend of the show James
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  Speaker 1: Krepia of The Oregonian. I caught up with him at
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Media Days last week to talk about Oregon
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  Speaker 1: preview this year's season. Talk a little bit about Phil
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  Speaker 1: Knight and recruiting and all that kind of stuff, all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that you guys are talking about on our
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  Speaker 1: message boards. Wanted to go straight to the source talk
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  Speaker 1: to James Crepia about that and much more so. Without
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  Speaker 1: further ado, here here is James Krepia of The Oregonian
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  Speaker 1: talking about this year's Orgon Ducks. There are not very
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  Speaker 1: many teams in the Big Ten that could match Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State for firepower, talent, perhaps hype this year on exception
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  Speaker 1: the Oregon Ducks. Or are you talking about them today
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  Speaker 1: with James Krepia of the Orgonian. James, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining me. This is the first year of Big ten
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  Speaker 1: football for Oregon. I guess first, how different is this
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  Speaker 1: going to be? Is this and a thing that people
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  Speaker 1: are greeting with excitement or their Duck fans expecting to
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  Speaker 1: come in and just dominate the league? What's the mindset
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  Speaker 1: of Oregon fans coming into the season.
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  Speaker 2: All of the above.
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  Speaker 3: Excitement, yes, first and foremost, because I think the sheer
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  Speaker 3: jubilation that Oregon fans will never have to worry about
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  Speaker 3: the PAC twelve network ever again and having to explain
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  Speaker 3: to anybody where to find what they're watching. Now they do.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone has learned on peacock and I'm not hocking them,
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  Speaker 3: but that the online streaming future that you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just part of part and parcel to anybody right now.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be a new thing, and I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be experiencing that in the non conference game with
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  Speaker 3: Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: Member serves it correctly, so they'll be They'll be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of that.
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  Speaker 3: They'll be a little bit of I wouldn't be called
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  Speaker 3: growing pains, but just some of the adjustments to this
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  Speaker 3: new world order, and not just in conference play, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of in the broadcast realm.
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  Speaker 2: But that's called what it is.
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  Speaker 3: That's why the move is had, and that's why the
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  Speaker 3: move is always going to be had. Whether it happened,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whether the packs open managed to together, which happened,
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  Speaker 3: but if it did, Uh, it was always an eventuality.
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  Speaker 3: This was always going to happen eventually. Uh. And then
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  Speaker 3: obviously the way things come for all last summer, it
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  Speaker 3: just got us all here, greater ecosystem.
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  Speaker 2: Accordingly, but are fans excited?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely for the exposure for the bigger games, for
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  Speaker 2: whether it's home games, road game, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: About the Ohio State home game, frankly, is you know
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  Speaker 3: four plus years overdue for Moregan fans perspective because of
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  Speaker 3: the COVID year? Does you know that was part of
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  Speaker 3: what was to be probably the greatest home scheduling program history. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: that never happened. Organ was supposed to host North Dakota
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  Speaker 3: State in Ohio State, you know, to open that season
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  Speaker 3: and uh, and it all disappeared, uh and was gone.
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  Speaker 3: So bottom line, you know they're getting that game and
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  Speaker 3: see from the ticket prices that they put out there
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  Speaker 3: at the time exactly how how much they expect from that,
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  Speaker 3: and now they're putting just today according this Oregon putting
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  Speaker 3: a standing room only tickets available to really absolutely pack
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  Speaker 3: odds into the.
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  Speaker 2: Utmost and fullest that the fire marsh will permit.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, they're excited for the huge games, excited for
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  Speaker 3: trips Land Arbor, They're excited for trip from Madison. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure how many of them are going to be
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  Speaker 3: thrilled for West Lafayette on a Friday night, necessarily in October,
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  Speaker 3: but but that is part of it. You know that said,
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  Speaker 3: you know how many of them making weirdo trips, whether
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  Speaker 3: it be the Pullman or Tucson on.
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  Speaker 2: A weird night kind of thing. So bottom line, are
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  Speaker 2: they excited.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they also have all of the high expectations that
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  Speaker 3: this team, this program that's been built in the foundation
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  Speaker 3: that was set by Chrystal Ball and then obviously enhanced
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  Speaker 3: and furthered by landing in this staff to where now
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  Speaker 3: they feel like this is absolutely every bit of a
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  Speaker 3: preseason top and top five caliber team. Will see from
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  Speaker 3: the peoples and the coaches, pulls may come out, but ultimately
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  Speaker 3: that they have the expectation that they should be there
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  Speaker 3: and will be there, and that this is a playoff
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  Speaker 3: team and anything short of that would be just grossly
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  Speaker 3: just appointing for this season and not just being a
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  Speaker 3: playoff team but doing damage once you're there. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of merit to back that up,
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  Speaker 3: depending where to go by recruiting rankings, transfer rankings, returning talent,
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  Speaker 3: any number of things. This is a really talented football
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  Speaker 3: team across the board. In the areas that they were weak,
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  Speaker 3: whether it be last season, two seasons ago, you know,
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  Speaker 3: structurally within a particular position room, they've gone about addressing it.
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  Speaker 3: So there's really just not a lot of layering weaknesses
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  Speaker 3: anywhere on this roster and they went out of that. Again,
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  Speaker 3: credit to Dan and the staff to be able to
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  Speaker 3: build it both in the recruiting roman and the transfer
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  Speaker 3: portal to where they can feel that way going into
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  Speaker 3: the first season in this conference, going up against the
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  Speaker 3: likes of Ohio State the way they're built and Michigan
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  Speaker 3: coming off a national title and Penn State be in
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  Speaker 3: a perennial.
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  Speaker 2: Top good tea top end team, look well what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And yesteryear, this this team, this program could have taken
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  Speaker 3: it on a lighter scale, not that they would have.
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  Speaker 3: They could have gotten away with it in the Pac twelve.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to I'm in here and damage. You had
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  Speaker 3: to be you gotta be fully armed, and I feel
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  Speaker 3: like they're fully armed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know they they were. They have really
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  Speaker 1: rebuilt the team. You look and it's like, oh, boy,
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  Speaker 1: they lost so and so, I lost so and so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, oh, they plugged that hole, you know,
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  Speaker 1: either the recruiting or you know, bringing up a highly
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  Speaker 1: touted how to recruit or you know, hey, they filled
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  Speaker 1: a lot of holes to the portal. They brought in
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two highly touted quarterbacks to the portal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel out of Oklahoma uh and and Dante Moore
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  Speaker 1: out of UCLA, both names that you know. I think
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State fans are kind of eyeing in the portal
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. At the same time, they have been
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  Speaker 1: very impressive roster building. And I know anywhere online, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when your school gets a recruit it's because of.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, they love everything about it.
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  Speaker 3: They love the academics, the academic academic Yes, it's the
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  Speaker 3: family atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: And when anyone else gets a recruit money. They're dropping
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  Speaker 1: bags obviously, you know, and and in in Organ's case,
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  Speaker 1: everyone sort of points the finger at Phil Knight. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Knight is dropping bags, and it because Phil Knight is
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  Speaker 1: eighty one or however old he is, and eighty six
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  Speaker 1: and he just wants to see Oregon win. Is the
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  Speaker 1: you know, is that you know, everyone is dropping bags
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  Speaker 1: to certain degrees in football now and il is a
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  Speaker 1: thing nationally that is the thing you can do now legally.
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  Speaker 2: Is there validity to the film Night thing?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that just kind of you know, he's the
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  Speaker 1: sort of you know, the boogeyman that everyone knows and
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  Speaker 1: so therefore.
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  Speaker 2: It must be yes.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Knight is highly and Phil and Penny Knight are
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  Speaker 3: highly invested in the University of Oregon in all walks
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  Speaker 3: of life. They've built most all of the campus at
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  Speaker 3: this point, continue to build.
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  Speaker 2: There's a new science buildings and structuring like a whole
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  Speaker 2: science campus. It keeps being built. So for those who
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  Speaker 2: do make the trip.
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  Speaker 3: To you Gene, if they actually set foot on the
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  Speaker 3: academic side of the river, they'll see exactly how palatial
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  Speaker 3: some of these facilities are.
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  Speaker 2: With the quarter billion dollar track facility, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: It's only hosted World Championships and n Cuba Championships and
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  Speaker 3: every which.
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  Speaker 2: Other event come up with.
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  Speaker 3: So they're highly invested in the university at large, and yes,
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  Speaker 3: the athletic department as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, also good money through Stanford. You know, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't heard a lot.
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  Speaker 3: About great conspiracies that Phil and Penny are are funding
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  Speaker 3: with Stanford and il program. Yeah, it's amazing, how I
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  Speaker 3: just haven't I haven't heard that conspiracy.
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  Speaker 2: Look are they investing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know what, I don't hear a lot of
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  Speaker 3: organ fans claiming that Les Westerner and the shot and
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  Speaker 3: Steins and that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I don't hear them going.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're only going to Columbus because, oh because Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: They've been good since Stressful arrived and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: So for most people's lifetimes they've been as excellent as
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  Speaker 3: they've been.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand now, But like you said, not for nothing.
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  Speaker 3: BOOS has always been a thing al and what they
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  Speaker 3: gave and to what end they gave was always a
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  Speaker 3: thing in SMU's era and in the SEC Bygone era
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  Speaker 3: of the SEC, and even at times in the by
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  Speaker 3: gone era of the SEC There are lots of people
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  Speaker 3: dropping off all kinds of money.
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  Speaker 2: Auburn had a payroll, We went bout and got over there.
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  Speaker 2: It's legal. Yep, yep, move on.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, was that only because really, if that's the
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  Speaker 3: only reason, not for nothing, If that was the only reason,
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  Speaker 3: then but they haven't lost anybody of uber consequence. They
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  Speaker 3: haven't lost in like pre eminent starter to another school, becaut.
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  Speaker 3: So what they've they've just managed to out by the
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  Speaker 3: way as good as the recruiting classes. And it could
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  Speaker 3: be historic. Yet again for organ's purposes, do they have
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  Speaker 3: like fifteen or twenty five stars that I'm gonna wear?
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  Speaker 3: So it's good, But it's not so for all of
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  Speaker 3: this conjecture about unlimited nil according to Rick new High
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  Speaker 3: as we'll actually talked about earlier, that comment about that
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  Speaker 3: early and about you know, Bill's just doing this, but
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  Speaker 3: anybody's boosters doing it for whatever their motivations are. Again
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  Speaker 3: two and I'm a petty spokesperson, Yeah, certainly, But then, like,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's the Higo State fan base or any other
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  Speaker 3: fan base, why why why is anybody trying pauper from
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  Speaker 3: from the perspective of like I think the way Dan
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  Speaker 3: Lanny's put it recently, and we'll hear from him here
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow that you know, sometimes, like all things like, but
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  Speaker 3: people who were in power and people had control of
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  Speaker 3: a situation, they suddenly see somebody else, maybe some to
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  Speaker 3: the table fully armed. They don't tend to like that
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  Speaker 3: very much, you know, not for nothing. Alabama was great,
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  Speaker 3: historically tremendous. They were obviously tremendous. Un anick shaving. There's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a dark error in there in
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  Speaker 3: terms of, you know, a lull success. It's not a
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  Speaker 3: birthright to just be you know, don't don't get too
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with success just because you had a coach or
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  Speaker 3: a spring of coaches to have it.
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  Speaker 2: Organ's built it over.
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  Speaker 3: The last generation and they've sustained it and they've had
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  Speaker 3: boosters to do it, and feels that the top list.
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  Speaker 3: But he isn't, like I say, an organ isn't the
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  Speaker 3: only school they give to. But yeah, it's the only
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  Speaker 3: one that gets tagged this particular thing. So like I say,
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  Speaker 3: it's fun, it's part of college sport. I hear you,
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  Speaker 3: But guess what one who cares in the grand scheme? Well,
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  Speaker 3: now it's fully legal, like what does it make it right?
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  Speaker 3: And two again you never hear this in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: because well, there's a salary caple does that? So like
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  Speaker 3: did every free agent go to only the biggest cities.
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  Speaker 2: Or whatever you felt? Like their motivations whatever they are.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess say, if it was just about that
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  Speaker 3: and they don't otherwise developed players, they don't otherwise to
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  Speaker 3: send a record number of players in the NFL for
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  Speaker 3: the programs purposes. They didn't also, like I say, retain talent.
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  Speaker 3: So if somebody was just just got paid but then
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  Speaker 3: got highly jaded about something, They've managed to not lose anybody,
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  Speaker 3: So it has to like sooner or later, Like if
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  Speaker 3: that was the only thing, if that was the only crutch,
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  Speaker 3: that was everything that there's no substance to whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: One, they wouldn't have any success on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Two, they wouldn't be sending guys to the NFL, And
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  Speaker 3: three they'd be losing guys somewhere along the lines. Because
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  Speaker 3: if it was just about that but it wasn't about
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  Speaker 3: playing in development.
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  Speaker 2: Then they weren't following through. They're hitting on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 3: With it, and they feel like they can go certainly
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  Speaker 3: beyond and aspire for national championships also. But I say
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  Speaker 3: that criticism to me not so much whether it's vallid
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  Speaker 3: or invalid.
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  Speaker 2: It's just an.
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  Speaker 3: Again, I get to find a single school didn't get
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  Speaker 3: a particularly good amount of mister money years.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's yeah, o Higo State fans Bristol with the
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  Speaker 1: idea that they have bought their roster this year and yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it's yeah, yeah, it's a you can it's.
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  Speaker 2: A multiple transfers that came in from y is.
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  Speaker 1: It is a fun fun time for to point fingers
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  Speaker 1: at each other and say you're doing exactly exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: talking about this year's Orgon team, to me is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit like talking about this year's where you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can sit here and talk about the you know,
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  Speaker 1: oh here's for either team.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, they're so talented in this area.
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  Speaker 1: It's so talented and it turns into the Chris Barley
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  Speaker 1: Paul Partney sketch. But it's like, remember, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those the quarterbacks they've got, Yeah, they're pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost more interesting to me to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: other side of it.
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  Speaker 1: For both of these what are areas where there's sort
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit of a question right now, because
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  Speaker 1: it feels like they've they've checked a lot of boxes
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  Speaker 1: in terms of returing players, in terms of transfer editions.
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  Speaker 1: What are you know, what are the areas where there's
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  Speaker 1: they're going into fall camp kind of not sure or
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  Speaker 1: a little uneasy about something on either side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So the first, first, and foremost has to be about
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  Speaker 3: passwords because two seasons ago is basically not existent and
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  Speaker 3: last season massively reallyres go. But when you're talking about
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  Speaker 3: the losses loss of the NFL specifically, which they knew
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  Speaker 3: they had, they had the oldest defensive line room in
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  Speaker 3: the country. There were three or four players who had children.
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  Speaker 3: They were and not just like newborns, like three year olds.
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  Speaker 3: So if you get twenty six year old men on
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  Speaker 3: this defensive line, yeah, they're all gone. So you're going
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  Speaker 3: from the oldest defensive line in the country to probably
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  Speaker 3: one of the others. Now, that doesn't mean they're not
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  Speaker 3: ready or they're prepared, they're not fully proven. Difference, do
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  Speaker 3: they feel really good about the guys they have there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Do they have Jordan Burch, who, for my money is
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  Speaker 3: massively massively because in part because it was the backline.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't part because uh not to say they was consistent,
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  Speaker 3: but I would say it was less about a consistency
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  Speaker 3: issue and more about in the games where he performed best, uh,
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  Speaker 3: including against some really really good competition Oregon State specifically
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  Speaker 3: last season he played a first round offensive tackle and
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  Speaker 3: absolutely destroyed them.
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  Speaker 2: Destroy them. I mean it just.
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  Speaker 3: If he puts forth that every single week this season
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  Speaker 3: and because about it in the spring, like he did
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  Speaker 3: that every season Top ten Calvert drafted, that that's the
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  Speaker 3: caliber player is right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think most.
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  Speaker 3: People in this league have a clue to Jordan burches
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  Speaker 3: on other teams other than the four West Coast because
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  Speaker 3: a couple of them played them SEC schools, not because
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  Speaker 3: played at South Carolina before that, but truly, like, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's a whole lot of offensive tackles
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  Speaker 3: who were on Oregon schedule outside of Washington and then
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  Speaker 3: perhaps U C.
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  Speaker 2: L A.
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  Speaker 3: Just because they may be heard in the distance. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think there's too many who know them. Uh they should,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to they will. They will, because yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he is just an absolute wrecking ball. He's at the
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  Speaker 3: top of them. But after that you're dealing with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of sophomore rising sophomores who played a lot as freshmen,
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  Speaker 3: were productive in their roles as freshmen, but now are
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: going to be in starting.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Wars for every rotational roles.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: That's where I say past press has to be the
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: top question, because massive players he buzz buzz. He went
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: down early in the factful title game this year. Saw
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: all well to how to Washington defensive line then go
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: from there. Yes, against still a pretty deep interior defensive line,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: but in terms of the edge and edge rush presence,
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: you had one game record. He went down like well,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: uh six or eight plays in the game. It was
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: on the opening drive. That was it, and that was it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: He took a thrown human out of the equation and
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: just you had young guys who just didn't have that
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: up against that particular.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Washington last year. So that's part of it. That would
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: be the first the area.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Secondly, I have less concerns about the secondary than ever before,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: at least three years under Dan and and really going
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: back to probably since the nineteenth season, where they had
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: more draft picks in the secondary. They brought in pre
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: eminent corners to address the number one weakness that they had.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I think it's more about just making sure that all
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: the pieces that you brought in that everything fits correctly.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: But I think they'll be able to sort that out
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: before they get it into the Big ten play, to
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: be quite honest. So it's not so much a question
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: the other part. And this is really starting to get nippicky,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: but you know, it's just not the sugarcoat, and I
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: haven't all you know all off season from the spring
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: in particular was look, they lost the Rimington Trophy winner
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: at center, and you know, on one hand, people look
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: at it and go like it's the it's one of
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: the easiest positions and one of the lower value positions
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: in the league, and.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: All these sorts of things.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Listen, you know, there's only two guys touch the ball
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: every play on offense, and if you're not getting the
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: snap down some an organ change in both of them,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and ones who's now taken over as a six year quarterback.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: So if there's problems with the snap from a now
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: sophomore center who admitted and played in the ball game
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: played well, frankly, but who admitted heading into the ball
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: game him played center in high school. That learning the
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: snap and getting used to it was a challenge for
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: him and was a task form and it was a
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: little bit inconsistent in the ball game, but it didn't
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: matter because they're playing Liberty and then in the spring
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: and then the spring game we saw bad snaps several
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Now it's a spring game, make more of it. But
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: it's what we have by way of a sample size.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: And you have a player acknowledging like this is a
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: weakness of his and it's something he's working on. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: then in the last practice that you see the fourteenth
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: to fifteen, they have one more after bringing the results
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: weren't very good.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get that down.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: You know, you can't have it be like, well, we're
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: still going to figure this out against Idaho and then
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Boise stage is probably the.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Number one fiveeen in the country.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: You don't have time to figure this. So that's got
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: to get settled. Like and talk doing Gabriel earlier this
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: off season. We talk to him here about, you know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: ironing that down, and they feel like that. He feels
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: a lot more confident today working with I Pani Lau
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Pancho for nickname purpose for fans were hearing this to
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: get to hear Pancho reference a lot it's it's Ipani.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: They feel a lot better about it. But like I say,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's an urgent matter. And that again, like this,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: if we were talking about one of the guard positions,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't even mention it. Yeah, because he has to
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: touch the ball every play. Yeah, yeah, I mentioned, like
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the staff has to. It has to be there otherwise. Now,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: now you're putting out a fire if it isn't addressed.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: So defensively, the far more substantive pass rush le's who
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: we know the but how they go about making touch
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: from a defensive so including several guys in the league
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: now drafted and undrafted, and offensively just getting Christmas because
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: of such a battle. They have so many skill positions,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: art would be even more than a year ago. Yeah,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: but the skill positions don't matter. If falling there on time,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: everything hitting right. Plenty of time to iron it all
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: out before the season starts, plenty of time iron it
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: all before the biggest games. But you don't want to
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: suddenly be sorting out whether or not your center is
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: your center in the middle of September. Okay, you want
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: to get that done and feel great about it by
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: like the second scrimmage of Paul camp Like you want
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: it done, you don't, We want no quibbling you.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You don't want me talking about it when we talk
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in October. You don't want me to know your organ
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You don't want mentioned it this whatsoever?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You mentioned this earlier that you know, expectation is you're
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: going to make the playoffs. It would take something significantly
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: going wrong not make the playoffs. What does what constitutes success?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Does it just make the playoffs? Is it get to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the semi finals?
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, the phrase that keeps getting thrown around in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Columbus this year is nowt of your bus?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Now? Is that? Is that the attitude in Eugene or
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is it not?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: You know, if they make the playoffs and they win
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a game, and you know, you get to the quarterfinals
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in the semi finals, is that going to be viewed
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: as a successful season?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: What what does success look like?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: So I again, I certainly speak fans are a fan
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: base at all. So I'm sure there's some highly delusional
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: member of the fan base that feels it's out of
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: your bust out there. I'm sure you can find them
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: out there in the Twitter verse somewhere. But no, I mean,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know how any body. I don't know how
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: any fan of a program who hasn't won a national
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: championship can take the premise of that of your bus.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: That's that's uh that that's utterly preposterous to me. But
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: playoff or bus, for sure, I think that there's a
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: significant portion of the fan base that could serve to
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: hear from that feels that this is a team who
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: not only ten and will and should make the playoffs,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: but that ken one should be four and play for
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Big Ten championship, to come back here and be back
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: in this building December, whether it be against Ohio State,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Michigan State, or whoever emerges, that they should be playing here,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and if they make it to here and have had
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: a ten, eleven, twelve in season to that point before that, frankly,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: at that point of course, every anything, anybody who has
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: a team, a fan of a team who plays for
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: a conference title, wants to win the game. And then therefore,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: you know anything less than but ultimately, in order to
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: be a top four seat, you got to win this.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: But if you if you go eleven and one but
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: lose this and you're eleven and two. But you're the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: five or the six seed, you're hosting a playoff game?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Is that what not successful? You know, you've got to
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: you got to be a little bit there. We call
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: it what it is, Ohio State. I'll hold the table
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: if Oregon and Oile State play twice this season and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: even split it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: But Ohio States on the losing end of this.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: It has to host a playoff game, but wins the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: playoff game, and wins and goes to a semi at
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: least what I call that success. I mean, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: that's where say, like there's things along the way. So
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: for me, for what I've heard, for what I'm picking
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: up on from fans, and like Nattier bus seven is,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: like I say, pretty preposterous playoffs about certainly expectations of
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: playing for and certainly buying for being in the Mixburg
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Conference title all to the very end.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Absolutely hopefully it'll win it, certainly and get the top four.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Seven know, things to come with it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of the Oregon fans will expect
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: not just to make the playoff though, but if they
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: have to play in a quarterfinal game, and so be it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: But I think a lot of them open, expect to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: be in the less than a sea. I don't know.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Again, I don't know for this fan base, how many
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: can really truly objectively say in the main they must
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: play for the national championship. I mean, aspire for it,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: want it, want it, you know, desire like no, nobody's business. Absolutely,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: But to to say like anything less than that failure
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I I don't know about that getting in winning at
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: least one game, whether that's being a quarterfinal if you
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: have to play in it, or.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Or or first round. Excuse me for.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but but demand like I said to themand making
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: it into the national championship for for.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: A program that hasn't one more, that's a lot.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, objectively rich no matter whether we're talking about organ
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: or anybody. I don't know care what program that's that's
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the he know there. I would say that about any
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: number of SC schools they felt that way. It's just
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: you have to have a degree of perspective refractionality.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: This is this is a sort of a variation of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: something I've said for years.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You never pick a team you going defeeding because so
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: many things can go wrong, and one game, one thing
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: goes wrong and get you out of here on this
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: one for Ohio State fans visiting Eugene, long time since
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Ohio State has played out in Eugene. Anything, areas around
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the stadium where you definitely sit here or try to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: avoid sitting here, or places to go around town that
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: are you know, any any travel tips for Ohio State
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: fans who are making the trip.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: If you can manage to fly into Eugene, how they
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: recommend it. If you have to fly to Portland, so
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: be it. I understand, I get it. It's been undoubtedly
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: more flight options to I was hoping that the United
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Airlines was going to do what it usually did and
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: add the random direct flight thing which they added three
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: years ago for US fly from from Eugene to Columbus,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: which was lovely. That was that was fantastic. As one
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: of the people on the return trip back, that was
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: that was absolutely fantastic. I was hoping they're going to
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: do it. Yep, the summer is still young. I suppose
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: that can still come along in August, but I realized
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: that most logistics pretty much locked up. I'm sure hotels
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: as long since completely got the goblet sitting in the
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: stadium wise, so understand that the field runs east to
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: west rather than north sound.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So, uh, it certainly looks like this is expected to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: be in a night game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: And I say it looks like and expected because one
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I was talking to some people, it's finalized. We've been
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: talking a lot on our show is about a lot
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: of Yeah, a lot of people certainly sound that way.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And Oregon put out today with the standing Ramoley tickets
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: to wear black. So it's going to be the blackout
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: jerseys and whatnot, the new black jersey. So it's like, well,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: if they're going to do that, I don't think you
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: do that in the you know, noon Pacific time. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: have a feeling they're going to be doing that in
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: the evening. So therefore, yes, but uh, don't worry about
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: like when the sun sense, you don't have to worry
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: about sunshining out of that.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: The new er video board, it's now a couple of
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: It's on the east side of the stadium, so for
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: somebody who they have one on the west side, it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: just smaller if you're somebody who likes to see that
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: from within the viewing experience of in the stadium. No
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: one recognized that the giant video boards on the side,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: So if you're a ticket on the eastide, you're going
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: to be kind of yeah, connect a little bit differently than.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: West or whatever.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: No otherwise, uh yeah, I mean, if you want, the
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Overhanger is on the south side of the north side.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: But truly from a seating experience, it's it's a bold
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: set up the way it is where I don't think
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: fancies are building quite honest.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I think there's like Water two that have that like
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: crazy destructive view kind.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Of deal, but like they're way way way off Brooks
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: and Pointers that it's pretty obvious you're a tough.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Spot short of that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Now, Otherwise, spots in Eugene and the like, there's unfortunately
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: a couple of spots of actually closed relatively recently. But
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: there's there's a district in downtown called commonly referred to
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: as the bar Muda Triangle. So for those who wish
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: to partake, or those who are fortunate enough to be
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: staying in one of the downtown hotels like the Graduate
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: or the Gordon or Gosh, I want to say this
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: one of the brothers. But bottom line, that are perfect
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: walking distance from those of staffs. I won't give my
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: ringing endorsement to any one or the other. There are many,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: you will find them all. It's a very easy place
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: to kind of bar hop around in. It is not
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: like a Nashville or Vegas with an open container kind
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: of premise or anything like that, but it's awfully close
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and pretty well monitored. But by no bottom line like,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: it's a fun town for to go to for a
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: weekend for all game kind of deal, and it certainly
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: be a part of it. I know, yes, obviously forward
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: to Oregon fans, forwards to welcoming them and having that
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: caliber opponent, that caliber of game that's going to be
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: obviously what you certainly can expect to be an all
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: day of fiasco with it being certainly looking like it's
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: going to be an evening game, so it should be
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun looking forward to it. But yeah,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: in terms of general setting and the like, would certainly
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: recommend also for those too. We have even if you
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: come in from Portland that day, not get not only
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: getting early for tailgating or for parking or rolling about purposes,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: but you have the data mill about and walk around
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and see the campus and stuff like. If it's at
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: your disposal, go ahead and do it. Yeah, it really
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: is something to experience and see and like, like anywhere,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: but a trip that you know, no matter what happens.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And this year, whenever the next visit is obviously fans
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: look forward to that one. But it comes up again too. Yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: but it's not money, you're doing literally every year. Yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: so make the most of the trip when you can.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: And just as many Oregon fans made the trip to
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Columbus and twenty one did, yeah, try to make the
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: most of it really well.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me, and we'll see you in October. Yes, sir,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed that conversation. We get a couple
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: more coming from Big ten Media Days. I'm going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: try and squeeze in a couple with some other teams
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: where I didn't get a chance to meet up with
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: folks at Big ten Media Days, but teams that I'm
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: sure you guys are going to want to hear a
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: little bit more about. So we'll try and do some
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of those. But of course tomorrow the start of fall
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: camp in Columbus, lots of exciting stuff will be there. Thursday,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: we'll be there Friday, we'll be there for hotel check
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in day coming up in just a few day. There
• 29:00
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• 29:03
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• 29:04
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• 29:07
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• 29:09
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• 29:11
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• 29:14
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• 29:18
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• 29:20
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• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Let'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.