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March 24, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Why at Hippel's coming up the new defensive coordinator. We
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Speaker 1: have got a high high school report. We're going to
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Speaker 1: hear from Kelvin Sampson. The Houston Cougars, despite what he says,
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Speaker 1: are going home to play in the sweet sixteen. In
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Speaker 1: the second hour, Mallory is going to join us. We're
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Speaker 1: going to hear from Ruben Owens and Damian Samford. In
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Speaker 1: other words, this is like an all spring football show today.
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Speaker 1: And as you've heard me say many times and you
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Speaker 1: follow me over the years, there is nothing better than
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Speaker 1: spring football unless it's college baseball. Where the Aggies are
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Speaker 1: at home tonight hosting Houston Christian.
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Speaker 3: That's a six o'clock start.
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Speaker 1: We will have the broadcast at five forty five for
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Speaker 1: you here on the zone.
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Speaker 3: Make a note this weekend we have.
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Speaker 1: In caa basketball Aggie Baseball will be on sixteen.
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Speaker 3: WT a W.
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Speaker 1: So the Aggie is sitting at eighteen and five, the
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Speaker 1: Husky's sitting at eleven and twelve. This will be the
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Speaker 1: sixteenth time they have hosted Houston Christian formerly Houston Baptist.
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Speaker 1: They are fifteen and oh against the Huskies. So we
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Speaker 1: got that going on for us, which is nice. Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball begins tomorrow night in San Francisco, so it'll
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Speaker 1: be afternoon for a six o'clock start.
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Speaker 3: Four o'clock their time.
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Speaker 1: Giants hosting the Yankees and then Thursday afternoon the Angels
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Speaker 1: at Houston. Scott Clindena will be on hand for that opener.
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Speaker 1: The Rangers are opening on the road against the Phillies.
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Speaker 1: This is the third straight year they've opened the season
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Speaker 1: against the Phillies.
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Speaker 3: And by the.
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Speaker 1: Way, boy, that that rivalry has just taken.
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Speaker 3: Off, I'm kidding.
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Speaker 1: Carter Bummler was on the mound pitching when Skip Shoemaker
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Speaker 1: made a visit his last spring game. Came out of
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Speaker 1: the dug out of for Bumbler had retired the first
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Speaker 1: two Royals in the fifth inning last night, catcher Danny
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Speaker 1: Jansen all four infielders on the mound when Shoemaker came
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Speaker 1: out and said, hey, you're on the opening day roster.
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Speaker 1: Bombler telling the Rangers Sports Network, I wasn't expected it.
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Speaker 1: I was like, why is he coming out here? He
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Speaker 1: got to the mound, told me I made the team.
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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I thought it was getting taken out
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Speaker 1: of the game when the maid When the manager comes out,
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Speaker 1: you're usually done. What a cool moment. You can find
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Speaker 1: video of that some places.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about the basketball tournament and Iowa and
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Speaker 1: Nebraska play in Houston at the Tyota Center at six
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Speaker 1: thirty Thursday night. The Cougars play the Lake game schedule
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Speaker 1: for nine o'clock, probably be later than that. They're taking
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Speaker 1: on Illinois, and there could be job openings at Kansas,
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Speaker 1: North Carolina and Florida. We talked about this yesterday on
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Speaker 1: the Writers Roundtable. So Athletic Director Scott Strickland at Florida said,
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Speaker 1: We're going to do everything in our power to make
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Speaker 1: sure he always knows he's really valuable. Golden received back
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Speaker 1: to back raises, signed a two year contract extension and
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Speaker 1: twenty four at four point one million added another year
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Speaker 1: after he won the Natty last May. At six and
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Speaker 1: three quarters million, he's among seven coaches who have won
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Speaker 1: national championships. He is fifth in compensation Bill self, John Calipari,
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Speaker 1: Dan Hurley, Tom Izzo. He may jump some of those
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Speaker 1: guys if he signs another extension and apparently he's going
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Speaker 1: to get another raise. Syracuse is bringing back one of
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Speaker 1: its own. Jerry McNamara from Sienna has been hired to
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Speaker 1: be the Oranges next coach, succeeding Adrian Autry. McNamara winning
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Speaker 1: out for the job comes weeks comes after weeks of
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Speaker 1: debate among big money players at Syracuse, who said there
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Speaker 1: was a faction of boosters that were adamant about hiring
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Speaker 1: outside the Jim Beheim Tree. The problem is a lot
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Speaker 1: of coaches apparently are a little reluctant because of either
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Speaker 1: that faction or the fact they don't know that Syracuse
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Speaker 1: has a lot of money.
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Speaker 3: To pay players in the future.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of getting paid, Darius Acuff, the Arkansas freshman who
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Speaker 1: has become a star, has landed a signature shoe deal
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Speaker 1: with Reebok to become the first NCAA men's athlete to
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Speaker 1: receive a major deal with a US brand.
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Speaker 3: While he was still in school.
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Speaker 1: A Cuff is ranked number eight on the ESPN board.
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Speaker 1: I think he's going to go higher than that. The
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Speaker 1: SEC player of the Year, he has sixty points in
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Speaker 1: the tournament so far. That's the most by an SEC
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Speaker 1: player in his first career two tournament games. The second
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Speaker 1: player in the past fifty years to average thirty points
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Speaker 1: and five assist a game.
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Speaker 3: Billy Donovan did it.
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Speaker 1: First round of the Masters sixteen days away. Tiger Woods
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Speaker 1: hadn't said he's playing, but he is going to play
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Speaker 1: in the final of the TGL Championship on ESPN. Woods
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Speaker 1: had disc replacements surgery in October has not competed in
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Speaker 1: any of the matches. He has been there as captain
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Speaker 1: of the Jupiter team, which made it to the finals
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Speaker 1: but lost the first of a two out of three
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Speaker 1: series last night. He will replace Kevin Kisner on the
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Speaker 1: team along with Tom Kim Max Homa. He is playing
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Speaker 1: against a team that has Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood.
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Speaker 3: It say the Gala.
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Speaker 1: The lineup change was announced last night. The Jupiter team
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Speaker 1: has to win if you care about any of that.
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Speaker 1: But Tiger hitting ten or eleven shots on flat ground
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Speaker 1: in a sterile environment is not the same as walking
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Speaker 1: thirty six holes up and down the hills of Augusta.
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Speaker 1: So he may or may not play. I'd honestly be surprised.
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Speaker 1: This may be at just a small test for him.
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Speaker 1: He's said he's been hitting golf balls on some days,
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Speaker 1: but some days he can't even do that. The Texas
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Speaker 1: Children's Houston Open is being played this week. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you knew that or not, but no, I'm
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Speaker 1: wrong about that. It's being played next week, the week
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Speaker 1: before the Masters. Today, Scotti Scheffler Withdrew to be replaced
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Speaker 1: by Matt Coocher. The Golf Channel says that Scheffler and
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Speaker 1: his wife are expecting their second child.
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Speaker 3: The withdrawal means that he probably won't play in the Masters.
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Speaker 1: The Texas Open follows the Houston Open, or the Texas
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Speaker 1: Open is this week? Okay, No, the Valero Open and
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Speaker 1: then the Texas Open right before the Masters.
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Speaker 3: Sorry about that.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, Scotty ain't playing their first job. Bennett was born
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Speaker 1: almost two years of the day on May eight, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, so they need to plan a little better
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Speaker 1: with this baby being do around the Masters time.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, Scotty ain't playing in Houston. I know the Houston.
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Speaker 1: People can't be happy about that, but hey, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: they can do about that. Okay, that's probably enough to
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Speaker 1: catch us up for now. We're going to come back.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little football, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: Spring football. I am mister spring football, and that's just
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Speaker 1: the way it's going to be. I realize that there
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Speaker 1: are a few of you that say, hey, you can't
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Speaker 1: tell anything about well, how the team's going to be
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Speaker 1: because of you know, spring football.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing in the spring.
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Speaker 1: That you can see that that might, you know, give
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Speaker 1: you an insight into what's happening.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I disagree.
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Speaker 1: I believe that you can tell everything that's happening, and
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Speaker 1: you people better pay close attention. And I am doing
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Speaker 1: my best for you to be able to do that
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Speaker 1: right now. Okay, Now, the great gay Back used to
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Speaker 1: go and when the meetia was allowed the first ten
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Speaker 1: minutes of warm ups and chart how many completions the
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Speaker 1: quarterback had during the early part of the spring practice.
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Speaker 1: And he's he was much better and more in tune
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Speaker 1: to that kind of stuff. So I can't do that
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Speaker 1: for you, but I can. I can do my best,
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Speaker 1: and that's all any of us can do. So we're
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Speaker 1: gonna hear from Lal Himpel, the defensive coordinator coming up,
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Speaker 1: and we've got a high school report.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna hear.
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Speaker 1: From Kelvin Sampson of the Houston Cougars. We're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: from a couple of Aggie players, Ruben Owens and Damian Sanford.
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Speaker 1: went to James Madison as defensive coordinator. He ended up
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Speaker 1: back here coaching last year and now he is a
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator under coach elco uh and last late last week,
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Speaker 1: visited with members of the media.
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Speaker 11: Well, what did it mean for you to be named
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Speaker 11: defensive coordinator? And what do you think you'll bring to
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Speaker 11: the position.
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Speaker 6: It's it's a good honor. It's a really good honor.
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Speaker 12: You know, growing up, this was in my mind, you know,
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Speaker 12: my in the eighties and nineties, this was the defense.
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Speaker 6: So that's the vision I had.
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Speaker 12: And obviously you take a you know, you you don't
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Speaker 12: watch as much believe or not, as you don't watch
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Speaker 12: as much.
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Speaker 6: College football as a college football coach, so.
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Speaker 12: You kind of take a break and then come back
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Speaker 12: you actually get down here and you see what's really
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Speaker 12: all about what people talk about. It's it's really amazing
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Speaker 12: experience in terms of what I can bring, really a
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Speaker 12: little bit trying to bring a little bit more enthusiasm
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Speaker 12: to the defense, hopefully bring you know, fundamental change. That's
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Speaker 12: really what I'm trying to do, you know, Increase the fundamentals,
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Speaker 12: get better at the fundamentals.
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Speaker 6: Things of that nature.
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Speaker 12: Schematically, you know, a little bit different philosophy wise than
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Speaker 12: Mike defensively, so kind of get bring a ying to
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Speaker 12: his yang and how we stop people and how we
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Speaker 12: try to attack people. But overall, you know, the good
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Speaker 12: thing is, you know we really have the same type
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Speaker 12: of overall philosophy when you look at defense. So that
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Speaker 12: allows it, you know, to really work pretty well.
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Speaker 11: What do you think fans can anticipate pen Pill coach
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Speaker 11: defense to look like fast?
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Speaker 12: You know, the number one thing we're talking about is
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Speaker 12: how hard we play. I know that's you know, everyone
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Speaker 12: gets up here and says that, I don't know if
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Speaker 12: anyone's going to coach it harder than I will. You know,
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Speaker 12: we're going to be attacked. Mentality, whether we're blitzer or
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Speaker 12: not blitzing. The mentality is always going to be attacked
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Speaker 12: the opponent, attack the offenses, and you know.
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Speaker 6: We're going to play together. You know, that's kind of
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Speaker 6: our core mantra.
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Speaker 12: And when we talk about together, it's you know, communicating together,
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Speaker 12: having fun together, playing as a unit, you know, creating
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Speaker 12: our own twelfth man per se in a different ways.
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Speaker 9: Got the left side, Alex Miller from the Eagle, and
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Speaker 9: then Tony and Matthew.
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Speaker 6: Great to meet you, Good to meet you.
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Speaker 13: You mentioned kind of how you and Mike are a
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Speaker 13: little yin and yang. Can you just maybe elaborate on
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Speaker 13: that a little more and just kind of how you
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Speaker 13: see that shakeout?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, he I think the one thing to understand is
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Speaker 12: I think we both look at things big picture defensively
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Speaker 12: the same way. You know, we kind of look at
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Speaker 12: things outside in, which is a little bit different. You know,
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Speaker 12: a lot of defensive football coaches look at things from
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Speaker 12: you know, the front back, and then there's a lot
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Speaker 12: of football coaches that look at it from the back
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Speaker 12: to the front. We kind of look at it outside in,
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Speaker 12: which is a little bit different. You know, how do
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Speaker 12: you match up on the perimeter. That's you know kind
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Speaker 12: of the ways we look at things, which is similar
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Speaker 12: in terms of, you know, how we're different.
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Speaker 6: It's it's a little bit philosophy wise.
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Speaker 12: In coverage, He's he's a very much used to be
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Speaker 12: It's changing a little bit here and there, but a
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Speaker 12: very matchy quarters guy. You know a lot of man
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Speaker 12: the man defense. I have not been that much man
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Speaker 12: the man defense. I've been a little bit more zoned.
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Speaker 12: I haven't had the guys to do that. I've kind
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Speaker 12: of played to what we had and that's where we're
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Speaker 12: a little bit different.
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Speaker 6: It's just how we defend the past a little bit.
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Speaker 12: But again, I think all conversations are welcomed in that room,
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Speaker 12: and we have some good ones.
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Speaker 13: Just wanted to ask if you could just share about
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Speaker 13: your relationship with him over the years and just how
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Speaker 13: that's evolved and why coming here when you did.
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Speaker 6: Was the right move for you.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he was.
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Speaker 12: I actually took a DV job and he was a
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Speaker 12: defensive coordinator. We didn't know each other, and we got
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Speaker 12: along and worked really well together.
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Speaker 6: We put together a pretty good defense.
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Speaker 12: This is to This is over twenty years ago at Hofstra,
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Speaker 12: and then through the years he went his direction, I
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Speaker 12: went my direction, and we just kept in touch every
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Speaker 12: off season, we would get together.
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Speaker 6: We talked weekly, you.
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Speaker 12: Know, schematics, personnel, what they were seeing different offensively, what
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Speaker 12: we were seeing different offensive We just always kept in
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Speaker 12: touch and schematically kind.
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Speaker 6: Of stayed in the same cylinder a little bit.
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Speaker 12: And it's it's you know, it's it's he's been very
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Speaker 12: you know, he's been my mentor, you know, for pretty
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Speaker 12: much twenty years.
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Speaker 6: So it was an easy decision.
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Speaker 12: You know, my goal, you know, growing up, my goal
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Speaker 12: was to be an FCS defensive coordinator, you know, and
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Speaker 12: as good as I could be. And as I grew
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Speaker 12: and times changed, my goals got bigger.
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Speaker 14: You know.
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Speaker 6: My goal now is to be the.
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Speaker 12: Defensive coordin for a national championship team, you know. And
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Speaker 12: I think he's very aware of that, and I think
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Speaker 12: this is a place you can do it at. So
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Speaker 12: this was an easy opportunity for me. I get to
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Speaker 12: work with him, someone who I'm comfortable working with.
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Speaker 6: I get to work with the staff.
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Speaker 12: I know a lot of the guys on the staff
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Speaker 12: I'm very comfortable with. You know, his family, my family
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Speaker 12: get along really well. So it's it was it was
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Speaker 12: an easy decision go.
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Speaker 6: Left side front to Tony Katalin from the Austin American Statesman.
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Speaker 6: What's up to nice to meet.
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Speaker 15: And circling back to your coverage question and potentially being
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Speaker 15: multiple a guy like Ricky Gibson, can you talk about
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Speaker 15: some of his strengths maybe what he does for you
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Speaker 15: guys and and does he allow you to have that
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Speaker 15: you know, flexibility and coverage.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he does.
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Speaker 12: He's the thing that you don't know because you don't
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Speaker 12: get to spend a lot of time recruiting these guys,
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Speaker 12: you know, transfer portal guys. It's it's very transactional, what's quick.
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Speaker 12: The one thing that's really surprised me is how he's
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Speaker 12: a very good learner. He's a smart kid. He list
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Speaker 12: since he listens, he looks at you in your eye,
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Speaker 12: and he you know what you tell him. He takes in,
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Speaker 12: which is a great trade to have in his day
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Speaker 12: and age.
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Speaker 6: So that's the first part.
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Speaker 12: I think he can do anything from what I've seen,
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Speaker 12: you know, just watching workouts and stuff like that.
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Speaker 6: You know, he looks like he moves pretty fluidly and
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Speaker 6: in muchness tape.
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Speaker 16: You know.
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Speaker 12: Obviously he's a good man player. He plays man well.
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Speaker 12: I think he'll have no problem playing his own. But
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Speaker 12: you know overall so far everything I've seen and very
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Speaker 12: impressed with him.
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Speaker 6: Your left side middle to Matthew he's with the student radio. Uh,
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Speaker 6: good to meet you, coach.
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Speaker 10: Just having to spend a year in the coach Chestney
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Speaker 10: and JMU before joining texting him last year. What lessons
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Speaker 10: of philosophies are you bringing to your with you into
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Speaker 10: your first year as a d C here and how
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Speaker 10: are you adapting them to this defense.
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Speaker 12: It's it's funny because Chesney is another guy that I
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Speaker 12: worked with a long time ago as well, and it's
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Speaker 12: same same deal as as Mike.
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Speaker 6: You know, we've been friends a long time, talk football
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Speaker 6: a long time.
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Speaker 12: One of the big things I took from Chesney and
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Speaker 12: I've brought to the defense it's it's a we, not
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Speaker 12: me and I and I, and we have to stop
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Speaker 12: talking in the you know, I, I and me, No
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Speaker 12: more I and me.
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Speaker 6: It's it's we and us.
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Speaker 12: It's you know, you know that's part of the together
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Speaker 12: thing we were talking about, just trying to be unselfish
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Speaker 12: as much as possible. That was something that Chez did
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Speaker 12: a great job with just teaching, and it really helps
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Speaker 12: on defense because everybody wants to go to the NFL.
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Speaker 12: Everybody wants to make plays. Everyone wants to make sacks.
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Speaker 12: Everybody wants to make interceptions, everybody wants to make big plays.
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Speaker 12: But teaching these guys that playing you know, top level defense,
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Speaker 12: you know, top ten in the country defense, that can't be.
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Speaker 6: The thought process.
22:49
Speaker 12: The thought process has got to be we, you know,
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Speaker 12: us that type of thing. And that's the number one
22:56
Speaker 12: thing that Chez you know, I took from Chez, you know,
22:59
Speaker 12: and it's been a it's been a long time too,
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Speaker 6: He runs a really good program.
23:11
Speaker 12: But I thought that was the biggest thing, you know,
23:14
Speaker 12: And it was kind of one of those things you
23:15
Speaker 12: didn't know when when I first started working for him,
23:18
Speaker 12: if it was just you know, coach speak or whatever
23:21
Speaker 12: it may be.
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Speaker 6: But man, that dude lived it every day.
23:24
Speaker 12: He lived it every day and there's the reason why
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Speaker 17: So tell me about what your thoughts were about Texas
23:37
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23:42
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23:44
Speaker 17: be a defensive defensive coordinator successful in this late.
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Speaker 12: Looking from looking at Texas A and M from Afar,
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Speaker 12: I didn't think the players would be this invested in
23:59
Speaker 12: in football, to be.
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Speaker 6: Honest with you, I thought they would be. You just
24:02
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Speaker 12: When you're from the Northeast at SEC football, these guys
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24:10
Speaker 12: the guys getting in trouble and stuff like that, and
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Speaker 12: you come down here and like, these kids are They're
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Speaker 12: They just want to play ball, Like that's what they
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Speaker 12: want to do. They want to play ball, they want
24:19
Speaker 12: to learn ball, they want to get better. That's a
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Speaker 12: huge surprise to me, which is great. Like I love it.
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Speaker 12: I love it here. I love working with the kids.
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Speaker 12: Every day they come in like get me better. Like
24:30
Speaker 12: that's kind of the thought process for those guys, And like,
24:34
Speaker 12: how can you not love to.
24:35
Speaker 6: Come to work.
24:36
Speaker 12: You got to be fundamentally sound, Like you really have
24:39
Speaker 12: to be fund mentally sound. And that's one of the
24:41
Speaker 12: big things we're taking on the spring, Like we've got
24:43
Speaker 12: to become fundamentally better tacklers. Fundamentally better pursuers of the ball.
24:47
Speaker 12: We've got to be fundamentally better taking the ball away. Like,
24:50
Speaker 12: those are the things the great defenses do. They don't
24:52
Speaker 12: miss tackles, they don't drop interceptions, they don't just sack
24:56
Speaker 12: the quarterback, they sack, fumble the quarterback.
24:59
Speaker 6: Those are what the great defenses do. You know, missing.
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Speaker 12: Tackles, that's that's that's something that we've got to fix.
25:06
Speaker 12: You know, missing opportunities for takeaways, that's something.
25:09
Speaker 6: We've got to fix.
25:10
Speaker 12: You just look at those fundamentally, there's really really good
25:13
Speaker 12: go back, you know, six or seven years to Texas
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Speaker 12: A and M and when they were one of the
25:17
Speaker 12: top five defense in the country.
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Speaker 6: That's what they did.
25:19
Speaker 12: They turned people over. They didn't miss tackles, they killed quarterbacks,
25:23
Speaker 12: and not only did they kill them, but they were getting.
25:25
Speaker 14: The ball back.
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Speaker 12: That's what we've got to get it to, I think,
25:28
Speaker 12: to be the top one of the top defenses. I mean, schematically,
25:33
Speaker 12: everybody's doing somewhat some variation of the same thing, but
25:39
Speaker 12: it's it's where the fundamentals are.
25:41
Speaker 6: I think that's that's the kind of brings you to
25:43
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25:48
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Speaker 1: Missing tackles, get the ball. That's what defenses should do.
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Speaker 1: Tackle really well, get the ball. You know, he was
26:10
Speaker 1: at James Madison, but that was right after Signetti, I
26:13
Speaker 1: guess had had gone to Indiana. But I would tell
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Speaker 1: him in every coach, just just watch tape of the
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26:31
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Speaker 3: I mean, they were just so fun to watch.
26:41
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Speaker 3: And they had talent. You gotta have talent, right, They
26:52
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Speaker 1: But they had a lot of other good players too
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27:17
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Speaker 6: Welcome into the High School Report.
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Speaker 19: I'm Caleb Rapley, and today we are jumping out to
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Speaker 19: the Polaris Fund Center phone line to visit with the
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Speaker 19: head coach of the Montgomery Lake Creek Lady Lyons softball team,
33:41
Speaker 19: Miss Candice Carter, coach, Thanks for joining me today.
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Speaker 24: Thank you so much, happy to be here.
33:48
Speaker 19: So, your Lady Lion's coming off of an undefeated state
33:51
Speaker 19: championship winning season, which you know, going undefeated in baseball
33:55
Speaker 19: or softball is almost unheard of, So congratulations on that.
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Speaker 19: This year, another hot start twenty one to one on
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Speaker 19: the season. So how were you able to keep that
34:06
Speaker 19: momentum going from last year into this season.
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Speaker 24: Yeah, I'm really proud of what the girls were able
34:12
Speaker 24: to accomplish last year. It was a total team effort
34:15
Speaker 24: from players to coaches, to parents to managers. I mean,
34:18
Speaker 24: it really took a lot of people to make a
34:20
Speaker 24: season like that be so special and happen. Just looking
34:23
Speaker 24: forward to this season. We didn't change anything. We're not
34:27
Speaker 24: trying to recreate anything. We just want to make sure
34:29
Speaker 24: to keep it very simple. Focus on one game at
34:31
Speaker 24: a time, one pitch at a time, one inning at
34:33
Speaker 24: a time. We try to keep things very simple. We
34:37
Speaker 24: don't want to get too big, don't want to look
34:38
Speaker 24: outside too much, just want to stay focused on what's
34:40
Speaker 24: going on with us and within our team.
34:44
Speaker 19: So at a program like Lake Creek, which has been
34:46
Speaker 19: known for lots of success in softball over the last
34:50
Speaker 19: ten years and that state championship last year, is that
34:54
Speaker 19: sometimes an issue for your players having that pressure on them.
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Speaker 8: You know?
35:01
Speaker 24: I mean I think that goes with any sports that
35:03
Speaker 24: you're playing. You know, failure is such a big part
35:05
Speaker 24: of it, and sometimes failure can add some pressure that
35:09
Speaker 24: you maybe put on yourself that doesn't necessarily need to
35:12
Speaker 24: be there. I definitely think that the pressure is there,
35:15
Speaker 24: but we do our best to talk about it, make
35:18
Speaker 24: sure that the girls feel like their voices are heard,
35:20
Speaker 24: and just making sure that they feel like they're in
35:22
Speaker 24: the right headspace. We focus on a lot of mental
35:24
Speaker 24: training and making sure that if there is some failure, adversity,
35:27
Speaker 24: or expectations being put on them. They just understand that
35:31
Speaker 24: we just want them to have fun. We want them
35:32
Speaker 24: to play to their best ability and represent Lake Creaksoftball
35:35
Speaker 24: well and at the end of the day, if we
35:36
Speaker 24: did that, then we considered it a successful day.
35:40
Speaker 19: So in any high school sport, graduation is something that
35:44
Speaker 19: turns over rosters year after year. So this season, who
35:49
Speaker 19: are some of the younger players that have stepped up
35:51
Speaker 19: to fill the void of the seniors that have left.
35:57
Speaker 24: Yeah, we graduated a couple of seniors. Last year, we
35:59
Speaker 24: graduated three. We have nine seniors this year, so it's
36:02
Speaker 24: a really big senior class. We've had some really good
36:05
Speaker 24: younger ones step in between our sophomores and juniors. We've
36:08
Speaker 24: had a Brady Gossett and Ameles Torrez, Macey Noak. We've
36:12
Speaker 24: got a lot of kids that are ready to step
36:15
Speaker 24: into their moment. With a large group of seniors in
36:17
Speaker 24: front of them makes that a little bit difficult, but
36:19
Speaker 24: we really feel like anybody off the bench can come
36:21
Speaker 24: in and be successful for Lake Kris Ball.
36:25
Speaker 19: So, looking at this year's schedule started out five and
36:28
Speaker 19: zero district play, so you've got a pretty good idea
36:31
Speaker 19: of what to expect from each of your district teams.
36:34
Speaker 19: What have been your thoughts on district play so far?
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Speaker 24: Yeah, district play has been great. It's been competitive. We
36:42
Speaker 24: had a really competitive game of College Station. They're always
36:45
Speaker 24: a really respectable, tough opponent, and we've seen some great
36:48
Speaker 24: hitters between our districts and pitching and things like that,
36:51
Speaker 24: and so really like the direction we're headed in to
36:54
Speaker 24: get ready for hopefully a great postseason run.
36:58
Speaker 19: So today y'all will be taking on Brenham at home.
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Speaker 19: I think it's the only district team that y'all haven't
37:05
Speaker 19: played yet. So what do you know about the about Brinham?
37:08
Speaker 19: What do you expect to see?
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Speaker 24: Yeah, Brenham is a really well coached, disciplined team. They've
37:14
Speaker 24: got a couple of good arms, they've got a few
37:16
Speaker 24: seniors leading the top of that lineup, and really competitive
37:20
Speaker 24: team that are going to do the little things right.
37:22
Speaker 24: We don't focus too much on what they're going to do, though,
37:25
Speaker 24: we do give a scouting report on the arms and
37:27
Speaker 24: things of that nature, but for the most part, we
37:30
Speaker 24: know that if we do our job and we focus
37:32
Speaker 24: on what our plan is and our scout, then we'll
37:35
Speaker 24: be successful at the.
37:35
Speaker 25: End of the day.
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Speaker 19: So you mentioned earlier, you know, getting ready for hopefully
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Speaker 19: another good postseason run. Have you had a chance to,
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Speaker 19: you know, look at the region and some idea of
37:47
Speaker 19: who you might be matching up against.
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Speaker 22: No.
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Speaker 24: I try to take my own advice that we give
37:52
Speaker 24: to the kids and keep it very simple, taking it
37:54
Speaker 24: one game at a time. I definitely think we still
37:58
Speaker 24: don't know. You know, we still have a lot of
38:00
Speaker 24: ball left in our district, so who knows what's going
38:02
Speaker 24: to happen. And also, you know, without knowing the division,
38:05
Speaker 24: you know, will we be one, WI will be two?
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Speaker 24: We didn't know until at the very end last year.
38:09
Speaker 24: I think it's gonna shake out the same way. Not
38:10
Speaker 24: gonna know, So we're just gonna stay focused on district,
38:13
Speaker 24: taking it one game at a time. We really try
38:15
Speaker 24: to preach that as much as possible. Sometimes we tend
38:18
Speaker 24: to stray away from a little bit. But if we
38:19
Speaker 24: can stay within ourselves on focusing on that, I try
38:23
Speaker 24: to heed that on advice as well.
38:25
Speaker 19: Next question I have is kind of more of an
38:27
Speaker 19: administration thing with the diamond sports baseball and softball. You know,
38:32
Speaker 19: the first probably half of the season is mostly tournaments.
38:36
Speaker 19: How do you go about, you know, selecting which tournaments
38:38
Speaker 19: you play in? Are those invitation mostly or do you
38:41
Speaker 19: do do you reach out to other coaches?
38:43
Speaker 6: How does that work for you?
38:45
Speaker 24: Yeah, a lot of people will send out emails on
38:48
Speaker 24: tournament invites and things like that. We did get invited
38:51
Speaker 24: to the Barbarushil Invitational this week this year. I do
38:54
Speaker 24: believe that is an invitational. But the other two that
38:56
Speaker 24: we're in with the NFCA, that's probably the largest tournament
39:00
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39:02
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39:05
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39:08
Speaker 24: with that. And for the most part, all tournaments are
39:11
Speaker 24: you just kind of choose which one you think is
39:13
Speaker 24: going to be best for your team and two are
39:15
Speaker 24: the opponents that are going to be there, and go
39:17
Speaker 24: about it that way.
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Speaker 19: All right, coach, Well, I appreciate your time today and
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Speaker 24: Thank you so much. Appreciate your time.
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Speaker 28: The final tune up exhibition game for the Houston Astros
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Speaker 28: is tonight, as the squad well have one more opportunity
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Speaker 28: to put it all together before the games count for real.
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Speaker 28: The Houston Astros are at home against the Sugar and
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Speaker 28: Space Cowboys, the team's Triple A affiliate, for the second
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Speaker 28: consecutive night.
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Speaker 6: Yesterday, the Astros top.
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Speaker 28: The Space Cowboys by a score of nine to one.
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Speaker 28: Lucas spent at the home run in three RBI. In
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Speaker 28: other news, the Astros have option right hander Spencer Arraghatty
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Speaker 28: to triple A. Arighedi, who is twenty six years old,
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Speaker 28: was limited to just seven starts last season to a
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Speaker 28: fractured right thumb and right elbow inflammation.
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Speaker 6: He posted a.
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Speaker 28: Five point three five ERA over thirty five and a
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Speaker 28: third innings. The astros first regular season game will be
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Speaker 28: at home on Thursday, as the Angels come to town
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Speaker 28: for a four game series to kick off the twenty
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Speaker 28: twenty six campaign. First pitch on Thursday, except for three
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Speaker 28: ten from Dacon Park with your Houston Astros Report, I'm Jake.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, thanks for joining us here on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Scottlandden and will join us tomorrow. Coach Steve Denton also
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Speaker 1: tomorrow on the program. On Thursday evening, the Houston Cougars
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Speaker 1: will well Well host. They'll take on in Illinois, but
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Speaker 1: they'll be at the Toyota Center. Tickets are at a
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Speaker 1: pre because Nebraska and Iowa and Houston fans and Illinois travels. Okay,
45:07
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you, they are a premium for
45:11
Speaker 1: Thursday's action. Aggie fans got to see Houston up close
45:19
Speaker 1: and personal on Saturday. It wasn't pretty, but it was Houston.
45:26
Speaker 1: This team is in their seventh straight Sweet sixteen.
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Speaker 14: Okay.
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Speaker 3: They were within.
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Speaker 1: One play of winning the national championship last year. They
45:42
Speaker 1: have been really close under Calvin Sampson. Their into the
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Speaker 1: bracket was helped with the Florida upset quite frankly, but
45:54
Speaker 1: they were going to have their hands full on Thursday
45:57
Speaker 1: with Illinois. I promise you if you've seen Woggler play,
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Speaker 1: that kid scored somewhere between forty and fifty in a game.
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Speaker 1: Earlier this year, like forty five, forty six points, Illinois
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Speaker 1: can play Houston's gonna have to be good to get
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Speaker 1: to the Elite eight and play either Iowa or Nebraska.
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Speaker 1: Here's Kelvin Sampson from I think this video conference was
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Speaker 1: done yesterday.
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Speaker 29: Yeah, I don't really have a whole lot of attention
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Speaker 29: to the numbers. I have no idea what I mean points,
46:33
Speaker 29: the averages are. I'm pretty sure he's average around eight
46:37
Speaker 29: rebounds the game. I'm quite sure exactly what it is.
46:40
Speaker 29: But Chris is grown in every area. You freshmen are
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Speaker 29: just different species. They're not the same as everybody else.
46:53
Speaker 29: Mercy Miller is a great example. There's not very many
46:58
Speaker 29: freshmen in Erica going to come in and play on
47:01
Speaker 29: last year's team because of the experience on that team.
47:05
Speaker 29: This year, we've decided, we made the conscious decision to
47:10
Speaker 29: go with Chris and Kingston from day one, you know,
47:18
Speaker 29: I you know, I always thought that Kingston would start
47:23
Speaker 29: for us this year. I wasn't always quite sure how
47:26
Speaker 29: it would fit, but I was pretty sure that he
47:29
Speaker 29: was going to start because he was always one of
47:32
Speaker 29: our best players. After obviously he started playing, people got
47:36
Speaker 29: to figure out what we knew two years ago, but
47:40
Speaker 29: Chris was a little different and he was our biggest
47:43
Speaker 29: challenge because of the position change. He's always been five
47:47
Speaker 29: in high school and he had to transition to ben
47:50
Speaker 29: a four and that's not easy. So our team, Chris
47:56
Speaker 29: didn't hold us back. We just had to wait for
47:59
Speaker 29: him to progress him make Kingston both so so our
48:04
Speaker 29: defense wasn't as good last year. Well who's wilds. Anytime
48:09
Speaker 29: you change personnel, especially with freshmen, you're gonna take a
48:11
Speaker 29: step back, and we did take a step back, but
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Speaker 29: we've continued to work to be the best we can be.
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Speaker 29: I don't ever try to get teams to be like
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Speaker 29: other teams because they're not the same players. But I've
48:25
Speaker 29: been proud of Chris's growth in every year. He found
48:30
Speaker 29: something he could be good at, which is rebounding and
48:34
Speaker 29: when you lose, when we tell our kids, when you
48:37
Speaker 29: lose yourself and an area of game that's important that
48:42
Speaker 29: maybe it wasn't the strength of yours when you came in,
48:47
Speaker 29: the other parts of your game will start to come
48:49
Speaker 29: because now you're relaxed. If you focus on trying to
48:53
Speaker 29: score and you're trying to make a shot, that doesn't
48:55
Speaker 29: work that way. So I think Chris's growth, and it's
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Speaker 29: especially the rebounding area has has uh has.
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Speaker 14: Given him a sense of self worth.
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Speaker 29: You know, easiest kids to motivate or the kids with
49:09
Speaker 29: the highest self esteem, And I think chris Is self
49:13
Speaker 29: esteem right now is really high.
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Speaker 30: And if I could piggyback off that you asked, you
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Speaker 30: mentioned something about Mercy, can you share some perspective and
49:20
Speaker 30: thoughts on him and just how his game has progressed
49:23
Speaker 30: and just maybe what's different and what's really changed again
49:27
Speaker 30: as it seemed as if his play is improved as
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Speaker 30: the years gone.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you know the way the way that.
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Speaker 29: I evaluate players, as we put him in his real,
49:42
Speaker 29: real game situations and practice, whether you can see where
49:45
Speaker 29: they're making their mistakes sort of areas where they need
49:48
Speaker 29: to improve. And when you put Mercy in certain situations,
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Speaker 29: you can tell those are the areas that he needed
49:55
Speaker 29: to improve in the most.
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Speaker 14: But Chris and Mercy, both those guys.
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Speaker 29: The areas that they need to improve it in was
50:10
Speaker 29: just read and react to game speed in situations they
50:15
Speaker 29: just had not been in. Most kids come out of
50:18
Speaker 29: high school don't really plan a defensive system. They play
50:21
Speaker 29: defense but it's not a system where you're responsible for
50:25
Speaker 29: the other four guys by being on time.
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Speaker 14: And you know, in space, you've got to get to.
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Speaker 29: A certain area the court, and you're reading the screen,
50:35
Speaker 29: you're reading the role, you're reading the guys that are
50:39
Speaker 29: feeling behind or going through and cutting through the other corners.
50:43
Speaker 29: You know, a lot of these offenses are complicated. You know,
50:46
Speaker 29: they're not just in high school. Most guys just stand
50:49
Speaker 29: around and college they move and it takes a while
50:52
Speaker 29: to get adjusted to that. Whereas a guy like Wilson
50:56
Speaker 29: had six years to make all his mistakes his first time,
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Speaker 29: with three years, Mercy got the opportunity this year and
51:06
Speaker 29: he struggled some, but he struggled in a good way.
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Speaker 29: Those were correctible mistakes, you know, mistakes and mistakes and
51:14
Speaker 29: failures never a final it's often the impetus for future
51:19
Speaker 29: for success. But Mercy has really improved. He still got
51:24
Speaker 29: a long way to go. It's not nobody's gonna be
51:27
Speaker 29: confusing it with Defensive Player of the Year yet. But
51:33
Speaker 29: I think there's Mercy has a high ceiling above him
51:36
Speaker 29: in every area. He's only going to get better and better,
51:39
Speaker 29: just like Chris has.
51:41
Speaker 31: And good morning, if you could maybe pick out one
51:46
Speaker 31: or two or three. However, Manny, you want factors that
51:49
Speaker 31: have allowed you to get this program to the point
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Speaker 31: where you make seven straight sweet sixteens.
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Speaker 14: What would you say to that.
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Speaker 29: Have to define system and it's got to be your system.
52:05
Speaker 29: I don't look at other programs to decide what we're
52:08
Speaker 29: going to do. I had a vision for how I
52:11
Speaker 29: wanted the team to play, and then we had to
52:14
Speaker 29: go get good enough players that could execute the system.
52:19
Speaker 29: And sometimes you got to be stubborn.
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Speaker 14: Sometimes you got to be hard headed.
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Speaker 29: Sometimes you've got to learn the coach one eye open
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Speaker 29: and one air closed. I would say those are the
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Speaker 29: key points, and with the big emphasis on having good players.
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Speaker 6: Coach, thank you, You're welcome.
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Speaker 14: Hey, coach, how's it going? Hey, Terrence? Hey?
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Speaker 9: I mean, just to kind of piggyback off of the
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Speaker 9: last question about the seventh straight sweet sixteens?
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Speaker 14: Do they do they?
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Speaker 9: Does this change for you and all each from year
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Speaker 9: to year, or your feelings about it or your approach
52:55
Speaker 9: to it? I mean, where is it always kind of
52:56
Speaker 9: the same.
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Speaker 14: The latter. I don't put a whole lot of stuff
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Speaker 14: in that stuff.
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Speaker 29: The only thing I know is every year, I have
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Speaker 29: a different team. You start over every year. It doesn't
53:11
Speaker 29: go year to year. Is there's a period at the
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Speaker 29: end of every year, and then you have a capital
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Speaker 29: letter on your first letter in the next sentence or
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Speaker 29: the next paragraph for the next chapter, really chapter.
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Speaker 14: You just finish your chapter, and these chapters marked by
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Speaker 14: the year.
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Speaker 29: You know, seventeen eighteen, that chapter ended, so we had
53:37
Speaker 29: to start a new chapter. And there's no guarantees that
53:39
Speaker 29: it's going to work because you have to go out
53:42
Speaker 29: recruit and you have to evaluate, and then you have
53:46
Speaker 29: another period at the end of the year you start
53:49
Speaker 29: over again. It's not a continuation. You know, we lost L. J. Cryer,
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Speaker 29: Jay and Roberts, J. Vier Francis and Malie Wilson and
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Speaker 29: Terrence Arsen, though all five of those guys were major,
54:05
Speaker 29: major contributors to last year's team. But as soon as
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Speaker 29: twenty four to twenty five seed ended, we put a
54:12
Speaker 29: period at the end of it. Then you start another
54:15
Speaker 29: chapter and there's no guarantees it's going to succeed, but
54:19
Speaker 29: you have to trust yourself, trust what you're doing. But
54:25
Speaker 29: we have a system here, so it's not like, you know,
54:28
Speaker 29: we're just pulling names out of the hat. We really
54:30
Speaker 29: evaluate the kids that we want to we want to coach,
54:33
Speaker 29: and that we want.
54:34
Speaker 14: To go to battle with.
54:39
Speaker 29: So we we've always been pretty good at that through
54:42
Speaker 29: the years, through the decades, really now encounterment decades. But
54:49
Speaker 29: but that's the way I look at it, Terrence. Every season,
54:53
Speaker 29: every season has an end, and then the next season
54:57
Speaker 29: starts anew and we try to do the best we
55:00
Speaker 29: can with the players we have.
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Speaker 14: And see what happens. You know, I've learned a.
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Speaker 29: Lot over the years just on how to put a
55:13
Speaker 29: team together. But you have to put it together through
55:15
Speaker 29: your eyes and through your lens, because that's the only
55:18
Speaker 29: one that matters.
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