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July 23, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Meets you with that breast band taste at a spot
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  Speaker 1: on your face.
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  Speaker 2: The more you listen to your kids, the closer you'll be.
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  Speaker 2: So we ask kids, what do you want your parents
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  Speaker 2: to hear?
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  Speaker 3: I feel sometimes that I'm not listening to I would
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  Speaker 3: just want you to listen to me more often and
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  Speaker 3: evaluate situations with me and lead me towards success.
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  Speaker 4: We're not adults, so just just be there and like, listen.
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  Speaker 5: I just want someone to yat too, And I just
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  Speaker 5: feel like I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 4: Like if someone just hears me.
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  Speaker 3: Talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and
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  Speaker 3: talk and talk, you're doing a really good job.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't think I tell you that.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, and I know sometimes we get into
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  Speaker 7: it and it's just hard on both of us.
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  Speaker 8: But I'll try to understand me more.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll try to do the same.
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  Speaker 2: Listening is a form of love. Find resources to help
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  Speaker 5: Chip Howard Sports Talk here on a Thursday afternoon, right
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  Speaker 5: here on the zone eleven fifty AM, ninety three point
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  Speaker 5: seven FM. I'm Caleb Rapley filling in once again for Chip,
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  Speaker 5: third time this week. I know that y'all are tired
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  Speaker 5: of hearing me yep, but you're gonna have to endure
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  Speaker 5: it one more time this week, actually two more times
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  Speaker 5: this week. I already lied. The show just started, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm already not telling you the truth. Tomorrow it'll be
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  Speaker 5: me and Ryan in here. Riley is out. We've got
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  Speaker 5: a lot on the schedule today. First segment here we
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  Speaker 5: will be going over some of the biggest headlines in
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  Speaker 5: the sports world. In the next segment, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: be hearing from the head coach of the Texas Longhorns
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  Speaker 5: what he had to say at SEC Media Day's Steve Sarakshan.
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  Speaker 5: And then at four point thirty live in the studio
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  Speaker 5: with me, I'm going to have the play by play
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  Speaker 5: man for all Brass Valley Bombers games on the radio,
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  Speaker 5: mister Andrew Rapsilver, he will be right here in the
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  Speaker 5: studio with me at four thirty and then at five
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  Speaker 5: o'clock another sec Media days listening, and it's a highly
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  Speaker 5: anticipated one. LSU head coach Lane Kiffin, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: that y'all have seen some highlights from that, but we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be listening to it almost in full what
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  Speaker 5: he had to say at the main podium, and then
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  Speaker 5: in the for the rest of the second hour, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna do some baseball talk, Astros sweep the Marlins, and
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  Speaker 5: then I'm gonna get into how some aggis from the
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  Speaker 5: MLB Draft a year ago are performing so far in
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  Speaker 5: their minor league career. As you know, the MLB Draft
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  Speaker 5: was a couple weeks ago now eight aggie players taken.
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  Speaker 5: All but one ended up signing, So we're gonna be
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  Speaker 5: looking at their signing bonuses and then looking at how
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  Speaker 5: their predecessors from twenty twenty five are doing so far
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  Speaker 5: in their careers. But right now, first headline, we've got
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  Speaker 5: Texas A and M men's basketball. Buckeyball has announced their
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  Speaker 5: official twenty twenty six non conference schedule, starting off with
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  Speaker 5: an exhibition game at SMU October twenty fifth, and then
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  Speaker 5: five games in a row at Ried Arena, mostly non
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  Speaker 5: Power five schools. The only Power five school in those
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  Speaker 5: first five games is going to be Oklahoma State on
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  Speaker 5: November twelfth. That is a big one. I think that
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  Speaker 5: was an overtime loss. I know we lost to them
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  Speaker 5: last year. I think it was. It might not have
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  Speaker 5: been overtime. I think that was SMU actually, But we
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  Speaker 5: will be welcoming the Cowboys to Rid Arena on November twelfth.
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  Speaker 5: A notable road game early in the year. November nineteenth,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to Fort Worth to take on the TCU
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  Speaker 5: horn Frogs, and then the Aggies will be going to
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  Speaker 5: the Bahamas for the Battle for Atlantis, and I believe
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  Speaker 5: the two teams that are taking on are Xavier and Marquette.
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  Speaker 5: December second, the sec ACC Challenge here at Ried Arena
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  Speaker 5: against Stanford. December twelfth, a neutral site game at the
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  Speaker 5: Toyota Center in Houston against Florida State after we played
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  Speaker 5: them at a neutral site in Florida last year. And
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  Speaker 5: the last two non con games December twenty first and
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  Speaker 5: December twenty ninth, both at home against North Florida and
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  Speaker 5: Prairie View A And so get excited for basketball. It'll
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  Speaker 5: be here before you know it. SEC Media Days just
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  Speaker 5: wrapped up Day four. We heard from Like I said,
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  Speaker 5: Lane Kiffin led off the day and set a new record.
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  Speaker 5: And you may be saying, how do you set a
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  Speaker 5: record at SEC Media Days? Lane Kiffin now holds the
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  Speaker 5: record for most number of words in a coach's opening
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  Speaker 5: statement at SEC Media Days with two thousand, eight hundred
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  Speaker 5: and seven words. I think it was about sixteen minutes
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  Speaker 5: of an opening statement to a press conference, and I
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  Speaker 5: think Lane was just trying to talk as much as
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  Speaker 5: he could, control the narrative as much as he could
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  Speaker 5: before he had to answer any questions, and he did
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  Speaker 5: just that. Now that begs the question, what is the
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  Speaker 5: fewest number of words in a coach's opening statement at
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  Speaker 5: SEC Media Days? Well, that was back in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: two when the Pirate Mike Leach had the very fewest
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  Speaker 5: number of words in a coach's opening statement with just
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  Speaker 5: five words. What were those words? Following the Commissioner's introduction,
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  Speaker 5: Michael Leach said, I appreciate that any questions and that
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  Speaker 5: is exactly what we know and love from Mike Leach
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  Speaker 5: Rest in peace, Pirate. Thanks Brett McMurphy on Twitter Brett
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  Speaker 5: McMurphy of On three for sharing that tidbit. College football
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  Speaker 5: quarterback tiers. According to a survey conducted by The Athletic,
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  Speaker 5: they've broken the quarterback situations of every single FBS team
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  Speaker 5: into seven tiers. In Tier one, we've got three SEC
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  Speaker 5: teams Ole, Miss Texas and LSU Trinidad Chambless, Arch Manning
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  Speaker 5: and Sam Levitt. The quarterbacks for those teams. Ohio State
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  Speaker 5: and Notre Dame also in that tier, along with Oregon,
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  Speaker 5: Oklahoma State, and Miami. Oklahoma State is a very interesting one.
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  Speaker 5: Their starting quarterback this year is North Texas transfer Drew Mestemaker,
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  Speaker 5: who transferred over from U and T along with his
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  Speaker 5: coach Eric Morris. Really interesting. Interested to see how that
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  Speaker 5: move goes for the Pokes in year one. In Tier two,
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  Speaker 5: three more SEC teams, including the Georgia Bulldogs with Gunner Stockton,
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  Speaker 5: the Oklahoma Sooners with John Mattier and your Texas A
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  Speaker 5: and m Aggie's with Barcel Reid. In the second tier,
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  Speaker 5: the next tier has three more SEC teams Auburn, South Carolina, Missouri,
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  Speaker 5: and then there are five SEC teams in Tier four,
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  Speaker 5: one SEC team in Tier five, and then the lowest
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  Speaker 5: ranked SEC team all the way down in Tier six,
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  Speaker 5: the Tennessee volunteers, who I believe have yet today a
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  Speaker 5: starting quarterback. I think it's between George McIntyre, who's a
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  Speaker 5: red shirt freshman, and then five star recruit faise On Brandon,
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  Speaker 5: if I remember correctly, be really interesting to see which
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  Speaker 5: one of those who wins that competition, and maybe an
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  Speaker 5: underrated quarterback room for the volunteers we will see. If
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  Speaker 5: you want to weigh in to the show have your
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  Speaker 5: six nine three eleven point fifty and I will try
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  Speaker 5: to get to that. If you have questions for Andrew Rapsilver,
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  Speaker 5: the Bombers play by play broadcaster, that's at four thirty,
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  Speaker 5: be sure to text in for that. Caleb Brapley here
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  Speaker 5: filling in for Chip Howard on Sports Talk Today. Some
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  Speaker 5: sad news at NFL training camp. The Carolina Panthers are
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  Speaker 5: losing second year outside linebacker and former Texas A and
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  Speaker 5: m Aggie nick s Gorton to a torn ACL and
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  Speaker 5: his right ee. S Gordon will be seeking a second opinion,
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  Speaker 5: went down on a wet field late in practice today
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  Speaker 5: and had his hand over his face as he was
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  Speaker 5: led in a waiting cart, So it looked like it
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  Speaker 5: was pretty bad just by the players and trainers body language.
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  Speaker 5: S Gorton had a really solid rookie season for the
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  Speaker 5: Panthers last year. He played in all seventeen games, starting
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  Speaker 5: eight of those, finished the season with forty seven tackles
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  Speaker 5: and five sacks. Ended up being a pretty key starter
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  Speaker 5: for the Panthers, which were the fifteenth ranks defense in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL last year. S Gorton was looking to continue
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  Speaker 5: to build on that strong rookie season, but it's looking
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  Speaker 5: like it's going to have to wait until twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 5: We wish him the best. He is from Brian, Texas
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  Speaker 5: for those of you who don't know, came home to
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  Speaker 5: Texas A and M for his senior year of college
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  Speaker 5: football and Michael mike elk first season as coach. It's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of fun watching him play, for sure. More
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  Speaker 5: NFL news. Fernando Mendoza, the number one overall pick from
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  Speaker 5: this year's draft to the Las Vegas Raiders, has officially
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  Speaker 5: signed his rookie contract, a four year, fifty seven point
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  Speaker 5: two to seven million dollar fully guaranteed deal with a
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  Speaker 5: fifth year option. So the Raiders have now signed all
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  Speaker 5: ten of the players that they drafted, as they reported
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  Speaker 5: for training camp today and then the veterans will arrive
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  Speaker 5: five days from now July twenty eighth, and the first
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  Speaker 5: training camp practice for the Raiders will take place on
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  Speaker 5: the twenty ninth. With Fernando Mendoza now under contract, the
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  Speaker 5: only first round pick that has not been signed yet
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  Speaker 5: is Rams quarterback Ty Simpson. Fernando Mendoza is the first
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  Speaker 5: time the Raiders have had a first overall pick since
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  Speaker 5: JaMarcus Russell in two thousand and seven. So here's hoping
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  Speaker 5: that for Nando Mendoza turns out a little better than
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  Speaker 5: JaMarcus Russell, because that was not the most fun career
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  Speaker 5: to watch. Texas high school football news. According to Carter Yates,
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  Speaker 5: DCTF writer, th SCA Coaching School is going on this
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  Speaker 5: week's same time as SEC Media Days, and the UIL
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  Speaker 5: has apparently approved in concept a proposal to expand home
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  Speaker 5: field advantage for the first round of the UIL playoffs
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  Speaker 5: to Class four A and below. So for those of
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  Speaker 5: y'all who don't know how high school football playoffs work.
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  Speaker 5: For five A and six A schools, the biggest schools
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  Speaker 5: in the state, the first round of the playoffs, the
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  Speaker 5: higher seed is just the home team and you play
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  Speaker 5: at that team stadium, similar to how the college football
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  Speaker 5: playoff works, and then in the second round they go
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  Speaker 5: to a neutral site. In class four A and below,
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  Speaker 5: the small schools, they start playing neutral site games in
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  Speaker 5: the first round. This is something changing that has been
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  Speaker 5: something that has been pushed by coaches for a long
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  Speaker 5: time now. The UIL plans to unveil a sample proposal
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  Speaker 5: this October, with possibly implementing it starting in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 5: So good news for high school football playoffs. I think
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  Speaker 5: that'll make for some better environments and some real home
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  Speaker 5: field advantage, which is always fun to see. Now, this
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  Speaker 5: is not technically a sports story. Technically it's a politics story,
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  Speaker 5: so it really belongs on our sister station WTAW with
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  Speaker 5: the news people. But former NFL kicker Jay Feely has
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  Speaker 5: won the Republican primary for Arizona's first congressional district and
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  Speaker 5: will advance to the general election in November. Okay, cool
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  Speaker 5: former NFL player wins a Republican primary who cares well.
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  Speaker 5: The person he will be running against in that general
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  Speaker 5: election this November is Democrat Shaha, who was the team
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  Speaker 5: doctor for the New York Jets when Pheeley was there
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  Speaker 5: from two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 5: What are the odds that two player or two people
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  Speaker 5: formally involved with the NFL end up running in the
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  Speaker 5: same congressional district in Arizona, all the way across the
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  Speaker 5: country from where they were together in New York. The
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  Speaker 5: world is a crazy place. That's That's about all I
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  Speaker 5: have to say about that. That's pretty wild. Some MLB
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  Speaker 5: News and Notes MLB dot Com release their hitter power
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  Speaker 5: rankings today and at the top of the list is
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  Speaker 5: who should be at the top of this list Jordan
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  Speaker 5: Alvarez with your Houston Astros. He is leading in each
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  Speaker 5: of the Triple Crown categories right now in the American
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  Speaker 5: League at least three twenty eight batting average, thirty four homers,
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  Speaker 5: seventy seven RBIs. He is easily the favorite for the
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  Speaker 5: MVP in my opinion. We'll see if he actually ends
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  Speaker 5: up getting it. And finally, the Boston Red Sox franchise
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  Speaker 5: record tying fifteen game winning streak came to an end
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  Speaker 5: last night in the nightcap of a double header against
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  Speaker 5: the Orioles. Boston tied the franchise record in game one
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  Speaker 5: of the double header with a six to three win,
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  Speaker 5: an eighty year old record. It was set back in
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  Speaker 5: nineteen forty six, led by Ted Williams, a team that
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  Speaker 5: ended up claiming the Al Pennant. But in the nightcap
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  Speaker 5: of the game, the Orioles got the win five to one,
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  Speaker 5: Kyle Bradish pitching six innings of one run ball. This
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  Speaker 5: is the longest winning streak in the Majors since the
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  Speaker 5: Saint Louis Cardinals also won fifteen games back in twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty one. It was a good run for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 5: This winning streak basically brought them back from the brink
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  Speaker 5: of being full scale sellers at the trade deadline. They
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  Speaker 5: are fully back in the playoff mix now, and it
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  Speaker 5: will be interesting to see how much they add. They
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  Speaker 5: had pretty much given up on the season they fired
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  Speaker 5: their head coat or their manager, Alex Cora. Interim manager
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  Speaker 5: Chad Tracy has managed to light a fire under these boys, though,
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  Speaker 5: so it'd be interesting to see how they handle this
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  Speaker 5: going forward, sign for our first break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 5: we will hear from Texas head coach Steve Sarkegan. You're
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  Speaker 5: Chip today, part of the summer edition of the show.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, it's time for our first listening from SEC
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  Speaker 5: Media Days. Steve Sarkisian, head coach of the Texas.
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  Speaker 16: Longhorns, A coach Aaron Hogan with s Penn and Austin
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  Speaker 16: over here in the front. Tell me about the additions
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  Speaker 16: to your coaching staff so much SEC knowledge with Will
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  Speaker 16: Mos Champion coach Jluke and Mark Stoops. Now, how intentional
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  Speaker 16: was that and what have you seen from having those
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  Speaker 16: those guys to the staff.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, you know that I think each higher was different
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  Speaker 17: in different timings.
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  Speaker 18: You know.
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  Speaker 17: Obviously, you know, we made a decision to make a
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  Speaker 17: couple of changes on staff, and you know, we we
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  Speaker 17: kind of targeted coach Juluke. We felt like his ties
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  Speaker 17: in New Orleans and had known him from when his
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  Speaker 17: time as a high school head coach at Edna Carr
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  Speaker 17: and just the energy and the passion the way he
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  Speaker 17: coached the game. We felt like we needed that on offense.
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  Speaker 17: And obviously his history at LSU and at Florida that
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  Speaker 17: was helpful, but also his time in Texas was helpful.
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  Speaker 17: So that was that was one piece of it. Then
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  Speaker 17: coach Muschamp was kind of the next piece, and you know,
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  Speaker 17: we felt like we wanted to get back to playing
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  Speaker 17: a style of defense that that I was accustomed to
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  Speaker 17: and aggressive in your face, tighter coverage kind of.
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  Speaker 9: Approach to things.
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  Speaker 17: It doesn't hurt that Will muss Champ's been a head
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  Speaker 17: coach in this league at two different stops at Florida
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  Speaker 17: and South Carolina, and had previously been the defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 17: at Texas. He knew this place, he knew this league.
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  Speaker 17: We philosophically see eye to eye on so many things.
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  Speaker 17: And the last piece for me why that was important.
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  Speaker 17: I felt like I needed to get back to spending
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  Speaker 17: more time with the offense, especially from a game planning perspective,
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  Speaker 17: and in trusting that having a guy who's been a
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  Speaker 17: head coach in this league that could almost be the
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  Speaker 17: head coach of the defense, you know, during during the
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  Speaker 17: week as we were game prepping, that I could get
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  Speaker 17: back to my focus and my energy with the offense.
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  Speaker 17: And and so far, so good, it's been. It's been great.
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  Speaker 17: When it comes to coach Stoops, Hey, I've learned this
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  Speaker 17: a while back with coach Saban. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 17: lot of really good coaches that sometimes are out of
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  Speaker 17: work for a minute, and when you can when you
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  Speaker 17: can compile a little more knowledge, a little more intel,
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  Speaker 17: another way of looking at things. The opportunity that we
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  Speaker 17: had to not only bring in coach Stoops, but Billy
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  Speaker 17: Gonzalez from Florida, who is the interim head coach, is
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  Speaker 17: now with us as an assistant receiver.
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  Speaker 9: Coach Steve Casula from.
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  Speaker 17: Michigan, he was calling plays against us in the Citrus
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  Speaker 17: Bowl and then is on board with us. So we
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  Speaker 17: think that we've we've assembled a really good staff, a
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  Speaker 17: a wealth of experience, but are really good teachers and
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  Speaker 9: I'll say that about all these guys.
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  Speaker 17: Coach Juluke, Coach Musshamp is great having coach Gideon back
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  Speaker 17: as well. Their ability to connect to our players is
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  Speaker 19: Front row Michael cobble w b r Z TV and
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  Speaker 19: Baton Rouge just kind of dove ta dove tailing into that.
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  Speaker 19: You've been front and center to the evolution of Lane Kiffin, right, Like,
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  Speaker 19: what do you think of this latest iteration?
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  Speaker 9: And I missed the beginning. I couldn't quit.
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  Speaker 19: You've been front and center of the evolution of Lane Kiffin. Okay,
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  Speaker 19: you know, what do you think of this latest iteration
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  Speaker 9: And how have you seen maybe him grow?
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  Speaker 18: Well?
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  Speaker 17: I think Lane's a really good coach. You know, everywhere
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  Speaker 17: he's been there's been success. Obviously the most recent success
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  Speaker 17: of what he's had at at ole Miss. He's always
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  Speaker 17: going to assemble a talented roster, and he's always going
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  Speaker 17: to be creative, whether it's through schemes, through recruiting, whatever
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  Speaker 17: that looks like. He he does not look at things traditionally,
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  Speaker 17: you know, He's always going to try to think outside
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  Speaker 9: And so I expect him to continue to do that
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  Speaker 9: at LSU.
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  Speaker 17: And now he's got more resources, you know, now he's
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  Speaker 17: got more support, and you know, so I think that
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  Speaker 17: that's that's an opportunity for him to continue to grow
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  Speaker 17: on the path and the journey that he's on. A
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  Speaker 17: very proud of Lane. I know he's made a lot
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  Speaker 17: not I think those personal changes have led to on
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  Speaker 17: field success, you know, I think there's a direct correlation
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  Speaker 12: So I'm very happy for him. They're going they all
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  Speaker 12: then pass it back. Jerry Hamilton on Texas Football. kJ
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  Speaker 12: Lacey got a lot of invaluable reps in the spring.
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  Speaker 12: How would you assess his spring and where is he
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, kJ is a.
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  Speaker 17: Guy that as we've gone gone through this with him
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  Speaker 17: and I felt this way in high school and as
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  Speaker 17: we've grown and gone. You know, I hate comparing guys
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  Speaker 17: because it's never fair, but he's got a lot of qualities.
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  Speaker 17: It reminds me a lot of Bryce Young, you know,
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  Speaker 17: and obviously a.
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  Speaker 9: Bit similar stature.
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  Speaker 17: Both natural passers, both very instinctual. Both are sneaky with
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  Speaker 17: their leg and can hurt you with their legs when
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  Speaker 17: they get there. And now it's the maturation process of
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  Speaker 17: understanding schematically and where do I play when I play
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  Speaker 17: so well off schedule, but yet play on schedule so
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  Speaker 17: that I can play off schedule, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 17: And so I think he's kind of learning that as
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  Speaker 17: we go. I felt like there were some moments in
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  Speaker 17: spring where he was fantastic. There were moments in spring
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  Speaker 17: where there were learning moments. I felt like, as we've
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  Speaker 17: been on the grass with the guys now for the
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  Speaker 17: past you know, I think it's now five weeks or
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  Speaker 17: six weeks or so whatever it's been the summer, I've
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  Speaker 17: seen the best version of kJ Lacey this summer, and
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  Speaker 17: that's encouraging to us that he took the stuff we
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  Speaker 9: And we've seen that.
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  Speaker 17: I think he'd be a dangerous guy if he got
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  Speaker 17: in the game because of his off schedule stuff that
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  Speaker 17: he can do, but also his ability just to throw
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  Speaker 17: the ball and rhythm and in timing. He's a natural
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  Speaker 17: In high school, they threw a ton of balls, and
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  Speaker 17: so it's very comfortable and natural for him to do that.
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  Speaker 6: Fourth row in the aisle Hey Steve hangs south On
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  Speaker 6: Texas Football, Kaitlin de Boord talked about yesterday Beama making
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  Speaker 6: a jump and penalty yardage per game from one to
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  Speaker 6: twenty three in the country to seventeen from twenty four
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  Speaker 6: to twenty five. Obviously y'all were a little bit lower
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  Speaker 6: than the country last year.
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  Speaker 20: What if y'all and we were way lower, dude, what
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  Speaker 20: if y'all emphasized in the spring and into the summer
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  Speaker 20: to correct that. And is there anything you focus on
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  Speaker 20: with their live ball pre snap just what you guys
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, you know, I think one thing that we've evolved
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  Speaker 17: to is the players that and there's I believe this.
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  Speaker 17: If you want to be a disciplined team on the field,
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  Speaker 17: you need to be a disciplined team off the field. Okay,
• 23:43
  Speaker 17: it starts off the field and then it carries itself
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  Speaker 17: to on the field. And so we've restructured some things
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  Speaker 17: off the field discipline wise, and Coach Becton's very creative
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  Speaker 17: down there in the weight room with some of that discipline.
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  Speaker 17: But the one thing I think that we're doing that
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  Speaker 17: his resonating with the guys is is the players taking
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  Speaker 17: accountability of that. And so when a player jumps off sides,
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  Speaker 17: for example, that whole position group kind of serving that
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  Speaker 17: punishment with him, because that's what happens in a game, right,
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  Speaker 17: It's not you don't jump off sides. And that one
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  Speaker 17: player who jumped off sides moved back five yards. Everybody
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  Speaker 17: moves back five yards. It's first in fifteen now every
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  Speaker 17: you know that changes when you when you when you
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  Speaker 17: rough a quarterback, everybody gets a fifteen yard penalty, the
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  Speaker 17: entire team.
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  Speaker 9: It's not just the individual. This is the ultimate team sport.
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  Speaker 17: So I think shifting kind of the punishment, if you
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  Speaker 17: want to call it, to where everybody feels the effect
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  Speaker 17: of it. I think that's had a real impact on us.
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  Speaker 17: And again, Hey, I think I think you know as
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  Speaker 17: again discipline, There's there's types of penalties that are bad penalties.
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  Speaker 17: Pre snat penalties are bad penalties. Post play penalties are
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  Speaker 17: bad penalties. There's some penalties that as a coach you
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  Speaker 17: kind of need to live with a little bit, like
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  Speaker 17: you can't expect to be a great run blocking team
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  Speaker 17: if you're not maybe playing through the echo of the
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  Speaker 17: whistle like so you've got it. You got to be
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  Speaker 17: able to live with some of that. But and it's
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  Speaker 17: a unique stat because when you really look at the
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  Speaker 17: history of it all, and when you look at wins
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  Speaker 17: and lose wins and losses in game, the penalties is
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  Speaker 17: kind of far down actually on just a sheer metrics.
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  Speaker 9: But when you look at a team and totality at.
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  Speaker 17: The end of the year, I surely don't want to
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  Speaker 17: be one hundred and thirty second in the country and
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  Speaker 17: penalties like that doesn't sit well with me. And that
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  Speaker 17: was the first thing I addressed when we got back
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  Speaker 17: together as a team in January. So I'm probably a
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  Speaker 17: little bit more bullish on it, more of perception of
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  Speaker 17: who we are as a program, because I do believe
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  Speaker 17: we're a disciplined team, but we surely didn't play like
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  Speaker 17: it last year, and we've got to be better. Not
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  Speaker 17: because I think if there's a direct correlation to winning
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  Speaker 17: and losing, but that's a standard at the University of Texas,
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  Speaker 17: and so I think it'll help us win a few
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  Speaker 17: more games.
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  Speaker 9: Honestly, if we do it that way.
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  Speaker 17: I don't know if it's going to be directly tied
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  Speaker 17: to each game, but I think if we play with
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  Speaker 17: more discipline that way.
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  Speaker 9: But all that starts, like you said.
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  Speaker 17: In the offseason, I think we're doing that third rowman
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  Speaker 17: pass it back to the middle.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Steve Barry Trammel with the Tulsa World Pete Golding was
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  Speaker 11: in here yesterday and I talked about the coaches meeting
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  Speaker 11: with the CFP officials and how he was appalled when
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  Speaker 11: he heard that they don't really factor in home road results.
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  Speaker 11: They don't really respect, they don't care, seem to care
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  Speaker 11: where you played the game. Is that what you heard
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  Speaker 11: and what was your reaction?
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  Speaker 9: If so?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, that it doesn't They don't take into account where
• 26:46
  Speaker 17: the game took place and and the environment of that
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  Speaker 17: game of where you where you played, and so for example,
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  Speaker 17: us playing at Georgia last year would have been the
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  Speaker 17: same as us playing Georgia at home. That's like the
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  Speaker 17: how difficult it might be to go play at another place?
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  Speaker 17: And I get I understand that that that's arbitrary. You know,
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  Speaker 17: how tough is dk R, how tough is Death Valley,
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  Speaker 17: or how tough is Neeland or how tough is Kyle Field.
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  Speaker 17: That's up for debate, right, But some of that seems
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  Speaker 17: like it's a little bit of common sense. But again
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  Speaker 17: it's not a factor, as we heard it of metricing
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  Speaker 17: a strength of schedule in some fashion or form.
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  Speaker 7: Fourth Brow Tyler Shaw with kBT X At the end
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  Speaker 7: of the Lone Star Showdown last year, there was a
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  Speaker 7: video that played on the video board. It was kind
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  Speaker 7: of a quote of Mike Elco saying, this is the
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  Speaker 7: you know, flagship program of the state and kind of
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  Speaker 7: a troll job way, what.
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  Speaker 9: Were your thoughts of kind of I was not happy
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  Speaker 9: about it rivalry moment. I was not happy about it.
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  Speaker 9: What have you seen from this rivalry so far? These
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  Speaker 9: the hell of a rivalry. I'm fortunate to be part
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  Speaker 9: of it. I'm humbled. I'm honored.
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  Speaker 17: The great players, the great teams, the great coaches who
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  Speaker 17: have been part of this game. I respect it and
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  Speaker 17: I respect the competition. In the last two years, those
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  Speaker 17: have been great games that have mattered. You know, two
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  Speaker 17: years ago, the winner of that game goes to the
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  Speaker 17: SEC Championship. Last year we were fighting for what we
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  Speaker 17: felt like was our playoff lives. They were an undefeated team,
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  Speaker 17: So there were some great moments, but emotions run high
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  Speaker 17: in those games. You know, we had a team that
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  Speaker 17: was trying to think about going to plant in the
• 28:35
  Speaker 17: flag two years ago, and I wouldn't let that happen.
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  Speaker 17: I respect the game of football, and I respect college football,
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  Speaker 17: and I respect the football gods. And there's a way
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  Speaker 17: to go about our business and there there's a way
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  Speaker 17: not And so rivalries are great, but we got to
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  Speaker 17: be able to fight the emotions that come with the rivalry.
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  Speaker 17: And I think that's why we've had success in some
• 28:53
  Speaker 17: of our rivalry games, whether it's A and M or
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  Speaker 17: OU or Arkansas. So I think we do a good
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  Speaker 17: job of managing our emotion and so, but that's that's
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  Speaker 17: a that's a real challenge when you get into games
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  Speaker 17: like that.
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  Speaker 18: Right side second row, hey, coach Rob Gregson, it is
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  Speaker 18: these sports, given the way that the last two Ohio
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  Speaker 18: State games went and having them at home this year,
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  Speaker 18: is there an emphasis on getting a win in that game?
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, what else do you want to know? I mean,
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  Speaker 17: of course, right, I mean, they're they're a really good team.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 29:25
  Speaker 17: Coach Day is a fantastic coach. He's he's always got
• 29:31
  Speaker 17: talented rosters, you know. I think he he continually finds
• 29:35
  Speaker 17: ways to to to have a great staff around his
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  Speaker 17: players that they play at a high level.
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  Speaker 9: They believe, they they've got.
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  Speaker 17: Belief, they're you know, you you get into games, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 17: especially two years ago, I think the two years we've
• 29:52
  Speaker 17: played them, they were really good on defense. And I
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  Speaker 17: think of the those players that started against us in
• 29:58
  Speaker 17: that semi final game two years ago, I think twelve players,
• 30:03
  Speaker 17: all eleven starters plus Avril Reese have been drafted off
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: that defense into the inner playing in the NFL. So
• 30:08
  Speaker 17: that's just speak to the quality of defense that they've had.
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  Speaker 17: And they've had really good offensive players too. Travon Harrison,
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  Speaker 17: Henderson's pretty good, you know, Quinn Shawn Jenkins is pretty good,
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  Speaker 17: Jeremiah Smith's pretty good. And so there's a balancing act
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  Speaker 17: of the culture that they have and the belief they
• 30:24
  Speaker 17: have the talent that they have and then the schemes
• 30:26
  Speaker 17: that they run, and so you've got to get yourself
• 30:29
  Speaker 17: ready to play in games like that, and you need
• 30:31
  Speaker 17: to be at your best when your best is needed.
• 30:33
  Speaker 17: And we've had moments in both those games when we
• 30:35
  Speaker 17: could have seized opportunities that could have changed the complexion
• 30:38
  Speaker 17: of the game, and we didn't do it. And to
• 30:41
  Speaker 17: come out on top this year, we're going to have
• 30:43
  Speaker 17: to seize those moments when.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: They present themselves. File questions. I know that's what you
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  Speaker 9: were probably looking for. I was just giving you hard time.
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  Speaker 21: So last question, Yeah, hey, coach Evan Camico News nine
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  Speaker 21: Oklahoma City Parker Livingston going from Texas to Oklahoma. What's
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  Speaker 21: it going to be like to see him on the
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  Speaker 21: sidelines on the opposite side of the Red River game?
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  Speaker 17: I mean, I hope we kick his ass. It's the
• 31:04
  Speaker 17: red River rivalry, you know what I mean. He chose
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  Speaker 17: to go there. He's on the other side. It's the
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  Speaker 17: way the game goes. If you've ever been, it's a
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  Speaker 17: hell of a game. It's an epic, you know, pulling
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  Speaker 17: into the Cotton Bowl, the State Fair, the corn Dogs,
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  Speaker 17: the Turkey Legs, the you know, split down the middle
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  Speaker 17: of the fifty yard line, both teams of the same tunnel.
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  Speaker 17: Like at the end of the day, like it's competition.
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  Speaker 17: You know, after the game, I'm sure I'll give him
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  Speaker 17: a big hug. Before that, we're trying to beat his ass.
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  Speaker 17: That's that's the way it goes.
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  Speaker 3: more regular season games to go. But it's been an
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: exciting thing. It's been out of the particular vicinity of
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Brian College station being in Novsota, WHI we call our
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: home away from home this year is the new stadium's
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: being built, but enjoyed a lot of great crowds, great baseball,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: and tight playoff race here before the end of the season.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely been pretty up and down for the Bombers.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: That first half under five hundred started off with a
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: little bit of a losing streak if I remember correctly,
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: had that twenty to zero loss early in the season,
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: but you know, they've bounced back, so that's been good
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: to see. So first year with the Bombers. Yes, you've
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: done every game that's been broadcasted.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Right, just pretty much almost though, okay, all of them.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: So how'd you end up getting into this position here.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: So I've done a couple of years of broadcasting through
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Belleville High School, doing base ball in football, and over
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: the past baseball season, I met Nick Savage, who's here
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: and does just great work with tech SAgs, and we
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: got into contact and and and spoke a little bit,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: and uh, he listened to some of the tapes that
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I had, and we kind of through those connections, I
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: met Uri Geva, the owner of the Bombers, and they
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: ended up being an opening for for the play by
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: play broadcasting position for for this season. And after conversations
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: with Urray, it all it all came together pretty quickly
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and and just like that, there was and so it's
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: it's it's been awesome. It was a you know, Nick
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: and I keep in touch pretty often or often enough
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: at least, and he's been incredibly helpful and so that
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: all it all kind of came together quick. But it's
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: been a lot of fun, been exciting.
• 37:44
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: I think Nick's on a plane right now on the
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: way back from Tampa SEC Media Days. Perfect. But so
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: you said that you've done a lot of football in
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: the past, doing this many baseball games in this short
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: of a time, frame. How would you say that, you know,
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: calling the two sports, how does it compare?
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's it's definitely different. Baseball is very methodical
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: and there is no pitch clock in TCL, so it's
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: it's really you know, every time you want to adjust
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: your bat and glove, step out, reset, you know. So
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: in terms of as a broadcaster, there's definitely a cadence
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: and rhythm you try to you try to uphold, you
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: try to not have as much dead air you can
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: let the game breathe. But but there's certainly a lot
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: more filling in football is always just so constant. There
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: is an especially in doing high school Bevels run the
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: slot t offense for as long as I can remember,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: and that is you were in the huddle for less
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: than three seconds and then to the line and the
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: ball is snapped and you're off and running. And so
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: there's definitely a football is very much a you have
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: to be ready, you have to get your I right,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: get the down in distance right, how many yards the
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: last play was whatever or whatever penalty It occurred very quickly,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: So it's at the speed is is certainly certainly an aspect.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: So it's it's good because every bit of football action
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: that you're seeing. It's it's almost easier to keep up
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: with for me because it's there's there's no there's no
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: dead air, there's always something going on. Baseball you've got
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: to sort of be a little bit more methodical. So
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: the approaches are definitely different.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. I don't know if you've ever called
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: any basketball, but that's like the very opposite extreme of baseball.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: That's it's basketball, there's never any time to sit and
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: think about it. Football is there's a little more time,
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: and then baseball you almost have to come up with
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: stuff to talk about in between pitches.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Right, basketball is certainly certainly on the radar coming up
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: in the season. I'd like to do some of that,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: but that's it's that's another one of those fast paced,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: quick and so I think each one of them has
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: their their pros and cons in terms of not not
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: cons necessarily, but approaches to broadcasting it. You know, there's,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: like he said, there's always something going on in football,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: but then a baseball you can really sometimes slow down
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: and embrace all of what's going on and really diagnose
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: each and every aspect of what's on the field and
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: as a broadcaster being able to paint the picture as
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: best as possible because you try to do that, especially
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: on a radio only on audience. Yeah, that baseball allows
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: you to do that, say a lot better than football.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: You could go really quickly with football, two receivers to
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: the left, two to the three to the right of
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: the quarterback. Someone's back in the pocket with them, you know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: in the backfield, and then that's it.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: That's all you've got.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: You don't also, yeah, and then you don't you don't
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: get to say, really where everyone's going on the field.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: It's it's going to be the cliff notes. But baseball
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: you can really really diagnose how everything's set up and
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: really paint a better picture.
• 40:53
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: The opportunity I got to do high school football as
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: a play by play guy was because the guy who
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: I had been doing play by play wanted to watch
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: his son, who played on the offensive line. When you're
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: doing play by play, you don't have time to look
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: at the offensive line. You just have to follow the ball.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: So Yeah, for for play by play and mentioning an
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: offensive lineman, usually the only time is if they committed
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: a holding penalty, yeah, or something missed block you were
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: if you were known, then it's probably wasn't for a
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: good reason.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: So that's sort of the nature of it.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: But because you do, you get the highlights, and you
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: you keep going because that's all you have time for.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: So you mentioned trying to paint a picture in these broadcasts.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: A big part of that is your color commentator. And
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: I know for you it's been mostly the same person
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: throughout the season, but there's been you know, a few
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: different people in the booth with you. So how is that.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: How has that been trying to adjust and making sure you,
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: you know, keep that good chemistry.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I think the biggest thing with that is what's
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: awesome and what the Bombers organization does. It's a lot
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: of times that there's some people that have had experience,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: but then there's some that this is their first experience.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: And giving people these opportunities to learn about broadcasting, get
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: to experience it, enjoy it, and get some great experience
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: in learning each of the aspects to it. And so
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I was fortunate enough when I went to Belleville High
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: School for those those couple of years to start and
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: I still broadcast with them. I came into a system
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: with four guys who have been broadcasting for twenty years.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: John Marson, Kaevich, Greg Brown, Steven Jackson, Dan Murz.
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: They all, each one of them.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Are different broadcasters that taught me different things when we
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: do baseball and football and all of the you know
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: how gracious they were to me. I think about that
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: when someone comes in in. What did the people that
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: taught me? What can I use and apply to someone
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: else coming in? And so they made me feel as
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: comfortable as possible, And so that's what I've tried to
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: do for people coming in is make them feel as
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: comfortable as possible. And the biggest the lessons I've had.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: One of the things that just always stuck with me
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: is is if you sit and think about how many
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: people are watching or listening, if you've never done it before,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: it can be overwhelming.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: And so all I've.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Said is, there's whether it be two or three people
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: in the booth for the night or whatever, you and
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: me are having a conversation and we're watching a baseball games.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: That's all you need to think about, is we're talking
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: and watching a baseball game at the same time, and
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: you happen to have a headset on. Just think about
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: it like that. And if you really just break it
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: down to that sense and make it not much more
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: complicated than that. When you put just a regular basis
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: on it, it makes it easier to sort of get
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: comfortable and get into it and really get some good experience.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and don't you don't think about the tens and
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: tens of people that may be listening.
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's it.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. We're talking with Andrew Rapsolver, the play
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: by play broadcaster for the Brass Valley Bombers. If you
• 43:52
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• 43:55
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back to Ship Howard Sports Talk Here on the
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  Speaker 5: Zone at eleven to fifty am ninety three point seven FM.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: We're talking to Andrew rapsol Or, the play by play
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: broadcaster for at the Brass Valley Bombers, and you'll hear
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: him later tonight. The Bomber has taken on the Cane
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: Cutters in one of the final regular season games of
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: the season. So we left off, you know, just kind
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: of talking about broadcasting and the differences between baseball and
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: football basketball. But I want to get into, you know,
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: some of the Bombers specific stuff. Now this is for
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: those who haven't been paying attention. This is college summer ball,
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: so players come and go kind of throughout the season.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: You know, the Bombers have played around forty games, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: I looked it up. The most a single player has
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: played in is twenty seven games. So it's been a
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: lot of you know, turnover in the lineup game to game.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: So does that make your job hard trying to remember
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: all these players and you know, craft a story like
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: we were talking about earlier.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: In some ways, yes, But we've got a really good
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: team around us, and one of them particularly being being
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Evan Stringfellow, our stats as team statistician. He every time
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: I get to the stadium, before I'm even set up
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: and ready to go, he's like, hey, just you know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: once you get all your notes ready to go. So
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: and so is here now as part of the team,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: and so and so is not on the team anymore,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: and it's just a heads up and two of them
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: are going to play, and so it's like you already
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: coming in. You you know, you've already got a little
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: bit of a head start, and so that that's been
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: incredibly incredibly helpful in some ways. Yes, the season is
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: is very quick and heavy, so there's gonna be some familiarity,
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: but you know going into it there's gonna be a
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: lot of fluctuation and change, and so you get the
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: storylines of each each players where they're going and sometimes
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: sometimes you know that there's it's going to be a
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: couple of week long stint with with a certain player.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: So there are some challenges with it because there isn't
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: the normal consistency as you would see in you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: and in a full season. But it's certainly manageable and
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: you start to do recognize a lot of familiar faces
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: that you see over and over, and so when you
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: add a couple at a time, it's it's not all
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: at once. It's not a whole new team at once.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: So it's it's not as as bad as you think.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Right, that makes sense, and you know, on the other
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: side of that, it might be a bunch of different
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: players game to game, but at least you know the
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: amount of teams that you're playing. There's not that many
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: unique teams. It's only an eight team league in the
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: Texas Collegiate League, so that kind of I feel like
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: probably cancels out almost the the uniqueness of the different players.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: Having those same teams come in game after game and
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: you kind of get to learn their players, I'm sure
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: makes that a lot easier.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, it's with the amount of teams, if there are,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: you do get the familiarity and what we've had in
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: a couple of instances, and like for right now, the
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Cane Cutters, where that was the last in the last
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: homestand we played the Cane Cutters and this was just
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: last week, so we've it's sometimes how the schedules stacked
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: where you play the same team for six times in
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: a span of fourteen days, where it's you really get
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: a familiarity quickly and you have like a crash course
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: on them, so then if you do see them once
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: later in season, it's like you do remember all that.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: So it's it's not so much. The the constant change
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: and the constant fluctuation, so you do get a really
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: really heavy basis of each team very quickly.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: So we mentioned it a little bit before. The Bombers
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: have had some really good winning streaks and some pretty
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: low losing streaks. So why do you think maybe this
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: team's been so streaky throughout this year.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I do think the change in roster is something that
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: can't be looked over lightly. And I think that it's
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: natural everyone faces it. But that's just it's sort of
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: the unpredictable nature of summer ball. Which also makes it
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: why it's so interesting is because there's going to be
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of run scoring. You know, pitchers and catchers
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: aren't haven't really worked together as much. Yeah, and makes
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: it more prone to walks and extra hits and extra
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: base hits. And you look at the the streakiness in particular,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: are the Bombers out talked to Ryan and Ryan Targatch
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the season, and one of the
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: things he mentioned to me right off was, you know,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: the goal when you when you get these guys in
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: here and it's going to be fluctuation and change, is
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: to take your daily vitamins and the idea that it
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: is taking your daily vitamins leads you to a healthier
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: long run. So whoever you bring in, if you get
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: them on that same page and keep them mechanics right,
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: that puts you ahead. And there's definitely been a lot
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: of times where where that's happened. The bats have been
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: really really productive, and we've done so without the home
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: run ball. You know, the home run is you know,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: prominent in some of the players, but it's really you know,
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: a lot of drawing walks, stealing bases, lots of singles,
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: and some extra base hits and things like that. But
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: that provides you to some winning baseball. But some of
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: the nature and the pitching can lead to exactly what's
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: going on. And I think what can be discounted as
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: the fact that how talented the league is. You look
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: at ten players from a season who were drafted to
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: the to the major or to the MLB draft and
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: to the farm systems excuse me, that go through that,
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: and you know there's a lot of talent that goes about.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: You can never have a day off, it's always always competitive,
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: and it's a short season, and so it's all packed
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: in so you can never take your foot off the gas.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: You had the eight game winning streak just now the
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: Bombers were, I believe it was four games above a
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: playoff the playoff line. Yeah, and now lose five in
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: a row and you're only half a game above it.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: So things can change so quick, and four games left
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: in the regular season, and a lot's going to change
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: in the next four days. And that's kind of the
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: nature of it. You always have to be ready and
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: always have to be ready for change.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: So you mentioned the playoffs and TCL playoff structure. I
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: think it's pretty similar to how a lot of the
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: minor leagues do it, where there's a first half champion,
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  Speaker 5: second half champion. So can you explain that playoff structure
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  Speaker 5: and where the Bombers are sitting right now?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: So we've talked about it ad nauseum throughout the season.
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  Speaker 3: It's broken into two halves, as you mentioned, twenty four
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  Speaker 3: games apiece. After the first twenty four games out of
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  Speaker 3: the eight teams, the top two in the standings clinched
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  Speaker 3: a playoff spot. Now going into the second half, you
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: do the same thing on the second half standings. At
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  Speaker 3: the end of the second half, the top two will
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  Speaker 3: also qualify for the playoffs. If one of the top
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  Speaker 3: two seeds from the first half is in the top
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  Speaker 3: two in the second half, the tiebreaker for that would
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  Speaker 3: be the next best team with the highest overall record
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  Speaker 3: of the entire season. So if there happens to be
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  Speaker 3: a repeat team in that which right now Victoria and
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  Speaker 3: the cane Cutters, or the two teams that clinch in
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  Speaker 3: the first half, right now, those two are not in
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  Speaker 3: playoff positions in the second half, so it looks like
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  Speaker 3: it may be two teams potentially, seeing how the last
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  Speaker 3: four games go for the second half season. But the
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  Speaker 3: Bombers right now, they they did not qualify from the
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  Speaker 3: top two seeds in the first half. Right now, they
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  Speaker 3: sit in first place by a half game here in
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  Speaker 3: the second half, and so we're fingers crossed hopefully the
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  Speaker 3: homestand to close out the regular season does them well
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  Speaker 3: and we'll hopefully be bringing bringing you guys some playoff baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, for our listeners out there, tonight's broadcast between
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: the Bombers and the kne Cutters begins at six forty
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  Speaker 5: five right here on the zone wherever you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 5: Whether it's on the radio, on the app or online.
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  Speaker 5: You just keep it tuned right there, and at six
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  Speaker 5: forty five you'll hear Andrew bring you the game tonight.
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  Speaker 5: A little bit of breaking news that we have before
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  Speaker 5: we get out of here and go to the second hour.
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  Speaker 5: For you NASCAR fans out there, Hendrick Motorsports has announced
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  Speaker 5: that Alex Bowman will be retiring from full time racing
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  Speaker 5: after the twenty twenty seven season, which I feel like
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  Speaker 5: it's got to be a type of because why would
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  Speaker 5: you announce this a year in advance.
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  Speaker 3: It might it might be the twenty twenty seventh season,
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  Speaker 3: depending on when his contract ends. And I know Bowman
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  Speaker 3: has had a lot of health issues in this year
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  Speaker 3: and so I know that some of that plays into it.
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  Speaker 3: So it very may very well be the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: seven season when he's done. Definitely kind of stunning, though,
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  Speaker 3: I who's not anywhere on my radar. We were talking
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  Speaker 3: a little bit earlier. I've got a couple ideas who
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  Speaker 3: could take over the forty eight, but I think it's
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: that that was definitely surprising.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we were talking about it. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 5: Carson Hosvar probably is the first name on the list.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I That's what I was thinking is you know,
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  Speaker 3: I know he's got a great relationship with Jeff Dickerson
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  Speaker 3: and all them at Spier Motorsports and everything that he's done.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a contract through twenty thirty. Yeah, but I
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: he's got so much talent and he is the personality
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  Speaker 3: that now car needs, and I know he's abrasive and
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: so that leads to some people not liking him or
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: liking him. I think he's great. I think he's what
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  Speaker 3: the sport needs and I would love to see him
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  Speaker 3: in that forty eight car, But I just don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it'll happen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that the biggest question there is definitely
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  Speaker 5: the contract. I mean, I don't think the money is
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: really that big a deal because I think Hendrick would
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: would buy that out and no problem. But it'll be
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: very interesting and there's some other candidates you know, that'll
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: come up, and especially because this is a year in advance,
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  Speaker 5: there could be somebody that's not even on our radar
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  Speaker 5: right now that ends up getting the seat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and so you know, there's there's options to in
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: the Ol'reilly series that may and you know Corey Day
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  Speaker 3: being one of those that was mentioned in the past.
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  Speaker 3: But we don't know what will come out with that
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  Speaker 3: with Hendrick, but something with Hosts of AR. You know,
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Hendrick runs a pretty tight ship, and so I do
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  Speaker 3: wonder about what that would look like for Hosts of
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  Speaker 3: R if that's something he wants to sign up for
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  Speaker 3: or not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not you know, we'll find out.
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  Speaker 9: He does have some.
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  Speaker 3: Autonomy there at Spire and he's they've they've let him
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: be himself, which I think is awesome. But yeah, it's
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: certainly gonna be interesting to see how that all that
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: all plays out and how Bowman does the rest of
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: the career that he has.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we could see boy wonder connors Zilitch getting there too.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see. But I think that's about all the time
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  Speaker 5: we have. Thanks for joining us, Andrew, I appreciate it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: Andrew Rapsilver played by a play broadcaster for the Brasses
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  Speaker 5: Valley Bombers. You can hear that game against the Cane
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  Speaker 5: Cutters tonight starting at six forty five. Cale Brapley here
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: filling in for Chip. This is Chip Howard Sports Talk
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  Speaker 5: on the Zone.